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China Love takes us on a billion-dollar ride of fantasy exploring contemporary China through the window of the pre wedding photography industry. The film is a feature length observational documentary which follows Chinese and Australian participants as they navigate love, weddings and family in the lead up to the most important ritual of Chinese society – getting married.
Contemporary Melbourne. Via various modes of surveillance we observe a young woman, Winnie, and her disabled brother, Stevie, caught-up in a web of intrigue involving a bomb plot, inept anarchists, ambitious police and a corrupt politician. The duplicity of Winnie’s partner, Conrad Verloc -political activist and police informant –propels these siblings down a treacherous path, their only succour coming in the aftermath through the actions of police officer Kylie Heat.
THE OPPOSITION tells the story of a David-and-Goliath battle over land in Papua New Guinea. It follows Joe Moses, community leader of a four-generation strong settlement in Port Moresby who must save the families before they are evicted off their land. Battling it out in the courts, Joe may find his community replaced with an international five-star hotel and marina being developed by the Paga Hill Development Company
A unique ship offering life saving medical treatment sets sail for the poorest of the poor in Africa. They have just one year to do the impossible – to provide the care these people cannot get any other way. On board are volunteer doctors and nurses - now headed straight for the biggest medical and ethical challenges of their lives. Ahead lies unbelievable illnesses, many they have never seen outside of textbooks. A dramatic journey is underway as they deal with life and death cases - and balance the fates of these patients in their hands.
Benjamin Law explores the sweet and sour of the China-Australia relationship, digging deep into the overlapping histories of the two countries that made him, unpacking the present and looking to the future of Australia's waltz with the dragon.
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