99 Years of My Life
(99 vuotta Elämästäni)
Australian Premiere
Marja Mikkonen
Finland 2003
An experimental short film based on the lives, memories, fears and expectations of four women of different age...More
And One Step Back
Mark Robinson
Australia 2003
Sisters Abbey and Melinda make the familiar journey to the nearest phone box after another suicide attempt by their mother...More
Dark Sunrise
(Toloue tarik)
World Premiere
Ebrahim Sheibani
Iran 2003
A mysterious stranger spends the night at the humble lodgings of an elderly couple...More
Deluge
Flordeliz Bonifacio
Australia 2003
A father and his two sons undertake the task of winter maintenance at the local swimming pool complex...More
Everything Goes
Andrew Kotako
Australia 2004
Brianie and Jack are looking for things to furnish their flat with, when they meet Ray selling the bric-a-brac of his broken marriage...More
The Fall from Matavai
Denis Beaubois
Australia 2004
As it falls, a camera records the decline of modernism and the dream of mass democratised housing gone wrong...More
Fly
Shona McCullagh
New Zealand 2001
A father struggles between his instinct to protect, the desire to see his creation take flight, and the need to set his deaf boy free...More
Fuel
Nash Edgerton
Australia 2003
A young married couple enjoy a long drive, across lonely countryside, until their car runs out of petrol...More
Mary
World Premiere
Marieka Walsh
Australia 2004
Scratched and painted upon, this experimental film links timeless images of the ocean with old footage of a young woman...More
Mona Lisa
Sotiris Dounoukos
Australia 2003
One evening in a Greek-Australian home, the emotional struggles around changing roles between a widow and her grown son bring their relationship to the brink...More
Most Respected Uncle Dougal
World Premiere
Sarah Wishart
Australia 2005
Uncle Dougal travels from Australia to Africa to play a central role in the uniting of two families through the age-old African tradition of Lobola...More
My Beijing Friend
Nasseim Valamanesh
Australia 2004
My Beijing Friend is a delicate memory piece, a melancholic traveller's memoir of the heart...More
Nascent
World Premiere
Gina Czarnecki
Australia 2005
Featuring choreography by Garry Stewart and the Australian Dance Theatre dancers, and music by renown experimentalist Fennesz (Austria), Nascent crosses borders between dance and visual art, biology and technology, live performance and video...More
Palermo: History Standing Still
Janet Merewether
Australia 2004
Then all will be the same though all will be still – Lampedusa Palermo...More
Ryan
Australian Premiere
Chris Landreth
Canada 2004
Startling psychedelic and macabre images construct a moving homage to the now down-and-out, Ryan Larkin, a brilliant, Oscar-nominated pioneer of stop-motion animation from the sixties...More
Sootie
Ryan O'Connor
Australia 2004
Two crew members riding Sootie on its final journey ponder personal memories and look towards the uncertain future as a young lady passenger traveling on the same journey is about to embark on her brand new life...More
Suckerfish
Lisa Jackson
Canada 2004
Using animation, childhood photographs and stylised recreations, this is a moving look at the director's relationship to her mother and native identity...More
Sweetheart
Mathew Saville
Australia 2003
A mother and her estranged son rekindle old ties during an unexpected telephone conversation...More