film list

Feature film/animation

	$9.99 Feature film/animation Director: Tatia Rosenthal Starring: Josef Ber, Tom Budge, Joel Edgerton, Leon Ford, Samuel Johnson, Claudia Karvan, Jamie Katsamatsas, NominatedActor: Geoffrey Rush Nominated Actress: Leanna Walshman	$9.99 is an animated feature film which offers slightly less than a $10 worth about the meaning of life. Have you ever wondered What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist? The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! Youll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain; in easy to follow; simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99.
	A Day at the Oasis Feature film/animation Director: Tim Lethbridge NominatedActor: Kingsley Judd Nominated Actress: Kelly Morgan	At a community centre in a small country town, hopeless romantic Kingsley is organising an afternoon of speed dating. However, the day gets off to a bad start when five men arrive looking for love and are met by only two women, one of whom is heavily pregnant. Produced and shot in WA, A Day at the Oasis is a well observed, character driven, naturalistic comedy about life, hope and, perhaps, the possibility of love.
	Accidents Happen Feature film/animation Director: Andrew Lancaster Starring: Geena Davis, Harrison Gilbertson, Harry Cook, Joel Tobek, Erik Thomson NominatedActor: Harrison Gilbertson Nominated Actress: Geena Davis	Since he was a young child, Billy Conway has inexplicably been witness to terrible accidents. Always the good boy, now 15 Billy begins to stray when he becomes friends with the neighbourhood troublemaker, but his unexpected bad behaviour may lead his family to move on from the past.
	Animal Kingdom Feature film/animation Director: David Michod Starring: Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Sullivan Stapleton and James Fre	Animal Kingdom is a story about the battle of Melbourne's underworld and the police. Seventeen year old Joshua Cody is a troubled kid, caught perilously between his criminal family and a compromised cop who thinks he can save him.
	Bathing Franky Feature film/animation Director: Owen Elliot Starring: Henri Szeps, Maria Venuti, Shaun Goss, Bree Desborough, Kath Leahy	Steve, (Shaun Goss) a young man on parole, is finding it hard to deal with his time in prison. On a new job, he meets Rodney (Henri Szeps), a wildly irrepressible older man, who is the full time carer of his mother Franky (Maria Venuti).
	Before the Rain Feature film/animation Director: CJ Johnson, Craig Boreham, Nick Clifford, Stephen de Villiers Starring: Bonnie Sveen, Ryan Corr, Kenji Fitzgerald, Kimberley Hews, Jacinta Acevski, Cooper George Amai, Rebe	Set over one hot day in Sydney, before the rain comes - four stories intertwine. After a scandal, Violet has been sent to a new school but it's not working out so well. Naomi holds a dinner party for her ex and his new girlfriend. Following an incident of domestic violence, Cliff and Harley discover their heroes. And street kid Nicky's (Hugo Johnstone-Burt) life takes a new direction.
	Being In Heaven Feature film/animation Director: Michael Domeyko Rowland NominatedActor: Daniel Whyte Nominated Actress: Amber Le'Strange	A journey of revelation and awakening that reveals the truth about our search for meaning, freedom and personal happiness.
	Beneath Hill 60 Feature film/animation Director: Jeremy Hartley Sims Starring: Brendan Cowell, Gyton Grantely, Bella Heathcote, Aden Young, Jacqueline MacKenzie, Anthony Hayes, St NominatedActor: Brendan Cowell Nominated Actress: Bella Heathcote	Based on a true story, Beneath Hill 60 tells the story of mining engineer Oliver Woodward (Brendan Cowell) and a special regiment of Australian WWI soldiers on the Western Front. Their secret mission was to dig a tunnel deep beneath German lines and set off the biggest explosion the world had ever seen at that time.
	Blame Feature film/animation Director: Michael Henry	Seeking justice and revenge, five friends violently attack a man in his remote country house. Their plan: the perfect murder. Confident that their victim’s death by his own hand will not be questioned, they overdose him on sleeping pills, but it all goes horribly wrong when their attempt fails and their victim fights for his life.
	Bran Nue Dae Feature film/animation Director: Rachel Perkins Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Rocky McKenzie, Jessica Mauboy, Deborah Mailman, Missy Higgins NominatedActor: Rocky McKenzie Nominated Actress: Jessica Mauboy	In the Summer of 1965 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the religious mission for further schooling. After being punished for an act of youthful rebellion, he runs away from the mission on a journey that ultimately leads him back home.
	Bright Star Feature film/animation Director: Jane Campion NominatedActor: Ben Wishaw Nominated Actress: Abbie Cornish	London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year-old English poet, John Keats (Ben Whishaw), and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an out-spoken student of high fashion.
	Caught Inside Feature film/animation Director: Adam Blaiklock Starring: Ben Oxenbould, Daisy Betts, Sam Lyndon, Simon Lyndon, Peter Phelps, Leeanna Walsman and Harry Cook NominatedActor: Ben Oxenbould Nominated Actress: Daisy Betts	When a tight-knit group of surfers venture to a secluded island paradise on the 'surfari' of their lives, they make the mistake of bringing the one thing that can tear them apart. A beautiful young woman. As tensions boil over and friendships fall to the side, a monster emerges from within the most revered and feared amongst them. A monster who will turn the dream vacation into a nightmare fight for survival.
	Charlie and Boots Feature film/animation Director: Dean Murphy Starring: Paul Hogan, Shane Jacobson and Morgan Griffin.	After a family tragedy Charlie and Boots try and put their differences aside and head on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula. They overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the norther most tip of Australia.
	Coffin Rock Feature film/animation Director: Rupert Glasson Starring: Robert Taylor, Lisa Chappell and Sam Parsonson NominatedActor: Robert Taylor Nominated Actress: Lisa Chappell	In a remote fishing town, happily married Rob and Jess have been trying to have a baby for three long years and she is becoming desperate. In a drunken mistake, she sleeps with Evan, a young stranger come to town whose interest in her borders on the obsessive. The day she discovers she is pregnant, Jess' guilt turns to horror as Evan begins a terrifying transformation from stalker to psychopath, determined to prove paternity of the child and claim Jess for his own. In the vein of Fatal Attractio
	Daybreakers Feature film/animation Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Sam Neill and Isabel Lucas NominatedActor: Ethan Hawke Nominated Actress: Claudia Karvan	In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
	Dreamland Feature film/animation Director: Ivan Sen	Set somewhere on the Extraterrestial Highway, just outside of the infamous Area 51, Dan Freeman, UFO hunter, searches for reasons for living and for signs of life from outer space.
	Eraser Children Feature film/animation Director: Nathan Christoffel Starring: Shane Nagle, Fionn Quinlan	Eraser Children is a compelling and visually arresting exploration of a macabre future. Imagining a dystopia of useless products, pre-paid dreams, and a system of 'violations' so invasive that if you laugh too loudly you will be fined, the film is reminiscent of the very best in cinematic Sci-Fi satire from Metropolis through Fahrenheit 451 to Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
	Girl Clock Feature film/animation Director: Jennifer Ussi Starring: Veronica Neave, Queenie van de Zandt, Catarina Hebbard, Jamie Dunn and Mirko Grillini NominatedActor: Jamie Dunn Nominated Actress: Veronica Neave	Globe-trotting Christine wakes up one ordinary day to find that her biological clock has gone off with a vengeance. But for a commitment-phobe on the wrong side of 40, the road to motherhood is strewn with bedlam, calamity and smoked out eggs.
	I Love You Too Feature film/animation Director: Daina Reid Starring: Brendan Cowell, Peter Dinklage, Yvonne Strahovski, Peter Helliar and Megan Gale NominatedActor: Brendan Cowell Nominated Actress: Yvonne Strahovski	A romantic buddy movie about the meaning of relationships, the importance of friendship, and having the courage to pursue the one you love. Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had.
	Kings of Mykonos Feature film/animation Director: Peter Andrikidis Starring: Nick Giannopoulos, Vince Colosimo, Alex Dimitriades & Zeta Makrypoulia NominatedActor: Nick Giannopoulos Nominated Actress: Zeta Makrypoulia	Things haven't been going well for Steve 'The Wog Boy' Karamitsis...His one true love, a '69 Valiant Pacer, has just been seized, along with all his assets by the Federal cops because he trusted the shady Tony the Yugoslav, and Steve's best mate Frank has lost his touch with the ladies after a messy divorce. But fortune, as ever, favours the 'Wog' when Steve discovers that he has inherited a beach on the Greek resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he never met - a beach worth millions... Can
	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole Feature film/animation Director: Zack Snyder Starring: Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Emilie de Ravin, Ryan Kwanten, Jay Laga'aia, Miriam Margolyes, Helen M	Based on the beloved books by Kathryn Lasky, the film follows Soren, a young owl enthralled by his father's epic stories of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, a mythic band of winged warriors who had fought a great battle to save all of owlkind from the evil Pure Ones.
	Little Sparrows Feature film/animation Director: Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen Starring: Nicola Bartlett, James Hagan, Nina Deasley NominatedActor: James Hagan Nominated Actress: Nicola Bartlett	This nuanced, heartrending independent feature traces the emotional lives of three sisters whose mother is dying of cancer.
	Lou Feature film/animation Director: Belinda Chayko Starring: Lily Bell-Tindley, John Hurt, Emily Barclay, Jay Ryan, Charlie-Rose MacLennan, Eloise MacLennan NominatedActor: John Hurt (Doyle) Nominated Actress: Lily Bell-Tindley (Lou)	Eleven-year-old Lou's life was instantly turned upside down when her father walked out on her mother and two sisters. She has coped by building a tough shell around her heart - afraid to let anyone hurt her again. Life suddenly changes when her estranged Grandfather moves in to the family's rented home.
	Mao's Last Dancer Feature film/animation Director: Bruce Beresford NominatedActor: Chi Cao Nominated Actress: Joan Chen	A drama based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin. At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet.
	Matching Jack Feature film/animation Director: Nadia Tass Starring: James Nesbitt, Richard Roxburgh, Jacinda Barrett, Colin Friels and Yvonne Strahovski	An inner-urban Melbourne family is turned upside down when their young son Jack is diagnosed with leukemia, and his father’s years of infidelity come to light. As the illness takes hold, a desperate mother searches for possible siblings from her husband’s affairs – children who may hold the key to curing her son.
	My Tehran for Sale Feature film/animation Director: Granaz Moussavi Starring: Amir Chegini and Marzieh Vafamhr NominatedActor: Amir Chegini Nominated Actress: Marzieh Vafamehr	My Tehran for Sale is a groundbreaking film, revealing fresh truths behind the facade of contemporary Iran. Marzieh is an actress living in Tehran where, like most young people, she is forced to lead a secret life to express her art. At an underground rave party she meets Saman, now an Australian citizen, who offers her a way out- until things go terribly wrong.
	Nude Study Feature film/animation Director: Stefan Popescu	Emotionally ravaged and haunted by tragedy in Australia, Sarah leaves her pain behind and searches for artistic inspiration in the snow and ice of small-town Canada. Her project is to create a series of films depicting nudes, and Lyndsay seems the perfect model. But, as the project develops, so the emotional intensity of the work has ramifications for all concerned.
	Passengers Feature film/animation Director: Michael Bond Starring: Cameron Daddo, Angie Milliken, Bruce Davison, Patty Yu NominatedActor: Cameron Daddo Nominated Actress: Angie Milliken	Tom is finally beginning to achieve success as a screenwriter. His wife Melony is on the verge of quitting her dream of a successful acting career in Hollywood. The LA traffic bogs the Australian couple down as they try to make their way to a dinner party.
	Playing for Charlie Feature film/animation Director: Pene Patrick NominatedActor: Jared Daperis Nominated Actress: Jodie Rimmer
	Prime Mover Feature film/animation Director: David Caesar Starring: Michael Dorman and Emily Barclay. NominatedActor: Michael Dorman Nominated Actress: Emily Barclay	A long haul truckie who finds that the reality of his existence is far removed from his youthful dreams of owning and driving his own prime mover.
	Red Hill Feature film/animation Director: Patrick Hughes Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tommy Lewis, Claire van der Bloom NominatedActor: Ryan Kwanten	A young city cop moves to the country with his pregnant wife for some peace and quiet only to be thwarted on his first day when an escaped convict goes on a rampage.
	Road Train Feature film/animation Director: Dean Francis Starring: Xavier Samuel, Sophie Lowe, Bob Morley, Georgina Haig, David Argue NominatedActor: Bob Morley Nominated Actress: Sohie Lowe	Four young friends on a camping adventure in outback Australia are run off the road by an erratically driven road train - a massive three-trailer truck. With their own vehicle wrecked, and with the road train stopped, the friends march off to remonstrate with the driver. But mysteriously, there is no one to be found.
	Savages Crossing Feature film/animation Director: Kevin Dobson Starring: John Jarratt, Craig McLachlan, Sacha Horler, Jessica Napier, Chris Haywood, Angela Punch McGregor, R	A group of strangers are forced to take shelter in an outback roadhouse while a flood rages around them. However, the danger lurking within the roadhouse is far greater than the threat from outside. As the water level rises, so does the tension…not everyone is who they first appear to be. For the innocent among them taking sides could prove deadly.
	South Solitary Feature film/animation Director: Shirley Barrett Starring: Miranda Otto, Barry Otto and Marton Csokas NominatedActor: Marton Csokas Nominated Actress: Miranda Otto	Meredith arrives on a remote island with her cantankerous Uncle who is charged with improving the performance of its resident lighthouse keepers.
	Stone Bros. Feature film/animation Director: Richard Frankland Starring: Luke Carroll, Sarah Lawrence, Leon Burchill NominatedActor: Luke Carroll Nominated Actress: Sarah Lawrence	City based Eddie, sets off to reconnect with his blackfella roots by taking a sacred stone back to his hometown...
	Subdivision Feature film/animation Director: Sue Brooks Starring: Ashley Bradnam, Brooke Satchwell, Gary Sweet and Steve Bisley. NominatedActor: Ashley Bradnam Nominated Actress: Brooke Satchwell	Subdivision is a comedy/drama which is based on the change a community goes through when hotshot upper class developers take over. The plot centers around Digger Kelly (Gary Sweet) and his son Jack (Ashley Bradnam), both whom are carpenters that work and build homes in Hervey Bay. Their work is turned upside down when a city property developer led by hot young executive Tiffany (Brooke Satchwell) moves into town.
	Summer Coda Feature film/animation Director: Richard Gray Starring: Rachael Taylor, Alex Dimitriades, Susie Porter, Jacki Weaver, Nathan Phillips, Angus Sampson and Cas	Having grown up with her mother in Nevada, Heidi (Rachael Taylor) hasn’t spoken to her father since she was seven. Now a young woman, haunted by his memory, she returns to Australia seeking closure. Travelling to her hometown on a shoestring, Heidi is forced to hitchhike and busk for cash. Her talent on the violin gains the attention of handsome orange grove owner Michael (Alex Dimitriades), who offers Heidi a ride. Both are initially guarded, but an unexpected connection soon blossoms.
	Surviving Georgia Feature film/animation Director: Sandra Sciberras and Kate Whitbread Starring: Pia Miranda, Holly Valance, Shane Jacobson, Caroline O'Connor, Spencer McLaren
	The Boys Are Back Feature film/animation Director: Scott Hicks Starring: Clive Owen, Emma Booth, Laura Fraser, George MacKay, Nicholas McAnulty, Julia Blake, Chris Haywood, NominatedActor: Clive Owen Nominated Actress: Emma Booth	Based on the memoir by Simon Carr, story of fatherhood set in South Australia.
	The Clinic Feature film/animation Director: James Rabbits Starring: Andy Whitfield, Clare Bowen and Sophie Lowe	Expectant mother Beth is drugged and kidnapped from a desolate, outback motel. When she awakens, she’s in an ice bath in an abandoned abattoir – and her baby has been removed from her body. She soon realises she’s not alone; five other women are trapped with her in the makeshift clinic, a place whose dire purpose gradually becomes all too apparent.
	The Horseman Feature film/animation Director: Steven Kastrissios Starring: Peter Marshall, Caroline Marohasy	After learning of the suspicious death of his daughter, Christian is sent a chilling video of what may have been her last hours alive. Driving through north Queensland to locate those responsible for his daughter's death, he reluctantly picks up Alice, an awkward young runaway and an unlikely bond develops. As he pieces the crime together, an ugly truth is revealed.
	The Loved Ones Feature film/animation Director: Sean Byrne Starring: Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, John Brumpton NominatedActor: Xavier Samuel Nominated Actress: Robin McLeavy	Brent (Xavier Samuel) has never recovered from the night of the car crash that killed his father; the crash that he was responsible for. His only solace is his loving girlfriend Holly (Victoria Thaine). But there’s another girl who yearns to comfort Brent, the quietest girl in school Lola (Robin McLeavy), and when he turns down her invitation to the prom he enters a nightmare beyond imagining.
	The Marriage Of Figaro Feature film/animation Director: Chris Moon NominatedActor: Tony Hill Nominated Actress: Jacqueline Cook	The film is about a kind-hearted Australian biker who finally proposes to the mother of his two children and then struggles to prevent the wedding from wrecking their perfectly good relationship.
	The Sculptor Feature film/animation Director: Christopher Kenworthy Starring: Paul David-Goddard, Melanie Vallejo, Georgina Andrews NominatedActor: Paul David-Goddard Nominated Actress: Melanie Vallejo	A brilliant young sculptor goes to extreme lengths to find success. When he has everything he ever wanted, he is haunted by the terrible deeds that brought him fame. Desperate for a normal life, he fights to keep his dark secret from the women he loves.
	The Tree Feature film/animation Director: Julie Berucelli Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas, Morgana Davies	After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn She's convinced her father whispers to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he's come back to protect them.
	The Waiting City Feature film/animation Director: Claire McCarthy Starring: Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton, Isabel Lucas NominatedActor: Joel Edgerton Nominated Actress: Radha Mitchell	Fiona and Ben arrive in India expecting to end the long wait for their adopted child Lakshmi only to encounter bureaucratic hitches that further delay the much anticipated union.
	The Wedding Party Feature film/animation Director: Amanda Jane	First time feature director Amanda Jane takes her camera into the heart of Melbourne and creates a fun-filled farce about family, love and the choices we make. From the sacred turf of the MCG to the city’s kinky underground, The Wedding Party explores everything that can go wrong (and right) in the search for love.
	Tomorrow When the War Began Feature film/animation Director: Stuart Beattie Starring: Lincoln Lewis, Chris Pang, Deniz Akeniz, Caitlin Stasey, Phoebe Tonkin, Ashleigh Cummings	Based on John Marsden’s popular and critically- acclaimed novel, TOMORROW WHEN THE WAR BEGAN follows the journey of eight high school friends in a remote country town whose lives are suddenly and violently upended by a war that no-one saw coming. Cut off from their families and their friends, these eight extraordinary teenagers must somehow learn to escape, survive and fight back.
	Triangle Feature film/animation Director: Christopher Smith Starring: Melissa George, Michael Dorman, Liam Hemsworth, Rachael Carpani and Henry Nixon NominatedActor: Michael Dorman Nominated Actress: Melissa George	Shot on the Gold Coast, Triangle tells the story of a young single mother (Melissa George) who is invited to join her friend for a day aboard his yacht. Disaster strikes when a violent storm causes the boat to capsize and they escape onto a mysterious ocean liner where they discover they are not alone...
	Uninhabited Feature film/animation Director: Bill Bennett	For Beth and Harry, the perfect romantic escape means doing something different, and going somewhere that’s remote, secluded and completely uninhabited. But when they charter a boat to drop onto an isolated coral island, what seems at first like a lover’s paradise becomes something much more terrifying.
	Van Diemen's Land Feature film/animation Director: Jonathan auf der Heide Starring: Oscar Redding. NominatedActor: Oscar Redding	Van Diemen's Land was a dreaded penal settlement, a point of no return at the end of the earth. A work party of eight convicts escape into the beautiful and brutal wilderness. As their food runs out tensions escalate, they find themselves contemplating the unthinkable. God wields an axe and there can be only one survivor.
	Wasted on the Young Feature film/animation Director: Ben C. Lucas Starring: Adelaide Clemens, Alex Russell, Oliver Ackland	Set in an elite high school where social hierarchies are rigorously enforced, Zack is the ruler of cool and his half brother Darren is a geek-boy misfit tenuously connect to the clique through his position on the swim team.