Discoveries from Australia World Cinema

After freezing at gunpoint, Alex becomes haunted by her past inaction and vows to never let it happen again.

A look at a situation that leads to a bad end. Carol Jerrems' only known extant fiml.

The outer-suburbs of Melbourne. 2007. Over the course of a summer, the inseparable and blossoming friendship between two thirteen-year-old boys is disrupted.

Two estranged friends reconnect over a long walk to Hungry Jack's

A young man finds himself in peril after he lies to his mother and meets up with a stranger from a hookup app

A comedy about a prisoner, Mohamed, relating to three fellow inmates the tale of how he landed in jail. He tells the story of his misadventures with Apolonia, a drag queen he meets at the door of a night club; realising that Apolonia is not what he'd like her to be.

Bruno is making stuffed mushrooms for dinner when his best friend Alex calls. After some amiable chit-chat, Alex reveals something shocking: a house has collapsed on him, and he's going to die soon. And now he's calling Bruno and asking him to make his short film idea since Alex won't be around much longer.

After a drug deal gone wrong, the deteriorating friendship of two best friends turned drug dealers reaches its breaking point when one of them announces his intention to leave their business.

Thanks to sophisticated equipment, marine biologists have managed to capture unprecedented scenes of the intimate life of humpback whales off the Australian coast. A spectacular immersion in the intimate life of this mysterious species. Off the coast of the Kimberley in northwestern Australia is a major breeding ground for humpback whales. Thanks to sophisticated equipment, such as aerial cameras on board quadrotors or innovative night vision technologies, Curt and Micheline Jenner, whale researchers, capture unprecedented scenes revealing the behavior of cetaceans.

Six aspiring chefs battle it out in the kitchen! This season, three new judges step into the spotlight. Will their critique inspire culinary greatness—or their untimely demise? Who be crowned The King of The Golden Spatula, and who will be devoured? Find out on Spatula Smackdown—where the food isn’t the only thing that’s killer!

When a few friends stumble upon a possessed game controller, they must work together to defeat the evil inhabiting their apartment.

Aiming to capture views of Hong Kong months before its return to the Chinese government, this Australian documentary features views of the city filmed from its historic trams on 16mm film.

This documentary provides an extraordinarily personal window into the last two weeks of the life of Victorian artist Lee Stephenson. Shot by the artist’s daughter, at Longlee, her mother’s home in the Goulburn Valley, we watch Lee navigate her own death with varying levels of grace, clarity, and humour.

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

Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett reported the Vietnam War from the perspective of the North Vietnamese. For this he was reviled as a traitor and a communist in the Australian media. He had been the first journalist into Hiroshima after the atom bomb, and he covered wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Filmmaker David Bradbury interviews Burchett in his later years and intercuts the interview with archival footage and still photographs. Burchett is seen in newsreel coverage and in footage taken by the North Vietnamese. Archival footage of the Vietnam War and newsreel footage of Hiroshima after the atom bomb enrich the documentary.

Fifty years ago, aspiring thespians Terry and Carole Ann Gill arrived in Australia from England seeking fame and fortune. But they never quite made the big time. Instead they stumbled into the curious world of children's pantomimes. Over the decades, they have built a successful business and touched the lives of generations of children; but their own dreams have slowly faded. Now aged in their 70s, with their beloved theatre under threat from a greedy property developer, Terry and Carole Ann's careers appear to be coming to an untimely close. As they battle to remain open, they are forced to reflect on the choices they have made in their lives.

Carlos has a crush on Sophie and to win her affection begins to take French lessons from Mickey, who also has a crush on Sophie. As they team up to learn more about her, feelings develop that neither anticipated.

Queens is an intergenerational documentary told entirely through the voices of drag performers. At its centre is legendary entertainer Doug Lucas, who reflects on the early days of drag as camp comedy, its marginalisation within the queer community and the pivotal role drag queens played during the AIDS crisis. Intercut with Doug’s memories and contemporaneous archival news footage are vibrant performances and candid reflections from a new generation of drag artists. In the present day, drag becomes a form of transformation, armour and freedom: a space to explore gender, authenticity and fantasy on one’s own terms. Juxtaposing past and present, Queens reveals drag as both resistance and celebration, as well as a living legacy of creativity and community.

When a malevolent creature resides inside the artwork of a 10 year old girl, fate is sealed, with trauma from her childhood echoing across her life. Art and horror collide when the girl becomes a Mother and desperately tries to come to terms with her delusions and the shocking truth of her daughter.

A bicycle seat. A roof. A car park. Light. Shadow. The aperture control. Piano. Synthesizer. Delay effects. A sci-fi/horror fantasy ... the shadows have landed.

Rugby league clash between Sydney Firsts and the American All Stars, who toured Australia and New Zealand between May and August 1953.

An attempt at an unadulterated biography of one life of many within a moment, which always will be, and always was, a memory.

The way of life for people living along the tropic of Capricorn in Queensland 1965. Farming and mining are the main industries in this area of Australia and the only way to get around is by road train, train or plane. The hard way of life for these people is portrayed in this film.

A mutant woman who's being held captive in a sadist's basement sees an opportunity for escape when her latest visitor arrives.

Documentary on Australian actor Ernie Dingo. As an actor, Ernie Dingo has played many parts, but many people see his major achievement as being a role model for other Aborigines. This film traces the life of the WA actor from his birth in a corrugated iron shed on Bullado station to early childhood in Mullewa, and his high school years in Geraldton to the beginning of his acting career.

Soundtrack to War showcases spontaneous music performances by a striking cast of battle weary. Performances made without rehearsal, under the blaring Iraqi sun, with a destroyed city, the distraction of gunfire and bursting mortar shells forming a frightening backdrop. American culture came into Iraq, wired into its tanks and helicopters - a live soundtrack to war, with lyrics such as Let The Bodies Hit The Floor, Round Out, The Tank and Bombs over Baghdad, being memorised by every soldier and forever linked to the violent events they accompanied. As the war extended into a second year, many started writing and performing their own songs. It was rock, rap & roll.

TuTiTu is a series of successful 3D animated videos for children 2-3 years old. Young viewers are introduced to a nice red hovercraft called TuTiTu, which guides in exploring the "building blocks" version of the world. In each episode "toys come to life", where colored shapes are transformed into an exciting new toy, which lead the child to identify the name of the toy.

A man coming home from work has the misfortune of running into the Havoc Killer.

In a not-so-distant future, scientists have discovered immortality. What follows is a surreal exploration of the sometimes banal, sometimes chaotic consequences, begging the question: is there meaning in infinity?

A woman walking her dog in the bush has a disturbing encounter with a young girl.

When Martin, a South Sudanese refugee, happens upon a bull he believes is his spiritual totem, he decides to rescue it from the abattoir he works in. Once home, the bull begins to jeopardize Martin's family's chance at fitting in. Martin is torn between his ancient cultural identity and his family's new life.

After 32 years of heartache, bitterness and despair, it took just seconds for Guus Hiddink to exude a rare sense of calmness in the Socceroos dressing room. Four years prior to the now famous night on November 16, 2005, a fragile Australian team had been bullied off the park by Uruguay in its quest to finally break its World Cup drought. Intimidated from the moment they touched down in Montevideo in 2001, spat on by locals and then roared off the park by 60,000 manic fans in the Estadio Centenario, they had barely stood a chance. Now older, more mature and — with Hiddink in charge — more professional, things would be different four years on. That change in mentality flows through November 16, a gripping documentary from Richard Bayliss and Ben Coonan that depicts the Socceroos’ journey from West Germany in 1974 to the moment John Aloisi’s crisp spot kick struck the back of Fabian Carini’s net.

In an all-boys boarding school in the 1950s, Agosto stands in the field, painfully taking part in a game of lunch-time cricket. He is detached from his surroundings unlike his friend Hector, who seems to revel in the attention of his classmates.

An Irish schoolboy, recruited on a mission funded by Rupert Murdoch, becomes the champion of a game on the other side of the world.

A man is in a nightclub for a casting in a film. The crew like him immediately. However, they make a condition, to get the part he has to go with them to their studio. He accepts. When they arrive to destination the place turns out to be a creepy old basement in the middle of nowhere.

When the Silly Billies hear that their circus friends are in trouble, they decide to help. Fun and laughter follow as the Silly Billies create chaos under the big top. Don’t miss the crazy chase scene, when the scheming bank manager makes off with the takings. Will the big top be repossessed? Will the elephants be raffled? How much mayhem can a puppy cause on the high trapeze? And the big question is… who’ll save the circus from the Silly Billies? Featuring the circus performers from Baz Luhrman’s Moulin Rouge.

An expressionless man drives along a sterile freeway. Unaware of his concrete and steel surroundings he is consumed by the surface of his world. But is he so consumed that he is unable to see what’s underneath?

When an actress leaves set with one of Manny's microphones he must retrieve it or face dire consequences. Hearing only the sound from Manny's boom microphone, and the runaway actress' radio mic, we follow Manny on a treacherous journey through Music Videos, Timetravellers, the dreaded Sound Council and more. Paco is a film about filmmaking, the importance of sound, and the lifestyle of a freelance film creative.

What should have been a simple train ride home at night for a woman turns into a terrifying game of cat and mouse until an unforeseen force is summoned.

Two happy, gentle robots take some time out to visit a theme park and take in the sights.

Struggling with the move to Australia, a father concedes that he might not be the only one having a hard time with the transition.

Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a treaty between man and nature whereby neither one of us shall pass these thresholds lest we become subject to the law of the other.

Paul Craig is an aviator-inventor who becomes blind due to overwork. He stumbles into a room as a person is being killed by foreign agents - who decide to let Craig live because he cannot identify them. The murder is part of a plot to overthrow the monarchy of fictional Ruvania.

Explore Amsterdam's breaking scene in a captivating, authentic documentary by Monkey District. Meet BBoys/BGirls, hear untold stories, and feel the passion. Dive deeper into this vibrant culture to learn more.

Comedians Joel Creasey and Rhys Nicholson travel to a regional Victorian town where Joel was previously subjected to homophobic abuse, to find out what it's really like for LGBTI kids growing up in regional Australia.

OzHarvest CEO Ronni Kahn has enough passion and drive to move mountains – but can she reduce the exorbitant pile of food Australians waste each year? Food Fighter follows Ronni’s crusade as she partners with the United Nations, rubs shoulders with royalty and Jamie Oliver’s juggernaut, rifles through dumpster bins, and holds government to account.

The recollections of a shattered and traumatised man, a former escapee from the advancing Japanese army relates the horrors of war, his doubts and misgivings of the support of comrades, his fear for the loss of his best friend, and of course, his own fear of dying. "Journey to the End of Night" is the diary of a soldier. Although it was filmed forty years after the event, it is a timeless universal testimony because of its power and emotion. It is the voice of an individual raised against the violence, the horror and the futility of war. The film raises one question which continues to haunt us: a soldier is trained to kill, but not to commit murder. Who can draw the line?

Two roommates in a dystopian world with conflicting beliefs explore the themes of media bias and authoritarianism, through the use of satire. fuelled by subtle ironies and contradictions, that we as a society still accept today.

Fresh out of prison, alex has nothing but a dream of an uncomplicated life. Unfortunately however, within the hour he's entangled in wirh the beautiful out of work actress Blanka, who dressed as a bunny hands out pamphlets on the streets of Warsaw

On a banana plantation in northern Australia a young deer hunter longs to be accepted by the workers around him.

One last move. One last deal. A game with her younger self decides what she carries into the future.

Luc Longley on Andrew Bogut: Lane Violation explores the unlikely mentorship between two basketball greats. As Bogut transitions from polarising NBA star to assistant coach of the Sydney Kings, this intimate documentary charts ego, resilience, growth and the shaping of a new legacy in Australian basketball.

A young artist in one town shares a letter correspondence with an older artist in another.

A Man talks about a Small Grey Plastic Box of great personal importance in a featureless white void.

Simon is on a date with a pathological liar. As the romance progresses and the lies grow darker and more elaborate, Simon is left to wonder if he will get the girl or if he will get out alive.

Tess Hooper is a diligent and earnest cinema studies student, haunted by a shameful incident from her past. One by one Tess's friends end up brutally murdered after opening the "Watch Me" email, a file that spreads through electronic address books to seek its next victim. All murders bear the same traits: a red-headed woman in a yellow dress, an internet connection, the victims' eyes sewn shut. As Tess becomes the next target in line, she finds herself seeking answers from Taku, an illegal film dealer with the unsavory nickname of "freak boy" and the moral integrity of a rattlesnake. But showing up voluntarily at Taku's lair, Tess finds herself in even more danger than when she was on her own. If the two can survive each other, they may just be able to live through this deadly email. As the clock ticks and the body count mounts, the two must untangle the puzzle to stop "Watch Me" from its poisonous rampage.

Early short film by Zlatko Kasumovic

When aged-care facility workers find two residents in bed together, familial tensions rise.