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Immigration (1/2)

The history and social impact of Australian immigration policies, including stories about political, moral and legal issues relating to asylum seekers, detention centres and the "Pacific Solution", and stories of refugees who are granted visas and their experiences in Australian society.

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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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BLACKBIRD

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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BORDER POLITICS

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

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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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BURNSIDE CONVERSATIONS, THE

BURNSIDE CONVERSATIONS, THE

2019 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 115 min

16 conversations, 1 topic: Human rights. In dynamic conversations with human rights barrister, Julian Burnside QC, key global thinkers reveal personal perspectives on current threats to human rights in the West, expanding on ideas raised in the film BORDER POLITICS (also available from Ronin Films). 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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CHINESE TAKE AWAY

CHINESE TAKE AWAY

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

CHINESE TAKE AWAY is an adaptation of an acclaimed physical theatre show, uniquely blends poetic storytelling, drama and archival footage, to bring a true story to the screen. more

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DYING TO LEAVE

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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FREEDOM STORIES

FREEDOM STORIES

2015 (PG) 99 min

Explores the achievements of former 'boat people' who arrived from the Middle-East around the watershed year of 2001. Locked in remote detention centres and then placed on temporary protection visas, their limbo lasted for years. Now Australian citizens, they are building secure lives and contributing to their new country. more

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FRIENDLY ENEMY ALIEN

FRIENDLY ENEMY ALIEN

2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 90 min

In June 1940, the HMT Dunera leaves Liverpool for Australia crammed with over 2,500 German, Austrian and Italian internees. We hear from the last survivors of the "Dunera Scandal," who tell the story of the 57-day long journey and what happened after they were interned by the British Government in an Australian Outback... more

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GIORGIO MANGIAMELE COLLECTION, THE

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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HIGHER EDUCATION

HIGHER EDUCATION

2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 72 min

For some students, entering university can be the result of years of personal struggle and challenge. [DVD includes EXTRA FEATURE: Interview with the director, MILES ROSTON] more

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HOPE

HOPE

2008 (M) 104 min

In 2001, 400 asylum seekers set out on a boat known as the Siev X. Only 7 made it to Australia. Amal Basry was one of them ... more

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HOPE ROAD

HOPE ROAD

2017 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 103 min

Filmed over a 5-year period, HOPE ROAD is a film by Tom Zubrycki which follows an ambitious project undertaken by a Sudanese refugee in Australia, Zacharia Machiek, to build a much-needed school back in his home village, now part of the new nation of South Sudan. But life disrupts his best-laid plans ... more

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I REMEMBER 1948

I REMEMBER 1948

2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 24 min

Palestinian elders share memories of the year they became refugees. Personal memories of the tumultuous days of Al Nakba, 'the catastrophe', May 15th 1948, when 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. more

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LAND BETWEEN, THE

LAND BETWEEN, THE

2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 77 min

An intimate insight into the hidden and desperate lives of Sub-Saharan African migrants living in the mountains of northern Morocco: most dream of jumping the fence into the Spanish enclave of Melilla, in search of "a better life" in Europe. more

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MOLLY AND MOBARAK

MOLLY AND MOBARAK

2003 (M) 85 min

Molly and Mobarak starts where the hysteria and hyperbole of media commentary on the Tampa incident and refugee problems leave off. It is a film that provides an intimate insight into what it means to be on a temporary protection visa, to be only partially accepted by the country you live in and to endure the emotional... more

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MY REMBETIKA BLUES (English version)

MY REMBETIKA BLUES (English version)

2021 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 83 min

Rembetika music or the Greek blues is a music born of exile and the streets. The film traces the roots of this music in the mass migration of people in the early twentieth century and in particular the journey of the filmmaker's own forebears from Smyrna in Turkey to Sydney, Australia. A universal story about love, life... more

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MY REMBETIKA BLUES (Greek version)

MY REMBETIKA BLUES (Greek version)

2021 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 83 min

Rembetika music or the Greek blues is a music born of exile and the streets. The film traces the roots of this music in the mass migration of people in the early twentieth century and in particular the journey of the filmmaker's own forebears from Smyrna in Turkey to Sydney, Australia. A universal story about love, life... more

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