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Floating Life (1996)
As China prepares to take control of Hong Kong in 1997, a Hong Kong Chinese family disperses around the world. Mr and Mrs Chan (Edwin Pang and Cecilia Fong Sing Lee), and two teenage sons, follow their second daughter Bing ... [read more]
Temple of Dreams (2007)
Fadi Rahman runs the self-funded ICRA Youth Centre, operating out of a converted Masonic Temple in the heart of Sydney’s Muslim community. When the Cronulla riots take place in December 2005, Fadi realises the need to accelerate and increase ... [read more]
Happy Feet (2006)
Mumble is the only Emperor penguin chick in Antarctica who can’t sing. His friend Gloria (voiced by Brittany Murphy) has a glorious voice, but Mumble can never hope to attract a mate without a ‘heart song’, the personal tune that ... [read more]
The Jammed (2007)
Ashley Hudson (Veronica Sywak) works in an insurance company in Melbourne. By chance, she meets Sunee (Amanda Ma), a Chinese woman who believes her daughter may have been sold into prostitution. Ashley doesn’t want to get involved, but Sunee is ... [read more]
The Bet (2006)
Will O’Connor (Matthew Newton) accepts a challenge from his rich friend Angus McFarlane (Aden Young). Will is a Sydney stockbroker, Angus is a banker, the son of a tycoon. Whoever can make the most money in 90 days takes the ... [read more]
Bush Christmas (1947)
In the beautiful Mara Mara valley, the three Thompson children – Helen (Helen Grieve), John (Morris Unicomb) and Snow (Nicky Yardley) and their English friend Michael (Michael Yardley) – are looking forward to the Christmas holidays. Riding their horses home ... [read more]
Dingo (1991)
On a hot day in Poona Flat, Western Australia, in 1969, legendary American jazz trumpeter Billy Cross (Miles Davis) plays an impromptu concert on the tarmac after his plane makes an unscheduled stop. John Anderson (Daniel Scott), aged nine, decides ... [read more]
Soft Fruit (1999)
In the shadow of the steel mills of Port Kembla, the four children of Patsy and Victor Petrov gather at the family house, which is surrounded by fruit trees. Patsy (Jeanie Drynan) is dying of cancer, but the family has ... [read more]
Epsilon (1995)
An old woman (Alethea McGrath) recounts a story to her granddaughters (Chloe and Phoebe Ferguson) about a man (Syd Brisbane) that she met many years before. He told her about an experience that changed his life. He was camped in ... [read more]
September (2007)
Ed Anderson (Xavier Samuel) and Paddy Parker (Clarence John Ryan) are best friends, growing up on a farm in the West Australian wheat belt in 1968. Ed’s father Rick (Kieran Darcy-Smith) runs the farm with the help of Paddy and ... [read more]
Gone (2007)
A young British backpacker, Alex (Shaun Evans), en route to join his girlfriend in Byron Bay, meets a friendly American outside a Sydney hostel. They have a wild night with two girls, then Taylor (Scott Mechlowicz) offers him a lift ... [read more]
The Home Song Stories (2007)
In Hong Kong in 1964, a beautiful nightclub singer meets an Australian naval officer. Rose (Joan Chen) comes to Australia with her two young children, Tom and May, but leaves Bill (Steven Vidler) after one week of marriage. Seven years ... [read more]
Modern Love (2006)
City businessman John (Mark Constable) inherits a remote farm from his uncle Tom (Don Barker), a recluse said to have committed suicide. With wife Emily (Victoria Hill) and young son Edward (William Traegar), John travels to the farmhouse for what’s ... [read more]
Black Harvest (1992)
By late 1989, filmmakers Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly were ready to go back to the PNG highlands to make the third film in the Highlands Trilogy, Black Harvest. This film follows First Contact (1983) and Joe ... [read more]
Joe Leahy’s Neighbours (1988)
Joe Leahy’s Neighbours is the sequel to First Contact (1983) and is the second documentary in The Highlands Trilogy. This well-constructed film traces the fortunes of Joe Leahy, one of the highlander sons of the gold prospector Michael Leahy. Joe ... [read more]
A Hard Rain (2007)
A Hard Rain explores the global nuclear industry, covering the nuclear fuel cycle from beginning to end, radioactive waste and weapons manufacture. It questions the agendas behind the pro-nuclear push in Australia and debunks the myths that nuclear power is ... [read more]
Thirst (1979)
Advertising executive Kate Davis (Chantal Contouri) is kidnapped by the Hyma Brotherhood, a secret society of blood drinkers led by Dr Fraser (David Hemmings). Held at the group’s country headquarters where blood is extracted from zombie-like ‘donors’, Kate is told ... [read more]
Patrick (1978)
Patrick (Robert Thompson) has been in a coma since he murdered his mother and her lover three years ago. He is the patient in room 15 of a private psychiatric clinic run by Dr Roget (Robert Helpmann), who treats Patrick ... [read more]
Turkey Shoot (1982)
In the totalitarian near future, ‘social deviants’ are sent to prison camps for re-education and behaviour modification. The new arrivals at Camp 47 are Chris Walters (Olivia Hussey), a shopkeeper accused of helping a rebel; Rita Daniels (Lynda Stoner), a ... [read more]
Fatal Bond (1991)
Small town hairdresser Leonie Stevens (Linda Blair) is instantly attracted to mysterious drifter Joe Martinez (Jerome Ehlers). Leonie packs her bags and heads south with Joe, who says he’s going to set up a car business with his brother Jack. ... [read more]
