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Four university friends on the final push to adulthood take one last adventure through the bush in search of creating one last memory of youth.

“A friend had given me some old footage shot in Germany pre-WWII...during the ‘30s. Among all the images of sport, and people dancing, were images of Hitler making his early speeches. So this film is about the terrible tension of that period...jitterbugging on top of the volcano, the frentic activity to have a good life in the face of the brewing horror of Nazism. I used all kinds of techniques...travelling mattes, optical printer, rotoscoping and hand colouring, and scratching the film. The physical mutilation of the film frame, of Hitler's image...scratching out his eyes, brought fantastic relief. But I'm still not finished with Hitler, because no-one is. History never will be.” (Paul Winkler)

Records the backwaters and docklands of Sydney Harbour accompanying a young woman with a red umbrella.

'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?

Join Scott, Yon and Gatesy as the attempt to tell a very simple story and fail miserably. Comic and Musical Geniuses the may be, but whoever let them near a theatre should have thought it through.

A woman navigates the memories of her childhood haunted by The Lurker, a malevolent force who preyed on her and her mother.

T.B.A Luke Lippiatt Horror Short Film

Following the misadventures of Detective Raymond Deuce on his nightly prowls in the city. A city that has shaped him. A city he hopes to change.

Animated images of the Tasmanian tiger are depicted in different environments: a zoo, suburbia and bushland, as local people recall their sightings of this now extinct animal.

On a sweltering summer’s day, two elderly friends talk about work, travel and dreams.

Murder in the Goldfields investigates three baffling murders that have defied homicide detectives despite a rising amount of evidence. Ray and Jennie Kehlet went prospecting with another man but never came back, Lisa Goven left a trail of evidence via CCTV cameras but disappeared, and Charlie Park vanished into thin air. It's time we asked just why the Kalgoorlie Goldfields have more than its fair share of unsolved murders.

Reclaiming wise sayings from movies and TV shows like Drunken Master (1978) and Avatar the Last Airbender (2005–08), Analects of Kung Phu presents a moving image philosophy for surviving contemporary life. Taught by action stars but inspired by classic Chinese texts like Lao Zi’s Dao De Jing, the work questions whether these life lessons are genuinely useful. The film explores how wisdom can be oversimplified and misused, how film subtitles miss the mark or even present a completely different narrative, and how we are guided in our day-to-day life by the movies we watch.

Told he only had a short time to live, Joshua Belinfante sought out dedicated talents around the world striving their best at what they always wanted to do as kids; trying to find what he would do if given a second chance.

A man with little care for his front lawn is hunted by an evil gardener.

A documentary portrait of the Jie of northeastern Uganda, examining pastoral life during a dry season as government policies and economic pressures challenge traditional patterns of herding, movement, and subsistence.

Billie visits her ageing father in jail, revealing that her childhood in his care was not as safe and happy as he might have believed. Will she get her revenge?

When a man's mother fails to pick him up from the supermarket, he decides to walk home. What should have been a brief stroll, soon becomes a nightmarish battle with a faulty trolley. Our man becomes lost and embarks upon a journey of grand proportions.

The Jealous One unfolds along two plot lines that meet in a dramatic final encounter: the first, a story of an Indigenous man weaving through bureaucratic red tape to get to a mortuary service on his ancestral land; and the second, a fight between a husband consumed by jealousy and his wife’s brother, who excludes him from community ceremonies.

“One day at the beach…a typically Australian day…something I really looked forward to, when I first came here as a migrant (Bondi was the first surfing beach I’d ever seen). In the early ’60s there was hardly a weekend I didn’t go to the beach. But it wasn’t until many, many years later that I was filmically advanced enough to make a film about it. The simplicity of just turning the camera on and letting people do what they wanted to in front of the lends appealed to me…the carefree atmosphere appealed to me…the carefree atmosphere of the beach captured with the innocence of early cinema. I didn’t even look through the lens. Shooting horizontal mattes allowed me to play with the density of what was going on…the surreality of the beach, the waves of water and people, the hot and cold of sun and surf, overexposure…heat rising up, surfers riding waves in the sky and into buildings, seagulls ducking beneath the mattes, then re-appearing.” (Paul Winkler)

Fentanyl trafficking. A highly lucrative sex industry. Foreign wars, armed rebel militia, late stage capitalism, Russian electioneering and sweet, sweet oil - everything we deserved from a live action Barbie film.

A woman turns 30.

Journalist Sarah Dingle goes on a journey where she digs through hospital files, chases leads, and takes a DNA test to uncover the truth about who made her and how, but the discoveries are more disturbing the deeper she delves.

2006 was one of the deadliest Everest seasons on record. Experienced mountaineer Lincoln Hall was invited to join an expedition as a high altitude cameraman. It was his second attempt to summit the mountain, having turned back just short 22 years earlier. Shortly after reaching the summit, Hall began to behave irrationally, suffering from lack of oxygen. Aided by his loyal Sherpas for over 9 hours, he eventually collapsed and they declared him dead. His family were informed and the news hit headlines. But something happened that night that science cannot explain. The next morning Lincoln Hall was found alive by approaching climbers and his dramatic rescue began. Never before has a man been declared dead so high on Everest and survived. This is the remarkable true story of Lincoln Hall’s extraordinary journey back from beyond.

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.

Singer- songwriter daine performs their new mixtape Shapeless for the first time, backed up by enchanting visuals, the eight song mixtape is unveiled through this captivating performance on the first day of its release.

Two people from two countries who once shared a common experience.

A guided audio meditation forces Jacinta to confront her darkest fears and battle her very existence with terrifying consequences.

John Moon is a businessman interested in ghosts. He decides to spend the night in a barn hoping to see the ghost of the bushranger Sturdy who died there when betrayed to the police by his friend Rogan.

Public information film aimed to educate the Australian public about exercise in a fun and non-threatening manner.

Exactly one year after a tragedy, a young writer carries on through the night as though it were any other. What first appears ordinary gradually reveals itself as something far more fragile.

After finding herself out of town, Lucy (Pyper Stancer) is brought into the lair of a crazed filmmaker, Karl (Thomas Bach) who knows a little more about her predicament than he should. As the situation escalates, Lucy must find out how to escape before the movie that is her life is CUT.

Based on the stage play, 'Who Cares?' by Gillian M. Wadds, this volatile, hand-held, social-realist drama is set in the industrial wastelands of Melbourne's western suburbs.

Hellfire rejected the conventional and developed a style that reflected the growing popularity of fetish culture, tattooing, body piercing and industrial and house music.

After getting into a heated argument with her dad Hossein, Zahra stumbles upon immigration documents of his journey to Australia as a refugee. By reading these files and uncovering her father’s truth, Zahra is able to travel back in time and make peace with Hossein - understanding the past to make sense of the future.

The introduction of electricity into the village of Bigga in New South Wales.

Paul "Gator Boy" Bedard and croc hunter "Crocodile Mick Pittman" journey through the Northern Territory to explore the invasion of crocodiles.

A documentary about a small toy dealer who lives in his shop in NSW.

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.

Juan Garrido Salgado immigrated to Australia from Chile in 1990, fleeing the regime that burned his poetry, imprisoned him, and tortured him for his political activism. “My verse is born by the nights of the curfew… when I was clandestine.”

Four strangers. A darkened room. Shit gets weird.

Kitten Smith is the biggest country singer you’ve never heard of. Living in his own imagination, he struggles to connect with others and the realities of his semi-vagrant lifestyle. But that hasn’t stopped him from pursuing his big dreams of becoming the next Hank Williams - performing to an audience of none in shopping malls, parking lots, and karaoke booths. That is, until his music finally lands with one other person, Rose, who sees and hears him for exactly who he is.

An English expat realizes his visa has run out and will be deported in two weeks; his only solution is to give up his kidney to Eva in exchange for marriage and permanent residency.

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.

A woman, Zsuzsi Weinstock, survived the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp as a child. The film documents her story while providing a collage of images, most not directly linked to the story.

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.

Australian stand up comedian, Jordan Shanks aka Friendlyjordies from Youtube fame, explores media bias and it's impacts on politics in modern Australia in his 2021 live comedy tour "Cancels The Media".

Boy has 12 hours to prepare to for his first fight

This film uses the data of digital photographs of the site of the Brownlie Towers in Bentley, Western Australia. This data was first captured digitally via a camera on-site and then the data of those files was projected onto analogue film which was then in turn returned to the digital space via a scanner. The scanner itself became a sight for further experimentation as the film was pulled through and moved at varying speeds. Similarly the audio was created from the data of the same photos.

Sam Taunton is the perfect comedian for couples, parents, groups of friends, friends of friends, enemies, dogs, cats and anyone else. Cancel everything and spend an hour with Australia's best stand-up comedian (self-appointed).

Following the story of transmasculine Brother Boy Kai Clancy, as he navigates the traditional roles and his identity within his culture. Brotherboy is a term used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to describe gender diverse people that are born a male spirit. Kai share's his life now, 9-years after his top surgery and transition on YouTube when he was 17 years old.

Eager to forge his reputation in crime, Douglas Huffel manipulates a bottle shop robbery by planting his own money inside the store. Instead, the very aspects of crime he fervently avoided begin to catch up with him.

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.

Joseph seems to be building a strong following of admirers. The only problem is that he is completely unaware of their interest in him. As simple barista it would be great if they were after his coffee but they all want much more. When his stalkers learn of each other, and Joseph’s neighbour is mistaken for him, the situation boils over. Does he ever find out?

A woman's flirtatious encounter at a bar explores the grey area between connection and danger.

After a year apart, two estranged brothers reunite and tension rises as they confront their shaky past.

War-damaged facades, the frozen lakes of the Tiergarten, the Golden Angel of Victory, The Wall. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

When verbose radio host Neville Umbrellaman lands in hospital, a group of unexpected performers crash his show The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour. In life, there are no dress rehearsals.

Short animation by Wendy Chandler.