List of Australian films of 2021

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This is a list of Australian films that were released in 2021.

## Feature films

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Opening  | Title  | Director  | Cast  | Genre

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Y  | 1 | The Dry | Robert Connolly | Eric Bana, Genevieve O'Reilly, Keir O'Donnell | Crime / Drama
7 | Maya the Bee: The Golden Orb | Noel Cleary  | Benson Jack Anthony, Frances Berry, Christian Charisiou  | Animation / Adventure
14 | Ammonite | Francis Lee | Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones | Biography / Romance
21 | Penguin Bloom | Glendyn Ivin  | Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln, Jacki Weaver | Drama
28 | High Ground | Stephen Maxwell Johnson | Jacob Junior Nayinggul, Simon Baker, Callan Mulvey | Meat pie western / "Northern"
28 | Occupation: Rainfall | Luke Sparke  | Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, Daniel Gillies | Science-Fiction / Action

Y  | 4 | Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal | Ricard Cussó  | Angourie Rice, Sam Neill, Sharnee Tones  | Animation
11 | Long Story Short | Josh Lawson | Rafe Spall, Josh Lawson, Dena Kaplan | Comedy / Romance
17 | Wyrmwood: Apocalypse | Kiah Roache-Turner  | Luke McKenzie, Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Jake Ryan, Bianca Bradey, Jay Gallagher  | Horror
18 | Firestarter | Wayne Blair Nel Minchin | Stephen Page  | Documentary

E  | 24 | Buckley's Chance |  |  |
29 | Everybody Gets Stabbed  | Levon J Polinelli  | Nick Pages-Oliver, Daniel Buckle  | Comedy / Horror

R  | 10 | Back to the Outback | Netflix Animation
Reel FX Animation Studios
Weed Road Pictures
Screen NSW | Isla Fisher, Tim Minchin, Eric Bana, Guy Pearce, Miranda Tapsell, Angus Imrie, Keith Urban, Jacki Weaver |

## Short films

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Title  | Director  | Cast  | Genre

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Alba | Senie Priti | Maya Robinson, Scott Johnson, Melanie Zanetti | Short
Antecedents | Emma Vickery | Nicola Bartlett, Hayley McElhinney | Short
An Athlete Wrestling A Python | Stephanie Jane Day | Josephine Starte, Tom Anson Mesker, Anthony Phelan  | Short
Bala | Deborah Brown  | Addie Bani, Michael Bani, Waangenga Blanco | Short
Bouche | Ruixuan Bai | Selena Lee-Marsh, Xuanyan Liu, Mercy Sang | Short
Call History | Lillian Paterson |  | Short
Carmentis | Antony Webb  | Ben Mortley, Adriane Daff, Jo Morris  | Short
Don't Forget To Go Home | Victoria Singh-Thompson | Remanika Chaundry, Monica Kumar, Joshua McElroy | Short
Ecdysis | Roscoe Portelli, William Stanforth  | Dennis Coard, Verity Higgins, William Ewing  | Short
Ella | Madison Novak | Danny Barton, Amy Fraser, Madelaine Hopkins | Short
The End, The Beginning | Archie Chew | Joanna Briant, Finn Dunne, Aria Ferris | Short
The Exit Plan | Angus Wilkinson | Paapa Essiedu, Marcia Warren | Short
The Familiars | Millicent Malcom | Milly Alcock, Helen Stuart, Julia Savage | Short
Furlough | Phoebe Tonkin | Ryan Corr, Milly Alcock, Markella Kavenagh | Short
The Gods Of Tiny Things | Deborah Kelly |  | Short
The Handyman | Nicholas Clifford |  | Short
Hannah & The Friend Zone | Holly Hargreaves | Holly Hargreaves, Lucy Lovegrove, Laura Wheelwright |
Harmonia | McLean Jackson | Lochie Laffin Vines, Georgia Balloch, Jay Bowen | Short, Romance
Hyde | Ruby Challenger | Brendan Kelly, Jess Waterhouse | Short
Idol | Alex Wu  | Nan Chen, Jiapei Wu, Yanying Wu | Short
If I Quit Now | Luke Wissell  | Gabriel Carrubba, Tim Clarke, Nic Darrigo | Short
The Immortal | Carl Firth | Guy Edmonds, James Cromwell, Maeve Dermody | Short
In The Wake | Stephanie Jaclyn | Daisy Anderson, Jess Kuss, Tegan Nottle | Short
Inferno | Katherine Chediak Putnam | Sam Cotton, Keiran McGinlay, John McNeill | Short
Jean | Alisha Hnatjuk |  | Short
Joy | Gabriel Morrison | Ben Brock, Liz Harper, Isabel Macmaster | Short
Julia | James Weir  | Clayton D. Moss, Chloe Schwank, Edmond Long | Short
Le Miroir | Leila Murton Poole | Michael Caton, Rachel Giddens, Vivienne Powell | Short
Liquid Moonlight | Hannah Ariotti, Anna McGahan | Jonathan Weir, Leon Cain, Georgia Flood | Short
The Listening | Milena Bennett  |  | Short
Lost Boy | Peter Skinner  | Michael Sheasby, Alexandra Nell, Ben Oxenbould | Short
Lovestruck | Benjamin Ryan  | Tel Benjamin, Matt de Groot, Rachel Giddens | Short
A Man and a Cat | Kevin Spink  | Thomas Cocquerel, Bryan Probets, Kevin Spink | Short
The Moogai | Jon Bell  | Shari Sebbens, Meyne Wyatt | Short
Mother Bunker | George Metaxas |  | Short
Objects of my Disaffection | Sarah-Jane Woulahan | Dana Miltins | Short
Occupied | Ruby Lennon | Alex Stamell, Lauren Lloyd Williams, Priscilla Doueihy | Short
Painting By Numbers | Radheya Jegatheva |  | Short
Pools | Luisa Martiri | Malina Hamilton-Smith, Samantha Lush | Short
A Problematic Gesture Toward Auteur Theory | James Robert Woods | George Harrison Xanthis, Gary Boulter, Anna Phillips  | Short
Prom Night | Lydia Rui |  | Short
Pyrocene | Johnny Milner | Dave Dexter, Johnny Milner | Short
The Reality | Trevor Clarence | Miranda Daughtry, Benjamin Dillon-Smith, Duncan Fellows | Short
Roborovski | Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Dev Patel | Tilda Cobham-Hervey, John Collee | Short
Saving Daylight | Benjamin Balte | Benjamin Balte, Amelia Foxton, Nate Gothard | Short
Smashed | Tyson Yates |  | Short
Soulmate | Nik Kacevski | Holly May Lewis, Stefania Kocheva, Martin Paunov | Short
Spark | Sophie Hawkshaw | Madeleine Jurd, Brendan Donoghue, Amanda Maple-Brown | Short
Sparkles | Jacqueline Pelczar | Bruce Denn, Siria Kickett, Gary Cooper  | Short
The Story Of Lee Ping | Jasmin Tarasin |  | Short
Straight Outta Covid | Cesar Salmeron |  | Short
A Strange Season | Burak Oguz Saguner |  | Short
Sunburn | Jaslyn Mairs | Brenna Harding, Zoe Terakes | Short
The Swimming Chair | Matthew Taylor  |  | Short
System Error | Matt Vesely | David Quirk, Nick Nemeroff, Chrissie Page | Short
Tâm | Noora Niasari | Nick Barkla, Jillian Nguyen | Short
This River | Naomi Fryer | Madeleine Magee Carr, Talisa Mayshack-Mendero | Short
This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both Of Us | D.C. Fairhurst | Lucy Green, D.C. Fairhurst, Jessica-Belle Keogh | Short
Torch Song | Stephen Lance | Jordan Dulieu, Pippa Grandison, Luke Koster  | Short
Waiyirri | Kiara Milera, Charlotte Rose  | Kate Bonney, Michael Gilmour, James MacMhathain | Short
The Wake | Eddie Diamandi |  | Short
Widowers | Julian Tuna | Eddie Baroo, John Brumpton, Jennifer Davidson  | Short
Wirun | Chad O'Brien |  | Short

## See also

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* 2021 in Australia
* 2021 in Australian television
* List of 2021 box office number-one films in Australia

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Cinema of Australia

Films

| By decade|

* pre-1910
* 1910s
* 1920s
* 1930s
* 1940s
* 1950s
* 1960s
* 1970s
* 1980s
* 1990s
* 2000s
* 2010s
* 2020s

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By year|

* 1970
* 1971
* 1972
* 1973
* 1974
* 1975
* 1976
* 1977
* 1978
* 1979
* 1980
* 1981
* 1982
* 1983
* 1984
* 1985
* 1986
* 1987
* 1988
* 1989
* 1990
* 1991
* 1992
* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999
* 2000
* 2001
* 2002
* 2003
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009
* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025

Production companies
and studios|

* Cinesound Productions
* Commonwealth Film Laboratories
* Disney Studios Australia
* Film Australia
* Kennedy Miller Mitchell
* Limelight Department
* Pagewood Studios
* Palace
* Screen NSW
* Screen Queensland
* Screen Tasmania
* Screenwest
* South Australian Film Corporation
* VicScreen
* 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
* 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
* Inside Film Awards
* Screen Music Awards

Theatres|

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

Topics|

* Academy Award winners and nominees
* Highest-grossing film
* Film and television financing in Australia
* Film industry in Western Australia
* Bushranger ban
* Ozploitation
* Australian New Wave
* Australian Western

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