Film Catalogue (8/34)

DEATH IN THE CITY

2022 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 72 min

An intimate portrayal of the sacred city of Varanasi, situated on the holy Ganges, 'the river of life'. The city is the revered destination for death for Hindus since time immemorial, with legendary funeral pyres burning non-stop for over three millennia on the river bank. more

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DELINQUENT ANGEL

2001 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 48 min

A documentary about the famous Australian master painter, the late John Perceval. Tender and beautiful moments in the film reveal details about John's life, his loves and his relationships - with his minder/business manager, and other internationally renowned painters like Joy Hester, Sir Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd. more

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DEMON FAULT

2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 52 min

Miners, environmentalists, police, landowners and Aboriginal people come head to head in a deadly serious yet crazy battle over a gold mine, located in a sacred and ecologically sensitive region of Australia's fast-disappearing wilderness. more

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DESTINY IN ALICE [from the CAAMA Collection]

2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 27 min

A light-hearted look at the Lesbian community of Alice Springs in central Australia. more

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DIFFICULT PLEASURE - a film about Brett Whitely

1990 (M) 51 min

Difficult Pleasure is a revealing portrait of one of Australia's finest painters - the only full-length documentary made about Brett Whiteley. Filmed in 1989, the film explores Whiteley's art and life and is richly illustrated with some of his finest paintings. more

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DIGGERS ON THE KLONDIKE (working title)

2029 (G) 80 min

The experiences of "the motley throng" of Australians and New Zealanders, who went across the Pacific with "upturned sleeves and a swagger", to the last great gold rush of modern times - to the Klondike goldfields in the far north-west of Canada in the late 1890s. New history and untold stories explored in a new documentary... more

DIYA

2001 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 55 min

DIYA examines the lively social life surrounding one object, a small terra cotta oil lamp called a "diya" used in India in religious ceremonies. It is central to the Hindu festival of Diwali, "the festival of lights" and the film begins in the increasingly frantic days before this major celebration. more

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DOGS OF DEMOCRACY

2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 58 min

WINNER! Spirit of Activism Award, Nevada Women's Film Festival, March 2017. WINNER! Best Documentary Feature, 2017 Imagine This: Women's International Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York! A documentary about the stray dogs of Athens and the people who take care of them. In the on-going financial crises of the 2010s,... more

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DO NOT RESUSCITATE

2006 (M) 104 min

A filmmaker's journey to understand the mystery of death as three characters make choices regarding their own mortality - Steve, Mary and Judy want the right to choose when and how to die. more

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DON'T CALL ME GIRLIE

1985 (G) 69 min

From the birth of the cinema to World War II, DON'T CALL ME GIRLIE tells the untold story of Australia's movie heroines, on and off the screen. Discover the roles our women filmmakers really played - on screen as stars, behind the cameras, as producers, writers, directors and publicists. more

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DOON SCHOOL CHRONICLES

2000 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 140 min

Filmed over a two-year period by David MacDougall, this film looks at the life of Indian middle-class boys as they experience the effects of institutional, national, and global pressures during the transitional years from childhood to adulthood. more

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DRAMA SCHOOL

2001 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 270 min

A NINE PART SERIES ON LIFE INSIDE AUSTRALIA'S MOST FAMOUS ACTING SCHOOL - NIDA [National Institute of Dramatic Arts]. more

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DREAM OF LOVE, THE

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

An intensely personal story by filmmaker Lawrence Johnston about his parents' troubled 59-year mixed-race marriage and the effect of the relationship and domestic violence on the sons and daughters of the family. more

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DRIVE

2010 (M) 55 min

In 1915 the biggest killer of young Australian males was Gallipoli. Today the biggest killer of young men aged 18-25 years is the road. Young men are dying in high speed, single vehicle crashes, crumpled in metal coffins, on lonely rural roads. Why do they die? Why do they live? Speed is hypnotic. Risk is freedom. Cars... more

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DRIVEN TO DIFFRACTION

2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 55 min

The remarkable story of William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg, two shy men who joined the ranks of the most important scientists of the twentieth century. "Ideally suited to whet the scientific appetites of teenagers" - Dr Michael Kindler, Principal, Stromlo High School, ACT more

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DRIVING WITH RICHARD

1992 (G) 50 min

DRIVING WITH RICHARD is the story of a remarkable friendship between two women - Deirdre Croft and Carley Pukallus. Deirdre and Carley have provided support for each other for over six years as they cope with the trauma, hardship and enormous challenge of caring for their handicapped children. more

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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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DVORAK AND AMERICA

1999 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 56 min

On 26 September 1892 when the Czech composer, Antonin Dvorak, arrived in New York to direct the National Conservatory of Music of America, he was given the daunting task of creating a school of music for a young nation boundlessly confident in its resources, but still looking to Europe for a sense of identity. more

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DYING SHAME, A

1997 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 53 min

A Dying Shame tells personal stories of families and individuals within the remote Aboriginal community in Borroloola and the struggles of these people and their families who have to cope with poor health and an ineffectual health system. more

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DYING TO LEAVE

2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 104 min

A two-part series about the ever-growing industry of people smuggling and human trafficking in a globalised world. more

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