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Set 6000 years the future, Robbie charts the existential reflections of an aging robot drifting alone through space on the last of his battery life.

A person in a fishing boat looks deep into the reflective water around them.

This film reveals the roots of ballet in Australia and the story of the overseas dancers who brought their art to Australia. This encouraged the rise of local dancers who proved themselves adept in the classic ballets of Russia, France and Great Britain. It traces the birth of Australian choreography, decor and mounting with Australian dancers shown performing an Australian musical composition with Australian themes. Influential figures such as Edouard Borovansky, Tchinarova and Margot Stevenson are featured as well as the Borovansky Ballet, the Ballet Guild and the Bodenwieser Modern Expressive Ballet.

Fatty Finn is the six-year-old leader of a gang of kids in Woolloomooloo. They enter Fatty's pet goat Hector in the annual goat derby, but his rival Bruiser Murphy lets the goat loose before the race. After a series of adventures, Fatty finds the runaway goat and persuades a friendly aviator to fly him to the race-track in time for the main event.

Poetry video bridging the gap between analog and digital media, enunciating a trace-less trauma embedded in the surface of materialist film. Created by drawing and dying directly on the emulsion surface of acetate film.

This short documentary produced by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO in 1979 traces the introduction of the European rabbit to Australia and subsequent attempts to control its population.

With footage from Cairns in deepest darkest North Queensland via Fellcrag and the Gold Coast all the way to Thredbo, Jindabyne, Mt Baw Baw and Canberra in the south, A New Race captures some full on racing and off-it's-head freeride action.

In the town of Frankston, a beloved local man, instantly recognised by his confident stride, very short shorts and an enviable sneaker collection, is seen walking the streets every day until he suddenly disappears.

Thirty years after a string of unexplained disappearances, three friends uncover a hidden crawlspace containing an old puppet buried beneath their home. The night quickly spirals into a twisted nightmare when the puppet springs to life and unleashes its curse. Trapped inside the house with the unhinged puppet, the three friends must find a way to break the curse before it’s too late.

Oscar©, a powerful exploration of the life and writings of literary legend, Oscar Wilde. A spectacular new full-length ballet by Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon In a celebration of the beauty and complexity of love in all its forms, Oscar© brings queer romance to life through Wheeldon’s innovative and heart-stirring choreography. Oscar© journeys through the extraordinary life of Wilde – a man who dared to live and write with unapologetic boldness – while masterfully integrating two of Wilde’s best-known works, The Nightingale and the Rose and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Alice and George are best friends. They are young, passionate and looking for love. A story of frustrated desires and unfulfilled expectations.

Who is he? Where does he come from? What does he want? An experimental short film created for the most part with a mobile phone. The filmmaker shot on the first day, animated on the second, and tried to make sense of it all on the third.

Enter the disturbing world of Jewish extremism. Once one of America's most active terrorist organizations, the Jewish Defense League aims to prevent another Holocaust by any means necessary. Here, the threat of genocide lingers and preventative violence is justified. Privileged access to former leader, Shelley Rubin, exposes this unusual pathway to extremism. —Unicorn Films

Theodore attempts to reconnect with the world around him by reaching out to a childhood friend.

I Found Water is an autobiographical experimental film that employs textured images drowned in darkness, to examine deteriorating memories and the mysterious logic of their preservation.

A trembling matchbox, cigarette and deranged man form the key to the Arsonist's riddle.

Rahma, an Eritrean migrant, contends with feelings of isolation and disconnect while raising her four young children in Melbourne's inner suburbs.

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

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.

Contemplating about the future.

Documentary from 1975 on the plight of mentally handicapped children held in appalling circumstances in the UK.

This short film brings together the artworks and stories of 6 leading artists and choristers: Judith Pungarta Inkamala and Anita Mbitjana Ratara of Hermannsburg Potters alongside Marjorie Nungarrayi Williams, N. Donald, Betty Conway and Lizzie Jako of Tangentyere Artists. ‘Our Choir Has Always Been Travelling’ charts the international legacy, inter generational impact, and joy of the Hermannsburg Choir and subsequent iterations; Ntaria Ladies Choir and the Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir.

800 Career goals kicked, 282 games, all in the number 12 guernsey, 464 goals kicked at the MCG, the most of any player, ever. The career of Matthew Richardson is one of impressive numbers. Celebrate the footy career of one of Richmond's most respected players with this packed program full of interviews and highlights from one of the most remarkable players ever to wear a Tigers stripe.

An orphan girl chooses an old book from a box of donated charity items. In this book, she reads a story that she makes her own. When she collides with an old man, the story comes to life.

An exploration of Sansara, chasing the phantoms of our own wild desire and the fickle, and at times mundane, repetitive existence and plight of our particular sentient species.

Empire re-animates found historic stereographic photographs predominantly of Melbourne’s city centre between 1927 and 1940 when the colonial trace was slowly receding to produce a stereoscopic effect. Melbourne’s main Flinder’s Street Intersection is unsettlingly transformed into a Cubist perceptual maelstrom through repetition and flicker.

In this captivating, perplexing portrait of her mother, Dora Bialestock, filmmaker Rivka Hartman explores the wildly contradictory nature of this well-known Melbourne figure.

Toby Price knows that completing The Dakar Rally is a triumph in itself. The South American terrain knows no regard for man or machine, breaking both at will over the course of 14 days and some 9000km traveled. But to wipe the sand from the eyes and the blood from the boots to hold The Dakar trophy aloft, takes more than just strength. Victory demands sacrifice. And the Australian off-road racer has known more than his fair share of pain - including more than 27 broken bones and a broken neck that very nearly rendered him motionless for life. From first jumping on a bike as a two-year-old to dealing with his sister's death and then witnessing the death of his best friend in succession, Paying the Price follows Toby's emotional journey from country kid to becoming Australia's first ever winner of The Dakar Rally.

Hardress Cregan is a young Irish aristocrat facing severe financial ruin. His mother, eager to restore their family's wealth and status, pushes him into an arranged marriage with a wealthy heiress, Anne Chute. However, Hardress is already secretly married to Eily O'Connor, a poor, beautiful peasant girl known as "The Colleen Bawn" (meaning "pure girl")

A documentary about the origins of Australia’s Folk & Oral History movement as seen through the prismatic eyes of two remarkable women, oral historian Wendy Lowenstein and dance historian & pioneering Indigenous Rights 1967 Referendum Activist, Shirley Andrews.

A New York novelist who, while attending a family funeral in Vienna, discovers a German relative’s illicit queer love affair with a Jewish man during WW2 – sending him on a journey through the past that changes his future.

Set in a liminal desert space, The Road (Ճանապարհ) contemplates how it feels to be in the world at this moment through overlapping narratives of isolation and connection. The stories of five sets of characters, suspended in time and space, unfold and collide on the very same road, set against a soundtrack by the Armenian-Australian jazz band, Zela Margossian Quintet. “Each of the five narratives in our work are centred around decisive moments in people’s lives; from this point forward these characters will be forever changed as they undergo some sort of renewal, redemption or transcendence,” says director Charlotte Mungomery. “We were also interested in the conceptual and almost existential notion of a road and humanity’s attempt to control the uncontrollable and tame the untameable.”

A young boy discovers his half sister Elsie may have a unique and special talent.

Speed - the obsession of the modern world - is determining what people should eat and how. Traditional foods are at risk of disappearing forever. An international eco-gastronomic movement known as Slow Food champions the protection of traditional culture, the environment and biodiversity while encouraging regional production, food education and pleasure. For these passionate and dedicated food lovers, sustainability, community and lifestyle are as important as seasonality, quality and taste.

Phoenix interrupts a football game to come out to his friends. His plan hits an obstacle when he realizes one of the boys isn't there to hear it.

There are approximately 6.5 billion moments that occur on Earth everyday... Some remembered. Some forgotten.

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.

In Central Texas, Barbecue is more than a way to cook meat - it's a way of life, a path to salvation, and a sure-fire way to start an argument at the dinner table. This documentary covers five barbecue establishments.

Independent film maker J.D Sebastian sets out to document the life of someone who influences culture at a grass roots level. And that someone is the misanthropic b-movie webmaster Buddha Wilson. To strike a balance Sebastian also talks with Buddha's polar opposite webmaster rival Leon Brown.

Days before turning thirty, Mercy meets with her three lovers, stoner comedian Rufus, slacker musician Otis, and recovering addict Viraj, after a positive pregnancy test.

A troubled vagabond assumes the life of a struggling actor, leading to catastrophic consequences.

Sky News host and political commentator Rowan Dean presents a documentary special examining whether or not political correctness has caused the demise of the larrikin spirit in Australian life and culture. Dean takes a nostalgic look back at the 'Aussie larrikin' of the 1970s and 80s, then tracks the changing tastes and standards of more recent years, and asks has it been crushed by political correctness, the growth of social media, and the "cancel culture" which in recent years has seen online outrage shut down comedy and TV shows.

After being dumped by her ex, Liza finds herself opposite a psychic in the hopes of figuring out if there’s a cosmic plan for her and what that looks like.

A romantic Sci-Fi drama about Jacob, a young man who lacks romance in his life, who instead seeks it in his dreams through a device which allows him to choose what type of dream he'll have. He is warned about overusing the Dream Catcher device but continues to do so as loneliness pervades his entire life. He dreams of the same woman day after day, but has no idea who she is. Until one day he runs into her. They hit it off and surprisingly they share a lot in common. But things are not exactly as they seem.

SORELLA'S STORY explores the story behind a single atrocity photography of a group of women and 11-year-old Sorella, during the Holocaust.

SKIN IN THE GAME is a documentary about the provocative Jewish standup comedian Sandy Gutman (aka Austen Tayshus).

The Dreamtime is the Aboriginal worldview. It consists of many different dreaming's. If you look long enough at a bird, stone or a wave, you'll be surprised at what you will find. A surfing journey throughout Australia like never before. Featuring Luke Egan, Munga Barry, and Mark Occhilupo. The music of Not Drowning Waving, Schnell- Fenster, Yothu Yindi, The Woodentops, Concrete Blonde and INXS.

A journalist researching her grandfather's involvement in the war, interviews a Holocaust survivor, learning that the survivor had once known her grandfather and failed to help them, leading her to lose everything.

A bank robber holds a young woman hostage in her own car during the heist. Hijinks ensue.

8 year old Saul is abandoned by his mother at his Grandmother's caravan in a deserted country caravan park. Through stories she tells him with her playing cards, Gran teaches Saul that he has the choice to change the hand that life has dealt him.

Found in the (now possibly lost) film archive at Lab Laba Laba in Jakarta, footage from a trailer of the 1981 Indonesian propaganda film Kereta Api Terakhir (The Last Train) melts into a soup of chemigrammed perforations. A film about the silence that follows the unspeakable; about blurred visions, untold histories and inaccessible archives.

An upbeat, witty, and timely exploration of a global community of artists creating innovative work in their quest to rediscover and revitalise the endangered Yiddish language. From behind-the-scenes with an acclaimed Yiddish-language version of Yentl in Melbourne, to enjoyably transgressive punk-Klezmer musicians, and Barrie Kosky’s latest trailblazing production in Berlin – the endangered Yiddish language is alive and well in this rousing documentary. The language originated amongst the Jewish community in Eastern Europe, but almost disappeared when more than half of the world’s Yiddish speakers were murdered during the Holocaust. Most of the artists and performers (aka Yiddishists) in the film didn’t grow up speaking Yiddish, but all have found solace, identity, and inspiration in its rich traditions and culture. Ros Horin has mapped a fascinating cultural history.

In 1979, acclaimed Iranian actor Manouchehr Farid fled his country, turning his back on the stage. Inside an Australian detention center, he finds new purpose.

An anthology of camcorder DVDs find their way into the possession of a horror fan.

Hayden Moon, a trans Wiradjuri dancer, finds freedom and self-expression through the discipline of Irish dance and the liberation of pole dancing, in this celebration of resilience and the joy of moving on your own terms.

Ode is a cameraless animation made from handmade macroalgae celluloid. Developed with CSIRO and marine scientists, it uses contact printing, botanicollage, and seaweed bio-sonification to explore post-petrochemical cinema. Lasting 365 seconds, the film offers an ocean-responsive meditation on deep time, material intelligence, and more-than-human collaboration.

"The War Rages On..."

Gabriel is a cafe worker captivated by the Friday night routine of a serial dater, Elise. Little do they know, their fates are intertwined in ways they can't imagine. Will sparks fly, or will a strange photo-booth decide their fate?

A local reprobate takes a day off committing crimes only to be assaulted by a bunch of beer-seeking bullies. Violence and amateur movie making ensues.

Follow the Companion Sky Spirit through a virtual walk on Country – emerging from the depths of subterranean soils to a ground-level play space, ascending to meet the celestial clouds. kajoo yannaga is at once a cinematic story, an immersive two-channel projection and a gamified journey guided by First Nations knowledges. Through real-time motion tracking mapping body movement, connect to place and be transported to a vivid Spirit realm sprinkled with signs and signals for those who look to see. With self-determination and generosity in mind, the completion of each circular story cycle pulls you back to start again. Leave kajoo yannaga with a newfound understanding of our shared responsibilities for united, intergenerational healing.