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ABOUT MEN explores the major life stages, transitions and experiences of boys and men living in Australia. What does it means to be a man in the 21st century? How does a boy become a man? How does a man define his masculinity? What does he need to thrive and survive, and what are the obstacles in his way? Whatever their origins, and wherever they are on their journey, our characters' stories produce a fascinating and intensely human series.
Fifteen-year-old Billy Conway has been an accident magnet since he was a kid. When he and his best friend cause an almighty crash with a bowling ball and a moving car, Billy must face up to his family's history and learn that sometimes someone is to blame and that sometimes..well...accidents just happen.
THE ARTFUL DODGER picks up the story of Jack Dawkins 15 years after the events of Oliver Twist, with the former pickpocket now a surgeon with a lingering taste for crime in Australia.
Azzadine is a model whose life briefly touches that of a Japanese boy. A cyclic piece suggesting the fragility of life, combined with the apparent paradox between the random nature of fate versus the idea of destiny as being shaped.
Celeste was once Australia’s most beloved opera singer. Yet she threw it all away to follow the man she loved to live on a crumbling property deep in the rainforests of Tropical North Queensland. Ten years after his tragic death, Celeste is ready to make one final return to the stage. But her stepson Jack, still haunted by the past, arrives at her behest amidst the preparations for the performance and finds Celeste is as he remembered – beautiful, intoxicating and dangerous. When she asks Jack for an impossible favor, the secrets that drove them apart explode back into rhapsodic life.
Not being able to speak in tongues can be very embarassing at the best of times. But if you are the only member of the congregation who cannot, and your father is a dynamic Revivalist preacher like Pastor Spong - well, it's even more distressing. And that's just one of Cherith's problems.
An army officer inhabits two worlds: the banal suburban world of bureaucratic Canberra where he works as an intelligence officer and a bizarre private world in which he moonlights as a mercenary, not for money, but for ideological reasons. On the eve of his arrest he spends the night alone except for the dead man. As the military police close in, memory and hallucination collide. CONVERSATIONS is about a modern warrior's code of honour. It is an Australian samurai film.
Anna has a man arrested from her apartment. This moment leads to a gradual revelation of the relationship between these two people, and the reasons behind the decision that Anna must finally make.
The chilling story of the Cold War development of biological weapons.
Up to 80 murders, 30 unsolved cases, thousands of assaults. In the 1980s and 1990s a murderous epidemic grips Sydney. The attackers are united by contempt. Their targets united by their sexual identity. All are gay. For the first time, Deep Water - The Real Story presents the full account of the gay hate crime epidemic that bloodied Sydney’s coastline. It stirs up old cases in the hope that new evidence will rise to the surface. So that maybe, after all these years, there will be peace for the dead, and justice for their loved ones.
Professor David Lurie's life falls apart after he has an impulsive affair with one of his students. Forced to resign from the university he escapes to his daughter's farm. The relationship is tested when they both become victims of a vicious attack. Based on the Booker Prize winning novel by J.M. Coetzee.
When the Knight family and the entire town of Whyhope are thrown into crisis, all eyes turn to Hugh to save them. Will Whyhope’s bad boy be their Messiah, or is this a recipe for an even bigger disaster?
DUSTY HEARTS is a black comedy about one man's destiny. Sax Elthan is a hapless musician, a refugee from the inner-city. Rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to the outback to look for work. One burning Wednesday he finds himself behind a highway, waiting for a lift, contemplating his future. It arrives in the shape of a beat-up Volkswagen with a wardrobe tied to the roof.
A short animated film set in an array of eccentric landscapes to inspire free movement of the open mind.
The story of Rose, a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer, and her struggle to survive in Australia with her two young children. An epic tale of mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, unrequited love, betrayal and hidden secrets that spans continents and decades.
The long-suppressed trauma of Isabel Irish’s brutal and random murder by Jack’s former client Wayne Milovich – which launched the first Jack Irish instalment, Bad Debts – rears its ugly head when Jack discovers there was more to those fateful events all those years ago. Namely, a criminal conspiracy involving his trusted friend, homicide detective Barry Tregear.
JASPER JONES is a riveting and moving Australian coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town’s mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wiseheart, his life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret, and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1965, Charlie defeats the local racists, faces the break up of his parents and falls head over heels in love as he discovers what it means to be truly courageous.
An elevated one-hour, serialised crime drama over 10 episodes, LAST KING OF THE CROSS tracks John Ibrahim’s rise from a poverty-stricken immigrant with no education, no money and no prospects, to Australia’s most infamous nightclub mogul. The world is Kings Cross: a mini–Atlantic City, barely half a mile long and with every form of criminality on offer.
It’s now 1972, the year of Gough Whitlam’s election, free education and immigration. With new faces, a cover-up and a shocking death, the men and women of LOVE CHILD will face their greatest challenges yet.
Detective Jay Swan is assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of two young farm hands on an outback cattle station. One is a local Indigenous footy hero, and the other a backpacker. Working with local cop Emma James, Jay’s investigation uncovers a past injustice that threatens the fabric of the whole community.
Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) take on a grisly case in a new town in order to be closer to his family, but has he left it too late? Set in a small coastal community where the desert meets the ocean, secrets past and present run deep and dark. Jay must reconcile the law and deep lore and confront a dangerous enemy in a world where deception is king.
In a small town in the western plains of New South Wales a friendship evolves between two children, Trish and David. Their lives are revealed through the poetic recollection of moments from Trish's childhood; the arrival of strangers to the farm, bikes, fights and graduation nights. 'Once in time' is a film that explores the geography of our memories. There is a time and a place where memories become part of our lives...
At Maralinga in 1956, atom bombs were not the only things being tested. At the height of the Cold War, the human capacity for loyalty and betrayal were constantly pitted against each other. But not just in terms of espionage. Friend against friend. Lover against lover. Government against its people. If only trust could bloom in an infinite desert. But these are not trusting times.
A charming portrait of Sicilian furniture merchant and cult icon, Franco Cozzo, struggling to maintain his iconic style as Australia - and his migrant clientele - change around him.
A decades-long feud between two sheep farming brothers comes to a head when disaster strikes their flocks.
A successful composer is approached by a young widow who requests a requiem for her late husband, a taxi driver. But how can he abandon his current commission, which is far more important?
On a remote property in New South Wales in 1912, a travelling portrait photographer captured the image of a young woman who worked as a maid. Years later the ghosts of the two characters reenact what went on beneath the surface at their meeting, and the events are pieced together through a mixture of dance, photos and memories.
RETURN TO PARADISE follows DI Mackenzie Clarke, an Australian ex-pat who’s made a name for herself in the London police force, working under former Detective Inspector Jack Mooney, for cracking uncrackable murder cases. When she is framed for staging evidence, Mackenzie returns to Australia, back to the last place she ever wanted to be – her hometown of Dolphin Cove. Having fled the town six years ago, infamously leaving her ex- fiancée Glenn at the altar, Mackenzie is not welcome here. But with no other job options, and a compulsion for solving the mystery, no matter how challenging, a reluctant Mack joins the team at Dolphin Cove Police Station. Once a case lands on her desk, she can’t rest until she’s figured it out, and the killer is in handcuffs. It’s that tenacity and work ethic that might just, over time, help Mackenzie win over her new colleagues, and the people of Dolphin Cove.
REVEALED: AMONGST US - NEO NAZI AUSTRALIA is an eye-opening investigation led by 12-time Walkley Award-winner and two-time Australian journalist of the year Nick McKenzie that explores the terrifying rise of neo Nazi activity in Australia.
When acclaimed TV journalist Liz Jackson is diagnosed with a form of Parkinson’s disease that cripples her with pain and panic attacks, she turns the lens on herself to make the most challenging story of her life. Using her formidable compulsion for the truth she courageously explores some big and confronting questions: What does Parkinson’s do to you? Can it be cured or helped? What does it mean for your cognitive abilities? Your sense of self and independence? Your friends and family? Through her investigation she is surprised to discover she is making a story that celebrates the transformative power of love.
True-crime docu-drama THE SPEEDWAY MURDERS is based on the unsolved murders that claimed the lives of four teens working in a burger restaurant in 1978.
A brief moment in time.
Lauren and Ned are engaged, they are in love, and they have just ten days to find Lauren's mother who has gone AWOL somewhere in the remote far north of Australia, reunite her parents and pull off their dream wedding.
An unlikely national hero, Alex is catapulted into government in a cynical power play. Used, abandoned and underestimated, now she's on a path that will send the political establishment into meltdown.
Alex Irving is back, but this time she’s doing things her way. Can the ultimate outsider find a new way in and take control of a political establishment determined to shake everything she values?
Based on the book CRIMSON LAKE by best-selling crime writer Candice Fox. When an ex-cop falsely accused of a disturbing crime escapes to the tropics of Far North Queensland, he finds himself entangled in a newly-formed PI agency run by an eccentric ex-con who served ten years for murder. By-the-book Ted Conkaffey and human whirlwind Amanda Pharrell mix like oil and water, and yet, as they set about unravelling the truth behind the strange death of a local inhabitant, a partnership which seemed doom from the outset slowly begins to take on another dimension - and in the process, both wayward souls are offered a chance at redemption.
John Woldring wakes one morning to find a young woman stumbling semi-consciously towards his farmhouse. She is dark (Middle Eastern perhaps) and has no English. There is great beauty hidden beneath the blood and bruises. She has obviously run from something truly terrible. But John Woldring doesn't call the police. He will handle this his own way. Has she landed in a sanctuary or another nightmare?
During a European holiday in 1816, young Mary Goodwin finds herself torn between her innocent love for the idealistic Percy Shelley, and her wakening desire for their host, the brooding Lord Byron. UNQUIET DREAM is a poetic and sensual melodrama about the birth of a great literary talent - and the untimely death of another.
A down-and-out musician has to drive a piano from one side of Australia to the other in order to honour his mother’s dying wish. That’s the easy bit. His real problems begin when he’s joined by a fugitive teenage girl who soon proves to be even heavier baggage than the piano. What are the odds they’ll all make it out of the desert intact?
Trading the desert for the steamy tropics of Far North Queensland, Lucky and Meg hit the road - and the river - on a mission to find Meg's mum. Trouble is, Meg's mum has disappeared into the rainforest.
Sydney film editor Robert Gibson's personal video diary of his own tangled love life, a camcorder true romance. At the outset he's in love with the spirited April, but two days after she goes to London, he meets Gianna the beauteous in a bar. She serves the drinks, he points the camera and is smitten. What to do? Video technology has given everybody the chance to be the star of their own life, and Gibson takes that idea to its obsessive conclusion.
Charlie and Anna make a pact to assist their terminally ill friend Gavin to die. This traumatic event is the catalyst for an emotional rollercoaster ride for both the friends and family. From illicit affairs and leftover morphine, to devastating accusations and unwitting betrayals, WALKING ON WATER is a refreshingly unsentimental film about friendship, loss, loyalty and love.
The toast is burning. A man has his head in an oven. Somewhere a photo is torn. A match is lit. An explosion occurs. A disparate group of characters come together at a forlorn roadside cafe. At a single moment in time, all these seemingly unconnected events collide with the forces of chaos, destiny and personal choice in this dark fable on fate.
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