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10 Finalists: Documentary Australia Award for Best Australian Documentary.
10 Europe! Voices of Women in Film - Features and Documentaries.
10 Finalists: Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films.
3 Screenability Short Films.

Bonus Material exclusively filmed for SFF
including filmmaker introductions followed by Question and Answer sessions,
and live panels.

Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Best Australian Documentary Bundle

10 films

12 days access to 10 new Australian documentaries for just $99
Bonus Material exclusively filmed for SFF – including filmmaker introductions followed by Question and Answer sessions, and live panels.

Europe! Voices of Women in Film Bundle

10 films

12 days access to 10 features and documentaries directed by European women filmmakers for $99.
Bonus Material exclusively filmed for SFF – including filmmaker introductions followed by Question and Answer sessions, and live panels.

Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films + Screenability Bundle

13 films

12 days access to 13 Australian Short Films for $14
Bonus Material exclusively filmed for SFF – including filmmaker introductions followed by Question and Answer sessions, and live panels.

Screenability Bundle

3 films

Bonus Material exclusively filmed for SFF –
including filmmaker introductions followed by Question and Answer sessions,
and live panels.

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Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Best Australian Documentary

Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Best Australian Documentary Bundle

Bundle 12 days access to 10 new Australian documentaries for just $99
Bonus Material exclusively filmed for SFF – including filmmaker introductions followed by Question and Answer sessions, and live panels.

Documentary Thrilling, punishing, and beyond treacherous; freediving in freezing water is not for the faint of heart, but for Kiki Bosch, it was a life saver.

A Hundred Years of Happiness

Documentary A rural Vietnamese family prepares for their daughter’s marriage – an arrangement based on finances, not affection – in this remarkably poignant, observational documentary.

Documentary In 2016, a collection of international women scientists set sail for Antarctica under the guidance of Australian leadership expert  Fabian Dattner; what transpired is both inspiring and revelatory.

Documentary A lonely housewife’s plan to end it all takes an unexpected turn when her last hurrah begins a radical journey of sexual exploration, personal re-invention and feminist porn.

Documentary At Western Australia’s first Indigenous-run police station, two officers learn language and culture to help them police one of the most remote beats in the world.

The Plastic House

Documentary After her parents’ death, a young Cambodian-Australian woman begins working in their greenhouse. A meditative, experimental take on memory and healing.

Documentary A powerful, inspirational story from Western Sydney following a group of migrant women and their remarkable champion, Rosemary Kariuki.

The Skin of Others

Documentary A compelling portrait of an extraordinary figure, Aboriginal WWI soldier Douglas Grant, featuring acclaimed Indigenous actor Balang Tom E. Lewis (in his final performance).

The Weather Diaries

Documentary Sydney filmmaker Kathy Drayton muses on what the future holds for her musician daughter amidst the threats of climate change and mass extinction.

Documentary A rousing documentary, many years in the making, that follows a group of determined local women in their 14-year  fight for the right to work in Wollongong’s steel industry.

Europe! Voices of Women in Film

Europe! Voices of Women in Film Bundle

Bundle 12 days access to 10 features and documentaries directed by European women filmmakers for $99.
Bonus Material exclusively filmed for SFF – including filmmaker introductions followed by Question and Answer sessions, and live panels.

Feature In her daring and impressive follow-up to SFF 2017 favourite Sami Blood, Amanda Kernell follows a desperate mother’s abduction of her two estranged children.

Feature Seven Finnish women directors question gender stereotypes and the way women’s lives are conditioned in a post-#MeToo era in this clever, provocative fictional anthology.

Feature In this gritty German love story, a former boxer is tested as he tries to keep custody of his children and win over his ex-girlfriend.

Lessons of Love

Documentary Charismatic and optimistic Jola is on the lookout for romance in her native Poland, but just how hard will it be to surrender to love for the first time at age 69?

My Little Sister

Feature Two of Germany’s finest actors, Nina Hoss (Barbara, SFF 2012; Phoenix, SFF 2015) and Lars Eidinger (Babylon Berlin) star as inseparable twins in this intricate family drama set in Berlin’s elite theatrical circles.

A Perfectly Normal Family

Feature Winner of the VPRO Big Screen Award at Rotterdam, this touching drama – inspired by the director’s own experiences – looks at the complex relationship between a young girl and her transgender parent.

Feature The crew of an Irish fishing trawler fall prey to a deadly sea creature in this gripping sci-fi thriller. Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival.

They Call Me Babu

Documentary An Indonesian nanny tells her remarkable life story, which plays out against the backdrop of World War II and her country’s struggle for independence, in this ingenious archival documentary.

A Year Full of Drama

Documentary A job advert with a difference: seeking someone who’s never been to the theatre to watch every production in one small country for a whole year. 224 Estonian productions later…

Feature Mysticism and modernity clash in this tense family drama about a Kosovar Albanian woman’s struggles to overcome wartime trauma and conceive a child.

Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films

Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films + Screenability Bundle

Bundle 12 days access to 13 Australian Short Films for $14
Bonus Material exclusively filmed for SFF – including filmmaker introductions followed by Question and Answer sessions, and live panels.

Short An escaped asylum seeker (Babetida Sadjo) encounters an Aboriginal man (Trevor Jamieson) on a remote Australian beach. She must decide whether to trust him or  journey on alone.

Short A young Syrian mother (Taj Aldeeb), who recently arrived in Australia as a refugee, faces an unforeseen tragedy in this poignant exploration of the nature of grief.

Short Glenn is a woman on an unwholesome mission, but just how far will she go to conquer the clique – and social media at large? 

Short An incarcerated Jewish teen encounters a mysterious tattooist with unclear intentions when he decides to get a tattoo, against the conventions of his religion.   

Short On the cusp of graduation, Maddie's  (Alexandra Morgan)  blooming relationship with another student forces a choice: suppress her newfound self or throw out her life to date?

I Want to Make a Film About Women

Short A queer love letter to Russian  revolutionary women artists of the 1920s,  speculating on what they said, did and might have created had it not been for Stalin's suppression.

Short The things we do for love. A young Chinese celebrity, Wan Ran (Nan Chen), is called into an emergency meeting with his manager following a young fan’s suicide.

Short A high school outsider’s (Nadia Zwecker) obsession with internet culture mutates into a sexual awakening when she discovers the South Korean phenomenon 'mukbang'.

Short An imaginative stop-motion animation that looks inside our cameras at the creatures within, who are living lives defined by what they see through the lens.

Short Silence is the most beautiful thing that exists in the universe. When an astronaut ponders the quietude of space, he makes a startling self-realisation.

Screenability

Screenability Bundle

Bundle Bonus Material exclusively filmed for SFF –
including filmmaker introductions followed by Question and Answer sessions,
and live panels.

Short 12-year-old Terry is in emergency care with guardians after his mother’s arrest. Cheeky and living with a disability, he outwits one guardian and connects with the other in a surprising way.

Groundhog Night

Short For carer Gary, moving on and keeping his family together isn’t always easy. Tensions run high when his late wife’s parents arrive unannounced after he brings home a date.

Short Will romance blossom for Alex?  The competitive swimmer is madly in love with Jen, who works at the local pool. First, he needs to make a date, but his mischievous friends aren’t helping.