Gay Themed Movies from Australia
Cinematic journeys of love, identity, and freedom.
A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working class suburbs on Melbourne’s edge.
Director: Gabriel Carrubba
Three surf lifesavers on a big night out. Jealousy, homophobic fears and unrequited lust culminate in a tragic booze-fueled episode of near-fatal bullying.
Director: Dean Francis
Based on a true story, Joy Boy revisits pivotal moments in the life of Jonny, a young man caught between his conservative family, an evangelical church and his emergent sexuality.
Director: Stef Smith
A film based on true events, living in a LGBTQIA community, facing discrimination, HIV, and love.
Directed by Pierre-Nicolas Panasci
‘Sacrifice’ follows the love story between James Hunter and Blake Robinson as they begin a new phase in their life together. Forces out of their control tear them apart but to what extent and consequence? How much will they sacrifice?
Barney and Dimi are young men in love and are on a trip to visit Dan, Barney’s dying father. Dan is planning his suicide and wants Barney there.
Directed by Wenona Byrne
Three lifelong friends involved in a love triangle embark on a road trip that will change their lives forever.
Directed by Christopher Sampson
When the pressure of a homophobic town and family weighs too heavily on the shoulders of a young gay man, he must confide in his best friend and true love.
Directed by Harry Weston
Kevin is a teenager growing up in a rural neighborhood. With the support of his partner and his sister, he becomes himself and learns that not everyone in his life will accept him for who he is, most prominently his mother.
Directed by Pierce Hadjinicola, Sinclair Suhood
A young man is surprised by what he discovers in his first trip to the baths.
Directed by Ben McCormack
Casey, a country lad running from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in big city Sydney. When he meets city lad Tib both men find something they have been missing but neither of them knows quite how to negotiate it.
Directed by Craig Boreham
An exclusive documentary on the GlamCocks camp at Burning Man Festival.
Directed by Vincent Rommelaere
A mockumentary following the team at Platinum Training Academy as they attempt to run the business and manage their personal lives.
Created by Steven Carnuccio
A lonely, awkward teenager encounters a male sex worker on a morning in suburban Sydney. Based on the short story “Concealer” by Andy Boreham.
Director: Adrian Chiarella
Two men connect more than just sexually, when a Scruff hook-up has them meeting in a park in the middle of a hot summer’s night.
Director: Lee Matthews
An XXY adolescent is rejected by his father at a suburban burning man ceremony.
Director: Stephen Lance
After spending a drunken night together, Jo, a photographer, is compelled to capture the emotional truth beneath the rough exteriors of sharpie gang members, Darren and Jason. But to what lengths will she go in the name of art?
Director: Amy Gebhardt
Based on a true story from the life of its co-writer, Greg Logan, Franswa Sharl (an English corruption of Francois Charles) was directed by filmmaker Hannah Hilliard. In this gay short film, Greg is a teenage boy with a lively flamboyancy who is on holiday in Fiji with his and another family.
Director: Hannah Hilliard
A tarot card reader sees his future while reading that of his client.
Director: Clare Butler
Stewart is teenager struggling to stay afloat. Taunted as a ‘fagot’ at school, he hides his feeling and his body from everyone as he finds destuctive ways to deal with his sexuality.
Director: Michael Trower
