Dasha Melnik

When your knife turns blunt, do you sharpen it or let it become a glorified butter knife at dad's company brunches? Something only you can answer.

Rhys flees to his garage as the report of a zombie virus hits the world. Trapped in his dark corner, gripping onto sanity, he hears the beckoning voice of a zombie on the outside.

A Russian-Australian cinematographer travels to Albany to find out about the time when a 19th Century town at the end of the world was put on high alert of a Russian invasion.

Alex and Sam want a baby, which is tricky when you're both cisgender women. Fortunately, Leslie is willing to help out. On the quest to become a sperm donor for his beloved friends, Leslie explores the process and lengths to which queer people must go to create a nuclear family. The baby-to-be is the embodiment of the chosen family, created deliberately and with such love, within the irregular shape of a chosen family.

They say you can start over, but if the music in your head is different, and the smells aren’t the same... then what? Where is that start? In a single day, Marta, a young Russian migrant in Perth faces the end of her visa and the question of who she really is when home is nowhere to be found.

On a quest to challenge the hypocrisy of local politics and disrupt the status quo, a young filmmaker finds himself caught up in the con.