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- Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe.
- A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
- A family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis.
- The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".
- A young girl is subjected to a reign of terror so that her soul can be transferred to the body of an old crone.
- A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.
- Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.
- Union leader's son doesn't want to engage in a strike, because his wife is pregnant, thus disregarding his father's tradition of political activism.
- When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.
- In 1870, a Maori warrior working with the British finds his village massacred, and vows revenge.
- Rosie returns to her home city on the death of her father, a former policeman. His diaries hint at corruption, and she also receives hints and veiled threats which support her suspicions. Rosie puzzles about who he was, and about her early life and relationship to him.
- From the Director of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' Jim Sharman and Nobel Prize winning author Patrick White A haunting tale of obsession and possession.
- While out on the town in Berlin, Raymond sees and falls for Harlis, a star of a troupe of lesbian cabaret strippers. Attracted to a man for the first time, Harlis leaves her long time girlfriend and dance partner. Overwhelmed by jealousy and anger, his brother (Peter) and his ex-fiancee (Ria) are determined to sabotage this budding romance.
- A small-town woman, fresh to the city, buys a second-hand Jaguar haunted by the ghost of a murdered woman and her killer.
- When a writer of 'pulp' detective fiction fails to deliver his latest novel on time, he is forced to confront a tragedy from his past that causes him to re-evaluate his life.
- Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry returns to convince her to join him.
- A group of Australian heroin addicts go out and try to score a hit after a friend overdoses.
- In small-town New Zealand, the gung-ho town council decides that what the town needs to put it on the map is a massage parlour. To this end they bring masseuse, Sandra to town. Her presence in such a conservative village stirs up emotions not normally expressed in rural New Zealand.
- A profile of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis, particularly his time in South Vietnam and Cambodia in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- David is a disillusioned doctor who travels with a junkie female who has her own problems.
- The adventures of three young men who leave their homeland Savannah, Niger, and go looking for fortune in Ghana.
- Filmed at and inspired by the residents of Kohitere Boys Training Centre in Levin, New Zealand, this tale follows a group of teens who are wards of the state. It was directed by Mike Walker, who co-wrote the script with Mitchell Manuel (who also played the part of Rikihana Nathan).
- Drama about couple with no love. They constantly argue with each other and woman, which suffers from agoraphobia, trying to get out of that circle.
- A relationship develops between a Samoan and a New Zealander, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and family are not supportive, particularly when she becomes pregnant, although he proposes marriage.
- It was only after her death that the work of New Zealand writer, Katherine Mansfield, became well known, thanks to her editor and husband, John Middleton-Murry. She had left New Zealand to travel around France, and she died there from tuberculosis. Thirty three years later, Middleton-Murry is invited to France to approve a new edition of her collected letters and journals, and there he meets a young woman, Marie Taylor (also from NZ) who reminds him strongly of his dead wife. As the two become friends, Marie starts reading old correspondence between Mansfield and her husband, and discovers the true nature of their relationship and that Mansfield's dying wishes regarding her writings have been ignored by the manipulative, and less-than-honest, Middleton-Murry.
- This short feature film begins with a suicide attempt by Cathy, and then follows by telling her story in flashbacks. Cathy is a neurotic young woman who retreats from cold British parents into an equally uncommunicative relationship with a former teacher who aspires to be a poet. Cathy's self-destructive behavior is presented as a legacy of her (British) family and past.
- Leon Wexler, a paparazzi photographer obsessed with a belief - Elvis Presley is still alive. Enraged by a recent sighting in his old home town, Leon, coerces his yuppie brother, Chad, into joining him to confront the man he is dedicated to proving is'The King'. Armed with a television camera... and a loaded pistol, they venture to a low rent city flop house to face the music.
- The Tasmanians were a distinct people, isolated from Australia and the rest of the world for 12,000 years, until in 1803, British colonisation began.
- An exploration of the Samoan fa'afafine, boys who are raised as girls, fulfilling a traditional role in Samoan culture.
- A depiction of the women involved in the peace movement contrasts greatly with media portraits of the time, and the subsequent collective memory.
- The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was the single most important action in the struggle for land rights in Australia. This rare historical record is the only film shot from inside the heart of the protest.
- A man is brutally murdered in a swimming pool. The only witness, Mrs Moore, refuses to tell the police what she has seen. Why? The answer lies in Mrs Moore's past.
- Harry Dare (John Moore) is a shambolic Adelaide private investigator. He's still not certain why he's in the business; perhaps to understand his father's disappearance, 20 years earlier? But now Harry's got a real case: who stole his father's old Kombi van, nicked (oddly) just after Harry finished restoring it? Director Vellis's detective yarn both delights in the idea of a Kaurna Aboriginal man making ends meet as a private eye and in how Harry's crime-solving smarts seem to grow directly from his resilience as an Indigenous Australian.
- An uprising of the elderly, in the colourful setting of a Brussels retirement home, with its delightful, fragile and anarchistic residents.
- Mr Ikegami is in Sydney on business. Back in Tokyo, his wife Seisuko is expecting their first child. A tale of divided loyalties.
- Two young Australian filmmakers meet in London and return home with dreams of making films that reflect their Australian ideals. A film about dreams and aspirations.
- "The Pursuit of Happiness" is about a female journalist who involved in peace movement; in this low-budget political thriller
- Australian independent political documentary about the US installations in Australia at Pine Gap near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Covers the the Loans Affair and the sacking of the Whitlam Labor Government in 1975, the Christopher Boyce spy trial, the role of the Central Intelligence Agency in foreign territories and its former agent Victor Marchetti as well as government secrecy, security, intelligence, foreign affairs and policy.
- The story of the brothers Alfred and Walter Burton, who founded an influential photography studio in late 19th-century New Zealand and captured an important period in the country's history.
- A gentle tale of two loners finding mid-life love at the weather bureau, Stan and George's New Life is an unconventional Aussie comedy with a sunny outlook.
- The relationship between a young man, Paul, and a confident executive, Grant, about which his soon-to-be-wife Joy knows nothing, in Auckland's gay scene in 1980, when homosexuality was illegal.
- A fly on the wall style documentary including personal interviews with inmates at a women's prison in Canada in the 80's.
- HURT is a docu-drama like no other. 250 young Australians from rural areas and small towns, have been given the opportunity to tell their own stories, with their images, in their own words. Challenging, haunting and ultimately uplifting, HURT recounts episodes in the lives of these young people whose faces have been marked with the lines of experiences beyond their years. Cruelty, beauty and isolation seen through young eyes. The cast and crew included 15 car thieves, 23 homeless young people and 9 young people with mental illness. There were 200 camera operators, 98 sound recordists and 85 performers. HURT includes 50 portraits, 8 stories, 11 image based scenes, 3 songs, 2 docu- drama scenes, 2 comedy scenes and 1 connecting narrative. An outsider film.
- A group of actors lock themselves in the theater for a rehearsal of their next musical production, unaware that a psychopath has escaped and infiltrated among them.
- The story of the inaugural Samsung AACTA Awards began in August 2011 when the Australian Film Institute (AFI) launched the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) and a new Awards program. Although the former AFI Awards (which began in 1958) were typically held annually in December, the inaugural Samsung AACTA Awards were held in January 2012 to integrate with the international awards season that includes the Oscars and the BAFTAs.