A Man's Gotta Do
Dreams for Life
Hating Alison Ashley
Human Touch
Little Fish
Look Both Ways [AFI Best Picture]
Lost Things
Oyster Farmer
Peaches
The Extra
The Illustrated Family Doctor
The Magician
The Proposition
The Widower
Three Dollars
Wolf Creek
You and Your Stupid Mate

A Man's Gotta Do [imdb]
Director: Chris Kennedy
Cast Includes: John Howard, Rebecca Frith

Most men hold their head high, put their backs to the wall and do what they must to give their family what they want. This is the story of one such man. Eddy has a fish trawler, a beautiful home with all the mod cons, an attractive wife Yvonne, and a 19 year old daughter, Chantelle, who is engaged to an air-con specialist. Life seems pretty normal, except Eddy is really a 'stand over' man, Yvonne's having a fling with Paul the plumber and Chantelle's Russian boyfriend, Rudi, has seemingly 'disappeared'.

So Eddy hatches a plan to better understand his daughter. He enlists his new right-hand man, Dominic, to secretly read Chantelle's diary to him. Suddenly, dad seems to understand his family, able to anticipate their every need.

Dreams for Life
Director: Anna Kannava
Cast Includes: Dai Paterson, Maria Mercedes, Don Halbert

A 39-year-old recluse, Ellen, has a series of lucid dreams, which prompt her to revisit her old neighbourhood where she meets Martin, the much younger brother of her childhood love, who she used to look after as a baby. Martin, who is now a young man, falls in love with her.

Hating Alison Ashley [imdb]
Director: Geoff Bennett
Cast Includes: Delta Goodrem, Saskia Burmeister, Jean Kittson, Craig McLachlan

The screen adaptation of Robin Klein's classic best-seller Hating Alison Ashley is a comic and poignant portrayal of the dilemmas of being a teenager. In it schoolgirl rivalries, first kisses and embarrassing families all combine misunderstanding, awkwardness and insecurity to eventually map the road to true friendship.

Human Touch [imdb]
Director: Paul Cox
Cast Includes: Jacqueline Mackenzie, Chris Haywood, Aaron Blabey, Rebecca Frith, Aden Young

The relationship between Anna and David is tested when a wealthy gentleman, Edward, enters Anna's life. His worldliness and seductive charm awakens in Anna a consciousness that has a dramatic impact on her relationship with David. She embarks on an intimate journey of self-discovery and physical fulfilment to finally arrive at a deeper, more profound understanding of her inner needs… and the necessity for human touch and need for love.

Little Fish [imdb]
Director: Rowan Woods
Cast Includes: Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Martin Henderson, Noni Hazlehurst

Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman tries to escape her past.

Look Both Ways [imdb]
Director: Sarah Watt
Cast Includes: Justine Clarke, William Mcinnes, Andrew S Gilbert, Anthony Hayes, Lisa Flanagan, Daniela Farinacci, Sacha Horler

Meryl imagines disaster coming from every direction – train crashes, man-eating sharks, baby-eating killer whales … and then there’s Nick.

Lost Things [imdb]
Director: Martin Murphy
Cast Includes: Steve Le Marquand, Lenka Kripac, Leon Ford, Alex Vaugha

Four teenagers escape to a deserted beach for a weekend of discovery, only to find that their dreams turn into nightmares.

Oyster Farmer [imdb]
Director: Anna Reeves
Cast Includes: Alex O'Lachlan, David Field, Kerry Armstrong, Dianna Glenn

A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.

Peaches [imdb]
Director: Craig Monahan
Cast Includes: Hugo Weaving, Jacqueline McKenzie, Emma Lung

From AFI winning director Craig Monahan (The Interview) comes this warm, passionate and often funny portrayal of three intertwined love stories spanning two decades. Teenage Steph has never left the borders of her small orchard-river town, working at the local peach cannery and living with her over-protective adoptive mother Jude. Yet Steph’s eyes are opened when she receives her late mother Jass’ diary, which reveals the colourful and sexy past of those close to her. Through the diary, Steph starts to learn about the parents she never knew and makes discoveries that allow her to reinvent her vision of the world.

The Extra [imdb]
Director: Kevin Carlin
Cast Includes: Jimeoin McKeown, Rhys Muldoon, Bob Franklin

A Romantic Comedy about a normal Joe blow who sees movie stars getting money and girls and says "Why not me?" He's a simplistic bloke with innocent eyes, as if he is looking at everything for the first time. He wants to be a Movie Star. Fame to him is like a swing in a playground... he just wants a go on it. He has come to the big city determined to change his own fortunes. He is willing to give anything a go to get there. Anything...

The Illustrated Family Doctor [imdb]
Director: Kriv Stenders
Cast Includes: Samuel Johnson, Sacha Horler, Colin Friels

A dark comedy about a man named Gary Kelp (Samuel Johnson) whose career condensing books begins to have a "sickening" effect on him. Assigned with the task of creating an abridged version of the medical book, The Illustrated Family Doctor, Gary finds himself coming down with many of the symptoms described in the text. As his health and personal life take a downwards spiral, Gary's only hope may lie in his wise co-worker Ray (Colin Friels).

The Magician [imdb]
Director: Scott Ryan
Cast Includes: Scott Ryan, Ben Walker, Kane Mason, Massimilano Andrighetto

The Magician is a darkly comic fictionalised documentary following the dealings of a Melbourne-based hitman (Ray) as seen through the eyes of his ex-neigbour and friend (Max), an Italian film student. Max and his camera witness Ray’s work life as it unfolds from day to day, giving an insight in to a world we rarely see, and at the same time developing an unusual friendship with his subject.

The Proposition [imdb]
Director: John Hillcoat
Cast Includes: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Emily Watson, Danny Huston, David Wenham, John Hurt, Leah Purcell, Tom Budge

Set in the 1880’s, The Proposition opens in the middle of a frenzied gunfight between the police and a gang of outlaws. Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) and his brother Mikey are captured by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone). Together with their psychopathic brother Arthur (Danny Hudson), they are wanted for a brutal crime. Stanley makes Charlie a seemingly impossible proposition in an attempt to bring an end to the cycle of bloody violence.

The Widower [imdb]
Director: Kevin Lucas
Cast Includes: Matt Dyall, Ben Harkin, Tony Barry, Blake Pittman, Chris Haywood

The Widower is a poetic tale about a father and son who struggle to reconcile the loss of a loved one. Following the premature death of his extremely beautiful wife Mary (Frances Rings), a woodcutter Neville (chris Haywood) is paralysed by the pain of his loss and unable yo properly care for his son. The boy is placed in a distant boarding school under the guardianship of an aunt and the widower is abandoned to his despair.

Three Dollars [imdb] http://www.threedollars.net/
Director: Robert Connolly
Cast Includes: David Wenham, Frances O'Connor, Sarah Wynter

Based on Eliot Perlman's critically acclaimed bestseller, "Three Dollars" is the comedic and ironic tale of the honest and compassionate Eddie who at the age of 38 finds himself with a wife, a childhood love and three dollars to his name.

Wolf Creek [imdb]
Director: Greg McLean
Cast Includes: Cassandra Magrath, John Jarratt, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips

Based on actual events, Wolf Creek is a nailbiting, true-crime thriller about three young backpackers who experience a terrifying journey after being abducted in the isolated Australian Outback. Having met their new Australian friend Ben Mitchell in Western Australia's picturesque Broome, British travellers Liz and Kristy join him on what they hope to be an idyllic road trip. They arrive at the fascinating Wolf Creek National Park and after several hours' hiking, return to their car, to find it won't start. Annoyed, tired and slightly spooked, they welcome the arrival of seemingly affable truck driver, Mick Taylor who stops and offers assistance....

You and Your Stupid Mate [imdb]
Director: Marc Gracie
Cast Includes: Nathan Phillips, Angus Sampson, Rachel Hunter, Madeleine West, William McInnes

Jeffrey & Philip have been friends forever. They went to school together, cubs together and even rovers together, they even live together, in a caravan, in an outer suburban caravan park. Then everything goes wrong. They find out that they have been put on a work for the dole scheme, that a freeway is going to be built right through the middle of the caravan park and that their favourite TV show 'Sons and Surf' is going to be axed at the end of the year.