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Films about men and women, sexuality and the history and politics of gender-based social issues including attitudes to homosexuality, and issues of female body image, and sexual abuse.

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ARTISTS IN CYBERCULTURE

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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BAULKHAM HILLS AFRICAN LADIES TROUPE, THE

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

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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BIG BAD LOVE

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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BREAD AND DRIPPING

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

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BREATHING UNDER WATER

BREATHING UNDER WATER

1991 (PG) 78 min

A late 20th century Beatrice (Anne Louise Lambert), mother of a young child, keeps a map 'dredged from her dreams' in a copy of Dante's Inferno. Prompted by questions from her young daughter Maeve (Maeve Dermody), and feeling unease with her own historical present, Beatrice is compelled to make a journey to the underworld. more

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BRIDE FLIGHTS, THE (English version)

BRIDE FLIGHTS, THE (English version)

2022 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 58 min

The one-way ticket from Spain that changed Australian migration: about 700 Spanish women arrived in Australia during the early 1960s, supported by an informal agreement between the regime of Francisco Franco (1939-1975) and the Australian Government of that time. more

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BRIDE FLIGHTS, THE (Spanish version)

BRIDE FLIGHTS, THE (Spanish version)

2022 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G)

The one-way ticket from Spain that changed Australian migration: about 700 Spanish women arrived in Australia during the early 1960s, supported by an informal agreement between the regime of Francisco Franco (1939-1975) and the Australian Government of that time. more

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BUDDHA'S FORGOTTEN NUNS, THE

BUDDHA'S FORGOTTEN NUNS, THE

2013 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 34 min

This documentary explores a little-known truth about Buddhism – that women cannot be fully ordained in the same way as men. The film-maker, Wiriya Sati, spent the past 5 years traveling to monasteries in Thailand, UK, USA and Australia, to tell the story of women fighting to regain their place as female monks, or Bhikkhunis,... more

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BULLYING CULTURES

BULLYING CULTURES

2017 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 65 min

Professor Valerie Braithwaite, renowned internationally for her studies of work-place and school-yard bullying, examines the social and psychological dynamics that contribute to a bullying culture and what must happen to break that culture. more

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BUTOH: Piercing the Mask

BUTOH: Piercing the Mask

1991 (PG) 49 min

This documentary pierces the mystery and mystique of a dance movement adored by the West and largely ignored by the Japanese. It uses archival and modern footage of leading Butoh performers and interviews Butoh specialists to throw light on the essential Butoh themes of darkness, violence and eroticism to get to the core... more

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DESTINY IN ALICE [from the CAAMA Collection]

DESTINY IN ALICE [from the CAAMA Collection]

2007 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 27 min

A light-hearted look at the Lesbian community of Alice Springs in central Australia. more

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DON'T CALL ME GIRLIE

DON'T CALL ME GIRLIE

1985 (G) 69 min

From the birth of the cinema to World War II, DON'T CALL ME GIRLIE tells the untold story of Australia's movie heroines, on and off the screen. Discover the roles our women filmmakers really played - on screen as stars, behind the cameras, as producers, writers, directors and publicists. more

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DROVER'S BOY, THE

DROVER'S BOY, THE

2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: PG) 11 min

This 'hybrid' blend of music, documentary and drama is set in the 1920s in outback Australia, and evokes a time when it was illegal for white Australians and Aboriginal people to marry. Based on a ballad by Ted Egan, the film pays tribute to the role of Aboriginal women in the pastoral history of frontier Australia. more

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FAMINE WITHIN, THE

FAMINE WITHIN, THE

1991 (G) 90 min

An exploration of the contemporary obsession with body size and shape among North American women. Under the coercive powers of consumerism and the mass media, women have come to view their bodies as marketable objects and to judge them according to the unrealistic standards of the beauty ideal. more

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FIFTY YEARS OF SILENCE

FIFTY YEARS OF SILENCE

1994 (M) 57 min

50 YEARS OF SILENCE tells the story of Jan Ruff-O'Herne and her experience of enforced prostitution at the hands of the Japanese military during World War II. As the first European woman to go public on this issue Jan faced the difficult decision to reveal her secret to her family, her friends and her parish. more

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FINDING PLACE [from the CAAMA Collection]

FINDING PLACE [from the CAAMA Collection]

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

A film about manhood and the problems of living in two cultures. more

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FOR LOVE OR MONEY: A History of Women and Work in Australia

FOR LOVE OR MONEY: A History of Women and Work in Australia

1983 (G) 107 min

DIGITALLY RESTORED! An investigation and celebration of women's work from white settlement to the present, a story told by Aboriginal and migrant women, convict women and today's women. more

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GIRLS' TALES: Women discuss experiences of schooling

GIRLS' TALES: Women discuss experiences of schooling

2015 (Classification Exempt - Ronin Recommends: G) 87 min

"GIRLS' TALES: Women discuss experiences of schooling" consists of three thirty-minute episodes. The documentary is a compilation of interviews in which adult women recollect the experiences and opportunities of their secondary school education. more

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HANDMAIDENS AND BATTLEAXES

HANDMAIDENS AND BATTLEAXES

1989 (PG) 55 min

This remarkable award-winning documentary by the late Rosalind Gillespie (filmmaker and Registered Nurse) traces the role of nurses from pre-industrial times to the modern era. more

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