London Australian Film Festival on Tour
The London Australian Film Festival now in its 12th and incredibly successful year, is an annual showcase of the latest Australian features, documentaries and shorts. This year, it goes on tour with a selection of the most popular films of the festival.
Undergrowth - Australian Arts UK 2006 is an initiative of the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and the Australia International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. This project is a two-year Australian contemporary arts promotion program in the United Kingdom in 2005 and 2006.
The UK Touring Australian Film Festival is presented by the Australian Government through the Australia International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in partnership with the Australian Film Commission.
A Barbican Film programme co-ordinated by the ICO.
Three Dollars
Robert Connolly | Australia | 2005 | 118 min
Opening with family man Eddie (David Wenham, Lord of The Rings) being sacked for telling the truth, this award-winning adaptation of Elliot Perlman's novel is a tale of love and moral decency struggling for survival against globally omnipotent management systems.
The Magician
Scott Ryan | Australia | 2005 | 85 min
Impress your friends by watching this neat, sharp and dark mocumentary before it hits cult classic status! Scott Ryan’s no-budget genre-busting student film follows a vicious gang of hitmen around their Melbourne crimes, fuelled by offbeat conversation, dark humour and emotional crises.
Blacktown
Kriv Stenders| Australia | 2005 | 92 min
Disillusioned with the broken promises of her dysfunctional affairs, Nikki walks out on her married lover and away from romance, or so she thinks until she meets the charismatic Aboriginal bus-driver and musician Tony Ryan.
Puppy
Kieran Galvin | Australia | 2005 | 95 min
Writer-director Kieran Galvin’s debut feature may sound cutesy, but don’t let that fool you - the pitch of this offbeat romance set in the remote Yarra Valley is jet black. Alone, drunk and desperate, Liz finds salvation in Aiden, a truck driver who’s not the most balanced individual himself.
The Bet
Mark Lee | Australia | 2005 | 92 min
Actor Mark Lee (Gallipoli) makes his directing début with this contemporary morality tale set in the glamorous yet cut-throat world of Sydney stockbroking.
Blowin' In The Wind
David Bradbury | Australia | 2005 | 70 min
Australia’s most provocative documentary maker David Bradbury’s portfolio includes head-on confrontational films about the Pinochet dictatorship and the exiled Shah of Iran, among other global controversies.
Rash
Nicholas Hansen | Australia | 2005 | 73 min
If you know Melbourne, you might recognize tags and styles in this literally awesome film about the contemporary urban expression born of rebellion that is unsanctioned street art, and the resulting public dialogue as Melbourne prepares to host the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
In The Shadow Of The Palms: Iraq
Wayne Coles- Janess | Australia | 2005 | 91 min
Four weeks before the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq began, independent filmmaker Coles-Janess gained unsupervised access to Baghdad and documented what we now know was a countdown to widespread catastrophe.
