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A stop-motion animated feature that weaves together stories from the residents of a Sydney apartment block and offers slightly less than ten dollars worth of wisdom about the meaning of life.
APPLE CIDER VINEGAR takes place at the birth of social media and follows two young women – Belle and Milla – who set out to cure their life-threatening illnesses through health and wellness, motivating their growing online communities along the way. All of which would be inspiring if it were true.
The lives, loves, relationships and battle for survival, of a group of convicts, the marines that guard them, and the men who govern them, in the initial weeks after landing in Australia in 1788.
Based on the critically acclaimed bestseller, CANDY is the powerful story of two lovers whose intersecting lives take them on a journey of lust, addiction and self-destruction.
Isaac, a late twenties Greek Australian, spirals out of control when he's forced to confront his own family's cursed legacy on his first trip to Europe - with the continent's haunted past and troubled present pressing in on him.
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.
A multi-generational TV drama which centres on people who are trying to figure out how to die with dignity.
Welcome to Opal City: known for free mining, endless desert and, to a select few, vampires. This remote desert mining town is the last stronghold for vampires who arrived in Australia in 1788 on the first fleet, sent by the colonial superpower Britain to deal with Indigenous populations and take the land. In the 233 years since, a select group of blackfella vampire killers, known as “bloodhunters” have sworn to protect their own and kill the vampires in secret. And they have done successfully. There’s only one King Vampire left and one last colony. The King is headed to Opal city for safety, and safe he is with endless abandoned mines, tunnels and a growing army of vampires. The only thing stopping him: Tyson, a reckless “semi-alcoholic” failed Blood Hunter and his 17-year-old street-smart adopted daughter Shanika. Together, they make a formidable team keeping the “pests” at bay above ground. But with the King’s arrival, the pair realize that they need to change things up if they are to protect the community. More vampires are arriving and are venturing above ground, kidnapping blackfellas for their blood and taking them below to bleed them. Tyson needs to confront his past with the Blood Hunters, and Shanika is going to learn the truth about the death of her mother. If Shanika and Tyson are to defeat the King, they’re going to have to stick together not fall apart. And they’re going to need help. But how do you tell people that vampires are living right below you. The war is only just beginning. The King is out for blood and land. And Blackfellas will fight to the death. This is a story of modern day colonization. This is Firebite.
Set slightly in the future, after severe climate change has ruined farmland. A farmer and his wife struggle on one of the last remaining farms until a knock on the door changes things.
An intimate portrait of writer/director Jane Campion and her collaborators at work; a personal and insightful exploration of how, often against all odds, the creative spirit can sing. This documentary follows Jane’s process through the writing, rehearsals, shooting and screening of a six-part crime mystery series. TOP OF THE LAKE is the case in question, but the themes at the heart of its story are common to filmmaking anywhere in the world, or perhaps the artistic process, anywhere, anytime.
When incompetent politicians accidentally nominate a poor, honest meatworker for federal parliament, ordinary values help him overcome all the odds to win office, stick one up slick party politics and restore a little dignity to the bush.
A freelance photographer hustling for the next job and a little-known but soon-to-be-immortal actor strike up an improbable friendship in the course of the cat-and-mouse game that is a photo assignment for Life Magazine.
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
Set in the Holy Land in the first century, MARY MAGDALENE is the story of a young woman who leaves her small fishing village and family to join a new movement. Inspired by its charismatic leader, Jesus of Nazareth, and his teachings, Mary sets out with the disciples on the journey to Jerusalem, where she finds herself at the centre of the founding story of Christianity. MARY MAGDALENE brings a unique and fascinating character to the fore and places her at the heart of the greatest origin story of all.
The riotous true untold story of the Ned Kelly legend.
MONKEY tells the story of young monk on a perilous journey across China to collect the scrolls of Buddhist wisdom to restore faith and order in the world. Escorted on the journey by a motley group of disciples they will discover that the journey, not the arrival, is the true lesson. Chief among these disciples is Monkey – an irrepressible demi-god, a trickster, impatient, vain. An action adventure series for 8-12 year-olds it’s a quest and a folk tale rolled into one. High stakes told with humour, it’s a story of wisdom and nonsense, of betrayal and loyalty, or excitement and enlightenment, of good against evil.
Three misfit gods with an accidental leader must learn to use all their skills collaboratively if they are to overcome the chaos of demon rule and restore proper balance to the world.
It's 1974 and Rod, a young music promoter, is in for his biggest challenge. He's convinced Frank Sinatra to come back to Oz. Now Rod's in for the ride of his life as everything that can go wrong does...and all Frank has to do is say sorry!
Pobby and Dingan are the invisible friends of Kellyanne, the nine-year-old daughter of an opal miner. The film is a funny, uplifting and touching story of the bizarre and inexplicable disappearance of Pobby and Dingan and the impact this has on her family and the whole town. The story is told through the eyes of Kellyanne's 11-year-old brother Ashmol.
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the organised deportation of children from the UK to Australia. Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
From the epicentre of the Holocaust comes a story of hope - the reemergence of Jewish culture in Warsaw.
Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil's romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. He is a cowboy as raw as his hides. The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, revelling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter - all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her. As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form - he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil's cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace?
Americans Hanna and Liv are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called 'The Royal Hotel' in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture but soon Hannah and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.
Sydney, Saturday, mid-summer. Deep within the inner-city, 12 young lives interweave and ricochet off each other as they each seek escape routes over the course of one sweltering weekend.
Meredith, 30 and unmarried, arrives at a remote lighthouse island with her uncle, the new head keeper. Bad weather and misadventure leave her marooned with only the sullen and withdrawn assistant keeper, Fleet, for companionship. A tender, faltering courtship ensues.
A friendship forms between two strangers. For Henry Teague (Sean Harris), worn down by a lifetime of physical labour, this is a dream come true. His new friend Mark (Joel Edgerton) becomes his saviour and ally. However, neither is who they appear to be, each carry secrets that threaten to ruin them - and in the background, one of the nation’s largest police operations is closing in.
TOP OF THE LAKE is a mystery drama television series.
A 12-year-old girl is found chest deep in the freezing waters of a South Island lake. She’s five months pregnant and when asked who the father is she insists: “No one”. Then she disappears. Detective Robin Griffin’s obsessive search for Tui unravels both Robin and the compromised town of Laketop.
TOP OF THE LAKE SEASON TWO: CHINA GIRL is a crime mystery story that begins four years on from the explosive ending of Season One. When the unidentified body of an Asian girl washes up on to Sydney’s Bondi Beach, the case seems hopeless, until detective Robin Griffin discovers that China Girl didn’t die alone.
The inspirational true story of Robyn Davidson's 2700km solo trek through the remote Australian desert to the Indian Ocean, aided only by her loyal dog Diggity, four unpredictable camels and, periodically, the charismatic National Geographic photographer who chronicled this epic modern adventure.
Uncle Chatzkel witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution, the two World Wars, the Holocaust and the transition from Communist to independent Lithuania. During his early years, he gained employment as a translator and then as a lexicographer, working hard to preserve the Lithuanian language. He lost much of his family to the Nazis and most of his fellow Jewish citizens were killed by local Lithuanians. Now regarded as a national treasure, Uncle Chatzkel's success belies his sometimes lonely existence - that is until his Australian relatives arrive.
Things haven’t been going well for Steve ‘The Wog Boy’ Karamitsis. His one true love, a ’67 Valiant Pacer, has just been seized, along with all his assets by the Federal cops, and Steve’s best mate Frank has lost his touch with the ladies after a messy divorce. But Steve soon discovers that he has inherited a beach on the Greek resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he never met – a beach worth millions... A comedy about what happens when cultures clash – and an underdog, who prevails against the odds while searching for love and identity.
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