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Jindalee Lady tells the story of a young Aboriginal woman sets out to build a career in the fashion industry. It is an urban love triangle involving an Aboriginal fashion designer, her white music executive husband and an Aboriginal cinematographer. It is considered the first feature film ever directed by an indigenous person in Australia.
This movie takes you on a journey from when we first leave our place in Manly (northern beaches of Sydney), to staying at my grandma's house for the night, to driving down the Yass then Melbourne, boarding the Spirit of Tasmania, going to Devonport and finally down to Hobart and our new farm house.
GREED tells the story of an Indian man who gets deeper and deeper involved in the Australian gangland underworld. He only wants to get enough money to go back to homeland to rescue his parents from abject poverty, but is forced to make increasing difficult decisions that go against what's left of his conscience. How far is too far when one tries to reach his noble goal? GREED is an epic film tribute to Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, a story of family relationships, intrigues and betrayals set against a violent world where nothing is legal, but where everything is possible.
Penny returns to her childhood home for the Appleton Show and its 'world famous' potato race, she is outraged that the men's first prize pays out $2,000 and the winning woman's prize is only $200. She is determined to right this wrong.
When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of a former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and meets her friend, a prostitute. They hook up, but when she finds her friend's diary, she discovers she's repeating her mistakes.
Sam, a nine year old boy, makes a solitary journey to school through the stark landscape near the commission flats where he lives. The imaginary world, as told by a far-away older male storyteller, his only solace. An encounter with two young teenagers presents both a temptation and a threat to Sam.
A young pickpocket, meets a group of amateur robbers. He joins them to earn easy cash, despite his best friend's refusal. The group comes up with their biggest hit yet; a bank. Now, he must decide if he wants to throw his life away for a job, that might not even be worth it.
A tiny robot is given the gift of life with only one limitation, the length of his power cable.
The story of five brothers who homestead, with other settlers, on the virgin plateaus of the Australian bush country.
Doctors and Nurses is a gimmick film, a down under age reversal trick in the style of Alan Parker's 'Bugsy Malone'. A bunch of kids play the game of Doctors and Nurses - of the inoffensive dress-up kind - tending a bunch of adults suffering from a variety of ailments.
Two young sisters travel alone for a beauty pageant where their fraught relationship is tested. An intimate and tender portrait of sisterhood.
After discovering she is pregnant, a young, socially isolated woman attempts to seek help from her estranged father, instead finding herself introduced to his new partner.
In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.
an Australian independent drama directed by Duncan James, following a bored, suburban housewife named Suze who discovers shocking secrets about her husband during a solo road trip. The 1h 23m film explores themes of guilt, redemption, and complex family dynamics with a French-cinema-inspired style.
For tens of thousands of years the Tarkine which covers 447,000 hectares of wilderness in the North West region of Tasmania, has been revered by Indigenous cultures who`s very way of life depended on an intimate nature/ culture balance. Today we view such places as commodities for Forestry, Mining Resource Extraction Industries, and Tourism.
Ron Ryan is accused of a murder he did not commit. As his family races to prove his innocence, he and a priest aim for redemption.
A group of office employees find themselves in a fight for survival against a ruthless local gang after a long week of work.
When a young woman goes on an Internet date she gets more than she bargained for.
Here in your hands is a piece of Wiggles history! The Celebration tour of the original Wiggles line-up, Greg, Murray, Jeff and Anthony, travelled all around the world. This is one of those magical shows filmed live in Ireland!
As a faithful child of God, Mary regularly repents for her sins. Over time, her faith drives her crazy as she pushes herself to the extremes.
Greg is a young gardener who lives a quiet, simple and lonely life. But that all changes when he bumps into a beautiful woman.
A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society are juxtaposed against the confusion and frustration she feels as she struggles to become part of a community that has no place for her.
A killer on the run is found lying flat on his face in a wet clay bank. He is rescued by potters who shelter him within their community. There he falls in love with a woman. Unfortunately, another man who has been calling upon the woman gets jealous and turns the fugitive in to the cops. The woman gets revenge.
Brenda’s first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal family. Decades later, she feels disconnected from both halves of her life, so she goes searching for the foster family with whom she had lost contact. Along the way she uncovers long-buried secrets, government lies, and the possibility of deeper connections to family and culture.
In a near-future, darknet grifter Dougie is recruited to work security at a refugee detention centre. There, he is drawn into an underground operation blackmailing detainees to fight for profit. When tragedy strikes courageous fighter Azad, Dougie locates his hitherto dormant conscience and takes a stand.
In the aftermath of Australia's marriage equality marches, a young queer woman has her date interrupted by a homeless man after accidentally dropping a dollar into his coffee cup. This sets off a chain of events that sees her dragging him around the city in a bid to buy him a new one and eventually forcing the two to bond for the briefest of moments. What ensues over that evening changes both of them forever.
This short documentary showcases three Australian music acts—Wendy Saddington and Teardrop, the Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, and the Indelible Murtceps—each performing live as examples of distinct directions in the country’s early 1970s pop scene.
Hoo-hoo-who has carved out the funniest Pumpkin Face for Halloween? It’s The Wiggles! Anthony, Emma, Lachy and Simon will have your little monsters howling for more when they hear ‘A Friendly Little Spider’, rattling their funny bones when they ‘Do the Skeleton Scat!’, and looking “boo-tiful” when they dress up as ‘Little Vampires’ who just love their cranberry juice! This is no trick, it’s a real treat to hear the fab four of fun join Dorothy, Wags, Henry and Captain Feathersword for Pumpkin Face!
A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this science fiction tale set in the year 2028.
A wearer of a parasitic mask with black magic sheds blood on Halloween. 16 years later, a killer with the same profile slaughters Angel's friend, who then must fight fear, overcome personal struggles and unmask the murderer before someone else dies.
From Kazakhstan through to Russia, three riders venture deep into Siberia's Altai Mountain range and attempt to cross the great Steppes of Mongolia. Traversing flooded rivers, snow capped mountains and baking hot deserts, hardship tests their friendship as they race toward the capital of Mongolia to witness the country's greatest celebration, the Naadam festival. Their epic journey is a true testament to living on a motorcycle, and a cultural insight into one of the greatest empires in the history of the world, the reign of Chingis Khan's Mongolian Horde. Motonomad II is more than a motorcycle journey, it's a life adventure.
As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream. Some aspired to push form to its limit; others worked to destabilise what they saw as a homogenous industry, or to provoke questions around gender, sexuality, migration and race.
This time High Performance Imports visits Ebisu Circuit for the draft matsuri, tours the Veilside factory and attends some drag meetings.
A disillusioned young man unwittingly joins a self-help group for men, only to discover that the program, led by the infamous figure known only as ‘The Leader’, is simply an outrageously sexist cult.
Notorious Australian flop set in the Roaring 20s Sydney follows Kitty O'Rourke who, after her thug husband ends up in jail, becomes a tough gangster on her own, befriends a crooked cop called The Bagman and takes on the competition.
A group of Sydney-based, Pacific Islander kids start recording drill raps to avoid a life of crime. Two years into their meteoric rise, a police task force shuts down their sold-out national tour due to concerns that the group's music will incite violence.
A photojournalist, grieving the loss of her stillborn child, is drawn into an obsessive relationship with a pregnant teenager.
Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking dingoes and playing trumpet in a local band, John still dreams of joining Billy on trumpet and makes a pilgrimage to Paris.
Kids just love to wiggle—that’s for sure! The Wiggles have won their way into the hearts of kids and parents alike. Now you can see The Wiggles any time you want in this fantastic re-recording of Wiggle Time! There are fifteen great songs on this video, including all your favourites, plus some brilliant live recordings from the Wiggles Big Show. Have fun with The Wiggles singing, dancing, and playing along with their friends Henry the Octopus, Wags the Dog, Captain Feathersword, and, of course, Dorothy the Dinosaur. It’s Wiggle Time for everybody!
When a sudden move disrupts Harper's life, she is left wondering what this change means for her relationship with Maisie, her imaginary best friend. Left to pack up the remnants of her childhood, Harper has to figure out what has to come with her, and what has to be left behind.
There is no comedian quite like Zoë. Bossy Bottom is a joyously silly return to very serious stand up from the MICF Most Outstanding Show winner and Edinburgh Best Show nominee.
A businessman's battle with Artificial Intelligence.
The bizarre history of Filipino B-films, as told through filmmaker Andrew Leavold's personal quest to find the truth behind its midget James Bond superstar Weng Weng.
While on a seaside holiday with his family, a teenage boy becomes infatuated with a young woman accompanying them as a housekeeper. As his older brother begins a relationship with her, the boy’s frustration grows, leading to actions that disrupt both the family dynamic and the fragile relationships around him. The conflict culminates in a breakdown of trust between the brothers.
In a remote Chinese town, an authoritarian father forces his wife and daughter to take care of him after he suffers a stroke. Vee Shi, his son, explores filial duty and the legacy of patriarchy, questioning who must pay the emotional and financial price for an absent and violent father.
Wilogical is a new, hour-long show which promises a serving of Wil Anderson doing what he does best - trying to make sense of the world and his place in it, live on stage with joke after joke.
Venice is having trouble with the men in her life: she breaks up with her lover and starts an affair with her best friend. The aggravation of her ex-hippy dad, camped on her sofa, is the last straw.
A lost, sexually confused boy becomes increasingly obsessed with an hedonistic video artist and her group of oversexed, violent, cannibalistic followers and longs to be a part of their decadent world.
1941. A country in crisis. A new man in power. Leadership demands and personal demons are set to collide. The story of John Curtin as he faces his first six months as Prime Minister, confronting in quick succession, the tragedy of Pearl Harbour, the fall of Singapore, the bombing of Darwin and a furious battle with Churchill over the deployment of Australian troops. This is a raw and intimate story of a driven and inspirational leader - a man who struggles to battle his own personal demons while serving and protecting a country at war.
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
A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's offsider Sam, details of the crime mirror the disappearance of her friend Hannah, who vanished without trace some years ago. In Kempson's pursuit of the truth Sam is forced to face the sordid secrets of her past.
Anthea is 25, single, hates her job – and all her friends are leaving Brisbane. Should she follow the herd to Sydney or London? Is there anything worth staying for now that her best friend Michael finally has a girlfriend? This film tells a universal story about finding your place and yourself...
Jada's estranged father is murdered. His father's death draws her to an ancient Sect, led by Jada's grandfather. Jada and her friends are used as pawns. Jada's only hope is Finn, possible soulmate and her father's killer.
Hopeless romantic Lacki flies halfway around the world from Slovakia to Australia for a Tinder date with a woman who doesn't remember chatting with him. When his romantic grand gesture goes disastrously wrong, he wanders the streets of Melbourne, discovering that sometimes getting lost is the only way to find yourself.
Henry is a slacker floating through young adulthood earning a measly income from selling his body as a human punching bag. Meanwhile he wonders if there is more to his stagnating existence than the punches life throws at him.
On December 15 2010, a group of friends set out for a day's mountain bike ride. 4 days later, a search and rescue team retrieved a helmet mounted video camera.
Take a ride with The Wiggles on the Big Red Boat in this awesome ocean adventure, featuring 19 Wiggly Giggly songs like Big Red Boat, Captain Feathersword Fell Asleep On His Pirate Ship, Ponies and Wiggly Party. Travel to Wigglehouse for a picnic with Wags the Dog, join Captain Feathersword on a Sydney Seaside Swim and learn Spanish with the animated Mariachi Wiggles. So come aboard and get ready to make waves of rippling good fun!
Seven couples are at turning points, trying to navigate their relationships and careers one moment at a time. THIS TIME, MAYBE is a sometimes thought-provoking, sometimes comedic, and always relatable story about how we share and change and love.
Time is about one young boys exploration of the foolish idea of time travel might actually be possible. The lead character, a 12 year old named James, already endures a dysfunctional upbringing But now has to deal with the consequences of his own beliefs and the reactions of others from his school.
Host Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter," in his last documentary, teams up with oceanographer Phillippe Cousteau to explore the deadliest sea creatures living in the waters between Australia's Gold Coast and the Great Barrier Reef.