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Heath Ledger holding a camera against a saturated orange background.

Heath Ledger exhibition

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A radio station disc jockey at his desk playing records

A dubious decision

21 Sep

6:00PM

ABC Radio's David Kilby spotlights albums made by singing radio D…

Two woman and two men wearing vaguely medieval costumes.

Heath Ledger in Roar

21 Sep

7:00pm

Special screening and discussion with production designer Stewart…

Kinokonzert: 'Vampyr'

28 Sep

7:00pm

KinoKonzert brings together a legendary silent film with a contem…

List of events

Oct 2018

A group of female rugby players in a huddle.

Power Meri

7 Oct

4:00pm

A documentary about Papua New Guinea's first national women's rugby league team.

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A teenager and a goup of adults look intensely at something

War Games

8 Oct

10:00am

A teenage hacker finds a back door into a military computer.

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Computer image of three motorcycles racing across a gridded landscape.

Tron

9 Oct

10:00am

A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to fight in gladiatorial games.

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Three figures in futuristic uniforms stand on a computerlike landscape.

Tron: Legacy

10 Oct

10:00am

The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father in a digital world.

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A woman warrior fights off a group of armoured men.

Dungeons and Dragons

11 Oct

10:00am

The movie version of the popular fantasy role-playing game.

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Starstruck exhibition banner featuring a woman resting her face on her hands

Adelaide: Starstruck Curators' Tour

11 Oct

1.00pm

Join us for a curator tour of the Starstruck exhibition in Adelaide.

An adult talks to a child in a post-apocolyptic setting.

Ready Player One

12 Oct

10:00am

An exhilarating blockbuster from Steven Spielberg, packed with retro gaming references.

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A man wearing period costume lies on his back holding a sword

Season: Costume on Film

Date information12-13 October

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A short season about clothes, couture and costume, with guest talks and Heath Ledger screenings.

Costuming for Film + A Knight's Tale

12 Oct

7:00pm

Curator talk on costuming for film followed by a screening of A Knight's Tale.

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CMHFF: This Is My Brave

13 Oct

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This year's Canberra Mental Health Film Festival features inspiring documentaries, panels and short films.

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Adelaide: Scott Hicks in Discussion

13 Oct

12.00pm

Scott Hicks discusses his approach to creating a portrait on film. Talk supporting Starstruck in Adelaide.

Heath Ledger in the centre of 5 people, all wearing romantic clothing and Heath holding as Venetian mask.

Dressing the Part + Casanova

13 Oct

4:00pm

A guest curator talk exploring men’s fashion on screen, followed by a screening of Casanova.

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Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

14 Oct

4:00pm

Meet revolutionary landscape designer Piet Oudolf.

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Czech and Slovak Film Festival

Date information18-21 October

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Bringing you the best cinema from the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

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A young woman in a peasant outfit spreads her arms wide and sings

Hastrman

18 Oct

7:00pm

A wonderful debut film and a handsome adaptation of the celebrated novel by Miloš Urban.

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Andrew Pike's adventures in the film trade

19 Oct

6:00PM

The Canberra-based distributor and exhibitor takes us on a journey through the Australian film trade.

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Two woman. One with her hand in her mouth. The other wearing heavy eye make up.

Daisies

19 Oct

6.15pm

Two young women embark upon an anarchic rampage in this innovative film, released prior to the Prague Spring.

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Domestique

19 Oct

8.15pm

Resorting to desperate measures to make the big league, a cyclist is matched in single-mindedness only by his wife.

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The Oddsockeaters

20 Oct

12.30pm

A riotously colourful, highly entertaining animated feature, based on a series of bestselling children's books.

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Celebration in the Botanical Garden

20 Oct

2.30pm

This brilliant New Wave film was inspired by French Impressionism, Slovak folk art and silent-era cinema.

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A man strides towards the camera with soldiers in the background.

Barefoot

20 Oct

4.30pm

A charming comedic drama set during the final days of the Second World War and a tribute to the director's father.

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Out

21 Oct

12.15pm

Strange and wonderful cameos abound in this absurdist odyssey about a man leaving his indifferent family in Slovakia for the Baltics.

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One man presents a crown while another wipes his forehead

The Firemen’s Ball

21 Oct

2:00pm

A digital restoration of Miloš Forman's classic satire, courtesy of the National Film Archive in Prague.

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Woman in a pink tutu and long white gloves rests on a railing.

Adelaide: Tony Knight + NFSA Restores: Starstruck

24 Oct

10:45am

Talk by Tony Knight, former head of NIDA, followed by Starstruck screening. Adelaide screening.

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A man walks through ankle-deep water in an underground tunnel in the film The Third Man

Canberra International Film Festival

Date information26-28 October

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The Canberra International Film Festival returns to the NFSA in October.

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A man in a dark coat and hat standing in an alley-way.

The Third Man

26 Oct

7.30pm

A 4K restoration of Carol Reed’s celebrated British thriller starring Orson Welles.

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NFSA Ghost Tour

26 Oct

8:00PM

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

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An older man gestures with his hands spread apart.

Cinema: A Public Affair

27 Oct

11.00am

A riveting documentary by Russian-German director Tatania Brandrup about a film museum in exile.

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Two prisoners in a 1950s British prison exit their cells, surrounded by prison guards

The Criminal

27 Oct

1.30pm

A lone-wolf criminal tries to outwit a crime syndicate in Joseph Losey's intense thriller.

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Searching for Ingmar Bergman

27 Oct

4:00pm

A beautifully crafted memoir featuring fascinating home-movie footage of Bergman and interviews with his collaborators.

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