NFSA Restores is an exciting program to digitise, restore and preserve, at the highest archival standards, classic and cult Australian films so they can be seen on the big screen in today’s di

Proof (1991) has been digitally restored by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia with the generous support of the public.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia has digitally restored John Duigan’s 1987 hit The Year My Voice Broke, and the documentaries Rocking the Foundations and My Survival as an Aboriginal.

The NFSA’s digital restoration of Three Days to Live (1924) premiered at Arc Cinema, Canberra in February 2017 with a live piano accompaniment by Mauro

Classics deserve to be experienced on the big screen.

The NFSA restoration of Bliss premiered at the 2016 Sydney Film Festival.

We need your help. We are restoring as many films as our resources permit, but the support of the public will allow us to do more. Help us keep this part of Australia’s history alive!

Jeffrey Walker reflects on his role as eight-year-old Martin (Hugo Weaving plays the adult version) in the 1991 film Proof, and his relationship with actress Heather Mitchell, who played h

Bringing the classics back to the big screen.

Ray Lawrence’s 1985 AFI Award-winning classic Bliss has been digitally restored by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia as part of its NFSA Restores initiative.