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Children growing up in poverty is the subject of Smashing Kids, 1975. John Pilger meets the Hopwoods, of Liverpool, where hunger has become a way of life during father Harry’s unemployment as his family of five survive on £1 a day. The wallpaper in their council house is torn and there are no clothes in the couple’s wardrobe and no sheets on their bed. The family have never had a holiday and Harry tells Pilger: “It would be easier to serve time than to put up with this.”

A group of flour-based sweets and loaves come together to make a new friend for their clique - a mischievous, weird and cute film in the kitchen.

This film shows events in the biennial Festival of Arts and the annual Flower Day of 1968. Adelaide celebrated Flower Day annually from 1938 to 1975 and it made a return in 2021. The footage includes a ‘welcome said with flowers’ to performers Marlene Dietrich, Marcella Reale, Morag Beaton, Lucero Tena, and the Elizabethan Theatre Trust Orchestra. There is also a look inside the Art Gallery’s display for the 5th Adelaide Festival of Arts. This is quite possibly the moment the phrase “Mad March” was coined!

A sci-fi short by Narrm-based animator Jenn Tran, in which a narrator returns to Earth to discover the ruins of an Agnes Denes land artwork.

The problems that confront the remote communities on the Tiwi Islands of the Torres Strait are similar to those that confront young people everywhere – but isolation and a lack of things to do make the young people of these communities particularly vulnerable to crime and substance abuse. The "strong men" of the community is a group determined to solve the problem themselves, by offering positive role models and beneficial activities to the young people. In this documentary, we see these leaders take young people away from the township to experience traditional hunting and living, and to hear the stories of their elders.

Amateur astronomer Greg Quicke (a.k.a. Space Gandalf) presents the ultimate beginners guide to the southern sky. The Pearl Diver’s Guide to the Galaxy invites its audience to re-discover both the wonder of the night sky and the fundamental, basic science behind how it works. After a night of stargazing with Greg, people often report a profound shift in the way that they see both the stars and the planet beneath their feet. The aim of this series is for viewers to experience the same thing.

Earth. 2038. ISOLIS are working to create the perfect artificial intelligence so humans will never have to work again.

Based upon the legend of Sisyphus and using the voice of the late-philosopher Alan Watts, Yurodivy explores contemporary humankind's relentless pursuit for wealth and happiness.

Taking place in one night, Ken becomes obsessive about a girl he meets...?

Cub Sport perform their new album, LIKE NIRVANA, live and in full.

Two lovers sit in a bathroom discussing their feelings for each other, as they await a devious plan.

Mother and son turned killers. Mama's Boy is a true crime Australian documentary investigating what drove Samantha Brownlow to convince her son Corey Lovell to murder her stepfather.

In Harro & Big Barra, lure fishing legend Rob Harrison takes viewers on travels into remote Arnhemland in pursuit of big barramundi. ‘Harro’ shares his fond knowledge of these finned icons, and puts you right into the picture to show you how to come to grips with those fish of a lifetime.

A refugee from the Sudanese civil war, Zacharia (one of the ‘Lost Boys' of Sudan) lives in Sydney with his wife and daughter. He desperately wants to do something for his former village, now in the newly created nation of South Sudan. His dream is to build a much-needed school, enlisting the backing of numerous Australians. Janet, a dedicated supporter, joins him on a 40-day fundraising walk from Tweed Heads to Sydney along with filmmaker Tom Zubrycki. But will this strategy raise the funds they need? Thwarted by escalating conflict back in South Sudan, and shocked by a broken relationship, Zac must decide what's important in his life.

A documentary exploring Brenda Hean's fight to save Tasmania’s Lake Pedder and her mysterious disappearance in 1972

Throughout history, the perception of nurses has ranged from wise women to witches, sots to ministering angels, handmaidens to battleaxes. The professional role of the nurse has changed dramatically. Originally the nurse held an independent, curative position in healing the sick. Most of this responsibility has since been lost. In its place, a profession has developed which, while demanding altruism and dedication, is locked into a supportive and secondary role to that of the medical profession.

The shameful history of persecution of the Aborigines in Australia. The secret history of Australia is a historical conspiracy of silence. Written history has long applied selectivity to what it records, largely ignoring the shameful way that the Aborigines were, and continue to be, treated. Because Aborigines had not cultivated the land they were seen by British colonists as having no proprietorial rights to the land. They had no treaty and therefore no rights under British colonial rule. Little of their resistance is recorded.

Ian Haig’s The Foaming Node essays the discovery and emergence of new bodily organs in meticulous and captivating detail. We follow the last remaining observers, members of a cult of sorts, who have experienced both the transmissions of The Foaming Node, and their own personal and strange bodily transformations. They discuss exactly how the changes associated with The Foaming Node have affected them, telling fascinating, visceral, detailed tales that reach beyond science, alternative medicine, and corporeality.

The life and work of Chris Doyle, the acclaimed Australian cinematographer who found regular work as the collaborator of maverick Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai.

Few sporting events hold the cultural weight of the Sydney to Hobart. Every Boxing Day, as the Cricket Test breaks for lunch, millions of Australians turn their attention to the start of the Great Race. For days, the nation follows the fleet into one of the world’s most treacherous bodies of water — Bass Strait — where shifting weather systems can turn elite competition into a fight for survival.

At a Jewish school camp in 2006, repressed teenager Tali finds a porn magazine hidden in a classmate’s prayer book and steals it. Between the pages and behind the closed doors of the girls’ cabin, she begins to question her sexuality. When her friends return to the cabin later that night, the conversation turns to hook-ups with boys; and, amid simmering tensions, the magazine is uncovered. Seeking refuge in the bathroom, Tali is chanced upon by her friend Mim, who has just had an unsatisfying encounter with a boy named Josh. After the two girls share an unexpected moment of intimacy, Tali’s thoughts are torn between Mim and Josh, and she decides to take action.

Filmed in one single take, two film students talk about how to make a short film in one single take.

James Carpenter, a recovering gambling addict, is brought onto a talk show to discuss his addiction. When the show is interrupted by gambling ads, James must escape the cycle these ads have him in.

A video tape is stolen that contains information dangerous to both the government and the casino and they will do anything to get it back. The man who stole it has other plans, as do a third party of heavies who turn up out of nowhere.

Live in studio performance and videos from the Australian industrial band.

"Freaky Black Friday Spook Special" was a hosted horror movie television special hosted Jill Forster as "Vampira" screened on ATN 7 (Sydney) between 13 and 14 November 1970.

In 1991 an incredulous, middle aged, Caucasian man with a bushy moustache was arrested – he alleged – for simply eating a Chinese meal in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. A “succulent” Chinese meal to be exact. In what would prove to be a case of mistaken identity, the enigmatic man put on a performance of Shakespearian proportions for the arresting police and swarm of awaiting news cameras on the scene. Fascinating, hilarious and truly bizarre, that video would go on to be immortalized as a YouTube viral sensation decades later; clocking up millions of views across the globe, making the man named Jack Karlson (or is that Paul Charles Dozsa? Cecil Edwards?) a modern folklore legend. This is the madcap and tragic true-ish life story about Jack: con man, master of disguise, safe cracker, prison escapee, father, husband, widower, actor – and the real truth behind that infamous video.

Australia loves competitions, but which competition is Australia's best competition? Comedians and triple j hosts Lewis Hobba and Michael Hing travel the country entering as many as they can to find out.

An online biology class devolves into chaos and shenanigans as the students adjust to online school.

A mixed martial arts documentary following Lachlan Stitt (Amateur MMA Record: 3-1-0) as he trains for the Beast Welterweight Title at Beast Championship 7: Samurai. This short film delves into the psyche of an amateur fighter and the challenges he faces leading up to the biggest bout of his career.

The 1988 Australian bicentenary prompted many artistic events and contemporary expressions of Australia's living cultures. One of the most remarkable of these was the first memorial ever created by Aborigines for Aborigines - two hundred bone burial poles were carved and painted by Arnhem land artists to honour the deceased of the past - lost people, lost tribes, lost languages. This unique Aboriginal Memorial captures this spiritual event. This collection seeks to reassure surviving Aboriginal Australians that there is a living continuity of traditions. -Ronin Films

A young soldier trying to escape the horrors of war, finds an abandoned house and within its walls the stories of what might have been.

A submersion into a gentle pastel abstract vision.

Photographer and filmmaker Perry’s concise film-poem uses graphic matches (grapefruits, balloons and bubbles) to convey anxieties about fatherhood.

Following the Sunnyboys’ enigmatic frontman Jeremy Oxley from the band’s origins, breakthrough success and his subsequent 30-year battle with schizophrenia, The Sunnyboy is one man's inspired story of survival and hope. A meditation on a condition often stigmatised and misunderstood, Kaye Harrison’s documentary buries below the surface of Oxley’s public “identity” to explore his own reality and battle to maintain “self”. Secure in a loving relationship with his partner Mary, Oxley slowly emerges from his solitary torment to join the world we all share. The film follows him as he tentatively unpicks his confused thoughts and feelings about the past with his brother Peter. From his struggle with the physical effects of years spent self-medicating to his hopeful contemplation of a married future and a daring return to the stage, The Sunnyboy is the definitive documentary of Jeremy Oxley's journey from the Sunnyboys and back.

A private detective follows a trail of “clues” across Sydney, blurring reality and imagination in a playful noir comedy about stories we cling to and the resilience to keep going.

A documentary following sham radio host Mia as she spirals in the lead-up to her interview with musician Eli Wan at his house party in Sydney, and the disastrous interview itself

New Guinea Patrol is a 1958 Australian documentary film produced by R. Maslyn Williams.

The life of a man who sells papers for a living, his interests, and his relationships. A copy of the print, a student film from the Carlton New Wave, was preserved by Nigel Buesst at his own expense.

Nadia is running from her life, while Nathan is trying to escape his. Two strangers on opposite paths, but they share a dissatisfaction for adulthood and a longing for more.

Maria, a young woman driven by unrequited love, hits the road to Sydney. She finds herself reluctantly in the company of Doug, an eccentric academic. In an emergency on the dark stretches of the Hume Highway they face death together and find a human connection.

The Train at 5pm is a cinematic drama that tells the tale of a young man named Thomas who is nervous about soon becoming a father. When his mother asks him to help move boxes from his childhood home, he finds solace in reliving and interacting with his fondest memories. These nostalgic visions not only act as a reminder to Thomas about how precious time is, but they deeply confront him about the relationship he shared with his own father. Through this Thomas learns the values and efforts it takes to be a strong father for his soon to be born son.

"Pretend I existed" is a memoir about the filmmaker's relationship with his mother when she had her cancer treatment in Japan.

Through a box of photographs, a hauntingly intimate portrait emerges of friendship, grief, and the raw, creative soul of Darlinghurst in the 1980s.

A reclusive artist, Paul Caruso, lives in isolation, known only for his brilliant work. When a wealthy woman commissions a portrait, their brief, uneasy encounter stirs something deep within him. As he continues painting beyond the commission, the process begins to unravel a memory he's tried to forget. That memory gradually takes control, turning into a confession. His response will change his life forever.

Curtis Levy is a man on a musical mission - running for the Australian senate on a single ticket to make the folksong "Waltzing Matilda" the new national anthem when Australia becomes a republic. Join Curtis and his long-suffering campaign manager Jo Smith over the course of their chaotic, under-funded campaign as they strive to unite Australians in one voice through this rousing, popular song.

Yinarr is a glimpse into the discovery and exploration of Gamilaroi woman Amelia Jean OLeary's journey with identity. "Yinarr" means "Aboriginal Woman" in Gamillaray langauge. With music, editing, filming and dance by O'Leary, she shares a raw physical depiction of the internal vortex of identity, sisterhood and culture. In this iteration of Yinarr, O'Leary reflects on how sisterhood and the Blak Matriarchy have strengthened her as Yinarr.

This is a rich and powerful story of a man whose design created meaning for a people once invisible to mainland Australia, the people of the Torres Strait.

An erratic, unstable and absurd producer becomes self-aware that he's in a film. Trying to run away from the camera and audience, his life spirals out of control, escaping by any means necessary.

If You Can’t Larp, You’ll Cry - is an experimental video performance work featuring Li Yi Fan, Harrison Hall and Mat Spisbah. The work scrutinizes the shift in digital media production brought about by the subscription economy and the implications of not owning but merely accessing software. It explores how these tools have changed the way we communicate, and created new desires for understanding and connection. Through the work, the group speculates that services and hacks to use video technology could construct a new politics of life by projecting a totality yet to come.

Influencers Emelia and Brook go in search of a grave that has mysteriously gone viral. Capturing everything on their phone, as the horrors unfold.

An action film originally set to be directed by Rodin Rastani - Production was ultimately cancelled due to lack of interest.

A group of incarcerated women sign up to learn an instrument and write their own songs, as part of a unique music program in an Australian prison. The process opens deep scars around trauma and addiction, but can they prove that music has the universal power to heal, even in the complex world of prison?

Nick Meyers dances across the USA.

A journey to one of the most controversial places on the planet the NSA, CIA secret base, Pine Gap.

An exploration of what it's like to be young, sexual and disabled in Australia, with three young Australians with disabilities opening up about their intimate lives.

When her Naivety takes over, Dove runs away from home and is challenged by the people she meets on her journey.

A man loses everything when his addictions take over his life, leading him to a point where he must make a decision that will change his life forever.