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Three stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick, an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American solider who drowned in quicksand. Ruby and her family live in a house near long-abandoned train tracks, which still carry ghostly apparitions. A landlord has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that's been dead for years
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After a heart transplant a young woman finds herself connecting with a homeless man through classical music. Throughout a series of dramatic performances and emotional events the two worlds begin to merge as one.
Young police officer Shane Cooper's first day on duty, after relocating to the small town of Red Hill, rapidly turns into a nightmare. News of a prison break, involving convicted murderer Jimmy Conway, sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic and leads to a terrifying and bloody confrontation.
Reporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan, and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at "Turtle Beach" where the refugees try to secretly land, in the hope that one day her own children will arrive. Accompanying Minou one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians, which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.
When a conman discovers his son is abducted, he is forced to drive the streets of Sydney completing an escalating series of trials to appease the kidnapper, and atone for his career of deception.
After her mother's sudden death, ten-year-old Moja becomes the unexpected grown-up of her fragmented family, trying to bring her troubled older sister Vesna and distant father together.
A blind woman has a seizure in her own house one evening. Her doctor, a neighbor called John arrives soon. She is unconscious. What happens next?
From the mind of Daniel Johns, "What If The Future Never Happened?" is a genre-bending, semi-autobiographical featurette that puts reality and fantasy in a hyper-speed spin cycle.
Liam, a young man, who dreams of becoming a wildlife photographer is unlucky in life due to his over controlling mothers interfering. Liam against all odds manages to get to his once in a lifetime interview late and is forced to stand up to his mother if he is ever to get away from her.
An aspiring veterinarian reconnects with a blind woman and her guide dog, atoning for past mistakes in the process.
Frank Hurley's photos of Antarctic heroes, World Wars and mysterious natives in faraway jungles grabbed the attention of all who saw them. But just how real were they? Was he a giant in photography or just a conjurer with a camera?
Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.
Mary and her mother run a post-mortem photography business in 1840's Australia. They arrive to a small farmhouse to find devastated parents grieving over the death of their daughter but as they get to work, Mary's mother is required to comfort the grieving parent, leaving Mary alone to confront her phobia.
The escapades of Ginger Meggs, local larrikin. He's trying to win the heart of Minnie Peters, but the pressures of school, his rival Eddie Coogan and bully Tiger Kelly make life tough for him. Besides, there's fishing to be done.
When an amusement park is built on the grounds of an old cemetery, the dead rise to take revenge.
After returning from several months abroad, Daniel becomes concerned for his elderly neighbour and family friend, Nelly, after she reveals to him her recent dementia diagnosis. To make matters worse, the valuable tea set Nelly inherited from Rodney, her neighbour of 40 years, has been found out by Ada, Rodney's estranged niece, and Dev, Ada's husband. The pair feels they are the rightful heirs. Panicked, Daniel prepares Nelly to deny any knowledge of the priceless crockery before Ada and Dev are scheduled to arrive that afternoon.
A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and venture to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.
An ex-convict pays for his wife's marijuana by keeping the green at a lawn-bowling club
The process of closure.
On Jonathan Frayne's radio talk show, the guilty call in to reveal their darkest sins. But when one mysterious caller confesses to murder, Jonathan is inextricably drawn into the case--and soon finds himself a pawn in the psychopath's menacing game.
With a nuclear arms race set to escalate the Cold War, Prime Minister Menzies appoints Colonel Charles Spry to take charge of the fledgling Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, ASIO. The staunchly anti-communist, fifth-generation soldier recruits new officers to fight a covert war against a cunning enemy. Their primary task is to investigate Australians spying for the Soviets and infiltrate Communist Party branches with undercover agents.
A sound recorder finds himself being recorded by someone else.
Jimeoin, in the title role, plays a man fixated on the concept of celebrity, or more accurately, how he can become one. He is passionate about being a celebrity, but unfortunately he just isn't very talented. After trying to secure roles in myriad productions he finally finds employment as an extra, and what follows is his misadventures as he becomes involved with shady business men, producers and mobsters all of whom are fixated with show business.
Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.
Jack is a charismatic larrikin who has just discovered the one thing he's really good at — go-kart racing. With the support of his mentor, Patrick, an old race car driver with a secret past, and his best mates Colin and Mandy, Jack must learn to control his recklessness if he is to defeat the best drivers in Australia, including the ruthless champion Dean, and win the National title.
After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.
Making mixtapes becomes a means of survival for a 12-year-old boy coping with warring parents and the turmoil of adolescence, in this ferociously energetic, music-driven coming-of-age drama by Australia’s Michael Spiccia.
When Chicago florist Amelia Hart travels to a small town in Australia to help plan her sister’s wedding, she finds new meaning in the town’s beautiful gardens, and love where she least expected.
A short tale of Jessica and her dog Cosmo trapped in a house during an alien invasion.
Anton has bad tools. When he is kicked out of his home for the day, he wanders the streets and runs into a friend of his ex, whom he proceeds to befriend.
Amanda creates a reality where her child is not a product of rape, but is in fact, immaculately conceived.
A nostalgic exploration of adolescence, through the escapades of two boys, Tim and Eddy.
A dance troupe trapped in their theatre by the Zombie Apocalypse discover that the threat doesnt just lie beyond the chained doors, and that there are indeed worse things than being torn apart by critics.
A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his girlfriend, and some guys from New Jersey.
Can you really get away with murder? Welcome to the world of Katrina, a 19-year-old single mum who's planning to do just that. Katrina lives in a world of petty crime, fast cars, manicures and blow-jobs. A master manipulator of men living at home with her father in suburban Golden Grove, Katrina will stop at nothing to get what she wants - even murder.
Matsu, known as Jack, arrives by train at Spencer Street Station, heart pounding, uncertain, yet hopeful.
Two people who have had disastrous love affairs meet on a tropical island resort.
Encountering a frustrating creative block, a passionate artist begins to doubt her muse, once the cornerstone of her inspiration. As she delves deeper into her work and emotions, she realises that her muse may not be the ideal catalyst she imagined.
New York restaurateur Caroline inherits a café in Lemon Myrtle Cove, Australia. While there, she starts falling for the place and its people, particularly Simon, the café’s charming local chef.
A physicist's life-long work comes to fruition when he is reluctantly partnered with a gifted young assistant. Ego divides them when they receive an unknown signal from space.
Everyone is celebrating their invitation to the Koala Brothers' homestead for Christmas when bad news arrives: Penny the penguin is stuck at the South Pole and won't be able to join them! Frank and Buster embark on their longest and most perilous journey ever to fetch Penny and to give her the best Christmas present ever!
Jim J. Jimson has just moved into a new Frankston flat amid feelings of happiness and freedom comes the sneaking feeling of dread, he’lol have to overcome paranormal forces to survive.
Plot details are still under wraps, but it will feature a grown-up version of Tick’s 7-year-old son from the original film.
A three year self-described labour of love, 2040 takes the form of a visual letter from the filmmaker to his four-year-old daughter Velvet, showing her what the year 2040 could look like “if we simply embraced the best solutions that exist today.”
Everyone's worst travel nightmare - being stuck next to an obnoxious dork on a flight where there are no spare seats.
A lovelorn young man takes his new jazz-cat persona out for a midweek test drive and meets a cautionary older double, Taint Calico, who's proof that some costumes become cages.
The story of Fred Paterson, member for Bowen in the Queensland parliament in the 1940s and the only Communist Party member ever elected to any Australian parliament.
In early-colonial Australia, a timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.
Nana’s granddaughter thinks Nana’s pretty special. She loves her Nana because she helps the old people, she’s a good painter and other people love her too. Nana’s got everyone under control.
This short film documents Australian composer Richard Meale’s homage to the young French poet, Arthur Rimbaud. Meale composed a music piece for woodwind, percussion and strings which he titled “Incredible Floridas."
Steve Irwin, AKA The Crocodile Hunter, has avoided the death-roll and saved a croc from poachers. But what he doesn't know is that the crocodile has swallowed a top secret U.S. satellite beacon, and the poachers are actually American special agents sent to retrieve it.
Ruby executes an audacious plan to finally be alone with her crush, leaving a trail of destruction in her wake.
In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, the boys and the girls react: the girls with anger at the perpetrators, the boys with jeering at the dead girl's morality. The students' parents have their own responses. Jared retreats into angry silence, disgusted that he did nothing to help the dead girl. Meanwhile, his mother wants to talk to him about her impending cancer surgery, the police want to know what he saw, and his friend Ricko wants an alibi. Jared's cracking under the pressure.
The world of a lonely deaf Parisian taxidermist is turned upside down and back to front when a dead pigeon arrives on his doorstep.
When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an old Portuguese treasure ship lies buried in the sand. Harry is an old pro at manipulating this situation to his best advantage, but never anticipates how deeply he will be affected by the relationship he develops with a young boy and his mother. A delightful tale of greed, gullibility and grandiose schemes, "Sweet Talker" is a romantic comedy for everyone in the family.
As the Ricci family confront the imminent loss of one of their own, 10-year-old Jonah aims to uncover the truth about what happened to his sister.
A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it.
Josh and Ling were expecting a boring vacation visiting each of their parents at an archaeological dig in China. But the new friends soon discover they're right in the middle of an adventure when they find a Chinese Golden Dragon.
Two Sith apprentices, Ruan and Calis, escape the Empire by fleeing the planet Coruscant in a stolen transport. They must fight for their freedom when Darth Vader sends a vicious bounty hunter, Korbain Thor, to track them down.