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1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia.

An experiment in the creative use of colour visuals, natural sound and dialogue commentary, this film shows the loneliness of the aimless wanderers in the city streets contrasted with those who have companionship on their Sunday. (Award: Special Award for an Experimental Film in the Australian Film Awards, Melbourne Film Festival, 1958) Rights held by Gil Brealey.

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.

Four millennial teens who go on a camping trip discover they have no reception. When one of their group goes missing, the surrounding bush land comes alive.

A surrealist film that follows Dorian and his slow descent into madness, as he gradually loses his perception of time

Two strangers exchange a conversation in a cinema lobby, connections are made but awkwardness follows

Experience three parallel lives of an Indigenous man in Naarm (Melbourne) – in each instance, we ponder if he will always be made to feel like an outsider in his own land.

THREE THOUSAND is a short film by writer/director Frank Piripitsi. The film brings together two strangers. Tracy is a young woman running from her past, who is sought out by Adam, an 11-year old boy beaten and adrift. Adam is a mystery to us, as he is to Tracy. All we know, is that he needs to go 'home'. A strange tattoo on Adam's lip is their only guide. Circumstance brings them together, their destinies more profoundly connected than either had imagined.

A short examination of the work of Australian performance artist Stelarc.

A nostalgic piece involving a classic horror character, commencing with an intense build up and concluding with a sudden twist of humor.

'Hero Of The Dardanelles' charts the fortunes of Will Brown (Guy Hastings) who answers his nation's call to do his duty. While only one third of the original film survives, it is a significant fragment of Australia's film heritage - not least for its inclusion of real troops and a real training camp at Liverpool, NSW and an elaborate re-enactment of the Gallipoli landings staged at Tamarama Bay. So convincing was the re-enactment that within a decade of 'Hero's' release, the landing sequence was being used erroneously as actuality. A hit with home-front audiences, whose appetite for heroic figures was yet to be sobered by the harsh realities of a protracted and bloody conflict, the film's anti-pacifist stance and clear messages to women about their duty to their own menfolk, provide valuable depictions of political currents of the day. Reconstructed in 2005, only 22 minutes of the original 44-minute production survive today.

A documentary about the "Australian Taliban", David Hicks. The film follows the struggles of David's father, Terry Hicks, as he tries to free his son from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Terry Hicks travels the world, locking himself in a cage on street corners in major cities as a demonstration of the harsh conditions his son is unjustly suffering under. At the same time, the movie traces David Hicks' path through Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he eventually joined the Taliban.

A short experimental film about loving your labia directed by Morgana Muses.

A son's unsettling reunion with his wife's ambition - A dinner with a stranger

Austen Tayshus performing his stand-up comedy, recorded at the Bridge Hotel in Sydne

Woven Threads is dedicated to telling stories through which our shared humanity compels us to recognize and, perhaps, identify with the universality of the refugee experience.

In Genesis 32 we read the story of Jacob wrestling with God through the night. On the other side of Jacob’s divine encounter was a new name, a new blessing, a new identity and a new way of walking (literally). Will we be a worshipping people who are not content to sleep through the night (spiritually speaking) and wake in the morning unchanged? Like Jacob, will we enter into the wrestle with God, dare to know Him more intimately and be changed in the process? This is the premise for Hillsong Worship’s 26th live praise and worship album.

Hidden Forecourts follows Sarah who returns to her hometown to attend a funeral. She is reunited with her childhood friend Marcus, who warns her that someone from her past is also returning to town. Sarah’s homecoming attracts the unwanted attention of old foxes and vengeful spirits who demand she return something she stole many years ago…

The Searchers' classic hit "Needles and Pins" accompanies images of couples gazing lovingly into each others' eyes. Love, naturally, is transcendent.

Lois, upon moving to the inner city and finding herself in an all-woman house, becomes most intrigued by her new roommate Kate.

In a bid to extend his adolescence, Gordon convinces his reluctant fiancée to allow his best-friend Jez and himself to live in the house they have just bought in a bachelor pad situation for the year before they get married.

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

Two friends share a conversation during an eventful walk to an unknown location.

In a subterranean bunker, a man - rescued from the wasteland above - must lie about being a doctor in order to be deemed worthy of saving.

What if you temporarily took leave from the safety of everyday life to battle through a challenge that scares you? What if your only worries were riding, finding food and water and a place to sneak a few hours of sleep? What if you forgot your self-imposed limits just to see what you were truly capable of for once? What if you were a racer at heart? Why wouldn't you want to take on the toughest races on the planet?

Cassie thought that the deserted beach town would be the perfect escape from the past, from her unfaithful lover and painful memories. Peace is short-lived. In this serene town hides a sickening evil. Her only escape may be in the obscurity of a mental asylum. However, it is here the evil will find her also.

When Arabella, a hard-of-hearing school student, begins spending time discussing schoolwork with Mr Chapman, she starts to find herself isolated. As her teacher’s grooming unfolds, she must hold onto the good energy that surrounds her.

Violet and Daisy have been best friends since they were five. Best friends forever. Joined at the hip. How close can two best friends get? What would they do if anyone tried to separate them?

The FIVE Provocations is a performance driven, realist drama about four intertwined stories of love, loss and unexpected confrontations by women too provocative to ignore.

The Wanderers are sworn to protect you, so they do as they ought to do, and leave before bringing any misfortune.

A young man leaves the life he has always known, to strike a deal with a creature, but strange forces pull him into something deeper.

Outback Australia has the highest suicide rates in the country, particularly for men, so when mental health motorcycle gang ‘Psychs on Bikes’ rolls into town, it can kick start a ‘life-changing’ conversation. Join ‘Psychs on Bikes’ on an epic road trip and ‘mental health mission’ around Australia.

When a lunar eclipse stops her late-night letter exchanges, twelve year old astronomer Gugu must find a way to reconnect with her beloved Gogo (grandmother) who lives far away in Zimbabwe.

Competitive ballroom dancing in Melbourne in the 1980s.

Made for inclusion in a student theatrical production at the University of Sydney, this film was based on an allegorical play by Antonin Artaud.

Australian bushranger movie. The first filmed version of Rolf Boldrewood's 'Robbery Under Arms' novel.

Over the past decade Australia’s prison population has doubled. But of all the States, it’s Western Australia that has the highest number of prisoners per population. Casuarina, Western Australia’s Maximum Security Prison, is designed for 360 inmates. It currently houses almost double that. For the first time ever, our cameras go inside Casuarina Prison to witness life behind bars in an Australian Super Max.

A confronting story of deceit, perversion and abuse, that delves below the surface of a stagnant Tasmanian mining town into its banal yet insidious core. Rosebery is at once a setting and a metaphor for the damaging relationships that lurk beneath the surface. We follow Alison, the youngest daughter of the Asquith family, as she plunges into a world of destructive relationships that lead her to a gruesome destiny.

Showcasing the cream of Australian rock'n'roll performers of the era, the film features Johnny O'Keefe, Col Joye, Johnny Devlin, The Delltones, Johnny Rebb, Lonnie Lee, The Graduates, The Crescents and Warren Williams performing at the iconic Sydney Stadium for one of Gordon's 1959 'Big Shows', in front of thousands of fans.

A woman turns 30.

Josh Turner is in a rut. He hasn’t left his house in days, takeaway boxes are piling up around him and he’s pretty sure that his cat hates him. He’s fine though! Totally fine! Thriving, really! One day, Josh’s life get thrown into chaos when his TV gets overtaken by a quiz show where every question is about him.

Voice of Change is set on Bougainville, an autonomous region of PNG coming out of a 10 year civil war. Humanitarian Sister Lorraine lived through the crisis emerging as a mediator to promote peace and reconciliation. Now she leads the Nazarene Centre, assisting individuals and families with their daily struggles, as Bougainville is not just re-building infrastructure, but its people.

Kate Ritchie presents a special look at 50 Years of Play School, taking a nostalgic journey through Aussie childhood, reliving the laughter and delights of half a century of this TV icon.

Onus On Us began as a cinema verite movie of my own life, but ended as a film-performance staged at events such as the annual Super 8 Film Festival in Melbourne in 1986 and 1987.

A perfect Christmas dinner is wasted on a demanding picky, fussy snapper with impossibly high standards.

Malcolm Douglas lives with the coastal people of Papua, accompanying them on their long hunting trips in Torres Strait on big sail-powered canoes. He travels up the Fly River and camps with the fierce Suki people. He reaches Kamoola, a village of great hunters and dancers.

Join James and Albany, along with their faithful companions 'Onyx' and 'Rocco', on an awe-inspiring kayaking journey along Australia's longest river - the Murray.

Young Sergey is an openly gay activist in Belarus and has endured violence from police and skinheads. When his boyfriend is shot on the border he begins his fight for gay equality. Preparing for a defiant stand on the streets of the nation's capital Minsk, Sergey and a few brave activists brace to show their PRIDE against the last dictatorship in Europe.

With a career spanning well over a decade in the bloodiest, most violent subgenre of pro wrestling, David "Gweedo" Brown reflects on his time as a deathmatch wrestler.

A paint-on-glass animated music video for Sophie Koh's track from the album Book of Songs.

Documentary about "The Coolbaroo Club",  which was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practiced unofficial apartheid. During its lifetime, the Club attracted Black musicians and celebrities from all over Australia and occasionally from overseas. Although best-remembered for the hugely popular Coolbaroo dances attended by hundreds of Aborigines and their white supporters, the "Coolbaroo League", founded by Club members, ran a newspaper and became an effective political organization, speaking out on issues of the day affecting Aboriginal people.

Highlights from every Brute Horsepower production since the 1986 Street Machine Nationals in Canberra Australia - the first Summernats in 1988 through to the 20th in 2007. Featuring highlights, milestones, trends, outstanding cars and people, sponsors and exhibitors and an Honour Roll. "Every event has an extremely memorable highlight" Narrated by event promoter Chic henry and Burnout Track announcing Supremo Milton Adey. It's 20 years of Street Machining History.

The Story of Sam Regulus and his adventures to find his missing brother Jason

The “gay male nuns” of Sydney’s Order of Perpetual Indulgence have been shocking, delighting and confounding audiences with their satirical activism for over four decades, but does this bold brand of activism still hold relevance today?

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.

Mixed media animated short

Filmed on l6mm Kodachrome which heightens the textures and depth of this harsh landscape -- a study in browns, yellows, greys and blue sky.

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.

A Marxist/feminist critique of capitalism and consumerism.

Two detectives hunt an elusive killer It is currently in pre-production with writing having only just commenced. It is currently set to star Joseph Carra Schulz and Fisk Fox as the two detectives. It is currently set to film around Christmas later this year after the release of Advent.