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.

Фильм повествует о достижении успеха молодой женщины, о том, как она добивалась власти и любви в мире бокса.

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.

«Уотси» Верт, только что вышедший из тюрьмы, собирается начать новую жизнь. Его приятели — мелкий жулик Джонни Спитиери и вор Дабба Баррингтон — тоже на пути к исправлению. Решетка для них осталась в прошлом, и друзья клянутся, что никогда за нее не вернуться. За их праведными намерениями пристально следит недавно сформированная Следственная комиссия. И ребятам придется изрядно потрудиться и пошевелить мозгами, чтобы сдержать обещание…

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.

Марк Рид по кличке «Мясник» всегда мечтал стать легендой криминального мира. И если у Америки был Аль Капоне, то Австралия получила «Мясника». Экранизация его автобиографического бестселлера — взгляд на самые темные стороны преступного мира одного из самых жестоких его обитателей, который еще в школе решил стать самым крутым и заработал себе репутацию полного «отморозка». И в тюрьме, и на воле его не раз пытались убить, но ему всегда удавалось выжить. Чтобы его перевели в другую тюрьму, он заставил сокамерника отрезать себе ухо. Он мог перерезать человеку горло от уха до уха, отпуская при этом разные остроумные шуточки. Вернувшись в тюрьму, он сочинил книгу о своей жизни, и стал просто культовой фигурой…

Элис, Джуди и Салли — три соседки, которым не везет в любви. Такая же участь преследует Эвана, Джоэла и Нила — друзей и коллег. Но однажды их жизни пересекаются…

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.

Герой фильма Мартин слеп от рождения, он считает, что его никто не любит, даже мать тяготится им и хочет избавиться от него. Ему кажется, что все лгут ему, описывая окружающий мир. И тогда Мартин находит свой оригинальный способ проверить правдивость зрячих людей — он начинает заниматься фотографией.

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.

Фильм о фантазии маленькой девочки, обладательницы незаурядного воображения, о странных и злых существах. В этом мире она скрывает свою настоящую уязвимость. Но девочка растет, и фантазии растут вместе с ней...

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.

После смерти отца 18-летний Джим Крэйг покидает свою тихую ферму в горах Австралии и отправляется на заработки. Трудолюбивый и упорный, он не хочет расставаться с фермой, а для ее содержания нужны большие деньги. Джим поступает на работу к жестокому землевладельцу и торговцу скотом Харрисону и влюбляется в его дочь, красавицу Джессику. А вскоре становится втянутым в 20-летнюю вражду за право владения землей между своим боссом и его братом-близнецом Спером…

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.

Преступники, оказавшиеся руководителями загадочного братства, похищают Кейт, чтобы сообщить ей, что она принадлежит к древнему вампирскому роду. Ее привозят в неприметное поместье — законспирированный завод по выкачиванию крови из жертв-доноров. Ошеломленная девушка пытается бежать из этого чудовищного места, но разве можно убежать от судьбы?

Семейная пара едет на длинный уикэнд на пустынный пляж. Эта поездка - своего рода попытка спасти брак, хотя, как становится понятно потом, довольно странная. Недомолвки, раздражительность, невнимательность - всё это мы видим в изобилии и фильм не стремится объяснять сразу же, что между ними происходит и почему. Только постепенно мы узнаём, что случилось.

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