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2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 26 min
A heart-rending insight into the disease of end-stage renal failure in remote and rural communities. more » Click for pricing information »
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2011 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 43 min
Bikpela Bagarap reveals the human face of logging in Papua New Guinea. more » Click for pricing information »
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1996 (M) 86 min
Sixteen-year-old Lebanese-Australian Billal is struck by a car in the aftermath of fighting between Anglo–Australian and Lebanese youths on a state housing estate in south-west Sydney. Billal is hospitalised with permanent brain damage. The film follows Billal’s long fight back to some sort of health, and the stresses on his family through this period as they try to come to terms with what has happened to their son, and at the same time struggle to be relocated to another, safer suburb. more » Click for pricing information »
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2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 43 min
Follows a group of Indigenous competitors as they compete in the Finke Desert Race. more » Click for pricing information »
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1994 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 60 min
BLACK ANGELS centres on the life and work of young Brisbane artist, Gordon Bennett, who is one of this country's leading Indigenous artists. more » Click for pricing information »
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1988 (G) 55 min
It is through the medium of sport that Aboriginal people have best been able to express themselves to white Australia. Australia's greatest Aboriginal footballers talk about the sources of their motivation, about their family experiences and their roots. more » Click for pricing information »
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1992 (G) 58 min
This documentary tells the story of black survival in Tasmania amidst the continuing suppression of history and culture. In doing so, it challenges skin-deep assumptions about Aboriginality today. more » Click for pricing information »
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2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 39 min
A year in the life of children in the Province of Anhui, China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. Traditional obligations to family and village collide with terror of the disease. more » Click for pricing information »
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1989 (PG) 51 min
Morticians, embalmers and grave-diggers talk intimately about each stage of the journey from death to dirt, from expiry to exit. In a matter-of-fact, down-to-earth way, these ordinary people tell us all we ever wanted to know about dead bodies but which our conditioning and socialisation prevented us from asking. more » Click for pricing information »
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2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min
Re-living ancient traditions in the modern world. more » Click for pricing information »
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2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 74 min
A small desert town on the edge of western India’s famous salt plains is the unlikely home of the world’s largest population of Charlie Chaplin impersonators. The Charlie Circle of Adipur embraces businessmen, shopkeepers, a doctor who prescribes Chaplin movies for medicinal purposes, teachers, engineers, students and a 3-year-old pre-schooler. more » Click for pricing information »
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1991 (G) 53 min
Whether you love shopping or hate it, whether your favourite shop is David Jones, the local bookshop, an open-air market or a hardware store, BORN TO SHOP will make you think about an ordinary activity in a new way. This film does not induce guilt! more » Click for pricing information »
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2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 75 min
A film about Bougainville's transition from bitter civil war to peace, and about the music and the people who made it happen. more » Click for pricing information »
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2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 50 min
An emotionally gripping and visually stylish tale of an acclaimed TV director who survives a car crash but is told he’ll never walk or talk again. Brash, defiant and determined, he fights to get his life back. more » Click for pricing information »
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1991 (PG) 55 min
This documentary traces the development and production of the successful stage musical, Bran Nue Dae. The writer of the play, Jimmy Chi, talks about how his experiences and education led to his writing of the semi-autobiographical musical. Selections from the musical are intercut with interviews and historical footage. more » Click for pricing information »
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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 » Click for pricing information »
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1998 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 20 min
Made by students and staff at Brewarrina Central School in the north-west of New South Wales, this video documents an innovative Aboriginal language program for students in the first two years of high school (Years 7 and 8). more » Click for pricing information »
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2000 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 72 min
This film documents the last performance of the ritual for the fertility goddess Amb Kor, in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. Shot over a period of approx. 15 years, the anthropologists and filmmakers have been participant-observers during a time of pivotal change for the clans of the Kawelka tribal group. more » Click for pricing information »
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2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 82 min
Filmmaker Oren Siedler's personal exploration into her troubled and unusual relationship with her brilliant, charming, con-artist, white-collar criminal father takes us around the world, from Australia to USA and Cuba. more » Click for pricing information »
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1997 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
Bill Dempsey MBE, himself a football legend, narrates this story of a group of men who knocked down the barriers of racism on the sporting field. On the way they established a way of life based on tolerance, respect and an ethic of making your own fun whatever obstacles are placed along the path. more » Click for pricing information »
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