Australia Movies

In 1955, filmmaker Chauvel debuted Jedda. His star was a young Arrernte woman from Alice Springs named Ngarla Kunoth, or Rosalie. Her story, the story...

A wheelchair meets the car of its dreams.

Part 3 of the History of Australian Cinema series. The story of the Australian film industry in the 1930s, from the pioneering days of talkies through...

In this ten-minute Art House film, we meet Nik, a young person living in Canberra, who is struggling with their gender identity. We follow the persona...

What really happens when Summer Bay’s favourite family is torn apart? The Sutherlands were a happy family until a shocking secret from Rhys’ past come...

“Bilderbuch für Ernst Will” is an electronic rendering of a form of proto-televisual iconomania: the creation of haphazardly sourced private pictorial...

A retro Christmas TV electronic.

A lonely boy walks to therapy.

In the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, a grassroots family makes a precarious living by trading in betelnut, one of the world's most widely used narcot...

Michael Lee uses a 16mm Bolex camera to explore various zooming and framing techniques to photograph images from National Geographic Magazines. The si...

"A film with no colour, no movement, no sound, and no representation". 16mm.

A Super 8 animation made in Melbourne, Australia in 1969; Michael Lee's first film, featuring some popular songs of its time.

Kurtal – Snake Spirit tells the story of Spider, a sprightly 80 year old Aboriginal elder who travels from Fitzroy Crossing into the Great Sandy Deser...

A short documentary produced by the National Film and Sound Archive to promote 'Operation Newsreel', a project to collect and preserve Australian news...

A classic superhero story about love, redemption and Christ.

When Violet and Lara are reunited by the supposedly impending death of a dear friend, Oscar, the two ex-girlfriends attempt to say goodbye.

A young woman in her 20's makes the decision to drop out of her law degree. With her mother's dissapointment weighing heavily on her, she seeks comfor...

In ‘Koriam's Law’ Australian anthropologist Andrew Lattas meets his match in philosopher-informant Peter Avarea of Matong village, Pomio, Papua New Gu...

An intense and sometimes disturbing series of encounters between the filmmaker and his mother as they relive the traumatic years of his childhood and...

This short documentary produced by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO in 1979 traces the introduction of the European rabbit to Australia and s...