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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	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 Click for pricing information »
	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 Click for pricing information »
	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 Click for pricing information »
	CHINA'S 3 DREAMS 2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 84 min Confused by the expurgated history they learned at school and the silence of their grandparents, China’s young people are making their way with new dreams for the future - to make their country rich and powerful, and to find a better life and meaningful existence for themselves. more Click for pricing information »
	DOGS OF DEMOCRACY 2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 58 min WINNER! Spirit of Activism Award, Nevada Women's Film Festival, March 2017. A documentary about the stray dogs of Athens and the people who take care of them. In the on-going financial crises of the 2010s, Greece has become ‘the stray dog of Europe’, and for Greek citizens, the dogs of Athens have become a symbol... more Click for pricing information »
	ELETTRA 2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 48 min A portrait of the remarkable Princess Elettra, daughter of the pioneer of wireless communication, Guglielmo Marconi. The inspired industrialist created an empire that Elettra inherited when she was a child. The Princess now plans to turn her crumbling family palace into a radiant academy for the arts and science. more Click for pricing information »
	ELLA 2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 86 min An intimate portrait of the first Indigenous dancer to be invited into The Australian Ballet in its 50 year history - Ella Havelka. more Click for pricing information »
	END OF THE RAINBOW 2007 (M) 83 min An elegiac portrait of the changes brought by the arrival of an industrial gold mine in a remote region of West Africa, and a testament to the universal human desire for a better life. more Click for pricing information »
	LIFE OF ITS OWN, A - the truth about medical marijuana 2016 (PG) 81 min A Life of Its Own aims to provide clarity and understanding of one of Australia’s most stigmatized and controversial issues – medicinal cannabis. Award-winning journalist, Helen Kapalos, takes the audience on a wide-ranging voyage of discovery about medicinal cannabis. more Click for pricing information »
	MACDOUGALL TAPES, THE 2017 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 261 min Extended conversations with David and Judith MacDougall about their years with the Film Unit of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1975-1987. During this time, the MacDougalls made a series of eleven documentary films that were acknowledged world-wide as landmark achievements in ethnographic cinema. more Click for pricing information »
	ON RICHARD'S SIDE 2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 90 min Filmed over three decades, On Richard’s Side charts the life-story of Richard, a young man with a complex disability since birth. The film provides intimate and poignant insights into his parents’ determined quest to establish a quality life for their son and for themselves. more Click for pricing information »
	ON THE BANKS OF THE TIGRIS 2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 79 min A musical odyssey that uncovers the hidden – and almost erased – story of Iraqi music. more Click for pricing information »
	PANTHER WITHIN, THE 2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 54 min Filmmaker Edoardo Crismani and his mother Barbara embark on a search to unravel the mystery surrounding Barbara’s father, Joe Murray, an Indigenous boxing champion who danced and sang in vaudeville shows, and married a blue-eyed blonde white woman in 1930s Australia. more Click for pricing information »
	SHOCK ROOM 2016 (M) 72 min In the early 1960s American psychologist Stanley Milgram ran a series of controversial experiments on obedience. An authority orders you to inflict painful shocks on another person. Most us will obey, claimed Milgram. But will we? more Click for pricing information »
	SMUT HOUNDS - Censorship in the Sixties 2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: M) 9 min Seventy-seven seconds of celluloid that scandalised a government and transformed Australian cinema. more Click for pricing information »
	STILL OUR COUNTRY 2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 88 min A poetic celebration of country and culture, Still Our Country documents the swiftly changing lives of the Yolngu people of Ramingining in the Northern Territory. This evocative carnival of images and sounds makes a bold declaration of identity and offers a hopeful promise of a future. more Click for pricing information »
	TIME TO DRAW THE LINE 2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 52 min East Timor was born as a new nation in 2002 after 25 years of turmoil and war. Australia’s peace-keeping force, INTERFET, helped with the peaceful transition to nationhood. Now, a darker story of Australia’s relationship with this new nation is emerging. more Click for pricing information »
	TRIAL, THE 2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 52 min In February 2008 twelve Muslim men went on trial in Melbourne on terrorism charges. The trial ran for nine months, heard hundreds of hours of secretly taped conversations and presented 66,000 pages of evidence. THE TRIAL takes us inside one of the biggest court cases in Australia’s history. more Click for pricing information »
	UNFORGOTTEN ISLANDS (Chagos Ou la Memoire des Iles) 2011 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 83 min In the 1970s, the people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean were evicted from their homes and forced to live in shanty towns in Mauritius and the Seychelles, so that a British and USA military base could be established on their homeland to support military operations in the Middle East. more Click for pricing information »
	WOMAN WITH AN EDITING BENCH 2016 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 15 min Inspired by the woman who edited Man with a Movie Camera (1929), Woman With An Editing Bench reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to create something beautiful despite the odds. more Click for pricing information »