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Browse 51 movies from Swinburne Film and Television School
Facing endless harassment from his ill-tempered boss, spineless Wylie is greeted by a mysterious cowboy who offers him an escape from reality to face his fears, and rediscover his identity through an adventure in the Wild West...
Nov 2024
In a dystopian future, an Australian-Iraqi woman held captive in a chaotic and brutal British immigration detention centre takes up severe measures to survive and reconnect with her estranged family.
Apr 2023
Adapting to her new home in Melbourne, Vietnam War immigrant Hanh (9 years old) mistakes the cunningness of her new “friends” as an act of kindness, forcing her to come to terms with the reality of human betrayal through the loving and tender guide of her family - especially her father, Quan.
Sep 2023
Unable to tap into his emotions on stage, a middle-aged struggling actor is given one last chance to prove himself, and in turn, takes a class with an acting coach who promises to transform his performance.
Oct 2023
The morning after sleeping together for the first time, Mia and Will are forced to confront their conflicted feelings for each other when Will accidentally stabs Mia.
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When Park Ranger Anthony discovers critical levels of toxic air pollution in his national park, he must rally public attention and challenge a powerful industry to protect the environment and public health.
Three friends witness an argument and theorise on what it could be about.
Nov 2023
An experimental feminist film which questions the goals of love and romance as a woman’s ultimate fulfillment. Emma, vivacious but suicidal terrorist is reunited with Cecily, her old school chum. They meet a ‘bionic bike dyke’ called stretch and break open the jelly beans. Will they stretch a point over the pool table? Will tap-dancing and vaginal exercises be enough for Cecily? Will Emma metamorphose into Esther Williams?
Nov 1979
A shy teenager attempts to manipulate a game of seven minutes in heaven so he can confess his feelings to the boy he is infatuated with.
Mar 2020
Jamie, a 10-year-old country boy, who has grown up with his step brother Will, struggles with not only the impending divorce of their parents but the grief of the potential loss of the only sibling he has ever known.
When Devan’s ex-girlfriend, Skye, knocks on his door with unmerited forgiveness and sexual desire, his naive lust leaves him too late to discover the monster which lies beneath her skin.
Dec 2021
Three women embrace their household appliances. 1950s style advertising and pornography create an absurd equation between sex and selling.
Jan 1992
A wrestling fanatic organises a club with like-minded enthusiasts to prove to his girlfriend that wrestling is a sophisticated high art, but his plan for intellectual discussion is quickly thwarted by his guests’ antics.
Gem realizes there is a lot she doesn't know about her cruel 'best friend', Drew, and learns what must be sacrificed in order to survive in the visceral high school world.
Mar 2015
An audio-visual experience through the perspective of an iPhone depicting a harmonious city during the day quickly descend into technological madness as night falls.
Sep 2025
Kate's love for her brother's wife and the ensuing feelings of guilt lead her to an obsession with the supernatural.
Jan 1981
17-year-old Jane begins to embrace her background and rekindle her relationship with her mother when she becomes immersed in Chinese culture at her younger sister's new language school.
Oct 2020
Born from dying stars, it was sculpted by violent collisions in space. Yet, in an epic journey, this hostile ball of molten rock transformed itself into a nurturing environment. From it emerged forms of life, none of which have been found anywhere else in the universe. That planet is not millions of light years away either. You are standing on it right now. It is Earth.
Jun 2018
At The Middle of Nowhere, a rough truck-stop brothel, Billie, a young sex worker, becomes obsessed with the mystical tale of the Wild Woman of Nowhere and convinces her friend Rosie to escape with her.
Fourteen-year-old Bernie must convince her religious mother that her repeated attempts to explore her body are natural, not depraved.
May 2018