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Dario Argento

Date information20 September-04 October

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A young boy looks tiny sitting on the shoulder of an old giant

School holiday screenings

Date information26 September-06 October

11:00am

Beloved books that have made it onto the big screen. …

Acqua and blue graphic of a record being played on a record player.

The Vinyl Lounge

6 Oct

5:30PM - 7:00pm

Vinyl lovers, bring your favourite records and share your music s…

Graphic with the title 'Digital Directions 2017' on a mauve to red coloured background.

The user experience

19 Oct

9:00am - 5:00pm

The third annual Digital Directions symposium …

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Sep 2017

Two creepy hand reach over and cover a screaming face. Only the mouth is visible.

Dario Argento: Horror Maestro

Date information20 September-04 October

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Dario Argento is quite simply one of the finest horror filmmakers in the world.

A young boy looks tiny sitting on the shoulder of an old giant

School holiday screenings – Book heroes on the screen

Date information26 September-06 October

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11:00am

Beloved books that have made it onto the big screen.

Animation still of a young boy looking surprised with two insect-people next to him

Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach

26 Sep

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11:00am

James's life is forever changed when a mysterious stranger’s gift causes a peach to grow to a titanic size.

A horrified female face looks through a tear in a curtain

Tenebrae

27 Sep

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7:00pm

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer

A young boy looks tiny sitting on the shoulder of an old giant

Roald Dahl's The BFG in 3D

28 Sep

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11:00am

Young orphan Sophie is thrown into the world of the Big Friendly Giant.

A fox wearing pyjamas and holding a lantern is surrounded by three other foxes and a mole

Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox

29 Sep

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11:00am

Mr Fox has given up raiding farms but nearby properties prove too tantalising.

A young girl lies passively with electrodes attached to her head

Phenomena

29 Sep

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6:00PM

A young girl has unusual powers to control insects

A young boy looks down at a man with a knife sticking out of his back. A Christmas tree is in the background

Deep Red

29 Sep

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8:30pm

The murder of a well-known psychic brings together a musician and reporter as they search for the killer

Oct 2017

A young girl walk towards us surrounded by polar bears wearing armour

The Golden Compass

4 Oct

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11:00am

A world-changing discovery puts Lyra in the path of the mysterious Mrs Coulter.

Big close up of a black bird's eye and beak

Opera

4 Oct

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7:00pm

A young opera star is stalked by an obsessed fan intent on killing all those close to her.

A young boy wearing a crown listens to two fantastic beasts

Where the Wild Things Are

5 Oct

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11:00am

Max finds a small boat which takes him to a distant land of Wild Things.

Aqua and blue graphic of a record being played on a record player.

The Vinyl Lounge

6 Oct

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5:30PM - 7:00pm

Vinyl lovers, bring your favourite records and share your music stories.

Animation of a group of owls

Legends of the Guardians

6 Oct

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11:00am

Young owls are abducted by an evil Owl army.

A woman in a kimono swoons in the arms of a man who looks at the camera

Pop Visionary Seijun Suzuki

Date information06-07 October

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The impressive legacy of cult Japanese director, Seijun Suzuki

A man's face if pushed against a window by three thugs

Youth of the Beast

6 Oct

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7:00pm

A mysterious outsider plays rival yakuza bosses against each other

An angry man leaps threateningly in the air

Fighting Elegy

7 Oct

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1:30pm

A young man is torn between his instinct to fight and his love for a village woman.

A woman in a kimono swoons in the arms of a man who looks at the camera

Zigeunerweisen

7 Oct

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3:30pm

Suzuki’s surrealist film is a dance of friendship and mortality

A woman covers her face with her hands

Czech and Slovak Film Festival of Australia

Date information11-14 October

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CASFFA announces the following classic titles for their 2017 season.

The Line

11 Oct

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7:00pm

Hugely entertaining, blackly comedic crime thriller.

A Prominent Patient

12 Oct

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6:30PM

A riveting portrayal of a man seemingly betrayed by his compatriots.

I, Olga Hepnarova

12 Oct

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8:45pm

Gripping true crime story about the last woman executed in Czechoslovakia.

Portrait of a man with a painting by Bosch in the background

The Cremator

13 Oct

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7:00pm

A crematorium operator is wooed by the Nazis during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia.

A woman looks at multiple refections in a mirror

Morgiana

13 Oct

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9:00pm

One twin sister is hell-bent on doing away with the other.

Old Czech Legends

14 Oct

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2:00pm

Six folk tales told through spectacular, multi-award-winning, feature-length puppet animation.

A woman covers her face with her hands

The Shop on Main Street (Obchod Na Korze)

14 Oct

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4:00pm

A potent fable about a timid carpenter in the Second World War.

Anthropoid

14 Oct

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7:00pm

An exciting and authentic retelling of the fateful 1942 mission to assassinate Nazi Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich.

A young girl in a blue school dress squats on the ground next her large white rabbit

NFSA Restores

Date information18 October-22 November

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NFSA Restores revives Australian cinema icons for today’s digital cinemas

An Aboriginal woman leans on a railing overlooking a river

NFSA Restores: My Survival as an Aboriginal

18 Oct

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6:30PM

Essie Coffey invites filmmakers and audiences to fight for country and culture

Graphic with the title 'Digital Directions 2017' on a mauve to red coloured background.

Digital Directions 2017

19 Oct

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9:00am - 5:00pm

The third annual Digital Directions symposium

Image of a cassette tape with 'Mix Tape' handwritten on it

Cassette Lounge

19 Oct

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6:00PM - 8:00PM

Bring and share your gone-but-not-forgotten cassette mixtape.

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