Sydney Indie Film Festival - Official Selections 2015

On his first weekend parole after 5 years in prison, Mark Rodriguez witnesses the armed robbery of a security van. His brother's critical situation and his own feelings of remorse will lead him to take desperate measures. His only help will be a young and sexy stripper he met the night before.

A guilt-ridden man who blames himself for the accidental death of his only child meets a mysterious beautiful woman in the same remote town where the fateful car crash occurred. There is a spark between them. But she carries a dark past.

How's a boy suppose to be a man with his sister always on his back?

A chance meeting between a man and a woman becomes a dramatically intense and darkly comic journey about love, co-dependency and loss.

The story of Thailand's last prison executioner.

The mismatches of love and body functions.

When Jen starts her new job as a nurse at the 'Easy Love Care Home', she is surprised to find James, a 25 year old man living and working in the building. James and his three, elderly best friends hatch a plan to go on one last adventure and the only medical cover they can get is the one person who doesn't want to be around old people. Will their plan go off without a hitch or is there a sell by date on adventure?

In a dark and amoral city Evangeline, a naive runaway clone, desperately tries to change her fate and find the cure she hopes will make her human.

Tierra Caliente is the story of an ordinary family in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. As they go about their normal lives, they are caught in the crossfire between the Narco drug cartels and the military.

Extra-terrestrials launch a nation-wide assault on Australia, much to the bafflement of the rest of the world.

Black Wedding is a pitch-dark comedy on marriage. Not a single word is spoken, but murder is ubiquitous. It's the uproarious story of a husband and wife that artfully tries to kill each other - again and again, for 76 minutes, without speaking a single word. It's the way it is sometimes in a marriage. But the crafty couple pursue their devious plans without their daughter, who has sinister intentions all her own. And so one dramatic event chases the other - hilariously, surprisingly, and shockingly.

A man disillusioned with his failing marriage and dead end career abruptly decides to visit his past to figure out where it all went wrong.

Blackmailed by dirty cops, rookie thieves Nathan and Jeff are send to steal a briefcase from a warehouse. But what seems to be an easy mission to avoid jail, unleashes their worst nightmares from the underworld of crime.

The decision to enter an unlocked home triggers an irreversible chain of events for Robin and Chris, catapulting them into an alternate reality where they are not as alone as they think.

What would you do to save your child? A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.

The greatest love story ever told...with fingers.

Torn apart during adolescence, estranged brothers reunite. The younger, a 16-year old on the fast track to college with his entire life ahead of him. The older, a 21-year old heroin addict and street hustler who's settled for rock bottom.

What happens when an epidemic breaks out, but you're kept in the dark? Anything can happen. Slowly the residents realize that they will all die unless they come together.

A comedy about the extra layer of police hassle a young black man faces while driving. The film explores, with love, the black experience in everyday interactions with police.

An epic comedy about Live Action Role Players where Vikings, Ninjas, and Norse Gods battle so that our hero can learn the true meaning of Total Awesome Viking Power.

'Willa, why are we here?'(quote, Stephen King`s Willa) For only one dollar Stephen King offers his short stories to film students all around the world. We took this chance and picked the most beautiful Dollar-Baby: Willa.

Following a miscarriage and broken engagement, Amelia makes an unorthodox decision to move in next door to her ex, testing her theory that love can be re-purposed, but is not disposable - her experiment is met with considerable challenges.

A spirited and determined young girl full of hope and heart shows her family and friends that it is far better to give than receive.

D.Asian. Identity is in the eye of the beholder.

A mockumentry about addiction to Glow - it is cheap, and available to children. Using Glow you can space out for hours or even days. Glow can impact on school work, employment, relationships, healthy sleep and enjoying life to the full.