Ballarat Film Society

08/05/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Italian Neorealist Drama ​The Bicycle Thief is regularly voted one of the greatest films of all time. It was a key example of the Italian ‘cinema of the real’ which heralded a new kind of cinematic naturalism, employing non-professional actors and filming on the streets of a post-war Europe.  Antonio, a poor father, is on the…

12/06/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Archaeological Romance La Chimera is the latest film from Rohrwacher, a delightfully singular Italian writer-director who, with just a handful of feature-length films, has become one of the must-see filmmakers on the international circuit. Arthur, a British archaeologist just released from prison and grieving his lost love, soon falls back in with a rag-tag gang of…

10/07/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Indigenous Coming of Age Story Filmed in the stunning Pilbara over five weeks, Nyul Nyul/Yawuru woman Jub Clerc’s debut feature film is the first Western Australian film by a First Nation’s director.  16-year-old Murra, whose abandonment by her drug-fuelled mother puts her at risk of being sent into the Child Protection system, instead finds herself…

11/09/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Sudanese Moral Drama Only a handful of films originate in Sudan due to the civil war  from 1983 to 2005, and this is the first to participate in the Cannes Film Festival. This debut feature film from Mohamed Kordofani follows the story of Mona, a retired Northern Sudanese singer who is wracked with guilt after covering…

09/10/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Award Winning Australian Documentary Best Melbourne Documentary 2024 at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, To Thank the Room is about the last 100 days of the iconic Brooklyn Arts Hotel in Fitzroy.  This heart-warming and inspiring documentary is an intimate portrait of Maggie Fooke, the creator of the hotel, as she navigates the final days of this…

13/11/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Compelling Cold War Political Thriller In 1961, the charismatic Swedish diplomat, economist and implacable idealist Dag Hammarskjöld was in his seventh year as Secretary-General of the United Nations. By some, he was considered the ‘clearest thinker in the room,’ but by others as the victim of a ‘saviour complex’ (Cineuropa). Torn between his personal life…

11/12/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Musical Doco ‘The south is the home of all things queer,’ says scholar Zandria Robinson as we witness the exhilarating jam-packed story of Little Richard’s complex life and musical career, ending only in 2020. Born in 1932 as Richard Wayne Penniman, by 1955 Little Richard was declared a world rock ‘n’ roll star with his…