Films Archive

17 Blocks
Brilliantly assembled from 20 years of home video footage, 17 Blocks is a heart-warming portrait of a family and a

5 Broken Cameras
When good-natured Palestinian farmer Emad buys a handicam to film the birth of his fourth son, he also decides to

6×9: A Virtual Experience of Solitary Confinement
What’s it like to spend 23 hours a day in a cell measuring 6×9 feet for days, weeks, months, or

9.79*
As elite athletes across the globe from every discipline continue to fall from glory by being exposed as drug cheats,

A Cambodian Spring
A Cambodian Spring charts the chaotic and violent wave of change shaping modern-day Cambodia, following three activists – a Buddhist

A Present from the Past
A father-daughter trip to Rome to find a lost love with only a three-decade-old address – the premise may sound

A Revolution in Four Seasons
This seminal film tells the story of two women with opposing political views, fighting for different versions of a democratic

A Woman Captured
An audience favourite at Sundance this year, A Woman Captured offers an unprecedented, extraordinary glimpse into modern-day slavery. Hungarian director

Advocate
For nearly five decades, Israeli human rights lawyer Lea Tsemel has defended Palestinians against all sorts of criminal charges. From

After the Apocalypse
After the Apocalypse shows, in heart breaking clarity, the effect of massive radiation on a community. Soviet testing in Semipalatinsk,

After Tiller
Dr George Tiller, controversial pioneer of third-trimester abortions, was assassinated in 2009 by an extreme pro-life activist. This haunting film

All That Passes By Through a Window That Doesn’t Open
The collapse of the Soviet Union and decades of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan has destroyed the region’s economy. With

América
Shot over three years, this affectionate film follows Diego reuniting with his brothers to care for their charismatic 93-year-old grandmother,

Another Country
Forget everything you think you know about Indigenous communities. In this astounding film, David Gulpilil takes viewers on an enlightening

Approaching the Elephant
A school with no rules sounds like every kid’s dream. The Teddy McArdle Free School in small town New Jersey

Aquarela
Fresh from its world premiere at Venice Film Festival, renowned filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky’s Aquarela takes audiences on a deeply cinematic

Aquarela – A Case Study: Heino Deckert, Producer
Heino Deckert is one of the the leading names working in international documentary production today. He is the managing director

Are You Listening!
Bangladesh is on track to disappear entirely in a hundred years thanks to the impacts of climate change. These global

Art and Craft
A talented and eccentric art forger – perhaps the most prolific in US history – Mark Landis is pitted against

At Home in the World
Imagine all the pressures of starting a new school, and now add some further challenges – all the students are

Atlantis, Iceland
Obsessed with searching for the origins of a famous scene known as ‘The Image of Happiness’ from Chris Marker’s classic

Australian Shorts 2011
Winner of Best Australian Short Documentary, 2011: OL’ BLUE EYES Directed by Matt Cooney | Australia | 2009 | 8

Australian Shorts 2012
Winner of Best Australian Short Documentary, 2012: FEEL HOME Directed by Leonie Blignaut | Australia | 2011 | 12 min

Australian Shorts 2013
Winner of Best Australian Short Documentary 2013: E-WASTELAND Directed by David Fedele | Australia | 2012 | 20 min Where

Australian Shorts 2014
Winner of Best Australian Short Documentary, 2014: GHOST TRAIN Directed by James Fleming, Kelly Hucker | Australia | 2014 |

Australian Shorts 2015
Winner of Best Australian Short Documentary, 2015: MARATUS Directed by Simon Cunich | Australia | 2015 | 30 min A

Australian Shorts 2016
Winner of Best Australian Short Documentary, 2016 (Tied): HEART OF THE QUEEN Matthew Walker | Australia | 2015 | 26

Australian Shorts 2017
Winner of Best Australian Short Documentary, 2017: WOLFE Directed by Claire Randall | Australia | 2016 | 16 min An

Australian Shorts 2018
Winner of Best Australian Short Documentary, 2018: HANDOUT Directed by Vedrana Music | Australia | 2017 | 5 min Zeljka

Australian Shorts 2019
Winner of Best Australian Short Documentary, 2019: HAPPY ANDROID Directed by Jaina Kalifa | 2019 | Australia | 24 min

Autumn Gold
Contemplative and insightful, Autumn Gold follows a selection of 80 – 100 year-old athletes as they prepare for the global

B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin
In the 80s Berlin was like a B-movie, ugly and poor, but wild, creative, and incredibly sexy. To the thousands

Bà Nôi (Grandma)
Bà Nôi (Grandma) is director Khoa Lê’s ethereal exploration of his past and unknown future. Lê’s 93 year-old bà nôi

Back to the Square
‘What has become of Egypt since the revolution?’ is the question posed by Petr Lom’s Back to the Square. Shot

Behemoth
In the Old Testament, the mountains are the domain of a monster named Behemoth; in modern times the vast mining

Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World
A first-hand look into the revolutionary rise of the citizen investigative journalist collective known as Bellingcat, a highly skilled and

Beyond Broadcast – Making Documentaries Without a Broadcaster
Faced with increasingly prescribed and format-driven broadcaster slots, documentary filmmakers around the world are exploring alternative ways to fund their

Beyond Wriezen
Can the past ever really be left behind? Imo, Jano, and Marcel are unceremoniously released from Wriezen juvenile detention centre,

Black Code
Black Code is a gripping account of how governments control and manipulate the internet in order to censor and monitor

Blowin’ Up
Blowin’ Up (a term used to describe a sex worker leaving their pimp) focuses on an experimental court in Queens

Bobbi Jene
After 10 years of stardom with famed Israeli dance company Batsheva, American dancer Bobbi Jene Smith makes the decision of

Bobby Sands: 66 Days
With the simple yet powerful act of refusing food, Bobby Sands and his fellow Irish Republican prisoners became the emblems

Brands and the Commercial Universe – Making and Transforming Storytelling
Branded documentaries are on the rise as a sign that corporations are increasingly looking to move away from traditional branded

Brazen Hussies
Brazen Hussies reveals for the first time, an exciting and revolutionary chapter in Australian history, the Women’s Liberation Movement (1965 -1975).

Breaking the News
Filmed over four years in East Timor, Australia’s most misunderstood neighbour, director Nicholas Hansen brings us a cautionary tale about

Brimstone & Glory
The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is an observance unlike any other. In celebration of San Juan de Dios,

Brothers
Director Aslaug Holm shares the discoveries of parenthood in this documentary equivalent to Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. Training her camera on

Brothers Hypnotic
The eight sons of anti-establishment Sun-Ra trumpeter Phil Cohran are the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – a tight crew of amazingly

Bruce Lee and the Outlaw
Filmed over six years by photographer Joost Vandebrug, Bruce Lee and the Outlaw is a modern-day Oliver Twist story set

Buena Vista Social Club: Adiós
The veteran musicians of the Orquestra Buena Vista Social Club exposed the world to the vibrant sounds of Afro-Cuban music

Bugarach
A remote village in the foothills of the Pyrenees becomes the centre of a media circus and global gathering as

Bugs
This documentary will have you squirming in your seats! Bugs seeks to enlighten western audiences to the nutritional and environmental

Burden
Chris Burden’s early work in the 1970s – being locked up, shot, electrocuted, and crucified – pushed the boundaries of

But Elsewhere is Always Better
A new short film by Vivian Ostrovsky remembering Chantal Akerman, beginning with their first meeting in the early 1970s. Using

Call Me Kuchu
David Kato is Uganda’s first openly gay man and an activist who’s been working hard with gay, lesbian and transgendered

Cameraperson
Kirsten Johnson is one of the most notable cinematographers working in documentary cinema today, having shot Citizenfour, Happy Valley, Fahrenheit

Caniba
Winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, Caniba is a harrowing engagement with the sheer presence of Issei

Casa Antúnez
The devastating Chilean earthquake of 2010 damaged over 370,000 homes. The city of Talca was near its epicentre, and many

Chasing Ice
Twenty years ago, National Geographic photographer James Balog was a climate change sceptic, until he started photographing the retreat of

Chasing Trane
Chasing Trane is a sweeping biography of the jazz titan and free thinker whose boundary-shattering, otherworldly music continues to influence