Australian Film Commission Movies

Three intrepid siblings try to rescue their precious duck from bird smugglers who want to eat it.

A dying criminal takes his younger brother on one final job so that when the final hour comes, his brother and his brother's wife and daughter who he...

An ex-convict pays for his wife's marijuana by keeping the green at a lawn-bowling club

A young firebrand Aboriginal man is forced to confront his spirituality when he is beaten by the police.

Three women appear connected in this short experimental drama about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows,...

Every morning Betty tramps alone through the big city to join her fellow buskers in the pedestrian tunnel below, trying to earn a living. But her earn...

Rachel and Nick are your model, contemporary relationship. They're young, hip, creative and independent. In the end, they can't escape the basic diffe...

A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society...

The director explores the birth origins of actress Merle Oberon, traveling to Tasmania and India in search of the truth, but her quest ultimately resu...

Short directed by Bruce Petty.

White people don't understand that there are two laws - white people have different laws from Aboriginal people. TWO LAWS is a film about history, la...

The 1981 murder trial of Alwyn Peter made Australian legal history when his defence lawyer successfully argued that charges of murder and manslaughter...

City Loop tells the story of six young people who work in a pizzeria, as they struggle to comes to terms with boredom, fear of responsibility and pizz...

Lionel Rose, Australia's first Aboriginal world champion boxing hero - the man behind the myth

An older woman relives the bitter memories of her past, through her friendship with a younger girl who is experiencing a very insecure relationship wi...

Partly funded as a Bicentennial commission through the University of Queensland Art Museum and the ABC, Hughes’ speculative, essayistic documentary is...

The story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.

A businessman in white shirt and tie drives alone on an isolated country road. He swerves for a passing truck and the result is a blowout. As he's cha...

A day in the life of an unemployed youth.

Two brothers and their journey into a long night of desperate living in Alice Springs.