Three siblings are reunited as a family in crisis. They all need one another in dramatically different ways, but are they willing to pay the price to call themselves family? ASH WEDNESDAY is an intense psychological drama exploring the complex nature of sibling relationships, asking where does our responsibility to family end? Does family have the right to ask us to sacrifice it all? Do we have the right to say 'no'?
Some things in life are only seen in dreams. A short film about life, death and cricket.
An encounter ends in tragedy when a Lebanese-Australian family is harassed by a group of soldiers at a checkpoint in outback Australia.
Australia is at war with Japan. An untrained unit of militiamen on the Kokoda track are cut off from supply and all communications. Overwhelmed by illness and fatigue, they must make their way through the most unforgiving terrain on earth. After three days they emerge from the jungle exhausted to the point of collapse. But on learning that they will soon be overrun, they pick themselves up and return to the nightmare of battle. Based on a true story.
On 14th September 2002, three composition students at the Australian Film Television and Radio School had their first experience of a live orchestral recording session as they recorded their music for three student films.
Roy Read was raised an orphan and told he wasn't Aboriginal, just 'darker than others'. At Kinchela Boys Home he was subjected to the horrors of institutionalised life. Now 49 years later, he returns to face the demons of his past and reconnect with the family he never knew he had.
In TRUCKIES DON'T EAT QUICHE, writer/director Ben Davies takes a personal look at the similarities between the language systems of a group of Sydney surfers and those of popular media. In particular he considers that darling of contemporary culture: 'cool'.