Australian Film Commission Movies

An account of events in Queensland from 1959 to 1988 as disclosed by the Fitzgerald inquiry. Queensland had become as close to a police state as anyth...

After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician And...

Two teenagers get entangled in a criminal coup enterprise but must raise $500 each in order to set sail for Africa.

Hayride to Hell is a 1995 Australian short subject directed and written by Kimble Rendall. It tells the story of salesman George Weygate, who comes ac...

A boy climbs an unsteady path to adulthood under difficult circumstances in this drama from Australia. Shaun (Kane McNay) is a teenager growing up in...

The world is a blazing atomic hell. Civilisation is dying in agony... What do you do? ...THROW A PARTY! The Third World War has happened. Bombs are d...

Three wordless rituals: birth, between, and rebirth. A woman lies at the bottom of a swimming pool, alone. The camera pans her body. She starts to ris...

A multi-layered narrative drama about ordinary people and their struggles and joys with life. Blue Notes is composed of five tales about people who ar...

Follows the journey of two country boys who find themselves out of place in the big city.

A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.

Documents Independence Day of Papua New Guinea on September 16, 1975, comparing the pageantry of local celebrations with the official ceremony in the...

In the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, a widowed father expects his only son to follow in his footsteps. Darra Adam Khel is home to the ethn...

Tells the story of an impoverished young man who dreams/​fantasizes/​hallucinates about his adventures in a post-holocaust Sydney of the future, where...

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Australian Women's Land Army.

Della, a 45-year-old wanna-be, coulda-been jazz singer and her lover, Dale, a 23 year old small time criminal, are in the final stages of their dysfun...

A charming animated fable with live action. This is a story about a teenage girl (Pia Miranda) who suffers from depression and dreams and sketches way...

A young orthodox man searches for his place within his family and the rest of the world.

When a man's mother fails to pick him up from the supermarket, he decides to walk home. What should have been a brief stroll, soon becomes a nightmari...

Australian independent political documentary about the US installations in Australia at Pine Gap near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

Film maker Dennis O'Rourke documents the day to day life of Aoi, a Thai prostitute through interviews with her and her family as well as taking us thr...