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If I punch myself in the face and it hurts does that make me weak or strong?

The accident that threatens to shut down the animation studio “Leuc” is more complicated than it first appears.

An exquisitely simple philosophy on life, love, death and loss recorded back in 1924.

Olga is bored of the monotony of her life. When she finds an escape through her fanfiction, her fantasies run wild, becoming increasingly power hungry and ridiculous. Today, fanfiction.net. Tomorrow, the world. Why would she ever go back to reality?

Hand-processed, colour-reversed 16mm film spun around a soundtrack built from a re-modulated, repeating fragment of a woman’s voice creates a ritualistic merging of woman, space and time.

Still Life is a reflection on time, memory and the nature of photogaphy.

A You-Tube series spanning 7 episodes from 2015-2017 by the Filmaholics group. Teenagers Harry and Drake find out that they are not who they seem, each discovering that they possess special powers. However, these powers, enemies, and relationships get in the way of the two boys friendship and start an all-out war.

During a mental breakdown, Christian – a drug addicted drag queen – is abducted by a lonely and mysterious alien.

Two families rush to the hospital. Tikva is in heavy labour. The baby is coming! The expecting father, a scholarly Orthodox Jew, arrives at the hospital with his parents and some cousins. From other cars out pour every generation, from great-grandparents down to children. They greet each other warmly. There’s a buzz in the air. But later, when a violent feud breaks out between the two families, in the maternity ward, Tikva will stand before them to protect her newborn son.

Following the global financial crisis in 2008, Melbourne-based Rob Henry seeks out a new lifestyle and arrives to the tropical islands of Mentawai, Indonesia, where he finds himself immersed between two contrasting local villages.

Sora’s family have certain expectations for her, but the seven-year-old yearns for a different life in this new country.

A short but impactful remark from a stranger leaves young Yasmin questioning her identity.

Set against the thriving dance music scene in the city of Adelaide, Decks and the City explores the passion for electronic music within the night time cityscape and the obstacles that DJ's, producers, venue owners and patrons face from lawmakers and a conservative society.

Julian Assange, heaven sent to expose the horrible truths hiding behind the zeros and ones in the word.

In rural Ghana, Clara faces the challenges of teaching, as her students discover the happiness of having wheels.

An animated portrayal of a traditional Indonesian farming calendar based on celestial observation and cycles of natural phenomena.

A surreal autobiographical short exploring an attempt to create an animation about animating an animation about animating.

The tangible benefits of watching this film may be in allowing the intangible to enable changes in mood and perspective.

A bee and a young woman attempt to escape a prison. Confronted by a guard, the bee sacrifices itself to free to the girl.

A complex dance of sound and image.

The creatures of the Atacama desert – great and small, divine and cursed – attempt to survive another day.

A non-narrative tale about the possible hectic co-existence of amorphous pulsating creatures and the transformed everyday

A citizen needs rescuing. Luckily there’s a superhero on hand. He just needs somewhere to change into his costume.

Music is the magic carpet ride to escape the hard gravity pull of an unhappy home.

After a night at the bar, a guy invites a girl home to see his angelfish. Over the course of just a few minutes, a promising connection is cut off and a fish is no longer a fish. A taut exchange that examines acceptable behavior in dating and mating rituals.

Its the most Putrid Series ever from The Grossery Gang! With gross gangs from all over Cheap Town joining together to fight it out against the evil Clean Team. Collect and build your foul force and take on the baddies. Its icky! Its sticky! ItsPutrid Power!

Across a series of increasingly surreal flashbacks, an extended Indigenous family argues about what caused their boat’s motor to breakdown and leave them stranded. As they consider the causal roles played by ancestral spirits, the regulatory state and the Christian faith, the film makes manifest the multiple demands and inescapable vortexes of contemporary Indigenous life.

Two young schoolboys are walking home from school and become witnesses to a shooting.

The devastating Chilean earthquake of 2010 damaged over 370,000 homes. The city of Talca was near its epicentre, leaving many historic neighbourhoods in ruins. CASA ANTÚNEZ is an intimate portrait of one beloved home in Talca, and how its destruction reveals a divided family. When the mother sells the adobe ruins to her architect son José Luis, his brothers and cousins are sceptical about his intentions. Over three years, we witness their psychological process of losing a childhood home as they confront the future of its land. CASA ANTÚNEZ is a poetic homage to the very notion of ‘home’ after a disaster.

A cynical young Indigenous man and his family are abducted by aliens. Leading them on a breathtaking escape, he discovers the aliens' origins, shattering his worldview forever.

This found 8mm film of underwater ballet has a red rust effect flowing through it like living fire.

A poetic animated portrait of scientist Nick Holmes and his work preventing extinctions on islands.

A recent university graduate struggles with the idea of a mundane desk job.

Sandalwood is the basis of most of the world’s most expensive and exotic perfumes. Once prolific, 80% of it now comes from only one location, the outback of Western Australia. Tribal Scent follows the journey of choreographer, dancer, didgeridoo player, activist and tribal leader Dr Richard Walley. Richard joins forces with scientists and the world’s major perfume makers in Grasse, France. Together they work toward their shared goal of protecting one of the few remaining indigenous Sandalwood reserves in the world and, at the same time, protecting the harvesters in the outback deserts of Western Australia and thus protecting the sustainability of the high-end perfume industry itself. WA holds 80% of the world’s Sandalwood reserve.

Generators is a collaboration between Creative Victoria and the VCA School of Film and Television that celebrates Victoria’s vibrant creative sector. Here, filmmaker Eddie Diamandi captures HA LF, a performance by dancer Mariaa Randall. A Bandjalung woman, originally from the far north coast of NSW, Mariaa's performance scrutinises the lable ‘half-caste’ and the terms that perpetuate racial segregation based on skin tone, shade and colour.

Dawn O’Donnell was a convent girl who became a professional ice skater, travelled the world and then landed up in 1950s Australia, a penniless lesbian. By the time of her death in 2007, she had stormed through Sydney’s gay underworld and built herself an empire of bars, clubs, steam rooms, sex shops and drag shows, inspiring The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. This fascinating documentary explores the mythology (was she a mobster? an arsonist? a murderer?) and life of this shrewd, silver-haired, butch businesswoman.

Crystal World is inspired by J.G Ballard’s apocalyptic science fiction novel of the same name where a viral crystal metamorphoses trees, animals, humans and architecture into frozen jewels forever suspended in time and space. The novel is a haunting portrait of a world in which everything is illuminated by prismatic light, a ‘leaking’ of time that causes humans to experience individual moments endlessly looped, repeated and prolonged. My film adapts this concept of crystallization and applies it to fragments from the 1955 film. I reconstruct scenes from Charles Laughton’s iconic film with underwater puppets, which I then crystallize using ammonium phosphate crystals, time-lapse photography, mirrors, prisms, and projectors. (http://piaborg.com)

After a night with the girl of his dreams, Michael has a story to tell. And a favor to ask.

Sally: Behind the Smile gives a fly-on-the-wall insight into one of Australia's most beloved athletes as she attempts to overcome some of the biggest hurdles of her burgeoning career in pursuit of that all-encompassing goal, a surfing world title. A Red Bull Media House production realized by Milkmoney, Sally: Behind the Smile is a definitive compilation of all things Sally Fitzgibbons that every aspiring and professional athlete can take something away from.

Follow Indonesian pro surfer, Oney Anwar, on his epic journey from a remote jungle village to his debut on the World Championship Tour.

Filmed over more than three years, The Triangle Wars is a riveting exposition of sweeping social issues and contemporary Australian politics as seen through the prism of three men driven either by ego, passion and their desire to make a difference.

Are you a player?

A dozen villages have been swallowed up by a volcano of mud in Indonesia, but four years on from the start of the eruption, the dispute over what’s causing it bubbles on. Some experts say a drilling accident at a nearby gas site has caused gas to constantly push mud to the surface from a depth of 3,000 metres, but the energy giant Lapindo Brantas blames an earthquake. The company was cleared of responsibility by Indonesia’s Supreme Court last year, but was still ordered to pay compensation. People in East Java though say they’ve seen little help. Video journalist Adrian Brown visits the vast lake of mud, which can even be seen from space, to hear the blame game that’s left villagers living in makeshift huts and an ecological disaster that seems to be growing bigger by the day.

In a cold and isolated world, Marcus is yet again placed in another cold and isolated place, a hospital which is meant to take care of patients is abusing them.

For the first time ever, Australia’s most secretive soldiers have invited a TV crew to document them in Afghanistan. This exclusive documentary, over three years in the making, follows investigative journalist and four time Walkley winner Chris Masters as he goes deep into the field with the Special Air Services Regiment, the SAS. The most comprehensive account of these elite forces in action, cameras accompany the Special Forces on several missions inside enemy lines, including night raids on Taliban hotspots, to a high risk undercover operation to destroy a multi-million dollar Taliban drug lab. Australian Special Forces soldiers, some of whom have been wounded in action, talk candidly of their experiences, about the dangers of working with allies who can turn on them, and on their views of progress in Afghanistan, as the transition phase evolves towards local control.

The tragic and compelling story of a man who commits decades of his life to building an elaborate timber amphitheater in the Australian bush, dragging his young family along for the ride.

A young gay couple struggles to accept themselves in the face of cultural differences.

Deaf poet Walter Kadiki reads his piece "Plod Along is What I Must."

An art exhibition by Victorian sex workers facilitated through the RhED program and sponsored by Star Health which captures the complexity and nuance of working within current legislation and community stigma. An opportunity to challenge your own attitudes and view sex work through the perspective of the artists, the sex workers themselves. In 2016, Amnesty International chose to advocate for the decriminalisation of all aspects of consensual adult sex - sex work that does not involve coercion, exploitation or abuse. Community stigma impacts the law which in turn directly influences health, wellbeing and access to basic human rights.

directed by Tamara Desiatov

Join the Motorbikin team as they tackle a no holds barred 3000 kilometre run north from Brisbane to Darwin via Lawn Hill, Edith Falls and all the good stuff in between! We revisit our Orange Vtwin roots and check out BMWs Ultimate Enduro machine while the Dirty Old DR just keeps on thumping! Theres plenty more to see as we thrash Suzukis new Vstrom 1000 and another little segment we might just call "The Ramp"

Motorbikin crew do the 24 hour in South Australia

Join the Motorbikin Team for the second installment of their New Zealand Series from the Otago High Country near Queenstown all the way North to French's Pass.

Motorbikin crew go from Darwin to Broome

Join the Motorbikin Team as they tackle The Canning Stock Route: the longest and most remote desert track in the southern hemisphere. Its an adventure where not all bikes make it out alive! Also includes the Tony Kirby Memorial Ride in the Flinders Ranges and an insane attempt to ride postie bikes across Queensland in a day!

What's going on in the elevator.

This is one ladies story and she is “The Last Decoder of Monterey”. Monterey, home to a secret Royal Australian Navy intelligence unit called FRUMEL during World War II.

She's walking home alone at night. There's something in the street, in the cover of dark. She knows she shouldn't take the next step, but she has to...

Best friends Imogen and Abby are waist deep in a dumpster diving for dinner when Imogen insists Abby spills what’s on her mind.