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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absolution | Andrew Lawrence | Short | ||
| Angus | Nick Moore, Ann Nolan | Short | Won creative excellence in Melbourne International Film Festival | |
| The Arsonist's Riddle | Ben West | Short animation | ||
| The Asian Turtle Crisis | Elke Taylor | Short documentary | ||
| Australia: Land Beyond Time | David Flatman | Short documentary | ||
| Australian Rules | Paul Goldman | Kevin Harrington, Nathan Phillips, Luke Carroll | Drama | |
| Avoca | Nerida Moore | |||
| Baggage Claim | Kate Riedl | Short drama | ||
| The Bald and the Beautiful | Julie Nemcich | Short documentary | ||
| Beast | Prue Dudley | Short | ||
| The Beat Goes On | Stephen Vagg | Short | ||
| Beginnings | Husein Alicajic | |||
| Beneath Clouds | Ivan Sen | Dannielle Hall, Damian Pitt | Drama | Won Best Director at the 2002 AFI Awards |
| Bin Can Can | Steve Agland | Short animation/ Musical | ||
| The Birthday Party | Samantha Rebillet | Short drama | ||
| Bitzitulebocques | Short | |||
| Black and White | Craig Lahiff | Ben Mendelsohn, David Ngoombujarra, Robert Carlyle, Charles Dance | Drama | 2003 AFI Best Actor in Supporting Role |
| Black Talk | Wayne Blair | Short (12min) | Won Australian Short Film at the 2003 Sydney Film Festival | |
| Blurred | Evan Clarry | Drama/Comedy | Nom. 2003 AFI for Best Screenplay, Adapted | |
| Blow | Marie Craven | Short drama | ||
| Boomerang | Carla Drago | Sarah Aubrey, Tom Long, Anthony Jensen, Matthew Grossman | Short/Comedy | Won 4 2002 Tropfest awards |
| Broken Allegiance | Nick Hallam | Paul Hooper, Niobe Dean | Short | |
| Cane-Toad: What Happened to Baz? | ||||
| CH Jones: The World's Most Hated Food | ||||
| China Face | ||||
| Choosing Exile: In the Footprints of a Stranger | ||||
| Chris, Not Krishna, Calling | ||||
| Chrono-logic | ||||
| Chrysalis | ||||
| Clouds Weep on the Greenness | ||||
| Code 2 | ||||
| Contact | ||||
| Crackerjack | Paul Moloney | Mick Molloy, Bill Hunter, Frank Wilson, Monica Maughan, John Clarke, Lois Ramsey, Samuel Johnson, Judith Lucy, Cliff Ellen, Bob Hornery, Peter Aanensen, Esme Melville, John Flaus, Lois Collinder, Paul McCarthy, Teague Rook, Robyn Butler, Brett Swain, Tony Martin, Greg Francis, Andrew Gilmour, Earl Francis, Pete Smith | ||
| Crazy Richard | ||||
| The Creepy Crawleys | ||||
| The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course | John Stainton | Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin, Magda Szubanski, David Wenham, Lachy Hulme, Aden Young, Kate Beahan, Steve Bastoni, Steven Vidler, Alyson Standen, Alex Ruiz, David Franklin, Robert Coleby | ||
| Daddy Boy | ||||
| Dances with Emus | ||||
| Dark Age of Light: Episode 01 | ||||
| De l'autre côté | ||||
| Dig | ||||
| Dirty Deeds | David Caesar | Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, John Goodman, Sam Neill, Sam Worthington, Kestie Morassi, William McInnes, Andrew S. Gilbert, Garry Waddell, Felix Williamson, Bille Brown, Paul Chubb, Brett Hicks-Maitland, Sam Jacobson, Holly Jones, Shane McNamara, John McNeill, Chris Moody, Angelo Parisi, Tim Rogers, Andy Kent, Russell Hopkinson, David Lane, Tony Hicks | ||
| Dog's Day | ||||
| The Doppelgangers | ||||
| East Timor: Birth of a Nation – Rosa's Story | ||||
| Eloise | ||||
| Enough | ||||
| Eve of Adha | ||||
| F.A. | ||||
| Family Affair | ||||
| Fashion Victim | ||||
| Finding Joy | ||||
| Flat | ||||
| The Flying Nut | ||||
| Fond Memories of Cuba | ||||
| Free | ||||
| From Deep It Came | ||||
| Garage Days | Alex Proyas | Kick Gurry, Maya Stange, Pia Miranda, Russell Dykstra, Chris Sadrinna, Andy Anderson (actor), Marton Csokas, Tiriel Mora, Holly Brisley | ||
| The Gas Club | ||||
| Godmode | ||||
| Guardian | ||||
| Guru Wayne | ||||
| Half Sister | ||||
| The Hard Word | Scott Roberts | Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Joel Edgerton | Crime / Comedy | |
| Helga | ||||
| Help Me | ||||
| Her Outback | ||||
| Hetty | ||||
| High Street Love Story | ||||
| Hommes du jour | ||||
| Horses: The Story of Equus | ||||
| How Am I Driving | ||||
| I Love U | ||||
| Impressions | ||||
| In Blood | ||||
| In the Dark We Live | ||||
| Indefinable Moods | ||||
| The Inside Story | ||||
| Into the Night | ||||
| Invitation | ||||
| Island Rescue | ||||
| Jack | ||||
| Joe Bus | ||||
| Kabbarli | ||||
| Karmarama | ||||
| Lamb | ||||
| The Last Breadbox | ||||
| The Last Drop | ||||
| Late Night Shopper | ||||
| Leunig: How Democracy Actually Works | ||||
| Life at the End of the Rainbow | Wayne Coles-Janess | Documentary | ||
| Love Story | ||||
| Lucky Day | ||||
| Making Venus | ||||
| The Merchant of Fairness | ||||
| Mother of an Attitude | ||||
| Murbah Swamp Beer | ||||
| New Skin | ||||
| The Nugget | Bill Bennett | Eric Bana, Stephen Curry, Dave O'Neil, Belinda Emmett, Peter Moon, Vince Colosimo, Max Cullen, Karen Pang, Sallyanne Ryan, Alan Brough, Jeff Truman, Chris Haywood, Jean Kittson, Glenda Linscott, Jane Hall, Hugh Bateman, Owen Bates, Alan Bennett, Henry Bennett, Nellie Bennett, Megan Bice, Bruce Chan, Mick Cleary, Jennifer Cluff, Mark Coric, Linda Cropper, Scott Etherington, George Hamilton, Scott McGregor, Matthew Riley, Michael Terry | ||
| Of All Great Forces | ||||
| Once | ||||
| Only | ||||
| The Only Person in the World | ||||
| Ordinary People | ||||
| The Original Mermaid | ||||
| Other People | ||||
| The Pact | ||||
| Pillion | ||||
| The Projectionist | ||||
| Q | ||||
| Quentin | ||||
| The Quiet American | Phillip Noyce | Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija, Tzi Ma, Robert Stanton, Holmes Osborne, Quang Hai, Ferdinand Hoang, Pham Thi Mai Hoa, Mathias Mlekuz, Kevin Tran, Lap Phan, Tim Bennett, Jeff Truman, Hong Nhung, Ha Phong Nguyen, Navia Nguyen, Lucia Noyce, Hiliary Douglas, Daniel Hung, Kim Hoan Nguyen, Mai Nguyen Trinh, Pham Trong, Tran Do Luc, Cong Nguyen | ||
| The Silence of Angels | ||||
| Rabbit-Proof Fence | Phillip Noyce | Everlyn Sampi, David Gulpilil, Kenneth Branagh | Drama | AACTA Award for Best Film |
| Rainbow Bird and Monster Man | ||||
| The Real Thing | ||||
| Return to Never Land (a.k.a. Peter Pan: Return to Never Land) | Robin Budd | Harriet Owen, Blayne Weaver, Corey Burton, Jeff Bennett, Kath Soucie, Roger Rees, Spencer Breslin, Bradley Pierce, Aaron Spann, Dan Castellaneta, Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Clive Revill, Frank Welker, Wally Wingert | ||
| The Rotting Woman | ||||
| Roundabout | ||||
| Running Down These Dreams | ||||
| Schtick Happens | ||||
| Search | ||||
| Searching for Mr Right.Com | ||||
| Secret Bridesmaids' Business | ||||
| Shadow Play: Indonesia's Year of Living Dangerously | ||||
| Shhh....... | ||||
| The Shot | ||||
| Show and Tell | ||||
| Signs of Life | ||||
| Sisters of St John of God | ||||
| Six Days Straight | ||||
| Sixth Scent | Petrina Buckley | Petrina Buckley, Mark Jensen, Stephen Bach | Short / Comedy | |
| Size Does Matter | ||||
| Sketch | ||||
| Something About AJ | ||||
| Stranger in the Family | ||||
| Stuffed Bunny | ||||
| Stump | ||||
| Suburban Nightmare | ||||
| Sugar Inc. | ||||
| Surviving Shepherd's Pie | ||||
| Sway | ||||
| Sweet Dreams | ||||
| Tales from the Powder Room | ||||
| Teesh and Trude | ||||
| Tempe Tip | ||||
| Terminal Trance | ||||
| The Thing in the Roof | ||||
| Till Human Voices Wake Us | ||||
| The Tracker | Rolf de Heer | David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet | ||
| Tragic Love | ||||
| Tre per sempre | ||||
| The Trials of Henry Kissinger | ||||
| Trojan Warrior | ||||
| Two Thirds Sky: Artists in Desert Country | ||||
| The Visitor | Dan Castle | Short/Drama/Mystery (30min) | Nom. 2003 AFI Best Short Fiction Film, Won 2 2002 Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival awards | |
| Wait 'Til Your Father Gets Home | Martin Wilson | Mike Dorsey, Luke Hewitt, Deborah Kennedy, Barry Langrishe, Tamblyn Lord, Kyle Morrison | Short | |
| Walking on Water | Tony Ayres | Vince Colosimo, Maria Theodorakis | Comedy drama | |
| The War of Jenkins Ear | David Napier | Short drama | ||
| Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao | Michael Vickerman | Jeff Carrara, Kevin Smith, Nathan Phillips, Nina Liu, Shedrack Anderson III, Fusen Chen, Xiongwei Chen, Zhu Chen, Carla Deaton, Shuntian Guan, Tian Le, Jonathan Tex Levitt, Ying Liang, Bao Cheng Li, Jianquo Li | Fantasy | |
| Wash Dark Colors Separately | Chee Lam | Short | ||
| Wasted on the Young | Keri Light | Short comedy | ||
| The Way Back | Samuel MacGeorge | |||
| A Wedding in Ramallah | Sherine Salama | Documentary | ||
| Weeping Willow | Adrian Wills | Short drama | ||
| Whispering in the Dark | Lynne B. Williams | Short drama | ||
| Wilfred | ||||
| Window Shopper | ||||
| Your Brother, My Tidda | Kelrick Martin | Short documentary | ||
| ZTS: State of Entropy | Stefanos Stefanidis | Drama |
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