National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

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Heath Ledger holding a camera against a saturated orange background.

Heath Ledger exhibition

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Montage of a close up photo of a teenager, a crowd and two girls with the words 'one witness'

Blackrock + David Elfick

14 Dec

7:00pm

Heath Ledger's first feature is an emotionally charged story of t…

Three actors dressed as bushrangers holding guns

Season: Aussie Outlaws

Date information02-06 January

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A short season of Australian antiheroes, featuring two classic He…

Cartoon image of a dog and cat

Season: Summer school holidays

Date information07-13 January

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Are you a cat person or a dog person? This holidays, we pit cool …

List of events

Jan 2019

Cartoon image of two garden gnomes, one holds a giant flower.

Gnomeo and Juliet

17 Jan

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3.00pm

Neighbouring gardens are at war while two young garden gnomes fall in love.

Two women looking startled

Big Business

18 Jan

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3.00pm

This slapstick delights is also a gender-reversed take on A Comedy of Errors.

Two young, cool looking men. One with sunglasses and a cigarette.

My Own Private Idaho

19 Jan

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3.00pm

River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Henry IV.

A boy wearing a suit of armour holds the hand of a girl wearing angel wings.

Romeo + Juliet

20 Jan

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3.00pm

Baz Luhrmann's innovative adaptation of the classic, tragic love story.

A man straddles a woman lying on the ground taking her photo.

Season: I Am a Camera

Date information21-25 January

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A season of films linked by Heath Ledger’s love of photography.

A man sits on a stool looking at an oil well on fire.

There Will Be Blood

21 Jan

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3.00pm

The unforgettable Oscar-winning saga of family, faith and power.

A man stands in a field with his arms slung across a rifle

Badlands

22 Jan

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3.00pm

A young couple embark on a killing spree in Terrence Malick’s brilliant debut film.

Big out of focus close up of a man with dark glasses in the foreground with a younger man in the background looking at him.

NFSA Restores: Proof

23 Jan

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3.00pm

The NFSA's digital restoration of the dark comedy starring Hugo Weaving and Russell Crowe.

Close up of partially obscured faces of two women and two men

Closer

24 Jan

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3.00pm

Julia Roberts plays a photographer in this Oscar-nominated drama about two couples.

A photographer with a model

Blow-Up + Special Guest

25 Jan

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3.00pm

A fashion photographer is convinced he has captured a murder in one of his photographs.

Two boys sitting on a wall.

Paper Planes

26 Jan

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1.00pm

Screening + plane-flying competition with the Paper Pilots.

Feb 2019

Elevated view of the NFSA courtyard at night with a crowd of people.

Courtyard Fridays @ NFSA

Date information01-22 February

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Fridays 5.00pm - 8.00pm

Unwind and start the weekend right, every Friday afternoon in February.

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

The Vinyl Lounge

1 Feb

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5.30pm - 7.00pm

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

A crazed man pushes his face through a split in a door.

Season: Creating the Joker

Date information01-02 February

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The key films that inspired Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker.

Twin girls in matching dresses standing in a hotel hallway.

The Shining

1 Feb

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7:00pm

The classic horror film from Stanley Kubrick starring Jack Nicholson.

A man in a bowler hat with one false eyelash raises a glass of milk

A Clockwork Orange

2 Feb

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4:00pm

Stanley Kubrick's enduring and controversial futuristic classic.

Two people shucking oysters

Oyster

10 Feb

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2.30pm

A fascinating portrait of a NSW South Coast oyster farmer and his family.

Black and white photo of four people outside a home.

Possum Paddock

14 Feb

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7:00pm

A rare screening of the first Australian feature directed by a woman.

Close up of a man with a guitar singing into a microphone.

Friday With Friends: In Conversation with Keith Potger

15 Feb

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6:00PM

Friends of the NFSA present a conversation with Keith Potger AO, founding member of The Seekers.

Bruce Beresford outside standing next to a large mounted movie camera.

Season: Bruce Beresford

Date information15-23 February

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A season of highlights from one of our most celebrated Australian directors.

Three women in black leaning on a counter in a store.

Ladies in Black + Special Guest

15 Feb

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7.30pm

Special guest Bruce Beresford will introduce his latest hit film, Ladies in Black.

A young women standing in a garden.

Double feature: The Getting of Wisdom + Breaker Morant

16 Feb

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4.00pm + 6.30pm

Two Bruce Beresford classics – one set in a girls' school, the other during the Boer War.

A ballet dancer leaps into the air in a gymnasium with a large portrait of Chairman Mao on the wall.

Mao's Last Dancer

22 Feb

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7:00pm

Bruce Beresford films the inspirational true story of ballet dancer Li Cunxin.

Photoshopped image of a death mask.

NFSA Ghost Tour

22 Feb

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9:00pm

Tim the Yowie Man leads a tour of the spooky history of the NFSA.

Close up of an angry man

Double feature: The Club + The Fringe Dwellers

23 Feb

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4.00pm + 6.00pm

Two 1980s Bruce Beresford films – one set in an AFL club, the other in an Aboriginal community.

Close up of a smug looking female prisoner.

Prisoner: Cell Block H - 40th Anniversary

27 Feb

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7:00pm

Celebrating 40 years of Prisoner with special guest Val Lehman.

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