Discoveries from Australia World Cinema

After his wife disappears a man uses a sensory deprivation tank to solve the mystery.

Ponds house thousands of species that depend on them for their survival, a natural network for life, dozens of species are shown in this video, in outstanding photography and close-ups, with environmental sounds, bird calls, chirps and music.

Set in the near future, Earth's resources are gone and humanity fight for survival. Myles, a young self-centered man, must journey to find Sanctuary with a youthful ally named Tessa. While the shadow of the cruel Cyrus creeps ever closer to Myles - and his past.

Set in an isolated dystopian Perth, Australia, corporate empires rule globally and civil liberty has become a distant memory. When a bio-chemical weapon attacks the city, a Baltic woman is forced to take a desperate passage through the dry Australian outback.

Zara hates weddings—especially when her demanding cousin insists she bring a date to hers. Dreading the event, she enlists her best friend Jamie to help her find the perfect plus one. But each disastrous and awkward date only deepens her frustration and forces her to question what she’s really looking for. As the big day approaches, Zara begins to realize that the perfect partner might not be a stranger at all, but someone who’s been by her side all along.

OLIVE PLACE is a cartoon about Burt & Belle, lowly porters that live & work at the creature filled Hotel. Each day they run the gauntlet trying to serve the weird & wonderful guests, overcome peculiar challenges & solve the mysteries that lurk within the doors of OLIVE PLACE...but what lies beyond?

A century ago the Torres Strait Island were the subjects of the famous Cambridge Anthropological Expedition - the resulting depletion of their cultural artifacts left them with nothing but a history of remembered loss. The only people in the Pacific to make elaborate turtleshell masks have none left - they are all in foreign museums. In a quest to reclaim the past, Ephraim Bani, a wise and knowledgeable Torres Strait Islander, travels with his wife to the great museums of Europe where his heritage lies. The film, an SBS Independent production, shows that the thickest of masks cracks when a descendant of the original owners enters a museum.

For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historical significance.

Franz & Kafka are based on the little irreverent premise that Kafkas work “Die Verwandlung” was written by two humans, this film is a great homage to Kafkas writing.

This film tells the story of Australia's most neglected bestselling author, Arthur Upfield. Shot on location in the Outback, London and Paris and using rare archival footage, it explores how Upfield came to create the unique and highly controversial fictional hero, Aboriginal detective Napoleon Bonaparte.

When something goes bump in the night, time begins to unravel in a strange way.

Caught between love and control, Pearl must decide if true power lies in staying, fighting, or walking away.

Kane and Darren are two 'rag and bone men' who have lived in the outer suburb of Boronia all their lives. Now as they approach their early thirties, they decide that it is time to leave their comfortable suburb and travel the world for the first time. In order to do so the 'boronia boys' follow hard rubbish collections and help themselves to discarded rubbish and sell them overpriced at trash & treasure markets.

When an ambitious young woman decides to leave the retail job she shares with her socially inept father, she chooses to keep her decision a secret from him. Her clumsy efforts to maintain this charade clash with his own absurd efforts to keep her by his side as the two take a short break together.

Rachel and Nick are your model, contemporary relationship. They're young, hip, creative and independent. In the end, they can't escape the basic differences between men and women. In '90s psycho-babble jargon - women are from Venus and men are from Mars. And in this relationship, Mars needs guitars and a chart-topping hit song without any silly domestic interruptions. Venus needs consideration, understanding and a hand changing a light fitting in the kitchen. So when Nick goes in search of the perfect sound and Rachel has an axe to grind - the Gulf War is about to begin. They say all you need is three chords and a wardrobe and you've got the perfect song...relationships aren't so easy.

A husband and wife take extreme measures to free themselves from an abusive marriage.

On a Saturday morning like any other, Harvey slumps into his chair and tells his wife about last night's nightmare. Fear takes hold when Janet notices the tiny details of Harvey's dream bleeding through into the real world around her.

Collaborating with Australian circus company Gravity & Other Myths, 2020 BAFTA Newcomer and Berlinale Talent Campus alumna Alies Sluiter crafts a disquieting, quasi-surrealist tale of bravery and grief.

Our world is at a crossroads of myriad crises, but all too often the solutions to the problems we face – especially climate change – are put in the ‘too hard basket. But, as director Celeste Geer discovers, it doesn’t have to be this way. Following Then the Wind Changed, her Walkley Award-winning film about rebuilding after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, she sought answers to why, after decades of warnings, we continue to shirk the necessary measures that will prevent all-out climate catastrophe.

Alabama native, Destin, is driven to reveal the extraordinary science behind the jobs, missions, and obsessions of ordinary people.

After a bizarre mishap hanging a picture frame in her apartment, a young woman runs to check on her neighbor, inadvertently entering a life-or-death situation.

The story behind the Hollywood film 'The Great Escape', examining the search for the Gestapo men who murdered 50 of the escapers.

Taxi driver Terry Dean picks up a sheila and they're run off the road, she takes off leaving her bag behind and he goes on an adventure trying to track her down concerned about her. An Aussie film noir.

A middle-aged man, named Ziv, finds it difficult to understand the today's society. The film illustrates his wild views and concerns, as his imagination flashes through various times in history.

Koala Rescue profiles the courage and determination of everyday Aussies that went out of their way to rescue, treat and rehabilitate the koalas who survived the Australian Black Summer bushfires, 2019-20.

Beniam, Ramsy and MJ are best friends. Hanging out at the Flemington housing commission flats they call home, the three Africans share a tight bond and a love of footy. But with the arrival of Sahara - smart, beautiful and AFL mad - the three friends suddenly find themselves competing for the same girl.

A young family terrorised by a new species of deadly arachnid.

Cyclone Tracy 40 years on, exploring the myths and revealing new perspectives on one of the worst natural disasters in Australia's history.

A female Australian soldier cut off from her team, lies trapped in a collapsed building behind enemy lines. With a broken leg and minimal supplies, she is on her own until the unlikely arrival of a frightened 10 year old boy wielding a rifle, who helps her maintain survival through their developing friendship.

An older woman complains about the excessive traffic in a public men's room across the street.

The Battle of the Bug Bands.

The Main Event was a concert event that toured Australia's capital cities in 1998. It featured three of the most well-known musical names in the country - John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John and Anthony Warlow. The three appear to get on very well together and play off each other to a great extent, especially during the finale when all are on stage at the same time. This is a huge presentation with a truck-load of songs taken from many genres and ranging in age from contemporary to carbon-dated.

Brian Everett's younger brother Sam goes missing on the island of Tasmania during the middle of a mysterious quarantine forcing Brian to traverse across enemy lines to save his brother from an army of ghosts.

Directed by Helen Grace.

The Bradley family mysteriously go missing on a trip along the Great Alpine Road in Victoria, Australia. An investigation uncovers evidence including camcorder footage and the empty family car. No member of the family has ever been found...

'A series of tableaux deconstruct the inward journey of Francois Jane, marred by his obsession with Charlotte. By turns illuminating and self-destructive, they navigate separate delusional worlds tearing at each other's masks.'

A man travels back in time to force his 10 year old self to learn guitar, so that he can get more action with the ladies in the present day.

Emerson Hayes is a 60-year-old sculptor who lives in a caravan and works from an old shed in the back corner of her daughter’s coastal egg farm. When she is informed that her most acclaimed and last remaining work on public display is being replaced, she seeks a new home for it with family friend Lena, who curates a prestigious contemporary gallery. Lena, however, demands that Em present a fresh new work if she is to be considered for exhibition. As Em struggles to break out of her artistic rut, she is forced to reckon not only with her place in the art world, but with her entire identity.

High-school students Wanda and Sully must work together to investigate SRC president Jonathan's affairs and bring him down after discovering he's potentially involved with an embezzlement scheme.

It is about two Atheists who run a video blog debunking Psychics, Mediums and religious beliefs. However, a death experiment goes totally wrong and as a result they attract evil entities that stalk and haunt them.

Hair it is, everyone... Furry Tales fur your listening pleasure! Anthony, Emma, Lachy and Simon are eggcited with 21 wiggly songs about their animal friends. The Corroboree Frog will have you croaking with fun while the Bunny Hop is a hare-raising" experience! Jump and sing along with The Monkey Dance and then theres Say the Dance, Do the Dance which is the catchiest song youll ever hear! Sing along and dance along with Furry Tales, the best DVD since Noah built the ark!

Peter/Afshin has finally made it. Accepted by his elite private school, his past life tucked neatly out of view. But when a newly arrived Iranian classmate crashes their hangout, Peter’s carefully constructed identity begins to crack. As the night unravels, he must confront the one thing he’s buried deepest: himself.

Part Brechtian in its distancing of language, and part-Warholian in its funtime-exploitation of a circle of friends, I You We typifies the strong textual focus of many → ↑ → films and videos of the time.

A lonely ghost finds love at the graveyard.

Edgar is a lonely crow who just wants to make a friend. Unfortunately for his target, Elena, he goes about it in the worst way possible.

Ghost Turd is a horror/comedy about a vengeful spirit that haunts an inner city dog park. The spirit preys on dog owners who don't pick up after their pets.

Writer-director Samia Halabi explores her struggles with speaking in this touching story of a Muslim teenager trying to rekindle friendship with a childhood playmate.

As nuclear war looms, a woman must make a final phone call.

Taylah is a rebellious and destitute teen from rural Australian suburbia. After a brief sexual encounter, Taylah must scrape together money for the morning-after pill before it’s too late. As she hustles for the cash, she is also stuck babysitting a wild and uncooperative five-year-old, Vegas. Taylah’s wits are tested as she navigates a suburban wasteland, determined to not let poverty strip her of her bodily autonomy.

A minimalist exercise described by Thoms as ‘observing the effect of movement on perception within the framework of Ravel’s music’.

Peeling back the veneer of civilized humanity, Spinneret reflects on the animal instincts we pretend we can control.

When a rich Indian international student falls for a working class Australian girl, who is crazily in love with him. How will he handle the cultural differences and succeed in his love, against his parents' plans for his future?

When the Northern Rivers of NSW community found their home being threatened by gas field industrialization, a critical mass of citizens from all walks of life responded to the call.Told through the eyes of the "Protectors" over a five-year period and inter-cut with fresh insight from some of the world's leading social commentators, this feature documentary captures and celebrates what is described as the non-violent 'Eureka Stockade' of our time.

A revenge short made for the 48 hour film project Brisbane.

Following a suspicious, near-miss doomsday event, an amateur astronomer and a stoned conspiracy theorist turn to Banterbot, an AI chatbot, for answers.

A few hours before his despondent son’s graduation party, alpha stockbroker Richard has his bank accounts drained by his “findom” mistress, Princess Paige. That’s a (usually) non-sexual dominatrix hired by wealthy men to spend their money and humiliate them. Frantic farce and raw drama follow as Richard attempts to gather a mountain of cash that will prevent his unsuspecting wife Kelly from discovering the truth.

Animated music video for "Neverender" by Justice ft. Tame Impala. Depicting a euphoric journey through space and time, travelling to different worlds and galaxies full of unique and mesmerising visuals.

A reserved student wrestles with hidden feelings for his teacher. When he seeks closure, he faces the challenge of unreturned love and accepting difficult truths.

In a world decimated by nuclear war, where barbaric clans and genetically modified dinosaurs roam the Australian countryside, a young girl, Evie, must venture alone to a distant farmhouse to seek medical supplies for her dying father.

A young couple in Sydney return home from a “very special” night out.