Warwick Thornton: Mother Courage
An immersive film installation by the award-winning filmmaker and artist.
5th of February - 23rd of June
Free

First Peoples Cinema
Thursday 31st of January - Monday 11th of February
This selection of films, drawn from the Toronto International Film Festival's large-scale retrospective, traces the development of a distinctive Indigenous cinema.
Full $15 Concession $12 ACMI Member $11

Patu! PG
Thursday 31st January 7pm
Sunday 10th February 6pm
Merata Mita's guerrilla filmmaking landmark is a raw, visceral record of the violent anti-apartheid protests sparked by the South African rugby team's 1981 tour of New Zealand.

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance CTC
Friday 1st Februrary 7pm

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner MA15+
Sunday 3rd February 4pm
Monday 11th February 6.45pm
A naked man sprints across a frozen landscape pursued by men out to kill him. This indelible scene is among the lasting images of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, perhaps the most important film ever produced in Canada and the first feature ever made in Inuktitut. Winner of the Camera d'Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Busong CTC
Friday 8th February 7pm
Punay (Alessandra de Rossi) is stricken with an unknown disease that leaves her covered in wounds and unable to walk. Her dedicated brother, Angkarang (Rodrigo Santikan), transports her on a hammock, forever on the lookout for a cure or someone to help them. Busong is the first feature ever made in the Palawan language.

The Orator (O le tulafale) PG
Saturday 9th of February 7pm

On the Ice
Sunday 10th of February 4pm Australian Premiere

In the Inupiat community of Barrow, Alaska, two teenagers are torn apart by a shared secret. Expanding his earlier short Film Sikumi (2008), director Andrew Okpeaha MacLean crafts a classic film noir resituated from the city shadows to the 24-hour sunlight and vast, blindingly white vistas of the far north.