Botanical Artist Deborah Wace enacts autobiographical moments of her career through a fantastical representation of her connection to the botany of lutruwita (Tasmania), acknowledging both the palawa connection to land, the French botanical history of the button grass plains where she lived and an imagined world underwater where her designs form from her art and botanical collection. Original music, atmosphere and palawa kani call to country are the soundtrack.
Tormented about his past by ongoing nightmares, amateur athlete Tino uses running as a way to escape old wounds. His attempts are foiled when his childhood friend, Frederick, reconnects with him, seeking to redeem himself, and presents Tino with a plan and a mysterious object wrapped in a paper bag.
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Trapped in the care of her lonely uncle, a young girl’s nightmares about a bizarre kitchen appliance manifest into reality.
Lucy drags Max to a nightclub to test the water of their relationship and get him out of his comfort zone, but as they settle in, Max is hit with a desire that comes from an unexpected place.
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Two Arab men are playing a sexy game but get interrupted by one of their biggest fears – a threat from the Arab world.
Paolo is an unassuming, happy man, who lives with his cat and likes to cry. For his tears are his great fortune. One day the city inhabitants see red flowers grow out of Paolo’s tears and everyone hopes to obtain a few tears from him. But will the attention be too much for little Paolo Piangino?
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A recently divorced man’s longing for isolation is tested when he has to share his solitary life with a noisy kookaburra and his deceitful brother comes to visit..
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Daisy learns things aren’t always as perfect as they seem and decides the only way to find love – is to be herself.
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A story about a small man and his tiny friend.
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20 year-old Jules has felt three strong emotions, so he is punished and must choose his restraint – a mime or brass band – that will appear at each of his emotional excesses for one year.
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