Movies: Australian Film Television And Radio School

Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged sha...

A teenager tries to track down a man he met at an anonymous sex party, trawling through hook-up apps to find him....

Bullying is taken to unimaginable extremes at an exclusive private boys school....

Fifteen year old Alex and his older brother, Michael, both like the same girl, who has worked in their family pub for years. When she accompanies the family on a holiday at the beach, Alex hopes he can attract her attention, but as usual it is Michae...

A man tries to reconnect with his father who works at a laundrette....

A poetic retelling of the experiences of Joseph Murakami, a fourteen-year-old boy from Darwin, who is summarily rounded up and interned by his government on the basis of his ethnicity, leaving wounds unhealed to this day....

Rachel's girlfriend, Kath, has finally moved in and Rachel has arranged the perfect weekend. Her plans start to unravel, however, when Kath's ex calls......

A young girl locks herself in her family bathroom in order to protest her father and neighbor's plan to cut down a beloved tree in the family's backyard. Later adapted into the pilot for a TV series called "The Bartons," with a different cast....

A family drive in the countryside turns into a battle of wills between a young boy and his father and aunt....

Tucked away in a forgotten and isolated motel, a 'lad' meets a returning soldier coping with post-traumatic stress disorder. The brief encounter is a soft collision of two characters both lost and trying to find themselves within each other....

This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s....

A young girl is forced to continue working at her machine all day in a 1930s shoe factory after a visit to a backyard abortionist. Based on the short story 'How beautiful are thy feet' by Alan Marshall....

A celebrated darts player and die-hard drinker is visited by death at the pub. The two soon find themselves locked in an epic game of darts with Terry's soul and status at stake....

Trapped in the care of her lonely uncle, a young girl’s nightmares about a bizarre kitchen appliance manifest into reality....

A series of the awkward trials of everyday living....

The Australian myth of the ‘drover's wife' retold from a different perspective....

An adolescent girl's journey of self-discovery set in the garish twilight world of Sydney's late night shopping malls and rooftops....

Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child in 1971, this documentary highlights the many complex issues associated with adoption....

Over two nights, a young Chinese immigrant has sexual encounters with two very different men. Consequently, he has to choose between the one he wants or the who wants him....

An evolutionary tale of Don Herbison-Evans, a man who collects butterflies and then experiences a personal metamorphosis on the dance floor....