Adam Marks

Hong, a lonely Chinese immigrant, sells black market abalone at inflated prices and avoids connecting with people through a life of solitary ritual. He ventures to a remote part of the coast to track down his supplier where he meets Cain, a lonely gay man in a troubled relationship. With Cain’s help, Hong makes his way back to the city – and to a new understanding of his life.

Casey, a country lad running from a small-town scandal, finds himself down and out in big city Sydney. When he meets city lad Tib both men find something they have been missing but neither of them knows quite how to negotiate it.

The lives of four strangers collide on a lonely highway.

Best friends Dana and Julia drink alcopops in Julia's mum's car, while the boys hang out on a park bench smoking weed. It's time to leave for the party and Julia discovers she has more than a carful, so the boys volunteer to get in the boot. When Dana refuses drive Julia takes the keys, and their fun night out takes a tragic turn. Mixing drama and gross-out comedy, BOOT shows how a good time can inexorably slide into tragedy; how sacrifice can seem like a betrayal; and how guilt is the heaviest burden to bear.

A dysfunctional band loses their frontman 10 minutes before showtime, leaving a teenager to navigating egos, hard drugs and a little death to wrangle them back together. A loud and fast fever dream that interrogates our assumptions on identity and awakens the inner child in us all.