Discoveries from Australia World Cinema

Upon finding a strange switch, a boy must re-experience the past day in colour.

A tale of a middle-aged woman drawn into a blood vendetta largely set in Sydney’s industrial suburbs.

Experience the greatest scientific endeavour in history as you step onto Australia’s future site for the incredible SKA telescope and journey to the edges of the Universe

A family driving along a quiet country road is about to have a close encounter of the third kind. The parents try to calm their daughter who's crying in the back seat, but maybe her cries are a warning of the danger ahead...

SORELLA'S STORY explores the story behind a single atrocity photography of a group of women and 11-year-old Sorella, during the Holocaust.

Night Creatures will introduce audiences to animated cinema-goers who take the form of fruit bats – beloved creatures of the night, which flock into the skies in parallel with the nocturnal rhythms.

A short documentary about Ahmed Hagi, a gay Somali artist who fled his war torn country to Sydney, Australia where he now spends his days painting idealized visions of Mogadishu before it fell under the control of gangs and warlords.

Australia's adopted son of comedy Arj Barker, returns to make fun of our obsession with technology, the trials of relationships and how our rage-filled culture is affecting our ability to connect.

Soanin Kilangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island in the South Pacific. He organizes the largest cultural festival ever held on the island, but some traditional leaders argue that Baluan never had culture and that culture comes from the white man and is now destroying their old tradition. Others, however, take the festival as a welcome opportunity to revolt against '70 years of cultural oppression' by Christianity. A struggle to define the past, present and future of Baluan culture erupts to the sound of thundering log drum rhythms.

In a dystopian alternate reality, at the height of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's rule over Bosnia, David Strbac sues a Badger which occupies his corn field. Adapted from the short story by Petar Kocic.

Alex, a self-assured young gallerist, escapes the city for a summer-idyll with his artist-friend Daniel. When met with an unexpected beach house guest, the alluring Chloe, Alex's best-laid plans unravel and the holiday draws to a close.

One Two is a short drama film which centres around the protagonist Maddy, a shy and introverted first generation migrant who wants to pursue her passion for AFL.

Two children discover the mysteries of the universe through the unique combination of the world’s most advanced radio telescope and the oldest living culture on earth.

Jadai, the 'Broome Brawler' promised his family to no longer fight. But the local cops have other plans.

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.

Australian band TISM ("This Is Serious Mum") are about to disband. With the aide of a telethon running on stage during their concert, their fans, unsuspecting callers and "special guests" attempt to raise $1,000,000 in order to keep the band together. Live at the Hi-Fi Bar, 26 September 2003

Lois, upon moving to the inner city and finding herself in an all-woman house, becomes most intrigued by her new roommate Kate.

“Some had given me an iris—a little gadget which opens and closes—they were used a lot in silent movies to indicate the beginning or end of a scene. And that got me thinking about how we actually see, and how, though we barely notice it, every time we blink our own irises close down to black, and then open up again. Black and image. Black and image. I wanted to do something with time…with time as an iris closes and an iris opens. The name Traces refers to the traces we leave in time as, say, we walk across footpath, or traces on buildings, paint peeling off, or windows being dirty and being cleaned again…everything to do with time lagging. To show traces within traces within traces I put irises in many parts of the frame.” (Paul Winkler)

The Swagman character from ‘Waltzing Matilda’ moved from the billabong to a modern city and the problems he encounters in this new setting.

While backpacking in Australia, Jac attempts to hide her pregnancy from her best mate Hazel for fear of becoming 'redundant', but their assumptions land them in hot water with a stranger.

The film Harry Hooton is conceived as a huge energy field combining the energy of light and colour, movement, editing and sound — a dense, vibrating, pulsating work, unrelenting in its thrust; a celebration of Hooton’s definition of art as the communication of emotion to matter.

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

This film reveals the roots of ballet in Australia and the story of the overseas dancers who brought their art to Australia. This encouraged the rise of local dancers who proved themselves adept in the classic ballets of Russia, France and Great Britain. It traces the birth of Australian choreography, decor and mounting with Australian dancers shown performing an Australian musical composition with Australian themes. Influential figures such as Edouard Borovansky, Tchinarova and Margot Stevenson are featured as well as the Borovansky Ballet, the Ballet Guild and the Bodenwieser Modern Expressive Ballet.

Documentary covering Aboriginal leader Narratjin Maymurru's response to the unwelcome development of Nabalco Bauxite Mine, Gove Peninsula, during 1971.

Lovemaking in water has Antarctic repercussions.

A feature-length documentary commemorating the 75th anniversary of the WWII Kokoda campaign and exploring the spirit of Kokoda, then and now.

A team of scientific detectives from around the world attempt to crack one of science’s most enduring mysteries – what killed Australia’s megafauna?

A being born in a void becomes obsessed with its own reflection.

Go behind the scenes with the Hyundai A-League​ Premiers and Champions when the special documentary The Road to Victory premieres on Fox Sports 505 at 7.30pm AEDT on Tuesday, October 27. The Hyundai A-League 2014/15 season yielded Melbourne Victory its third Premiership-Championship double since the club's inception in 2005. The Road to Victory takes you inside the club as key personnel reflect on how Victory achieved the ultimate success in its 10th anniversary season. Exclusive interviews with chairman Anthony Di Pietro, head coach Kevin Muscat, former captain Mark Milligan, club stalwart Leigh Broxham and 2014/15 signings Besart Berisha, Fahid Ben Khalfallah and Matthieu Delpierre tell the story from the inner sanctum.

Strathewen: a lush green paradise where families built their homes to raise their children, close to nature. But at 3am one summer morning residents are woken by the trees thrashing in the hot northerly wind. "It felt like we were in a tinderbox". The lucky ones drive out before the firestorm spreads across the darkened countryside and the trucks start to explode.

The inside story of the 2010 AFL Grand Final.

BOXER, 'THE IRON GRIFFIN', GRAPPLES WITH THE REALITY HE CAN LOSE AFTER A KNOCKOUT. 5 MINUTES BEFORE HIS NEXT MATCH HE HAS TO FACE HIS GREATEST ENEMY YET.

From the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Deadly Funny - A cheeky, loud, Black and proud celebration of fresh and funny new First Nations talent from around the country.

A short documentary about a transgender woman who moved from Thailand to Darwin when she was a teenager. It follows her story of strengthening her relationship with her mother and finding love.

Mr Chicken is very curious. He loves meeting new people and traveling to new places, but one day, he realises that he has never been to Mars! So, off he goes. It's a big day.

An insight into how one feels upon a late night return home.

In a small Japanese town, Ko-Ko is appointed to the unenviable position of executioner. Knowing he must successfully perform before the appearance of the Mikado in a month's time, Ko-Ko finds a suitable victim in Nanki-Poo, who is distraught over his unrequited love for the maiden Yum-Yum. Nanki-Poo agrees to sacrifice his life if he is allowed to spend his remaining days with Yum-Yum, who is betrothed to Ko-Ko.

Escaping from her abusive past and living her dream life in Paris with the love of her life, Harold. They spend their days loving each other deeply and tenderly. Falling asleep later that night, the girl enters a very real dream like state and finds herself back in her old abusive relationship and tries to escape from him.

When Rebecca runs away from home she get’s to experience life outside of her narcissistic mother’s patterns of control and can feel the water on her skin again.

MYRTEZA BLUE is the intimate portrait of Graeme Myrteza — a once multi-generational farmer, now recognized Australian landscape artist. Filmmaker Eren Besiroglu chronicles Myrteza through his meditations on artistic exploration, evoking Myrteza to ask the question: ‘Why did I start painting at 60?

Experimental art film with an eternal laugh-track.

Commissioned by the State Library of Victoria for its MIRROR exhibition opening late May 2023, deaf poet and activist Walter Kadiki performs an original piece called Laments of Old Wal.

With unprecedented access, filmmakers Noel Smyth and Fergus Grady lift the lid on the secretive Gloriavale Christian Community following a family of survivors searching for justice.

A teenage drug dealer must skip town with his friend after discovering a gang and the police are both out for him. But even after leaving, not everything goes to plan.

In the year 2021, a virus wreaks havoc in Melbourne. Quarantine is established as recently-dead roam the streets. Three friends make a run for it, using all the technology at their disposal.

Pier Farri's Futurist Europe focuses on Futurism as the first avant-garde film movement in history.

In a long-ago land, an ancient winged creature has a choice to make about the age it wishes to live and die in.

Grace lives a comfortable life in a nice house. It’s a far cry from the mission which she fled years ago. When she returns for a funeral, she’s faced with unfamiliar family and a forgotten past.

There is a package with 4 phones, and each phone has a video on it. They will then learn curiosity did kill, when their lives become a part of the terror which is "Camera Phone 2".

A Horoscope Writer with an unusual 'gift' dreams of waking up from a life of eternal déja vu. Little does he know, a chance encounter with the unexpected is just around the corner.

The story of one of the greatest live concerts ever filmed, with interviews with band members Jon Farriss and Kirk Pengilly, plus never-before-seen backstage moments.

After a chance encounter with a glamorous female, two polar-opposite brothers are willing to do whatever it takes, to win her over.

Thirty worlds in less than a blink and oh-so many more...

Bill Lawson (Eddie O'Reilly), a wharf labourer, loses his job and decides to go out bush to find work to support his wife Elsa (Stella Southern) and daughter Betty. He befriends a well-born Englishman, Kenneth Hillyard (Rawdon Blandford) after rescuing him from two thugs and the two decide to go prospecting together.

Joe Leahy and his complicated relationship with the Guniga people in the Papua New Guinea highlands.

A movie shot in India

A man sees a doctor about his hand, which is on fire.