Films 2023

A young office worker uncovers the flaws in his stop-motion universe with the help of a mysterious talking ostrich.

In the midst of Melbourne's COVID-19 lockdown, Jamie finds reprieve from the monotony of isolation through their imagination, sensuality and some help from iconic onscreen queer characters.

Modern and ancient rituals collide in this macabre depiction of a high school formal.

An escaped asylum seeker encounters a man on a rural beach, and must decide whether to trust him, or attempt the 400 km journey to the nearest city on foot and alone.

Partially blind grandmother Kim Nay depends on touch and sound to navigate her daily routine of eating, resting and listening to Khmer news. Time moves fluidly as Kim’s sense of self slowly begins to dilate, conjuring long-dormant memories.

Mark Mitchell stars as a builder, chewing on bread, cheese and the meaning of life.

Day in the Life charts an ordinary day in a small rural Indigenous community in which nothing quite works and the authoritative hand of the government is a always constant, shadowy presence over the community.

A family goes on holiday. They are a family on holiday.

The story of a grandfather’s perilous swim from China to Hong Kong that parallels his granddaughter’s own quest for a new freedom.

Lou, a young essayist, has landed his first paid gig but can’t express his feelings to his crush Sylvie. Meanwhile, Elena, an amateur director, prepares a play in an attempt to reveal her own romantic feelings for Lou.

Questioning their gender identity, a young person shares a transformative night out with a stranger in this radical experiment with form and perspective.

Vince attempts to dispose of a dead body for the mob, but when he reluctantly enlists the help of his dim-witted brother-in-law Ted, things don’t go to plan.

Haze uses an old camcorder to film their body at night. When their mother finds the camera and watches Haze’s private video, the shimmers of new understandings penetrate the day.

At an idyllic spa retreat a vacationing mother and daughter bicker and avoid connection. An unfortunate accident occurs.

A young Chinese celebrity is called into an emergency meeting after a fan of his commits suicide.

On a hot day in Melbourne’s western suburbs, a young woman paints her nanna’s pergola before the house is auctioned.

Traffic is delayed on the edge of a roadwork site, but what are the council workers doing? A privileged encounter with a secret somber ritual of working men.

Sarah, a first-time mother, struggles to connect with her newborn baby and is pushed to her limits when she discovers her insta famous bestie has thrown her a surprise birthday party.

An isolated father haunted by his child’s cries of hunger takes up work as a timber feller only to find operations halted by a mysterious alarm coming from deep in the woods.

An elderly Japanese woman is confronted with her past as she spends the night performing a mourning ritual for her recently deceased husband.

Over the course of the onion growing season of 2020 in a small town in regional Victoria, a daughter returns home to visit her parents and film her father growing his annual prized crop of onions.

Schoolboys eat lunch and hang out like any other day, until a violent game begins to elicit more primal behaviour.

Rhys keeps drawing someone and his brother Lewis wants to know who he's drawing.

The Sweetness captures the ruminating thoughts of a widow living off-the-grid in the wake of Cyclone Yasi.

A seventeen year-old boy struggles to reconcile his burgeoning queer identity with his filial duties and expectations from his Chinese immigrant mother.

Tâm wakes up in a strange hotel room. As she pieces together the night before, she realizes she is not alone.

Two distinctly disparate characters come together over a broken down Volkswagen Beetle in this sweet, amusing tale of love, loss and... car trouble.

A group of soldiers return home from war, to a world that may no longer recognise them.

Two adult sisters learn to like each other while getting their first tattoos. Stuck side by side in the chair with nothing to do but talk, they are forced to confront a shared history that is as painful as it is hilarious.