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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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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 (...) -
Hotel Coolgardie
Pete Gleeson | AUS | 2016 | Documentary | 84 min | English, Finland-Swedish | European Premiere
Fresh off the plane, two female Finnish backpackers find themselves the latest batch of "fresh meat" sent to work as barmaids at the only pub in a remote Australian mining town. Confronted with a culture of alienation and impunity (...) -
The Blue Ducks
Ellen Richardson | AUS | 2016 | Drama | 11 min | English | German Premiere
Teenager Mallory must humiliate her younger sister in order to not lose face in front of her clique. (...) -
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. (...) -
Terror Nullius
Soda_Jerk | AUS | 2018 | Political Satire | 55 min | English
This revenge fable offers an un-writing of Australian national mythology. As a radical critique of Australian masculinity, refugee policy and the treatment of Indigenous Australians it works entirely within and against the officia (...) -
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 (...) -
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. (...) -
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. (...) -
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Claudia Holmes | AUS | 2016 | Drama | 12 min | English | International Premiere
Ellie is an insecure teenage girl who takes all her frustration out on her sweet and neglected mother, Sarah. Desperate to feel beautiful and loved Ellie enters a beauty pageant at the local RSL but by the end of the night Ellie r (...) -
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 (...) -
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? (...) -
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 (...) -
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. (...) -
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. (...) -
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. (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
Ross & Beth
Hamish Bennett | NZ | 2014 | Drama | 15 min | English | European Premiere
The story of a humble farming couple, a sudden upheaval and an unlikely saviour. (...) -
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. (...) -
Motel
Lauren Porteous | NZ | 2017 | Drama | 15 min | English | European Premiere
A lonely rural motelier befriends one of her guests. For one night, the lives of someone who can't move, and another who can't stop, intersect. (...)
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