Sydney Indie Film Festival - Official Selections 2017

A troubled young actor in an East London Theatre Company for the homeless romances a wealthy out-of-towner in the bustling streets of contemporary London.

A stray dog, found in the alleys in New Delhi, is brought to Sweden.

A son discovers the unknown life of his deserted father's after his death.

This film follows the first class of students at a remarkable leadership center in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region often referred to as "the worst place in the world to be a woman." These women have been through unspeakable violence spurred on by a 20 year war driven by colonialism and greed. In the film, they band together with the three founders of this center: Dr. Denis Mukwege (2016 Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize), radical playwright and activist Eve Ensler ("The Vagina Monolgoues") and human rights activist, Christine Schuler-Deschryver, to find a way to create meaning in their lives even when all that was meaningful to them has long been stripped away. In this ultimately uplifting film, we witness the tremendous resilience as these women transform their devastation into powerful forms of leadership for their beloved country.

FLOW delves into the lives of a conventional modern family and shows things are not as they seem. Stephen and Julia's marriage is lacking intimacy and teetering on the brink. Anything could tip it over the edge, when a letter arrives.

Karni feels detached. Detached from the world, detached from her country, detached from her language and even her own body. That is, until she meets Jessica, who happens to be on a much needed break from her dreamlike American life.

During one fateful weekend, the family of brilliant astrophysicist Albert James has a complete meltdown, setting in motion a raucous and hilarious series of events that mirror his radical theories of the behavior of the universe.

On board a train on its last trip, five people know each other, collide, make friends and solve their personal issues finding out what's really important in life.

After witnessing a murder, a young single mother is forced to act as a witness. Threatened on all sides, she must do whatever it takes to protect her son.

In the late 19th century, a poacher and his wife move into a cave and fight against society for their right to stay, as well as for their own relationship.

Matthias is the founder of an odd Brussels startup whose service is to assist a partner in breaking up with the other. Complications and comical situations ensue.

An atypical priest, an ex-homicide detective and a resurrected spirit form an unlikely alliance to unite against an insurgence of fallen angels and the termination of free will.

Shifting from one pocket to another, from one man's drama to another, a lowly dollar bill, 'one buck' takes us on an odyssey through the heart of a forgotten town in Louisiana.

A journey around the globe together with the world's best wildlife filmmakers. We experience their passion and commitment for the natural beauty of our planet. However, their mission is now in jeopardy as the destruction of nature world-wide caused by the impact of man, is ever increasing.

Emma is a 50 year old unemployed mother of two grown up children, who's husband is looking for his sexual awaking - with another woman. The thought of filing for divorce also turns out as a financial threat for Emma. She starts looking for jobs and ends up as a salesperson in an "erotic market", run by Charlie. She quickly realizes that the ranch of products in the shop is not made for women and decides to revamp the store into an "erotic boutique for women and everyone who loves women". Emma also develops friendships with some of her female customers and undertakes a journey in search of her own orgasm, which she has lost over the years. Thus her attitude about herself, life in general and towards her husband changes. Her husband on the other hand is more and more interested in Emma, since she started to focus on her (sexual) self. Emma also increasingly emancipates herself from her ultra conservative mother, Hildegard, and from her two grown-up children (daughter and son) for whom she has always been the overprotective mother. She finds new girlfriends and realizes that many ideas about female sexuality have become obsolete and that female arousal arises under very different circumstances than represented in the general public.

A hapless 20-something is forced to flee the city and hide out with a tribe of hippies after witnessing a brutal murder by a gang of criminal hairdressers.

The Memory of Fish is a documentary portrait of one man, the wild salmon he loves, and his fight to free a river.

His life changes when Los Angeles talent agent Max Roth inherits an orchard in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley and finds that there's more to the real estate than its selling price.

'twentyfive' are two unknown, indie songwriters in a bare bones studio on a train in the industrial West of Melbourne - Australia's music capital. They plan to write, record then release a fresh song every two weeks of the year. Cath loves pop, Nick loves garage rock. She wants jazz flute, he wants a dirty guitar. Is this ever going to work, are they totally deluded, is it an impossible goal?

A deaf 6-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate.

A businessman hitches a ride with a certain taxi driver.

In the light of impending cosmic catastrophe, an old father finds an inspiration and tries to surprise his beloved son for the last time.

"A Universal Love Story" is a short fantasy drama about the possibility of finding love in an impersonal world in the distant future, where everyone is so focused on himself, that it seems almost impossible to connect to another person. All that's left is the memory of love and the hope to experience it one more time. It seems that sometimes it takes a miracle from a different universe to start a revolution. As the title suggests, it is a universal story about characters with different backgrounds in an undefined time and space. It is a very visual and symbolic film that can be watched several times and each time, one can find a different meaning. "A Universal Love Story" is one of the few films shot in Esperanto.

A selfie-loving struggling actor finally gets his big break by being at the right place at the right time but he gets in the wrong car. What unfold next, changes his life and is something he'd never have imagined.

A kaleidoscopic curiosity sends two young sisters on a mystical journey of no return.