The Escape streaming

An astronaut from an interstellar colony returns to Earth to determine why they lost contact....

In the woods, a young woman and man scuffle as they fight for life. Gently lit and accompanied with a soundtrack of soaring strings, this film by Jessie Oldfield and Adam Murfet explores vulnerability, connectedness and a renewed sense of self among the autumn leaves....

Betty and Rosalie are best friends living on a Northern Territory mission. When cinema titans Charles and Elsa Chauvel arrive, searching for the perfect star for their revolutionary moving picture, the girls are forced to decide whether to rise up to the occasion....

Impressively shot over an 18-month period, Giants documents the changing drought-ridden landscape – from green to yellow to a Mars-like brown-red dust – from the perspective of one farmer, who risks losing everything as he holds fast to remain on his land....

Divorced, lonely and inept with the web, a 50-year-old man decides to try his hand at finding love online – with spectacularly catastrophic results....

A young woman awakens to find herself in the midst of a living nightmare....

In early-colonial Australia, a timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods....

Join a demon, a puppy and a rat in this stop-motion headtrip about a mysterious, magically summoned apple tree. With its innovative, intricate character design and intoxicatingly evocative, genuinely strange world, Oldboy’s Apples makes for tactile, ritualistic viewing – a rabbit hole of idolatry and the id....

A Lynchian depiction of self-transformation in the social media age. Steeped in saturated colour, unnerving cinematography and bold sound design, this chamber piece depicts a young woman’s confrontation with impostor syndrome and racialised beauty standards....

A group of schoolboys engage in tomfoolery, but it’s not long before playful behaviour turns primal....

An intimidating encounter with a group of teens forces a 12-year-old to ponder her place in the world....

A story about a bitter businessman's journey to find his long lost heart....

A French couple travelling by campervan around Australia discover their relationship is at a crossroads....

When the Victorian Government locks down his public-housing building, a teenager responsible for his mother’s welfare is pushed to the brink. Bursting with incendiary rage, this tense drama – shot with an almost harsh, vérité-style realism – presents an insider’s view on a distressing, still-unresolved chapter of recent Melbourne history....

An exquisitely shot insight into dance, dramaturgy and performance featuring dancer Michelle Heaven. Limbs emerging from shimmering fabric, a torso draped in silk, gilded cloth and bodysuit. Find yourself enveloped by this cinematic peek into the multi-artform work The Prelude by Phillip Adams’ BalletLab and US choreographer Walter Dundervill....

In the 1920s, the unlikely bond between Chinese erotic dancer Lee Ping and an Aboriginal farmhand enables her to escape the clutches of her white employer....

After her father unexpectedly hits her, a young girl decides to toughen up....

A ruminative film on the interplay between bovine lives and human consumption. Minimalist in camerawork and composition yet expansive in impact, With the Cattle poignantly brings viewers up close and personal to the tranquillity – and ephemerality – of life for farm cows....

Now in their 30s, grumbling sisters Hannah and Rachel decide to get their first tattoos together. As they get inked, and unable to leave until it’s done, they bond in conversation over still-fresh wounds that they share....

Installed in their comfortable cocoon, a couple spend an ordinary holiday on the French Riviera. During a night out at a nightclub, the young woman's attention turns to a stranger filled with freedom....