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Florence and Sandra are closing up the school for the night, but dark forces are at work.

A short student documentary tackling the negative stigma surrounding skateboarders in Western Australia.

Moreton Bay, 1832. Following the loss of their beloved daughter, an Irish convict pair escape to the bush in a desperate attempt to return home.

Following two rivers, one drain, one sea and one creek, it turns out that paddling to work, which ends up being mostly a drag, over four full days, is bloody hard work.

A soul wakes up in a human body, in a clinical environment, unsure as to how they got there. They pick up a phone in the room only to be put on hold by a strange cosmic operator who eventually has to hard sell the concept of life on earth to this perplexed new soul, which on paper, sounds like a total farce.

Katia Schwartz is a Deaf and Queer professional Aerial performer, and the owner/founder of Sky Sirens dance studio in Sydney, Australia. After an unexpected diagnosis with a profound hearing loss not once but twice, she is compelled to reflect on her identity, life and career. Katia's story is a unique journey through passion, loss and love from a perspective rarely represented on-screen.

In September 2016 five ‘Peace Pilgrims’ trekked overnight through the central Australian bush into the secretive military facility Pine Gap, 18 kms east of Alice Springs. Their plan of action, according to the police recording of the interview, was to “pray for a miracle”. They were spotted by surveillance CCTV around 3.30 a.m. as they approached the ‘prohibited area’ and were arrested about an hour before sunrise. When the sun came up on September 29, 2016 Margaret Pestorius, Jim Dowling, Jim’s son Franz, Timothy Webb and Andy Paine were to be charged under the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act, a law originally designed to protect 1950s British atom bomb tests on Montebello Island, Emu Fields and Maralinga. They faced 7 years jail.

Two kids post lockdown discuss what matters most... to them.

As Garang struggles on his first day at high school in Australia, memories of being lost in South Sudan are triggered. When past and present collide, Garang must find a way to bridge the gap between where he is and where he’s come from.

An environmental film shot in the Blue Mountains.

Eight People. Two Teams. One Artefact.

During COVID lockdown, a boy’s affinity with nature eases his loneliness and leads to an incredible friendship.

For Creation is an elaborate contemplation of the great weight, the myriad complexity, the glittering webs of matter and sentience. Combining playful proposition, ardent queerness, elegy and homage, Kelly’s animated paper collage, made over 3 years, forms a call to congregants of creation. Musical collaborators and queer legends Stereogamous composed the anthemic soundtrack, which features the voices of SJ Norman and emerging popstar Lupa J.

Shot within the constraints of Melbourne’s ongoing COVID-19 lockdowns, ‘Leave Your Body’ features the apartment where the filmmaker spent the better part of 2020 and 2021. However, where she sees a prison, her partner Sean sees a sanctuary. To him these five rooms are a fortress, not only protecting them from the virus, but also from the social pressure to interact with strangers. Portraying a fictitious version of himself (as well as the film’s various intruders) he defends his solitude while quietly losing touch with reality. ‘Leave Your Body’ is a celebration of isolation, but also an acknowledgement that the longer confinement continues; the harder it is to rejoin society.

A drowning survivor must confront the dangerous fixation she has on the accident and the woman who saved her.

An awkward 20-something must face the morning-after consequences when she brings home her housemate's ex-girlfriend.

Smart Homes for Seniors joins a group of elders in regional Australia on their 6 month journey of living with smart home technologies, in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film shares the joys, frustration and wisdom of Edna and Bob, Beryl and David, Hilda and Owen, Shirley and John, Helen and Ken and Robert as they and their pets learned to live with digital voice assistants, smart lights, robotic vacuum cleaners. The voices of seniors need to be accounted for when designing the technology and services which will support older generations to stay safe, independent and active at home. Smart Homes for Seniors brings their priorities, needs and experiences into view.

Featuring Brendan Davies and David King, both locals, the film explores their deep connection with the Blue Mountains. The Blue Mountains are known for their dramatic scenery, rugged sandstone tablelands, wilderness, valleys, waterfalls and rainforests. Brendan is a professional trail runner and explores countless areas through running. He starts to prepare for Ultra Trail Australia 100KM and also, the career transition to an outdoor adventure guide. David King, a Gundungurra man, has indigenous ancestors that have lived in the mountains for thousands of years. David continues to educate people on his past, the mountains, environmental activities and through Swamp Care.

Siblings Andy and Zach are stuck in lockdown in two different houses, and the only thing that connects them is their phone calls. Each trapped in their own heads, they're forced to come to terms with themselves before their relationship collapses under the weight of their neuroses.

Young Violet Daniels recalls her relationship with her best friend following her sudden disappearance

A poetic interpretation of storytelling passed on through the images taken by my father as he traveled and worked through the Southern Hemisphere in the 1960s and 70s. Stories of personal and parallel struggles across lands and oceans.

A short film directed by Cooper West about a world where mormons don't take no for an answer.

A young photographer lusts after his ideal subject - and believes he cannot create his art without her.

More than 60 percent of Australians have never heard of quolls or even know what they are. Meet Paul, a passionate quoll lover and the founder of QuollSA. He shares with us his love for quolls, his conservation activities, and how important it is to help protect these marsupial predators as they are close to facing the deadly risk of extinction.

"Badass Bunyip" is a a schlocky, gory, Australian Christmas movie. When Shazza and Dazza accidentally choose an sacred Aboriginal site to have their Christmas lunch, all hell breaks loose.

Hi, this is my submission for the uninvited ghost support services. You'd think 'of course ghosts get invited to Halloween parties', right? But to be uninvited from a Halloween party just hurts.

Naina Sen (The Song Keepers, MIFF 2017) explores the relationship between biracial identity and generational belonging through traditional Balinese dance. A revealing, deeply personal account of artist Jocelyn Tribe’s life, Poleng utilises contemporary movement, Balinese dance, and archival and family photographs to delve into the complicated tangle of mixed-race identity, growing up with an absent parent and intergenerational relationships. Layered, luminous and presented with at times excruciating honesty, this dance documentary duets presence with absence in chronicling a life only half-understood.

Caden, a disturbed loner whose girlfriend has recently died, takes his anger out on an unknown victim. As he buries the body in a seemingly empty location - everything doesn't go according to plan.

Francesca Curtis and Phyllis Papps are many things. Researchers. Writers. Ultra-Feminists. Partners. They are also the first lesbian couple to come out on national television almost fifty years ago. Putting everything on the line, Phyllis and Francesca appeared on ABC TV This Day Tonight’s interview about lesbianism in October 1970. Now in the final years of their lives, the couple open up about love, loss and political change, solidified inside a fifty year relationship. A powerful and inspiring film about acceptance set against Australia’s fight for marriage equality.

14 year old Sarah meets 17 year old Stella online. They spend a day together in Woy Woy. Pelicans squark. Stella Squarks. And Sarah doesn't know what to do.

A Film by A. Costa

A silent film inspired by a William Carlos Williams poem in which a mother takes out one of her old ballet costumes and starts to dance again.

Comedian, architecture enthusiast and design nerd Tim Ross takes us across Australia to meet the families whose lives have been shaped by the exceptional designs of their iconic homes.

Loss, longing, and the passage of time come to the fore on a day when loneliness is a nightmare for some, but a comfort for others.

A terrifying assassin chases his victim through gloomy alleys and abandoned parking garages – but before he can deliver the final blow, his victim-in-waiting takes courage and stands up for themself.

"The Gods of Tiny Things" thinks poetically and urgently about the current array of threats to life; the shift to the right across the political world, the tolls of colonialism, climate catastrophe, human profligacy; and conversely the dynamic, kaleidoscopic pleasures and desires of life itself, at all scales, in all its teeming, prancing, hectic, clamouring fertility. We are dancing at the end of time.

On the release of ABBA's first album in 40 years, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson host this 7News Spotlight Special Event.

Kaylee Desmond is losing her identity. She refuses to acknowledge her family history of trauma. Her current partner is never happy with who she is. And then there’s her job. Kaylee is a frontline therapist who performs a unique form of treatment- she dresses as the lost loved one of her clients, so that they can say goodbye

Emotionally numb, Matthew goes through the motions, day after day, when one afternoon he finds a bloody, unconscious body on the floor of his home, and, in shock, he dials the emergency line.

Certain Children focuses on the relationship between two young boys in rural Australia. It follows 15-year-old Nic during a pivotal moment in his life, as he prepares to move away from his hometown with his mother; this brings an end to his developing relationship with his closest friend, James. The film is an honest portrayal of the isolating nature of growing up queer in rural Australia, exploring the themes of loneliness, nostalgia and identity.

A homeless teenager wanders his surrounding suburban neighbourhood searching for meaning. A music video adaptation of Peter, Paul and Mary's cover of "500 Miles".

Following a troubled history with organised crime, a helpless young man is forced into doing one final job.

A documentary by Brooke Linnegar

A detective, still reeling from the unsolved murder of a beautiful teenager, recounts the events surrounding the girl’s mysterious death as her own psyche begins to fracture.

KIN is a modern day retelling of the biblical story Kane and Able, set in a zombie apocalyptic world. When Kane is attacked by a Zombie, 'Adam' jumps to his defense, and is bitten in the process. Kane locks his brother up in an abandoned warehouse where they nervously wait to see if the infection will take hold and transform Adam into a zombie. But Adam has a plan of his own which ultimately asks the question: if you had to, could you kill your own brother?

A poetic, ethnographic documentary that draws on the individual and collective memories of ordinary Italian migrants who made Victoria, Australia their home after the end of the second world war.

As one woman's turn as the Songstress nears its end, another responds to the call to take her place.

"Who are you?" is an audiovisual work made up of images and sounds that surface after haptic and scopic experiments have taken place. I find myself stitching hums, vibrations, colours, shapes, repetition and rhythms that invoke an inquiry inward.