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The power of the Close-up Shot is fully displayed, dozens of species filmed in the Australian Bush, usually only available to the few keen observers in Nature, are presented to the general public, to dive into the magnificent Natural World.
A picture of life in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in the mid 1960s, social, commercial and recreational.
Shock rocker Lazarus Graves returns home to Brisbane following a successful international music career. A connection he forms with a journalist forces him to confront his self-destructive lifestyle, facing his demons and making new mistakes along the way
Synopsis: A man at a crossroads in his relationship strikes up a friendship with an urban forager.
At a prestigious Beijing university, Weichen prepares for his first sexual encounter under the pressures of inflated expectation and nightmarish anxieties surrounding his mother. Set within the world of the post-'90s generation of Chinese youth, BURROW is a dark coming-of-age story about the paralyzing nature of self-doubt about the primal responses we have to our fear of failure.
Sydney 1988 - Sally and Robert are hopelessly addicted to jacking Intensity with the "stinger", a device which blasts hyper-heroin straight into the jugular vein. When Intensity supplies dry up, Robert scores from the Burgher Meister and carks it in a public dunny, but not before blabbing about his secret research with Liz and Margaret at the Institute of Brain Research. With the help of super-computer INFORB, Liz and Margaret insert subliminal audio and video triggers into a tape that stimulate opioid peptides in the brain inducing the ultimate high, but its effects are untested. The Burgher Meister and his violent goons go after Sally, Liz and Margaret seeking the tape - meanwhile the CIA hatch Operation Peptide to acquire the tape for their own population control agenda. -charybdias, CG.
A delightful mockumentary that underscores the universality of childhood and imagination, Warya originally screened at the Africa Film Festival Australia.
Amidst his dull and tiring life, high school student Noah finds an escape when his dreams begin to cross with a mysterious girl, forming a bond that transcends space and time.
Should a Girl Propose? is a 1925 Australian silent film directed by P.J. Ramster set in the high society world of Sydney. The film featured several players from Ramster's acting school. It is considered a lost film.
"A stranger from a strange land lands on planet Earth. Questions are asked and answers must be delivered."
A Detective loses his mind following a complicated case.
The story of Mark Orval, former Collingwood Australian rules football player, now internet star - known by his online alias ‘Angry Dad’.
On an isolated property, a teenage boy must help his mother escape his fanatical stepfather, testing his loyalties and ideas about the outside world.
Joel Creasy hosts a special with John Cleese, Steve Martin, Trevor Noah, Dame Edna Everage and Adam Hills.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival has presented RAW Comedy for 26 years, with a record breaking 1,183 aspiring comedians registering for the RAW Comedy competition in 2020. In the longest competition to date, a total of 64 Heats and Finals took place around the country over the past 16-months, after COVID-19 darkened the nation’s stages. Today was the chance for these 2020 RAW Comedy Finalists to enjoy their moment in the nation’s biggest open mic spotlight.
Tony’s Dream blends reality and the dream world in this poignant film about a young Latin-American boy who struggles to fit into his new home in western Sydney. An escapist suburban fantasy that explores how our identities become a mosaic of overlapping cultures during migration.
A Prince of Monaco and Constanza, his consort, have a common birthday. They hate each other. Paranoia grips them. They flee to an island. Meanwhile large and medium-sized birds run amok in the casino.
A tiny dinosaur dreams she is a scary big dinosaur. When danger strikes, she learns it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Literally.
After spending life on the sideline, an introverted teen decides, with a lot of pressure from her abrasive best friend, to step out of her comfort zone in the hopes of finding connection with her long-time crush.
Abstract Animation. Digitally remastered 16mm animation.
In the Brisbane Creative Leisure Centre, conducted by the Cantrills, children are shown reproductions of stained glass windows and then make large transparent pictures with black paper, coloured cellophane, and other materials such as discarded x-ray pictures and textured fabric, with a minimum of instruction. These are taken indoors and fastened to window panes.
Exquisite Corpse was an image and language parlour game played by the Surrealists, which asked players to collectively write or draw a story or picture, with only limited knowledge of the other players’ contributions. Translating the original game into an immersive VR experience creating a composite human body, Exquisite Corpse maintains the rules of the game with artists and filmmakers contributing, each with no knowledge of the others’ work beyond which body part they were representing, with complete artistic freedom.
In Colonial Australia, three Irish convicts decide to commit murder in order to avoid the lash but when their plan to kill a guard goes horribly wrong, their only hope is to draw straws to take control of their fate.
'25' are two unknown, indie songwriters in a bare bones studio on a train in the industrial West of Melbourne - Australia’s music capital. They plan to write, record then release a fresh song every two weeks of the year. Cath loves pop; Nick loves garage rock. She wants jazz flute; he wants a dirty guitar. Is this ever going to work or are they totally deluded? Is it an impossible goal?
When the strange sounds in her new home prevent Elle from enjoying a relaxing night alone, she begins to suspect an evil presence. As she discovers the true intentions of her tormentor, her night becomes a fight to survive.
Three men present their very different experiences as men who sleep with other men.
Steve the drag queen struggles with being a single dad.
A hybrid documentary that delves into the mysterious Min Min Lights of outback Queensland. It traces ghost light legends across cultures and history, inviting viewers to explore the unknown and why humans tell stories.
“In a wry exploration of women’s sexuality, the character Pussy demonstrates the play between the masculine and the feminine, the strong and the passive, the observer and the observed, as she metamorphoses between female, feline and male figures. As the film demonstrates, animation is a form ideally suited to render the process of metamorphosis.” —Dr. Marian Quigley
On a drought-ravaged vineyard, Yirri is about to kill his last chicken. He’s stopped by his wife, Teresa, who claims the chicken’s comb resembled the face of Jesus. Bizarre miracles start to happen, but Yirri and Teresa look a gift chicken in the mouth, with disastrous results of biblical proportions.
On the night of her 21st birthday, a sexually frustrated virgin tries to convince her celibate boyfriend to have sex with her.
Follows four members of a Tana Toraja family: Ne’ Minda, the grandfather; Ma’ Adel, the mother; Pong Kenny, the uncle; and Marsel, the son. We follow Marsel’s childhood over seven years, as his grandfather reveals his ancestors’ way of life — Aluk To Dolo, one grounded in the maintenance of environmental equilibrium.
In Worsfold on Worsfold, he tells the story of the great Eagles dynasty that became one of modern footballs most compelling stories.
George Gittoes wrestles the camera off the great showman to discover just who George Gittoes is and what his work means to the world.
Socially isolated FIFO (fly-in fly-out) miner Clipper returns to the worksite after a wasted fortnight in Bali. Clipper is eager to rekindle his secret affair with an older colleague, Stub, who promised that they would discuss their relationship further upon his return. Meanwhile, Stub makes a phone call that makes him reconsider his priorities.
On a fishing trip, a man struggles with a strange and menacing ocean. Will he fight against nature's forces, or submit to its power? Jimmy John Thaiday discusses how his culture, living on Erub directly informs the themes of the film: The ocean is always changing, shifting, and moving. I am exploring the way the ocean creates cycles of life, death, and rebirth. Important moments in our lives push and pull us like the water. If we resist these forces, life can be tough, and we can suffer. When we let go, and accept that life is like nature; it is constantly changing both for good and bad. If we understand this, then we can let nature take its course, and things will be in balance.
Both Sides Of The Pole tells the story of ambitious individuals earning their place in competitive dance and the bonds that form the community that drives it
Inexplicably abandoned by his parents on an empty, windswept beach, a young man embarks on a surreal journey through time and contemplation of his very own mortality.
Divided by 4000 kilometres, a son and his dying father connect in this profoundly intimate documentary debut.
Unaware of the strings of suffering that manipulate her world, a young girl seeks to understand why her mother is the way she is.
John Safran investigates the food industry.
Sydney, a city turning itself upside down to get ready for the year 2000. The Olympic Year.
During the 1980s, the transcript of a witch trial was found in the archive of a family property in south-west Germany. "Plant (879 pages, 33 days)" unfolds a conversation between mother and daughter that switches between historical facts and personal memories of the site.
Lawrence Mooney, winner of Melbourne Fringe Best Comedy Award 2011, invites you to come along on a journey of hilarious Sub-urbanity. Lawrence of Suburbia is a metaphorical camel ride through the spiritual tundra of the suburbs, shining a comic light on where we’ve come from and where we’re headed. It asks the vital question, “What the hell is going on out there?
The life of a white rental van is told in three parts via the different people who hire it.
Two investigators watch surveillance footage of a runner. As the film progresses, it becomes clear a crime has taken place, culminating in a tense finale.
In a big city downtown we meet Emma and Jay, two young 20 something lovers buying drugs and then watch as they waste the rest of the day away...
Max Bourke (played by Max Bourke) tastes tea in his boost juice, and in an effort to find out why, he has to infiltrate British HQ.
Buried Alive exposes some of the ugly truths about the nature of Western Democracy, the world media and third world colonialism. But the story of East Timor also presents the potential for individuals to effect change. The history of East Timor from its time as a Portuguse colony, rise of Fretilin Party, declaration of independence, civil war, desertion by Portugal and the rest of the world and invasion by Indonesia. Shows the struggle of Jose Remos-Horta to draw attention and support at the United Nations for the plight of East Timor.
Stained Glass is a retelling of the Stations of the Cross motivated by the manipulation and expression of light. The Stations are as follows: 1. Jesus is condemned to death 2. Jesus takes up his Cross 3. Jesus falls the first time 4. Jesus meets his mother 5. Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus carry the Cross 6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus 7. Jesus falls for the second time 8. Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem 9. Jesus falls for the third time 10. Jesus is stripped of his garments 11. Jesus is nailed to the Cross 12. Jesus dies on the Cross 13. Jesus is taken down from the Cross 14. Jesus is laid in the tomb
LIMELIGHT is a feature documentary directed by Eddie Beyrouthy (Beyond the Wasteland) that tells the story of The Salvation Army's Limelight Department, founded in Australia 1891.
Night after night, two travellers cross paths at a university library. The library's symmetry, rhythms and recurrences form a fantastic geography for their stories and adventures.
A musical comedy special
TEDDY PAGE (real name Teddy Chiu) is one of my favourite trash film directors. Throughout the 1980s he made some of the most entertaining, low-budget, explosive action jungle films you will ever see. With the help of certified Weng Wengologist and Filipino film expert ANDREW LEAVOLD ("The Search For Weng Weng"), I explore the English language action films tha Teddy churned out between 1983-1995.
The story of an Aboriginal stockman, Sunny Bancroft, and his family at Collum Collum and their growing enthusiasm for "picnic races" on bush tracks in New South Wales.
Angel is a young woman on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Feeling as if she has no control left in her life, she commits wholeheartedly to a series of spontaneous and erratic decisions. The result is an emotional metamorphosis with large scale consequences.
When Park Ranger Anthony discovers critical levels of toxic air pollution in his national park, he must rally public attention and challenge a powerful industry to protect the environment and public health.
As a young couple struggle with the demands of life with a new baby, they plow forward on production for their latest self-funded independent feature film.
A girl spends a night home alone for the very first time.
Music video for the song Disgust by Monoworld.