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Birth of a film festival

Australia, 2003
film

Not many people know that the Melbourne International Film Festival was born at Olinda on the Australia Day weekend in January 1952, when a group of die-hard ..

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Either-or

Hungary, 1989
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Cuba, 1972
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AFTRS top 100 films. Compile 9

Australia, 1973-2004
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Gold Silver and Bronze

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[Raymond Penington Home Movies: Reel 8]

Australia, 1938
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Northern oasis

Australia, 1948
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Thirty years destroyed

Australia, 1953
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Mallacoota fishing trip

Australia, 1958
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How to make a movie

Australia, 1951
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Annual leave 1952

Australia, 1952
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Never Done: Women, Work and History

1988
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The Fighting Gunditjmara

Australia, 1984
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Understanding

United Kingdom, 1982
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[John Robertson Duigan Film Collection: Reel 14]

Australia, c. 1920s
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[John Robertson Duigan Film Collection: Reel 6]

Australia, c. 1920s
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Vegetable Growing at Home

Australia, c. 1943
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[Kirsty Sword Gusmao Film Collection: Reel 3]

Australia and VIC/Australia, c. 1960-c. 1970
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The Land of nothing

Hungary, 1996
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