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Set in the industrial town of Whyalla, this is an intimate portrait of John Croall, a Glaswegian immigrant to Australia, and the father of long-time Adelaide Fringe director, Heather Croall. John Croall delivered three generations of babies and planted thousands of trees in the town. He was also a great letter writer, and this very personal documentary uses these letters as its point of departure. Heather Croall films with her father as a way of coping with his approaching death and reflecting on the close, and often very funny, relationship between a father and a daughter.

Barry Manton marries Lola Quayle, a dancer from a humble background. Lola faces an uphill battle for acceptance from Barry’s wealthy parents.

Set in the gritty streets of suburban Australia, 17-year-old Ica battles a relentless drug addiction that seems to grow stronger with every passing day. Despite his friends' constant pleas and reminders of the life he could still have, Ica finds himself torn, stuck between the numbing pull of his addiction and the fading hope that things could get better.

When Yussef is forced to work the night of his daughter's piano recital he is determined to listen to her play at all costs.

A zany news anchor and his headstrong assistant butt heads on the set of their venerable broadcast.

Emerson Hayes is a 60-year-old sculptor who lives in a caravan and works from an old shed in the back corner of her daughter’s coastal egg farm. When she is informed that her most acclaimed and last remaining work on public display is being replaced, she seeks a new home for it with family friend Lena, who curates a prestigious contemporary gallery. Lena, however, demands that Em present a fresh new work if she is to be considered for exhibition. As Em struggles to break out of her artistic rut, she is forced to reckon not only with her place in the art world, but with her entire identity.

Integrity Sports Entertainment Australia Presents Headstrong

A film-maker struggles to live. She makes films. She makes love.

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.

Inspired by Hal Fischer’s book “Gay Semiotics”, DOUBLE DENIM BLUES is a moving image study of queer visual coding.

Steve the drag queen struggles with being a single dad.

A blinding beam of light. The piercing sound of ships. Everything—the land, plants, the sky—shouts for attention. Perceptions assail us with their demands to be noticed.

Paddy finds there are two separate laws, the white and the black.

When you were a kid, adult television was a mystery. What strange, scary, unfathomable shows could be airing past your bedtime? But now you’re an adult, and television isn’t what you thought it would be. But what if it was? The feeling of a pillow nest and a hot drink. The feeling that the night might continue forever if you never went to sleep.

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

Made in 1992 for the White Gloves Film Festival in Melbourne, Operation Camerahead parodies the lengths the incoming State Government of Jeff Kennett will go to to raise funds to pay off the inherited public debt from the previous Cain-Kerner Labour Government.

YOU CAN YOU CVN’T is a short and cheeky documentary about the inspirational and infuriating Danny Lim who is a bizarre cult figure of the Sydney streets. This Malaysian-born, self-professed "Peace Activist" is in his 70s and demonstrates full-time. The oddball eccentric is considered by many as a living legend, but loathed by others as an inappropriate agitator. He is known for his unique style of artistic activism on contemporary political issues, both local and global. Everybody in Sydney will have seen him, but very few people really know him.

A unique burlesque experience...

Mahtab, an Iranian immigrant, clings to the illusion of reclaiming her lost life as she sells her belongings to bring over an online lover she’s never met. As he manipulates her for money, her daughter tries to warn her—but will she see the truth before it’s too late?

A young man goes through a breakup and experiences the 5 stages of grief

Tell Me You Care is a film about the misrepresentation of teenaged male mental health issues. The story follows two friends, David and Charlie. In the film Charlie feels like an outsider in every aspect of his life and his best friend David refuses to notice the signs of mental health issues which, in climax of the film results in Charlie taking his own life.

Growing up, Walter accepted that having dyslexia meant he would never be a writer. Now, in his final year of screenwriting, Walter works to finish his feature film script. Walter is one of thousands of aspiring Australian screenwriters uncertain of his chances of getting his work made. I’M A WRITER is a 5 minute documentary that depicts a young artist to whom writing is unequivocally the most important thing.

A new video essay by author and critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on the evolution of the Ringu series.

An early Australian silent film depicting historical events on the Young district goldfields, then known as Lambing Flat. During the gold rush of 1861, tensions between Australian miners and immigrant Chinese led to rioting, with Chinese miners attacked and driven from the diggings. The film portrays these events as being the genesis - or birth - of the White Australia policy, a significant political issue of the day.

Explores the life and work of English journalist Robert Cox, the former editor of "The Buenos Aires Herald" daily newspaper, whose investigative reporting in the late 1970s exposed the shocking human rights crimes of Argentina's military dictators.

“This was my first film using the matte-box. Using images of my own backyard, I found that I could create a kind of mysterious story, an almost supernatural effect. The mystery is never revealed, but there is something there. By photographing tiny vertical slivers through different mattes and lenses, carefully rewinding the film in the camera, then exposing bit by bit, I achieved this ‘corrugated’ effect. All of a sudden you get motion in something where there is no motion.” (Paul Winkler)

A short documentary about the band.

A film that explores the relationship between man and technology...told from the perspective of a phone.

Linda discovers her husband's affair just before their 25th anniversary trip, and goes to Lisbon alone, where she rediscovers her voice. Through music and friendships, she must decide whether to repair the marriage or move on.

HongAFI nominated director, Charlie Hill-Smith’s first documentary, is a telling insight into the complexities that face modern China. In 1997 the most free market city of earth was consumed by the last great communist state, but who is China? What is China? Travel from Hong Kong to Beijing to Tibet to grab a warts and all snap shot of the Middle Kingdom as it rises to become the great power of the twenty first century.

Unable to pluck up the courage to come-out to his girlfriend, Spencer comes across Sammy - a talking salmon who offers to get his love life back on track.

The inside story of the 2010 AFL Grand Final.

In August 1857, the clipper ship Dunbar arrived at Sydney Heads after a long voyage from England, only to be smashed against the jagged cliffs at the entrance to Port Jackson during a severe rainstorm. It remains one of Australia’s worst maritime disasters, resulting in the loss of 121 lives and only a single survivor. This is a dramatic reenactment of the tale.

What is the true call of the wild? Here we travel down a very special river and are introduced to a wide variety of the animal kingdom who all contribute their name for the sake of music

The master Hitman "Red" is informed of a lucrative bounty that he cannot miss. But after suffering a fatal injury, he will need to adapt to complete the mission.

From the age of 10, Michael Isaachsen has had a love of all things printing. At 85, he looks back on his story – the story of a life spent focused on his extraordinary goal: to create Melbourne’s (and maybe the world’s) largest Museum of Print. Meanwhile, as Michael’s son sifts through what is left of his father’s once-vast collection and a director stages a museum displaying the objects from Michael’s life, questions of perspective, sacrifice, failure and the marks we leave behind are explored.

In the final weeks of his High School journey, musician Andrew struggles to navigate his way through university applications and a tenuous relationship with his girlfriend, Ellie.

Documentary about "The Coolbaroo Club",  which was the only Aboriginal-run dance club in a city which practiced unofficial apartheid. During its lifetime, the Club attracted Black musicians and celebrities from all over Australia and occasionally from overseas. Although best-remembered for the hugely popular Coolbaroo dances attended by hundreds of Aborigines and their white supporters, the "Coolbaroo League", founded by Club members, ran a newspaper and became an effective political organization, speaking out on issues of the day affecting Aboriginal people.

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

The Jehovah’s Witnesses are a religious group with eight million followers in multiple nations, including Australia. A knock on the door and an earnest offer to share their teachings is the only interaction most people will have with this god-fearing organisation. Few would know the extreme nature of their beliefs. The conduct of the religious group came under scrutiny in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The life of a white rental van is told in three parts via the different people who hire it.

It's based on the events of 6 April 1966, where, in the Melbourne suburb of Westall, 200 students, staff and local residents watched as a strange object hovered overhead for several minutes, landed briefly, then lifted off and vanished. Witnesses described it as low flying, silver-grey and shiny, shaped like a ‘cup turned upside down on a saucer’ and accompanied by five light aircraft. A mass of excited students surged out of school and ran after the object. Many reported seeing a circle of flattened grass on the ground where it had landed. One said she touched it as it took off. Others observed men in uniforms cordoning off the ‘landing site’ and removing soil samples by the truckload. Some say they saw uniformed men torch the area a few hours later. The incident was reported on the news on television that night and in the local newspapers.

A Guy trying to get somewhere. A short Film Adventure focused on a Guy walking through the forest to reach the top.

Gore Street, Fitzroy traces the history of Gore Street, in Fitzroy, Melbourne’s oldest suburb. Through a series of interviews with longstanding residents, filmmaker Zoe Coldham, who grew up on Gore Street, paints a picture of the street and reflects on a community that has transformed through waves of gentrification.

Once upon a time there was a Princess who was gifted with the power to make one wish come true. It had been arranged that she was to marry a Prince whom she did not love nor care for. They are married and at night they sleep apart, the princess with her wish beside her in the guise of a beautiful flower, a pink. The rest of the tale is for you to see, but to the best of my knowledge the Princess still lives happily ever after.

After waiting for a bus at Fern Tree that never arrives, a clown takes refuge under the snowy rocks of Mount Wellington and frolics on the wintery beach at Kingston with a black dog. Throughout the film, the footage cuts to a psychedelic Hobart house party where the clown is both present and absent, joyful and sad.

The internal symphony of the feminine mind navigating a night out - where fear and joy exist side by side.

A visual accompaniment.

What Remains of Us is a poignant exploration of grief, connection, and missed opportunities. Luke, a young man weighed down by personal struggles and family expectations, revisits a close but strained relationship with Cam, a friend who moved away. Through a series of text messages, flashbacks, and video calls, the film reveals Luke’s guilt and regret over losing touch, culminating in the devastating realization of Cam’s tragic fate. As Luke grapples with his emotions, he reflects on the impact of their bond and the unspoken struggles both carried, emphasizing the importance of reaching out and cherishing meaningful connections.

Edward Booth, a former Marine, struggles with life back home after experiencing a traumatic event during the war.

A look into the past of the filmmakers' Czechoslovakia-born mother, who committed suicide.

In Papua New Guinea, where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by the regular advertising mediums of television, radio or print, 'the market' must be developed by other means. Small theater groups travel the remote highlands performing soap operas devised around advertising messages for a variety of products.

After a long battle with depression, Queensland rare chicken breeder Mark Tully is now on a mission to protect the endangered chickens to which he owes his life.

A man named woody moving to his old town after finishing a movie.

Charts the causes and course of the Persian Wars from the Ionian Revolt in 499 BCE through to the Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE.

A bored tollbooth operator does the night shift in the middle of nowhere.

Granny Queer and her voluptuous girlfriend Sharlene are enjoying a nice wee Saturday morning lie-in when Granny sees that Sharlene's bloomers have gone missing from the line. Granny suspects their mysterious new neighbour Mr. Wit has something to do with it, and she's determined to get to the bottom of the matter.

The pull of ancestry as it shifts into the present, communication across generations, heritage as it delivers you to the future, viral cooking show videos, honouring those you love, familial creativity and collaboration, moving with the geopolitical tides across Asia, cooking as a useful and caring act.