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Travelogue of journey around Europe

A short film about trying.

How 2 Go To School WIth The Hooley Dooleys

The Hooley Dooleys At The Farm

‘Virtual Reality’ is a short VR 360 degree film that aims to expose the deceitful nature of social media.

Monica's House

An experimental exploration into the mundane and domestic moments of aloneness that made up human experience of the 2021 Australian pandemic lockdowns.

Is there a secret formula to happiness? We all struggle sometimes, but what does it mean when we struggle? We all experience strong emotions, but what should we do about them? We all want to be happy - but what is happiness and why is it so elusive? Positive psycho-therapist Marie McLeod takes on a group of volunteers with mental health issues and offers them interventions grounded in positive psychology, neuroscience and wellbeing science.

The Hooley Dooleys: Keep on Dancing

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

Dance drama about a group of women who must battle with demons in order to be able to ascend Mount Everest.

Nina is a caring, loving, but exhausted mum & wife who has tried to be everything that everyone needs. Responding to the coming out of her transgender teenager, Nina battles with the choices that she and her family have to make and how these choices will affect her child! …. but timing is everything!

Film maker Carl Tomich wanted to see what it was like to step into the shoes of a street performer, only living of the money he made from playing on the streets of Berlin for a year.

Dan Price, a talented, affluent and attractive young male at the peak of his career, finds himself standing over the railing on the Sydney harbour bridge. This short documentary explores the struggles of mental health and demonstrates that every story is different, but more importantly, every story matters - This is Dan's story.

39 songs voted by the public to celebrate The Wiggles' 30th Anniversary

One woman will not be able to renew a subscription to an essential service. Her friend is ready to do anything to help her.

A Super 8 animation made in Melbourne, Australia in 1969; Michael Lee's first film, featuring some popular songs of its time.

A classic superhero story about love, redemption and Christ.

Isolated and maligned by her peers, a woodworker crafts a more assured self-image. Singular in focus and with a restrained, refined aesthetic, Craftsman is an engrossing exploration of cultural identity, agency and empowerment.

Presented online for the first time after premiering at Carriageworks, Sydney as part of NO SHOW in March 2021, Australian artist Jodie Whalen’s "A New and Different Sun" is a luminous, hyper-emotional vision of horizonless clouds made pink and violet by the light of dusk that suggests a surrender to love and nature.

Made with self-turned personal archives, Super 8, 16mm, and video, performance capture, photographs found on glass plates. Digital editing. A film poem, to try to express a single memory through the palimpsest made of the multitude of images collected over the years.

In the wake of 5 other High Schoolers disappearing from their hometown, Harris, Will and Norman must work together to find their friend and bring him back home.

Traditional music of the Trobriand Islands is played on a variety of flutes, from simple curving stems to panpipes. Songs (wosi) are also an important part of Trobriand music, and although everyone may compose and sing, people with special talents are encouraged to develop their skills. A range of songs are filmed and translated here: gardening and sailing songs, kula trading songs, songs of love and enticement, of grief and mourning. The film also reveals glimpses of everyday and ritual life: villages, gardens (and their magic), exchange, harvest dances, children in the rain.

How do you tame the falling rain? This film is about giving meaning to the intangible idea, we all love to call ‘creativity’.

The internal experience of a young man with ASD as he navigates a conversation.

A lonely mother reunites with her daughter when she returns home to celebrate Chinese New Year

Hilltop Hoods Live brings you incredible live music and behind the scenes footage as the hip hop pioneers perform at triple j's One Night Stand in Lucindale, South Australia.

An animated film using simplified and abstract forms, symbolising nuclear warfare.

By Traum a Dream (2002) the unintelligent memories have become distinctly more sinister. Samples of found footage suggesting memory and repression vie chaotically for attention with Dirk’s voice reciting repeated words and phrases, punctuated by splutters and coughs, as though attempting to wrest some meaning. This meaning comes at last with the final sentence dragged out phrase by phrase in the third person: “he began to remember what he didn’t want to remember, what had been taken from when before he knew a secret of before he knew himself”. Steven Ball

Everything is like a brinkmanship towards impending doom or a funny story – a frank look at the Brisbane underground.

Two happy, gentle robots take some time out to visit a theme park and take in the sights.

Eyes On You challenges the traditional Aussie male stereotype and explores the growing conflict in young men regarding masculinity, identity and sexuality.

A short experimental animation that collapses boundaries between visual and performing art. Employing a body language that sits between choreography and pedestrian movement, we question if the dancer is drawing or if the drawing is dancing.

In April 2043, astrobiologist Xue Noon finds herself stranded in the GAIA International Antarctic Station. As the polar night closes in, she connects herself to the Ai-system. She scavenges digital memories and archives of the time she spent at King George Island with her father back in 2015.

The host with the most Buzz introduces two of his greatest chefs, Mr. Antonio and Mr. Jones for his 24th annual cooking show.

A groundbreaking work dispelling myths about homosexuality and featuring candid testimony from homosexual men and women as well as their parents.

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

For almost a century the town of Grafton, NSW, has celebrated the magnificence of its jacaranda trees with an inspired festival.In the 1880s a German immigrant planted imported Jacaranda tree seeds along the avenues of Grafton in northern NSW. In 1935 the tree-lined avenues were of such splendour that the council of the day decided to hold a festival to celebrate the blossoming of the trees and the arrival of spring. This program shows how this festival has become an annual event that includes the crowing of The Jacaranda Queen.

When she was 9, Zainab’s parents made the heartbreaking decision to leave their home in northern Afghanistan. They set out on a journey across the globe, putting the fate of their family in the hands of strangers. Across borders, behind bars and onto a smuggler’s boat – the family chased freedom. ‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’ tells Zainab’s story, and the story of many others who have trodden the same path. Jessie Taylor and Ali Reza Sadiqi travelled across Indonesia and met with 250 asylum seekers in jails, detention centres and hostels. Through candid interviews, hidden camera footage and in the words of asylum seekers themselves, the story of the ‘refugee’ is told. What pushes people to leave home? What do they leave behind? What do they fear? Why did they choose this path? And what does it take to turn someone into a ‘boat person’? Meet the human faces behind the most controversial issue of our time.

Living memories is a community documentary project: the result of a unique collaboration between a group of older women from Melbourne's Jewish community and twelve Media students from RMIT University. Over a six-month period in 2008 nine women told stories from their lives to the students, who in turn fashioned these tales into video documentary portraits. These are stories of survival of the Holocaust, of loss and strengh; of great love, marriages, friends and children, travels and adventures; memories fond, sad and funny. Living memories also bring to life the history of the National Council of Jewish Women in Australia (Victoria), in the video oral history'Something wrth doig'. Anecdotes weave together to paint a picture of a community.

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.

In 1985 the Federal Government announced plans to move major naval facilities to Jervis Bay, 200 kilometres south of Sydney. Would the government’s plan to build the largest naval base on the East coast of Australia become reality or alternatively, as suggested by George Brown, a National Park jointly run with the Aboriginal people, for the benefit of all?

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.

To cope with the loss of her sister, Avanya impersonates her in an effort to keep her spirit alive, becoming lost in the reality of who she truly is.

Dancer Jozsef Trefeli, named after his grandfather, whom he did not have the chance to meet, embarks on a deeply personal journey. His father, a Hungarian immigrant, fled to Australia in 1956 after the Hungarian Revolution. Attracted by the echoes of his heritage, Jozef strives to reconnect with the language and culture of his ancestors. Inspired by his father's voice and his cherished memories, he travels to the land of his ancestors, discovering a legacy intertwined with history and memory.

Mike Wilde is a young doctor devastated by the death of his wife. Disturbed by recurrent nightmares he seeks help from a psychiatrist, and is forced to confront his inner demons with shocking results.

Coming to terms with a century-old intergenerational grief, a descendant of an Aboriginal WWI soldier makes the trip to France to bring his ancestor's spirit home to his family and land.

Israelis in Berlin are among the world's fastest growing Jewish populations, drawn by the city's arts scene and culture of free thinking. But how is life for them in the country that staged the Holocaust?

In this documentary, Bengali hip hop artists share their stories of growing up in a struggling nation, using music to express their experiences with poverty, corruption, and the fight for women’s empowerment. Through raw lyrics, they address the harsh realities of their upbringing, challenging societal norms and inspiring change.

A Buddhist temple prepares for the Vu Lan festival. Wearing a white rose on his chest, a young monk cooks a meal of offering as dreams of a rainy day wash over him.

Roy is a tram conductor, a "Connie". This is his first day on the job.

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...

A funny movie about a man getting lost in a forest after taking a squat!

Three Horsemen: 1978/1982 An old Aboriginal stockman, his nephew, and his 13-year-old grandnephew on Cape York peninsula, northern Queensland, try to get an old cattle station going again in their traditional clan country. 54 minutes. Presents the Pootchemunka family and life at the TiTree settlement in Northern Queensland Australia.

Australian action movie parody.

The only thing Gab loves more than a hot chip is a whole basket full of crispy, steamy, salty hot chips. But Gab is not the only one. On the perilous road to hot chip heaven, our hero must face a ravenous, grey-feathered foe. The stage is set for a brutal battle of child against beast. When the chips are down, the chips get hot.

In a dark room. A flickering light. Your fingerprints marry to your hands. You look out a window. Mind spinning on the floorboards. A fire place hotter than a 1000 watt light bulb warms you. For weeks you wait for the sun to appear and it does. It always does.

A man finds his paradise is literally lost.

A fantastical animated world assembled out of plastic bits found on the side of the road in Austin, Texas. Act I: Magnetic Attraction Act II: Sneaker Toss Act III: Arcade Chicken

The Landau String Quartet come together to rehearse. Together they make wonderful music and yet each has traveled a very different path to become a musician. This dramatised documentary reveals each musician's intimate story centred around the long journey they have traveled with their instrument. Leon, the first-born son of Polish Jewish migrants to Australia is destined to become a great violinist, but his life moves in unexpected directions under the influence of his abusive teacher. Julia loses her innocence and discovers her own deep sensuality through her experience with music, and a handsome conductor. Richard plays the violin to escape his stifling suburban family. He encounters the dark and fearful world of his own psyche on his travels to the city to play.. Christie, a young cellist, throws off the shackles of her disciplined musician's life and escapes on an adventure with a handsome stranger, a journey that ultimately brings her face to face with herself.