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David Gulpilil, spear raised, stalking his prey through the Arafura swamp

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July at Arc cinema

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Abandoned rollercoaster in the ocean

KinoKonzert #9: Homo Sapiens

29 Jul

6:00PM

Combining the work of a contemporary filmmaker and an experimenta…

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Lina Wertmüller Season

Date information30-31 July

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Lina Wertmüller’s films are bold, boundary-pushing and irrever…

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August at Arc Cinema

What's on at the NFSA's Arc cinema in Canberra in August?

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Aug 2021

A young boy looking cautiously from a doorway

Where is the Friend's House ?

28 Aug

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2.00pm

This poetic tale about a young boy returning a schoolbook brought Abbas Kiarostami to international fame.

Looking through the windscreen of a man driving a car wth two children

And Life Goes On...

28 Aug

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4.00pm

The second film in the Koker trilogy is set against a backdrop of destruction but brims with life and vitality.

A man surrounded my nuns in black robes

Through the Olive Trees

28 Aug

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7.00pm

A comic and wildly meta examination of class and romance set amid the rubble of the 1990 earthquake.

A man sprinting along a ridge in an arid landscape

The Wind Will Carry Us

29 Aug

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2.00pm

This gently comic fable on the unpredictability of life won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

A woman with dark sunglasses and a head scarf driving a car

Ten

29 Aug

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4.30pm

An illuminating piece of cinema that focuses on the lives of contemporary Iranian women.

Sep 2021

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Saturday Screenings: Head On

4 Sep

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2.00pm

A 19-year-old Greek-Australian man struggles with his sexual identity in 1990s Melbourne.

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: The Hollywood Dream

11 Sep

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1.00pm

The fascinating story of movies in the roaring 1920s – and the battle for the soul of cinema.

Two women wearing futuristic hats and make up

Aelita: Queen of Mars + Live score

11 Sep

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2.30pm

The NFSA restoration of this silent science-fiction film screens with a live score accompaniment by Lucy Cliché.

Photoshopped image of a death mask.

NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

24 Sep

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8:00PM

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

Oct 2021

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NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

15 Oct

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9:00pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

A negative exposure photograph of the Australian Institute of Anatomy (now the NFSA) building

NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

29 Oct

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9:00pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

Nov 2021

Photoshopped image of a death mask.

NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

5 Nov

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9:00pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

Photoshopped image of a death mask.

NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

26 Nov

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9:00pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

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