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- In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to rescue one of their own, the players will have to brave parts unknown from arid deserts to snowy mountains, to escape the world's most dangerous game.
- In between drinking cans of Fosters beer, Australian soldiers tread on a few landmines, and generally experience the war in Vietnam.
- A naive hairdresser is spurred by her vivacious friend into becoming a nude model, but soon discovers that everyone she knows wants a piece of her.
- A somewhat mentally handicapped 20-year-old man works as a laborer, but everyone abuses his naiveté. A nice 40-year-old American woman hires him one day and they become close. However, the town and his family see her as predatory.
- A couple wake up one morning to find they have now switched bodies.
- After suffering racist abuse throughout his life - which intensifies following his marriage to a white woman - a half-Aboriginal farmhand finds himself driven to murder.
- A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.
- A nightmare chase through hell in a never-ending, unrequited daisy chain of desire...
- In 1830's England, a young man from a good but troubled family is unjustly convicted of stealing a watch. He's transported to Van Dieman's Land (Tasmania) where he suffers under the enmity of Lt. Frere while falling in love with Sylvia, the Warden's daughter. Meanwhile, back in England, an imposter lays claim to the young man's inheritance.
- In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration.
- Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.
- Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele', this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
- A teenage boy falls hopelessly in love with his new sister-in-law. When she gets pregnant, someone raises the question that he might be the father--a notion he does nothing to discourage.
- A slightly disturbed young amateur photographer finds that his father has been secretly having an affair with his co-worker. Thus begins a spiral into blackmail, stalking, and voyeurism.
- A young girl obsessed with watching the heavens takes a bet with the bully of the 12 year old set that their oddly acting new neighbors are not aliens from outer space. The bet is her telescope. As might be expected the girl and her new neighbor becomes best friends.
- A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it.
- Two policemen track down and arrest a woman who has been accused of murder, and begin the trek back across the desert with her.
- When the small town of Minyaka suffers from a drought, a kind and mysterious stranger offers to make it rain by playing his flute; under the condition that he be paid. But after Fluteman makes it rain, and even stops it; the town council, blind by their greed and pride, refuse to pay him. Fluteman stands before the town and warns them of a curse he would bring; and so the next day the school playground fades into silence as all the children disappear into the bush... except one.
- A profile of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- 11 year old Niaz's father has been a Pashtun on jihad in Afghanistan. Back in Darra in NWFP of Pakistan, where guns and hashish are common, he wants Niaz to learn to shoot and work in his gun workshop, while Niaz wants to go to school.
- An affectionate and lyrical portrait of three people whose lives have become inextricably linked with islands and the sea, particularly that stretch of water between Tasmania and mainland Australia known as Bass Strait.
- This poignant documentary presents an ordinary day in the life of Ricco Japaljarri Martin, an 8-year-old boy who lives with his foster mom in a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs. Cole's observational approach allows Ricco to narrate his own story, offering a rare glimpse into his perspective that captures his charm, boisterous spirit and fierce intelligence.
- One day at the beach...a typically Australian day...something I really looked forward to, when I first came here as a migrant (Bondi was the first surfing beach I'd ever seen). In the early '60s there was hardly a weekend I didn't go to the beach. But it wasn't until many, many years later that I was filmically advanced enough to make a film about it. The simplicity of just turning the camera on and letting people do what they wanted to in front of the lends appealed to me...the carefree atmosphere appealed to me...the carefree atmosphere of the beach captured with the innocence of early cinema. I didn't even look through the lens. Shooting horizontal mattes allowed me to play with the density of what was going on...the surreality of the beach, the waves of water and people, the hot and cold of sun and surf, overexposure...heat rising up, surfers riding waves in the sky and into buildings, seagulls ducking beneath the mattes, then re-appearing.
- A private investigator is brought in to help recover the dough that was stolen from an Australian timber company and thinks that the box the money was taken in has been hidden in a lake.
- The 1981 murder trial of Alwyn Peter made Australian legal history when his defence lawyer successfully argued that charges of murder and manslaughter were inappropriate for dispossessed, semi-tribal Aborigines.
- A portrait of Papua New Guinea, a society clutched by Australian colonialism and hovering uneasily between its head-hunting past and Western civilization, at the time of the nation's independence festivities.
- A man walks into a building under construction, where he's a squatter, and is told he must leave for safety reasons. A woman follows him into the street and offers her spare room until he gets his bearings. He takes her up on the offer.
- GAMPA is one woman's story, tracing the essence of her grandfather through the places and people he loved. Stretching from Adelaide to the West Australian border, GAMPA takes us along the far west coast of South Australia to the birthplace of the Southern Right Whales, across the Nullarbor before settling at Merdeyarra on the West Australian border. GAMPA is an uplifting, Indigenous woman's story about the importance of family and the essence of places that remind us of who we are and where we come from.
- Features Indigenous Australians of the Bunjalung, Coodjingburra and Minyangbal clans participating in a surfing competition and Aboriginal gathering at Fingal, N.S.W.
- A hedonistic culture - an inner city search for love - a guy and girl remember their forgettable and tragic succession of boyfriends - their unbelievable optimism survives the vainglory of clubland - their desperation becomes the catalyst for drastic measures... Karen and Stuart are in love with love, but who will it be? The boy at the next table ? the too-good-to-be-believed classified romanticist? beauty or the beast? Things start to change when Karen and Stuart notice a dreadful pattern emerging in their quest for love. Stuart stumbles on the perfect way to meet the perfect man while Karen embarks on a new path after some expert advice.
- Explores the pioneering health work of Barbara Braddock and her cohorts Jack Little and Hannah Brumby in the 1970s, tending to the health concerns of Indigenous Australians on the outskirts of Katherine in the Northern Territory. A captivating look at her achievements, establishing the Katherine Clinic, Barbara and her team set out to improve living conditions and make a difference to the many people living in this isolated Australian community.
- Nice Coloured Girls is a short film classic by Tracey Moffatt, one of Australia's foremost visual artists. Three Aboriginal women cruise through Kings Cross and pick up a 'captain' (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them and to drink until incapacitated while they steal his wallet and race off to catch a cab, self-satisfied. Nice Coloured Girls contrasts the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and present. The film juxtaposes contemporary images of black women taking advantage of a white man with a voice over of journal extracts from early white settlers and sailors, in order to question the validity of conventional white history and to deny the image of Aborigines as passive and powerless. Through counterpoint of sound, image, and printed text, the film conveys the perspective of Aboriginal women while acknowledging that oppression and enforced silence still shape their consciousness. The soundscape recalls a rural environment, while the voice-over of extracts from the diary of colonist Lieutenant William Bradley recalls the first settlement.
- Finished in 1997, a gutsy cinema verite look at the battle in the frontlines of the forests of northern NSW between the loggers and so-called 'feral' environmentalists.
- An imagistic journey along an Aboriginal songline.
- Commissioned to write an orchestral score for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Iain Grandage heads out to Tjuntjuntjarra (in Great Victoria Desert) to check with the Spinifex Elders that his composition is on track. Iain is attempting to place traditional Spinifex songs alongside a western orchestral score and remain true to both musical traditions. Narrator Trevor Jamieson, a Spinifex man himself, guides the viewer through the history and culture of the Spinifex people.
- She had a bad childhood. For a while they thought her mad. She got sent to jail for nothing. Much. It only made her worse. She turned to drugs and murdered men. Fell again again into the black hole of despair. This is the story of Lying Ugly Mess Bitch. These are the insides of Lying Ugly Mess Bitch.
- The film attempts to syncretically avaunt the borders of identity in an anti-historical reconstruction of Brazil. Peter Callas used several 2D and 3D animation processes in creating the imagery of Lost in Translation (Part 1: Plus Ultra).
- A documentary about the Golden Section mathematical equation and how it was used in building the great pyramid of Egypt and it's influence in design and art ever since.