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You Beauties: New Australian Cinema
Showcasing independent Australian cinema in all its diversity: friendly, strange, black, queer, bad, mad and beautiful.
Complemeting BFI Southbank's season curated by ACMI (3-27 February 2023), this online programme highlights some of the most exciting, innovative and incisive new voices in Australian cinema, from the award-winning films of Justin Kurzel to First Nations artists such as Leah Purcell and Ivan Sen, whose works canvasses themes of memory, inheritance, and invasion.
Alongside this we present a selection of Australian classics from more established talents; enduring works that remain at the forefront of the country's cinema heritage.
The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly JohnsonThe Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
Drama2020109 minsDirector: Leah Purcell
Leah Purcell writes, directs and stars in this gripping story about a fiercely protective mother struggling to survive in the harsh Australian outback.
GoldstoneGoldstone
Drama2016110 minsDirector: Ivan Sen
Ivan Sen follows his acclaimed Australian thriller Mystery Road with another distinctive, 'outback noir', with troubled indigenous detective Joe Swan (Aaron Pedersen) again on the trail of murder and corruption.
Mystery RoadMystery Road
Crime2013121 minsDirector: Ivan Sen
An Aboriginal cop returns to his hometown to solve the brutal murder of a teenage girl, uncovering a web of corruption and a growing body count, in Ivan Sen's acclaimed Australian riff on the Western genre.
Australian Cinema Classics
CeliaCelia
Drama1989108 minsDirector: Ann Turner
Set in mid-1950s Australia, with the fear of communism in the air and rabbit plagues overrunning the countryside, Ann Turner’s debut film depicts a long, hot summer seen through the eyes and wild imagination of a young girl.
The PropositionThe Proposition
Western2006104 minsDirector: John Hillcoat
John Hillcoat and Nick Cave's brilliant, brutal bushranger western, with Guy Pearce as the outlaw tasked with tracking down his psychopathic elder brother (Danny Huston).
SnowtownSnowtown
Crime2011120 minsDirector: Justin Kurzel
Justin Kurzel's shocking dramatisation of Australia's most notorious serial killings.
The Chant of Jimmie BlacksmithThe Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Drama1978122 minsDirector: Fred Schepisi
Fred Schepisi’s Palme d’Or-nominated epic based on the true story of a man of half-Aboriginal ancestry who is pushed to breaking point in the Australian outback in 1900.
WalkaboutWalkabout
Drama1970101 minsDirector: Nicolas Roeg
Jenny Agutter plays the teenage girl reliant on a young Aboriginal (David Gulpilil) for her survival, in Nicolas Roeg's stunning Australian outback drama.
Long WeekendLong Weekend
Drama197795 minsDirector: Colin Eggleston
An Australian ecological horror in which a reckless couple on a camping trip sees nature savagely fighting back.