Bronwyn Murphy

Dura historia real sobre una de las víctimas del llamado "ferrocarril de la muerte", construido por mano de obra forzada y prisioneros de guerra durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Para conseguir mandar apoyo a sus tropas en la Campaña de Birmania de 1942, Japón decidió construir unas vías que cruzaran desde Tailandia hasta el lugar donde se hallaban sus aliados, cruzando Bangkok y Rangún. Para llevar a cabo la obra de tal magnitud se dispuso de trabajadores asiáticos y presos enemigos británicos, australianos, holandeses y estadounidenses, entre otros. Muchos de ellos murieron en condiciones inhumanas, otros perecieron de cansancio y agotamiento, y de los pocos supervivientes llega una visión de primera mano de la realidad que se vivió allí.

Lo que comienza como una aventura veraniega para adolescentes despreocupados adquiere pronto tintes apocalípticos al estallar una imprevisible guerra contra Australia. Ellie (Caitlin Stastey) y sus amigos del instituto deciden pasar una semana de acampada en un valle paradisíaco que los aísla completamente de la realidad. Pero una noche aparecen en el cielo aviones de guerra que vuelan a poca altura. A partir de ese momento, tendran que aprender a sobrevivir y a luchar contra fuerzas militares hostiles. Stuart Beattie, guionista de las entregas de "Piratas del Caribe" y "Collateral", debuta en la dirección adaptando una novela que causó furor en Australia en los 90

Maria Korp, una devota esposa y madre de dos hijos, desapareció a principios de 2005. Un peligroso triángulo amoroso puede ser el causante de la desaparición y de un posible asesinato. (FILMAFFINITY)

8-year-old Ali lives in a refugee detention centre with his mother and little sister Fatima. When his mother's precious knitting needles are confiscated, Ali is forced to take action. Desperate to save his family, he hatches a plan using a ball and the help of a girl on the other side of the razor-wire fence.

Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm of the Sydney Underworld. Standover tactics, prostitution, illegal gambling, creative importation - you name it, "The Gentlemen" are into it. And Barrett enforces it for them. Old school muscle for hire. Now 53 years old, he's tired of having to throw away perfectly good suits because you can't dry-clean the blood off. He needs to get out of Sydney. Out of the game. Which is, of course, easier said than done.

Mientras se juega el Mundial de fútbol en Francia, dos jóvenes refugiados tibetanos llegan a un monasterio en el exilio en India. Su atmósfera de serena contemplación se ve interrumpida por la fiebre del fútbol, ​​siendo el principal instigador un joven estudiante, el aficionado al fútbol Orgyen que busca desesperadamente un televisor para ver la final.

The Singer and the Swinger tells us as much about Australia's relationship to American pop culture as it does about Johnny O'Keefe's to Lee Gordon. Two different men brought together during the years 1953-63.

Sixteen-year-old Mars wants more from her life than just a fistful of flies which, to her, is a fistful of nothing. Stifled and dominated by her family, Mars just wants to be free. Denied relationships with the people who truly understand her, Mars battles her family on her own, and in her quest to be treated as a grown-up she gives her mother the courage to act and forces her father to make the choice of his life. A story about how a young girl finally finds the courage to have faith in herself.

On June 3rd 1992, six months after Eddie "Koiki" Mabo's tragic death, the High Court upheld his claim that Murray Islanders held native title to land in the Torres Strait. The legal fiction that Australia was empty when first occupied by white people had been laid to rest. Mabo-Life of an Island Man tells the private and public stories of a man so passionate about family and home that he fought an entire nation and its legal system. Though his greatest victory was won only after his death, it has forever ensured his place - on Murray Island and in Australian history.

BREATHING UNDER WATER is the story of a woman's journey into an imaginary underworld city. The birth of her daughter into an increasingly perilous world has unsettled everything in Beatrice's (Anne Louise Lambert) life. Her growing unease prompts Beatrice to undertake a journey - an investigation into human nature, a confrontation with the fears of our time, and a search for clues that will ultimately give her an answer to the central riddle of the film: why has humankind set the stage for its own extinction? The director’s preoccupation with humankind’s tendency to self-destruct was one factor that lead to the creation of this complex film.

Two women battle for control of an inner-city boxing school.

Philippines my Philippines (1989) is a feature length documentary about the situation in the Philippines two years after the notionally democratic Cory Aquino replaced the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the ‘People Power’ revolution of 1986. Touching on the influence and interests of the United States and Australia, it examines the social context and dimensions of the violent conflict between government and big business on one hand and the rural and urban poor (led by the Communist Party of the Philippines and its New People Army) on the other.

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Australian Women's Land Army.

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Australian Women's Land Army.

The inmates and guards of a modern, clean and efficient maximum security wing are slowly and increasingly brutalized until they erupt in violence. Dark and macabre, and based in truth, the story is told in a traditional dramatic style combined with telephone interviews and narration.