Tom Zubrycki Movies

  • 2007
    Temple of Dreams

    Temple of Dreams

    Temple of Dreams

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    Fadi Rahman is young, charismatic and ambitious. With the help of a team of Lebanese volunteers, he runs a youth centre and gymnasium in Sydney's...

    Temple of Dreams
  • 1991
    Bran Nue Dae

    Bran Nue Dae

    Bran Nue Dae

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    Goes behind the scenes of the original stage production of Bran Nue Dae, which was eventually adapted into the box-office hit musical.

    Bran Nue Dae
  • 1991
    Amongst Equals

    Amongst Equals

    Amongst Equals

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    Zubrycki’s controversial, provocative and rarely screened documentary about the Australian trade-union movement was originally commissioned by...

    Amongst Equals
  • 2023
    The Carnival

    The Carnival

    The Carnival

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    The Carnival captures the intimate moments of the sixth-generation carnival family, the Bells, as they haul their convoy of trucks, rides and workers...

    The Carnival
  • 1977
    Addison Road Drop-In

    Addison Road Drop-In

    Addison Road Drop-In

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    A video that looks at some of the marginalised young people who come to the Addison Road Drop-In Centre in Marrickville. Interviews with both the...

    Addison Road Drop-In
  • 2019
    Gardens of Stone

    Gardens of Stone

    Gardens of Stone

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    Gardens of Stone is a short documentary which tells a story of the efforts of traditional owners, bushwalkers and scientists to save a landscape of...

    Gardens of Stone
  • 1996
    Billal

    Billal

    Billal

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    The Eter family live on a state housing estate in a suburb comprising mainly Anglo-Australian families. One night a fight breaks out involving the...

    Billal
  • 1977
    The Addison Road Drop-In

    The Addison Road Drop-In

    The Addison Road Drop-In

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    The Sydney suburb of Marrickville has Australia’s ‘first, largest and longest-surviving community centre’; it is shown here in the...

    The Addison Road Drop-In
  • 2000
    Stolen Generations

    Stolen Generations

    Stolen Generations

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    A film about the Australian government's practice of removing Aboriginal children from their families.

    Stolen Generations
  • 1985
    Marrickville

    Marrickville

    Marrickville

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    Looks at the history and cultural diversity of the Sydney, Australia suburb of Marrickville. The video features interviews with those who live in...

    Marrickville
  • 1974
    Fig Street Fiasco

    Fig Street Fiasco

    Fig Street Fiasco

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    Residents take on the bulldozers and the police in Tom Zubrycki’s look at urban redevelopment in Sydney in the 1970s. It is a 'process video'...

    Fig Street Fiasco
  • 1993
    Homelands: View from the Edge

    Homelands: View from the Edge

    Homelands: View from the Edge

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    In his first exploration of the migration experience, Zubrycki poses the question ‘When the fighting stops, how do you make choices about where...

    Homelands: View from the Edge
  • 1974
    We Have To Live With It

    We Have To Live With It

    We Have To Live With It

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    A community video made by Tom Zubrycki and the residents of Balmain and Rozelle that documents concerns held by residents and local businesses about...

    We Have To Live With It
  • 1981
    Waterloo

    Waterloo

    Waterloo

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    The film outlines the history of the redevelopment of the Sydney suburb of Waterloo. Residents are interviewed and archival footage is used to...

    Waterloo
  • 2004
    Molly & Mobarak

    Molly & Mobarak

    Molly & Mobarak

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    Molly & Mobarak is a 2003 Australian documentary directed by Tom Zubrycki. It follows a Hazara asylum seeker, 22-year-old Mobarak Tahiri, as he falls...

    Molly & Mobarak
  • 2013
    The Secret Safari

    The Secret Safari

    The Secret Safari

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    The Secret Safari tells the story of one of the most audacious military operations in the armed fight against apartheid in South Africa. A...

    The Secret Safari
  • 1990
    Lord of the Bush

    Lord of the Bush

    Lord of the Bush

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    Eccentric British developer Lord McAlpine has a dream – an urge to create a whole new civilisation in Australia’s North based around the...

    Lord of the Bush
  • 2005
    Vietnam Symphony

    Vietnam Symphony

    Vietnam Symphony

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    In 1965 during the Vietnam War, students and teachers from the National Conservatory of Music in Hanoi were forced to flee to a small village in the...

    Vietnam Symphony