Feature Films and Dramas (1/3)

AFTER THE FACTS

2018 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 5 min

In the early years of cinema, editors were usually women. This short documentary by Karen Pearlman ASE looks at how they wielded power, and how their work was made invisible. more

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AYA

1990 (PG) 95 min

Aya arrives in Australia with her husband, an Australian soldier who was with the occupation forces in Japan. Aya forms a close bond with Mac, a close friend of Frank's, whose wartime experiences left him with a deep regard for Japanese culture. But Frank wants Aya to forget her Japanese past. Suffering cultural shock and... more

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BEDEVIL

1993 (PG) 90 min

NOW RE-MASTERED - Three tales of the supernatural from Indigenous visual artist, Tracey Moffatt, combined in one extraordinary feature film, rich in virtuosic design, drama and movement. more

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BLACKBIRD

2016 (PG) 13 min

Blackbird is a short narrative drama which sheds light on a little known part of history - Australia's notorious "blackbirding" era when some 60,000 Pacific Islanders were brought to Australia, often by force and kidnapping, between 1863 and 1904 to work on sugar cane farms of Queensland. more

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BLISS

1985/2022 (MA) 111 min

The celebrated debut feature by Ray Lawrence is a masterwork of bold ideas, gleefully surreal images, subversive farce and tenderness. From a Peter Carey screenplay and novel. Now re-mastered from the original film negatives by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. more

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BLUEY

2016 (M) 14 min

A moving and powerful portrait of a young woman trapped in a cycle of violence, hopelessness and despair. She meets a mystery mentor who could change everything. more

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BREATHING UNDER WATER

1991 (PG) 78 min

A late 20th century Beatrice (Anne Louise Lambert), mother of a young child, keeps a map 'dredged from her dreams' in a copy of Dante's Inferno. Prompted by questions from her young daughter Maeve (Maeve Dermody), and feeling unease with her own historical present, Beatrice is compelled to make a journey to the underworld. more

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BYSTANDER STORY, THE

2021 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 30 min

Fusing studio re-enactments, interviews, archival, bodycam and CCTV footage to tell a radically new story about psychology's bystander experiments, The Bystander Story investigates how strangers come together to help strangers – culminating with the bystanders who tried to prevent the killing of George Floyd. more

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CALL ME MUM

2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 76 min

Set in the recent past, the AFI award-winning Call Me Mum is a series of interlinked monologues where five characters unravel a complex tale of mothering, race relations and family in Australia. more

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COLD TURKEY [from the CAAMA Collection]

2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 45 min

A drama about two brothers and their journey into a long night of desperate living. more

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CORN ISLAND

2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: M) 100 min

A compelling feature film from the Republic of Georgia: a timeless story of struggle against the elements by an elderly peasant and his granddaughter. "An astonishing feat of cinema" (Variety). more

CROCODILE DREAMING

2006 (M) 27 min

A stone holding the stories and songs of the ancestors has been stolen from its proper location and subsequently causes the death of two children. It must be found and brought back to restore the right order. The local Aboriginal mob cannot carry out this task alone and calls for Burrimmilla (David Gulpilil). more

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CROSS LIFE

2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 100 min

CROSS LIFE is the first feature film directed by Claire McCarthy, a rapidly emerging new star of Australian cinema. Her second feature is the acclaimed THE WAITING CITY, filmed in India and released nationally through Hopscotch Films. more

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DAVID HIRSCHFELDER: Drawing the audience in - making the music for SHINE

2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 28 min

David Hirschfelder was the composer of original music, and music arranger, for the Oscar-winning feature film SHINE (1996). In this documentary, made for the 20th anniversary of the release of the feature, Hirschfelder recalls the complex process of selecting, arranging and recording the music for the film. more

DROVER'S BOY, THE

2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 11 min

This 'hybrid' blend of music, documentary and drama is set in the 1920s in outback Australia, and evokes a time when it was illegal for white Australians and Aboriginal people to marry. Based on a ballad by Ted Egan, the film pays tribute to the role of Aboriginal women in the pastoral history of frontier Australia. more

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EDITOR'S ANTHOLOGY, AN

2016-2020 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 32 min

An anthology of three short films by Karen Pearlman ASE, about women and cinema: Woman with an editing bench, After the facts and I want to make a film about women. more

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FIRST FAGIN, THE

2012 (PG) 87 min

From New York to Hobart, and from the darkest jails and prison ships of England to the penal colony of Port Arthur, THE FIRST FAGIN brings to life the passionate love and dramatic adventures of Ikey Solomon, family man, fence, and Charles Dickens' inspiration for the character of Fagin in Oliver Twist. more

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GEOFFREY RUSH: The Imp, the Spirit, the Hero - playing David Helfgott in SHINE

2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 28 min

A delightful short film, made for the 20th anniversary of the release of SHINE. Prior to the production of SHINE in 1996, Geoffrey Rush was a renowned theatre actor in Australia but had had little involvement in film. SHINE transformed his career, especially when he won the Oscar for Best Actor. more

GIORGIO MANGIAMELE COLLECTION, THE

(M) 282 min

Five provocative works from an Italian filmmaker in post-war Australia. This 2-DVD set includes a 28-page booklet, 70 minutes of interviews with film historians as well as the following five films: IL CONTRATTO, THE SPAG [unreleased], THE SPAG [released], NINETY NINE PER CENT and CLAY. more

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GREEN BUSH [from the CAAMA Collection]

2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: MA) 26 min

NOW DIGITALLY RE-MASTERED FROM ORIGINAL FILM NEGATIVES! An Indigenous radio DJ does the nightshift at a remote community radio station, and must negotiate nightly dramas while still spinning the music. A film by Warwick Thornton. more

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