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Young people in Australia and internationally, especially issues relating to personal development, popular culture, family relationships, society and politics, and including many films by young filmmakers themselves.

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AGE OF REASON, THE

AGE OF REASON, THE

2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 87 min

In this fifth and final film in his Doon School Quintet, filmmaker David MacDougall focuses on the life of one student at Doon school, an all-boys academically selective boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. more

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ARLI (from the CAAMA Collection)

ARLI (from the CAAMA Collection)

2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 30 min

A moving story of rehabilitation and re-connection with family and community. Arlun McCormack, a young Arrernte man from Alice Springs, tells us the story of his fight with substance abuse, and his rehabilitation through writing and performing rap music. An award-winning film by Christopher Fitzpatrick. more

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ARNAV AT SIX

ARNAV AT SIX

2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 28 min

A child's complex view of the world around him more

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AWARENESS

AWARENESS

2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 67 min

Filmed in South India at Rishi Valley School, founded by the 20th Century Indian thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti, Awareness explores the sensibilities of two groups of young Indian teen-agers - a group of girls in their dormitory, and a group of boys in theirs — as they live out their daily experiences at the school. more

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BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES

BERKELEY IN THE SIXTIES

1990 (PG) 113 min

The 1960s alumni of the Berkeley campus tell their stories about how the quiet school became the site of massive political activism on the part of students fighting for their right of political expression on campus and then against the Vietnam War. more

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BIG ALL AT ONCE

BIG ALL AT ONCE

2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min

What is it like to be leaving school and suddenly having to make crucial choices about your life? This documentary intimately follows three different 18-year-olds, as they are spat out of high school and struggle to piece together their adult identities in their own way. more

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BIG BAD LOVE

BIG BAD LOVE

2016 (M) 26 min

After discovering her best friend was violently abused by her partner, stand-up comedian Becky Lucas wants to know how you can spot an abusive relationship and what you can do about it. more

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BILLAL

BILLAL

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... more

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BLACK MAGIC

BLACK MAGIC

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

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BLUEY

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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BREWARRINA'S ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM

BREWARRINA'S ABORIGINAL LANGUAGE PROGRAM

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

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BRIDE FLIGHTS, THE (English version)

BRIDE FLIGHTS, THE (English version)

2022 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 58 min

The one-way ticket from Spain that changed Australian migration: about 700 Spanish women arrived in Australia during the early 1960s, supported by an informal agreement between the regime of Francisco Franco (1939-1975) and the Australian Government of that time. more

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BRIDE FLIGHTS, THE (Spanish version)

BRIDE FLIGHTS, THE (Spanish version)

2022 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G)

The one-way ticket from Spain that changed Australian migration: about 700 Spanish women arrived in Australia during the early 1960s, supported by an informal agreement between the regime of Francisco Franco (1939-1975) and the Australian Government of that time. more

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BUCKSKIN

BUCKSKIN

2013 (PG) 57 min

Jack Buckskin is a man whose mission is to sculpt a new urban Aboriginal language and culture, and through that bring hope back to his people. more

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BULLYING CULTURES

BULLYING CULTURES

2017 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 65 min

Professor Valerie Braithwaite, renowned internationally for her studies of work-place and school-yard bullying, examines the social and psychological dynamics that contribute to a bullying culture and what must happen to break that culture. more

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BUNGALUNG [from the CAAMA Collection]

BUNGALUNG [from the CAAMA Collection]

2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 22 min

An epic Dreaming story re-told by Anmatjere Elders, in which two young men challenge a clan of Demons. more

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CASE 442 [from the CAAMA Collection]

CASE 442 [from the CAAMA Collection]

2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 49 min

Frank Byrne spent most of his adult life on a personal crusade to find his mother, after being taken away from her at the age of 5. more

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CHASING SHADOWS

CHASING SHADOWS

2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 26 min

Colin Darcy and his two best mates from the mining town of Whyalla start a hip hop band called SHADOWS. They move to Adelaide with high hopes and write rap songs about their personal experiences – being Aboriginal, growing up in a small town, racism, loss of family and striving for success. more

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CHILDREN OF TIBET

CHILDREN OF TIBET

2003 (G) 53 min

A remarkable story seen through the eyes of three children who risk their lives escaping Tibet across the Himalayas in search of a new life in India. A moving story of bravery and determination. more

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COOLBAROO CLUB, THE

COOLBAROO CLUB, THE

1996 (G) 55 min

A portrait of the Coolbaroo Club, an Aboriginal-run dance club which operated in Perth from 1946 - 1960. The film is delivered via the memories of those involved, stills, archive and extensive dramatisation. An award-winning documentary on post-war race relations in Australia. more

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