Adrian Chiarella

Leviticus

Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other.

Australia

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

Teenage Kicks

Miklós is at the age when everything feels high-stakes. He is coming to terms with his own sexuality, and when his best friend Dan reveals that he has a new girlfriend, this puts an end to their plans to run away together.

Dwarf Planet

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

Black Lips

Hong, a lonely Chinese immigrant, sells black market abalone at inflated prices and avoids connecting with people through a life of solitary ritual. He ventures to a remote part of the coast to track down his supplier where he meets Cain, a lonely gay man in a troubled relationship. With Cain’s help, Hong makes his way back to the city – and to a new understanding of his life.

Sweet Milk Lake

When Jake, a 26-year-old trans man introvert, is mistaken by his estranged and dying father for his cis alpha twin brother, Sam, the opportunity to be 'one of the boys' and be easily accepted by his father derails his drive to self-actualise until the weight of the lie becomes heavier than his need for the truth.

Touch

Vincent suffers from a rare skin condition, where the slightest touch leaves him blistered and scarred. His mother Anna lives in constant fear of him - afraid of the harm she may cause by holding her own son's hand. When a ghost from the past tries to make contact, Anna must face her fears and find a way to connect with her son.

Lonesome

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.

Ostia: The Last Night

A dark story of desire and betrayal inspired by the events of the night of the brutal slaying of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Before the Rain

Four stories, one hot day - Sydney, Australia, just before the rain.

Mogadishu Dreaming

A short documentary about Ahmed Hagi, a gay Somali artist who fled his war torn country to Sydney, Australia where he now spends his days painting idealized visions of Mogadishu before it fell under the control of gangs and warlords.

William Yang: The Art of Seduction

William Yang is a third-generation Australian-Chinese artist, born and raised in Queensland. He is best known for his documentary photographs and his narrative monologues with slide projections. Many of Yang's works examine his Chinese family history, gay identity or themes such as AIDS. This short documentary looks at one aspect of William's work as a photographer - the photos he takes of male nudes. In many ways, this is the most personal and vulnerable of his work because it always involves a negotiation or transaction.

Suburbia

An ordinary day in suburbia is shattered by a gunshot sound

Almost

Emily and Tom meet and have a magnetic connection. They almost fall very much in love, however, fate intervenes and they can never be together.

The Love Song of Iskra Prufrock

The story of Iskra, a Croatian refugee who works as a radiologist in an inner city surgery. In an effort to recover from her violent past, Iskra has made her life one of ritual - every day she takes the very same train to the to the very same job in the very same building. But she finds that her new life is a lonely one and, despite the odd imaginative trip into fancy when the tedium of her everyday world gets the better of her, devoid of true happiness. That is of course until she meets Leo... However it would seem that for Iskra, even love was not meant to be easy...

The Newsreader

An unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; a star newsreader and an ambitious bisexual reporter join forces in a ruthless 1986 newsroom, as events unfold that will change their lives.

Five Bedrooms

Five different people at different times of their lives bond at a wedding after being seated together at the singles table. After a few too many drinks, the solution to all of their problems seems to be buying a five-bedroom house together.

White Fever

Jane Thomas is a woman who knows what she wants - she has a love of hairy white men. When her friends call her out for having a white man fetish, she sets out to reprogram her libido, reigniting a connection with her childhood friend Yu.

Erotic Stories

Erotic Stories is a bold and transgressive anthology series exploring sex and intimacy amongst diverse characters not traditionally seen as sexual leads.

Totally Completely Fine

When self-destructive Vivian discovers the cliffside property she’s inherited is a known suicide site, she is tasked with becoming its reluctant guardian, rescuing lost souls on the verge.