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Silent Film with Live Band | Buster Keaton in ‘The General’

28/05/2023 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm $15 Buster Keaton in The General. Silent film with Live Band. Join us for an unforgettable night of entertainment as we take you back to the golden era of cinema with a silent film screening of The General, starring the legendary Buster Keaton. The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute will provide the perfect backdrop for this special event. You’ll be…

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Ballarat Film Society – Beyond the Wasteland

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08/12/2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Filmed in Australia, USA, France, Germany and Japan, this documentary examines the contemporary culture rooted in Mad Max (1979) and Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) both of which became instant international cult films during the 1980s with their dystopian and post-apocalyptic themes and imagery. The film explores the eccentric world of the fans from around the globe, their costumes, and their machines. From the

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Ballarat Film Society – Quo Vadis, Aida?

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13/10/2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Quo Vadis, Aida? is inspired by true events. In Bosnia, 1995, middle-aged Aida is a United Nations translator located in the small mountain town of Srebrenica when the Serbian army ignores a UN peace ultimatum and begins a series of round-ups. Aida’s translation skills come into action when Aida and her family find themselves among 30,000

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Ballarat Film Society – First Cow

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08/11/2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm With a similar ‘feel’ to McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), First Cow reveals, surprisingly, an America built on racial and social diversity during the birth of American enterprise. Two travellers on the run in the 1820s dream of striking it rich, relying on a wealthy landowner’s cow which is the first cow to ever reach Oregon. Cookie

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Ballarat Film Society – Little Woods

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11/08/2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Set in the border-crossing town of Little Woods, between North Dakota and Canada, two reunited sisters struggle to survive in circumstances of economic injustice largely not of their own making. Confronted with urgent personal decisions, warring personalities, opioid-driven traumas and small-town economic downturn, the two have a week to settle a mortgage on their mother’s

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Ballarat Film Society – High Ground

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14/07/2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Stars: Guruwuk Mununggurr, Wakarra Gondarra, Jack Thompson, Simon Baker, Callan Mulvey and Aaron Pedersen. We present this film to celebrate NAIDOC Week, 2022. This is the first film that director Stephen Maxwell Johnson has made since Yolngu Boy, 20 years ago. Set in the 1930s Northern Territory, where two cultures collide in the violence perpetuated

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