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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	AFTER THE APOLOGY 2017 (M) 82 min In Larissa Behrendt's riveting documentary, four Aboriginal women each face their own battle to challenge government policies and bureaucracies to bring their grandchildren home. Their grassroots actions spearhead a national conversation to curb skyrocketing rates of child removal. more Click for pricing information
	ANIMATING AEROPLANE JELLY 2020 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 24 min An episode in the life of pioneer Australian animator, Eric Porter, and his creation of one of the most iconic and enduring of Australian advertising images. An award-winning film by Michael Kraaz. 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
	BREAD AND DRIPPING 1981 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 17 min Restored from original film materials: a classic documentary from 1981, telling women's stories of the Great Depression in the 1930s in Australia. more Click for pricing information
	GREAT STRIKE 1917, THE 2018 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 69 min To this day, the Great Strike of 1917 is still Australia's largest industrial upheaval. The story of the Strike has long been dormant in archives, and is now re-told with original film footage from the era. OFFICIAL SELECTION! Antenna Documentary Film Festival. FINALIST! ATOM AWARDS, Documentary (History). more Click for pricing information
	HISTORY BITES BACK 2021 (MA) 55 min After the bold and brilliant Occupation: Native, Aboriginal filmmaker Trisha Morton-Thomas teams up again with Comedy Director-Writer, Craig Anderson to launch a rocket into 250 years of taboos, prejudice and ignorance. History Bites Back uses devastating satire to unpack the negative social bias of the history shared... more Click for pricing information
	HOLDING TIGHTLY - Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste 2021 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 30 min Holding Tightly observes seven approaches to healing in remote, rural and urban parts of the Baucau municipality in Timor-Leste, spanning contexts and experiences from the armed resistance era to the independence period. A film by Lisa Palmer and Susanna Barnes. more Click for pricing information
	HOMELAND STORY 2019 (M) 84 min An intimate portrait of Donydji, an Indigenous Homeland community in north-east Arnhem Land. The film charts their struggle from the 1960s to the present day to overcome the corrosive effects of government policy and pressure from mining interests, and to remain on their land. more Click for pricing information
	LIFE IS A VERY STRANGE THING (English language version) 2018 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: 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
	LILI (English version) 2019 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 85 min LILI is a powerful exploration of inter-generational trauma; a mother, Lili, abandons her two-year-old daughter as she flees from Hungary in 1956 when the Soviets quash the Hungarian revolution. The trauma sparks a history of abandonment that spans four generations of Lili's family. more Click for pricing information
	MILLION ACRES A YEAR, A 2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 52 min The devastating story of an ecological disaster: the epic history of post-war agricultural development in Western Australia and the personal journeys of a rural vanguard who came to acknowledge that current forms of agriculture were not sustainable. The re-release of a remarkable documentary from 2002, still powerfully... more Click for pricing information
	NICE COLOURED GIRLS 1987 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: M) 17 min NOW DIGITALLY RE-MASTERED! This stylistically daring film audaciously explores the history of exploitation between white men and Aboriginal women, juxtaposing the 'first encounter' between colonisers and native women with the attempts of modern urban Aboriginal women to reverse their fortunes. more Click for pricing information
	NOT JUST NUMBERS 2019 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 53 min Not Just Numbers is an inspiring documentary about the Tangentyere Women's Family Safety Group in Alice Springs. They believe in talking straight about the violence in their communities and are working on the front line in prevention. So often reduced to statistics, these heroes have banded together to fight for their... more Click for pricing information
	PICTURING HOME 2021 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 52 min After twenty years of homelessness one woman finds empowerment by sharing her journey through the lens of a camera. A powerful film by Annette Cohen, exploring links between mental health concerns and homelessness. more Click for pricing information
	PUMPHEAD 2020 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 74 min Pumphead is a feature-length documentary exploring patient experiences following major heart surgery - how to understand these experiences and how to live with them. A story of existential crises and transformative experiences, told by eight ex-patients including the filmmaker himself. more Click for pricing information
	SHADOW PANIC 1989/2020 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 25 min The feminist classic from 1989, now restored from original 16mm film materials. An innovative film by Margot Nash (director of VACANT POSSESSION and THE SILENCES) based on "the idea of structuring a film via the female gaze". more Click for pricing information
	SOHRAB AND RUSTUM 2018 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 14 min WINNER! BEST ANIMATION, SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL! An animated film by Lee Whitmore about a charismatic teacher who stirs the imaginations of the teenage girls in her classroom. Inspired by the epic poem by Matthew Arnold. more Click for pricing information
	THEY CALL ME BABU 2019 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 80 min The story of a young Indonesian woman who is hired as a "babu" (nanny) by a Dutch family in the 1930s. Through turbulent times of war and the Indonesian struggle for independence, the film traces Alima's development as an individual, breaking free of social restrictions to become an independent woman. A remarkable documentary-drama... more Click for pricing information
	WANDERING SOULS 2019 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 75 min Wandering Souls follows the mounting of a new stage production, Bangsokol: A Requiem for Cambodia, to honour the nearly 2 million Cambodians who died during the Khmer Rouge regime from 1975 to 1979. more Click for pricing information