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A young woman lies dead in a house, strangled by her boyfriend in a fit of jealous rage. Full of steroids and remorse, he waits for the law to arrive. But the law is his father, a powerful and corrupt detective who races to the murder scene first so he can tamper with the evidence and thwart the police case. When the son literally gets away with murder, the dead woman's distraught brother Jeremy arranges his own justice.

Caledonian Road follows Seb, who decides to meet up with Corey one rainy night. Seb has never slept with a boy before, and plans to fulfil some dream of conquering his desire. Little does he know what’s in store for him when he enters Corey’s house, as he’s thrown into a strangely unreal night.

The first Australian film to feature Auslan (Australian Sign Language). "A Silent Agreement" tells the story of Reuben, a sensitive writer, who grapples with a speech impediment. His boyfriend, Derek, a profoundly deaf Human Rights activist, provides strategies to restore his confidence and communication skills. When Reuben approaches an over-the-hill film producer with his autobiographical screenplay, the producer betrays him and Reuben is forced to overcome the long-term effects of bullying in order to succeed.

Michael and Bruce are the joint owners of a computer software company which is the subject of a fierce takeover bid by a rival corporation. Then attractive 22 year old Eloise, who is inexperienced and under qualified, applies for a job as Michael's personal assistant. She's intelligent, she has a sense of humour. Michael hires her on the spot. But is Eloise what she seems?

When Max and Bonnie kill Travis - their high school bully - the plan goes off without a hitch. However, when they try to bury him, they discover that his legs are too long. So begins a hectic night of shenanigans as they try to cut him down to size. But while Max grows ever confident that she has found her calling, Bonnie might not be as certain…

A father stuck in the past. A son searching for an escape. And a family business caught right in the middle, inching ever closer towards oblivion.

A man is addicted to cigarettes.

Pitted against the harsh terrain of Australia's Snowy Mountains, two colonial women haul a coffin to its final resting place, only to be confronted with a deadly surprise upon reaching their destination.

Identical twin mathematicians investigate what Einstein called, "The world's greatest mystery".

When distance keeps her from her grandmother’s bedside, Lookpla — a young Thai mother — longs for a goodbye left unsaid. Through staged, improvised scenes shaped by the cast’s actual memories, this meditative hybrid short examines how we revisit and reinterpret our memories to move forward through loss.

In a Pill Bottle tells the story of Oliver, a young man who is dealing with depression after the loss of his little brother. When his Partner, Mia leaves in a desperate attempt for him to get help, Oliver goes into a downward spiral that may be the end of his relationship and ultimately himself.

The mirros come back to reflect the life it created

In the aftermath of his father’s passing, Jake tries to lean on his remaining family for support, only to be repeatedly turned away. In the midst of their spiralling relationships, the family dog mysteriously disappears. While looking for his dog, Jake discovers something darker within the woods. Something that is a lot closer to home than he thinks. Something hungry.

Travis spends all his time rotting in his bed. he feels like he has no purpose until he comes across an advertisement for a photography competition.

After a devastating breakup, Carine goes down a dark path when her best friend chooses the boyfriend's side. Stricken by deep loneliness, she must try to reconnect, before she loses herself as well.

While on a hike, Ethan and Caleb hear something strange from within the forest and now determined to hunt it, the two test their friendship like never before.

Two teens, one from the Wollondilly Shire on the southwest fringe of Greater Sydney and the other from the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, form a suicide pact as they embark on a dark journey. When their past reappears, will they take the chance at happiness or turn their backs on it?

A reformed thief (Douglas Stuart) marries a wealthy socialite but is tormented by a former accomplice who tries to frame him for murder.

Follows the lives and unbreakable love between Blake Robinson; a headstrong and respected military officer who falls for the the heartwarming humanitarian James Hunter. Their sense of duty pushes this connection to its very limits.

A young man is surprised by what he discovers in his first trip to the baths.

Set in a Post-Apocalyptic world, The Liberator is the story of Kane, a young boy who is forced to live in the middle of an ongoing war between the New American Liberation Force (N.A.L.F.) and the Rebels. When Sarah, an N.A.L.F. soldier murders Kane's little brother, Kane seeks revenge, capturing and torturing Sarah, but unexpected circumstances arise and Kane's morality is tested. Will Kane be able to go through with exacting his revenge?

A hunter and his protégé are tasked with a mission to hunt for food in the Australian bush during a post-apocalyptic future.

A young man has a secret crush on his teacher and rather than admit his feelings to anyone, he takes his own life. He tells his "last secret" in a suicide note to his sister, because his parents would never understand. The final tragedy occurs when we find that the teacher has a secret crush of his own.

Five stories of Luke's experiences with love in his life. Each story shows a variation of sexual power and its abuse which become a motif of Luke's life. The film is structured around this motion of a musical fugue.

Two friends bump into another and discuss home ownership, wealth disparity and generational inequality while wandering the CBD.

Brian Everett's younger brother Sam goes missing on the island of Tasmania during the middle of a mysterious quarantine forcing Brian to traverse across enemy lines to save his brother from an army of ghosts.

Set against the backdrop of a 1960s jungle seaport in tropical Australia and the rich concert halls of wintry Vienna, talented eighteen year old pianist Paul Crabbe moves to an exotic outpost of far Northern Australia. There, he is forced to study under the only piano teacher his father can find – the eccentric, enigmatic Herr Keller, a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. Living above a dilapidated hotel in the dripping heat of this seaport, Keller is known to the locals as 'Maestro', a broken, elegant drunkard. But who is he? Does he come from a lineage of great European pianists, or is he a fraud?

The world is flooding. It's been raining for weeks on end and 12 year old Briggs is the last in the line of kids to be sacrificed in a ritualistic drowning.

A surrealist film that follows Dorian and his slow descent into madness, as he gradually loses his perception of time

When a lovesick young man reunites with his oblivious long-distance boyfriend on a whirlwind summer holiday, his reality and expectations collide, and he must search for what he needs himself.

Do Black Lives Matter? Tyrone, a homeless Aboriginal boy is arrested by the LAW...Again !. But this time - It's going to take his uncle Lucky's traditional LORE to fix the mess.

An unyielding young writer retreats into isolation to lay his grief to rest.

Atmospheric adaptation of an Alan Marshall story of a young girl's isolation on a remote dairy farm, set in the late 1930s. Filmed in 1974 but first released publicly in 2008 as a DVD extra.

Through the lens of desire, a voyeuristic artist captures more than images when she photographs her alluring neighbour.

After discovering a self help book written by his estranged father, a high school student begins to distance himself from his mother and his girlfriend in pursuit of his newly acquired ambitions.

Zoe's regimented life is thrown into upheaval when she unexpectedly falls in love. In doing so, she is faced with making a series of choices whose outcomes not only impact on her independence but on the relationships with those most important to her.

Six aspiring chefs battle it out in the kitchen! This season, three new judges step into the spotlight. Will their critique inspire culinary greatness—or their untimely demise? Who be crowned The King of The Golden Spatula, and who will be devoured? Find out on Spatula Smackdown—where the food isn’t the only thing that’s killer!

On his first day as a hitman, Keith is confronted with the reality of his job - killing for the greater good.

As midnight approaches, Ash realises she's lost her boyfriend at her New Year's Eve party. She desperately tries to keep everyone under control as chaos unfolds.

Arthur, a struggling playwright, recasts Georgia as the new lead of his make-or-break stage adaptation. As he grows closer to the aspiring actress, he must overcome his checkered past with her predecessor, Violet, or risk losing his new flame.

A love affair between a Greek and a middle-class Australian divorcee.

A young man who goes door to door in search of an automotive apprenticeship spends his free time kicking up dust doing donuts with his buddies on the outskirts of Melbourne.

Following a tragic event, the lives of 3 men converge in a quest for revenge and redemption.

Grant Dempsey, a once-prominent actor now confined to community theatre, enters the chaotic world of an amateur stage production. As he struts through the theatre, he encounters Bella, the overwhelmed stage manager, and Tommy, a young actor balancing theatre with school assignments. Grant's narcissistic attitude and inflated sense of self-worth create friction with the cast and crew, including a bickering couple, Laura and Kyle, and the absent young star, Steve. Grant's self-centered monologues and dismissive behaviour toward others highlight his struggle to accept his diminished career. He dismisses Bella's attempts to manage the production, derides Tommy's dedication, and belittles Steve's budding success in film.

An acting couple play reptilians by day as their relationship falls apart at night.

Silvy is withdrawn, lost, and hiding behind her cynical journal entries. Her outlook is challenged when she is forced to spend a night in the country with her aunties foster children.

Obsessed with searching for the origins of a scene from an old film, an Australian man and his friend visit Iceland. Punk music, politics and elves provide the backdrop to his search.

Kell and Joe, two one-time band mates, meet again in Berlin after the death of their former lead singer and mutual lover Viv. To honor her last wish and pay their respects, they embark on a road trip through the German provinces to her hometown on the banks of the river Rhine.

A short documentary following a mother during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Two cursed pilots fight in rage over the Mediterranean, each desperately surviving the fight for their families to see them again. Losing their senses, they delve into insanity and choose to sacrifice their humanity in hopes of survival.

As of 2015, 42% of Australia’s homeless population is under the age of 25. Perth, Western Australia also has the highest homeless population per capita in the nation. “Unsheltered” offers insights into those trying to fix the issue, as well as those who are currently suffering from being out on the streets, night after night.

A young girl copes with the recent loss of her vision by connecting with the world in new ways.

Frank Bannister is about to have a very long night. A writer of violent horror stories, Frank is alone, depressed and one step from full blown alcoholism. Late one dark and stormy night his quiet hermit existence is disturbed when two eccentric exotic dancers arrive on his doorstep. Alternatively seductive and sinister the beautiful women promise to make all Frank's dreams come true. They prove to be as good as their word. Only problem is, Frank is a man with very dark dreams indeed.

Jamie is a 26-year-old musician, which isn't as cool as you'd think. When his band breaks up, he's left with no money, no career, and no girlfriend. Now he teaches piano at a soul-destroying music school. Will he take a risk and follow his dreams? Or will he surrender to his new-found unhappiness and play it safe?

Silent film about the relationship between Nell Gwynne and King Charles II.

An adventuress, Cora Williams is in love with Howard Wilson, even though he is happily married to Mabel, and they have small children. Cora gets a man called Curtis to pretend to be in love with Mabel and engineers a situation where Howard walks in on them and gets the wrong impression.

Packing away at his late father’s apartment, a stoic man finds himself grappling with grief and anger. Unable to cope yet refusing to open up, he retreats from cold, harsh reality into a warm, fuzzy forest, where he is left alone and there’s no more emotion, no more pain, no more struggle.

The world has been left in ruins following the outbreak of a terrifying disease. Deep in the Australian countryside, a group of survivors are locked in a constant struggle to stay alive.

A multi disciplinary film and photographic art project created by Yankunytjatjara artist Derik Lynch and Australian artist Matthew Thorne that explores (in dream and memory) Derik's childhood growing up in the heart of central Australia. The story follows his road trip from the oppression of white city life in Adelaide back to country - Aputula - to perform Drag on sacred Inma ground, while memories from his youth return. Inma is a 60,000+ year old form of storytelling using the visual, verbal and physical. As a place of storytelling it is also the place where the history and stories of the past are written and shared in the present.