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- On a road between Australia's most isolated town and its largest gold mine lies Coolgardie, where the arrival every three months of a new foreign backpacker couple is a much-anticipated event.
- To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.
- An Indigenous teenager discovers photography during a youth trip in Western Australia.
- Strap yourself in as four Aussie blokes swap wheelchairs for quad bikes and embark on the ride of their lives. This documentary charts their 5000km adventure across the outback, as they visit the crash sites where their lives changed forever. Three men are paraplegics and one a quadriplegic, making this no ordinary road movie. Their encounters with mud, deserts, floods and exhaustion test their resilience and endurance to breaking point. Fuelled by bold humour and disarming honesty, The Ride is a wild traverse across the terrain of the human spirit, as four men make peace with the tragedy of their past.
- Set in a township in Olwyn's Boundary, Stella lives and works in a hotel. Every year her ex-lover Andy asks her to marry him. This year, two strangers arrive.
- Commissioned to write an orchestral score for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Iain Grandage heads out to Tjuntjuntjarra (in Great Victoria Desert) to check with the Spinifex Elders that his composition is on track. Iain is attempting to place traditional Spinifex songs alongside a western orchestral score and remain true to both musical traditions. Narrator Trevor Jamieson, a Spinifex man himself, guides the viewer through the history and culture of the Spinifex people.
- Made from footage shot in 1970 this film shows the making of a spear thrower by two Pintupi men of the Lake McDonald area and underlines the importance of the spear thrower to their people.
- Produced in association with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts at Kununurra in Western Australia, this moving documentary features three women who talk about their paintings as an expression of their relationship to their country. The women share a sense of belonging to their place and express this belonging through dance and song and all of their artistic expressions. On a trip into the bush around Cockatoo Lagoon near Kununurra, they explain the stories of their Dreaming and of their land, and talk of their own experiences growing up as workers on stations in the area. Each artist talks about why they paint - to teach and to share stories about their country with others in the community and wider afield. The film also observes them working on paintings, each giving her personal interpretation of a loved environment and a living culture. The paintings are all very different in style but all express a life-affirming sense of identity intimately linked to their own country.
- 'Back Roads' returns this winter to take you to some of the widest open spaces on Earth. Join Heather Ewart on a journey across the Nullarbor Plain, discovering why people are drawn to this remote landscape and why they stay.