Ngara ('Listen' in Dharawal language) is our Arc Cinema program for NAIDOC Week in Canberra. From 29 June through to 8 July, we'll be screening a powerful line-up that honours the history and culture of First Nations Australians. The program includes feature films from acclaimed directors Warwick Thornton (The New Boy, Samson and Delilah) and Rachel Perkins (NFSA Restores: Radiance), plus two landmark documentaries (Buried Country, NFSA Restores: Lousy Little Sixpence).
Explore Uncharted Territory with us at the NFSA as we discuss creativity, experimentation and groundbreaking ideas within the framework of improving public spaces. Following the panels, join us for a screening of The Giants, about environmental folk hero and gay icon, Bob Brown. A Q&A with Bob will follow the screening.
In association with Sydney Film Festival and ACMI, we present an extensive Jane Campion Retrospective. It includes all nine of her feature films as well as a selection of her short films and a new documentary, Jane Campion: The Cinema Woman.
Local drag artist Venus Mantrap will host the next instalment of our Fright Night: Cult Cinema Classics season – a screening of Robocop . Sophisticated crime, police brutality, machines doing the work of humans... This isn’t 2023, this is 2029 – as imagined by director Paul Verhoeven in his satirical blockbuster from 1987.
Continue reading below for a full line-up of the films screening this month at the NFSA and click on the links to book your tickets!
Please help us keep everyone safe by reading and following our COVID-safety and visitor information and don’t forget to get your Club NFSA card when you arrive.
