Tom Zubrycki Movies

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...

The flying foxes that soar across Sydney each evening face many challenges: impacted by heatwaves, evicted from urban parklands, struggling to...

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

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

Weeks before the closure of a Wollongong coal mine, a group of 31 miners occupied the pit and established themselves 5 kilometres underground. The...

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

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...

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

On the eve of bicentennial celebrations, Strangers in Paradise looks at Australian culture through the eyes of tourists on a ‘Dreamtime’...

Only metres above sea level, the nation of Kiribati is on the front line of climate change. Maria Tiimon, a Kiribati woman living in Sydney, is...

‘memory film: a filmmaker’s diary’ is an immersive poetic documentary based on Jeni Thornley’s Super8 archive (1974-2003)...

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'...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...