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At a wilderness boot camp for difficult teens, the desperate spirit of an alleged suicide victim seeks out the help of a young girl to expose the truth about her death.

Facing off in their fifth season decider in five years this was supposed to be Collingwood's moment of redemption but a close-knit Carlton outfit had no plans to end the Grand Final losing streak of their oldest and most hated foe.

The Snowy Mountains Scheme remains one of the greatest engineering feats in the world today but behind the story of engineering and construction is the story of the people who built the dream, the story of the people behind the power. An estimated 100,000 people worked on the Scheme between 1949 and 1974, the year of its completion. Two thirds of them were immigrants from over 40 countries around the world. The Snowy is a story of social, cultural and political change told through the experiences of those who worked on the scheme.

The most isolated metal band in the world, Southeast Desert Metal, and their Aunty Kathleen, share ancient Arrernte culture with the world through song and painting.

A Korean goddess and a sorcerer have been embroiled in a thousand year long argument with each other. They call upon seven different humans to decide for them once and for all which one of them is in the wrong. The god that the humans choose will be put to death.

Silence in the Red Light District of Manila.

Butterfly Crush is a modern love story, starring award winning Australian actress Amelia Shankley, and set against the backdrop of the Sydney music industry. The song and dance duo, Butterfly Crush are about to break big, and are up for the Australasian Song Awards, but their chance at success is jeopardized when half of the duo; Eva, gets involved with a Kings Cross cult, the “Dreamguides”, deep into astrology and virtual dreaming. Moana must risk everything to save her, in this brand new contemporary feature about music and love.

Twelve fragments of various situations.

Today is your birthday, and I’m on a desert island

The sinking of RMS Titanic was one of the 20th century's greatest tragedies, but it has also been rumoured to be a crime. A range of experts take a fresh look at the case, and examine recently discovered evidence.

A Marxist/feminist critique of capitalism and consumerism.

The end of talking. The age of doing. A stirring testament to 21st century conservationism and people power in action, Reefshot is more than just a call to arms to save the Great Barrier Reef. It is the story of some of the Reef’s most loyal citizens racing against time to turn the tide on the danger facing the world’s largest living organism. Led by Andy Ridley the creator of Earth Hour, a small group of scientists, volunteers and Indigenous rangers set out to help protect and conserve the Reef by uploading data to one of the largest natural census undertaken in human history. Cutting edge technology meets 60,000 years of first-peoples know-how as the flotilla trade skills and intelligence in this herculean effort for conservation. The clock is ticking. The world is watching. But rather than getting that sinking feeling about the Reef and its fate, seeing this armada in action will inspire and empower all of us to take part in their plight.

Impression and interpretation: A film that relies on sensory techniques to tell a story about depression, alienation and ultimately loneliness.

The greatest places North of the Orinoco, the Coast, the Northern Range, the Llanos, the Andes and Los Roques. Coro, Morrocoy, Oilbirds, the Llanos, Adventures in the Andes, the Underwater World, and the Magnificent Site of Los Roques Archipelago.

Loss, longing, and the passage of time come to the fore on a day when loneliness is a nightmare for some, but a comfort for others.

How do you tame the falling rain? This film is about giving meaning to the intangible idea, we all love to call ‘creativity’.

Met with the solution to Ari's couchless living situation during their state-sanctioned one-hour walk, Ari awkwardly enlists the help of their (recently declared) intimate partner, Chris, in carrying their newfound couch back home.

Dr. StrangeGov Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Deficit is a light-hearted and satirical documentary that exposes how Australia’s monetary system works. Tackling how money is created in both the private and public sector, Dr. StrangeGov delves into the critical role of the budget deficit in modern Australian economics and how it has been misrepresented within the media. Through elaborate and jovial visual analogies, the documentary recontextualises the Australian economy, providing the tools to understand complex economic concepts in an amusing and fun manner, and as a result, exposing why we should stop worrying and love the deficit

John Hare loses his job after attending a horse race without permission. Despite being married with a child, he invests his last shilling into a Tattersall's sweepstake ticket and ends up drawing the favorite. He then meets with Dick Fallows, the owner of the horse, and places two-thirds of the sweep money with him. The horse wins, but after Hare secures the prize money, he returns to Fallows' camp where he deals with the subsequent fallout and comedic twists surrounding the winnings.

A man yearns helplessly in his home attempting to deal with the small task of existing.

A cartoon adventure featuring Captain Goodvibes, the pig of steel, and his sidekick Astro.

I'll be Home for Christmas cuts through social taboos to explore the subculture of people commonly dismissed as ‘derelicts'. In its portrayal of five homeless men, the film challenges conventional views of alcoholism and homelessness by depicting these men as members of a social network with a highly developed sense of mutual concern and camaraderie.

In a rural neighbourhood, two naive, nine-year-old children meet over their shared fence... a talkative, ill-fated foster child, Daisy... and a dorky, delicate home schooler, Levi. The pair form an unlikely bond and together embark on a risky adventure to return Daisy home.

Cobby's Hobbies was a 1960's children's TV program featuring a chimpanzee getting hmself into all sorts of mischief. For filmmaker Donna McRae, the show was a crucial part of getting through a lonely childhood. McRae seeks people that made the show, Cobby's zoo friends, zoo keepers and the animal rights activists that help her piece together the story of an animal stolen from his natural habitat to work on TV before, being retired into the San Francisco Zoo at age 7. Most primates chimps in entertainment suffered horrifically, becoming research animals or caged in roadside zoos. This documentary examines how we perceive animals in entertainment and how we address their plight now.

An allegory of resistance and liberation woven from Oceania’s past, present and future. A visual companion to the EP of the same name by the Pasifika-First Nations musical collective FAMILI.

Evening performances of traditional Balinese dance-drama in Ubud, shot single frame with open shutter exposures.

A young man faces the branching paths of his destiny in a surreal house of horrors.

When two explorers crash-land on an alien-infested planet, a grim decision arises: as one is infected by the microorganism menace, the other must choose between containment and cataclysmic consequences.

Chrissy, the popular, pretty girl, is tired of her regular life and imagines how she might kill all of her friends at her birthday party.

Two men are on an elevator when fantasy intervenes. Going up? Going down?

With the unique ability to emit pure water, the Numi are the Dry Land's most valuable slaves. When young Numi Davi and her sister are captured and 'milked' for their water, Davi must find a way to outsmart her abusers.

A mad scientist, a techno-nerd and a deadly computer virus form an ultra vivid hyper-reali­ty in this computer generated comic strip.

LGBTQ one shot film about the cycle of relationships we all face and how each of us grow from heartbreak. It documents the birth and death of a relationship lasting three years, shot across two sets in one continuous take.

As refugees and migrants face the dark underbelly of Johannesburg, this documentary illuminates their hardships and persistent hopes for a better future.

Four very different women from Australia, India, Mexico and Turkey prepare for their weddings, each one with different significance.

Cicada is the immersive story of a five-year-old child who witnessed a murder. Daniel P Jones confronts a traumatic memory in an incendiary, visceral monologue.

After receiving devastating news, a man is catapulted into fear. An exploration into 27 of the world's leading experts on fear, examining the biology, psychology and culture of fear, and also the metaphysics of fear.

"On The Australia Beaches... The Force Awakens."

A librarian with the ability to explode people into confetti must decide whether to follow her own rules or what she thinks is right.

‘7 Minutes Of Brain Activity After Death’ is a short film following a kaleidoscope of memory and emotion that unfolds in the brief window between life and death. Recounting the intimate, golden-lit relationship between Eva and Lilah, from their shared teenage discoveries of love. The film becomes a poetic collision of intimacy, fear, and inevitability. Blurring memory and reality, it offers a life revisited in its final seconds and the love left behind.

A local theatre troupe sets out to make their own movie version of Dracula, but their charismatic leader may be more than just an inspiring director—he could be a real blood-sucking vampire. As rehearsals turn sinister, the lines between performance and reality blur, leading to a delightfully dark and unpredictable finale.

A young musician struggles to reconnect with his father after the passing of his mother.

As human-induced global climate change threatens the viability of nearly every ecosystem on earth, small refuges, the microrefugia, may provide safe havens for the organisms that can successfully survive there. Small plants, fungi and species yet to evolve may yet be long-term survivors, if only we give them a chance...

An intimate look at the life and work of Stephen Cummins, who blazed a trail through the 1980s, examining desire, oppression and the politics of sexuality. Reacting against the environment of AIDS paranoia and ensuing homophobia, Stephen created films that are both bold in their politics and beautiful in their poetry.

John Safran investigates the micro parties contesting the 2016 Australian Federal Election, revealing bizarre alliances that unpend perceptions of Australian multiculturalism, uncovering what could be the most religious election ever. As the nation heads towards a neck-and-neck election, the micro parties supported by Australia's religious minorities could end up with a balance of power. Join Safran as he cracks the lid on unlikely alliances and surprising frenemies in his inimitable style.

Rachel is desperate to be seen. Not the way her terminally ill father sees her, and not the way her Church Support Group sees her. Not even the way her mentor, Kathy sees her. Really seen. Newly sober and ready to start her life again, Rachel (Caroline Levien) finds herself back with her father, Glen (Nicholas Hope) and languishing in the role of his primary carer. Lonely and overlooked, Rachel turns to her online persona, 'J@de' and the world of chat-room camming as a place to see and be seen. But Rachel's escapism cannot keep the real world at bay forever. As Glen's illness deteriorates, Rachel's online identity pushes up against her own, bringing her face to face with the ultimate act of exposure.

An animated short film by James Gaunt

Lorna Denver is the wealthy manager of Kangaroo Flat sheep station. Rivalry arises when two men seek her hand in marriage. A melodramatic tale of romance with elements of social comment and some atmospheric outback locations.

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.

One-reeler short film.

The lure of fame proves irresistible for five promising scientists as they enter into the unforgiving Australian outback to prove the unthinkable. When a grizzly death fractures the group they find themselves in the fight of their lives.

A man who is recently single finds himself in a terrifying encounter with a child who is not what he appears to be.

Three witches look to make quick money to spend at an upcoming sabbath, so they prey upon three greedy villagers.

Located 18 miles west, Katatjuta (The Olgas) is a recurring presence in the background of Uluru. Believed by Aboriginal people to have been inhabited by mythological ancestors, it is a place to be approached with caution. There is a sense of mystery and apprehension at Katatjuta, with the complex domed structures with their own rows of "windows" suggesting an abandoned temple city where, due to its mysterious symmetry, space circulates. The uneasy feeling of having intruded and being watched influenced the filming. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

Guy Bourdin revolutionized fashion photography. With his surreal images, he went from being an enfant terrible in the mid-1950s to one of the most important photographers for French Vogue. In Bourdin's work, models posed in front of animal carcasses, swung in brightly colored dresses in the middle of a huge birdcage, and rode on the back of an orca. Whether doll-like women or femmes fatales, the image of women conveyed in his representations is the subject of heated debate.

An extraordinarily insightful and intimate exploration of the social and cultural landscape of India's most elite boys' boarding school. In following the boys' daily routines and dramas, the film also affords us a rare glimpse at processes of postcolonial Indian identity formation.

George is a disaster-prone zoo attendant who accidentally discovers a substance that accelerates motion, enabling his greyhound to run faster. This attracts the interest of a gang of criminals, who kidnap George's dog and plan to substitute their own in an important dog race. George and his friends defeat the crooks and their dog wins the race.

Once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", avant-garde poet and playwright Christopher Barnett achieved a level of notoriety in the Melbourne underground theatre scene during the ‘70s and ‘80s, before self-exiling to France. He remains there today, running an experimental theatre lab working with the marginalised and underprivileged, applauded by the establishment (including former French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault) and faithful to his belief that art can change the world. These Heathen Dreams is an intimate portrait of Barnett's life and revolutionary philosophy. Combining archival footage dating back to the ‘60s with contemporary observational documentation and text from Barnett's writings, it is a poignant and inspiring study of the power of both art and political activism.

In the secretive town of Kismet Palms, August and Vesper's love hides a haunting truth. As mysteries unravel, August discovers Vesper's chilling secret, plunging them into a world of enigma, danger, and the delicate balance between forbidden love and hidden malevolence.

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.