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Aunty Betelnut
Documentary
Director:
Natasha Henry
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A diverse group of five Papua Ginean aunties gather to partake in a timeless tradition and share memories of their homeland.
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Being In Heaven
Feature film/animation
Director:
Michael Domeyko Rowland
NominatedActor:
Daniel Whyte
Nominated Actress:
Amber Le'Strange
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A journey of revelation and awakening that reveals the truth about our search for meaning, freedom and personal happiness.
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Bran Nue Dae
Feature film/animation
Director:
Rachel Perkins
Starring:
Geoffrey Rush, Rocky McKenzie, Jessica Mauboy, Deborah Mailman, Missy Higgins
NominatedActor:
Rocky McKenzie
Nominated Actress:
Jessica Mauboy
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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
NominatedActor:
Ben Wishaw
Nominated Actress:
Abbie Cornish
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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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Coffin Rock
Feature film/animation
Director:
Rupert Glasson
Starring:
Robert Taylor, Lisa Chappell and Sam Parsonson
NominatedActor:
Robert Taylor
Nominated Actress:
Lisa Chappell
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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
Starring:
Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill and Isabel Lucas
NominatedActor:
Ethan Hawke
Nominated Actress:
Claudia Karvan
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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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Mao's Last Dancer
Feature film/animation
Director:
Bruce Beresford
NominatedActor:
Chi Cao
Nominated Actress:
Joan Chen
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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
Starring:
Amir Chegini and Marzieh Vafamhr
NominatedActor:
Amir Chegini
Nominated Actress:
Marzieh Vafamehr
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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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Stone Bros.
Feature film/animation
Director:
Richard Frankland
Starring:
Luke Carroll, Sarah Lawrence, Leon Burchill
NominatedActor:
Luke Carroll
Nominated Actress:
Sarah Lawrence
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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 10 conditions of Love
Documentary
Director:
Jeff Daniels
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Rebiya Kadeer spent six years in a Chinese prison before being exiled to Washington DC. A tireless advocate for the independence of her oil-rich Uyghur home-land known as east Turkestan. She has been punished at every turn by the Chinese authorities, who have now condemned two of her sons to lengthy prison sentences.
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The Boys Are Back
Feature film/animation
Director:
Scott Hicks
Starring:
Clive Owen, Emma Booth, Laura Fraser, George MacKay, Nicholas McAnulty, Julia Blake, Chris Haywood,
NominatedActor:
Clive Owen
Nominated Actress:
Emma Booth
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Based on the memoir by Simon Carr, story of fatherhood set in South Australia.
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The Marriage Of Figaro
Feature film/animation
Director:
Chris Moon
NominatedActor:
Tony Hill
Nominated Actress:
Jacqueline Cook
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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 News
Short film
Director:
Luke Shanahan
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Gina and Daniel are madly in love. They arrange to meet at the cafe where they first met, each with exciting news.
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Van Diemen's Land
Feature film/animation
Director:
Jonathan auf der Heide
Starring:
Oscar Redding.
NominatedActor:
Oscar Redding
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Van Diemen's Land was a dreaded penal settlement, a point of no return at the end of the earth. A work party of eight convicts escape into the beautiful and brutal wilderness. As their food runs out tensions escalate, they find themselves contemplating the unthinkable. God wields an axe and there can be only one survivor.
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