A film by Tom Zubrycki. The Eter family live on a state housing estate in a suburb comprising mainly Anglo-Australian families. One night a fight breaks out involving the Eters' teenage sons and those of the neighbour. Racial insults are thrown and returned. People are hurt, property is damaged…
Murrungga Island is at the top end of Arnhem Land in Australia’s Northern Territory. This is where we find 95-year-old Baymarrwangga, or as she is affectionately known, “Big Boss”, who was honoured as “Senior Australian of the Year, 2012” BIG BOSS is the story of this…
Only two generations ago, India was divided into hundreds of feudal kingdoms, each ruled by its own extraordinarily powerful royal family. Even under British rule, the Princes of India had the power of life and death over their subjects. But their lives changed dramatically when India became an independent…
This is an extended edit based on the original festival release in 2006. Additional footage was added by the filmmakers when releasing the director's cut in 2013. To watch the original version go here https://vimeo.com/157618781 In Nice Bombs filmmaker Usama Alshaibi returns to Baghdad to…
A host of leading creative talents, including writers Les Murray and Tim Winton, artist Ken Done, choreographer Graeme Murphy, and composer Peter Sculthorpe contribute to this examination of the beach as an expression of the Australian psyche. Australians are the most beach-conscious people on earth.…
A film by David and Judith MacDougall. Filmed in South India at the progressive Rishi Valley School, founded by the 20th Century Indian thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti, Awareness explores the sensibilities of two groups of young Indian teenagers - a group of girls in their dormitory, and a group of boys…
Three films by John Darling. Episode 1: BETWEEN THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SEA Covering an enormous scope of history, this film explores the geological and cultural influences which have contributed to the evolution of Balinese cosmology. Linked to religions in ancient China and India, Balinese religious…
This landmark documentary by Harry Bardwell was broadcast on Channel 7 in 1981 and had immediate political impact, mirrored when it was broadcast in Britain on Channel 4. The film helped to trigger both a House of Lords enquiry in Britain and a Royal Commission in Australia chaired by Justice James McClelland. Collated…
A film by Michel Daeron. The Auschwitz Orchestra had over 40 members, all Jewish women, all escaping death in the gas chambers because of their musical ability. All were deeply traumatised, and five decades later recall their experiences. The leader of the orchestra was Alma Rosé, the niece…
Chamousset, Song of the Stones' - In the South of the Vercors, the French Prealps, 300 meters above the ground, a team of researchers of the Institute of Earth Science from Grenoble are about to make a scientific discovery: to identify and understand the singing of a gigantic rock and work out a…
Teenagers who start smoking marijuana before the age of sixteen are four times more likely to become schizophrenic. That’s the startling conclusion of some of the world’s top schizophrenia experts, whose research is featured in the award-winning documentary The Downside of High. The Downside…
Of Wolves and Men, between Fear, Legend and Reality. An iconic, mythical animal, the Wolf is nevertheless a wild animal and a fearsome predator. This is what Italian and French breeders have realized when it reappeared in the Alps at the beginning of the nineties. The majority of the breeders get…
