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Sitting at the intersection of two main arteries of traffic on Melbournes Northside is a giant yellow rat that is pointing, with a long gnarled claw, to its explicitly large bottom. This yellow rat is the mascot for the small business Glenlyon Motors. This unusual mascot and the absence of an explanation for its existence has many residents of Melbournes north side puzzled. 'A Rats Arse' finally answers the question on every Northside residents lips - “Why?!” - and along the way reveals something about identity, values, community, and the people who exist within them.

A love letter to mime (and to a coat) written by award-winning idiot Tom Walker, who keeps talking during what he insists is a mime show.

Here There Be Monsters

On a lonely alien planet shrouded in mystery, an ominous beast guards a powerful treasure. One day he receives an unexpected guest - A seemingly innocent girl crash lands on his world. The two will forge an unusual friendship, and teach one another that looks can indeed be deceiving!

Doc, an American Vietnam vet, travels to Australia to discover his friend John has been murdered by a mysterious crime boss known as Pirate. Doc inherits John's nightclub and finds it staffed by beautiful women. Finding himself at war with thugs trying to take over the club, he hatches a plan to expose Pirate's identity, save the club, and allow him to get it on with the babes.

Australia's most unusual triple-murder conviction – Why did Erin Patterson kill her lunch guests by serving them beef wellington laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms ?

Australian surfing documentary directed by Bruce Dowse

A group of women prisoners have signed up to foster retired racing greyhounds and get them ready for adoption. The prisoners have just eight weeks to transform the dogs into family pets, or the dogs could be euthanised.

Filmmaker Warwick Thornton investigates our relationship to the Southern Cross, in this fun and thought provoking ride through Australia's cultural and political landscape.

The greats of Australian Football have shared their secrets.

A man, drunk and desperate, searches for a connection. A field recording, dramatised.

In his youth Shaun Micallef almost joined the priesthood. Now he wonders if he may have missed his one shot at the answers to life’s big questions. Heading to India, a country where spirituality and the search for meaning is very much a national past time, he immerses himself in the Hindu world of Gods, Gurus and the Ganges. In a bid to get to the heart of the faith, Shaun pushes well beyond his comfort zone on a physical, mental and spiritual adventure. He journeys to the source of the Ganges high in the Himalayas - all the while offering his own unique observations on his quest to find the meaning of life.

Two playful angels, seven sinful pigs, and one poor righteous soul.

With seven days to pay back a drug - dealer, three young Polynesian men take up a job from a local crime lord in order to set things straight.

After the events of Michael and Jason: Best Buds 3, the slashers all get together on Christmas day to celebrate and gift each other presents!

WAP stands for White Australia Policy, a racist policy which limited migration into Australia into the nineteen fifties. This policy can be read as a marker of the guilt surrounding the Aboriginal genocide that had blotted white settlement of Australia since its inception. This film re-frames historic material to allow the voices of the deferred and dispossessed to speak their trauma, speaking often through the bodies and voices of the oppressor to reveal the unspoken truth.

A 1910 Australian silent film based on the popular play by Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan. The plot concerns the rivalry between two neighboring sheep stations, Enderby and Waratah. This version includes the subplot about the bushranger Ben Hall which was not used when the play was adapted again in 1933.

After the passing of her mother, Al, is left to the hands of the State Government. Her only wish and hope is finding her Dad whom she barely knows. She sets off on a journey and trusts that her wish will come true, but who she finds is not the man she remembers.

Filmmaker Trevor Graham is an Australian 'hummus tragic'. Every week in his Bondi Beach home he observes the hummus making ritual, mashing chickpeas, lemon juice, garlic and tahina. But when the Hummus War erupted in 2008, among the usual suspects, Israel, Lebanon and Palestine, Graham was hungry for more. But this war ha no soldiers, bullets or tanks. Just chickpeas and hummus. Make Hummus Not War is a humorous homage to the chickpea's most distinguished dish. But there's a personal story, how Graham became a hummus tragic, a father who served in Palestine during WW2 and two lovers in his life, one Syrian, one Jewish, with whom he shared a great culinary passion.

Grave Expectations is a period piece surrounding a grave robber who digs the grave of a recently deceased young beauty who turns out to be not as deceased as he was led to believe.

When world renown, troubled playwright Abigail White's parents die, she is left guardian of her younger sister and moves back to the farmhouse where she grew up as a child. The siblings attempt to deal with their new life on the isolated property, things start to go haywire when Abbie begins to be haunted by horrifying visions and long forgotten memories. Soon Abbie is confronted by her neighbour, a newly released psychiatric patient who informs her that both she and her younger sister are participants in a government/extra-terrestrial ran program of drugs, MK-ULTRA, kidnapping and abuse. Thing's soon spiral murderously out of control as Abigail's memories reveal more and more about her traumatized childhood and the future of the entire planet.

An idyllic ride in the country is shattered when Tessa takes a joke too far and hitches a ride with a stranger. Too late she finds the driver has other games in mind for her and she is no match for his addiction to thrills. In this psychological game of cat and mouse, Tessa and her boyfriend Nick are led on a merry dance of murder and intrigue. This film takes you into the darker limits of madness but on a ride with offbeat and strangely humorous turns.

Nicknamed the "Iron Lady," Margaret Thatcher served as the prime minister of England from 1979 to 1990. The daughter of a local businessman, she was educated at the local grammar school. Her family operated a grocery store and they all lived in an apartment above the store. In her early years Thatcher was introduced to conservative politics by her father who was a member of the townʼs council.

A feud exists between two outback families, the Blakes and the Ridgeways, caused by Sam Ridgeway having married a woman Jim Blake was in love with. The feud goes on for over thirty years.

"Kick it to the boundary line". These are the famous words of Ted Whitten in the commentary box late in the last quarter of the 1966 Grand Final between St Kilda and Collingwood, This was the classic battle between the powerhouse of Collingwood and its rich successful history against a club riddled with failure who had never tasted Premiership success. With only one point separating the teams at the final siren - it is still to this day one of the all-time great football stories,

After an experience of workplace sexual harassment, a woman wanders through empty streets like a ghost.

Australian Nature in Time Lapse, Sunsets, Sunrises, Flowers, Landscapes and Waterfalls filmed all over the Country. Images with background music.

Two Warlpiri boys grow up together in a small remote indigenous community. They find strength in family and culture when troubles turn up on a trip into town.

After the cataclysmic war that all but destroyed civilization, Authan O'Reilly, a soldier now charged with building rather than destroying, has gone AWOL, in search of his past. As his long search draws to a close he arrives at a once thriving city, now a deserted ghost land, he pushes onwards in the hope that he may find some clues amongst remnants of the past.

A short film by Elissa Black starring Martelle Hammer and Sarah Greenwood.

Super. Eight. High. Sky. Miles. Super Eight. Miles High. Birds in the Sky. Byrds on High. A Doco of the corner of Smith & Greeves Sts., Fitzroy, Oct.8, 2003, 1:00 pm.

This documentary is based around a vision and a mission to help everyone understand how to unlock their own potential, power and journey to abundance. We believe that we all have an unlimited wealth of potential within us, and that we just need to learn how to tap in and find it. It’s in there, because we were born with it.

Jim's past and present are irreconcilable. Jim lives haunted by the emotional aftermath of his past. His wife, Louise knows nothing of his former life, but Jim's past and present meet when Louise is confronted with the reality of Jim's world - his life with Catherine. Jim is taken back to the past, to relive what destroyed his future with Catherine. He has to confront the veracity of the moment - what happens when someone kills, but no one is to blame?

A poetic documentary about teenage mental illness.

A short indie film

Hoop-Dee-Doo! It's time for some fun! You're all invited to join the fab four of fun, The Wiggles, and their friends on a musical journey and celebration! See Captain Feathersword and his magical musical pirate buttons, wow! Dance the Ooby Doo with Dorothy the Dinosaur. Swim with Henry the Octopus and see the world's most famous dancing Dog, Wags the Dog, dancing up a storm. There's so much to do at our own Wiggly party. You can move like an Emu, visit the Dublin Zoological Gardens, sing the beautiful South American song La Cucaracha with special friends Fernando and his son. It's as much fun as a party. Hoop-Dee-Doo, it's a Wiggly party!

Part 2 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Covering the 1920s and 30s. From an origin that promised so much, the Australian film production industry faced new challenges from abroad which ultimately proved to be more than they could cope with. Unfortunately very few films from then now survive.

Video by Pretty Films & Common House

In a corner of the world rarely mentioned, Princess Sophia is the sole heir to the kingdom of Preanna. After the death of her mother she seeks freedom from her father, an insidious King driven mad by grief. A war brews in the neighboring nation of Nantio as violent revolutionaries stand against Preanna and the royal guard. Sophia endeavors to break the chain of tyranny rooted in her home country and her father's dictatorship.

A young stuntman embarks on the most perilous, and illegal, project of his life. With the police hot on his trail, and an arduous mission to reach the takeoff, the jump itself is only half the challenge.

A narrated storybook animation of a girl learning to cope with her mother's aging, dementia and death. It is an allegorical film about life, death and rebirth.

"A famous filmmaker said 'Cinema is the history of men filming women.'" These 12 words are rearranged in Cheap Blonde 22 times, to alter and corrupt the original meaning of the statement. This work aims to highlight the contrived nature of every filmed image.

A thick fog throws a trio of fishermen off course deep within the northern Atlantic Ocean. Lost and adrift, their vessel awakens unspeakable horrors.

The first documentary about Australian trans lives. Given only a limited release in 1983, it has rarely been shown since. Filmed in Sydney in 1981, the film unusually seeks to provide a voice for trans women and men of the time, in contrast with the sensational viewpoints that were a feature of most reportage of the period. Man into Woman features eight interviews with trans women and men, interspersed with the views of ‘authority’ represented by figures like the then Attorney-General of NSW Frank Walker. The film was a turning point in the Australian media for understanding the complexity and diversity of the trans experience.

Set in the late 1950s, 'Penny' captures the energy and style of the iconic drive-in era in Australia. This short film follows Timmy (Jason Agius), a young cleaner at the drive-in, in his quest to impress local dancer Penny (Steph Dunbar) and win her heart. Aided by his friend Donna (Jodi Eames), a waitress at the Drive-In diner, he sets out to learn how to rock 'n' roll with the best of them.

From newborn pups to working dogs to furry movie stars, cute pooches of all breeds abound in this film that explores the delightful world of canines.

An exploration of the caged heart, what happens when fear suffocates expression, and how love unravels in silence as a result.

A quick, witty, satirical look at the absurdity of life, covering everything from a golf club wielding midget to a coffee cup with an attitude.

An explosive portrait of the lives of artisans and their families in the lead up to the festival of San Juan de Dios, when blazing revelry engulfs the town.

After her sister Julia’s mysterious disappearance, pragmatic twenty-something Mia (Ali Ryrie-Golding) checks in on her sister’s forlorn husband, Joel (Sam Young). As Joel’s despair becomes apparent, Mia is alarmed to learn that Joel believes Julia (Shian Denovan) has gone to live with aliens. As Mia tries to talk him around, Joel makes the fantastical claim he can contact his wife using a strange black object. At first unbelieving, Mia’s firm grip on reality starts to dissolve, dredging up the ghosts of her relationship with her absent sister.

In December 2012, Muzafar Ali and his wife Nagina escaped the Taliban in Afghanistan. They found themselves living in Indonesia as refugees when Australia ‘stopped the boats’. Determined to do something, they started a small two room school, which soon became the hub of a community and the most successful refugee-led initiative in the world.

Dare to play the game? Just one shot won't hurt.

Set in 1950s Australia, in which a Chinese family comes to terms with its new country.

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Australian Women's Land Army.

15-year-old Marnie, Handycam at her side, captures a day in the life of her housing project.

Desperate to win the acceptance of the older boys he idolises, 15-year-old Casey agrees to rob a war veteran's cabin.

Australian artist Leon Pericles faces his greatest challenge: holding an exhibition of his life's works while facing the mental decline of his wife and collaborator Moira, as Alzheimer's disease turns their world upside down.

A gruesome and blackly comic horror in which a girl rescues a stray cat from a gang of teenagers … but is it any safer with her?

Nikki, a sound recordist, picks up a strange sound whilst filming on location in a forest. After a disturbing encounter, she wakes up alone, confused and filthy in her house. Her only chance at finding out what happened to her, lies within her sound recorder.

John Harland is a former boxer turned reverend posted to the town of Kangaroo. He falls in love with Muriel, an orphaned heiress, and discovers that her guardian Martin Giles is embezzling her inheritance. Harland earns the ire of parishioners by teaching young boys to box, and Giles manipulates local opinion to have the bishop remove him. Harland rescues a gentleman from a mugging in Sydney who suggests that he go to Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has driven the church out of the area. Harland preaches, and unexpectedly sees Muriel in the congregation; her property is near Kalmaroo. But her overseer is Red Jack Braggan who leads the gang which violently breaks up Harland's mission - much to the distress of Muriel who regards Harland as too timid - and is in cahoots with Giles.