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2006 documentary film. The annual Meredith Music Festival has grown from a small party in rural Victoria into one of the most unique and beloved music festivals in the world. "A Weekend In The Country" tells the amazing story of the Meredith Music Festival, a music festival like no other. Narrated by the festival organisers and Jack and Mary Nolan (on whose farm the festival is held) the documentary uses archival footage drawn from home videos, film crews, personal photos, TV footage, and super 8 to show how the festival took on a life of its own and grew over the first 15 years. At the heart of the documentary is the story of festival co-founder Chris Nolan, who suffered a tragic illness and a life change in the late Nineties. Chris' spirit, the punters, electrical storms, great music, legends past and present, Tai Chi, and the World Famous Meredith Gift all come together to tell this unique story.

For an imaginary friend, living an imaginary life, there's nothing worse than being forgotten.

The end of school party allows one last chance for Kevin to repair his broken friendship with Jim before this chapter of their lives comes to a close. Did Kevin learn from what broke them apart in the first place? or does he repeat the same mistake – breaking their friendship apart for good.

Second Chance Champions delves into the world of organ and tissue donation through an international event for transplant athletes. Emotions run high as competitors split their medals with those who have given them a second chance at life.

Ghouls, cannibals, Aliens and an evil robot in a giant maze like mansion, surrounded by eerie swamp land. Would you spend the night for $10,000?

After a homeless ex-filmmaker witnesses a kidnapping, he comes to believe that he is trapped in a horror movie filmed by the city's CCTV, where the only way to survive is to stay on camera - no matter what.

In the estuaries and lagoons of the Northern Territory, freshwater and saltwater crocodile are hunted for their hides by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous hunters. This film shows Aboriginal people using age-old hunting techniques to land crocs either for food or for skins. The methods employed by the professional hunters, who earn as much as 3000 pounds during the season, are also depicted, followed by a brief look at how the hides are skinned and prepared before being transported to the leather factories of Sydney and Melbourne.

A remake of 'Reservoir Dogs' by Quentin Tarantino, with the noticeable difference that all the male characters have been replaced with female ones.

Kookaburras, Ospreys, Woodswallows, Miners, Lorikeets, Cockatoos, Moorhens, Corellas, Ibises, a collection of successful breeding stories thru different strategies and adaptations

A music video for the song ‘Illiterati’ by The Man Himself from the album ‘All Day Breakfast.’

This film shows an idyllic picture of life in the Victorian capital of Melbourne in the mid 1960s.

The Alexander Ball is an observational documentary extravaganza celebrating Samoan-Māori-Australian trans woman of colour, Ella Ganza, and the Meanjin (Brisbane) ballroom scene, as she and her ballroom family prepare for one of the biggest pride events of the year: The Alexander Ball.

The official collection of a four-part series exploring the unorthodox relationships of Selwyn, Canon and Petria.

An internet personality takes a journey through the small, obscure, and downright bizarre conventions happening every weekend around the country as he tries to fit in and find the common link that unites these communities.

A special agent is dispatched to investigate a distress call from an ocean liner, only to find the ship eerily abandoned and haunted by a malevolent force that twists sanity into terror.

Two skaters looking for their next big adventure help an old person with their groceries.

Between 1793 and 1867 the British Government banished its radicals, dissenters and rebels to harsh prison colonies at the very edge of the known world, Australia. Some escaped and returned to their homeland as heroes but many stayed on in this alien new world... The life stories of these rebels are full of acts of bravery and derring-do. In their own words they tell tales that are at once stirring, heart wrenching, dark, creepy, and even funny.

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.

what was the last dream you had?

With a national vote approaching to enshrine Indigenous peoples voice in the constitution, a dynamic Indigenous youth group travel on a pilgrimage across Australia to commemorate a historic civil rights victory. Buoyed by the imminent referendum, the group voyage through ephemeral Australian landscape in the microcosm of a minibus, sharing the rich, multilayered stories of their personal histories, as they dream up a hopeful new vision for Australia. As the results of the vote are counted, it’s impact on their future offer two paths – a hopeful breakthrough or another chapter in the long fight for recognition.

A young man reflects on a day spent with his estranged mother, in an attempt to understand her enduring trauma and its effect on their relationship.

The diggers and their officer, who has fallen for a nurse at the hospital, are subtly manipulated by a British intelligence officer to assist in passing false battle plans to the Germans. Given leave in England, they end up billeted at a country house and offered barley water instead of the home-brew they anticipated.

This visually stunning nature documentary looks at two hundred bird species endemic to Australia, such as the Princess Parrot and Crested Pigeon.

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.

When productive order dissolves into subtle chaos, an office worker begins to question what holds her world together.

A competitive diver faces her fears while taking on new heights.

Wearing an old pair of sunglasses from the thrift shop, Sherry realises that she can read everybody’s minds… up to a point. She can see why they chose the clothes they wear and what insecurities they are covering up. It seems that almost everyone has a deep-rooted hatred of how they look and the sunglasses may be part of the antidote. When she meets her friend Caitlyn, for coffee, she realises her glasses could help her and others.

Elegant and rigorous, while surprisingly playful, Chris Kennedy’s Go Between observes the Brisbane River, passing boats, and cars on the William Jolly Bridge through an intoxicating play of masking and superimpositions.

Ilyas, an expatriate writer who lived most of his adult life in Australia, returns to Turkey in the hope of finding inspiration for his new book. Instead, he ends up having to deal with the breakdown of a relationship and, a deepening writer's block, in a land he feels estranged.

A couple must survive their darkest moment when they're trapped in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by predators and one relentless tiger shark.

Joe Leahy is the half-caste son of one of the first explorers of the Papua New Guinean interior. The documentary explores his relationship with the tribes that work his coffee plantation and explores what happens when the coffee market situation becomes more difficult.

For the first time a non-Victorian team lined up in the season decider determined to end the reign of one of the greatest sides in history. Too old? Too slow? The flag-festooned Hawks were out to prove the old dog still had enough bite to silence the young upstart Eagles from the west.

George enlists in the police force and is assigned to Harmony Row, a haunt of criminals such as Slogger Lee.

Teen Josie tries to make sense of a frightening world in which a sleep condition blurs her dreams into waking life, and comes under the sway of her sister Samantha, whose dark web of secrets she must unravel.

The story follows a queer woman who embarks on a journey of introspection and self-discovery. Through this process, she comes to a profound realization about her true feelings toward her first love.

A symphonic concert spectacle featuring rock maestro Ben Folds with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, combining the power of orchestral grandeur with the intimacy of close contact with the musicians. Audience participation peaks as Folds achieves the extraordinary feat of inducing the crowd to sing a choral refrain in three-part harmony. Interwoven with Folds’ personal narratives of the inspirations for his songs, the film transforms enthralling live performance into a unique portal revealing the creativity of the song writing process.

An anthology of four diverse stories about identity and belonging through prism of love and loss, sexuality, marriage and wish to fulfill dreams.

A poignant and heartwarming story set in a Welsh fishing village. Henrick (Ché) and Arwyn (Iwan) share a bond that transcends friendship, filled with unspoken longing and love. Henrick's love for Shirley Bassey's music is his way to overcome the conservative views of their community. The film explores the struggles of Henrick and Arwyn as they navigate their feelings for each other in a society that may not fully accept them.

A couple are in their home, late at night. Nothing out of the ordinary. At least, until strange growling starts coming from the attic, and the ceiling starts to crack.

Chris, an elderly Alzheimer's sufferer, is confined to his home. His son, Michael, is his primary caregiver. For months Chris' mind has been fading away and with it his grasp on reality. He is desperately trying to hold onto his mind. Chris is passing further and further from recognition. Michael is left wracked by survivors guilt. But to Chris, the world around him has become nothing more than a waking dream, the bounds of reality and reason bent and warped as his life cycles over and over around him. The only way he can hope to find clarity is to retrace these fractured memories from childhood to his elderly infirmity, in a desperate attempt to understand his condition.

Koala Rescue profiles the courage and determination of everyday Aussies that went out of their way to rescue, treat and rehabilitate the koalas who survived the Australian Black Summer bushfires, 2019-20.

A popular LGBTQ+ beauty influencer's world is thrown into chaos after discovering he has gained weight. Anxious about what his audience might think, the influencer hides his account from the internet, determined to make it public again once he has lost all of the weight. When a malicious rumor is spread about the influencer online his plan is interrupted. Now he must decide between returning to the online space, weight gain and all, or risk losing everything he has worked for.

"A stranger from a strange land lands on planet Earth. Questions are asked and answers must be delivered."

Is it Australian or Polish? Artistic or shallow? Brilliantly satirical or insane? The answer to all these questions is YES Except that the film is Australian and not Polish, despite the writer’s and director’s Polish ancestry.

Frank meets Madaline at a cocktail party held at a World Bank conference. He's a foreign correspondent whose recent work in Mali has left him traumatised. As the erotic connection between Frank and Madaline deepens, each gradually reveal secrets from their past that could have deadly consequences. The sensual, politically charged Embedded is an exciting anomaly in Australian cinema, marking a promising directorial debut for Sewell.

A documentary foray into the world of the unattached which takes a look at the best and worst of the singles lifestyle.

In the remote deserts of Australia lives an elusive nocturnal bird called the Night Parrot. Virtually nothing is known of its ecology. It disappeared at the end of the 19th Century. Searching for evidence of its existence became a preoccupation. Night Parrot Stories was filmed in all the locations where Night Parrots once lived, during a time when stories of extinction were everywhere.

Seven volunteer English teachers from Australia gradually confront the colonial implications of their work in rural Thailand. Over the course of six months, they contend with their inexperience as teachers, the omnipresence of Westernisation, and the ambiguity of their purpose. Directed by one of the volunteers, 'Six Months to Salvation' is a self-reflexive documentary about language, landscape and idealism lost. u16.co/6m2s

Newly arrived in Melbourne, shy Chinese student Ying (Jenny Zhou) navigates the quiet loneliness of migrant life until she meets Summer (Charlotte Nicdao), a radiant and outgoing local. As their unlikely friendship unfolds, Ying & Summer explores displacement, connection and what it means to feel at home in a foreign city.

The lives of the people of Port Melbourne in the early 1930s are recreated in this award-winning short film.

A gay man has lost his lover to a fatal illness and is trying to go on with his life. If only his preparations for a night of dancing weren't constantly reminding him of the one that he lost.

The Man in the Iron Mask finds France's King Louis the XIVth who has, unbeknownst to both himself and the kingdom, a twin brother Philip, hidden away. But when Philip realizes his royal heritage, trouble begins in the kingdom that pits the brothers against each other and throws all the kings advisors into sudden fits of confusion and treachery, raising questions about the throne. Will the brothers ever be able to reconcile now that they'v found each other, or will a battle for the throne ensue?

Imagine a world where everyone is smiling and laughing. It's a wonderful, wacky and whimsical world. It's a Wiggly, Wiggly World! Join Greg, Murray, Anthony and Jeff as they welcome many friends from around the world who've come to share their own special styles of music. Aussie country music legend Slim Dusty will be there. So will Tim Finn from Crowded House and Split Enz with some fun-filled songs for children. And thanks to Dorothy the Dinosaur and Captain Feathersword, there will be plenty of Wiggling. Welcome to the Wiggly, Wiggly World! of The Wiggles.

In the ancient ruins of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, archaeologists unearthed a papyrus scrap containing the earliest known Christian hymn, complete with both its lyrics and musical notation. Analyzed at Oxford University, this discovery challenges traditional views of church history by revealing the rich musical practices of early believers. Hosted by Australian historian John Dickson, the feature-length documentary “The First Hymn” chronicles the hymn’s journey from its desert origins to its modern resurrection, as acclaimed composers Chris Tomlin and Ben Fielding transform the ancient melody into a contemporary worship piece, culminating in a live concert performance.

Here's a little film about a witch. I mostly made it for my kid, but you're allowed to watch it too.

A private detective takes on one final case before retirement.

a reoccurring dream

After witnessing the horrific death of a young woman, the Harris family must face the psychological consequences of leaving her to die.

Peter Vernon's mother dies and he is adopted by a squatter, Kingston, whose son, Philip, is Peter's age. The two grow up and fall in love with the same girl, Marie.