Kath Shelper

The Royal Hotel

After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals' behavior starts crossing the line, the girls find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

The New Boy

In 1940s Australia, a 9-year-old aboriginal orphan arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun, and his presence disturbs its delicately balanced world.

Ruben Guthrie

The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.

The Darkside

Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from around Australia. He will bring them to life with the help of some of Australia's most iconic actors as the storytellers.

The Turning

Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.

Samson and Delilah

Samson, a cheeky 15-year-old boy, and Delilah, live in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. The two teenagers soon discover that life outside the community can be cruel. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn’t always fair, but love never judges.

Cold Turkey

Two brothers and their journey into a long night of desperate living in Alice Springs.

Cold Turkey

Two brothers and their journey into a long night of desperate living in Alice Springs.

Mimi

A white collector of Aboriginal art gets a shock when the Mimi sculpture she purchased comes to life.

Above the Dust Level

When talking about the dangers of dust, Wayne tells Christine he's missing pairs of underwear. Christine remembers that her lesbian friend Lisa likes those. Wayne demands them back from Lisa, but she refuses and threatens him with a needle.

Federation

An epic tale about the making of Australia. This tells the stories of the founding fathers and of the people in six separate colonies in the decades leading to Federation. It's a tale of winners and losers, of great debates which unified the country, of the struggle not just to make an Australian nation, but to create Australian democracy.