What's On

WAKE IN FRIGHT - Arc Cinema gives you the first and best chance to see the most anticipated Australian classic re-release in many years.

HAROLD PINTER: ADAPTATION – highlighting the screenwriting work of Nobel Prize winning author Harold Pinter. Featuring collaborations with Joseph Losey, and adaptations of novels by John Fowles, Penelope Mortimer and F. Scott Fitzgerald.   

J-NOIR: FILM NOIR FROM JAPAN – Japan’s very different approach to cinema’s dark side, from directors acclaimed in west, like ‘Beat’ Takeshi and Masaki Kobayashi (Kawidan), and little-known masters like Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale) and Masahiro Shinoda.

JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI: IDENTIFICATION MARKS – Out Polanski-ing Roman Polanski, breathtaking films from the other master of the Polish New Wave.

BERT HAANSTRA – the beauty, visual invention, and genius of Holland’s great Cannes and Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker.

MOONSHOTS - we join with CSIRO's Scinema Film Festival to celebrate The Year of Astronomy and the 40th anniversary of the landing on the moon, with a look at the films of the Space Race. The Dish will be introduced presence of real astronomers, NASA cinematographer Mark T. Lemon will talk about making movies in space, and there will be Robert Altman’s rarely seen 1968 first feature, Countdown, 60s ‘B’ Sc-Fi, Space Fact films from the NFSA collection and the new Russian cosmonaut psychological thriller Paper Solder.

MESSAGE STICKS 2009 – the best in new Indigenous Australian filmmaking, including “The New Black”: great new short films from Black Australia.

ST KILDA TOURING FILM FESTIVAL – Australia’s leading short film festival comes to the NFSA.

LITTLE BIG SHOTS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – Short films for and by kids, screening through the school holiday. Tickets just $5!

THE SWELL BEFORE THE WAVE – to mark the release of Wake in Fright, we look at Australian cinema in the late 1960s and early 70s, with early films by Peter Weir, Phillip Adams and Tim Burstall.

SOUNDS ON SITE - great music docos and musicals, including Pete Seegar in Australia, Style Wars, Chet Baker Let’s Get Lost, Expresso Bongo and a look at Hollywood’s very first musicals from 1929!

CANBERRA PREMIERES – including a new print of Chantal Akermann rarely seen masterpiece Jeannie Dielman…, Jose Guerin’s exquisite In The City Of Sylvia, and the bizarre new Chilean take on Saturday Night Fever, Tony Manero

For more details go to nfsa.gov.au/arc