Posters
A selection of movie posters for films - documentary
and fictional - which have explored different issues of
immigration and ethnicity in Australia.
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“Billal”
• “Billal” a feature documentary,
follows the dramatic repercussions
of a serious act of racially-
motivated violence, which
devastates a Lebanese family
living in an outer-Sydney suburb.
• Directed by Tom Zubrycki.
• Ronin Films, 1996.
“Floating Life”
• “Floating Life” is a film about the
trauma of displacement of a
Chinese family after it moves to
Australia, and more broadly, about
the Chinese diaspora.
• Directed by Clara Law, with Annie
Yip, Anthony Wong, Annette Shun
Wah, Edwin Pang, Cecilia Lee.
• Footprint Films/One Globe
Promotions, 1996.
“Flowers and the Wide Sea”
• “Flowers and the Wide Sea,” a
two-part documentary series for
television, tells the story of one of
Australia’s oldest immigrant
communities - the Chinese.
Directed by Tony Stevens.
• Film Australia, 1993.
“The Heartbreak Kid”
• “The Heartbreak Kid” looks at the
joy of falling in love and the pain of
growing up, all against the
background of the clash between
Greek culture and the Australian
way of life.
• Directed by Michael Jenkins, with
Claudia Karvan, Alex Dimitriades.
• Beyond Films, 1993.
“Strictly Ballroom”
• “Strictly Ballroom” is a love story,
and the story of two people
fighting for their artistic freedom,
with a strong touch of Spanish
dancing thrown in.
• Directed by Baz Lurhmann, with
Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill
Hunter, Pat Thomson, Gia
Carides, Peter Whitford, Barry
Otto.
• Beyond Films, 1992.
“Traps”
• “Traps” tells the story of one
woman’s personal journey
towards self-understanding and
independence, against the
background of building tensions in
French Indo-China in 1950, as it
moves to the brink of civil war.
• Directed by Pauline Chan, with
Saskia Reeves, Robert Reynolds,
Sami Frey, Jacqueline McKenzie.
• Ronin Films, 1994.
“What is a Jew to you?”
• “What is a Jew to you?” explores
the essence of Jewishness in
today’s world, with all its
paradoxes and confusions, and
traces one family’s origins and
migrations to Australia and other
parts of the globe.
• Directed by Aviva Ziegler.
• Film Australia, 1986.
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