“Bullets to Buttons” tells the story of Sheelagh Gilles’s Great Uncle, JB Holmes who as a teenager was a member of the North Irish Horse Calvary Unit. As a 14 year old who lied about his age, JB participated in the Christmas Day Truce on 1914 in Belgium. After losing the buttons on his clothing during an artillery bombardment he was gifted some new ones from a German soldier, which had been fashioned from lead bullets.
Kayah Guenther is a young artist struggling to find his place in the world. Born with trisomy 21, he narrates his story through dance. A highly stylised and darkly evocative portrait, set to an original score, ‘The Battle’ explores themes of identity, power, passion and despair.
The story of a young girl hitchhiking on an isolated road who gets picked up by a suspicious looking driver – will she end up as Roadkill on a country road?
Lisa IRL tells the story of an agoraphobic young woman’s unexpected journey into the outside world, finding fun, adventure and romance… with the help of her remote-controlled clone of course.
Jewish Israeli grandparents are challenged by their grandchild to compose an agreed-upon version of the untold story of a large crystal mirror, taken from the Palestinian village of Zarnuqa during the Nakba – the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians by the new Israeli state in the 1948 war.
The humans behind the battle for Donetsk Airport. Weaving together the voices of fighters on both sides, director Shahida Tulaganova tells an unvarnished story of war through the eyes of those who were there.
The story of Eli, a good kid in a violent world, who is forced to choose between brutality and betrayal.
The DJARN DJARNS is the story of a friendship between four young boys, the responsibility they feel for their culture and the love a young boy has for his father.
When 11 year old Whalen spies a Special Forces dinghy off the jetty, the whole town gets in on the action to outdo the professionals at their own game. Set in the Torres Strait Island communities of Bamaga and Seisia, Sharpeye tells the story of the Charlie Company.