A seventeen-year-old boy struggles to understand and embrace his sexuality as he comes of age in the working class suburbs on Melbourne's edge.
REPAIRS AND MALFUNCTIONS is an independent thriller, created by August MacDonald. Two young modem repairmen, Harvey and Isaac, arrive at the house of a new customer, a gruff yet charming middle-aged man. Once they arrive, the Man convinces the two to stay longer than they should with the promise of drugs and alcohol. Over the course of their ill-timed hangout, the Man's true nature begins to seep through his charming facade. But by the time they realize, it may be too late.
A father stuck in the past. A son searching for an escape. And a family business caught right in the middle, inching ever closer towards oblivion.
In the suburbs of Australia a mosaic-like narrative documenting the fall-out of sexual & domestic abuse.
With her debts mounting and the imminent threat of eviction, a single mother has only twenty four hours to turn things around, while attending to her son’s unstable health conditions.
Deena has lost her father, and with him, any sense of calm. Trapped inside a crowded house brimming with relatives, rituals, and unspoken family tensions, she aches for something simple: a moment alone.