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February at Arc Cinema

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COVID-19 Information
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Plan Your Visit – COVID-19 information

09 January - 30 April
Welcome! Here's what we're doing to protect the health of visito...
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Collection (Teal)
Australian New Wave Season
David Gulpilil, pointing a spear, stands in the desert with Jenny Agutter and Lucien John in private school uniforms in a scene from the film Walkabout
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Australian New Wave Season

18 February - 18 November
Ten bold and provocative films that put Australian cinema on the...
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Collection (Teal)
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NFSA Gift Vouchers

You can now purchase NFSA Gift Vouchers, which are redeemable for any Arc cinema or exhibition ticket.

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Jan 2023

Front entrance to the National Film and Sound Archive building
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Plan Your Visit – COVID-19 information

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10AM – 4PM DAILY, 10AM – 8PM FRIDAYS

Welcome! Here's what we're doing to protect the health of visitors to the NFSA.

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Vintage Australia program

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See times below. Note: doesn't screen Thursdays

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

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Doco of the Month: Fire Front

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2:00pm

First-hand footage of the 2020 bushfire season and the heroes that fought it.

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Feb 2023

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The Vinyl Lounge

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5:30–7.00pm

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

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Tim the Yowie Man holding a lantern backstage during the NFSA Ghost Tour
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NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

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8:00pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

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Season: Women Make Film

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1:00pm

An epic guided tour through the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.

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Women Make Film: Tension, Stasis and Leave Out

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1:00pm

This episode looks at tension, stillness and the art of omission in the work of female directors.

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A young girl looking at a green bicycle.
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Wadjda

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2:30pm

An enterprising Saudi girl enters a Koran recitation competition to raise money for a forbidden bicycle.

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Trivia, Actually

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From 6:00pm

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

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Head and shoulders shot of three women wearing white blazers (Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler) smiling in a scene from the film The First Wives Club.
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Galentine's Day: The First Wives Club

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6:00pm

Don’t get mad, get everything!

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Doco of the Month: Fire of Love

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6:00pm

Katia and Maurice Krafft loved two things – volcanoes and each other.

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Tim the Yowie Man in the NFSA Theatrette standing before a slide of the NFSA during an evening Ghost Tour
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NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

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8:00pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

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Close up of a young woman with short blonde hair (Drew Barrymore) smiling and looking at a man (Adam Sandler) singing into a microphone in a promotional shot for the film The Wedding Singer.
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Arc Out Loud: The Wedding Singer Quote-a-Long

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8:00pm

Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged. Just to the wrong people.

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David Gulpilil, pointing a spear, stands in the desert with Jenny Agutter and Lucien John in private school uniforms in a scene from the film Walkabout
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Australian New Wave Season

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1:00pm

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

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Walkabout

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1:00pm

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

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Austin Butler as Elvis Presley singing to a TV audience of adoring female fans in the movie ELVIS. He has a guitar strapped to him and is wearing a black leather suit.
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ELVIS: Encore Screening

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1:00pm

See ELVIS props and costumes on display before the screening!

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Warm Bodies

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6:00pm

Discover Romeo and Juliet’s zombie love.

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Aussie Indies: Everything In Between

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6:00pm

A teenage boy who’s given up on life encounters a woman who is fighting for her very existence.

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A man and two woman, roughly in their 30s, stand holding glasses of wine talking to each other in a scene from the film Beaches. One of the women looks unhappy.
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Sunday Matinee: Beaches – 35mm

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2:00pm

Once in a lifetime you make a friendship that lasts forever.

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Mar 2023

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Clara Law Retrospective

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6:00pm, 2:00pm

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

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Floating Life + Q&A

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6:00pm

A migrant Hong Kong family grapples with their new Australian home in Clara Law's restored film.

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Tim the Yowie Man holding a lantern backstage during the NFSA Ghost Tour
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NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

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8:00pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

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A confused-looking young man looks at a young woman who has her eyes closed and is holding on tightly to a metal ladder.
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The Goddess of 1967

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2:00pm

Rose Byrne shines in Clara Law's road movie about a blind girl, a Japanese man and a 1967 Citroën DS.

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A man standing alone on an empty street at night time.
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Drifting Petals + Q&A

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6:00pm

Clara Law returns with a poignant and poetic film about the search for the past and the future.

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Women Make Film: Reveal, Memory and Time

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1:00pm

How have female filmmakers employed revelation, memory and time in their films?

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On Body and Soul

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2:30pm

Two slaughterhouse workers discover they share the same dreams – and fall in love.

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A man stands alone on an empty beach, wearing a long coat and with his back facing the camera. There is rubbish strewn on the beach in front of him.
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The Last Wave

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1:00pm

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

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Tim the Yowie Man in the NFSA Theatrette standing before a slide of the NFSA during an evening Ghost Tour
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NFSA Ghost Tour: SOLD OUT

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8:00pm

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

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Apr 2023

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Women Make Film: Life Inside, Meaning of Life, Love

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1:00pm

How have female directors portrayed inner life, love and the search for meaning?

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Mustang

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2:30pm

Five sisters with a passion for freedom are caught in a scandal with unexpected consequences.

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