Current releases

Current additions to Ronin’s blue ribbon collection of films from Australia and overseas, specialising in high quality independently produced documentaries and selected feature films.

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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 Click for pricing information
	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 Click for pricing information
	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 Click for pricing information
	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 Click for pricing information
	CREATING A MONSTER 2017 (PG) 20 min A documentary by Gena Lida Riess exploring how reality television is constructed and consumed, and the psychological impact that it has on participants. more Click for pricing information
	ETCHED IN BONE 2018 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 73 min When the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC agrees to repatriate stolen human bones from northern Australia, an Aboriginal elder creates a ceremony that restores his ancestors’ spirits to their homeland. more Click for pricing information
	FROM UNDER THE RUBBLE 2018 (PG) 76 min The Samouni family story: a powerful civilian perspective on the violent clash between Palestinians and Israeli armed forces in Gaza. Australian filmmaker Anne Tsoulis has created an intimate and unflinching film about an appalling crisis. more Click for pricing information
	HOME BY CHRISTMAS 2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 90 min A dramatised documentary memoir based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston’s interviews with her father about his World War II experiences, reconstructed with actor Tony Barry as Ed Preston. more Click for pricing information
	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 Click for pricing information
	IMAGINARY BORDER 2017 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 105 min A challenging and compassionate reflection on race relations in Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. A film by Iranian-born Austrian filmmaker, Alireza Ghanie. more Click for pricing information
	KINGS OF BAXTER 2017 (M) 66 min A rare insight into life behind bars for juvenile inmates in one of the country’s largest juvenile justice centres: two actors from the Bell Shakespeare company engage with young offenders in an attempt to stage a performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for their families and fellow inmates. more Click for pricing information
	LIFE IS A VERY STRANGE THING 2018 (PG) 80 min Frédéric, a former high school rebel, ethnomusicologist, and multinational executive, returns from decades abroad, to a France that is both familiar and on edge. A quirky and moving portrait by outsiders, exploring what it is to be French in the 21st century. A delightful film by Les McLaren and Annie Stiven. more Click for pricing information
	MAKING A MARK 2017 (PG) 56 min A chronicle of creative trailblazing - exploring one of the most personally challenging and financially tenuous of vocations, to live and work in the competitive world of the visual arts in Australia. A superb film about inspiration, aspiration and the hard facts of life. more Click for pricing information
	OCCUPATION: NATIVE 2017 (PG) 52 min The Aboriginal story is often buried deep beneath the accepted 247-year Australian historical narrative. It’s not that the Australian story is wrong, it’s just that it’s a wee bit one-sided. Aboriginal filmmaker Trisha Morton-Thomas, bites back at Australian history in this inspired satire. more Click for pricing information
	SALTWATER STORY, THE 2017 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 55 min Guided by Indigenous canoemaker Kyle Slabb from the Bundjalung people, a group of young men (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous) build traditional canoes and embark on a 3-day sea voyage re-tracing an ancient trade route from the heart of the Queensland Gold Coast to North Stradbroke Island. more Click for pricing information
	SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN 2018 (M) 99 min In this beautifully crafted and moving memoir, Margarethe von Trotta recalls the inspiration she found in the work of Ingmar Bergman: his films triggered her decision to become a director and guided many of her creative decisions over her long career. more Click for pricing information
	STILL POINT, THE - Photography of Robert McFarlane 2017 (M) 27 min The Still Point explores the life’s work of one of Australia's most respected and pioneering documentary photographers: for five decades, Robert McFarlane has put a mirror up to the changing face of Australia. more Click for pricing information
	TEACH A MAN TO FISH 2018 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 80 min Grant Leigh Saunders is an Aboriginal filmmaker, writer and musician who has secretly always wanted to be a fisherman, just like his father and grandfather before him. This fishing yarn is set against the backdrop of the beautiful Manning River in central New South Wales. more Click for pricing information
	TROUBLESOME PRIEST, THE 2017 (G) 30 min The story of Father Rod Bower, an Anglican priest from the central coast of New South Wales, whose provocative church signs go viral through social media around the world. He is committed to the belief that Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers has put the soul of the nation in peril. more Click for pricing information
	VACANT POSSESSION 1994 (M) 95 min A welcome re-release of the acclaimed dramatic feature film from 1994, written and directed by Margot Nash (director of The Silences, also available from Ronin). Vacant Possession is a haunting film about personal and public loss, about white ownership and Aboriginal dispossession, and about the difficulty of reconciliation. more Click for pricing information