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An emergency services operator takes a call from a young boy whose mother has collapsed and is confronted by numerous parallels between the boy's home life and her own.

A story dealing with civilization's effect and man's cruelty on the Australian outback.

“Tourists, postcards, different views of the same icon. The Bridge is a piece of geometry so I figured the film had to be geometric, too. The matte box allowed me to create postcards within postcards within postcards. It was all done in-camera…very demanding, it took all winter! The matting had to be carefully calculated and each image rewound by hand, then rephotographed, in the right position and at the right exposure. I surrounded the Bridge with a mass of water…vertically and horizontally. The water is by turns soft and then metallic as it reflects in the low winter sun. The movement, the steel and the water create an interplay as harbour sounds, wind chimes, boats…tinkle.” (Paul Winkler)

After years of struggling to make it in the music business, and achieving surprising success; Shaun Diviney, Andy Clemmensen and Bradie Webb share their story whilst recording their third studio album. Pain, pleasure and a lot of penis.

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.

A nude woman walks along a beach and does some fire dancing.

Two Fijian-Indian sisters escape their cousin’s wedding to get high on disobedience and drugs.

An Iranian former Muslim cleric who fled persecution for being gay confronts his buried desires through a haunting relationship with a mannequin that embodies the self he was taught to deny.

A warrior and his thankless master explore a mystical forest in search of their next meal and find themselves faced with a mysterious caged creature and the hostile forces that guard it.

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.

An aspiring filmmaker interrogates her father, a seasoned director stuck in creative limbo, about his unfinished project - an investigative documentary entering its 13th year of production.

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into public spaces and covering over for-profit advertising in various ways. The film is a snapshot of his latest approach, which is to black-out advertising panels in protest of the way the media system, which is funded by advertising, is dominated by for-profit interests that have taken over public spaces and discourse. Kyle’s view is that real democracy requires a democratic media system, not one funded and controlled by the rich. As this film follows Kyle on a regular day of action, he reflects on fatherhood, democracy, what drives the protest, and his struggle with depression, as we learn that “it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

The Somerton Man mystery has baffled a global audience for over 70 years. A dead body found on Adelaide's Somerton Beach has never been identified. Now a new documentary, including interviews with friends, witnesses and detectives who worked on the case, some now in their 100's, reveals a fascinating first hand view of this extraordinary, enduring mystery. Was he murdered? Did he commit suicide? Why did he have a tiny piece of paper in his pocket with the words "Tamam Shud"? Missing Pieces examines the case in detail and cast new light on the woman he came to visit.

A documentary written by Kane McKay, a returned military serviceman, about Bob Quinn, a recipient of the Military Medal for his heroic actions in World War II in Tobruk, 1941, and also champion player for a number of years at the Port Adelaide Football Club.

Looks at the history and cultural diversity of the Sydney, Australia suburb of Marrickville. The video features interviews with those who live in this area including people with Greek, Lebanese, Portuguese and Vietnamese backgrounds.

Since the Colonisation of Victoria in the 1830's, many Aboriginal children have been removed from family, land, language and culture. They were placed in foster homes and institutions, and adopted into non-Indigenous families. In 2009, members of the Stolen Generations in Victoria returned to Ballarat, to visit institutions in which they were placed. This is their story, told in their own words, captured by acclaimed film-maker Richard Frankland.

Five university students in North Queensland, Australia, spend one insane summer night tearing their share house apart looking for a hidden million-dollar scratch lottery ticket, as outside, a catastrophic tropical cyclone looms.

Documentary about the life and teachings of Adi Da Samraj.

After a girl finds an old book called "The Blacklist" in her bungalow, she uses it on her abusive husband.

It is an experimental film in which the best of the structural film tradition merges with an urban symphony. A busy intersection is a plentiful source of the scenes that form a rhythmical unit with its own structure and meaning. The celebration of cinematography in its very own realm of images and sounds!

A short documentary about the band.

Amidst a cacophony of strange languages, a quiet little boy struggles to connect with his multicultural family.

ZEF follows a 21-year-old genderqueer topless meat raffle worker through a collage of moments, sensations and memories; exploring gender, love and sexuality. An unfiltered snapshot of our desire for intimacy in its oscillating forms.

This moving documentary is a record of a few hours in the life of a small 7 year old boy, Ricco, from Hidden Valley, one of the many town camps on the outskirts of Alice Springs. He has lived in the camp for most of his life, and is looked after by his three older sisters and his foster mother, Nanna Maudie.

A 1982 animated sci-fi adventure that still resonates today. The world is running out of energy - war looms between the 2 superpowers. A mysterious Black Planet is discovered in the universe. Secret Agents Freddy Fairweather and Marigold Muffet set out on hair-raising adventures that take them under the sea, across the country, and into outer space to find a secret formula which could well decide which side will land on the Black Planet first.

A writer confronts his demon - literally.

A lonely man has an unexpected encounter with a being that has the mind of a small child.

A biopic of Australian fisherman, photographer and physicist, Richard Freeman and his fascinating, theoretical, Natural Model of the Universe. In this film, Mr. Freeman showcases scientific proofs that prove out his new model, all while detailing his life as a fisherman for over 40 years on Australia's Sunshine Coast.

This inspiring documentary film takes us on a journey into the world of language and the crucial role it plays in the lives of newly arrived refugees in Australia. This heart-warming film tells of their experiences, from trauma endured as they fled their war-torn countries, to their search for safety and a better life in Australia.

A captivating step back in time, Pozieres explores the small village in Northern France which, during the Great War in 1916, was the setting of one of the bloodiest battles in history, a twentieth century tragedy. The village was stormed and captured by Australians and became key to the success of the Battle for the Somme. But in less than seven weeks they suffered 23,000 casualties.

December 1941. A group of women and a 10-year-old girl named Sorella are photographed as they are ordered to take their clothes off in freezing temperatures on a beach in the Baltic Seas. 80 years later, filmmaker Peter Hegedüs creates a dramatic recreation based on the photograph using new immersive 360 technology. He is aided by Ethel Davis, a 92-year-old Jewish Australian whose family perished in the 1941 massacre, and by the powerful testimonial of his own Jewish grandmother who managed to survive the Holocaust. To Never Forget goes beyond the depiction of a filmmaker’s process, revealing how the Holocaust continues to affect lives, families, and geopolitics today.

In 1971, Jagera elder Neville becomes the first Aboriginal Australian to enter Australian parliament. He sits for over 12 years in both state and federal parliament.

When Luna's superstitious family hides all the mirrors in the house, she decides to recover them, only to accidentally fall through one, transporting her to a new magical world. There she finds multiple versions of herself who have been confined and have grown jealous of her living in the real world while they hide in the shadows. Luna has to try and figure out how to escape while also being confronted with her identity crisis.

In the 1930s tensions between the government and the Indigenous peoples of Australia's north were on a knife-edge. Donald Thomson, an anthropologist, volunteered to go to Arnhem Land to make peace. For over two years, he lived with the Aboriginal people, forging strong bonds, learning and recording their way of life. His report to the government outlined a vision of land rights and other measures to protect a unique yet fragile culture - it was ignored. Ostracised by politicians and fellow academics, Thomson never gave up the struggle for Aboriginal rights. Now, his extraordinary photographs, field notes and artefacts are considered one of the most significant ethnographic collections in the world.

On Our Selection is a 1920 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford based on the Dad and Dave stories by Steele Rudd.

One of the main “mysteries” of working with the lab involves grading the print: adjusting or “correcting” the color balance for overexposures, underexposures, or unwanted color shifts in the original. Grading is done by adding or removing degrees of red, green, or blue light on the copier: the standard setting for an average exposure in our lab is 30 Red, 30 Green, and 30 Blue. Filmmakers often leave this work to the lab technician, and they only have a general understanding of the process. In our case, we wanted to use this film to learn more about it. We filmed a scene, under the light, of our son Ivor holding a Kodak Colour Patch Card (a male version of the "Kodak Lady" often spliced ​​for quality control purposes on a print). This normally exposed scene is subject to a range of 84 different print light settings out of 132,651 possible combinations. The soundtrack consists of a voice announcing the print light variations used. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

Gabriel Lynch is an Australian singer-songwriter who has been in the industry since 2006. Gabriel reflects on his career including how he started, and the difficulties facing emerging artists in the modern age.

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.

A documentary about a recovering alcoholic and addict – especially one whose story we're already broadly familiar with – doesn't sound like a great night's entertainment. But this compact and moving film made by Fiona O'Loughlin's mate, Sam Petersen, is not just thoughtful, it's also often very funny. Petersen follows O'Loughlin from the time she leaves rehab in 2016 (she spent seven days in a coma following an epic binge) to her return to the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2018 – including a relapse that put her back in hospital again. As you might expect, many gags are cracked. Truths are told. But this is also an exploration of the way the live-comedy scene is a natural home to excess, and the dangers of the misguided but entrenched association between creativity, and drugs and alcohol. Source: The Age newspaper (https://www.theage.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/twisting-british-thriller-is-the-stuff-of-any-parent-s-nightmares-and-it-s-really-really-good-20200504-p54po9.html)

During World War II there were nearly 2,500 Allied prisoners held in Sandakan POW camp in British North Borneo. Along with the ravages of war and the struggle to survive abject conditions, only six of these POW's were found alive when the war finally ended. In the years that followed, the horror stories of human depravity and the atrocities committed by the Japanese at Sandakan POW camp would come to light, considered by many as one of the most devastating chapters of the Pacific War.

A Teen is suffering with suicidal Thoughts, he tries to battle them but might not be strong enough.

After a year studying music abroad, Monika returns home to Australia, eager to reunite with her boyfriend after months apart. When he doesn’t show up, Monika instead happens upon her childhood friend, Yael, who she hasn’t seen for years. Yael is an amateur photographer who walks through the Adelaide Botanic Gardens every day, taking photos of the subtle differences she sees. This chance rendezvous sparks a series of conversations which explore love, breakups, photography and dirty socks.

The planet is being rained on by countless trouble making schoolboy aliens, so a group of legendarily powerful epic people all run around kicking ass, only to converge on the aliens target; the prison bus. Alas, they are too late! The boys in the bus have transformed into the Violence Kings, and go on a bloody rampage, devastating the world.

An expressionless man drives along a sterile freeway. Unaware of his concrete and steel surroundings he is consumed by the surface of his world. But is he so consumed that he is unable to see what’s underneath?

TikTok: it's the social media app which has come to define our perception of Gen Z, and which has firmly embedded itself within the covid-era zeitgeist. A phenomenally popular platform, more than a billion users scroll through its endless feeds, and it's turned ordinary people into overnight internet stars.

An insight into the lives of the miners who search for Australia’s famous black opals.

The proboscis monkey is one of Borneo's most threatened species. This program is about the behaviour of the proboscis monkey, the habitat in which it lives and some of the creatures it shares this habitat with.

The greatest look yet at a well-known artist very few have seen up close, as the titular visionary recluse invites us into his home.

Henry's Show and Tell school project about a pet rabbit goes horribly wrong. The film was made entirely by the Lucas family in their backyard.

Classic moments in Australian football. The goofs, the oddball and the downright zany. We've scoured the archives to find the funniest moments, the bloopers and the blunders that set AFL footy apart from the rest.

At its worst, depression can be a frightening, debilitating condition. Millions of people around the world live with depression. Many of these individuals and their families are afraid to talk about their struggles, and don't know where to turn for help. However, depression is largely preventable and treatable. Recognizing depression and seeking help is the first and most critical towards recovery.

A DVD rental store clerk remains the same while everything around him begins to atrophy.

The reshaping of the St Kilda landscape into a Hollywood fantasy of the Riviera, reflected upon from the narrator’s balcony overlooking the bay. An introspective look at the nature of the landscape and the human response to it.

A father tries to get his daughter to swallow some medicine.

Two teens, Alice and Anthony, bonding over grapes and pondering parental complexities, begin to fall in love.

I want the one I can't have, and it's driving me mad. It's all over, it's all over, it's all over my face.

Hosted by Kate Ceberano, Stories From The Red Couch brings you the very best moments from our decades of Rage guest programmers.

An intergalactic alien race invades Earth, challenging the planet to a game of Basketball Slam Dunk. With the game receiving little web traffic in its 2 years of operation, the race begins to find the players to save Earth.