Discoveries from Australia World Cinema

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

The adventures of two punk maniacs on the run after they have escaped from a psychiatric ward.

Hong Kong marked twenty years since its hand over; halfway through the planned forty year "one country, two systems" transition. Taiwan, once imperial China, once Formosa, now ROC on the edge of the PRC. Multiple exposures of street scenes distort space and place creating a fluid sense of impermanence and transition, of two states somewhere between China and not China.

Twice every day, rain hail or shine. That's how often the dancers at Donhuan Lu gather to exercise in the plaza. The music and the moves are hard to pass by, and the personalities are even more captivating! "Happy Dance" is a short exploration of the phenomenon that is 广场舞, and how it turns ordinary neighbours into good friends.

When a woman invites her date up to her apartment, she surprises him by performing an impromptu striptease. But is this a seduction... or an evaluation? And will he fail horribly?

The most requested segments from the Rats Arse tour including - 'Celebrity Sperm Bank', 'Ladies and Gentlemen'. Also featuring the songs - 'I Hate Cats Vol. 02' and 'Why Won't Rolf Harris Just f*!#off and Die'.

After being fired from his job at a grocer, George, gets a job as a stableboy at a local stud farm run by the Fleming family. He befriends the horse Hotspur who is a favourite to win the Melbourne Cup, and develops a strong whistle which is used to make the horse run fast.

When an enormous mine threatens the Sepik River, Papua New Guinean activist Manu Peni and his people launch an urgent mission to protect the waterway, by recognising the river’s own Right to Life.

PLEASE NOTE: June 2027 is not a confirmed date. It is our target completion date and may change. Born In Blue is produced using Unreal Engine. Unreal Engine is a trademark or registered trademark of Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved. Set in Mount Gambier, South Australia, the film follows Lumy, a young girl who witnesses her father’s sacrifice at the edge of the mysterious Blue Lake. Growing up with unhealed trauma and an unexplainable power tied to the water itself, Lumy retreats into science while being quietly hunted by forces she doesn’t fully understand. Years later, she forms a deep connection with a broken but kindred soul, Ashton. Together, they become scientists and uncover a dangerous truth buried beneath the lake one that links Lumy’s existence to a phenomenon capable of reshaping reality. As the past resurfaces and the hunters return, Lumy must confront what her father died to protect. Born In Blue is a story of grief, survival, inheritance, and the cost of love.

A rowdy singer - blindsided when her guitarist/problematic lover quits the band - struggles to write a song to prove to her record label she's worth keeping solo. Looks like she'll have to face herself before she can face the music.

Steffie Waters has lived her whole life in a small and strangely musical country town, brought up by her grandmother Maria. Steffie would love to get to the city but is held back by loyalty to her boyfriend Mike and best friend Allie. But when Sebastian Johnson and Kev Plummer, two ageing judges from a struggling reality TV show, arrive in town to run a music competition, Steffie has to make tough decisions. As the week unfolds, Sebastian - Maria's old flame - is confronted with the consequences of his past, and he and Steffie must both work out what is truly important in life. Featuring a superb soundtrack, The Competition is a warm-hearted story of what it really takes to follow your dreams.

Marc Fennell investigates the successful, but scandal-plagued megachurch Hillsong, stepping back into the world of Pentecostalism that he left behind and asking what happens as the Hillsong kingdom crumbles.

A blind man in a dark room melts into celluloid, feeling with his hands the messy layers of processed reality.

As the camera moves gently from afar into the very heart of the monolith, the magic of the holiest site of the Aborigines unfolds in shimmering nuances of light. Shot at different times of day, the close-up and panorama shots of this more than 500-million-year-old stone formation combine silence and acoustically altered birdsong to convey a feeling of timelessness into which a sense of loss is also inscribed. The somnambulistic moonrise in the great sky seems almost like an abstract painting and yet it is real. The areas of discolouration in the film material caused by problems in the developing process were deliberately left in the film as a metaphor for the looming threat to this natural environment through bushfires and tourism.

The Australian myth of the ‘drover's wife' retold from a different perspective.

After returning from several months abroad, Daniel becomes concerned for his elderly neighbour and family friend, Nelly, after she reveals to him her recent dementia diagnosis. To make matters worse, the valuable tea set Nelly inherited from Rodney, her neighbour of 40 years, has been found out by Ada, Rodney's estranged niece, and Dev, Ada's husband. The pair feels they are the rightful heirs. Panicked, Daniel prepares Nelly to deny any knowledge of the priceless crockery before Ada and Dev are scheduled to arrive that afternoon.

A former Australian soldier suffers from depression.

Narrated by the birds that roost in the rafters of a shopping centre, "Peeps" is a portrait of five unique teenage girls in contemporary Australia.

Two brothers embark on a surfing trip together, attempting to bury past grievances in the process. As their surfing adventure unravels, so do the delicate and fragile bonds of brotherhood.

The surprising coming of age story of four diverse women who have had their lives dramatically changed by their love of a boyband - Backstreet Boys, One Direction, Take That and The Beatles.

Like the Earth, the human body is a planet teeming with wild life in the midst of fascinating landscapes. For the first time, a microscopic film safari traces these different life forms in and on the human body. These organisms thrive and compete, feed and reproduce, develop and die. In the course of the journey, it becomes clear that some of these organisms are useful and even vital for humans, while others are harmful. Nevertheless, they are all part of a sophisticated ecosystem that has developed over the course of evolution. The number of bacteria that the human body harbors is greater than the number of cells that make it up. Every human being is therefore in constant interaction with countless microorganisms.

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.

Influencer Nadia, the epitome of online perfection, is thrown into crisis when her husband seeks to end their marriage threatening her online reputation.

Following the disappearance of her girlfriend a trans filmmaker discovers EmileCam, a 24-hour livestream which had been devoted to spying on her.

Red Lantern is a homage to Ethnic-Australian Creatives. It explores the struggle of following your creative pursuits against all odds and family expectations, without a guarantee of success. A timeless tale of culture versus creativity, and how the two can intersect to give birth to something powerful.

The lyrical and monstrous are interwoven in Gloomy Valentine, a stop motion, animated short film that tells the story of Gloomy, a woman struggling to overcome the sadness of a broken heart. Aesthetically influenced by gothic surrealism, Gloomy is haunted by memory and is ultimately consumed by nightmarish shadows.

Mimicking the hyperbolic rhetoric of today’s copyright cops, Hollywood Burn pits a righteous league of video pirates against the evil tyrant Moses and his Copyright Commandments. Determined to alter the present by changing the past, the pirates travel back to 1955 to construct the ultimate weapon: an Elvis Presley video-clone. Part sci-fi + rom com + biblical epic + action movie, this free-culture manifesto adopts the tactical responses of the parasite, feeding off the body of Hollywood and inhabiting its cinematic structures and codes. The unwitting all-star cast includes Elvis Presley, Charlton Heston, Monkey, Batman, Bette Davis, Jaws, Jesus, The Hulk, The Hoff and the Ghostbusters.

Asian-Australian Wen is in for a surprise when she tags along to Chinese New Year lunch with Aunty Poh and her friends... The Aunties take the honour of fighting to pay the bill very seriously. When limbs start flying, Wen and Aunty Poh come to terms with the importance of friendship and family.

In an empty departed plane, hidden from sight, a woman wakes up alone to find herself trapped. The doors are locked, it's dark and now something unseen is hunting her. Suddenly, her plight becomes not only to escape, but to survive.

Welcome to 'Col Elliot's Roadworks' - It's a hilarious mix of Col's stories, observations, gags, unplayable songs, characters and travel. Nothing and nobody's sacred - if you're into being politically correct this is definitely not for you - put it back on the shelf.

An actor refuses to let her audition end until she gets the line just right.

A pharmaceutical trial promises Aya her lost memories, but as they return, her body begins to manifest them in disturbing ways.

Humans on an artificial planet fight to survive against the Karbaths and themselves.

When Andy wakes up in the middle of nowhere, he has to figure out how to get home, and he just may need some help from the one person that stranded him there.

A short film adapted from Shakespeare's "Macbeth". After emerging victorious from a battle for King Duncan, Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, believes his fate is assured, but is he merely destiny's play thing?

Follow the 2021 Queensland State of Origin Women's team as they strive to achieve the extraordinary in one of the most physically demanding professional sports in Australia.

A single frame camera exploration of the home, inside and out, including its inhabitants and pets.

With a party at seven and one last delivery, Kara burns both rubber and bridges to make both ends meet.

A man. A tumour. Twins.

When a camping trip takes a wrong turn, a mysterious figure in the woods unleashes a deadly virus — and the infection begins to take hold. As their friend begins to change, the group scrambles to survive the night, uncovering a nightmare far beyond anything they imagined.

In an isolated land, two creatures embark on a journey of adventure through uncontrollable forces of nature to find each other.

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.

bastard hybrid of a short film/music video chronicling a breakup in six parts

A journalist is sent to a rural town to help put their name back on the map. However, as he begins to meet the town's folk, it becomes more apparent that the job will be more costly than originally anticipated.

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.

On the way to a school recital, a mother and son get into a volatile argument that unveils the vast space between them.

When bodybuilder Anax dies, his followers mourn. His death inspires another.

An older sister takes her younger sister out of the house for a day of movies, arcade games and bowling as a distraction from a more ominous situation unravelling back at home.

All Andrew wants is a change of scenery, but his grimy new St Kilda apartment has other ideas.

When a killer decides to stalk their next victim, all is not as it seems.

This account of the cattle industry in northern Australia includes such aspects as mustering, dipping and droving, together with some description of a typical outback station.

Through chance and coincidence, infinitely small decisions can produce new life.

Cindy, a not-so-normal teenager who, whilst grappling with the hormonal changes of puberty, finds that she has the unexpected ability to create a voodoo doll which she uses against her unfaithful boyfriend. She decides to embrace this new-found occult power as she continues to fiercely torture any boy who does her wrong.

Could crash diets be the future of weight loss? This bold documentary tackles the obesity crisis head on, as scientists test a radical diet based on new research that could transform the way we lose weight forever.

Trapped in a torture room, Derrick must find a way to escape, but when certain truths are uncovered, chaos ensues, and the cookies begin to crumble.

The events surrounding the liberation of Skopje.

"On The Australia Beaches... The Force Awakens."

Writer, historian and art critic Robert Hughes presents a survey of Australian art from the time of the First Fleet to the present day, based on the social background of the times and the overseas prototypes from which much of Australia's art revealed.