Dictatorships kill. But for those damaged survivors who flee persecution, finding their voice in a new land, culture and community can be a monumental personal undertaking. About the film maker: Saba Vasefi (2021) Saba Vasefi is a multi-award-winning journalist, academic, documentary filmmaker and poet. She researched her doctor of philosophy on accented (exilic) feminist cinema studies and graduated in directing Documentary at the Australian Film Television and Radio school (AFTRS) where she created her short film Symphony of Strange Waters. Saba’s filmography includes documentary Don’t Bury My Heart (2010) Beyond the Father’s Shadow (2014), and latest documentary Solace which portrays the inner world of three displaced feminist poets. Her films have been screened at the UN in Geneva, Amnesty International UK, NSW Parliament House, UCLA, Human Rights Film Festival, Copenhagen Film Festival, Exile Films Festival and various universities around the world. Saba also writes for The Guardian on the rhetoric of displacement and narrative of refugees incarcerated in Australia detention regime and is a chief editor of Borderless: Transitional Feminist Poetry Anthology and is an honorary adviser in Indigo Foundation. She is the recipient of NSW Premier's Multicultural Medals in Art and Culture, an Edna Ryan Award for her significant contribution to feminism, Humanitarian Media Award as well as an Honorary Brave Rising Star Award for her courageous writing on the gendered impacts of seeking asylum and The National Council of Women Award for her academic research. New South Wales Parliament House recognised her success in directing the Diaspora Symposium – Social Justice Award and her ongoing contribution to women’s rights and social justice. Saba is an Ambassador for the Asylum Seekers Centre and Ambassador of Refugee Council of Australia for Refugee Week.

The last moments in the life of Jess, a young Aboriginal man. Fatally wounded, he attempts to reunite with his father whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Short film by Ivan Sven.

A brilliant medical officer must overcome mass panic and confusion to prevent the bubonic plague from overrunning Sydney in 1900. Andre Prunetti short biography (2021) Andre Prunetti graduated from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School with a Graduate Diploma in Documentary Directing. He continues to make films abroad and is now based in London, where he works as an editor on documentary features and programs.

Is doodling an art form? In The Art of Doodling, young artists explain why doodling is an important part of their art and their lives and debate whether it qualifies as art. Animations bring the artists’ work to life and we watch them doodle as they try to untangle this unexpectedly complex question. Film maker bio Kylie Aoibheann McDonnell Kylie is just your average asexual, transgender, lesbian filmmaker telling the raw, intimate stories you want to see. As a writer-director, she pairs her gritty and immersive, yet highly-personal style of filmmaking, with a passion for collaborating with diverse individuals and communities. After graduating from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), Kylie co-founded the independent production company Inner Pictures with producer Oliver Ellis. Her non-fiction work includes Farewell Happy Fields: an intimate, unconventional portrait of anorexia and depression featuring award-winning author Fiona Wright, which has screened across numerous international festivals. Most recently, she made See for Yourself, a psychological thriller in collaboration with the d/Deaf community, and features a breakthrough performance from Deaf and non-binary actress Bronek Lemów. The short premiered at MonsterFest and Image+Nation, and is currently streaming on ABC iView. Kylie is in pre-production of the queer romantic drama ASEXY, which was a finalist at Queer Screen's pitch-off and recently raised over $5.5k in crowdfunding. A full member (emerging) of the Australian Director's Guild (ADG), Kylie is also in development of her first feature film, DEADNAME: a transgender ghost story.

On her way home, Blanca looks through a window and is swept up in a dance of lust and longing, of discovery and desire. When she is returned to the outside world, will she choose to retreat into the night, or reach out to the man inside? About the filmmaker Jamieson Pearce After making his first short film, For the Love of Julio, Jamieson completed a Diploma in Directing from the Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney where he made Blanca. Since then, he has been making short films, music videos and online content. He was a Director's Attachment to show runner Peter Duncan on the fourth season of the ABC series Rake; and in 2017, his award-winning short film Adult premiered at South by SXSW Film Festival. In 2018, he was awarded the Lexus Short Film Fellowship for which he receives $50,000 to make his next short film, Strangers in the Night. It premiered at Sydney Film Festival in 2019. In his dramatic work, he likes to explore the stranger manifestations of human desire.

A woman caught up in war, retells the story of her escape from Sarajevo with the first international convoy taking mothers and children to Belgrade in 1992.