Religion and Spirituality (2/4)

HATRED

1995 (M) 56 min

HATRED is an award-winning Australian documentary - a personal journey that asks big social questions about identity and prejudice in the modern world. more

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HERITAGE FIGHT

2013 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 104 min

Broome is a town in the Kimberley region, one of Australia's great wilderness areas. This is where the head of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, and Woodside, a multi billion-dollar company and Australia's largest liquid natural gas producers, decided to install the second largest liquified natural gas plant in the... more

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HOMETIME

2003 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 49 min

Hometime is the story of a group of homeless men and their experiences at Charles O'Neill House, an innovative program offering the tools to break the debilitating homeless cycle. We witness their growing confidence as they actually participate in the making of Hometime, and talk about their newly discovered direction. more

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HOPE IN A SLINGSHOT

2010 (M) 61 min

HOPE IN A SLINGSHOT explores the day-to-day realities of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the effect on civilians on both sides. A journey through the underbelly of the occupation of Palestine by Israel. more

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HOW FAR IS HEAVEN

2013 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 99 min

The Sisters of Compassion have lived in the remote village of Jerusalem/Hiruharama on the Whanganui River in New Zealand for 120 years. Today, only three nuns remain - their legacy on the river is coming to an end. This is a complex world of powerful dualities; Maori and Christian spirituality, parties and prayers, pig... more

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JAPARTA - a Journey to the Gurindji Way

2025 (G) 99 min

The story of a Japanese scholar, Minoru Hokari, who, before his death in 2004 at the age of 32, achieved work which today commands an ever-widening audience. It is a story of cross-cultural understanding, how Gurindji Elders in the Northern Territory tasked Minoru to relay stories from their culture to a wider world. A... more

JAVA SPIRIT, THE: Religious Diversity in Indonesia

2013 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 45 min

An exploration of changing attitudes to religion and spirituality in Java, Indonesia. more

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KORIAM'S LAW and the Dead Who Govern

2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 110 min

In Koriam's Law Australian anthropologist Andrew Lattas meets his match in philosopher-informant Peter Avarea of Matong village, Pomio, Papua New Guinea. Driven by their feisty dialogue and with access to sacred ceremonies, the film patiently goes about making sense of that mysterious Pacific phenomenon, the "cargo-cult". more

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LANGUAGE OF LIGHT, THE

2023 (M) 171 min

Intimate portraits of seven ground-breaking Australian photographers, each with a significant body of work and each with a different photographic style. more

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LEMPAD OF BALI

1980 (G) 56 min

A re-release of an acclaimed documentary classic by John Darling - A film about the life and death of the 116-year-old Balinese Master-Artist. more

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LONG SHADOWS: Stories From A Jewish Home

2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 56 min

Jewishcare (Montefiore Homes), is the largest Jewish aged care facility in Victoria, Australia. Most of its residents are survivors of the Holocaust. Stories of Montefiore residents rekindle horrific memories of a collective tragedy. more

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MAN WITHOUT PIGS

1990 (G) 59 min

MAN WITHOUT PIGS offers a rare insight into the dynamics of village life in Papua New Guinea. The film explores the antagonism aroused when conflict between traditional custom and Western values occurs in an isolated community. more

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MARY

1994 (G) 75 min

Excommunication in the 19th century, sainthood in the 20th. Mary MacKillop is one of Australia's unsung heroes. Despite excommunication and exile, Mary remained determined to bring education to the poor and underprivileged. In January 1995 Mary was beatified by Pope John Paul II as Australia's first saint. This is Mary's... more

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MILLI MILLI

1994 (G) 53 min

MILLI MILLI tells the story of the Kimberley people from their point of view. Using the Kimberley people's traditions of storytelling, painting, dancing and taking into account Aboriginal law and culture, the film records a cultural revival from within. more

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MORE THAN A FISH KILL

2024 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 38 min

Two beloved rivers and more than 30 million dead fish bring artists, scientists and First Nations custodians together to turn ecological disasters into a journey of cultural healing. more

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MOURNING FOR MANGATOPI [from the AIATSIS Collection]

1974 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 53 min

An elaborate Tiwi mourning ceremony, performed as an affirmation of traditional culture. more

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MPARNTWE - Sacred Sites [from the CAAMA Collection]

2004 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 24 min

The continuous struggle by Central Australia's Arrernte people to maintain their sacred sites in the face of property development in the Mparntwe (Alice Springs) area. more

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MUSLIMS IN AUSTRALIA

2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 76 min

Take a journey and discover how deep Muslim history runs in Australia. Discover the earliest contact that dates back to the 1600s, their connection with the indigenous population and the rich contribution they made. more

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NGANGKARI (NIDF series 5)

2002 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 26 min

The role of Ngangkari, Traditional Healer, still plays a vital role in the health and well-being of the Anangu people of Central Australia. Yet only two Ngangkari are employed in full-time positions. This film introduces these two renowned Ngangkari specialists. more

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NO BURQAS BEHIND BARS

2012 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 77 min

Inside an Afghan women's prison. Women are normally faceless in Afghanistan: outside the home, burqas cover them from head to toe. But in prison, they sometimes have more freedom and safety than outside. more

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NUN'S NEW HABIT, A

2008 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 56 min

This documentary follows Sister Carmel, a sister of the Good Samaritans, in her fight for social justice. Along with many of her contemporaries, she is passionately involved with the plight of refugees who were incarcerated in detention for many years and the ongoing psychological trauma suffered after their release. more

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ONE PLACE

2008 (G) 27 min

An inspiring film about a unique Islamic Cultural Centre: a place of worship and of study, a library and a centre of learning, it is also a building where families gather, an integral part of a community that speaks more than thirty languages, comes from more than forty countries and shares a single faith. more

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PAPA BILONG CHIMBU

2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 54 min

In 1937 a young Catholic missionary, Father John Nilles, arrived in the highlands of Papua New Guinea – one of the first whites the local people had ever seen. There he would stay for the next 54 years. More than just a priest, he would become an anthropologist, linguist, politician and clan leader. more

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PEACE PILGRIMS

2021 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 28 min

In September 2015, five peace activists penetrated the 'Joint Facility' Pine Gap, just outside Alice Springs to protest and lament victims of American drone strikes. They were arrested and faced 7 years jail. A documentary by John Hughes, based on Peace Crimes, Kieran Finnane (UQP 2020) more

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PITJIRI: The Snake That Will Not Sink

1986 (G) 48 min

In 1936 on a remote outpost in the Northern Territory, nine Aboriginal Elders appeared before Ruth Heathcock, who they believed was a member of their tribe before the Dreaming. Fifty years later, Sister Ruth returns and describes the psychic phenomena that she experienced and how this changed her perception of the human... more

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PUTUPARRI and the Rainmakers

2015 (M) 97 min

Against the backdrop of Australia's tangled colonial and Indigenous history, Putuparri and the Rainmakers explores one man's struggle to fulfill his destiny. more

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RINGBALIN - BREAKING THE DROUGHT

2014 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 32 min

A powerful documentary about the healing of Australia's greatest river and its diverse peoples through ancient ceremony of culture and spirit. more

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SERPENT AND THE CROSS, THE

1991 (G) 55 min

In several outback Australian communities Aboriginal artists are consciously seeking an expression that builds bridges between Aboriginal spirituality (the Dreaming) and the Christian religion of their invaders. A look at these artists' thinking and dreaming which provides a rich, privileged look at the artwork, beautifully... more

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SILMA'S SCHOOL

2006 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 83 min

SILMA'S  SCHOOL is a compelling observational documentary about a Muslim school in Sydney and the tumultuous struggle by its principal to keep it open. more

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SISTERS

2008 (M) 42 min

SISTERS captures the experiences of a young Australian woman working amongst the Missionaries of Charity on the streets of Calcutta, tending to the poorest of the poor in a city of untouchables. more

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TALES FROM THE DALY - Nauiyu Nambiyu [from the CAAMA Collection]

2010 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 20 min

A journey into the stories and spectacular landscapes of the Daly River region in the north-west of the Northern Territory. more

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TENTMAKERS OF CAIRO, THE

2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 93 min

Spanning three turbulent years in Egyptian life, from the 2011 revolution to the 2014 election of Abdel Fatah Al Sisi, this intimate documentary observes these events through the eyes of artisan tentmakers in a back street in Cairo. more

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TNORALA - BABY FALLING [from the CAAMA Collection]

2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 22 min

Tnorala, in Central Australia, is a breathtaking land formation that rises above the windswept plains fringing the edge of the Western MacDonnell Ranges. It is a place of unique and sacred importance to the Western Arrente people, who actively protect its beauty and integrity. more

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TOMBSTONE OPENING, THE

2012 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 29 min

Releasing the spirit of Ephraim Bani, a great cultural custodian, in Torres Strait's unique ritual. more

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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

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VISIONS OF PARADISE

2009 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 44 min

The story of four young idealists who thought they had found paradise on earth only to discover they were actually in mind control cults. more

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WAITING FOR HARRY [from the AIATSIS Collection]

1980 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 56 min

Tensions behind the scenes of a ritual event in central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. more

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WALBIRI FIRE CEREMONY, A - Ngatjakula [from the AIATSIS Collection]

1977 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 19 min

Ngatjakula is one of the most spectacular ceremonies of central Australia, employing fire, and several days of singing and dance, to resolve conflicts and re-affirm social order among the Warlpiri (Walbiri) people. more

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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

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WEDDING IN RAMALLAH, A

2002 (M) 90 min

A Wedding in Ramallah is an engrossing film exploring domestic life in Palestine during a time of war, and the experiences of Palestinians who manage to emigrate overseas. more

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