Films Archive

Rat Film
Across walls, fences, and alleys, rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. Rat Film

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Marion Stokes, a reclusive activist and former TV producer, first pressed record on her VCR during the Iran hostage crisis

Regarding Susan Sontag
Passionate and gracefully outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag became one of the most important literary, political, and feminist icons

Regretters
The talking heads documentary gets a remarkable makeover in Regretters, winner of the Prix Europa Best Documentary at Berlin 2010.

Rent a Family Inc.
‘I Want To Cheer You Up Ltd’ is a small Japanese company run by a man called Ryuichi, who can

Requiem for the American Dream
If you’ve been feeling uncomfortable about a global capitalist system that seems to support the wealthiest while screwing down on

Return to Homs
Sundance prize winner Return to Homs takes us into the middle of the raging civil war in Syria. Stripped of

Rocking the Foundations
This fascinating and inspirational history of the NSW Builders Labourers Federation arose out of Pat Fiske’s personal experience as one

Rules of the Game
Rules of the Game follows the progress of young job seekers who embark on a mentoring program at an employment

Salesman
Often called one of the best examples of direct cinema, Salesman follows four door-to-door Bible salesmen as they walk the

Salma
Salma tells the story of the singular-named poet who overcame horrifying oppression at the hands of her own family. Abandoned

Samouni Road
On the rural outskirts of Gaza City, a small community of farmers is about to celebrate a wedding: the first

Sans Soleil (Sunless)
Antenna, in collaboration with the National Film & Sound Archive and The Alliance Française de Sydney, proudly present the special

Searching for Bill
Bob’s car has been stolen, and when it finally turns up in Detroit, Bob travels from New Orleans to claim

Selfie
In this funny and original film, teenagers and best friends Pietro and Allesandro make a selfie-style documentary about their rough

Selling Your Film without Selling Your Soul: Jeffrey Winter, TFC
Jeffrey Winter is co-executive director of The Film Collaborative (TFC), the first non-profit committed to distribution of independent film. TFC

Servant or Slave
During the time of the Stolen Generations, thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families by the Australian Government.

Shadow World
The global arms trade may be the murkiest, most inscrutable industry on the planet, with billions of dollars and human

Shield and Spear
Shield and Spear looks at some of South Africa’s most contemporary and innovative artists, designers, and musicians, who are openly

Shinjuku Boys
Shinjuku Boys takes us into the world of ‘Onnabes’ – a Japanese term for women who choose to live as

Shock Room
Obedience in the face of authority – it’s the popularly accepted wisdom that explains everything from the Holocaust to the

Sisters in Law
Kumbra in rural Cameroon is a town in transition. Modern law is encroaching, challenging traditional customs. Yet for over a

Slums: Cities of Tomorrow
Today, one in six people live in slums, squats or shantytowns due to mass migration to cities. This is often

Small Island Big Song
Visually-stunning and filmed across the Pacific and Indian Oceans in Australia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea,

Small Talk
In this intense, highly personal film, director Hui-Chen Huang confronts the void of silence between her and her mother. The

Social Issues and the Art of Cinema: Panel Discussion
Directors Erick Stoll and Giovanni Totaro will discuss the impact documentary film can have on influencing social policy. Co-directed by

Sofia’s Last Ambulance
Doctors Krassi and Mila and their driver Plamen run one of the few remaining ambulances servicing the Bulgarian capital of

Sons & Mothers
An acting troupe comprised of men with disabilities sets out to create a theatrical love letter to their mothers. Following

Spartacus & Cassandra
“When I was one year old I was already walking. At two, I was eating dirt. At three, my father

Spettacolo
Once upon a time, villagers in a tiny town in Tuscany came up with a remarkable way to confront their

Starless Dreams
In Starless Dreams, acclaimed filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei takes us inside a girls’ juvenile detention facility on the outskirts of Tehran.

Stop-Over
Stop-Over offers an intimate glimpse of life in limbo for a group of undocumented migrants from Iran. The film opens

Strad Style
In his own words, 32-year-old Danny Houck is ‘a nobody’. He lives in a ramshackle farmhouse in backwater Ohio; he

Strange Tenants: Ska’d for Life
Forming in the wake of 2 Tone bands like The Specials and Madness, Strange Tenants, the “Godfathers of Australian Ska”,

Stranger in Paradise
Through a classroom exercise which assembles recently arrived refugees in a detention centre in Sicily, a teacher gives them –

Stray
Meet the indomitable Zeytin, a stray who is treated with both disdain and mercy by the city’s human residents. Through

Suede: The Insatiable Ones
Brutally honest, this new documentary by award-winning director Mike Christie brings to life UK band Suede’s dizzying ride from Britpop

Terms and Conditions May Apply
Your smartphone, safely shut off for the duration of this film, may never be turned on again, such are the

Thank You for Playing
“I’m sorry, it’s not good news … the chemotherapy has failed. We’re very good at end-of-life care.” These are the

That Which Does Not Kill
Ada is 19. She agrees to have dinner at the home of a man she knows. It all happens very

The “I” Does Not Exist Alone: Panel Discussion
Personal filmmaking has historically tended to be a movement away from the political. However, when politics is defined as encompassing

The 50 Year Argument
Co-directed by Martin Scorsese, The 50 Year Argument celebrates a half century of The New York Review of Books. Combining

The Age of Consequences
You might have seen a dozen climate change docs, but you certainly haven’t seen this one. Director Jared P. Scott

The Ambassador
Imagine this strange continuum: at one end, the funniest film about corruption and the illegal diamond trade in Africa. At

The Bamboo Bridge
Every dry season, a 1.5km bamboo bridge is built across the Mekong River in Cambodia and then dismantled after the

The Beaches of Agnès
The Beaches of Agnès extends the personal journey documentary into new territory, as Varda traces and restages her own history.

The Bengali Detective
Rajesh Ji has a lot on his mind. A private investigator in Kolkata, India, Rajesh is grasping for leads in

The Birth of Saké
Documenting the dying art of hand-crafted saké making, The Birth of Saké unveils the meticulous approach employed by the Yoshida

The Blue Flower of Novalis
In his apartment in São Paulo, in between making coffee and gay hook-ups, poet Marcelo Diorio’s intimate world is revealed.

The Captain and His Pirate
In 2009, German freighter ‘Hansa Stavangar’ was captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia. Two men from vastly different

The Charro of Toluquilla
Fascinated by the reckless, ladies’ man lifestyle of the classic Mexican movie characters, Jaime García presents as a prototypical confident

The Chimpanzee Complex
Mojo’s favourite food is spaghetti, and he is partial to washing it down with a glass of French red. So

The Closer We Get
Inter-generational secrets and lies are exposed and dissected in this extraordinary and moving portrait of a family’s survival told from

The Collaborator and His Family
The Collaborator and His Family is a film about a Palestinian family torn apart by espionage in the difficult climate

The Connection
Based on a play by Jack Gelber, The Connection centres around a documentary crew filming a group of junkies and

The Cordillera of Dreams
Completing his sublimely meditative trilogy on time, memory, and the relationship of Chile’s landscapes to its troubled history, Patricio Guzmán’s

The Creator of the Jungle
Garrell, Catalonia’s own Tarzan and amateur movie star, constructs astounding architectural labyrinths in his roadside jungle paradise. But as forces

The Cult of JT LeRoy
He was the literary discovery of a lifetime – 19-year-old JT LeRoy who had grown up on the streets and

The Dark Matter of Love
The Dark Matter of Love follows Masha, an 11-year-old from a bleak orphanage in Arkhangelsk, Russia, as she prepares for

The Digital Pitch
In our converging media world, filmmakers with an understanding of online are in front of the pack. In an exciting