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Three witches look to make quick money to spend at an upcoming sabbath, so they prey upon three greedy villagers.

A dancer enters the liminal spaces between history and emotion to retell the story of her ancestral Māori meeting house Hinemihi o te Ao Tawhito.

This film is a documentary based on three location scouts, who in the summer of 2010 went missing while on location.

In the gripping action thriller '240' John Doe, a hardened hitman, finds himself entangled in a web of danger and deception. Be immersed into a high-stakes narrative where every moment counts. As John's calculated skills lead him to unwittingly target the son of a formidable crime lord, he's thrust into a deadly game of survival and redemption. With heart-pounding sequences and unexpected alliances, '240' will propell you on an electrifying journey of suspense and adrenaline.

A woman returns home to Melbourne after 20 years of living in Europe.

Reb has lied her way into herself into an awkward position. She just needs some time alone to think through the issues she's been avoiding, but her barricade of technology conspires against her and her procrastinations are on a comic collision course with her personal life.

A short piece of found footage is optically reworked as text versus imagery versus the spoken words of a 'narrator' telling the audience a story of a famous golf player.

Does an eye for an eye still make the world blind?

A man wakes up tied to a chair, but when his captor shows signs of killing him, he must escape.

Floeur Alder's parents are celebrated international ballet stars Lucette Aldous and Alan Alder and she grows up with god-mother Dame Margot Fonteyn and 'Uncle' Rudolf Nureyev. Like her parents, she trains in ballet. She is about to realise her goal to dance on the world stage when she is randomly stabbed in the neck by an unknown man on the streets of Perth. Facing years of physical rehabilitation, she turns to her family and dance to recover and, as the only child of celebrity parents, face the ultimate challenge to find her own way of dancing.

You've got to be tough to survive the AFL. These are the hart nuts that put their body on the line for the sake of their team. The players that put their heads over the ball no matter the consequence. The players who run back with the flight with no regard for the hit that always comes. These are the players we love to watch week after week. 'Only The Courageous' showcases the strength and skills of the modern AFL player in the 21st century.

A month in the life of the North Perth Town Hall, witnessing a place where people find connection and what happens when it's left on its own.

A documentary on bouncers manning the doors of nightclubs in Melbourne, Australia.

Gardens of Stone is a short documentary which tells a story of the efforts of traditional owners, bushwalkers and scientists to save a landscape of spectacular sandstone towers from the impact of underground mining. It calls for a conservation reserve right on the doorstep of the town of Lithgow, a town which for decades has been the epicentre of a community servicing the areas many coal mines. The film makes the case that Lithgow’s pagoda landscapes can deliver economic benefits to the town by attracting tourists from all over the world.

An unpunished ex-SS officer is thrust into a mysterious mob trial, more than 75 years after his crimes were committed.

Chelsea navigates the feeling of being different as the only black girl in school.

Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall and Andy Matthews's 2022 Melbourne Comedy Festival Show

Examines the story of the murder of Tara Brown, a horrific case of domestic violence that shocked Australia.

German language film

Shots inside and outside a flat. White, pure shots, with a golden conclusion.

A photo of a woman, some heavenly skies, and the Pixies' "Hey".

An interactive documentary that explores historical and contemporary issues in queer female representation in screen media in Australia and overseas. The documentary draws from interviews with queer screen media scholars, TV writers and directors and film festival curators, and investigates storytelling tropes such as "bury your gays" and "cancel your gays" within an industrial context to highlight the importance of representation of queer people and stories in screen media.

Comedian Luke Heggie live at the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne.

The Midnight Sower is a modern adaption of The Sower Parable found in the Bible, explored through the life of India, a young woman, who after making what seems a small choice, finds herself out on the street and in subsequent dialogue with God as to His presence in her suffering. Throughout the night, she reaches out to people in her life, who each in their own way inhabit a part of this parable.

This hand-painted short animation depicts a story of two little people living in a wheat field. They grow together until the day the man left. The relationship between two little people keeps growing in the woman’s heart.

Lifelong friends Edward, Michael and Ashley are involved in a love triangle but not all of them are aware of it. Embarking on a road trip, they start the process of untangling their feelings for one another.

A relationship is tested when two intoxicated friends struggle to find their car after a night out.

Lee is a cleaner. Whenever Death went away, she comes in to remove what is left over - the first step towards cleaning bad memories.

Dani performs onstage as Dani Boi, a non-binary 'dragtivist' with a mission to fight back against oppressive gender norms.

As a man dies, his mind drifts back to the evenings of his childhood.

Archibald is a creature to whom nothing ever happens, until the arrival of a mysterious circle.

A young sex worker drifts through life: Nina finds herself stretched between a boy short on cash, a girl she might like, and her young neighbours who wear candy bracelets.

One man’s upbringing in Dunedin, New Zealand. Following his early life, bullying, and his own advice for the current generation. Unfiltered.

A cryomancer named Ventrin must race against time and his brother - a necromancer named Zairoth - to find a child capable of unimaginable power.

A man puts his friendship on the line during a backyard sparring session.

Around a campfire, on a moonlit night, two Anmatjere Elders, Patsy and Jane Briscoe, sing and re-tell an epic Dreaming story told to them by their father and grandfather. It is a story of two young men who are forced into action when a clan of demon Cannibals devour their entire tribe and kidnap the young men's mother and sister. Alone and outnumbered, the young men defy all odds as they defeat the demons and reclaim their women.

Drama descends upon two tennis-obsessed women as the tension moves from off the court and into the café.

1927 Australian silent film

A constant series of tiny collisions.

Colin Jones is of Aboriginal, Polynesian and English decent. The Aboriginal side of his family are from the Kalkadoon and Nunuckle tribal groups. His grandfather taught him about Aboriginal traditions and the art of his people. Colin is now a noted Artist. At present Colin is studying for his Masters Degree in Humanities. Much of the history that he talks about in this video comes from his own studies and research, conducted over many years. Colin's reason for making this video is to explain from an Aboriginal point of view based on his historical data, what has happened to his people over the past two hundred years since the white man arrive in Australia.

a journey through grief

Daughter-cum-documentary filmmaker, Ava Grimshaw-Hall, embarks on a poignant journey to connect with her sperm donor father John, as he battles an aggressive cancer. Together, they explore their unique bond, seeking understanding and closure amidst life’s uncertainties.

A young mother flees her country in the midst of a revolution, revealing to her daughter a history of abandonment that crosses three continents and four generations.

Part Brechtian in its distancing of language, and part-Warholian in its funtime-exploitation of a circle of friends, I You We typifies the strong textual focus of many → ↑ → films and videos of the time.

There is no denying that the rise to prominence for Isaac Butterfield is unmatched and unrivalled. After selling out over 50 shows across Australia in 2018, and gaining over 100 million views online; Butterfield wields his sharp wit and shocking brand of humour to declare war on everything. From Vegans to Religion and everything in between, Butterfield's 'No Holds Bar' approach unleashes on everyone. Nobody is safe in his debut comedy special 'The Butterfield Effect'.

It’s a story that made headlines: “Festival Film Banned!” In the late 1960s, the majority of films screened in Australia were censored in some way or another. DELETE the lovemaking. CUT the ‘Open Mouth Kissing’. REMOVE the fondling of the breast sequence. Deemed too ‘inappropriate’ and ‘morally corrupting’ for Australian eyes, these scenes were hacked from feature films and locked away in government archives. When young Sydney Film Festival director David Stratton attempted to program a Swedish film that the censors believed contained ACTUAL sex, a scandal erupted. In a mash-up of never-before-seen banned clippings, SMUT HOUNDS tells the story of how seventy-seven seconds of celluloid scandalised a government and transformed Australian cinema.

Two trees share what seems to be their final moments together

The story of how an Australian and international community of blacksmiths, welders, artists and volunteers responded to the devastating Black Saturday bush-fires by creating perhaps the nation's most ambitious public artwork and memorial – The Blacksmith's Tree, a three tonne, 9.8-meter tall stainless steel and copper gum tree.

It's the Miss First Nations competition! Beyond the glitz, glue guns and glamour of black drag to reveal a fun, fabulous and sometimes fearful place. A sassy, intimate portrait of what it means to be an Indigenous Drag Queen today.

A globe-spanning portrait of humanity at a crucial age - no longer children, not quite adults, preparing to inherit a world changing as quickly and dramatically as they are. This documentary focuses on a series of eleven-year-olds from 15 countries, each speaking in their own words and revealing the private obsessions and public concerns that animate their lives. It is simultaneously an epic survey of the similarities and distinctions between cultures and an intimate account of these young personalities finding their way in the world today.

Miner Will Morrison marries heiress Grace Norwood. Jealous Richard Myers tries to convince Will that Grace is unfaithful and when that fails he drugs Will and frames him for murder.

Transhuman beings waking up at dusk, reappearing as something else to prepare for the night

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.

Continuing "The Alphabet Series," "The F Series" is a collection of films created by E.C. Lewin from November 24, 2023, to October 1, 2024. While the "E" in "The E Series" represented the experimental nature of the collection, as well as the first initial of the author, the "F" in this subsequent anthology stands for Friends, Filmed, and Faces.

An evil property developer buys cursed land to develop an expensive high-rise building.

A bicycle seat. A roof. A car park. Light. Shadow. The aperture control. Piano. Synthesizer. Delay effects. A sci-fi/horror fantasy ... the shadows have landed.

Rugby league clash between Sydney Firsts and the American All Stars, who toured Australia and New Zealand between May and August 1953.