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Film Schools in Berlin
Want to learn filmmaking in Berlin? Guest DUB blogger Georgina Titheridge gets her hands dirty researching the best film schools in Berlin.
For all of you who came to this year’s Down Under Festival, and as Winter set in, (...)
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Festival wrap up 2018
Well, those few days from 19-23 September 2018 were an absolute whirlwind of film from down under! As the festival wraps up for 2018, we bring you all the important information about the festival week, the winners, news on ou (...)
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2018 winners announced!
Down Under Berlin 2018 has come to a close and here are all your winning films! Voted by our audience, 5 films have won prizes from our award sponsors. Read about who won which prize......did you cast your vote?
Congratulations (...)
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DUB 2018 - Staff Pics!
The Down Under Berlin 2018 Staff Picks list is released! Get the insights into the films our team liked the best, and why.
Learn a bit more about a few of our favourite films from this year, and how they hit a chord with us. (...)
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Closing night 2018 - Hotel Coolgardie
For our closing night, we are proud to screen Hotel Coolgardie - a documentary that represents another side of Australian culture that most people won’t experience. Described as both shocking and jaw-dropping, you’ll need t (...)
Program & Films 2018
Find out more about this year's festival program 2018 or click below for some samples.
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Symphony on Skis
Carla Braun-Elwert | NZ | 2017 | Documentary | 60 min | English, German w/ English subtitles | Berlin Premiere
In 1985, emigrant German mountain guide Gottlieb Braun-Elwert and two friends set out on a spectacular ski crossing of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, covering over 40km and 4000 vertical metres in only 18 hours. He named the now i (...) -
I Will Not Write Unless I Am Swaddled in Furs
Wade Shotter | NZ | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | 6 min | English | German Premiere
A fussy writer prepares to conceive a great work of art, but his list of preparations grows longer and more specific, revealing his love and obsession with writing. (...) -
Mother
David Rusanow | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Dark Comedy | 13 min | English | European Premiere
A suburban housewife finds a used condom while vacuuming her house. It could only have come from one of two people, her fifteen-year-old daughter or her husband. (...) -
The Pretend One
Tony Prescott | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | 86 min | English | European Premiere
When young female farmer Charlie who lives alone with her father in the Australian outback begins to fall for Guy, a TV producer from the city, her imaginary friend Hugo realises he’s in love with Charlie. Unable to face losing (...) -
The Marshes
Roger Scott | AUS | 2017 | Horror | 85 min | English | International Premiere
Deep in a remote marshland three young biologists conduct research but when they encounter evil, science ends and survival begins. (...) -
Sweet Country
Warwick Thornton | AUS | 2017 | Western, Drama, Crime | 113 min | English | Berlin Premiere
Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia’s Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighbouring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry r (...) -
Lemons
Eloise Walker | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | 13 min | English | World Premiere
A hollow young woman shares a final joke with her dead mother. (...) -
Whoever Was Using This Bed
Andrew Kotatko | AUS | 2016 | Psychological Drama | 20 min | English | Berlin Premiere
A married couple is woken in the dead of night by a mysterious phone call. Unable to sleep, they are drawn into an unsettling examination of their fears and desires. (...) -
Tama
Jared Flitcroft, Jack O'Donnell | NZ | 2017 | Drama | 9 min | English, Māori | German Premiere
Tama is about a young Māori Deaf boy who wants to perform the Haka. He is isolated within his family where communication is non-existent. His hearing dad, Hone, and younger brother Rongo do not know how to treat him well. One day (...) -
Guerilla Bay
Hannah Dougherty | AUS | 2017 | Thriller, Horror | 8 min | no dialogue | World Premiere
A young woman searches for an escape from her everyday life in a holiday home on the South Coast of Australia but finds herself followed by a sinister figure. (...) -
Battle of the Shorts: AUS vs. NZ - Round 2
Diverse directors | AUS & NZ | 2016-2017 | 90 min | English | Diverse Premieres
In this short film slot, Australian and New Zeland short films battle for pride and glory, and to win the audience's vote. Join the fun! Mute Adam Thorogood | NZ | 2018 | Drama, Coming-of-Age | 14 min | English, N (...) -
Black Divaz
Adrian Russell Wills | AUS | 2018 | LGBTQI, Indigenous | 60 min | English | German Premiere
Following the inaugural Miss First Nation pageant where six Aboriginal drag queens from around Australia battle it out over five days for the coveted crown, Black Divaz goes beyond the glitz, glue guns and glamour of black drag to (...) -
Waiting
Amberley Jo Aumua | NZ | 2017 | Drama, Coming-of-Age | 13 min | English | German Premiere
Starsky has never met his father. So when he receives a letter from him that he wants to talk, he skips school with his best friend Kenny to wait at the payphone outside the local shop. (...) -
Tasty
Meaghan Palmer | AUS | 2017 | Drama | 15 min | English | German Premiere
Newbie queer teen, Ben, gets caught up in a police drug-raid during his first outing to gay nightclub in 1994. Inspired by a true event. (...) -
Welcome Home Allen
Andrew Kavanagh | AUS | 2016 | Action, Drama | 11 min | no dialogue | German Premiere
Four soldiers return to a home they don’t recognise and that doesn’t recognise them. (...) -
Library of Love
Miranda Edmonds, Khrob Edmonds | AUS | 2017 | Musical, Romance, Comedy| 12 min | English | German Premiere
Isabelle is a hopeless romantic who spends her days as a librarian reading too many romance novels and dreaming of true love. Can she pull her nose out of the books long enough to write her own love story? (...) -
The Unicorn
Chloé Boreham | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Thriller | 11 min | French, English | German Premiere
Sophie and Christophe are on the verge of making love when they are interrupted by a strange phone call which sends their night into disarray. (...) -
Your Call Is Important to Us
TJ Power | AUS | 2017 | Comedy | 14 min | English | German Premiere
This short comedy confirms our fears about what really goes on at call-centers when we’re asked, 'Please hold?' We peek behind the scenes of one particularly specialized call-centre on that fateful day when big-shot CEO, Simon, (...) -
Waru
Briar Grace-Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, Renae Maihi, Chelsea Cohen, Paula Jones, Awanui Simich-Pene | NZ | 2017 | Drama | 88 min | English, Māori | German Premiere
Following the death of a child at the hands of his caregiver, eight Māori women are confronted by guilt, shame, pride and defeat but will ultimately risk everything for the greater good of their community… (...) -
Mrs McCutcheon
John Sheedy | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 16 min | English | Berlin Premiere
Having always felt he was born in the wrong body and now at his third school, 10-year-old Tom is having trouble settling in and finding acceptance from his newfound peers - but a school dance is about to revolutionize it all. (...)
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