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Steven McGregor, Matt Long
Running To America is a story of pure inspiration. Four young Indigenous men from the Australian outback are plucked from obscurity by marathon legend Robert de Castella to run the world's most famous race, the New York Marathon. He's convinced that…
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Rima Tamou
An obnoxious businessman's world is turned upside down after he insults a young woman he's trying to pick up. In revenge she steals his laptop, which contains the documents he needs to close a lucrative deal.
For brash young salesman Clinton Spice,…
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Kim Mavromatis
Sacred Ground tells the story how Quenten Agius and his nephew Chris discover human skeletal remains in the middle of a multi-million dollar housing development - is it a murder or is it an ancestor?
Sacred Ground captures the inside story of…
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Matt Norman
Salute is the story of how Peter Norman, a white Australian sprinter, became a hero in black America, even as he was virtually written out of the annals of Australia's Olympic history.
On one level, it is a story of real idealism, on another, it's…
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Warwick Thornton
Aboriginal teenagers Samson and Delilah live in an isolated community outside Alice Springs, about 1,500 kms south of Darwin. Delilah spends her days caring for and painting with her Nana, Samson is a chronic petrol sniffer who has cast his eyes on…
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Catriona McKenzie
In a remote community where life is cheap, and people struggle to survive, one small Aboriginal boy shows us how courage can conquer even the greatest odds.
Satellite Boy is the story of Pete, a 12-year-old Aboriginal boy who lives with his elderly…
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Ivo Burum
Satellite Dreaming is of considerable historic importance. It narrates the emergence of Aboriginal broadcast media in Australia, and discusses its role in maintaining Aboriginal languages and culture.
In the early 1980s, the federal government…
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Peter Carstairs
September is set in the Australian wheat belt in 1968 where two young boys who share a passion for boxing are firm friends. Sixteen-year-old Ed is the son of a white wheat farmer whilst Paddy is the son of an Aboriginal farm hand who works on the…
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Wayne Blair
During the first months after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, wealthy Jewish Iranian gemologist Isaac Amin is suddenly arrested at his office in Tehran by the Revolutionary Guards who take him to prison.During his prison days, he meets fellow prisoners…
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Romance |
Mojgan Khadem
Set in the 1890s in the central desert region of Australia, Seremades tells the tale of Jila who is conceived when her Afghan cameleer father wins her Aboriginal mother in a card game.
Raised initially in an Aboriginal community, Jila, on the death…
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Steven McGregor
During the time of the Stolen Generations, thousands upon thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic servitude by the Australian government. They were supposedly employed as servants, but with total…
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Dick Ross
Shadow of the Boomerang is the story of an American brother and sister, Bob and Kathy Prince, who move to Australia to manage a cattle station owned by their father. Bob has a racist attitude and always has a negative word to add. Kathy on the other…
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Perun Bonser
Shadows of Displacement uses puppets to tell a concise history of the displacement of Aboriginal people in the North-West of Australia.
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Aaron Fa'aoso
Another film which is based on a true story. Sharpeye tells how 11-year-old Whalen spots a dinghy of the Special Forces which is part of an exercise. They plan a surprise attack on a community but are outdone by the whole community springing into…
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Erica Glynn
She Who Must Be Loved is a documentary that tells the epic life story of Alfreda Glynn, directed by her daughter Erica Glynn.
Born under the Aboriginal Protection policies, in the early 1970s she channelled her formidable energy into establishing…
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Chantelle Murray
Forgotten soul, Mary, an Aboriginal woman, is confined on a cattle station and used by the stockmen for their pleasure.Mary makes an unlikely friend in the new station hand, Victor, an Aboriginal man, whose father is white. As their interest in…
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Various directors
Shifting Sands showcases six short films from Australian Aboriginal filmmakers, exploring issues of identity, culture and family, and continuing in the tradition of the first series, From Sand to Celluloid.
Tears (Director: Ivan Sen, 15min) follows…
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Ivan Sen
Ivan Sen interviewed four then teenagers in small towns in north western NSW over a period of ten years - in 1995, 2000 and 2005. This feature documentary follows Willy, Cindy, Danielle and Ben through a vital period in their lives, the transition…
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Ivan Sen
Shifting Shelter is a groundbreaking 15-year documentary study of the lives of four young Aboriginal people in rural north-west New South Wales.
For 15 years Ivan Sen has documenting the lives of four young people in north west NSW. Cindy Peterson,…
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Viviana Petyarre
Shiny One is a comedy that centres on a young fella named Wenye, who leaves his remote community to pursue a dream vision calling him to the big smoke to find his pot of gold.
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George Ogilvie
An Aboriginal man, Stuart Wilkins is arrested for taking part in a land rights demonstration, after the death of his father. His white wife Alison leaves him and takes their son Tommy.
Seven years later, Stuart returns to Sydney, determined to…
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