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In a first person 'diary film', Nevin Seyit, a young Turkish Muslim man explores the dilemmas and convictions that fashion everyday life for young people like himself who are seeking to negotiate Islamic tradition in secular society.
Alan Khan migrated to Australia from Bangladesh in the 70s. He came to get a pilot's licence and stayed to become the 'King' of Sydney's wedding photographers. Alan's clients are the children of first-generation migrants - the lavish extravagance of their children's weddings celebrates their parent's success in their chosen country.
Australian theatre director David Pledger embarks on an expedition into the memory of his past by visiting his mother's birthplace in Calabria, Italy.
'My mother taught me how to read and write Greek, my father taught me about our religious icons, Bert taught me how to be an Aussie.' A personal and humorous homage to Bert Newton, exploring the filmmaker's relationship with television and its role in constructing her identity.
This series reveals the secret life of some of Australia's best known journalists - the anguished ethical judgements they make, the power they wield and the fine line they walk between privacy, decency and the public right to know.
Set in Sydney's western suburbs, FOOTY LEGENDS tells the story of Luc Vu, a young Vietnamese-Australian man with an obsession about football. Out of work, and with welfare authorities threatening to take away his little sister, Luc reunites his old high school football team to win a competition that could change all their lives.
Fionn Skiotis' parents have been married nearly 40 years but in 1986 his Greek-born father returned to live on the island of Ithaca. The complicated family history of migration and return continue to influence Fionn's life as he learns that returning to a place where you belong is not always easy.
A series of 13 half-hour dramas and documentaries exploring the experience of Australians of second and third generation migrant background. HYBRID LIFE screened in mid-2001, and represents SBS Television's major contribution to the Centenary of Federation.
Sam and Mouna are married for convenience, they are both gay but can never come out to their parents and they can't live at home anymore! They are living a lie but they are living it up! They are 'out' to one another, 'out' to their closest friends, but still in the closet when it comes to their parents, their siblings and their extended family -- the big Leb community. Secret lives filled with love and despair. Why would anyone live like that? For a Visa -- No!! These couples are all Australian by birth, but Lebanese for life. This is about culture, family and honour.
I LUV U BUT is a web series set in the heart of western Sydney's vibrant multicultural communities – with a difference. It follows Sam and Mouna, who are married for convenience. Both gay, and having never come out to their parents, they are living a lie but they are living it up! They are ‘out’ to one another, ‘out’ to their closest friends, but still in the closet when it comes to their family. How long can they keep this secret going under the watchful eyes and ears of the Lebanese community?
Raised in Australia with a German father and a Samoan mother, Vincent Heimann is a young filmmaker trying to define his unique cultural background. A highly personal essay about one man's discovery, that what he was searching for, is already inside him.
Ness, a third-generation Russian, was born Vanessa Alexandra Pecheniuk. Her troubled relationship with her family and the responsibility of being a 'Pecheniuk' weighed so heavily Ness changed her name and severed all connections with her family. Through making this film, old wounds are opened and some ghosts are laid to rest.
A musical melodrama about the queerness of opera and the operatic in real life.
This story begins in Vietnam in April 1975 three weeks before the fall of Saigon when Leigh Bancroft was adopted by an Australian couple. MISSING VIETNAM traces Leigh's journey from Grafton back to Vietnam in search of her other family and her cultural identity.
PARRA is about the life of a multi-levelled, multi-cultural shopping complex in Parramatta, Western Sydney and the young people who congregate there, transforming the commercial space into their own unique social place.
Stephanie and Julia are friends who work together writing and illustrating adult comic books. Stephanie lives a free and easy existence but harbours an overwhelming obsession to have a baby. Julia already has the perfect family but is concealing a major emotional crisis: she is pregnant again and her partner is having an affair with a younger woman. Each woman envies her friend's different lifestyle, and they both want more. The film's driving force is the women's talk; their funny stories, frank disclosures, erotic secrets and painful confessions create an intimate and playful commentary on contemporary relationships and lifestyles in the 1990s.
On a painful journey of self-discovery, Wee Jimmy is forced to confront questions of his own idenity as he learns what it means to be Australian.
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