Intimate Strangers is a 4-minute documentary about the journey of two Chinese homosexuals, Qiang and Yiling, looking for “marriage of convenience” within the Chinese LGBT group in Australia. Both of them are trying hard to find the perfect heterosexual “partner” with which to build a stable fake relationship.
Read MoreGet behind the myth and meet the “real” Edmund Hillary as his friends recall the highs and lows, the laughter and tears of this wild ride through the heart of old India. Tigers, churning rapids, tears and laughter punctuate this jet boat expedition up the Ganges. An expedition that almost cost Hillary his life high in the Himalayan snows but which he always said was “the best journey of them all!”
Read MoreBrian Toggle is a self-proclaimed timekeeper and expert drummer who plays in art-pop band, Sunset Thrills. But his theories of timing don’t always bode well with other members in the group.
Read MoreIn March 2020, Melbourne changed. We watched as COVID-19 spread around the world, impacting almost every aspect of daily life. This micro-documentary captures that historic moment in time when the Australian city fell silent.
Read MoreA gentle, reflective documentary about the relationship between a young woman (the filmmaker) and her mother. The filmmaker held a live Chinese painting performance to support her mother reclaiming her artist past.
Read MoreAssembling superhero stars, comic creators, and costume-clad fans, the documentary Superheroes & Me unmasks how superheroes can bring people together and provide hope in difficult times.
Read More'Four beer, four laps, for the hell of it!’
More than a Mile is a documentary following the lives of a runner and his friend on their six-month journey towards the Beer Mile World Classic.
Read MoreOur planet is now enduring its sixth mass extinction. More than 150 species are wiped out every 24 hours creating an undeniable ripple effect. The Last Extinction unravels the interconnectedness of nature through the eyes of seven different animals.
Read MoreJim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise (1984) was partially filmed using leftover film stock from Wim Wenders' The State of Things (1982). The visual and poetic connections between the two films and their directors are explored in this essay film.
Read MoreTwo talented carvers from each end of Aotearoa take their whakairo (carving) to Antarctica in response to New Zealand's kaitiakitanga (guardianship) of the world’s largest marine protected area - The Ross Sea.
Read MoreMax, a traumatised war veteran, struggles to find meaning to his life. After learning to retrain a damaged ex-racehorse, he finds hope and healing and the strength to continue on.
Read MoreWhen WW1 brought Australians face to face with mass death a Red Cross Information Bureau and post-war graves workers laboured to help families grieve for the missing.
Read MoreBurgermen is a retrospective documentary that takes a look inside an iconic Melbourne hamburger shop and the men who started it all back in the 1950s.
Read MoreNature is wondrous and clever. As Darwin taught us, those who improvise most effectively prevail. There are species who under threat revert to earlier forms, others who cultivate parasitic relationships with neighbouring beings, while the most inventive ones transform their bodies to mimic and seduce unsuspecting companions. The Orchid and the Bee is an expressionistic VR ode to life’s struggle for existence, explored through a chain of genetic love affairs.
Read MoreRide the airwaves with radio presenter Stani Goma for a unique perspective on the changing face of African music and culture in Melbourne today.
Read MoreThere's no time for crying during the dinner rush.
Read More“You know, when I was a boy, I fell in love with the Virgin Mary. It happened in a little Bavarian town called Altötting.” Mesmerizing, haunting, and deeply personal, Altötting is a coming-of-age story about love, faith, mortality, and shattered illusions.
Read MoreAfter years of living an institutionalised life, 30 intellectually disabled adults move into homes in the community and discover what it feels like to be free.
Read MoreWhen 20-something-year-old Tanya begins to realize she’s asexual, the highly charged sexualized world she lives in as an actress and partner begins to fall apart and feels more and more like an unbearable nightmare.
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