Tom Zubrycki Movies

The story of 95-year-old Aboriginal elder Laurie Baymarrwangga and her work to maintain the language and cultural traditions of the Yan-nhangu people...

For 24 years East Timor's freedom fighter and Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos Horta campaigned to secure independence for his country, a...

A feature documentary about opera singer Tiriki Onus who finds a 70-year-old silent film believed to be made by his grandfather, Aboriginal leader...

Dogs of Democracy is an essay-style documentary about the stray dogs of Athens and the people who take care of them. Author and first-time filmmaker...

An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.

As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking...

Following the Sunnyboys’ enigmatic frontman Jeremy Oxley from the band’s origins, breakthrough success and his subsequent 30-year battle...

In May 1973, 10,000 artists, activists, hippies, radical students, gurus and visionaries descended on a small dairy town for 10 days of social and...

A refugee from the Sudanese civil war, Zacharia (one of the ‘Lost Boys' of Sudan) lives in Sydney with his wife and daughter. He desperately...

The Carnival captures the intimate moments of the sixth-generation carnival family, the Bells, as they haul their convoy of trucks, rides and workers...

Heritier Lumumba, formerly known as Harry O'Brien, was in the middle of his best season of AFL when his club president, Eddie McGuire, made a racist...

Eccentric British developer Lord McAlpine has a dream – an urge to create a whole new civilisation in Australia’s North based around the...

‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super8 archive (1974-2003)...

A journey into the emotional landscape of family, love and loss of two close friends, both Aboriginal, who were adopted by white families and have...

Molly & Mobarak is a 2003 Australian documentary directed by Tom Zubrycki. It follows a Hazara asylum seeker, 22-year-old Mobarak Tahiri, as he falls...

A film about the Australian government's practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families.

Cousins Jason and Julian are both 25. And bored. Armed with $100,000, a three-minute film idea, and an award-winning short film director, they decide...

My Rembetika Blues is a documentary film about love, life and Greek Music. Film maker M.Zournazi takes us on a musical odyssey into the heart and...

The Eter family live on a state housing estate in a suburb comprising mainly Anglo-Australian families. One night a fight breaks out involving the...

The Secret Safari tells the story of one of the most audacious military operations in the armed fight against apartheid in South Africa. A...