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On this day, in loving memory of Pearly, Agnes and Maude play a game on Pearly's favourite poker machine. But when they hit the jackpot, money isn't the only thing that comes spilling out.
Divorced mother Lizzy, an emotionally imbalanced woman battling for custody of her son, has her life turned upside down when she crosses paths with Lola, a young girl who she believes to be the daughter she lost six years ago in a hospital fire. Unable to let her suspicions go, Lizzy first stalks and then befriends Lola's mother, Claire, inching her way into Lola's life, to the bewilderment of her own family. Claire grows suspicious on discovering that this strange woman has begun to systematically follow her little girl, appearing everywhere. As Lizzy's obsession heightens and her behaviour becomes increasingly disturbing, Claire confronts her, which brings deeply buried secrets to the surface and the shockingly devastating truth.
When seriously ill teenager Milla falls madly in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it’s her parents’ worst nightmare. But as Milla's first brush with love brings her a new lust for life, things get messy and traditional morals go out the window. Milla soon shows everyone in her orbit - her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest pregnant neighbour - how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. BABYTEETH joyously explores how good it is not to be dead and how far we will go for love.
BEAUTIFUL KATE is the story of a family whose all too human mistakes lead to tragedy, recrimination, guilt and, finally, salvation. Told in parallel strands of past and present, the film recounts the sexual awakening of three siblings growing up in isolation, interwoven with the emotional journey of reconciliation between an estranged father and son.
Based on the best-selling novel by Tim Winton, BLUEBACK is a timely tale about the ocean, a beautiful marine creature, and a young girl’s power to change the world.
CELEBRITY: DOMINICK DUNNE is an intimate snapshot of the famous Vanity Fair magazine writer as he covers the Phil Spector murder trial in Los Angeles. However, it is also an under-the-skin story of Dunne's amazing personal triumphs and tragedies. It is both an inspiring and sad story of one man's search for belonging in a celebrity-obsessed world.
A man returns to his hometown and unearths a long-buried family secret. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before. Will they survive the truth?
The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can’t bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and she’s flung into a parallel place; a world that’s weirdly erotic, violent and thoroughly ludicrous – only there can she find herself.
1930s, North Australia, a remote corner of a wild country, two men are on a mission to prevent a bloody war. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of ‘redemption’. Gutjuk is an Aboriginal boy trying to save the last of his family.
After being transferred from juvenile to adult prison, Mel Blight (Vincent Miller) is taken under the wing of both Mark Shepard (Cosmo Jarvis), Australia’s most despised criminal, and Warren Murfett (Guy Pearce), a soon-to-be-a-paroled inmate. As a paternal triangle grows between them, we see that even the worst of men have a little bit of good inside that will be their undoing.
LITTLE ECHO LOST takes us into the world of the last surviving Echo Man. Echoes are part of the fabric of nature, the nature we hear, not see. These are the Echo Man's responsibility.
Tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes: Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at fifteen, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that once and for all overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
NO SURRENDER tells the story of a young Indigenous woman who is invaded, terrorised and physically attacked by an unseen intruder. As she nears the point of surrender, the woman's spirit separates from her body, and through the language of dance and spiritual movement, she finds the strength to fight back.
An absurd dramedy about a suburban couple who spends a week at a new-age retreat in a bid to save their marriage.
A boy who is believed to bring bad luck to everyone around him leads his family and a couple of ragged misfits through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity–filled journey, to prove he’s not cursed he builds a giant rocket to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition of the year: the Rocket Festival.
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event and what follows, ricochets through a group of family and friends to shocking effect. THE SLAP is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The television adaptation of THE SLAP will be a powerful, haunting tale about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and all the passions and conflicting beliefs – that family can arouse.
Seventeen Australian directors each create a chapter from the hauntingly beautiful novel by Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives. As characters face second thoughts and midlife regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken and lives change direction forever. This watershed film reinterprets and re-imagines the work for the screen.
This is a film about a moment of change. It is about the importance of contact between people. When we say goodbye we directly face the possibility of losing contact forever. We have to confront a pain of separation that goes as deep as our fear of death. The unknown lies at the other side of a goodbye, the chance of aloneness, the feeling of loss, betrayal, lack of love - and of course, the freedom of something new... TOUCH AND GO looks at how we deal with that point of separation.
In 1989, Julian Assange and two friends formed the 'International Subversives'. Using early home computers and calling themselves 'white hat hackers' - who look but don't steal - they broke into the world's most powerful organisations. Young, brilliant, and in the eyes of the FBI, a major threat to national security, they were chased through the electronic underground of Melbourne.
Sometimes it's safer not to think too much...
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