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One woman will not be able to renew a subscription to an essential service. Her friend is ready to do anything to help her.

A resilient crop-farmer endeavours to preserve his land, legacy and way of life in the face of Australia’s ongoing ‘big dry’.

Alisha finds herself at a junction of identity in which she wants to be followed on the only existing social media app, FLUX. How can she make herself stand out when everyone wants the same thing?

Street performer Paul Cooper has an unlikely ally in his ongoing battle with anxiety and depression - his robot, Tubby.

A young writer with depression and alcoholism vents to a documentary crew about her downfall after losing her lesbian lover.

A young gay man is hiding an embarrassing secret about his body. When a long-term crush begins seducing him at a party, he is forced to confront his shame and expose the truth, or risk losing the boy of his dreams.

30 years on from the Chinese state's brutal put-down of a student-led pro-democracy protest in 1989, ABC Australia looks back through its video archive to unearth never-before-seen footage captured by its team on the ground. A watershed moment in a post-Mao China, the Communist Party has sought to erase all public discourse and memory of that day, making this record all the more significant.

One night, a bar waitress encounters a mysterious and predatory stranger whilst waiting at a bus terminal.

An enchanting endriftment through a floating galaxy of the imagination.

A portrait of Warlpiri Elder and Lawman, Francis Jupurrurla Kelly – a pioneer of Indigenous filmmaking in central Australia.

A love letter lost in the mail for years has finally arrived at the receiver. She reads her lover's letter in her voice and reminisces on the time they had together. From George Spalding's heart-throbbing vision, he creates a real love letter for his hometown and shows real scenery at the places he grew up at.

When British Infantrymen come across a German unit in war torn France, they discover that there is more to war than politics and murder

When a deep bond flourishes between two boys, a hairy secret and a devoted mother unknowingly stands between them.

What an Australian native, the blue-banded bees do when people can't see them. That's right, they perform symphonic musical parts.

In a tedious photographing routine, a photographer gets frustrated by a gorgeous young model. She realizes that loss of desire and drought of artistic creativity restrict herself to take what she expects to see in her eyes.

Overgrown, farmed, pushed out, sold off and only half there, Beau sets off with shovel in hand, dressed like a 50's train driver, to re-trace an old train-line. To run the line end to end would be the first human passing in over 60 years. Police, fences, blackberries, runner musings and leftover pasta, map Beau against a warm autumn day as he makes his way across a landscape he's lived in his whole life.

A Baby plays with his toys on a sunny afternoon.

Two women holding on, / Ready to be watched. /Nimble structures growing roots, / We are softer than your gaze / and ready to be squashed.

Skater and filmmaker Adelaide Norris showcases the talents of all-girl Melbourne skate crew DNL.

Healing in Timor-Leste is rarely straightforward. Timorese people acknowledge and embrace multiple pathways to healing in a complex interplay between spiritual care, comfort and personal connection. Through lifelong observation and learning, they trial a variety of practices and pass down their knowledge to the next generation. Holding Tightly observes seven approaches to healing in remote, rural and urban parts of the Baucau municipality in the country’s east, spanning contexts and experiences from the armed resistance era to the independence period.

Two enby best buddies match with the same unicorn hunters on tinder, but have they met their match?

Mandala-like constructions representing vast and interconnected cycles of time and space.

Hilltop Hoods Live brings you incredible live music and behind the scenes footage as the hip hop pioneers perform at triple j's One Night Stand in Lucindale, South Australia.

Everything is like a brinkmanship towards impending doom or a funny story – a frank look at the Brisbane underground.

Eyes On You challenges the traditional Aussie male stereotype and explores the growing conflict in young men regarding masculinity, identity and sexuality.

Created especially to screen alongside Minding the Gap, skate video master Chris Middlebrook has dug through his archives to produce a fitting tribute to the local skate scene. #middlebrookvideoarchives is a re-edit of archival footage shot with the Sony VX1000 between 2003-2016.

In the wake of World War Two Ukrainian Olesya, living in a migrant camp in the Australian bush with her husband, struggles to come to terms with her pregnancy as she relives the trauma of losing her first child.

An incredible story of courage and the human spirit, which follows international celebrity endurance athlete Samantha Gash (Australian Survivor) on her epic 3,200km purpose-fuelled adventure across India.

Looby is the story of what happens when an artist chooses to speak out. For Australian painter Keith Looby, it cost him almost everything. Winner of prestigious art prizes and collected by major galleries at home and abroad, Keith's addiction to speaking his mind has left a string of failed business relationships, marriages and friendships. Bludgeoned into coherence by the film-makers, assessed by dealers, curators, critics and fellow artists, Looby is a chance to look at a brilliant artist who had his moment in the sun, and to ask whether he should have another.

An intriguing exploration of the changing impact of speed on our ability to view an image and construct meaning and narrative.

An experimental that attempts to explore the synesthetic relationship between the sense of smell and the ability to see colour.

Gardens of Stone is a short documentary which tells a story of the efforts of traditional owners, bushwalkers and scientists to save a landscape of spectacular sandstone towers from the impact of underground mining. It calls for a conservation reserve right on the doorstep of the town of Lithgow, a town which for decades has been the epicentre of a community servicing the areas many coal mines. The film makes the case that Lithgow’s pagoda landscapes can deliver economic benefits to the town by attracting tourists from all over the world.

Ride the Bus with Bounce Patrol! 50 minutes of some of Bounce Patrol's best songs from our takes on classic nursery rhymes ("Wheels on the Bus", "Mary Had a Little Lamb") to our grooviest originals ("Do The Funky Robot", "Little Sharks")!

Growing concern among young Aboriginal community leaders, particularly those in the Borroloola Men's Group, drew them to the idea of re-enacting a walk that hadn't occurred for almost thirty years. The Buwarrala-Journey is a traditional walk for the Garrwa, Yanyuwa, Mara and Gurdanji peoples of the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia. Practiced for generations as part of the initiation of young boys, the walk was re-enacted in 1988 and documented in the film, Buwarrala Agarriya - Journey East. Gadrian Jarwijalmar Hoosan was twelve years old then and was one of four boys or Daru – boys who were prepared for their initiation ceremony. As an adult he had become a mentor to younger men, and directed a new film to record the new re-enactment of the walk in late 2017. The walk involved over one hundred community members - children, their families, teachers and volunteers, who covered a distance of seventy kilometres in seven days.

Ivan Milat: Killer in the Forest explores how Milat - Australia's worst serial killer - butchered seven backpackers in the Belanglo State Forest and what it took to catch him

Ben Felten (51), who as a teenager was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease that left him completely blind in his mid-thirties. Despite his visual impairment, he wants to fulfill his childhood dream: top-level motorcycle racing.

A down and out adventurer gets a job telling fortunes in the carpets he cleans. One such reading leads him to Belgrade to fall for a dancer whose boyfriends all end up dead and haunting her plumbing.

What happens when six strangers from different walks of life respond to an online ad to meet someone new for the first time in front of a camera? A social experiment unpacking first impressions and the lost art of conversation.

In dystopian Melbourne, a wandering, benevolent ghost must come to terms with her past.

The gentlest of journeys through an increasingly shattering world.

One tentacle at a time she is drawn backwards into an ever-darkening world beyond the greenhouse.

Kids, don’t try this at home!

There’s someone for everyone – sometimes it’s just a matter of having the courage to reach out.

Billie, a 17-year-old non-binary teenager, prepares to attend a formal for underage queer youth for the first time. As they choose their outfit and get their hair dyed, they reveal how they navigate the awkwardness of adolescence while also dealing with the anxieties that come with being young and queer.

Follow the epic journey of nine Indigenous Australian Rangers, along with acclaimed Indigenous musician Dan Sultan, as they travel to Kenya, Africa, to share knowledge, culture and music with a tribe of Maasai Community Rangers. Through the lens of award-winning filmmaker Rhys Graham, this film tells the often-untold story of the sacrifices and strength that bind together the international Ranger family.

One boy takes pills to push his inner demons away, but when his pills run to none, he must face his greatest fear.

A man lives in an isolated house. Grieving over his mother he completes a number of daily rituals. He opens all the windows and doors. He lights incense and says a small prayer. Today he washes his Mother’s clothes. He prays to four alpacas on top of a mountain. For his final act he takes her ashes up to see the alpacas. Pouring out the ashes he is uncertain as to whether it helped him move on.

The Lives of a visiting couple intertwine with the youth of an Australian coastal town.

Channelling Lye and McLaren, de Bruyn continues his explorations of ‘direct-to-film’ inspired artwork barely contained within the frame.

An abstract animation set to music by Graeme Bell and his Orchestra recorded in Melbourne in 1950.

Matt is a bully, but he's also a victim of an abusive father. His friends are conflicted when Matt attacks another student, but they don't stop him either. As the bullying continues support comes from his sister Em who can see him headed to a dark place. In the end, Matt must make a choice that will define him.

A cup of tea might not solve every problem but it can act as a kind of punctuation for life’s travails.

Werner searches for his lost hearing aid before his wife Adele dies of cancer.

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

In 2013, Film makers Anna and Tom Davies set off on a round-the-world journey, meeting and connecting with different people from different backgrounds and collating their stories. Each person interviewed shared who they are, what they'd experienced, their ideas on love and freedom and lessons they've learnt. The documentary is a compilation of these stories and insights. An opportunity to learn, appreciate, connect and care about people living in our global community.

Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist living in Melbourne. Born in Ethiopia, she spent her first years in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp before moving to Australia as a child. Her work explores migrant narratives, postcolonial practices in the diaspora, the relationship between public and private spaces and identity through portraiture.

A school teacher is stalked after hours by an evil entity.

In a silent and inhospitable forest, a young woman finds the lifeless body of a 10-year-old boy and endeavours to take him home.

When the son of a billionaire (Riley Hillman) is required by the government to complete his English Degree in order to gain access to his inheritance, worlds collide when he walks to class and brushes up against the schools resident bully (Dallas Rodgers).

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