Discoveries from Australia World Cinema

Five friends spend a weekend getaway at their mates farm, but after discovering a killer is nearby, they try to survive the night and each other.

A fantastical animated world assembled out of plastic bits found on the side of the road in Austin, Texas. Act I: Magnetic Attraction Act II: Sneaker Toss Act III: Arcade Chicken

Amy's crush, Taylor, unexpectedly sits down next to her at lunch. She has a heated 'conversation' with her best friend, Vi, who tries to convince Amy to talk to them. But the duo have to stay quiet so Taylor doesn't catch on.

The loss of minimum wage in Britain has resulted in the gap between the rich and the poor growing hugely. Newtown just outside Birmingham is looking dirty, rundown and old. 50 % of its citizens are unemployed, living in grey towerblocks overlooking the urban devastation. The flats are poorly equipped with basic furnishings. All people can do is watch television. As the rich people get richer, the poor get poorer. Chris Pond from the Low Pay Unit blames poverty and hardship on the Conservative Government's free market economy and their opt-out from the social chapter. Journeyman Pictures investigates the harsh reality of 1990s Britain.

In the beautiful and towering mountains of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, a paradise for Wingsuit professionals seeking thrills during the off-season, the lives of two men converge. Avalon, an American Wingsuit pilot, and a Filipino-Australian documentary filmmaker unite to capture Avalon’s audacious quest to leap from the mountainside as many times as humanly possible.

Kabir anxiously rushes towards a dinner with his friends. But when he arrives, a friend's playful comment causes him to disassociate from the entire night.

Monsieur Noir’s classroom at Jacaranda High is a far cry from his beloved homeland, with students whose accents are as Australian as they come. He longs for just one, fluent conversation in his mother tongue.

A look back at the film-maker's career, via the use of out-takes, unused scenes, scenes from uncompleted films, home movie footage, etc.

Mutated hackable bodies, bodies that didn’t quite work out and bodies that can no longer be classified as bodies. Drawing on the transhumanist musings of Yuval Noah Harari… Humans are now hackable animals.

The light of love: a science fiction film set in Alphaville, 2015. Shot in Melbourne, 1991.

Four people, at different times, wait at a tram stop. A film about life.

In the not-so-distant future, all Australians work from home. They strap into their Sensory and Communication Masks (ScoMo) and peddle all day long, ignoring their overheating world outside. All but one. Mags is a janitor. She goes from home-to-home fixing, cleaning, and feeding the workers who are unaware of her presence. Her only company is her taxidermied dog, Malvern. But one day, Mags finds one of the workers dead on the job and her entire world begins to collapse.

A TKSC Productions Original Documentary that explores how the three founding members found their way into the field of film. We see from their first individual projects to their first project with TKSC Productions and all the way to their recent and in development projects at TKSC Production. Follow Directors James, Sean and Aidan as they explore this blast from the past.

Mo navigates rush hour traffic to dodge an unwanted call. When she meets Vicky by the side of the street with her broken motorbike, a visceral chance encounter unfolds between the two young queer women on the loud streets of Saigon.

When Torren Martyn and Aiyana Powell borrowed the 35ft sailing boat 'Calypte' and departed from the east coast of Thailand in early 2022, they had a combined sailing experience of only a few days. The one requirement of their charter was to eventually deliver the boat to Eastern Indonesia. They could learn as they went, get a few friends with sailing experience to help through the tricky bits and pick up as much as possible from them along the way. With this plan, the pair embarked onto the South China Sea, headed up through the Strait of Malacca and around the tip of Sumatra; out into the Indian Ocean on a year-long expedition in search of waves. What seemed like an idyllic journey didn’t come easy. It was difficult to anticipate the challenges of the sleepless nights, the endless rolling and tossing of the boat, the breakdowns, the relentless maintenance and confined space. But adventures always seem sweeter if it really feels like you had to work to get there.

A queer short film about psychics, secret rivalries, and following your heart. It follows the story of Delilah, whose mother runs the town’s only psychic and tarot reading business. Until the new girl at Delilah’s school, Emily, starts advertising her own online psychic services. As Emily’s business booms, Delilah and her mother realise there’s only room for one tarot reading business in town, and they’ll do anything to stay afloat. Except falling for the rival was never in the cards

A collection of images of Anna Kannava as a young woman, posing, playing, and reflecting on her changing life, all set to an eclectic soundtrack.

A look at the positive lives led by young women in a remote Indigenous community, and how the younger generation has embraced a cultural shift while still proudly upholding their traditional culture.

Some bullies antagonize other children by pelting them with oranges.

This visually stunning nature documentary looks at two hundred bird species endemic to Australia, such as the Princess Parrot and Crested Pigeon.

Following the story of transmasculine Brother Boy Kai Clancy, as he navigates the traditional roles and his identity within his culture. Brotherboy is a term used by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to describe gender diverse people that are born a male spirit. Kai share's his life now, 9-years after his top surgery and transition on YouTube when he was 17 years old.

The National Black Theatre movement in Redfern, Sydney formed at a very crucial time in Australian political history, culminating with the establishment of a political movement and the setting up of a number of significant Aboriginal organisations. The National Black Theatre has left a lasting legacy on national politics, social welfare and the Australian arts scene.

A man named woody moving to his old town after finishing a movie.

An account of the grim and ironic death by freezing of a man trapped inside a refrigerated meat wagon.

A group of outstanding Australian birds are shown in their natural habitats, from the biggest in the world to the strangest courtship behavior, colorful parrots and cockatoos, the biggest Kingfisher, a kaleidoscope of shapes, colors and behaviors.

"The flow of the tides, flooded jungles with fauna and flora, piranha fishing, canoeing, a Warao Shaman ceremony, houses, handicrafts, and a whole chapter dedicated to the jungle wisdom. In the end, a young Ocelot practices its skills."

The life and times of artist Richard Ellis

A woman gets a fresh perspective after meeting a funny and vibrant cast of characters at a confidence workshop for cancer patients.

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A one off 7 minute documentary film commissioned in 2001

Facing the challenge of a lifetime, Australian farmers and fishers are banding together in a modern take on an old way of working together. Their goal is to save family farms from corporate takeover and protect a way of life.

I was watching football highlights and one of the videos was titled, Goals If Weren’t Filmed, Nobody Would Believe. I thought that’s me, except instead of Goals it’s My Crazy life. I hope u enjoy xx

Mike Mazowski is a vigilante on a mission to kill the last of the offenders. The challenges ramp up as he goes on his journey to find the anonymous criminal known as The Big Offender, the most dangerous man in the city. After acquiring the information he needed from Jake Hall, The Big Offender’s right hand man, it’s time for Mike to enact justice once and for all.

GRAVEL ROAD is the story of Jay Minning, singer-songwriter of the most remote rock band in the world, The Desert Stars. His four-piece band are traditional land owners of Spinifex Country, in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia — home of the last nomads.

Poetic documentary and comedy. A painter and a photographer wander aimlessly through the Victorian bush, looking at trees and for people to paint with.

Redfern Electrical is a documentary about the trials and tribulations of retired stand up comedian / electrical contractor John Cruckshank trying to complete a job in order to get the money to pay for a documentary about his electrical business.

Walter Lee, aka Vivien, provides voice over for this short documentary. Stills, vintage footage, and re-enactments paint an amazingly vivid backdrop to exhibit the life of a "squishy" drag queen through wartime service and 1950s repression.

An Italian cinematographer finds himself in the midst of the Greek socio-political crisis. He returns home to Milano to his ex-wife and daughter, only to be drawn back to Athens, where an Australian TV producer hires his services as a maverick cinematographer.

When Geraldine Kawanka’s husband died, she and her children left their house at Aurukun on Cape York Peninsula. In earlier times a bark house would have been burnt, but today a ‘house-opening’ ceremony — creatively mingling Aboriginal, Torres Strait and European elements — has evolved to deal with death in the midst of new living patterns. Although sometimes suggesting a party, its underlying purpose is serious. This film records the opening of the house and Geraldine’s feelings about it in her informative and personal commentary.

Two men. One elevator. No way out.

A young woman struggles with her mental health during the NSW lockdown after her partner has to isolate from her due to a work trip.

Tommy Little is the most exciting comedian of his generation. Sit back, relax and watch Australia's premier dickhead in full flight, recorded at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

A documentary on daily life on a small depopulated island using a combination of diary narration and English subtitles. The film uses an ebb-and-flow structure to capture the recurring events and images of life on an island that once had over 600 people, but now only little over 40 due to the move to the cities 'for the sake of the children's education.' -Ronin Films

Eight intrepid pilgrims trek through the Himalaya into occupied Tibet, hoping to circle Mount Kailash—Asia’s most sacred peak. As they contend with the stresses of officialdom, altitude and physical exertion, we receive rare glimpses of present-day Nepal and Tibet.

An interior journey through my own transparent images, of "buried bodies", of times gone by... letting emerge life.

‘I’m just a regular bloke…’ Kelby’s gender was decided for him at birth – he later put right that mistake. An intimate documentary with Kelby shot in Sydney, Australia in 1996. Kelby weighs up his latest decision in life – whether to buy a dick or a Harley.

"As abstract shapes come into focus, dim memories surface. With Blind Body, Allison Chhorn offers an impressionistic portrait of her grandmother Kim Nay, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge. Partially blind, Kim spends her days in a mostly sonic and textural world, in which the sound of rain, the voices of Khmer radio, and distant birdsong summon the sensations of a lost homeland." - New York Film Festival / Film at Lincoln Center

Filmed over a period of several years "for a variety of motives and no objective" from a window above a shop in Victoria St., North Melbourne where the filmmaker was living. When he edited the footage several years later the filmmaker re-found "the overwhelming nature of all phenomena" which he had felt as he sat at the window. - NFSA

Vampires with first-date nerves, zombies with addiction problems and a human-fly with parental issues. Everybody needs a little help from time to time.

From the remote, islands of Vanuatu, comes an extremely unique and rarely seen tradition, water music.

Two daughters reflect on their lives and relationship with their father.

THE AGE OF IMITATION follows an affair between a young writing student, Elizabeth, and Stefan, a moody musician. In Elizabeth's search for romantic inspiration she becomes entangled in Stefan's relationship with the charismatic hippie healer, Casey, and their psychedelic drug-fueled melodrama.

Tells the story of how the famous Christmas carol Silent Night was written.

A look at Aussies Hoodlum culture.

A young woman digs up a box of childhood memories and tries to make a break from her past, but an old friend won’t let her forget her mistakes.

Aboriginal singer Zaachariaha Fielding is taking the Australian music industry by storm; touring the nation and the world with his groundbreaking electro-soul band Electric Fields. From winning New Talent of the Year at the National Indigenous Music Awards, Zaachariaha returns to the tiny central desert community of Mimili to reveal the inspiration behind his unique music. Through revealing interviews with Zaachariaha and his family, we learn of the challenges he was forced to overcome as a child, and his journey to music stardom as a proud member of the LGBTQ community.

A portrait of Nicola Stevens, who played in the first professional Australian Football League women’s game in 2017.

When Posty returns from jail, his relationship with Mick and the gang slowly unravels.