Best Of Australian 3 – 2016

Oscar Wilde’s the Nightingale and the Rose

A Nightingale embarks on a perilous quest to find a single red rose for her beloved so that he may win the heart of the Professor’s Daughter. But such a gift comes at a chilling price. Based on the classic fairytale by Oscar Wilde.

Cherokee

An uncooperative ex, an argumentative landlord, and a broken front door, Linda’s life is just peachy. Her daughter Shelley escapes their dreary reality through a fascination with Native Americans, but subconsciously assumes Linda’s anger.

Sweat

A farmer in rural Australia faces obsolescence as he shuns increased mechanisation in favour of a closer relationship with the land.

NSW PREMIERE

How to Get Clean

Gwen’s dead. Her cleaner has arrived to clean and her son has come home to mourn. Their paths intersect in a small bathroom where they both come to terms with what’s happened in their own way.

WORLD PREMIERE

A Private Matter

A reserved young woman burdened with a weighty secret returns to her rural hometown, accompanied by her outgoing partner, to her conservative family with disastrous consequences.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

The Orchestra

In a world filled with beautiful harmonious music, Vernon always seems to strike the wrong note.

Bluey

Bluey, an angry young woman trapped in a life of violence, meets a mystery mentor who could change everything. Bluey is a story of courage, heart and the fight for survival.

Slingshot

Frankie is a 10 year-old kid on summer vacation at a run-down trailer park. When Tayla, a 10 year-old girl, shows a romantic interest, Frankie’s holiday becomes a whole lot more complicated. Slingshot is an amusing analogy on modern love told through the eyes of one of its latest victims.