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11/11/2025
At Beamafilm, we're celebrating the power of storytelling through the lens of the world’s most honoured filmmakers. From Australian AACTA winners to the standouts of Cannes, Oscar-recognised classics and Criterion-curated treasures, our Film Studies collections invite cinephiles and students alike to discover cinema’s most enduring achievements.
Australia’s screen industry has long produced films of deep emotional insight and technical brilliance — many of which have been recognised by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA).
Death in Brunswick:Sam Neill’s unforgettable turn in this darkly comic portrait of Melbourne’s underbelly earned the film several AFI/AACTA nominations, including Best Film & Best Actor. A cult favourite, it explores friendship, mortality, and multicultural Australia.
Paperback Hero:A quintessentially Australian romantic comedy featuring Hugh Jackman in an early career highlight, this film was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor (Andrew S. Gilbert).
Jabe Babe: A Heightened Life: Winner of the AFI Award for Best Documentary (2005), this striking and unconventional portrait of performance artist Jabe Babe explores identity, gender, and self-invention with sharp humour and compassion.
The Last Days of Chez Nous:Gillian Armstrong’s moving family drama about love, betrayal, and sisterhood - nominated for multiple AFI Awards and a touchstone of Australian realist cinema.
Hotel Sorrento: Adapted from Hannie Rayson’s acclaimed play, Hotel Sorrento was nominated for multiple AFI Awards and remains a compelling exploration of Australian identity, feminism, and family.
Careful, He Might Hear You:Winner of the AFI Award for Best Film (1983), this elegant adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott’s novel showcases Australia’s golden age of literary cinema.
Hunt Angels: AFI Award-winning documentary that uses innovative visual effects to resurrect the maverick spirit of Australian filmmakers in the 1930s who defied Hollywood censorship.
The Cannes Film Festival has long celebrated visionary Australian voices that push cinematic boundaries.
Head On: Ana Kokkinos’s fearless coming-of-age drama was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes in 1998 — a searing, kinetic portrayal of identity, sexuality, and rebellion in multicultural Melbourne.
Wills and Burke: The Untold Story: This gripping Australian historical adventure film resonated with Cannes audiences for its visual scope and exploration of ambition and folly during the age of exploration.
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers: An Oscar-nominated noir classic starring Barbara Stanwyck and Kirk Douglas in his film debut. A taut tale of guilt, power, and moral compromise.
Gulliver’s Travels: Nominated for Best Original Score at the 1940 Academy Awards, this pioneering animated adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s satire remains a cornerstone of early feature animation.
For lovers of cinematic craftsmanship, the Criterion Collection represents the gold standard of preservation and curation.
Puberty Blues:Bruce Beresford’s razor-sharp adaptation of the iconic Australian novel captures the trials of adolescence with warmth and humour. Its Criterion release celebrates a defining moment in Australian coming-of-age storytelling.
The Getting of Wisdom: Gillian Armstrong’s adaptation of Henry Handel Richardson’s novel remains a feminist classic — lush, witty, and deeply empathetic toward a young woman’s education and awakening.
The Back of Beyond: Screened at the Sundance Film Festival, this poetic documentary traverses the haunting beauty of Australia’s outback. With its striking cinematography and meditative narration, it stands as a landmark in Australian non-fiction cinema.
Watch, learn, and be inspired
From award-winning dramas to boundary-breaking documentaries, Beamafilm’s Film Studies & Award-Winning Cinema Collection offers a unique journey through the art of storytelling. Whether you’re studying Australian cinema, exploring film history, or simply enjoying world-class filmmaking, these works remind us why great films never fade.
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Down-on-his-luck Carl Fitzgerald meets Sophie, a beautiful Greek girl. He gets a job as a cook, but accidentally kills a fellow worker. He turns to his unscrupulous best friend for help and they attempt to dispose of the body.
A tall girl with a tall story, 31 year old Jabe Babe measures six foot two inches (188cm), works as a dominatrix and has a life threatening genetic condition called Marfan Syndrome. This 52 minute hybrid documentary, merging fiction...
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Beth is a modern matriarch doing her best to raise her teenage daughter Annie whilst enjoying her marriage to JP. But when her sister Vicki comes back from abroad, everything collapses.
Two teenage girls fight peer pressure in 1980's Australia. Having previously been in their own group, they desperately try to break into the "in" crowd before working to regain respect and equality again.
The Italian classic by Federico Fellini. A troubled Italian filmmaker struggles with creative stasis as he attempts to get a new movie off the ground and it becomes strangely autobiographical.
Eilis, a young Irish girl, lands in 1950s Brooklyn and soon gets used to the freer life. She falls in love with Tony, who hails from an Italian family. However, a tragedy befalls her back home.
David Helfgott, a gifted pianist, struggles through childhood as his dysfunctional father abuses him and his siblings. Years later, he suffers a mental breakdown but manages to return as a legend.
With five loyal friends in tow, legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails a fragile balsa wood raft along an ancient path some 4,300 miles across the Pacific.
Saroo gets separated from his family at the age of five and ends up being adopted by an Australian couple. However, he returns to India 25 years later to search for his birth parents.
The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
The Italian classic by Federico Fellini. A troubled Italian filmmaker struggles with creative stasis as he attempts to get a new movie off the ground and it becomes strangely autobiographical.
In one of a traditional South Pacific tribe, a young girl falls in love with her chief’s grandson, although she is betrothed to another. Running away, they are pursued by enemy warriors desperate to enforce tribal law.
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