AFTRS Virtual Library

Two misfits, thrown together by chance in the middle of the Australian desert, forge bonds in a quest to transport a precious piano from one side of the country to the other.

Lambs of God is a dark, gothic tale about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever.

young schoolteacher finds himself marooned in a small mining town in the outback, where a string of dangerous events render him a broken, desperate man.

Devil’s Playground is a psychological thriller series set in the churches, schools and upper echelons of power in the Australian Catholic Church at a time of change in the late 1980s. The year is 1988. It is 35 years after the events of Fred Schepisi’s classic film, The Devil’s Playground. Tom Allen, now in his 40s and recently widowed, is a respected Sydney psychiatrist and father of two children. A practising Catholic, Tom accepts an offer by the Bishop of Sydney to become a counsellor of priests. During these sessions, he will uncover a scandal and become embroiled in the Church’s attempts to cover it up. Tom’s quest for justice will push him to his limits, and reveal a side of Church power and official corruption he could never have imagined.

The story of Julian Assange considered one of the most significant figures of the twenty first century but before he was famous, before WikiLeaks, before the Internet even existed, he was a teenage computer hacker growing up in Melbourne.

A once happy family suddenly begins to fall apart following a seemingly minor incident in which a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child.

Eleven-year old Lou's life was turned upside down when her father walked out on her mother and two sisters ten months ago. But things become even more chaotic when her estranged grandfather Doyle moves in to the family's rickety, rented home. Doyle turns the household upside-down with his unique sense of fun and madness, not least because he's becoming ill and befuddled--living largely in the past. As Lou and Doyle's relationship develops--through adventures and mishaps--Lou's tough shell begins to be chipped away until she ultimately understands what it is to be loved

Girl in a Mirror documents the work of 1970's photographer Carol Jerrems, in a life tragically cut short. Drawing from hundreds of her photographs, the film traces the passionate and exuberant course that Jerrems took through this turbulent decade.

Adelaide, 1971. Leanne is training to be a teacher, but she is more interested in seeing life through the lens of her camera. To make matters worse, she has to suffer the indignities of living at home with her parents. Her older sister Bronwyn is finding it difficult to adjust to married life in remote Yallaroo with her husband Brian and runs away. Visiting American hip poet Lou comes to town, urging all to ‘seek out the light’. The younger generation embraces the challenge enthusiastically, and Leanne’s neighbour and her friend Debra, are drawn to Lou.

Mum is dying of cancer, and despite the indifference of her grumpy husband Vic, her four children arrive to care for her. This is the first time the family has been together for 15 years. Josie flies in from the US, with her two children and an American accent. Divorced Nadia drives from Sydney with her child. The youngest daughter, Vera, lives nearby, is unmarried and works as a nurse. The only son, Bo, is serving time, but is allowed out on parole to visit his mother

China Dolls is a stylish and moving portrayal of gay Asian-Australians and their often difficult journeys to self-acceptance. In the gay scene, the young and beautiful possess the greatest social power, but what is considered desirable is also influenced by race. From Calvin Klein ads to gay erotica, the dominant image is Caucasian. Asian men are either invisible or portrayed as soft and "feminine". This film probes the uncomfortable reality of racial stereotyping and discrimination in the gay world through interviews with Asian men who talk frankly, and often humorously, of their experiences of living within a "double minority.

Max has custody of his three year old son, Jack. One morning while taking him to visit his mother, Max loses him. It is inexplicable, the boy just vanishes