Ken Sallows

In a near-future, darknet grifter Dougie is recruited to work security at a refugee detention centre. There, he is drawn into an underground operation blackmailing detainees to fight for profit. When tragedy strikes courageous fighter Azad, Dougie locates his hitherto dormant conscience and takes a stand.

Filmed over a 22 year period, No Ifs or Buts delivers a portrait of Soho barbershop, Cuts, an iconic London hub for street fashion and pop innovators. Guided by freewheeling founders James Lebon and Steve Brooks, who met when one was a rockabilly and the other a New Romantic, the salon moved from early ’80s postpunk roots to become a hip-hop club and communal hub for DJs, photographers and style icons. But the film "is not just about the haircut", delivering an intimate portrait of Steve struggling with a traumatic past that threatens to derail the Cuts universe. The film traces profound and often tragic change in the hairdressers' lives within the wider context of the UK's political and cultural landscape- an anthem to the promise of youth and the friendships that endure over a lifetime.

Blind from birth, Dr G Yunupingu found his identity through song and the haunting voice that has already become legend. His debut album introduced Australia to the Songlines and culture of his Elcho Island community, but now Dr G Yunupingu finds himself increasingly torn between city and country, present and past, self and the community to which he owes so much.

This is a detailed personal account of one of the worst incidents to take place during Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza. Ten-year old Amal Samouni lost her father, brother and 48 members of her extended family. She spent three days trapped under the rubble and still suffers from fifteen pieces of shrapnel imbedded in her head. Her shocking story is brought vividly to the screen by director Anne Tsoulis who examines the events and the cost to those affected.

Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.

A professional forger comes under threat from a predatory crime ring in Ian Pringle's first feature in more than two decades.

In 2010, the iconic Tote Hotel – last bastion of Melbourne’s vibrant music counterculture – was forced to close by unfair laws. Filmed over 7 years, “Persecution Blues” depicts the struggle of more than 20,000 fans – and the bands who inspire them – to preserve their history and protect their future, and puts the audience on the front line of an epic-scale culture war.

Monkey Puzzle follows five intrepid friends on an adventure into New South Wales' Blue Mountains on a search for the world's rarest tree, the Wollemi Pine. After abseiling down into the rainforest canyons, a series of mishaps delay their adventure. Tensions in the group surface quickly. As the friends become engulfed by the harsh terrain, they come face-to-face with their most personal secrets and fears on a journey which will test their perceptions of friendship, intimacy and the nature of their pasts.

The story is about Iris' rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.

Ten fragments of life. Three days until Christmas. Cross Life is a tale of ordinary people pained by the desire for love amidst the sensual delights of Sydney's red light district, Kings Cross.

The Society Murders was the name given to the April 4, 2002 murders of husband and wife millionaire socialites Margaret Mary Wales-King, 69, and husband, Paul Aloysius King, 75 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, by their son, Matthew Wales. The crime and subsequent trial received widespread media coverage throughout Australia and later became the subject of both a book and a television film.

의외의 결말이 흥미로운 범죄물. 누명을 쓰고 8년의 수감 생활을 마친 남자, 자폐 증세를 가진 그의 친구, 전과자의 과거를 씻고 레스토랑을 운영하며 평범하게 살아가는 남자가 등장해 범죄조직과 부패 경찰들에 엮여 새로운 ‘건수’를 만든다는 내용이다. 서로 무관하거나 유관한 캐릭터들이 다수 등장해 종착지에서 만나는 구성이고, 공권력에 대한 비판적 시선이 가볍게 담겼다. 중년의 전과자 역을 맡은 티모시 스폴의 연기가 뛰어나다. 연애와 섹스에 관한 쿨한 해석을 던진 의 감독 조너선 테플리츠키의 두 번째 극장편이다.

When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club a prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the club, in what turns into an epic battle where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances.

After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.

차퍼(chapper: 도끼)라는 별명을 얻을 정도로 잔인하고 폭력적인 마크 리드는 범죄를 통한 자기만족과 우월의식에 쌓여있는 인물이다. 호주 멜버른의 한 교도소에 수감되어 있는 마크는 계획적으로 다른 죄수들과 잔혹한 파워 게임을 벌여나가지만 , 추종자들을 얻기는 커녕, 점점 더 경원과 멸시의 대상이 되어가고, 심지어 가장 친한 친구 지미에게까지 공격받기에 이른다. 생명의 위협을 느낀 마크는 한 동료를 부추겨 자신의 귀를 베어버리게 한 후, 다른 감옥으로 이감된다. 그리고 얼마 후 석방이 된 마크는 인간 쓰레기를 소탕해야된다는 망상에 사로잡힌 채 곳곳을 돌아다니며 잔혹한 살인 행각을 계속한다. 이처럼 사실과 환상의 경계를 오가며 세상과 부믿치던 마크는 결국 다시 감옥에 들어가게 되는데, 이때부터 타고난 이야기 실력을 발휘하여 자신의 삶과 범죄 행각에 대한 책을 쓰기 시작한다. 자서전이 출판되면서 마크는 드디어 명성과 부를 거머쥐고, 호주 사회의 전설적인 범죄자라는 악명을 얻기에 이른다.

Alice, Judy and Sally are three Australian roommates who are unlucky in love. Over the course of a year, they endure numerous personal ups and downs. Meanwhile, Ewan, Joel and Neil are friends and coworkers with similar problems, and gradually their lives intersect with the trio of women to varying degrees. Will any of these young people finally find a satisfying relationship?

Larceny, adultery, sabotage and treachery. Yes, just your typical Christmas with the Dredge family! Twelve-year-old Joey Dredge is in trouble again. Expelled for jumping off the school roof, he's haunted by his father's death and hates his mother's new boyfriend and his bullying son. Compounding his misery is the knowledge he has to spend Christmas with them at the family beach house. Things look grim until the unexpected arrival of great-grandfather Albert, fresh from a stint in prison. Forced to share the back shed with this swearing, farting and devious octogenarian, Joey's life changes. Between barbecuing the family dog, performing a self-burial and causing his intended step-father to consume a startling amount of hash, Joey learns a few life lessons from Albert, who despite his many vices may give Joey the strength to accept the past and embrace the future.

Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful country/western singing career will hopefully begin. However, fate and his naivety find him hitchhiking with a psychotic drug thief named Boyd, and Boyd's mesmerising girlfriend, Patsy. The plot then splits into a series of parallels, flash forwards and flashbacks. One depicts Ralph’s imprisonment after being framed for drug trafficking. The other follows the dramatic ascent of his career to hype status and the pairing between the dynamic Patsy and himself.

Hanif and Dean steal a cache of drugs from Dean's psychotic brother Jerry, and at the last minute get a lift with Mimi as she decides to drive to Perth. They pick up a drunken singer, Morris, as they cross the country, chased by Jerry.

A day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.

Ort Flack is 12 years old and lives with his mother and his sister Tegwyn in the Australian outback. The three of them also have to take care of their old grandma and their paralyzed father. It is not easy for one mother to take care of everybody. But one day a mysterious stranger, Henry, comes to their desolate house to help them...

Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, there is only one passion in life - to become a great horseman just like his hero, the reclusive horse trainer East Driscoll (Russell Crowe). Alan is one of East's few friends and also one of the few who knows about the affair between East and the aristocratic English woman Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling). Things inevitably take a turn towards the tragic when East becomes determined to force Grace to leave her husband and run away with him. Hammers Over The Anvil is an evocative coming of age film from Australian director Ann Turner.

Story of a young woman journalist who becomes enmeshed in the politics of the annexation of Morrocco from Algeria at the turn of the twentieth century.

선천적으로 앞을 못보는 마틴(Martin: 휴고 위빙 분)은 병약한 홀어머니 밑에서 성장하는데 자신이 장애아이기 때문에 어머니가 자신을 미워하고 미워하기 때문에 자기에게 진실을 말해주지 않고 모든 걸 속인다고 오해한다. 이처럼 심각한 피해 의식은 젊은 나이에 요절한 어머니의 죽음마저도 자기를 버리고 떠나기 위해서 조작된 거짓말이라고 믿게 만든다. 세상의 모든 걸 불신하는 마틴은 주위 사람들이 자신을 속이지 못하게 보이지는 않지만 육감으로 느끼는 주변의 풍경들을 사진으로 찍어서 증거로 남겨둔다. 그리고 이 증거품인 사진을 솔직하게 말해 줄만한 정직한 사람을 찾던 중 식당의 주방에서 일하는 앤디(Andy: 러셀 크로우 분)라는 착한 청년을 만나게 된다. 마틴은 자신이 찍은 사진과 자기에게 충실한 개 그리고 자기가 찍은 사진을 정직하게 설명해주는 앤디만을 믿고 의지하며 산다. 마틴을 사랑하기 때문에 마틴의 집에서 3년 반 동안 가정부로 일해 온 실리아(Celia: 제네비에브 피콧 분)는 자신보다 앤디를 더 믿는 것에 심한 질투를 느껴서 앤디를 모함하기 위한 계략으로 앤디를 유혹하는데...

Melbourne filmmaker Brian McKenzie spent 5 years working on this engrossing study of a not-so-typical Brunswick household. It's a laconic, observational documentary similar to the director's I'll Be Home For Christmas (MFF '85), in which McKenzie plays a central part, camera in tow, as he documents the lifestyle of Graham (a youth in his 20s), his family and friends. After having spent so long with the family, McKenzie becomes part of the furniture - a situation which enables him to dig deep into the subject's lives.

A man and his wife are partners in a small business, a service station, that is struggling to survive financially. They are visited by his brother, a divorced middle-aged man, who has taken a break from his stressful career in a big business corporation.

1950년대 호주에 사는 셀리아는 죽은 할머니를 통한 주술적인 세계에 대한 믿음과 숲 속에 사는 악마 호비야즈에 대한 상상을 갖고 있는 9세 소녀다. 셀리아는 사회주의자라는 이유로 옆집 가족과 어울리지 못하게 하면서도 옆집 여인을 유혹하는 아버지와 자신의 사랑하는 토끼를 강탈해간 경찰관을 죽이기 위한 의식을 치룬다. 경찰관이 빈 집에 들른 날 그를 호비야즈로 생각한 셀리아는 경찰관을 총으로 쏘고..

Rikky (Nina Landis) and her brother Pete (Stephen Kearney) struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.

Based on the highly acclaimed play by Michael Gurr, 'A Pair of Claws', it revolves around a couple who have been married for more than 30 years. Although there is a great mutual warmth between them, they are both aware that a gulf exists between them. Their son, Simon, is involved in a scandal and to preserve his career Simon must publicly denounce his father.

광활한 호주의 원시림 속에서 원대한 꿈을 키우던 짐(Jim Craig: 톰 버링슨 분)은 아버지의 갑작스런 죽음에다 설상가상으로 벌목 허가까지 빼앗기게 되자 도시로 나가 일자리를 찾는다. 냉혹하고 욕심 많은 사업가 해리슨의 목장에 잡역부로 들어간 짐은 산으로 돌아갈 날을 위해 열심히 일한다. 한편, 아버지의 뜻과는 정반대로 목장을 경영하는 여장부를 꿈꾸던 해리슨의 딸 제시카(Jessica Harrison: 시그리드 쏜톤 분)는 능숙한 소솜씨로 야생마를 길들이는 짐의 맑은 눈빛에 반해 그를 사랑하게 된다. 다른 이들의 희생 위에 이룩한 부와 명예를 딸에게 물려주고자 했던 해리슨(Harrison/Spur: 커크 더글라스 분)은 짐과 제시카의 사이를 눈치채고 그녀를 기숙학교로 보내려한다. 격렬한 언쟁 끝에 제시카는 산 속으로 말을 달린다. 제시카를 찾아 험난한 산을 헤메이던 짐은 말의 시체에 이어 벼랑에 추락한 그녀를 찾아낸다.

Fran, the assistant to university professor Paddy, is about to turn 30. She is having an affair with a married minister's aide, Stephen. She returns home to the country town she grew up in and has a fling with an old flame, Alan. She also begins sleeping with Paddy.

The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

In 1868 Goldfields Victoria, an Irish settler seeks revenge and justice from those who murdered his family.