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WILLIGAN'S FITZROY takes us to the small Aboriginal community of Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia. Through the eyes of the local Aboriginal Employment Coordinator, Joe Ross, we take an informal journey into the world of the Bunaba tribe, their lives, their culture and the modern infrastructures they are developing to make their community both financially and culturally viable. One thing that has long united the Bunuba people is the fight to stop their beloved Fitzroy River from becoming a massive dam project. We gain an inkling into the enormous spiritual and economic losses at stake for this remote Kimberley town.

Following an unnamed protagonist’s footsteps into the depths of their own mind – traversing trauma, addiction, and the darkest corners of their psyche to attempt to come to grips with themselves.

A family drama short about a transgender man's relationship with his grandfather as he succumbs to dementia.

After his freezer breaks, a grieving man attempts to preserve his mother's thawing Lasagna by seeking help from his bizarre neighbours.

A short film that explores the first blush of teenage infatuation. It follows two girls as they disappear for the day and retreat to the beach.

A dream-like day in the life of a young woman as she meditates on her upbringing and the unknown possibilities of her future.

The murder of South African white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche has reignited divisions between white and black in a reminder of the country’s bitter struggle over apartheid. Zoé de Bussierre reports from Terreblanche's home town of Ventersdorp in the aftermath of the killing, as two black men appear in court charged with his murder. She sees first-hand the hatred between the two communities, which frequently threatens to turn violent. See this very different side to South Africa from that portrayed at the recent World Cup.

Drag queen Bertha Woodhouse takes a hen's gig in the middle of nowhere. The moment she arrives, things feel off – the party has only four guests, and their behaviour is unsettling. During a game of 'affirmations,' she receives an anonymous note: “I don't know who these people are. HELP."

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

A brutal clash between dominance and submission as Jessie makes a journey to her past.

They say it's your birthday ... and there's no one better than the Beat Bugs to serenade you with a festive Beatles tune!

An intensely personal story tracing the last day of the filmmaker’s brother and the impossible fight against the gridlocked city to save him.

A story dealing with civilization's effect and man's cruelty on the Australian outback.

“Tourists, postcards, different views of the same icon. The Bridge is a piece of geometry so I figured the film had to be geometric, too. The matte box allowed me to create postcards within postcards within postcards. It was all done in-camera…very demanding, it took all winter! The matting had to be carefully calculated and each image rewound by hand, then rephotographed, in the right position and at the right exposure. I surrounded the Bridge with a mass of water…vertically and horizontally. The water is by turns soft and then metallic as it reflects in the low winter sun. The movement, the steel and the water create an interplay as harbour sounds, wind chimes, boats…tinkle.” (Paul Winkler)

Long-haired, loud, and a real long way from home. The hip thrusting glam metal band with an image problem has come to a part of the world that suffers the same. The Middle East. Their mission: make music videos, and get out alive. The band are furious though when they learn that management has given the job of directing their videos to a relatively inexperienced Jordanian film maker by the name of Anas. Dealing with the band's egos, tantrums and paranoia, Anas struggles to help the band create the right image for their new songs. It all makes for a volatile but hilarious mix. The band soon falls apart though and Anas faces even greater pressure to pull the video clips off. For as he knows too well; in a world that rocks, image makes the difference.

With footage from Cairns in deepest darkest North Queensland via Fellcrag and the Gold Coast all the way to Thredbo, Jindabyne, Mt Baw Baw and Canberra in the south, A New Race captures some full on racing and off-it's-head freeride action.

Narrowly escaping a heist on Renn Cybernetics, Millie, a determined hacker, is the sole carrier of information exposing their shadowy and illegal activities. She crosses paths with David, a naive cop, forcing him to reckon with the broken and corrupt system he claims to love.

Today is your birthday, and I’m on a desert island

Made at the invitation of the United Nations, this film illustrates the principles and operations of UNESCO with particular reference to Australia’s participation in the plan for the extension of education to promote better understanding between member nations.

A lone mechanic’s quiet night in the shed spirals into terror as an unknown yet familiar force stalks him through the desolate rural roads on his way home.

A man struggles with indecision.

Family man Ethan Miller is on his way home from work. The drive ahead of him is long, but after getting a distressing phone call from his wife, he realises that's the least of his problems...

Looks at the world of Australian Art Brut artists, a term coined by french expressionist Jean Dubuffet in 1945 that encapsulate naive art, folk art and the creative output of the supposedly mentally insan

A documentary about death (in one way or another)

Frankie, an eight year old girl with a very active imagination, finds out for the first time that everyone dies in real life. Presented at the Aussie Kiwi Film Festival 2025 in Prague.

Rod, Eshaan, and Albert set out to find the meaning of what a film is.

While driving home from a friend's house on a deserted backwater road, Kyle encounters a mysterious hitchhiker in the dead of night and soon discovers that she is not what she seems

An experimental narrative film - shots of inner-city landscapes, followed by a brief story, of a man who wakes up, gets dressed, goes outside and ...

Robert and Grant tell the story of the go-betweens with an acoustic set on a sunday afternoon in Brisbane

Set on the isolated coast of Robe, South Australia, “The Long Walk” pays homage to the 16,000 Chinese miners who landed there in the 1850s and walked 500 kms across an alien landscape to the goldfields, in search of a better life. Devised as a live performance and film-making event, a mutually responsive collage of movement, music, and arresting visuals tells their story of grit, tenacity, and perseverance through harsh social and environmental conditions. The film’s experimental design explores the tensions between liveness, mediatization, and the ability of technology to reveal novel performance experiences.

The end of talking. The age of doing. A stirring testament to 21st century conservationism and people power in action, Reefshot is more than just a call to arms to save the Great Barrier Reef. It is the story of some of the Reef’s most loyal citizens racing against time to turn the tide on the danger facing the world’s largest living organism. Led by Andy Ridley the creator of Earth Hour, a small group of scientists, volunteers and Indigenous rangers set out to help protect and conserve the Reef by uploading data to one of the largest natural census undertaken in human history. Cutting edge technology meets 60,000 years of first-peoples know-how as the flotilla trade skills and intelligence in this herculean effort for conservation. The clock is ticking. The world is watching. But rather than getting that sinking feeling about the Reef and its fate, seeing this armada in action will inspire and empower all of us to take part in their plight.

Matri Linear B takes the expressive powers of the Earth’s surface as “speaking landscapes” as its starting point, as agencies of a statement, while exploring how we can learn to see them. Central for the project’s second part, Surfacing Earth, are the cosmologies and land rights politics of indigenous Australians in Yuendumu and Tijikala in the Northern Territories. They appear as a horizon and boundary in a transmitted cosmology that is over 40,000 years old. They require a way of thinking about the relativity of space, which, according to astrophysicist Arturo Escobar, “is not to be thought about with universal concepts, but with several universes at the same time that can be interconnected…”

A lone driver finds himself unhinged as he travels along an endless road, paved with the anguish of his past.

Cremation rites are the most elaborate rites of passage performed by Balinese householders. Poor families may wait years before accumulating enough resources to cremate their dead, who are buried in the meantime. In 1978 many more cremations than usual were carried out because of the great purification cermony, Eka Dasa Rudra, held at Bali's main temple, Besakih, in 1979. Religious officials recommended that all Balinese cleanse the island by cremating their dead, as part of the preparations for the great Besakih ceremony. Villagers of limited means pooled their resources to perform group cremations which greatly reduced the cost for each family. This film is about a group of villagers in Central Bali who cooperated to carry out a group cremation.

On the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, victims and perpetrators are coming together in traditionally based reconciliation ceremonies after a decade long civil war left the community bitterly divided. In the largest reconciliation ceremony yet to take, BBA follows fighters who have killed each others families as they come together to break bows and arrows in a traditional gesture of peace. On a more personal journey Francis Boisivere retrieves the bones of a chief he killed, ceremonially returning them to the bereaved wife, Immaculate Atorevi . He seeks forgiveness , she a release from the hatred she harbours.

A comedic look into the life and struggles of an artist during the COVID pandemic. This film was made possible by a generous grant from Regional Arts Victoria.

A profile of one of the most commercially successful white blues bands of the 1960s. Fronted by the man-mountain that was Bob Hite, they enjoyed international success with hits such as 'On the Road Again' and 'Going Up the Country'. The story of their rise to fame is told here by the surviving band members and management.

In the wake of World War Two Ukrainian Olesya, living in a migrant camp in the Australian bush with her husband, struggles to come to terms with her pregnancy as she relives the trauma of losing her first child.

Anoka feels deep emptiness in the world around her, until one day her heart starts glowing. She finds filling her heart can mean breaking it, when the one you love is possessed by something else.

May and Beau head off on a slow, tooled-up, distracted lap of the block - which happens to be a perfect mile.

Music Video by Emily Dynes for Garrett Kato.

The future is communal. Populations are increaing. Cities are densifying. The idea of owning our own property seems like a faraway ideal; nowhere near the 22 year-old reality of Tom and Lou. What does the future of living look like?

A profile of the Australian poet Les Murray. Shot on location in Northern New South Wales. Featuring dramatisations of his poems and evocative footage of the most unusual landscape. He talks illuminatingly about his life and work.

After three decades in motor racing, no other Australian driver commands such broad public appeal as Peter Brock. Peter is an Australian motor sports phenomenon. Widely regarded as one of the most gifted drivers of his generation and an icon in Australian sports, he resisted going overseas to create a spectacularly successful careen in the one country he wished to call home. Peter's record-breaking achievements at Australia's premier race, the Bathurst 1000, are unlikely to be surpassed. Nine wins, seven poles and 12 podiums. Peter truly is "King Of The Mountain". Touring car racing has always been his passion, the ultimate challenge. Taking a car originally intended for road use and pushing to the absolute limit in competition. On bitumen or dirt, Brock has proved a master of the art and it's all detailed in this documentary.

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.

Pilot for proposed Ned Kelly film. An avant-garde re-creation of the murder of the three police officers at Stringybark Creek.

Wildlife filmmaker Dave Riggs has spent eleven years trying to find out who this super predator capable of eating a Great White is. Dave’s obsession to find the killer leads him to an oceanic battle zone that's remained hidden until now. Called the kill zone, orcas, colossal squids, and Great White Sharks face off in an underwater battle where only the fiercest creatures of the marine world survive.

A music video exploring Sigmund Freud’s “Id, Ego and Superego” theory: the challenge between the complexities and depths of the human mind and emotional experience at its nakedness, and the external pressures and constructs the world perpetuates and how that reflects within us beings.

A man resorts to partying whilst stuck in an apartment.

To prepare for Race Across America 2022, journalist turned ultra endurance cyclist, Rupert Guinness sets off on his final training camp with friend and crew chief Nathan Roderick Carter.

Life in Australia: Hobart shows scenes illustrating daily life, industry, recreation and the tourist features of Hobart, Tasmania.

What is a bear? Through his art, photography and films, Albert Koomen explores what it personally means to him to be part of the big, wide, furry bear community.

A look at the positive lives led by young women in a remote Indigenous community, and how the younger generation has embraced a cultural shift while still proudly upholding their traditional culture.

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.

A history of Henry Lawson and the Australian workers press.

Hi-5: Magical Treasures

Originally filmed as an archival record of a Warlpiri (Walbiri) ceremony in 1967 by Roger Sandall, the film footage was re-worked 10 years later by anthropologist Nicolas Peterson and filmmaker, Kim McKenzie, to make this short version for public viewing. Involving large numbers of both men and women, Ngatjakula is one of the most spectacular ceremonies of central Australia, employing fire, and several days of singing and dance, to resolve conflicts and re-affirm social order among the Warlpiri (Walbiri) people. One of Sandall’s many films about ceremonial life, including several of Warlpiri rituals, the film was part of the program of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies to record traditional aspects of Aboriginal life and culture. McKenzie’s collaboration with Peterson (who had been present at the time of the original filming) to edit this public version, is a meticulous representation of the fire ceremony, much of which took place at night.

On 7 July 1978, the Solomon Islands regained its independence from Britain. This documentary, filmed by cinematographers John Hosking and Academy Award winner Dean Semler, looks at the people of these islands and their views on independence, and records aspects of their way of life, including their songs and dances. It also describes some of the problems facing the new nation and what is being done to combat them.