The Persuaders

Reflections

Director Sara Broos examines the relationship between herself and her mother, painter Karin Broos.

2016

Homeland

A young woman escapes the war in Syria and ends up in the forest in Sweden. Listening to music is a way for her to survive and bring her back, in drea

2015

Ama-San

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. The air in her lungs has to last until she can dislodge the abalone. Dives like these ha

2016

Unstrung

Unstrung exposes the dramas of the juniors tennis world, hitting the road with a handful of teenage competitors as they head for the national champion

2007

Born Sweet

Arsenic-laced water has poisoned a 15 year old boy from a small, rural village in Cambodia.

2010

Turn Off the Lights

After years behind bars, three young men begin to rediscover lives of aggression and excess in their raucous Roma community. Among them is Alex, a cap

2012

The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni

This haunting and beautifully formed documentary is a meditation on the life of Egyptian screen legend Soad Hosni, who starred in eighty-two feature f

2011

Chasing Asylum

Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and

2016

Batrachian's Ballad

“Once upon a time, before people came along, all the creatures were free and able to be with one another”, narrates the voiceover. “All the animals da

2016

Daughters of the Forest

A small group of girls in one of the most remote forests left on earth attend a radical high school where they learn to protect the threatened forest

2016

Soft and Hard

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house.

1985

Hill of Pleasures

It examines the daily life of the residents and cops at a Rio de Janeiro favela one year after the arrival of a Pacifying Police Unit.

2013

A Fuller Life

Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child

2013

Rosemary's Way

An effervescent facilitator and mother figure, Multicultural Liaison Officer Rosemary is undoubtedly a force of nature. Isolation in Auburn’s migrant

2020

I'm My Own Dolly Parton

Five women musicians are brought together by their love for singer Dolly Parton. They all have dreams for their futures, but they are also burdened by

2011

Decade of Discovery

Chris Packham presents, mentioning others that didn't quite make the list, his favorite top ten animal - and plant species from the half million disco

2010

Yallah! Underground

Yallah! Underground follows some of today’s most influential and progressive artists in Arab underground culture from 2009 to 2013 and documents their

2015

I'm Ugly But Trendy

Documentary about the musical and social phenomenon of Brazilian funk (or Carioca Funk), a style derived from Miami Bass, based on repetitive bass dru

2005

Nose and Tina

The unusual story of Nose and Tina, 2 people in love. He is employed as a brakeman, she as a sex worker.

1980

Road's End

Road's End is the story of Daina who lives in Latgale in Eastern Latvia, close by the Russian border. She lives two miles from the nearest road, with

2013