Accidents Happen
The struggles of a dysfunctional family in the years following a tragic accident.
Balibo
As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing, a month later a veteran correspondent follows them, determined to find out the truth.
Bastardy
The actor who founded Australia's first Aboriginal theatre company talks about his life, his heroin habit, and his criminal tendencies.
Blessed
Seven children wander the streets at night, before we see the odyssey from their mothers' perspective.
Beautiful Kate
Drama sees old wounds reopened when a man returns home to his dying father.
The Boys Are Back
A wisecracking sportswriter is forced into single parenthood by the tragic death of his wife.
Bran Nue Dae
A boy runs away from boarding school and goes on a surreal - and musical-number filled - roadtrip across Australia.
Cedar Boys
Crime is an irresistible temptation for first generation Lebanese Australians who want to rise above social racist barriers.
Coffin Rock
A psychopath targets a woman who is seeking fertility treatment.
Contact
The story of the indigenous Martu tribe, cleared from their land in 1964 to make way for rocket testing.

D

Daybreakers
Vampires have overthrown the human race... but now blood stocks are running low.
Dogs In Space
Kitchen sink drama with a difference, set in a Melbourne punk commune.
A Good Man
Tracking the life of an extraordinary family.

M

The Marriage Of Figaro
A hairy biker and his long-time love face comic complications as they try to get hitched
My Year Without Sex
Film traces a year of recovery in a family hit by sickness.

R

Road Train
Supernatural chiller sees a camping trip to the outback turn sour.
The Road
An unnamed father and son travel through a post-apocalyptic America in this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
Samson And Delilah
Winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes, sees an Aboriginal couple drawn together after tragedy strikes.
Stone Bros
Two cousins embark on a road trip fuelled by spliffs.

V

Van Diemen's Land
Things get desperate after a prison breakout in Tasmania in 1822.
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