December at Arc Cinema
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Book Launch: Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters
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Dec 2022
Plan Your Visit – COVID-19 information
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Vintage Australia program
What was life in Australia like 50 years ago? Enjoy a look at our cities in the 1960s.
The Vinyl Lounge
Vinyl lovers, come and share your favourite records and requests.
Doco of the Month: Franklin
Retracing the campaign that saved the World Heritage-listed national park in the early 1980s.
NFSA Ghost Tour
Join Tim the Yowie Man for a rare look behind the spooky history of the NFSA headquarters.
Saturday Screenings: Sadness
A mesmerising, poetic montage that brings to life the stories of William Yang’s family and friends.
Antenna Film Festival: Les Blank Retrospective
The NFSA and Antenna present a retrospective of maverick documentary filmmaker Les Blank.
Antenna Film Festival: Les Blank Retrospective, Session 1
Les Blank's engaging portraits of blues artists and New Orleans.
Antenna Film Festival: Les Blank Retrospective, Session 2
Session 2 of the retrospective highlights Les Blank's passion for food and festivals.
Antenna Film Festival: Les Blank Retrospective, Session 3
Les Blank's unique look into the mission of one of cinema’s most fearless directors.
Book Launch: Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters
Join us for the Canberra launch of the biography of Australia’s first female filmmaking team.
Aussie Indies: Moja Vesna
Ten-year-old Moja must unite her family in this compassionate Australian–Slovenian drama.
Season: Women Make Film
An epic guided tour through the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.
Women Make Film: Melodrama, Sci-Fi, Horror and Hell
What are some of the great works of melodrama, science-fiction and horror directed by women?
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
The first Iranian vampire Western.
ELVIS: Encore Screenings
See ELVIS props and costumes on display before the screening!
The Nightingale + Q&A
Featuring a Q&A discussion with the film's cultural advisor, Jim-puralia Everett-meenamatta.
Christmas at the NFSA
Celebrate Christmas at the NFSA with 3 very different festive films.
Die Hard
Yippee-ki-yay, it’s Christmas!
The Grinch
A grumpy Grinch plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville.
Miracle on 34th Street
A department store Santa Claus claims to be the real Santa.
Feb 2023
Women Make Film: Tension, Stasis and Leave Out
This episode looks at tension, stillness and the art of omission in the work of female directors.
Wadjda
An enterprising Saudi girl enters a Koran recitation competition to raise money for a forbidden bicycle.
Mar 2023
Women Make Film: Reveal, Memory and Time
How have female filmmakers employed revelation, memory and time in their films?
On Body and Soul
Two slaughterhouse workers discover they share the same dreams – and fall in love.
Apr 2023
Women Make Film: Life Inside, Meaning of Life, Love
How have female directors portrayed inner life, love and the search for meaning?
Mustang
Five sisters with a passion for freedom are caught in a scandal with unexpected consequences.
May 2023
Women Make Film: Death, Endings, Song and Dance
The epic road movie concludes with – what else? - death, but also a song and a dance.
Girlhood
You don't have the full story. Until you know hers.