Syd Brisbane
2021The Knife Salesman
Jamie Helmer, Michael Leonard
Syd Brisbane, Dana Miltons
In a small nook of heat-drenched coastal Australia, a traveling knife salesman, Tom, visits upon Mary, a frustrated housewife. As blades grind on stone, tensions build as Mary’s two boisterous children observe the couple playing out their all too familiar roles.
The Knife Salesman
The Battlers
George Ogilvie
Gary Sweet, Jacqueline McKenzie
Fairly sensitive melodrama about life on the back-roads in Australia at the height of the Great Depression. Centring on the developing romance between two drifters this presents a commendable level of period detail. Based on the novel by Kylie Tennant.
The Battlers
Bad Boy Bubby
Rolf de Heer
Nicholas Hope, Ralph Cotterill
Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world.
Bad Boy Bubby
Keeper
Adam Spellicy
Francis Greenslade, Giuliano Ferla
A guardian angel is burdened with the frustrating job of protecting an extremely dull man, whose life seems completely predictable and uneventful. Desperate to see his talents better utilized, the angel contacts his superiors, but his request for a transfer comes with some decidedly unpleasant strings attached...
Keeper
Boxing Day
Kriv Stenders
Richard Green, Tammy Anderson
Told in real time and shot as a single take, BOXING DAY documents the minute by minute events across the course of an afternoon in the life of Chris Sykes - a recovering alcoholic and estranged father. Living alone on home detention, Chris is preparing Christmas lunch for his family when an old friend turns up at his doorstep and reveals a disturbing truth. When his daughter, his wife and her new boyfriend finally arrive, the situation slowly and inevitability escalates and we are drawn into the compelling story of a desperate father who finally exposes the dark and disturbing secret that has torn his family apart.
Boxing Day
Struck by Lightning
Jerzy Domaradzki
Garry McDonald, Catherine McClements
This little comedy is set in a small factory come halfway home, employing only handicapped people. Ollie Rennie is the boss and sometime minder of all his workers. He employees Pat Cannizzaro to help get all his workers into some sort of sport, and Pat just happens to be a soccer teacher. He forms a team and tries to take them all the way, with some funny results.
Struck by Lightning
Beaconsfield
Glendyn Ivin
Shane Jacobson, Lachy Hulme
On Anzac Day 2006 the Beaconsfield mine collapsed, trapping Russell, Webb and fellow miner Larry Knight one kilometre underground. When it was revealed that two of the men were alive, Australia prayed and the world waited in hope that the miners would make it out alive. But the rescue was far more complex than anyone ever imagined. Beaconsfield recounts this riveting story of mental and physical fortitude and two very different men who were trapped together for 14 days under rubble in a cramped, pitch-black metal basket no bigger than a dog kennel.
Beaconsfield
Dead Letter Office
John Ruane
Miranda Otto, George DelHoyo
After years of having her letters to her estranged father come back as undeliverable, a young woman takes a job at a Dead Letter Office. She hopes to figure out how to locate her father. Unexpectedly, she finds a potential romance and begins to learn more about herself.
Dead Letter Office
Kiss or Kill
Bill Bennett
Matt Day, Frances O'Connor
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
Kiss or Kill
Epsilon
Rolf de Heer
Ullie Birvé, Syd Brisbane
In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a surveyor and they cross the continent together. However, she spends the trip haranguing him for the ecological recklessness and avarice of the human race.
Alien Visitor
Hammers Over the Anvil
Ann Turner
Russell Crowe, Charlotte Rampling
Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, there is only one passion in life - to become a great horseman just like his hero, the reclusive horse trainer East Driscoll (Russell Crowe). Alan is one of East's few friends and also one of the few who knows about the affair between East and the aristocratic English woman Grace McAlister (Charlotte Rampling). Things inevitably take a turn towards the tragic when East becomes determined to force Grace to leave her husband and run away with him. Hammers Over The Anvil is an evocative coming of age film from Australian director Ann Turner.
Hammers Over the Anvil
Sucker
Ben Chessell
Тимоти Леонард Сполл, John Luc
When Chinese-Australian teenager Lawrence cheats at and fails his high-school exams, destroying his dreams of a medical degree, he's banished to the country for the summer. There, he meets wily old conman the Professor and his cynical daughter Sarah, and learns that even the sneakiest scam can't conjure up love. Is it a true story? That might be another of Leung's tricks.
Sucker
