Australia Movies

A young woman has to come face to face with her past.

A study of life on remote Nukumanu Atoll, a Polynesian outlier of Papua New Guinea. Traditional culture has survived, but over-population and extensiv...

Unlike many spirit mediums, Jero Tapakan practices as a masseuse once every three days, when possession is not auspicious. This film focuses on Jero's...

Samoana recounts events and personages of Samoa's history in its 3000 years of settlement. Having left southeast Asia several centuries before, these...

This film examines the implications of the Australian colonial era for the Gogodala people of the Fly River Delta, Western Papua New Guinea. Excessive...

On the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, victims and perpetrators are coming together in traditionally based reconciliation ceremonies after...

The building of a giant open-cut copper mine on the island of Bougainville brought profound change to local landowners. Despite royalties, training pr...

On 7 July 1978, the Solomon Islands regained its independence from Britain. This documentary, filmed by cinematographers John Hosking and Academy Awar...

A study of Sydney's traffic.

Set in the South Pacific, in a remote Solomon Islands village, SINCE THE COMPANY CAME is the story of a community coming to terms with social, cultura...

after a messy breakup, a 15-year-old Devonte leaves his home to find something to fill the void

Patterns is a documentary which explores issues to do with politics, work, art and women’s history. A number of threads are woven between the sweatsho...

Looks at three single mothers living on social security benefits or pensions and how they maintain their family lives. These women raise fundamental q...

This work, originally shot on Super-8 was made as part of a Women and Art course at Sydney College of the Arts. Students who worked on the little expe...

A fictional comedy about Australian and Japanese culture clash.

A moving documentation of the life of a small boy about to face his sixth major operation in six years. Raises questions of care for the hospitalised,...

An artist, Stephen Patrick, falls in love with his model, Juliette (Adrienne Stewart). Juliette is in love with Dr Lonsdale, who is engaged to a wealt...

Five housewives, living in a housing estate in outer Adelaide, tell how they organized a mutual self-help group to overcome the boredom, frustration a...

A documentary about a feminist run abortion clinic. Counselling is shown to be an important part of the procedure, which is carried out using local an...

Genni Batterham was a young healthy 24-year-old student when she contracted multiple sclerosis (M.S.). Within 18 months she became a paraplegic. This...