Australia Movies

A documentary on daily life on a small depopulated island using a combination of diary narration and English subtitles. The film uses an ebb-and-flow...

"In making Ada I was attracted to the idea of creating an animation about stillness and silence: two qualities we normally don't think of when it com...

"On a Full Moon could be described as a poem to my mother who had died not long before. I wanted it to be as beautiful and contemplative as I could po...

The 1988 Australian bicentenary prompted many artistic events and contemporary expressions of Australia's living cultures. One of the most remarkable...

The Laugh on Dad is a 1918 comedy Australian silent film. It follows John Forrest, a.k.a. Dad, who is an ostrich farmer. His daughter Jean wants to ma...

Should a Girl Propose? is a 1925 Australian silent film directed by P.J. Ramster set in the high society world of Sydney. The film featured several pl...

A man wakes up alone with a mysterious briefcase in front of him. A voice tells him to cut wires to survive!

16mm. 5 minutes. Colour.

A profile of one of the most commercially successful white blues bands of the 1960s. Fronted by the man-mountain that was Bob Hite, they enjoyed inter...

Ilyas, an expatriate writer who lived most of his adult life in Australia, returns to Turkey in the hope of finding inspiration for his new book. Inst...

Ex lovers meet for tea that spans their entire relationship

Jadai, the 'Broome Brawler' promised his family to no longer fight. But the local cops have other plans.

This account of the cattle industry in northern Australia includes such aspects as mustering, dipping and droving, together with some description of a...

A man discovers what the meaning of life is as he experiences severe hallucinations day by day.

As Garang struggles on his first day at high school in Australia, memories of being lost in South Sudan are triggered. When past and present collide,...

A mind-bending Labyrinth about the six main characters in our minds that govern our lives. 'Reality' starts to appear less real as Max wakes up to the...

The Wirth Brothers Circus, one of Australia’s largest and most successful, survived another 15 years after this film was made.

This year the Musica Viva Festival will feature content from the NFSA's Film Australia Collection to be screened in the Bang & Olufsen Salon throughou...

Much of the romance associated with the development of the gold industry is to be found at Kalgoorlie on the golden mile, that rich strip of Western A...