Australian Film Commission Movies

The world is a blazing atomic hell. Civilisation is dying in agony... What do you do? ...THROW A PARTY! The Third World War has happened. Bombs are d...

A man tries to rehabilitate his alcoholic friend by entering them both into the Australian national rowing championships.

In the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, a widowed father expects his only son to follow in his footsteps. Darra Adam Khel is home to the ethn...

This short feature film begins with a suicide attempt by Cathy, and then follows by telling her story in flashbacks. Cathy is a neurotic young woman w...

Film maker Dennis O'Rourke documents the day to day life of Aoi, a Thai prostitute through interviews with her and her family as well as taking us thr...

A dying criminal takes his younger brother on one final job so that when the final hour comes, his brother and his brother's wife and daughter who he...

An account of events in Queensland from 1959 to 1988 as disclosed by the Fitzgerald inquiry. Queensland had become as close to a police state as anyth...

Documents Independence Day of Papua New Guinea on September 16, 1975, comparing the pageantry of local celebrations with the official ceremony in the...

Hayride to Hell is a 1995 Australian short subject directed and written by Kimble Rendall. It tells the story of salesman George Weygate, who comes ac...

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

Based on Richard Frankland's experiences as a Field Officer during the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Short directed by Bruce Petty.

Tells the story of an impoverished young man who dreams/​fantasizes/​hallucinates about his adventures in a post-holocaust Sydney of the future, where...

Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett reported the Vietnam War from the perspective of the North Vietnamese. For this he was reviled as a traitor and...

When a man's mother fails to pick him up from the supermarket, he decides to walk home. What should have been a brief stroll, soon becomes a nightmari...

White people don't understand that there are two laws - white people have different laws from Aboriginal people. TWO LAWS is a film about history, la...

Crocodile Dreaming is a modern day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by iconic Indigenous actors David Gulpill and Tom E. Lewis....

Two teenagers get entangled in a criminal coup enterprise but must raise $500 each in order to set sail for Africa.

The story of Rick, a washing-machine serviceman, and his relationships with two very different women.

Australian independent political documentary about the US installations in Australia at Pine Gap near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.