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BETELNUT BISNIS
2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 52 min
An often humorous story of a "grass roots" family in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, who make a precarious living by trading in betelnut, one of the world's most widely used narcotics. The film presents us with a vivid portrait of present-day Papua New Guinea - not the "doom and gloom" stories that dominate the media,... more
BEYOND EL ROCCO
1990 (PG) 100 min
The story of the Australian modern jazz movement since the 1950s. Includes rare performance footage of Brian Brown, Stewie Peers and others, and interviews with today's jazz greats like Don Burrows and Paul Grabowsky. more
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BEYOND SORRY [from the CAAMA Collection]
2003 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 53 min
An intimate portrait of two "half-caste" women: Zita Wallace who was taken from her Arrernte family at the age of eight; and Aggie Abbott, an Arrernte woman who was hidden from the Aboriginal Protector at the same time that Zita was taken. The film follows the friendship that has developed between the two women in their... more
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
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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BIKPELA BAGARAP [Big Damage]
2011 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 43 min
Bikpela Bagarap reveals the human face of logging in Papua New Guinea. more
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
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
BLOWN AWAY
2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 61 min
A powerful examination of the myths and facts of Cyclone Tracy, one of Australia's worst natural disasters which devastated the city of Darwin on Christmas Eve, 1974. The film especially explores previously unrecorded Indigenous responses to the crisis. more
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BOOMERANG TODAY (KARLI JALANGU) [from the CAAMA Collection]
2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min
Re-living ancient traditions in the modern world. A film by David Tranter and Allan Collins. more
BORDER POLITICS
2018 (PG) 90 min
In this film, leading Human Rights barrister, Julian Burnside AO, deconstructs harsh asylum seeker policies around the world, arguing that failure in political leadership is compromising human rights and destroying democratic principles in the West. more
BORN TO SHOP
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
BOUGAINVILLE SKY
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
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
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
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
BRIDEWEALTH FOR A GODDESS
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
BRUCE & ME
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
BUDDHA'S FORGOTTEN NUNS, THE
2013 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 34 min
This documentary explores a little-known truth about Buddhism – that women cannot be fully ordained in the same way as men. The film-maker, Wiriya Sati, spent the past 5 years traveling to monasteries in Thailand, UK, USA and Australia, to tell the story of women fighting to regain their place as female monks, or Bhikkhunis,... more