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- A young couple offer to buy the furniture of a middle-aged man whose wife just left him - but they end up with more than they bargained for. Hugo Weaving, Abbie Cornish and Sullivan Stapleton star in an adaptation of a Raymond Carver story.
- Clair is an actress tired of being passed over for roles in favour of thinner but less talented girls. She "enhances" a movie by substituting herself in place of another actress, receives rave reviews and is celebrated across the country.
- This history of the co-op film movements of Sydney and Melbourne comes from two of the major figures in Australian documentary who were intimately involved in the filmmaking groundswell that first emerged in the 1960s. The Ubu group in Sydney, born from the influence of avant-garde filmmaking mingled with a rich range of social movements including unionism, feminism, Indigenous self-expression, and queer theory. A few names should give you a sense of the main participants here: Philip Noyce, Gillian Armstrong, Albie Thoms, Stephen Wallace, Martha Ansara, Essie Coffey, and many, many others. This is the story of the rise of alternative forms of filmmaking, and their fall at the hands of government agencies. It is a story of a road not taken, but of a moment full of possibility when fresh voices and new ways of seeing struggled to establish themselves in Australian cinema.
- A powerful documentary essay examining the undercurrents of history playing out in the present: a 'song' for the dark times about repression and resistance.
- A 2020 large-scale participatory-dance work choreographed by the acclaimed Stephanie Lake expresses the inexpressible in lockdown. Directed by Rhys Graham (Galore), MULTIPLY revisits the 400-person-strong dance event held in November 2020 at inner-suburban Melbourne's Prahran Square, which was staged as an artistic response to social isolation. Tracing the weeks prior to the performance, including footage of staggered rehearsals and masked studio visits, alongside discursive commentary from dancers and Lake herself, Multiply demonstrates the intimacy and impact of choreography on the commons in a time of heightened disconnection.
- A Mixed Martial Arts fighter wrestles with the news she is pregnant in the lead up to the most important fight of her career.
- Meet Chad Morgan, the dentally challenged king of Australian country music. For almost 60 years, Chad Morgan has been one of country Australia's quintessential and most beloved troubadours. A man who has come to represent the comic voice of the Australian outback, Morgan, now 78, still tours constantly, his charm and boisterous tales speaking to a vision of Australia many assume to be gone. Half biopic, half tour film, I'm Not Dead Yet is filmmaker Janine Hosking's deeply affectionate ode to one of Australia's true characters, the self-proclaimed 'Sheik of Scrubby Creek'. Narrated by Tex Perkins and filled with Morgan's classic songs and endless good humour, I'm Not Dead Yet is the definitive portrait of a larrikin who just wants to remind everyone that he is still very, very much alive.
- Aboriginal resistance to white settlement has continued for almost 200 years. In earlier times guerilla warfare was waged, but failed against the more sophisticated armoury of the invaders Australia's Aborigines have refused to accept defeat,they are now using different tactics to get back some of their land Aborigines have developed strong community-based organisations which are now winning significant gains from successive white governments. In NSW, the first State to be colonised, the government has at last officially recognised the fact of prior ownership and passed land rights legislation through the State parliament. For many Aborigines this offer of land rights is not good enough. Even though they have lost much of their traditional culture, they feel just as strongly as the more tribal Aborigines living in the northern areas of Australia. For the Aborigines of the southern States the fight for rights is becoming more urgent than ever, as earlier policies of assimilation and integration have eroded their culture and identity. "Up for Grabs" gives an inside look at the development of Aboriginal political processes and shows how in contemporary Australia they are becoming a cohesive force which can no longer be hushed by handouts.
- A simple, albeit dramatic story. A life in fragmented memories, retold and relived in luminous, evocative images. Visually and aurally overwhelming, this astounding dramatized documentary is a rich retelling of one woman's story - the inspiring tale of Czech-born Johanna Kimla Ocenaskova. Combining animation, period dramatization, archival footage and elaborate hand-tinting and re-filming, animator/director Lynn-Maree Milburn's first solo work is a beautiful, highly original and deeply moving film. A kind of intimate epic, Memories and Dreams recounts Jo's life journey, through a concentration camp, the loss of her family and other harrowing incidents in the embattled Europe of the 30s and 40s, finally to emerge in a strange new land called Australia. Disavowing conventional documentary style, the film seems to float in a pool of recollected consciousness, where memory has defined the most important experiences; the real, the symbolic, the ephemeral, and sets them in gripping historical context. Five years in the making and the result of an elaborate and painstaking production process, Memories and Dreams gathers and builds into a memorable mosaic, mapping out the intense extremes of persistence, loss and personal survival, as endured by an exceptionally passionate and independent spirit.