Australian Productions

Australian Productions

Anniversary Screening

Lion

10th Anniversary screening of the award winning film Lion (2016). The remarkable true story of Indian boy Saroo Brierley, who at the age of five is separated from his family and adopted by an Australian couple 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

World Premiere

Mumma Bear Cushman

Softly spoken and endlessly underestimated, American nurse Emma Cushman crossed into the collapsing Ottoman Empire to serve – and stayed on as war and genocide tore families apart around her. Negotiating with officials in their own language and risking deportation rather than leave her orphans behind, she was pulled into a role that history has only half-told. A source-backed docutainment that asks: how much can a soul carry, lose, and still remain whole?

World Premiere

In Search of Light

Follow the raw and deeply personal journeys of two individuals as they navigate their relationship with faith and find God’s presence on their own paths. A world premiere by Armenian-Australian Hasmig Der Tateossian.

Shorts

Raznik’s Hunger

A sailor with anterograde amnesia sits trapped in a neurologist’s office, his notebook the only thread tying him to a self he can’t remember – and a warning he wrote himself: don’t trust the doctor. As she presses him to recall the ship where his entire crew died, fractured memories of a dark figure claw their way back, hunger and confusion curdling into something feral. When her touch breaks through the fog, clarity comes too late – he attacks, and in the one lucid instant after, he finally sees what he’s done.

Shorts

The Circus Lion

Desperate to escape his struggling country town, a young wrestler sees a place on the Australian team as his only way forward. When tragedy strikes, his fight for a new future becomes a battle with the trauma he has spent years trying to outrun.

Shorts

When Dogs Bark

After his father’s flock is brutally slaughtered, an intellectual son returns to his widowed father’s isolated home. As old wounds resurface, he is drawn into a world of fear and suspicion where the past seems destined to repeat itself.

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