PALAZZO DI COZZO
Aging patriarch, Franco Cozzo, holds court over an iconic furniture empire. A pioneer of Australian TV advertising, Franco’s tri-lingual catchphrase sparked a cult-of-personality as kitsch as his baroque bedheads. But his character is more than caricature.
NIGHT CREATURES
NIGHT CREATURES premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2022 and is the third collaboration between artists Isobel Knowles & Van Somerwine and is an exciting new venture with the wonderful people at Art Processors.
ANONYMOUS CLUB
With unprecedented access to the private life of notoriously shy, but acclaimed musician Courtney Barnett, this documentary intimately explores the inner life of an artist.
THE LEUNIG FRAGMENTS
A prismic view of acclaimed cartoonist-philosopher Michael Leunig. Filmed over five eventful years, we observe Michael grappling with life, art and mortality. The reflections of an ageing man encompass the curious boy-Leunig; past, present and future hopes and dreams collide in this portrait of one of Australia’s most prolific artists.
NO TIME FOR QUIET
During a long hot summer, 40 girls and gender diverse youth aged 10 to 17 converge in Brunswick for the inaugural week-long GIRLS ROCK! MELBOURNE Camp.
WORDS FROM THE CITY
Words from the City is a feature documentary exploring Australian hip hop through intimate and candid observations of some of the nation’s most potent and compelling MCs.
BASTARDY
For forty years and with infectious humour and optimism, Jack Charles has juggled a life of crime with another successful career – acting. Filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson follows Jack over seven years – blurring the line between director and accomplice as Jack traverses the criminal and acting worlds.
MURUNDAK – SONGS OF FREEDOM
Murundak - Songs of Freedom journeys into the heart of Aboriginal protest music following The Black Arm Band, a gathering of some of Australia’s finest Indigenous musicians, as they take to the road with their songs of resistance and freedom.
THE FACE OF UKRAINE – CASTING OKSANA BAIUL
Adorned in pink sequins, little girls from across a divided, war-torn Ukraine audition to play the role of gold medal-winning figure skater Oksana Baiul, whose tears of joy once united their troubled country.
GALORE
At 17, love is as big as life is immense. It’s a sweltering summer before the final year of school and Billie and Laura share every secret except for Billie’s biggest secret – she’s crazy in love and sleeping with Laura’s boyfriend Danny.
THE UNMISSABLES
Three artists - singer-song writer Jess Riberio, muralist Joel Moore (aka Vans the Omega) and sculptor Pimpisa Tinpalit confront the challenge of creating a work of public portraiture to reignite the search for those who have disappeared.
PASSENGER
Combining stop-motion animation, 360-degree sound and VR, Passenger speaks of a recent migrant who has been reluctantly transported from her homeland to Melbourne.
HAPPY EVERYDAY
Happy Everyday: Park Life in China takes an intimate look at the complexities of contemporary China through the eyes of its retirees (the young adults of the Cultural Revolution), who have now invented a whole new culture of frenetic activity in the parks of Beijing and Shanghai.
THE FIBROS AND THE SILVERTAILS
The Fibros and the Silvertails is the story of the feud between two football teams that turned into a war about class and alleged corruption.
CLARA
Struggling with a massive change in her life, 12-year-old Clara is disoriented and confused. Her efforts to remedy the situation and make sense of her new world are thwarted when flowers attack her and ants invade her home. Her enchanted childhood has changed forever.
OPEN CUT
Yallourn is a 20th century story. A tribute to modernism and model living. A time capsule of optimism. The rise and rise of consumerism. The rise and fall of a community.
MERCURY
Climate change. Sabotage. Murder. When one man stumbles across a conspiracy in the outback, he must fight to expose the truth before it is too late – for him and us.