Chugger
Джорджи Ютленд под сорок, профессию медсестры и романтические мечты о родственной душе она променяла на тихую жизнь домохозяйки в рыбацком поселке на западном побережье Австралии. Ночи напролет, пока домашние спят, она сидит в Интернете и тихо спивается. Но внезапно в ее судьбу входит Лютер Фокс — браконьер и бывший музыкант.
In a small nook of heat-drenched coastal Australia, a traveling knife salesman, Tom, visits upon Mary, a frustrated housewife. As blades grind on stone, tensions build as Mary’s two boisterous children observe the couple playing out their all too familiar roles.
Big John
История о дружбе и приключениях мальчика и единственной в своем роде собаки, которая вырастет и станет легендой Австралии.
Когда одиннадцатилетнего Мика отправляют к его дедушке на отдаленную ферму в Пилбарах (Западная Австралия), он готовится к унылой и скучной жизни. Но вместо этого находит приключение и дружбу с единственной в своем роде рыжей собакой, которая изменит его жизнь навсегда.
Mick - Dodgy Barman #1
When Chinese-Australian teenager Lawrence cheats at and fails his high-school exams, destroying his dreams of a medical degree, he's banished to the country for the summer. There, he meets wily old conman the Professor and his cynical daughter Sarah, and learns that even the sneakiest scam can't conjure up love. Is it a true story? That might be another of Leung's tricks.
Gavin 'Cheesy' Cheesman
On Anzac Day 2006 the Beaconsfield mine collapsed, trapping Russell, Webb and fellow miner Larry Knight one kilometre underground. When it was revealed that two of the men were alive, Australia prayed and the world waited in hope that the miners would make it out alive. But the rescue was far more complex than anyone ever imagined. Beaconsfield recounts this riveting story of mental and physical fortitude and two very different men who were trapped together for 14 days under rubble in a cramped, pitch-black metal basket no bigger than a dog kennel.
Homeless Man
A guardian angel is burdened with the frustrating job of protecting an extremely dull man, whose life seems completely predictable and uneventful. Desperate to see his talents better utilized, the angel contacts his superiors, but his request for a transfer comes with some decidedly unpleasant strings attached...
Dave
Told in real time and shot as a single take, BOXING DAY documents the minute by minute events across the course of an afternoon in the life of Chris Sykes - a recovering alcoholic and estranged father. Living alone on home detention, Chris is preparing Christmas lunch for his family when an old friend turns up at his doorstep and reveals a disturbing truth. When his daughter, his wife and her new boyfriend finally arrive, the situation slowly and inevitability escalates and we are drawn into the compelling story of a desperate father who finally exposes the dark and disturbing secret that has torn his family apart.
Butcher
The sleepy town of Little Oberon is woken with a jolt when tempestuous Georgie Green returns after a 15 year absence, with a difficult teenage daughter, to care for her ailing but eccentric mother.
Hamish
Tommy Matisse, a gifted musician, undertakes an odyssey of self-discovery and tragedy in Melbourne's dance music scene.
Bill
Two friends train a greyhound together.
Peter
After years of having her letters to her estranged father come back as undeliverable, a young woman takes a job at a Dead Letter Office. She hopes to figure out how to locate her father. Unexpectedly, she finds a potential romance and begins to learn more about herself.
Nikki's Father
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
The Man
In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a surveyor and they cross the continent together. However, she spends the trip haranguing him for the ecological recklessness and avarice of the human race.
Duke the Dance Caller
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.
Smith
Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
Yobbo
Бабби — это не мальчик, а мужчина лет тридцати пяти, но с умственным развитием ребенка. Всю свою жизнь просидел он под замком в доме у своей безумной мамаши регулярно использовавшей сынка для секса. На улицу она выходила только в противогазе, утверждая, что там нечем дышать и Бабби обязательно задохнется. Он сидел смирно на стуле весь день, пока мама была на работе. Бедняга мочился прямо в штаны. Тогда его называли плохим мальчиком, но Бабби не обижался на маму, принимая от нее все. Жили они тихо и мирно, пока не заявился долгие годы отсутствовавший алкаш-отец и не занял место Бабби и в постели, и за столом. Вновь соединившиеся супруги предавались пьянству, мама забыла о Бабби, а «мальчик» обнаружил склонность к насилию. Он обматывает пьяным родителям головы целлофаном и душит их. После того как кончается еда, он выходит на улицу…
Spencer
This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of all his workers. He employees Pat Cannizzaro to help get all his workers into some sort of sport, and Pat just happens to be a soccer teacher. He forms a team and tries to take them all the way, with some funny results.
