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A desperate man renews himself with a strange ritual.

The quest of a transgender girl to become a teacher in India.

Ahhh, TV Land. It’s all smoke ‘n’ mirrors folks.

Close-up stills of white Hollywood stars – including Elizabeth Taylor, Cary Grant, Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, looking aghast and horrified – are intercut with news shots of boats crowded with refugees. Peering through slatted blinds and homing in with binoculars, the wide-eyed and troubled movie characters seem to survey crowded decks. The images of the refugees are manipulated, cropped, recoloured, sometimes reduced to almost abstract blobs. Vigil is short, terse and, with its increasing tempo, extremely powerful. The more you watch, the worse it gets. Stuck in their roles and behind their windows, the stars act out their emotions. Meanwhile, genuine human misery goes on, visibly manipulated for our consumption.

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.

It's 1972 and 'It's Time', but not it seems for Violet who is caught in the limbo world of adolescence in a small costal town. Director Graeme Wood's exceptional cinematic rendering of a place, a time and the hard-edged desperation of teen trouble is a tough tour de force of short filmmaking.

This assembly of home-movie footage, shot between 1961 and 1966, was made by artist and filmmaker Shead. Homegrown pop artist Martin Sharp and writer Richard Neville appear in a sequence covering the birth of Oz magazine. The film’s impressionistic fragments capture the mood of the youth counterculture in early 1960s Sydney.

White people don't understand that there are two laws - white people have different laws from Aboriginal people. TWO LAWS is a film about history, law and life in the community of Borroloola in far North Queensland. The films offers viewers a remarkable and different way of seeing and hearing. Like the film, BACKROADS, it is one of the few productions at that time in which Aboriginal people had creative input. The impetus for TWO LAWS came from the community themselves. There was substantial collaboration with the film makers before and during the shooting period. It is one of the most outstanding films to be made during the 1980s. It is an historical analysis of what, nearly forty years later, is an increasingly contemporary question. Two Laws.

A struggling art student's race to complete her self-portrait turns nightmarish when it begins to bleed-dragging her toward the edge of self-destruction.

A rookie Detective's first case to find a missing fish leads him down a challenging path. With limited funding and few resources he goes against the odds, and against the constant opposition of his superior, but it comes at a price.

An exploration into the different types of families, be it queer, straight or whatever takes your fancy.

the legendary live action movie where people cry and dragons die....

Threshold is a deeply personal exploration of what it means to have a little machine as part of your body, a portrayal of the Deaf experience rarely seen. The acceptance of a cochlear implant is not an automatic, seamless entry to a world of sound but rather a chaotic understanding of what it is like to hear.

A self funded, no budget, abstract animated film, made with miniature (10cm X 7cm) hand painted glass panels.

Marty, Moog, and friends travel to Malaysia to compete in a 24-hour race

Bounce along with this collection of education songs from Bounce Patrol. Learn counting, alphabet phonics, colors, and even animal sounds! Features "Colours Everywhere", "Ball Pit Party", "Alphabet Animals" and more.

It's time for The Wiggles' Fruit Salad Big Show! The Wiggles are bringing their hit live show to YOU, as you can now see them live in concert from the comfort of your own home. Plus, for the first time ever, there's eight Wiggles performing on stage as Tsehay, Anthony, Lachy and Simon are joined by the 'Fruit Salad TV' Wiggles, Evie, Kelly, John, and Caterina. It's double The Wiggles which, of course, means double the fun! All their Wiggly friends will be there too and will join them to sing and dance along to fan favourite songs such as 'Do the Propeller!’, 'Hot Potato' and 'Rock-a-Bye Your Bear’, as well as new and catchy tunes including 'Hey, Tsehay’. The Wiggles' Fruit Salad Big Show is fresh, fruity and double the fun, so get ready to wiggle!

Strange Tenants were the 'Godfathers of Australian Ska', emerging in the 1980s in the wake of UK two-tone ska bands like The Specials but producing their own original political ska songs unlike most other Australian ska bands. Thirty-six years later they're still around and still political.

ICEHOUSE performing at Roche Estate, Hunter Valley, NSW on 25th March, 2017

3DME is an exploration of gender construction in the form of a journey through space and time (real + imagined). The artist confronts her parents about the way in which they have dealt with her sexuality. Their terrifyingly naive responses reflect the all too common, conventionally held conceptions around homosexuality and transgenderism.

A young woman discovers an injured stranger in a public restroom. Attempting to provide assistance, she realises that this 'stranger' is all too familiar.

The documentary the art world doesn't want you to see... A gutsy film from Kerry Negara who bravely ventures into the hallowed halls of the Australian arts elite to reveal disturbing attitudes. The sexual liaisons of Australian artist Donald Friend in Bali in the 1960s, contriving to shame his friends and the artistic establishment for "double standards" in approving of him despite his supposedly being a "self-confessed pederast". Dolog, the youngest lover mentioned by Friend himself, is invited to join the attack, but says only that he minds his sex with Friend being exposed to the world's knowledge.

"Liberty in Restraint" is a look at freedom of expression and the daring to follow one's visions, this documentary follows fetish photographer, Noel Graydon, in his quest for authenticity, showing his work in progress, a passion for his art and its themes, and the transgressive activities of the community he moves within. The film also investigates the nature of sexual transgression, the prejudices of society and how an artist can break boundaries. Further themes arise out of the nature of Noel's work in fetish photography, exploring what the BDSM community is all about, details of the fetish items such as leather, latex, rope, chains, etc and how this is becoming increasingly prevalent in the world of advertising, music and fashion.

The Crusades had finished and Robin Hood and his band of merry men had disbanded. That is until the Sheriff of Nottingham escapes with the much valued Crown Jewels of the King.

An unyielding young writer retreats into isolation to lay his grief to rest.

"Welcome to Wherever You Are" is an 18-minute documentary that follows INXS behind the scenes at a charity concert in 1992. In addition to providing an interesting look at the lead-up to a concert, this program includes performances of the songs "Heaven Sent" and "Taste It."

A story of Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones, an extraordinarily vivacious 10-year-old-girl, and her adventures at the Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy. From royal cruises to Christmas balls, the new school year holds no shortage of excitement and surprises for Alice-Miranda, Millie and Jacinta.

Walter Lee, aka Vivien, provides voice over for this short documentary. Stills, vintage footage, and re-enactments paint an amazingly vivid backdrop to exhibit the life of a "squishy" drag queen through wartime service and 1950s repression.

Thomas Renner, an aspiring painter, struggles to make his masterpiece while dealing with complete colour-blindness.

“An impressionistic documentary. Black and white, alcoholics, blind people, wheelchairs...the down and out in Sydney. I was greatly influenced by documentary films I saw at the Workers’ Education Association Film Group. Real images were cut together with footage I’d shot in Waverley Cemetery—a cemetery here in Sydney—in a sort of symbolising where I suppose we all finish up, whether we’re handicapped or not! The film has no narration. Someone said I ought to have a composer write a soundtrack, so I went to great lengths...working with musicians in a studio. It was completely new to me, and I wasn’t really comfortable with it.” (Paul Winkler)

This woman needs help. A very short comedy about regret.

While attempting to record life as it was, Arthur unintentionally documents his family’s unraveling.

the ontological nature of being is one that directly contradicts the interests of humanity

This film documents a unique collaboration between Indigenous and white historians from Australia and North America. In September 2004, a diverse group travelled through the Top End of Australia meeting representatives of the traditional landowners, and engaging in a dialogue about Indigenous history. The themes that emerged raised more questions than answers - from cultural appropriation and copyright, to land rights, the role of language and art, and what history means to Indigenous communities in the current climate of cultural reclamation and survival.

An argumentative couple spend a weekend away camping, only to be confronted by a crazed bush-dwelling madman who warns them of an ever-encroaching creature: the Wombo.

Aussie oddball Josh Glanc has won multiple comedy awards, sold out runs at London’s Soho Theatre and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and been called one of the most exciting new talents on the comedy circuit. Don’t miss his debut comedy special Vrooom Vrooom. Or do. I don’t really mind. I’m just the guy who writes his copy. In fact, he doesn't even pay me. You know what? Screw him. I'm going to write whatever I want. Lalablahabal yimmsdfi yimmo yoooo. Bing Bong Baaahh. Featuring original songs, characters, stand-up and impeccably well-crafted silliness. It’s bizarre, absurd, wild – and just so much fun.

Australian-Chinese immigrant Bon-Wai Chou traces her family's heritage.

Snapshots of family life.

Ponsford, Ryder and Woodfull seen batting in Victoria's record-breaking innings against New South Wales in Melbourne.

A drama that chronicles travelers passing through a remote service station located in the Australian Wheat Belt.

A terminally ill man is given an unconventional send off in this exploration of assisted suicide and the healing power of music.

Rod O'Hara bought Bellingen Video Connection in 2018 when video stores were already considered to be on the way out – if not already dead. Now, years later, against all the odds, and after facing many personal setbacks, Rod and the local community have kept this iconic local business and bastion for lovers of television, film and screen culture alive - but for how long?

Enjoy christmas this year with the lovable Aussie character Humphrey B Bear

Andrew Scott would have his wish granted 115 years after his death. Engineer, soldier, and bank robber. He would be one of Australia’s most notorious outlaws. His relationship with a gang member that would capture the imagination of modern historians.

Noel Mason's vaudevillian skills are appreciated by his younger audience, but he is not making enough money at the children's shows to pay his costs, his old car does not go very well, and he is dyslexic and unable to understand the contracts employers give him. The situation starts to look more hopeful when Noel answers a newspaper advertisement to join an entertainment agency.

Two trees share what seems to be their final moments together

Jump! Swim! Sing! Five little monsters have fun imitating some very odd traffic signs.

Ilyas, an expatriate writer who lived most of his adult life in Australia, returns to Turkey in the hope of finding inspiration for his new book. Instead, he ends up having to deal with the breakdown of a relationship and, a deepening writer's block, in a land he feels estranged.

Do Black Lives Matter? Tyrone, a homeless Aboriginal boy is arrested by the LAW...Again !. But this time - It's going to take his uncle Lucky's traditional LORE to fix the mess.

This documentary is about as new as you can get! With an exuberance that simply leaps from the screen, this tasty piece documents the long awaited comeback of Perth punk rock luminaries, Kerb. With relentless drive Steve Browne, the band’s ever optimistic front man, is determined to get the boys back together after breaking up in 1999. Anyone who’s played in a band would know how difficult it is sometimes to get the group together just for a regular rehearsal let alone recording sessions when the band is spread around the world. As you’d expect, the sailing isn’t quite a smooth as the idea and the band lurches from one issue to the next, not in the least because of Steve’s constant spur of the moment decision making processes. This fly on the wall film is a cracker from start to finish as it pops and fizzes along its erratic route that’ll have you in some way admiring the gumption, ambition and innocence in what it takes to get the band back together.

In December 2006 Qantas's very first yet airliner flew into Sydney after a flight of 14,382 nautical miles from Southend on Sea in England. The Boeing 707-138 VHEBA first flew in 1959 and had ended its days in England where it was to be scrapped. A team of retired Qantas engineers led by Peter Elliot decided that the aircraft would fly home again to Australia to be put on display at the Qantas Founders Museum at Longreach Queensland. This was the most complex restoration of a classic airliner ever undertaken involving 15,000 man hours. Over six months period engineers and spare parts were shuttled back and forth between England and Australia. Working in all sorts of weather the engineers finally saw the aircraft fly again for the first time in six years. In Orlando Florida the team were greeted by Hollywood star John Travolta who owns another of Qantas's 707-138s. This is a story about a great aeroplane but also about the dedication and resolve of the people who made her fly again.

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.

A hit man and his potential protege are tasked with burying a body in the countryside but the seemingly simple job takes an unexpected turn.

This cute little short was made for the Australian Broadcasting commission, with animation by the small Rowl Greenhalgh productions.

Sisters Adelaide and Lucinda grew up spending a lot of time with their Nana Ann, also known as “Nansie”, who would help look after them as children. However, roles were reversed when Nansie was diagnosed with dementia in 2018. For the last few years, Nansie has been saying to her granddaughters that she goes swimming in the ocean every morning. The girls know this isn’t true as Nansie never learnt to swim, but instead of correcting her, they go along with the stories her dementia has created. Eventually, they decide to see if this story in Nansie’s mind could come true.

A man struggles with indecision.

A film of repeated movements toward the camera, away from the camera, and across the camera's field, punctuated by a 360-degree rotational movement of the camera itself. Aside from being a reference to the repetition characteristic of home movies, the film is an exploration of a specific space. By repeatedly traversing it, the two figures reinforce their sense of depth, beginning as distant blobs in the long shot and ending with the face of one of them filling the frame. Repetition has become an important strategy in many of our recent films, which often involve reshoots or reprints. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

Rap and hip-hop were musical genres that developed within the African-American subcultures of America’s largest cities. Fusing funk, disco and a do-it-yourself punk aesthetic, rap music quickly became the defining voice of a generation of young, angry and disenfranchised black youth. In this incisive documentary, the history of rap and hip-hop is explored as well as the larger social context of American race and class relations. Interviews with Ice-T, Queen latifah, KRS-One, Chuck D and Rakim explore the context of rap’s evolution and offer necessary defences of the music’s relevance and importance to African-American youth; especially in the context of a popular media that has often dismissed rap as misogynist or “inauthentic”. Made by two Australian brothers who fell in love with the music, this documentary gives a voice to the power, impact, originality and importance of rap and hip-hop.

Follow the journey of a boy who struggles to connect in our digital world.