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Accidents Happen
Feature film/animation
Director:
Andrew Lancaster
Since he was a young child, Billy Conway has inexplicably been witness to terrible accidents. Always the good boy, now 15 Billy begins to stray when he becomes friends with the neighbourhood troublemaker, but his unexpected bad behaviour may lead his family to move on from the past.
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Animal Kingdom
Feature film/animation
Director:
David Michod
Animal Kingdom is a story about the battle of Melbourne's underworld and the police.
Seventeen year old Joshua Cody is a troubled kid, caught perilously between his criminal family and a compromised cop who thinks he can save him.
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Being In Heaven
Feature film/animation
Director:
Michael Domeyko Rowland
A journey of revelation and awakening that reveals the truth about our search for meaning, freedom and personal happiness.
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Beneath Hill 60
Feature film/animation
Director:
Jeremy Hartley Sims
Based on a true story, Beneath Hill 60 tells the story of mining engineer Oliver Woodward (Brendan Cowell) and a special regiment of Australian WWI soldiers on the Western Front.
Their secret mission was to dig a tunnel deep beneath German lines and set off the biggest explosion the world had ever seen at that time.
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Bran Nue Dae
Feature film/animation
Director:
Rachel Perkins
In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished for an act of youthful rebellion, he runs away from the mission on a journey that ultimately leads him back home.
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Bright Star
Feature film/animation
Director:
Jane Campion
London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year-old English poet, John Keats (Ben Whishaw), and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an out-spoken student of high fashion.
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Charlie and Boots
Feature film/animation
Director:
Dean Murphy
After a family tragedy Charlie and Boots try and put their differences aside and head on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula. They overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the norther most tip of Australia.
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Coffin Rock
Feature film/animation
Director:
Rupert Glasson
In a remote fishing town, happily married Rob and Jess have been trying to have a baby for three long years and she is becoming desperate. In a drunken mistake, she sleeps with Evan, a young stranger come to town whose interest in her borders on the obsessive. The day she discovers she is pregnant, Jess' guilt turns to horror as Evan begins a terrifying transformation from stalker to psychopath, determined to prove paternity of the child and claim Jess for his own. In the vein of Fatal Attractio
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Daybreakers
Feature film/animation
Director:
Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
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First Love
Documentary
Director:
Claire Gorman
17 year old Jess Laing, 14 yr old Nikki van Dijk and 15 yr old India Payne have grown up surfing together and competing against each other on Phillip Island. First Love follows the girls on their journey through school, life and fulfilling their surfing dream in Hawaii.
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Girl Clock
Feature film/animation
Director:
Jennifer Ussi
Globe-trotting Christine wakes up one ordinary day to find that her biological clock has gone off with a vengeance. But for a commitment-phobe on the wrong side of 40, the road to motherhood is strewn with bedlam, calamity and smoked out eggs.
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Going Vertical: The Shortboard Revolution
Documentary
Director:
David Bradbury
It's an intriguing 'David vs Goliath' tale that still rages after 42 years. Who really is responsible for the shortboard revolution?
At the centre of this debate are two men, now in their 60's - Aussie Bob McTavish and American Dick Brewer. Going Vertical tells both sides sides of this compelling and fascinating story...
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I Love You Too
Feature film/animation
Director:
Daina Reid
A romantic buddy movie about the meaning of relationships, the importance of friendship, and having the courage to pursue the one you love. Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had.
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Kings of Mykonos
Feature film/animation
Director:
Peter Andrikidis
Things haven't been going well for Steve 'The Wog Boy' Karamitsis...His one true love, a '69 Valiant Pacer, has just been seized, along with all his assets by the Federal cops because he trusted the shady Tony the Yugoslav, and Steve's best mate Frank has lost his touch with the ladies after a messy divorce. But fortune, as ever, favours the 'Wog' when Steve discovers that he has inherited a beach on the Greek resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he never met - a beach worth millions...
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Lou
Feature film/animation
Director:
Belinda Chayko
Eleven-year-old Lou's life was instantly turned upside down when her father walked out on her mother and two sisters. She has coped by building a tough shell around her heart - afraid to let anyone hurt her again. Life suddenly changes when her estranged Grandfather moves in to the family's rented home.
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Love, Lust and Lies
Documentary
Director:
Gillian Armstrong
Love Lust & Lies is the fifth film in the landmark documentary series Gillian Armstrong has been making about the lives, hopes and dreams of three lively, working class Adelaide girls since they were fourteen in 1976.
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Mao's Last Dancer
Feature film/animation
Director:
Bruce Beresford
A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet.
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My Tehran for Sale
Feature film/animation
Director:
Granaz Moussavi
My Tehran for Sale is a groundbreaking film, revealing fresh truths behind the facade of contemporary Iran. Marzieh is an actress living in Tehran where, like most young people, she is forced to lead a secret life to express her art. At an underground rave party she meets Saman, now an Australian citizen, who offers her a way out- until things go terribly wrong.
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Playing for Charlie
Feature film/animation
Director:
Pene Patrick
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Prime Mover
Feature film/animation
Director:
David Caesar
A long haul truckie who finds that the reality of his existence is far removed from his youthful dreams of owning and driving his own prime mover.
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Savages Crossing
Feature film/animation
Director:
Kevin Dobson
A group of strangers are forced to take shelter in an outback roadhouse while a flood rages around them. However, the danger lurking within the roadhouse is far greater than the threat from outside. As the water level rises, so does the tension…not everyone is who they first appear to be. For the innocent among them taking sides could prove deadly.
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Somewhere Near Tapachula
Documentary
Director:
Stefan Hunt
Pam and Alan Skuse left their comfortable lives in Australia 10 years ago and accidently started an orphanage in Tapachula, southern Mexico. They started teaching the 54 kids in their care to surf on the world-class, deserted waves with extremely positive results.
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South Solitary
Feature film/animation
Director:
Shirley Barrett
Meredith arrives on a remote island with her cantankerous Uncle who is charged with improving the performance of its resident lighthouse keepers.
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Stone Bros.
Feature film/animation
Director:
Richard Frankland
City based Eddie, sets off to reconnect with his blackfella roots by taking a sacred stone back to his hometown...
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The Boys Are Back
Feature film/animation
Director:
Scott Hicks
Based on the memoir by Simon Carr, story of fatherhood set in South Australia.
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The Horseman
Feature film/animation
Director:
Steven Kastrissios
After learning of the suspicious death of his daughter, Christian is sent a chilling video of what may have been her last hours alive. Driving through north Queensland to locate those responsible for his daughter's death, he reluctantly picks up Alice, an awkward young runaway and an unlikely bond develops. As he pieces the crime together, an ugly truth is revealed.
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The Marriage Of Figaro
Feature film/animation
Director:
Chris Moon
The film is about a kind-hearted Australian biker who finally proposes to the mother of his two children and then struggles to prevent the wedding from wrecking their perfectly good relationship.
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The Waiting City
Feature film/animation
Director:
Claire McCarthy
Fiona and Ben arrive in India expecting to end the long wait for their adopted child Lakshmi only to encounter bureaucratic hitches that further delay the much anticipated union.
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Tomorrow When the War Began
Feature film/animation
Director:
Stuart Beattie
Based on John Marsden’s popular and critically- acclaimed novel, TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN follows the journey of eight high school friends in a remote country town whose lives are suddenly and violently upended by a war that no-one saw coming. Cut off from their families and their friends, these eight extraordinary teenagers must somehow learn to escape, survive and fight back.
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Triangle
Feature film/animation
Director:
Christopher Smith
Shot on the Gold Coast, Triangle tells the story of a young single mother (Melissa George) who is invited to join her friend for a day aboard his yacht. Disaster strikes when a violent storm causes the boat to capsize and they escape onto a mysterious ocean liner where they discover they are not alone...
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