Join us on 3 to 4 March for a Clara Law Retrospective – three films produced by the Macau-born, Hong Kong-raised and Melbourne-based filmmaker, and presented with ACMI. There will be special Q&As with Law and her partner and collaborator Eddie L.C Fong after Floating Life (1996) and her latest film, Drifting Petals (2021), and we are also screening The Goddess of 1967 (2000).
Show your support and celebrate your pride this March as the NFSA presents highlights from Queer Screen’s 30th edition of the Mardi Gras Film Festival. As well as recent award-winning features In From the Side (2022) and The Venus Effect (2022), and the Best of the MGFF23 Shorts, there will be a special Q&A after the Stephen Cummins Retrospective screening of nine landmark short films recently remasterd by the NFSA.
We're hosting a special screening of the NFSA Restores restoration of Sunday Too Far Away (1975), starring Jack Thompson, and presented with the Friends of the NFSA. Curator Nathan Smith will introduce the screening and there will be a reception for members of Friends of the NFSA from 5.30pm.
Learn about the rise, fall and afterlife of filmmakers’ co-operatives in Australia with Senses of Cinema (2022) – followed by a Q&A with co-directors Tom Zubrycki and John Hughes, as well as Sydney Co-op member Susan Lambert.
Plus our Doco of the Month, Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey (2022), is essential viewing for film geeks. We have a special International Women’s Day edition of The Vinyl Lounge, continuing series Women Make Film, SCIENCE.ART.FILM. and Australian New Wave, and much more, so follow the links below to book your tickets now!