# List of Australian films of 2021

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

## Feature films

| Opening | Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre |
| J A N U A R Y | 1 | The Dry | Robert Connolly | Eric Bana, Genevieve O'Reilly, Keir O'Donnell | Crime / Drama |
| J A N U A R Y | 7 | Maya the Bee: The Golden Orb | Noel Cleary | Benson Jack Anthony, Frances Berry, Christian Charisiou | Animation / Adventure |
| J A N U A R Y | 14 | Ammonite | Francis Lee | Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones | Biography / Romance |
| J A N U A R Y | 21 | Penguin Bloom | Glendyn Ivin | Naomi Watts, Andrew Lincoln, Jacki Weaver | Drama |
| J A N U A R Y | 28 | High Ground | Stephen Maxwell Johnson | Jacob Junior Nayinggul, Simon Baker, Callan Mulvey | Meat pie western / "Northern" |
| J A N U A R Y | 28 | Occupation: Rainfall | Luke Sparke | Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, Daniel Gillies | Science-Fiction / Action |
| F E B R U A R Y | 4 | Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal | Ricard Cussó | Angourie Rice, Sam Neill, Sharnee Tones | Animation |
| F E B R U A R Y | 11 | Long Story Short | Josh Lawson | Rafe Spall, Josh Lawson, Dena Kaplan | Comedy / Romance |
| F E B R U A R Y | 17 | Wyrmwood: Apocalypse | Kiah Roache-Turner | Luke McKenzie, Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Jake Ryan, Bianca Bradey, Jay Gallagher | Horror |
| F E B R U A R Y | 18 | Firestarter | Wayne Blair Nel Minchin | Stephen Page | Documentary |
| J U N E | 24 | Buckley's Chance | | | |
| J U N E | 29 | Everybody Gets Stabbed | Levon J Polinelli | Nick Pages-Oliver, Daniel Buckle | Comedy / Horror |
| D E C E M B E 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

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre |
| 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 |