Collaborating with Australian circus company Gravity & Other Myths, 2020 BAFTA Newcomer and Berlinale Talent Campus alumna Alies Sluiter crafts a disquieting, quasi-surrealist tale of bravery and grief.
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Collaborating with Australian circus company Gravity & Other Myths, 2020 BAFTA Newcomer and Berlinale Talent Campus alumna Alies Sluiter crafts a disquieting, quasi-surrealist tale of bravery and grief.
A young boy, Peter, must confront his crippling anxiety, which manifests in his mind as the everyday people around him transforming into monstrous figures, forcing him to face both his inner demons and the world outside.
Shut out and ignored for too long, Sandy suddenly receives what she’s craved desperately her whole life – love and attention, from Willow, her overpowering but magnetic boss. But when Sandy finds herself just as suddenly discarded, she’ll show the world just how dangerous a wallflower can be.
Trapped in the center of a lucrative organ trafficking racket, Claire (Jessica Hegarty) discovers her father runs the grisly global criminal organization. Her sheltered life now shattered and exposed, Claire must work with Interpol to pursue the hidden truth. This journey thrusts Claire into a dark world, forced to fight for her life against a barrage of deadly hitmen assigned to silence her. No match against such organized assassins, Claire's only hope rests on a chance encounter with a protective guardian, Michael (Rody Claude), who is not all as he seems. Her fight for survival reunites Claire with her father, pushing a family's bond to its limits in a tense and desperate showdown.
Some people are sacrificed for an evil overloads wishes.
After Lucky's world crumbles, her college friend Hadiya, Hadiya's husband Brad, and their children arrive to help Lucky, only to find the old mansion occupied by a dangerous presence that will stop at nothing to make them leave.
A twin seeks to get answers about the death of his dead brother, only to discover a repressed memory has come back to haunt him.
An opinionated teenage girl dreams absurd visions of loved ones, causing her to question her reality as they attempt to manipulate her. Lapses in memory and an overall lack of awareness swarm her as she navigates around Lancelin, a secluded holiday hideaway in an attempt to find a way out, unable to trust anyone.
A man & a boy are adrift in the Atlantic, forsaken to the wrath of the ocean & its deities.
On the night of her birthday, a young woman is stalked by strangers in plague doctor masks.
A dark comedy about friendship, loyalty and a dead body in the boot of a broken down car.
A beautiful woman, Kate (Tina Grenville), is released from a sanatorium unaware that while she was away her husband John (George Lazenby) has begun an affair with her sister Marianne (Wendy Hughes). The two sisters live together in a creepy apartment block while John is away, and find themselves stalked by some mysterious strangers.
With one hour to come up with $20,000, a desperate man races against time to repay his debts.
A young man finds himself in peril after he lies to his mother and meets up with a stranger from a hookup app
Scarlett attracts the attention of her unusual classmate Marcus. Scarlett's relationship with her boyfriend, Johnny, sours when Marcus won't leave her alone.
Mike the Trike is back for vengeance many years after Robert was killed. Think John Wick, but the dog is a tyre and John Wick is a tricycle.
Torment follows a boy (Kadin Gervalla) is haunted by a mysterious figure (Chloe Dowling) and investigates the clues she leaves him to find out why.
A retired world champion fighter is lured to a secret location in an effort to rescue his abducted wife. He is now a part of their game. He is a part of the show. Fight, to live. Lose, you die. Once you check in, there is no way home.
After 95 years of comfortable living, Mickey finds his world turned upside down and must face his deepest fears. Will he emerge on the other side or lose himself trying?
"Innocent Killer" portrays a modern city hit with a string of inexplicable murders of seemingly random women. What happens when the murderer meets the last standing police officer on his trail will leave audiences in shock.
After a traumatic accident, Alex West discovers an abduction in a remote cabin, but as she investigates, her own past and blurred memories make her an unreliable witness.
A small group of neighbours discover a mysterious car, seemingly abandoned in their suburban cul-de-sac.
Max, a struggling actor living in South Africa, has flown into Sydney, Australia for the audition of his life. As soon as he lands things start to go horribly wrong when his girlfriend Sallie disappears. Frustrated with the police’s lack of progress in finding her, Max embarks on a desperate search for Sallie with the help of childhood friend Richard. The pair’s search pushes them to both external and internal extremities in their desperate plight to find Sallie.
After the loss of her dad, a young girl will only speak to her imaginary friend 'Lycinda'. Her stepmother finds it increasingly difficult to maintain a bond with the girl, and the stakes rise when 'Lycinda' starts to seem not-so-imaginary and not-so-friendly.
A raw, gritty, uncompromising and heavily stylised independent feature production, based on the ancient Greek narrative, Homer's: 'The Odyssey'.
It's 2009 and Mick Gatto is at the height of his powers. After receiving a job mediating a dispute in London, Mick consults his clairvoyant for guidance.
A young woman is horrified to discover that her father's new girlfriend looks identical to her dead mother.
Down on his luck and soon to be divorced, a troubled man is convinced by his best friend to seek solace in revenge.
Charlie is a strange and troubled young insomniac barely holding onto his job. His boss, a gruff but oddly sentimental man, has given him more chances than he deserves. But when Charlie’s fixation on a stranger pulls him further from his responsibilities, the consequences are inevitable. As their uneasy relationship reaches its breaking point, Charlie must face the quiet fallout of his obsession.
A lonely, pathetic laboratory worker becomes obsessed with a parcel left behind by a beautiful and strange woman on a commuter train.
At 44, Hans still lives with his mother. When Matilda, a tenant half his age, moves in, Hans relives old memories and is infatuated. To win her love, Hans comes up with a dangerous plan.
A group of filmmakers make a "shockumentary", when visiting an abandoned TV studio. But the tables turn when their lunatic victim sets them up on an insane crazy game show.
Caravan is a cautionary tale set in the 90s which follows a young family on a road-trip. As night falls the family pull in for a routine rest-stop where their caravan is invaded by a malevolent intruder.
A widow struggles to reconcile with her past, as a mysterious threat wages misfortune on the family farm.
When the sun disappears out of the sky, Jake Anderson is trapped in darkness. But he must run from the light.
Based on the director's real life experience, FRAILEJON is an intimately poetic film about a young man's journey into a remote mountainous region of the Venezuelan Andes where he encounters a recluse mountain guide, Chucho. Over the course of their arduous expedition they learn to transcend their inability to communicate through a common language. Through song and dance Chucho reveals his philosophy and respect for these unknown mountains.
A group of students decide to base their media assignment on a local railway museum myth. However, when they trespass the premises after hours, they soon learn that some myths are more than stories.
When George's suspicions get him fired from the observatory, there is only one path he can seek to fulfil his retribution. The new order is upon us!
A young woman battles to survive the night at an isolated country house besieged by people afflicted with a mysterious and deadly condition.
After years of domestic abuse, Donnie and his agoraphobic mother Helen attempt to make a normal life for themselves, only to find that they can't shake their unforgiving past.
It was an ordinary day when successful film producer, Megan Turner, and her director husband, David, were flagged down by a goodlooking highway patrol officer who seemed friendly. WITHOUT WARNING is the story of sexual pursuit and intimidation that almost destroys the Turner's marriage and, in the end, leads to violence and murder.
A short teasing a Wyrmwood TV series that never got made
Jada's estranged father is murdered. His father's death draws her to an ancient Sect, led by Jada's grandfather. Jada and her friends are used as pawns. Jada's only hope is Finn, possible soulmate and her father's killer.
A paranoid woman struggles to maintain her picture perfect relationship when she becomes distracted with a supposed stalker encroaching into her life.
In a sunburnt outback town, charismatic petty thief Steven convinces his well-meaning but accident-prone friend Terry to gamble everything on a daytime job meant to set them up for life: steal an expensive painting from a supposedly low-security storage branch and sell it. The heist quickly unravels when Terry trips an alarm and a desperate chase erupts, motorcycles, sirens and a fatal confrontation in which Terry is forced to kill a guard. They make it back to their shed hideout expecting relief, but the relief never comes. A friend they thought had stayed out of the job returns, now aligned with the security forces, and the backyard sanctuary turns into a killing ground: Terry is shot dead and Steven runs for his life with nothing left but a pistol and a burning need for answers. Framed is a tense, character-driven thriller about loyalty, betrayal and how one misstep can flip a small plan into a ruinous vendetta."
Paul Craig is an aviator-inventor who becomes blind due to overwork. He stumbles into a room as a person is being killed by foreign agents - who decide to let Craig live because he cannot identify them. The murder is part of a plot to overthrow the monarchy of fictional Ruvania.
A young man awakens trapped in the boot of a car. Neither the driver nor the trapped man, Luke, seem to know why he is there.
Two sisters are stranded and in need of fuel. They visit an isolated farm filled with dark secrets.
When her child is missing an Australian mother calls for an priest from Italy she has not seen in years.
‘Recrudescence’ takes place in a gothic, dystopian reality wherein a patriarchal judiciary removes the anger of women within whom it is deemed excessive. This is the case for Audrey, a writer of philosophy. But when Audrey’s husband tries to capitalise on her state, her anger returns in an unusual form...
In a dystopian future, an Australian-Iraqi woman held captive in a chaotic and brutal British immigration detention centre takes up severe measures to survive and reconnect with her estranged family.
A woman searches for many years to exact revenge on a kidnapper. A psychological thriller that examines how far a person would go if pushed to the extreme.
When an introverted college student bumps into a classmate at a party, she must win their friendship before she loses them forever.
A man battles his inner psyche in a quest to make the perfect piece of toast.
When British Intelligence, following a series of experiments designed to increase alertness of long-distance lorry drivers through use of tonal repetition, discovers chordation that completely erases all memory, it is obvious that such a cleansed mind may be programmed to perform any type of action. Erstwhile agent Peter Clarke inactive for years, is chosen as courier to transport an audio tape of the tones to his native Australia.
1967, the height of the Red Scare. Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt is embroiled in a power struggle after discovering his spymaster has illegally investigated and exposed Red sympathisers embedded within Holt's administration.
Follows a team of elite mercenaries deep in the jungle, who embark on a rescue mission only to find themselves hunted by a swarm of giant, deadly bats.
A teen flees her controlling mother, only to face abuse in a new relationship, forcing her to choose between escape or freedom.
During an argument on a quiet street, an estranged couple believes that they hear gunshots nearby; sequestering themselves inside of a cramped telephone box, they begin to question the reality of their situation and attempt to escape.
The Projectionist is an aural and visual narrative. Inspired by Rachmaninov's composition 'The Isle of the Dead' it threads together a story about an old cinema projectionist and an elaborate series of huge projected images which represent his memories. He is a 21st century Everyman, whose complex mind is burdened with too many overlapping memories. His individual suffering resonates, ironically because it is invisible to everyone but himself. The ghostly visions which appear in The Projectionist reflect his personal history and private pain.