11,348 Matches Found
Following the fictional adventure of a young boy who visits the sand dunes seeking inspiration for his current painting. During his journey, he befriends people who live at the dunes and practise a very different culture compared to his own.
"In the Making: An Australia–Taiwan Indigenous Art Exchange" is a 43-minute bilingual documentary co-produced by Australia and Taiwan. It explores a five-year exchange program between Indigenous artists from both regions. Filmed mainly in Taiwan in late 2024, the artists' first in-person meeting reveals the depth and transformative potential of cross-cultural collaboration through interviews, shared creative processes, and the creation of new collaborative artworks.
Under Streetlights follows an incredible story of resilience against all odds, inspired by true events. An aspiring Aboriginal hip-hop artist living in remote Australia forms an unlikely bond with the daughter of a policeman who arrested his father. United by grief and ignited by their shared passion for music, they embark on a journey of healing, connection and pursuit of their dreams to escape their worlds and become established musicians.
Jake (Tom White) wakes up in a house without any prior knowledge to how he got there. As he explores the home, he finds the home's butler (Joe Oxenford), who he questions for answers about what's going on.
A young hitman is put through the motions in being part of "the business" and a simple trip to reclaim a lost grimoire introduces him to a world of pain, where nothing is what it seems and where he too, has a price to pay.
Desperation drives a recovering addict to seek out his estranged brother at their secluded family home.
You're losing me is an emotional journey following a 18-year-old male and his battle against losing his partner. The film explores internal struggles and captures the loneliness and confusion that comes with losing someone and how it can affect daily life and mental health.
A self-portrait from an 18-year-old filmmaker and student that uses cloning.
It was Lachlan Morton’s greatest feat of endurance yet. Last September, Lachy set a new Around Australia Record, riding 14,200-kilometers around his home country in just 30 days, nine hours, and 59 minutes. That’s more than 460 kilometers per day, every day, for a month. Lachy’s brother Gus was there with him for the ride, filming all of his pre-dawn starts, the lonely time trials down outback highways, headwinds, tailwinds, gas station meals, and all of the people who Lachlan met along the way. The Great Southern Country, our film about Lachlan's Around Australia Record, presented by Cannondale and POC, is a story of endurance, how great challenges bring people together. And it is a story about Australia in all of its rugged beauty.
A young man tries to make a short film where difficulties surround him
A flash through Bill Mousoulis' first 25 years of filmmaking, glimpses of all his films.
A short horror film.
Urine therapy is one of the oldest forms of health care. Both fascinating and taboo, this documentary explores the confronting subject of drinking urine for medicinal purposes.
Coming home as usual, John is soon to leave for his date, but it appears his brother James has something else planned for him... a game.
In 2012, The Seekers celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first time they sang together in a small Melbourne coffee shop unaware that within two years, they would go on to conquer the music world and become Australia's first international super group. This brings you all the magic and excitement as the now-legendary line-up of Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley take to the stage for their final Australian tour. Filmed on their Australian tour, this emotion charged Farewell features all the chart-topping hits that made the most celebrated music group in Australia's history. Fifty years on, The Seekers are still touching the hearts and souls of fans around the world.
This observational documentary follows an episode in the routine life on Collum Collum cattle-station in northern New South Wales. But, as the filmmaker notes, it's a story that could have occurred anywhere.
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 closely observed portrait of a single man in his 40's who lives in St. Kilda. Although he has none of the trappings of conventional existence, Kelvin's obsessive interest in born again Christianity, physical culture and recent German/Jewish history has given him a way of making sense of the world and led him to a number of people, friends through whom we see something of his life and beliefs.
Solicitor James Lord is in love with Nellie. She tells him she is going away for a week with her friend May to Portsea where there are many nice boys. Nellie gets the dates wrong and goes a day early. When James finds out he worries she is cheating on him. His client Rouse comes in and says he is convinced his wife is cheating on him a man called Dane. They hire three private eyes from Sleath's Detective Agency, Hall, Ratchet and Moon, to keep an eye on women.
A man gets more than he bargains for while on a blind date.
Third of 6 animated shorts made for Nickelodeon.
Integrity Sports Entertainment Australia Presents Headstrong
The film shows two Melbourne youths and their summer activities. One makes films and the other holidays at Phillip Island. But, despite their differences, they both, in their own ways, aspire to infinity.
This short film explores what it means to be a queer femme person in modern Australia. What are some of the unique challenges femme people face? What are some of the beautiful parts? Femme offers a look into life as a femme person through the perspectives of 12 unique people.
Have you seen a big cat in the Australian bush? Deeply ingrained in Australian folklore are tales of big cats roaming the bush. The Hunt follows researchers in their life long pursuit to prove these animals exist.
On his final night as a male au pair, a young man grapples with an unexpected, emotional revelation from the girl he cares for.
A teenage girl is plagued by a rumour that takes over her life.
As the sun rises, an old man awakens.
As the Supreme Court refuses to grant marriage equality, Queering India captures a pivotal moment in the world’s largest democracy. Through the eyes of journalist and actor Swapnesh Dubey, the film weaves a powerful narrative, combining his coming-out journey with voices from across India. This multilingual documentary doesn’t look outward for validation, it looks inward, reclaiming a forgotten truth: that queerness in Indian culture was once revered, not erased. It confronts colonial hangovers, societal silences, and the class and language divides that shape who gets to participate in the national conversation.
From the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Deadly Funny - A cheeky, loud, Black and proud celebration of fresh and funny new First Nations talent from around the country.
A fraudulent martial arts instructor faces a mental breakdown, as his town and those he loves turn against him.
LA. 1977. Two private investigators named Disco and Daggers are hired to uncover the death of notorious mafia figure, Tommy Vercelli. After meeting with several people who share their insight on the crime, the duo realise the case may not be as it seems.
A teen gets roped into one final heist job before leaving with his younger brother.
This documentary explores one of the most extraordinary chapters in Australia's history - the attempts by successive Australian governments to fortress the nation with atomic weapons.
No longer ordinary couriers, Ernst Mo and En Storm transport something far more abstract and fundamental – the “time”. Across deserts, cities and different dimensions, they join a multiverse resistance, battling the algorithm seeking to flatten time in favour of productivity. Traversing different calendar mechanics and astronomical technologies, they’re tangled in networks of space and time that contradict and collide with each other.
Alone in the bush, a young man is hunted by something familiar... something without eyes.
Two teens, Alice and Anthony, bonding over grapes and pondering parental complexities, begin to fall in love.
The wanderings and wonderings of an existentialist philosopher.
In the tropical, sticky summer a young woman confines herself to her house, waiting, endlessly, for a lover who will not return. With the outside increasingly hostile, she retreats into domestic ritual in an attempt to invoke the presence of the one she waits for.
Shortly after his 1977 Daily Mirror reports on dissidents in the Soviet Union, John Pilger entered Czechoslovakia undercover to film A Faraway Country… a people of whom we know nothing, a title taking the words that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain used to describe Czechoslovakia dismissively in 1938 when it was invaded by the Nazis.
A successful screenwriting prodigy goes to film school and is forced to reflect on his status as an award-winner, by a character of a different clay from most.
Gramps longs to escape his mundane life in his nursing home and reunite with his departed wife. When his granddaughter brings a VR headset, Gramps dives into some truly ‘Unreal’ adventures! Given the body of his younger self, Gramps has a score to settle, chasing the Grim Reaper through a multitude of worlds and virtual environments.
A retrospective documentary including interviews with band members past and present, producers, fellow musicians and fans as well as behind the scenes footage taken around the world.
Hi-5: Hi-Energy
Follow the band on their endless global trek, shot in 42 countries on five continents, the 75-minute "Home Is For The Heartless" DVD is both a rare travelogue and an in-depth look at PARKWAY DRIVE on stage and off. In addition to footage of some of the craziest shows the band has ever played, it also captures some of their greatest adventures and most poignant shared moments.
An action sports documentary about empowering street kids and amputees, strengthening communities and creating a growing tribe of people to make the world a cooler place.
A customer tells a cautionary tale about opening unknown boxes. Part of series of short films animating real conversations between a 2nd hand shop worker and his customers.
The story of Nathan "Nate" Vaughan, an ex-SAS commando fighter married to Nicole, a police officer with the Gulf Coast drug squad. Shortly after their wedding and in the midst of their plans to open a private security firm, Nicole is tragically killed in a seemingly senseless shooting by a drug craze kid in a convenience store hold up. Nate falls to pieces. His only friend is Nicole's ex-police partner and they decide to pursue their own form of justice on the streets low life. The death of a rapist/murderer leads to Nate being pursued by both the criminal boss and the police, which leads to twists and turns and the discovery of his wife's assassination... and bringing the killers to justice.
An ex-ballerina, unhinged by her change in circumstances, finds a new obsession in the pursuit of cleanliness.
Jonah dreams of being able to fly away from his life in the housing commission. But after an encounter at the local skate park, he finds his wings in an unexpected way.
A lonely man has an unexpected encounter with a being that has the mind of a small child.
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!
A young boy struggles to prove himself to his mother as they hunt fantastical creatures in the wilderness.
Retracing his late father's footsteps, a traveler from the urban coast embarks on a 10,000km road trip around Northern Australia. In remote desert country he encounters an emerging Warumungu artist whose father was also a migrant.
When speed demon and record holder Josh “Wheely” Wilson learns that there might be someone in town faster than him, he sets about finding an elusive legend by the name of Burnout Barry - to challenge him to a race.
A young girl copes with the recent loss of her vision by connecting with the world in new ways.
Sometimes the heart follows its own rhythm and life has to fit in around that
This film looks at the efforts to rebuild Afghanistan's infrastructure and culture, as seen through the eyes of women, such as former Deputy Prime Minister Sima Samar, whose fight for education and health-care rights for women and girls put them in danger. Having survived the Taliban, they are putting their lives back together.