AustLit

Detective Travis Hurley 'arrives in a small Australian outback town to investigate a 20-year-old unsolved murder of a local Aboriginal girl. Forming bonds with the victim’s fractured family, Travis unravels a series of hard truths, highlighting the complexities of loss and injustice experienced by First Nations Australians.'

Source: Screen Australia.

'A former dressmaker reinvents herself after meeting a young Chinese fashion designer who reignites her passion for life.'

Source: Production blurb.

'School Captain Ellie is nervous about asking her classmate Abbie to the Year 12 formal. Luckily, her Aunt Tara, a lesbian who died in the late 80’s, appears in the form of a ‘Fairy God Mother’ to help Ellie navigate her first love.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Breaking Bad’s RJ Mitte stars in this charming Australian rom-com about a loner with cerebral palsy who is roped into helping a comedian (Philippa Northeast) overcome her shyness.

'Mitte, who has cerebral palsy in real life, gives a winning performance as Travis, a young man living in a ramshackle Sydney rental whose disability contributes to his social isolation and anger management issues. When he loses his maintenance job after lashing out at bullies, Travis ends up in a pub, where he puts his withering sarcasm to good use defending Sunny – a reluctant up-and-comer on the comedy circuit – from a sexist heckler. Soon Mikey (Sam Reid), the pub's owner and Sunny's overbearing boyfriend, hires Travis to help train Sunny in the art of the comeback, and naturally sparks ensue – along with romance and laughs aplenty. Standing Up for Sunny is a lively comedy with plenty to say about living with disability and discrimination.'

Source: Sydney Film Festival.

'An innocent Cambodian boy is enslaved on a Thai fishing trawler and soon realises that his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.'

Source: Screen Australia.