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Votes for more than 300 Australian films #YOUMUSTSEE

Only two weeks left to vote!
Have your say and vote today at www.adelaidefilmfestival.org

Thousands of votes have been cast, and more than 300 Australian features – fiction and documentary have been named as audience favourites in Adelaide Film Festival’s global poll for the top three Australian films of all time. Have your favourite films made the list? Only two weeks left to vote as voting closes Monday, 30 July, 2018. Have your say in helping curate the program for the 2018 Adelaide Film Festival with special screenings of our top voted films featuring in the October event.

“It is exciting and frankly somewhat staggering to see the number and diversity of Australian films that audiences feel are the must see films of all time. They are drawn from all the decades since Australia produced the world’s first feature film in 1906 and represent more than 300 stories of our national identity, of the people and places that have shaped Australia’s view of itself. We have been overwhelmed by the response,” said Amanda Duthie, CEO and Artistic Director of the Adelaide Film Festival.

The #YOUMUSTSEE campaign calls on audiences to celebrate, honour and acknowledge their favourite Australian screen stories and supports the current #MakeitAustralian campaign which throws the light on building a sustainable national screen industry.

ADL Film Fest is already known as a champion of Australian screen works (feature films and documentaries, shorts, VR, moving image and more) and was the first Australian film festival to invest in film production through the groundbreaking ADL Film Fest FUND resulting in over 100 projects to date.

Become a champion too and vote for Australian screen stories #YOUMUSTSEE at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival.

Aussie films on the list so far:

2:37 2006 / 33 Postcards 2011 / 52 Tuesdays 2013 / A Month Of Sundays 2016 / A Walkabout Through The Aboriginal Reserves Of Mornington Island, Aurukun, Weipa, Mapoon Abba. The Movie 1977 / Afraid To Dance 1987 / After The Apology 2017 / Ali's Wedding 2017 / All Men Are Liars 1994 / Alvin Purple 1973 / An Accidental Soldier 2013 / An Angel At My Table 1990 / Angel Baby 1995 / Animal Kingdom 2010 / Australia 2008 / Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard (2011) / Babakiueria 1986 / Babe 1995 / Bad Boy Bubby 1993 / Bad Eggs 2002 / Beautiful Kate 2009 / Bedevil 1992 / Beneath Clouds 2002 / Beneath Hill 60 2009 / Better Than Sex 2000 / Blackrock 1996 / Blessed 2009 / Bliss 1984 / Bmx Bandits 1983 / Boxing Day 2007 / Boys In The Trees 2016 / Bran Nue Dae 2009 / Breaker Morant 1980 / Breath 2017 / Bright Star 2009 / Broken Highway 1993 / Candy 2006 / Cane Toads - An Unnatural History 1988 / Careful He Might Hear You 1983 / Cargo 2017 / Casting Jonbenet 2017 / Cat Sick Blues 2015 / Cathy's Child 1979 / Celia 1988 / Centrespread 1981 / Charlie's Country 2013 / Chasing Asylum 2016 / Chopper 2000 / Clay 1965 / Cosi 1995 / Country Life 1993 / Crackerjack 2002 / Crocodile Dundee 1986 / Crocodile Dundee Ii 1988 / Dance Me To My Song 1998 / Dating The Enemy 1996 / Dead Calm 1989 / Dead Heart 1996 / Death In Brunswick 1990 / December Boys 2006 / Dingo 1990 / Dirty Deeds 2002 / Dogs In Space 1986 / Doing Time For Patsy Cline 1997 / Don's Party 1976 / Dot And Keeto 1985 / Dot And The Kangaroo Salute 100 Years Of Hollywood 1995 / Down Under 1983 / Down Under 2015 / Evil Angels 1988 / Far East 1981 / Ferngully : The Last Rainforest 1991 / Flirting 1991 / Floating Life 1996 / Forbidden Lie$ 2007 / Frackman 2015 / From Under The Rubble 2017 / Gallipoli 1981 / Garage Days 2002 / Gettin' Square 2003 / Ghosts...Of The Civil Dead 1987 / Going Down 1981 / Goldstone 2016 / Goodbye Paradise 1981 / Grandad Rudd 1935 / Grendel Grendel Gendel 1981 / Gurrumul 2017 / Happy Feet 2006 / Hard Yakka 2017 / Have You Seen The Listers? 2017 / He Died With A Felafel In His Hand 2001 / Head On 1998 / Healing 2014 / Hercules Returns 1993 / Here I Am 2010 / High Tide 1986 / Highly Strung 2015 / Holding The Man 2015 / Home Of The / Blizzard 1913 / Hotel De Love 1996 / Hounds Of Love 2017 / Howling Iii : The Marsupials 1987 / Idiot Box 1996 / In Search Of Anna 1979 / Japanese Story 2002 / Jasper Jones 2017 / Jedda 1954 / Jindabyne 2006 / Journey Beyond Fear 2018 / Kenny 2006 / Kokoda 2006 / Lake Mungo 2007 / Lantana 2000 / Last Cab To Darwin 2015 / Last Ride 2009 / Last Train To Freo 2006 / Lion 2016 / Little Fish 2005 / Lonely Hearts 1982 / Long Weekend 1978 / Look Both Ways 2005 / Looking For Alibrandi 1999 / Love And Other Catastrophes 1996 / Love Serenade 1996 / Lucky Miles 2007 / Luigi's Ladies 1989 / Mabo : Life Of An Island Man 2017 / Mad Bastards 2010 / Mad Dog Morgan 1976 / Mad Max : Fury Road 2012 / Mad Max 1979 / Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985 / Mad Max Ii 1981 / Malcolm 1986 / Man Of Flowers 1983 / Manganinnie 1980 / Mao's Last Dancer 2009 / The Marriage Of Figaro 2009 / Mary And Max 2009 / Mental 2012 / Metal Skin 1994 / Money Movers 1979 / Monkey Grip 1982 / Moulin Rouge! 2001 / Mrs. Carey's Concert 2011 / Muriel's Wedding 1994 / My Brilliant Career 1979 / My First Wife 1984 / My Tehran For Sale 2009 / My Year Without Sex 2009 / Mystery Road 2013 / Ned 2003 / Ned Kelly 2003 / Newsfront 1978 / Next Door To The Velinskys 2011 / Next Of Kin 1981 / Noise 2006 / Not Quite Hollywood 2008 / Oddball 2015 / On Our Selection 1932 / On The Beach (2000 Version) / On The Beach 1959 / On The Waves Of The Adriatic 1991 / One Night The Moon 2001 / Oscar And Lucinda 1997 / Otherlife 2017 / Paper Planes 2014 / Paradise Road 1997 / Phar Lap 1983 / Picnic At Hanging Rock 1975 / Predestination 2014 / Proof 1990 / Puberty Blues 1981 / Pure Shit 1975 / Rabbit 2017 / Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 / Radiance 1997 / Rats In The Ranks 1995 / Razzle Dazzle 2006 / Red Dog : True Blue 2016 / Red Dog 2011 / Return Home 1989 / Road To Nhill 1996 / Roadgames 1981 / Romper Stomper 1991 / Romulus, My Father 2007 / Sacrifice Zone / Samson And Delilah 2009 / Satellite Boy 2012 / Secret Men's Business 1999 / Serenades 2001 / Shame 1986 / Sherpa 2015 / Shine 1995 / Shirley Thompson Versus The / Aliens 1972 / Siam Sunset 1999 / Sirens 1993 / Sky Pirates 1985 / Smiley 1956 / Snowtown 2011 / Soft Fruit 1999 / Somersault 2004 / Sons Of Matthew 1949 / South Solitary 2010 / Speed Racer 2008 / Spider And Rose 1994 / Spirits Of The Air, Gremlins Of The Clouds 1989 / Starstruck 1982 / Stone 1973 / Storm Boy 1976 / Strictly Ballroom 1991 / Struck By Lightning 1990 / Summerfield 1977 / Sunday Too Far Away 1975 / Sunshine Sally 1922 / Sweet Country 2017 / Sweetie 1989 / Take Away 2003 / Ten Canoes 2006 / The 13th House 2003 / The 7th Hunt 2009 / The Abc Of Love And Sex : Australia Style 1977 / The Adorable Outcast 1927 / The Adventures Of Algy 1925 / The Adventures Of Barry Mckenzie 1972 / The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert 1993 / The Babadook 2014 / The Back Of Beyond : [1954] 1954 / The Bentley Effect 2016 / The Bentley Effect 2018 / The Big Steal 1990 / The Black Balloon 2007 / The Boy From Oz 1995 / The Boys 1997 / The Boys Are Back 2009 / The Camel Boy 1983 / The Cars That Ate Paris 1974 / The Castanet Club 1990 / The Castle 1997 / The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith 1977 / The Cheaters 1929 / The Club 1980 / The Daughter 2016 / The Devil's Playground 1976 / The Dish 2000 / The Dressmaker 2015 / The Far Paradise 1928 / The Fj Holden 1977 / The Fourth Wish 1976 / The Great Gatsby 2013 / The Heartbreak Kid 1992 / The Home Song Stories 2007 / The Hunter 2011 / The / Illustrated Family Doctor 2005 / The Infinite Man 2014 / The Interview 1998 / The Last Of The Knucklemen 1979 / The Last Wave 1977 / The Legend Of Ben Hall 2016 / The Little Death 2014 / The Loved Ones 2009 / The Magician 2005 / The Man From Hong Kong 1975 / The Man From Snowy River 1982 / The Man Who Sued God 2001 / The Matrix 1999 / The Matrix Reloaded 2003 / The Miscreants Of Taliwood 2009 / The Overlanders 1946  /  The Piano 1993 / The Plumber 1978 / The Proposition 2005 / The Quiet Room 1997 / The Rage In Placid Lake 2003 / The Removalists 1975 / The Rocket 2013 / The Rover 2014 / The Sapphires 2012 / The Sentimental Bloke 1919 / The Square 2008 / The Sum Of Us 1994 / The Sundowners 1960 / The Survivor 1979 / The Tracker 2002 / The Well 1997 / The Year My Voice Broke 1987 / The Year Of Living Dangerously 1982 / These Final Hours 2014 / They're A Weird Mob 1966 / Three Dollars 2005 / Thunderbolt 1910 / Tim 1979 / Tomorrow, When The War Began 2010 / Toomelah 2011 / Tracks 2014 / Turkey Shoot 1982 / Turnaround 1983 / Two Hands 1998 / Undead 2003 / Under The Lighthouse Dancing 1997 / Vacant Possession 1994 / Van Diemen's Land 2009 / Waiting 1991 / Wake In Fright 1971 / Walkabout 1971 / We Don't Need A Map 2017 / We Of The Never Never 1982 / Weekend Of Shadows 1978 / Westwind: Djalu's Legacy 2017 / Winter Of Our Dreams 1981 / Wish You Were Here 2012 / Wolf Creek 2 2014 / Wolf Creek 2005 / Wrong Side Of The Road [Restored] 1981 / Wrong Side Of The Road 1981 / Wyrmwood 2010 / Yolngu Boy 2001 / You And Your Stupid Mate 2004 / Young Einstein 1988

Note: Votes can only be for Australian feature films and documentaries. Australian feature films dating back to 1906 are eligible. Only one vote per person. Voting is open nationwide. The Australian films #YOUMUSTSEE will be announced in August and screened at the Adelaide Film Festival in October. The list of films has been put together by the Adelaide Film Festival with the help of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA). If your favourite feature film is not listed, let us know!

#YOUMUSTSEE is an Adelaide Film Festival campaign with the support of Arts South Australia, Screen Australia, Screen Producers Australia, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, South Australian Film Corporation, AFI/AACTA and GU Filmhouse.  Special thanks to: ABC, ACMI, ADG, AFTRS, AIDC, Ausfilm, AWG, City Mag, Channel 7, Documentary Australia, Filmink, Flicks, IF, InDaily, Junkee, SBS, Shark Island, The Adelaide Review, The Advertiser.

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