Grown-Ups Program

The following films have been granted ‘18+’ access under our Festival license - meaning the content in them would likely get an M, MA or R  classification rating for a cinema film. The content includes adult content like sex, human reproduction and human biology, war and psychology. They’re all great films, just not the kinds of films we want played to an unsuspecting school audience. If you choose to play these films at your hospital, university or group, we will ask you to please display signage about the viewing content.  Read about them individually below, and check out the curated playlists we’ve developed for them. The themes our filmmakers have explored this year include Reproduction, War. Note that there will be other films in the ‘Primary Schools’ and ‘Senior Schools’ playlists that you might also find appropriate for your programs, but under the process to get our Festival certified to play to the public, we’ve self-identified these following programs as exclusively for a grown-up audience.  Our playlists are password-protected - get the password by registering to be a SCINEMA venue. Any questions - email us.

Curated film programs

About the films

FAQs

Our curated playlists for 18+ Senior audiences for 2026

  • Full Playlist

    Full 120 minute playlist of 18+ ‘Grown-Ups’ film program.

  • Playlist: Reproduction

    Fragmentation + Greenland: A Geological Journey through Time + Layers In History + The Year in the Wind + Trilobite + Unveiling Earth’s Climate Secrets (37 mins)

  • Playlist: War

    Alien Minds + Cats of Istanbul + Chirp Talker + Ingrained + The Connection Of Ants + The Last Leaf Knows + The Space Bears 4 Ever + The Story of Sugar + The Year in the Wind + V & Dot (80 mins)

Individual titles in our 2026 ‘Grown-Ups’ program

Father Time - Why Men Are Born To Nurture
53 mins, France, 2026, Directed by Jacqueline Farmer

Becoming a dad is the start of an extraordinary adventure in a man's life — but it’s also a biological transformation, the scale of which was unimaginable, just two decades ago.

Misconception
20 mins, Australia, 2026, Directed by Karla Bogaart & Andrew Bromwich

Infertile
69 mins, United Kingdom, 2026, Directed by Ed Scott-Clarke

Sea of Hope
5 mins, Iraq, 2026, Directed by Jubrail Abubaker Rahmen

War Child Chose Science
60 mins, Finland, 2026, Directed by Päivi Marja and Elina Kapiainen-Heiskanen

Motivated by her sister’s early death and haunted by her own diagnosis of Huntington’s disease, a geneticist is racing against time. This drama puts science front and centre.

You Can Catch Every Sign
27 mins, Italy, 2026, Directed by Massimo Ivan Falsetta.

The devastating human toll of war through the eyes of civilians trapped in its wake. An animation from Iraqi filmmaker Jubrail Abubaker Rahman.

Paul Bangura, born in Sierra Leone, was abducted by guerrillas for 11 months during the civil war and became convinced that education will provide him with a path to a better life.

A poster in Italian language

Sixteen-year-old Elyanna becomes alarmed when her menstrual cycle stops for months, and at a medical visit her symptoms are dismissed as simple “hormonal changes.” This misdiagnosis marks the beginning of a life shaped by undetected PCOS

A man holds a newborn baby, showing the baby to a toddler sitting next to him
A baby drinks from a bottle
A woman in a white lab coat inspects equipment
A cartoon image of a woman in a hijab holding a baby
A man in a jacket and fur hat poses in the snow

There is growing scientific alarm that these Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) are fundamentally affecting our ability to reproduce and have healthy children.

FAQs

  • You are the venue in our film festival model. We will give you a password protected URL with the screening copies of the films listed above. You’ll obviously need a laptop or interactive whiteboard or screen or, if you’re lucky, your venue has a theatre. The programs go live from the second week of August, and will stay live to end of day Sunday 23 August 2026. You can play the films one at a time, in their themed programs, however you want. You need to find your own audience, do your own publicity.

  • The films listed on this page (our Junior program) have been granted an exemption from classification under festival conditions. They have ben identified as approximating a ‘G’ rating. Note that a science documentary doesn’t usually have car chases and gratuitous violence, but will often deal with adult concepts or might show surgical procedures.

  • Apologies, our film permissions loaned to us by the filmmakers who enter only cover Australia.

  • Go to National Science Week website to register as a venue, to receive your program information.