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City based Eddie sets off to reconnect with his blackfella roots by taking a sacred stone back to his hometown. But when wild-boy Charlie forces himself along for the ride, Eddie's spiritual journey goes off track and becomes a riotous trip through outback Australia as the boys are forced to contend with a self-obsessed Italian rock-god, a cross dressing cousin, and a demonic dog!
After many disappointments, Olivia gives up on the idea of ever feeling the full joy of intimacy. As she loses confidence in herself and becomes ashamed of her body, a figure appears filled with glitter and wise words. This figure is Mary the fairy. Mary is on a mission to show Olivia the beauty of pleasure and the importance of sexual liberation. With hopefulness that this will unlock a level of self-assuredness that Olivia has never experienced before.
An aspiring actress chosen as a wild card for a reality TV dating show uses a secret elixir to win the heart of the star, but when her deception is revealed, she discovers a messy but real chance for love.
A woman experiences a medical miracle, after which she has only a few days to bring together her estranged children, save the family's wallpaper business and rekindle an old flame.
A sleazy private detective named Horatio Plugg is hired to keep watch over a brothel. Inspector Closer is onto him though.
A lonely widow is pulled from her grief when a lonelier, more determined widow forces her to realise that even in death, it’s important to win.
Tim reunites the cast of the hit streaming series Unturnoffable with Tim Carlier for a Garnet Anniversary Holiday Reunion Special.
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
In this wickedly charming short set at a pet store, a dejected Roborovski hamster who just wants a forever home takes matters into its own hands…
Shot with a big cowboy nod to the Western genre, this road safety film shows the danger of speeding on an unknown country road at night.
Former surfing champion, Hayden Brock, impulsively flies across the country after her father's sudden death, diving headfirst into her estranged uncle's peaceful life, late nights in the city, and a new intimate friendship.
Nathan's love life takes a wild turn when he ignites a passionate yet short-lived affair with an older man named Coop. Determined to move on, he meets Tray and falls into a new relationship.
Reg and Lindsay run an organic fertiliser business. They need a fresh supply of their "secret ingredient" to process through the meat grinder. Reg comes across two guys and a girl with a broken-down vehicle on their way to a music festival.
A middle-aged drug dealer and her teenage partner-in-crime raise hell in the suburbs.
With their Mother dying of cancer, intent on changing her will to benefit her new husband before she dies, two brothers go to extreme and deadly lengths to protect their inheritance from being signed away before it’s too late.
After a passionate romance in Guadalajara, Mexico, Gabby, a passionate Australian photographer, invites Paco, a talented Mexican musician, to move into her London home, hoping to build their lives and careers together in a city of limitless opportunities. The demands of big-city life, past loves, and the challenges of immigration will test the strength of their relationship.
15-minute epic about a bunch of trash bag derelicts on a rampage! All they want to do is drink goon bags (cheap cask wine), sniff petrol and kill!!
When cricket obsessed Teddy Brown realizes his mates are growing up and moving on, he leads them and his D-Grade team on an audacious tour of India, where stumps fly, friendships fray and Ted learns that it's time to start playing shots for himself.
When an elderly woman sees a vision of Jesus on the shorts of a young African man at her swimming class, she befriends him, believing he's been sent by God to free her from loneliness. 'Followers' is a dark comedy drama about faith and loneliness. The short film explores how the two intertwine and is based on Tim Marshall's feature screenplay of the same name.
This is the story of a typical contemporary Australian family. Skye is getting married to Lachlan. They have to tell her mother, stepfather, father, step mother, his father, his new wife, his mother and her girlfriend. Not counting grandparents, aunt and friends. They live with Skye's stepfathers son and best mate who is in love with Skye.
Peter Hehir plays full-time loser Sid McCall, professional vagrant and alcoholic on the skids. Haydon Samuels is his young son Christopher who lives with him. At the insistence of those who seek to help, child welfare workers are called-in to retrieve the lad from what authorities classify as "inappropriate living conditions." Someone seems to have overlooked the fact that Christopher does not consider his plight as distressing however and with each visit to the home, all the social workers can get in the way of co-operation, is Christopher's stock-standard reply to their questions..."I live with me dad!"
San Francisco based crypto trader Brendan Brandon loses everything when his investments collapse but an opportunity presents itself when his missing uncle gifts him the family’s macadamia nut farm in the small Australian town of Cobweb. Faced with an unexpected legal caveat and some evil New Zealander frackers, Brendan soon realises that a quick sale of the old farm might not be as easy as he’d hoped.
When the batteries on her trusty 'pink rabbit' vibrator go flat, a frisky young house wife is forced to improvise to get her rocks off. Just when all seems futile, God answers her prayers.
Set over three summers at The Westival, a fictional West Australian rural folk festival redoubtable local radio personality ‘Queenie' describes as "Australia in a tent". Two young musicians fall in love against a wider collection of tales dealing with a microcosm of contemporary discussion points, including Indigenous, immigration and refugee issues.
In this short tribute to silent cinema and Italian cannibal movies, tree huggers start a confrontation with forest workers that turns violent!
Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys.
A disillusioned author’s world collides when he crosses paths with a masked vigilante and a charismatic ex-convict scheming to take down a doomsday cult.
A lawyer becomes a fisherman from frustration. When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is denied insurance money because it was “an act of God”. He re-registers as a lawyer and sues the insurance company and, as God’s representative, The Church.
In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration.
A struggling Tongan immigrant is taken under the wing of a charismatic American salesman. What begins as a dream job quickly unravels into a nightmare as the protégé begins questioning his mentor’s methods.
Two women escape to the mountains where they enjoy each others company, apparently disappointed with their male partners.
When a young Papua New Guinean/Australian man gets involved in a life of crime to provide for his pregnant girlfriend, a proud PNG woman challenges him to reconnect with his heritage.
Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydney. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task.
Three deeply flawed and lonely housemates turn on each other when the opportunity of love knocks on their front door.
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
An oddly comical and touching meditation on suburban masculinity as two burly, aging men negotiate grief, rage and forgiveness without exchanging a word. It’s a tale of two men bound together by a death but dealing with it in very different ways.
Australian truck driver Jack has written a successful romance novel under the name of his best friend's girlfriend - Ruby Vale. When a publisher arrives to sign up 'Ruby', complications arise.
A rich, young businessman travels to Australia with the intention of buying a 1967 Citroën DS. Once he arrives, things do not go to plan, and he must drive the DS into the outback alongside a blind young woman in order to track down its seller.
Sweetmeats City Times news reporter Paxton Paddlepop is on location at MOSA (the Museum of Sweetmeat Art) to learn what’s truly baked under the crust of contemporary Sweetmeat art. Through a series of one-on-one conversations, Paddlepop explores the confectionery stories behind a slew of emerging and prominent Sweetmeat artists as he seeks to answer the modern art question of our day: “Why art?”
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancé and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption.
Comedians Joel Creasey and Rhys Nicholson travel to a regional Victorian town where Joel was previously subjected to homophobic abuse, to find out what it's really like for LGBTI kids growing up in regional Australia.
When an unbearably adorable, eternally optimistic Quokka named Daisy wants to achieve the impossible – to win the annual ‘World’s Scariest Animal’ championship, she enlists the guidance of a washed-up, former champion, a grouchy Saltwater Crocodile, to help her achieve her dreams and prove that champions can come in all sizes.
In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko. Opera Australia production filmed at The Arts Centre Melbourne.
Based on Kenneth Grahame's classic children's yarn, this charming animated tale follows four colorful talking critters: the blithe Mr. Toad, the sensible Mole, the urbane Rat and the cranky but insightful Badger. When Mr. Toad's passion for cars lands him in dutch, it's up to his three woodland cohorts to bail him out and restore his reputation by outfoxing a horde of underhanded weasels.
A sapphic romantic comedy that centres around Rosie, a flustered girl who begins to panic as her crush walks into the house party she's at. With the help of her best friend, Angela, Rosie tries to gain the confidence to talk to her crush.
Griff, office worker by day, superhero by night, has his world turned upside down when he meets Melody, a beautiful young scientist who shares his passion for the impossible.
Pun-based comedy show names are an automatic winner, and Ronny Chieng’s Chieng Reaction is a golden example of this. Coming off the back of record-breaking sold out shows at the last two Melbourne International Comedy Festivals, Chieng has had a smooth and well-deserved run into the forefront of Australian comedy.And he’s wasted no time in humorously exploiting this new-found fame - a big red sign spelling out “RONNY” complete with flashing lightbulbs serving as the backdrop for his MICF 2014 show.
A teenage slacker has only one night to finish a major English assignment, his grades depends on it. He is forced to finish the work over night at a local Internet cafe where he encounters gamers, nocturnal goth-ghouls and drunken Clubbers.
A rowdy singer - blindsided when her guitarist/problematic lover quits the band - struggles to write a song to prove to her record label she's worth keeping solo. Looks like she'll have to face herself before she can face the music.
A story of two wannabe Schoolies on the Gold Coast during a state-wide crackdown on drugs. The boys stumble upon a stash of "weed", and through the misguidance of an older brother trying to replace his earlier Schoolies experience, they get caught up in the war on drugs waged by the authorities. Selling drugs to earn enough money to replace a broken heirloom they are oblivious to the battle around them. As they are pursued by an overzealous Police Chief and a violent underworld, they aim to be kings and make this the best Schoolies ever.
Some people say love is sex, sex is love. While others say sex is a four letter word. Sylvia is a love columnist who is writing a book on love stories. On a warm summer night she has invited six friends to tell true stories of their intimate love and sexual experiences. During the course of the evening the boundaries between love, sex and friendship narrow. People are exposed, fears are shared, friendships tested and relationships are destroyed and new ones formed. SEX IS A FOUR LETTER WORD is a contemporary film about love in the 1990s.
When Flopsy sets out to prove that anything her sisters can do, she can do better, she soon learns that when times get tough, sisters come together.
A reserved man in need of a job, Carl Fitzgerald finds employment at a Greek restaurant. Upon meeting waitress Sophie, Carl begins dating the attractive woman. Though it seems things are improving for Carl, an unexpected situation leads to the death of Mustafa, a shady coworker, and Carl must figure out how to cover up the incident. Unsure of what to do, Carl enlists the help of his buddy, Dave, to get rid of Mustafa's corpse.
When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an old Portuguese treasure ship lies buried in the sand. Harry is an old pro at manipulating this situation to his best advantage, but never anticipates how deeply he will be affected by the relationship he develops with a young boy and his mother. A delightful tale of greed, gullibility and grandiose schemes, "Sweet Talker" is a romantic comedy for everyone in the family.
A young girl's imagination takes over after stumbling across a mysterious black bag.
'Five Star Frank', is a dark-comedy short film. Pedantic driving instructor, Frank, is approached by Gordon, a Drive School Name Regulator, who threatens to change Franks's business name after his most recent student, Sophie, failed her probationary licence test. Dedicated to his work and safety on the roads, Frank must prove he is worthy of maintaining his reputation and self-proclaimed status.
Ali Baba is a poor woodcutter who unexpectedly discovers the secret hideout of a gang of thieves. In a magical cave of thieves keep the immense treasures that have been usurped over the years.
After the death of his best friend, we follow Dustin on a grief-induced bender for one. Going to great fucked-up lengths to keep the memory of his best friend Ashleigh alive. How? By accidentally mixing her ashes into his buzz of course.
Based on the infamous Great Emu War of 1932, THE EMU WAR follows a rag tag platoon of soldiers who are driven into a brutal and bloody battle against Australia's deadliest flightless beasts. Haunted by the kidnapping of his son at the hands of the Emus, Major Meredith leads the platoon behind enemy lines in order to kill the emus Leader the Queen Emu.