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The NFSA building in Canberra
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Visit Us

Everything you need to know before visiting the NFSA including opening hours, what you can do when you arrive, our cafe and more.
Sound of Metal
Close up of actor Riz Ahmed in a scene from Sound of Metal, wearing headphones
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Sound of Metal + Discussion

21 September
Music was his world. Then silence revealed a new one....
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Learning (Red)
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Patrick
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Patrick

16 September
Patrick is in a coma and nearly dead... and still he kills!...
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Learning (Red)
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Sep 2023

Street view of Melbourne in the 1960s
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Vintage Australia program

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See times below. Note: doesn't screen Thursdays or late on Fridays

What was life in Australia like 50 years ago? Enjoy a look at our cities in the 1960s.

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A helicopter hovers in a futuristic neon cityscape beside a giant advertising screen showing a smiling Japanese woman's face
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SCIENCE.ART.FILM. Series

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6:00pm

A series that uncovers the wacky, weird and wonderful facets of science and art in films.

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A production still from the film Scream showing a row of five men and women dressed in black and against a black background standing looking very serious, directly facing the camera
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Fright Night: Cult Cinema Classics at the NFSA with Venus Mantrap

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See session times below

Venus Mantrap, local drag artist and culture warrior, presents a series of cult cinema classics. 

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Tim the Yowie Man holding a lantern backstage during the NFSA Ghost Tour
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NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

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8:00pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

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Three Japanese teenagers, two boys in the background and a girl looking back over her shoulder in the foreground.
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Japanese Film Festival 2023: Kō Nakahira Special Series

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See session times below

Celebrating the work of Kō Nakahira, a pioneering filmmaker of postwar Japanese cinema.

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Temptation (誘惑)

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11:00am

Romantic musings in the heat of postwar Tokyo.

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Three Japanese teenagers, two boys in the background and a girl looking back over her shoulder in the foreground.
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Juvenile Jungle (狂った果実)

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2:00pm

An idyllic summer agitating the waters of traditional Japanese cinema.

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Oct 2023

Four Japanese people - 3 men and a woman - pictured standing side by side looking towards the camera. The men are all wearing suits and hats and holding firearms.
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Danger’s Where the Money Is (危いことなら銭になる)

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11:00am

Can this riotous bunch of misfits pull off the perfect heist?

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A woman standing with her back to a man who has his arms around her and is holding her tightly.
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Flora on the Sand (砂の上の植物群)

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2:00pm

A troubled man’s freefall into desire and obsession.

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Tim the Yowie Man in the NFSA Theatrette standing before a slide of the NFSA during an evening Ghost Tour
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NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

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8:00pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

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A lot of vinyl record covers spread out on a table all overlapping each other.
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The Vinyl Lounge - 10th Anniversary

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5:30pm

Join us for the 10th anniversary of Vinyl Lounge, with live performances from special guests!

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Head and shoulders image of Indigenous filmmakers Gillian Moody and Adrian Russell, both dressed in black and smiling at the camera.
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Kindred + Q&A

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6:00pm

The journey of two close Aboriginal friends who have reconnected with their bloodlines.

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Close up of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a scene from the film Total Recall. He is attached to a machine and has an expression on his face that looks like he is in extreme pain.
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Total Recall + Discussion

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6:00pm

How have science-fiction motifs inspired real-life research?

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Two men blowing up balloons while a group of other men standing in the background are watching
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St Kilda to St Moritz: Scoring Silent Home Movies

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6:00pm

Experience historic home movies with new scores composed by students at the ANU School of Music.

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Tim the Yowie Man holding a lantern backstage during the NFSA Ghost Tour
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NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

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8:00pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

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David Gulpilil, pointing a spear, stands in the desert with Jenny Agutter and Lucien John in private school uniforms in a scene from the film Walkabout
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Australian New Wave Season

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1:00pm

Ten bold and provocative films that put Australian cinema on the world stage in the 1970s and 80s.

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Wide shot of a man holding a suitcase is standing on a short platform at a train station in a remote outback area. The sign at the train station says Tiboonda.
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Wake in Fright

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1:00pm

Sweat, dust and beer... There’s nothing else out here, mate!

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Close up of actor Uma Thurman holding a sword in both hands and wearing a yellow tracksuit with a black stripe in a scene from Kill Bill Volume 1.
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Kill Bill: 20th Anniversary Double Feature – 35mm

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6:00pm, 8:30pm

It’s 20 years since The Bride’s roaring rampage of revenge began.

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Two women, one dressed in white and the other in yellow, facing off against each other in a samurai sword battle, in a scene from Kill Bill: Volume 1
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Kill Bill: Volume 1 – 35mm

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6:00pm

Here comes The Bride.

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A man and woman seated at each end of a dining table. The man is holding a samurai sword above the woman's head and she is blocking it with another sword, in a scene from Kill Bill: Volume 2.
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Kill Bill: Volume 2 – 35mm

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8:30pm

The Bride is back for the final cut.

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A woman and man sitting side by side. They are both wearing warm coats and gloves. The woman is pouring a drink from a thermos into a cup and smiling and the man is looking at her while holding a sandwich in one hand.
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Canberra International Film Festival

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CIFF returns with a spotlight on two contrasting filmmakers: Mitchell Leisen and Kathryn Millard.

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Close up of actor Barbara Stanwyck, c1940 with her head turned slightly to her left and with a concerned look on her face.
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Remember the Night

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7:30pm

A district attorney takes a beautiful shoplifter home for Christmas in this 1940 comedy classic.

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Head and shoulders shot of 3 people pictured side by side. In the centre is a young woman smiling, on the left is a stern-looking middle aged man who is looking at her and on the right is a younger man looking at her. The image is a still from a 1930s film, Easy Living.
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Easy Living

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1:30pm

One of the great American screwball comedies of the 1930s.

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Wide shot of an older woman standing in the middle of a dirt road that is lined by trees. She is holding an old camera.
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Light Years

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4:15pm

Kathryn Millard's portrait of the life and work of celebrated photographer Olive Cotton.

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Head and shoulders shot of actors Claudette Colbert and John Barrymore in formal attire, they are both looking straight ahead and seem to be surprised at something. From a 1929 film Midnight.
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Midnight

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7:30pm

Claudette Colbert stars in this zany comedy set in Paris.

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A statuette of silent film star Charlie Chaplin sitting on a shelf net to some Indian statues and trinkets and an Indian flag.
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The Boot Cake

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1:30pm

A film that celebrates the universal power of silent cinema to engage audiences, young and old.

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Actors Veronica Lake and Joel McCrea sitting next to each other in what appears to be a bar or a diner. They are smiling at each other and leaning in towards each other.
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Sullivan's Travels

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4:00pm

A celebrated comedy-drama from the Depression years, starring Veronica Lake.

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A group of four Indigenous men walking through a grassy area. One of them is holding a tool of some description in one hand, with his other hand on his head.
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First Contact + Q&A

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1:00pm

The Oscar-nominated film about colonialism and cultural confrontation in Papua New Guinea.

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A teenage girl pictured from the waist up, standing with her head bowed and an index finger against her lips in a 'shushing' gesture. There are trees and the roof of a house behind her.
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Double Feature: Pearl + X

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7:00pm, 9:00pm

A stylish and diabolical double feature about Pearl and her unhinged pursuit of stardom.

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Pearl

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7:00pm

The X-traordinary origin story.

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