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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| 40,000 Years of Dreaming | ||||
| The Alive Tribe | Stephen Amis | Peter Daicos, Barry Dickins | Action / Comedy / Romance | |
| At Sea | Documentary | |||
| Barn of the Blood Llama | Kevin L. West | Comedy / Horror | ||
| The Beneficiary | Graeme Burfoot | Barry Otto, Helene Joy | Crime / Thriller Short | |
| Blackrock | Steven Vidler | Laurence Breuls, Simon Lyndon, Linda Cropper | Drama | |
| Blow | Craig Boreham | Short animation | ||
| Boy | Short | |||
| Brief Fiction | Short | |||
| Bum Magnet | Short | |||
| The Castle | Rob Sitch | Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Eric Bana | Comedy | |
| Chastity Truth and Kinopanorama | Short | |||
| China Dolls | Documentary Short | |||
| Cracks in the Mask | Documentary Short | |||
| Critical Care | Comedy / Drama | |||
| A Cut in the Rates | Short | |||
| Deadline | Short | |||
| Devil in the Detail | Short | |||
| Diana & Me | Comedy | |||
| Doing Time for Patsy Cline | Chris Kennedy | Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto | Comedy / Drama | |
| Doom Runners | Brendan Maher | Tim Curry, Dean O'Gorman, Lea Moreno | Sci-Fi | |
| Domesticated Animals | Short | |||
| Doppelganger | Short | |||
| Dust Off the Wings | Action / Drama | |||
| Epsilon | Drama / Sci-Fi | aka: "Alien Visitor" and "Almost Alien" [1] | ||
| Exile in Sarajevo | Documentary / Romance | |||
| Exposed | Short | |||
| Five Hundred Acres | Short | |||
| Franz & Kafka | Short | |||
| Friends are Forever: Tales of the Little Princess | Animation | |||
| Go to Hell!! | Animation / Comedy | |||
| Going Once Going Twice | Martyn Park | Crime | ||
| Guided by the Light of the Lord | Short | |||
| Heaven | Short | |||
| Heaven's Burning | Craig Lahiff | Russell Crowe, Youki Koduh | Action / Crime / Drama | |
| His Mother's Voice | Short | |||
| House Taken Over | Short | |||
| Justice | Drama | |||
| Joey | Ian Barry | Jamie Croft, Ed Begley Jr. | Family | |
| Kiss or Kill | Bill Bennett | Frances O'Connor, Matt Day | Crime / Drama / Thriller | |
| Little Desert | Short | |||
| Look, Listen, Speak | Short | |||
| Low Job | Short | |||
| Maslin Beach | Comedy / Drama | |||
| Mrs Craddock's Complaint | Short | |||
| Nightride | Short | |||
| One That Got Away | Short | |||
| Oscar and Lucinda | Gillian Armstrong | Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett | Drama / Romance | |
| Paradise Road | Bruce Beresford | Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Ehle, Julianna Margulies | Drama | |
| Paws | Family | |||
| Road to Nhill | Sue Brooks | Tony Barry | Comedy | |
| The Sapphire Room | Short | |||
| Seamen | Short | |||
| Sweet & Sour | Short | |||
| Thank God He Met Lizzie | Cherie Nowlan | Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett, Frances O'Connor | Drama / Comedy / Romance | |
| Titsiana Booberini | Robert Luketic | Tania Lacy, Sophie Lee, Roz Hammond | Short | |
| True Love and Chaos | Drama | |||
| The Two-Wheeled Time Machine | Short | |||
| Under the Lighthouse Dancing | Graeme Rattigan | Jack Thompson, Jacqueline McKenzie, Naomi Watts | Drama | |
| Wang: Street Cop | Shannon Marinko | Short comedy | ||
| Welcome to Woop Woop | Stephan Elliott | Johnathon Schaech | Comedy | Screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Well | Samantha Lang | Pamela Rabe, Miranda Otto | Drama | Entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Wiggles Movie | Dean Covell | The Wiggles | Family | |
| Year of the Dogs | Michael Cordill | Alan Joyce, Tony Liberatore | Documentary / Sport |
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