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From city to outback, from torrential rain to tinder dry, a journey through the unique Australian landscape.

After losing her father, Shirin gains a different perspective on loss.

Whilst their parents are off trainspotting, two siblings wake to find an elderly woman baking scones in their kitchen.

A collaborative effort between Emma Hudson (Director), Blair Palese (CEO of 350.org AU), and John Collee (Master and Commander, Happy Feet), Accelerate follows one of the world’s most internationally recognised environmentalists, Bill McKibben, on his 2018 tour of Australia, where he passionately attempts to inspire government, business and community to accelerate action on climate change.

Lest we forget what on Anzac Day? Mythology? Or history? Kate Aubusson goes on a quest asking is it just sepia-tinted anecdotes of ANZAC spirit and derring-do or the real stories of ANZACS and WW1 based on fact and evidence?

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.

A journey through the dark, chilling and frequently unbelievable tales of power-broking and deceit from inside the nation's capital. Australian political journalist and commentator Annabel Crabb goes in search of Canberra's secrets over the past century, exploring the passionate interplay of sex, secrets and subterfuge that has long been carried out in the shadows of the national stage. How have our secrets changed over the past century and what does this reveal about us as a society? This is the history that Canberra has tried to hide.

As Michael attempts suicide with gas, he looks back at his unremarkable life with despair and resentment. His suicide is put on hold for the day with the sudden arrival of Garry, who drags Michael against his will on a mountain bike adventure. On their journey, Michael must face the perils of the trail ahead while also dealing with the constant goading and derision from his reckless and competitive friend to keep riding harder and faster.

A girl who always found comfort in tomorrow.

In this experimental fashion film, a young woman enjoys a peaceful, secluded picnic before venturing into the bustling city.

A hybrid film, part-documentary, part-fiction, on the history of Greek radical music.

Lonely and struggling with getting older, Joyce eagerly anticipates a visit from her distracted granddaughter.

In Colonial Australia, three Irish convicts decide to commit murder in order to avoid the lash but when their plan to kill a guard goes horribly wrong, their only hope is to draw straws to take control of their fate.

Four millennial teens who go on a camping trip discover they have no reception. When one of their group goes missing, the surrounding bush land comes alive.

Lawrence Mooney, winner of Melbourne Fringe Best Comedy Award 2011, invites you to come along on a journey of hilarious Sub-urbanity. Lawrence of Suburbia is a metaphorical camel ride through the spiritual tundra of the suburbs, shining a comic light on where we’ve come from and where we’re headed. It asks the vital question, “What the hell is going on out there?

A young woman in her thirties feels very happy and excited – she has a partner, everything in her life is under control, so now is perfect time to have a baby. Unfortunately, that's not as easy as it sounds...

Three students at an elite high school plan to steal the school exam papers before examinations commence.

You've got to be tough to survive the AFL. These are the hart nuts that put their body on the line for the sake of their team. The players that put their heads over the ball no matter the consequence. The players who run back with the flight with no regard for the hit that always comes. These are the players we love to watch week after week. 'Only The Courageous' showcases the strength and skills of the modern AFL player in the 21st century.

A relationship is tested when two intoxicated friends struggle to find their car after a night out.

The Jealous One unfolds along two plot lines that meet in a dramatic final encounter: the first, a story of an Indigenous man weaving through bureaucratic red tape to get to a mortuary service on his ancestral land; and the second, a fight between a husband consumed by jealousy and his wife’s brother, who excludes him from community ceremonies.

Music student Tom takes a stand against the abuse of power by his teacher.

Köken Ergun spent two years among the droves of tourists, both Turkish and Australian, that gather in Gallipoli to commemorate the soldiers who died there during one of the First World War's biggest battles. 'Heroes' to some, 'martyrs' to others.

In a bid to extend his adolescence, Gordon convinces his reluctant fiancée to allow his best-friend Jez and himself to live in the house they have just bought in a bachelor pad situation for the year before they get married.

A noble socialite and her butler must concoct a plan to stop her husband's affair with a younger woman.

Footballs biggest names put together their own personal list of players who have had the greatest impact on the game and their careers.

Eager to forge his reputation in crime, Douglas Huffel manipulates a bottle shop robbery by planting his own money inside the store. Instead, the very aspects of crime he fervently avoided begin to catch up with him.

A documentary following the oldest continuous culture on the planet, the indigenous people of Australia. In this film we learn how they continue to live sustainably and care for their country, harnessing the deadliest bushfires on the planet. With climate change rapidly warming and drying the planet and destructive bush fires ever increasing around the globe we look to the ancient wisdom Indigenous Australians have held for centuries to help save wildlife, homes and lives.

The Queen's maiden visit to Australia in 1954 marked the end of one era and the dawn of another. It was post-depression, post WWII, and pre TV, and Australians came in their millions to bask in the presence of a monarch.

Tea With Madame Clos is about an extraordinary woman in her extreme old age living in a small medieval village in South West France. Couched in the framework of a train journey, the filmmaker remembers her many encounters over four years with Madame Clos.

A family attempt to connect with the murderer of their daughter after he's spent 20 years in prison for the crime.

A young hitman is put through the motions in being part of "the business" and a simple trip to reclaim a lost grimoire introduces him to a world of pain, where nothing is what it seems and where he too, has a price to pay.

Three old men travel to a strip of green bush in the desert, where a permanent spring feeds a large waterhole. They share stories of the rainbow serpent, Kulunada, which lived in the waterhole, and also the violent past of white settlement.

Two brothers embark on a surfing trip together, attempting to bury past grievances in the process. As their surfing adventure unravels, so do the delicate and fragile bonds of brotherhood.

A young sex worker drifts through life: Nina finds herself stretched between a boy short on cash, a girl she might like, and her young neighbours who wear candy bracelets.

Set 6000 years the future, Robbie charts the existential reflections of an aging robot drifting alone through space on the last of his battery life.

THREE THOUSAND is a short film by writer/director Frank Piripitsi. The film brings together two strangers. Tracy is a young woman running from her past, who is sought out by Adam, an 11-year old boy beaten and adrift. Adam is a mystery to us, as he is to Tracy. All we know, is that he needs to go 'home'. A strange tattoo on Adam's lip is their only guide. Circumstance brings them together, their destinies more profoundly connected than either had imagined.

There is no denying that the rise to prominence for Isaac Butterfield is unmatched and unrivalled. After selling out over 50 shows across Australia in 2018, and gaining over 100 million views online; Butterfield wields his sharp wit and shocking brand of humour to declare war on everything. From Vegans to Religion and everything in between, Butterfield's 'No Holds Bar' approach unleashes on everyone. Nobody is safe in his debut comedy special 'The Butterfield Effect'.

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.

An urgent and powerful documentary, shot in a detention centre where asylum seekers trying to reach Australian shores are indefinitely detained. Secretly shot on a mobile phone by Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani while detained on Manus, in Papua New Guinea, the film is a collaboration with Dutch-Iranian filmmaker Arash Kamali Sarvestani. Boochani recounts, via the testimonies of fellow inmates, the abuse and violence inflicted and the precarious state of limbo they find themselves in. Chauka, the name of the dreaded solitary confinement unit within the detention centre, was originally the name of a beautiful bird and symbol of the Manus Island. By interweaving dialogue with two Manusian men and shots of daily life on the island, the film gives a much-needed voice to Manus inhabitants, understandably distressed by the current situation. With marked restraint, the film exposes lives broken by shocking immigration policies.

Good Grief is a short stop motion animated documentary that explores the lessons we learn from dealing with grief and loss. Five real people share their true stories of losing something precious and what it has taught them about living.

Artists like Robert Smithson, Donald Judd and Peter Hutchinson borrowed liberally from science fiction film and literature in their work. This collage treats the marvellous, seemingly indestructible, objects of mid-century science fiction cinema as artworks in their own right.

Screaming Silence is a fast paced, psychological thriller which follows twelve teens through a tumultuous journey of desperation, entitlement, abuse of power and manipulation, in turn crafting a confronting social commentary on the sinister realm of the human experience.

When speed demon and record holder Josh “Wheely” Wilson learns that there might be someone in town faster than him, he sets about finding an elusive legend by the name of Burnout Barry - to challenge him to a race.

Sometimes the heart follows its own rhythm and life has to fit in around that

Two friends share a conversation during an eventful walk to an unknown location.

In the middle of the so-called Colliwobbles this was the clash supercoach Tommy Hafey - against his former student Tony Jewell - hoped would end the Magpies streak of seven losing Grand Finals.

Radical Wollongong is an action-packed account of a unique city, told by activist participants who battled 'Pig Iron Bob', defended the Communist Party against banning, were jailed for draft resistance during the Vietnam war, organised the unemployed and forced Australia's biggest company to employ women. The film also covers today's ongoing radicalism.

In Central Texas, Barbecue is more than a way to cook meat - it's a way of life, a path to salvation, and a sure-fire way to start an argument at the dinner table. This documentary covers five barbecue establishments.

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.

Nate is a guy who just wants to hang out with his friend Steve. Steve, however, is a flesh eating zombie who just wants to attack everyone close to Nate. Nate receives a parking ticket and he relies on Steve to resolve the situation.

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.

The Motorbikin' boys are back as Phil and Bill take a shot at the four and a half day record coast to coast across Oz... They gave it a go back in 2008 on KTM 950 SE's but DNFed after melting their tyres at high speed midway at The Rock. They were down but not out and this year (2010) they returned on big tanked DR 650s leaving Byron Bay (Australia's most easterly point) and heading for Steep Point WA, (Australia's most westerly point) via the Simpson Desert and The Gunbarrel. The adventure that unfolded was captured on multiple cameras, including amazing aerial footage shot by Dick and Easo who tailed them in a light plane. Featuring roo strikes in western Queensland, flooding at Birdsville, a crossing of the Simpson in a day and the bone jarring corrugations of The Gunbarrel. See the Simpson and the flooded Red Centre as you've never seen it before in this non stop adrenaline fueled transcontinental blast.

Old loves, rivalries and vendettas resurface at a high-school reunion party held out on a reclusive estate, but the evening takes a deadly turn when one of the guests begins systematically killing all the estranged attendants, leaving the group to try and decipher who, of all their friends, has the potential to be a murderer.

In this colorful musical short, Penny, the owner of a blossoming sweet shop in 1940s Australia, must decide between her career and her forbidden love for honey supplier, Charlie.

Production of the Wizard of Oz from 2016

A down-spiralling stand-up comedian is forced to confront his inner demons when a routine rehearsal for his comeback show collapses into a brutal psychological reckoning on stage.

GIRL IN THE PURGATORIUM tells the story of a modern day Alice who wakes up in LIMBO, bound by the silken shackles of polite society. A mysterious hound helps her break these bonds before she is faced with a set of choices. What will she be guided by? LOVE? Or FEAR? And what will be the CONSEQUENCES of her decisions?

45 minutes of found and manipulated visuals scored by Trephinate