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From Ned Kelly to Miss Fisher, via Helen Reddy, Bangarra, The Invisible Man and The Dry there's a lot to look out for on the big screen.

Want optimism? Crowd pleaser H is for Happiness is into Berlin, along with three really modest shorts.

From the Melbourne Women in Film Festival, to protest art in Hong Kong, and survey exhibitions by George Gittoes, Carolyn Eskdale and Agathe Gothe-Snape, it is a big week of arts news.

Filmmakers of all ages and levels of experience create with rare collection items when they enter the State Library of NSW’s 2020 Shortstacks competition.

2019 was an audience-friendly year for the screen sector. How did they respond?

Smart policy, cultural pride and an Asian language puts Korean cinema at the heart of change. Here's an excellent potted history.

Is there money in a racing helmet that looks like this? Both Go! and the Kelly Gang need a boost.

The winners of the Australian awards at Flickerfest are an honour role of determination and multiskilling. Not to mention skill.

This could be a real local breakthrough moment for Michael Leonard and Jamie Helmer, who are known better overseas.

Fame, fortune and your pick of the best projects – or over-exposure, exploitation and unhappiness? What happens when you win an Academy Award?

The gentle art of family films is deployed by Steve Worland who wrote Paper Planes and director Owen Trevor who made a lot of Top Gear.

The pedal-powered outdoor cinema event at Melbourne's MPavillion had the first of three screenings postponed due to poor air quality.

The Melbourne Writers Festival has announced that fiction writer Neil Gaiman will make a one-night only appearance in February.

Cinemas are vital parts of community life in regional areas with their own responses to the fires.

Margot Robbie is the only Australian hope in the Oscars, in yet another year where issues of diversity seem ignored by the Academy.

For cineastes this is a summer of art about artists. The rest of us are taking a quick run through the Western Front.

Respected as a fine actor and a kind, loving and modest man, Long died aged 51 after battling with encephalitis for several weeks.

Shortlisted artists revealed for Photo 2020 x Perimeter International Photobook Prize, additional $2m added to Contemporary Music Touring Program, plus more funding and awards news.

Despite casting qualms, this version is both a beautiful Christmas bonbon and a witty warning against sentimentality.

Our critic abroad reflects on the films that linger in memory from 2019.