News & Events
Follow our News & Events page to keep updated about Down Under Berlin and trends and talents in Australian and New Zealand film.
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Submissions are OPEN!
Down Under Berlin's Call For Entries for the 2019 festival is open!
It's true, the moment you've all been waiting for! (well, waiting since the end of the last festival at least!) Submissions are open for this year's festival. (...)
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Berlinale 2019 celebrates New Zealand and Australia!
With an impressive list of Australian and New Zealand films at the Berlinale 2019, DUB will be there to cheer them on!
As per usual, the Berlinale Film Festival has been drip-feeding information to the public about their 2019 (...)
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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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Past Festival Films
Find out more what we had in store over the past years in our Films A-Z or click below for some samples.
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The Bookshop
Ashley Pollard | AUS | 2018 | Romance, Comedy | 9 min | English | World Premiere
A desperate writer tries to woo a publisher into taking on his manuscript. But has his arrogance, and stupidity, got in the way of something more real than a book deal? (...) -
Battle of the Shorts: AUS vs. NZ - Round 1
Diverse directors | AUS & NZ | 2016-2017 | 87 min | English | Diverse Premieres
In this short film slot, Australian and New Zealand short films battle for pride and glory, and to win the audience's vote. Join the fun and vote for your favorite film! Winner Winner Chicken Dinner Claudia Holme (...) -
A Woman's Right to Shoes
Robyn Grace | NZ | 2016 | Comedy | 15 min | English w/ German subtitles | Berlin Premiere
Alice has a broken heart, but how best to mend it? With shoes of course! But is she making a fool of herself or striking out for a woman’s right to shoes? And exactly how long can she keep it up? (...) -
The Cycle
Jess Newman | AUS | 2016 | Documentary/Comedy | 11 min | English | European Premiere
Jimmy loses his license after being caught drink driving, so his mum suggests he take up cycling. Their relationship is tested when Jimmy believes he can become the greatest cyclist of all time. (...) -
Embrace
George-Alex Nagle | AUS | 2013 | Drama | 16 min | English | German Premiere
Therese is bed stricken and spends her days motionless and seemingly unaware of the world. When she turns 18, pent up issues between family members surface. (...) -
Possum
David Whitehead | NZ | 2016 | Coming-of-Age | 15 min | English | European Premiere
Two young brothers accompany their lumberjack father to a forest campsite. Their relationship is tested when they venture into the woods, hunting a notorious possum named Scar. (...) -
An Exercise in Discipline: Peel
Jane Campion | AUS | 1982 | Comedy | 9 min | English
A red-headed family's drive in the countryside begins an intrigue of awesome belligerence and obstinacy. (...) -
The Stressful Adventures of Boxhead & Roundhead
Elliot Cowan | US/AUS| 2014| Animation, action, adventure | 71 min | English
When their home is destroyed, Boxhead & Roundhead must head to the big city to battle red tape, rent, rats and the rat race to get it back. Art and industry, friendship and foul play are all in the mix in this, the most stress (...) -
They Come Home
Rowena Potts | AUS | 2017 | Documentary | 21 min | English | European Premiere
The vibrant world of an enduring subculture comes to life in this observational portrait of two pigeon breeders who share a rooftop coop in Brooklyn. (...) -
Spear
Stephen Page| AUS| 2016| Drama| 84 min | English| European Premiere
Acclaimed Choreographer Stephen Page brings Bangarra Dance Theatre’s outstanding work SPEAR to the screen. Using gesture and dance, Page’s feature film debut follows a young Aboriginal man named Djali (Hunter Page-Lochard) (...) -
Spookers
Florian Habicht | AUS+NZ | 2017 | Documentary | 83 min | English | German Premiere
On the grounds of a former psychiatric hospital, a close-knit community of horror performers transform their lives at the most successful haunted attraction in the Southern Hemisphere. In this family, scaring is caring. “… (...) -
Deep Water: The Real Story
Amanda Blue| AUS | 2016 | Documentary | 87 min | English | European Premiere
Up to 80 murders, 30 unsolved cases, thousands of assaults. In the 1980s and 1990s, a murderous epidemic targeting gay men bloodied Sydney’s coastline. The film sheds new light on these hate crimes, and the institutional corrupt (...) -
Home
Charles Williams| AUS| 2015| Drama | 03:45 min | English| German Premiere
Home is missing planes and sinking boats; a eulogy for all those, whose bones only made it as far as the arms of mother ocean. (...) -
Fire in Cardboard City
Phil Brough | NZ | 2017 | Stop-Motion, Comedy | 9 min | English
When a city made entirely from cardboard catches fire it is up to the local fire chief and his brave deputies to save Cardboard City and its citizens from impending doom. (...) -
The Dark Horse
James Napier Robertson | NZ | 2014 | Drama, biography | 124 min | English | Berlin Premiere
Based on a true story, this festival hit follows Genesis Potini, a once heralded chess champion. Just released from psychiatric care he finds little support from his family who runs the local gang business. Genesis takes on a se (...) -
Cleaver
Alexander McKenna | NZ | 2017 | Drama, Thriller | 17 min | English
A lonely, detached young man lives next to a family who are stuck in a violent relationship, the effects of which begin to take its toll on his consciousness. (...) -
The Last Stupid Thing
Thomas Hudson | AUS| 2015| Comedy, drama | 07:29 min | English| Europen Premiere
On a beautiful cliff by the sea, Ruth and Ellen play a childish game trying to settle an argument about responsibility. When something unexpected happens, Ellen has to question her relationship with Ruth. (...) -
Hole
Davide Carta | AUS | 2014 | Drama | 15 min | English | European Premiere
The drought has been going on for longer than anyone can remember. What is there for a farmer to do when there is nothing left? (...) -
Hounds of Love
Ben Young | AUS | 2016 | Thriller | 108 min | English
Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors, she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive. “Snowtown meets (...) -
Knock
Thomas Pollard & Nathan Smith | AUS | 2013 | Drama, thriller | 6 min | English | German Premiere
The last man on Earth sits alone in a room as three boys spend a sleep over telling each other scary stories. A dance film with a special twist. (...)