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.
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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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‘Perspective’ follows the path of Jess, a recent school graduate, contemplating her future. Anxious to ‘do the right thing’, she struggles to balance the demands of peer group community and family expectations while staying true to herself. The film contemplates what it is to be young in a complicated world.
Kat gets an unexpected call from her ex, saying he’s coming to her band’s gig that night. With this on her mind, she sets out for the evening ahead.
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When the Victorian Government locks down his public-housing building, a teenager responsible for his mother’s welfare is pushed to the brink.
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A cricket wants to achieve the dream in an abandoned quarry.
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Two besties abroad in a Russian city are hustling to catch the last train. When Cookie suddenly disappears, Bonbon is swept up in a chaotic odyssey to find her friend.
The short documentary is a collection of impressions that examines the christian painting The Broad and The Narrow Way and religious motives of burden, sin and rest to reflect the difference in possibilities that still exists between many ethnic communities in the South African town of Sutherland.
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Best friends, Blockhead and Sparkles, are struggling under the pressure of running their own cake shop, but when the Sad Prince’s tears threaten to flood the village, they must do what they can to mend their friendship and save the day.
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