Nicholas Hower

A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working class suburbs on Melbourne's edge.

A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working class suburbs on Melbourne's edge.

In debt to their volatile drug dealer, best friends, Denise and Johnny, agree to a sketchy job to pay off their last hit. After breaking into a decrepit stash house to steal a bag of mysterious drugs, escape proves more troublesome, as the pair find themselves trapped inside with a madman. With no way out and not one to miss an opportunity, Johnny smokes the new drug and promptly travels into the past, triggering alarming new events in the future. Separated through time, Denise is left alone to confront her past, their dealer’s real identity, and her very own existence.

At once potently restrained and explosively oddball, Mira’s Daughter is an examination of narcissism, co-dependency and the exacting demands of fame from 2021 Flickerfest Outstanding Emerging Female Director Alisha Hnatjuk.

At once potently restrained and explosively oddball, Mira’s Daughter is an examination of narcissism, co-dependency and the exacting demands of fame from 2021 Flickerfest Outstanding Emerging Female Director Alisha Hnatjuk.

At once potently restrained and explosively oddball, Mira’s Daughter is an examination of narcissism, co-dependency and the exacting demands of fame from 2021 Flickerfest Outstanding Emerging Female Director Alisha Hnatjuk.

On a hot day in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne, Dani paints her Nanna's pergola before the house is auctioned. Co-written by and starring Hannah Camilleri (Jeanette is the Dog) and featuring the voice of Maltese actress Frida Cauchi (Luzzu, MIFF 2021), Lime Parfait explores intergenerational relationships and the reliability of memories.

A mother's love for her son is tested by his increasingly alarming behaviour.

Arielle's path changes forever when she befriends a young man whose fate rests on the outcome of his journey home from prison.

Constructing a solitary reality by imagining what life would be like after the passing of her parents, director Allison Chhorn's intricate docu-fiction chronicles her own process carrying on work in the family's titular 'plastic house'.

A través de varios modos de vigilancia, observamos a una joven sobreprotectora, Winnie, y a su hermano discapacitado, Stevie, atrapados en una red de intrigas que involucran un complot de bomba, anarquistas ineptos, policías ambiciosos y un político corrupto. La duplicidad del novio de Winnie, Conrad Verloc, activista político e informante de la policía, empuja a estos hermanos por un camino mortal. Pero la justicia puede prevalecer después, a través de la vigilancia recopilada, compilada y presentada por la sargento de crímenes especiales Kylie Heat.

A group of schoolboys engage in tomfoolery, but it’s not long before playful behaviour turns primal.

Two friends bump into another and discuss home ownership, wealth disparity and generational inequality while wandering the CBD.

"As abstract shapes come into focus, dim memories surface. With Blind Body, Allison Chhorn offers an impressionistic portrait of her grandmother Kim Nay, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge. Partially blind, Kim spends her days in a mostly sonic and textural world, in which the sound of rain, the voices of Khmer radio, and distant birdsong summon the sensations of a lost homeland." - New York Film Festival / Film at Lincoln Center

Claudia, de 16 años, ha crecido aislada del mundo exterior. Estallada en una propiedad remota después de la muerte de su madre, se sorprende cuando Grace, una adolescente local espirituosa, aparece en el jardín como un espejismo, un soplo de aire fresco y azucarado. El par encuentra en el otro el apoyo, el amor y la intimidad que necesitan, y se enseña el poder restaurador de la conexión humana. Pero su paz idílica es frágil a medida que el mundo adulto se cierra y amenaza con su amor secreto de verano.

Claudia, de 16 años, ha crecido aislada del mundo exterior. Estallada en una propiedad remota después de la muerte de su madre, se sorprende cuando Grace, una adolescente local espirituosa, aparece en el jardín como un espejismo, un soplo de aire fresco y azucarado. El par encuentra en el otro el apoyo, el amor y la intimidad que necesitan, y se enseña el poder restaurador de la conexión humana. Pero su paz idílica es frágil a medida que el mundo adulto se cierra y amenaza con su amor secreto de verano.

Employee of the Month Doug takes immense pride in his work and today, just like any other day, he intends for his contribution at a call centre to make an impact.

A young man, Jay, has a newfound realisation that everyone is sinning and so seeks the help of a boutique communications agency to help raise awareness for his cause.

Imagine a world in which having a disability was the norm, and the select few that don't, duds, experience the same condescending and patronizing attitudes as people with disabilities experience in our society.