Returning home through the scrub after a night out two teenage girls seek respite from the stifling heat. Fuelled by cheap alcohol and teenage hormones they make their way to an isolated fire-water tank, lured by the promise of cool water. Once inside the tank the intimate mood takes a dangerous turn when they discover they are trapped with no way out.
You have a date with an air hostess but your grandmother needs you. What would you do? Don't decide before you see LAYOVER. A moral conundrum of generational loyalty verses lusts of the flesh. Will the blood ties win? Or will blood boil? Either way things are heating up.
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.
Seventeen Australian directors each create a chapter from the hauntingly beautiful novel by Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives. As characters face second thoughts and midlife regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken and lives change direction forever. This watershed film reinterprets and re-imagines the work for the screen.