A Message of Importance

March 1944. Rome is under Nazi occupation. Elena and a group of young partisans decide to rebel.

While on a seemingly routine delivery run for the Brigadier, Benton finds himself close to his childhood home, where ghosts from his past have never rested easily… Trapped in a nightmare world where past and present are one, will he be lost forever or can he fight his way back to reality, where he is desperately needed?

Viet Flakes was composed from an obsessive collection of Vietnam atrocity images, compiled over five years, from foreign magazines and newspapers. Schneemann uses the 8mm camera to “travel” within the photographs, producing a volatile animation.

A young hare named Ferdinand is playing the harmonica before the battle. Soon the signal for attack will be given, and Ferdinand will face the terrible enemy on the battlefield.

Fallen Art presents the story of General A, a self-proclaimed artist. His art, however, consists of a deranged method of stop motion photography, where the individual frames of the movie are created by photographs made by Dr. Johann Friedrich, depicting the bodies of dead soldiers, pushed down by Sergeant Al from a giant springboard onto a slab of concrete.

Just after recovering from losing his entire unit in battle, Sgt. Rock leads a special army of commandos against a Nazi secret research base.

A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.

About the 1914 soccer game when the English played the Germans in No Mans Land on Christmas Day. Only in this fable the game was brokered by Santa Claus and The Krampus. Both men later find you cannot bring Christmas magic to a war zone.

As rebels planned Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising, they were watched by two spies code-named Granite and Chalk. This documentary delves into British intelligence to tell their story, one century on. Funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board, After ’16 is a creative response by Irish filmmakers to the events of Easter 1916. This collection of nine short films is a mixture of live-action, animation and documentary, telling stories from the eve of the Rising all the way to the Troubles in 1970s Northern Ireland and beyond.

During Napoleonic wars, a young idealistic drummer, in search of glory, arrives on the battlefield and discovers the horrors of war.

Amidst the horror and chaos of war, two enemies are forced into an unholy alliance in the battle for survival.

The story of 18-year-old Gianni who was one of thousands of Italian immigrants living in Western Australia forcibly put into camps.

"In 1904, disgusted by the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War, Mark Twain wrote a short anti-war prose poem called "The War Prayer." His family begged him not to publish it, his friends advised him to bury it, and his publisher rejected it, thinking it too inflammatory for the times. Twain agreed, but instructed that it be published after his death, saying famously: None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth."

The American submarine is rushing to the intended target, from where the U.S. ballistic missiles are shot. For the third month the boat has been on a cruise, everyone is tired of this life, the captain is nervous - the speed is at the limit of the machine's capabilities. Only the chief mate, the only person on the boat who will not hesitate to press the fatal button, feels confident ... When the target is only minutes away, the radio operator raises the alarm: the Moscow radio announces that an important government message is about to be announced. The base is silent. Fearing that war has broken out, the captain declares combat readiness, but at the same time Moscow radio reports the launch of the world's first cosmonaut.

This is just one episode of that terrible war. One and only day for a recruit - a military driver of an asphalt skating rink. He used it to level the runway during a raid by fascist bombers so that our planes could take off into the sky...

Ireland, Easter, 1916. In Dublin, Irish rebel Patrick Pearse leads a revolt to free Ireland from the grips of the British Empire. Owen, a young Irish patriot, wants to join them in their fight for freedom.

A female Australian soldier cut off from her team, lies trapped in a collapsed building behind enemy lines. With a broken leg and minimal supplies, she is on her own until the unlikely arrival of a frightened 10 year old boy wielding a rifle, who helps her maintain survival through their developing friendship.

Two brothers, one of whom suffers from a traumatic brain injury, struggle to survive on their own.

In 1974, a soldier, having now returned home, is haunted by shadows from the past, but are they just in his mind?

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.