6.0

The Combination

2008, Australia

• Actors: George Basha, Firass Dirani, Doris Younane, Rahel Abdulrahman, Clare Bowen, John Brumpton, Rashad Dehan, Michael Denkha, Adam Grossetti, Ali Haider, Johnny Lahoud, Guang Li, Tyrone Lindqvist, Drew Pearson, Vano Rafik, Katrina Risteska, Tony Ryan, Daniel Webber, Vaughn White, Michael Ienna
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): David Field
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Set in the maligned western suburbs of Sydney, Lebanese-Australian John gets out of gaol to discover his younger brother Charlie is caught up with drugs, hookers and crime. Charlie oscillates between the streets and school. Daily clashes between Scott and Charlie's gang escalate. This feud spills into the streets in a territory and identity battle that turns bloody. The Combination dares to shed light on the racial tension that has often boiled over into incidents like the Cronulla riots. Suburban stereotypes are challenged when John falls for an Australian girl named Sydney. She presents an opportunity for a new start - yet with each step closer to her he is made painfully aware of the choice he will have to make - family or love.

  6.9

The Children of Huang Shi

2008, Australia, China, Germany

• Actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Guang Li, Lin Ji, Matt Walker, Anastasia Kolpakova, Ping Su, Imai Hideaki, Sciichiro Hashimoto, Shinichi Takashima, Xing Mang, Ruixiang Zhu, Yuelong Fang, Shimin Sun, Xucheng Shi, Naihan Yang, Weijuan Wu, Zhi Zang, Liu Hui, Shunzen Zhao, Qing Xuan Alan Li, Shu Li, Shane Briant, Shuyuan Jin, Zhibo Wang, David Wenham, Shi Yuan, Kehan Zhai
• Genre: Drama, War
• Director(s): Roger Spottiswoode
• Available languages:
  • English English.

People thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation discover their capacity for love and responsibility. A young Englishman, George Hogg, comes to lead sixty orphaned boys on a journey of over 500 perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And how, in doing so, he comes to understand the meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese communist partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian nurse whom war has turned into an unsentimental healer on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China.