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Browse 103 movies from Australian Film Television and Radio School
People start dying after the arrival of a mysterious stranger in a small Australian town. Despite this, the local police officer is too preoccupied by his dream Mercedes to pay attention to the deaths surrounding him.
May 2018
An adolescent girl's journey of self-discovery set in the garish twilight world of Sydney's late night shopping malls and rooftops.
Jul 2000
A young boy wakes one morning to find his mother crying. He takes his father's rifle from the shed and sets off into the bush. "Pig" tells the story of a boy trying to make sense of the desolate world he lives in and captures a small moment in his life that leaves him changed forever.
Feb 2011
Aishe sees her father kiss his new love for the first time since her mother's death. Unable to sleep she wakes up her younger sister for company.
Jan 2015
Trapped in the care of her lonely uncle, a young girl’s nightmares about a bizarre kitchen appliance manifest into reality.
Aug 2022
Over two nights, a young Chinese immigrant has sexual encounters with two very different men. Consequently, he has to choose between the one he wants or the who wants him.
Jun 2006
Rachel's girlfriend, Kath, has finally moved in and Rachel has arranged the perfect weekend. Her plans start to unravel, however, when Kath's ex calls...
Feb 2004
Reflecting on her culpability, a woman recounts the traumatising assault she witnessed of a young man in a small Australian coastal town.
Bullying is taken to unimaginable extremes at an exclusive private boys school.
Oct 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 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 man tries to reconnect with his father who works at a laundrette.
Jan 1997
A poetic retelling of the experiences of Joseph Murakami, a fourteen-year-old boy from Darwin, who is summarily rounded up and interned by his government on the basis of his ethnicity, leaving wounds unhealed to this day.
Oct 2022
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
Jasmine flees the dogs of war for the towering City of Anchors. But between her traumatic past and her hopes of a new life, Jasmine must first face a heartless bureaucrat.
Sep 2002
A naïve Bianca reveals the risk she's prepared to take to clear her mother's debt but her sister, Maria thinks she's gone too far this time.
Jun 2022
The world is full of war and where can we hope to escape it? Home? - Certainly not by a stretch of this little computer animation. A lone kidney bean is being given the rough treatment by two much larger, bullying lima beans. In a number of fancy manoeuvres the kidney bean tricks the bullying two into believing they’ve killed him. When the kidney bean reaches his kin a battle of revenge is planned. The plan is foiled once ensconced in battle by the true ruler - the one who cooks beans in the kitchen. The battle scenes are stylistically similar to and remniscent of the battle scenes in the paintings of Australian artist, John Bracks, where he used pencils and decks of cards symbolically and as structural elements to recreate battle scenes.
Sep 1998
When a man faking a leg injury meets a woman pretending to be pregnant, they strike an unusual connection based on shared dysfunction and a reluctance to face their past.
Mar 2025
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.
Jan 1983
In a post divorce suburban Australian family, the hormonal teenage daughter feels undercurrents of sexuality, confusion and loss. When she loses her temper, her stepfather enacts a strange symbolic punishment - he removes her bedroom door...
Jan 1993