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Young Rowan Fernandes is threatened with the harsh punishment of execution after countless years of unprovoked bashing. As his family struggles to solve his complex addiction, he goes through countless attempts of mental correction and rehabilitation.
Sleep deprived and nursing a rotten tooth, a single mother races to get her kids ready for school so she can get to her dentist appointment on time.
An enigmatic Cambodian-Australian puppeteer’s life begins to unravel during a TV performance. Can he be vulnerable to his young daughter about the genocide he fled?
After nearly three years living in Japan, Fergus Gregg finds himself struggling to bid farewell to this beautiful country. On a journey tracing the path of his hero, the poet Matsuo Basho, Fergus decides to trek the northern landscapes of Tohoku. As he travels, he encounters more than he bargained for - facing setbacks, meetings with traditional hunter-gathers, and dances at northern Japan's largest Summer festival. Join Fergus Gregg on his 'Road to the North'.
A man knows what has gone wrong, and he's going to fix it.
I'm Not Your Heroine examines pain, loss, addiction, and the space in which they intertwine. It is the story of a mother who is helpless to alleviate the pain of her son, who turns to drugs after his father-figure commits suicide.
Determined to have the perfect birthday, May’s party plans are complicated by kitchen mishaps, family drama, and the arrival of a serial killer.
Floeur Alder's parents are celebrated international ballet stars Lucette Aldous and Alan Alder and she grows up with god-mother Dame Margot Fonteyn and 'Uncle' Rudolf Nureyev. Like her parents, she trains in ballet. She is about to realise her goal to dance on the world stage when she is randomly stabbed in the neck by an unknown man on the streets of Perth. Facing years of physical rehabilitation, she turns to her family and dance to recover and, as the only child of celebrity parents, face the ultimate challenge to find her own way of dancing.
Following the misadventures of Detective Raymond Deuce on his nightly prowls in the city. A city that has shaped him. A city he hopes to change.
An exquisitely crafted stand-up show from one of the most creative and ludicrous comedians in the scene, an inventive and silly hour that captivates and confuses. Overflowing with creativity, Oliver is a skilled stand up, actor and writer. He also had a life changing juice one time in Sydney.
A music video exploring Sigmund Freud’s “Id, Ego and Superego” theory: the challenge between the complexities and depths of the human mind and emotional experience at its nakedness, and the external pressures and constructs the world perpetuates and how that reflects within us beings.
A meditation on the relationship between time and fate, and what comes to make up a life, as told through a stray dog with a magnetism towards train travel.
Jake, aka Frazzles the Clown, goes through relationship issues due to his career.
An experimental collage-essay composed entirely of iPhone footage, this film captures the emotional textures of memory over the past few years—a move from Sydney to Paris, following love and the pull of what felt right in the moment. Fragments of everyday life, layered with original music, create a flowing meditation on the past and present. The film avoids a linear narrative, instead mirroring the way memories rise and fall like waves: fleeting, emotional, and deeply personal. It’s an attempt to translate lived experience into film, celebrating the beauty of letting life wash over you, while holding onto the love and connections that shape who we are.
Boy has 12 hours to prepare to for his first fight
The Story of Sam Regulus and his adventures to find his missing brother Jason
You're losing me is an emotional journey following a 18-year-old male and his battle against losing his partner. The film explores internal struggles and captures the loneliness and confusion that comes with losing someone and how it can affect daily life and mental health.
LA. 1977. Two private investigators named Disco and Daggers are hired to uncover the death of notorious mafia figure, Tommy Vercelli. After meeting with several people who share their insight on the crime, the duo realise the case may not be as it seems.
Mixed media animated short
Faced with the possibility of losing her friend forever, 20 year old Anna is forced to delve into her memories and think about what she missed last night.
Key mountain catchments in the Australian Alps are under increasing threats of climate change and human impacts. In shared knowledge, there is hope for practical actions to restore, recover and regenerate our mountain landscapes.
AJ has been unable to come up with a script idea for months. His boss has been breathing down his neck. But, everything may change when he is sent to meet a peculiar old man…
Following the fictional adventure of a young boy who visits the sand dunes seeking inspiration for his current painting. During his journey, he befriends people who live at the dunes and practise a very different culture compared to his own.
experimental film
A bored office worker challenges a homeless man for a bottle worth 10 cents.
A traumatised and grief stricken Gab is recruited by ASIO to assist in the termination of an increasingly volatile old foe, stretching his fragile composure to breaking point in an apocalyptic final showdown.
The Human Algorithm is an immersive fever dream exploring the impact of artificial intelligence on human behavior and cognition. Maximalist in its approach, this work is crafted with generative AI tools, weaving its narrative through text sampling. Contemporary philosophers, scientists, and theorists are digitally replicated as interview subjects, with their voices and likenesses cloned. Narrated by a meta-human avatar, broken fragments of humanity's literary classics are delivered. Serving as a prototype for an immersive video and sound experience, The Human Algorithm confronts the existential threat posed to humanity by the proliferation of AI.
An inspiring documentary that follows the journey of Ryan Emerson, a deaf ruckman who defies expectations in a sport where communication is key.
A meditative 3D animation, rich with texture and the ambiance of the natural world, that beckons us to find solace in turbulent times.
Aurora falls unconscious after a plastic caterpillar appears on her hand. In her dream, she pursues Luna, and attempts to stop her from following The Dark Man.
Following a high school friend groups collective suspension, Liam starts to wonder if he made the right choice of friends.
"Pretend I existed" is a memoir about the filmmaker's relationship with his mother when she had her cancer treatment in Japan.
Through a box of photographs, a hauntingly intimate portrait emerges of friendship, grief, and the raw, creative soul of Darlinghurst in the 1980s.
A reclusive artist, Paul Caruso, lives in isolation, known only for his brilliant work. When a wealthy woman commissions a portrait, their brief, uneasy encounter stirs something deep within him. As he continues painting beyond the commission, the process begins to unravel a memory he's tried to forget. That memory gradually takes control, turning into a confession. His response will change his life forever.
A debut doco-style film by storyteller and icon Naavikaran and a foray into her futurist lore.
Signatures of Earth is an experiment in repositioning documentary narrative hierarchies in the space age. The film aggregates fragmentary encounters from varying points of view, encountering cuttlefish and quasars, and much else in between, happened upon during a transcontinental journey to film the shadow of the moon. Challenging, in the tradition of Brechtian distanciation, the film is also poetic, ethereal, roving, contemplative, richly cinematic and empathetically engaged. Signatures of Earth presents a fractured vision of the cognitive and sensory muddle that is an antipodean road trip through the Anthropocene. It all makes sense as long as you don’t want it too.
An erratic, unstable and absurd producer becomes self-aware that he's in a film. Trying to run away from the camera and audience, his life spirals out of control, escaping by any means necessary.
If You Can’t Larp, You’ll Cry - is an experimental video performance work featuring Li Yi Fan, Harrison Hall and Mat Spisbah. The work scrutinizes the shift in digital media production brought about by the subscription economy and the implications of not owning but merely accessing software. It explores how these tools have changed the way we communicate, and created new desires for understanding and connection. Through the work, the group speculates that services and hacks to use video technology could construct a new politics of life by projecting a totality yet to come.
Since the climatic events of Patrick Escott's gripping and taut sequel, 'Wasting Time', Penner and Pavel have been thrown back in time to a primitive and dark age. They now have to make their way back to their own time, trying to undo the damage caused by Chekhov's technology, and evading amoral and mysterious agents. Is their mission just a waste of time, or will they be able to save it?
Sisters Adelaide and Lucinda grew up spending a lot of time with their Nana Ann, also known as “Nansie”, who would help look after them as children. However, roles were reversed when Nansie was diagnosed with dementia in 2018. For the last few years, Nansie has been saying to her granddaughters that she goes swimming in the ocean every morning. The girls know this isn’t true as Nansie never learnt to swim, but instead of correcting her, they go along with the stories her dementia has created. Eventually, they decide to see if this story in Nansie’s mind could come true.
After a swelling undercurrent of violence at a peaceful protest erupts into a bloodbath, an elusive cult leader's bodyguard must salvage the plan that he undermined or else lose the object of his obsession... her.
Tragically, Rheumatic Heart Disease has the greatest negative impact on the life-expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. This definitive film demonstrates the problem of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in Australia and how it can be eliminated through community action and political will.
On the way to a friendly barbecue, Skye discovers a gun and a folder of images of himself in the glove box of Tom's car. Unaware of the intention, all he has to do is stay calm and make sure he doesn't blow his cover.
Losing yourself in your phone has never been more terrifying.
Percieve the images how you will; Wander is designed at having a different influence over each audience member and provoking self-reflection and deep thought. There was no singular intended storyline, instead prompting a unique perception from each viewer.
Chelsea navigates the feeling of being different as the only black girl in school.
A killer that lives in the woods kills for an entity called ‘The Deer God’
Legend has it that the islands of the Coral Sea are built on the back of a giant sea turtle. Saltwater runs through the veins of the local people, who are deeply connected to the ocean----also some of the most important sanctuaries for endangered green sea turtles in the world. Join local conservationists as they safeguard the future of green sea turtles, one tiny new hatchling at a time.
In a sunlit studio, a young woman is getting ready to have her portrait painted by a young man. The woman is curious to see how she is perceived. She spends her life carefully projecting an image of herself, but what testimony will a man's painting give?
November 23rd 2024, Ricky Neil Jr. performs their last headline show of the year, live at a The Bird in Perth WA.
A young woman returns to a special place from her childhood.
A man wakes up with a bomb beside him and an AI in his ear telling him how to survive. As the countdown ticks, he begins to doubt whether the voice guiding him actually wants him to live.
Rhys pushes himself by walking up a steep hill, however this strenuous challenge is met by another: a person.
A woman is so caught up reading stories of love, she is oblivious to a man who has fallen in love with her - but his dog figures out how to orchestrate “a touch of romance.”
Mitch McTaggart once again reviews Australian television broadcasting from January to December, with highlights of the good, the bad and the cringe.
NRL stars Addo-Carr, Bateman, Olam and Kamikamica rose from humble beginnings worldwide to rugby league fame. Now they're using their success to give back to communities and create positive change globally.
It was Lachlan Morton’s greatest feat of endurance yet. Last September, Lachy set a new Around Australia Record, riding 14,200-kilometers around his home country in just 30 days, nine hours, and 59 minutes. That’s more than 460 kilometers per day, every day, for a month. Lachy’s brother Gus was there with him for the ride, filming all of his pre-dawn starts, the lonely time trials down outback highways, headwinds, tailwinds, gas station meals, and all of the people who Lachlan met along the way. The Great Southern Country, our film about Lachlan's Around Australia Record, presented by Cannondale and POC, is a story of endurance, how great challenges bring people together. And it is a story about Australia in all of its rugged beauty.
Two young adults tasked with protecting the world take a moment to discuss how much their lives have changed.
A creative figure must reckon with others more powerful than them and forces beyond their control. Intended as a depiction of the tension between machines and man, the natural and the unnatural, especially in relation to art and sociality.
Following the death of her boy hunter Adonis, the goddess of love sets to folly humanity and their so-called imitations of romance, at the expense of turning mortal.