Else (Mother)
Three spirited women usurp a religious community.
Mother
Lena, a teenager with Downs Syndrome, is fascinated by sex and all the mystery that surrounds it - fertility, desire, and the mechanics of childbirth. When she steals a sex book from a mobile library, her mother forces her to take it back in an embarrassing family spectacle that only strengthens her daughter's rebellious and irrepressible desire.
Fleur
A police officer reassigned to curate a photography exhibition finds links between a series of murders.
Detective O'Neill
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.
Barbara Jacobs-Alsop
A well-meaning but misguided talent agent uses his paraplegic girlfriend's government compensation to fund his quest to resurrect a faded club singer's career.
Mandy
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.
Ms Spock
Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution. His project is overrun by one of the patients who wants to stage the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart despite the fact that none of the patients are able to sing and none of them speak Italian. A comedy of errors ensues, but one which unifies the patients and their director in unexpected ways.
Claire Ferguson
Detective James Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his straight life to join his partner Detective Church in order to get on the inside of the circle of double-agents. He secretly sides with a reporter and an Internal Affairs lawyer to expose them to the press.
Deb
Short film and early collaboration between rowan woods and david wenham.
