Namibia under South African rule “Tell the world” they called out to the film crew as they left the black township of Windhoek, Namibia’s capital city. The crew had just filmed a police attack on a demonstration. It was the climax of several weeks secret filming in Africa’s…
This observational documentary follows an episode in the routine life on Collum Collum cattle-station in northern New South Wales. But, as the filmmaker notes, it’s a story that could have occurred anywhere. The film follows the attempts by Sunny Bancroft and other men in the Collum Collum Aboriginal…
NEW UPGRADED FILE (2023) For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historical significance. Non-Aboriginal histories of Australia generally regard Captain Cook as the person who discovered Australia, although historical records show that he was…
"TOUCHING AND INFORMATIVE ... A FINE, ACCESSIBLE PRODUCTION THAT CLEARLY ILLUSTRATES THE COEXISTENCE OF THE PAST AND THE PRESENT, THE TRADITIONAL AND THE MODERN, THE INDIGENOUS AND THE INTRODUCED. ... IT SHOULD CONVINCE STUDENTS THAT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE STILL EXIST AND CONTINUE TO BE THEMSELVES, EVEN…
Without narration, and without identification of individual speakers, the film provides an invaluable record of two events which occurred in the final week of January 1977, and which marked “a turning point in legal recognition of Aboriginal rights to land”. The film documents discussions…
NEW UPGRADED FILE (2023) THREE HORSEMEN is one of several films that the MacDougalls made in and around Aurukun in the far north of Queensland. It is a deeply moving portrait of three generations of Aboriginal stockmen at Ti-Tree station, 80km south of Aurukun, a former cattle out-station of Aurukun…
A film by Michael Cordell. THREE BOYS DREAMING follows three Indigenous boys over four years as they chase the dream of becoming professional AFL footballers. At stake is fame, prestige and a starting salary of $150,000 a year. The film begins with the inaugural “Kickstart Camp” in…
Fadi Rahman is one of a new breed of Australian Muslim leaders. Young, charismatic and politically ambitious, he runs a youth centre/gymnasium in Sydney’s west in what was once a Masonic Temple. The Centre struggles in the face of council planning regulations and funding shortfalls. Fadi sets out…
OCCUPY THE FARM tells the story of a community’s fight to save public land for urban farming. When 200 farmers march to the gates of the last farmland in the urban East Bay near Oakland, they don't carry signs protesting University of California’s plans to build a shopping center. Instead,…
Each year, thousands of people gather in downtown Pittsburgh wearing tails, hats with ears, and full-body animal costumes. They are furries: members of a growing, international subculture who share an appreciation for anthropomorphic animal characters. This film takes an inside look at the furry world…
TORN FROM THE FLAG is the most accomplished documentary in Hungarian film history and is about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Cold War, and the fall of Communism. The eight-time-award-winning movie participated in the Oscar competition in the "Best Documentary" category. The following…
This top ten film of 2015 (New York Magazine, RogerEbert.com) premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals, winning numerous festival awards and broad acclaim. In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller…
