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Save 30% and see the entire Online: sff.org.au/alicesprings Festival for just $9.50 per film By Phone: 02 8220 6600 with a subscription, or dip into the In Person: Alice Springs Cinema festival with a 5-Film Flexipass for just $11 per film. Alice Springs Cinema 11 Todd St FULL SUBSCRIPTION Alice Springs NT 0871 $95 Adult $85 Concession (08) 8953 2888 5-FILM FLEXIPASS $55 Adult $50 Concession PRESENTED BY SINGLE TICKETS $14.50 Adult $12.50 Concession Sydney Film Festival $10 Kids/Students Phone: 02 8220 6600 Subscriptions are transferable but admit only Email: [email protected] one person per film. sff.org.au/tff Flexipasses must be redeemed prior to the Website: start of the festival. Flexipasses can be redeemed for one ticket per film only. Concessions: unemployed, pensioners & seniors - upon presentation of ID. Cover image: Finke: There and Back All films start at the advertised time.

TRAVELLING FILM FESTIVAL VISITS… NT Alice Springs, Darwin, Katherine QLD Bundaberg, Cairns, Mackay, Nambour, Toowoomba, Townsville NSW Huskisson, Newcastle, Port Macquarie, Sawtell, Tamworth, Ulladulla, Wagga Wagga, Wollongong TFF AT SEA Sydney to Tasmania ALICE SPRINGS

Distinguished Partner ALICE SPRINGS CINEMA Travelling Film Festival acknowledges the financial assistance of Screen Australia and the Northern Territory Government through Screen Territory and is supported by media partner ABC Alice Springs and distinguished partner Princess Cruises. 15—18 February 2019 SCHEDULE OPENING NIGHT : FINKE: THERE AND BACK

FRIDAY 15 FEBRUARY 6:00 PM OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION 7:00 PM FINKE: THERE AND BACK (15+) SATURDAY 16 FEBRUARY 11:00 AM BURNING (15+) 2:30 PM WOMAN AT WAR (15+) Screens with short film UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (15+) 5:15 PM THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS (PG) Screens with short film LOST & FOUND (15+) 8:00 PM CAPHARNAÜM (15+) SUNDAY 17 FEBRUARY 11:00 AM WAJIB – THE WEDDING INVITATION (M) Screens with short film YULUBIDYI – UNTIL THE END (15+) 1:30 PM DOGMAN (MA15+) 4:30 PM SHOPLIFTERS (M) 7:00 PM THE NIGHTINGALE (R18+)

MONDAY 18 FEBRUARY FRIDAY 15 FEB 7:00 PM 6:30 PM COLD WAR (M) Please join us from 6pm for the Opening Night reception. STAY IN TOUCH Directed by Dylan River | Australia | In English | 90 mins | 15+ SELECTED: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2018 Keep up to date with program and tour announcements, Award winning filmmaker Dylan River takes us through this spectacular off-road giveaways and more! event that annually takes over his hometown.

/travellingfilmfestival With a reputation of being one of the most difficult and remote courses in the #travellingfilmfestival world, the Finke Desert Race is rife with soft sand and corrugations. Each year, the spectacular route from Alice to the Finke River is completely transformed as contestants take on the challenge. Filmed over three years, Dylan, a competitor @travellingfilmfestival himself, explores how feelings of excitement, danger and spills are felt not only by the riders, but spectators and organisers too. Don’t miss this seat-gripping story of Sign up to our eNews or to receive a print program in the post next year at a global event that showcases off-road sensations as it celebrates community pride. sff.org.au/tff Special guests from the film will join us for a Q&A following the screening. WAJIB – BURNING WOMAN AT WAR THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS CAPHARNAÜM THE WEDDING INVITATION

SAT 16 FEB 11:00 AM SAT 16 FEB 2:30 PM SAT 16 FEB 5:15 PM SAT 16 FEB 8:00 PM SUN 17 FEB 11:00 AM Directed by Lee Chang-Dong | South Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson | France, Directed by Tim Wardle | UK, USA | In Directed by Nadine Labaki | , Directed by Annemarie Jacir | Palestine, Korea | In Korean with English subtitles | Iceland, Ukraine | In Icelandic with English | 96 mins | PG USA | In and Amharic with France, Germany, Colombia, Norway, 148 mins | 15+ English subtitles | 100 mins | 15+ WINNER: SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, English subtitles | 121 mins | 15+ Qatar, United Arab Emirates | In Arabic WINNER: FIPRESCI CRITICS’ PRIZE, WINNER: CANNES CRITICS’ WEEK SUNDANCE 2018 WINNER: JURY PRIZE, CANNES FILM with English subtitles | 96 mins | M CANNES 2018; JURY GRAND PRIZE, AWARD, SELECTED: SFF 2018 FESTIVAL 2018 WINNER: BEST FILM AND MULTIPLE APSA 2018 2018; EUROPEAN LUX AWARD 2018, SELECTED: PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS, LOCARNO FESTIVAL 2017 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT The unbelievable-but-true tale of SELECTED: SFF 2018 three strangers who discover they’re AWARD, TIFF 2018 SELECTED: SFF 2018 The latest feature from acclaimed SELECTED: SFF 2018 identical triplets separated at birth, NOMINATED: GOLDEN GLOBE 2019 Annemarie Jacir’s prizewinning comic Korean director Lee Chang-Dong Halla, a warm-hearted choir leader, with one of the most surprising twists Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at drama explores the lives of Palestinians (Poetry, Secret Sunshine). By chance, lives a seemingly idyllic life in the you’ll ever encounter. Bobby, Eddy and Cannes Film Festival 2018, Nadine living in Israel, and stars real-life father Jongsu (multi-award-winning actor beautiful Icelandic Highlands, but David didn’t just look alike; they shared Labaki’s funny yet tough feature film and son Mohammad and Saleh Bakri. Yoo Ah-In) encounters a childhood secretly she’s a passionate, hardcore mannerisms and a matching taste in tells the genuinely moving story of a The title of Wajib translates as ‘duty’, neighbour, Haemi. When she asks environmental activist. Armed with women. The teenage trio’s astonishing troubled 12-year-old Lebanese boy. and it is duty that brings architect Shadi him to feed her cat while she’s on her bow and arrow, deftly wielded, story hits the news headlines, and life Zain is so incensed by his impoverished from Rome back to Nazareth, where his an overseas trip, he believes it’s Halla sabotages the industry that for the triplets turns into a media circus, parents’ behaviour that he runs away sister Amal is to be married. As the duo the start of a relationship. But when threatens her beloved landscape. As with trips to Studio 54, and even a from home. On ’s streets, he drive around the suburbs, delivering Haemi returns with a handsome, rich she embarks on her boldest sabotage movie cameo. Meanwhile, investigative encounters an Ethiopian refugee and wedding invitations in the traditional companion (played by Steven Yeun, plan yet, the stakes are raised when journalist Lawrence Wright uncovers her baby, and ends up babysitting the way, past frustrations and different The Walking Dead, Okja), Jongsu is left she finds out that she is on the verge a secret story, which turns out to have tiny child. After a series of mishaps perspectives provide unexpected confused and heartbroken. His world is of realising a long-cherished dream. sinister implications for the three men. and misdeeds, Zain ends up suing his insights, hilarity and undeniable thrust into further disarray by Haemi’s Director Erlingsson (Of Horses and This totally engrossing documentary, parents for ‘giving him life’. The young warmth. sudden disappearance. Anchored Men) takes a wildly daring approach, a hit on the festival circuit, is truly non-professional performers, whose “An intimate, well-played disquisition by superb performances, Burning is bringing musical, comedic and social stranger-than-fiction – no spoilers here, roles are not that far removed from on what it means to be a Palestinian a meticulously constructed mystery justice elements together in a visually you just have to see it to believe it! their own lives, are outstanding in this abroad versus a Palestinian at home.” reflecting on love, class, memory lush feature. This gloriously funny film “The knockout documentary Three not-to-be-missed award winner. – VARIETY and rage. is sure to be one of the year’s Identical Strangers begins as a goofy, most memorable. “A film as grounded in a place and time Screens with short film “Burning is a character study that believe-it-or-not tabloid story and and yet as universal in its empathy with YULUBIDYI – UNTIL THE END morphs, with masterly patience, “Offbeat, poignant and visually exquisite.” slowly drifts into darker waters—the the dispossessed as Bicycle Thieves subtlety and nary a single wasted – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER realm of horror, then of tragedy.” or Salaam Bombay!” minute, into a teasing mystery and Screens with short film – VULTURE – SCREEN INTERNATIONAL eventually a full-blown thriller.” UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY Screens with short film – LA TIMES LOST & FOUND

DOGMAN SHOPLIFTERS SHORT FILMS THE NIGHTINGALE COLD WAR

LOST & FOUND Directed by Andrew Goldsmith & Bradley SUN 17 FEB 1:30 PM SUN 17 FEB 4:30 PM Slabe | Australia | In English | 8 mins | 15+ SUN 17 FEB 7:00 PM MON 18 FEB 6:30 PM Directed by Matteo Garrone | Italy, Directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda | Japan A bumbling knitted dinosaur must Directed by Jennifer Kent | Australia | Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski | Poland, France | In Italian with English subtitles | | In Japanese with English subtitles | completely unravel itself to save the In English, Gaelic and Palawa Kani with UK, France | In Polish and French with 103 mins | MA15+ 121 mins | M love of its life. English subtitles | 136 mins | R18+ English subtitles | 84 mins | M WINNER: BEST ACTOR AND PALM WINNER:PALME D’OR, CANNES FILM WINNER: SPECIAL JURY AND BEST WINNER: BEST DIRECTOR PRIZE, DOG AWARDS, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2018 YOUNG ACTOR PRIZES, VENICE 2018 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2018 FESTIVAL 2018 SELECTED: PEOPLE’S CHOICE SELECTED: SUNDANCE 2019 SELECTED: SFF 2018 A gripping drama inspired by a true AWARD, TIFF 2018 Acclaimed Australian director Jennifer The tempestuous love story of two story, from critically acclaimed Italian NOMINATED: GOLDEN GLOBE 2019 Kent won numerous awards at Venice musicians who meet in the ruins of director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah ). for the follow-up to her cult hit The post-war Poland: based on the stormy A gentle pint-sized guy, Marcello, runs Hirokazu Kore-eda’s (After Life, Nobody UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY Babadook. Aisling Franciosi (Game of relationship of Pawlikowski’s own a dog-grooming business on a rundown Knows) latest masterpiece is about an impoverished group of affectionate Thrones) is Clare, a young Irish convict parents. Wiktor and Zula are hopelessly estate on the outskirts of town. He’s a Directed by Tyson Mowarin | Australia | in 1890s Van Diemen’s Land. It’s not mismatched and yet fatefully drawn to doting father, popular with the locals, misfits who commit petty crimes to In English | 21 mins | 15+ survive. Following one of their regular, an easy life, but there is hope, until a each other. Set against the background and frequently dwarfed by the canines Uncle (Tom E. Lewis) inflicts an horrific incident seemingly destroys of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, he tends. Marcello is not, however, a carefully choreographed shoplifting sessions, the Fagin-like Osamu and impromptu visit on his wayward her chance of happiness. So, she Yugoslavia and , the couple are model citizen. In his desire to raise nephews, imposing two cultural his young accomplice come across a heads out into the wild to seek a brutal separated by politics, character flaws money and spoil his young daughter, traditions, one literary, one personal. reckoning. The Nightingale, filmed and twists of fate—an impossible love he falls foul of a violent, unstable bully. little girl shivering in the cold. Initially reluctant, the ‘family’ take the girl in Tasmania’s stunning landscape, story in impossible times. Brilliantly Actor Marcello Fonte deservedly won features outstanding performances, acted and visually stunning in black and Best Actor at Cannes this year for his in when they discover the neglect she’s suffered. In each other and in including Elcho Islander Baykali white, Cold War is one of the best films compelling portrayal of a meek man Ganambarr as Billy. At the core of of the year. driven to the edge. their simple life they find comfort and happiness. A film built on beautifully Kent’s remarkable film is Clare and “A thrilling exploration of romantic “Terrifically good… A movie with observed and richly resonant moments, Billy’s evolving relationship, the disappointment with a killer incomparable bite and strength.” Shoplifters is at once delightful, funny graceful, moving heart of this tragic soundtrack.” – THE GUARDIAN and heartbreaking, and the deserving YULUBIDYI – UNTIL THE END tale that simultaneously explores the – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER impact of colonialism and displacement. winner of the biggest prize in world Directed by Nathan Mewett, Curtis Taylor cinema. | Australia | In English | 12 mins | 15+ “The brutality of Tasmania’s penal colonies is laid bare as Jennifer Kent “It’s impossible to experience the deep- A young Aboriginal man must help his seated compassion of this film and not disabled brother escape from their life jettisons make-believe monsters for be moved to tears.” in a remote WA community. real ones.” – THE GUARDIAN – ROLLING STONE