It was a clever choice by director Baz Luhrmann to cast Kylie in a cameo as the playful and seductive ‘Green Fairy’ in his epic musical Moulin Rouge! (2001).

A family conference in a deserted café about what to do in the wake of the murder of two cops in which the brothers have been involved.

Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) has been expelled from the colony. His dancing upsets the elders, but he finds that Adelie penguins have a much more open attitude.

After a drunken night at a pub in Broken Hill, the three drag artists – Mitzi (Hugo Weaving), Felicia (Guy Pearce) and Bernadette (Terence Stamp) – awake to find their bus defaced with an anti-gay

The first Academy Award ever won by an Australian is in the NFSA collection.

Belinda Hunt, Team Leader of Conservation and Collection at the NFSA, talks about the condition of Australia's first Oscar in 2020 and how it is stored at the NFSA.

Tick/Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) attempts to become more ‘masculine’ in the eyes of his son Benji (Mark Holmes), but the boy reassures his father that he accepts him as he is.

Enjoy a comprehensive selection of Australian animated short films in our new curated collection.

There are over 1,000 Australian animated short films in the NFSA collection, with the earliest here dating back to the 1920s. 

Leisure, directed by Australian master animator Bruce Petty (1929-2023) in 1976, won the Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated).