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Our African Roots is the first documentary to feature an African-Australian host actively interrogating Australia’s colonial history. Commissioned by Australian multicultural broadcaster SBS, the ground-breaking film challenges a nation that spent much of the 20th Century advocating for a racially exclusive White Australia to confront its multiracial past.
John Farrow: Hollywood’s Man in the Shadows is the first documentary ever made about one of Hollywood’s most prolific yet forgotten filmmakers, John Villiers Farrow (1904 -1963). Part mystery, part biography, part film noir – the documentary follows the stranger than fiction story of this Australian born, Oscar-winning filmmaker. As one of Hollywood’s most enigmatic f igures, Farrow was the director of some 50 films; a sailor, a poet, a war hero, best-selling author, a religious scholar, a family man and a philanderer – a man who lived many lives – yet who left behind no memoirs, no interviews and no archival footage – and who today is only a shadow in the pages of film history.
Ethan and Violet are set to travel in different directions yet a common interest undeniably entwines their destinies.
Three young misfits venture into the Australian outback to find what they believe is a meteorite that has crash landed near their country town, only to discover it's something far more mysterious.
Is tomorrow beyond the void?
Original 35mm nitrate negative film shot by naturalist David Fleay at Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart in December 1933. Colorized by Samuel François-Steininger at the Paris-based, Composite Films, from a 4K scan of the negative by the National Film and Sound Archive Australia.
An aspiring Peruvian-Australian performer is partnered with her ex-boyfriend in a community Marinera dance competition.
When the hot new star of a vampire movie accidentally leaves her mic on mid-interview to go to the toilet, a self-professed feminist interviewer must choose between his ideals or eavesdropping.
Celia Pacquola is an award-winning actor and comedian. She also suffers from anxiety. She wants to help millions of Australians through their battle with anxiety by telling her story, challenging stigma and showing a way through it. She will meet those suffering from the condition, those on the road to recovery and those who are helping with the journey.
When a volunteer firefighter drives his car into almost certain death during the worst fires in Australian history, he does it because he ‘has a job to do’. Three months later, the fires are out but his nightmares are just beginning. What’s tormenting him, however, isn’t the memory of flames. Turning a sensitive lens on the unprecedented devastation of Australia’s Black Summer bushfires, from a country-wide emergency to the astonishing stories of help that emerged.
Worlds collide when polar opposites Friday and Debbie fall head over heels for one another, the only issue is; it's 1987. Follow the characters in a tale about identity, adversity and romance that spans across the year.
A self obsessed social media celebrity couple camp out in the Adelaide Hills on Christmas Eve only to stumble onto a community hiding a secret tradition to protect the 25th of December.
In 1970, filmmaker Peter Kubelka designed a movie auditorium in which carefully controlled sight lines and black velvet caused all but the screen to disappear into darkness. He referred to his invisible cinema as “a machine for viewing.” In these adventures in vision, directors Oscar Raby, Richard Misek, and Charlie Shackleton use real-time VR experience, live performance, and video essay to transform the Egyptian theater into “machines for viewing” to explore how we watch films.
Divorced, lonely and inept with the web, a 50-year-old man decides to try his hand at finding love online – with spectacularly catastrophic results.
A fascinating portrait of cycling royalty, the prince of the peloton, the lord of the lycra-clad. Amateur racer turned broadcaster, Phil Liggett has covered forty-seven Tours de France and fifteen Olympic Games, calling every triumph, tragedy and scandal with his inimitable wit and poetry.
The show captures the pursuit of creation, the love of the relationship 5 Seconds of Summer have with their fans and the endless boundary of what it means to be in a band.
Three people in love must justify their relationship and existence to the MPAA: Motion Picture Association Of America.
Follows the incredible journey of Dave Welsman, a Sydney kids' magician determined to reboot his life with a grand illusion to make Uluru disappear. As Dave works alongside the Rock’s traditional owners and Indigenous Custodians to pull off this spectacular stunt, he discovers the profound cultural and spiritual significance of Uluru, and his own illusions about fame and success begin to disappear.
After the loss of her dad, a young girl will only speak to her imaginary friend 'Lycinda'. Her stepmother finds it increasingly difficult to maintain a bond with the girl, and the stakes rise when 'Lycinda' starts to seem not-so-imaginary and not-so-friendly.
"As abstract shapes come into focus, dim memories surface. With Blind Body, Allison Chhorn offers an impressionistic portrait of her grandmother Kim Nay, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge. Partially blind, Kim spends her days in a mostly sonic and textural world, in which the sound of rain, the voices of Khmer radio, and distant birdsong summon the sensations of a lost homeland." - New York Film Festival / Film at Lincoln Center
A cast of young marine explorers take us on an immersive journey into life on the reef, during a summer of love. Featuring stunning footage of coral spawning, fish breeding, birds and turtles returning to islands to nest.
Down on his luck and soon to be divorced, a troubled man is convinced by his best friend to seek solace in revenge.
In 2019, a man named Naveen disappears from a memorial park in Sydney while traveling with his girlfriend Cathy. Having arrived in New York two years ago, Naveen finds a job at a restaurant and meets Cathy there. As their relationship deepens, Naveen′s lies become bolder. The man known as Naveen, or Sameer, cannot tell the truth about anything, including his name, nationality, religion, family, and past.
Living in an apocalyptic world, a family of three fight for survival. Michael, determined to protect his family, pushes ten-year-old son Josh into manhood when a routine scavenger hunt goes awry.
Single, 30 something Aaron, is packing up his deceased mother's home with sister Jane, when his one night stand turns up on their doorstep. Aaron abruptly wakes when Jane arrives early to help finish packing their deceased Mother’s home. He scrambles to hide the evidence of his wild night. When his one night stand turns up on the doorstep a few hours later, long held grievances are brought to the surface that threaten to sever family ties forever.
Narrated by Uncle Jack Charles and seen through the eyes of Indigenous prisoners at Victoria’s Fulham Correctional Centre, this documentary explores how art and culture can empower Australia's First Nations people to transcend their unjust cycles of imprisonment.
On their last night of school leavers, Cassie and Sam meet two toolies, Dylan and Tom. Cassie’s introverted inexperience contests with Sam’s extroverted, party-centric attitude which challenges their friendship, leading to life-altering consequences.
When Sofia, a non-binary teenager, moves to a new town, they aren’t counting on acceptance, and the last thing they expect to find is love. Rebellious and confident, Jen seems to be exactly what Sofia needs, but as they are drawn deeper and deeper into a world of punk, drugs and black magic, they will learn that bad love has a terrible cost: their life.
A homeless man has nowhere to go when he comes across a Christian woman who offers him a view of her life serving others. With a fresh perspective on God and Christianity, he begins to understand how to live a life of fulfillment and peace.
A group of schoolboys engage in tomfoolery, but it’s not long before playful behaviour turns primal.
One in three Australian women experience discrimination or harassment in the workplace. Australia’s first and only female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was one of them. In Australia, politics is a toxic place for women. Strong Female lead examines Australia’s struggle with women and power when a strong female takes the lead
Alone at her country estate, Evelyn attempts to end her life but is interrupted by the arrival of an awkward but endearing handyman. Evelyn’s desire to make him leave collides with his need of a job and Evelyn discovers the Handyman has problems of his own.
THE TUNNEL is hands down the greatest Australian found footage feature and this tenth anniversary documentary not only gives you a look behind-the-scenes at the production of the film, but also insight into its impact and enduring legacy.
Besides remote areas, wildlife had to adapt to human presence and become resistant to the invasion and destruction of their ancient territories, that's the wildlife living with us in Brisbane City.
The Ripple Effect is a powerful documentary primarily centred around St Kilda legend and proud Noongar Nicky Winmar's generation-defining stand against racism at Victoria Park in 1993.
Katie (Shamita Sivabalan) is a young, confidently queer woman. After finding herself attracted to a man for the first time in her life, she must decide whether the complicated nature of the relationship is worth pursuing.
Undone is a one-channel video work, made up of found footage of bombings: Ukraine by Russia, Palestine and Syria by Israel, Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States. By zooming into and rewinding the footage, Afshar aborts the attacks and deflates the violent consequences of armed conflicts, while the layered soundscape—from an anxious heartbeat to a dying pulse—places humanity in an atmosphere of chaos. Undone imagines the possibility of “undoing” the acts of violence that continue to mark our present moment.
An Australian trading company hires an inept, drunk Korean as their head of security, but their new employee is not exactly what he appears to be.
On the run, three criminals find themselves holed up at a notorious old hospital that happens to be the hunting ground of a masked killer.
Mr. Gordon, an invalid with dementia, struggles to make sense of the woman who routinely intrudes in on his daily life, a live-in caregiver named Jane.
A group of outstanding Australian birds are shown in their natural habitats, from the biggest in the world to the strangest courtship behavior, colorful parrots and cockatoos, the biggest Kingfisher, a kaleidoscope of shapes, colors and behaviors.
Constructing a solitary reality by imagining what life would be like after the passing of her parents, director Allison Chhorn's intricate docu-fiction chronicles her own process carrying on work in the family's titular 'plastic house'.
In a not-so-distant future, scientists have discovered immortality. What follows is a surreal exploration of the sometimes banal, sometimes chaotic consequences, begging the question: is there meaning in infinity?
Circe waits on her island. A lone woman, a woman alone. Circe has been outcast and with centuries ahead of her to spend in isolation, she whiles away the endless hours by walking through the empty perfect rooms of her house, sending messages to the outside world in the form of selfies, and knitting together spells to practise her sorcery. A contemporary feminist, post-pandemic take on a classic Greek myth.
Commissioned by Chunky Move, this playfully experimental work traverses ritual, body modification and algorithms. Fragmented bodies, talking rams and drones surveilling every gyration. Blending dance, film, digital animation and artist dialogue, and commissioned as part of Chunky Move’s Activators series, the nostalgic-futurist Bonanza! is a lament for our physical bodies and an exaltation of digital reincarnation.
Artist Emma (aka Cloudy) and musician River have a relationship built on openness, love and sexual fluidity, but the challenges of loving more than one person are put to the test when they move in together. When Emma is commissioned to exhibit at the gallery of her other lover, Zara, she chooses to focus the show on her relationship with River, exploring the timeless bond they share, the messy situations they find themselves in, the joy and the pain of their boundary pushing relationship. As Emma's opening night approaches, River is offered a gig that could put him on the map, but at the cost of missing Emma's show.
CHUNKY SHRAPNEL is a feature length live music documentary from King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Literally bringing the audience onto the stages of their 2019 tour across Europe & the UK, Chunky offers a uniquely immersive experience never before captured on film. A musical road movie dipped in turpentine.
The lives and careers of iconic fashion designers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, who created a bold Australian identity through their clothes
When a young and innocent teen discovers an empty packet of old playing cards, he must navigate the world of magic in an attempt to get a response out of his bed-ridden, Alzheimer-diagnosed grandfather.
An intimidating encounter with a group of teens forces a 12-year-old to ponder her place in the world.
In Australia, sharks have recently been recorded with unusual prey-including other sharks. In order to figure out what has caused this shift in diet, Dr. Charlie Huvaneers and team head to shark infested waters to find out what's in the stomach of a great white - and why.
An aristocrat changes his name to Billy Jones, and pursues a life as a musician. He leaves England for Los Angeles and becomes famous. When his mother tries to force him to return to running the estate, things get out of control.
Charlie and her dog, Doug, set out on a journey up a mountain to shoot down the brightest star in the sky.
GET THE GIRL is a 1985 romantic-comedy which follows Billy Bennett as he teams up with the love and wisdom genius Karli to win over the most popular girl in school, Tiffany.
Wide of the Mark follows six riders with a hunger for motorcycle adventure in its purest form. Hand building their road bikes to tackle Tasmania's rugged off-road terrain.
A frustrated art student reaches into his dreams for inspiration, only to be taken on a journey by a mysterious doppelganger.
Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continuing until morning, the raid left more than 100,000 people dead and a quarter of the city eradicated. Unlike their loved ones, Hiroshi Hoshino, Michiko Kiyooka and Minoru Tsukiyama managed to emerge from the bombings. Now in their twilight years, they wish for nothing more than recognition and reparations for those who, like them, had been indelibly harmed by the war – but the Japanese government and even their fellow citizens seem disinclined to acknowledge the past.
For Indigenous Australian rugby league players, a pre-game ‘unity dance’ is an important step towards celebrating their cultures and combating entrenched racism.
An eccentric screenwriter, oblivious to the misogynistic nature of his script is given an ultimatum by a feminist film producer.