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"Rapid Bay: The Town That Was", highlights the lifecycle of regional mining towns. In its former glory, Rapid Bay's existence relied entirely upon a single, finite resource but as the mine depleted, the economic justification for the town vanished, leaving behind homes, infrastructure and memories of a thriving town that once was." Fleurieu Film Festival - Focus on the Fleurieu, Award Winner (2026)

A divorced man struggles with a Weed and LSD addiction

This social impact film focusses on preparing children for an unknown future of global change and technology.

Family is more than just blood bonds. Christian, a gay man of Filipino-Australian origin, discovers the truth of queer life in the antipodes.

Exercise/Dance video from fitness instructor Luis Pinto.

A Man talks about a Small Grey Plastic Box of great personal importance in a featureless white void.

The reshaping of the St Kilda landscape into a Hollywood fantasy of the Riviera, reflected upon from the narrator’s balcony overlooking the bay. An introspective look at the nature of the landscape and the human response to it.

A room full of potential stars. But these ones have fur. Filming Dogs follows a small scruffy terrier called Ra as she attends an animal actor audition with three other dog actors. Ra is thirteen years old and is running out of time to realise the fame her human, the filmmaker, thinks she deserves. At its core, Filming Dogs explores the reasons for their humans seeking on-screen fame for their dogs and questions whether it is for us, for them, or for some other reason.

Paul McGinnes explores his life as he goes up against the national bin racing championship.

The story of an astonishing real-life adventure, when a scientific expedition went wrong. Mountaineers, adventurers and scientists set out in Cheynes 2, a former whaling vessel, on a voyage from Hobart to Heard Island, south-west of Perth, near Antarctica. Bad weather forced them to dock at Albany and they made another stop at the French island of Kerguelen for fuel and water. By the time Captain Laurie McEwan sailed the final two days to Heard Island, a six-week voyage had taken 12 weeks. The ship was declared a wreck and the extended time at sea had left them with just two days worth of fuel.

During COVID lockdown, a boy’s affinity with nature eases his loneliness and leads to an incredible friendship.

A documentary about the odeon star cinema

In an attempt to solve the mystery, Stephen Knight concluded that five women-Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly-were murdered in 1888 to cover up a secret marriage between Prince Albert Victor, and Annie Elizabeth Crook, a working class Irish Catholic girl. Knight's main source, Joseph Gorman (Annie Crook's grandson, Walter Sickert's self-proclaimed son with Annie's daughter Alice Margaret Crook), later retracted the story and admitted to the press that it was a hoax.

The story of how principal Peter James transformed Sydney's violent non-performing Tempe High School by teaching migrant students their own languages and the surprising effect it had on English results.

A look into the past of the filmmakers' Czechoslovakia-born mother, who committed suicide.

In Papua New Guinea, where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by the regular advertising mediums of television, radio or print, 'the market' must be developed by other means. Small theater groups travel the remote highlands performing soap operas devised around advertising messages for a variety of products.

Wuli Wuli and Waka Waka brotherboy Kai and Wiradjuri brotherboy Dean explain what it means to be a brotherboy and talk about their transition journeys and the support they have been given in their own Indigenous communities.

After a long battle with depression, Queensland rare chicken breeder Mark Tully is now on a mission to protect the endangered chickens to which he owes his life.

Bitter Herbs and Honey tells a richly textured story of the making of multi-cultural Australia. Through the saga of the the story of the Jewish migrants, mainly from Eastern Europe, who made their first home in Melbourne's inner-city suburb of Carlton, the film explores issues at the heart of Australia's development towards cultural diversity. The film builds a picture of poor immigrants who left Europe in the period of turmoil preceding, and in the wake of, the Second World War, having lost everything spiritually and materially. In a country most had never heard of on the other side of the earth, they began to rebuild their lives.

When a student protest erupts into violence, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser seeks refuge in the bowels of a lecture theatre while his minders desperately hatch an escape plan.

When you were a kid, adult television was a mystery. What strange, scary, unfathomable shows could be airing past your bedtime? But now you’re an adult, and television isn’t what you thought it would be. But what if it was? The feeling of a pillow nest and a hot drink. The feeling that the night might continue forever if you never went to sleep.

Six women imitate their dads' dancing in a film about fathers as seen through the eyes of their daughters. These unseen men come to life through the dances and reflections of their children.

"Fragments of Red" is a documentary and animation hybrid, navigating the pieces of an incomplete independent feature film built in Valve Software's Source Filmmaker. It reconstructs the story through its inspirations, animations, scripts, storyboards, interviews, music and sound.

Elephants at work in Burma.

Using their Edison camera, the Corricks filmed Sports at Sea during their return trip to Australia on the White Star Line’s S.S. Runic following their international tour. The film features the family and other passengers enjoying various on-board entertainments, including staged wrestling matches, blind boxing, and a costume parade.

A colourful stop motion animated documentary exploring how a passion for their craft helps four makers overcome adversity.

A Seniors Bollywood dance class in Melbourne city is the perfect intercultural setting to discover new friendships and unpack ageing misconceptions. Through the lens of the traditional costume, stories are uncovered and shared. Simultaneously, miraculous healing occurs on many different levels underneath all the fun, colour and laughter.

Burning Daylight is a dance/film project. The performance is set from late one night until dawn in a transit zone outside a notorious pub on a Broome-style Karaoke night. A series of contemporary dance scenes unfold expressing the...

The cast and crew of a movie set review their time working with each other

This classic surf experience sees Western Australia's best surfers tackle the state's most exciting waves.. It offers non-surfers a sneak peek in to the surf culture and is guaranteed to get surfers of all ages pumped for their next session.

The Matchbreakers are a grunge rock band from Southeast Queensland who have all just finished high school. As a part of their celebrations, the band takes a three-day holiday to Bangalow NSW where they plan to write music for their upcoming album.

Live concert film by The Necks, documenting their November 22, 2016 show.

Behind the scenes and performance documentary of Slowly Slowly’s show at The Forum in Melbourne 2022.

Your ABC Exposed examines one of the country’s most important cultural institutions and whether the taxpayer-funded service unites or divides Australians.

An intimate portrait of the first year of a baby humpback whale's life.

The eight ladies in this film come from Alyawarr Country in the Sandover River region in central Australia, about 250km north of Alice Springs. The filmmakers joined them on a five-day journey into the bush to hunt echidna and gather bush foods such as the bush potato. As they hunt and gather, and as they sit around their campfire at night preparing the food, they talk about the old days and how life has changed.

Chronicles the history of the Richmond Football Club.

In October 1960, with the promise of a better future, three brothers from Malta were separated from their destitute family at a young age and sent to Tardun in Western Australia under the child migration scheme. What was supposed to be a second chance turned into a lifetime of regret, pain and missed opportunities that deeply affected their journey to adulthood. Fifty years on, Raphael, Peter and Manny reflect on their stolen childhood and how the sexual, emotional and physical abuse they experienced shaped their entire life. Through interviews and archive materials we will be transported back through their memories of abuse, homesickness and severed family ties. Their story unravels the historic failure of a scheme backed by two governments and the broken promises of the Catholic Organisation that received them.

Growing concern among young Aboriginal community leaders, particularly those in the Borroloola Men's Group, drew them to the idea of re-enacting a walk that hadn't occurred for almost thirty years. The Buwarrala-Journey is a traditional walk for the Garrwa, Yanyuwa, Mara and Gurdanji peoples of the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia. Practiced for generations as part of the initiation of young boys, the walk was re-enacted in 1988 and documented in the film, Buwarrala Agarriya - Journey East. Gadrian Jarwijalmar Hoosan was twelve years old then and was one of four boys or Daru – boys who were prepared for their initiation ceremony. As an adult he had become a mentor to younger men, and directed a new film to record the new re-enactment of the walk in late 2017. The walk involved over one hundred community members - children, their families, teachers and volunteers, who covered a distance of seventy kilometres in seven days.

Situated south of Derby in the West Kimberleys, Jarlmadangah is a unique community often hailed as 'a model community' for its many social and cultural achievements. At the centre of the story are two brothers, John and Harry Watson, Elders in the Nyikina and Mangala nations. The community was first formed in 1987 when John and Harry Watson set out to establish Jarlmadangah as a focus for strong family ties, traditional language, law and culture, with the main aim of passing these onto the next generations of young people in the two nations.

A video that looks at some of the marginalised young people who come to the Addison Road Drop-In Centre in Marrickville. Interviews with both the youth and centre staff are combined with images of the young peoples activities, and in some parts the boys take over the camerawork and commentary themselves.

This traditionally ethnographic sequence film focuses on the negotiations betwen representatives of two families during a payment of bridewealth. In the past the husband's group would carry a spear and a sword to hang in the wife's house. Now, a payment is made as a substitute for the spear and sword. The payment of bridewealth is a long and complex ceremony in which representatives from the husband and wife's family engage in a heated negotiation process. The bride and groom are completely excluded from the negotiations and never appear in the film.

Located in Far North Queensland, the Daintree is a staggering 180 million years old and has been named the second-most irreplaceable World Heritage area on the planet by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. For millennia, it has existed in fruitful cohabitation with the local Kuku Yalanji people. However, as with most of Earth’s natural wonders, this 1200-square-metre rainforest has become threatened by the lasting climatic changes brought about by colonisation and industrialisation.

It is the party you have been waiting for with performances from superstars Darren Hayes, Vanessa Amorosi, and more. Join us as we bring you all the excitement of the 2022 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.

A documentary about a feminist run abortion clinic. Counselling is shown to be an important part of the procedure, which is carried out using local anaesthetic and the vacuum aspiration method. We follow one woman through the termination of her pregnancy, and other women tell why they chose to have an abortion.

Smart Homes for Seniors joins a group of elders in regional Australia on their 6 month journey of living with smart home technologies, in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film shares the joys, frustration and wisdom of Edna and Bob, Beryl and David, Hilda and Owen, Shirley and John, Helen and Ken and Robert as they and their pets learned to live with digital voice assistants, smart lights, robotic vacuum cleaners. The voices of seniors need to be accounted for when designing the technology and services which will support older generations to stay safe, independent and active at home. Smart Homes for Seniors brings their priorities, needs and experiences into view.

Featuring Brendan Davies and David King, both locals, the film explores their deep connection with the Blue Mountains. The Blue Mountains are known for their dramatic scenery, rugged sandstone tablelands, wilderness, valleys, waterfalls and rainforests. Brendan is a professional trail runner and explores countless areas through running. He starts to prepare for Ultra Trail Australia 100KM and also, the career transition to an outdoor adventure guide. David King, a Gundungurra man, has indigenous ancestors that have lived in the mountains for thousands of years. David continues to educate people on his past, the mountains, environmental activities and through Swamp Care.

In ‘Koriam's Law’ Australian anthropologist Andrew Lattas meets his match in philosopher-informant Peter Avarea of Matong village, Pomio, Papua New Guinea. Motivated by their lively dialogue the film sets out to traverse that most misconstrued cultural phenomenon: the Melasanian ‘cargo-cult’. A local leader called Koriam founded the Pomio Kivung Movement in 1964. In the face of official condemnation its political and religious philosophy sought to uncover that path to a perfect existence which whites so convincingly seemed to have found and, so selfishly, monopolised. ‘Koriam’s Law’ concerns itself with the contemporary works and understanding of the Pomio Kivung. Its leader is keen to show that the movement has nothing to do with ‘waiting for cargo’. Rather, its mission is to prepare the way for the coming ‘change’ and, at the same time, to organise for a better society in the here and now.

The Australian resort city known as Gold Coast has a problem with sharks in their suburbs and is looking for possible solutions.

Much of the romance associated with the development of the gold industry is to be found at Kalgoorlie on the golden mile, that rich strip of Western Australian territory. This film illustrates life in the town and the work of the miners: the school of mining, the vast store of mining tradition, the old-time prospectors who still search the surrounding countryside for new and fabulous strikes. It takes the viewer underground, deep into the galleries where the gold holding rock is blasted out, and shows the intricate business of separating the valuable metal from the rock that is undertaken on the surface.

This film treats the subject of vandalism. It is intended to show children that by wantonly damaging public property they cause mischief not only to themselves but to the community at large. The film shows that public utilities like the Post Office perform very important National tasks. Anything which prevents them from working efficiently can cause damage or even loss of life.

Naina Sen (The Song Keepers, MIFF 2017) explores the relationship between biracial identity and generational belonging through traditional Balinese dance. A revealing, deeply personal account of artist Jocelyn Tribe’s life, Poleng utilises contemporary movement, Balinese dance, and archival and family photographs to delve into the complicated tangle of mixed-race identity, growing up with an absent parent and intergenerational relationships. Layered, luminous and presented with at times excruciating honesty, this dance documentary duets presence with absence in chronicling a life only half-understood.

‘I’m just a regular bloke…’ Kelby’s gender was decided for him at birth – he later put right that mistake. An intimate documentary with Kelby shot in Sydney, Australia in 1996. Kelby weighs up his latest decision in life – whether to buy a dick or a Harley.

A short documentary on a Sydney gay icon, Troughman.

On the eve of bicentennial celebrations, Strangers in Paradise looks at Australian culture through the eyes of tourists on a ‘Dreamtime’ tour.

The pull of ancestry as it shifts into the present, communication across generations, heritage as it delivers you to the future, viral cooking show videos, honouring those you love, familial creativity and collaboration, moving with the geopolitical tides across Asia, cooking as a useful and caring act.

Floating in a timeless space 5 Victorian community members contemplate what if a treaty was signed in 1788? Differences aside there is common unity.

A short silent documentary showing the repatriation of returned Australian servicemen after World War One.