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Sanna escapes being sacrificed and meets Tara. Together, they live in a seaside tribe that worships the Sun God and survive the dangers of the creatures from the Mesozoic Era.

An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them.

Set on a remote Pacific island, covered in rain forest and dominated by an active volcano, this heartfelt story, enacted by the Yakel tribe, tells of a sister's loyalty, a forbidden love affair and the pact between the old ways and the new.

In the Australian Outback, two estranged brothers discover old secrets and family lies. As their friends start to go missing they fear they are being stalked by someone or something.

In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.

After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be "Seediq Bale" or "real men."

Displeased with the intervention of whitefella laws, Charlie takes off to live the old way and sets off a chain reaction of enlightening difficulties.

In the stark desert landscape of the Kalahari a troubled police officer battles to keep her small town from being ripped apart by a horrific murder and the ghosts from a colonial past.

The story of a father's desperate struggle to reunite his estranged family over the course of a single afternoon.

In the midst of Mozambique's devastating civil war, Muidinga, an orphaned refugee, wanders the countryside in search of his mother. His only companion is an elderly storyteller, and the only guide to finding his mother is a dead man's diary. This transporting drama underscores the power of imagination in surviving, and ultimately overcoming, the catastrophe of war.

Icaros explores the spiritual universe of the Shipibo indigenous people who live by the Ucayali river, one of the main tributaries of the Peruvian Amazon. Young Mokan Rono sets outs on a journey to discover the ancestral knowledge of ayahuasca, mentored by a wise shaman and by his mother, a master healer.

When a couple of low life thugs get away from a heist they just pulled they never think about the outcome after stashing there money in the woods only to find a woodsman who will do anything to kill and disappear into the night.

A documentary looking at one of Australia's biggest and deadliest killers - suicide.

My Legacy follows Helen as she explores the often tenuous relationship between a mother and daughter made more complex by the legacy of residential school.

Luku Ngarra is an unflinching, indigenous Australian Aboriginal funded documentary on the history and culture of Arnhem Land leading up to the present day, seen through the eyes of one of Australia's most respected Indigenous elders and traditional lawmen, the Reverned Doctor Djiniyini Gondarra OAM. Set mainly in the remote community of Elcho Island, the film is a timely challenge to the dominant mainstream paradigm that has failed to recognise the true value and importance of traditional Aboriginal law and culture for the wellbeing of remote communities.

The first Melanau film. A community film done by the Melanau in Matu and Dalat about a love story between Amal and his girlfriend. He then faced many problems such as lost many things when he found out that he is senudei (wanted by spirits). As a modern guy, he never believed in the supernatural even though he live with a Melanau community that still talking about the myth. Lost in an another world make he feels that he has conflicts. Partly documentary and partly narrative. The movie is challenging the styles of a film and inviting the viewers to learn the mystical world of Melanau in Sarawak, Borneo and how they adapt them with modernity. Will be one of your weirdest movies in 2020.

Docu-drama outlining the culture clash in law between indigenous Australians and white European settled Australia.

Audrey Napanangka tells the story of Warlpiri matriarch Audrey, who was born at a time when the world was changing forever for people of the central Australian desert. Colonial settlements, relocation, displacement, and the forced removal of children as two worlds fused, ended in tragedy for Audrey and her young family. Despite this, she had a happy childhood which gave her the resilience to be the woman she is today. With her Sicilian partner, Santo, Audrey uses her deep cultural knowledge to enrich the lives of others, and particularly her foster children, as she also gives them the skills for navigating the complex modern world. Audrey lives in Alice Springs in the center of Australia, hundreds of kilometers from her Country, the land of her forbears for thousands of years, where she was born and she grew up, south of the Tanami Desert. She keeps a precarious balance between two worlds, the ancient desert law of the Warlpiri nation, and the modern-day town of Alice Springs. She has been with Santo for over 30 years and together they have provided a safe home for many Warlpiri children who have needed one. In her 70s now, Audrey is an elder with a big extended Warlpiri family, who live between Alice Springs and small townships and communities hundreds of kilometers from Alice Springs. She looks after her family and has many obligations to fulfill. As one of the few family members with a house in Alice Springs she and Santo are called upon for support when family need to visit town for shopping, hospitals, or court. Audrey has had a lifelong journey of raising children which has had its highs and lows. As a grandmother and great grandmother, together with Santo, she still has teenagers in her care. To Audrey it is important that the children can navigate and thrive in two worlds, that of mainstream Australia, and that they know the language, laws and cultures of their forbears, and their connection to the land and skies of the central desert that is their birth right. Life is not always easy, and we journey with Audrey and her family through the obstacles that they must overcome, as well as the good times. In the end, family and love are everything.

Juvenile is about two teenagers lived two different lives in Honiara, Solomon Islands. A film that portrays family, friendship and bad choices that needed a system to help Henry and Jimmy get back on knees.

The remote Warlpiri community of Lajamanu are preparing for Milpirri, an exciting cross-cultural event. Milpirri clouds bring rain from the collision of opposites, reminding us all that to find our way 'back home' we need to listen to 'ngurra' (home) - the country we share.

A Shipibo boy is raised by his grandparents in direct contact with the Amazon forest and its inhabitants, whom he respects and considered part of their social environment. Growing up and coming into contact with urban life, the child denies his culture to avoid the discrimination, but, in the end, his vital roots lead him to reconnect with the forest and to reconcile with his ancient traditions.

4 young women , goaded one minute and encouraged the next by an androgynous MC , take over a night club to tell the story of Sonia and Max . Sonia, the group's lead singer is trapped in an abusive relationship with Max. Through song and dramatic reconstruction of moments in their life, she attempts to find freedom. Originally a very popular stage production, Laef I Swit is Vanuatu's first full length film musical. Performed by members of Wan Smolbag Theatre, the only professional theatre and filmmaking troupe in Melanesia.