This is a list of Australian films that have been released in 2021.
| Opening | Title | Director | Cast | Genre | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J A N U A R Y | 1 | data-sort-value="Dry" | The Dry | Robert Connolly | Eric Bana, Genevieve O'Reilly, Keir O'Donnell | Crime / Drama |
| 7 | 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 | Luke Sparke | Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, Daniel Gillies | Science-Fiction / Action | |||
| F E B R U A R Y | 4 | Ricard Cussó | Angourie Rice, Sam Neill, Sharnee Tones | Animation | ||
| 11 | Long Story Short | Josh Lawson | Rafe Spall, Josh Lawson, Dena Kaplan | Comedy / Romance | ||
| 17 | Kiah Roache-Turner | Luke McKenzie, Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Jake Ryan, Bianca Bradey, Jay Gallagher | Horror | |||
| 18 | Firestarter | Wayne Blair Nel Minchin | Stephen Page | Documentary | ||
| J U N E | 24 | Buckley's Chance | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | |
| data-sort-value="End, The Beginning" | The End, The Beginning | Archie Chew | Joanna Briant, Finn Dunne, Aria Ferris | Short |
| data-sort-value="Exit Plan" | The Exit Plan | Angus Wilkinson | Paapa Essiedu, Marcia Warren | Short |
| data-sort-value="Familiars" | The Familiars | Millicent Malcom | Milly Alcock, Helen Stuart, Julia Savage | Short |
| Furlough | Phoebe Tonkin | Ryan Corr, Milly Alcock, Markella Kavenagh | Short | |
| data-sort-value="Gods of Tiny Things" | The Gods Of Tiny Things | Deborah Kelly | Short | |
| data-sort-value="Handyman" | 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 | |
| data-sort-value="Immortal" | 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 | |
| data-sort-value="Miroir" | 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 | |
| data-sort-value="Listening" | 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 | |
| data-sort-value="Man and a Cat" | A Man and a Cat | Kevin Spink | Thomas Cocquerel, Bryan Probets, Kevin Spink | Short |
| data-sort-value="Moogai" | 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 | |
| data-sort-value="Problematic Gesture" | 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 | |
| data-sort-value="Reality" | 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 | |
| data-sort-value="Story of Lee Ping" | The Story Of Lee Ping | Jasmin Tarasin | Short | |
| Straight Outta Covid | Cesar Salmeron | Short | ||
| data-sort-value="Strange Reason" | A Strange Season | Burak Oguz Saguner | Short | |
| Sunburn | Jaslyn Mairs | Brenna Harding, Zoe Terakes | Short | |
| data-sort-value="Swimming Chair" | 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 | |
| data-sort-value="Wake" | The Wake | Eddie Diamandi | Short | |
| Widowers | Julian Tuna | Eddie Baroo, John Brumpton, Jennifer Davidson | Short | |
| Wirun | Chad O'Brien | Short |