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Horror Short: A fashion photographer sees a nightmarish aberration in the glare of his camera flash.

After splitting up with her partner, a young mother externalises her feelings of loss and resentment through the family’s possessions.

An online biology class devolves into chaos and shenanigans as the students adjust to online school.

A terminally ill man is given an unconventional send off in this exploration of assisted suicide and the healing power of music.

Cub Sport perform their new album, LIKE NIRVANA, live and in full.

Liz just wants to host the perfect dinner party but an unexpected guest sends the evening into chaos, with potentially apocalyptic consequences.

24 hr fake news of visceral simulation. Everything now exists in a heightened state of simulation, from TV news broadcasts to internal human bodies, nothing is real, everything is constructed.

This inspiring documentary film takes us on a journey into the world of language and the crucial role it plays in the lives of newly arrived refugees in Australia. This heart-warming film tells of their experiences, from trauma endured as they fled their war-torn countries, to their search for safety and a better life in Australia.

Meth Kelly explores how Australia’s colonial frontier narrative has been shaped by the imaginary heroic actions of the cult figure Ned Kelly. Through a video work projected in one of the shadowy tunnels of the ex-convict structures at Cockatoo Island, this work questions the legitimacy of Kelly’s hero status through a modern reinterpretation of his moral persona. Thornton skews the national narrative rooted in the romance of a Western, by transforming Kelly into a “meth head robbing a 7 Eleven”, placing him in a banal (sub)urban delinquent realm, far removed from cult status. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney.

Billie is a rambunctious teen ready to take on the world, when she returns from holidays everything is different. Students at her school have started wearing ‘Electrophobes’ devices used to moderate emotions.

Experience the days, minutes, and seconds leading up to the 2019 White Island Eruption that killed 21 people through the eyes of survivors, rescue workers and the scientists who have been studying the volcano for years.

When space is free and wifi is strong. Two women seek to capture the sound of the platypus. In a riverside caravan, next to carp filled waters of companionship, they are watched closely by the resident DJ and the valley's other inhabitants.

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Two car thieves/roommates think they are taking part in the usual job: Steal a rich guys car and sell it for profit. However, what should be normal routine turns to chaos when they discover that the car they have been sent to steal is worth hardly anything and has been ordered to be taken as part of a ridiculous personal vendetta regarding a parking space. If that wasn't bad enough, the psychotic owner is not at work as they had been told.

An outback town is prone to mysterious alien abductions, kept secret by the local law. Conspiracy theorist Miles and alcoholic taxi driver Bruce become unlikely protectors of teenager Maisey, when she is return by her alien abductors.

Do Black Lives Matter? Tyrone, a homeless Aboriginal boy is arrested by the LAW...Again !. But this time - It's going to take his uncle Lucky's traditional LORE to fix the mess.

Fire, wind and smoke have been the fundamental elements for Aboriginal people for thousands of years. Their knowledge of the original power of fire is passed on from one generation to the next. A creative development of oral storytelling in audio-visual form.

Untitled is a collage film that combines the image and sound of Takashi Makino, the music of Lawrence English and the automatic writing text of Esperanza Collado, produced between March and June 2020, when the first attack of the coronavirus shook the world.

Glenn is a woman on an unwholesome mission, but just how far will she go to conquer the clique – and social media at large?

From the ashes of Australia’s devastating bushfires, wildlife survivors begin their long journeys to recovery. Australia’s fauna have evolved to coexist with bushfire, but these Black Summer fires are unprecedented in their scale, speed and intensity. Many native animals are unable to escape, or endure, without human help. We follow iconic species like koalas, kangaroos, wombats, and an endangered parrot through their rescue, rehabilitation and eventual release. Remarkable tales of compassion and dedication are revealed along the way – from an orphan wombat growing too attached to her carer, to audacious helicopter airdrops to feed remote rock wallabies. When the fires finally burn out, Australia looks to the science, innovation and Indigenous knowledge that will be needed to safeguard fragile wildlife in an even hotter future.

Want to be a big game hunter but hate the big game price tag that comes with it? Don’t go to Africa to kill animals – have a fun day out with your family at The Drive Zoo! Witness fantastic creatures in their natural habitat, then shoot them all from the comfort of your car. Experience the thrill of hunting with less death, less guilt, less blood and more glory!

Akmal presents a sample of some of the best acts to appear this year’s comedy festivals around the country. This is your chance to sit back and sample some fine acts to help you make your decision before parting with your hard earned. The show features Arj Barker, Kitty Flanagan, Lawrence Mooney, Jimeoin, James Smith, Bev Killick, Simon Taylor, Cameron James, The Stevenson Experience and of course, Akmal himself.

During the 1980s, the transcript of a witch trial was found in the archive of a family property in south-west Germany. "Plant (879 pages, 33 days)" unfolds a conversation between mother and daughter that switches between historical facts and personal memories of the site.

Strange Tenants were the 'Godfathers of Australian Ska', emerging in the 1980s in the wake of UK two-tone ska bands like The Specials but producing their own original political ska songs unlike most other Australian ska bands. Thirty-six years later they're still around and still political.

Eating only the contents of 191 tins of beans over 40 days transforms Beau into The Human Bean, and in doing so gives him a front row seat into how one food, totally and utterly, dictates how he feels. Beau uses his intimate knowledge of running to compare his former self to his bean-self, logging lacklustre training for an ultramarathon that he plans on running during the final day of the experiment. Epiphanies are had, saddles are blazed, and genuine insight emerges from what is strangely appealing day-to-day of mediocrity.

Music Video by Emily Dynes for Garrett Kato.

Laure Prouvost Short.

ZEF follows a 21-year-old genderqueer topless meat raffle worker through a collage of moments, sensations and memories; exploring gender, love and sexuality. An unfiltered snapshot of our desire for intimacy in its oscillating forms.

Rahma, an Eritrean migrant, contends with feelings of isolation and disconnect while raising her four young children in Melbourne's inner suburbs.

A former dance student is questioned about the disappearance of her parents. The interview takes a sinister turn when the dancer realises she may be responsible for the crime.

Presented as a support group for people who started the Iraq War, this dark, boisterous and irreverent story follows a handful of mid-level spies whose vanity and office politics contributed to the worst intelligence blunder in modern history.

A documentary of Asian Marching Boys and Friends. An LGBTIQ+ Asian group that has been marching in Sydney Mardi Gras over 15 years. Being LGBTIQ+ and Asian in Australia is not easy. This community group and Mardi Gras Festival have helped them to have the place to raise and roar their voice louder, promote the visibility and acceptance of being LGBTIQ+ Asian people in Australia. The perspective interview of the community leaders and group members reveal how they create a very strong group and outstanding parades until become well-known nowadays and always being presented on the TV news and media every single year.

After another long night of telephone tarot readings, Miriam receives a call from beyond the grave, sweeping her up into the mother of all decades-dead domestic disputes.

Amateur film makers venture to make an 80s horror film in the forest until they become part of the horror, themselves.

In The Shadow It Waits is a psychological horror film performed, shot, and edited live with actors performing from their own homes in different states across Australia. The audience is witnessing a film being made as they watch. 61 Scenes, 58 Camera Setups, and everything LIVE - this is definitely not a zoom call. The film tells the story of four twenty-something co-workers, bored with their day jobs and sick of being locked up in isolation, who play a silly online game and unwittingly prove the truth of an urban legend. However, whilst they may not be able to get out, that doesn't mean that something can't get in.

A Phone Call to Heaven is a heart-warming short film about a six year old, Ethan, who received a mysterious phone call at night after leaving several messages in a various ways to his grandfather whom has passed away.

A young Japanese boy searches for a mysterious vending machine after the passing of his parents.

A man locks himself in his home by himself.

An imaginative stop-motion animation that looks inside our cameras at the creatures within, who are living lives defined by what they see through the lens.

Santa is getting ready for Christmas, but where is his hat?

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

A hit man and his potential protege are tasked with burying a body in the countryside but the seemingly simple job takes an unexpected turn.

The untold story of the Claremont serial killings. For the first time, those touched by the disappearance of three young women in Perth's affluent nightlife district break their silence. Hear from those who lived through the reign of terror.

Craig's journey continues as he teams up with Fatty to kick ass and take names.

Dating apps have revolutionised the way that we find love – but are they also putting us in grave danger?

Lotte Weiss is a Slovak Jew, who spent several years of her life at Auschwitz and Birkenau. Now she is 95 years old and lives in Australia. The director and artist Thea Weiss is married to Lotte’s son. Lotte’s stories and experiences inspired Thea to create a documentary. During the war, thousands of Slovak Jews were deported to the death camps. Only 500 survived, and Lotte was one of them. The amount of vital energy she has helped her not only to survive the torture and devastation but also, having carried the trauma in her memory through decades, to remain whole. Her capacity for kindness, forgiveness, and love gave her the strength and the will for survival.

Our hands cannot resurrect. Set amongst the shadows of a grainy, dystopian landscape, We Are Without is a visual response to life, death and self-delusion...

Hours after her mother’s cremation, Andrea steals the ashes in an attempt to say her last farewell and emancipate herself from her toxic twin.

A pure-loving-tribute to sisterhood, dedicated to Candy Royalle (RIP) butch queen, high priestess of poetry. This urgent call to action, this rallying chant, to live not wait, to love not hate created with Lebanese/Palestinian poets, directed/produced by Jacqui North with queers, women of colour and non-binary artists who live in the inner-west including photographers Jamie James and Nicola Bailey.

An isolated boy invites a friend to stay for pizza, with sinister intentions.

“Kam", meaning "Shaman" in old Turkish, is a long exposure pixilation/2D animation film expressing the primal, potent energy of the female body. The film transforms dancer Sevinc Baltali's improvisation into a fierce and exuberant dance flow to the formidable music of "Amolvacy", an experimental band from New York.

Axel Brown is looking for a room to rent.

Russian emigrant Alexander Tolf has escaped the assisted living facility he called home in Australia. Now, he lives a dark, eremitical life in the deep and forested countryside, drawn there by forces unknown.

When something goes bump in the night, time begins to unravel in a strange way.

Follow joint artistic directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy in their most challenging year as they scour the globe and battle the clock to deliver the 2020 Adelaide Festival in its all-important 60th year.

The ancient Thracian bard Orpheus laments ever for his lost love Eurydice. Having returned from the Underworld in his attempts to retrieve her, he can now no longer die, yet lacks presence. So the maenads tear him limb from limb... Two thousand years later: An immortal head, disembodied, aware now of the power of the physical form in which it is forever encased. Upon the Templar altar, wise yet carnal, the only way it can now enjoy the idea of a body is through vicarious experience of others enjoying theirs. Thus with the heightened senses remaining in the head, s/he desires to create a new physical vessel.

A narcissistic kid finds himself in the same creative and emotional rut he's been stuck in for a very long time.

A glimpse into the casual roller coaster of a relationship bound together in house lockdown during the COVID-19 international pandemic.

A young man decides to mourn his dead friend by holding a gay striptease show in a cemetery – just one catch: first, he must convince the parents.