Boys Grammar 2005
Bullying is taken to unimaginable extremes at an exclusive private boys school.
Bullying is taken to unimaginable extremes at an exclusive private boys school.
A teenager tries to track down a man he met at an anonymous sex party, trawling through hook-up apps to find him.
A family drive in the countryside turns into a battle of wills between a young boy and his father and aunt.
This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s.
A series of the awkward trials of everyday living.
Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child in 1971, this documentary highlights the many complex issues associated with adoption.
Cherith is the daughter of a evangelist and is seen as an outcast because of her inability to speak in tongues, which the rest of her father's sect can do quite easily. She also has problems with relationships.
Road trips usually signify a beginning but for Isaac and his partner Levi, this is their last chance to spend time together before they part ways. As they drive closer to their destination, Isaac finds that maybe he isn't as prepared for his first breakup as he had thought.
Fifteen year old Alex and his older brother, Michael, both like the same girl, who has worked in their family pub for years. When she accompanies the family on a holiday at the beach, Alex hopes he can attract her attention, but as usual it is Michael who gets the girl. But there are compensations for Alex.
When their car breaks down on the way to Queensland, a family is forced to take up residence at a caravan park while the father tries to earn enough money to get the car repaired.
Reflecting on her culpability, a woman recounts the traumatising assault she witnessed of a young man in a small Australian coastal town.
A librarian with the ability to explode people into confetti must decide whether to follow her own rules or what she thinks is right.
Three Aussie super-Sheilas and their Big Mack trucks embark on a mission to defend the Earth against the alien invasion.
When Jake attempts to reignite his dispassionate relationship, he’s forced to choose between clinging to the remnants of his relationship and taking control of his life again.
Penny is in her mid-twenties. For years she has suffered from the sexual assaults of her father, who is now beginning to take an interest in her younger sister. She tries to convince her mother and sister of her situation as an incest victim, but they just ignore her. The father tries to keep his secret by isolating Penny, but eventually she is old enough and confident enough to break free, though not without the emotional scars of years of abuse.
A story of transition: from lust to compassion, compassion to escape and escape to Sydney. Truth plays a very small part.
A young girl is forced to continue working at her machine all day in a 1930s shoe factory after a visit to a backyard abortionist. Based on the short story 'How beautiful are thy feet' by Alan Marshall.
Korean War, 1951 Little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life.
Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged shame and fear passes from one generation to the next, from one culture to another. The last scene depicts a silent meeting between the young Alice and the adult Alice. In order to reclaim her life, Alice decides she must confront the pain and confusion of her childhood.
Sydney's Chinatown was once a thriving hub for Cantonese Australians