
February at Arc Cinema
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Jan 2023

Plan Your Visit – COVID-19 information
Welcome! Here's what we're doing to protect the health of visitors to the NFSA.

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

Doco of the Month: Fire Front
First-hand footage of the 2020 bushfire season and the heroes that fought it.
Feb 2023

The Vinyl Lounge
Vinyl lovers, come and share your favourite records and requests.

NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT
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Season: Women Make Film
An epic guided tour through the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.

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.

Trivia, Actually
Gather your team for our next NFSA Movie Trivia Night – the theme is all things love and rom-com!

Galentine's Day: The First Wives Club
Don’t get mad, get everything!

Doco of the Month: Fire of Love
Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things – volcanoes and each other.

NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT
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Arc Out Loud: The Wedding Singer Quote-a-Long
Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged. Just to the wrong people.

Australian New Wave Season
Ten bold and provocative films that put Australian cinema on the world stage in the 1970s and 80s.

Walkabout
Two English children are left stranded and must learn to survive in the Australian outback.

ELVIS: Encore Screening
See ELVIS props and costumes on display before the screening!

Warm Bodies
Discover Romeo and Juliet’s zombie love.

Aussie Indies: Everything In Between
A teenage boy who’s given up on life encounters a woman who is fighting for her very existence.

Sunday Matinee: Beaches – 35mm
Once in a lifetime you make a friendship that lasts forever.
Mar 2023

Clara Law Retrospective
Celebrate the groundbreaking cinema of Clara Law with 3 features specially selected by the director.

Floating Life + Q&A
A migrant Hong Kong family grapples with their new Australian home in Clara Law's restored film.

NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT
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The Goddess of 1967
Rose Byrne shines in Clara Law's road movie about a blind girl, a Japanese man and a 1967 Citroën DS.

Drifting Petals + Q&A
Clara Law returns with a poignant and poetic film about the search for the past and the future.

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.

The Last Wave
Hasn’t the weather been strange... Could it be a warning?

NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT
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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.