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AACTA Award winning director Larissa Behrendt

The Yirrkala Bark Petitions sparked the flame towards recognition of Aboriginal rights and one of them is coming home.

Tosca Looby

An archive exposé illustrating how the world’s most powerful nations were ready to act on climate change 4 decades ago.

Julie Nihill

Escaping the Nazis John Haycroft finds the war continues at home and his daughter continues the battle on another front

Mitzi Goldman

Spectacular Chinese acrobat collides with the revolution in Australian contemporary circus with both forever transformed

Jasmine Barzani

A group of squatters challenges an unjust housing system that has been shaped by dispossession and economic gain.

GENNA CHANELLE HAYES

As conflict threatens humanity, one filmmaker documents the impact on those most vulnerable, women and children.

Daniel Walkington

A house, a farm and a woman in search new beginnings.

Cameron Fink

This is largely unknown football story-but one that says something about migrants and multiculturalism too

Sean O'Reilly & Sophy Crane

In the heart of Australia’s outback, an Indigenous teenager discovers the powerful wisdom of wild horses, guided by an Indigenous scientist, Professor Juli Coffin.

Giles Penfold

Two friends traverse 655 kilometres of Australia’s harshest and most beautiful wilderness to re-connect with nature.

Grant Saunders

Hip-hop gives voice to the voiceless. One of these voices talks about the impact of colonialism on The Block, Redfern.

Ros Horin

This film uncovers a global community of artists creating new works in an ancient language that speaks to our times.