Alexandra's Project
Bad Eggs
Danny Deckchair
Fat Pizza
Gettin' Square
Horseplay
Japanese Story [AFI Best Picture]
Liquid Bridge
Ned
Ned Kelly
Swimming Upstream
Take Away
The Night We Called It A Day
The Rage in Placid Lake
The Wannabes
Travelling Light
You Can't Stop the Murders
Undead

Alexandra's Project [imdb]
Director: Rolf De Heer
Cast Includes: Helen Buday, Gary Sweet, Bogdan Koca, Samantha Knigge
Genre: Drama / Thriller

Rolf De Heer's challenging and controversial film explores the gaping divide in a gendered understanding of sex and intimacy. Alexandra's Project captures a turning point in a very unhappy marriage. Steve (Gary Swee) and Alexandra (Helen Buday) have two children and numerous grievances against each other.

Bad Eggs [imdb]
Director, Writer: Tony Martin
Cast Includes: Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin, Judith Lucy, Alan Brough, Bill Hunter, Marshall Napier, Steven Vidler, Nicholas Bell
Genre: Comedy

Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are detectives with the Melbourne Police force's elite Zero Tolerance Unit. When a freak accident involving a dead magistrate lands them on the front page of the local paper, Ben and Mike are busted down to uniformed duties. But when Ben discovers a strange link between the accident and the business affairs of a shady casino boss he and Mike have been investigating, the pair decide they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption rife amongst their own colleagues.

Danny Deckchair [imdb]
Director, Writer: Jeff Balsmeyer
Cast Includes: Miranda Otto, Rhys Ifans, Justine Clarke, Rhys Muldoon
Genre: Comedy

An ordinary bloke becomes a national sensation when he lifts off in his deck chair tied to balloons.

Fat Pizza [imdb]
Director, Writer, Actor: Paul Fenech
Cast Includes: Paul Nakad, Tahir Bilgic, John Boxer, Jabba, Annalise Braakensiek
Genre: Comedy

First there were the four Pizza short films, then came Pizza the SBS TV series, followed by the stage show and now there's Fat Pizza the feature film, written, directed and starring comedian Paul Fenech. Fat Pizza the "filum" is yet another slice of life at this dodgy suburban Sydney take away.

Gettin' Square [imdb]
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Cast Includes: David Wenham, Sam Worthington, Timothy Spall, Freya Stafford, Gary Sweet, David Roberts, David Field
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Crime / Thriller

Based on Gold Coast criminal lawyer Chris Nyst’s seemingly authentic script about the Queensland underworld, Gettin’ Square is a very irreverent crim-comedy piece very much in the vein of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Horseplay [imdb]
Director: Stavros Kazantzidis
Cast Includes: Marcus Graham, Tushka Bergen, Jason Donovan, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Abbie Cornish
Genre: Comedy

Max Mackendrick (Marcus Graham) dreams about winning big on the Melbourne Cup. Set in the colourful world of horseracing, Horseplay follows the chaotic life of a wannabe horse trainer as he deals with the turf, the ladies and everyone else out to get him.

Japanese Story [imdb]
Director: Sue Brooks
Cast Includes: Toni Collette, Gotaro Tsunashima, Matthew Dyktynski, Lynette Curran
Genre: Drama

Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe in the harsh Australian desert landscape. The end of the journey leaves no-one capable of going back to where they started from.

Liquid Bridge [imdb]
Director: Phillip Avalon
Cast Includes: Ryan Kwanten, Simone Kessell, Jarrod Dean, Jeremy Sims
Genre: Action / Drama

Nick (Ryan Kwanten) is a young man who struggles to ignore the warnings of his father, a former-surfer whose love of the sport ultimately cost him his ability to walk. Also causing problems for Nick is his crooked manager who is secretly involving the wave-rider in an illegal drug operation.

Ned [imdb]
Director, Writer, Actor: Abe Forsythe
Cast Includes: Felix Williamson, Damon Herriman, Nick Flint, Josef Ber, Jeremy Sims
Genre: Comedy

A comical spin on Australia's favourite national icon Ned Kelly.

Ned Kelly [imdb]
Director: Gregor Jordan
Cast Includes: Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts, Rachel Griffiths, Geoffrey Rush, Joel Edgerton, Geoff Morrell
Production Design: Steven Jones-Evans
Costume Design Anna Borghesi
Genre: Biography / Drama

Based on "Our Sunshine" by Robert Drew, a novel based on the life of Australian bushranger and icon Ned Kelly.

Swimming Upstream [imdb]
Director: Russell Mulcahy
Cast Includes: Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Jesse Spencer, Tim Draxl, David Hoflin
Cinematographer: Martin McGrath
Editor: Marcus D'Arcy
Productiodesign: Roger Ford
Costume Designer: Angus Strathie
Genre: Drama / Sport

The inspirational life story of Australian swimmer, Tony Fingleton.

Take Away [imdb]
Director: Marc Gracie
Cast Includes: Vince Colosimo, Stephen Curry, Rose Byrne, Nathan Phillips, Matthew Dyktynski, Tom Budge
Genre: Comedy

Tony Stilano and Trev Spackneys both own, live over and work in adjoining take-away fish shops in Melbourne. Although they have fallen into a habitual rivalry based on a cause long forgotten, the pair unite when the multinational fast-food outlet "Burgies" unveils a new store directly opposite the twin fish & chips shops.

The Night We Called It A Day [imdb]
Director: Paul Goldman
Cast Includes: Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Portia de Rossi, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, David Hemmings, David Field
Genre: Comedy / Biography / Drama / History / Music

Based on the actual events during Frank Sinatra's 1974 tour stop in Sydney. When Sinatra (Hopper) arrives with his girlfriend Barbara Marx (Melanie Griffith), he insults the locals by calling reporter Hilary Hunter (Portia de Rossi) "a two-dollar whore." Union leader and future Australian prime minister Bob Hawke (David Field) tries to cancel the tour unless he apologizes, and it's up to Rod (Edgerton) and his assistant Audrey (Rose Byrne) to step in and save the tour.

The Rage in Placid Lake [imdb]
Director, Writer: Tony McNamara
Cast Includes: Ben Lee, Rose Byrne, Garry McDonald, Miranda Richardson, Nathaniel Dean
Genre: Comedy

An exuberant, sharply satirical comedy about two parentally neglected teenagers who find the courage to believe in themselves. Indie rocker Ben Lee stars as a troubled teen named Placid Lake. The child of new-agey eccentric parents (McDonald and Richardson), Placid spends his childhood getting picked on by bullies. After school Placid gets into an accident that lands him in the hospital. Upon his recovery, he reinvents himself as an conservative insurance agent

The Wannabes [imdb]
Director: Nick Giannopoulos
Cast Includes: Nick Giannopoulos, Russell Dykstra, Isla Fisherm, Michael Carman, Lena Cruz, Ryan Johnson
Genre: Comedy

The world's worst actor Danny, meets the world's worst crook Marcus and their lives are changed forever...

Travelling Light [imdb]
Director, Writer: Kathryn Millard
Cast Includes: Pia Miranda, Sacha Horler, Tim Draxl, Kestie Morassi, Heather Mitchell, Marshall Napier, Simon Burke, Brett Stiller
Genre: Drama

Set in the Southern Australian town of Adelaide during the 1970s, the film is concerned with a group of bored teenagers. Leanne Ferris (Pia Miranda) lives in the suburbs with her parents, Betty (Heather Mitchell) and Don (Marshall Napier), while her sister Bronwyn (Sacha Horler) has already gotten married. Leanne spends her time with aspiring actress Debra (Anna Torv) and next-door neighbor Gary (Tim Draxl). The friends are soon introduced to a different lifestyle when stranger Lou Bonetti (Brett Stiller) blows into town claiming to be an American beat poet.

You Can't Stop the Murders [imdb]
Director: Anthony Mir
Cast Includes: Gary Eck, Akmal Saleh, Anthony Mir, Richard Carter, Kirstie Hutton
Genre: Comedy / Thriller

Small-town police fear for their lives after a set of serial murders with a Village People connection.

Undead [imdb]
Director, Writer: Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig
Cast Includes: Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins, Lisa Cunningham, Dirk Hunter
Genre: Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi

A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn it's residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out.