AFTRS Virtual Library

Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities, take fate into their own hands, and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

An alien touring the galaxy breaks away from her group and meets two young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London suburb of Croydon

A photographer for Life Magazine is assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean.

A sixteen-year-old boy heads west on a journey across nineteenth century frontier America in search of the woman he loves. He encounters a mysterious traveler named Silas, who protects him from the savage elements and outlaws in a lawless land. But is Silas really watching out for him, or is he tied to the band of thieves tracking their every step?

A thrilling interpretation of one of Shakespeare's most famous and compelling characters, Macbeth is a dramatic re-imagining of the realities of war-torn times and a tale of all-consuming passion and ambition.

An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes deals with early dementia as he tries to remember both his final case and a mysterious woman whose memory haunts him. He also befriends a fan, the young son of his housekeeper, who wants him to work again.

A young woman goes on a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of West Australia with four camels and her faithful dog.

A young photographer transporting his father's ashes from Australia to Greece comes to learn that something sinister happened in his family's past involving a young Jewish boy. Despite an effort to distract himself with a mix of random sex and drugs, Isaac's world begins to unravel as he realizes that he cannot escape the ghosts of the past

Brandon is a successful thirty-something New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but has cultivated a private life in which he is able to give free reign to his addiction to sex. However, his life is disrupted when his wayward sister Sissy arrives unannounced for an indefinite stay in his apartment. Her arrival stirs memories of their shared painful past and his life spirals out of control as he delves further into the dark underbelly of New York.

Historical drama about the relationship between King George VI and Lionel Logue, the Australian speech therapist who treated his stammer

Things haven’t been going well for Steve ‘The Wog Boy’ Karamitsis. His one true love, a ’67 Valiant Pacer, has just been seized, along with all his assets by the Federal cops, and Steve’s best mate Frank has lost his touch with the ladies after a messy divorce. But Steve soon discovers that he has inherited a beach on the Greek resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he never met – a beach worth millions...

The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who discovers the truth about the forced migration of children from the UK to Australia during the 1950s and 1960s

A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Sydney apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives.

Disgraced after his affair with a student is made public, a Cape Town professor travels to the home of his estranged daughter

A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

Comedy drama based around Frank Sinatra's 1974 Australian tour. Sinatra provokes a strike after referring to local female journalists as 'hookers'".

A meat worker is accidentally nominated to run for Parliament and realises that to save the meat works he has to get elected. All that stands in his way is every other politician in the country and his own fear of public speaking.

Chatzkel Lemchen has lived throught the Russian Revolution, two world wars, the Holocaust, a communist regime and the transition of Lithuania from Soviet republic to an independent state. Much of his family and most of his fellow Jewish citizens were killed by the Nazis and their Lithuanian supporters. Chatzkel, however, survived through his skills as a linguist and lexicographer. His dictionaries helped preserve the local language during the Soviet era and he is now regarded as a national treasure. But his success belies his sometimes lonely existence. Years of isolation end when his Australian relatives arrive, including his great nephew, filmmaker Rod Freedman. Who better than Uncle Chatzkel to help his visitors understand their roots?