Australia
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Where do you go after hello?
Like many young businessmen, Stirling desires more out of life than sitting in an office day after day. When he befriends Amy, a troubled homeless girl, he is instantly drawn into her secret fantasy world. So begins a ?lost weekend? of the duo taking on new personalities?from hippies to grunting cavemen. But as the games bring them closer together, Stirling and Amy realize that their fantasy world does have its limits and that they must confront the frightening reality of each other?s life.
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An elderly gay man confronts memories of a long lost love when a young surfer enters his life.
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One night - two people - and the phone line to save their lives. Talking to a stranger on the phone is rarely a moving experience, but when you work for a telephone counseling service, it can be that and much more. Simone is working the Saturday night graveyard shift when Mac calls in. It quickly becomes clear that the caller is drunk and suicidal. Simone must gain Mac's trust quickly but is met with resistance until she starts to spill a little of her own pain. As they talk through the night, each soon realizes that the healing process is not one-sided.
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Unnamed and innocent, the seven-year-old girl in Rolf de Heer's The Quiet Room represents the fear and naivet=E9 in all of us. The world seems to be falling in on this little one's life, as she watches the slow, almost agonizing, disintegration of her parents' marriage. In almost protest of their fading love, she has refused to speak to them and has withdrawn inside herself. When her parents speak to her, she does not answer, but we are privy to her innermost thoughts via the deeply personal voice over with which we are given the family's story.
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It's Sugar Week in small-town Worondilla, and visiting all-woman band "Total Fire" is in trouble. Lead singer Angie's boyfriend, the band's roadie, has been fooling around with guitarist Jo. He's given the boot and takes Jo with him, leaving the band in desperate need of a new player. Meanwhile, Mick has an "image problem"--people think he's gay. But his dad, the local barber/Elvis wanna-be, is going to help him with that. Then Mick's mom leaves because her husband used her heirloom piano to pay a debt. Mick's solution? If this is Australia, it must be cross-dressing!
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All this time and nowhere to put it.
In the living room of a suburban home, Liam Lombard lays dying. His family watches ? helpless. No warning. No signs. No time for goodbyes. Three years later the world of the four people who loved him most are inadvertently changed forever.
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Leonard lives with his Aunt Alethea in the suburb of Broken Gate. When he was just a young boy he lost his mother, but he never lost the hope of someday finding her again.