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A female flight attendant on a trans-Pacific flight asks the question: 'What would you do with the last five minutes of your life?' And answers it in the worst case scenario.
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.
School yard bullying is taken to the extreme when a boy is raped by his peers in a school changing room. The boy confronts his attacker only to find that he too is caught up in a cycle of violence and intimidation which singles out those who are different.
At eight-years-old Richard Veed was the highest paid and most popular star on television. Five years later, he suffered a near-fatal drug overdose and was instantly forgotten. Now, aged 21, Richard attempts to recapture the spotlight as a promiscuous gay teenager in a late-night sitcom. However it is the work of a young documentary filmmaker that truly reveals him to the public, in graphic and often shocking detail. Katrina Matters is hired to film the evolution of Richard's new project, but becomes seduced by the drama of his real life. As the pressure builds, the cameras roll and Katrina's voyeurism pushes that fallen angel too far. CRAZY RICHARD is a dark satire about celebrity, voyeurism and the supernova of a star.
Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. But when the younger, faster, fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len’s legendary status starts to crumble. Then Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man; a man Phil gives a farewell kiss too. Phil is gay. Over the summer season, Len starts to form unexpected, confusing feelings for Phil. It’s something Len cannot accept and after the annual awards dinner, Len explodes. He finds Phil in the Club House locker room and violently attacks him. But to Len’s surprise, Phil remains loyal to the mateship pack and refuses to rat on Len about the beating in the Club House locker Room. Len stays in the Club and is free to compete in the annual Surf Lifesaving competition; a competition Len has won five times but Phil wins and Len’s defeat is final. Broken, Len refuses to die and with his best mate Meat he takes Phil on a victory bender through the seedy city in an attempt to secure an intoxicated oblivion. Arriving back at the beach where Phil won his victory the day before, Len sets upon Phil. And in a series of humiliating acts, Len finally comes face to face with a fundamental question, can he accept the truth about his sexuality and identity or will he succumb to complete oblivion.
A gritty short film about a shattered family's attempt to create utopia in a dysfunctional and disposable world.
A lonely, gay 16 year-old boy burns himself to death after suffering abuse by his homophobic father.
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.
Noah and Gus hang out and smoke weed after school. As the munchies kick in Noah feels compared to share a secret desire that has been tormenting him.
Four friends in the outback commandeer a road train to escape from a murderer, but what they discover is far more terrifying than anything on that lonely road.
A contemporary retelling of the tale of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse, STRAY follows Mouse, a teenager who leaves his home in the country in search of his place in the world. Along the way he is exposed to the seedy underbelly of the city and the people who live there including the broken drag diva Lame Doe Ray, who takes him under her wing. Will Mouse be led astray and consumed by the drug-soaked landscape?
'Everyday' racism escalates into violence as an Indigenous schoolboy is forced to fight for dignity. When he is framed for drug possession by a racist student, he realises he is trapped in a cycle of systemic cultural bias.
TRANSGRESSION is the story of Grem: a 19-year-old arts law student at Sydney University. She is intelligent, talented, and articulate, born into a wealthy Hong Kong family. Grem is suffering from a body condition: she is biologically male. Grem identifies culturally, psychologically and spiritually as female and has always felt that way. We track her memories of childhood and teenage years, through the discovery and acceptance of herself and her identity.
Set in a city overrun by feral cats, VERMIN tells the story of Richard, an exterminator who is gradually losing touch with his humanity. He encounters a strange feral boy who behaves like a cat and makes it his mission to save him from the life of a hunted animal. As Richard's obsession with the cat-boy sets in, he uncovers his own animalistic urges and finds it increasingly difficult to maintain his position in the food chain in a brutal and isolating world.
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