Bronwyn Murphy

2차 세계대전 참전 용사이자 철도 애호가인 에릭 로맥스는 어느 날 열차에서 우연히 만난 패티라는 여인과 사랑에 빠지게 되고, 결혼에 성공한다. 그러나 행복도 잠시 전쟁의 후유증이 그를 괴롭히는데, 이에 패티는 그를 도와주기 위해 참전용사 핀레이를 찾아가 에릭의 충격적인 과거를 듣게 된다. 바로 전쟁 도중 에릭이 일본군의 포로가 되어 끔찍한 고문과 구타를 당한 것. 결국 핀레이는 힘들어하는 에릭에게 그를 고문했던 헌병대 장교 나가세의 행적을 알려주며, 복수를 종용하는데….

어느 날, 8명의 절친한 친구들이 깊은 산 속 계곡으로 캠핑을 떠난다. 아름다운 자연에 동화되어 즐거운 시간을 보낸 이들이 하나 둘 잠에 들 무렵, 갑작스런 비행기 소리로 주변이 시끄러워지자 뭔가 심상치 않은 일이 일어나고 있음을 직감한다. 다음 날 아침, 캠핑지에서 가장 가까운 ‘엘리(캐이틀린 스테이시)’와 ‘호머(데이즈 액데니즈)’의 집에 차례로 찾아간 이들이 보게 된 것은 이미 가족 모두가 사라진 텅 비어 있는 집과 키우던 강아지가 죽어 있는 모습뿐이다. 점점 더 불안감에 휩싸인 친구들은 마을이 훤히 내려다 보이는 언덕에 올라가 마을의 전경을 살피던 중 광장에 모여 있는 마을 사람들이 군인들에게 통제되고 있는 장면을 목격하게 되고, 주변 국가들이 자원 침탈을 위해 불법으로 자신들의 국가에 침공해 온 사실을 알게 된다. 이제 남은 8명의 친구들에게 남겨진 것은 자신들의 국가를 불법으로 침공한 군대의 막강한 힘에 맞서 싸울지, 아니면 가족을 뒤로 한 채 도망칠지를 결정하는 일뿐인데...

Maria Korp, a loving suburban wife and mother of two, went missing in early 2005. As she lay dying in the boot of her car, a twisted tale emerged of suburban lies, a philandering husband and the ultimate price paid by all those involved. WICKED LOVE is the gripping and tragic account of one of Australia’s most complex criminal cases -a suburban thriller of passion, love and betrayal.

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.

While the World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery in India. The atmosphere of serene contemplation is soon disrupted by soccer fever, as the two students desperately seek a TV to watch the 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.