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Growing Up Nyima is a documentary film that follows Nyima Tucker, a young woman of Ngarluma, Banjima, and Yamatji heritage, as she moves between the worlds of city and country. Born in the Pilbara and raised in Karratha before relocating to Perth at sixteen, Nyima’s journey captures the tension between modern life and ancestral connection. Across the 1,500 km that separate these landscapes, she grapples with questions of identity, belonging, and the meaning of home.

After an inspiring dream, a young man becomes obsessed with a brilliant idea. He dedicates his life to the idea, a decision that could prove costly in the future.

Spanning more than four decades, this documentary explores the innovation, culture and excellence that have defined the Australian Institute of Sport through candid interviews with athletes, coaches, scientists, and leaders. This film provides an authentic perspective on high performance and the people behind Australia's sporting success.

October 19, 2003. A violent storm and a fateful visit to the beach fracture the remote Australian country town of One Season. Four years later, as local teenagers begin to disappear, unease settles in the community. At its centre, a reclusive man is forced out of his stagnant life. Facing the demolition of his illegal home and stalked by a supernatural entity, he is drawn into a confrontation that will expose a past he has spent years trying to bury.

Liv and Eva, two sisters, are spending a quiet time at home. Everything seems normal… until Eva’s phone suddenly turns off. From that moment, something strange and unexplainable begins to happen. When Liv realizes that Eva has disappeared, she searches the entire house, but there is no sign of her. Only three mysterious knocks on the door break the silence. Who is on the other side? And most importantly… is Eva truly gone, or has she been trapped inside her phone?

A woman who recounts the early years of her life with her gay brother.

'Honey get your life together, pull your dress out of your gusset, stop stealing other girls' hair and get home to your woman who's steaming in a hot tub waiting for you.'

A woman speaks her unrepresented resistance to history.

An intimate, autobiographical story of a transformative pair of pants and a childhood refusal to conform to societal expectations of gender.

Following a shark attack, Marcia comes back to life with something wild inside her, testing her doting fiancee Frank as they take to the road in his mustang. Based on the true story of Sydney Harbour’s last fatal shark attack in 1963.

Two amateur thieves dressed in animal masks rob the apartment of a famous sailor to secure his chest.

While searching the last known location of a fugitive, two detectives are forced into a dangerous predicament.

Niño, a sci-fi thief, utilises his tech to transport himself into video games, to steal in game currency and bring them back to the real world

Using the vast and untapped heritage of 8mm home movies, Homemade History is a private record of Australia. The series celebrates amateur filmmakers and their remarkable library of memories. Colourful, intimate and occasionally out of focus, each 5 minute episode tells a small story that fills a gap in our formal history.

The journey of the last man on Earth.

Two Homelands is both a commemoration of war and a celebration of community. 2024 marked 50 years since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Six elderly Australian Greek Cypriots – aged 70 to 102 – reflect on their war-torn island, life in Australia and their desire to see unification with their Turkish Cypriot compatriots. Filmed in Greek, the documentary offers a powerful perspective on migration, displacement, identity, resilience and cultural legacy.

In 2004, Peta Searle’s playing career was cut short by a career-ending injury. Coaching was never part of the plan, until her club Darebin – a struggling club in crisis – begged her to take the reins. What followed was nothing short of revolutionary.

Over the course of one tumultuous evening, blue-collar worker, Noah, and the daughter of his boss, Bella, struggle to reconcile their class differences and salvage their once blossoming relationship.

August gives her insight on why she chose to transition and what she hopes for the future.

two friends plan an elaborate heist to get something of extreme value... or so they would like to believe

Forced to look after a mysterious sapling, the Protagonist has no choice but to face the reality of the space they're confined within, and navigate the memories, discoveries and new found sense of purpose that the sapling brings.

Much to the devastation of his parents, a baby is born with a lung tumour. This is his moving tale of survival.

An aspiring filmmaker and his procrasinated and precise journey of creating a movie for a film competition.

A study of the desert plain that is not left out of foliage or geological structures, inviting us to compare it with the plain of the sea and the horizon of the previous film. Near Coober Pedy is divided into three parts: "Heat Waves": camera fades combined with the heat flickers of the horizon; "Horizon Play": compositions of the horizon line within the frame; "Fields of Vision": a view from a moving vehicle exploring the tendencies of the flat landscape, revolving around a point on which the eye is fixed. The camera systematically scans the plain, which gets closer and closer, disappearing into the horizon. (Arthur Cantrill & Corinne Cantrill)

An ancient dragon dies and sinks into the depths of the ocean, bringing life to the barren sea floor.

A man jogs around an oval, a drinking bird swings back and forth. Two boys wrestle in a suburban living room. Peeling stickers, wood vinyl, beige carpet. An injured wrist is bandaged while a toy train loops in circles. A girl's name, Anna, is carved into a tree. The knife is flicked open and closed, catching a glint of light. A runner can’t arrive when he runs in a circle.

Imperial Rome, between the first and second century AD. A young nobleman suddenly dies and before too long his mother follows him to the grave. Summer of 2000, a chance discovery of a tomb in the suburbs of Rome, presents the scientific establishment with an extraordinary opportunity and a unique set of clues. Inside the tomb are two marble coffins and in each coffin preserved bodies and some very special artifacts. This film is a scientific detective story to uncover just who these two people were, their status and lifestyle and, most importantly, why they were preserved at a time when most citizens were cremated.

This series explores how Australia has shaped the Australian house - and in turn, how the Australian house has shaped the lives and cultures of Australians. Throughout the series, John Doyle will chart the journey of the Australian house so far, through observations and conversations with a range of experts, enthusiasts and home owners around the country.

A struggling poet. A recovering addict. A resentful matriarch. A fractured family, held together by a yearly ritual. However, this year there’s an unexpected visitor.

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

Trees from the backyard of NANO LAB, Melbourne, Australia.

A prison escapee journeys to visit a loved one whilst battling with inner demons and two unrelenting detectives.

An alienated and angry police officer, desperate for money receives a lead on an out of town heroin dealer. He then takes it upon himself to get what he wants.

In a continuous 64,000-mile voyage lasting fifteen months, the commerce-raider SMS Wolf caused havoc across three oceans, launched Germany’s only direct attacks on Australia and New Zealand in the Great War.To all appearances an ordinary freighter, the Wolf carried an arsenal of seven guns and four torpedo tubes concealed behind drop-down deck walls, and 465 mines which were dropped overboard from a door hidden in her stern. Surviving on fuel and food from plundered ships, the Wolf became a world in miniature, crew and prisoners crowded together in an improbable survival story.

Hundreds of years before colonies were established on the Australian continent, people from across Indonesia had deep ties with First Nations people. Wangany Mala follows the journey of young Muslim woman Nirmala as she works on the construction of a traditional pinisi boat and learns to sail, all while navigating her faith and family expectations.

A worker and an ambient artist, stuck in loops of work, creation and isolation, have two strained social encounters in a city of encroaching darkness.

A girl suddenly wakes up on a late-night show with no idea what is going on.

Regulars invites you into the eclectic, unique and personal stories of the characters who frequent the local pub, whilst exploring how a place can become a hub of connection, community and comfort.

‘Save Your Legs!’ is the mystical story of a bold sporting adventure. How does a team of cowboy Aussie cricketers take on a billion cricket-mad Indians on their own turf? This engaging tale shows how the childhood dreams of the humble Abbotsford Anglers Cricket Club meet the harsh realities of the Sub Continent

One of Sydney's last film projectionists, Alan Butterfield, reminisces about the past and contemplates the present. Alan has been an SFF projectionist since 1987.

After evading and attempting to conceal her separation from a long-term partner for two weeks, a young woman finally visits her Grandma who is grappling with age.

Eager to break the cycle of suffering, Amy, a transgender dungeons and dragons master fights to develop safe spaces for young people in regional Australia. Through role play and character design, she creates the conditions for young people to explore identity, whilst chasing self-acceptance of her own.

A self funded, no budget, abstract animation.

A Science Fiction adventure set in two different time-periods. An impending visit by extra-terrestrials is discovered by Government Agents. Ten years later we discover the outcome of the extra-terrestrial visit.

A famous film director and his crew arrive in town for two weeks of location filming. Stamford is overjoyed to find the leading lady, Francis "Frankie" Lane, is an old flame of his from his stringer days in Cambodia. When the leading man is killed in an apparent stunt-gone-wrong, Stamford's suspicion is aroused. Unfortunately, no-one else suspects murder but him. As he quietly delves into the lives of the film unit, his investigation begins to point firmly in the direction of Frankie and Stamford finds that the 'good old days' are best left in the past.

Maria, and Pauline is the reevaluation of name identity and the person it is - or used to be, to Maria Pauline.

DOG WHISTLE is a mockumentary that follows the rise and eventual fall of an ambitious student documentary project. Compelled by rumours that a small right-wing political club is planning a racially motivated political demonstration on campus, a student documentary crew make a plan to uncover the insidious inner-workings of the Conservative Australian Men’s Party (C.A.M.P). However, while student director, Matt, sets out with a clear directorial vision, when he arrives to meet the club members for the first time and realises that he not only recognises the club’scharismatic President Jack, but knows him from a brief but heated encounter a few years prior, he suddenly becomes entangled in web of lies and the film suffers.

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.”

Set in small-town Australia, this is a story of murder, revenge, power and denial that charts an individual's struggle for justice and respite from mental torment that has plagued him since he was a little boy.

In the summer 1948, a well-dressed man was discovered dead on the beach at Somerton Park. No injuries, no identification, and every label removed from his clothing. There was no one missing who fit his description. A dead man with no name.

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.

An aspiring trumpet player dreams to seek his way.

Cartman and his landlord have a nice Burger Baby dinner together when it is revealed that Cartman is potentially scamming his boss and friend of the landlord. While walking home Cartman begins to feel unease as though someone is watching him. Is it is boss out to get him, is it a hitman hired by the landlord, or is it all in his head?

In the red-light area of Varanasi, India, an NGO-run education centre provides vulnerable local children with art therapy.

Dreamin, dreamin, dreamin, baby, I'm dreamin

Angelo is about to call someone. Carmela answers.

WADJEMUP or ROTTNEST ISLAND is sacred to Aboriginal people. Thousands of Aboriginal men were imprisoned on this island from 1838 - 1931. Now hear from the descendants……

Melbourne to Jindabyne: Phil teams up with the teetotalling Robin Box from Safari Tanks to form the original odd couple as they take on the Victorian High Country from Melbourne to Jindabyne Jindabyne to Coffs Harbour The Motorbikin Team enlists some local knowledge from the ADV rider website to blast the ultimate offroad destinations between Jindabyne and Coffs Harbour including The Gardens of Stone, The Bridle Trail and much more. Coffs Harbour to the Sunny Coast The Motorbikin Gang get drowned and dewatered in this water soaked run from Coffs to QLD. The Farmer from Banana Nothing goes to plan on this ride north from the Sunny Coast to the Farmer from Banana. Survival with Big Cox Our Hardened survival expert , Big Cox will teach you everything you need to survive in an extreme survival situation Hardcore Coast to Coast Posties A no holds barred race across Oz on Honda CT 110s

A late night intrusion leads to a life and death struggle'