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Ballarat Film Society 2 - Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
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The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
09/05/2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Iranian-Australian Family Story Opening the 2022 Melbourne International Film Festival, Niasari ‘s debut film Shayda was selected by Australia to enter the Best International Feature Film Oscar race in 2023. Iranian-Australian born writer and director Noora Niasari tells the personally inspired story of a young Iranian mother and her 6-year-old daughter who find refuge in…
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
13/06/2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Under the Spanish sun... The Soles are peach farmers who have occupied their land for generations on the basis of a handshake deal with the original owners. The sighting of a looming mechanical crane ushers into their lives an uncertain peach season and future. An ensemble drama with 6 prominent characters is set in a…
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
11/07/2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Aboriginal Historical Fantasy The New Boy is set on a remote mission for Aboriginal children in the 1940s run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen. A new charge is delivered in the dead of night – a boy who appears to have special powers - and so begins the interactions between the mission staff, the…
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
08/08/2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Existential Thriller Classic Jean-Pierre Melville is the ultimate cult auteur in the French cinema, acknowledged as a key influence on directors such as Godard, Scorsese, and Tarantino. With Army of Shadows, the master of the philosophical, gangster film, drops the metaphor of the criminal underworld and deals directly with his experiences as an underground soldier…
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
12/09/2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Classic Talking Heads Concert Viewing a filmed music concert has been a tradition of the BFS, so this year we are fortunate to have a new remastering of the very famous 1983 concert that Talking Heads did over four live shows at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles. Director Jonathan Demme is known for his…
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
10/10/2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Lavish Italian Artist Drama The famous 17th century Italian artist Caravaggio is well known for his intense realism and use of strong contrasts of light and dark. Living in Milan, Naples, Malta and Sicily he was a rebellious man with an eye for beauty, the streets and high drama, and was hugely influential on succeeding…
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
14/11/2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Cinematic Donkey Odyssey Described by critics as a ‘sensuous reimagining of Robert Bresson’s Au hazard Balthazar’ (1966), EO is the name of a donkey sprung free from a circus and separated from Kasandra (Sandra Drzymalska), a young woman who dotes on him, only to wander around Poland witnessing degrees of difficulty as well as moments…
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
12/12/2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Australian 1950s Outback DramaTo conclude this year marking our 70-year existence, let’s watch a 1956 Australian film classic about an imaginative young boy who lives in the fictional small town of Murrumbilla in the Australian outback. Listen to an older generation of Australian accents; watch two-up games and immerse yourself in a 1950s country sensibility.…
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
13/02/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Pumping Northern Irish Comedy Kneecap is a comedic and musical start to our 2025 program. Rich Peppiatt’s raucous Irish-language debut feature is a semi-fictionalised biopic of the anarchic Belfast hip-hop band Kneecap and their rebellious civil rights mission to save the Irish language. Mo Chara and Móglaí Bap are the stage names of two erudite working-class hopefuls who exploded…
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
13/03/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Cinephile Comedy-drama This film, adapted from Chilean writer Hernan Rivera Letelier’s 2009 novel of the same name, is set in 1969 in the Atacama Desert, where saltpeter miners and their families work and live in precarious conditions. Far from their world, the rest of Chile is experiencing the death of Allende and the sudden military…
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
10/04/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Indie Texas Trash Sean Baker is well known for his caustic social observation of the frenetic lives of American marginalised people, especially migrants and sex orkers. After a 17-year absence, energetically delusional hustler Mikey "Saber" Davies returns to his home town of Texas City after spending years as a washed-porn star in L.A. Set in…
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute
117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia
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…
