The Australian Government sends back asylum seekers it doesn't think are refugees. International law says people shouldn't be sent to unsafe locations. But the Australian Government never finds out what happens to the asylum seekers they don't want. So a determined Australian with a passion for justice has made it his mission. A Well - Founded Fear is a moving documentary film about Phil Glendenning's search for the asylum seekers Australia rejected. The film follows him as he travels through Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, Iran and Canada.

We’ve all heard of “six degrees of separation”, the idea that everyone in the world can be connected in just a few steps. But what if those steps don’t just relate to people but also to viruses, neurons, proteins and even to fashion trends? What if this “six degrees of separation” allowed us an insight into something at the core of nature?

Amal Basry watched The Titanic at a cinema in Baghdad the night before she fled Iraq. 18 months later the people smuggling boat she was on sank between Indonesia and Australia. 350 people drowned. Amal survived by clinging to the floating body of a dead woman for 22 hours. Now Amal fights to ensure that the disaster is not forgotten, to reunite her family and ‘find what it was I lost in the ocean’…

Kanyini is a story told by an Aboriginal man, Bob Randall, who lives beside the greatest monolith in the world, Uluru in Central Australia. Based on Bob's own personal journey and the wisdom he learnt from the old people living in the bush, Bob tells the tale of why Indigenous people are now struggling in a modern world and what needs to be done for them to move forward. A tale of Indigenous wisdom clashing against materialist notions of progress, this is not only a story of one man and his people but the story of the human race.

The “Yarnup” program takes the award winning documentary film Kanyini into Australian schools and creates a support structure around the film to ensure that Australian students not only hear both sides of history, but also have the opportunity to form friendships with their local Indigenous people.

Conceived by David Handley in 1997, as a temporary exhibition showing a marriage of sculptural works and Australia's sublime coastal landscape, Sculpture by the Sea has evolved from a humble one-day event organized by volunteers working out of David's living room, to become a bi-coastal series of annual exhibitions that captures the nation's imagination.

Sherpas have been helping trekkers and climbers achieve their goals in Nepal for many years. Their unwavering smile and contagious ‘joie de vivre’ makes every trip a gift to the participants. Brigitte works every year as a climbing guide in Nepal. In this documentary, she follows her co workers beyond the smile and into their family lives.

A short hard-hitting documentary that presents an honest account of the issues facing Australian Aborigines as witnessed by the director Sinem Saban, who has been visiting and working in remote Aboriginal communities for the last 7 years. As the story unfolds an unbiased look at Australia’s history and patterns of discrimination are revealed, from contact up to the present day. By shedding light onto the uniqueness of this oldest living culture in the world and highlighting its misrepresentation in the media, this story asks core questions of what is necessary for Australia to move forward and together with Aborigines. In presenting never seen before archival footage, voices from Aboriginal community members, well- known Aboriginal leaders, historians and a compelling soundtrack - the case for protecting Aboriginal rights in the form of legislative reform is the only way forward in truth, healing and meaningful reconciliation.

A team from the Tiwi Islands becomes the first all-Aboriginal team to play in a major Australian Rules football competition. This series follows the team through their first season in the highly competitive NTFL, revealing not just the players energetic and entertaining brand of footy, but the hopes and dreams of a disadvantaged island community striving to win. As we progress through the season towards the inevitable grand final showdown the tension rises to fever pitch.

On the Banks of the Tigris explores music, history, and the cultural ties that unite people across religious boundaries. When Majid Shokor, an Iraqi-Australian of Muslim background, escaped from Iraq he discovered a hidden history - that many songs all Iraqis love to sing were written and performed by Iraqi Jews. This is the story of Majid's search for the source of the songs he loves and the performers of all faiths who still sing and play these songs today.

The Art of Walking: A History of Subversion walks with some of the world's most influential pedestrians - extraordinary people who’ve trekked across continents and sauntered through cities, written guidebooks and poetry, been tortured, shunned and started social movements, along the way delivering great insights into our cultural landscape. Transforming, controversial and frequently subversive, the film explores the relationship between walking, thinking and culture and asserts the importance of walking in a speed-crazed world.

Kulka celebrates the life and times of Dr Gordon Briscoe - a campaigner for basic human rights for Indigenous Australians, an activist, motivator, thinker, researcher, author, teacher and mentor. It is the inspirational story of an institutionalized Aborigine, interned in an ‘alien’ camp during the Second World War with very little education, who struggled against the odds to achieve dignity and respect for himself and his people. His work as co-founder of the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern in the 1970’s led him to initiate the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program conducted by the late Professor Fred Hollows - a program which opened the eyes of the world to the poverty and disease underlying the health problems of Indigenous Australians. As a Land Rights activist and the first Indigenous Australian to stand for federal parliament, Gordon travelled throughout the Northern Territory talking to communities about their rights as traditional owners. The intensely personal story of Gordon Briscoe’s journey as a boy once labeled a ‘ward of the state’ to a man who reclaimed his traditional family and sense of cultural identity, is a powerful one that resonates with the ongoing struggle for self-determination facing Indigenous Australians today.

Is Lebanon really just a country in constant conflict? The Human Face Of Lebanon is a living exploration of the post 9/11 world. Richard Snashall and Alex Klaushofer visit Lebanon to investigate the interweaving of faith, identity and politics in a country known mainly for conflict. They reveal a surprisingly different view of the Arab world and its people, their humour, resilience, aspirations and love of good food, on an exciting and colourful journey into the heart of the Levant.

Brigitte Muir moved to the Wimmera from her native Belgium 27 years ago. Love made her do it. But what about the others, from South Africa, Kenya, India and other places? Why are they here? This 25 minute journey into the lives of six families and individuals takes us into the heart of the question...

The First Wave is a half hour documentary about the people of the Carteret Islands, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Because of global warming, the seas around the islands are rising and eating into the Islanders’ gardens, so that their lives are becoming unsustainable. Soon their islands may no longer exist. It looks like their only option is relocation. But, where? And who bears responsibility for this? The Islanders are part of the first wave of climate refugees, but they won’t be the last.

The youth of Afghanistan are discovering that music can be a powerful weapon in the battle for freedom of expression. Yet while Afghan youths are fervently embracing the slow resurrection of their musical heritage, there are also those who will stop at nothing to stifle it. Despite its exalted 5000 yr tradition, music today is considered a dangerous past time and a fatal career-move in Afghanistan. Afghans of all ages have a complex love-hate relationship with music. This 1-hour documentary will focus upon the experiences of several children at a newly re-opened music school in Kabul who dream of becoming musicians and pop stars. Their individual stories reveal the role music can play in inspiring social change and rebuilding a country torn apart by war.