Australian #52FilmsByWomen #DirectedByWomen
(To pledge visit: womeninfilm.org/52-films/) Recently completing the #52FilmsByWomen challenge I'm embarking on another year. This time as a further challenge to myself I will watch Australian films/directors of any genre, to fulfill my interest in this area.
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- DirectorJocelyn MoorhouseStarsKate WinsletJudy DavisLiam HemsworthA glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.
- DirectorCate ShortlandStarsTeresa PalmerMax RiemeltMatthias HabichA passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist awakens in a Berlin apartment one morning and is unable to leave.
- DirectorAnna ReevesStarsAlex O'LoughlinJim NortonDiana GlennA love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.
- DirectorTori GarrettStarsJack ThompsonAden YoungSara WestWith help from a local lawyer, a young abuse survivor finds the courage to speak out when having a voice is her only option.
- DirectorAna KokkinosStarsFrances O'ConnorMiranda OttoDeborra-Lee FurnessSeven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.
- DirectorClaudia DziennyStarsClaudia DziennyMonica AmmermanBrandon WardleTwo twenty-somethings move to San Francisco to chase their career, but end up chasing tail instead.
- DirectorRachel WardStarsBen MendelsohnSophie LoweMaeve DermodyA writer reawakens his childhood trauma from the past when he returns home, at the request of his estranged sister, to grieve their father's impending death.
- DirectorJulia LeighStarsEmily BrowningRachael BlakeEwen LeslieA haunting portrait of Lucy, a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires.
- DirectorSophie HydeStarsTilda Cobham-HerveySam AlthuizenImogen Archer16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.
- DirectorUrsula DabrowskyStarsSarah JeavonsKerry ReidKerry ReidA teenage girl is abducted by a serial killer couple and manages to escape and find refuge in an isolated farmhouse, only to discover it is home to greater horrors and a malevolent spirit.
- DirectorRachel PerkinsStarsLevi MillerKevin LongToni ColletteIn the late '60s, two teenage boys join forces to solve a chilling mystery and navigate the prejudices and secrets of their small Australian town.
- DirectorJo-Anne BrechinStarsBen MortleyShannon AshlynAinslie McGlynnA man who would never cheat is asked by the woman he loves to have sex with someone else to save their relationship - a compromise which may ultimately destroy them, as love becomes corroded by jealousy.
- DirectorKate WoodsStarsGreta ScacchiAnthony LaPagliaElena CottaAt seventeen Josie Alibrandi is about to enter her final year as a scholarship student at an exclusive Catholic College. It's the year her life is turned upside down and changed forever.
- DirectorSue BrooksStarsRadha MitchellRichard RoxburghOdessa YoungAfter a teenage girl named Grace goes missing, her parents along with the help of an investigator seek to find her, while also juggling their own secrets and stories between them.
- DirectorDee McLachlanStarsLisa ChappellGoran D. KleutJake RyanA newly married detective and his pregnant wife move into their dream home unaware of its dark history. When his wife claims their baby is being tormented by a supernatural force and seeks the help of a renegade demonologist, he must investigate the past to save his family.
- DirectorAnn TurnerStarsSusan SarandonSam NeillEmily BluntA wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
- DirectorGillian ArmstrongStarsRalph FiennesCate BlanchettCiarán HindsIn mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to Bellingen, a remote settlement on the north coast. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.
- DirectorElissa DownStarsRhys WakefieldLuke FordToni ColletteAll Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend, Jackie, accept his brother?
- DirectorPriscilla CameronStarsMelissa GeorgeEwen LeslieEd OxenbouldEvelyn, a burlesque queen bewitches single dad, Al and his teenage son, Fin. As they compete for her affections, old wounds are reopened over the death of Fin's mother.
- DirectorMairi CameronStarsRachael BlakeSusie PorterVince ColosimoThe persona of a celebrated author is threatened when her best friend and muse reveals the dark secret behind her first novel's provenance, igniting an incendiary tale of sex, lies and betrayal.
- DirectorMichelle JoyStarsCamille KeenanDustin ClareJacob TomuriEve and Charlie are having a baby, but they're no longer together. After years of history and months of separation Charlie and Eve have 24 hours to find out whether they have a future together.
- DirectorDonna McRaeStarsAdele PerovicJohn BrumptonJane CliftonLucy travels to an isolated house in the forest to wait for her sister. They have worked out a risky scheme for their future and all she needs to do is sit it out. However a sinister presence may have something different in mind.
- DirectorClaire McCarthyStarsRadha MitchellJoel EdgertonSamrat ChakrabartiA mystic-infused love story that follows a young couple's journey to India to collect their adopted baby.
- DirectorAlena LodkinaStarsKate CheelDaniel P. JonesJustin CourtinMilena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, she falls into his bewildering world, where men escape society and share ideals of freedom. Soon, he doesn't want her to leave.
- DirectorMirrah FoulkesStarsDaisy AxonDon BridgesMichael PapasSeaside (nowhere near the sea), puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show in an an anarchic town on the brink of mob rule.
- DirectorJennifer KentStarsAisling FranciosiMaya ChristieBaykali GanambarrSet in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
- DirectorImogen McCluskeyStarsMaddy McWilliamHannah LehmannPriscilla DoueihyFollowing their recent graduation, 4 friends distract themselves from the looming responsibilities of adulthood. But as the boundaries between real and surreal blur, they are faced with decisions that will define the rest of their lives.
- DirectorKim FarrantStarsNoomi RapaceRebecca BowerLuke EvansA woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.
- DirectorMiranda NationStarsLaura GordonOlivia DeJongeRob CollinsStruggling to accept the loss of her baby, Claire becomes suspicious of her husband's relationship with a feisty young woman, Angie.
- DirectorRosemary MyersStarsBethany WhitmoreHarrison FeldmanAmber McMahonThe world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world.
- DirectorShannon MurphyStarsEliza ScanlenMichelle LottersToby WallaceMilla, a seriously ill teenager, falls in love with a drug dealer, Moses, her parents' worst nightmare.
- DirectorNatalie Erika JamesStarsRobyn NevinEmily MortimerBella HeathcoteA daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family's home.
- DirectorMonica ZanettiStarsMarta DusseldorpZoe TerakesSophie Hawkshaw17 year old Ellie is struggling to find the courage to ask her classmate, Abbie, to the formal. Luckily her Aunt Tara, a lesbian who died in the 80's has shown up as a "Fairy Godmother" to dish out advice, whether Ellie wants it or not.
- DirectorVictoria Wharfe McIntyreStarsAlexis LaneShaka CookDean KyrwoodWhen a woman's husband, daughter, land and innocence are ripped from her, she embarks on a brutal journey of retribution and revenge.
- DirectorKarl JennerStarsJanet ShayHayley FlowersSandra StockleyAngered by all the child abuse in the world, a former child psychologist goes vigilante, targeting child sex offenders. However, disturbing revelations about a former case cause her to question whether she's gone too far.
- DirectorArnold PerezBianca BiasiStarsLauren ClarkDalisha CristinaElizabeth Wiltshire17 yr old Jasmine struggles to come to terms with her father's death. She and her best friend Skye are left to take care of their younger siblings Zac, Blake, and Eva when their mothers Sandy and Katherine decide to go on a girls' night out to give Sandy a breather. Jasmine and Skye take the kids to the notoriously haunted Quarantine station to research a school assignment where they find out more about a resident ghost: Jolene Denman, AKA the girl in the pink dress. In an attempt to scare the boys, they pretend to evoke the spirit of the troubled girl but when things start going terribly wrong they begin to realize that their actions have had serious consequences. Jasmine and Jolene have a fateful connection. That night, as Jasmine's behavior becomes increasingly concerning, Jasmine's boyfriend Cameron and Skye discover that the kids have gone missing. They have traveled back to the Quarantine Station to try and stop the curse and save Jasmine. Skye and Cameron set out to find the kids, believing that retrieving them will be a quick and simple task, yet upon entering the Quarantine Station they embark on a terrifying quest against paranormal forces that they once had doubted even existed. Not knowing that Jasmine is facing demons of her own, they are all left with one thing to discover: who will survive and who will fall prey to the curse of the Quarantine Hauntings.
- DirectorJoy HopwoodStarsKhan ChittendenKeith ThomasAmanda BensonRomance, work and life all collide when a wedding planner and wedding photographer meet and ignite sparks in this uplifting Asian Australian romantic comedy
- DirectorTracey MoffattStarsDiana DavidsonJack CharlesBen KennedyThree Australian stories of the supernatural are recounted in this anthology. Rick (Jack Charles), an Aboriginal boy living near a swamp on Bribie Island, is haunted by an American solider who drowned in quicksand. Ruby (Tracey Moffatt) and her family live in a house near long-abandoned train tracks, which still carry ghostly apparitions. A landlord (Lex Marinos) has trouble evicting the tenants of an old warehouse: a couple that's been dead for years.
- DirectorKatie FoundStarsArthur AngelMarkella KavenaghSteve MouzakisIsolated Claudia hides away on a remote property after her mother's death. Shocked when spirited local teen Grace appears in her garden, the pair find support and love in each other.
- DirectorFadia AbboudLucy GaffyJulie KalceffStarsNisrine AmineMia-Lore BayehGladys Iturra BeizaA baby is kidnapped from hospital by a desperate grandmother. Her flight sets off a chain of events that bring together complete strangers over the course of one dramatic day.
- DirectorAdele VukoStarsMiranda TapsellMatt OkineGeneviève LemonWhen a pair of bumbling crooks hijack the Harrington and Sons toy store, a pair of kids stumble into the heist and are forced to team up with a female security officer to save Christmas.
- DirectorShirley BarrettStarsMiranda OttoRebecca FrithGeorge ShevtsovIn Sunray, a backwater town on Australia's Murray River, there's little to do but fish or listen to the local radio station. D.J. Ken Sherry arrives from the hustle of Brisbane to run the station; he's mid-40s, detached, thrice divorced, hatchet faced. But both sisters next door find him attractive: awkward Dimity, only 20, who works in a Chinese restaurant with few patrons, and perky Vicki-Ann, a hairdresser with a hope chest who invents a happy future with Sherry based on little but his arrival. First Dimity then Vicki-Ann spend the night with Ken, one concluding he's her boy friend, the other her fiance. Then Dimity begins to smell something fishy.
- DirectorDaina ReidStarsSarah SnookLily LaTorreNeil MelvilleSarah Snook plays a fertility doctor who believes firmly in life and death, but after noticing the strange behavior of her young daughter, she must challenge her own values and confront a ghost from her past.
- DirectorHeidi Lee DouglasStarsPaul W. HeJenny WuGrace HuangA take-over battle out West between two feuding families threatens to intensify when unexpected love blossoms.
- DirectorKitty GreenStarsJulia GarnerJessica HenwickHerbert NordrumBackpackers Hanna and Liv take a job in a remote Australian pub for some extra cash and are confronted with a bunch of unruly locals and a situation that rapidly leaps out of their control.
- DirectorMadeleine DyerStarsRachel GriffithsGary SweetHelen ThomsonAfter years of estrangement, trans woman Davina Savage returns home for Christmas expecting her transition to be the focus, but it's overshadowed by family secrets and lies which threaten not only their lives--but another Christmas lunch.
- DirectorClaire PasvolskyStarsJackie MarshallMaisie OwensMatthew HeysWhen Angie finds herself with no money and terminally ill, a teenage runaway, Ruby, enters her life. The two form an unlikely bond as Angie teaches her to write a song to deal with the past.
- DirectorSarah SpillaneStarsAlyla BrowneTeagan CroftCliff CurtisThe story of Australian teenager, Jessica Watson, the youngest person ever to sail solo nonstop around the world.
- DirectorGracie OttoStarsKrew BoylanDaniel WebberRose ByrneA realtor pursues a new career as a Dolly Parton impersonator.
- DirectorJub ClercStarsShantae Barnes-CowanTasma WaltonCarlos Sanson Jr.An Indigenous teenager discovers photography during a youth trip in Western Australia.
- DirectorFrances O'ConnorStarsEmma MackeyOliver Jackson-CohenFionn Whitehead"Emily" imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers, who died, too soon, at age 30.
- DirectorNoora NiasariStarsLeah PurcellZar Amir EbrahimiMojean AriaA young Iranian mother and her six-year-old daughter find refuge in an Australian women's shelter during the two weeks of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz).