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Browse 27 movies from Danaë K Grieef Films
During a late-night therapy session, a patient recounts a recurring dream revealing something neither he nor his therapist fully understands.
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After being sexually assaulted, Jade's trauma gradually warp her perception of reality and descend her into darkness on a desperate quest for visibility. A creeping transformation becomes a haunting exploration of guilt, emotional wounds, and the silent, simmering rage within her. A survivor's voyage into her own darkness takes a chilling turn as she transforms into a vengeful force of feminine rage, blurring the line between justice and revenge, and challenging the societal failings of rape culture.
MINE is a story about the devastating impact violence has on two young football players, their friends, families, club, and wider community. The film is about two young football players. Life-long friends Dom and Coby are young men on the verge of football stardom. Gifted boys with golden futures. But a simple decision changes it all. MINE focuses on providing a safe space to discuss the complexities of gender-based violence, exploring issues around sexual consent.
After returning from several months abroad, Daniel becomes concerned for his elderly neighbour and family friend, Nelly, after she reveals to him her recent dementia diagnosis. To make matters worse, the valuable tea set Nelly inherited from Rodney, her neighbour of 40 years, has been found out by Ada, Rodney's estranged niece, and Dev, Ada's husband. The pair feels they are the rightful heirs. Panicked, Daniel prepares Nelly to deny any knowledge of the priceless crockery before Ada and Dev are scheduled to arrive that afternoon.
Grappling with relentless intrusive thoughts and Harm OCD, Jess faces a terrifying drive. As her anxiety mounts, Jess retreats to the safety of a quiet petrol station, where she meets a stranger whose kindness changes the course of her night.
Sep 2025
When an experiment on an alien artefact in a futuristic high-rise building goes wrong, a motley squad of reporters, scientists, musicians and criminals must band together to survive and escape.
Graycen is throwing her fairwell party
A former gifted child struggles with the harsh realities of adult life.
Jul 2024
Caught between love and control, Pearl must decide if true power lies in staying, fighting, or walking away.
Dec 2025
When a Vietnamese-Australian dropout wears a prosthetic pregnancy belly for work and refuses to take it off, she discovers the intoxicating power of being seen.
A thief left for dead goes looking for payback but her pie obsessed partner-in-crime comprises the mission.
A story of the unspoken, unbreakable bond between twin brothers in the face of a deep tragedy.
15-year-old Kaia wishes to celebrate her birthday with her father, Ian, but when he forgets about their plans and leaves her at their house, she finally decides to run away from home. Before she can leave, Ian unexpectedly returns home, and Kaia catches him in a very uncomfortable and compromising position.
Nov 2024
A once promising fighter forces herself back into the ring after her last fight ended in tragedy.
During a breaking cypher, Malekai's animalistic impulses take over. Once a space for unity, becomes a jungle full of tigers fighting for one's survival.
Over the course of one day, a single mother in Melbourne’s working-class west must draw on all of her resources as she confronts the ghosts of her past.
Aug 2025
Deena has lost her father, and with him, any sense of calm. Trapped inside a crowded house brimming with relatives, rituals, and unspoken family tensions, she aches for something simple: a moment alone.
A beautiful, happy, young couple suffer the consequences when Roe 'v' Wade is overturned and must carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. The result is a total breakdown of their perfect lives.
Aug 2023
Family friends are forced to reunite when Jack's family house is being prepared to be put for rent. Tensions rise and the night turns sour as old wounds are opened, outing their skewed views of what their shared childhood really meant.
After a homeless ex-filmmaker witnesses a kidnapping, he comes to believe that he is trapped in a horror movie filmed by the city's CCTV, where the only way to survive is to stay on camera - no matter what.