Marden Dean

With an anarchic and life-affirming heart, this documentary feature celebrates self-expression, friendship, life and death, and the power of the imagination to ignite, enrage, heal and inspire. With exclusive, intimate access to Michael Leunig - one of Australia’s most renowned artists - we reveal the man behind the household name.

Ten years after Black Saturday, the traumatised survivors reveal how they found the strength to recover from the worst bushfire disaster in Australian history.

Suellyn thought the Department of Community Services (DOCS) would only remove children in extreme cases, until her own grandchildren were taken in the middle of the night. Hazel decided to take on the DOCS system after her fourth grandchild was taken into state care. Jen Swan expected to continue to care for her grandchildren but DOCS deemed her unsuitable, a shock not just to her but to her sister, Deb, who was, at the time, a DOCS worker. The rate of Indigenous child removal has actually increased since Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered the apology to the ‘stolen generations’ in 2008. These four grandmothers find each other and start a national movement to place extended families as a key solution to the rising number of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care. They are not only taking on the system; they are changing it…

Basada en la novela bestseller de Tim Winton ambientada a mediados de los 70 en la costa de Australia. Dos chicos con ganas de descubrir cosas desarrollan una amistad con un misterioso aventurero que les invita a tomar riesgos que tendrán un impacto profundo en sus vidas.

Es Halloween en el año 1997, la última noche de instituto para Corey, Jango y su pandilla de skaters, Los Gromits. La infancia se acaba y la vida adulta les llama. Pero para Corey, su pasado tiene algunos asuntos pendientes. Cuando se encuentra con Jonah, un antiguo amigo de la infancia, pero ahora víctima de la vena cruel de Jango, Corey se apiada de él y acepta caminar con él hasta casa para recordar los viejos tiempos. Lo que comienza como un paseo normal a través de calles vacías desciende en algo más oscuro y mágico mientras se cuentan entre ellos historias de fantasmas, basándose en sus miedos del mundo que les rodea. Mientras caminan por sus recuerdos y los fantasmas del pasado, Corey se sorprende al descubrir lo mucho que todavía tiene en común con su amigo abandonado. Pero en la noche del deleite de la tumba, incluso las verdades más ocultas encontrarán una manera de volver a la vida.

A group of fathers confront the pain they have caused, and take hold of a chance to transform their most precious relationships.

On Sunday December 4, 2005, 3 Cronulla lifesavers were coming off duty when they passed a group of 8 Lebanese young men. They stared at each other, a heated verbal exchange turned quickly into a violent brawl, resulting in 3 lifesavers being beaten up. This event was to spark 10 days of violent mob attacks and retaliations, the likes of which Australia had never witnessed. This is the story of the dramatic events covering the lead up to and the 10 days between 4th and 13th December 2005 known as the Cronulla Riots.

A stunning debut by Australian director Kasimir Burgess, Fell is an entrancing and enigmatic drama - a dreamlike, visually resplendent tale of nature, revenge and redemption. While on a camping trip, Thomas' only daughter, Lara, is killed by a logging truck in a hit-and-run accident for which the driver, Luke, serves a prison sentence. Stricken with grief, Thomas sheds his urban life and his identity, and moves to the remote town where Lara was killed. There he takes on a new name, Chris, and finds work as a logger.

Un fin de semana puede terminar con cualquier pareja. Sobre todo, si lo que se espera es un viaje perfectamente romántico. Cuando la novia de Dean decida dejarlo tras un fin de semana horroroso, este no tendrá mejor idea que usar una rudimentaria máquina del tiempo para intentar enmendar, tantas veces como haga falta, el error.