Under forfærdelige omstændigheder strander en ung teenager og hendes lillebror i den australske vildmark. At nå frem til civilisationen skal vise sig at blive en næsten uoverkommelig prøvelse. Heldigvis møder de en aborigin dreng, som beslutter sig for at hjælpe dem.

Det vestlige USA har langtfra eneret på at lægge landskaber til roadmovies. Australiens øde landeveje indbyder også til lange ekspeditioner ud i den australske vildmark, og flere instruktører har lavet roadmovies i Australien. Et af det mest iøjnefaldende forsøg var The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert fra 1994, hvor tre dragqueens drager af sted fra Sydney til ørkenoasen Alice Springs midt inde på det australske kontinent. Bernice, Tick og Adam er tre transvestitter i deres bedste alder, som har gjort det til en levevej at optræde med store ekstravagante shows. De optræder normalt kun i Sydney-området, men får så et tilbud om et show med alt betalt på et kasino i Alice Springs midt inde på det australske kontinent. Kunsten er at komme fra Sidney til Alice Springs i en gammel bus uden at få alt for mange ridser i lakken - helt bogstaveligt...

Året er 1825 på den australske ø Tasmanien. Den unge irske fange Clare vil have hævn over en engelsk officer. Med sig har hun Billy, en aboriginal tracker, som er plaget af sine egne dæmoner.

In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other.

En indfødt australsk detektiv vender tilbage til sin hjemegn for at undersøge mordet på en ung pige.

Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation unearths an intricate web of crime, corruption, human trafficking, and coordinated exploitation of indigenous people’s land. Jay must bury his differences with young local cop Josh, so together they can bring justice to Goldstone.

Outside the Australian town of Jindabyne, local man Stuart Kane is on a fishing trip with friends when they discover the body of a murdered girl.

30'erne var en svær tid for Australiens originale folk, the aboriginals. Tre piger bortføres fra deres forældre. Det lykkes dem dog at undslippe, og dermed begynder den 300 kilometer lange tur hjem. Med mod og beslutsomhed tager Molly pigerne med ud på en næsten 2500 kilometer lang episk rejse gennem Australiens øde områder. Hvis blot de kan finde det "kanin-sikrede hegn", som deler kontinentet i to, vil de kunne følge det hele vejen tilbage til deres hjem.

Den unge politibetjent Shane Coopers første dag på arbejde, efter at være flyttet til den lille by Red Hill, bliver hurtigt til et mareridt. Nyheden om en fængselsflugt, der involverer den dømte morder Jimmy Conway, sender de lokale politi myndigheder - under ledelse af Old Bill - i panik og fører til en skræmmende og blodig konfrontation.

Da den midaldrende Aboriginal, Sam, dræber en hvid krigsveteran i selvforsvar, bliver han øjeblikkeligt eftersøgt for mord og tvinges til at flygte ud i den dødelige ødemark med sin familie. Ordensmagten er dog lige i hælene på ham, anført af den nidkære Sergeant Fletcher. Men da de sande detaljer om mordet langsomt kommer op til overfladen, begynder lokalsamfundet at betvivle om retfærdigheden virkelig sker fyldest…

A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brother's wife, so an elder tells him a story from the mythical past about how evil can slip in and cause havoc unless prevented by virtue according to customary tribal law.

It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.

En australsk hyrdefamilie og deres medarbejdere møder kraftig modstand, da de gør krav på en kilde, som findes på et stykke land, der er beboet af et oprindeligt folk.

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.

After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.

The first of four installments in the groundbreaking Heartbeat of the World anthology film series. Comprised of several short films by some of the world's most exciting directors, Words with Gods follows the theme of religion - specifically as it relates to an individual's relationship with his/her god or gods...or the lack thereof. In Words with Gods, each director recounts a narrative centered around human fragility, as well as environmental and cultural crises involving specific religions with which each has a personal relationship; including early Aboriginal Spirituality, Umbanda, Buddhism, the Abrahamic faiths, Hinduism, and Atheism. An animated sequence by Mexican animator Maribel Martinez is woven through each of the film segments, with each segment narratively connected as a feature-length film.

Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.

Teens of Kangaloola High are visited by a skull-faced Aboriginal apparition in their nightmares, and one by one they meet a violent end.

Mabo tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.

Samson and Delilah's world is small – an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone they discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.