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Australia Day. Three young people are on the run. April Tucker, a 13-year-old indigenous girl. Sami Ghaznavi, a 17-year-old Iranian boy and Sū Mai, a 19-year-old Chinese woman. Each is scared. Subtle connections will draw these three braids progressively tighter until they reach their climaxes on that hot, contentious, enigmatic day on the calendar… Australia Day. Every one of our characters will have to make a sacrifice and pay a heavy price. Bad mistakes are made…yet people will step up. They will make change happen. And we learn that we do have power to decide our tribe, our place, the colour of our future… Hope prevails.
A tense political thriller, BALIBO recreates events surrounding the shooting of five Australian journalists during Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975. BALIBO is told through the eyes of a sixth Australian, Roger East (Anthony LaPaglia), who is lured to East Timor by José Ramos-Horta (Oscar Isaac) to investigate the truth behind the death of the five men. BALIBO is the first feature film to be made in the newly independent Timor-Leste of which Nobel Peace Prize winner, José Ramos-Horta is President.
Alone in the city, Betty dreams of fame and fortune...a modern silent film - a solemn comedy - with something beneath the surface for those who care to look.
THE BANK is a political thriller set in the world of high finance, a modern day story of alchemy.
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.
Brett Sprague returns to his family home after 12 months in jail. Things have changed while he has been away - his brother Glenn has moved out with his girlfriend Jackie, younger brother Stevie's pregnant girlfriend Nola now lives with the family, and his mother Sandra has taken on a Maori drifter. Reunited with his brothers, Brett uses his first day back to restore order.
One night in the lives and loves of six young people who work in a pizza delivery shop. Over the course of 24 hours their lives will collide, changing them forever.
After an absence of twenty years, Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to investigate an apparent murder-suicide committed by his childhood friend, Luke Hadler. But when Aaron's investigation opens a decades old wound - the unsolved death of 16-year-old Ellie Deacon – Aaron must struggle to prove not only Luke's innocence but his own.
In the middle of a crowded city, the paths of two strangers, a man and a woman, collide. This accidental, chance occurrence sets in motion a chain of events that sees the two strangers embark on a night of adventure and connection that challenges their separate lives. ELLIPSIS is a film about the random nature of life and human interaction and the small choices that can set our course. Set in Sydney over the course of one night, it is also a portrait of the city and its inhabitants. The film celebrates the distinct nature and idiosyncrasies of the people that live and work there.
A 'nature' interlude of dramatic twists and turns.
Malicious damage to a fence, trespassing, causing a disturbance in a public place, driving a vehicle unlicensed, driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.12 percent, drunk and disorderly. Kay and Billy are not criminals – they've just been out on the town.
Lucinda, 31, a solicitor decides it's time to marry, only she doesn't know to whom. When she finally makes up her mind, the lucky man is her boyfriend of six years. Only he has other plans.
A happy story about divorce. When Alex's mother decides to leave her husband and live with Alex's art teacher, Alex has mixed feelings about the situation – but mostly she wants to know if the dog can come too.
Depicts the mesmeric story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun.
An absurd dramedy about a suburban couple who spends a week at a new-age retreat in a bid to save their marriage.
When a group of lifelong friends gather in Palm Beach to celebrate a special birthday, bonhomie soon gives way to the messy realities of life … A dramatic comedy for the over 50s!
An imaginative family film about a young Australian boy’s passion for flight and his challenge to compete in the World Paper Plane Championships in Japan.
Following his film about music and war in Iraq, SOUNDTRACK TO WAR, producer/director George Gittoes slices into the murky underbelly of the giant Land of the Free. RAMPAGE is another Gittoes journey into the forbidden zones: America’s war in Iraq, and life in a Miami ‘hood. An exploration of hiphop’s musical innovations, as important as the field hollers, the blues and jazz, all of which also began in the black ghettos and went on to evolve as major music styles.
Three Aussie super-sheilas and their Big Mack trucks embark on a mission to defend the Earth against the alien invasion. Ready to meet their foe head on, at an interstellar truck stop, they uncover a futuristic form of interplanetary relations... For Adults Only
A doctor is frightened by her young daughter's inexplicable memories of a past identity.
A portrait of Sydney's last remnant of the swinging sixties cabaret scene. The Sapphire Room, in the heart of Kings Cross, blends candid footage of local 'exotic' cabaret artists with a dramatic plot which follows the characters and action over one eventful night.
A woman is visited by the angry ghost of her dead lover. She consults a suburban psychic to try to come to terms with the phenomenon.
Xavier and Yvonne loved each other and everything was as clear as clear can be. But then...There were three!
When ex-junkie, Johnny (Spit) Spitieri, flies into Australia on a false passport, he is locked up in an Immigration Detention Centre . The authorities want to know who he is, and where he's been. But so does gangster Chicka Martin, and his crooked cop mate, Arne Deviers, who are hot on Spit’s trail, and the Independent Public Integrity Commission is convinced the bumbling amnesiac is really an unlikely criminal mastermind. As Johnny talks up a storm without saying anything at all, he makes new friends amongst the detainees, and teaches them his version of mateship, and what it means to be truly Australian.
It was so seductive to be a part of 'the Scene', music, scooters, friends. The Mods in Sydney had created their own world in a '60s style to an '80s beat. Then it all started to fall apart and there was no denying the mundane world they had tried so hard to ignore. Clashing the aesthetic of a teen-gang pulp novel with realism, SQUARE ONE explores the end of a youth subculture.
A period western set on the Northern Territory frontier where justice is put on trial.
A short sad film about Country and Western love.
Based on Elliot Perlman's award-winning novel, THREE DOLLARS tells the story of an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of 38, with a wife, a child and three dollars.
The documentary follows the creative journey of five contemporary artists from blank canvas to finished painting. Each artist has a different relationship to the land they paint yet all are attempting to express their identity and sense of belonging through their work.
A photojournalist, grieving the loss of her stillborn child, is drawn into an obsessive relationship with a pregnant teenager.
Five one-minute films exploring moments of unease in ordinary life. Each has a particular film style and autonomous story but together they generate a sense of anxiety in the world.
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