Films

Special Mention, Jury Grand Prize, 2016 After a wrong train takes a five-year-old Indian boy thousands of kilometres from home and family, he survives many…

One of Australia’s greatest photojournalists takes the audience on a riveting first-hand journey through an Afghanistan rarely seen on the news. In Snow Monkey, George…

Special Mention, Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2015 The directorial debut feature from Stephen Page, Spear tells a contemporary Aboriginal story through…

James has served time for drowning a little boy when he was a child, although the body was never found in the river. A visit…

The legendary Australian Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil tells the tale of ‘Another Country’, when his people’s thousands-of-years-old way of life was interrupted by a new…

Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and…

Teenager Billie thinks she knows everything about her mother so she is surprised when she learns of her mother’s plan to transition from woman to…

Maya the Bee Movie follows the charming Maya’s inquisitive desire to escape her heavily regimented existence and experience the freedom to explore, outside the rules…

Special Mention, Best Performance By An Actor, 2014 Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he’s out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult…

Seventeen Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and…

A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.

Near the rural town of Winton, Queensland, a truck driver finds the body of a teenage aboriginal girl named Julie Mason inside one of the…

Mumble, the Master of Tap, has a problem because his tiny son, Erik, is choreophobic. Reluctant to dance, Erik runs away and encounters The Mighty…

One night in the outback mining town of Dampier, Western Australia, a dying dog lies in the backroom of the town’s only pub. Not just…

In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling) as her expatriate son and daughter convene at…

Winner, Cultural Diversity Award Under the Patronage of UNESCO, 2011 Daniel is a ten-year-old boy living in Toomelah, NSW. After being suspended from school for…

It’s the summer of 1967 and young Willie is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome, in the North of Western…

Soren, a young owl, is enthralled by his father’s epic stories of The Guardians of Ga’Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought…

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2009 Samson and Delilah live in an isolated world – a remote Aboriginal community in the Australian desert. In amongst a…

Winner, Best Animated Feature Film, 2009 A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of…

A shelter for children on the outskirts of Delhi provides food and accommodation for 350 boys. Some are orphans, others have been abandoned, still others…

Winner, Best Children’s Feature Film, 2008 When Thomas and his family move to a new home and he has to start at a new school,…

Three mismatched blokes are stranded in the Australian desert.

A man remembers his childhood and his mother, a Chinese night club singer who struggled to survive in Australia with her two children.

Adapted from Craig Silvey’s bestselling Australian novel and featuring a stellar cast including Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Levi Miller, Angourie Rice, Dan Wyllie and Aaron…

Winner, Best Youth Feature Film, 2017 The director-producer of APSA 2012 Best Children’s Feature Film award winner The Mirror Never Dies returns with The Seen…

Hollie Fifer’s debut film is a David-and-Goliath battle over a slice of Papua New Guinea paradise. Joe Moses, leader of the Paga Hill Settlement, struggles…

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2017 Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in the uncompromising outback of the Northern Territory, Australia…

Based on the award-winning, international best-selling novel by Tim Winton, Simon Baker’s directorial debut Breath follows two teenage boys, Pikelet and Loonie (newcomers Samson Coulter…

Winner – Hildur Guðnadóttir & Jóhann Jóhannsson – Best Original Score, 2018 Set in the Holy Land in the first century, Mary Magdalene is the story of…

In the years since winning Australian of the Year in 2014, Aboriginal Australian footballer Adam Goodes took a defiant stance against racism in mainstream culture.…

In rural Cambodia, spirited 14-year-old Chakra works the rice fields with his family. He yearns for independence and seeks out a local broker who can…

Set in the summer of 1959, when the impact of European migration and the rise of women’s liberation is about to change Australia forever, Lisa,…

Winner, Best Documentary Feature Film, 2018 Born blind and with a prodigious musical talent, Dr G Yunupingu first came to prominence as a member of…

In a bid to save the last of his family, Gutjuk, a young Aboriginal man, teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara, the…

Molly Johnson’s husband is away droving sheep, leaving her alone to care for their four children in the remote Snowy Mountains. Despite being heavily pregnant,…

Nitram (Caleb Landry-Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony LaPaglia) in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of…

Hewad, a nine-year-old boy, supports his family by selling goods from a cart on the harsh streets of Kabul after the death of his father.…

Within the idyllic Philippine tourist destination of Palawan, illegal loggers and President Duterte’s cronies are destroying forests and wildlife. Despite extreme mortal danger, a small…

With problems on the home front, 16-year-old Murra is on the verge of lashing out. That is, until her policeman uncle averts her self-destructive behaviour…

The story follows Abby, a child who befriends a magnificent wild blue groper while diving. When Abby realises that the fish is under threat, she…