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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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Mute
Adam Thorogood | NZ | 2018 | Drama, Coming-of-Age | 14 min | English, NZ sign language | European Premiere
Mila is a mute teenage girl struggling to fit in. Her criminal father uses her to mule cocaine to rich suburbanites in Auckland, New Zealand. After things begin to go awry, she must decide whether it is all worth it. (...) -
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 (...) -
Aussie Shorts #2
Diverse directors | AUS | 2016-2017 | 82 min | English | Diverse Premieres
When pigeon breeders meet a dog hitman, destinies collide, and one man makes the most important call of his life - it's time for Aussie Shorts #2! They Come Home Rowena Potts | AUS | 2017 | Documentary | 21 min | E (...) -
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. (...) -
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. (...) -
Lemons
Eloise Walker | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | 13 min | English | World Premiere
A hollow young woman shares a final joke with her dead mother. (...) -
Zelos
Jo-Anne Brechin | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | 86 min | English | German Premiere
Bernard is the thirty-something he always planned to be. He has a successful career, a meticulously neat beachside apartment and a hairstyle with just the right amount of gel. He adores his girlfriend Sarah who’s about to move i (...) -
The Eleven O'Clock
Derin Seale | AUS | 2017 | Comedy | 14 min | English | German Premiere
The delusional patient of a psychiatrist believes he is actually the psychiatrist. As they each attempt to treat each other the session gets out of control. (...) -
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 (...) -
Misimpressions
Sinead Lau | NZ | 2017 | Drama, Comedy, Music | 10 min | English | German Premiere
Louie and Darius are young practitioners of classical arts, living together in a small flat. Louie is a still-life painter and Darius is a zealous violinist in the midst of composing a violin solo. When they receive a letter from (...) -
Aussie Shorts #1
Diverse directors | AUS | 2016-2018 | 79 min | English | Diverse Premieres
Love, marriage, sex, and death - the first program of Australian short films will entertain and surprise. Come and watch! Lemons Eloise Walker | AUS | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | 13 min | English | World Premiere &nb (...) -
Darksong
Arthur Gay | NZ | 2018 | Music Video | 8 min | English
A music video exploring the dualities and ambiguities of the ego and a journey to confront them. (...) -
Lost Property Office
Daniel Agdag | AUS | 2017 | Stop-Motion | 10 min | English | German Premiere
Edward, a meticulous and thorough custodian of a large city transit’s Lost Property Office, is as lost as the items he is tasked to look after. Alone, in the basement office, he is kept company by a tiny toy robot and an old gra (...) -
Theodore's Gift
Elli Iliades | AUS | 2016 | Drama | 15 min | English
Iris lives on an isolated farm in north-west Tasmania where her and her sisters have few friends and little to no connection with the outside world. Iris often thinks about leaving but when she tells her father, Theodore, of her p (...) -
Solus
Adam Jamsek | AUS | 2016 | Drama, Mystery | 22 min | English | European Premiere
A father and his seven year old son who is terminally ill, go tracking into the heart of a forest in search for a magical healing bird. (...) -
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 (...) -
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. (...) -
After the Apology
Larissa Behrendt | AUS | 2017 | Documentary, Indigenous | 82 min | English | International Premiere
Four Aboriginal grannies each face their own battle to challenge government policies to bring their grandkids home. Their grassroots actions spearhead a national conversation to curb the skyrocketing rates of child removal. (...) -
Sunday Fun Day
Dianna Fuemana | NZ | 2016 | Drama | 15 min | English | European Premiere
A transgender teenager and her solo mum prepare to have fun on a Sunday. A booty call and a beating will bring them closer to understanding their connection to each other outside a system that doesn't know how they fit in. (...) -
Fifty-Two
Brodie Stephenson | AUS | 2017 | Stop-Motion, Sci-Fi | 9 min | no dialogue | German Premiere
An employee by a decade long work placement contract grows tired of the isolation in his underground station and attempts to find his freedom. (...)
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