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- In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.
- Interviews with self-proclaimed authors, philosophers and scientists, with an in-depth discussion of visualizing your goals. The audience is shown how they can learn and use 'The Secret' in their everyday lives.
- After a chance encounter at an anonymous sex party, a boy hunts through the world of a hook-up app to track down the mystery man. Favouring the instant gratification of anonymous, no-strings sexual encounters over meaningful relationships, high schooler Sequin is part of the always logged-on, but never-engaged, hook-up generation. He ghosts ex-partners and remains emotionally unavailable. That's until he finds his way to an anonymous sex party, where a whole new dizzyingly alluring world unfolds before him. In one scene, Sequin connects with a mysterious stranger, but they are separated suddenly. Utterly fixated on this man, Sequin sets off on an exhilarating and perilous mission to track him down. Cowritten by Jory Anast and Samuel Van Grinsven, Sequin in a Blue Room is a highly-accomplished queer coming-of-age tale and a breath of fresh air from the Australian independent film scene.
- Reflecting on her culpability, a woman recounts the traumatising assault she witnessed of a young man in a small Australian coastal town.
- A family get into a battle of wills on the side of the highway when their boy defiantly throws orange peels out the window.
- Set in 1780, Sweet Tooth is a dark and magical fairy tale film inspired by the classic story of Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, but it is the untold story of the wicked witch and her infamous gingerbread house.
- Whilst Anna is preparing for a first date with Henry, a man she has secretly loved for years, everything goes wrong until she discovers the impossible - to sculpt her appearance like clay to any shape she desires.
- Jessie, 24, aspiring musician at an indie cinema, hears music in her head after meeting idol Brianna. A musical rom-com that follows her humorous journey of self-discovery and first-time bisexuality.
- When a teenage girl inherits a dark power, she must decide whether to use it to protect herself and her sister from their destructive Mother.
- Denied the coveted set menu for dining alone at a famously exclusive restaurant, Frances strikes an unexpected deal with a stranger to access both the menu and a night of peace and solitude.
- Bullying is taken to unimaginable extremes when a student is raped at an exclusive private boys school.
- ShortSisters Emily and Nina grit their teeth through their mother Josephine's extravagant engagement party. When Josephine's new partner Gill lets slip that they're selling the family home, the two young women rebel, jeopardising Josephine's standing in Gill's family. Tensions come to a head and Emily is forced to confront the truth of what is really happening at this party. 'Not Yet' is a 14-minute psychological drama about grief, resentment and unending love.
- A young woman tries to fashion an escape from her volatile household, as her husband and sister in law demand more in dowry payments.
- 14 year old Caitlyn's world is thrown upside down when she stumbles across a woman she believes to be her mother - a woman who supposedly died when Caitlyn was just a baby... Rejecting her father as a liar, Caitlyn pursues the woman hoping for the answers to everything that feels amiss in her life. She soon discovers, though, that the truth is more complicated than she thought, and that no one has all the answers in life.
- A young couple take a road-trip towards the end of their relationship.
- Marzieh is a young female actress living in Tehran. The authorities ban her theatre work and, like all young people in Iran, she is forced to lead a secret life in order to express herself artistically. At an underground rave, she meets Iranian born Saman, now an Australian citizen, who offers her a way out of her country and the possibility of living without fear.
- Ken is a lonely, elderly pensioner with no purpose in life. Deciding that he needs a change of scenery he decides to do the only logical thing: rob his local convenience store to be sent to prison.
- Based on the 1971 true story known as "The Great Plane Robbery", this tele-movie tells the story of Peter Macari alias Mr. Brown. Under a grand extortion scam, he steals $500,000 in cash from Australian airlines company Qantas. This begins the start of a major international manhunt to catch a thief who is now living the high life from the spoils of his heist.
- A collection of everyday awkward and embarrassing moments, each with an uneasy familiarity.
- A naïve Bianca reveals the risk she's prepared to take to clear her mother's debt but her sister, Maria thinks she's gone too far this time.
- A middle aged Aboriginal woman nurses her dying old white mother till the mother dies.
- Medousa, an arranged Greek bride bound for Australia, discovers a monstrous secret that threatens to tear apart her best friend's promise of sisterhood.
- Four stories, one hot day - Sydney, Australia, just before the rain.
- After two years away, Cally returns to her sleepy hometown for an abortion, accompanied by her ex-boyfriend. Over the course of one night at a paddock-party, the two navigate their tumultuous feelings surrounding her pregnancy, and Cally tries to reconnect with an estranged once best-friend.
- Jo and Nik are best friends until they start having to contend with boys and sex.
- When a stranger arrives at an isolated farmhouse in the middle of the night, the farmer's wife is convinced he is a murderer. In the light of day, she is forced to confront her prejudices.
- An aspiring Peruvian-Australian performer must decide whether she's dancing for others, or for herself. Alba is a story of diaspora and coming of age, illustrated through the traditional Marinera dance.
- During the Korean War in 1951, little Manuk is playing on the streets of his village and dreaming of life at the front where his father is a soldier. He returns home to find a parcel on the doorstep and, thinking it is a birthday present, he opens it. But its contents will change his life.
- Best friends Ben and Jen are plunged into infamy after their ill-conceived stunt to win back Ben's ex backfires. However, the scandal gains them the attention of a radical futurist who tries to recruit the pair for his cyber revolution.
- Grief-stricken Annie loses her best friend in a car accident and starts experiencing visions of a world beyond the mortal plane. Channeling her newfound abilities, Annie trains to become a DEATH DOULA - haphazardly walking people to whatever the hell comes next.
- On the isolated outskirts of suburbia, 20-year-old Lu navigates a domestic life caring for her mentally unwell mother, Mei. When Lu announces she's moving to France to take up a career opportunity, their fractious relationship grows more tense. With impressive visual detail and dramatic precision, Grace Tan's tender, personal story explores the sacrifices made by first-generation immigrant parents.
- Burdened by a prophecy that dooms them to a violent death Elagabalus, a genderqueer Roman emperor, embraces excess. Much to the dismay of their controlling mother Elagabalus is enamored of a dashing charioteer. But as Elagabalus's habits grow increasingly sadistic, mother and lover must band together to fulfill destiny.
- SBS On Demand Presents: Pills and Powder Milk, A true story about an Indigenous woman uncovers her childhood memories and discovers her traumas, as well as realizing her triggers.
- Cosette lives a sheltered, ignorant life in an isolated world with her alternative-lifestyle father Jim. When Jim suddenly dies, Cosette is left to fend for herself. Scared and hungry, she embarks on a perilous journey across land and water and discovers that the world she thought existed is not nearly as horrible as her father led her to believe.
- A student short about an illegal abortion in Sydney in the period of the 1930s.
- Sarah, a first-time mother, is struggling to connect with her newborn baby and is pushed to her limits when she discovers a surprise birthday party has been organised for her 30th by her insta famous bestie.
- When Sally left Steve, is a heartfelt drama about loving someone enough to let them go. Steve wakes to find his fiancé in their bedroom and is immediately overwhelmed with joy. Earlier that day Sally was hospitalised with a life-threatening aneurysm. Steve's joy quickly turns to disbelief and then despair, as he learns the truth behind Sally's visit. Desperate to hold onto the love of his life, Steve must face the frightening reality that her time to let go has come, and his must too.
- Henry Howard discovers a way to stay young forever, but life doesn't seem worth living without his childhood sweetheart Alice. Risking old age, Henry returns to convince her to join him.
- Trapped in the care of her lonely uncle, a young girl's nightmares about a bizarre kitchen appliance manifest into reality.
- A man is brutally murdered in a swimming pool. The only witness, Mrs Moore, refuses to tell the police what she has seen. Why? The answer lies in Mrs Moore's past.
- A young Church elder struggles with his faith when the married woman he has been seeing breaks off their relationship.
- A young woman struggles within herself during a time of "coming of age". She is split between commitments/responsibilities, desires and trying to make sense if it all.
- Liv's Sydney existence is pretty comfortable until she meets, or rather reconnects with Uta, her intuition personified who lives in Liv's tummy and wants her to break up with her boyfriend Luke.
- A woman in 19th Century colonial Australia is neglected by her faithless partner after suffering a terrible injury.
- A film about isolation with a story that unfolds as a surreal narrative of connected vignettes, punctuated by interludes.
- You die. But your identity keeps on living. Crystal and James fell in love in an online virtual world but have never met. When James dies mysteriously Crystal travels to see him for the first time - dead. But some residue of James is still alive online.
- The overbearing father of an unusual family has an obsession with tripe, but that's not the family's only obsession.