Impression and interpretation: A film that relies on sensory techniques to tell a story about depression, alienation and ultimately loneliness.
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Impression and interpretation: A film that relies on sensory techniques to tell a story about depression, alienation and ultimately loneliness.
The story of 18-year-old Gianni who was one of thousands of Italian immigrants living in Western Australia forcibly put into camps.
A domestic dispute in a Gold Coast motel leads to unforeseen outcomes.
Robbed, fired, dumped and off his meds, he now sees things that aren't there. Insanity and hatred grow while his rage festers, his mind is chaos and he wants others to pay for it. Madness will take him and his shotgun will purge him.
As a young couple struggle with the demands of life with a new baby, they plow forward on production for their latest self-funded independent feature film.
A clever and intuitive young mobster; Gallo seeks liberation from the psychopathic Don (his Uncle Julius) and the mafia institution in which he is bound.
Faced with tragedy, Seojun remembers his past relationship with Jiyeong, and asks for her forgiveness.
Set in working class Brisbane in 1953, Stations is an evocative short drama featuring Noni Hazelhurst as a young woman coning to terms with her romantic illusions. “A sensual piting of black-and-white social realism against memory-hazed fantasy sequences . . . It is a film of immediate and engaging feel for human weakness and strength”
Based on a true story. After William Trigger’s finance dies in a car accident, his life begins to spiral downwards into loneliness and seclusion. Taking a friend’s advice, he attends a gathering, unaware that a seance is waiting for him on his arrival to try and contact the deceased. When he returns home things are not what they seem. Something or someone begins to haunt him. A frightening tale of one man’s decent into madness, the supernatural and the doors to the other side.
A struggling production company take on a deadly assignment.
An emotionally abused teenage boy fights against insanity after his mother's violent suicide in a car crash when he was nine-years-old.
In the 1930s tensions between the government and the Indigenous peoples of Australia's north were on a knife-edge. Donald Thomson, an anthropologist, volunteered to go to Arnhem Land to make peace. For over two years, he lived with the Aboriginal people, forging strong bonds, learning and recording their way of life. His report to the government outlined a vision of land rights and other measures to protect a unique yet fragile culture - it was ignored. Ostracised by politicians and fellow academics, Thomson never gave up the struggle for Aboriginal rights. Now, his extraordinary photographs, field notes and artefacts are considered one of the most significant ethnographic collections in the world.
Two friends join a women’s self-defence class, where they set their sights on a handsome but unwitting instructor. But when they play flirty games at his expense, the question is raised: are there such things as “harmless” predators?
New York playboy Tanner returns to his estranged father’s seaside home after 30 years, armed with a secret that threatens to unravel what’s left of their fractured relationship.
Two strangers meet whilst both working a shift at a dodgy restaurant in Melbourne's CBD.
An actor discovers his identity and look has been stolen and replicated by AI.
The story of a 1865 murder trial that scandalized the people of Sydney. Louis Bertrand, a society dentist and womanizer, is determined to have Mrs. Kinder, a woman of dubious morals, to himself, and so plots to murder her husband.
Once the most popular girl at Short Beach High, Denise Dixon finds her life turned upside-down after one night of terror. Rumours and violent backstabbing run rife. Life in Short Beach will never be the same.
In outback Australia, a feral camel is fitted with a tracking device known as a Judas Collar, that brings with it destruction.
A tentative teenager, entering her formative years is confronted with her own sense of mortality when faced with an otherworldly time warp.
12 year old Nouria's life is full of personal defeats and disappointments. But she sees the world a little bit differently from those around her, particularly when it comes to matters of the heart.
With the unique ability to emit pure water, the Numi are the Dry Land's most valuable slaves. When young Numi Davi and her sister are captured and 'milked' for their water, Davi must find a way to outsmart her abusers.
An eccentric cross-section of inner-city Sydney types - a widow, a reality TV star, a teenager, a criminal and a cult leader - collide in wildly original melodrama.
Six months after the death of her mother, Alex is a young woman on the run. Travelling with her guardian, Will, she hides a dangerous secret — a special power inside her that certain groups will do anything to get their hands on.
The plot outlines the story of the early Christian martyrs with a compendium of horrors such as maulings at the Colosseum, crucifixions, beheadings, savage hackings and burnings at the stake, burnings in the limepit, the spectacle of human torches in Nero's garden.
A dark, modern-day fable, Each Other tells the story of a human body on a journey of self-discovery. Not a cow. Not a chicken. But what? Mixing horror, dance and Lacanian philosophy, Each Other explores what it means to truly know oneself.
As Michael attempts suicide with gas, he looks back at his unremarkable life with despair and resentment. His suicide is put on hold for the day with the sudden arrival of Garry, who drags Michael against his will on a mountain bike adventure. On their journey, Michael must face the perils of the trail ahead while also dealing with the constant goading and derision from his reckless and competitive friend to keep riding harder and faster.
An idyllic ride in the country is shattered when Tessa takes a joke too far and hitches a ride with a stranger. Too late she finds the driver has other games in mind for her and she is no match for his addiction to thrills. In this psychological game of cat and mouse, Tessa and her boyfriend Nick are led on a merry dance of murder and intrigue. This film takes you into the darker limits of madness but on a ride with offbeat and strangely humorous turns.
A drowning survivor must confront the dangerous fixation she has on the accident and the woman who saved her.
Adaptation of a classic Australian novel about life as a convict, this was the third feature film produced in Australian history. It is now considered lost.
A young person struggles to decipher what is and isn’t reality, causing strife in their friendships
An expressionless man drives along a sterile freeway. Unaware of his concrete and steel surroundings he is consumed by the surface of his world. But is he so consumed that he is unable to see what’s underneath?
The once celebrated graphic designer Paul Andrews has fallen from grace. Battling against the demands of vacuous clients, deprived of his voice, he descends into an obsessive and distorted search for creative expression.
When Violet, a recently heartbroken brothel worker returns to work post break-up only to find her ex-girlfriend hustling the same shift, she must make the choice between avoidance and vulnerability in order to make her month’s rent.
Silence in the Red Light District of Manila.
A woman plagued by the memory of her mother's suicide attempts to reconnect with her estranged father after meeting a cryptic stranger one evening who incites her to confront the past before time runs out.
Devastated by the loss of her baby, Brontë discovers a bird’s nest in her backyard, and with it, an unconventional way to process her grief.
After being violently jumped by unknown assailants in the streets of Australia, Cohen links up with his two close friends to take his mind off the trauma. Later that night, suspicions arise about a mysterious car that follows them and the trio are forced to ask themselves "is that them?".
Confronted by retirement, a fourth generation fisherman grapples with the selling of the boat he built with his father.
A tale of a middle-aged woman drawn into a blood vendetta largely set in Sydney’s industrial suburbs.
A biopic based on the life of Nozhan Behzadi
An Italian cinematographer finds himself in the midst of the Greek social turmoil. Opening sequence from the feature film Wild and Precious (2012).
Sef and Chux are two Aussie mates into hip-hop and making music. They want to take on the world - but must first make it out of Lakemba, their gritty Sydney suburb never featured in tourist brochures.
A 1910 Australian silent film based on the popular play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan. The plot concerns the rivalry between two neighboring sheep stations, Enderby and Waratah. This version includes the subplot about the bushranger Ben Hall which was not used when the play was adapted again in 1933.
a quiet noise
The story of a man who has covid and gets board in his house before things go horribly wrong.
Rhys pushes himself by walking up a steep hill, however this strenuous challenge is met by another: a person.
In a post-global warming lockdown, Claire's reliance on her AI companion Zach becomes a matter of life and death when his malfunction threatens her survival.
The Train at 5pm is a cinematic drama that tells the tale of a young man named Thomas who is nervous about soon becoming a father. When his mother asks him to help move boxes from his childhood home, he finds solace in reliving and interacting with his fondest memories. These nostalgic visions not only act as a reminder to Thomas about how precious time is, but they deeply confront him about the relationship he shared with his own father. Through this Thomas learns the values and efforts it takes to be a strong father for his soon to be born son.
A woman artist's affair with a younger man jeopardises her marriage, her career and her child's future. He personifies the nihilistic philosophy of Albert Marcuse and tries to manipulate her. Her dependence on him forces her to reassess all the values of her art and life. We observe these events at three levels; a woman writer uses them as the basis of a play and in the process reveals parallels in her own experience.
Brotherhood tells the story of two brothers of Middle Eastern descent, who live with their mother in a social housing complex, known as Housing States, in the city of Melbourne, Australia. While Ali, the older brother suffers from heroin dependence, Syed, the youngest, tries to make a different life from his brother and finds a means of escape in urban poetry.
When Rosie Fields gets a call that her younger brother Tyson is at the police station, she knows the police are the least of his problems. Already irate at having to leave work, Rosie’s anger is pushed to its limit when she hears what Tyson is in trouble for. Can a cheeky smile and two cowering cops stand in the way of a sister pushed to breaking point?
Martin was born with just 2,000 words to use in his lifetime, and once he's spoken them all, he will fall irreversibly silent. Fearful of a voiceless future, Martin decides to save his words for the perfect moment. But in being so cautious, he risks not being heard at all.
Based on the 1906 play by Walter Howard.
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
In a stab-happy world, a sad outcast wrestles with his demons. The Story of Bubbleboy is a film about being trapped by the past and redeemed by the future.
After an experience of workplace sexual harassment, a woman wanders through empty streets like a ghost.
Sydney, Australia. Michael, 24, and James, 28, fall in love unbeknown to James' parents. The decision to reveal their relationship to their family is soon followed by a tragedy. James' family is torn apart while Michael must struggle to protect his relationship and survive beyond the shock. Inspired of true events, Wish For Tomorrow is a film that explores love, loss and the struggle of inequality.