UNDERMINED -TALES FROM THE KIMBERLEY
Australia’s vast and unspoiled Kimberley region is under threat, with mining, pastoralism and irrigated agriculture driving an unprecedented land grab. What will be left of over 200 remote Aboriginal communities?
DOGS OF DEMOCRACY
Filmmaker Mary Zournazi explores life on the streets of Athens through the eyes its stray dogs and the people who look after them. The documentary is about how Greece have become the ‘stray dogs of Europe’, and how the dogs have become a symbol of hope for the people and for the anti-austerity movement. This is a universal story about love and loyalty and what we might learn from animals
THE HUNGRY TIDE
The Pacific nation of Kiribati will be one of the world’s first nations to disappear as a result of climate change. Maria Tiimon, a Kiribati woman living in Sydney, has the task of alerting the world to her sinking homeland. Shy at first, we watch her grow in confidence as she takes her country’s message to the world.
THE SUNNYBOY
Frontman Jeremy Oxley of the Australian band the Sunnyboys has had a 30-year battle with schizophrenia. A meditation on a condition often stigmatised and misunderstood, The Sunnyboy buries below the surface of Jeremy’s public identity to explore his own reality. The film follows Jeremy as he tentatively unpicks his confused thoughts and feelings about the past with his brother Peter. From his struggle with the physical effects of years spent self-medicating to his hopeful contemplation of a married future and a daring return to the stage,
MAD MORRO
Debbie Morris has waited 13 years for her family to finally be reunited. Her son James has been behind bars for his entire adult life. In prison he has become a hardened survivor of the system, strong of mind and quick with his fists - earning himself the nickname Mad Morro.
James aim is to return to some type of normal life – a career, a good woman, a family of his own, and to find peace. However he knows no other life aside from that behind bars. Mad Morro’s search sees attempted love, a battle with his own personal demons, and both the help and hindrance of his own family.
MOLLY & MOBARAK
A young refugee from Afghanistan Mobarak Tahiri finds work in a small Australian country town and falls in love with local girl Molly.
Mobarak is one of 3,500 illegal boat people from the Hazara ethnic minority who arrived on the coast of Northern Australia between 1999 and 2001 fleeing persecution from the Taliban.
THE DIPLOMAT
The Diplomat follows freedom fighter and Nobel Prize winner Jose Ramos Horta in the final tumultuous year of his 24 year campaign to secure independence for his country of East Timor.
BILLAL
The dramatic repercussions of a serious act of racially-motivated violence. The victims are a Lebanese family living in an outer-Sydney suburb. Their teenage son, Billal is run-down by a car sustaining massive brain injury. The film, shot over a period of 15 months, follows the dramatic twists and turns in the life of the family as they slowly come to terms with this traumatic event.
HOMELANDS
HOMELANDS is a portrait of a marriage, the story of Maria and Carlos, refugees from the war in El Salvador who have settled in suburban Melbourne.