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Browse 104 movies from Australian Film Television and Radio School
Bullying is taken to unimaginable extremes at an exclusive private boys school.
Oct 2005
This early short from director Jane Campion concerns a group of teenage girls in the 1960s.
Jun 1984
A short observational account of one Saturday night in the mundane life of Stuart. He gets drunk, goes out to clubs,, searches for love and falls asleep unfulfilled on the floor of the club.
Jan 1973
A young homeless girl watches a wounded real estate agent after one of her fellow squatters accidentally injures him.
Jan 1983
A series of the awkward trials of everyday living.
Dec 1983
A teenager tries to track down a man he met at an anonymous sex party, trawling through hook-up apps to find him.
Jun 2019
A film about obsession, sexuality, devotion and paranoia.
Feb 2005
A family drive in the countryside turns into a battle of wills between a young boy and his father and aunt.
Jul 1983
A young girl is forced to continue working at her machine all day in a 1930s shoe factory after a visit to a backyard abortionist. Based on the short story 'How beautiful are thy feet' by Alan Marshall.
Dec 1973
While on a seaside holiday with his family, a teenage boy becomes infatuated with a young woman accompanying them as a housekeeper. As his older brother begins a relationship with her, the boy’s frustration grows, leading to actions that disrupt both the family dynamic and the fragile relationships around him. The conflict culminates in a breakdown of trust between the brothers.
When a stranger arrives at an isolated farmhouse in the middle of the night, the farmer's wife is convinced he is a murderer. In the light of day, she is forced to confront her prejudices.
Nov 2021
Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry returns to convince her to join him.
Jun 1997
A man tries to reconnect with his father who works at a laundrette.
Jan 1997
A celebrated darts player and die-hard drinker is visited by death at the pub. The two soon find themselves locked in an epic game of darts with Terry's soul and status at stake.
Jan 2009
Three Aussie super-Sheilas and their Big Mack trucks embark on a mission to defend the Earth against the alien invasion.
Jan 1996
Penny is in her mid-twenties. For years she has suffered from the sexual assaults of her father, who is now beginning to take an interest in her younger sister. She tries to convince her mother and sister of her situation as an incest victim, but they just ignore her. The father tries to keep his secret by isolating Penny, but eventually she is old enough and confident enough to break free, though not without the emotional scars of years of abuse.
Cherith is the daughter of a evangelist and is seen as an outcast because of her inability to speak in tongues, which the rest of her father's sect can do quite easily. She also has problems with relationships.
Dec 1988
A blind woman and her neighbour discover a common bond after battling each other with sound.
Sep 1999
Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged shame and fear passes from one generation to the next, from one culture to another. The last scene depicts a silent meeting between the young Alice and the adult Alice. In order to reclaim her life, Alice decides she must confront the pain and confusion of her childhood.
Jan 1992
After giving into temptation, a young woman attempts to conceal her sins from her family.
Nov 2024