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Plan Your Visit

Date information01 December-31 March

10AM – 4PM DAILY

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A woman operating heavy machinery

Women of Steel

2 Dec

6:00PM

A group of determined women fight to break into the steel industr…

Four puppies crowded together. One wears a sash reading Guide Dog Puppy

Pick of the Litter

3 Dec

6:00PM

The journey of five labrador puppies to becoming guide dogs for t…

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

The Vinyl Lounge

4 Dec

5.30pm - 7:00pm

We’re back in the building, so come and share your vinyl storie…

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Dec 2020

Front entrance to the National Film and Sound Archive building

Plan Your Visit – COVID-19 information

Date information01 December-31 March

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10AM – 4PM DAILY

We're excited to welcome you back to the NFSA. Here's what we're doing to protect the health of our visitors.

Street view of Melbourne in the 1960s

Daily program: Vintage Australia

Date information01 December-31 March

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

A Torres Strait Islander man holds the Torres Strait flag with the coast behind him

Daily Program: Black Screen

Date information01 December-31 March

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Black Screen connects culture, stories and language with community through screen.

A woman operating heavy machinery

Women of Steel

2 Dec

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6:00PM

A group of determined women fight to break into the steel industry.

Four puppies crowded together. One wears a sash reading Guide Dog Puppy

International Day of People with Disability: Pick of the Litter

3 Dec

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6:00PM

The journey of five labrador puppies to becoming guide dogs for the blind.

Lookng up at the skylight in the NFSA foyer showing a stylised platypus and pattern.

NFSA Building History: If These Walls Could talk

4 Dec

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10:30am - 11:15am

Zoo. Morgue. Archive. Discover our building's fascinating history.

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

The Vinyl Lounge

4 Dec

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5.30pm - 7:00pm

We’re back in the building, so come and share your vinyl stories and requests.

Three fashionable young women posing holding mobile phones

Arc Out Loud: Clueless Quote-a-long

4 Dec

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8:00PM

So, like, it’s a totally out-loud, quote-a-long Clueless. Miss it? As if!

Three animated characters with Santa Claus in the centre

Saturday Morning Cartoons: Arthur Christmas

5 Dec

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10:30am

So how does Santa really deliver all those presents in one night?

Saturday Screenings: Tracey Moffatt

5 Dec

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6:00PM

A curated online film session presented by the National Gallery of Australia in partnership with the NFSA.

Black and white close up of an exotic woman with wavy hair

Season: JFF Classics 2020

Date information05-06 December

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Provocation and Disruption: Radical Japanese Filmmaking from the 1960s to the 2000s

A shy looking girl standing in front of a brick wall

Emotion (That Dracula We Once Knew)

5 Dec

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6.00pm

Sun-kissed youth, a love triangle and a vampire.

Woman applying make up in front of two mirrors. In one reflection she has vampire teeth

House

5 Dec

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7.00pm

A doomed summer vacation, a flesh-eating house and a feline familiar.

Group of women dancing and partying

Funeral Parade of Roses

6 Dec

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12.00pm

Catch a rare look at the queer community of 1960s Japan.

Animation still of a blue character running away from a purple monster

Mind Game

6 Dec

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2.15pm

This adult animated feature is a psychedelic and surreal feast for the eyes.

Marching women protesters holding a banner that reads 'Women March for Liberation'

Doco of the Month: Brazen Hussies + Q&A

10 Dec

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6:00PM

The untold stories behind the Women’s Liberation Movement in Australia.

Man in a white suit stands surrounded by family with some holding babies

Aussie Indies: Slam

11 Dec

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6:00PM

A powerful slow-burn thriller about a missing anti-racism activist and slam poet.

A colour wheel advertising the documentary series The Story of Film and featuring film titles arranged on the spokes of the wheel

The Story of Film: European New wave

12 Dec

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1.00PM

Bergman, Bresson, Fellini, Godard, Leone and other European New Wave auteurs.

Man and woman lying on the ground having a picnic

Le Bonheur

12 Dec

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2.30PM

Agnès Varda’s provocative film about a happily married man who has an affair.

A graphic of a record player and two vinyl records floating above the turntable

NFSA Livestream: Virtual Vinyl Lounge

17 Dec

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7:00pm – 8.00pm

Vinyl lovers, share your stories and requests at the next online Virtual Vinyl Lounge.

Two Christmas couples wearing white fur trimmed red velvet costumes

Season: A Very NFSA Christmas

Date information18-19 December

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Between Bing Crosby, The Muppets and a 90s action movie, we have your Christmas covered!

Family in Christmas clothes decorating a tree

White Christmas

18 Dec

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10:30am

Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and the songs of Irving Berlin.

A woman aims a gun

The Long Kiss Goodnight

18 Dec

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6:00PM

What if all your memories returned... one bullet at a time?

Photoshopped image of a death mask.

NFSA Ghost Tour

18 Dec

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9:00pm

We're back! Explore the spooky history of the NFSA building with Tim the Yowie Man.

Three of the muppets characters including Kermit and Miss Piggy

The Muppet Christmas Carol

19 Dec

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10:30am

The Muppets, with Michael Caine as Scrooge, take on Charles Dickens’ timeless classic.

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