When a stranger arrives at an isolated farmhouse in the middle of the night, the farmer’s anxious wife is convinced he is a murderer. In the light of day, she is forced to confront her prejudices.
Goose is a 16-year-old ‘charger’ – a girl whose body produces massive amounts of electricity due to nuclear side-effects – who must fight for her freedom from her overprotective sister, as well as from violent raiders hunting her with the aim of harvesting her energy.
When a burnt-out mum takes the plunge to return to work, she must prove to a mysterious interview panel she’s up to the job.
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Sheona McDonald’s documentary captures a season of change as a mother and child navigate the complexities of gender identity together.
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She finds letters full of love her dad wrote her 15 years ago. Now she fights to get that love back.
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Cole, an anxiety riddled designer by day, aspiring comic book artist by night comes face to face with the manifestation of his Anxiety in the form of an overbearing character wearing a fur coat that can only be seen and heard by Cole, making the simplest tasks in life incredibly difficult. Cole must learn to reason and negotiate with his anxiety, if he’s to live any version of a ‘normal’ life.
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An outcast teenager attends his first roller disco and is quickly targeted by the local bullies. Little do they know Kal has his own agenda and they are on the menu.
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At St Mary’s Anglican Home, Alice Springs, 1953, two best friends go head to head auditioning for the lead role in a movie, and face the prospect of leaving the Home for good.
NSW PREMIERE
Rejected by his family for his queerness and oppressed by his country for the same, reckless Libyan teenager “Britannia” gets an interview at the British embassy, taking him one step closer to his childhood dream of stepping foot on Manchester’s Canal Street, the pulsing queer centre of the world. Being British and gay is everything he’s ever dreamed of.
An isolated father haunted by his child’s cries of hunger takes up work as a timber feller only to be stopped by a mysterious alarm coming from deep in the woods.
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