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Two strangers share a moment on a busy evening commuter train.
A young woman breaks free from the cycle.
A bride-to-be is invited to her fiancé's bachelor party, but when uncomfortable details of their relationship are exposed, the night takes a feral turn.
Aiden, a young cop battling sex addiction and reeling from sexual misconduct allegations, embarks on a risky undercover mission. His partner, a corrupt cop's daughter, introduces him to Cody, a captivating male sex worker controlled by a drug lord drag queen. As Aiden's indiscretions make him vulnerable to blackmail, he dives deeper into a perilous world, eventually getting entangled in a deadly robbery. Torn between duty and love, Aiden flees with Cody, only to discover he's an unsuspecting pawn in a longstanding police conspiracy.
Companion. Servant. Lover. Machine. What does love mean in an age where your every fantasy can be fulfilled by a robot? Starring Tara Clarke and Adam J Yeend, EVE examines the nature of love and obsolescence in a world where last year's model is easily discarded in favour of the latest technology.
FOR A LIVING is the story of Catherine, a woman trapped in the nightmarish world of her office, a world which far transcends its walls, seemingly impossible to escape.
In the early hours of the morning, a Chinese boy wakes to find himself in a car leaving the city. His father is driving. His sister's sleeping next to him. His mother is nowhere to be seen, and his father won't say where they are going. As they push deeper into the countryside, disturbing events signal to the boy that the world has changed and the journey feels more and more like an escape. But what are they escaping from?
Filmed through the window of the filmmaker’s studio during a three-month residency at the Cité internationale des Arts in Paris in 2017, the experimental short feature merges personal diary entries with anecdotes and dreams to make sense of a world at the time of President Trump’s inauguration.
THE KITCHEN explores the dynamics of a dysfunctional family in a single take.
Barry Otto stars as the concierge of a grand apartment building where he closely observes and stage manages the lives of its residents as if they are all members of his extended family. However, one night when some of the younger members become involved in a series of complicated liaisons, he believes they should be taught a lesson!
After being embroiled in a small-town scandal, Casey (Josh Lavery) heads to Sydney where he connects with Tib (Daniel Gabriel) via an app and ends up in an intense sexual encounter. Tib makes it clear that his casual hook-ups aren’t meant to linger but there is more-than-usual chemistry bubbling here. Soon, Casey is staying on Tib’s couch and the pair take on odd jobs around the city to make some cash. As they draw closer, both men find something they have been missing, but neither of them knows quite how to negotiate it.
Lou, 23, a queer hairdresser, has been fired and evicted due to her burgeoning alcoholism. Avery, 29, Lou's straight-laced sister, discovers that her husband is cheating on her again. And their shy brother Rio, 20, is totally aimless. Lou's best friend turned casual lover, Sasha, comes to admit serious feelings for Lou. Lou rejects Sasha leading to an argument with Avery, who is sick of people's callous treatment of those they claim to care about. In the midst of the fighting, Rio reveals he has been contacted by the father who abandoned them years prior. The three get drunk and reveal secrets about the abuse they suffered before their father left. Each must decide whether a reunion is in their best interests. When the meeting proves their fears correct, that their father cannot mend the damage he left in his wake, they realise that their best hope is each other.
A romance road movie tracking the breakdown of a relationship across the same terrain but over three different time periods. Jaz and Daniel ride through a journey of new love, disillusion, conflicting priorities, questions of competing morals, and loss.
PENELOPE is a fresh examination of the character of Penelope from Homer's epic, The Odyssey, who waits for 20 years for her husband Odysseus to return from the Trojan War. Set in Croatia, in a mythic time and space, the film challenges the mythological tradition with contemporary attitudes, through a reevaluation of the role of Penelope.
The actor's presence on stage and screen is examined and fused together in this short experimental film. Music composed by Tristan Schulze and Aleksey Igudsmesman, and performed by their International award winning music ensemble, Triology.
Based on an ancient Greek myth, Simaitha, the heroine, resorts to Black Magic to summon a faithless lover to the door of her tower, but with tragic results. (Also available on Betacam)
Amin Palangi’s (Love Marriage in Kabul, Audience Award, SFF 2014) debut narrative feature is a sensual psychological drama in which an Iranian arrives in Australia to reunite with his lover. Arash (Osamah Sami, Ali’s Wedding, SFF 2017) defies his family’s wishes and travels from Iran to Australia. While he is ostensibly in Sydney to study, his main motivation is to be with the love of his life, Nazanin (Faezeh Alavi). Nazanin fails to fetch him at the airport as scheduled but all is forgiven when she whisks him away for a romantic weekend in a cabin in the country. But there are bemusing signs at the cabin that a jetlagged and confused Arash struggles with. The arrival of Nasser (Robert Rabiah), Nazanin’s academic supervisor, further elevates Arash’s paranoia, setting the scene for a showdown. Exploring themes of family duty, belonging and love, TENNESINE is a thoughtful drama with the taut energy of a thriller.
'Text Messages from the Universe' is a film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die. It imagines what they can see and think and hear in a seamless but fragmentary flow of poetic images, words, dance and music. It places the viewer in the position of going through a journey into their own interior world of dreams and projections in which time and space, and cause and effect logic, are turned on their heads. 'Text Messages from the Universe' is inspired by 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead',
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to fight in the Gulf. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancé and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. The boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption.
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