Freya Berkhout
Sound
Biography
Freya Berkhout is a Sydney-born, multi-award winning composer, vocalist and creative technologist based in Los Angeles. She is known for Ride or Die, The Greenhouse and Beautiful They. Her film music has screened at Academy Awards®-qualifying Cannes Film Festival (FR), Tribeca Festival (US), Warsaw International Film Festival (Pol) BFI London Film Festival (UK) and Sydney Film Festival (Aus).
Known For

Two estranged friends stumble upon each other and reconnect over a shared loss.
Laura

A highschool janitor runs through a series of dangerous obstacles.
Trapped

When an expectant mother takes a solo camping trip into the wilderness to reconnect with nature, she has no idea what nature has in store. Something unseen hears her calling out, and when night falls it comes for her and her unborn child.
Belloe

Covered in blood following an attack, genderqueer Ash seeks catharsis through a church confessional. As they feverishly recall memories that led them to the present day, Ash emerges from the darkness, finding strength and power for revenge.
Spiders on My Lashline

A lonely, awkward teenager encounters a male sex worker on a morning in suburban Sydney. Based on the short story "Concealer" by Andy Boreham.
Dwarf Planet

When Paula, a restless Midwesterner yearning for a fresh start in California, unexpectedly reunites with Sloane—her enigmatic high school crush—the spark between them reignites instantly. What begins as a casual catch-up soon turns into a spontaneous cross-country road trip. But as the miles roll by, hidden secrets and buried traumas surface, and their blossoming romance takes a darker turn. With unexpected consequences at every stop, the journey becomes a fight for trust, survival, and the truth—testing how far they’re willing to go for love, and what they’re running from.
Ride or Die

A young woman is faced with a choice: give up her ability to transform into a dog or face the familial and societal consequences of keeping it.
All Silent Dogs
On an isolated Australian property in 1915, Aurora faces the repercussions of a passionate affair she is having in the absence of her husband.
Foal

In her world, Jendal is a small time revolutionary, locking her clients' electronic devices in a safe and helping them to reconnect with their humanity. Her latest client, Daniel, seems sweet and harmless. She is happy to assist him. 23 Blonde is a dark comedy about nice guys, regrets, and what we feel we deserve.
23 Red

In 2008, allegations emerged that Malka Leifer, the headmistress of the girls' campus of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in Melbourne's inner south-east, had committed grievous crimes against three young students under her care, sisters Dassi Erlich, Nicole Meyer and Elly Sapper. It was the catalyst for a reckoning; but before police investigations could get underway, Leifer fled overseas under the cloak of darkness with the assistance of the school. Thus began an extradition battle that would last for the better part of a decade, and a broader quest for justice that revealed a web of international intrigue, legal loopholes and political corruption as well as a deeper culture of silence around sexual abuse.
Revealed: Surviving Malka Leifer

Betty and Rosalie are best friends living on a Northern Territory mission. When cinema titans Charles and Elsa Chauvel arrive, searching for the perfect star for their revolutionary moving picture, the girls are forced to decide whether to rise up to the occasion.
Finding Jedda

The Greenhouse is a magic-realist drama that centres on the eldest child of two women, Beth, who discovers a portal into the past on their family property. On the cusp of her widowed mother Ruth's sixtieth birthday and the return of her dysfunctional siblings Drew, Doonie and Raf, Beth is swept away by visions of their idyllic childhood and re-lives the moments that defined her adolescence. Despite Ruth's warnings, and as real-world tensions grow between the siblings, Beth becomes dependant on the greenhouse, soon realising it isn't the paradise she believed it to be.
The Greenhouse

Sheri thought her biggest problem in life was dealing with the recent loss of her beloved grandma. But when a mysterious entity crash lands in the woods, only she and her group of shitkicker friends are what stands in the way of an insatiable, intergalactic hunger.
Our Effed Up World

A nice romantic dinner in a restaurant goes awry when it’s revealed one of them has a monstrous secret.
The Fling

Violet and Blue's youth collide in an early morning toke that leads to the ocean where connection stirs. What results is a tender, uplifting, queer surf-romance about the nuance of gender and the refuge found in being truly seen.
Beautiful They

During a storm in a remote Nepalese village, a mysterious man finds refuge in the house of a family haunted by their father's disappearance years before. Strangely unwilling to leave, he slowly reawakens lost memories of the missing father.
Family Man

There's a secret hidden in almost every website and every digital image you've ever seen. And how it got there is part of a far bigger story.
Losing Lena
A woman struggles with Lewy-Body dementia.
Where Did You Go?

When Arabella, a hard-of-hearing school student, begins spending time discussing schoolwork with Mr Chapman, she starts to find herself isolated. As her teacher’s grooming unfolds, she must hold onto the good energy that surrounds her.
14 in February

Follows Ben Rekhi as he retraces his father's path from modest childhood in newly independent India to his rise as a tech pioneer in Silicon Valley.