Discoveries from Australia World Cinema

Amidst a series of female kidnappings, Samantha has a date with a mysterious man she knows very little about.

After years of struggling to make it in the music business, and achieving surprising success; Shaun Diviney, Andy Clemmensen and Bradie Webb share their story whilst recording their third studio album. Pain, pleasure and a lot of penis.

Using the vast and untapped heritage of 8mm home movies, Homemade History is a private record of Australia. The series celebrates amateur filmmakers and their remarkable library of memories. Colourful, intimate and occasionally out of focus, each 5 minute episode tells a small story that fills a gap in our formal history.

An exploration of what it's like to be young, sexual and disabled in Australia, with three young Australians with disabilities opening up about their intimate lives.

90s cooking show host Corey Wells records a special Christmas episode for his cooking show 'Cooking with Corey' where his wife/co-host is curiously missing

Megan, a young girl on her way home from school, waits for the bus before she encounters Death, who has come to take her into the afterlife. As luck would have it, Death neglected to account for daylight savings, which means he arrived an hour early for Megan’s death. Megan and Death must endure the awkward time between the present and her untimely death.

When two former lovers reunite through returned belongings, the future of their relationship is tested by the feelings that still remain.

Racing desperately against the setting of the sun as if pursued by the very devil, a man sprints through a barren field seeking the safe haven of a derelict farmhouse. What is he afraid of and what happens when darkness comes?

An unseen location scout explores an opal-mining town in South Australia in this sci-fi-laced essay film, which finds in this semideserted region both the traces of indigenous culture and remnants of cinema history

If you could stick it to a man snoring in a tent, you'd use a balloon too.

A young man has a secret crush on his teacher and rather than admit his feelings to anyone, he takes his own life. He tells his "last secret" in a suicide note to his sister, because his parents would never understand. The final tragedy occurs when we find that the teacher has a secret crush of his own.

Desperate to win the acceptance of the older boys he idolises, 15-year-old Casey agrees to rob a war veteran's cabin.

A delivery driver seeks revenge after an unfortunate series of events.

Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular (formerly Live Experience) is an arena stage show based off the palaeo-documentary Walking with Dinosaurs, which toured from 2007 to 2020. The show sees audiences guided trough the mesozoic by a palaeontologist named Huxley. The show used giant mobile puppets (with a few suits for good measure) created by Australian company The Creature Technology Company.

Movie that came with 1st pressing copies of 7th frenzal rhomb album "Forever Malcom Young

"The War Rages On..."

A self funded, no budget, abstract animated film, made with miniature (10cm X 7cm) hand painted glass panels.

A diary film. A university student reflects on his time at uni, longing for the days when he was "pretty naive".

A man delivers a eulogy at his wife’s funeral that transports him through time and fleeting memories.

When the strange sounds in her new home prevent Elle from enjoying a relaxing night alone, she begins to suspect an evil presence. As she discovers the true intentions of her tormentor, her night becomes a fight to survive.

This film makes a general survey of the Northern Territory of Australia and indicates its potential in regard to many already established industries. These include agriculture, mining, fisheries, cattle raising, pearling and the like. The Territory is still a land of many challenging problems; its greatest limiting factor being the lack of water. In recent years transportation has been improved and education approached with vision and imagination. Housing is also being developed. Two thirds of the Territory’s work force is in Government employ.

“Burlesqueing western conventions, this film has silent movie titles and music and a posse of shetland ponies. A gumnut satire of Westerns with a fine eye for the absurd.” (The Australian Filmmakers Co-operatives Catalogue of Independent Film)

In 2012, The Seekers celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first time they sang together in a small Melbourne coffee shop unaware that within two years, they would go on to conquer the music world and become Australia's first international super group. This brings you all the magic and excitement as the now-legendary line-up of Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley take to the stage for their final Australian tour. Filmed on their Australian tour, this emotion charged Farewell features all the chart-topping hits that made the most celebrated music group in Australia's history. Fifty years on, The Seekers are still touching the hearts and souls of fans around the world.

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

A grieving woman is bombarded with well-meaning advice she never asked for.

Little public information is currently available. Based on the title, the film appears to engage with photography, perception and the act of observation, using visual language to examine how memories and identities are captured or distorted.

A weekend they will never forget. The Animals can drink white claws, wear fedoras, do backflips and get Katy Perry lyrics tattooed... all in the space of 48 hours.

A person discovers an enchanted ring forged a million billion years ago, and learns a hamfisted lesson after abusing it's power.

When Charlie receives an acceptance letter to study abroad, his carefully ordered life is thrown off balance. Caring for his spirited grandfather, Gio, becomes more challenging, and plans with his partner Ellie, once full of shared adventure, are now suddenly uncertain. Torn between duty and desire, Charlie must navigate the his relationships and responsibilities to those he loves, and confront an uncertain future.

Farewell to Victoria Park.... After more than a century, the most feared home ground in football will be a place of memories. It is the heartland of Collingwood. The ground at which the Coventrys and Colliers, Richards and Roses, Twomeys and Shaws all made their first footballing steps. From President Eddie McGuire, coach Tony Shaw and special guests we look back on Victoria Park.

New decade - new heroes - new villains. It was a decade in which the Grand Final winners told the story. It was a decade of dominance in differing degrees.

In 1992, his first senior year, he played 8 games and kicked 22 goals. But those statistics failed to warn the folk of South australia of the impending tempest which was about to hit their town.

A video tape is stolen that contains information dangerous to both the government and the casino and they will do anything to get it back. The man who stole it has other plans, as do a third party of heavies who turn up out of nowhere.

Public Information Film aimed at teaching young children the basics of reporting unsafe situations.

As two teenage brothers get up to mischief on summer holidays in a coastal fishing town, the cycles of toxic masculinity above the water reflect the hierarchies of predation below.

A boy discovers a sinister secret at the heart of his school after being taken out of class by two teachers

An environmental documentary about a Chinese Australian queer woman Jing who finds a sense of belonging in the Australian landscape through organised litter-picking. Jing also finds a sense of belonging with other multicultural queer women in Victoria.

A kidnapped thug has two minutes to make his great escape...only to get his wires crossed.

Musings on dividing zero by zero.

A trembling matchbox, cigarette and deranged man form the key to the Arsonist's riddle.

A young filmmaker goes into the woods to document his film project. However, he gets lost and he soon realizes that there is something watching him.

Two drunk flies drink beer, smoke from a giant cigarette and become attracted to a bright light in this adult claymation comedy.

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.

This short film (entitled 'Neon') was shot in Australia, 1980, by Alex Proyas and Salik Silverstein and also served as a music video for Fad Gadget's second single 'Ricky's Hand'. The video consists of single-frame time-lapse journey through Sydney by night.

Trance is a short film about Oliver Brooks (Oliver Ludbrook). A hard working man who hits a small bump in life. After seeing an ad playing on his television for a suit, a certain 12 thousand dollar suit, Oliver begins to pursue it by any means necessary as he believes it will solve all his problems. He falls into a Trance.

“I wanted to make a sequel to Chants…the gold against black, but I wasn’t quite sure how. One day I went to St Mary’s Cathedral here in Sydney. After looking at the stained glass windows for some time, on the way out I noticed that they were selling slides of the interior…and whoever photographed the stained glass had used a red filter. This was the image I was after…red against black. By simply photographing and rephotographing the slide (up to 200 times, in some cases)…and varying the exposure by changing the distance between the light source and the slide, I was able to give the feeling of looking up…which is what you do in a church…from the knave up to the stained glass up to the ceiling…up to heaven in this red light. The upward motion was layered without visible edits by superimposing strips of the varyingly exposed film, in the lab.” (Paul Winkler)

A successful businessman, with a wife and daughter, has his happy home life destroyed, when three junkies hold his family hostage and use his personal information against him.

With over half a million fans online, performing to thousands of fans yearly and numerous sold out comedy tours, Luke Kidgell’s long awaited debut comedy special ‘The Whitest Boy That Ever Lived’ is finally here.

Five passengers encounter a mysterious woman on a train. While we strain to hear their whispers, we are confronted by the passengers' reactions. Dark and secretive, this journey will leave you with questions playing on your mind.

The story of an Afro-Cuban group who kept alive songs and dances their ancestor had brought aboard the slave ship from Africa. They were so specific that around 200 years later, a village of Africans watched them, joined in singing, and said simply, joyously: "They Are We". This film tells the story of how they found each other and how they work to be able to reunite.

In the circle of life - birth, survival and death, Aboriginal people have a network of sites and tracks, embedded in the land, that connect them to all things and enable them to practice their laws, traditions and beliefs. Colonisation in Australia, denied Aboriginal people access to their land - breaking the life cycle for Aboriginal people. The Free-Settler Colony of South Australia was going to be different. King William IV recognised the continued rights to land for Aboriginal people in South Australia's founding document, the Letters Patent, in Feb 1836. The first ever Aboriginal rights granted in Australia's colonial history. Rights to the land, to occupy and enjoy their land for always, enshrined in law by the King's seal. What actually occurred in South Australia after colonisation in 1836 was treason. The King's Letters Patent was disobeyed and Aboriginal rights that were granted, to occupy and enjoy their land, were denied.

Ningla A-Na documents the activism of the Black movement in south-east Australia in the 1970s and shows how the activists changed the direction of the movement both nationally and internationally.

GOLD – YOU CAN DO MORE THAN YOU THINK is the emotional story about three outstanding top Athletes. Henry Wanyoike, a blind Marathon runner from Kenya, Kirsten Bruhn, paralyzed Swimmer from Germany and Kurt Fearnley, Australian Wheelchair racer.

Six girls coming of age, ready to become something extraordinary.

Simon Morley and David Friend made a name for themselves by traveling around the world manipulating their not-so-private parts in their popular “genital origami” show. This entertaining documentary follows the duo on their first tour of Australia.

Using the contents of a 128GB mobile phone storage archive, filmmaker Illuca Shanahan assembles a conceptual film sculpture from found footage, personal media and digital remnants. The work investigates contemporary memory, digital possessions and the modern equivalent of a suitcase while evoking themes of human connection and religious ecstasy.

Larissa Behrendt uncovers the extraordinary story of the three landmark Yirrkala Bark petitions that sparked the flame toward recognition of Aboriginal rights. In August 1963, two bark petitions—traditional documents prepared and signed by Yolngu people—were sent to the Australian Parliament and became the first documented recognition of Indigenous people in Australian law. When a fourth bark petition is found in Derby, Western Australia, in 2022, the community begins the ceremony of guiding its journey back to Yolngu Country. The repatriation provides the opportunity to track the long political campaign—through petition, song, dance, and campaigning—to keep culture strong and to have a voice for country.

An independent filmmaker takes on the challenge of creating a large scale WW1 film. When faced with harsh weather conditions and the constraints of limited resources, the director and crew must battle every day to get the film across the line.

A crime journalist and his secret source are hunted by the Mafia, who are desperately trying to uncover the identity of the man who has betrayed them.