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Samson and Delilah, 1h37
Directed by Theo Frenkel, Warwick Thornton
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films

Samson and Delilah are two 14-year-olds who live in an Aboriginal community near Alice Springs. Samson sniffs petrol every morning. He lives in a run-down shelter with his brother's band playing reggae music, all day, right outside his bedroom. Samson is interested in Delilah, who lives with her grandmother. He throws a rock at her outside the local convenience store. In spite of mocking encouragement from her grandmother Delilah is not interested in him. Samson spends a day following Delilah around. He attempts to move in with Delilah. Delilah's grandmother dies and the old women in the community blame her 'neglect' for her grandmother's death and thrash her with sticks. Samson in a fit of rage beats his brother with a stick to shut him and his band up. His brother beats him up. Samson steals a car and takes Delilah with him to Alice Springs where they live rough under a bridge over the dry bed of the Todd River. Gonzo, a deranged homeless man living there helps them. Samson continues to sniff petrol. At one point, he gets so high from the fumes that he does not notice when Delilah is taken by a group of white teenagers in a car. She is raped and bashed, but she eventually comes back to Samson, who is unconscious with petrol intoxication. She begins sniffing petrol too. Under the same circumstances as her abduction, they are both walking along the street and Delilah is hit by a car. When Samson eventually comes to and realises she has been hit he believes she is dead, and cuts off his hair as a sign of respect. He spends weeks sitting in the same position under the bridge sniffing petrol as a means of getting over Delilah's death. Delilah comes back and rescues Samson, and they are both brought back to their old village. As they arrive one of the community's old women begins to beat Samson with a stick for stealing the community's only car. Delilah decides to take Samson away to a secluded area, as a way of rehabilitating, and getting over his petrol sniffing habit. Eventually Samson stops sniffing petrol, and over time Delilah is able to coax him back to his original state.
Struck by Lightning, 1h45
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Garry McDonald, Catherine McClements, Briony Williams, Peter Douglas

Garry McDonald plays Ollie, a grumpy alcoholic workshop supervisor at a shelter called Saltmarsh. He hires Pat (Brian Vriends), a school teacher, to develop an experimental fitness program for the intellectually disabled young adults in the shelter. Pat teaches P.E and decides to try to get them involved in soccer, with some interesting results. Jill is Ollie's social worker, who Ollie calls 'the bitch'.
Death Beach, 1h10
Origin Australie
Genres Horror

Cinq personnes sur un yacht sont tuées l'une après l'autre.
Triangle
Triangle (2009)
, 1h39
Directed by Christopher Smith
Origin Australie
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Time travel films, Serial killer films, Temporal paradox
Actors Melissa George, Liam Hemsworth, Emma Lung, Rachael Carpani, Michael Dorman

Single mother Jess prepares to take her autistic son Tommy on a boat trip with her friend Greg. While Jess tidies up the house, the doorbell rings, but no one is there.
The Last Wave, 1h46
Directed by Peter Weir
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Vivean Gray, Wallas Eaton, Greg Rowe

The film opens with a montage of scenes of daily life in Australia in the 1970s: a rural school in the desert, the main street of an outback town, a traffic jam in the city, all being affected by unusually adverse weather conditions that suddenly appear. Only the local Aboriginal people seem to recognize the cosmological significance of these weather phenomena.
Evil Angels, 1h58
Directed by Fred Schepisi
Origin Australie
Genres Drama
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Meryl Streep, Sam Neill, Deborra-Lee Furness, Bruce Myles, Bud Tingwell, Charles Dance

Seventh-day Adventist Church pastor Michael Chamberlain (Sam Neill), his wife Lindy (Meryl Streep), their two sons, and their nine-week-old daughter Azaria are on a camping holiday trip in the Outback. With the baby sleeping in their tent, the family is enjoying a barbecue with their fellow campers when a cry is heard. Lindy returns to the tent to check on Azaria and is certain she sees a dingo with something in its mouth running off as she approaches. When she discovers the infant is missing, everyone joins forces to search for her, without success. It is assumed what Lindy saw was the animal carrying off the child, and a subsequent inquest rules her account of events is true.
Sweet Country
Directed by Warwick Thornton
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Western
Actors Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Ewen Leslie, Tom Wright, Matt Day

Sam, un fermier aborigène, est contraint de fuir avec sa femme après avoir abattu, en état de légitime défense, le fils du propriétaire blanc de la station. Le sergent Fletcher se lance à sa poursuite, traquant le couple par tous les moyens nécessaires avec l'aide d'un rabatteur local et de quelques propriétaires terriens.
Ten Canoes
Ten Canoes (2006)
, 1h31
Directed by Rolf de Heer
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors David Gulpilil

The film is set in Arnhem Land, in a time before Western contact, and tells the story of a group of ten men hunting goose eggs. The leader of the group, Minygululu, tells the young Dayindi (Jamie Gulpilil) a story about another young man even further back in time who, like Dayindi, coveted his elder brother's youngest wife. The sequences featuring Dayindi and the hunt are in black and white, while shots set in distant past are in colour. All protagonists speak in indigenous languages of the Yolŋu Matha language group, with subtitles. The film is narrated in English by David Gulpilil, although versions of the film without narration, and featuring narration in Yolŋu Matha, are also available.
The Cup
The Cup (1999)
, 1h33
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Films about Tibet, Association football films, Films about Buddhism
Actors Neten Chokling, Jamyang Lodro

Alors que la Coupe du monde de football 1998 est disputée en France, Palden et Nyima, deux jeunes tibétains ayant fui leur pays arrivent dans un monastère bouddhiste au nord de l'Inde. Ils y reçoivent leur ordination à la vie monastique, mais celle-ci va rapidement laisser place à la passion du football. Palden se retrouve entraîné par Orgyen, son camarade de chambre, à regarder la nuit le match des quarts de finale dans le village voisin. Sur le chemin du retour, ils sont pris sur le fait par le geko, le maître de discipline du monastère, qui les punit. Avec l’approche de la finale, Orgyen réussit, non sans peine, à autoriser la diffusion de la finale de la Coupe du Monde au monastère. Ne possédant cependant pas de télévision, une course contre la montre commence afin de récolter assez d’argent pour en louer une. Après de nombreux obstacles, les résidents du monastère réussissent finalement par regarder la finale France-Brésil tous ensemble.
Tanna
Tanna (2016)
, 1h40
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion

Dans l'une des dernières tribus traditionnelles du monde, sur l'île de Tanna, dans l'archipel du Vanuatu, les villageois tentent de préserver leur mode de vie et leur culture face au monde moderne.
Babe
Babe (1995)
, 1h35
Directed by Chris Noonan
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Films about magic and magicians, Films about dogs, Films about pigs, Musical films, Political films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh, Brittany Byrnes, Roscoe Lee Browne, Miriam Margolyes

A piglet named Babe is left orphaned after his mother is slaughtered, and is chosen for a "guess the weight" contest at a county fair. The winning farmer, Arthur Hoggett, brings him home and allows him to stay with a Border Collie named Fly, her mate, Rex, and their puppies in the barn.
Sunday Too Far Away, 1h34
Directed by Ken Hannam
Origin Australie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals
Actors Jack Thompson, Max Cullen, John Ewart, Sean Scully

In 1956, gun shearer Foley joins a new shearing team. He shares a room with Old Garth, a once great shearer who is now a drunk. Foley and his team battle to get in a new cook, Old Garth dies and Foley befriends the grazier's daughter. Foley loses his status as top shearer to Arthur Black and blows most of his money in gambling. The shearers go on strike and Foley and his team get involved in a brawl with non union labour.
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead, 1h33
Directed by John Hillcoat
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors David Field, Chris DeRose, Nick Cave, Vincent Gil

The story is set in Central Industrial Prison, a privately run maximum security prison in the middle of the Australian desert. An outbreak of violence within the prison has resulted in a total lockdown. A committee is appointed by the prison's governors to investigate the cause of the outbreak, but their findings are in stark contrast to the facts behind the riot. As the viewers see, both the prisoners and the guards are slowly and deliberately brutalised, manipulated and provoked into the forthcoming eruption of violence, to justify the construction of a new and more "secure" facility.