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A collaborative effort between Emma Hudson (Director), Blair Palese (CEO of 350.org AU), and John Collee (Master and Commander, Happy Feet), Accelerate follows one of the world’s most internationally recognised environmentalists, Bill McKibben, on his 2018 tour of Australia, where he passionately attempts to inspire government, business and community to accelerate action on climate change.
In 2001, unemployed actor, Garth Petridis, was imprisoned for one of the most unusual crimes in Australian history. Desperate for success he kidnapped members of the public and forced them to perform.
A look at a situation that leads to a bad end. Carol Jerrems' only known extant fiml.
Ngayuku Papa: Bluey & Big Boy (My Dog: Bluey & Big Boy) is a tale about Maureen Butler-Baker’s two dogs, Bluey and Big Boy. While dogs are great companions in community, they also help in the hunt for traditional foods such as perentie, and introduced species such as rabbits.
A former rugby league grand final winner still living off local legend status sells his 1991 Winfield Cup medal to fund his club’s junior presentation day, sparking a week of hustles and gambling that begins to crack the performance.
A document of various '45's, various 'singles'. Bill, Eléni, and George. Diary film? Documentary film? Fiction film? All this and more, in the film-maker's 45th film.
A documentary film about a special kind of friendship - the age-old relationship between gay men and straight women, as told by Monica Davidson, a self-declared “fag hag”.
A private detective follows a trail of “clues” across Sydney, blurring reality and imagination in a playful noir comedy about stories we cling to and the resilience to keep going.
A couple, deep in love, make quite unusual requests of one another.
Set to excerpts from Gustav Mahler’s “Song of the Earth”, this film explores the relations between human activities and the deep time of the Earth, journeying through the Petroleum Data Repository at Geoscience Australia, a vast storehouse of core-samples drilled for oil and gas exploration over the past hundred years.
A stunning documentary capturing a once in a generation event – the flooding of Lake Eyre and the dramatic transformation of the dead heart of Australia. ABC News mounted two filming expeditions by helicopter to follow the floodwaters from north Queensland down the great outback rivers to Lake Eyre and record the amazing cycle of life, as the deserts bloomed and birds descended from far and wide to capitalise on the short lived boom.
Would you like to have a party with The Wiggles? Emma, Anthony, Simon and Lachy are planning to have a party and you're all invited! Enter the perfectly playful, Master of the Australian Ballet - Mr Paul Knobloch. Immaculate and classically impeccable, Paul the Party Planner helps The Wiggles create this interactive and entertaining release, Party Time! Children will love to play and have fun with a collection of the most popular party songs including 'Hokey Pokey', 'What's the Time, Mr Wolf?', 'Happy Birthday' and 'Pin the Bow on Emma'. Please enjoy this Party Time with The Wiggles!
The wanderings and wonderings of an existentialist philosopher.
An older sister takes her younger sister out of the house for a day of movies, arcade games and bowling as a distraction from a more ominous situation unravelling back at home.
an emotional geography of Yunnan Province, China.
After he catches his teenage son watching gay porn, Dad Dragon gives him a stern talking to.
An independent film director casting for his new movie encounters a young actress who is prepared to turn the audition back on him.
This 1998 documentary traces the early nineteenth century American sealing history through the Australian occupation in the 1950's, and finally to the famous 1997 DXpedition.
A perfect Christmas dinner is wasted on a demanding picky, fussy snapper with impossibly high standards.
Maja is proud of the 16 coils of brass around her neck that distinguish her as a ‘long neck’ Kayan woman from Burma. But after 20 years of living on display and constantly being photographed in a tourist village in Thailand, the rings are becoming more a trap than a source of pride. When a chance meeting with an Australian filmmaker puts a video camera in her hands, she decides to turn the lens around and make a film about what it means to live in a ‘human zoo’. The process turns her life on its head and forces her to choose between tradition and rebellion.
Kevin Bloody Wilson - Let Loose Live In Ireland was captured at The Vicar St Theatre in Dublin at the completion of a 60 date tour over nearly 4 months throughout The UK, Wales, Scotland, Canada and Ireland. This performance sees him take his unique brand of Australiana to the world, performing sell-out concerts as part of the DILLIGAF World Tour. It features a catalogue of self-penned bawdy ballads that translate to every English speaking country in the world. In addition to the performance, we see another side of Kev. Also included are bonus film clips from Kev, as well as a special on stage performance from Kev’s support act on the tour - Jenny Talia from Australia. After 20 years at the top, Kev has deservedly achieved Legendary status - there is no stopping this True Aussie Icon, who continues to delight fans from all corners of the Globe!
An exploration into the different types of families, be it queer, straight or whatever takes your fancy.
Laure Prouvost Short.
Set against the backdrop of a 1960s jungle seaport in tropical Australia and the rich concert halls of wintry Vienna, talented eighteen year old pianist Paul Crabbe moves to an exotic outpost of far Northern Australia. There, he is forced to study under the only piano teacher his father can find – the eccentric, enigmatic Herr Keller, a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. Living above a dilapidated hotel in the dripping heat of this seaport, Keller is known to the locals as 'Maestro', a broken, elegant drunkard. But who is he? Does he come from a lineage of great European pianists, or is he a fraud?
After an accident that results in the death of her partner, we follow her as she's bombarded with work and tries to process his sudden disappearance by revisiting the café where they always met.
A man jogs around an oval, a drinking bird swings back and forth. Two boys wrestle in a suburban living room. Peeling stickers, wood vinyl, beige carpet. An injured wrist is bandaged while a toy train loops in circles. A girl's name, Anna, is carved into a tree. The knife is flicked open and closed, catching a glint of light. A runner can’t arrive when he runs in a circle.
A look at the history of Australia's 1 Commando Regiment during the period in which commandos were all members of the Australian Army Reserve, rather than full-time soldiers.
A tarot card reader sees his future while reading that of his client.
Dani performs onstage as Dani Boi, a non-binary 'dragtivist' with a mission to fight back against oppressive gender norms.
Ella Havelka made history in 2013 by becoming the first Indigenous dancer at the 50-year-old Australian Ballet. In this engaging, MIFF Premiere Fund-supported world premiere, Ella – a descendant of the Wiradjuri people – charts her inspiring journey from growing up in modest circumstances as the only child of a single mother in rural Australia to gaining entry to National Ballet School, then spending formative years with the acclaimed Bangarra Dance Theatre before accepting the invitation of The Australian Ballet's artistic director David McAllister to join one of the world's foremost ballet companies.
Goes behind the scenes of the original stage production of Bran Nue Dae, which was eventually adapted into the box-office hit musical.
Nuclear war breaks out and the staff and patients of a mental hospital take refuge in an underground bunker and accidentally get locked in. Disciple soon disintegrates and the patients, led by Richard, start to resist authority. Richard devises a scheme for a new social order where the sane will take no part. The doctors try to resist but are ultimately overcome.
A house that slowly closes in. The ceiling churns, the dread of isolation consumes all. This is it. Time to accept it or let reality eat you.
Elvie Farmer makes her short film debut with The Starey Bampire. By the way, Elvie is 3-years-old… Elvie tells a spooky, ghost story while Mum and Dad are made to film whatever she says. What results is quite an unusual telling of a Vampire’s tale filled with scares, laughs and a whole lot of sunscreen.
A nine-year-old closeted evangelical Christian tomboy must prove her faith by vandalising an LGBTQIA sex shop.
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.
The inspiring story of Bec Rawlings' rise from a difficult upbringing to becoming a UFC fighter and bare-knuckle boxing champion while protecting her children from abuse.
Bela's life is turned upside down when her best friend is subject to a masked stalker with a drive of jealousy. The events unfold in Bela's non-linear point of view as she uncovers who the stalker is before it's too late!
She was a wife, a mother, a sister and a daughter. Lyn Dawson had everything to live for, so why did she disappear without a trace 36 years ago? Her husband Chris, a PE teacher, always insisted she abandoned him and their two young daughters to “sort things out”. Days later he moved his teenage lover into the family home. Two coroners concluded Chris Dawson murdered his wife but to this day, he has never been prosecuted. The case has gripped audiences around the world since the release of a new podcast, The Teacher’s Pet, by investigative journalist Hedley Thomas.
During an attempted rescue of their friends who have been taken into the forbidden, enchanted forest by a bad troll, the siblings, Hansel and Gretel, are assisted by friendly animals and a family of good trolls, only to be left on their own in the dark forest. They spy a gingerbread and candy house and are captured by the wicked witch.
Zubrycki’s controversial, provocative and rarely screened documentary about the Australian trade-union movement was originally commissioned by the ACTU and funded by the Bicentennial Authority to provide an audio-visual history stretching from the birth of the movement in the mid-1850s and the formation of the Australian Labor Party to key events like the 1891 shearers’ strike and the 1988 Bicentenary. This pro-union but objective history, focusing on the struggle between capital and labour, and featuring the candid testimony of many unionists, was refused sanction by the ACTU and has long languished in obscurity aside from some “illegal” screenings in the early 1990s.
Dare to play the game? Just one shot won't hurt.
Portsmouth FC is the tale for our footballing times. Big names. Big business. Big debt. In 2008 the club won the FA Cup and hosted AC Milan, but behind the scenes things were unravelling. This film shares the story of how Pompey were saved by those who loved them most: the fans. This is OUR CLUB.
COFFEE CRAZY is a fun and exciting journey with Australia’s WORLD CHAMPION Barista PAUL BASSETT to discover the world’s perfect cup of coffee!
The Nephilim appear to man in the days of antiquity, and now they have returned. Travis Brown, an unsuspecting pawn in the game of humanity, is about to unleash the power of darkness.
Three friends on the drive home from a night out are stranded when their car breaks down. Tensions amongst the friends rise, and they soon realise they might not be alone in the dark...
The Story of Sam Regulus and his adventures to find his missing brother Jason
Curtis Levy is a man on a musical mission - running for the Australian senate on a single ticket to make the folksong "Waltzing Matilda" the new national anthem when Australia becomes a republic. Join Curtis and his long-suffering campaign manager Jo Smith over the course of their chaotic, under-funded campaign as they strive to unite Australians in one voice through this rousing, popular song.
976 lives in a cube: three sides concrete, one side glass. Every day, two scientists test on and torture him, physically and mentally. 976’s capabilities steadily improve, to the point that he desires freedom and acquires the means to achieve it. He devises an escape from this sinister facility, but when he acts on his grand plan, he discovers the truth behind the experiment he is part of.
A woman accidentally invites an unexplained supernatural presence into her home after being woken up in the middle of the night by a knock at the door. This presence will put her and her family in danger.
In December 2006 Qantas's very first yet airliner flew into Sydney after a flight of 14,382 nautical miles from Southend on Sea in England. The Boeing 707-138 VHEBA first flew in 1959 and had ended its days in England where it was to be scrapped. A team of retired Qantas engineers led by Peter Elliot decided that the aircraft would fly home again to Australia to be put on display at the Qantas Founders Museum at Longreach Queensland. This was the most complex restoration of a classic airliner ever undertaken involving 15,000 man hours. Over six months period engineers and spare parts were shuttled back and forth between England and Australia. Working in all sorts of weather the engineers finally saw the aircraft fly again for the first time in six years. In Orlando Florida the team were greeted by Hollywood star John Travolta who owns another of Qantas's 707-138s. This is a story about a great aeroplane but also about the dedication and resolve of the people who made her fly again.
When Violet, a recently heartbroken brothel worker returns to work post break-up only to find her ex-girlfriend hustling the same shift, she must make the choice between avoidance and vulnerability in order to make her month’s rent.
“An ‘avant-garde’ film of the seventies. A man obssessed with Phantom comics fantasises himself as the contemporary Phantom. Shot on location in Sydney, various Sydney visual artists play characters in this short comic story intercut with images from Phantom comics. Gary Shead is a visual artist who utilised cartoon imagery in his work, hence the idea for this film.” (Screensound)
“I wanted to make a sequel to Chants…the gold against black, but I wasn’t quite sure how. One day I went to St Mary’s Cathedral here in Sydney. After looking at the stained glass windows for some time, on the way out I noticed that they were selling slides of the interior…and whoever photographed the stained glass had used a red filter. This was the image I was after…red against black. By simply photographing and rephotographing the slide (up to 200 times, in some cases)…and varying the exposure by changing the distance between the light source and the slide, I was able to give the feeling of looking up…which is what you do in a church…from the knave up to the stained glass up to the ceiling…up to heaven in this red light. The upward motion was layered without visible edits by superimposing strips of the varyingly exposed film, in the lab.” (Paul Winkler)
How long should you wait for the life you expected and imagined to turn up? How long is too long and should one wait at all? Angela, Beth, Peter and Adam each have a life: one is living it, one is desperately chasing it, and another has woken up to it while the other is still trying to figure it out. In Autumn is a film about walking out on the fears and self imposed life sentences that prevent us from living full and genuine lives.
Two friends. One race. Two laps. No prisoners.
Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself artistically. At an underground rave, she meets Iranian born Saman, now an Australian citizen, who offers her a way out of her country and the possibility of living without fear.
Hellfire rejected the conventional and developed a style that reflected the growing popularity of fetish culture, tattooing, body piercing and industrial and house music.
When Geraldine Kawanka’s husband died, she and her children left their house at Aurukun on Cape York Peninsula. In earlier times a bark house would have been burnt, but today a ‘house-opening’ ceremony — creatively mingling Aboriginal, Torres Strait and European elements — has evolved to deal with death in the midst of new living patterns. Although sometimes suggesting a party, its underlying purpose is serious. This film records the opening of the house and Geraldine’s feelings about it in her informative and personal commentary.