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ANOTHER COUNTRY
2015 (G) 75 min
Legendary Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil tells the story of what happened when his people's way of life was interrupted. This film speaks eloquently of the havoc caused by the superimposition of a new culture over an old culture. more
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APOLOGY, THE
2008 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min
This short film documents the apology to the Stolen Generations by the Australian Government on 13 February 2008. A powerful and memorable moment for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike. more
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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
2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 28 min
A child's complex view of the world around him more
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ART FROM THE HEART
1998 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 56 min
A confronting examination of the contemporary Indigenous painting business today - asking whether Indigenous painting is still being painted from the heart, or if market forces have altered its spirit irrevocably. more
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ARTISTS IN CYBERCULTURE
1993 (G) 55 min
ARTISTS IN CYBERCULTURE records Australian and International artists and their work at the Third International Symposium on Electronic Art [TISEA] held in Sydney, Australia in November 1992. The documentary presents a fascinating overview of the artists manipulating new technologies to create a wide variety of new and extraordinary... more
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ARTISTS OF ALI CURUNG [from the CAAMA Collection]
2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 21 min
The Arlpwe Arts Centre and Gallery, in the town of Ali Curung, 350 km north of Alice Springs, provides a focus for the work of a diverse group of Indigenous artists. more
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ART OF HEALING, THE [from the CAAMA Collection]
2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min
A story of inspiration and community spirit from central Australia. more
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ART OF REGRET, THE
2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 59 min
Photography is known in China as the "art of regret." In the rapidly changing city of Kunming, people are ambivalent about whether they want photography to be a medium of preservation and evidence, or of transformation and fantasy. more
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ASPECTS OF A LIFE: Working with Indigenous Australians
1972 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 216 min
Four films by Michael Edols - Collector's edition with accompanying book and a 40-minute interview with Edols recorded in Canberra in 2011. more
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AUSTRALIAN FILM 1900-1977: A guide to feature film production (book)
(G)
A book by Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper *Oxford University Press 1998 (second edition) *Paperback * 362 pages including index. A comprehensive guide to the feature films of the first eight decades of filmmaking in Australia. more
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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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AYA
1990 (PG) 95 min
Aya arrives in Australia with her husband, an Australian soldier who was with the occupation forces in Japan. Aya forms a close bond with Mac, a close friend of Frank's, whose wartime experiences left him with a deep regard for Japanese culture. But Frank wants Aya to forget her Japanese past. Suffering cultural shock and... more
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BACH IN AUSCHWITZ (LA CHACONNE D'AUSCHWITZ)
2000 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 105 min
Members of a Jewish women's orchestra at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp recall how their musical abilities allowed them to survive as prisoners of the Nazis. more
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BACKS TO THE BLAST
1981 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 50 min
Re-release of a landmark documentary about the history of uranium mining in Australia and the two decades of British Atomic Bomb tests in outback South Australia. more
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BALANDA AND THE BARK CANOES, THE
2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
This lively and eye-opening documentary is a companion film to TEN CANOES, the landmark feature film which Rolf de Heer made with the people of the Arafura Swamp in Central Arnhem Land. (TEN CANOES and its compilation sequel, TWELVE CANOES, are both available from Ronin Films). more
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BALI TRIPTYCH
1988 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 174 min
Three one-hour documentaries that explore the history, culture and way of life of the people of Bali - Episode 1: BETWEEN THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SEA; Episode 2: THE PATH OF THE SOUL and Episode 3 DEMONS AND DEITIES. more
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BAULKHAM HILLS AFRICAN LADIES TROUPE, THE
2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: M) 81 min
The story of four charismatic and inspirational African women, now living in Australia, who, with the help of acclaimed theatre director Ros Horin, turned their harrowing stories of survival into a joyous theatre of humanity that has filled theatres from across their new country to the other side of the world. more
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BAXTER AND ME
2016 (PG) 83 min
One woman's life, with and without men, but always with dogs. This personal and inventive film by Gillian Leahy raises questions about how we relate to the 'wild' in dogs, and how we relate to other animals (and humans) in the world at large. more
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BEACH, THE
2000 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 56 min
An examination of what the beach in Australian art, what it means both to Australians and to those who come from other countries to enjoy it. more
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BENNY AND THE DREAMERS [from the CAAMA Collection]
1992 (G) 54 min
The extraordinary story of the Pintupi peoples' first meeting with the white world. more
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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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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
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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
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BEYOND THE DREAMTIME
1994 (G) 54 min
BEYOND THE DREAMTIME is a film of visual beauty, bringing to life the haunting imagery of dozens of Ainslie Roberts' major works, weaving them into the artist's personal life and illuminating his love of the land. more
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BEYOND THE ROYAL VEIL
2003 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min
BEYOND THE ROYAL VEIL takes us on a surprising often humorous journey behind the lavish facade of Indian aristocracy into the lives of two men who have opened up their palaces to tourism, selling the 'royal experience'. But can they save their inheritances without sacrificing their dignity? more
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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
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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BIG BOSS
2012 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 25 min
The story of 95-year-old Baymarrwangga, affectionately known as "Big Boss", and her commitment to pass on the Yan-nhangu language and traditional knowledge to future generations on Murrungga Island at the top end of Arnhem Land. more
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BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY (NIDF series 5)
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
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BIG NAME, NO BLANKET
2013 (M) 58 min
The extraordinary story of George Rrurrambu, the former lead singer of the pioneering Warumpi Band of the 1980s. George was the charismatic frontman, who combined rock and roll, reggae, pop and traditional culture to spread the message about Indigenous contemporary issues, awakening the Australian consciousness of another... 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
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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 AND DUSTY [from the CAAMA Collection]
2005 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 43 min
Follows a group of First Nations competitors in the Finke Desert Race in Central Australia. more
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BLACK ANGELS: A Widening Vision
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
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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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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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