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Refugee Week Collection – 15 June
SBS On Demand celebrates stories of hope and resilience to mark World Refugee Week.
To A Land Unknown – Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. But when Reda loses their hard-earned cash, Chatila hatches an extreme escape plan to pose as smugglers.
Baghdad Messi – Iraq, 2009. Little Hamoudi (10) is totally obsessed with football. Luke the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly looking forward to the Champions League finale FC Barcelona–Manchester United. But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down …
Warsha follows Mohammad, a Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut. One morning he volunteers to take on one of the tallest and notoriously most dangerous cranes. Away from everyone’s eyes, he is able to live out his secret passion and find freedom.
Freemont – Formerly a translator for the United States military in Afghanistan, Donya rebuilds her life in San Francisco. She works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory and decides to send out a special message in one of the cookies.
The Brigade Season 2 – 18 June
Series. Following a shoot-out between drug traffickers and police, Saïd’s elite team of young officers finds itself at the centre of a major investigation that turns out to be far more complex than expected. As they do everything they can to take down one of Europe’s biggest traffickers, a ruthless and mysterious gang of armed robbers emerges, threatening to derail their mission.
SBS On Demand: recent highlights
Coldwater – 10 June
Series. Coldwater is a blackly comic thriller from the inimitable playwright David Ireland. John (Andrew Lincoln, The Walking Dead) is shocked to find himself in middle age, secretly raging at his life as a stay-at-home dad.
When his failure to intervene in a violent confrontation in a playground brings his identity crisis to a head, John up and moves his family to the small Scottish rural idyll of Coldwater, to live as far away from London as possible.
Pasa Faho – 1 June
Film (2025). Azubuike is a charming shoe salesman who is just making ends meet in Melbourne. When his 12-year-old son, Obinna, moves across the country to live with him, the estranged pair struggle to find stability in an already turbulent time.
With the news that Azubuike’s shop is to be sold to developers, the two must find answers or risk losing more than just the shoe shop. Winner of the Best International Feature Film at the 2025 AFRIFF Globe Awards. Made in association with SBS.
Dinosaur Season 2 – 6 June
Series. Eight months after we last saw her, Nina (Ashley Storrie) is knee-deep in mud on an Isle of Wight dig site, living her palaeontology dream. Or at least, that’s what she tells herself. Truthfully, she’s exhausted, missing Glasgow, her family, Lee – oh, and her home comforts, namely sausage rolls.
Journey Home, David Gulpilil – 27 May
When Australia’s most renowned Indigenous actor David Gulpilil passes away far from his Homeland, his family struggle against huge logistical challenges to fulfil his final wish, to bury him on his Homeland, over 4500 kilometres away.
The incredible access granted to the filmmakers is David’s family’s gift to the world, continuing his legacy of sharing his culture.
Narrated by Hugh Jackman and Baker Boy, Journey Home, David Gulpilil has won the 2026 AATA Best Documentary Award, 2026 AACTA Best Original Score in a Documentary (David Bridie), and 2025 DIFF Audience Award.
ScreenHub: Journey Home, David Gulpilil review – a fitting tribute to a cinematic hero
