List of Australian films of 1997

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## 1997

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Title  | Director  | Cast  | Genre  | Notes

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40,000 Years of Dreaming |  |  |  |
The Alive Tribe | Stephen Amis | Peter Daicos, Barry Dickins | Action / Comedy / Romance |
At Sea |  |  | Documentary |
Barn of the Blood Llama | Kevin L. West |  | Comedy / Horror |
The Beneficiary | Graeme Burfoot  | Barry Otto, Helene Joy  | Crime / Thriller Short |
Blackrock | Steven Vidler | Laurence Breuls, Simon Lyndon, Linda Cropper | Drama |
Blow | Craig Boreham |  | Short animation |
Boy |  |  | Short |
Brief Fiction |  |  | Short |
Bum Magnet |  |  | Short |
The Castle | Rob Sitch | Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry, Eric Bana | Comedy |
Chastity Truth and Kinopanorama |  |  | Short |
China Dolls |  |  | Documentary Short |
Cracks in the Mask |  |  | Documentary Short |
Critical Care |  |  | Comedy / Drama |
A Cut in the Rates |  |  | Short |
Deadline |  |  | Short |
Devil in the Detail |  |  | Short |
Diana & Me |  |  | Comedy |
Doing Time for Patsy Cline | Chris Kennedy | Richard Roxburgh, Miranda Otto | Comedy / Drama |
Doom Runners | Brendan Maher | Tim Curry, Dean O'Gorman, Lea Moreno | Sci-Fi |
Domesticated Animals |  |  | Short |
Doppelganger |  |  | Short |
Dust Off the Wings |  |  | Action / Drama |
Epsilon |  |  | Drama / Sci-Fi | aka: "Alien Visitor" and "Almost Alien"[1]
Exile in Sarajevo |  |  | Documentary / Romance |
Exposed |  |  | Short |
Five Hundred Acres |  |  | Short |
Franz & Kafka |  |  | Short |
Friends are Forever: Tales of the Little Princess  |  |  | Animation  |
Go to Hell!! |  |  | Animation / Comedy |
Going Once Going Twice | Martyn Park |  | Crime |
Guided by the Light of the Lord |  |  | Short |
Heaven |  |  | Short |
Heaven's Burning | Craig Lahiff | Russell Crowe, Youki Koduh | Action / Crime / Drama |
His Mother's Voice |  |  | Short |
House Taken Over |  |  | Short |
Justice |  |  | Drama |
Joey | Ian Barry | Jamie Croft, Ed Begley Jr. | Family |
Kiss or Kill | Bill Bennett | Frances O'Connor, Matt Day | Crime / Drama / Thriller |
Little Desert |  |  | Short |
Look, Listen, Speak |  |  | Short |
Low Job |  |  | Short |
Maslin Beach |  |  | Comedy / Drama |
Mrs Craddock's Complaint |  |  | Short |
Nightride |  |  | Short |
One That Got Away |  |  | Short |
Oscar and Lucinda | Gillian Armstrong | Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett | Drama / Romance |
Paradise Road | Bruce Beresford | Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Ehle, Julianna Margulies | Drama |
Paws |  |  | Family |
Road to Nhill | Sue Brooks | Tony Barry | Comedy |
The Sapphire Room |  |  | Short |
Seamen |  |  | Short |
Sweet & Sour |  |  | Short |
Thank God He Met Lizzie | Cherie Nowlan | Richard Roxburgh, Cate Blanchett, Frances O'Connor | Drama / Comedy / Romance |
Titsiana Booberini | Robert Luketic | Tania Lacy, Sophie Lee, Roz Hammond | Short |
True Love and Chaos |  |  | Drama |
The Two-Wheeled Time Machine |  |  | Short |
Under the Lighthouse Dancing | Graeme Rattigan | Jack Thompson, Jacqueline McKenzie, Naomi Watts | Drama |
Wang: Street Cop | Shannon Marinko |  | Short comedy |
Welcome to Woop Woop | Stephan Elliott | Johnathon Schaech | Comedy | Screened at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival
The Well | Samantha Lang | Pamela Rabe, Miranda Otto | Drama | Entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival
The Wiggles Movie | Dean Covell | The Wiggles | Family |
Year of the Dogs | Michael Cordill | Alan Joyce, Tony Liberatore | Documentary / Sport |

## See also

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* 1997 in Australia
* 1997 in Australian television
* List of 1997 box office number-one films in Australia

## References

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1. ^ Alien Visitor (1997) – IMDb, retrieved 4 July 2021

## External links

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* Australian film at the Internet Movie Database

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Production companies
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* Cinesound
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* Kennedy Miller Mitchell
* Limelight Department
* Pagewood Studios
* Palace
* South Australian Film Corporation
* Screen Queensland
* Screen NSW
* Screenwest
* Village Roadshow Pictures
* Village Roadshow Studios

Organisations|

* Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)
* Australian Cinematographers Society
* Australian Costumers' Guild
* Australian Directors Guild
* Australian Film Institute (AFI)
* Australian Classification Board
* Australian Guild of Screen Composers
* Australian Production Design Guild
* Australian Screen Editors
* Australian Writers' Guild
* Casting Guild of Australia
* Film Critics Circle of Australia
* FTI
* Salvation Army
* Screen Australia
* Screen Producers Australia
* Sydney Filmmakers Cooperative

Awards|

* AACTA Awards
* ACS Awards
* ADG Awards
* APDG Awards
* ASE Awards
* ATOM Awards
* AWGIE Awards
* Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
* Inside Film Awards
* Screen Music Awards

Theatres|

* Ace Cinemas
* Australian Multiplex Cinemas
* Dendy Cinemas
* Event Cinemas
* Grand Cinemas
* Hoyts
* Ozone Theatres
* Palace Cinemas
* Reading Cinemas
* Village Cinemas
* Wallis Cinemas

Topics|

* Film and television financing in Australia
* Film industry in Western Australia
* Bushranger ban
* Ozploitation
* Australian New Wave
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