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Love Song (1998)
Supported by a bedraggled band of musician rats (voiced by Richard Gray and Bruce Currie), the hero – lovelorn, poetical Rat (sung by Paul Livingston) – bravely puts his life on the line. He ventures into the mysterious cave of ... [read more]
Leunig Animated – How Democracy Actually Works (2001)
How Democracy Actually Works (narrated by Sam Neill) illustrates with industrial imagery what happens to our ballot papers on election day. [read more]
La Poule aux Oeufs d’Or (1905)
A farmer and his wife discover that the hen they bought at a market is magical, laying eggs of gold. They amass a wonderful fortune and live a rich life, with their golden eggs hoarded in a secret basement. After ... [read more]
Hayride to Hell (1995)
When George Heygate (Richard Roxburgh) stops his car for a mysterious woman in distress (Kylie Minogue) he soon finds himself on a hayride to hell. [read more]
Passionless Moments (1983)
Passionless Moments is a lighthearted series of vignettes sharing people’s fleeting thoughts. Jane Campion combines a serious documentary style with a whimsical look at the small moments people experience everyday. [read more]
Looking for Horses (2001)
Sisters Gemma (voiced by Gabrielle Vening) and Ruby (Celesta Vinckier) accompany their parents (Christina Louis and Martin Louis) to French Island, Victoria on a summer holiday. They explore the place but are disappointed to find there are no horses, that ... [read more]
Bourke Boy (2009)
Russell (Clarence John Ryan), a teenage boy, travels to Bourke in New South Wales with his adoptive father John (Andrew McFarlane) to visit the place of his birth and adoption. They visit the Bourke hospital where Russell was born and ... [read more]
Deadly Yarns – Ganggu Mama (2004)
A gang of young Aboriginal boys living in the city and getting up to mischief turn their backs on their culture. Ganggu Mama (David Ngoombujarra), or Uncle Daddy, suggests the boys join him busking at the Fremantle markets, but they ... [read more]
One Shoe Short (2007)
In a town camp in Alice Springs, it’s school time and Rodney (Rodney Malbunka) can’t find shoes to wear. His school won’t allow him in class barefoot so his mate Jesse (Jesse McCormack) tries to help him out by reorganising ... [read more]
The Safe House (2006)
In the summer of 1954, Lee Whitmore (voiced as a child by Alycia Debnam-Carey and as an adult by Noni Hazlehurst) and her friends pass the time playing in a make-shift children’s swimming pool in the backyard and gazing out ... [read more]
Dead Calm (1989)
Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) take their yacht to sea to recover from the death of a child. Becalmed in mid-ocean, they rescue a frightened young American, Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane), ... [read more]
Touch the Sun – Captain Johnno (1988)
Captain Johnno (Damien Walters) is a ten-year-old with a hearing impairment, and always in trouble. Living in a small fishing town in South Australia in the 1950s, his sister Julie (Rebecca Sykes) is his best friend and protector. Johnno’s ... [read more]
Jewboy (2005)
After the death of his father, a respected rabbi, 23-year-old Yuri (Ewen Leslie) rejects his strict Hasidic upbringing and becomes a taxidriver in Sydney. He gives up his own rabbinical studies, rejects his girlfriend (Saskia Burmeister) and insults his grandmother, ... [read more]
The Djarn Djarns (2005)
A short drama about a group of Indigenous boys who become each other’s family following the death of Franky’s (Hunter Page) father. [read more]
Some of Many: Germans in Australia (1983)
A documentary that traces the changing fortunes of German immigrants to Australia from the first fleet to the late 1980s. Australian-based German filmmaker Juergen Corleis interviews migrants in South Australia and New South Wales as well as recalling some well-known ... [read more]
Green Bush (2005)
A short film about an Indigenous radio DJ who struggles to keep his community functioning. Kenny (David Page) does the nightshift at a remote radio station, and must negotiate the nightly drama while still spinning the music. [read more]
Loved Up – Yellow Fella (2005)
A documentary narrated by Tommy E Lewis, intercut with historical footage, tells of the journey of Tommy E Lewis to find the grave of his white father. [read more]
Loved Up – Lore of Love (2005)
A short documentary about a young woman named Jessie Bartlett, an 18-year-old being taught the lores of love by her Pintupi grandmothers Mijili, Nancy and Kumanjayi. [read more]
Puberty Blues (1981)
Debbie (Nell Schofield) and Sue (Jad Capelja) want to be accepted by the tough surfie chicks at their school, on Sydney’s southern beaches, but once in the group, they find it hard to conform. They’re expected to sit on the ... [read more]
Harmony Row (1933)
Tommy Wallace (George Wallace), down on his luck, decides to join the Victoria Police. He’s threatened, fooled and bullied by the thugs of Harmony Row, a tough inner-city slum, so the sergeant (Marshall Crosby) reassigns him to a well-to-do suburb, ... [read more]
