House of Children
A glimpse of life as seen through young people at a Zimbabwean children’s home.
Lions of Crocodile River
Lazy relatives. Jealous neighbors. Runaway kids. The everyday troubles of one family – except this family is a pride of lions. Shot over three years during the most extreme seasonal…
Short Cuts
Round the Twist is a Logie Award-winning Australian children’s television series about three children and their father who live in a lighthouse and become involved in many bizarre magical adventures.
Art & Mind
A journey into art, madness and the unconscious. An exploration of visionary artists and the creative impulse, from the Flemish Masters of the Renaissance to the avant-garde movement of Surrealism…
Why Man Creates
A 1968 animation/documentary that criticises the industrial system. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Fuck for Forest
A film on the world’s most bizarre charity: based on the idea that sex can change the world, the NGO raises money for their environmental cause by selling home-made erotic…
The Space: Theatre of Survival
When everything about you falls one man decides that theatre is the key, and the way to begin to unify a people. A film about the life and times of…
Pin Up! The Movie
Dangerous. Sexy. All American Girl. Contemporary pin ups and the women who inspire them. Documentary film and interactive documentary.
The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins
Les Blank’s portrait of the great Texas bluesman, ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.
The Secret Diary of the Holocaust
The Secret Diary Of The Holocaust tells the extraordinary tale of a 14-year-old Polish girl, Rutka Laskier, who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943. In 2005, the school notebook in…
Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen
In many ways it was the perfect match: Ernest Hemingway whose heroes personified his definition of courage – “grace under pressure” – and Gary Cooper, the man who often portrayed…
David & Me
When troubled teen Ray Klonsky began writing letters to prison inmate David McCallum, both of their lives changed forever. Hundreds of letters later, Ray graduated from university determined to set…
Nobody’s Perfect
German filmmaker Niko von Glasow embarks on a very personal project with this documentary that profiles thalidomiders: people born with malformed or missing limbs because their mothers took thalidomide for…