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Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
Short film from Craig Boreham in collaboration with Bus Stop Films participants.
A poor father lives with his blind son, dog and sheep. When he can't find any food, he is forced to make a hard decision.
A short documentary about PLACES, a groundbreaking new program being operated by Bus Stop Films, aimed at people who have undertaken previous filmmaking courses or have measurable on the job experience in filmmaking and live with a disability. This documentary follows participants through the process of creating a short film, as the pilot program is operated for the first time.
Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother dies in an accident, and she begins to track down her birth mother. But her journey turns out to disclose an unsealed sentimental drama of the family in the past.
Maggie, a professional woman dutifully paying a visit to her overbearing mother in Sydney, encounters a 14-year-old Kosovan girl on the train. Strangely propelled by the girl's isolation, she embarks on a mission to reunite her with her mother in a refugee detention centre, but gradually discovers that it is in fact the young stranger who is showing her how to reconcile with her own mother.
Wendy works in a small 1-hour photograph developing shop. She is open late one evening and says goodbye to her friend Trish who works next door. When she is an hour away from closing she gets a call from a Mr. Stanley to say he will pick his pictures up in an hour. She sets about developing them to find blurry images of bound feet and hands etc. Her fear rises even more when the pictures start to be of her, her house, her at work etc. When the phone rings again Wendy answers it to find that Mr. Stanley is coming for his pictures and will not be stopped.
A teenage girl fights to preserve her sanity in a late 19th century mental hospital.
It's Martha's birthday and the day is not turning out so well. Martha decides to get out of town and seek some excitement on the coast.