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A filmmaker's dream of perfect feedback! This was emailed to us (unsolicited, I assure you) from a person I've never met who decided to order JAPARTA from the Ronin website.
"I've been a sturdy fan of Ronin for years and very much appreciate your efforts to curate and distribute remarkable cinema. Still, we were astonished. 'Japarta' is really next level, telling a complex story over many years, from childhood to afterlife, with all the nuances and also the power to move us."

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SEASON’S GREETINGS and Best Wishes for the New Year from the team at Ronin Films. Thank you for your support through 2025 and we look forward to telling you about our new releases in the year ahead, Including our own production JAPARTA.
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Great Christmas gift for any movie buff in your life. Available on DVD or as digital download from Ronin FIlms. Not on Netflix or Stan.

THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT - NOW AVAILABLE FROM RONIN FILMS - a collection of seven intimate portraits (each 25 mins) of seven ground-breaking Australian photographers:

Ponch Hawkes
John Street
Jacqueline Mitelman
Meredith O’Shea
Ricky Maynard
Emmanuel Santos
Ashley Gilbertson

Produced and directed by Fiona Cochrane.

AVAILABLE AS A DVD OR AS DIGITAL FILES for home, education and screenings. For details and orders see: https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/858/0/18844.html

ANGELS OF WAR (restored from original film negs) explores the experiences of the people of Papua New Guinea during the Pacific War of the early 1940s. Produced and directed by Andrew Pike in collaboration with historians Gavan Daws, the late Hank Nelson, and the late PNG historian, Dr John Waiko.

WINNER - Best Documentary, 1982 Australian Film Institute [AFI] Awards. WINNER - Best Documentary, 1982 Nyon Film Festival, Switzerland. WINNER – Best Documentary, 1982 ATOM Awards (Social Sciences).

AVAILABLE ON DVD and as a digital file for home, education and screenings. See Ronin website for details: https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/858/0/720.html

ATTENTION CANBERRANS! Ronin is proud to be a supporter of Canberra International Film Festival! Don't miss THE COOLBAROO CLUB on the Big Screen at the NFSA's Arc Cinema!

Canberra International Film Festival presents a Special Event Screening of the newly restored Australian classic THE COOLBAROO CLUB (1996), at the National Film and Sound Archive’s Arc Cinema in Acton on Saturday 30 November at 2.30. TICKETS ON SALE NOW: VISIT THE CIFF WEBSITE FOR INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS: https://ciff.com.au/

With special guests at the screening – Penny Robins (producer) and Steve Kinnane (co-producer, co-writer and researcher).

Superbly restored from the original film negatives, by the NFSA RESTORES program of the NATIONAL FILM AND SOUND ARCHIVE.

The flood of Ronin classics on NITV continues: take three days in the coming week as an example: Wednesday 30 October - SONS OF NAMATJIRA (dir. Curtis Levy, 1975), FIVE SEASONS (dir. Steve McGregor, 2004), TOO MANY CAPTAIN COOKS (dir. Penelope McDonald, 1988), COLLUM CALLING CANBERRA (dir. David and Judith MacDougall, 1981); Thursday 31 October - TERRA NULLIUS (dir. Anne Pratten, 1992), THE LORE OF LOVE (dir. Beck Cole, 2005); Friday 1 November - HAROLD (dir. Steve Thomas, 1994), LITTLE TOWNS, BIG VOICES (dir. Fran Dobbie, 2016). Check the SBS/NITV Guide for times and catch-up streaming on SBS on Demand. Thank you NITV!! And all are still available on DVD from Ronin: https://www.roninfilms.com.au

TWO HOMELANDS is AVAILABLE NOW from Ronin Films on DVD and on Vimeo-on-Demand. See Ronin website for details, links and orders: https://www.roninfilms.com.au/feature/18722/two-homelands.html
Fifty years after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Australian Greek Cypriots, aged 70 to 102, give emotional first-hand accounts of the cost of war and their migration to Australia. A superb documentary by Kay Pavlou.

DEATH IN THE CITY – a brilliant feature documentary by Balaka Ghosh, and produced by Defrim Isai and Maxine Williamson. NOW AVAILABLE ON DVD and as digital file from Ronin Films, and on Vimeo-on-Demand. For information, orders and links, see: https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/847/0/18289.html
WINNER JURY PRIZE FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY at the Eurasian Bridge Yalta International Film Festival (Crimea, 7 to 11 October 2024). Jury Chair, Andrey Chertov (Bulgaria) said: "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟'𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠. … (It) 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛."

From film-maker, Margot Nash, UNDERCURRENTS: MEDITATIONS ON POWER - a poetic essay film about the undercurrents of history playing out in the present - a 'song' for these dark times. ‘Dazzling’ (Adrian Martin, film critic). ‘Powerful, lyrical, and evocative’ (Larissa Behrendt, filmmaker & broadcaster). AVAILABLE NOW FROM RONIN FILMS ON DVD AND ON VIMEO ON DEMAND. For details, links and orders, see Ronin Films: https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/858/0/18720.html

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! The award-winning documentary, THE LAST VIOLIN, screens on SBS on Sunday 15 September at 4.05pm. The film is a spell-binding portrait of Master violin maker, Charalambos Vatiliotis, known as Harry, who is 85 and still works from his home in suburban Sydney, making superb violins for classical musicians. A film by Carla Thackrah and Romano Crivici.

"An enchanting film... it's a love story: a love story about music, a love story about the violin, and it's a love story about this extraordinary instrument maker.” - Phillip Adams, Late Night Live, ABC Radio National.

AVAILABLE ON DVD from Ronin Films – for details and orders visit https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/858/0/18420.html