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49th Auckland International Film Festival
Presented by New Zealand Film Festival Trust under the distinguished patronage of Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy, Governor-General of New Zealand
CIVIC THEATRE ASB WATERFRONT THEATRE ACADEMY CINEMA RIALTO CINEMAS NEWMARKET EVENT CINEMAS QUEEN ST HOLLYWOOD AVONDALE EVENT CINEMAS MANUKAU EVENT CINEMAS WESTGATE
Director: Bill Gosden 20 JULY – 6 AUGUST 2017 General Manager: Sharon Byrne Communications Manager: Rebecca McMillan ANIMATION NOW! Assistant to the General Manager: Lisa Bomash 14–18 JULY 2017 Auckland Festival Manager: Hedda ten Holder Auckland Admin/Ticketing Manager: Karen Cartwright Publicist: Liv Young PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Auckland Communications Assistant: Manali Bhatia Programmer: Sandra Reid Assistant Programmer: Michael McDonnell Animation NOW! Programmer: Malcolm Turner All Ages Programmer: Nic Marshall Incredibly Strange Programmer: Anthony Timpson Online Content Coordinator: Kailey Carruthers Content Manager: Ina Kinski Materials and Content Assistants: Ian Freer, Jule Hartung Technical Adviser: Ian Freer Publications Coordinator: Tim Wong Administration Coordinator: Estela Sangkop Audience Development Coordinator: Alice Vilardel Wellington Communications Assistant: Abby Cattermole Guest Coordinator: Pamela Harvey-White Festival Accounts: Alan Collins Festival Interns: Miles Chan (Auckland), Kezia Dwyer (Wellington) Publication Design: Ocean Design Group Publication Production: Greg Simpson Cover Design: Ponui Patuaka, Meri Gracia Cover Illustration: Tom Simpson Animated Title: Anthony Hore (designer), Aaron Hilton (animator), Tim Prebble (sound), Catherine Fitzgerald (producer)
THE NEW ZEALAND FILM FESTIVAL TRUST Chair: Catherine Fitzgerald Trustees: Louise Baker, Adrienne Bonell, James Every-Palmer, Tearepa Kahi, Robin Laing, Andrew Langridge, Tanya Surrey, Chris Watson Financial Controller: Chris Prowse
The New Zealand Film Festival Trust Box 9544, Marion Square Wellington 6141, New Zealand ph: (64 4) 385 0162 [email protected]
PROUDLY SUPPORTED AND PRINTED BY
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CONTENTS
09 16 18 26 52 Big Nights Retro Aotearoa World For All Ages
54 62 66 74 78 Fresh Thrill Framing Game Music Reality Changes
80 84 88 90 91 Portrait Incredibly Animation Shorts with Meet the of an Artist Strange NOW! Features Filmmakers
WELCOME
In a year fraught with changes you might not want to be reminded about, we bring you the 2017 NZIFF catalogue, cleverly contrived to look like business as usual. Truth is we too have let loose with some mighty changes, though we think you might like them. First, we’ve worked with fellow local treasures Auckland Theatre Company to make their fabulous new ASB Waterfront Theatre into a glorious NZIFF venue, second only in our cosmos to The Civic. Then we added something very old, but totally rejuvenated, the Hollywood Cinema in Avondale to our satellite system. Third, we’ve extracted our Animation NOW! strand and made it its own jumping New Zealand International Animation Film Festival which screens ahead of NZIFF from 14-18 July. Next, thanks to the sponsorship of Shift 72, we have quietly launched NZIFF On Demand to extend the life of our cinema programme.
A fifth change is cause for celebration of a different tenor. Lynn Smart, our staunch and beloved Festival Manager of 28 years standing has exchanged the unremitting pleasure of running Auckland’s International Film Festival for a free pass to finally see some movies. Lynn began inauspiciously, subcontracted from out of the blue by a manager who had found a better offer elsewhere. Since then she’s mentored countless young staff through the Festival and into the world of events and entertainment, including me. Her firm hand and her sense of mischief have had more influence on the shape and tone of NZIFF than she knows. Brava!
We are delighted some things stay the same. 2degrees Mobile returns as sponsor of our World cinema section for a second year. Resene join us for their fourth year as sponsors of another stunning bunch of New Zealand films. Flicks.co.nz, RadioLIVE and Metro magazine remain proactive media partners. We also welcome back NZ Herald as our news media partner. Seeing how responsive they all are to our programme energises us when we most need it. Foundation North’s funding continues to keep our Auckland office open.
Ultimately it’s the support of its audience that keeps our non-profit enterprise in action, and, it always bears saying, the perseverance of independent filmmakers who did whatever it took to get these films made. 25% of your ticket money goes their way. Ticket sales contributed 88% of our income in 2016. The major sponsorship we receive from the New Zealand Film Commission is a gratifying institutional contribution to that support system.
Come in out of the rain, says our poster. Clearly not every great film yielded by the last turbulent year was intended to fold you in a warm embrace, but there’s fun in store at NZIFF and life to be had together at the movies.
Bill Gosden Director
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1 TICKET PRICES 2 BUYING TICKETS
PHONE AND ONLINE BOOKINGS open from 9.00 am Friday 30 June A CODED SESSIONS The Civic Theatre Box Office opens from 9.00 am Friday 30 June Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all weekend sessions Book early to secure the best seats. Seats are allocated on the basis of best available (unless otherwise indicated) at the time of booking. Please note that all advance bookings for The Civic Theatre and » Early Bird Full (purchased before 20 July) $17.50 ASB Waterfront Theatre weekday daytime screenings up to 5.00 pm and Saturday and » Full (purchased from 20 July) $18.50 Sunday screenings up to 1.00 pm will be allocated in the Stalls only. » Film Society/Film Industry Guilds * $15.50 MAIL BOOKINGS Download and print a booking form from the NZIFF website. Post to: New Zealand » Community Service Card * $15.50 International Film Festival, C/- Ticketmaster, PO Box 106 443, Auckland 1143. » Student * $15.50 Alternatively phone 09 378 6100 to be mailed a booking form. » Senior (60+) $12.50 ONLINE BOOKINGS AND PRINT-AT-HOME TICKETING » Children (15 and under) $12.50 www.nziff.co.nz or www.ticketmaster.co.nz B CODED SESSIONS Tickets can be purchased online up until the time the session commences. You will need to print your Print-at-Home tickets (not just the confirmation letter) and bring the credit Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays and other shorter duration card used to purchase the tickets for identification. sessions indicated Print-at-Home is the most convenient way of receiving your tickets, allowing you to » Full $15.00 print your tickets right away. If you are not already a member of Ticketmaster you will » Senior (60+) $12.50 be asked to register for a My Ticketmaster account. » Children (15 and under) $12.50 MOBILE TICKETING C CODED SESSIONS Tickets can be purchased on your phone through Ticketmaster’s mobile site. Please ensure your ticket is loaded and ready for scanning before you arrive at the venue. Sessions in the Animation NOW! Festival programme and as indicated TELEPHONE BOOKINGS » All tickets $12.50 Freephone 0800 111 999 From Mobile 09 970 9700 -LIVE CINEMA It 9.00 am – 9.00 pm Monday to Friday; 9.00 am – 5.00 pm Saturday & Sunday » Full $45.00 telephone bookings can be accepted until the start of each screening time » Film Society/Film Industry Guilds * $40.00 (subject to Ticketmaster telephone booking hours). » Community Service Card * $40.00 WHEELCHAIR BOOKINGS Phone: 09 970 9711 » Student * $40.00 9.00 am – 9.00 pm Monday to Friday; 9.00 am – 5.00 pm Saturday & Sunday » Senior (60+) $40.00 SCHOOLS AND GROUPS » Children (15 and under) $30.00 For group bookings of 20 or more people contact Karen Cartwright on 09 378 6100 -SPECIAL EVENT – Top of the Lake: China Girl before Thursday 20 July. » Full $45.00 ADVANCE COUNTER BOOKINGS (FROM FRIDAY 30 JUNE) » Film Society/Film Industry Guilds * $40.00 The Civic Theatre Box Office, Wellesley Street: 9.00 am – 6.00 pm daily » Community Service Card * $40.00 Aotea Centre Box Office, Level 3, Aotea Centre: » Student * $40.00 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday to Friday; 10.00 am – 4.00 pm Saturday & Sunday During NZIFF advance tickets will be available from The Civic Box Office one hour prior to » Senior (60+) $40.00 the first NZIFF screening that day until 15 minutes after the last screening commences. TEN-TRIP PASS DAY SALES DURING NZIFF (FROM FRIDAY 21 JULY) » Ten-Trip Pass $155.00 The Civic Theatre: Day sale tickets can be purchased from the box office one hour The Ten-Trip Pass consists of a unique code that can be used to purchase tickets to prior to first screening of the day until 15 minutes after last screening commences. any screening (subject to seat availability) excluding 3D films, Special Events and Live An additional box office is set up at The Civic Theatre Foyer Bar until Sunday 6 August. Cinema performances. Passes can be purchased and redeemed for tickets in advance ASB Waterfront Theatre: day sale tickets can be purchased from the NZIFF box online, via the phone or at the Aotea or Civic Box Offices. Passes can also office 45 minutes prior to first screening of the day until 15 minutes after last be redeemed on the day at all venues, subject to seat availability. screening commences. When you purchase your pass you will receive the unique code. Please note this Academy Cinemas, Hollywood, Rialto Cinemas & Event Cinemas Queen St, will be emailed the next business day if you purchase online. (The code is Manukau and Westgate: Box office opens 45 minutes before each session commences issued immediately when purchased at the Box Office or via the phone). Your code and closes 15 minutes after each session starts. will enable you to redeem your pass for tickets to individual sessions. Once all ten METHOD OF PAYMENT tickets have been redeemed, the code will expire. Credit Cards: Accepted for all bookings. Cheque: Personal cheques accepted for MAIL bookings must be received five *CONCESSION DISCOUNTS (Student/Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/ working days prior to screening. Cheques payable to Ticketmaster New Zealand Ltd. Community Service Card) Cheques not accepted for counter bookings. Students, Film Society members, Industry Guild members and Community Service Cash & EFTPOS: Accepted for counter bookings. Card holders are entitled to purchase one ticket per session at the discount rate. Student/Membership /CSC ID is required – please ensure you bring it with you to TICKET COLLECTION the venue to present to staff on request; failure to do so will result in the full price If you have used a credit card for advance booking by phone, internet or mail, being charged for attendance. Film Society ‘Three Film Sampler’ holders are not this credit card must be presented to venue staff to collect tickets. entitled to the concession discount. MAIL DELIVERY TICKETING AGENCY SERVICE FEES Tickets will only be posted if booking request is received at least seven days prior to A $1.00 per ticket booking fee is already included in the prices shown above. There screening. Otherwise tickets will be held for collection at the cinema box office of your are no additional service fees except for where a courier delivery is selected ($5.50). first screening. Please note that NO REFUNDS will be made for uncollected tickets or Prices are GST inclusive and in NZD. tickets collected late.
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VENUE GENERAL 3 INFORMATION 4 INFORMATION
VENUES OUR WEBSITE HAS IT ALL www.nziff.co.nz Your ticket indicates the film venue. Register on our website to customise your view of NZIFF, select your favourite films, The Civic Theatre, Auckland Live (CIVIC): cnr Queen & Wellesley Streets send films to your friends, and create your own schedule. You can also sign up for news Advance Box Office & Day Sales are located at the Wellesley Street entrance. updates and the chance to win movie tickets and DVDs. The site also features an at-a- An additional Day Sales counter is located at the Theatre Bar Foyer on street level glance planner that shows you exactly when each movie is scheduled to start and finish. of The Civic until Sunday 30 July. Facebook: www.facebook.com/nzfilmfestival ASB Waterfront Theatre (AWT): 138 Halsey Street, Wynyard Quarter Become a friend, watch trailers and take part in competitions and discussions. Rialto Cinemas Newmarket (RIALTO): 167–169 Broadway, Newmarket Twitter: www.twitter.com/nzff Event Cinemas Queen Street (QSt): Keep up to date with our Twitter feed. 291–297 Queen Street, cnr Queen Street & Aotea Square Instagram: www.instagram.com/nziff Day Sales Box Office is located on Level 3; Cinema 6 is on Level 4 Take a peek behind the scenes. Academy Cinemas (AC): Central Library Building, 44 Lorne Street Youtube: www.youtube.com/nzintfilmfestival Event Cinemas Westgate (WGATE): 35 Maki Street, Massey Watch trailers, interviews and much more. Event Cinemas Manukau (MK): Level 1, Westfield, Manukau City, PROGRAMME CHANGES Amersham Way Entrance We reluctantly reserve the right to change the schedule by amending dates or replacing Hollywood Avondale (HWOOD): 20 St Georges Rd, Avondale films. From Thursday 20 July confirmation of daily session times will be available on INFORMATION DESK NZIFF’s website www.nziff.co.nz. The information desk is located at street level in The Civic Theatre foyer from 21 July, CENSORSHIP CLASSIFICATION where you will find up-to-date information about censorship, short films, session G – Suitable for general audiences ending times and more. PG – Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers M – Unrestricted. Recommended more suitable for mature audiences 16 years and over WHEELCHAIR ACCESS RP13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian Please advise the ticket seller when purchasing your tickets if you would like to transfer RP16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian to a seat or remain in your wheelchair or if you have any special requirements. R13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over The Civic Theatre: Please report to the Information Desk or the Theatre Bar Foyer R16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over R18 – Restricted to persons 18 years and over on street level in the theatre foyer. Classifications will be published in NZIFF’s daily newspaper advertising and displayed at ASB Waterfront Theatre: Box office is located on the ground floor. For theatre access, the venues’ box offices. Children’s tickets are available only for films classified G, PG & M. please take the ground level lift to Level 1. At the time of printing some films had not been rated. Until they receive a censor Rialto Cinemas Newmarket: Please take the ground level lift in the Shopping level rating, they are considered R18 (unless clearly aimed at children) and can only be up to Level 1, then take the lift located in the cinema foyer up to Level 2 where the purchased by and for people aged 18 and over. For more information please visit the cinemas are located. ticketing and venue information page on our website. Event Cinemas Queen Street: Ramps can be accessed from the Aotea Square entrance or from Wellesley St. Lifts are accessed on ground level. Access to the box CAR PARK BUILDINGS NEAR NZIFF VENUES office is on Level 3 and Cinema 6 is on Level 4. These tariffs are a guideline only and subject to change. Event Cinemas Manukau: Please take the ground level lift in the Shopping level Refer to the schedule of fees at the car park entry. (Amersham Way End) up to Level 1, then take the lift located in the cinema foyer Civic Car Park, entrances on Greys Avenue & Mayoral Drive up to Level 2 where the cinemas are located. Weekdays before 6.00 pm: $3.00 per hour, max $24.00 Academy Cinemas: Lift access inside Auckland Central Library. During library hours Evenings Mon – Fri after 6.00 pm: $12.00 please ask at the library reception to arrange the library security guard to escort you Weekends & public holidays: $2.00 per hour, max $12.00 to the cinema. After library hours call the cinema on (09) 373 2761. An intercom is Victoria Street Car Park, entrance 30 Kitchener Street located at the top of the Academy entrance stairs for you to notify staff of your arrival. Weekdays Mon – Fri: $3.00 per hour, max $24.00 Hollywood Avondale: Please notify staff upon your arrival so they can escort you to Evenings & Weekends: $2.00 per hour, max $10.00 the wheelchair entrance. Please note that although there are wheelchair seats available, Evenings & Weekends: $7.50 per half hour, max $15.00 there is no toilet with wheelchair access at this venue. Atrium Car Park, Albert Street Mon to Fri before 5.00 pm: $16.00 per hour max $34.00 HEARING IMPAIRED Weekend before 5.00 pm: $10.00 for 2 hours max $15.00 Please note that where films are indicated as subtitled, this is not the same as full Evening rate after 5.00 pm: $10.00 captioning for the hearing impaired. Waterfront car parking: There are several car parks available at Wynyard Quarter Hearing loops are available at Rialto Cinemas Newmarket and Event Cinemas Queen including mobility parks. You can also pre-book a car park in the Hamer Street Car Park. Street and Westgate. Visit www.asbwaterfronttheatre.co.nz for details At Rialto Cinemas Newmarket, Event Cinema Manukau and Academy Cinemas, please Newmarket car parking: Parking is available on the streets around the cinema request a set of headphones from the box office for infra-red facilities. (120 minutes pay and display, Monday – Sunday, 9.00 am – 6.00 pm, free parking PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY. There are no advertising films or trailers at NZIFF. We reserve on evenings) or at the Rialto Car Park, 9 Kent Street, Newmarket. Disabled car park the right to ask latecomers to wait and to relocate them to alternative seating spaces are available behind the cinema on Kent Street. to minimise the disruption of other patrons. Session starting times will not be THE AUCKLAND FILM SOCIETY delayed in deference to late arrivals. Please ensure mobile phones and pagers are www.aucklandfilmsociety.org.nz info@aucklandfilmsociety.org.nz Ph: (09) 527 6076 switched off. Any video recording is strictly prohibited. If collecting tickets prior to a screening please allow additional time in case there are queues. FURTHER INFORMATION Ticketmaster: 0800 111 999; From Mobile: (09) 970 9700 Festival Manager, Hedda ten Holder ph: (09) 378 6100 KEY TO ICONS Retail Brochure Delivery ph: 0800PHANTOM Sponsorship, brochure and website advertising, Sharon Byrne ph: (04) 802 2570 Guest Appearance Cannes Selection 2017 Contact us: [email protected], www.nziff.co.nz Short Preceding Feature Major Festival Award
World Premiere
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Celebrating Cinemas
THE CIVIC THEATRE, AUCKLAND LIVE
NZIFF is totally at home in the CBD and committed to keeping our entire programme available to patrons there.
The Civic Theatre, Auckland Live ASB Waterfront Theatre Rialto Cinemas Newmarket The majestic pleasure dome that stands at the NZIFF has a new luxury downtown venue at 138 New Zealand’s most popular ‘art-house’ cinema and intersection of Wellesley Street and Queen, at the Halsey St in the Wynyard Quarter. Opened in business central for the country’s largest ‘art-house’ heart of downtown Auckland, the mighty Civic 2016, the ASB Waterfront Theatre is a purpose- chain, Rialto Cinemas Newmarket promise NZIFF- Theatre has been the flagship venue of NZIFF for 32 built performing arts venue and the new home of goers a premium cinema experience as well as a of our 48 previous incarnations. This insanely glorious Auckland Theatre Company (ATC). Thanks to the fantastic selection of quality wine and food which picture palace testifies to an era when just going combined efforts of ATC and NZIFF, the 668-seat can be taken into the cinema to be enjoyed (quietly) to the cinema was considered worth the price of a theatre is the first venue in New Zealand to use during the film. We’ll be screening on the largest of ticket. First opened on 20 December 1929, just in Digital Laser Cinema Projector Technology, supplied the cinemas’ screens, though we can be persuaded time for the Depression, it is one of only a handful by NEC NZ. Audio will be delivered via a bespoke by public demand to add screenings in the smaller of surviving ‘atmospheric’ theatres in the world, and 5.1 cinema surround sound system which has been room. Bookings are highly recommended. The one of even fewer where it is possible to experience designed, supplied and installed by Bartons Sound cinema is located in the centre of Newmarket, right state-of-the-art cinema sound and 4K projection on a Systems, in collaboration with NEC NZ. Funding for on Broadway. screen vastly bigger than the original architects ever the installation of the cinema equipment was secured dreamed of. by Waterfront Theatre Trust working in partnership EVENT Cinemas Queen Street The Civic had been the pride of Auckland for with NZIFF. ASB Waterfront Theatre is now a superb You may need to provide your own NZIFF vibe as you many years, but became increasingly anomalous as a place to watch a movie. We’re sure the bar, café and find your way to Cinema 6 through the labyrinthine movie venue in the multiplex era. After a $42 million restaurant will prove super-attractive to festival-goers. arcade adjacent to the Civic. Once our attentive restoration in 2000, The Civic was lovingly restored volunteers have shown you to your seat, you will be to its former glory and fitted out as a venue for stage Academy Cinemas poised for a great NZIFF experience. Book early for and musical productions. It is justly famous for its The Academy Cinema, downstairs at Auckland Public Cinema 6: the screen is big but seats are limited. ceiling of twinkling stars. Patrons seated in the circle Library on Lorne Street, has been a vital bastion of can watch a stunning night-sky sequence ahead of independence on the Auckland cinema scene. In the every screening and wish on the shooting stars. last two years the energetic young operators have Owned by the people of Auckland, The Civic is peppered their programming of current releases with lovingly maintained and operated with great pride lively retrospectives and indie nuggets. Though the by Auckland Live whose support of NZIFF enables Academy’s seats are spacious, there are not so many us to take it back to its glorious original purpose for of them. Bookings are recommended. two weeks every year. Aucklanders, it’s yours, take advantage! Visitors, see it and swoon!
Additional screenings of selected films have been programmed in satellite venues in Manukau, Massey and Avondale.
The Hollywood Avondale NZIFF at Manukau and Massey Built in 1915, The Hollywood Avondale is one of the oldest cinemas in New Encouragement from Event Cinemas and funding support from ATEED enabled Zealand. Recent renovations honour the original configuration of the theatre, while us in 2016 to take NZIFF wider. Over the weekends of NZIFF we’ll be mixing it upgrades to sound and picture presentation include the retention of reel-to-reel with the blockbusters and Bollywood hits once again at EVENT Cinemas Manukau. 35mm film projection alongside the latest in digital projection. “The Hollywood After last year’s high demand, EVENT Cinemas Westgate within the Westgate aims to be a haven for film and music lovers of Auckland, to preserve the Shopping Centre will offer a larger programme. Locals, please note, that advance cinema-going experience and provide inspiration, education and a community- bookings are available through our website and go on sale at the cinema only building space for locals,” says owner Matt Timpson. Conflict of interest on the day. declaration: Matt’s brother Ant’s Incredibly Strange programme premieres at the Hollywood – but appears in the CBD too. For further venue details, maps, parking and public transport info go to nziff.co.nz
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The Square Opening Night
We open our 49th edition with a blast, Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner, a sprawling, jaw-dropping satire, centred Director/Screenplay: Ruben Östlund on a Swedish museum curator (Claes Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark 2017 | 147 mins Bang), an exhibit, a stolen phone and Producers: Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober an American journalist (Elisabeth Moss). Photography: Fredrik Wenzel “The Square [is] a sardonic, darkly Editors: Ruben Östlund, Jacob Secher Schulsinger With: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, funny picture about a dashing Terry Notary, Christopher Laessø, Marina museum curator whose dysfunctional Schiptjenko, Elijandro Edouard, Daniel Hallberg, Martin Sööder institution is a microcosm of the Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 larger world. Can art, or the tools Palme d’Or (Best Film), Cannes Film Festival 2017 In English and Swedish, with English subtitles used to promote it, cross the bounds Censors rating tbc of moral responsibility? What does it take to jog the upper classes out PROUDLY SPONSORED BY of their comfortable insularity? The Square is both outlandishly funny and biting – and features a fascinating and sometimes disturbing performance by Terry Notary, the gifted actor and [Hobbit] movement choreographer.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Time organizing principle relating to the “The Square is set in the rarefied chasm between the social faces we “Östlund’s eye for the reaches of Sweden’s art world, but wear and the self-interested creatures subtleties of human from that vantage point takes pot we really are. Snip by snip, in scenarios shots at marketing, the media, the dripping with acidly observed behavior, especially public Swedish culture of militant political discomfort, Östlund clips precisely behavior, never fails.” correctness as well as the pretension, through the barbed-wire barrier — Emily Yoshida, Vulture self-deception, and pseudospeak of the fences of culture, sophistication and cultural elite… socialization that refined middle-class A CIVIC Thu 20 Jul, 7.00 pm While the targets are many and modern humans erect between our B CIVIC Thu 27 Jul, 3.00 pm Östlund, admirably, almost always public selves and our private, animal punches up, there is a kind of natures.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist
Faces Places Visages villages Centrepiece
88-year-old Agnès Varda, working in collaboration with the young photo- muralist JR, reminds us that big themes Directors/Screenplay: Agnès Varda, JR can live in small places – and that every France 2017 | 89 mins Photography: Claire Duguet, Nicolas Guicheteau, life yields something to celebrate. As Valentin Vignet, Romain Le Bonniec, the two travel across France, looking Raphael Minnesota, Roberto De Angelis, Julia Fabry Editors: Agnès Varda, Maxime Pozzi Garcia up old friends and creating artworks Music: M (Matthieu Chedid) from photographs of the people they With: Agnès Varda, JR meet, a friendship blossoms – and Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition) 2017 In French with English subtitles with it a wonderful free flow of ideas Censors rating tbc and observations. “She is nearly 90; he is 34. She PROUDLY SPONSORED BY worked with Jean-Luc Godard; he looks like Jean-Luc Godard (and, much to Varda’s consternation, will similarly not take off his sunglasses). And yet, the movie is barely five minutes old before it’s clear that these two are a screen duo for the ages... Varda has always possessed a warm and compulsively watchable screen nearly 60-year career, this is one of presence, and the pint-sized iconoclast her most profoundly personal and “Serendipities fly as still has more pep in her step than exuberantly populist works. A tour cinema’s greatest most of us have ever had… JR is an de France that is both a romp and a absolute joy (and a mensch, to boot)… meditation on photography, cinema, gleaner goes rambling Teasing at times, quietly deferential and mortality, with brief appearances in the cine-van of at others, he taps into his co-star’s by Mimi, the scene-stealing cat, it is magnum muralist JR.” inherent sense of wonder and creates at once poetry and the naked truth, A CIVIC Sat 29 Jul, 6.15 pm a canvas big enough for her to fit all shape-shifting before one’s eyes, and — Isabel Stevens, Sight & Sound B CIVIC Wed 2 Aug, 11.45 am of the ideas that she’s still dying to promising ever more pleasure with A WGATE Thu 3 Aug, 6.30 pm project.” — David Ehrlich, Indiewire each viewing.” — Amy Taubin, Film A HWOOD Fri 4 Aug, 6.30 pm “In her magnificent, groundbreaking, Comment A MK Sat 5 Aug, 6.15 pm
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BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 11
Good Time Closing Night
For action fans, our official Closing Night choice offers hyper-adrenalised thrills. (For a kinder, gentler final Directors: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie Saturday night at The Civic, see The USA 2017 | 100 mins Producers: Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear-McClard Other Side of Hope, below.) Screenplay: Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein “This eyes-open-to-the-world NYC Photography: Sean Price Williams crime thriller from filmmaking brothers Editors: Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein Music: Oneohtrix Point Never Benny and Josh Safdie is cocky, With: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, grubby and electric. It features Robert Jennifer Jason Leigh, Buddy Duress, Barkhad Abdi, Taliah Webster Pattinson on top form as Connie, a Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 quick-thinking chancer who we first CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc meet extracting his mentally challenged PROUDLY SPONSORED BY brother Nick (Benny Safdie) from a therapy session so they can spend the morning robbing a bank. Connie is violent and dangerous, but he’s also quick-witted and charismatic, so he’s teasingly fun and rewarding company – for us at least; not for those he meets… Once the Brooklyn bank job goes best post-Twilight performance to date: south the film stays on the move, he’s quick and coarse yet he also lends “A riveting race-against- running, punching, tumbling, stumbling the character a glint in the eye and a time thriller with over 24 hours as the fallout drags us spark in the brain – he’s always more through streets, vehicles, homes, jail, than just bad. The Safdies are show-off a pounding heart.” a hospital, a theme park and more. filmmakers, for sure – this is a directing — David Rooney, Hollywood Racing through the gutter of the city, tour de force. But what makes the Reporter it’s all shot in a scuzzy, real-world style film more than just a hugely enjoyable … It also boasts a terrific, throbbing thriller is that it so clearly has its eyes B CIVIC Wed 2 Aug, 4.00 pm electronic score by Daniel Lopatin, aka on the world around it.” — Dave A CIVIC Sat 5 Aug, 9.00 pm Oneohtrix Point Never. Calhoun, Time Out Pattinson is great in this, surely his
The Other Side of Hope Toivon tuolla puolen Special Presentation
Aki Kaurismäki, Finland’s deadpan laureate of life at the bottom of the heap, responds to Europe’s refugee Director/Producer/Screenplay: crisis with a seriously funny film about Aki Kaurismäki Finland/Germany 2017 | 98 mins a young Syrian mechanic (soulful Photography: Timo Salminen Sherwan Haji) who finds his way into Editor: Samu Heikkilä Finland by stowing away on a container With: Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Ilkka Koivula, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu, ship full of coal. “Show me to the Kaija Pakarinen, Niroz Haji, Simon Hussein police station,” he asks the first person Al-Bazoon Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2017 he meets, intending to take the legal Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival 2017 path to political asylum. “Are you In Finnish, English and Arabic, with English subtitles sure?” comes the reply. M violence The refugee is slowly drawn, by The winners of the New Zealand’s Best a newly flush (though hopelessly Short Film Competition will be announced melancholic) entrepreneur, into life at the Saturday screening. under the radar working and living in what is surely Finland’s dodgiest sushi restaurant. “It’s difficult to imagine anyone coming away from Aki Kaurismäki’s MALLA HUKKANEN gorgeous tragicomedy about the Not unlike the salted herring with refugee crisis in Europe, the challenges wasabi that gets served to a busload of “The warmest, most of the restaurant business and the unfortunate Japanese diners, this is a life-enhancing film I’ve rewards of self-reinvention without movie about foreign elements coming feeling gentle elation sparked by the together, whether it’s displaced Middle seen this year.” story’s evidence of human kindness Easterners fleeing atrocity in sleepy — Saskia Baron, The Arts Desk amid cruelty and indifference. This Scandinavia or two men from different is a world that reeks of cigarette worlds forging a mutually enriching smoke and cheap vodka, yet as always friendship that speaks of selfless B CIVIC Wed 26 Jul, 1.30 pm in the work of Finland’s maestro of compassion without sentimentality.” A CIVIC Sat 5 Aug, 6.00 pm droll melancholy, the perfume that — David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter lingers longest is empathy…
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12 A BIG NIGHT AND A SPECIAL EVENT AT ASB WATERFRONT THEATRE
BPM (Beats Per Minute) 120 battements par minute Special Presentation
The personal and the political are as vitally connected as the chicken and the egg in Robin Campillo’s moving and Director/Screenplay/Editor: inspiring Cannes Grand Prix winner. Robin Campillo France 2017 | 144 mins The writer/director draws on his own Producers: Hugues Charbonneau, experience as a member of AIDS activist Marie-Ange Luciani organisation ACT UP in 90s Paris, Photography: Jeanne Lapoirie Music: Arnaud Rebotini embedding an intimately observed love With: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, story within a vivid evocation of the Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud, Ariel Borenstein, Aloïse Sauvage, Simon Bourgade, dynamics of radical protest. Médhi Touré, Simon Guélat, Coralie Russier Hunky Arnaud Valois plays Nathan, Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival 2017 a wary, HIV-negative newcomer to the In French with English subtitles movement who falls for firecracker CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc Sean (incandescent Argentinean actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), HIV-positive The Cannes Grand Prix winner opens our fabulous new venue. and irresistibly impatient with the group’s more pragmatic leadership. Campillo wrote Laurent Cantet’s The Class and this year’s The Workshop (p33). His skill for catching the currents of a CELINE NIESZAWER group discussion is as persuasive as ever. The film’s political and moral weight The issues that once exercised ACT UP should not overshadow the artistry of “A slice-of-life look at a take on clear and present life in 2017 as its design, nor the quiet profundity of time in history that feels the young activists brainstorm, strategise its unreserved and admirable approach dramatic interventions and storm the to gay intimacy. Campillo has given incredibly urgent in institutions that would let them die. his movie the breath of true life. It today’s torn-up world.” “It’s both devastating and heartening grieves and triumphs and haunts with — Nikola Grozdanovic, The Playlist to watch, these horrifyingly young abounding grace and understanding, people bravely confronting vast and its heartbeat thumping with genuine, A AWT Fri 21 Jul, 8.30 pm seemingly unmovable systems… while undeniable resonance.” — Richard B AWT Mon 24 Jul, 12.30 pm attending to their own fears, their own Lawson, Vanity Fair A RIALTO Thu 3 Aug, 8.15 pm B RIALTO Fri 4 Aug, 3.30 pm fragile mortality…
Top of the Lake: China Girl Special Event
Jane Campion made history at Jane Campion Cannes again this year with Top of Gerard Lee the Lake: China Girl, one of the first Directors: Jane Campion, Ariel Kleiman two television shows ever to premiere Australia/UK 2017 | 350 mins + intermissions of 15 mins and 45 mins a season on the official programme. Executive producers: Emile Sherman, Ian Canning, We are delighted to provide NZIFF Jane Campion, Jamie Laurenson audiences the same rare opportunity to Producers: Philippa Campbell, Libby Sharpe Screenplay: Jane Campion, Gerard Lee see one of the year’s most anticipated Photography: Germain McMicking series before its television premiere on Editors: Alexandre de Franceschi, Scott Gray Music: Mark Bradshaw UKTV on SKY. Join us to experience With: Elisabeth Moss, Gwendoline Christie, Top of the Lake in one glorious day of David Dencik, Ewen Leslie, Alice Englert, Nicole Kidman enthralling giant screen entertainment. Festivals: Cannes (Special Screenings) 2017 The new series, written by Jane Censors rating tbc Campion and Gerard Lee, is a crime Top of the Lake: China Girl mystery that finds Detective Robin is produced by See-Saw Films for UKTV Griffin (Elisabeth Moss) recently returned and SKY in New Zealand. to Sydney and trying to rebuild her life. PRESENTED BY When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin realises ‘China Girl’ didn’t die alone. it pays off its pathos; by the end, “Campion, along with co-director even the most outlandish of subplots “Top of the Lake: China Ariel Kleiman and co-writer Gerard Lee, are resolved with a profoundly Girl is as beautiful and has crafted a monumental latticework of moving emotional flourish... It’s emotional threads, seamlessly weaving an overwhelmingly ambitious and soul-stirring as anything together dozens of different characters unforgettably thoughtful piece of fiction you’ll see on any kind into an intimate epic that touches upon that’s told with the lightest of touches of screen this year.” everything from sex work and surrogacy – you won’t believe how fast the whole to patriarchy in the digital age and the thing zips by, or the dark laughs it — David Ehrlich, Indiewire - AWT Sun 30 Jul, 1.00 pm instinctive push towards parenthood… inspires along the way – and brought SPECIAL PRICES APPLY – see page 4 This is such an astonishing miniseries to life by a cast that lacks a single weak in large part because of how well link.” — David Ehrlich, Indiewire
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BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 13
The Farthest Special Presentation
More than 12 billion miles away a Director/Screenplay: Emer Reynolds spaceship the size of a bus has left our Ireland 2017 | 121 mins Solar System and is entering deep space. Producers: John Murray, Clare Stronge Photography: Kate McCullough Slowly dying within its heart is a nuclear Editor: Tony Cranstoun generator that will beat for perhaps Music: Ray Harman With: Fran Bagenal, Jim Bell, John Casani, another decade before the lights on Timothy Ferris, Suzanne Dodd, Amahl Drake, Voyager finally go out. But this little Frank Drake, Don Gurnett, Heidi Hammel, Candy Hansen-Koharcheck, Andrew Ingersoll, craft could travel on for millions of years, Charley Kohlhase, Lawrence Krauss carrying the ‘Golden Record’ bearing Festivals: Tribeca, Sydney 2017 recordings and images of life on Earth. In this spectacular and immensely enjoyable documentary, some of the women and men who have worked on NASA’s Voyager mission look back in wonder and sheer joy at what they achieved and the extraordinary wealth of knowledge that the tiny spaceship has beamed back to earth. As many of them ruefully acknowledge, it’s the most inward- looking, least scientific aspect of the best science project of all time, their project – that famous Golden Record passion for exploring the great beyond “This 40-year retrospective with its Bach, Beethoven, Balinese is inspiring. of the ongoing Voyager gamelans and Chuck Berry – that’s “It’s the right film at the right time, dominated the public imagination a cathartic moment in which audiences missions brings the around Voyager. This film, in which will shed tears for a little machine made humor and humanity they retrace Voyager’s 40-year journey of silicon and aluminium, wrapped in to the science.” and successive revelations from Jupiter tin foil and running on less computing (1979), Saturn (1981), Uranus (1986) power than our smartphones, yet — Tasha Robinson, The Verge B AWT Wed 26 Jul, 11.15 am and Neptune (1989), provides the which will outlive us all – perhaps A CIVIC Sun 30 Jul, 12.15 pm best possible hope of changing that. by billions of years.” — Fionnuala When these enthusiasts talk about the Halligan, Screendaily
My Year with Helen Special Presentation
Gaylene Preston’s My Year with Gaylene Preston Helen delivers a fascinating portrait of Helen Clark on a mission – and a Director/Producer: Gaylene Preston laconic account of the exasperating New Zealand 2017 | 93 mins Co-producer: Catherine Madigan circumstances wherein she hit the glass Executive producer: Alexander Behse ceiling at the United Nations. Photography: Sam Russell, Colin Sonner, Early in the film the former PM spells Gaylene Preston Editor: Paul Sutorius out her primary professional objective: Music: Jan Preston find herself a job where she can “do With: Helen Clark Festivals: Sydney 2017 a power of good.” Keen to discover what that might look like in 2015, Script to Screen host Q&A’s with Preston followed Clark to Botswana Gaylene Preston in the Wintergarden in her position heading up the UN at The Civic following both screenings. Development Programme. She didn’t know that in the year that followed Clark would also be campaigning for the position of secretary general. The election of the UN’s top official had once been so secretive that not even the candidates knew they were in the official running. For 2016 the UN singles out a wealth of clued-up announced that the contest would be commentators and shrewdly observes “We do have a way much more transparent. Considering multiple angles to the story. Nothing of women taking charge the organisation’s remits around gender anyone has to say is intended to equality, the time felt ripe for the first convince you that this was a transparent that a lot of other female SG in its 80-year history. process, or even, in fact, a race. nationalities don't.” The media love a horse race, and Clark is dignified and resilient in the — Gaylene Preston politicians, diplomats and feminist face of loss. She can always congratulate organisations were immediately abuzz herself on having had Preston on hand A CIVIC Sun 23 Jul, 1.00 pm with speculation and opinion. Shuttling to mine her disappointing experience B CIVIC Tue 25 Jul, 11.00 am between a forthright Clark and UN and discover in it the fuel for future fire. briefings which reveal nothing, Preston
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14 BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
The Killing of a Sacred Deer Special Presentation
This new movie by the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) is a meticulously wrought Director: Yorgos Lanthimos chiller, visiting the retribution of Ireland/UK 2017 | 109 mins Producers: Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos classical tragedy on a fatally flawed Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou surgeon, played by Colin Farrell. Photography: Thimios Bakatakis “The rich vein of unsettling darkness Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis With: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, and psychological unease that ripples Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, like a treacherous underground stream Bill Camp Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 beneath the absurdist humour of Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2017 Yorgos Lanthimos' work becomes a Censors rating tbc brooding requiem of domestic horror in his masterfully realized fifth feature, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Reaching back to classical Greek tragedy for inspiration, this hypnotic tale of guilt and retribution provides an even more riveting role for Colin Farrell after his collaboration on the director's English-language debut, The Lobster. He's flanked by a never- better Nicole Kidman and a performance who cares about bold filmmaking… of chilling effectiveness from emerging This is a movie that closes its grip “When absurdism feels Irish talent Barry Keoghan in a thriller on our fears by infinitesimal degrees, this wrong, you know it’s that frequently invites comparison to demonstrating that bone-deep, tightly vintage Polanski… clamped anxiety can be scarier than being done right.” The new film's grim scenario of screaming terror.” — David Rooney, — Robbie Colin, The Telegraph a family under dire threat will make Hollywood Reporter it hard for some to watch. But the “A film of clean hands, cold impressive rigor of its craft, the skilfully heart, and near-Satanic horror, it was A CIVIC Tue 1 Aug, 8.30 pm subdued intensity of the acting and garlanded with boos at its Cannes press B CIVIC Thu 3 Aug, 3.45 pm the startling originality of the story will screening and it is absolutely fucking make the film unmissable for anyone brilliant.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist
Loveless Nelyubov Special Presentation
Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) won the Cannes Jury Prize for his stark and gripping tale of a divorcing couple Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev caught in a missing-child procedural. Russia/France/Belgium/Germany 2017 128 mins “Andrey Zvyagintsev has produced Producers: Alexandre Rodnyansky, another masterpiece in this apocalyptic Serguey Melkumov study of a failed marriage and the Screenplay: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev Photography: Mikhail Krichman subsequent disappearance of a child. Editor: Anna Mass Loveless is a stark, mysterious and Music: Evgeni Galperin With: Maryana Spivak, Alexey Rozin, terrifying story of spiritual catastrophe: Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva, a drama with the ostensible form of a Andris Keishs, Alexey Fateev Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 procedural crime thriller. It has a hypnotic Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2017 intensity and unbearable ambiguity In Russian with English subtitles which is maintained until the very end. 4K DCP | CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc This is a story of modern Russia whose people are at the mercy of implacable forces, a loveless world like a planet without the full means to support human life, a place where the ordinary need for survival has mutated or upgraded into an unending aspirational demand prepared for the crystalline perfection for status, money, freedom to find an of Russian genius Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Loveless is a tragic advantageous second marriage which style… There is no way to do the fairytale we can all brings a nice apartment, sex, luxury and film justice while also selling it as an the social media prerogative of selfies appealing way to spend two devastating believe in.” and self-affirmation. But all of it is hours. But Zvyaginstev’s skill as a — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice underpinned, or overseen, by intensely filmmaker is such that as discomfiting conservative social norms of Christianity, as it is, it’s deeply compelling and conformism and nationalism.” — Peter immersive.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist A HWOOD Thu 3 Aug, 6.30 pm Bradshaw, The Guardian B CIVIC Fri 4 Aug, 1.30 pm “After four films, including the A WGATE Sat 5 Aug, 7.45 pm A CIVIC Sun 6 Aug, 3.00 pm brilliant Leviathan, we are almost
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Mountain Special Presentation
Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom Jennifer Peedom* follows her extraordinary Sherpa with a giant screen celebration of the allure of Director: Jennifer Peedom the mountains, created in collaboration Australia 2017 | 74 mins Producers: Jennifer Peedom, Jo-anne McGowan with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Screenplay: Robert Macfarlane, Jennifer Peedom Spectacular images, shot in 21 Photography: Renan Ozturk countries by legendary mountaineer/ Editors: Christian Gazal, Scott Gray Music: Richard Tognetti, the Australian Chamber cinematographer Renan Ozturk (Meru, Orchestra Sherpa) and others, have been cut Narrator: Willem Dafoe Festivals: Sydney 2017 together thematically to an orchestral CinemaScope score drawing on Chopin, Grieg, Vivaldi, Beethoven and new works by Richard JENNIFER PEEDOM’S VISIT IS SUPPORTED BY Tognetti. The orchestra will perform live when the film tours Australia in August, but we’re delighted to have secured NZIFF big-screen engagements for the soundtracked version. Drawing from Robert Macfarlane’s Script to Screen host a conversation with Jennifer Peedom and New Zealand director book Mountain, read on the soundtrack Leanne Pooley in the Wintergarden at by Willem Dafoe, the film considers the The Civic following the Tuesday evening changes in humanity’s relationship to capture the exultant top-of-the-world screening. mountains over recent times. Not so imagery that makes this film such an “To those who are long ago they represented the divine exhilarating experience. As Peedom enthralled by the and mysterious; to many indigenous offers us a jaw-dropping montage communities living on their flanks they of people throwing themselves off mountains, their wonder always will. By the time Hillary and precipices for the sheer thrill of it, is beyond all dispute. Tenzing ascended Everest, mountains her film revels both in the dramatic To those who are not, had been colonised by the west and grandeur of the mountains and in the filled our imaginations as personal glorious irrationality which may be the their allure is a kind A CIVIC Tue 1 Aug, 6.30 pm* challenges to be overcome. only sane human response. of madness.” B CIVIC Wed 2 Aug, 2.00 pm* That spirit of conquest may be hard Jennifer Peedom will introduce the A MK Sun 6 Aug, 6.30 pm — Robert Mcfarlane, Mountain to separate from the risks taken to August 1 screening. A WGATE Sun 6 Aug, 7.30 pm
Call Me by Your Name Special Presentation
Luca Guadagnino, the Italian writer- Director: Luca Guadagnino director of I Am Love and A Bigger Italy/France 2017 | 132 mins Splash, winds back the flamboyance Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, to powerful effect in this languorous, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman sun-filled and wonderfully empathetic Screenplay: James Ivory, Luca Guadagnino, Walter Fasano. Based on the novel by André Aciman tale of first love. Timothée Chalamet Photography: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom is riveting as Elio, a smart, musically Editor: Walter Fasano Music: Sufjan Stevens gifted 17-year-old hanging out for With: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, the summer of 1983 with his parents Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois at their villa in northern Italy. Elio is Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2017 obliged to move out of his bedroom In English, Italian and French, with English subtitles to make way for his father’s American RP13 sex scenes research assistant, 20-something Oliver (Armie Hammer). Brash and handsome, Oliver immediately sets local hearts aflutter and irritates the hell out of Elio. But the two increasingly find themselves together. A dance of attraction and retreat begins and gradually consumes them both. “Luca Guadagnino likes to show off Elio’s great leap into emotional risk his homeland as a place of sensual self- “A swirling wonder, a film touches everyone in his idyllic world: discovery… But he’s never mounted the about coming of age, the depth of understanding granted to total swirl of sultry weather, budding him in this film feels like a gift to every libidos and teenage confusion that about the secrets of youth, one of us. marks his new drama, Call Me by Your the magic of summer, the The film’s stock of sensual pleasures Name, a triumphant, heartbreaking beauty of Italy.” extends to its exquisite use of music, tale of coming out based on André including the Psychedelic Furs, Elio’s Aciman’s acclaimed 2007 novel… Sweet — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair B CIVIC Fri 28 Jul, 3.15 pm amusingly bad-tempered renditions of and salty, his movie burns like a suntan.” A CIVIC Sun 30 Jul, 5.45 pm Bach and three perfectly attuned songs — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY by Sufjan Stevens.
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16 CLASSIC CINEMA
Belle de Jour Special Presentation
The unchallenged classic of elegant kink, wrought by the cinema’s great surrealist Luis Buñuel on the Director: Luis Buñuel cool beauty of Catherine Deneuve, France/Italy 1967 | 100 mins Producers: Robert Hakim, Raymond Hakim returns, direct from its 50th-birthday Screenplay: Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière. celebrations in Cannes in a stunning Based on the novel by Joseph Kessel new 4K restoration. Photography: Sacha Vierney Editor: Louisette Hautecoeur “Catherine Deneuve is married to the With: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, handsomest, wealthiest young doctor Geneviève Page, Francisco Rabal, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian, Maria Latour, Francis Blanche, in the land, but she can’t bear to have Georges Marchal, François Maistre, Macha Méril, him touch her – instead, she spends her Muni Festivals: Cannes (Classics), Sydney 2017 afternoons in a discreet Paris brothel, In French with English subtitles brusquely handled by gangsters, R18 cert kinksters, and one Kalmyk with a magic PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH box. Between workdays she dreams of even more humiliating encounters, starring her husband and different kinds of knots. The endless appeal of Belle de Jour, I won’t be the first to say, is its insistence on the fantasy and the reality; one doesn’t replace or resolve power of the film resides more in the the other, just as cobbling together an mesmeric audacity of Buñuel’s method. “It’s whatever you want origin story to explain our most singular The productive friction – be it between it to be, and one of the obsessions cannot exorcise them. As the salacious material and the ‘chaste’ Buñuel knew, a shoe is a shoe is a shoe formality of how it’s observed; the ersatz very few great films.” – unless it’s so much more.” — Elina ‘elegance’ of the salon and the perverse — David Thomson, Have You Seen? Mishuris, The L Magazine etiquettes of the Yves Saint Laurent- “If, for us jaded children and clothed, cigarette-chewing prostitutes grandchildren of the 60s, 40 years and their clients; or the hallucinatory B CIVIC Tue 25 Jul, 1.30 pm of bombardment by explicit sexual melding of fantasy and reality – still A CIVIC Sat 5 Aug, 3.30 pm imagery has made that [original] impact generates heat like a nuclear reactor.” unrecoverable, the undiminished — Wally Hammond, Time Out
Stalker Special Presentation
The mysteries and revelations of Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Tarkovsky’s science fiction USSR 1979 | 161 mins masterpiece are returned to the giant Screenplay: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky. Based on their novel Roadside Picnic screen in Mosfilm’s splendid new Photography: Aleksandr Knyazhinsky digital restoration. Editor: Ludmila Feyginova Music: Eduard Artemyev “With its emphasis on landscape, With: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, texture and atmosphere, this Nikolay Grinko, Alisa Freindlikh, Natasha Abramova Festivals: Venice 2016 brooding, dystopian science fiction… In Russian with English subtitles is as much environment as movie.” Colour and B&W | G cert — J. Hoberman, Village Voice PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH “Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 masterpiece, like his earlier Solaris, is a free and allegorical adaptation of a sci-fi novel, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic. After a meteorite hits the earth, the region where it’s fallen is believed to grant the wishes of those who enter and, sealed off by the authorities, can be penetrated only illegally and with special guides. One of them (Aleksandr Kaidanovsky), the “A dense, complex, often- stalker of the title, leads a writer and a contradictory, and endlessly pliable “Tarkovsky is the greatest professor through the grimiest industrial allegory about human consciousness, of them all. He moves wasteland you’ve ever seen. What they the necessity for faith in an increasingly find is pretty harsh and has none of secular, rational world… ‘The world with such naturalness the usual satisfactions of sci-fi quests, is ruled by cast-iron laws, and it’s in the room of dreams. but Tarkovsky regards their journey insufferably boring,’ says the writer He doesn’t explain. as a contemporary spiritual quest. His during his introductory scene, but mise en scène is mesmerizing, and the Stalker, exuding a sense of the What should he explain -A SCTCIVIC SatSunday 22 Jul, 24 2.30July, 1.30pm pm final scene is breathtaking. Not an easy unknown and intangible, refutes anyhow?” — Ingmar Bergman BSPECIAL CIVIC PRICES Mon APPLY 24 Jul, 2.45 pm film, but almost certainly a great one.” this assertion at nearly every turn.” ASee QSt p4 Sat 29 Jul, 6.00 pm — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader — Nick Schager, Slant
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It Auckland Philharmonia Live Cinema
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Live Cinema at NZIFF celebrates Clara Bow, flapper superstar of the jazz age, in the 1927 romcom that designated her the original It Girl. Marc Taddei conducts Carl Davis’ original score.
Jazz baby Clara Bow dazzles as the Director: Clarence Badger shopgirl who sets the wealthy store USA 1927 | 75 mins owner’s heart pounding in this landmark Screenplay: Elinor Glyn, Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton, George Marion Jr Hollywood comedy of the 20s. Though Photography: H. Kinley Martin she primps her bob and preens with a gay Editor: E. Lloyd Sheldon With: Clara Bow (Betty Lou), Antonio Moreno abandon that’s totally 1927, Bow’s cheeky (Cyrus T. Waltham), William Austin (‘Monty’ vitality is ageless. No Hollywood star had Montgomery), Priscilla Bonner (Molly), Jacqueline Gadsden (Adela Van Norman), ever flirted with such wicked delight or Julia Swayne Gordon (Mrs Van Norman), with such wholehearted promise of carnal Elinor Glyn (herself) pleasure before. Few did so again with B&W | 35mm | G cert quite the same quicksilver allure until the arrival of Marilyn Monroe 30 years later. Music by Carl Davis. The concept of a mysterious quality Music commissioned by Photoplay Productions for Thames Television and known as ‘It’ was a 20s fad granted to Channel 4. Music performed by posterity by the English ‘authoress’ Elinor arrangement with Faber Music Ltd, London. Glyn. Glyn herself cameos, endorsing her own invention in the film, but there’s a shadow of Victorian morality hanging over our heroine too, once Mr Right is given reason to suspect that the modern girl of his dreams is harbouring a secret love child. When the free spirits of the 20s crashed, Bow herself learned the taste of such disdain. Here, in It, she’s at her peak. “America fell in love with Bow because of her big-eyed, baby-faced beauty, but also because she was carefree, energetic, self-assured and breezily independent. Her allure wasn’t about being darkly seductive or haughtily elegant, but about being comfortable in her own skin. Sporting short hair and short dresses, she would stride out and grab whatever – and whomever – she wanted. She was the archetypal modern woman… — Nicholas Barber, BBC.com
Marc Taddei conducts Carl Davis’ score. A popular guest conductor throughout Australasia, Marc is currently Music Director of Orchestra Wellington and the Vallejo Symphony in California. His many Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Live Cinema engagements have included an exhilarating The Wind in 2006, an eerily romantic Nosferatu in 2011 and Carl Davis’ score for Safety Last! in 2016.
Music for silent films has been an enduring strand of the prolific Carl Davis’ activities. His 1980 score for Abel Gance’s Napoléon triggered an extraordinary revival of interest in silent film, and his oeuvre of more than 50 scores for this medium, including Flesh and the Devil, Ben-Hur, The Thief of Baghdad, Greed, Intolerance and The General, has brought him international acclaim.
“It moves with the rhythm of a hot jazz tune, - CIVIC Sun 6 Aug, 6.15 pm and Bow lights up every moment she’s onscreen.” SPECIAL PRICES APPLY – see page 4 — Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
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100 Men AOTEAROA
Paul Oremland Director: Paul Oremland New Zealand 2017 94 mins Producer: Vincent Burke Photography: Owen Scurfield, Guy Quartermain, Fred Burns Editor: Stuart Boone Music: Karl Steven With: James, Mr Raglan, Chris the journalist, Richard the sailor Censors rating tbc
100 Men fast-tracks through 40 life. Their on/off-again romance gets years of gay history via a countdown major screen time, with Paul unpicking of filmmaker Paul Oremland’s most their decision to eschew monogamy for memorable shags. The significance an open relationship. The polyamorous of the 100 men varies, but all have life is a major talking point of the film. lingered in Paul’s mind for some small In the days before gay marriage seemed or, ahem, big reason. Most of the men even remotely possible, the rejection of feature only as a descriptive nickname; monogamy was a defining feature of some appear on camera. Although the gay culture, and the film explores the film does ask whether gay men are too effects it had on men’s lives. fixated on sex, Paul is more interested This thoughtful film looks forward in these men’s lives, emphasising the as much as it does back, leaving us to collective experience of the isolation of ponder the intricacies of gay identity growing up gay. today. — Chris Tse Paul recounts how a religious upbringing in New Zealand fuelled A AWT Sun 23 Jul, 6.00 pm an inner struggle and how his first B AC Tue 1 Aug, 1.45 pm heartbreak led to a move to the UK. It’s there that he met John, the love of his
NEW ZEALAND FILMS AT NZIFF ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Bill Direen: A Memory of Others
Simon Ogston
Foraging Director/Producer/Editor: Simon Ogston New Zealand 2017 87 mins Photography: Jeff Smith, Simon Ogston NZIFF is proud to provide big screen premieres Music: Bill Direen With: Bill Direen, The Bilders, for striking work made within our own shores. Nick Bollinger, Steven Cogle, Marie Direen, David Eggleton, We are honoured in 2017 to host the World Ferocious, Hamish Kilgour
Premiere of Waru, an extraordinary and powerful Simon Ogston, director of invaluable his written work. His stops include collaboration by eight Ma¯ ori women filmmakers. documentaries about Philip Dadson homages to Janet Frame in Oamaru, and the Skeptics, has crafted a lively James K. Baxter in Jerusalem and NZIFF also provides the first Auckland screenings portrait of Bill Direen, one of New Michael Joseph Savage in Auckland. Zealand’s truly maverick voices. For over It’s a thoroughly engaging and of Toa Fraser’s 6 Days, fresh from its UK World 40 years, that voice has encompassed pleasurably cinematic trip through our Premiere, and Nic Gorman’s Human Traces, direct poetry, rock music, theatre and long- geographical and cultural landscape, form prose. A road movie following threaded with interviews and from its NZIFF World Premiere much closer to his first national tour in more than a material from Direen’s rich archive. home, in Christchurch. decade, A Memory of Others follows As stimulating as the man it profiles, Direen from Dunedin, to Christchurch, A Memory of Others is an in-depth Documentary filmmakers have brought us a to Wellington, to Auckland. In each exploration of his music and writing, city he reunites with old bandmates providing a glimpse of our social history record number of films about New Zealanders or works with new collaborators to and current milieu through his eyes. this year – and our two regular short film produce a succession of strikingly different performances. B QSt Fri 4 Aug, 1.45 pm programmes shine as bright as ever. En route, Direen visits key locations A QSt Sat 5 Aug, 1.30 pm from his past, telling stories and giving spoken-word performances of
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6 Days
Appearing the same year as his sports Kate Adie doco The Free Man (see below), this latest thriller from New Zealand’s most Director: Toa Fraser versatile filmmaker, Toa Fraser, rounds New Zealand/UK 2017 | 95 mins Producer: Matthew Metcalfe out his status as a serious action Screenplay: Glenn Standring director. Led by a cast of international Photography: Aaron Morton heavyweights, 6 Days tells the gripping Editor: Dan Kircher Music: Lachlan Anderson true story of what happened when six With: Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish, Mark Strong, heavily armed gunmen invaded the Martin Shaw, Emun Elliot, Ben Turner, Aymen Hamdouchi, Tim Pigott-Smith, Iranian embassy in London in April Robert Portal, Colin Garlick, Andrew Grainger, 1980. With 26 people held hostage, Martin Hancock RP13 violence & offensive language the ordeal lasted for six nail-biting days as police, politicians and military Simon Wilson will host a Q&A with wrestled over the best way to neutralise BBC journalist Kate Adie after the ASB the threat. Waterfront Theatre screening. Policeman Max Vernon (a soulful Mark Strong) tries to reason with the terrorists through trust and negotiation, while Rusty Firmin (Jamie Bell) and a crack troop of SAS operatives prepare to handle the situation by these contrasting perspectives evenly, more aggressive means. As pressure Fraser etches out a refreshingly “There’s a very real to resolve the issue mounts, Fraser ambivalent position for the audience moral struggle… I don’t tautly builds toward the inevitable, the to observe from. film climaxing with a white-knuckle Especially in a year when the really think of the movie recreation of one of the most methods of our own special forces have in terms of heroes and audacious special forces raids in history. been put under scrutiny, Fraser’s film villains.” — Toa Fraser Amidst the action is BBC reporter comes as a timely examination of the Kate Adie (Abbie Cornish), the British moral fallout that comes with using A AWT Fri 4 Aug, 8.45 pm journalist whose arresting live coverage force. — JF A RIALTO Sat 5 Aug, 8.15 pm of the event broke new ground for television news reporting. In balancing
The Free Man Free Theatre
Matthew Metcalfe* Shirley Horrocks Director: Toa Fraser Director/Producer/ New Zealand 2017 Screenplay: 84 mins Shirley Horrocks Producer/Screenplay: New Zealand 2017 Matthew Metcalfe 76 mins Photography: Andrew Stroud Editors: Chris Plummer, Photography: Craig Wright Cushla Dillon, Bryn Evans Editor: Steven Mountjoy Music: Sean Donnelly Research: Roger Horrocks, With: Jossi Wells, The Flying Shirley Horrocks Frenchies Music: Jonathan Besser, Emma Johnston Narrator: Jennifer Ward-Lealand
After his adrenalised te reo chase footage from the Flying Frenchies Founded by Peter Falkenberg in 1979, Filmmaker Shirley Horrocks, who thriller The Dead Lands, New Zealand back-catalogue: human catapulting, Christchurch’s Free Theatre has began shooting seven years ago when director Toa Fraser brings audiences a base-jumping from moving vehicles, provided a remarkably persistent she first encountered Free Theatre’s riveting examination of adrenaline itself and in one thrilling sequence, a slack- alternative to the city’s more vaunted touring production Distraction Camp, with his new sports documentary, The rope walk sans harness. Like a Red Bull legacy of traditional theatre. Favouring is especially attentive to the shift in Free Man. At once a white-knuckle sports movie by way of Werner Herzog, the event-based over the text-based, focus and a less combative – though no adventure film and ruminating spiritual Fraser’s film laces the action with Falkenberg has steeped a succession of less satiric – imaginative engagement inquiry, Fraser’s doco follows Kiwi rich existential contemplation: for his actors, writers and theatre technicians with community activation since the world-champion freestyle skier Jossi daredevil heroes, toying with the void is in the practice of an avant-garde earthquakes. Wells as he travels and trains with The not just recreation but a philosophical theatre that has strong roots in his At 37, Free Theatre has proven as Flying Frenchies, a troupe of extreme- position. Not since Man on Wire has native Germany, while being constantly definitive and resilient a Christchurch sport eccentrics who specialise in an the psyche of the adrenaline-junkie responsive to political and social change. institution as the one Falkenberg set array of breathtaking vertiginous stunts. been plumbed so grippingly. — JF Free Theatre has often courted out to oppose, and richly deserving of With no experience whatsoever, controversy and the film is studded Horrocks’ documentary salute. Wells learns to cross a rope suspended with remembered provocations: between two trees and works his way A AWT Thu 27 Jul, 6.15 pm* audiences at a production of 1984 A AC Wed 26 Jul, 6.15 pm up to traversing the perilous peaks of A WGATE Sun 30 Jul, 8.00 pm were separated from their friends and B AC Fri 28 Jul, 12.15 pm the French Alps. Supplying the rest of even forcibly evicted by costumed the thrills is a surfeit of heart-stopping security guards.
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Kobi
In a modest workshop in a beautiful Andrea Bosshard Central Otago landscape, Swiss Shane Loader* goldsmith Kobi Bosshard, approaching Directors/Producers/Photography: 80 and widely regarded as the Andrea Bosshard, Shane Loader New Zealand 2017 | 103 mins grandfather of contemporary New Editor: Shane Loader Zealand jewellery, continues to produce Music: Plan 9 works of classic simplicity and elegance. With: Kobi Bosshard, Patricia Bosshard-Browne, Trixie Woodill, Peter McKay Daughter Andrea Bosshard’s lucid In English and German, with English subtitles and loving film portrait of her father – and of her mother, Patricia, too – is one of the year’s loveliest films, a lyrical evocation of rich, unhurried life. Kobi moved to New Zealand in the early 60s, with goldsmithing in his blood. The ethos of the hippie era may have enabled his choice of profession, but there’s no mistaking the work ethic or quiet single-mindedness underlying his subsequent life of creativity. Super 8 home movies brim with flowers and sunny days and evince an An abundance of jewellery is idyllic view of a fresh landscape and a alluringly displayed for the camera. “The work we do comes young family in the New World. Plentiful The beauty of a lifetime’s work is out of the life we live, archival footage reminds us of the days proclaimed by a succession of true when TV broadcasters covered the arts, experts: women and a few men who so we have to have a while readings from family letters take speak eloquently about the pieces by life to start with.” us into the heart of the family. This Kobi they have worn and treasured. — Kobi Bosshard may be a very personal history, but it’s It seems unlikely that Bosshard set out perfectly pitched for an audience of to recruit new customers for her father, A AC Tue 1 Aug, 6.15 pm* strangers: the filmmaker inscribes her but be warned, you may leave this B AC Wed 2 Aug, 11.30 am* own presence in the inspiring story of gentle tribute to the simple life with A WGATE Sat 5 Aug, 5.30 pm her parents’ lives with unusual grace. a hankering to shop.
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
Kim Dotcom has become such a Annie Goldson* familiar part of New Zealand’s media and cultural furniture that it is easy to Director: Annie Goldson forget the jaw-dropping astonishment New Zealand 2017 | 112 mins Producer: Alexander Behse of the dawn raid on 20 January 2012, Photography: Dominic Fryer, Adam Ruszkowski, when 76 officers swarmed upon the Simon Raby, Marcus Winterbauer, Laela Kilbourn German internet mogul’s mansion Editor: Simon Coldrick Music: David Donaldson, Steve Roche, north of Auckland, bounding from Janet Roddick helicopters, armed to the teeth. With: Kim Dotcom, Mona Dotcom, Glenn Greenwald, Lawrence Lessig, Gabriella Coleman, In the definitive filmed account Jimmy Wales, Jonathan Taplin, Greg Sandoval, of the saga to date, Annie Goldson Sean Gallagher, Mike Masnick, Moby Festivals: SXSW, Hot Docs 2017 (Brother Number One) delivers a jolting reminder of the legal, political and Toby Manhire will host Q&A’s with personal upheavals ignited by the US Annie Goldson at both ASB Waterfront government’s attempt to extradite Theatre screenings. Dotcom and colleagues for copyright- related offences. It begins with the formative years: convicted hacker turns security consultant turns file-sharing entrepreneur. The flamboyant career NIGEL MARPLE trajectory ultimately attracts the founder Jimmy Wales, musician Moby attention of Hollywood bosses bent and Dotcom himself. “Whether you think he’s not just upon disabling Megaupload, a ‘This whole thing is like a a hero or a heel, you’re website awash with pirated content, but Hollywood movie,’ says Dotcom. But in sending a resounding message to those documenting the drama – court tussles, bound to leave the film who might seek to emulate his business, scraps with John Key, the Internet with your preconceptions wherever in the world they reside. Party, the ‘Moment of Truth’ – Goldson shattered.” A freshly compelling chronicle of resists any temptation to extol or the Dotcom years, Caught in the Web excoriate, while underscoring, beyond —David Fear, Rolling Stone A AWT Sat 29 Jul, 1.00 pm* corrals a range of voices, among them the political circus and braggadocio, B AWT Mon 31 Jul, 3.00 pm* Motion Picture Association of America just how pivotal this case is in the A WGATE Sun 6 Aug, 3.30 pm counsel Steve Fabrizio, Wikipedia internet age. — Toby Manhire
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Human Traces
After imbuing horror tropes with Nic Gorman* genuine feeling in his award-winning zombie short Here Be Monsters, Kiwi Director/Screenplay: Nic Gorman writer-director Nic Gorman brings New Zealand 2017 | 87 mins Producer: Nadia Maxwell a grounded human touch to his Photography: John Chrisstoffels feature debut. A knotty psychological Editor: Richard Shaw thriller set on an isolated subantarctic Music: Stephen Gallagher With: Sophie Henderson, Mark Mitchinson, island, Human Traces deftly pairs taut Vinnie Bennett, Sara Wiseman, Peter Daubè, suspense with slippery character study, Milo Cawthorne CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc refusing to let any of its players fall into simplistic archetypes. The drama takes place 750 kms south of New Zealand, where husband-and- wife scientist team Sarah (Sophie Henderson) and Glenn (Mark Mitchinson) have been posted to monitor the ecosystem of a remote island. When a mysterious stranger (Vinnie Bennett) arrives, paranoia and deception begin to disrupt the order. Splitting his film into three chapters, each told from a Bennett who shines most, lending his different character’s perspective, Gorman mysterious homme fatale a disarming “Human Traces tells a delights in disorienting his audience. naturalism. complex story on a big Each new act is designed to reassemble Beyond expertly deploying spilled the last: no sooner have you sided secrets, climactic confrontations and canvas… [It’s] about with one character than you find your washed-up corpses for dramatic humans and how they are allegiance complicated by the next effect, it’s Gorman’s understanding shaped by forces they can point of view. The tension builds from of the humanity within beneath the a trio of stellar performances, with each genre beats that grounds the film. be entirely oblivious to…” A AWT Sat 5 Aug, 8.30 pm* allowed equal time to thicken; national This gripping examination of human — Nic Gorman A RIALTO Sun 6 Aug, 2.45 pm treasures Henderson and Mitchinson behaviour reminds us that everyone is do impressive work, but it’s newcomer only the hero of their own story. — JF
No Ordinary Sheila
If you haven’t already heard of Sheila Hugh Macdonald Natusch, prepare to be inspired. The Christine Dann life story of this nonagenarian natural Director: Hugh Macdonald historian, illustrator and writer is a New Zealand 2017 | 98 mins Producer/Screenplay: Christine Dann beautiful, truly Antipodean journey, Photography: Richard Mekalick, Hugh Macdonald, made with love by her nephew and Graeme Moffatt, Dave McCarlie, Ivars Berzins, Tim Butters, Dave Asher, Ben Gustavson, long-time Kiwi filmmaker, Hugh Mary Khanna, Steve Pearce, Vanessa Carruthers, Macdonald (This is New Zealand). Kate Le Comte Born in 1926 on Rakiura (Stewart Editor: Abi King-Jones Narrator: Phil Darkins Island) to the Traill family, Sheila’s early With: Sheila Natusch, Kim Hill, Susan Hamel, childhood memories include a near- Dinah Priestley, Shaun Barnett, Ken Scadden, Andy Dennis, Euan Macdonald, Mark Gee, drowning at the hands of schoolmates Maraea Kiel, Gary Kiel – this and other life misfortunes she shrugs off casually. Growing up in the deep south led to an adventurous resilience which saw her climb multiple mountains, cycle from Picton to Bluff and write dozens of groundbreaking natural history books, including her magnum opus, Animals of New Zealand. stints at the National Library and Featuring beautiful historic footage Correspondence School. “You just get on with it. of the lower south in the 30s and 40s, Viewers will love this radiant, defiant You can’t go under. There this film offers fascinating glimpses into and unconventional life story which life as one of few female students at ranges from the southern wilds to the are such people, but I Otago University, and covers Sheila’s rugged Wellington coastline, where am not one of them.” friendship with Janet Frame and their Sheila still lived until very recently, — Sheila Natusch subsequent and unsuccessful foray without car, TV, lipstick or alcohol, into teaching. Moving to Wellington planning to “get the last bit of fun out B AWT Fri 4 Aug, 1.00 pm in the 50s saw Sheila and husband of life that there is.” — Jo Randerson A AWT Sat 5 Aug, 1.00 pm Gilbert Natusch take up residence in Owhiro Bay, while she had professional
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The Inland Road Not Just Another Mountain
Jackie van Beek Director/Screenplay: Director: Chris Davis Jackie van Beek New Zealand 2017 New Zealand 2017 31 mins 80 mins Photography: Davian Lorson Producer: Aaron Watson Supervisor: Annie Goldson Photography: Giovanni C. Lorusso Editorial support: Ngahuia Wade Editors: Luca Cappelli, Tom Eagles In English and Māori, With: Gloria Popata, David Elliot, with English subtitles Chelsie Preston Crayford, Georgia Spillane, Jodie Hillock Festivals: Berlin 2017 CinemaScope | M drug use & offensive language
New Zealand audiences will probably situation, is played with subtle depth Now 20 years after its lone pine was an astute and charming portrait of this know writer/director Jackie van Beek by newcomer Gloria Popata, alongside attacked and eventually cut down, most iconic Auckland landmark. as Pauline from Funny Girls, rather local farmer Will (David Elliot), his the ownership of One Tree Hill/ Preceded by Cartography of than as an internationally award- pregnant wife Donna (Chelsie Preston Maungakiekie has been returned the Unknown (NZ 2017. Director: winning short filmmaker. Van Beek’s Crayford) and their six-year-old niece to Māori and the summit has been Orlando Stewart. 12 mins) which writing has a more poetic and serious Lily (Georgia Spillane). replanted with native trees, one of introduces us to Andrew Blythe, a bent, and in her first feature she turns The dramaturgy resists conventional which will hopefully become its new self-taught artist who lives and works her attention to home and family, narrative choices to reach gentler yet namesake. Exploring the significance in Grey Lynn. A turbulent youth saw focussing on mothering, daughters, resonant conclusions. It’s particularly that the mountain holds to Aucklanders Blythe in and out of hospital and living and the after-effects of romantic enjoyable to see female characters – and the nation as a whole – Not rough on the Auckland streets where and sexual encounters. show such sensitivity, complexity and Just Another Mountain looks back he would create dense artworks, which The cinematography by Giovanni empathy. An anticipated and enjoyable over this period through the eyes of are paradoxically controlled yet chaotic. C. Lorusso boasts the rugged farm debut feature. — Jo Randerson park-goers and those who work in the Now his life is more settled but his art landscapes of Central Otago, strikingly park. Director Chris Davis surveys the remains dynamic and alive. captured in natural light. These differing views of the importance of spacious landscapes contrast with A AWT Tue 25 Jul, 8.15 pm the park, be it as an area of recreation, C AC Sun 6 Aug, 1.15 pm hand-held close-ups of the superb B RIALTO Thu 3 Aug, 11.30 am a place of civic pride or as a contested naturalistic performances. Teenage site of great historical and spiritual Tia, on the run from a disrupted family importance to local iwi, making his film
Swagger of Thieves
Chamber Music New Zealand Julian Boshier presents Director/Producer/ Photography: Julian Boshier TAKÁCS New Zealand 2017 110 mins QUARTET Editor: Eddie Larsen With: Nigel ‘Booga’ Beazley, Nigel Regan, Andrew Durno, ONE NIGHT ONLY Mark Hamill, Tom Watson, Mike Franklin-Browne, Andrew Ashton, Tamzin Beazley SAT 5 AUGUST, 7.30pm Colour and B&W | Censors rating tbc chambermusic.co.nz/takacsquartet Any band as theatrically confrontational disgruntled, others with their gruntle as Head Like a Hole is going to have a still intact. story worth telling. Swagger of Thieves Studded through the film are director Julian Boshier has worked for performances by the band in all their a decade on this film. He has earned cock-wobbling, floor pounding, MICHAEL the trust and respect of Nigel ‘Booga’ propulsive and preposterous glory. Beazley and Nigel Regan, the ever- Whether you come as a fan of HOUSTOUN collapsing binary stars who are the guts the music, as a fan of solid filmmaking, of any HLAH line up. or as a bystander wondering what & BELLA Boshier finds the two men staring all the noise is about, you’ll be seeing down the age with belligerence, one of the most intelligently assembled HRISTOVA vulnerability, shamelessness and and truthfully told documentaries honesty. There is no legacy polishing New Zealand has produced. — Graeme BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL: here, and no one’s feelings are spared. Tuckett THE PIANO & VIOLIN SONATAS Alongside the Nigels we meet Tamzin Beazley, holding together a family in A CIVIC Thu 3 Aug, 8.45 pm 3 CONCERTS: 8 – 9 SEPTEMBER the face of Booga’s occasional flailing Core Funder darkness. Band members emerge in chambermusic.co.nz/michaelandbella various iterations – some wounded and
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Spookers
Zombie brides, baby-killing banshees Florian Habicht and psycho-killer clowns are all family in director Florian Habicht’s fanciful Director: Florian Habicht and funny documentary portrait of New Zealand/Australia 2017 | 83 mins Producers: Nick Batzias, Lani-rain Feltham, Spookers, the popular theme park Suzanne Walker, Virginia Whitwell occupying the former Kingseat Screenplay: Florian Habicht, Peter O’Donoghue, Psychiatric Hospital. Ex-sheep farmers Veronica Gleeson Photography: Grant Adams, Jon Baxter, Beth and Andy Watson along with Florian Habicht daughter Julia are the down-to-earth Editor: Peter O’Donoghue Music: Marc Chesterman proprietors of the sprawling four- With: Beth Watson, Andy Watson, Julia Watson, location destination where multifarious Huia Apiata, Juneen Borkent, Jake Graham, Cameron Judson, Cameron Wetzel, fiends lie in wait to scare the bejeezus Lomaks Tangihaere, Claudia Aiono, David Palu out of tens of thousands of screaming Festivals: Hot Docs, Sydney 2017 M adult themes customers every year. spookers.com In Habicht’s enchanted view, the Watsons run a family business in Flicks.co.nz editor Steve Newall hosts more senses than one. The actors he a Q&A with the Florian Habicht in the interviews have never had as much Wintergarden at The Civic immediately after the Wednesday screening. entertainment in their lives as creating havoc as Spookers, nor found such camaraderie or reinforcement as in the nation’s mental health than it ever letting their demonic fantasies run riot. was before. “Revealing, funny and Bringing in his own art department and “What are haunted houses if not a sometimes deeply some cute lo-fi fx, Habicht cements safe place to be scared? Spookers is a the effect, casting their horror-show celebration of strangeness rather than moving.” — Sydney Film Festival personae in florid dream scenarios. a mockery of it, and it is Deborah [a Former patients worry that Spookers former patient at the hospital] who promotes the unhelpful notion that succinctly encapsulates its communal psychiatric illness is a terrifying thing, power by observing, ‘If there are so A CIVIC Sat 22 Jul, 8.45 pm but there seems little doubt for Habicht many lonely people in the world, they B CIVIC Wed 26 Jul, 3.45 pm or the current inhabitants: Kingseat just have to meet each other.’” — Matt under the Watsons’ watch is better for Fagerholm, RogerEbert.com
Waru
A sisterhood of Māori female directors Guests bravely share their insights into the complexity of child abuse, in a sequence Directors: Briar Grace-Smith, of eight short films that seamlessly Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, Chelsea Cohen, become one. At the centre of their Renae Maihi, Paula Jones, stories is Waru, a boy killed at the Awanui Simich-Pene hands of a caregiver. His tangi, set on New Zealand 2017 | 88 mins a small rural marae, is the centrepiece Producers: Kerry Warkia, Kiel McNaughton of the film, but there is an underlying Screenplay: Briar Grace-Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, disturbance of heavy themes touching Chelsea Cohen, Renae Maihi, Paula Jones, on culture, custom and shame. Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu Photography: Drew Sturge We see a single death through With: Tanea Heke, Roimata Fox, Ngapaki Moetara, the differing lenses of the extended Awhina-Rose Ashby, Maria Walker, Kararaina Rangihau, Acacia Hapi, family, community, and in one sharp Antonio Te Maioha, Miriama McDowell, sequence, national media too. Waru Amber Curreen, Merehake Maaka In English and Māori, with English subtitles weaves multiple reactions and offers Censors rating tbc a glimpse into the events that ensue upon the killing of a child and the Script to Screen host a Q&A with the conflict created among loved ones. filmmakers and Mihingarangi Forbes As Waru’s grandmothers, Kararaina immediately after both screenings. Rangihau and Merehake Maaka deliver powerful in challenging roles, which electrifying performances, demonstrating left me questioning if I would have the “When a child is killed their skill in the art of karanga. As same courage to intervene. every five weeks there their wailing and laments call on their The subject could hardly be heavier, ancestors to safely take their mokopuna, but this is a hugely important film. is no other way to tackle a challenge for his body unfolds. Unless we are willing to be tested, abuse other than Māori humour isn’t absent, and we have no chance of reducing our confronting it, head on.” neither are the subtexts within the shameful child abuse rate here in banter, leaving me to wonder if our Aotearoa. It’s a film everyone in the — Mihingarangi Forbes A AWT Wed 2 Aug, 6.15 pm ability to laugh in times of sorrow is family should see and talk about. A AWT Sun 6 Aug, 4.00 pm a cloak to mask our pain. Antonio Te — Mihingarangi Forbes, Māori Issues Maioha and Miriama McDowell are Correspondent, RNZ/The Hui
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TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home What Lies That Way
Robin Greenberg Paul Wolffram Director/Producer: Director/Producer: Robin Greenberg Paul Wolffram New Zealand 2017 New Zealand/ 160 mins Papua New Guinea Photography: Waka Attewell, 2017 | 89 mins Costa Botes, John Chrisstoffels, Photography: Luke Frater Ruth Korver, Chris Li, the Tibetan Editors: Paul Wolffram, Audio Visual Section Annie Collins Editor: Peter Metcalf Sound: Bernard Blackburn With: Thuten Kesang, With: Paul Wolffram, Elson Toaniti, Tenzin Atisha, the Dalai Lama Christian Dokon Tobung In English and Tibetan, In Tok Pisin and Lak, with English with English subtitles subtitles
Filmed over a period of 22 years by recounting his own personal history In a documentary exploration of altered alone in the bush. Few undergo the Wellington filmmaker Robin Greenberg or outlining the environmental and states, ethnographer and filmmaker initiation nowadays and there’s only (Huloo, The Free China Junk), TEAM political implications of China’s Paul Wolffram returns to the remote one old sorcerer in the region with the TIBET provides a thorough and inspiring occupation of its ‘Western Treasure community in the island region above experience and confidence to assist. account of Tibetan culture in exile House’. A vital point of contact for the the mainland of Papua New Guinea “You won’t die,” he tells Wolffram, through the experience and advocacy international exile community, as the where he once lived for two years – “but you will lose all strength.” of the delightful Thuten Kesang, Dalai Lama himself is happy to testify, and where his hosts collaborated on his Moving beyond ethnography, New Zealand’s first Tibetan refugee. he’s been a tireless advocate too for playful exploration of their ancestors’ Wolffram orchestrates Luke Frater’s Having run away from the monastery multicultural visibility in Auckland. tales in Stori Tumbuna (2011). Now stunning cinematography of rainforest as a child, he was sent by his father to Greenberg summons up a multitude his ambition is to take his cultural and sea to an immersive sound design school in India in 1954, where he was of admirers, leaving us in no doubt understanding to a spiritual level: he is by Bernard Blackburn in order to impart raised by Scottish Presbyterians. Unable at all that her film is a labour of love, determined to undergo the dangerous his singular experience of psychic to return to Tibet after his parents richly deserved. initiation process into their Buai danger and creative epiphany. were arrested in the wake of the 1959 shaman cult. uprising, he’s been a fully committed In a remote area of the forest, the Kiwi since 1967, without ever losing his A AC Sat 22 Jul, 12.30 pm camera runs as the filmmaker is given A AC Thu 3 Aug, 8.15 pm defining Tibetan identity. A AC Sun 23 Jul, 10.15 am magical substances harvested from B AC Fri 4 Aug, 11.15 am Charismatic and funny, he’s a nature and left to fast without food marvellous storyteller, whether or water for four days and nights,
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MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT New Zealand’s Best 2017 JURY PRIZE 75 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc
Help give the year’s best New Do No Harm Thicket Waiting Zealand short films the homegrown NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Roseanne Liang NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Julian Vares NZ 2016 | Director: Amberley Jo Aumua recognition they deserve by voting for Producer: Hamish Mortland | Photography: Andrew Producer: Craig Gainsborough | Photography: Eoin Screenplay: Samuel Kamu | Photography: Greer your favourite at this screening. For McGeorge | Editor: Tom Eagles | With: Marsha Yuan, O’Liddigh | Editor: Richard Lord | With: Tim Hamilton, Lindsay | Editor: Huhana Ruri-Panapa Jacob Tomuri | Festivals: Sundance 2017 | 12 mins Peter Tait, Albertine Jonas | 16 mins With: Desmond Malakai, Casta-Troy Cocker-Lemailie this year’s New Zealand’s Best short 12 mins film competition, NZIFF programmers A doctor abides by her Hippocratic A farmboy is inspired to stand-up to oath even when violent gangsters his overbearing father. In the classic Two boys wait outside a dairy for a Bill Gosden and Michael McDonnell phone call. An outstanding student viewed 83 submissions to make a interrupt her surgery. Female power NZ rural tradition marked by excellent rendered extreme by a director performances. film set in a harsh world so rarely shortlist of 12 from which filmmaker presented with such charm married Gaylene Preston selected these six successfully stretching her muscles in every direction. Untitled Groping with a sharp aesthetic eye for raw finalists. A jury of three will select truth. the winner of the $5,000 Madman Revenge Fairytale Laundry NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Catherine Bisley Entertainment Jury Prize, while a NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Becs Arahanga Producer: William Bisley | Photography/Editor: Paul The Dregs $3,000 Wallace Friends of the Civic Producers: Julian Arahanga, Kath Akuhuata-Brown Wedel | With: Loren Taylor | 9 mins NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Matt Campbell Award will be awarded by donors, the Photography: Chris Mauger Editor: Luke Evans With: Producer: Annabel Carr | Photography: Clayton Aidee Walker, Jarod Rawiri | 11 mins A woman pitches a tent on the edge Carpinter | Editor: Jeremy Masters | With: Eamonn Tee, Wallace Foundation and Wallace Media of a forest and starts to collect men. A Shayla Crombie, Florence Noble | 15 mins A frustrated mum struggles to find Ltd, to the film or contributor to a film most satisfying piece of wry feminist intimacy while raising a young family. A teenage misfit starts a band only they deem to merit special recognition. myth making that makes me want to A real woman’s sexy adventure to lose control to the school bully. The winner of the audience vote takes see a lot more from this director. elevating domestic life and putting the I cannot believe this director was away the Audience Choice Award, not born in 1975! A tribute to high consisting of 25 percent of the box poems of Hone Tuwhare in a place not usually found! school bands, the Gordons and what office from the main-centre NZIFF elevation from dorkhood a guitar can screenings. Gaylene’s comments on accomplish. each film appear in italics.
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PRESENTED IN Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ ori Pasifika Shorts 2017 ASSOCIATION WITH 91 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc | In English, Maˉ ori, New Zealand Sign Language and Tongan, with English subtitles
A collection of Māori and Pasifika Natalie Lady Eva Tree short films curated by Leo Koziol NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Qianna Titore Tonga/USA 2017 | Directors: Dean Hamer, NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Lauren Jackson (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka), Producer: Eloise Veber | 9 mins Joe Wilson | Producer: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu 11 Producers: Andrew Cochrane, Jeremy Macey mins 16 mins Director of the Wairoa Māori Film A Māori girl receives a precious Festival, with guest co-curator Craig waiata composed by her deceased A young trans woman becomes her A young woman with a shameful Fasi (Niue), Director of the Pollywood grandfather. In this story from true self. Being fa’afafine in Tonga secret hides out from friends and Film Festival. Curators’ comments on Hokianga, tragedy strikes but there is is a challenge – but there’s a beauty family in a massive tree. A lonely tree each film appear in italics. hope in a new beginning. — CF pageant where your star can shine no in a crowded city becomes the symbol matter who you are. — LK for a young Tongan woman's personal Tama journey, and a family that loves her no Mannahatta NZ 2017 | Directors: Jared Flitcroft, Jack O’Donnell Sunday Fun Day matter what. — LK NZ 2017 | Director/Producer/Screenplay: Renae Maihi Producer: Ashleigh Flynn | Screenplay: Jared Flitcroft, NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Dianna Fuemana 15 mins Jack O’Donnell, David Hansen | 9 mins Producer: Jay Ryan | 15 mins Possum An ancient spirit tries to send a A deaf Māori boy feels isolated from A teenager and a solo mum prepare to NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Dave Whitehead | message to a recent immigrant in the his family but draws strength from have their own fun on a Sunday. Tiger Producers: Sadie Wilson, Paul Murphy | 15 mins city that never sleeps. Stones are the performing the haka. Having reminders knows exactly how the world looks at Two brothers hatch a plan to head into symbol of burden – a burden that of what is important is a necessity. her, but still fights to be accepted by the woods and hunt for a notorious needs an open heart to carry and put Forgetting what’s important may cost her peers. Acceptance in this case is to possum named Scar. Step back to the to rest. — CF you your life. — CF be left alone without question. — CF 70s in this fantastical Oˉ taki-filmed story of two Maˉ ori boys growing up in the wild world of Wairoa. — LK
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MANNAHATTA TAMA TREE
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The Desert Bride La novia del desierto WORLD
Directors/Screenplay: Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato Argentina/Chile 2017 85 mins Photography: Sergio Armstrong Editor: Andrea Chignoli Music: Leo Sujatovich With: Paulina García, Claudio Rissi Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2017 In Spanish with English subtitles CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc MARIANA BOMBA In this delicately observed Argentinian “While the marvelous García is road movie, Gloria’s Paulina García, in the heart of the movie, her unshowy another lovely, nuanced performance, performance strikes an exquisite is Teresa, a rather timid maid. She has balance with the more gregarious worked for the same family for years, manner of Claudio Rissi in what’s but now they can no longer afford to largely a two-hander… It’s imbued with employ her and have found her a job gorgeous, undulating rhythms that pull with their in-laws, who live miles away. you in to the point where the recovery En route, Teresa’s small bag packed of Teresa’s bag becomes secondary to with all her possessions is left in the the emergence of a woman capable of campervan of Gringo (Claudio Rissi), being an active participant in life, rather an itinerant salesman, and then goes than hiding in the margins.” — David missing. They spend the day together Rooney, Hollywood Reporter driving across the desert in search of the bag and getting to know each WORLD FILMS AT NZIFF ARE other. Gringo is a warm and gentle B RIALTO Mon 24 Jul, 2.30 pm PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY fellow, rootless and free-spirited, and B AC Wed 26 Jul, 12.00 pm the novelty allows Teresa, who has A AC Sat 29 Jul, 2.15 pm A RIALTO Sat 5 Aug, 4.15 pm never travelled before, to bloom. — SR
The Distinguished Citizen El ciudadano ilustre
Directors/Photography: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat Argentina/Spain 2016 120 mins Screenplay: Andrés Duprat With: Oscar Martínez, Dady Brieva, Festivals: Venice, Busan 2016 Best Actor (Oscar Martínez), Venice Film Festival 2016 In Spanish with English subtitles M violence, offensive language, sexual references & nudity
Help yourself to our pick of the features In this sardonic portrait of an artist is enlightening his hosts on the bigger blithely detached from his effect, Oscar picture they so evidently lack. we have encountered in a year of intense Martínez is perfect as the urbane, The Distinguished Citizen is not engagement with international cinema. unflappable Daniel Mantovani, a Nobel without sympathy for his point of Prize-winning author whose return to view. It skewers the photo-bombing We do what we can to cover many bases, his roots goes seriously askew. On a politicians and keeps a special place while always insisting on that certain whim, after a 40-year absence, he has in its dark heart for the knockers who accepted an invitation to receive the corner the avowed truth-teller when indefinable quality. We pay attention too, highest honour bestowed by Salas, his truths don’t exactly line up. The to the films lavished with praise or box the small Argentinian town that bred mayhem mounts until, in a concluding him. Salas has featured repeatedly in flourish, we may even wonder if the office success in their countries of origin. his novels, never in a favourable light. master’s misbehaviour is in fact his “None of my characters could ever method. leave,” he says. “And I could never go back.” Once he does, it’s not long before the novelties of being paraded A AC Sat 22 Jul, 6.15 pm on the town fire truck, or jury service at B AC Thu 27 Jul, 3.45 pm the local art contest, wear out his grin. A RIALTO Fri 28 Jul, 8.15 pm B RIALTO Tue 1 Aug, 4.00 pm Soon the awesomely tone-deaf guest
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Maudie
“The life of legendary Canadian Director: Aisling Walsh folk artist Maud Lewis is painted in Canada/Ireland 2016 | 115 mins exquisite detail in this impeccably Producers: Bob Cooper, Mary Young Leckie, Mary Sexton, Susan Mullen acted, incredibly affecting biopic. At Screenplay: Sherry White the beating heart of Aisling Walsh’s Photography: Guy Godfree Editor: Stephen O’Connell film is Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) Music: Michael Timmins who not only captures the contorted With: Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett, Gabrielle Rose, Zachary Bennett, Billy MacLellan physicality of this self-taught painter, Festivals: Toronto, Vancouver 2016; Berlin, who contended with rheumatoid San Francisco, Sydney 2017 People’s Choice Award, Vancouver International Film arthritis, but also exudes the creative Festival 2016 spirit raging within her despite her PG violence & sex scenes debilitated frame. The film’s backdrop is undeniably cinematic: the rugged beauty and expansive vistas of 1930s Nova Scotia. Likewise, its primary setting is unspeakably intimate: the comically tiny one-room house that Maud shares with misanthropic fish peddler Everett (Ethan Hawke), initially as his housekeeper but soon as his wife – albeit still placing Naïve Art movement. Of course, Maud behind his dogs and chickens in terms isn’t motivated by fame but rather “A portrait of a woman in of his favoured tenants. the creative act itself. Her exuberance thrall to art and nature, Undaunted by his curmudgeonly proves infectious, ensuring that when nature, she’s inspired by the natural she intones ‘I was loved’ near the film’s and a couple whose love splendour surrounding their hovel to end, we each count ourselves amongst resisted hardship and take up a paint brush. Operating with those who adored her.” — Vancouver defied definition.” no preconceptions of what ‘art’ should International Film Festival be, her charmingly unsophisticated, — Peter Howell, Toronto Star A RIALTO Sat 22 Jul, 4.00 pm uniquely one-dimensional paintings A WGATE Sun 23 Jul, 5.45 pm strike a chord with tastemakers and B CIVIC Mon 24 Jul, 12.15 pm A CIVIC Sat 29 Jul, 3.30 pm soon she’s a leading figure in the
PRESENTED IN Don’t Tell Jasper Jones ASSOCIATION WITH
Director: Tori Garrett Director: Rachel Perkins Australia 2017 | 108 mins Australia 2017 | 101 mins Screenplay: James Greville, Ursula Screenplay: Shaun Grant, Cleary, Anne Brooksbank. Based Craig Silvey. Based on the novel on the book by Stephen Roche by Silvey Photography: Mark Wareham Photography: Mark Wareham Editor: Peter Carrodus Music: Antony Partos Music: Bryony Marks With: Levi Miller, Angourie Rice, With: Jack Thompson, Aaron McGrath, Kevin Long, Aden Young, Sara West, Dan Wyllie, Matt Nable, Jacqueline McKenzie, Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving Gyton Grantley, Susie Porter, CinemaScope | M offensive Martin Sacks, Rachel Griffiths, language Robert Taylor M sex scenes & offensive language
This impressive debut feature honours who had been the Anglican archbishop A bookish teenage boy’s instinctive Published in 2009 and since adapted the courage and tenacity of Lyndal, of Brisbane at the time of the abuse. sympathy for the town’s scapegoat for several highly-acclaimed stage the young Queensland woman who in The film is a passion piece for its draws him into the murkiest secrets productions, Silvey’s source material 2001 blew the whistle on the Anglican director and for Lyndal’s attorney of a righteous community in this is regarded as something of a Down church’s decade-old cover-up of sexual Stephen Roche (played in the film whodunit set, very persuasively, in late- Under To Kill a Mockingbird. Tackling assaults at the prestigious Toowoomba by Aden Young), who wrote a book 60s small-town Australia. themes of prejudice, class, justice and Preparatory School. Traumatised by about the case. The backing of a “Centered on a 14-year-old boy death through the inquiring eyes of her abuse, Lyndal was further shaken stellar cast – including Rachel Griffiths, caught up in a murder mystery a teenager who dreams of being a by the school’s dogged loyalty to Jack Thompson, Jacqueline McKenzie involving a part-Aboriginal suspect, writer, Jasper also invokes the spirit of the perpetrator, who had confessed and Susie Porter – was instrumental this outstanding adaptation of Craig films such as Stand by Me, in which to other abuses. She sought relief in getting the film made. In a raw Silvey’s novel will appeal strongly to youngsters take very adult matters into in public acknowledgement of her emotional performance as Lyndal, Sara teenage and adult audiences. Boasting their own hands.” — Richard Kuipers, suffering, but during the civil case in West stands tall in their company. excellent performances by young actors Variety which she testified she was subjected Aaron McGrath, Levi Miller (Pan) and to relentless condescension and Angourie Rice (The Nice Guys), and character assassination. This, however, B AWT Tue 1 Aug, 11.00 am with Toni Collette in top form as the A MK Sat 22 Jul, 6.15 pm led to a revolution in child protection A AWT Thu 3 Aug, 6.15 pm protagonist’s frustrated mother, this A AC Sun 23 Jul, 2.00 pm in Australia and also brought down a is the best film yet by director Rachel A AWT Sat 5 Aug, 4.00 pm governor-general, Peter Hollingworth, Perkins (Bran Nue Dae)…
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A Fantastic Woman Una mujer fantástica
Chilean director Sebastián Lelio follows his marvellous Gloria (2013) with another resoundingly affirmative Director: Sebastián Lelio portrait of a marginalised woman Chile/USA/Germany/Spain 2017 105 mins holding her ground. Santiago bar singer Producers: Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Marina Vidal, played by the sensational Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza trans actress Daniela Vega in her screen Screenplay: Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza Photography: Benjamín Echazarreta debut, is headstrong, vivacious and Editor: Soledad Salfate happily in love. When her lover dies, Music: Matthew Herbert With: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Marina finds herself, a trans woman Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Saavedra, living with an older man, immediately Amparo Noguera, Néstor Cantillana, Alejandro Goic, Antonia Zegers, Sergio Hernandez suspected of foul play. Festivals: Berlin 2017 The labyrinth of transphobia Marina Best Screenplay, Berlin International Film Festival 2017 must navigate is galling to behold, In Spanish with English subtitles because every insidious blow seems so CinemaScope | M violence, offensive language familiar and credible. It’s in the way & sex scenes Marina registers the humiliations without allowing them to bring her down that Lelio’s film constantly surprises and Vega’s performance enthrals. “While it’s politically charged and hypnotic scene where Marina is forced very much of the moment in terms to pass as a man. Vega even does her “It may be a timely film, of its representation of trans-rights own singing, with impressive ability. No but it is its timelessness, issues, what’s perhaps most remarkable less than Paulina García’s astonishing is that not a word of direct advocacy work in Gloria, this is acting at its most as well as its depths is spoken. Any trace of the agenda fearless. The movie represents a huge of compassion, that movie is deftly subsumed in pulsing leap in terms of trans narratives qualify it as a great one.” human drama… onscreen, but by any standard, it’s a The movie’s stunning revelation, powerful drama of a woman whose — Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian A WGATE Fri 21 Jul, 6.30 pm however, is Vega…. It’s a transfixing suffering never dims her determination A HWOOD Sat 22 Jul, 4.00 pm performance, restrained and moving, to keep moving forward.” — David B CIVIC Mon 31 Jul, 12.30 pm A CIVIC Fri 4 Aug, 6.30 pm with a gut-wrenching impact in one Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
Maliglutit (Searchers) The Summer Is Gone Ba yue
Director: Zacharias Kunuk Director/Screenplay/ Canada 2016 | 94 mins Editor: Zhang Dalei Co-director: Natar Ungalaaq China 2016 | 110 mins Screenplay: Zacharias Kunuk, Producer: Zhang Jianhua Norman Cohn Photography: Lu Songye Photography: Jonathan Frantz With: Kong Weiyi, Zhang Chen, With: Benjamin Kunuk, Jocelyne Guo Yanyun Immaroitok, Karen Ivalu, Festivals: Rotterdam, New Joseph Uttak, Joey Sarpinak, Directors/New Films 2017 Jonah Qunaq In Mandarin with English subtitles Festivals: Toronto 2016; Berlin, B&W | Censors rating tbc San Francisco 2017 In Inuktitut with English subtitles M violence, sexual references & offensive language
No one who saw Zacharias Kunuk’s The terrifying harshness of the vast First-time director Zhang Dalei laces his In one scene, Xiaolei visits his spectacular Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner snowy landscapes and the cumbersome piquant recreation of the summer he filmmaker father at his work and stares (2001) is likely to have forgotten layers of fur swaddling the skirmishing was 12 years old with telling details of rapt at a film strip as a voice on a it. Working from his home base of tribesmen combine the epic with the social upheaval that he was too young loudspeaker announces: ‘Lifelong jobs Igloolik, a small island (pop.2000) in absurd in images both elemental and to comprehend at the time: China is will no longer exist. What you’ll earn the Northwest Passage, and casting timeless. Although virtually all the crew welcoming in economic reforms, state depends on your ability.’ The future is his film with local actors, Kunuk were also local Inuit, producer and companies are being privatised and his near. The director dedicated the movie immerses us again in the Inuit world. cinematographer Jonathan Frantz was parents, their friends and neighbours ‘to the generation that birthed ours,’ His new film is inspired, he says, a key contributor: some crucial igloo must learn to fend for themselves in a and while he wraps it in nostalgia, most by John Ford’s classic western The interiors notwithstanding, where Kunuk world of free enterprise. overtly through the black-and-white Searchers, though the similarities begin may most resemble John Ford is in “A memory movie about once cinematography and lush music, there’s and end with the kidnap plot. The filling the screen with iconic wilderness. upon a time in Inner Mongolia, The real sting here.” — Manohla Dargis, hero’s wife and daughter are carried Summer Is Gone takes place sometime NY Times off on dogsleds by four neighbouring after Tiananmen Square and before kinsmen. While the women resist and the advent of smartphones. It pivots seek to escape, the hero and his son A AC Fri 21 Jul, 8.30 pm on… Xiaolei, who drifts through the B AC Thu 27 Jul, 11.45 am give chase. The setting is 1913 when B AC Mon 24 Jul, 4.15 pm languid summer days and nights, but A AC Fri 28 Jul, 6.15 pm telescopes and firearms have entered B RIALTO Tue 25 Jul, 4.15 pm its emotional focus are the adults who A AC Sun 30 Jul, 5.15 pm A RIALTO Sun 30 Jul, 8.00 pm the fray, but it might otherwise be 913. whisper and fret about larger changes.
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Happy End
Happy End sees Michael Haneke, Austria’s micro-surgeon of European decadence, in black comic mode, Director/Screenplay: Michael Haneke applying his scalpel to a rich Calais France/Germany/Austria 2017 110 mins family, the Laurents, who own a Producers: Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt, construction company and cohabit Veit Heiduscka, Michael Katz uneasily in separate apartments housed Photography: Christian Berger Editor: Monika Willi within a luxurious estate. With: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, “A series of unfortunate events – an Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Franz Rogowski, Laura Verlinden, Aurelia Petit, overdose (or was it?), a wall collapse Toby Jones, Hille Perl, Hassam Ghancy, on a job site, a suicide attempt – sends Nabiha Akkari, Joud Geistlich Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 the family spinning, and Haneke mines In French with English subtitles strange comedy out of the Laurents’ Censors rating tbc relatively emotionless, passive reactions. The various narrative threads don’t so much come together as they do flutter on the same sinister wind… Happy End is as amusingly inscrutable and coy about its themes as his masterful 2005 creeper Caché was. But Happy End is a wryer work, be the most dangerous one of all.” a grim satire that skewers the isolation — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair “Happy End is a satirical of modern technology and the moral “For a satire on bourgeois values nightmare of haute- failings of polite society with a grave that essentially sees privilege as a face. Haneke has assembled a stellar terminal disease whose symptoms bourgeois European cast to illustrate all this, including a include boredom, indolence, alienation, prosperity: as stark, typically laser-focused Isabelle Huppert lovelessness, pettiness and perhaps brilliant and unforgiving as the head of the family company, her even sociopathy, and to which Amour co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant the only honest response is suicide as a halogen light.” A CIVIC Sat 29 Jul, 8.30 pm as the family’s senile, fatalist patriarch, or euthanasia, it’s very funny.” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian B CIVIC Tue 1 Aug, 1.45 pm and a striking Fantine Harduin as Ève, — Jessica Kiang, Sight & Sound a young scion of the family who may
Frantz Heal the Living Réparer les vivants
#Losing Director: François Ozon Director: Katell Quillévéré France/Germany 2016 France/Belgium 2016 114 mins 103 mins Screenplay: François Ozon, Philippe Screenplay: Katell Quillévéré, Piazzo. Loosely based on the film Gilles Taurand. Based on the novel Broken Lullaby by Ernst Lubitsch by Maylis de Kerangal With: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer Music: Alexandre Desplat Festivals: Venice, Toronto, San With: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Sebastián, Vancouver, London, Seigner, Anne Dorval Busan 2016; Sundance 2017 Festivals: Venice, Toronto, London Best Young Actress (Paula Beer), 2016; Rotterdam, 2017 Venice Film Festival 2016 In French with English subtitles B&W and Colour | CinemaScope CinemaScope | M graphic medical PG violence procedures
In a small German town, in the shooting on 35mm and largely in One family’s tragedy offers the hope than her previous works Suzanne aftermath of WWI, young Anna black and white, director François of renewed life for another in this and Love Like Poison, this spidering mourns her fiancé Frantz who died in Ozon couches his elegiac tale in exquisitely modulated drama pivoting ensemble piece – adapted from the trenches. One day a French soldier, the formal poise of an earlier era’s on the delicate advocacy of a hospital’s Maylis de Kerangal’s internationally Adrien (Pierre Niney, surely the leading ‘quality’ historical drama. There’s one organ transplant team. Eschewing acclaimed 2014 novel – boasts French screen actor of his generation), distinctive difference: as always for melodrama and sentimentality, Katell beautifully pitched performances from arrives and lays flowers at Frantz’s Ozon, the film’s title notwithstanding, Quillévéré evokes the momentous a handpicked cast that includes Tahar grave. In the war-battered community it is the complex journey of the female forces at play for each of the key Rahim and Emmanuelle Seigner. But passions run high at the effrontery of protagonist that most engages him. participants with emotional clarity it’s Quillévéré’s soaring visual and sonic the Frenchman. Among those most Tracing Anna’s return to the world and weighs the transference of life in acumen (with an assist from composer affected is Anna, who decides to get of the living, actress Paula Beer is a passages of sheer cinematic exaltation. Alexandre Desplat, here in matchless to know the sad young stranger. As revelation. “What sounds like fodder for a form) that suffuses a potentially she draws him out about his pre-war routinely gripping episode of ER is familiar hospital weeper with true friendship with Frantz in Paris, our complicated with rare depths of grace.” — Guy Lodge, Variety picture of their generation struggling personal and sensual detail in French to recover after the betrayals of war A CIVIC Sun 23 Jul, 3.30 pm director Katell Quillévéré’s sublimely B RIALTO Thu 27 Jul, 12.15 pm deepens and takes unexpected turns. A HWOOD Mon 24 Jul, 6.30 pm compassionate, heart-crushing third A AC Mon 31 Jul, 6.15 pm Expanding on the plot of a little B CIVIC Wed 26 Jul, 11.00 am feature Heal the Living. More polished A AC Sat 5 Aug, 8.15 pm remembered Lubitsch film from 1932, A WGATE Sat 29 Jul, 5.30 pm but no less authentically humane
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MEGAN MOLINA LAURENCE REESE SECOND VIOLIN SECTION PRINCIPAL TIMPANI MAHLER + BERG WITH BEETHOVEN + BRUCH WITH KAREN GOMYO KAREN GOMYO AUCKLAND AUCKLAND VISIT VISIT 18 AUG NZSO.CO.NZ 19 AUG NZSO.CO.NZ TOWN HALL FOR TICKET DETAILS TOWN HALL FOR TICKET DETAILS 7.30PM 7.30PM EDO DE WAART CONDUCTOR KAREN GOMYO VIOLIN EDO DE WAART CONDUCTOR KAREN GOMYO VIOLIN SALINA FISHER RAINPHASE BERG VIOLIN CONCERTO JOHN ADAMS SHORT RIDE IN A FAST MACHINE MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 1 IN D MAJOR, TITAN BRUCH VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 IN G MINOR BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 7 IN A MAJOR
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THE DAMNATION OF FAUST
AUCKLAND VISIT 27 AUG NZSO.CO.NZ TOWN HALL FOR TICKET DETAILS 2.30PM
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Let the Sunshine In Un beau soleil interieur
A mercurial Juliette Binoche absorbs our attention through every moment of this unexpected foray into romantic dramedy Director: Claire Denis by the great French director Claire France 2017 | 94 mins Producer: Olivier Delbosc Denis. This is comedy in a specifically Screenplay: Claire Denis, Christine Angot French literary mode, written by Denis Photography: Agnès Godard in collaboration with the novelist and Editor: Guy Lecorne Music: Stuart A. Staples playwright Christine Angot. A leading With: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, light of the ‘autofiction’ movement, Philippe Katerine, Josiane Balasko, Sandrine Dumas, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Alex Descas, Laurent Angot is famous for the frankness Grévill, Bruno Podalydès, Paul Blain, Valeria with which she has placed her own Bruni-Tedeschi, Gérard Depardieu emotional life on the printed page. Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2017 Binoche plays the Angot surrogate, In French with English subtitles Censors rating tbc Isabelle, a Parisian artist, recently divorced from the father of her ten-year- old daughter. Alone and unleashed, she is undaunted in her yearning to connect sexually and romantically with a succession of men who, one way or another, come on to her. (Every actor in a Denis film leaves their mark, and “Binoche has gone from strength to each of Isabelle’s suitors carries his own strength in recent years; still, if she has “An exquisite romantic peculiar brand of self-importance.) ever been more radiant or effortlessly comedy whose laughs There’s wry comedy in Isabelle’s expressive on screen than she is here, impatience to cut to the unspoken the example is not immediately coming are sad and whose intent in their blandishments, though to mind. And Denis, whose narratives sadness is funny.” the delight of consummation – so can be daringly free-associative, has — Sam C. Mac, Slant empathetically evoked by Denis, one structured Let the Sunshine In elegantly of the cinema’s great sensualists – is and intuitively, as a series of richly A CIVIC Thu 27 Jul, 6.15 pm likely to be followed by bemusement human encounters that flow, meander B CIVIC Fri 28 Jul, 10.45 am or dismay until she rallies for the next and pulse with life.” — Justin Chang, A HWOOD Mon 31 Jul, 6.30 pm encounter. LA Times
The Midwife Sage femme
Two of France’s most distinguished Director/Screenplay: Martin Provost stars, Catherine Deneuve and Catherine France/Belgium 2017 | 117 mins Frot share the screen in this touching Producer: Olivier Delbosc Photography: Yves Cape tale of the unlikely connection of Editor: Albertine Lastera opposites. Claire (Frot) is a dedicated Music: Grégoire Hetzel With: Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve, Olivier and tireless midwife whose sense of Gourmet, Quentin Dolmaire, Mylène Demongeot pride and responsibility clash with the Festivals: Berlin 2017 In French with English subtitles depersonalised efficiency of modern CinemaScope | PG coarse language hospitals. She’s raised her son solo and is well pleased that he’s made it to medical school. One day she receives a strange phone call, a voice from the past. Béatrice (Deneuve), the extravagant and frivolous mistress of her late father, has pressing news and wants to see her again, over a drink, 30 years after having disappeared without a trace. Claire, habitually conscientious and sober, bridles at the prospect of having this foolish woman back MICHAÂL CROTTO in her life, but prepares to meet her again proves that French filmmakers regardless. know how to treat actresses of a “A bittersweet delight Writer/director Martin Provost certain age… As the reigning grande written to order for (Séraphine) has gifted two expert dame of French cinema, Deneuve actresses with marvellously individual could easily rest on her laurels, only two consummate roles for an entertaining and emotional taking roles that befit and reinforce her performers who inhabit pas de deux. As old resentments are stature. Which makes her vulnerable their diametrically faced down, they tacitly acknowledge turn here all the more special. Playing common fears, begin to enjoy each a heart-on-her-sleeve, still-crazy-after- opposed characters B CIVIC Fri 21 Jul, 1.30 pm other’s shortcomings and build anew all-these-years free spirit, Deneuve with satisfying élan.” B RIALTO Wed 26 Jul, 11.45 am on their shared past. delivers her best performance in recent A RIALTO Sat 29 Jul, 6.00 pm — Lisa Nesselson, Screendaily “Martin Provost’s The Midwife once memory.” — Ben Croll, Indiewire A CIVIC Sun 30 Jul, 3.00 pm
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The Workshop L’atelier
French writer-director Laurent Cantet, Palme d’Or winner in 2008 for The Class, returns with a suspenseful tale, Director: Laurent Cantet based on a true story, about a writer’s France 2017 | 114 mins Producer: Denis Freyd relationship with a right-wing student Screenplay: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet who troubles and intrigues her. Photography: Pierre Milon “This story of a successful crime Editor: Mathilde Muyard Music: Bedis Tir, Édouard Pons novel author who is invited to a With: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, small town to take charge of a Warda Rammach, Issam Talbi, Florian Beaujean, Mamadou Doumbia, Julien Souve, writing project is part social survey, Mélissa Guilbert, Olivier Thouret, Lény Sellam part political documentary, with the Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2017 In French with English subtitles potential flicker of a love story and the CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc touch of a thriller. The Workshop conveys a stunningly authentic portrait of French youth today; their class, racial and occupational concerns. The seven young people in author Olivia’s (Marina Foïs) class represent a snapshot of France’s colorful young population, no intellectuals with writing experience “Cantet’s film combines the slow- among them (all are played by non- burn suspense of his Time Out (2000) “A film which demonstrates professional actors). Charged with with the boisterous class dynamics of… that debate, the exchange producing a book to promote the his 2008 Cannes top-prizewinner The image of La Ciotat, a small seaside Class. Ornery right-winger Antoine of ideas, can be as town located between Marseille and (Matthieu Lucci) fascinates his teacher, thrilling as any ramped Toulon, Olivia soon discovers that the Olivia, and bugs his classmates, but up action flick.” one subject which unites her students is rather than devolving into a drama murder – though they can’t quite agree about a troubled soul, the story only — Wendy Ide, The Guardian A CIVIC Tue 25 Jul, 6.15 pm on what kind of murder they should deepens with the mystery of talent, A WGATE Sun 30 Jul, 1.30 pm write about, or how to treat it.” — Dan intentionality, and political fault lines.” B AWT Fri 4 Aug, 4.00 pm Fainaru, Screendaily — Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment
A Woman’s Life Une vie
Director Stéphane Brizé (Mademoiselle Chambon, The Measure of a Man) applies his keen eye for social Director: Stéphane Brizé observation to costume drama with France/Belgium 2016 | 119 mins this striking adaptation of Guy de Producers: Miléna Poylo, Gilles Sacuto Screenplay: Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon. Maupassant’s first published novel. A Based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant young aristocrat named Jeanne (Judith Photography: Antoine Héberlé Editor: Anne Klotz Chemla) raised and educated by kind, Music: Olivier Baumont progressive parents seems poised on With: Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud, Nina Meurisse, the brink of modern womanhood, but Olivier Perrier, Clotilde Hesme, Alain Beigel, finds herself ill-prepared for a feckless Finnegan Oldfield, Lucette Beudin, Jérôme Lanne, Mélie Deneuve husband and a pious, hypocritical Festivals: Venice, Toronto, Busan 2016 society. Scrutinising its characters with Critics’ Prize, Venice Film Festival 2016 In French with English subtitles startling intimacy, A Woman’s Life M violence & sex scenes avoids melodrama in its tender yet incisive portrayal of her passing joys, pressures and disappointments. “The pathos and wonder of A Woman’s Life comes from its recognition that Jeanne is at once a captive of cruel MICHAÂL CROTTO circumstances and a wilful, intelligent greatest skill is his ability to imply human being. Her kinship with other the deep and complicated emotions “A moving, beautifully 19th-century fictional heroines – Emma beneath the placid, decorous surface modulated adaptation Bovary, Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina – is of Jeanne. A Woman’s Life… moves evident. She suffers, but she also reads, calmly and deliberately, but it never of Guy de Maupassant's thinks and desires, and strives to find a feels slow. Instead, its images and novel.” — Jay Weissberg, Variety zone of freedom within boundaries scenes are suffused by an intensity dictated by fate and society. that seems almost to be a quality of There are a few dramatic incidents, the light and air as they play across B RIALTO Thu 3 Aug, 2.00 pm including outbreaks of emotional and Ms Chemla’s watchful, sometimes A RIALTO Fri 4 Aug, 6.30 pm physical violence, but the real action inscrutable features.” — A.O. Scott, A AWT Sun 6 Aug, 1.15 pm in the film is interior, and Mr Brizé’s NY Times
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In Times of Fading Light In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts
In a handsome suburban house in Director: Matti Geschonneck East Berlin, shortly before the fall of the Germany 2017 | 102 mins Wall, family, friends and party officials Screenplay: Wolfgang Kohlhaase. Based on the novel by Eugen Ruge gather to pay effusive tribute on the Photography: Hannes Hubach 90th birthday of Wilhelm Powileit Editor: Dirk Grau With: Bruno Ganz, Sylvester Groth, (Bruno Ganz), a veteran Communist Hildegard Schmahl, Evgenia Dodina, hero and tyrannical old bastard. Behind Natalia Belitski, Alexander Fehling, Gabriela Maria Schmeide, Angela Winkler, the scenes, everybody but the old man Alexander Hörbe, Thorsten Merten suspects that East Germany is cracking Festivals: Berlin 2017 In German and Russian, with English subtitles up, and with it their place at the top M adult themes of the crumbling heap. The imminent collapse of the system PRESENTED WITH SUPPORT FROM to which they have long submitted only deepens the resentments of Wilhelm’s long-suffering wife Charlotte and middle-aged stepson Kurt. Meanwhile, Kurt’s hard-drinking Russian wife Irina has not even turned up. Far worse, panicky officials have heard rumours that Wilhelm’s 32-year-old grandson has joined the growing numbers of directed by Matti Geschonneck and young people defecting to the West. adapted by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, “This is a sombre, Adapted from Eugen Ruge’s semi- both of whom grew up in the intelligent piece in autobiographical 2011 bestseller, Communist East. There is something In Times of Fading Light casts this emphatically old-school about their which psychological increasingly disorderly Last Supper in shared creative approach with its finesse combines a tragicomic light, reactivating the lyrical language, beautifully lit interiors with historical analysis decorum (and décor) of a lost era with and forensically detailed recreation of anthropological precision. The ensemble domestic life in the old DDR… This is to result in genuine A CIVIC Mon 24 Jul, 6.15 pm cast, headed by Ganz (actually a mere an expertly crafted and emotionally dramatic heft.” B CIVIC Thu 27 Jul, 12.45 pm 75), is superb. stirring remembrance of things past.” A WGATE Tue 1 Aug, 6.30 pm — Jonathan Romney, Screendaily “In Times of Fading Light was — Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter
Hotel Salvation Newton Mukti Bhawan
Director: The Coffin Club Amit V. Masurkar Director/Screenplay: India 2017 | 106 mins Shubhashish Bhutiani Producer: Manish Mundra India 2016 | 99 mins Screenplay: Mayank Tewari, Amit V. Masurkar Photography: Michael Mcsweeney, Photography: David Huwiler Swapnil S. Sonawane Editor: Manas Mittal Editor: Shweta Venkat Mathew With: Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, With: Rajkummar Rao, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Palomi Ghosh, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil, Navnindra Behl, Anil K. Rastogi Raghubir Yadav Festivals: Venice, Busan 2016; Festivals: Berlin, Tribeca 2017 San Francisco, Sydney 2017 In Hindi and Gondi, with English In Hindi with English subtitles subtitles CinemaScope | PG drug use CinemaScope | M violence
This Hindi comedy set in a Varanasi As the days become weeks the In this droll dark comedy from India, attempts in vain to open Newton’s hotel where the faithful prepare to impatient Rajiv is forced to reckon with Newton, an earnest young office eyes to the realities of local life and the die addresses issues of tradition and his father as he never has before. worker volunteers as a poll supervisor, genuine threat of violence. modernity, life and death, and family “Though the film has many elements carrying the banner of democracy into Director Amit V. Masurkar infuses his ties with gentle good humour. that bring to mind the Indian retirement the deepest jungle. Helicoptered into film with an uncannily lyrical sense of An ominous dream has convinced haven of Best Exotic Marigold Hotel remote central India to collect votes the landscape and mines both tension 77-year-old Dayanand Kumar that his and its sequel, Bhutiani’s take on the from 76 oppressed indigenous villagers, and deadpan comedy out of the end is drawing near, though no one subject is embedded in Indian culture he’s warned by the local military long stretches of waiting and mutual else in the family can see any reason and Hindu rituals… Though the acting representative that none of them will irritation. As Newton, Rajkummar Rao why the healthy old man should believe is low-key, it’s full of warmth and show, for fear they’ll be ambushed is a surreptitiously charismatic comic this. Nonetheless his middle-aged son tenderness that involves the audience by communist guerrillas in the area. marvel: his insistence on democratic Rajiv feels duty bound to set aside in the shared joy, worry and grief of an The young idealist soon comes to see principle may be woefully misplaced his important job and accompany his identifiable family.” — Deborah Young, the pragmatic soldier, tasked with but it is also quite irresistibly touching. father to the holy city. Two weeks is Hollywood Reporter protecting the highly exposed polling the stipulated maximum stay at the station, as democracy’s nemesis. dilapidated Hotel Salvation, but as the B AWT Wed 26 Jul, 2.00 pm As the hours pass with little more B RIALTO Fri 21 Jul, 2.15 pm old man engages with the other guests A AWT Sat 29 Jul, 3.45 pm than a rumour of a voter in the vicinity, B AWT Wed 2 Aug, 1.30 pm it becomes clear that several of them B RIALTO Tue 1 Aug, 11.45 am seasoned poll workers make light of A AWT Fri 4 Aug, 6.30 pm A RIALTO Sat 5 Aug, 6.00 pm have been in residence much longer. the situation and the local liaison officer
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PRESENTED IN A Date for Mad Mary ASSOCIATION WITH
Boxes Director: Darren Thornton Ireland 2016 | 82 mins Screenplay: Darren Thornton, Colin Thornton. Based on the play 10 Dates with Mad Mary by Yasmine Akram With: Seána Kerslake, Tara Lee, Charleigh Bailey, Denise McCormack, Siobhán Shanahan Festivals: Galway, Karlovy Vary, London 2016; San Francisco 2017 If you see a box, that’s nice. Best Irish Feature Film, Galway Film Fleadh 2016 If you see a storyboard frame, let’s talk. M offensive language
Seána Kerslake is completely winning awareness both hilarious and touching. The University of Auckland’s postgraduate Screen Production as the larrikin Mary out to prove she’s Will it dawn on Mary, as it dawns on course is taught by award-winning and practising film not a loser in this funny, soulful Irish us, that hiding in plain sight there’s a professionals. We offer full-time technical support and the romcom. While Mary’s been doing time member of the wedding offering much facilities and equipment you need to make a professional film. We for a spontaneous gesture she’d rather more than a chance to get back at the are one of two universities in Australia and New Zealand to receive forget, her best girlfriend Charlene bride? an endorsement from ARRI, world-class makers of film equipment. has disappeared, heart and soul, into If the origins in a stage play by We are also the only University in New Zealand that is a member wedding planning land. Mary gets Yasmine Akram show in the adaptation of CILECT, the association of the world’s best film school schools. out of jail in time for the big day, by writer/director brothers Darren and So if your dream is to take your ideas off the paper and onto the bridesmaid’s speech at the ready. But Colin Thornton, it’s simply because screen, here’s your best chance. And, action. oops, Charlene is wavering on having the dialogue, quick and salty, is such Media and Communication her wild and crazy old mate at the top a driving force. The Drogheda settings www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/screen table and has cut her back to a single hum with life and devilry. invite. All Mary’s hurt and indignation are channelled into a single mission: showing up with a plus-one. B AWT Thu 27 Jul, 1.00 pm As she assesses partner options, A WGATE Fri 28 Jul, 6.30 pm Kerslake makes Mary’s mix of A HWOOD Tue 1 Aug, 6.30 pm bluntness, sarcasm and minimal self- A AWT Sat 5 Aug, 6.15 pm sakebars.co.nz TANUKI SUSHI & SAKE BAR
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Yourself and Yours Claire’s Camera Dangsinjasingwa dangsinui geot Keul-le-eo-ui ka-me-la
Director/Producer/ Director/Producer/ Screenplay: Screenplay: Hong Sang-soo Hong Sang-soo South Korea 2016 South Korea 2017 86 mins 69 mins With: Kim Joo-hyuck, Lee With: Kim Min-hee, Isabelle You-young, Kwon Hae-hyo Huppert, Chang Mi-hee, Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, Jung Jin-young, Yoon Hee-sun New York 2016; Rotterdam 2017 Festivals: Cannes (Special Best Director, San Sebastián Screenings) 2017 International Film Festival In English, Korean and French, In Korean with English subtitles with English subtitles Censors rating tbc Censors rating tbc
Korea’s prolific, continually inventive Min-jung really is a twin, the viewer, Hong Sang-soo’s wry view of romantic conducted in halting English. satirist of romantic deception had four like the film’s increasingly amusing misadventure draws ever closer to “Wisely turning her lens towards new films for us to choose from for this chain of befuddled men, is left to his own world in this latest film. Set Man-hee, Isabelle Huppert’s Claire year’s NZIFF. The oldest – dating from wonder exactly what’s going on. Of at the Cannes Film Festival, Claire’s seeks to capture the arresting turmoil late 2016 – pivots on a young woman course, as always with Hong (and all Camera was shot there a year earlier, that actor Kim Min-hee so subtly who, when backed into a corner, claims good art), the what is less important when lead actress Kim Min-hee and expresses and which contributes a not to be herself at all, but her twin. than the why, and Yourself and Yours Isabelle Huppert were presenting The compelling wrinkle to Hong’s familiar Or so it appears. is slowly revealed as another nimble Handmaiden and Elle, respectively. themes. Both a loving homage to the “In Yourself and Yours, Min-jung investigation into the communication Kim plays Man-hee, a manager film festival that has built Hong Sang- (Lee You-young), walks out on barriers men and women often erect at a film sales company who is soo’s reputation and an accomplished boyfriend Young-soo (Kim Joo-hyuck) between each other. It’s alternately abruptly fired by her boss, ostensibly work on its own terms, Claire’s Camera upon feeling unduly attacked by him caustic and sweet, leading to one of for dishonesty, though her drunken proves that its director’s talent can’t after he hears secondhand news of Hong’s most hopeful conclusions.” night with a filmmaker attending the be fenced in by national borders.” her soju-soaked misadventures around — Michael Koresky, Film Comment festival may have been a factor. Claire — Bradley Warren, The Playlist town, which she denies. Soon enough, (Huppert), a teacher from Paris, walks Min-jung is being approached by a A AC Sat 29 Jul, 6.45 pm around the Croisette taking pictures A AWT Wed 26 Jul, 6.15 pm series of other men, to whom she A AC Tue 1 Aug, 9.00 pm with her polaroid camera. After she A AC Wed 2 Aug, 6.15 pm denies that she is Min-jung at all… approaches Man-hee for a photo, Not allowed to find out whether the two form a friendship, amusingly
Ancien and the Magic Tablet The Teacher Hirune-hime: Shiranai watashi no monogatari Ucˇitelka
Director/Screenplay: Director: Jan Hrˇebejk Kamiyama Kenji Slovakia/Czech Republic Japan 2017 | 110 mins 2016 | 102 mins Producers: Iwasa Naoki, Screenplay: Petr Jarchovský Sakurai Yoshiki Photography: Martin Žiaran Photography: Tanaka Hiroshi With: Zuzana Mauréry, Csongor Music: Shimomura Yoko Kassai, Peter Bebjak, Martin Voices: Takahata Mitsuki, Havelka, Ondřej Malý, Éva Bandor, Mitsushima Shinnosuke, Zuzana Konečná, Richard Labuda, Maeno Tomoya, Furata Arata, Oliver Oswald, Tamara Fischer, Takahashi Hideki, Eguchi Yosuke, Ina Gogálová, Monika Čertezni Kugimiya Rie, Takagi Wataru Festivals: Karlovy Vary, Busan 2016 In Japanese with English subtitles In Slovak with English subtitles Recommended for ages 9+ M offensive language & nudity Censors rating tbc
Steampunk dreams intersect with mystery of her dreams may reveal the A communist-era schoolroom is a favours have been suggested. What can corporate reality in this imaginative key to her challenges in the real world. microcosm of outrageous political the parents of the successful students anime set just days before the 2020 “Director Kamiyama Kenji [Ghost favouritism in this highly enjoyable say in response to such slanders? Their Tokyo Olympics. High school senior in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex] return to form from Czech director faked rectitude is astutely caricatured Morikawa Kokone can fall asleep makes a triumphant return with this Jan Hřebejk (Divided We Fall). The in a nimbly scripted, increasingly tense anytime, anywhere. In a series of fantastical anime drama… He weaves setting is Bratislava in 1983, drolly battle of wits. strange dreams while napping, she in familiar sci-fi themes from past work, evoked in an array of wacky wallpapers While the accusers fret and stew, travels to Heartland and becomes but these specialist elements thankfully and goofy sweaters, where a parent– their hapless children suffer the Ancien – a brave princess with a magic take a back seat to the family focus of teacher meeting is hearing the case consequences, and we root against computer tablet, a feisty sidekick this piece… The outlandishly detailed against the eponymous Comrade the odds for the bully’s comeuppance. and an appetite for adventure. establishing shots and breathtakingly Drazděchová. Under her watch some In the title role Zuzana Mauréry is a Her waking life is equally full of paced action are a pleasure to watch.” of the brightest pupils have been sneaky, deplorable wonder, a richly daring escapades. Her mechanic father — George Art Baker, Time Out Tokyo receiving the poorest grades. realised screen villain surpassed in 2017 Momotaro, a man of very few words, Their aggrieved parents claim that only by her real-world equivalents. finds himself in unexpected trouble, she aids and abets other pupils in and it’s up to Kokone to come to A QSt Sun 23 Jul, 11.30 am direct proportion to the goods and A AWT Sat 22 Jul, 1.15 pm his rescue. When events in Heartland A QSt Sun 23 Jul, 3.45 pm services she receives from their parents: B AWT Fri 28 Jul, 11.15 am begin to parallel her waking world, A HWOOD Sun 30 Jul, 3.45 pm a free haircut here, free electrical Kokone realises that unravelling the repairs there. Even more intimate
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Félicité
In this resonant tribute to fortitude under stress, Félicité (Véro Tshanda Beya) is a staunchly single woman Director: Alain Gomis who sings in a bar in Kinshasa. When France/Senegal/Belgium/Germany/ Lebanon 2017 | 123 mins her 14-year-old son is involved in a Producers: Arnaud Dommerc, Oumar Sall, motorbike accident, the intervention Alain Gomis of a persistent suitor may be her only Screenplay: Alain Gomis, Delphine Zingg, Olivier Loustau hope of funding medical care. Photography: Céline Bozon “A loose, vibrant fourth feature Editor: Fabrice Rouaud Music: Kasai Allstars, Arvo Pärt film from Franco-Senegalese director With: Véro Tshanda Beya, Papi Mpaka, Alain Gomis, Félicité… builds to a Gaetan Claudia, Kasai Allstars Festivals: Berlin 2017 fever of energy and activity while never Grand Jury Prize, Berlin International Film sketching out more than the bones of Festival 2017 a narrative: It’s a film in which a hard- In Lingala and French, with English subtitles M adult themes earned smile, the contact between one person’s skin and another’s, or a serene strain of music amid the everyday noise can qualify as a dramatic event. Following a proudly independent club singer through the ragged streets of © ANDOLFI Kinshasa as she seeks a way to save her sometimes shading entire histories of hospitalized son, Gomis’ latest is far dismissal, disappointment, and ongoing “A gritty, music-infused from the miserablist issue drama that resistance into a single expression… drama about a Kinshasa synopsis portends, instead weaving a The film’s jangling, diverse musical sensual, sometimes hopeful, sometimes soundtrack practically functions as a bar singer… [a] quietly disturbing urban tapestry with threads screenplay in itself, charting Félicité’s resonant slice of new of image, sound, poetry, and song… shifting states of mind as it leaps from African cinema.” In the title role, Congolese singer- the Kasai Allstars’ breathless modern turned-actress Véro Tshanda Beya fusion of indigenous and international — Lee Marshall, Screendaily A AC Wed 26 Jul, 8.30 pm proves entirely mesmerizing from the rock to the sober grace of the Kinshasa A AC Sat 29 Jul, 4.15 pm moment the camera alights on her Symphonic Orchestra’s spin on Arvo B AC Thu 3 Aug, 11.30 am strong-featured, deep-gazing face, Pärt.” — Guy Lodge, Variety
Sami Blood Pop Aye Sameblod
Director/Screenplay: Amanda Kernell Sweden/Norway/ Director/Screenplay: Denmark 2016 | 110 mins Kirsten Tan Photography: Sophia Olsson, Singapore/Thailand 2017 Petrus Sjövik 102 mins Editor: Anders Skov With: Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam Erika Sparrok, Maj-Doris Rimpi 2017 Festivals: Venice, Toronto 2016; Screenwriting Award (World Sundance, Berlin, Maoriland 2017 Cinema Dramatic), Sundance Film In South Sami and Swedish, Festival 2017 with English subtitles In Thai with English subtitles | CinemaScope | M violence, sexual CinemaScope M sex scenes, references & offensive language sexual references & offensive language
SOPHIA OLSSON This compelling debut from Swedish- blends adolescent fears that resonate An architect, feeling past his use-by uprooted characters, from a wild- Sami writer-director Amanda Kernell across borders and generations with a date, and his long-lost elephant take haired vagabond who seems to foretell sheds light on a shameful period of fascinatingly specific, rarely depicted a road trip across Thailand to find the future to a ladyboy with karaoke history. In 1930s Sweden, 14-year-old cultural context: Sweden’s colonial their childhood home in this rueful, aspirations. Sami girl Elle Marja is forcibly removed oppression of the indigenous Sami funny Sundance award winner. Once In her debut feature Singapore from her family and sent to a state-run folk. Following a single, strong- a cutting edge architect in Bangkok, writer/director Kirsten Tan takes full boarding school where she is expected willed teenager as she is forced to Thana is facing the imminent advantage of the beautiful scenery, to learn how to behave in ‘acceptable’ choose between remaining with her demolition of the mall that was once characterful actors and a charismatic society. Fearful of being seen as people or pursuing the education and his crowning glory. His wife’s flagrant elephant to tell a story about our drift different and internalising much of the opportunities otherwise denied her, this lack of concern is doing nothing to from fundamental human needs and vile, racist dogma she is taught, Elle stirring but pleasingly unsentimental quiet his fear of obsolescence. values. Her tale of man and pachyderm Marja becomes determined to find a tale… introduces a poised, intelligent Wandering the streets of the city is unsentimental, gently comic and new life for herself by abandoning her young talent in star Lene Cecilia he is amazed to come across a fellow thoughtful. indigenous heritage and attempting to Sparrok.” — Guy Lodge, Variety throwback, Pop Aye, the elephant he pass as Swedish. grew up with in his rural village. On a “A moving, classically rendered B AC Tue 25 Jul, 11.15 am whim he buys Pop Aye and sets off on A AWT Sun 23 Jul, 1.00 pm coming-of-age tale set against the A AC Tue 25 Jul, 8.15 pm a road trip, walking and hitching back B AWT Tue 25 Jul, 1.30 pm scarring social prejudices of the 1930s, A RIALTO Thu 27 Jul, 8.30 pm to where they came from. On the way A RIALTO Sat 29 Jul, 1.45 pm this handsome debut feature… robustly they befriend a succession of equally
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Summer 1993 Estiu 1993
As enthralling a child’s-eye view as has graced the screen in many a year, Summer 1993 draws us into the new Director/Screenplay: Carla Simón world of six-year-old Frida, transplanted Spain 2017 | 97 mins Producer: Valérie Delpierre from Barcelona to live with her aunt, Photography: Santiago Racaj uncle and three-year-old cousin Anna Editors: Didac Palou, Ana Pfaff in the country. It’s summer and living Music: Ernest Pipo, Pau Boïgues With: Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí, around this bohemian couple is certainly David Verdaguer, Fermi Reixach easy, but adjustment for the little girl is Festivals: Berlin 2017 Best First Feature, Berlin International Film Festival not easy at all. While Anna fastens like 2017 glue onto her brand new older sister, In Catalan with English subtitles PG adult themes Frida’s not so sure she actually needs a sister, let alone a new pair of parents. It’s not long before we deduce that the real parents have died and Frida’s change of scene will be permanent. Catalan director Carla Simón’s feature debut is autobiographical. Her memory of childish schemes and dreams is acute and bracingly free of sentimentality. The performances Though programmed in the festival’s she’s drawn from the two children Young Adult section, Summer 1993 Carla Simón’s are miraculously unaffected, so when took the prize for Best First Feature at autobiographical jewel Frida leads her trusting little charge this year’s Berlinale. It’s a beautiful film. up the garden path you may want “A summer of troubled and troubling is one of the most to leap into the movie and sort experience is reshaped into a delicately evocative and affecting things out. What’s just as piercing is crafted, moving filmic memoir by Carla depictions of childhood the filmmaker’s appreciation of the Simón… That the film draws deeply B AC Fri 21 Jul, 4.15 pm kindness, imagination and patience on personal recollection can be sensed seen in years. A RIALTO Sun 23 Jul, 3.30 pm required of her aunt and uncle to in virtually every frame.” — Jonathan A WGATE Tue 25 Jul, 6.30 pm convince a defiant little orphan that Holland, Hollywood Reporter A HWOOD Sat 29 Jul, 4.45 pm she was important and loved. A CIVIC Sat 5 Aug, 1.15 pm
Kiki, Love to Love Ethel & Ernest Kiki, el amor se hace
We All Need Love Grey William Director: Paco Léon Director: Spain 2016 | 102 mins Roger Mainwood Producers: Ghislain Barrois, UK 2016 | 94 mins Álvaro Augustin, Andrés Martín Screenplay: Roger Mainwood. Screenplay: Paco Léon, Based on the graphic novel by Fernando Pérez Raymond Briggs Photography: Kiko de la Rica Editor: Richard Overall Editor: Alberto de Toro Animation director: Peter Dodd With: Paco Léon, Ana Katz, Music: Carl Davis, Paul McCartney Belén Cuesta, Álex García, Voices: Jim Broadbent, Natalia de Molina, Candela Peña, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway Luis Callejo, Luis Bermejo Festivals: London 2016 In Spanish with English subtitles Censors rating tbc CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc
Born under the sign of Almódovar, of this, it may or may not encourage This funny and poignant animated lady’s maid, would rather sleep than though not so supple in its parsing of you to learn that in this film’s sunny feature perfectly captures the tone and watch the moon landing on TV and perversity, Paco León’s homeland hit view of gratification, nobody ends up visual style of Raymond Briggs’ tender bristles at any suggestion that their finds comedy and a little pathos in the feeling used. graphic novel about his ‘very ordinary’ little household in Wimbledon might be mismatched sexual kinks of a group of A remake of the Australian sex parents, from their first trip to the considered working class. interconnected Spaniards. Paco (director comedy, The Little Death, it could pictures in 1928 (Hangman’s House The voice work of Jim Broadbent León) and Ana, for example, work hardly differ more in spirit, transposing with Victor McLagen!) to their deaths, and Brenda Blethyn is a treat, with on reigniting their passion by visiting the action to a sweltering Madrid and just months apart, in 1971. Luke Treadaway as the grown-up bondage parties and furry nightclubs – celebrating difference, its message There’s a canny social and political Raymond who came of age in the 60s and find themselves igniting unexpected never more sweetly displayed than history of Britain traced through their and headed to art school – much to his passions in others. Natalia, meanwhile, when a hearing-impaired call centre experiences and amusingly expressed mother’s dismay. A soundtrack marking discovers after getting mugged that she worker (fetish: silk) helps a voiceless through decades of gentle crossfire out the years in popular music also has a case of harpaxophilia, helpfully customer indulge his fantasies through between Labour Dad and Tory Mum. features original contributions from explained on-screen as “sexual arousal a phone sex line. A lifelong milkman with few complaints, Carl Davis and Paul McCartney. being produced by being robbed with Ernest keeps a close eye on world violence,” while José learns he has A HWOOD Sun 23 Jul, 5.45 pm events – the rise of Hitler, the arrival A RIALTO Sat 22 Jul, 12.00 pm somnophilia, sexual pleasure caused by B RIALTO Wed 2 Aug, 4.00 pm of the fridge, the phone and the B RIALTO Tue 25 Jul, 2.00 pm watching someone sleep. If you caught A RIALTO Fri 4 Aug, 9.00 pm television, and the actions of successive B RIALTO Mon 31 Jul, 11.45 am a whiff of the non-consensual in any governments – while Ethel, a former A RIALTO Sat 5 Aug, 2.00 pm
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God’s Own Country
A hired hand offers new life to a failing Francis Lee farm in this affecting romantic drama set on the spectacularly bleak Yorkshire Director/Screenplay: Francis Lee Dales. Johnny (Josh O’Connor) feels UK 2017 | 105 mins Producers: Manon Ardisson, Jack Tarling condemned to a life on the family farm. Photography: Joshua James Richards His father (Ian Hart) is dying a bitter Editor: Chris Wyatt man. His grandmother (Gemma Jones) With: Josh O’Connor, Alec Secareanu, Ian Hart, Gemma Jones sits in constant judgement. Johnny Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, San Francisco, finds scant relief from constant labour Sydney 2017 R16 nudity, offensive language, sexual material in binge drinking and alarming bouts of & content that may disturb roughhouse sex with other men. When his father hires itinerant There will be a Q&A with director Francis Romanian migrant worker Gheorghe Lee in the Wintergarden at The Civic after each screening. (Alec Secareanu) to help with lambing, Johnny’s disdain is automatic. A dislodged farmer himself, Gheorghe is attuned to the tough rural existence and takes to the work like a man returning to the well of life. Johnny’s antagonism is compounded by his attraction to the handsome interloper. keen focus of first-time filmmaker Writer/director Francis Lee, raised Francis Lee’s intense romance God’s Rooted in reality though on a Yorkshire farm himself, delineates Own Country. Lee’s love for this hard it may be, God’s Own their explosive courtship convincingly land and the boy trapped in it is and poignantly. Reimagining Brokeback unexpectedly moving and rich. This is Country turns out to be Mountain for a less homophobic age, a small production that is big in heart, a romance which soars, God’s Own Country does double honesty and raw talent.” — Fionnuala and it’s an irresistibly service in a xenophobic age, finding Halligan, Screendaily renewal in the tenacity and vigour of hopeful flight.” A CIVIC Wed 2 Aug, 6.30 pm immigrant aspiration. — Fionnuala Halligan, Screendaily B CIVIC Thu 3 Aug, 1.00 pm “A troubled, taciturn young man on a remote Yorkshire farm is the
The Party
The dinner-party-from-hell genre Director/Screenplay: Sally Potter is delivered a short sharp shock by UK 2017 | 71 mins veteran British writer-director Sally Producers: Christopher Sheppard, Kurban Kassam Photography: Alexey Rodionov Potter in this gleaming black comedy. Editors: Anders Refn, Emilie Orsini Kristin Scott Thomas is hosting a With: Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, group of friends to celebrate her Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy promotion as shadow Minister of Festivals: Berlin 2017 B&W | M violence, offensive language Health, elegantly juggling dinner & drug use preparation, congratulatory calls and surreptitious messaging from a lover. Husband Timothy Spall plays aggressive DJ, otherwise upright but catatonic in the living room as the guests arrive. These include her best friend (Patricia Clarkson, wryly acidic), her life-coach boyfriend (Bruno Ganz, wondrously inane), a coked-up venture capitalist (Cillian Murphy) who arrives sans wife, and an earnest lesbian couple (Emily Mortimer and Cherry Jones) intent on sharing some good news. Silly them. One shouldn’t pull a muscle, “It’d poop The Party, so to speak, to however, in reaching for the subtext “A consummate drawing- reveal anything further – though this is of Potter’s witty shaggy-dog story: Its room divertissement, less a plot-based exercise than a tipsily giddy in-the-moment pleasures are conversational one. Potter’s eminently enough… Months after the US election played with relish by a quotable screenplay works up just campaign turned an intended jibe into dream ensemble.” enough narrative momentum to sustain a rallying cry, Sally Potter’s latest further — Guy Lodge, Variety a barrage of killer one-liners: With the proves that there’s pleasure, pride hors d’oeuvres increasingly unlikely to or both to be taken in being a nasty A CIVIC Fri 21 Jul, 6.30 pm be served, decorum is swiftly shed and woman.” — Guy Lodge, Variety B CIVIC Thu 27 Jul, 11.00 am these privileged vultures instead feed A RIALTO Thu 3 Aug, 6.30 pm ravenously on each other’s ideals… A WGATE Sat 5 Aug, 2.00 pm
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A Gentle Creature Krotkaya
A startling vision of contemporary Russia, steeped in literary tradition, but supremely cinematic in realisation, Director/Screenplay: Sergei Loznitsa Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s France/Russia/Germany/Netherlands/ Lithuania/Ukraine 2017 | 143 mins A Gentle Creature is the glowering Producer: Marianne Slot dark star on this year’s programme. Photography: Oleg Mutu “Inspired by (though not adapted Editor: Danielius Kokanauskis With: Vasilina Makovtseva, Marina Kleschcheva, from) the Dostoevsky short story of Lia Akhedzhakova, Valeriu Andriuta, the same title, A Gentle Creature Boris Kamorzin, Sergei Kolesov Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 follows a stoic Russian woman (played In Russian with English subtitles with riveting impassivity by Vasilina CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc Makovtseva) trying to get a care package to her convict husband after it is inexplicably returned to her. Rebuffed at her local post office, she decides to travel to the prison and deliver the parcel herself – a journey that will lead her through a Kafka- esque bureaucratic nightmare and into the very heart of Putin’s Russia, a place where violent absurdity and everyday discover. A Gentle Creature is about inhumanity reign. as strange, perplexing and foreign “A sobering and troubling Loznitsa, making his third appearance an experience as any I’ve had at the vision, rendered in in the Cannes competition (after My Festival de Cannes, and the reasons Joy and In the Fog), uses richly textured that will limit its commercial viability are vivid strokes by a visuals and sustained long shots to the very reasons that you should seek it consummate thinker usher us alongside this ‘gentle creature’ out.” — Justin Chang, LA Times and master craftsman.” down the rabbit-hole. That allusion “A devilishly symphonic piece of art comes from the story itself, whose that transcends cinema and politics to — Jordan Cronk, Film Comment A CIVIC Mon 31 Jul, 8.30 pm surreal climax plays like something out nestle itself in the back of your mind A QSt Wed 2 Aug, 7.45 pm of Alice in Wonderland, at least until forever.” — Nikola Grozdanovic, – well, I’ll leave that horror for you to The Playlist
A Monster Calls Una
American Paradise Director: J.A. Bayona Director: UK/Spain/USA 2016 Benedict Andrews 109 mins USA/UK/Canada 2016 Screenplay: Patrick Ness. 94 mins Based on his novel Screenplay: David Harrower. Photography: Óscar Faura Based on his play Blackbird With: Lewis MacDougall, Photography: Thimios Bakatakis Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Editor: Nick Fenton Liam Neeson, Toby Kebbell Music: Jed Kurzel Festivals: Toronto, London 2016 With: Rooney Mara, Ben Best Director, Cinematography & Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed Editing, Goya Awards 2017 Festivals: Toronto, London 2016 CinemaScope | PG violence R16 sex scenes, offensive language & scary scenes & content that may disturb
Twelve-year-old English boy Conor ravishing painterly animation for the Opened out by David Harrower from The film interrogates the psychology O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall) is a monster’s enthralling tales, to impart his 2005 stage two-hander Blackbird, of abuse with precision, intelligence lonely kid. His father lives in California; tough and fortifying wisdom about life, the first feature directed by the and restraint; taking on a disturbing his loving mother (Felicity Jones) is and about stories too. Australian stage director-dramatist subject, Harrower and Andrews terminally ill, and his grandmother “Mixing horror movie imagery with Benedict Andrews is a crucible for expertly shift us through an enormous (Sigourney Weaver) makes a chilly honest, heart-wrenching human truths, the traumatic legacy of abuse – and range of intellectual and emotional substitute. His sole companion appears Bayona has created a dark, coming- the combustible nerviness of actors positions. This is filmmaking artistry nightly in the intimidating form of a of-age masterpiece… Entertaining, Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn. of the highest order, from writing gigantic tree creature (voiced by Liam tonally impeccable, and heartbreaking, “With deeply unresolved questions and performances to the unsettling, Neeson) who tells him fantastic tales this is a monster movie with a very about her past, Una (Rooney Mara) moody score from Jed Kurzel (Macbeth, of apothecaries and kings, handsome human heart.” — Marten Carlson, travels to another city, turning Snowtown).” — Tricia Tuttle, London princes and wicked stepmothers. The Consequence of Sound up unannounced at Ray’s (Ben Film Festival monster challenges Conor to discover Mendelsohn) work and dredging the truth in the stories that might give up a decade-old experience that he him the strength to make the best of B AWT Fri 21 Jul, 4.00 pm thought he’d left behind. Mendelsohn his sorry lot. A AWT Sat 22 Jul, 3.30 pm and Mara are exceptional as the B AWT Fri 28 Jul, 3.45 pm J.A. Bayona’s adaptation of Patrick A WGATE Mon 24 Jul, 6.30 pm troubled and troubling Ray and Una, A AWT Mon 31 Jul, 9.00 pm Ness’ young adult novel draws on a A HWOOD Sat 29 Jul, 2.15 pm and Riz Ahmed makes for a perfect spectacular arsenal of CGI, shifting into A MK Sat 5 Aug, 8.15 pm foil as the innocent Scott.
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20th Century Women
A loving, funny and insightful memoir Director/Screenplay: Mike Mills of the mother who brought him up USA 2016 | 119 mins – and two younger women she might Producers: Megan Ellison, Anne Carey, Youree Henley have enlisted to assist – Mike Mills’ Photography: Sean Porter 20th Century Women swirls happily Editor: Leslie Jones Music: Roger Neill around a richly shaded performance With: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, from Annette Bening. Set in sunny, Billy Crudup, Lucas Jade Zumann, Alia Shawkat Festivals: New York 2016; Rotterdam 2017 late-70s southern California on the Nominated, Best Screenplay, Academy Awards 2017 brink of the Reagan era, the film is CinemaScope | M offensive language, nudity, drug brimful with the music, artefacts and use & sexual references attitudes of its day, a lively time capsule PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH inviting constant comparison with where we have landed now. Lucas Jade Zumann plays 15-year-old Jamie and it’s through his eyes that we see the bohemian household over which his mother, Dorothea, holds uncertain dominion. There are two boarders, Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a purple-haired punk photographer, and William (Billy Crudup), a hippie handyman – and “A captivating Annette Bening is pushover for any woman who fancies the beating heart of this gloriously “A funny, emotionally him. Dorothea is unaware of a third unclassifiable movie… Part comedy piercing story about house guest, Julia (Elle Fanning), the girl of manners, part mother–son love next door whose propensity for chaste story, it had me laughing and tearing a teenager and the sleepovers is driving Jamie insane. up simultaneously… Although Bening women who raise him.” The plot is wafer-thin, but the joy of reigns supreme, Mills zigzags through — Manohla Dargis, NY Times 20th Century Women is in how these time and his characters’ lives with a A CIVIC Sat 22 Jul, 6.00 pm beautifully realised individuals bounce messy amplitude that is downright A HWOOD Fri 28 Jul, 6.30 pm off each other and bring the joys, Renoiresque. Everyone has his reasons. A MK Sat 29 Jul, 8.15 pm frustrations and fashions of 40 years Everyone has her say.” — Molly A WGATE Sun 30 Jul, 5.30 pm ago wafting into the present. Haskell, Sight & Sound B CIVIC Fri 4 Aug, 11.00 am
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Beatriz at Dinner
This perfectly honed chamber drama Director: Miguel Arteta from director Miguel Arteta and USA 2017 | 83 mins writer Mike White begins as a squirmy Producers: Aaron L. Gilbert, Pamela Koffler, David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon dinner-party-gone-wrong comedy and Screenplay: Mike White expands into something much more Photography: Wyatt Garfield Editor: Jay Deuby soulful and timely. Music: Mark Mothersbaugh Salma Hayek plays Beatriz, a With: Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton, Jay Duplass, Amy Landecker, Chloë Sevigny, Mexican-American holistic healer invited David Warshofsky, John Early to stay on for dinner by her wealthy Festivals: Sundance 2017 client and avowed friend Cathy (Connie CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc Britton). She finds herself breaking bread with Cathy’s husband’s business partners and their wives. The alpha male at the party is billionaire developer Doug Strutt (John Lithgow, playing against the obvious Trump connotations with a chilling assurance). As the cocktails multiply and the one percent rejoice in world domination, the earnest Beatriz enunciates an alternative view. “Arteta deftly portrays the cocoon This might be the best performance of wealth and the shamelessness of Salma Hayek has ever given, her quiet, “Dark, hopelessly humane those who seek it at all costs: Doug observant reserve eventually giving Beatriz at Dinner is can say whatever he wants, because way to bewilderment and resolve. he’s surrounded by sycophants and And her inner turmoil is a powerfully the perfect film for the others who feed on his money and relevant one: How does a person Trump era… Salma power. Beatriz, we sense, has been committed to healing – to being Hayek is remarkable.” let in on a gathering that people like principled, empathetic, and good – B RIALTO Thu 27 Jul, 4.30 pm her are not supposed to see. That’s a handle first contact with the devils — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair A AWT Fri 28 Jul, 6.15 pm pretty simple set-up, but Arteta and who think nothing of destroying our A HWOOD Wed 2 Aug, 6.30 pm screenwriter Mike White find nuance world?” — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice B AWT Thu 3 Aug, 11.30 am in the conflict… A RIALTO Sun 6 Aug, 1.00 pm
The Beguiled
Sofia Coppola was crowned Best Director at Cannes this year for arguably her best film to date: a crisp, Director: Sofia Coppola unsettling, absolutely essential remake USA 2017 | 94 mins Producers: Youree Henley, Sofia Coppola of Don Siegel’s 1971 oddity starring Screenplay: Sofia Coppola. Based on the novel Clint Eastwood. Everything about this by Thomas Cullinan and the screenplay by Albert Maltz, Grimes Grice new interpretation beguiles, from its Photography: Philippe Le Sourd exciting cast of fresh and familiar faces, Editor: Sarah Flack to its unexpected jabs of humour, to Music: Phoenix With: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, its almost shocking sense of brevity – Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice, though above all else, it is Coppola’s Addison Riecke, Emma Howard, Wayne Pére, Matt Story, Joel Albin gaze that enthrals, placing female Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 desire and self-preservation at the film’s Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2017 Censors rating tbc tipping point. — Tim Wong “In Sofia Coppola’s elegantly spare, psychosexual Civil War drama The Beguiled, a wounded Union soldier, Colonel John McBurney (Colin Farrell), is discovered in the surrounding woods of a Virginia all-girls seminary school, circa 1864… The girls and women of them all… Coppola deepens the the property, overseen by headmaster material’s implicit wellsprings of “Coppola’s new take Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman) loneliness and longing, mitigating the burnishes a vision of slowly begin to vie for the attention sexism by diverting the point of view of this enemy from the other side, away from McBurney to the women hard-won female conveniently laid up with a bum leg just he’s attempting to manipulate… autonomy… [and] brings down the hall from their bedrooms… It’s a magnificently shot movie, a dreaminess… and a A RIALTO Fri 21 Jul, 8.15 pm The Eastwood version was a kinky and often a very funny one, as tense A CIVIC Sun 23 Jul, 6.15 pm joke of a psychodrama: a retrograde dinners with the stranger from minimalism where before B CIVIC Tue 25 Jul, 4.00 pm curiosity about a gaggle of repressed, the North transform into duels of nightmares had reigned.” B RIALTO Wed 26 Jul, 2.15 pm sheltered Confederate belles being innuendo.” — A.A. Dowd, AV Club A WGATE Thu 27 Jul, 6.30 pm — Isabel Stevens, Sight & Sound seduced by the manliest Yankee of A HWOOD Sat 29 Jul, 7.00 pm
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AC Academy Cinemas AWT ASB Waterfront Theatre MK Event Cinemas Manukau CIVIC The Civic Theatre QSt Event Cinemas Queen Street WGATE Event Cinemas Westgate Schedule RIALTO Rialto Cinemas Newmarket HWOOD Hollywood Avondale
Animation NOW! A 12.30 pm TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home (AC) 160 24 A 8.30 pm The Untamed (CIVIC) 100 + 15 61 A 1.15 pm The Teacher (AWT) 102 37 A 8.45 pm Manifesto (AC) 94 58 Friday 14 July A 2.00 pm Dealt (HWOOD) 85 67 A 8.45 pm The Venerable W. (AWT) 107 73 C 6.30 pm Living Masters New Works (AC) 67 89 A 2.15 pm The Future Perfect (RIALTO) 65 + 17 57 Monday 24 July A 2.30 pm Stalker (CIVIC) 161 16 Saturday 15 July A 2.30 pm Tony Conrad… (QSt) 96 79 B 10.00 am Kedi (CIVIC) 79 + 7 69 C 4.15 pm The Best of Punto y Raya (AC) 67 88 A 3.00 pm House of Z (WGATE) 90 81 B 10.15 am Ngaˉ Whanaunga… 2017 (AWT) 91 25 C 6.00 pm Black & White (AC) 70 88 A 3.30 pm A Monster Calls (AWT) 109 43 B 11.15 am The Venerable W. (QSt) 107 73 C 8.00 pm International Showcase (AC) 74 89 A 4.00 pm A Fantastic Woman (HWOOD) 105 28 B 12.00 pm Quest (AC) 105 69 A 4.00 pm Dina (AC) 101 68 B 12.15 pm Columbus (RIALTO) 104 56 Sunday 16 July A 4.00 pm Maudie (RIALTO) 115 27 B 12.15 pm Maudie (CIVIC) 115 27 C 4.15 pm New Chinese Animation (AC) 74 89 A 4.30 pm Risk (QSt) 93 75 B 12.30 pm BPM (Beats Per Minute) (AWT) 144 12 C 8.30 pm Dark Hearts (AC) 74 89 A 5.00 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (WGATE) 127 56 B 1.30 pm Patti Cake$ (QSt) 108 59 Monday 17 July A 6.00 pm 20th Century Women (CIVIC) 119 44 B 2.15 pm Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (AC) 88 + 4 66 A 6.00 pm Ngaˉ Whanaunga… 2017 (AWT) 91 25 B 2.30 pm The Desert Bride (RIALTO) 85 26 C 2.15 pm Dark Hearts (AC) 74 89 A 6.15 pm Jasper Jones (MK) 101 27 B 2.45 pm Stalker (CIVIC) 161 16 C 4.15 pm International Showcase (AC) 74 89 A 6.15 pm The Distinguished Citizen (AC) 120 26 B 3.30 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (AWT) 127 56 C 6.30 pm Living Masters New Works (AC) 67 89 A 6.30 pm Bad Genius (QSt) 130 63 B 3.45 pm A Prayer Before Dawn (QSt) 116 64 Tuesday 18 July A 6.30 pm Hostages (HWOOD) 104 62 B 4.15 pm Maliglutit (Searchers) (AC) 94 28 A 6.30 pm Western (RIALTO) 119 61 B 4.15 pm Tony Conrad… (RIALTO) 96 79 C 2.30 pm The Best of Punto y Raya (AC) 67 88 A 7.30 pm Brigsby Bear (WGATE) 98 51 A 6.15 pm In Times of Fading Light (CIVIC) 102 35 C 4.15 pm Black & White (AC) 70 88 A 8.15 pm The Lost City of Z (MK) 141 51 A 6.15 pm Starless Dreams (RIALTO) 76 71 C 6.30 pm New Chinese Animation (AC) 74 89 A 8.45 pm Marjorie Prime (AC) 98 + 15 59 A 6.15 pm The Ornithologist (QSt) 117 60 Thursday 20 July A 8.45 pm Spookers (CIVIC) 83 23 A 6.15 pm To Stay Alive: A Method (AWT) 70 + 15 72 A 9.00 pm Berlin Syndrome (AWT) 117 63 A 6.15 pm Working in Protest (AC) 80 77 A 7.00 pm The Square (CIVIC) 147 9 A 9.00 pm My Friend Dahmer (HWOOD) 108 86 A 6.30 pm A Monster Calls (WGATE) 109 43 Friday 21 July A 9.00 pm The Love Witch (QSt) 120 87 A 6.30 pm Frantz (HWOOD) 114 29 B 11.00 am I Am Not a Witch (AWT) 95 57 A 9.00 pm The War Show (RIALTO) 105 72 A 8.00 pm Araby (RIALTO) 96 54 A 8.15 pm The Young Karl Marx (AWT) 118 77 B 11.30 am Bill Frisell: A Portrait (QSt) 114 78 Sunday 23 July B 11.30 am Born in China (CIVIC) 79 52 A 8.30 pm The Wound (QSt) 88 + 19 65 A 10.15 am TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home (AC) 160 24 B 12.00 pm China’s Van Goghs (AC) 84 81 A 8.30 pm Whiteley (AC) 94 83 A 11.00 am BIG Time (AWT) 93 80 B 12.15 pm Unrest (RIALTO) 97 73 A 8.45 pm Take Every Wave…(CIVIC) 118 64 A 11.00 am Born in China (CIVIC) 79 52 B 1.15 pm That’s Not Me (AWT) 86 61 A 9.00 pm Risk (HWOOD) 93 75 A 11.30 am Ancien and the Magic Tablet (QSt) 110 37 B 1.30 pm The Midwife (CIVIC) 117 31 Tuesday 25 July B 2.00 pm Trophy (QSt) 108 73 B 11.45 am Animation for Kids 8+ (HWOOD) 71 53 B 11.00 am My Year with Helen (CIVIC) 93 13 B 2.00 pm Winnie (AC) 98 77 B 12.00 pm Animation for Kids 4+ (RIALTO) 61 53 B 11.15 am BIG Time (AWT) 93 80 B 2.15 pm Newton (RIALTO) 106 35 A 1.00 pm My Year with Helen (CIVIC) 93 13 B 11.15 am Sami Blood (AC) 110 39 B 4.00 pm A Monster Calls (AWT) 109 43 A 1.00 pm Pop Aye (AWT) 102 39 B 11.45 am BANG! The Bert Berns Story (QSt) 96 78 B 4.15 pm Hostages (QSt) 104 62 A 1.30 pm Blue (HWOOD) 76 + 4 74 B 4.15 pm House of Z (CIVIC) 90 81 A 1.30 pm I Am Not Your Negro (RIALTO) 93 67 B 12.15 pm Blue (RIALTO) 76 + 4 74 B 4.15 pm Summer 1993 (AC) 97 41 A 1.45 pm Araby (QSt) 96 54 B 1.30 pm Belle de Jour (CIVIC) 100 16 B 4.30 pm Araby (RIALTO) 96 54 A 2.00 pm Jasper Jones (AC) 101 27 B 1.30 pm Marjorie Prime (AC) 98 + 15 59 A 6.30 pm A Fantastic Woman (WGATE) 105 28 A 2.15 pm La Chana (WGATE) 83 81 B 1.30 pm Pop Aye (AWT) 102 39 A 6.30 pm I Am Not Your Negro (AC) 93 67 A 3.15 pm That’s Not Me (AWT) 86 61 B 1.45 pm The Wound (QSt) 88 + 19 65 A 6.30 pm Kedi (HWOOD) 79 + 7 69 A 3.30 pm Frantz (CIVIC) 114 29 B 2.00 pm Ethel & Ernest (RIALTO) 94 + 14 41 A 6.30 pm My Life As a… (Dubbed) (AWT) 66 + 15 59 A 3.30 pm Rumble… (HWOOD) 102 79 B 3.45 pm Berlin Syndrome (AWT) 117 63 A 6.30 pm Risk (QSt) 93 75 A 3.30 pm Summer 1993 (RIALTO) 97 41 B 4.00 pm Dina (AC) 101 68 A 6.30 pm Step (RIALTO) 83 71 A 3.45 pm Ancien and the Magic Tablet (QSt) 110 37 B 4.00 pm The Beguiled (CIVIC) 94 45 A 6.30 pm The Party (CIVIC) 71 42 A 4.00 pm My Life As a… (Dubbed) (WGATE) 66 + 15 59 B 4.00 pm The Merciless (QSt) 120 64 A 8.15 pm The Beguiled (RIALTO) 94 45 A 4.15 pm Working in Protest (AC) 80 77 B 4.15 pm Maliglutit (Searchers) (RIALTO) 94 28 A 8.30 pm Blade of the Immortal (CIVIC) 141 85 A 5.30 pm Dries (RIALTO) 90 82 A 6.15 pm Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (RIALTO) 88 + 4 66 A 8.30 pm BPM (Beats Per Minute) (AWT) 144 12 A 5.45 pm Kiki, Love to Love (HWOOD) 102 + 10 41 A 6.15 pm Final Portrait (AWT) 90 82 A 8.30 pm Maliglutit (Searchers) (AC) 94 28 A 5.45 pm Maudie (WGATE) 115 27 A 6.15 pm Nowhere to Hide (AC) 86 71 A 8.30 pm Patti Cake$ (QSt) 108 59 A 6.00 pm 100 Men (AWT) 94 18 A 6.15 pm The Workshop (CIVIC) 114 33 A 8.45 pm The Love Witch (HWOOD) 120 87 A 6.00 pm Bill Frisell: A Portrait (QSt) 114 78 A 6.30 pm Don’t Swallow My Heart… (QSt) 108 55 A 6.15 pm I Am Not Your Negro (MK) 93 67 A 6.30 pm Patti Cake$ (HWOOD) 108 59 Saturday 22 July A 6.15 pm The Beguiled (CIVIC) 94 45 A 6.30 pm Summer 1993 (WGATE) 97 41 B 10.30 am Animation for Kids 8+ (CIVIC) 71 53 A 6.30 pm Marjorie Prime (AC) 98 + 15 59 A 8.15 pm Beuys: Art As a Weapon (RIALTO) 107 80 A 10.30 am Unrest (AC) 97 73 A 7.30 pm On Body and Soul (RIALTO) 116 60 A 8.15 pm Sami Blood (AC) 110 39 A 11.00 am Restless Creatures… (AWT) 90 83 A 8.00 pm Take Every Wave… (WGATE) 118 64 A 8.15 pm The Inland Road (AWT) 80 22 A 12.00 pm Ethel & Ernest (RIALTO) 94 + 14 41 A 8.15 pm Dark Night (HWOOD) 85 84 A 8.45 pm My Friend Dahmer (QSt) 108 86 A 12.15 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (CIVIC) 92 74 A 8.15 pm A Prayer Before Dawn (QSt) 116 64 A 8.45 pm The Untamed (HWOOD) 100 + 15 61 A 12.30 pm Napalm (QSt) 100 70 A 8.15 pm Wind River (MK) 111 65 A 9.00 pm A Prayer Before Dawn (CIVIC) 116 64
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Wednesday 26 July B 1.30 pm Columbus (AWT) 104 56 A 11.30 am Politics, an Instruction Manual (RIALTO) 115 75 B 1.30 pm Napalm (QSt) 100 70 A 12.15 pm The Farthest (CIVIC) 121 13 B 11.00 am Frantz (CIVIC) 114 29 B 2.30 pm To Stay Alive: A Method (AC) 70 + 15 72 - 1.00 pm Top of the Lake… (AWT) 350 + 15 + 45 12 B 11.15 am The Farthest (AWT) 121 13 B 2.45 pm Starless Dreams (RIALTO) 76 71 A 1.15 pm Bangkok Nites (QSt) 183 54 B 11.30 am Napalm (QSt) 100 70 B 3.15 pm Call Me by Your Name (CIVIC) 132 15 A 1.15 pm Bill Frisell: A Portrait (HWOOD) 114 78 B 11.45 am The Midwife (RIALTO) 117 31 B 3.30 pm Blade of the Immortal (QSt) 141 85 A 1.15 pm Winnie (AC) 98 77 B 12.00 pm The Desert Bride (AC) 85 26 B 3.45 pm Una (AWT) 94 + 16 43 A 1.30 pm The Workshop (WGATE) 114 33 B 1.30 pm The Ornithologist (QSt) 117 60 B 4.15 pm All Governments Lie… (AC) 92 66 A 1.45 pm House of Z (RIALTO) 90 81 B 1.30 pm The Other Side of Hope (CIVIC) 98 11 B 4.30 pm The Future Perfect (RIALTO) 65 + 17 57 A 3.00 pm The Midwife (CIVIC) 117 31 B 2.00 pm Hotel Salvation (AWT) 99 + 4 35 A 6.15 pm Beatriz at Dinner (AWT) 83 45 A 3.30 pm Menashe (AC) 82 51 B 2.00 pm Nowhere to Hide (AC) 86 71 A 6.15 pm Brigsby Bear (CIVIC) 98 51 A 3.45 pm Ancien and the Magic Tablet (HWOOD) 110 37 B 2.15 pm The Beguiled (RIALTO) 94 45 A 6.15 pm Final Portrait (RIALTO) 90 82 A 3.45 pm Dina (RIALTO) 101 68 B 3.45 pm Spookers (CIVIC) 83 23 A 6.15 pm The Summer Is Gone (AC) 110 28 A 3.45 pm That’s Not Me (WGATE) 86 61 B 3.45 pm The Love Witch (QSt) 120 87 A 6.15 pm The Venerable W. (QSt) 107 73 A 4.45 pm Rumble… (QSt) 102 79 B 4.00 pm Beuys: Art As a Weapon (AC) 107 80 A 6.30 pm 20th Century Women (HWOOD) 119 44 A 5.00 pm Born in China (MK) 79 52 B 4.15 pm Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (RIALTO) 88 + 4 66 A 6.30 pm A Date for Mad Mary (WGATE) 82 + 13 36 A 5.15 pm The Summer Is Gone (AC) 110 28 B 4.15 pm La Chana (AWT) 83 81 A 8.15 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (AWT) 127 56 A 5.30 pm 20th Century Women (WGATE) 119 44 A 6.15 pm Austerlitz (QSt) 94 67 A 8.15 pm The Distinguished Citizen (RIALTO) 120 26 A 5.45 pm Call Me by Your Name (CIVIC) 132 15 A 6.15 pm Blue (RIALTO) 76 + 4 74 A 8.30 pm Hostages (QSt) 104 62 A 6.00 pm Lady Macbeth (HWOOD) 89 58 A 6.15 pm Claire’s Camera (AWT) 69 37 A 8.30 pm Quest (AC) 105 69 A 6.00 pm Restless Creatures… (RIALTO) 90 83 A 6.15 pm Free Theatre (AC) 76 19 A 8.45 pm Lady Macbeth (CIVIC) 89 58 A 6.45 pm Blade of the Immortal (MK) 141 85 A 6.15 pm House of Z (CIVIC) 90 81 A 9.00 pm Tragedy Girls (HWOOD) 98 87 A 7.00 pm Multiple Maniacs (QSt) 97 85 A 6.30 pm Blue (WGATE) 76 + 4 74 A 11.15 pm Multiple Maniacs (HWOOD) 97 85 A 7.30 pm Western (AC) 119 61 A 6.30 pm Dries (HWOOD) 90 82 A 8.00 pm Hounds of Love (HWOOD) 106 85 A 8.00 pm An Insignificant Man (AWT) 96 75 Saturday 29 July A 8.00 pm Maliglutit (Searchers) (RIALTO) 94 28 A 8.00 pm Tony Conrad… (RIALTO) 96 79 A 11.00 am Swallows and Amazons (AWT) 97 52 A 8.00 pm The Free Man (WGATE) 84 19 A 8.15 pm Bad Genius (QSt) 130 63 A 11.15 am Dries (CIVIC) 90 82 A 8.45 pm The Merciless (CIVIC) 120 64 A 8.30 pm A Ghost Story (CIVIC) 93 55 B 11.15 am Minute Bodies… (QSt) 54 70 A 9.00 pm Take Every Wave… (QSt) 118 64 A 8.30 pm Félicité (AC) 123 39 A 11.45 am Unrest (RIALTO) 97 73 A 8.30 pm It Comes at Night (HWOOD) 92 63 A 12.00 pm Beuys: Art As a Weapon (AC) 107 80 Monday 31 July Thursday 27 July A 12.30 pm Araby (QSt) 96 54 B 11.00 am Restless Creatures… (AWT) 90 83 A 1.00 pm Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (AWT) 112 20 B 11.45 am Ethel & Ernest (RIALTO) 94 + 14 41 B 11.00 am Leaning Into the Wind… (AWT) 93 83 A 1.30 pm Blue (CIVIC) 76 + 4 74 B 11.45 am Rumble… (QSt) 102 79 B 11.00 am The Party (CIVIC) 71 42 A 1.45 pm Dries (WGATE) 90 82 B 11.45 am Winnie (AC) 98 77 B 11.45 am The Summer Is Gone (AC) 110 28 A 1.45 pm Pop Aye (RIALTO) 102 39 B 12.30 pm A Fantastic Woman (CIVIC) 105 28 B 12.00 pm Hema Hema… (QSt) 96 57 A 2.15 pm A Monster Calls (HWOOD) 109 43 B 1.00 pm New Zealand’s Best 2017 (AWT) 75 25 B 12.15 pm Heal the Living (RIALTO) 103 + 4 29 A 2.15 pm The Desert Bride (AC) 85 26 B 1.45 pm Manifesto (AC) 94 58 B 12.45 pm In Times of Fading Light (CIVIC) 102 35 A 2.30 pm Bangkok Nites (QSt) 183 54 B 2.00 pm Beuys: Art As a Weapon (RIALTO) 107 80 B 1.00 pm A Date for Mad Mary (AWT) 82 + 13 36 A 3.30 pm Maudie (CIVIC) 115 27 B 2.00 pm Wind River (QSt) 111 65 B 2.00 pm Intent to Destroy… (QSt) 115 68 A 3.45 pm Born in China (WGATE) 79 52 B 3.00 pm Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (AWT) 112 20 B 2.00 pm Menashe (AC) 82 51 A 3.45 pm Hotel Salvation (AWT) 99 + 4 35 B 3.00 pm The Lost City of Z (CIVIC) 141 51 B 2.30 pm Dries (RIALTO) 90 82 A 4.00 pm Restless Creatures… (RIALTO) 90 83 B 3.45 pm Marjorie Prime (AC) 98 + 15 59 B 3.00 pm The Square (CIVIC) 147 9 X 4.00 pm Film Quiz (CIVIC, Wintergarden) 105 49 B 4.15 pm Politics, an Instruction Manual (RIALTO) 115 75 B 3.15 pm An Insignificant Man (AWT) 96 75 A 4.15 pm Félicité (AC) 123 39 B 4.15 pm The Untamed (QSt) 100 + 15 61 B 3.45 pm The Distinguished Citizen (AC) 120 26 A 4.45 pm Summer 1993 (HWOOD) 97 41 A 6.15 pm Dealt (AWT) 85 67 B 4.15 pm Don’t Swallow My Heart… (QSt) 108 55 A 5.30 pm Frantz (WGATE) 114 29 A 6.15 pm Heal the Living (AC) 103 + 4 29 B 4.30 pm Beatriz at Dinner (RIALTO) 83 45 A 6.00 pm Stalker (QSt) 161 16 A 6.15 pm Kedi (CIVIC) 79 + 7 69 A 6.15 pm Let the Sunshine In (CIVIC) 94 31 A 6.00 pm The Midwife (RIALTO) 117 31 A 6.30 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (WGATE) 92 74 A 6.15 pm The Free Man (AWT) 84 19 A 6.15 pm Faces Places (CIVIC) 89 9 A 6.30 pm Leaning Into the Wind… (RIALTO) 93 83 A 6.15 pm The Paris Opera (RIALTO) 110 79 A 6.15 pm New Zealand’s Best 2017 (AWT) 75 25 A 6.30 pm Let the Sunshine In (HWOOD) 94 31 A 6.15 pm Unrest (AC) 97 73 A 6.15 pm Ngaˉ Whanaunga… 2017 (MK) 91 25 A 6.30 pm Wùlu (QSt) 95 65 A 6.30 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (HWOOD) 92 74 A 6.45 pm Yourself and Yours (AC) 86 37 A 8.30 pm A Gentle Creature (CIVIC) 143 43 A 6.30 pm The Beguiled (WGATE) 94 45 A 7.00 pm The Beguiled (HWOOD) 94 45 A 8.30 pm All Governments Lie… (AC) 92 66 A 6.30 pm The Wound (QSt) 88 + 19 65 A 7.45 pm Hostages (WGATE) 104 62 A 8.30 pm BANG! The Bert Berns Story (HWOOD) 96 78 A 8.15 pm The War Show (AC) 105 72 A 8.15 pm 20th Century Women (MK) 119 44 A 8.30 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (RIALTO) 127 56 A 8.30 pm Sami Blood (RIALTO) 110 39 A 8.30 pm Columbus (RIALTO) 104 56 A 8.30 pm Super Dark Times (QSt) 102 87 A 8.30 pm The Lost City of Z (CIVIC) 141 51 A 8.30 pm Happy End (CIVIC) 110 29 A 9.00 pm Una (AWT) 94 + 16 43 A 8.30 pm The Merciless (HWOOD) 120 64 A 8.30 pm Politics, an Instruction Manual (AC) 115 75 Tuesday 1 August A 8.45 pm BANG! The Bert Berns Story (AWT) 96 78 A 8.45 pm I Am Not a Witch (AWT) 95 57 A 8.45 pm Dark Night (QSt) 85 84 A 9.00 pm Tragedy Girls (QSt) 98 87 B 11.00 am Don’t Tell (AWT) 108 27 A 9.15 pm Super Dark Times (HWOOD) 102 87 B 11.30 am I Am Not Your Negro (CIVIC) 93 67 Friday 28 July B 11.45 am Hotel Salvation (RIALTO) 99 + 4 35 B 10.45 am Let the Sunshine In (CIVIC) 94 31 Sunday 30 July B 12.00 pm Menashe (AC) 82 51 B 11.15 am The Teacher (AWT) 102 37 B 10.30 am Animation for Kids 4+ (CIVIC) 61 53 B 12.45 pm Bangkok Nites (QSt) 183 54 B 12.15 pm Free Theatre (AC) 76 19 A 11.00 am Intent to Destroy… (QSt) 115 68 B 1.15 pm Dealt (AWT) 85 67 B 12.15 pm Minute Bodies… (QSt) 54 70 A 11.00 am La Chana (AWT) 83 81 B 1.45 pm 100 Men (AC) 94 18 B 12.30 pm Dina (RIALTO) 101 68 A 11.15 am China’s Van Goghs (AC) 84 81 B 1.45 pm Happy End (CIVIC) 110 29 B 1.00 pm Step (CIVIC) 83 71 A 11.30 am Born in China (HWOOD) 79 52 B 2.00 pm Whiteley (RIALTO) 94 83
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B 3.45 pm The Young Karl Marx (AWT) 118 77 A 6.30 pm Step (CIVIC) 83 71 A 8.30 pm Human Traces (AWT) 87 21 B 4.00 pm The Distinguished Citizen (RIALTO) 120 26 A 6.30 pm The Party (RIALTO) 71 42 A 9.00 pm Good Time (CIVIC) 100 11 B 4.15 pm A Ghost Story (CIVIC) 93 55 A 8.15 pm BPM (Beats Per Minute) (RIALTO) 144 12 A 9.15 pm Blade of the Immortal (HWOOD) 141 85 B 4.15 pm Wùlu (QSt) 95 65 A 8.15 pm What Lies That Way (AC) 89 24 Sunday 6 August B 4.30 pm The Future Perfect (AC) 65 + 17 57 A 8.30 pm The Merciless (QSt) 120 64 A 6.15 pm Kobi (AC) 103 20 A 8.45 pm On Body and Soul (AWT) 116 60 A 11.00 am Hema Hema… (AWT) 96 57 A 6.15 pm Loving Pia (QSt) 99 58 A 8.45 pm Swagger of Thieves (CIVIC) 110 22 A 11.00 am Whiteley (RIALTO) 94 83 A 6.15 pm The Paris Opera (AWT) 110 79 A 11.30 am Blue (AC) 76 + 4 74 Friday 4 August A 6.30 pm A Date for Mad Mary (HWOOD) 82 + 13 36 B 12.00 pm Animation for Kids 4+ (HWOOD) 61 53 A 6.30 pm BIG Time (RIALTO) 93 80 B 11.00 am 20th Century Women (CIVIC) 119 44 A 12.45 pm I Am Not Your Negro (CIVIC) 93 67 A 6.30 pm In Times of Fading Light (WGATE) 102 35 B 11.00 am Dries (AWT) 90 82 A 12.45 pm My Life As a… (Subtitled) (QSt) 66 + 15 59 A 6.30 pm Mountain (CIVIC) 74 15 B 11.15 am What Lies That Way (AC) 89 24 A 1.15 pm A Woman’s Life (AWT) 119 33 A 8.30 pm Risk (RIALTO) 93 75 B 1.00 pm No Ordinary Sheila (AWT) 98 21 A 1.00 pm Beatriz at Dinner (RIALTO) 83 45 A 8.30 pm The Killing of a Sacred Deer (CIVIC) 109 14 B 1.30 pm Loveless (CIVIC) 128 14 C 1.15 pm Not Just Another Mountain (AC) 31 + 12 22 A 8.45 pm Marlina the Murderer… (HWOOD) 93 62 B 1.45 pm Bill Direen: A Memory of Others (QSt) 87 + 5 18 A 1.30 pm Swallows and Amazons (WGATE) 97 52 A 8.45 pm Rumble… (AWT) 102 79 B 1.45 pm Kedi (AC) 79 + 7 69 A 1.45 pm I Am Not a Witch (HWOOD) 95 57 A 9.00 pm Hounds of Love (QSt) 106 85 B 3.30 pm BPM (Beats Per Minute) (RIALTO) 144 12 A 2.30 pm BANG! The Bert Berns Story (QSt) 96 78 A 9.00 pm Yourself and Yours (AC) 86 37 B 3.45 pm Western (AC) 119 61 A 2.45 pm Human Traces (RIALTO) 87 21 B 4.00 pm The Workshop (AWT) 114 33 A 3.00 pm Loveless (CIVIC) 128 14 Wednesday 2 August B 4.15 pm Lady Macbeth (CIVIC) 89 58 A 3.00 pm Menashe (AC) 82 51 B 11.30 am Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (AWT) 92 74 B 4.30 pm It Comes at Night (QSt) 92 63 A 3.30 pm Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (WGATE) 112 20 B 11.30 am Kobi (AC) 103 20 A 6.15 pm We Don’t Need a Map (AC) 91 73 A 4.00 pm Waru (AWT) 88 23 B 11.45 am Austerlitz (QSt) 94 67 A 6.30 pm A Fantastic Woman (CIVIC) 105 28 A 4.30 pm Beach Rats (QSt) 95 55 B 11.45 am Faces Places (CIVIC) 89 9 A 6.30 pm A Woman’s Life (RIALTO) 119 33 A 4.45 pm Animation NOW! The Finalists (AC) 75 88 B 12.00 pm China’s Van Goghs (RIALTO) 84 81 A 6.30 pm Faces Places (HWOOD) 89 9 A 5.45 pm Step (WGATE) 83 71 B 1.30 pm Newton (AWT) 106 35 A 6.30 pm I Am Not a Witch (WGATE) 95 57 - 6.15 pm It (CIVIC) 75 17 B 1.45 pm Loving Pia (QSt) 99 58 A 6.30 pm Newton (AWT) 106 35 A 6.30 pm Mountain (MK) 74 15 B 2.00 pm Mountain (CIVIC) 74 15 A 6.30 pm The Untamed (QSt) 100 + 15 61 A 6.45 pm The Nile Hilton Incident (AC) 110 64 B 2.00 pm Risk (RIALTO) 93 75 A 8.15 pm The Nile Hilton Incident (AC) 110 64 A 6.30 pm Wùlu (QSt) 95 65 B 2.30 pm Whiteley (AC) 94 83 A 8.45 pm 6 Days (AWT) 95 19 A 6.45 pm Columbus (AWT) 104 56 B 3.45 pm On Body and Soul (AWT) 116 60 A 8.45 pm Secret Screening (HWOOD) less than 100 86 A 7.30 pm Mountain (WGATE) 74 14 B 4.00 pm Good Time (CIVIC) 100 11 A 8.45 pm Secret Screening (QSt) less than 100 86 A 8.15 pm Quest (MK) 105 69 B 4.00 pm Kiki, Love to Love (RIALTO) 102 + 10 41 A 9.00 pm Kiki, Love to Love (RIALTO) 102 + 10 41 A 8.30 pm The Evil Within (QSt) 100 84 B 4.30 pm Multiple Maniacs (QSt) 97 85 A 9.00 pm Patti Cake$ (CIVIC) 108 59 B 4.30 pm Starless Dreams (AC) 76 71 A 10.45 pm The Evil Within (HWOOD) 100 84 A 6.15 pm Claire’s Camera (AC) 69 37 Saturday 5 August A 6.15 pm Waru (AWT) 88 23 A 6.30 pm Beatriz at Dinner (HWOOD) 83 45 A 10.45 am We Don’t Need a Map (AWT) 91 73 A 6.30 pm God’s Own Country (CIVIC) 105 42 A 11.00 am Leaning Into the Wind… (CIVIC) 93 83 A 6.30 pm House of Z (RIALTO) 90 81 A 11.30 am Hema Hema… (QSt) 96 57 A 6.30 pm I Am Not Your Negro (WGATE) 93 67 B 12.15 pm Animation for Kids 8+ (RIALTO) 71 53 B 6.30 pm Minute Bodies… (QSt) 54 70 A 12.15 pm Winnie (AC) 98 77 A 7.45 pm A Gentle Creature (QSt) 143 43 A 1.00 pm No Ordinary Sheila (AWT) 98 21 A 8.00 pm Politics, an Instruction Manual (AC) 115 75 A 1.15 pm Summer 1993 (CIVIC) 97 41 A 8.30 pm Bad Genius (HWOOD) 130 63 A 1.30 pm Bill Direen: A Memory of Others (QSt) 87 + 5 18 A 8.30 pm Bill Frisell: A Portrait (RIALTO) 114 78 A 2.00 pm Ethel & Ernest (RIALTO) 94 + 14 41 A 9.00 pm Wind River (AWT) 111 65 A 2.00 pm My Life As a… (Dubbed) (HWOOD) 66 + 15 59 A 9.15 pm It Comes at Night (CIVIC) 92 63 A 2.00 pm The Party (WGATE) 71 42 AUCKLAND FILM QUIZ A 2.15 pm Starless Dreams (AC) 76 71 Flicks.co.nz and Letterboxd’s inaugural Quiz Show Thursday 3 August A 3.30 pm Belle de Jour (CIVIC) 100 16 event (in association with NZIFF 2017) offers no B 11.30 am Beatriz at Dinner (AWT) 83 45 A 3.30 pm Kedi (WGATE) 79 + 7 69 scandal – we hope – but the chance to inflate B 11.30 am Félicité (AC) 123 39 A 4.00 pm Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (AC) 88 + 4 66 your ego by proving how vastly superior your film B 11.30 am The Inland Road (RIALTO) 80 22 A 4.00 pm Brigsby Bear (HWOOD) 98 51 knowledge is compared to your peers. And win B 1.00 pm God’s Own Country (CIVIC) 105 42 A 4.00 pm Jasper Jones (AWT) 101 27 some awesome prizes… B 1.30 pm The Paris Opera (AWT) 110 79 A 4.15 pm Beach Rats (QSt) 95 55 B 2.00 pm A Woman’s Life (RIALTO) 119 33 A 4.15 pm The Desert Bride (RIALTO) 85 26 Join us at The Civic Theatre’s B 2.00 pm Tony Conrad… (QSt) 96 79 A 5.30 pm Kobi (WGATE) 103 20 B 2.00 pm We Don’t Need a Map (AC) 91 73 A 6.00 pm Hotel Salvation (RIALTO) 99 + 4 35 Wintergarden on Saturday 29 July B 3.45 pm The Killing of a Sacred Deer (CIVIC) 109 14 A 6.00 pm Quest (AC) 105 69 at 4.00 pm sharp to test your movie B 4.00 pm Brigsby Bear (AWT) 98 51 A 6.00 pm The Other Side of Hope (CIVIC) 98 11 mettle against other film buffs. B 4.00 pm Hounds of Love (QSt) 106 85 A 6.15 pm A Date for Mad Mary (AWT) 82 + 13 36 As space is limited, registration for teams of up B 4.00 pm The War Show (AC) 105 72 A 6.15 pm Faces Places (MK) 89 9 to six will be required. Register your interest at B 4.30 pm Final Portrait (RIALTO) 90 82 A 6.15 pm Marlina the Murderer… (QSt) 93 62 quizshow.fun or keep an eye on Flicks.co.nz A 6.15 pm Don’t Tell (AWT) 108 27 A 6.15 pm The Lost City of Z (HWOOD) 141 51 for registration news. A 6.15 pm The Future Perfect (AC) 65 + 17 57 A 7.45 pm Loveless (WGATE) 128 14 And remember, this is no drawn-out pub quiz A 6.15 pm Trophy (QSt) 108 73 A 8.15 pm 6 Days (RIALTO) 95 19 – runtime will be no more than two hours, so you A 6.30 pm Faces Places (WGATE) 89 9 A 8.15 pm A Monster Calls (MK) 109 43 can get to your next NZIFF screening on time. A 6.30 pm Loveless (HWOOD) 128 14 A 8.15 pm Heal the Living (AC) 103 + 4 29
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The Lost City of Z
In the early 20th century British explorer Director: James Gray Percy Fawcett made eight expeditions USA 2016 | 141 mins into the Amazonian jungle pursuing Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Anthony Katagas, James Gray, Dale Armin Johnson evidence of a lost, highly evolved Screenplay: James Gray. Based on the book by civilisation. James Gray’s spectacular David Grann Photography: Darius Khondji film collapses those expeditions into Editors: John Axelrad, Lee Haugen a tidier history, but the enquiring Music: Christopher Spelman With: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, spirit of the movie holds closely to the Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Edward Ashley, wanderlust of the incurable adventurer. Angus Macfadyen, Ian McDiarmid, Clive Francis, Pedro Coello, Matthew Sunderland, It’s hard to think of another film on Johann Myers, Franco Nero such epic scale that contains so careful Festivals: New York 2016; Berlin, San Francisco 2017 and nuanced a portrait of the explorer In English, Spanish, Portuguese and German, hero or his conflicted relationship with with English subtitles 4K DCP | CinemaScope | M violence & offensive the society that he, in name at least, language represents. Charlie Hunnam’s Fawcett is a commanding slow burn from class resentment to mystic quest, with Robert Pattinson barely recognisable as his companion in adventure. Sienna Miller makes a powerful impression as the wife chafing to join him but forever protagonist that avoids the clichés of left behind. The cinematography, by the genre. It feels like a work of classic “Pictures with the grand Darius Khondji (Se7en, Delicatessen), Hollywood cinema, but without the sweep and dreamy energy captures the seductive allure of jungle arch, mannered quality that can come and river in ravishing imagery fit only with a contemporary director trying to of The Lost City of Z don’t for the giant screen. harken back to the past. Gray’s film is come along every year “The Lost City of Z is a miraculous beguiling and poetic, capable of gluing – they barely come along movie, at once moving, intimidating, you to the screen for every second of its and gorgeous to behold. It’s a tale languorous running time and lingering at all.” A MK Sat 22 Jul, 8.15 pm of colonial exploration that’s aware in the brain for weeks after.” — David — Stephanie Zacharek, Time A CIVIC Thu 27 Jul, 8.30 pm of the sins of the past, and a portrait Sims, The Atlantic B CIVIC Mon 31 Jul, 3.00 pm A HWOOD Sat 5 Aug, 6.15 pm of a driven, obsessive, flawed male
Brigsby Bear Menashe
Director: Joshua Z. Weinstein Director: Dave McCary USA/Israel 2017 USA 2017 | 98 mins 82 mins Screenplay: Kevin Costello, Screenplay: Joshua Z. Weinstein, Kyle Mooney Alex Lipschultz, Musa Syeed With: Kyle Mooney, Greg Kinnear, Photography: Yoni Brook, Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins, Joshua Z. Weinstein Mark Hamill, Ryan Simpkins, With: Menashe Lustig, Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Claire Danes, Ruben Niborski, Yoel Weisshaus, Jane Adams, Kate Lyn Sheil, Meyer Schwartz Alexa Demie, Andy Samberg Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, Festivals: Sundance, Cannes New Directors/New Films 2016 (Critics’ Week), Sydney 2017 In Yiddish and English, with M sex scenes, offensive language English subtitles & drug use PG cert FEDERICA VALABREGA In this inventive, Gondry-esque comedy, sweet fellowship in extreme fan Joshua Z. Weinstein’s charming own desire builds into a gentle human Saturday Night Live’s earnest goofball culture, and the liberating power of Menashe immerses us in a Hassidic comedy. Kyle Mooney is a man obsessed by sheer silliness with the conviction neighbourhood in Brooklyn, a The director Joshua Z. Weinstein, a the only TV show he’s ever seen, a little- of the true believer. community not given to self-exposure. cinematographer and documentarian known series about a magic bear saving “Brigsby Bear’s strongest asset (well, His film tells the touching story of a making a seamless transition to fiction, the world. after the gobs of in-universe verbiage young widower struggling against the shot Menashe entirely in Yiddish in James (Mooney) has lived in a bunker that come spilling from James’ mouth) Orthodox requirement that his son be Borough Park, Brooklyn. He has an for 25 years. His only contact is with is Kyle Mooney’s extraordinary raised in a household with a mother. eye for the fine-grained textures of his parents (Mark Hamill and Jane performance… To hang around James “In a world apart, the recently everyday life that draw you into this Adams), and his only source of external and soak up some of his positivity widowed Menashe (a wonderful cloistered world and close to Menashe, stimulation is the 80s-style ‘Brigsby (even if it is a little unclear if he knows Menashe Lustig) is anxiously trying to a character partly inspired by Mr Bear Adventures’, delivered weekly what’s going on half the time) is a joy.” get his only child back home to live Lustig’s own life.” — Manohla Dargis, on VHS cassettes. He’s probably the — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair with him. His family, friends and rabbi NY Times world’s most intense student of the in his tight-knit Orthodox community Brigsby mythos. want Menashe to remarry first, but that When James has to leave his bunker A WGATE Sat 22 Jul, 7.30 pm sits uneasily with this quietly stubborn, B AC Thu 27 Jul, 2.00 pm and meet other people, he loses access A CIVIC Fri 28 Jul, 6.15 pm independent soul. As the story opens A AC Sun 30 Jul, 3.30 pm to new episodes. The slow-dawning B AWT Thu 3 Aug, 4.00 pm gracefully, Menashe’s struggle to B AC Tue 1 Aug, 12.00 pm A HWOOD Sat 5 Aug, 4.00 pm A AC Sun 6 Aug, 3.00 pm solution to this emergency celebrates balance his Orthodox religion and his
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Born in China ALL AGESALL FOR Director: Lu Chuan USA/China 2016 79 mins Producers: Phil Chapman, Roy Conli, Brian Leith Screenplay: David Fowler, Brian Leith, Phil Chapman, Lu Chuan Photography: Irmin Kerck, Justin Maguire, Shane Moore, Rolf Steinmann, Paul Stewart Editor: Matthew Meech Music: Barnaby Taylor Narrator: John Krasinski Festivals: San Francisco 2017
The visual splendour of the natural of the harshest and most unforgiving world and its extraordinary creatures is environments on the planet. captured on a grand scale in this true- The footage captured on this life adventure from Disneynature – ideal epic journey into the wilds of China for young animal lovers. is breathtaking for its access and In an epic tale of four seasons, we intimacy – presented as an opportunity follow some of the animal families that for young audiences to relate the populate various corners of China’s natural world to their own lives, and to expansive terrain. Meet Ya Ya, a panda contemplate the mysteries of the circle bear mother guiding her growing of life. — Nicola Marshall baby Mei Mei as she begins to explore Note: Animal survival depicted. Some and seek independence; Tao Tao, scenes may be upsetting for very young a mischievous two-year-old golden children. snub-nosed monkey nudged toward self-sufficiency after the arrival of his B CIVIC Fri 21 Jul, 11.30 am new baby sister; and Dawa, a mother A CIVIC Sun 23 Jul, 11.00 am snow leopard – an elusive animal rarely A WGATE Sat 29 Jul, 3.45 pm caught on camera – facing the very real A HWOOD Sun 30 Jul, 11.30 am drama of raising her two cubs in one A MK Sun 30 Jul, 5.00 pm
Swallows and Amazons
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe UK 2016 | 97 mins Producers: Nicholas Barton, Nick O’Hagan, Joe Oppenheimer Screenplay: Andrea Gibb. Based on the novel by Arthur Ransome Photography: Julian Court Editor: David Thrasher Music: Ilan Eshkeri With: Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Kelly Macdonald, Dane Hughes, Orla Hill, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Bobby McCulloch Recommended for ages 9+ PG low level violence
“The four Walker children have finally “Arthur Ransome’s classic pre-war Features selected by Nic Marshall of Square convinced their parents to let them tale of childhood adventure Swallows Eyes Film New Zealand Film Foundation, set off on their own for a sailing and Amazons still evokes a golden, adventure during summer vacation. prelapsarian age when kids were free ardent promoters of international cinema Their summer of freedom quickly turns range and mucking about in boats to our youngest audiences and their movie- into a fierce turf war when they learn was the acme of excitement… Director their island camp has been claimed Philippa Lowthorpe and screenwriter going companions. The animated short film by the boisterous Amazons, and find Andrea Gibb have tweaked one or programmes are lovingly curated by Nic with themselves caught in the midst of two details of Ransome’s original. some nefarious international intrigue And they’ve added an extra dash of a little assistance from our Animation NOW! that’s landed in their sleepy byways. derring-do. But at heart their film is as maestro Malcolm Turner. Based on the beloved English novels cosily nostalgic as the cherished 1974 by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and version.” — Jason Best, Movie Talk See also: Ancien and the Magic Tablet (p37), Amazons is filled with dramas big and small… that come together to create My Life As a Courgette (p59). a fluidly captivating story of bravery A AWT Sat 29 Jul, 11.00 am set against the languorous beauty of A WGATE Sun 6 Aug, 1.30 pm the English countryside.” — New York International Children’s Film Festival
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We’ve searched all around the world Eagle Blue Awesome Beetle’s Fruit of Clouds and back again to shape this eclectic UK 2016 | Director: Will Rose | 4 mins Czech Republic 2017 | Director: Katerˇina Karhánková collection of imaginative and engaging Colours 11 mins Eagle Blue soars high above the Latvia 2016 | Director: Indra Sprog´e | 3 mins animated short films – terrific viewing mountaintop – but she must swoop A charming tuft makes a great for both the very youngest of filmgoers A nearly impossible story, supported down to the town below and provide discovery through overcoming its fear and animation admiring grown-ups. by a catchy melody, guides us through a proper meal for her hungry kids. of the unknown. There’s only space here to list some the alphabet. highlights. For the full programme Tiger Spider Web The Sled listing go to nziff.co.nz — NM | | Germany 2015 | Director: Kariem Saleh | 4 mins Russia 2016 Director: Natalia Chernysheva 4 mins Russia 2016 | Director: Olesya Shchukina | 4 mins A tiny tiger, happy but hungry, sneakily Anyone can get caught in a sticky In the middle of deepest, snowiest satisfies an endless appetite. situation, but sometimes working winter, a squirrel finds something he The Cage together can make things a whole has never seen before. Big Block Singsong: Bears France 2016 | Director: Loïc Bruyere | 6 mins load easier. Canada 2016 | Directors: Warren Brown, Adam Head Up! Goddard | 2 mins When a bear and his bird pals find the The Pocket Man right rhythm, teamwork equals sweet Germany 2014 | Director: Susann Hoffmann | 3 mins Let’s hear it for the Bears! Georgia/Switzerland/France 2016 | Director: Ana freedom. Chubinidze | 8 mins Kids – even the bearded, four-legged kind – can definitely show adults a Mr Night Has A Day Off When he makes a new friend, the A Hole thing or two about bravery. Lithuania 2016 | Director: Ignas Meilunas | 2 mins Mexico 2016 | Director: Maribel Suárez | 4 mins pocket man realises that acts of kindness come in all shapes and sizes. What will Mr Night do on his day off? A small girl befriends a hole in her Wander through the daylight and garden, discovering that patience and a create mischief, of course. helping hand can make a big difference when you want something to grow.
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AWESOME BEETLE’S COLOURS A HOLE TIGER
Animation for Kids 8+ 71 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc
Hold tight for a showcase of brilliant Welcome to My Life Nino & Felix Water Path For a Fish animated short films – curated for the USA 2015 | Director: Elizabeth Ito | 9 mins Italy 2015 | Directors: Marta Palazzo, Lorenzo Latrofa Spain 2016 | Director: Mercedes Marro | 8 mins curious. Whether you’re an inquisitive 8 mins A glimpse into a day in the life of Oscar rescues a goldfish from the kid or long-time animation fan, there’s Douglas, aka T-Kesh – just your Two boys, who are not particularly clutches of hungry cats but, with the most certainly something for you. average Monster-American teenager. thrilled at being brought together, clash drought, has trouble caring for it. When There’s only space here to list some out their differences to find the ways in the water returns, the trouble becomes highlights. For the full programme 1 Minute Nature: which they are more alike than not. keeping track of his new fishy friend. listing go to nziff.co.nz — NM Jellyfish Weather Little Mouse Netherlands 2016 | Directors: Stefanie Visjager, G-AAAH Hungary 2016 | Director: Ervin B. Nagy | 7 mins Katinka Baehr | 1 min UK 2016 | Director: Elizabeth Hobbs | 1 min Outdoor Cinema The sea is full of colour and ‘Little Mouse’ is a hugely talented Typographical flights of fancy tell the Russia/Australia 2014 | Director: Tatiana Poliektova, underwater mystery in one boy’s true swimmer who earned a spot at the true story of typist-turned-aviator Amy Filippo Rivetti | 3 mins story of a day at the beach. Bucharest Youth Championship. Will Johnson. A group of industrious creatures make she have what it takes to out-lap the an outdoor cinema to reflect the world Jonas and the Sea big kids? Fire in Cardboard City around them. Netherlands 2015 | Director: Marlies van der Wel New Zealand 2017 | Director: Phil Brough | 8 mins 12 mins Sweaty Armpits There’s action aplenty for the USA 2016 | Director: Tony Dusko | 1 min Cats & Dogs Jonas casts aside everything in pursuit Cardboard City Fire Department as Switzerland/Germany 2015 | Director: Gerd Gockell, of his dream to live in the sea. Does anyone have a mop? they try to curb their first real fire. Jesús Pérez | 6 mins One cat. One dog. You can probably anticipate how this might go.
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JONAS AND THE SEA LITTLE MOUSE WELCOME TO MY LIFE
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Araby Arábia FRESH Directors/Screenplay: Affonso Uchôa, João Dumans Brazil 2017 | 96 mins Photography: Leonardo Feliciano Editors: Luiz Pretti, Rodrigo Lima With: Aristides de Sousa, Murilo Caliari, Gláucia Vandeveld, Renato Novaes, Adriano Araújo, Renan Rovida, Wederson Neguinho, Renata Cabral Festivals: Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films 2017 In Portuguese with English subtitles M drug use & offensive language
“Everyone had a story, even the quiet moving picture of harsh lives fully lived. ones,” observes Cristiano (Aristides “Like the Townes Van Zandt song de Sousa), the rootless protagonist of that opens the film, Araby becomes a Araby. The film begins with André, a deeply felt ballad of the drifting life, listless teenager living near a factory devoid of sentimentality but long on in the outskirts of Ouro Preto in the empathy… [and] an utterly convincing Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. When record of a young worker discovering André finds a journal kept by the himself through writing. While many recently hospitalized factory worker filmmakers claim to give voice to the Cristiano, the film abruptly takes to the marginal, few have done so with the road, following Cristiano from prison artistic and political sensitivity displayed to one job then another, from one in Araby.” — Nicholas Elliott, Film makeshift bed to the next. Comment From stories told by lovers, workmates, friends and passing acquaintances remembered from B RIALTO Fri 21 Jul, 4.30 pm a life of itinerant labour, Cristiano A QSt Sun 23 Jul, 1.45 pm strings together his own story – and A RIALTO Mon 24 Jul, 8.00 pm A QSt Sat 29 Jul, 12.30 pm this beautiful film distils its lyrical and
Bangkok Nites
Director: Tomita Katsuya Japan/France/Thailand/ Laos 2016 | 183 mins Screenplay: Aizawa Toranosuke, Tomita Katsuya Photography: Studio Ishi With: Subenja Pongkorn, Tomita Katsuya, Sunun Phuwiset, Chutlpha Promplang, Tanyarat Kongphu, Sarinya Yongsawat Festivals: Locarno, Busan 2016 In Japanese, Thai, Isan, English, Laotian, Tagalog and French, with English subtitles M offensive language, sexual references & drug use
© BANGKOK NITES PARTNERS 2016 We line up the films that held our attention At the heart of the sprawling supercity World-weary Luck finds a kindred of Bangkok lies Thaniya Road, a red- spirit in Ozawa and accompanies him with their energy and originality – in terms of light district catering exclusively to to visit her family in the rural northeast subject, technique and sensibility. If it weren’t Japanese visitors. Over four years in when Ozawa is sent to Laos to scout the making, this visceral free-form epic business opportunities. Meeting Luck’s so obviously a Special Event, Top of the Lake: from Japanese director Tomita Katsuya family and friends inspires Ozawa, but China Girl (p12) might grace our Fresh list too. explores the fractured psyche of its the scars are still raw in this region denizens. literally haunted by the horrors of the Not every film that feels like a harbinger of High-class Thai call girl Luck supports past. With long-form scope to develop the future is the work of a young filmmaker – her family and is successful enough to its characters and themes, Bangkok be able to pick and choose her clients. Nites delivers a complex and ultimately though an encouraging number on the pages Outsider Ozawa (played by director affecting portrait of a society marred by that follow are. Tomita) is a veteran of the Japanese decades of foreign exploitation. — MM Self-Defence Force and after decades of peacekeeping in Southeast Asia is still searching for his place in the world. His A QSt Sat 29 Jul, 2.30 pm compatriots are a seedy collection of A QSt Sun 30 Jul, 1.15 pm yakuza rejects who see Thailand only as B QSt Tue 1 Aug, 12.45 pm a paradise ripe to be exploited.
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One of the wonders of this or any year, Director/Screenplay/Editor: David Lowery’s film takes the homeliest David Lowery of images for the supernatural – a sheet USA 2017 | 93 mins with two forlorn eyeholes – and places Producers: Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, Adam Donaghey it at the centre of a layered and piercing Photography: Andrew Droz Palermo contemplation of existential mystery. Music: Daniel Hart With: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham, Working in secret and on a micro-budget, McColm Cephas Jr., Kenneisha Thompson, the director of Pete’s Dragon has Grover Coulson, Liz Franke, Barlow Jacobs Festivals: Sundance 2017 evoked a profound eeriness from the M offensive language most minimal and intimate of means. As the ghost of a young husband (Casey Affleck) observes the grief of his partner (Rooney Mara) and then lingers through subsequent tenancies of the house they shared, the helpless ghost’s attachment to the place he loved becomes increasingly impersonal and unsettled. Lowery’s theme is realised in delicate, folkloric images of a distinctly American paradise lost, its hushed mood disrupted by abrupt bursts of anything-goes quality that’s endlessly activity – Will Oldham on a brilliant fascinating. Any movie that can turn “It’s a rare privilege to see jag as a drunken doom theorist – and a walking joke like The Ghost into a contemporary American radical bends in time. a figure of genuine pathos is a movie “A Ghost Story has the structure and that earns every long pause, and film as ambitious, rhythm of a musical suite, with Lowery every sudden leap.” — Noel Murray, emotionally honest, and working variations on the same The Playlist just-plain-breathtaking.” themes, the same characters, and the “A Ghost Story is filmmaking that same location. The result can be lyrical challenges and exhilarates, a potent — Dan Schoenbrun, Filmmaker A CIVIC Wed 26 Jul, 8.30 pm and poetic, or more naturalistic and reminder of how many new places B CIVIC Tue 1 Aug, 4.15 pm minimalist. In both cases, A Ghost Story film can still be taken.” — Dominik is absolutely mesmerizing, with an Suzanne-Mayer, Consequence of Sound
Beach Rats Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! Não devore meu coração!
Director/Screenplay: Felipe Bragança Director/Screenplay: Brazil/The Netherlands/ Eliza Hittman France 2017 | 108 mins USA 2017 | 95 mins Photography: Glauco Firpo Photography: Hélène Louvart Editor: Jon Kadocsa With: Harris Dickinson, Music: Baris Akardere Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge, With: Cauã Reymond, Eduardo Nicole Flyus, Anton Selyaninov Macedo, Adeli Gonzales, Zahy Festivals: Sundance, New Guajajara, Márcio Verón, Cláudia Directors/New Films, San Francisco Assunção, Ney Matogrosso 2017 Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2017 Directing Award (Dramatic), In Portuguese, Spanish and Sundance Film Festival 2017 Guaraní, with English subtitles Censors rating tbc CinemaScope | censors rating tbc
British actor Harris Dickinson is her penetrating gaze on a Brooklyn As flamboyant and melodramatic as its leader of the Guaraní bikers. Joca’s hypnotising as a buff Brooklyn teenage boy navigating an even title, this spirited first solo feature from older brother Fernando (heart-throb teenager projecting a front of churlish more pivotal transition, played with Brazilian writer/director Felipe Bragança Cauã Reymond) is a high-ranking masculinity with his homies and his understated intensity by promising delivers a stylish genre mash-up of Brazilian gangster, and when Fernando hotshot girlfriend, while craving the newcomer Harris Dickinson… teen love, gang warfare and surreal is involved in a deadly street race a tenderness of men and mourning the Hittman folds Helene Louvart’s fantasy. Essentially, it’s a riff on Romeo full-scale turf war breaks out between slow decline of his dying father. Every evocative summertime images, and Juliet set amongst a centuries-old the two rival gangs forcing the lovelorn frame of Eliza Hittman’s film pulses composer Nicholas Leon’s brooding conflict on the river border between Joca to choose sides. with desire and its denial. electronic notes and the fluid rhythms Brazil and Paraguay, a turbulent region With its vibrant neon-drenched “Eliza Hittman’s second feature is shaped by editors Scott Cummings and scarred by a dark history of colonial visuals and moody synth score, very much the work of a filmmaker Joe Murphy into a raw observational oppression. These days the combatants Bragança’s film brings Nicolas Winding with her own distinctive voice, portrait that leaves a haunting are rival Brazilian and indigenous Refn’s Drive to mind but its outré, combining moody poetry with textural impression in its wake.” — David Guaraní motorcycle gangs. dreamlike atmosphere is at times pure sensuality to evoke the dangerous Rooney, Hollywood Reporter Amongst it all, 13-year-old Brazilian Lynch. — MM recklessness that often accompanies boy Joca crushes hard for slightly older sexual discovery. Shifting from A QSt Sat 5 Aug, 4.15 pm Guaraní girl Basano, but this haughty A QSt Tue 25 Jul, 6.30 pm the portrait of adolescent female A QSt Sun 6 Aug, 4.30 pm Amazonian princess with alligator B QSt Thu 27 Jul, 4.15 pm experience in her striking debut, It tattoos must also fend off the advances Felt Like Love, Hittman here turns of her much older cousin Alberto,
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Columbus
“Allow writer and director Kogonada Director/Screenplay/Editor: Kogonada to take you on a bizarrely fascinating, USA 2017 | 104 mins visually stunning, and subtly sensual Producers: Andrew Miano, Aaron Boyd, Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Chris Weitz, tour of Columbus, Indiana’s modernist Giulia Caruso, Ki Jin Kim architecture… Besides churches by Photography: Elisha Christian Music: Hammock Eero and Eliel Saarinen, libraries by With: John Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, I.M. Pei, and Will Miller’s enviable living Parker Posey, Michelle Forbes, Rory Culkin Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam 2017 room interior by Alexander Girard, the In English and Korean, with English subtitles film centers on intersecting stories of Censors rating tbc familial responsibility. Jin (played with authority by John Cho) is a middle-aged man who should care that his father is dying in a hospital, but he doesn’t. Casey (played by Haley Lu Richardson, who turns in a phenomenally good, sophisticated performance) is a recent high-school grad who needs to cut the cord, but that’s complicated. The two shouldn’t like each other in any sort of romantic way, but that’s also complicated. “Kogonada films with a keen eye Kogonada includes all the troubles for architecture; he takes a pleasure “A clever and compelling Indianans face – meth problems, comparable to Casey’s in sharp lines, exploration into how having to work two manual-labor jobs sheer surfaces, and open vistas… to pay rent, racial tension – but he Richardson… negotiates the fluently physical structures can smartly builds it into the characters’ erudite and insightful dialogue with a come to represent motivations and backstory. Elisha dancer’s aplomb; Columbus is one of emotional landmarks Christian’s cinematography and the rare films in which nerdy intelligence Kogonada’s story reveal the deep – knowledge without experience – in our personal lives.” B RIALTO Mon 24 Jul, 12.15 pm relationship between architecture and comes off without neurosis, comedic — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair B AWT Fri 28 Jul, 1.30 pm people that many might miss.” — Rich awkwardness, or vengeance.” A RIALTO Sat 29 Jul, 8.30 pm A AWT Sun 6 Aug, 6.45 pm Smith, The Stranger — Richard Brody, New Yorker
Gabriel and the Mountain Gabriel e a montanha
Spectacular and thrumming with life, this richly layered road movie shows us Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Malawi and Director: Fellipe Barbosa Zambia through the eyes of an eager Brazil/France 2017 | 127 mins Producers: Rodrigo Letier, Roberto Berliner, gap-year backpacker. “I travel as I’ve Clara Linhart, Yohann Cornu always dreamed of doing in a non- Screenplay: Fellipe Barbosa, Lucas Paraizo, Kirill Mikhanovsky touristic and sustainable manner,” he Photography: Pedro Sotero emails back home to Brazil. “Spending Editor: Théo Lichtenberger $2 or $3 a day and giving 80% of my Music: Arthur B. Gillette With: João Pedro Zappa, Caroline Abras, daily budget to the locals who feed and Alex Alembe, Leonard Siampala, John Goodluck, shelter me.” Rashidi Athuman, Tonny Lesika, Rhosinah Sekeleti, Luke Mpata, Lewis Gadson Brazilian director Fellipe Barbosa’s Festivals: Cannes (Critics’ Week) 2017 film recreates the journey of his friend In English, Portuguese, Swahili, Chichewa and French, with English subtitles Gabriel Buchmann who died on the CinemaScope | M sex scenes, offensive language, slopes of Malawi’s Mount Mulanje in drug use, & content that may disturb 2009. The film stars João Pedro Zappa as Gabriel and Caroline Abras as his girlfriend Cristina, but the African cast is made up almost entirely of people whom the open-hearted young Brasileiro befriended along the way. film irresistible exuberance and heart. They play themselves – and deliver There’s mystery too: he’s so impatient “A moving look at the personal tributes in voiceover. to knock off the achievements he’s set transformative nature of The director is alive to his friend’s himself, it’s as if he knows his time is vanity and the ironies attendant on limited. It’s that very impatience – a travel, both on those his “total immersion in the heart of refusal to observe the basic rules of hopping around the world Africa.” Required by a waitress at mountain safety – which brings his in search of a new a beachside cafe to order a meal, brief and brilliant life to an end and Gabriel is outraged to be mistaken for sets this wonderfully enlivening film perspective and those they A WGATE Sat 22 Jul, 5.00 pm a mere tourist. in motion. encounter along the way.” B AWT Mon 24 Jul, 3.30 pm But his appetite for the freedom A AWT Fri 28 Jul, 8.15 pm — Sarah Ward, Screendaily A RIALTO Mon 31 Jul, 8.30 pm and friendship of the road gives this
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I Am Not a Witch
In Zambian-born, Welsh-raised Rungano Nyoni’s surreal tale, a nine-year-old village girl is accused of witchcraft and Director/Screenplay: Rungano Nyoni hauled off to do witches’ work. Her UK/France/Zambia/Germany 2017 95 mins only transgression has been her lack of Producers: Emily Morgan, Juliette Grandmont affect, but soon she’s identifying the Photography: David Gallego culprit in a line-up of suspects, bringing Editors: George Cragg, Yann Dedet, Thibault Hague on the rain, or, when there’s nothing Music: Matthew James Kelly more profitable available, posing for With: Margaret Mulubwa, Henry B.J. Phiri, Nancy Murilo, John Tembo tourists. Though accusing someone of Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2017 witchcraft is illegal in Zambia, Nyoni’s In English, Bemba, Nyanja and Tonga, with English subtitles tale is based on continuing practices Censors rating tbc she observed herself, living for a month in a witches’ camp. The awfulness of her story is leavened by the merciless satirical eye she trains on superstition’s perpetrators – the men who put the women to work. “‘When I die I will kill you,’ says an irked woman in one scene from I Am Not a Witch. This elderly lady, accused feature film… a biting satire attacking of witchcraft in Zambia, has reached the ignorance which provides oxygen “It’s rare and exhilarating her wits’ end with a farmer who’s for this hokum… Satire seemed to be that a new filmmaker forced her to work his fields… The the most appropriate way to tackle a line sums up the absurd, paradoxical subject poised on a knife edge between arrives on the scene so world of witchcraft. When you’ve been tragedy and farce. Underneath the sure of herself and so told you’re a witch, forced to live as humor there’s staunch determination willing to take bold, a witch, forced to act as a witch, you from the director. ‘It’s so important that might eventually start believing you’re we’re not precious about [witchcraft], counter-intuitive chances.” B AWT Fri 21 Jul, 11.00 am a witch… otherwise nothing gets done,’ she — Jessica Kiang, Variety A AWT Sat 29 Jul, 8.45 pm Director Rungano Nyoni has made said.” — Thomas Page, CNN.com A WGATE Fri 4 Aug, 6.30 pm A HWOOD Sun 6 Aug, 1.45 pm the subject the focus of her debut
The Future Perfect Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait El futuro perfecto
Director/Screenplay: Import Khyentse Norbu Director/Screenplay: Bhutan/Hong Kong Nele Wohlatz 2016 | 96 mins Argentina 2016 | 65 mins Producers: Pawo Choyning Dorji, Photography: Roman Kasseroller, Sarah Chen Agustina San Martín Photography: Jigme Tenzing With: Zhang Xiaobin, Saroj Kumar Editors: Tian Zhuangzhuang, Malik, Jiang Mian, Wang Dong Xi Li Gen Festivals: Locarno 2016; Music: Gary Azukx Dyson Rotterdam, San Francisco 2017 With: Tshering Dorji, Sadon Best First Feature, Locarno Lhamo, Thinley Dorji, Zhou Xun International Film Festival 2016 Festivals: Locarno, Toronto, In Spanish and Mandarin, with Busan, London 2016 English subtitles In Bhutanese with English subtitles Censors rating tbc CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc
This cute Bressonian comedy revels In Español classes, role-playing Bhuddhist lama and filmmaker ritual, in fact it is an original story by in the challenge – and possibilities – exercises present Xiaobin with an Khyentse Norbu (The Cup, Travellers Norbu, who is the third incarnated of language from the immigrant opportunity to reinvent herself in the and Magicians) takes us deep into the lama of a strand of Tibetan Buddhism. perspective. Fresh off the plane from Argentine world, against the grain of jungle of Bhutan to imagine a ritual Under his immaculate cinematic China, 18-year-old Xiaobin begins a new, Chinese tradition. Will her social and – part performance festival, part boot guidance – the film’s jungle colors are uncertain life in Buenos Aires: unable to romantic prospects improve along camp – where participants obscure vibrant, its camera lucid and mobile, communicate beyond simple phrasebook with her stilted Spanish? Having her gender and identity behind fearsome the masks a delight, the editing is by expressions, she nonetheless sets out arrive at the titular future perfect tense masks. “You are here to prepare for 5th Generation Chinese director Tian to overcome such everyday obstacles as through these lessons, director Nele the gap between death and birth,” the Zhuangzhuang, and even Tony Leung finding a job and ordering a meal in a Wohlatz cleverly expands the film’s elder explains. “You are here to find Chiu-wai is hidden behind one of the restaurant. Amusing as these first trim visual language to accommodate out who you really are.” Inspired by the masks – it does indeed narrate with the encounters are, Xiaobin’s straightforward Xiaobin’s linguistic progress and dreams concept of the bardo, a state through vivid, timeless, pared clarity of an old and forward-thinking approach to culture of lives soon to be lived. A smart, which departed souls pass before legend.” — Daniel Kasman, Mubi shock yields pleasantly surprising results, pin-sharp gem. — Tim Wong entering their next incarnation, Hema and also speaks volumes of the stoic Hema is a colourful plunge into a world charm which typifies first-time actor A RIALTO Sat 22 Jul, 2.15 pm where ancient rites conjure our noblest B QSt Thu 27 Jul, 12.00 pm Zhang Xiaobin’s performance, itself a B RIALTO Fri 28 Jul, 4.30 pm or our basest instincts. A QSt Sat 5 Aug, 11.30 am fascinating measure of the relationship B AC Tue 1 Aug, 4.30 pm “While Hema Hema may seem like A AWT Sun 6 Aug, 11.00 am between language, speech and acting. A AC Thu 3 Aug, 6.15 pm an adaptation of an ancient Bhutanese
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Lady Macbeth
Victorian patriarchy meets its match in this juicy period drama. The title alerts us to murderous intent, but the source Director: William Oldroyd material here is one step removed UK 2016 | 89 mins Producer: Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly from Shakespeare: this striking debut Screenplay: Alice Birch. Based on the novella Lady is a stylised reinvention of the 1865 Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov Russian novella Lady Macbeth of the Photography: Ari Wegner Editor: Nick Emerson Mtsensk District. Katherine (Florence Music: Dan Jones Pugh) is a young bride, a virtual With: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie, Christopher Fairbank captive in the draughty mansion of her Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, London 2016; dour mine owner husband. Her flinty Sundance, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco 2017 father-in-law pressures her for an heir, Critics’ Prize, San Sebastián International Film though the sadistic ritual unfolding Festival 2016 CinemaScope | R16 violence, offensive language nightly in the marital bedroom scarcely & sex scenes favours reproduction. The incredulous Katherine plots her liberation. If she’s prepared to contemplate murder to escape this disgusting prison, what won’t she do to guarantee her pleasure when she finds it in the arms of the taunting hunk (Cosmo Jarvis) who runs casting adds a frisson of racism to the the household stable? Her maid (Naomi routine abuse of the servant class while “A barbed feminist fable Ackie) stands by, rendered mute by the Katherine’s self-empowerment may feel of class, cruelty and trouble she sees. Pugh, in virtually every proto-feminist in intent. scene, is mesmerising – her insolence “Oldroyd coolly subverts the sexual power that feels smouldering as she’s corseted into fusty conventions of British costume absolutely true to its tight bodices and hooped skirts, her drama… [the film] deliberately incurs period and uncannily abandon as sumptuous as her flesh as many debts to Chandler and when she casts them off. Hammett as it does to Austen or Eliot.” attuned to the present A CIVIC Fri 28 Jul, 8.45 pm Twenty-first century identity — Jonathan Murray, Cineaste moment.” A HWOOD Sun 30 Jul, 6.00 pm politics flicker through this revisionist B CIVIC Fri 4 Aug, 4.15 pm — A.O. Scott, NY Times masterpiece theatre. Colour-blind
Loving Pia Manifesto At Elske Pia
Director/Producer/ Daniel Borgman Screenplay: Director/Photography: Julian Rosefeldt Daniel Borgman Germany 2017 | 94 mins Denmark 2017 | 99 mins Photography: Christoph Krauss Producer: Katja Adomeit Editor: Bobby Good Editors: Sofie Marie Kristensen, Music: Nils Frahm, Ben Lukas Daniel Borgman Boysen Music: Kristian Paulsen With: Cate Blanchett With: Pia Skovgaard, Festivals: Sundance 2017 Céline Skovgaard, Jens Jensen, M offensive language & drug Putte Jensen references Festivals: Berlin 2017 In Danish with English subtitles PG nudity
New Zealand-born director Daniel When she meets the solitary Jens Communism, Dadaism, Futurism, instructive notes from Jim Jarmusch, Borgman has been living and making working on his boat at the harbour, Fluxus, Minimalism, Surrealism, Pop Stan Brakhage and Werner Herzog. films in Denmark since 2008. (He she decides that he may be the one. Art… Declarations drawn from some As myriad rallying calls are radically returned here for his debut feature The two innocents set out to test their 60 published artistic and/or political separated from their historical moments, The Weight of Elephants in 2013.) His compatibility – and their competence manifestos spring from the mouths of this ingenious barrage of displaced second feature is a delicate and quietly as travellers – on a trip to Copenhagen. 13 vividly realised fictional characters revolutions can be both funny and moving hybrid of fact and fiction Filmed in the old square ratio and in Manifesto. Each is played, in a freshly illuminating at the same time. developed from the life of – and awash with gentle, natural light, the dazzling feat of chameleon artistry, by “If the art world gave out Oscars, starring – Pia, a 60-year-old woman film has the faded glow of a treasured Cate Blanchett. German artist Julian Cate Blanchett should win for her tour with intellectual disability. She lives in valentine, while absorbing us in the Rosefeldt’s film, drawn from his widely de force of starring roles in Manifesto.” a tiny house in the country with her contradictions of family bonds, the travelled multi-screen installation, — Roberta Smith, NY Times 84-year-old mother Guittou. In the habits of loneliness and the animating plants each of these characters within a story, both worry about what will power of Pia’s professed faith in marvellously precise theatrical setting. happen to Pia when her mother dies. romance. A Russian choreographer schools Guittou believes she has found a her dancers on Fluxus philosophy; a TV sympathetic care facility. However Pia, A QSt Tue 1 Aug, 6.15 pm anchor woman delivers Sol LeWitt’s A AC Sun 23 Jul, 8.45 pm who has never had a boyfriend, is B QSt Wed 2 Aug, 1.45 pm notes on Conceptual Art; a pre-school B AC Mon 31 Jul, 1.45 pm certain that she needs to find a man teacher recites the rules of Dogma 95 as in order to continue to live at home. she corrects her pupils’ work, adding
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My Life As a Courgette Ma vie de courgette
A bunch of kids from nightmare The World in Your Window backgrounds find refuge and companionship in this soulful and Director: Claude Barras subversive Oscar-nominated animated Switzerland/France 2016 | 66 mins Producers: Max Karli, Pauline Gygax, feature. Painstakingly crafted over Armelle Glorennec, Eric Jacquot, Marc Bonny a decade, Courgette marks another Screenplay: Céline Sciamma. Based on the novel by Gilles Paris triumph for animation director Kim Animation director: Kim Keukeleire Keukeleire, who worked on Wes Music: Sophie Hunger Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox. French Voices: Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud, Michel Vuillermoz, Raul Ribera, “My Life As a Courgette is a stop- Estelle Hennard, Elliot Sanchez, Lou Wick, motion cartoon, blessed with both Brigitte Rosset, Monica Budde, Adrien Barazzone, Véronique Montel a Swiss director (Claude Barras), and English Voices: Erick Abbate, Ness Krell, an ambition not to do anything the Romy Beckman, Nick Offerman, Barry Mitchell, Clara Young, Olivia Bucknor, Amy Sedaris, conventional way. As if the story of a Susanne Blakeslee, Will Forte, Ellen Page nine-year-old orphan named Courgette Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight), Melbourne, Toronto, London 2016; Sundance 2017 who’s sent to a group home after the Nominated, Best Animated Feature, Academy death of his alcoholic mother could be Awards 2017 PG sexual references considered even slightly conventional… The animated characters… are beautifully realized, and the delicate touch of Barras works wonders. ‘There’s nobody left to love us,’ he Skillfully adapted by Céline Sciamma says in a moment of quiet, fleeting “Captivating and vibrant... (Girlhood) from the hit 2002 young realization that can level you. Still, My Life As a Courgette adult novel by Gilles Paris, the film has the feeling of melancholy is undercut a keen eye and ear for the way children by the resilience of these children, is so warm, so alive, that process the inconceivable (neglect, their ability to forge relationships and we forget we’re watching In English – dubbed abuse, deportation, murder). create life out of chaos… cartoon figures.” A AWT Fri 21 Jul, 6.30 pm All is not hopeless for Courgette. My Life As a Courgette never — Stephanie Zacharek, Time A WGATE Sun 23 Jul, 4.00 pm A cop named Raymond shows him sacrifices what’s true for what’s trite A HWOOD Sat 5 Aug, 2.00 pm kindness, as does a new girl named and easier to sell. This is animation as Camille. Even the red-haired school bully an art form, inspiring and indelible.” In French with English subtitles Simon forges a hard-won connection. — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone A QSt Sun 6 Aug, 12.45 pm
Marjorie Prime Patti Cake$
Director/Screenplay: For the Light Geremy Jasper Director: USA 2017 | 108 mins Michael Almereyda Photography: Federico Cesca USA 2017 | 98 mins Editor: Brad Turner Music: Geremy Jasper, Screenplay: Michael Almereyda. Jason Binnick Based on the play by Jordan With: Danielle Macdonald, Briget Harrison Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay, Photography: Sean Price Williams Mamoudou Athie, Cathy Music: Mica Levi Moriarty, Sahr Ngaujah With: Geena Davis, Lois Smith, Festivals: Sundance, SXSW, Jon Hamm, Tim Robbins, New Directors/New Films, Stephanie Andujar, Azumi Tsutsui San Francisco, Cannes (Directors’ Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam, Fortnight) 2017 San Francisco 2017 Censors rating tbc M suicide references
In Marjorie Prime’s not-too-distant Davis and Tim Robbins’ absorbing “Two stars are born in Patti Cake$, audience at the film’s world premiere future, dementia has not yet been conversations around their mother’s one of those rare crowd-pleasers that gave an audible gasp when she cured, though holographic companions health and family history guide the earn their love honestly. The first is answered her first question because are a household appliance. An film away from its sci-fi surfaces and the sensational Danielle Macdonald, no one had a clue she was Australian 80-something widow, played achingly towards a quite moving portrait of how who plays the second: the movie’s let alone not American. In a movie by veteran actor Lois Smith, has one adults worry about their parents and title character, also known as Patricia like this, filmmakers often have to cast in the image of her husband when eventually become responsible for Dombrowski, a poor white New Jersey convince the audience an actor playing he was still in his 40s (and as handsome them. There’s a beautiful cadence to rapper who, with her tiny diverse posse a musician is as good as the story says as Jon Hamm). But as this wise film these dialogue-rich vignettes of sorting yearns to cross the bridge to fame there are. At no point in Patti Cake$ explores, these machines are far from through memories and contemplating and fortune. Written and directed by is there ever a hint that Macdonald is adequate replacements for loved ones loss, quietly transformed from their Geremy Jasper, the movie treads familiar unable to legitimately rap. She’s simply passed on, capable only of absorbing stage origins by Almereyda’s deft touch aspirational ground: Patricia has dreams, a revelation.” — Gregory Ellwood, stories from the past and reflecting and an excellent Mica Levi score. pluck and obstacles (she’s routinely The Playlist them back to their owners. — Tim Wong taunted because of her weight), but Director Michael Almereyda has her outsider status isn’t fetishized or followed up his terrific Experimenter A AC Sat 22 Jul, 8.45 pm romanticized, and she’s divinely real.” A QSt Fri 21 Jul, 8.30 pm with an equally layered study of human A AC Sun 23 Jul, 6.30 pm — Manohla Dargis, NY Times B QSt Mon 24 Jul, 1.30 pm nature, here in the face of ageing and B AC Tue 25 Jul, 1.30 pm “It’s hard to equate what a star- A HWOOD Tue 25 Jul, 6.30 pm death. As Marjorie’s next of kin, Geena B AC Mon 31 Jul, 3.45 pm making turn this is for Macdonald. The A CIVIC Fri 4 Aug, 9.00 pm
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On Body and Soul The Ornithologist Teströl és lélekröl O Ornitólogo
Director: João Pedro Rodrigues Director/Screenplay: Portugal/France/Brazil Ildikó Enyedi 2016 | 117 mins Hungary 2017 | 116 mins Screenplay: João Pedro Rodrigues, Photography: Máté Herbai João Rui Guerra da Mata Editor: Károly Szalai With: Paul Hamy, Xelo Cagiao, Music: Ádám Balázs Han Wen, Chan Suan, With: Alexandra Borbély, Géza Flora Bulcao, Isabelle Puntel Morcsányi, Réka Tenki Festivals: Locarno, Toronto, Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2017 Busan, New York 2016; Rotterdam, San Francisco, Sydney Golden Bear (Best Film), Berlin 2017 International Film Festival 2017 In Portuguese, Mandarin and In Hungarian with English Latin, with English subtitles subtitles CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc
The big winner at this year’s Berlin Film awkward and fraught. Mária is In a stunning opening sequence our animals and humans (and, perhaps, Festival, collecting the Golden Bear especially threatened by so devastating hero Fernando kayaks out into the creatures in between), all more or less along with the critics’ and audience a loss of control. spectacular Portuguese wilderness hallucinatory, as Fernando tries to awards, is also front-runner for the Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul to watch birds – and they watch him find his way back to his camp, or to weirdest romantic comedy of the year. expertly negotiates a bracing range back, until he is swept away by the civilisation, or to somewhere entirely Mária is the new girl at the abattoir, of tones, from the ravishing wildlife rapids and left for dead on a riverbank. new. a quality controller with mild autism; footage of the dream sequences, to Sometime later he is found by a pair Director João Pedro Rodrigues (To Endre is the grizzled financial controller blunt documentary of slaughterhouse of Chinese Christian women who Die Like a Man) presents his picaresque with his own personal issues and a processes, to romcom whimsy, to have lost their way trying to follow allegory of identity lost and found as dead arm. Work is grim, drab and cringe comedy, to arrestingly painful an ancient pilgrim trail. Just how far an intimate epic of visionary excess regimented, and they can manage only drama. It’s all formally exquisite and they have strayed becomes painfully that’s by turns goofy, sombre, poetic an awkward, muttering acquaintance. beautifully shot, making striking apparent when Fernando awakens tied and awkward. This is risky, exciting But in their dreams they escape into use of fragmented widescreen. to a tree like Saint Sebastian. filmmaking from a bold and original lyrical fantasies in which they wander — Andrew Langridge From here the film executes ever auteur. — Andrew Langridge through snow-laden forests as deer. more disorienting narrative turns When they discover that these dreams A RIALTO Sun 23 Jul, 7.30 pm into the horrific, the erotic and the A QSt Mon 24 Jul, 6.15 pm are in fact shared, and that they are B AWT Wed 2 Aug, 3.45 pm absurd, conducting our protagonist B QSt Wed 26 Jul, 1.30 pm thus, presumably, mystically connected, A AWT Thu 3 Aug, 8.45 pm on a pilgrimage of his own through things only become more complicated, a strange series of encounters with HHM907 0617 HHM907
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Western
German director Valeska Grisebach (Longing) turns a keenly observant eye on the macho environment of a Director/Screenplay: German construction camp on Europe’s Valeska Grisebach Germany/Bulgaria/Austria 2017 eastern frontier. 119 mins “It’s better to forget the title of Producers: Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Valeska Grisebach’s Western while Maren Ade, Valeska Grisebach, Michel Merkt you’re watching it… Though this Photography: Bernhard Keller Editor: Bettina Böhler brilliantly observed mood piece about With: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, a German road crew arriving in rural Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Veneta Frangova, Vyara Borisova Bulgaria centres on one lone quietly Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2017 watchful man doing his best to In German, Bulgarian and English, with English subtitles assimilate, it feels as true to, say, the Censors rating tbc builders’ milieu of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet as it does to an oater. Our quiet hero Meinhard (Meinhard Neumann) aside, the crew behave brashly when they arrive, camping on a hill and raising a German flag, but soon find their work stymied by lack of water and the non-arrival of gravel. Meanwhile non-professional actors as its grizzled Meinhard has borrowed a white horse migrant construction workers in a “The filmmaker approaches from a local fixer, and gang boss Vincent foreign land… Although attuned to her fraught collision of has upset the villagers by ducking a emotional hardship, Western is far from local girl in the river. The film unfolds a miserable trudge… Free of affectation nations with humaneness from these tensions in deeply satisfying and distinguished by a generosity and and hope – and the result intimate, brooding encounters.” sincerity exceedingly rare in cinema, is utterly captivating.” — Nick James, Sight & Sound Western’s poignant celebration of “Valeska Grisebach’s stunning human resilience is nothing short of — Daniel Kasman, Mubi A RIALTO Sat 22 Jul, 6.30 pm existential study of masculinity tips its spectacular.” — Giovanni Marchini A AC Sun 30 Jul, 7.30 pm hat to classic genre cinema even as it Camia, Sight & Sound B AC Fri 4 Aug, 3.45 pm casts an extraordinary troupe of
That’s Not Me The Untamed La región salvaje
Gregory Erdstein Oh What a Alice Foulcher* Wonderful Feeling Director: Gregory Erdstein Director: Amat Escalante Australia 2017 | 86 mins Mexico 2016 | 100 mins Screenplay: Gregory Erdstein, With: Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Alice Foulcher Jesús Meza, Eden Villavicencio Photography: Festivals: Venice, Toronto, Shelley Farthing-Dawe San Sebastián, London 2016; Editor: Ariel Shaw Rotterdam, San Francisco 2017 Music: Nicholas Pollock Best Director, Venice Film Festival With: Alice Foulcher, Isabel Lucas, 2016 Richard Davies, Belinda Misevski, In Spanish with English subtitles Rowan Davie, Andrew Gilbert R16 violence, nudity, sex scenes, Festivals: Sydney 2017 offensive language & content that M sex scenes, offensive language may disturb & drug use CATHARINE NEILSON MANUEL CLARO, MARTÍN ESCALANTE Melbourne director Gregory Erdstein Let’s just say she does not always A mysterious visitor offers gratification and Alejandra and observes that maybe and co-writer/star Alice Foulcher have correct those who mistake her for the to the sexually oppressed in this they should be getting some of what created a sassy, slyly sympathetic real actress in the family. Polly’s sorry arresting mix of hard-edged realism she’s been getting. She directs them satire of celebrity dreams in this world is amusingly filled out by a wryly and bio-sci-fi from Mexican provocateur to a chalet in the countryside where neatly proportioned debut feature. funny ensemble, including Isabel Lucas Amat Escalante (Heli). Alejandra and a scholarly elderly couple harbour Polly (Foulcher) can’t remember when as a spaced-out compatriot with one her husband Angel live with their the mysterious guest. Not everyone she didn’t fantasise about being an toe firmly placed on the Hollywood young sons in Guanajuato, Mexico. granted access to the chalet comes acclaimed actress, and she’s already ladder; Richard Davies as a self-styled While the swaggering Angel lords it out exhilarated. As in the fierce Heli, turned down daytime TV to prove it. guru of Melbourne fringe theatre; over his family, he’s also lining up Escalante’s indictment of posturing So it’s a rude shock when her identical and Catherine Hill and Andrew Gilbert his next furtive hotel room hook-up machismo is graphic, incisive and twin sister Amy (Foulcher again), as doting stage parents, eager to with Fabián, Alejandra’s brother. super-realistic. Envisaging its nemesis showing no such qualms, steps from fill scrapbooks with reports of their The gentle humanitarian in the film, as nature consumed by sexual ecstasy, Aussie soap to HBO kudos and starts daughters’ stellar achievements. Fabián works in the local hospital. he’s created one memorably weird dating Jared Leto. He too strains under the yoke of the mash-up of a movie. Polly’s desperate measures are best domineering Angel. left to the film to divulge, but they B AWT Fri 21 Jul, 1.15 pm* One day a young stranger arrives A CIVIC Sun 23 Jul, 8.30 pm put her firmly in line with the unruly A AWT Sun 23 Jul, 3.15 pm* at the clinic, strung out but strangely A HWOOD Tue 25 Jul, 8.45 pm young women driving such era-defining A WGATE Sun 30 Jul, 3.45 pm exhilarated, with what appears to be B QSt Mon 31 Jul, 4.15 pm comedies as Bridesmaids and Girls. a dog bite. Soon she befriends Fabián A QSt Fri 4 Aug, 6.30 pm
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Hostages Mdzevlebi THRILL Director: Rezo Gigineishvili Georgia/Russia/Poland 2017 | 104 mins Screenplay: Lasha Bugadze, Rezo Gigineishvili Photography: Vladislav Opelyants Editors: Jaroslav Kaminski, Andrey Gamov With: Tina Dalakishvili, Irakli Kvirikadze, Giga Datiashvili, Giorgi Grdzelidze, George Tabidze Festivals: Berlin 2017 In Georgian and Russian, with English subtitles R13 violence
Closely based on real-life events, this and the shocking aftermath that impressive thriller from Georgian Gigineishvili truly shines. — MM director Rezo Gigineishvili depicts an “The near half-hour reconstruction infamous hijacking in exacting detail. of how it all went down – from the In Tbilisi, Georgia, 1983, young actor group’s arrival at the Tbilisi airport Nika and his bride-to-be Ana are to the bloody outcome of a tragic busy planning for their upcoming night – dominates the entire second wedding, while secretly planning a act. Aided by superb production drastic act to overcome the ban on design… the scenario plays out with Soviet citizens travelling abroad. Using utter believability… Without lazy their honeymoon as cover, they and explosions or over-the-top CGI, you five other friends, all from privileged actually see the insane danger of the middle-class backgrounds, plan to situation.” — Zhuo-Ning Su, The Film hijack a scheduled flight to the port city Stage of Batumi so they can take it across the nearby border to Turkey and freedom. B QSt Fri 21 Jul, 4.15 pm The stifling paranoia of their risky A HWOOD Sat 22 Jul, 6.30 pm preparations is vividly portrayed, but A QSt Fri 28 Jul, 8.30 pm A WGATE Sat 29 Jul, 7.45 pm it’s in the intensely gripping hijacking
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts Marlina si Pembunuh dalam Empat Babak
Director: Mouly Surya Indonesia/France/ Malaysia/Thailand 2017 93 mins Screenplay: Mouly Surya, Rama Adi With: Marsha Timothy, Dea Panendra, Egi Fedly, Yoga Pratama, Rita Matu Mona, Yayu Unru, Anggun Priambodo Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2017 In Indonesian with English subtitles CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc
While she may be channelling the likes requesting that she cook dinner for of Sergio Leone and Quentin Tarantino, him and his cohorts. But Marlina has Indonesian director Mouly Surya flips other ideas and soon she must make the script with this femme-centric, a long trek to the police station to western-influenced tale of vengeance report the crime, with a very special and justice set on the arid island of piece of evidence. — MM Sumba. It’s a place that steadfastly “Mouly Surya has made the first holds onto its traditional values and Satay Western, and a flamingly feminist strict gender roles. Here the outlaws one at that… At once tightly controlled ride motorbikes and wield machetes, and simmering with righteous fury, but they’re also polite enough to it’s gorgeously lensed, atmospherically warn you they’re coming to rob you… scored and moves inexorably toward or worse. a gratifying payoff.” — Maggie Lee, One such outlaw arrives at the Variety remote homestead of widow Marlina (played by the fantastically stone-faced A HWOOD Tue 1 Aug, 8.45 pm Marsha Timothy), announcing that he A QSt Sat 5 Aug, 6.15 pm and his band will take her money and livestock, and threatens rape before
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Bad Genius Chalard Games Goeng
Inspired by a series of real-life exam Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya cheating scandals, this pulsating teen Thailand 2017 | 130 mins thriller from Thailand is this year’s most Producers: Jira Maligool, Vanridee Pongsittisak, Suwimon Techasupinan, Chenchonnee entertaining Asian genre offering, Soonthornsaratul, Weerachai Yaikwawong delivering blockbuster thrills without Screenplay: Nattawut Poonpiriya, Tanida Hantaweewatana, Vasudhorn Piyaromna resorting to clichéd action or superhero Photography: Phaklao Jiraungkoonkun theatrics. See it first before the Editor: Chonlasit Upanigkit Music: Vichaya Vatanasapt inevitable Hollywood remake. With: Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Straight-A student Lynn resorts to Eisaya Hosuwan, Teeradon Supapunpinyo, Chanon Santinatornkul, Thaneth Warakulnukroh cheating to help her BFF Grace lift her In Thai and English, with English subtitles grades, but Grace blabs to her rich CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc kid boyfriend Pat and soon there is a gaggle of cashed-up students offering to pay handsomely for similar help. Disillusioned by the way the school has exploited her struggling single dad for money, Lynn devises an ingenious plan to beat the system and starts raking in the cash. Buoyed by their success, the three friends set their sights on a scheme to students in an ultra-competitive make millions by scamming the STIC education system, and to the class Genius students try test – an international standardised test inequalities that underpin it. While to beat the system in for students wanting to enrol in the students cheating on their exams may most prestigious overseas universities. not sound like the most cinematic a sublime game of wits They concoct a plan worthy of a high- conceit, director Nattawut Poonpiriya and deception. stakes heist flick, but to do it Lynn makes it work brilliantly, deploying a will need the help of fellow brainbox full arsenal of visual tricks and editing Bank, her rival for a valuable tertiary precision to turn the film’s exam A QSt Sat 22 Jul, 6.30 pm scholarship… sessions into Hitchcockian set pieces of A QSt Wed 26 Jul, 8.15 pm Bad Genius is sensitive to the pure suspense. — MM A HWOOD Wed 2 Aug, 8.30 pm struggles and anxieties faced by
PRESENTED IN Berlin Syndrome ASSOCIATION WITH It Comes at Night
Director: Cate Shortland Director/Screenplay: Australia 2017 | 117 mins Trey Edward Shults Screenplay: Shaun Grant. Based USA 2017 | 92 mins on the novel by Melanie Joosten Photography: Drew Daniels Photography: Germain McMicking Editors: Trey Edward Shults, Editor: Jack Hutchings Matthew Hannam Music: Bryony Marks Music: Brian McOmber With: Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt, With: Joel Edgerton, Christopher Matthias Habich, Emma Bading, Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Elmira Bahrami, Christoph Riley Keough, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Franken Griffin Robert Faulkner, Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2017 David Pendleton, Mikey In English and German, CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc with English subtitles CinemaScope | censors rating tbc
Australian actress Teresa Palmer plays locked her in while he heads out to In a time that might be now, after a domestic thriller joins the rarified introverted Clare, a tourist seeking the teach. plague has emptied the cities, a family company of Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 experience of a lifetime having arrived What follows is a taut thriller of three have boarded themselves up novel The Road and the small handful in Berlin with just her backpack and traversing themes of confinement, in an abandoned backwoods lodge of intimate post-apocalyptic scenarios camera. When she meets Andi (Max control and submission. Director Cate and dedicated every waking moment that puncture through to our deepest Riemelt), she’s prepared to shake off her Shortland (Lore) places the story within to mastering the art of survival. Joel fears… loneliness and talk to a friendly stranger. Berlin although the city itself concedes Edgerton is the family’s patriarch, Don’t hold your breath hoping to He guides her around the city, to the ever-increasingly claustrophobic Carmen Ejogo his wife and Kelvin learn what the plague is. That’s part indulging her fascination for interiors. Clare quickly discovers the Harrison Jr their precious, watchful of what makes Shults’s spare, fablelike photographing GDR architecture, smallest of clues that magnify the 17-year-old son. When a stranger story transcend any number of Walking before dropping her back to her seriousness of her situation. With (Christopher Abbott) breaks into the Dead episodes… It Comes at Night is accommodation for the night. The the doors bolted and windows sealed, house seeking food and refuge for his a film of tense gradations, a chamber mutual attraction is palpable and she how will she escape the binds of her own wife and infant son, the survivalist piece set at the twilight of humanity.” seeks him out the next day at the captivity? — RM nightmare of scarce resources, — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY local bookstore. The sexual tension invisible disease and creeping paranoia culminates back at Andi’s apartment, A AWT Sat 22 Jul, 9.00 pm escalates. A HWOOD Wed 26 Jul, 8.30 pm hidden within an abandoned residential B AWT Tue 25 Jul, 3.45 pm “A major statement on the subject A CIVIC Wed 2 Aug, 9.15 pm complex. In the harsh light of the of civilization in freefall, writer-director B QSt Fri 4 Aug, 4.30 pm morning, it appears that he’s mistakenly Trey Edward Shults’s nerve-shredding
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The Merciless The Nile Hilton Incident Bulhandang
Director: Byun Sung-hyun Director/Screenplay: South Korea 2017 Tarik Saleh 120 mins Sweden/Denmark/ Screenplay: Byun Sung-hyun, Germany 2017 | 110 mins Kim Min-soo Photography: Pierre Aim Photography: Cho Hyoung-rae With: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, With: Sul Kyung-gu, Yim Si-wan, Yaser Aly Maher, Slimane Daze Kim Hie-won, Jeon Hye-jin Festivals: Sundance, Sydney 2017 Festivals: Cannes (Midnight Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema), Screenings) 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017 In Korean with English subtitles In Arabic and Dinka, with English CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc subtitles CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc
“The Merciless is a superior slice of Si-wan) and genial but notoriously In Cairo, as revolution stirs in the always ready to be retrofitted for the hardboiled pulp fiction… Set in the amoral gangland veteran Han Jae-ho streets, police detective Noredin is modern age, The Nile Hilton Incident coastal city of Busan, The Merciless (Sul Kyung-gu). This odd couple first assigned to investigate a suspicious transplants the dark, cynical heart of begins with a wry exchange between forge a brotherly bond in prison after death at the Nile Hilton. A beautiful film noir to the streets of Cairo in the a pair of squeamish junior mobsters backing each other up in a string of singer has been murdered in what may days leading up to the 2011 revolution drawing parallels between eating brutal confrontations with bad-ass be a professional hit; the sole witness that would eventually oust President seafood and committing cold-blooded rivals and crooked guards… is an undocumented Sudanese maid, Hosni Mubarak. Swedish writer-director murder. This darkly comic vignette Restlessly jumping back and forth now on the run. Noredin is no stranger Tarik Saleh’s crime drama about a seems to promise a more arch, in time, The Merciless comes together to the corruption that lubricates his cop investigating the murder of a knowing, Tarantino-esque take on like a jigsaw, each piece revealing more department, so the higher up the chain beautiful singer is a paranoid portrait the gangster genre. But the plot soon detail of a grand canvas full of risky his investigation takes him, the more of individual and systemic corruption settles into a more familiar mix… shared secrets, fragile loyalties and certain he is that he is being played. that leaves none of its characters Feeling at times like a Korean- Faustian bargains.” — Stephen Dalton, Winner of the Sundance Film unscarred.” — Nick Schager, Variety language cousin of Martin Scorsese’s Hollywood Reporter Festival Grand Jury Prize, this pungently The Departed, which was itself a remake atmospheric thriller threads police of an Asian crime thriller, The Merciless B QSt Tue 25 Jul, 4.00 pm procedure through its depiction of A AC Fri 4 Aug, 8.15 pm revolves around a generation-spanning A HWOOD Thu 27 Jul, 8.30 pm a labyrinthine regime on the brink A AC Sun 6 Aug, 6.45 pm bromance between youthful wannabe A CIVIC Sun 30 Jul, 8.45 pm of collapse. A QSt Thu 3 Aug, 8.30 pm gangster Jo Hyun-su (K-pop star Yim “Proof that classical genres are
A Prayer Before Dawn Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
Director: Rory Kennedy USA 2017 | 118 mins Director: Screenplay: Mark Bailey, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire Jack Youngelson Photography: Alice Gu, Don King France/UK 2017 Editor: Azin Samari 116 mins Music: Nathan Larson Screenplay: Jean-Stéphane With: Laird Hamilton, Gabrielle Sauvaire, Nick Saltrese Reece, Nick Carroll, Darrick With: Joe Cole, Billy Moore, Doerner, Sam George, Vithaya Pansringarm Bill Hamilton Festivals: Cannes (Midnight Festivals: Sundance 2017 Screenings) 2017 In English and Thai, with English CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc
“At once exhausting and astonishing, An international bestseller in 2014, The life and exploits of surf legend lacking a functioning fear mechanism, this no-holds-barred adaptation of Moore’s A Prayer Before Dawn: A Laird Hamilton are rewardingly covered this portrait of the charismatic big- British junkie-turned-pugilist Billy Nightmare in Thailand is the kind in this exemplary sports documentary, wave surfer catalogues almost four Moore’s Thai prison memoir is a big, of redemptive misery memoir that weaving footage familiar and new decades of Hamilton’s achievements bleeding feat of extreme cinema, given could easily have invited more lurid or around a frank interview with the while offering an admiring assessment elevating human dimension by rising mawkish mainstream film treatment. unfailingly forthright man himself. of his unstoppable drive. Tapping star Joe Cole’s ferociously physical lead Moore (who appears briefly on “The pioneering big-wave surfer into a wealth of breathtaking action performance… A Prayer Before Dawn screen as his own father) should be gets the full legacy treatment in Rory footage, the film naturally is at its most appropriately premiered at Cannes glad his book landed in the hands of Kennedy’s rip-roaring account of a life exciting when it puts us right there in as a midnight screening – the right Sauvaire, [a] filmmaker with a visceral spent conquering untameable walls of the surging waters.” — David Rooney, slot for a film that mixes down-and- understanding of bodily strain and its water. Hollywood Reporter dirty fight-night thrills with a kind of effect on the psyche.” — Guy Lodge, Taking a breather from the social- heightened sensory experimentalism, Variety issues docs that have been her main hypnotically fixated with bodies and sphere, prolific nonfiction filmmaker motion. (It’s certainly not every film that Rory Kennedy steers the audience on calls to mind, by turns, such disparate A QSt Sun 23 Jul, 8.15 pm an exhilarating ride in Take Every Wave: A WGATE Sun 23 Jul, 8.00 pm reference points as Midnight Express, B QSt Mon 24 Jul, 3.45 pm The Life of Laird Hamilton. An extreme- A CIVIC Mon 24 Jul, 8.45 pm Only God Forgives and Jean-Claude A CIVIC Tue 25 Jul, 9.00 pm sports film that’s also a laser-focused A QSt Sun 30 Jul, 9.00 pm Van Damme in Kickboxer.) biographical study of a crazy man
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Wind River
Following up his energetic scripting for Sicario and Hell or High Water, actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Director/Screenplay: Taylor Sheridan Sheridan takes the director’s chair for USA 2017 | 111 mins Producers: Basil Iwanyk, Peter Berg, Matthew this chilly backwoods thriller set in the George, Wayne Rogers, Elizabeth A. Bell remote Wind River Indian reservation, Photography: Ben Richardson Wyoming. Jeremy Renner stars as Editor: Gary Roach Music: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis Cory Lambert, an expert marksman With: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, employed by the US Fish and Wildlife Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal, Julia Jones, Kelsey Asbille, James Jordan, Teo Briones, Service to cull dangerous animals. While Apesanahkwat, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, out on a job he discovers the body of a Eric Lange, Althea Sam Festivals: Sundance, Cannes (Un Certain Regard), young Native American woman. The FBI Sydney 2017 hold jurisdiction and they send rookie Best Director (Un Certain Regard), Cannes Film Festival 2017 agent Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc to investigate. She soon realises she’s in over her head, so looks to Lambert to help her hunt down a predator of a different kind. — MM “Wind River is a modern western, and one of very few forays into the © 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE genre that’s set in snow country… “Sheridan’s beady, inquisitive script Sheridan and cinematographer Ben scrutinises all its characters’ credentials “Delivers shrewd insights Richardson use that landscape in turn… But when it comes down to into troubling American beautifully in a story that reaches it – and during some blistering, Sam out in several directions – it’s about, Peckinpah-like set-pieces, in which social issues in a punchy, among other things, communities the bullets strike with the force of action-and-violence-filled of forgotten people, the intricacies thunderbolts, it most emphatically does package.” — Todd McCarthy, of gender dynamics and the ways in – they’re just people with guns in the which violence against women can be middle of nowhere, each ready to fight Hollywood Reporter A MK Sun 23 Jul, 8.15 pm insidiously veiled. The story comes to their corner to the bitterest of ends.” B QSt Mon 31 Jul, 2.00 pm rest in a way that’s both somber and — Robbie Collin, The Telegraph A AWT Wed 2 Aug, 9.00 pm gratifying.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Time
Wùlu The Wound Inxeba
Director/Screenplay: Each to Their Own Daouda Coulibaly France/Senegal/Mali Director: John Trengove 2016 | 95 mins South Africa/Germany/ Photography: Pierre Milon The Netherlands/France Editor: Julien Leloup 2017 | 88 mins With: Ibrahim Koma, Inna Modja, Ismaël N’Diaye, Jean-Marie Traoré, Screenplay: John Trengove, Thando Habib Dembélé, Mariame N’Diaye Mgqolozana, Malusi Bengu Festivals: Toronto, London 2016; Photography: Paul Özgür New Directors/New Films 2017 With: Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay Ncoyini In French and Bambara, with Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2017 English subtitles In Xhosa, Afrikaans and English, CinemaScope | R16 violence, drug with English subtitles use, sexual material & content CinemaScope | M violence, that may disturb offensive language & sex scenes
“Malian director Daouda Coulibaly’s made a familiar story singularly his Ukwaluka is the Xhosa tradition of male guardian through the ritual is Xolani, auspicious debut is a pulse-pounding own. And while much remains the circumcision that separates 18-year- played in a provocative act of casting political thriller about a low-level same – the crime, the punishment and olds from their families for a period of by Nakhane Touré, an out gay South transit worker turned drug trafficker, the intimations of incest – here, acts healing, fasting and manhood-proving African singer. Xolani is a poor whose rapid ascent in Bamako’s of individual wrongdoing tend to pale tests of stamina. In making this the warehouse worker who takes annual criminal underworld entangles him next to the wrongs of postcolonialism scene for a suspenseful psycho- leave to join his friend Vija to attend with the military, the government, and and organized terror. That deepens the drama, director John Trengove – who the camp. Mocking so much enforced eventually al-Qaeda… Suspenseful tragedy of Ladji (an excellent Ibrahim is white – and his cowriters, Thando masculinity and needling Xolani about and impeccably paced, Coulibaly’s first Koma)… who, even as he advances Mgqolozana and Malusi Bengu, defy his unmanly devotion to Vija, Kwanda feature marks him as… equally skilled through the underworld, remains as the ‘what happens on the mountain, becomes increasingly disruptive. at crafting thrilling set pieces and at much a victim as a victimizer.” stays on the mountain’ ethos of the Expertly playing our fears for both the shining a critical light on systems of — Manohla Dargis, NY Times tradition. They also demonstrate with young initiate and his targets, Trengove power.” — Cameron Bailey, Toronto devastating conviction how that code brings the tension to a shocking peak. International Film Festival might struggle in the modern world to “Scarface is the genre gift that keeps withstand such exposure. on giving, even when set in Mali. Yet A QSt Mon 31 Jul, 6.30 pm Kwanda, a privileged, thoroughly A QSt Mon 24 Jul, 8.30 pm one of the strengths of Wùlu is that B QSt Tue 1 Aug, 4.15 pm urbanised young Xhosa man, is B QSt Tue 25 Jul, 1.45 pm its writer-director, Daouda Coulibaly, A QSt Sun 6 Aug, 6.30 pm compelled by his father to submit to A QSt Thu 27 Jul, 6.30 pm in a tense, tight feature debut, has these traditional rites. His appointed
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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail REALITY FRAMING East Meets West Director: Steve James USA 2016 | 88 mins Photography: Tom Bergmann Editors: John Farbrother, David E. Simpson With: Thomas Sung, Jill Sung, Vera Sung, Heather Sung, Hwei Lin Sung, Chanterelle Sung, Cyrus Vance Jr, Matt Taibbi Festivals: Toronto, New York, Amsterdam Documentary 2016 In English, Mandarin and Cantonese, with English subtitles Colour and B&W
Steve James (Hoop Dreams) takes is severely tested by a District Attorney’s us deep into the business and culture office that is determined to make an of New York’s Chinatown as he example of them, oblivious to the race- explores the fortunes of Abacus, the baiting implications of such a punitive only US bank ever indicted for fraud stance. Succinctly outlining the nexus in connection with the subprime of history and culture in which they mortgage scandal of the late 00s. find themselves targeted, James holds As journalist Matt Taibbi explains, the close to the Sungs through their five- banks actually responsible for the crisis year battle. His family portrait is sharp, were all deemed “too big to fail… funny and stirring. and Abacus [with a mere six branches] “An exemplary piece of filmmaking, is small enough to jail.” an investigation into two kinds of Thomas Sung, a Chinese-American double standards.” — Tom Charity, lawyer, founded the bank in the 50s Sight & Sound to invigorate Chinatown businesses, themselves often family-owned B AC Mon 24 Jul, 2.15 pm and unsupported by the major banks. A RIALTO Tue 25 Jul, 6.15 pm Sung’s sense of mission, carried B RIALTO Wed 26 Jul, 4.15 pm forward by his formidable daughters, A AC Sat 5 Aug, 4.00 pm
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Director: Fred Peabody Canada 2016 | 92 mins Producers: Peter Raymont, Andrew Munger, Steve Ord Photography: John Westheuser Editors: Jim Munro, James Yates With: Jeremy Scahill, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, John Carlos Frey, Cenk Uygur Festivals: Toronto, Amsterdam Documentary 2016
© WHITE PINE PICTURES Completed before the Trump into Democracy Now’s 2015 coverage The profusion of excellent documentaries ascendancy, this juxtaposition of of the Yemeni Civil War, as well as submitted to us is staggering. We try to steer interviews with contemporary journalists the 2016 presidential election. It’s with historical film now reminds us that remarkably nonpartisan, revealing that a course that favours formal sophistication there’s nothing new about fake news. the title does indeed refer to every and complexity, while allowing ourselves on “Director Fred Peabody brings on government and politician, even those big-name investigative journalists such that we admire and align our ideals occasion to fall for the most forthright advocacy as Matt Taibbi, Jeremy Scahill, Glenn with.” — Kimber Myers, LA Times and appeals to the heartstrings. Greenwald, Amy Goodman and others “The establishment reporters, to create a damning indictment of without a doubt, know a lot of things You will find more fine examples filling the mainstream media. All Governments I don’t know. But a lot of what they Lie weaves together the efforts of these know isn’t true.” — I.F. Stone Aotearoa section of the programme and in the contemporary figures with the impact sections that follow. Also in our Big Nights, of Stone, who covered Lyndon B. Johnson, the Vietnam War and more. Thrill and For All Ages sections. In other words, All Governments Lie is a timely, B AC Fri 28 Jul, 4.15 pm documentaries are everywhere at NZIFF. convincing documentary that will A AC Mon 31 Jul, 8.30 pm cause audiences to question what they see and read. It offers insight
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I Am Not Your Negro
“Whatever you think about the past and future of what used to be called ‘race relations’ – white supremacy and Director: Raoul Peck the resistance to it, in plainer English – USA/France 2016 | 93 mins Producers: Rémi Grellety, Raoul Peck, Hébert Peck this movie will make you think again, Screenplay: Raoul Peck, James Baldwin and may even change your mind. Photography: Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, Though its principal figure, the novelist, Turner Ross Editor: Alexandra Strauss playwright and essayist James Baldwin, Music: Alexei Aigui is a man who has been dead for nearly Narrator: Samuel L. Jackson With: James Baldwin, Malcolm X, 30 years, you would be hard-pressed to Martin Luther King Jr, Medgar Evers, find a movie that speaks to the present Lorraine Hansberry Festivals: Toronto, New York 2016; Berlin 2017 moment with greater clarity and force, People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film insisting on uncomfortable truths Festival 2016 Nominated, Best Documentary, Academy Awards and drawing stark lessons from the 2017 shadows of history… Panorama Audience Award, Berlin Film Festival 2017 B&W and Colour To call I Am Not Your Negro a movie about James Baldwin would be to understate [director Raoul] Peck’s achievement. It’s more of a posthumous collaboration, an uncanny and thrilling communion between words – some of the most powerful the filmmaker… and his subject. The and penetrating ever assembled on the “Masterfully addressing voice-over narration (read by Samuel tortured subject of American identity – the American racial divide, L. Jackson) is entirely drawn from accompany images from old talk shows Baldwin’s work. Much of it comes from and news reports, from classic movies past and present… a notes and letters written in the mid- and from our own decidedly non-post- galvanizing, ominous film, 1970s, when Baldwin was somewhat racial present… thrumming with a sense A AC Fri 21 Jul, 6.30 pm reluctantly sketching out a book, never I Am Not Your Negro is a thrilling A RIALTO Sun 23 Jul, 1.30 pm to be completed, about the lives and introduction to his work, a remedial of history repeating itself.” A MK Sun 23 Jul, 6.15 pm deaths of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X course in American history, and an — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY B CIVIC Tue 1 Aug, 11.30 am and Martin Luther King Jr… advanced seminar in racial politics.” A WGATE Wed 2 Aug, 6.30 pm His published and unpublished — A.O. Scott, NY Times A CIVIC Sun 6 Aug, 12.45 pm
PRESENTED WITH SUPPORT FROM IN ASSOCIATION WITH Austerlitz Dealt
Director/Producer/ Luke Korem Screenplay: Russell Wayne Groves* Sergei Loznitsa Director: Luke Korem Germany 2016 | 94 mins USA 2017 | 85 mins Photography: Sergei Loznitsa, Producer: Russell Wayne Groves Jesse Mazuch Screenplay: Bradley Jackson, Editor: Danielius Kokanauskis Luke Korem Festivals: Venice, Amsterdam Photography: Jacob Hamilton Documentary 2016 With: Richard Turner, Kim Turner, In German, English and Spanish, Asa Spades Turner, Simon Carmel, with English subtitles Lori Dragt, Michaela Vail B&W Festivals: SXSW 2017 Audience Award (Documentary), SXSW Film Festival 2017
In Austerlitz, Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei That’s pretty much it: Loznitsa simply Richard Turner is one of the world’s Turner’s proud refusal to be Loznitsa (Maïdan, The Event), surely the placed his static camera in full view of greatest card magicians. With four defined by his disability is not without world’s foremost documentarian of his camera-toting subjects and filmed. decades of experience, his amazing its drawbacks, as the film savvily crowds, watches wave after wave of The effect is not simple at all, a storm sleight of hand and deft card control demonstrates by contrasting his tourists traipsing through former Nazi of perplexing questions about our are astonishing to see, even before you situation with his sister’s. She too is extermination camps. Loznitsa filmed capacity to process the horrors of which find out he is completely blind. As one blind, but has no compunction about principally in Sachsenhausen, 18 miles humanity is so dreadfully capable. audience member exclaims after seeing using a seeing eye dog to get around. from Berlin, where more than 30,000 The title, with its hint of Auschwitz, his show, “Is there a deeper magic When not performing, Turner is wholly prisoners died during World War II. alludes to the W.G. Sebald novel of the that’s happening?” reliant on his wife, Kim, and his Decked for a summer day trip in t-shirts same name, which also concerns the Director Luke Korem’s portrait of delightfully named son, Asa Spades. and cargo shorts, the tourists throng interrogation of historical evidence for card artistry and stubborn dedication But when Asa leaves for college, Turner past the surviving machinery of living meaning. introduces us to the man behind the has to learn a few new tricks and genocide. We see them looking for Loznitsa’s new feature A Gentle magic. Inspired by the theme song to finally come to terms with his visual somewhere to have lunch, or posing Creature (p43) also screens at NZIFF. Maverick, Turner committed his life impairment. — MM for selfies against the “ARBEIT MACHT to “livin’ on jacks and queens” and the FREI” sign on the gate. We hear snatches A QSt Wed 26 Jul, 6.15 pm gradual loss of his eyesight that began A HWOOD Sat 22 Jul, 2.00 pm of the docents’ scrupulously rehearsed B QSt Wed 2 Aug, 11.45 am when he was nine did little to deter A AWT Mon 31 Jul, 6.15 pm* commentaries and from time to time him. Indeed, if it were up to him, he’d B AWT Tue 1 Aug, 1.15 pm* see a visitor absorbed in thought. rather no one even knew he was blind.
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Dina
Director/Producers: Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles USA 2017 | 101 mins Photography: Adam Uhl Editor: Sofía Subercaseaux Music: Michael Cera With: Dina Buno, Scott Levin Festivals: Sundance 2017 Grand Jury Prize (Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2017
The winner of the US Grand Jury seems more exhausted by the prospect Prize for Documentary at Sundance of a new chapter than hostile. is a portrait of a marriage filmed at Filmmakers Dan Sickles – a such a tender, graceful remove that longstanding family friend – and it scarcely feels like a documentary at Antonio Santini are on hand as Dina all. Dina and her fiancé Scott, both on mounts her campaign to break down the autism spectrum, met at a social Scott’s intense shyness of physical group for neurologically diverse adults. intimacy. There’s no question about ART DESIGN , , She has invited Scott, a Walmart door Scott’s devotion or desire to be with her, CURIOSITIES greeter with a penchant for croony love but when it comes to the human touch, songs, to move in with her ahead of he freezes. The unabashed candour AND A DASH OF the nuptials. with which Dina articulates her pain, While Dina moves into full throttle and recognises his, should gladden the THE ABSURD . wedding planning, the couple are heart of any relationship counsellor. WWW. QTMUSEUMWELLINGTON. COM well supported in their romance by her friends, his family and social A AC Sat 22 Jul, 4.00 pm services. Dina’s wise-cracking mother, B AC Tue 25 Jul, 4.00 pm long accustomed to her daughter’s B RIALTO Fri 28 Jul, 12.30 pm A RIALTO Sun 30 Jul, 3.45 pm “smorgasbord of mental health issues,”
Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
Director: Joe Berlinger USA 2017 | 115 minutes Screenplay: Joe Berlinger, Cy Christiansen Photography: Bob Richman Editor: Cy Christiansen Music: Serj Tankian With: Terry George, Paul Boghossian, Fatma Müge Göçek, Eric Bogosian, John Marshall Evans, Peter Balakian, Michael Bobelian Festivals: Tribeca 2017
At first glance, the latest from history with the help of historians, heavyweight documentarian Joe scholars and filmmakers. But the Berlinger resembles a behind-the- questions multiply. What can depiction scenes production diary for another do to reverse the damage? Is there any grander movie: Terry George’s The one narrative that can do an atrocity Promise, a wartime epic set during like this justice? Can history ever be the Armenian genocide of 1915 more than just a set of lies agreed (starring Oscar Isaac & Christian Bale). upon? Berlinger’s confrontation with But Intent to Destroy quickly reveals these difficult questions is probing and its own intentions as a historical deeply powerful. — JF corrective. Using the film production “Intent to Destroy is a timely as a springboard, Berlinger launches reckoning with the large-scale into his own enquiry into the Armenian suppression of a historical tragedy.” holocaust and exposes one of the most — Elizabeth Bao, Tribeca Film Festival horrific chapters in human history – one A QSt Friday 22 July, 6.15 pm which the Turkish government still B QSt Thu 27 Jul, 2.00 pm A SCT Saturday 23 July, 1.15 pm denies ever happened. A QSt Sun 30 Jul, 11.00 am Exposing their cruel denialism, Berlinger reconstructs this suppressed
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Quest
Quest brings us a vital and disarmingly Director/Photography: intimate picture of American life Jonathan Olshefski through the Obama years as USA 2017 | 105 mins experienced by a young black family Producer: Sabrina Schmidt Gordon Editor: Lindsay Utz living on Philadelphia’s rough north Music: T. Griffin, Christopher Rainey side. The director Jonathan Olshefski With: Christopher Rainey, Christine’a Rainey, Patricia (PJ) Rainey, William Withers, Price set out to make a film about his friend Festivals: Sundance 2017 Christopher ‘Quest’ Rainey’s home recording studio and the community PROUDLY SPONSORED BY that gathered there. He soon extended his frame to include Christine’a (aka Ma Quest), their young daughter Patricia, and Christine’a’s grown-up son from an earlier marriage. When we meet him, Quest is mobilising the neighbourhood to vote for the first black president. The film ends a decade later with the election of the white billionaire who told black voters their lives were already so bad they had nothing to lose. The passage weathering the ordinary storms of life of time is marked by news events – – ill health, bad luck, occasional crossed “An essential reflection successive elections, Hurricane Sandy, purposes. But the Raineys endure of social transitions – for the Newtown shooting – and Patricia’s troubles that are painfully specific to growth from sparky child to spikey their colour and class and moment in better and worse – in young woman. (Like a non-fictional history. Though Olshefski never beats Barack Obama’s America.” Boyhood, the film witnesses children a drum, he leaves no doubt how much — Guy Lodge, Variety growing up and parents growing older the world might gain by showing Quest in mesmerising condensed form.) and his crew the same generosity they B AC Mon 24 Jul, 12.00 pm It’s a warm and engrossing picture extend to the world. A AC Fri 28 Jul, 8.30 pm of smart people making the most of A AC Sat 5 Aug, 6.00 pm A MK Sun 6 Aug, 8.15 pm what they’ve got, helping others and
Kedi
“It’s hard to say whether Ceyda Torun’s Stay delightful and visually splendid Kedi is a documentary about Istanbul, with Director: Ceyda Torun cats, or a documentary about cats Turkey/USA 2016 | 79 mins Producers: Ceyda Torun, Charlie Wuppermann that happens to be set in Istanbul… Photography: Charlie Wuppermann If Kedi is any sort of anthropological Editor: Mo Stoebe examination of the life of a city, it Music: Kira Fontana With: Sari, Bengü, Aslan Parçasi, Psikopat, works because its vision is filtered Deniz, Gamsiz, Duman, Bülent Ustun, through the lazy-looking but in Mine Sogut, Elif Nursad Festivals: Melbourne, Vancouver 2016 fact hyper-aware eyes of our feline In Turkish with English subtitles compatriots. They always see things we can’t. In turning our gaze toward them, we learn deep truths about ourselves. Meanwhile, their lives go on, their brains whirring with thoughts like ‘What is that guy doing on my turf?’ ‘I’d like a nice piece of fish right now,’ and ‘Where’s a good spot to have kittens?’ We see cats thinking all of those things, and more, in Kedi – which while explaining how much his means cat, in Turkish. The picture’s store cat enriches his life and the “Impossible to resist… pleasures are bountiful, particularly neighborhood. The cat recently needed Kedi is almost shamelessly for cat lovers…There are cats sleeping medical care. ‘We all have a running obliviously on unnervingly high-up tab at the vet,’ he says with a shrug. satisfying: a documentary ledges; cats padding across corrugated In all great cities, the magnificent about the thousands rusty-red roofs; cats just hanging out in intersects with the mundane – that’s of scrappy wild cats that doorways, their ears barely twitching what makes them not only livable A HWOOD Fri 21 Jul, 6.30 pm as nearby humans extol their virtues… but vital. The cats of Kedi tell that story, prowl Istanbul with B CIVIC Mon 24 Jul, 10.00 am A baker goes about his daily business, in between naps. They know a good insouciance.” A CIVIC Mon 31 Jul, 6.15 pm creating homey-looking pastries that place when they’ve found it.” B AC Fri 4 Aug, 1.45 pm — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY you’ll wish you could eat immediately, — Stephanie Zacharek, Time A WGATE Sat 5 Aug, 3.30 pm
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Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of Napalm F. Percy Smith
Director: Stuart A. Staples UK 2016 | 54 mins Producers: Stuart A. Staples, Director: David Reeve Claude Lanzmann Photography/Animation: | F. Percy Smith France 2017 100 mins Editors: David Reeve, Producer: François Margolin Stuart A. Staples Photography: Caroline Music: Tindersticks, Champetier Thomas Belhom, Christine Ott Editor: Chantal Hymans Festivals: London 2016; Festivals: Cannes (Out of Rotterdam 2017 Competition), Sydney 2017 B&W In French with English subtitles
“Minute Bodies, directed by Stuart with pin-point reflections on their sleek In 1958 Claude Lanzmann, the future Lanzmann may definitely be in love Staples of the Tindersticks, is a surfaces creating alien eyes… director of Shoah, joined a western with his own voice… but he’s also a tribute to the pioneering science Rather than cleaving to Smith’s delegation of young communists to supreme storyteller who has relied on films of F. Percy Smith, setting images pedagogical intentions, this film visit North Korea. Sixty years later he first-hand accounts throughout his from Smith’s work to a sympathetic reinvents its source material, returns, looking beyond the displays career to bear witness to some of the musical score to create a new and emphasising the beauty of his work of national confidence that greet darkest periods in modern history. In hypnotical silent movie. Smith’s and its experimental allure… While it all visitors to explore the historical Napalm he uses his own experience to movies, all shot at his home in north may not help anyone pass their science resonance of a lost love. fuel the narrative… What results is a London, captured plants and animals, exams, it is ideally scaled to seep under “At 91 years and counting, unique look at a place and people who but used magnification, timelapse the audience’s skins and into their venerable documentary filmmaker we have mostly known through news photography and a little inventive veins.” — Pamela Hutchison, Sight & Claude Lanzmann still has it in reports or government propaganda, showmanship to reveal their essential Sound him to both inform and go against but rarely in movies through such processes: photosynthesis, pollination, convention… Not that this combination a human point of view.” — Jordan reproduction, growth, decay… travel diary and personal recollection in Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter Sprouting seeds bud delicately furred any way champions the regime of Kim roots in the darkness of the soil; a B QSt Fri 28 Jul, 12.15 pm Jong-un and his predecessors, but it A QSt Sat 22 Jul, 12.30 pm flower with quivering petals opens to B QSt Sat 29 Jul, 11.15 am does give us a good idea of how North B QSt Wed 26 Jul, 11.30 am reveal its veined heart; the globular tips B QSt Wed 2 Aug, 6.30 pm Korea became what it is, and why it is B QSt Fri 28 Jul, 1.30 pm of slime fungus glisten in the gloom, unlikely to change anytime soon…
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Step
If you come to NZIFF in search of real-life heroines, the ‘Lethal Ladies’ of Baltimore Leadership School for Young Director: Amanda Lipitz Women are here to steal your hearts USA 2017 | 83 mins Producers: Steven Cantor, Amanda Lipitz – before they dazzle you in a blaze of Photography: Casey Regan step dance fury. Editor: Penelope Falk Opened in 2009 with a mandate to Music: Laura Karpman, Raphael Saadiq With: Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger, Tayla Solomon, send every student to university, the Gari McIntyre, Paula Dofat school is well attuned to the fractured Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco 2017 Special Jury Prize (Documentary), Sundance Film home lives and poverty facing many Festival 2017 of its brightest charges. The film trails three very differently positioned seniors as each is guided through a nerve- wracking college application process. Where they find unity, relief and exhilaration is on the step dance team. Under the new step mistress, that’s no walk in the park either: she’s pushing them to kill at the state dance-off. Director Amanda Lipitz gets close to her subjects and into their relationships “Step is so much fun, it could cause with the women who champion and some doc purists to gripe at the glossy “Inspirational… Step tells challenge them: their mothers, a touches… but that’s where the film a story that highlights heroically persistent college counsellor, may ultimately prove most powerful. and the no-bullshit step coach. With By offering some of society’s most the intertwining values so much effort concentrated on marginalized members – young black of hope and education.” getting into college, the outcome of women – their time in the spotlight — Steve Greene, Indiewire the step competition assumes a lesser without any inkling of condescension significance than in the standard ‘Best or exploitation, Lipitz does more than A RIALTO Fri 21 Jul, 6.30 pm in Show’ documentary, which only just entertain or enlighten. She’s B CIVIC Fri 28 Jul, 1.00 pm makes it more loaded when the big breaking down barriers in nonfiction A CIVIC Thu 3 Aug, 6.30 pm A WGATE Sun 6 Aug, 5.45 pm moment suddenly arrives. cinema.” — Geoff Berkshire, Variety
Nowhere to Hide Starless Dreams Royahaye dame sobh
Director/Screenplay: Director/Producer/ Zaradasht Ahmed Screenplay: Norway/Sweden/Iraq Mehrdad Oskouei 2016 | 86 mins Iran 2016 | 76 mins Photography: Nori Sharif, Photography: Mohammad Haidadi Zaradasht Ahmed Editor: Amir Adibparvar With: Nori Sharif Music: Afshin Azizi Festivals: Amsterdam Festivals: Berlin, Hot Docs, Documentary 2016 Melbourne, London 2016 Best Film, International Best Documentary, London Film Documentary Festival Amsterdam Festival 2016 2016 M drug references & sexual abuse In Arabic with English subtitles themes
Nori Sharif was a nurse working the ‘triangle of death’ by the media, The young female inmates of a Tehran of Tehran and makes a movie that at the Jalawla Medical Center in becomes a battleground of shifting detention facility find more support finds enough air to breathe within central Iraq when he was first filmed conflicts. Nori, his wife and children see in each other’s company and in the the stifling walls. The girls’ stories are by Kurdish-born director Zaradasht their homeland engulfed in violence, attention of a respectful filmmaker uniformly heartbreaking, but Starless Ahmed. As American troops withdrew confusion and uncertainty about who than they ever expect to find outside Dreams is no parade of misery. Like in 2011, Nori remained committed the enemy is. “This is an undiagnosed prison walls. Under no illusions about much of the best nonfiction cinema to hospital work and cheerful about war,” he says, his camera surveying the the nature of the world that has this year, Oskouei knows how to open his prospects. All too soon eruptions devastation of a car bombing. “All we brought them to this place, their often up routes toward true empathy and of fundamentalist violence made it see are the symptoms.” Intimate and fatalistic perspectives are delivered understanding by including his own too risky for the filmmaker to stay, immediate, it’s an unforgettable picture with vitality, defiance and surprising processes and disappointments. It’s a and he handed over the camera to of aspiration eroded but still ardent in playfulness. Filmmaker Mehrdad film that thinks and feels and asks us his subject. This compelling film is the face of mayhem. Oskouei has exercised extraordinary to do the same.” — Robert Greene, edited together from the subsequent patience in securing permission to film Sight & Sound video diaries in which Nori records his in the facility and winning the trust of struggle to preserve and protect his his subjects. The outcome may be the young family amidst the destruction A AC Tue 25 Jul, 6.15 pm most richly peopled and unshakeable A RIALTO Mon 24 Jul, 6.15 pm of infrastructure and the relentless B AC Wed 26 Jul, 2.00 pm documentary of the year. B RIALTO Fri 28 Jul, 2.45 pm disintegration of civilised life. We “Mehrdad Oskouei goes inside an B AC Wed 2 Aug, 4.30 pm A AC Sat 5 Aug, 2.15 pm watch as central Iraq, a region dubbed all-girl detention facility on the outskirts
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The War Show
Joining the 2011 street protests against the oppressive Assad regime, Syrian radio host Obaidah Zytoon Directors/Screenplay: armed herself with a video camera, Andreas Dalsgaard, Obaidah Zytoon Denmark/Germany/Syria/Finland determined to propel the Arab 2016 | 105 mins Spring forward. The regime’s violent Producers: Ronnie Fridthjof, David B. Sørensen reprisals that followed the uprising Photography: Obaidah Zytoon, Dana Bakdounes, continue to shock the world and have Amr Kheito, Hisham Issa, Wassim Anonymous, Lars Skree dispersed refugees to all corners, but Editor: Adam Nielsen this painfully poignant film, so much Music: Colin Stetson With: Amal, Houssam, Lulu, Hisham, Rabea, Argha more than a collection of distant and Festivals: Venice, Toronto, London, Amsterdam disturbing images of war, personalises Documentary 2016 Best Film (Venice Days), Venice Film Festival 2016 its dispatches from the Syrian frontline In Arabic with English subtitles with an intimacy and lucidity that cuts right through the banality of evil. Assembling Zytoon’s footage, co- director Andreas Dalsgaard (The Human Scale) threads in the simple dreams and fragile hope of individuals – including many of Zytoon’s best friends and fellow activists – together with the spectacle of terrorism and extremism. complicated role video plays in the — Tim Wong “An intimate, complex and conflict, on both sides of the equation, “The War Show reminds us that raw vision of life from in a way that recalls the personal and there are indeed living, breathing, and moral enquiry of last year’s superb loving individuals just trying their best within a horrific civil war.” Cameraperson. As Zytoon’s poetic to endure this war-torn time period — John Bleasdale, Cinevue narration concedes, “There was a place in their homeland. Sometimes just for everybody in the war show, except trying to stay out of the way of war the people.” Bravely carried out of the is blatantly impossible, and the only A RIALTO Sat 22 Jul, 9.00 pm war zone, her documentary movingly thing left to do is embrace those you A AC Thu 27 Jul, 8.15 pm restores some of the names, faces and love and hope to live another day.” B AC Thu 3 Aug, 4.00 pm identities obscured by the everyday — Jordan M. Smith, Ioncinema.com
To Stay Alive: A Method
Have you tried, maybe, not worrying? Director: Erik Lieshout The Netherlands/ Belgium 2016 | 70 mins Producer: Marc Thelosen Photography/Editor: Reinier van Brummelen Music: Iggy Pop With: Michel Houellebecq, Iggy Pop, Anne Claire Bourdin, Jerome Tessier Festivals: Amsterdam Documentary 2016; Sydney 2017 In English and French, with English subtitles
A Michel Houellebecq/Iggy Pop combo rewards of suffering. may initially seem incongruous. Houellebecq’s “advice to young However, these two enfants terribles, poets” combines reflections on artistic veteran disrupters of the worlds of existence and the experiences of people literature and rock music on opposite in his own life, whom we also have sides of the Atlantic, share many the privilege of meeting. Far from the affinities, not the least of which is the misérabilisme for which Houellebecq shared belief that the role of the artist is renowned, this superbly crafted is to “put your finger on the wound film mines the value in difference and of society and press down real hard.” otherness, often with deadpan and Iggy’s first encounter with impish wit – something else the two Houellebecq’s writing was like delving men share. — SR into his own autobiography, so much did it seem to describe his early experience as a geeky outsider. His inimitable voice, gravel-rough and A AWT Mon 24 Jul, 6.15 pm poised, wonderfully recites excerpts B AC Fri 28 Jul, 2.30 pm from To Stay Alive: A Method, the French writer’s manifesto about the
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Trophy Unrest
Director: Shaul Schwarz USA/UK 2017 | 108 mins Co-director: Christina Clusiau Director: Jennifer Brea Producers: Lauren Haber, USA 2017 | 97 mins Julia Nottingham Photography: Christina Clusiau, Screenplay: Jennifer Brea, Shaul Schwarz Kim Roberts Editors: Halil Efrat, Jay Arthur Photography: Sam Heesen, Sterrenberg Christian Laursen With: Philip Glass, John Hume, With: Jennifer Brea, Omar Wasow, Michelle Otto, Christo Gomes, Jessica Taylor, Lee Ray Denton, Joe Hosmer, Adam Roberts, Randy Denton, Casie Jackson Tim Fallon, Richard Hume Festivals: Sundance, SXSW 2017 Festivals: Sundance, SXSW 2017 Special Jury Prize (Documentary), In English and Afrikaans, with Sundance Film Festival 2017 English subtitles In English and Danish, with English subtitles
In 2015 a single image of an African by a white South African rhino A largely mysterious condition that Unrest tells the story of Jen and her lion named Cecil, killed by a Minnesota farmer. His campaign to legalise the reportedly afflicts as many as 17 husband, Omar, facing the unexpected, dentist, said everything that needs remunerative export of the allegedly million people worldwide, chronic and four of the community of ME to be said about big-game hunting aphrodisiac rhinoceros horn is opposed fatigue syndrome or myalgic patients whom Jen brings together on for millions of people the world by animal rights activists. “How much encephalomyelitis (ME) still perplexes the internet, in the United States, UK over. In this intelligent, disconcerting do they know of African realities?” most doctors and is often dismissed and Denmark. Together they explore documentary filmmakers Shaul Schwarz he replies. as a psychosomatic illness. how to make a meaningful life when and Christina Clusiau invite us to Confronting those realities, not least Director Jennifer Brea was a everything changes. The film is a feat take a more careful look. Challenging the ravages of game poachers and journalist and academic studying for of disability filmmaking, made with an us-vs-the-deplorable polarities, the the lives of dirt-poor African villagers, a PhD at Harvard. Months before her international team and using innovative filmmakers steer us deep into the ethos Trophy provides a singularly provocative wedding she became progressively technologies to allow the bedbound of one inveterate American ‘hunter’ picture of the Great White Hunter as ill, losing the ability even to sit in a director to cover the world and film as whose view of God-given ‘dominion Africa’s destroyer tasking itself to be wheelchair. When told by her doctor if she’s in the room. over the animals’ is clearly ascendant in saviour too. it was ‘all in her head’, her response a globalised, monetised world. was to start filming from her bed, That literal ownership – through B QSt Fri 21 Jul, 2.00 pm gradually deploying crews globally B RIALTO Fri 21 Jul, 12.15 pm corralling and breeding – might in fact A QSt Thu 3 Aug, 6.15 pm to document the world inhabited by A AC Sat 22 Jul, 10.30 am be the surest road to conservation is millions of patients whom medicine A AC Thu 27 Jul, 6.15 pm championed memorably, and movingly, forgot. A RIALTO Sat 29 Jul, 11.45 am
The Venerable W. We Don’t Need a Map Le vénérable W.
Director: Director: Barbet Schroeder Warwick Thornton France/Switzerland 2017 Australia 2017 | 91 mins 107 mins Producer: Brendan Fletcher Photography: Screenplay: Warwick Thornton, Victoria Clay Mendoza Brendan Fletcher Editor: Nelly Quettier Photography: Warwick Thornton, With: Ashin Wirathu, U. Zanitar, Dylan River, Drew English Kyaw Zayar Htun, U. Kaylar Sa, Editor: Andrea Lang Matthew Smith, Abdul Rasheed Festivals: Sydney 2017 Festivals: Cannes (Special In English, Warlpiri, Wardaman, Screenings) 2017 Dhuwala and Dhuwaya, In Burmese, French, English and with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles
“Everyone knows that Buddhism nevertheless effective long hard stare In 2009, the year his Samson and whole night sky as astronomers and is the religion of peace, love and into the eyes of intolerance. Delilah won the Camera d’Or at elders from North East Arnhem Land, understanding. So there’s something However, this is also a chilling Cannes, Aboriginal director Warwick Katherine and the Central Desert tell deeply wrong about a Buddhist monk corrective to accounts of Burma that Thornton was nominated Australian their stories of the stars. On desert who calmly spouts anti-Muslim hate paint its recent history simply as a fight of the Year. When asked at a press sands, bush puppets act out a cartoon speech and incites ethnic riots. The between courageous pro-democracy conference what his main concern history in which the Southern Cross has monk in question, an influential forces led by Aung San Suu Kyi (by no would be if he received Australia’s constantly figured as an emblem of the Burmese figure known as the means a heroine in this particular story) highest honour, he replied, “that coloniser. Tattooists, musicians and a Venerable Wirathu, is the subject of and a repressive military regime. In the the Southern Cross is becoming the range of lively commentators observe the powerful final installment of Swiss era of Trump (Wirathu is a fan), Farage new swastika.” All hell broke loose. the enduring connotations – and the director Barbet Schroeder’s ‘Axis of and Le Pen, it also shines timely light Thornton fills out his comments in this dangers lurking for those who resist, Evil’ trilogy, which began in 1974 with on the mechanisms of nationalistic genial and wide-ranging film essay, such as the organisers of the Big Day General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait, rhetoric.” — Lee Marshall, Screendaily contrasting Aboriginal legends of the Out who asked music fans to leave and continued in 2007 with Terror’s heavens with the nationalist fervour their flags at home. Advocate… that’s fastened in recent years upon the It’s the shocking disjunct between his A AWT Sun 23 Jul, 8.45 pm five-star constellation. B AC Thu 3 Aug, 2.00 pm religion and the rabid nationalism of his B QSt Mon 24 Jul, 11.15 am Thornton and his filmmaker son A AC Fri 4 Aug, 6.15 pm sermons, writings and declarations that A QSt Fri 28 Jul, 6.15 pm Dylan River turn their cameras to the A AWT Sat 5 Aug, 10.45 am powers Schroeder’s conventional but heavens, flooding the screen with the
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Blue CHANGERS GAME My Dog Ajax Director/Screenplay: Karina Holden Australia 2017 | 76 mins Photography: Jody Muston Underwater photography: Jon Shaw Editor: Vanessa Milton With: Lucas Handley, Madison Stewart, Mark Dia, Phillip Mango, Jennifer Lavers, Tim Silverwood, Valerie Taylor Festivals: Sydney 2017 PG cert
With a background in natural history patiently extracting some of that waste TV, director Karina Holden has made from the bellies of endangered sea birds. an empowering conservationist On Cape York Peninsula the Nanum documentary showcasing the work Wunghtim rangers clear the coastal and advocacy of six `ocean guardians'. waters of the vast ghost nets abandoned Madison Stewart, who grew up on by fishing boats and trapping sea life. the Great Barrier Reef, has become Proving that conservation is not the an underwater filmmaker, using her sole preserve of the young, pioneering camera and social media to increase diver, shark advocate, artist and public awareness of the plight of sharks. Australian heroine Valerie Taylor is Mark Dia, regional oceans campaigner cautiously upbeat at 82. The ocean will for Greenpeace South Asia, uncovers recover, she says, “if we leave it alone.” illegal fishing practices, corruption and labour abuses in the seafood industry. A HWOOD Sun 23 Jul, 1.30 pm Following the surf was what led Tim B RIALTO Tue 25 Jul, 12.15 pm Silverwood to combat the appalling A RIALTO Wed 26 Jul, 6.15 pm ubiquity of plastic waste in sea and on A WGATE Wed 26 Jul, 6.30 pm shoreline, Dr Jennifer Lavers is a marine A CIVIC Sat 29 Jul, 1.30 pm eco-toxicologist, seen in the film A AC Sun 6 Aug, 11.30 am
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
Director: Matt Tyrnauer USA 2016 | 92 mins Producer: Robert Hammond, Corey Reeser, Jessica Van Garsse, Matt Tyrnauer Photography: Chris Dapkins Editors: Daniel Morfesis, Andrea Lewis Music: Jane Antonia Cornish With: Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses Festivals: Toronto, Amsterdam Documentary 2016; Sydney 2017 Colour and B&W
At his most powerful in the years Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor) For better or worse – we couldn’t say after World War II, powerbroker has fashioned a lively documentary – these men and women never wanted to and developer Robert Moses was about the enduring issues enunciated determined to modernise New so clearly in their clash. leave the world the way they found it. York and speed up the traffic. He “Tyrnauer transforms what could demolished great swathes of housing be a staid profile film into an urgent See also: to build high-rise accommodation story about the dangers of ‘urban Beuys: Art As a Weapon (p80), BPM (Beats and construct superhighways the renewal,’ something Jacobs herself length of Manhattan. David to his would admire… How do we retain per Minute) (p12), I Am Not Your Negro (p67), Goliath, Jane Jacobs led a grass-roots neighborhood diversity amid rapid Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (p20), campaign to thwart his plan to plough gentrification? Can a metropolis retain an expressway across town, right its humanity when everyone’s living My Year with Helen (p13). through Lower Manhattan. Author of in high-rises?” — April Wolfe, Village The Death and Life of Great American Voice Cities, Jacobs had a vision of urban life that involved people, neighbourhoods, A CIVIC Sat 22 Jul, 12.15 pm heritage and habitation on a human A HWOOD Thu 27 Jul, 6.30 pm scale, qualities Lower Manhattan A WGATE Mon 31 Jul, 6.30 pm B AWT Wed 2 Aug, 11.30 am enjoyed in abundance. Director Matt
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Risk
Julian Assange loathes Risk. Or he Director: Laura Poitras loathes, at least, what Risk has become. Germany/USA 2016 | 93 mins When it premiered at Cannes in 2016, Producers: Laura Poitras, Brenda Coughlin Photography: Kirsten Johnson Laura Poitras’ film presented a mostly Editors: Melody London, Laura Poitras admiring portrait of the WikiLeaks Music: Jeremy Flower With: Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, founder. It has since been updated, and Jacob Appelbaum, Renata Avila, Joseph Farrell, updated again. WikiLeaks’ controversial Jennifer Robinson Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2016; role in the US presidential election Sydney 2017 is part of that evolution, but Poitras’ In English, Arabic and Spanish, with English revisions are more profoundly spurred by subtitles a deepening suspicion about Assange’s character, particularly around his response to sexual assault allegations. Seven years in the making, Risk is a thematic sibling to Citizenfour, the Edward Snowden feature that won Poitras the 2015 Oscar for Best Documentary. The access is extraordinary. We see Assange marshalling his cohorts as if they were PRAXIS FILMS an intelligence agency. Telephoning brilliance risks becoming subsumed the US State Department, demanding by narcissism, with a startling attitude “A messier, weirder, to speak to Hillary Clinton. Taking on to those who challenge him – and and more interesting an elaborate disguise for the dash to a filmmaker unwilling to remain a the Ecuadorian embassy in pursuit of bystander. The most conspicuous documentary than political asylum. change in the re-cut Risk is a voiceover Citizenfour, about a Spellbinding and at times disquieting, from the director herself. “The lines messier, weirder, and Risk explores the moral and ethical have become blurred,” she says, A QSt Fri 21 Jul, 6.30 pm debate sparked by WikiLeaks, the impact drawing on notes from her production more persistently relevant A QSt Sat 22 Jul, 4.30 pm of which has been felt throughout journal. “I thought I could ignore the man.” — Josephine Livingstone, A HWOOD Mon 24 Jul, 9.00 pm journalism and politics. But at its core contradictions... I was wrong. They are A RIALTO Tue 1 Aug, 8.30 pm The New Republic it is a study of an individual whose becoming the story.” — Toby Manhire B RIALTO Wed 2 Aug, 2.00 pm
An Insignificant Man Politics, an Instruction Manual Política, manual de instrucciones
Khushboo Ranka Director/Screenplay: Vinay Shukla Fernando León de Aranoa Directors: Spain 2016 | 115 mins Khushboo Ranka, Producers: Jaume Roures, Vinay Shukla Fernando León de Aranoa | Photography: Jordi Abusada India 2016 96 mins Editor: Yago Muñiz Photography: Khushboo Ranka, With: Pablo Iglesias, Íñigo Errejón Vinay Shukla, Vinay Rohira Festivals: Toronto 2016; Editors: Abhinav Tyagi, Berlin 2017 Manan Bhat In Spanish with English subtitles With: Arvind Kejriwal, Yogendra Yadav, Santosh Koli Festivals: Toronto, London, Amsterdam Documentary 2016 In Hindi with English subtitles
The global backlash against neo- world’s largest democracy. Even set against the turbulence travel to Latin America, inspiration for liberalism finds its Indian champion The film has been effectively of recent times, the emergence of their political ambitions. At home they in this fascinating behind-the-scenes silenced in India by the Censor Board, Podemos as a political force in Spain confront internal rifts and opponents account of the rise of the former tax who have demanded No Objection is gobsmacking. Seeded in the street who no longer underestimate the ‘kids official turned anti-corruption activist Certificates from the Prime Minister, the protests of 2014, the left-wing who started a party in a garage’. Arvind Kejriwal and The Common Man’s Chief Minister of Delhi and ex-Chief group harnessed widespread anti- True to its name, Politics, an Party (AAP). Obviously partial to his Minister of Delhi, before clearing the establishment fury as they set about Instruction Manual offers fascinating cause but attentive to the complexities film for public viewing. “It’s like asking breaking apart a decades-long two- lessons about building a party and and contradictions of the man and an Michael Moore to furnish a certificate party grip on power. designing a campaign strategy in a organisation still arguing its way into from George W. Bush before clearing As Fernando León de Aranoa’s media-saturated age. It is also a story shape, the filmmakers make the most of Fahrenheit 9/11,” say filmmakers exhilarating film begins, Podemos that encapsulates a vexed, invigorating two years’ worth of exceptional access. Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla, (‘We Can’) has just over a year to moment, prefiguring both Brexit and Going into the 2013 Delhi elections, who will present the film in person prepare for a general election. We tag Trump. And it’s one hell of a ride. the established parties realise that at its NZIFF screenings. along, enjoying virtually unfettered — Toby Manhire AAP is making inroads into their access as Pablo Iglesias, the charismatic support, and the film assumes the A AWT Wed 26 Jul, 8.00 pm thirtysomething leader, endeavours to A AC Sat 29 Jul, 8.30 pm urgency of a political thriller, delving B AWT Thu 27 Jul, 3.15 pm convert outrage into ballot-box success. A RIALTO Sun 30 Jul, 11.30 am deeper into media warfare and Iglesias and his motor-mouthed, baby- B RIALTO Mon 31 Jul, 4.15 pm governmental machinations in the faced political strategist Íñigo Errejón A AC Wed 2 Aug, 8.00 pm
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The Young Karl Marx Le jeune Karl Marx
Raoul Peck, director of the masterful Director: Raoul Peck James Baldwin documentary I Am Not France/Germany/Belgium 2017 Your Negro (page 67), has described 118 mins Baldwin and the revolutionary socialist Producers: Nicolas Blanc, Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety, Robert Guédiguian Karl Marx as “the two feet I stand Screenplay: Pascal Bonitzer, Raoul Peck on... They frame who I am, my way of Photography: Kolja Brandt Editor: Frédérique Broos thinking and the way I analyse society.” Music: Alexei Aigui Peck’s equally striking film about With: August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Hannah Steele, Olivier Gourmet, Alexander Scheer Marx is a handsomely mounted Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2017 historical drama – and political In French, German and English, with English subtitles CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc argument – based largely on the letters exchanged between 1843 and 1850 by Marx (August Diehl) and Friedrich Engels (Stefan Konarske). The film charts their personal lives and the course of their friendship and ideological brotherhood from a first wary meeting until the eve of the drafting of The Communist Manifesto. Reconstructing the conditions of the industrial age that made Europe ripe is the rich kid whose father is a mill for their radical programme, it tacitly owner, with a dandy-ish manner of “Peck’s intelligent, evokes contemporary parallels. The dress and a romantic mien… textured film-making densely packed screenplay, co-written This is a film which sticks to a with Pascal Bonitzer, reanimates their credo that people arguing about makes potentially arcane arguments with fervour, clarity and the theories and concepts – while also political discussions colour of their personal histories. periodically angrily rejecting the sing with urgency.” “Marx is played by August Diehl: notion of mere abstraction – is highly ragged, fierce with indignation and interesting. And Peck and Bonitzer — Jessica Kiang, BBC.com A AWT Mon 24 Jul, 8.15 pm poverty, addicted to cheap cigars, pull off the considerable trick of making B AWT Tue 1 Aug, 3.45 pm spoiling for an argument and a fight. it interesting.” — Peter Bradshaw, Engels, played by Stefan Konarske, The Guardian
Winnie Working in Protest
Michael Galinsky Suki Hawley Director/Screenplay: Directors/Editors: Pascale Lamche Michael Galinsky, France/South Africa/ Suki Hawley The Netherlands 2017 USA 2017 | 80 mins 98 mins Co-director: David Beilinson Photography: Olivier Raffet, Producers: Michael Galinsky, Felix Meyburgh Suki Hawley, David Beilinson With: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Photography: Michael Galinsky Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane Music: David Reid, Greg Elkins Festivals: Sundance 2017 Directing Award (World Cinema Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2017
French director Pascale Lamche’s Zindzi, biographers, journalists and Political turmoil in the United States takes against the erosion of voting rights, Sundance award winner outlines the lawyers make it abundantly clear how on a movingly personal aspect through against the normalisation of police life and work of legendary activist she became such a formidable fighter, this judiciously edited archive of street force, against the bailing out of the Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – and still going strong at 80. marches and public demonstrations, banks, for the Confederate Flag, for allows her to deliver her side of a “It might be apparent where the shot since the 2000 Republican Bernie, for and against Trump. disputed history. Nelson Mandela film’s sympathies reside, but Winnie is Convention by filmmakers Michael The filmmakers catch illuminating was often perceived as a saint, even by no means a simple or straightforward Galinski and Suki Hawley. The day after altercations between members of by the regime he opposed. Winnie, missive of support. Lamche’s efforts to Galinski graduated from high school opposing factions – young men of who was married to him for 38 years unravel not only the tale at hand but in 1987, the Klu Klux Klan marched Occupy Wall Street vs an old school and furthered his agenda in a violent also the reasoning behind the many in his North Carolina hometown. He liberal Democrat, Trump supporters outside world during his 27 years of conflicting views surrounding her photographed the procession and vs detractors gathered for the incarceration, was almost as readily subject – and the ripples both leave in recorded community reactions to this inauguration – while keeping a demonised. Lamche’s film makes telling the country today – are deftly demonstration of spent power. “It’s an vigilant eye on the role of the police in use of archival clips, not least Winnie handled.” — Sarah Ward, Screendaily artefact,” says one bystander, “the last protecting the targets of dissent. Mandela’s fractious engagement opportunity to see something like that.” with the Truth and Reconciliation B AC Fri 21 Jul, 2.00 pm Her words haunt the film that A AC Sun 23 July, 4.15 pm Commission and her breathtaking A AC Sun 30 Jul, 1.15 pm follows, as we encounter a succession B AC Mon 24 July, 6.15 pm denunciation by Bishop Desmond Tutu. B AC Mon 31 Jul, 11.45 am of protests and counter-protests – Interviews with diplomat daughter A AC Sat 5 Aug, 12.15 pm against the Iraq War, against poverty,
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BANG! The Bert Berns Story MUSIC MUSIC Directors: Brett Berns, Bob Sarles USA 2016 | 96 mins Directors: Brett Berns, Bob Sarles Screenplay: Joel Selvin Photography: Aaron Medick, Gil Gilbert Narrator: Steven Van Zandt With: Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Solomon Burke, Keith Richards, Ben E. King, Wilson Pickett, Ronald Isley, Cissy Houston, Brenda Reid, Betty Harris, Mike Stoller, Doug Morris, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich Festivals: SXSW, Vancouver 2016
Bert Berns created some of the most nightclub go-go dancer), and a record gloriously soulful pop records of the industry hustler and standover man 1960s. This Bronx-born son of Russian known as ‘Wassel’. Jewish immigrants wrote such immortal Berns had friendships and songs as ‘Twist and Shout’ and ‘Piece of partnerships with colourfully unsavoury My Heart’, brought Cuban rhythms into characters, and vicious showdowns R&B and produced the hits that kick- with colleagues and rivals. And yet started Van Morrison’s career. He also the word that keeps recurring in this “walked with gangsters – and exalted documentary is ‘soul’. Everyone attests them,” according to his biographer Joel that Berns had it, from Morrison to Selvin. black soul giants like Ben E. King and Berns, who died in 1967, age 38, Cissy Houston. This movie helps us lived as though he was on borrowed understand that soul, its origins and its time. The movie parallels the punchy torments. — Nick Bollinger pace of his brief but dramatic life. Steven Van Zandt (from Springsteen’s E B QSt Tue 25 Jul, 11.45 am Street Band) narrates. Interviewees are A AWT Thu 27 Jul, 8.45 pm mostly straight-shooting New Yorkers, A HWOOD Mon 31 Jul, 8.30 pm A QSt Sun 6 Aug, 2.30 pm including Berns’ widow Ilene (a former
Bill Frisell: A Portrait
Director/Producer/ Screenplay/Photography/ Editor: Emma Franz Australia 2017 | 114 mins Music: Bill Frisell With: Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, Jim Hall, Mike Gibbs, Jason Moran, Jim Woodring, Joey Baron, Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, John Zorn Festivals: SXSW 2017
I can’t think of another music film love for the guitar and its expressive See also: that puts as many smiles on screen as possibilities, combined with a genuine Bill Direen: A Memory of Others (p18), this gently revealing portrait of jazz self-effacement. Though articulate, guitarist Bill Frisell. Fellow artists smile he clearly finds words inadequate to Félicité (p39), Minute Bodies: The Intimate as they describe what it’s like to make describe what he does and why he World of F. Percy Smith (p70), Patti Cake$ (p59), music with him, and we catch the silent does it. Likewise, he is reluctant to smiles that pass between players during speculate on why other musicians find Swagger of Thieves (p22). performances. such delight in working with him. Frisell, now in his mid-60s, has been But drummer Joey Baron has no a unique source of joy ever since he trouble explaining what makes Frisell emerged from the New York downtown such a musical magnet. “It’s integrity,” jazz scene of the late 70s. His repertoire he says, with a smile. “And who is unusually democratic and in the wouldn’t want to find out more about generous live performance sequences that?” — Nick Bollinger we see him in a wide range of settings, from duos to symphony orchestras, B QSt Fri 21 Jul, 11.30 am playing anything from Coltrane tunes A QSt Sun 23 Jul, 6.00 pm to old folk songs. A HWOOD Sun 30 Jul, 1.15 pm A RIALTO Wed 2 Aug, 8.30 pm There is a near-innocence about his
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The Paris Opera L’Opéra
“The Palais Garnier has graced the ninth Director: Jean-Stéphane Bron arrondissement since 1875, dazzling France/Switzerland 2017 | 110 mins onlookers with its ornate beaux-arts Producers: Philippe Martin, David Thion Photography: Blaise Harrison facade and gilded statuary honoring Editor: Julie Lena the fine arts… In this captivating With: Benjamin Millepied, Stéphane Lissner, Philippe Jordan, Bryn Terfel, Mikhail Tymoshenko, documentary, Swiss director Jean- François Hollande Stéphane Bron takes audiences inside Festivals: San Francisco 2017 one of the world’s great performing In French and English, with English subtitles arts venues for one season, revealing the complex artistic collaborations at its heart… The film illuminates the backstage bustle of the Opéra National de Paris and the scores of artists, financiers, administrators, and patrons that make the whole endeavor possible. Through the company’s tireless director Stéphane Lissner, the glories and peculiar challenges of working in such a legendary setting are detailed. Can the production designer safely get a 1,200-pound live bull onstage de ballet and their improbably named during a performance of Schoenberg’s choreographer, Benjamin Millepied. “Jean-Stéphane Bron’s Moses and Aaron? How far can All the while, an army of polyglot magnificent doc… [is] ticket prices be lowered to combat chorists, stage managers, wig stylists, the perceived elitism of the opera? linen pressers, and makeup artists help a thrilling inside look… Is Bryn Terfel available for a last- shape the much-lauded performances at the workings of the minute substitution in Wagner’s Die that leave ballerinas and maestros city’s venerable and Meistersinger von Nürnberg? A sense alike sweating and exhausted, collapsing of barely contained chaos descends as in the wings.” — Paul Meyers, magnificent cultural hub.” A RIALTO Thu 27 Jul, 6.15 pm labor unions strike, a precocious [and San Francisco International Film Festival — Doris Toumarkine, Film Journal A AWT Tue 1 Aug, 6.15 pm adorable] young bass-baritone debuts, B AWT Thu 3 Aug, 1.30 pm International and tensions arise between the corps
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Director/Editor: Tyler Hubby Director: USA 2016 | 96 mins Catherine Bainbridge Producers: Christine Beebe, Canada 2016 | 102 mins Paul Williams Photography: Damian Calvo, Co-director: Alfonso Maiorana Fortunato Procopio With: Robbie Robertson, Buffy Music: Tony Conrad Sainte-Marie, John Trudell, With: Tony Conrad, Tony Oursler, Pat Vegas, Martin Scorsese, Jim O’Rourke, David Grubbs, Tony Bennett, Steven Tyler, Marie Losier, John Cale, Moby, Iggy Pop, Taj Mahal, Adam Beach Branden Joseph Festivals: Sundance 2017 Festivals: Rotterdam 2017 Special Jury Prize (World Cinema Contains strobe effects Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2017
This revealing tribute to Native in this film, from the heavy metal Filmed over two decades, this and created the trance-like stroboscopic American musicians, crammed with thunder of drummer Randy Castillo to entertaining documentary captures film The Flicker. Moving into teaching, concert footage, celebrates their little the glides and slides in the singing of the freewheeling spirit and joyous he continued to rail against conventional credited contributions to popular early jazz queen Mildred Bailey. creativity of iconoclastic multimedia artistic practice, creating video and contemporary music from blues to jazz, In the end, though, the point is not artist Tony Conrad, who died last April. conceptual works with Tony Oursler from Hendrix to Metallica. to untie the tangled blood knot of A pioneering minimalist musician, and Mike Kelley. — MM “A Native American singer of the American music so much as celebrate avant-garde filmmaker and conceptual “An exploration of avant-garde Tuscarora tribe, Pura Fe Crescioni sits the greatest Native American music performer, Conrad was a fixture of the art that has little time for elitism or beside a turntable as it plays a 1929 stars, many of whom kept their origins downtown scene in 60s New York, pretense… [Tyler] Hubby captures an recording of the bluesman Charley concealed. As Robbie Robertson of The where he mingled with the likes of the artistic personality that could manifest Patton. ‘When I hear this, it’s Indian Band was warned when he was young, Velvet Underground, filmmaker Jack big ideas without a shred of snobbery, music to me,’ she says. ‘That rhythm. ‘Be proud you’re an Indian, but be Smith and composer La Monte Young. could deflate pomposity while still Do you hear it?’ After the field careful who you tell.’” — Nick Bollinger Conrad made some of the most inviting deep thought.” — John recordings of Mississippi Chocktaws pulsating and dramatic drone music ever DeFore, Hollywood Reporter performing their ‘Drunk Dance’ just recorded, in collaboration with Young moments earlier, I hear it. A HWOOD Sun 23 Jul, 3.30 pm (who proceeded to squirrel away the A QSt Sat 22 Jul, 2.30 pm Once this idea has been sown, it’s A QSt Sun 30 Jul, 4.45 pm recordings, much to Conrad’s disgust). B RIALTO Mon 24 Jul, 4.15 pm hard not to hear Native American B QSt Mon 31 Jul, 11.45 am He performed the soundtrack for Smith’s A RIALTO Wed 26 Jul, 8.00 pm elements throughout the music profiled A AWT Tue 1 Aug, 8.45 pm underground classic Flaming Creatures B QSt Thu 3 Aug, 2.00 pm
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Beuys: Art As a Weapon AN ARTIST AN OF PORTRAIT Director/Screeplay: Andres Veiel Germany 2017 107 mins Photography: Jörg Jeshel Editors: Stephan Krumbiegel, Olaf Voigtländer With: Joseph Beuys, Caroline Tisdall, Rhea Thönges-Stringaris, Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Johannes Stüttgen, Klaus Staeck Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2017 In German and English, with English subtitles Colour and B&W
“Most Germans, regardless of their level Beuys shows you the man, his of education or their interest in art have interactions with the press, his inner heard of Joseph Beuys [1921– 1986]. family life and the dilemmas he faced in Born in Kleve, he walked the earth like his career: from youthful depression to a shaman, dressed in a hat and a khaki starting a counter-cultural revolution.” fishing vest, offered healing thoughts, — Rene J. Meyer-Grimberg, Berlin aktionen (happenings) and confusing Film Journal installation pieces suggesting ways to “Veiel’s film strives to not only heal a wounded post-war Germany. invite viewers to reminisce over the His personal legend includes being a importance of Beuys’ work, but also member of Hitler youth, a gunner with provide us with an insight into the the Luftwaffe and getting shot down workings of a true anti-conformist’s over the Caucasus. His pilot died but mind.” — Josef Proimarkis, Cineuropa he survived and, according to his story (which is gently questioned in the film), the Tartars rolled him in fat and wool A RIALTO Tue 25 Jul, 8.15 pm until he could be brought to a hospital. B AC Wed 26 Jul, 4.00 pm Consequently, fat and wool figure A AC Sat 29 Jul, 12.00 pm prominently in his work. B RIALTO Mon 31 Jul, 2.00 pm
BIG Time
Director/Photography: Kaspar Astrup Schröder Denmark 2017 | 93 mins Producer: Sara Stockmann Editors: Bobbie Esra G. Pertan, Cathrine Ambus, Kaspar Astrup Schröder Music: Ali Helnwein With: Bjarke Ingels In Danish and English, with English subtitles
As a kid, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels there’s a world of difference between See also: considered the flat roof on his parents’ fielding such paltry objections on home Bill Direen: A Memory of Others (p18), house to be a waste of space – with ground and opening a New York office potential. In 2016, his plans for a to embark on mammoth projects that Faces Places (p9), Kobi (p20), Maudie (p27), smoke ring-blowing power plant with will join the most famous architectural Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (p79). a ski slope on its roof in Copenhagen skyline of them all. attracted attention outside the usual Schröder documents the architect’s architectural press. Time magazine struggle to balance ambition, ill health named him, at the age of 42, one of and relationships with remarkable the world’s 100 most influential people intimacy, but his film never feels closer of the year. to the heart of its subject than when it Filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schröder lets him talk about buildings, marker at filmed Ingels on and off over several hand, dashing off lightning illustrations years, and the portrait of a driven of everything he says. man stretched increasingly thin is both compelling and alarming. Early in the A AWT Sun 23 Jul, 11.00 am film there’s wry coverage of the fallout B AWT Tue 25 Jul, 11.15 am that occurs when the power company A RIALTO Tue 1 Aug, 6.30 pm asks who’s paying for the ski slope, but
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House of Z
“As good looking and stylish as its Director: Sandy Chronopoulos subject, House of Z is a portrait of the USA 2017 | 90 mins artist as a young man. Famously well Producers: Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Sandy Chronopoulos connected, Zac Posen rode a rocket Photography: Konrad Czystowski, Nadia Hallgren, ship to fame and success at the age of Mark Klassen Editors: Hollie Singer, Madeleine Gavin 21. But his is a cautionary tale of what Music: Eric Stamile happens to those whose PR machines With: Zac Posen, Susan Posen, Alexandra Posen, Stephen Posen, Naomi Campbell, are steps ahead of reality. As quickly Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, André Leon Talley, as the handsome Zac made a name Paz de la Huerta, Claire Danes for himself, he found himself on the Festivals: Tribeca 2017 receiving end of damaging gossip, PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH bad reviews and dropping sales. Told with the help of a star-studded cast, including Puff Daddy, Naomi Campbell and Claire Danes, this all-access story charts the rise and fall – and rise again – of a fashion world wunderkind.” — Aisha Jamal, Hot Docs “‘Fashion has a dark side. Not all runways and lipstick and fishtail gowns,’ Posen says about his chosen In Posen’s continued dedication to milieu, and while House of Z is making dresses in his atelier – and by “An enjoyable doc aesthetically quite straightforward, personally draping gowns over female overflowing with stunning it receives a jolt of unique energy bodies, as the foundation of his process from Posen’s own front-and-center – House of Z captures the way in which pieces of clothing, both participation in this portrait… He direct hands-on engagement is vital on models and on its star.” comes across as a young man to an artist’s continued relevance, and — John DeFore, Hollywood humbled by failure and appreciative vitality.” — Nick Schager, Variety B CIVIC Fri 21 Jul, 4.15 pm of the opportunities he still has, not to Reporter A WGATE Sat 22 Jul, 3.00 pm mention now capable of viewing his A CIVIC Wed 26 Jul, 6.15 pm past through a more mature, objective A RIALTO Sun 30 Jul, 1.45 pm lens… A RIALTO Wed 2 Aug, 6.30 pm
La Chana China’s Van Goghs
Director: Lucija Stojevic Directors: Yu Haibo, Spain/Iceland 2016 Yu Tianqi Kiki 83 mins China/The Netherlands Producers: Lucija Stojevic, 2016 | 84 minutes Deirdre Towers Producer: Yu Tianqi Kiki Photography: Samuel Navarrete Photography: Yu Haibo Editor: Domi Parra Editors: Søren Ebbe, Tom Music: Ernesto Briceño Hsinming Lin, Axel Skovdal With: La Chana Roelofs Festivals: Amsterdam Music: Lukas Julian Lentz Documentary 2016 With: Zhao Xiaoyong Audience Award, International Festivals: Amsterdam Documentary Festival Amsterdam Documentary 2016 2016 In Mandarin with English subtitles In Spanish with English subtitles
‘La Chana’, the living legend of Spanish her brutally possessive [first] husband… Dafen in Shenzhen, China, open for relentlessly, knee-deep in their flamenco dancing, surveys the emotional The shadowy husband turned down business since 1988, is now the world’s productions. A former peasant rollercoaster of her tough life and Hollywood offers and effectively forced largest oil-painting village, providing farmer, like many of the villagers, remarkable career in a documentary La Chana into an early retirement, from employment to some 10,000 painters Zhao Xiaoyong has mastered the that mixes highly personable interview which she emerged triumphantly via who produce replicas of the Western skills to reproduce Van Goghs. His footage with a lifetime’s worth of a 1977 TV special… In her late sixties canon’s famous paintings. Most are immersion in the Dutch master’s every flat-out amazing performance clips. at the time of filming, the dignified, destined to be sold in Europe, from brushstroke has become a passion Has anybody else anywhere ever dowager-like La Chana has mobility street stalls close to the galleries and a dream: he longs to see the moved their feet with such speed, issues but is still very much a ‘force holding the originals. originals and experience Van Gogh’s expression and passionate intensity? of nature’. She retains just enough While providing plenty of startling world. An invitation from one of “La Chana is an admiring, even ‘strength, speed and soul’ – the crucial information about the booming trade Zhao’s main clients enables him to adoring portrait of a strong-willed elements of flamenco – to be coaxed in replicas and the Chinese labour travel to Amsterdam and to encounter female performer rising above the into one last show.” — Neil Young, powerhouse fuelling it, this intimate his inspiration. The journey will be restrictions of the patriarchal society Hollywood Reporter and compelling portrait zeroes in on revelatory in unexpected ways. — SR into which she was born. In the case a single painter and addresses the of La Chana – also known as Antonia A WGATE Sun 23 Jul, 2.15 pm conflicting values placed on creativity B AC Fri 21 Jul, 12.00 pm Santiago Amador – this was the B AWT Wed 26 Jul, 4.15 pm and authenticity. A AC Sun 30 Jul, 11.15 am fiercely traditional gypsy society of A AWT Sun 30 Jul, 11.00 am With orders in the thousands B RIALTO Wed 2 Aug, 12.00 pm Franco-era Spain, as personified by and deadlines tight, painters labour
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Director/Producer/ Director/Screenplay: Screenplay: Stanley Tucci Reiner Holzemer UK/France 2017 Germany/Belgium 2017 90 mins 90 mins Director/Screenplay: Stanley Tucci Photography: Reiner Holzemer, Photography: Danny Cohen Toon Illegems, Erwin Van Der Editor: Camilla Toniolo Stappen Music: Evan Lurie Editors: Helmar Jungmann, With: Geoffrey Rush, Armie Stephan Krumbiegel Hammer, Clémence Poésy, Music: Colin Greenwood, Matthew Tony Shalhoub, James Faulkner, Herbert, Sam Petts-Davies Sylvie Testud With: Dries Van Noten, Iris Apfel, Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2017 Pamela Golbin, Geert Brulot Censors rating tbc In English and Dutch, with English subtitles
Belgian designer Dries Van Noten gets unique counterpoint to an industry “Stanley Tucci has created a very his agony of self-doubt at the easel, the fashion documentary treatment in driven by trends. Although the new amusing, astringent chamber piece repeatedly overpainting near-complete this intimate and understated portrait. collections are the film’s focus, Dries of a movie, performed with sympathy work he angrily decides is mediocre All the requisite fashion film fixtures are is also a chance to revisit Van Noten’s and wit by Geoffrey Rush and Armie – and assuring Lord grimly that art can on show: gorgeous clothes, stunning past through archival footage of his Hammer. It is based on the true story never be finished… Lord has to figure models and plenty of sartorial drama. previous shows. These are some of the of how Alberto Giacometti invited out a way of persuading Giacometti For 30 years, Van Noten has carved film’s most insightful scenes, allowing the young American critic and to stop painting. A strange bond a successful career as an independent Van Noten to chart the evolution of his influential admirer James Lord to sit develops between the men, something designer. His shows are must-see abilities and confidence as a designer. for him in Paris in 1964; the resulting between friendship and duel… events and he can count Iris Apfel and Like its subject, Dries is a quietly comedy is written for the screen by It’s a highly entertaining portrait Kanye West as fans. Dries provides a modest film that allows the opulent Tucci and based on Lord’s own memoir of the two men, and Tucci’s own peek at Van Noten’s creative process fashion to soar. — Chris Tse of the event. directorial brush strokes are bold and as he and his team prepare four new Having airily promised that the invigorating.” — Peter Bradshaw, collections. His clothes revel in clashing A RIALTO Sun 23 Jul, 5.30 pm portrait sitting would last a few hours The Guardian prints and the incorporation of low and A HWOOD Wed 26 Jul, 6.30 pm at the most, making no difference to high culture, exhibiting an unrivalled B RIALTO Thu 27 Jul, 2.30 pm Lord’s imminent return flight to New A AWT Tue 25 Jul, 6.15 pm eye for detail. In a world where we’re A CIVIC Sat 29 Jul, 11.15 am York, Giacometti announces he needs A RIALTO Fri 28 Jul, 6.15 pm constantly told what’s hot or not, A WGATE Sat 29 Jul, 1.45 pm a few more days and then a few days B RIALTO Thu 3 Aug, 4.30 pm designers like Van Noten provide a B AWT Fri 4 Aug, 11.00 am more, and all the while declaiming
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Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, Director/Photography/Editor: photographer and environmentalist Thomas Riedelsheimer whose site-specific sculptures and UK/Germany 2017 | 93 mins land art redeploy nature’s resources in Director/Photography/Editor: Thomas Riedelsheimer Producers: Leslie Hills, Stefan Tolz startling and harmonious new shapes Music: Fred Frith and textures. The spell of his work, With: Andy Goldsworthy, Tina Fiske, Holly Goldsworthy whether it lasts as long as a country Festivals: San Francisco 2017 wall or until the next gust of wind 93 minutes blows it away, invariably encompasses its inevitable passing. Thomas Riedelsheimer’s landmark Rivers and Tides (2001) inventively documented Goldsworthy in the act of creation and introduced him to an international audience. Fifteen years later, Riedelsheimer returns to find Goldsworthy still engaged in his philosophical and tactical exploration of the natural world. The two pick up where they left off, only ranging more widely as Goldsworthy now “‘You can walk down the path, or accepts commissions around the world. you can walk through the hedge…’ That “Nothing short of Leaning Into the Wind is their Goldsworthy invariably chooses Plan B extraordinary, Thomas collaborative sequel, taking us into the goes to the heart of the fascination with hillsides, terrains and other outdoor his… variably ephemeral work, in which Riedelsheimer’s Leaning spaces where Goldsworthy feels most elements of the natural surroundings are Into the Wind rekindles at home and inspired. He chats and altered into striking yet harmonious new the captivating he works. Exquisitely soundscaped and shapes. Leaning Into the Wind is not so seductively photographed to a score much a sequel to as simply an extension observation of English B AWT Thu 27 Jul, 11.00 am by Fred Frith, this is as entrancing of [Rivers & Tides], sharing the same artist Andy Goldsworthy.” A RIALTO Mon 31 Jul, 6.30 pm an onscreen encounter with an artist meditative, episodic, visually seductive A CIVIC Sat 5 Aug, 11.00 am — Kerry Levielle, Indiewire as you could hope to find. appeal.” — Dennis Harvey, Variety
Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan Whiteley
Directors/Producers: Director: James Bogle Linda Saffire, Australia 2017 | 94 mins Adam Schlesinger Producer: Sue Clothier USA 2016 | 90 mins Screenplay: James Bogle, Victor Gentile Photography: Don Lenzer Photography: Jim Frater Editor: Bob Eisenhardt Editor: Lawrie Silvestrin Music: Philip Sheppard Music: Ash Gibson Greig With: Wendy Whelan With: Brett Whiteley, Wendy Festivals: New York 2016 Whiteley, Frannie Hopkirk, Barry Pearce, Kathie Sutherland, Phillip Adams, Andrew Olle
“For balletomanes worldwide, Wendy determination will steal your heart.” Blending archival footage, interviews genius at work deeply affected by his Whelan's name conjures vivid images of — Film Forum and personal correspondence, Whiteley surroundings and fractured psyche. ethereal beauty, coupled with sinewy, “Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger is a bold portrait of Australian artist “I am trying to become a great breathtaking athleticism. Beginning show as much generosity of spirit to Brett Whiteley that charts his chaotic man. Believe in me.” Whiteley says ballet class as a three-year-old in their subject, prima ballerina Wendy life in his own words. Despite early this with a determination in his voice Louisville, Kentucky, she came to New Whelan, as she has displayed to fellow success, Whiteley’s public struggles that acknowledges the forces in his York City in 1981 and spent the next dancers during a storied 30-year with addiction soon overshadowed life that both fuelled his talent and 30 years as a star of the New York City career. Their adoring documentary, his artistic talents, pulling him ever sealed his untimely death. Although he Ballet. The film follows a particularly Restless Creature, isn’t hagiography, deeper into a state of personal and may have always questioned himself, difficult period when Whelan undergoes but it does serve as a corrective to creative turmoil. there’s no denying the legacy he left surgery for an injury and must negotiate the way ballerinas are portrayed in One of the constants of Whiteley’s behind. Whiteley ensures that we – both emotionally and professionally fictional movies as being ferociously life was his wife and muse Wendy, who continue to recognise this iconic artist’s – for her place in the dance world. competitive.” — Serena Donadoni, features as the film’s other prominent achievements. — Chris Tse Featuring gorgeous performances Village Voice voice, recounting decades of passion from Balanchine and Jerome Robbins and drama with him. The film breathes classics as well as ballets by Christopher A AWT Sat 22 Jul, 11.00 am new life into many of Whiteley’s works A AC Mon 24 Jul, 8.30 pm Wheeldon, William Forsythe, Brian A RIALTO Sat 29 Jul, 4.00 pm – from his erotically charged landscapes B RIALTO Tue 1 Aug, 2.00 pm Brooks, and Alexei Ratmansky. A RIALTO Sun 30 Jul, 6.00 pm to his political New York output – B AC Wed 2 Aug, 2.30 pm B AWT Mon 31 Jul, 11.00 am Whelan's disarming charm and steely giving us an impressionistic view of a A RIALTO Sun 6 Aug, 11.00 am
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Dark Night STRANGE INCREDIBLY Director/Screenplay: Tim Sutton USA 2016 | 85 mins Producer: Alexandra Byer Photography: Hélène Louvart Editor: Jeanne Applegate Music: Maica Armata With: Robert Jumper, Eddie Cacciola, Aaron Purvis, Anna Rose Hopkins, Karina Macias, Rosie Rodriguez Festivals: Sundance, Venice 2016 Censors rating tbc
This disquieting, gorgeously crafted an ex-soldier cleaning his guns. At first portrait of American gun culture was a it seems like the characters’ arcs are direct response to the Dark Knight Rises part of one large unrelated tableau, cinema shooting in Aurora, Colorado. US but as we drift dreamily through distributors and theatre owners weren’t their activities, jarring moments of overjoyed about showcasing such a film, disconnection and alienation begin and it’s only now that general audiences to add up, and the suburban malaise can finally see what impressed those transforms into something far more who saw it at its acclaimed Sundance sinister and profound. and Venice premieres. Those who were affected by Gus Sutton’s third feature is a dazzling Van Sant’s Elephant will feel an eerily cinéma vérité experience of the lives familiar claustrophobia as the film of six strangers, played by non-actors, slowly unfolds towards its inevitable over the course of one hot and and gripping conclusion. — AT sweaty Florida day. We observe the minutiae of the life of a mum and her A HWOOD Sun 23 Jul, 8.15 pm videogame-playing son, a teen driving A QSt Thu 27 Jul, 8.45 pm around town, an obsessive beauty queen, a couple of music junkies and
The Evil Within
Director/Screenplay: Andrew Getty USA 2017 | 100 mins Photography: Stephen Sheridan Editors: Michael Luceri, Michael Palmerio Music: Mario Grigorov With: Sean Patrick Flanery, Dina Meyer, Frederick Koehler, Michael Berryman, Francis Guinan, Brianna Brown, Kim Darby Censors rating tbc
The only thing loopier than this film is those around him by his own demonic Films selected to keep you wide awake the true story behind its making. The reflection, this drug-fuelled tale, under and save NZIFF from respectability by meth-addicted heir to the five-billion- the obsessive and painstaking direction dollar J. Paul Getty oil fortune, Andrew of its semi-reclusive auteur, is like some Ant Timpson, founder of the legendary Getty had few wishes in life: to drive familial guilt-soaked scream from an Incredibly Strange Film Festival. fast cars, be surrounded by beautiful alternate earth of sheer unpleasantries. women and become a famous horror Audiences jaded with this type of director. Well, he nailed the first two, generic horror premise will certainly and now we’re trying to make the third be unprepared for such a disorienting happen posthumously. narrative. Compounded by surreal In 2002 work began on a film inspired fever dreams and grotesque practical by nightmares Getty experienced as a makeup, it’s as if Wes Craven became child. The puzzling personal production trapped by Tommy Wiseau in a has finally been released 15 years after Lynchian landscape. — AT it all began, and two years after Getty’s untimely accidental death in the very A HWOOD Fri 4 Aug, 10.45 pm house it was shot in. A QSt Sun 6 Aug, 8.30 pm Centring on Dennis, an academically challenged man compelled to kill all
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Blade of the Immortal Mugen no junin
It beggars belief that this is Miike Takashi’s 100th feature, but even more impressive is how the man behind Director: Miike Takashi such stone-cold classics as Audition, Japan/UK 2017 | 141 minutes Producers: Jeremy Thomas, Saka Misako, Happiness of the Katakuris and Ichi Maeda Shigeji the Killer is still on fire in the director’s Screenplay: Oishi Tetsuya. Based on the manga chair. So, rejoice fans – the maestro by Samura Hiroaki Photography: Kita Nobuyasu is back on form, katana in hand and Editor: Yamashita Kenji ready to party. Music: Endo Koji With: Kimura Takuya, Sugisaki Hana, Fukushi Sota, Based on a hugely popular manga Ichihara Hayoto, Toda Erika, Kitamura Kazuki, series about a vengeful swordsman with Kuriyama Chiaki, Mitsushima Shinnosuke Festivals: Cannes (Midnight Screenings) 2017 an uncanny ability to self-heal, Blade of In Japanese with English subtitles the Immortal is a gorgeous and brutal Censors rating tbc fantasy romp, and a welcome return to the heroic bloodshed of Miike’s great samurai epic, 13 Assassins. Less rigid than that chanbara opus, and without the cartoonish violence of his recent loopy outings, this is Miike unplugged – raw and savage, with just the right amount of levity. looks uncannily like Manji’s dead sister. Mega idol Kimura Takuya stars as Before the last drop of blood hits “With a body count in Manji, whose sister is viciously killed the dirt viewers will be immersed in a the thousands and a by bounty hunters. After dispatching complex web of political conspiracy, the scum, a mysterious nun uses blood double-crosses and supernatural breakneck pitch… Blade worms to work their magic on Manji’s shenanigans, as the expertly staged of the Immortal is… veins and meaty bits. Years later he is battles between ever increasing gleefully over-the-top.” hired as a bodyguard for Rin (Sugisaki numbers of adversaries erupt in crimson Hana), whose kendo-master father geysers of body parts. It all builds to a — Ben Croll, Indiewire A CIVIC Fri 21 Jul, 8.30 pm and pupils were slaughtered by the virtuoso display of kinetic action that B QSt Fri 28 Jul, 3.30 pm swordsmen of Itto-ryu. Together they some are saying even tops 13 Assassins’ A MK Sun 30 Jul, 6.45 pm A HWOOD Sat 5 Aug, 9.15 pm make an odd couple, especially as Rin climax to end all climaxes. — AT
Hounds of Love Multiple Maniacs
Director/Screenplay: Director/Producer/ Ben Young Screenplay/Photography/ Australia 2016 | 106 mins Editor: John Waters Photography: Michael McDermott USA 1970 | 97 mins Editor: Merlin Eden Music: George S. Clinton Music: Dan Luscombe With: Divine, David Lochary, With: Ashleigh Cummings, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Emma Booth, Stephen Curry, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller, Susie Porter, Damian de Montemas Rick Morrow, Susan Lowe, Festivals: Venice, Busan 2016; Paul Swift, Howard Gruber, SXSW, Tribeca 2017 Vincent Peranio, George Figgs CinemaScope | R18 violence, B&W | R16 violence, sexual sexual violence & content that violence, drug use, offensive may disturb language & sex scenes
© FACTOR 30 FILMS True crime is the new black. Well, place in the confines of suburbia. After John Waters’ precursor to Pink unleashing general mayhem upon let’s be honest, it’s never been out they lure plucky Vicki into their home, it’s Flamingos is back in all its filthy glory, the unsuspecting public. The seedy of fashion. Audiences have been not long before her drink is spiked and fully exposed for the very first time in Cavalcade’s sex, violence and unhinged gorging on a constant homicidal diet she is chained to a bed. With no way to a pristine digital restoration. Sticking blasphemies abound unchecked, until of podcasts, TV shows and even Oscar- escape, she realises her only chance of its finger to both mainstream and a fateful encounter with a giant, horny nominated movies – but every so often survival is to start pushing the buttons counterculture, with tongue placed lobster sends Divine on a downward a film comes along like a breath of fetid of the highly wound sicko couple. The firmly in cheek, Multiple Maniacs is an spiral over the edge and into the abyss, air and raises the bar of the entire genre. whole riveting affair is ratcheted through outrageous slice of anti-establishment dragging her followers along on an Ben Young’s masterful debut will the roof with performances from the grunge inspired by the schlocky gore orgy of pre-Bad Taste comedy gore. The have a few delicate souls clamouring three leads that are enthralling, of H.G. Lewis’ Two Thousand Maniacs. multiple maniacs invite you to join their for it to be his last, while the rest of us transformative and pitch perfect. It is also the only feature film depraved party by feasting your eyes upon this will be championing the arrival of a This potent watch may do for Perth’s enough to portray onscreen Homo freshly remastered masterpiece of 70s major new Antipodean talent. Stephen suburbs what Wolf Creek did for the sapiens and crustacean intercourse. midnight movie mayhem. — AT Curry and Emma Booth play John and outback. — AT The plot, such as it is, features drag Evelyn, a loved-up pair of truly nauseating queen icon Divine as the driving force serial killers based in Perth, circa the late A HWOOD Sun 30 Jul, 8.00 pm behind ‘Lady Divine’s Cavalcade of A HWOOD Fri 28 Jul, 11.15 pm 1980s. Based on the horrendous real-life A QSt Tue 1 Aug, 9.00 pm Perversions’, a travelling show of sub- A QSt Sun 30 Jul, 7.00 pm crimes of murderers David and Catherine B QSt Thu 3 Aug, 4.00 pm Manson family freaks whose raison B QSt Wed 2 Aug, 4.30 pm Birnie, much of the depraved action takes d’être involves kidnap, murder and
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My Friend Dahmer Secret Screening
Director: Marc Meyers 100 mins or less USA 2017 | 108 mins Censors rating tbc Screenplay: Marc Meyers. Based on the graphic novel by Derf Backderf Photography: Daniel Katz With: Ross Lynch, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts, Alex Wolff, Tommy Nelson, Vincent Kartheiser, Harrison Holzer, Miles Robbins Festivals: Tribeca 2017 CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc
Like Bundy, Manson and Gacy before to school with Dahmer and knew him Who likes being kept in the dark? It isn’t child friendly. It isn’t Luc Besson’s him, we all know of sandy-haired before he was a morbid global headline. We introduce our first ever secret Valerian and the City of a Thousand handsome Jeffrey Dahmer, who killed – It’s a teen film unlike any you’ve seen screening – and we can’t wait to see it Planets. It isn’t either of the upcoming and sometimes chewed on – 17 young before, one that offers the usual tropes unfold before unsuspecting audiences. Stephen King adaptations, The Dark men and boys. You’ve probably seen and hijinks of institutionalised learning All secret screenings at NZIFF will take Tower and It. It most definitely isn’t the the documentaries, the archival news alongside sharp insightful jabs as a place simultaneously so as to ensure new Blade Runner movie. reports or maybe even that terrific slow-burn, coming-of-rage story. everyone is held in perfect suspense up All we can say is that genre fans are movie with Jeremy Renner as Dahmer. Ross Lynch, the former Disney until the opening titles roll. going to enjoy the hell out of it. We But this savvy and creepy new feature teen star, disappears deep inside the Without giving too much away, have no idea if this secret screening will film, adapted from the New York Times character of lanky Dahmer – a teenager we can say that it is a new film. We entice festival audiences, so if you value best-selling graphic novel based on whose damaged view of his own can also say that it is bloody fun. In the element of surprise and would like Dahmer’s high school life, is nothing sexuality and abnormal rituals eventually an alternate reality where video stores to see the concept continue, please short of remarkable. led him to becoming one of the most still reign supreme, our choice of film satisfy your curiosity and come along. Coming off like the love-child of notorious killers of our time. — AT would be found in any of the following — AT Napoleon Dynamite, American Splendor genre sections: action, horror, thriller, and Elephant, director Marc Meyers’ film A HWOOD Sat 22 Jul, 9.00 pm comedy. A HWOOD Fri 4 Aug, 8.45 pm mines the unseen territory of Dahmer A QSt Tue 25 Jul, 8.45 pm What the film isn’t is a major studio A QSt Fri 4 Aug, 8.45 pm as an awkward student as told through blockbuster. It doesn’t feature anyone the eyes of John Backderf, who went wearing spandex, fighting supervillains.
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The Love Witch
The only way to truly honour this Director/Producer/Screenplay/Editor: freaky, funny, erotically-charged Anna Biller homage to 70s sexploitation films is USA 2016 | 120 mins for us to show it as it was shot and Photography: M. David Mullen Music: Anna Biller, Ennio Morricone intended – from a gloriously saturated With: Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, new 35mm print*. Played dead Laura Waddell, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Jared Sanford, Robert Seeley, Jennifer Ingrum, straight, both director Anna Biller Randy Evans, Clive Ashborn, Lily Holleman, and her film are the real deal. Not April Showers, Stephen Wozniak Festivals: Rotterdam 2016 content with writing and directing, 35mm | DCP | Censors rating tbc the obsessive cineaste also designed and produced everything from the soundtrack, to the lush sets, to the outrageous costumes. Remarkably, this intensely detailed film is neither a parody nor pastiche; it is a true anomaly, a contemporary feminist tale of sex and gender politics, told within the framework of a horror sexploitation melodrama from yesteryear. Arriving in a sleepy California town in a scarlet red convertible, sexy femme all categories and upends expectations. fatale Elaine begins practising witchcraft That’s The Love Witch, an entrancing, “Stiletto-sharp and as while looking for love with potions and emotional, intelligent and challenging precise as a stocking magic. She soon starts to leave a trail picture that’s much more than the of handsome beefcakes in her wake, retro rumination some have pegged seam… cult status before setting her sights on Griff, the it as. The suggestion that it feels like surely awaits this cop investigating the deaths. Her utter the work of ‘the great-granddaughter bewitching oddity.” *35mm at Hollywood only desperation to win his love pushes of Russ Meyer’... is too easy to slap on A HWOOD Fri 21 Jul, 8.45 pm her towards the edge of madness and this picture. There’s a deeper, darker — Wendy Ide, The Guardian murder. — AT undercurrent lacing every moment, and DCP “It’s exhilarating and inspiring when it’s uniquely its own creature.” — Kim A QSt Sat 22 Jul, 9.00 pm a work of art comes along that defies Morgan, Sight & Sound B QSt Wed 26 Jul, 3.45 pm
Super Dark Times Tragedy Girls
Director: Kevin Phillips Director: Tyler MacIntyre USA 2017 | 102 mins USA 2017 | 98 mins Screenplay: Ben Collins, Screenplay: Chris Lee Hill, Luke Piotrowski Tyler MacIntyre. Based on an Photography: Eli Born original screenplay by Justin Olson Editor: Ed Yonaitis Photography: Pawel Pogorzelski Music: Ben Frost Editor: Martin Pensa With: Owen Campbell, Charlie Music: Russ Howard III Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino, With: Alexandra Shipp, Max Talisman, Sawyer Barth, Brianna Hildebrand, Jack Quaid, Amy Hargreaves Nicky Whelan, Kerry Rhodes Festivals: Rotterdam, Tribeca 2017 Festivals: SXSW 2017 CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc Censors rating tbc
This critically acclaimed coming-of-age descends into a tailspin of paranoia and Sadie and McKayla are high school best fantastically gooey splatter in spades. story begins as a meticulous study of guilt, like a creepy fusion of River’s Edge, friends. The two are social media- Send-ups of horror films have come adolescence, before morphing into a Stand by Me and 80s slasher movies. obsessed partners in crime, reporting thick and fast in the 21st century. terrifying and brutally effective thriller Director Kevin Phillips, in his feature on a serial killing spree in their sleepy Whereas Wes Craven (Scream) and – a change so dramatic that many debut, develops a deep sense of midwestern town in the hope of gaining others turned the original slasher viewers will feel as if they’ve been foreboding early on with a surreal more than 15 minutes of online infamy. movies on their head, genre-savvy sucker punched. sequence of an animal dying in a When things don’t move fast enough millennials are now having to out-meta Zach and Josh are best friends growing classroom. It’s a visceral image that for the ruthlessly ambitious pair, they each other with films like Final Girls and up in mid-90s upstate New York. They infects the characters’ headlong rush decide to take matters into their own Tucker & Dale vs Evil. So it’s refreshing spend their hours hanging out, arguing into the confusion of teenage life, as hands. As the bodies pile up and the that Tyler MacIntyre’s debut feature about superheroes, watching scrambled well as the murky boundaries they girls’ hunger for fame drives a wedge avoids Xeroxing the competition. It’s cable porn, playing 8-bit games and must navigate between adolescence between them, the serial killer on the one of the funniest horror comedies riding their bikes around. Ultimately, and adulthood, courage and fear, and loose has devious plans of his own. since Jason and the Mean Girls went to they’re just trying to fit in. good and evil. — AT Deliriously anarchic in its see Clueless together. — AT The two friends become a foursome deconstruction of genre, Tragedy when they are joined by noxious frenemy A HWOOD Sat 29 Jul, 9.15 pm Girls will generate much goodwill A HWOOD Fri 28 Jul, 9.00 pm Daryl and little Charlie to test out a A QSt Mon 31 Jul, 8.30 pm with horror diehards. With nods to A QSt Sat 29 Jul, 9.00 pm samurai sword. But when they accidently everything from Carrie to Cannibal slice things they shouldn’t, the film swiftly Holocaust, the film also delivers
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Animation NOW! The Best of Punto y Raya
Guest 67 mins approx. Contains strobe effects Censors rating tbc
SIDE BY SIDE The importance of abstract animation is post for the international community hard to overstate. In this form, there is of abstract animators who flock to its nowhere for the animator to hide: they screenings, talks and workshops. must know how to create an image, The most recent Punto y Raya ran in make it dance and fill the frame, and Karlsruhle, Germany last October. This understand the interplay of colour, selection of short films draws from the shape and movement. trove of stunning work presented there. At least one quarter of our 4,400 It also nails our abstract colours to the submissions this year were abstract. mast. Animation NOW! is a festival And just as there is more abstract determined to ensure that New Zealand animation created than many people audiences get a chance to see this type credit, so too are there a surprising of animation up on the big screen. number of platforms screening it. Go to nziff.co.nz for full programme One of the most significant of these details. — MT is the Punto y Raya Festival. Although based in Barcelona, it is in fact a C AC Sat 15 Jul, 4.15 pm nomadic event screening in a variety C AC Tue 18 Jul, 2.30 pm of European centres on an irregular timetable. It is a veritable hitching
VICTORIA UNIVERSITY Animation NOW! Black & White SCHOOL OF DESIGN JURY PRIZE
Guest 70 mins approx Censors rating tbc
In response to popular demand we’ve extracted Animation NOW! from NZIFF and made it a Festival in its own right. To mark the I WANT PLUTO TO BE A PLANET AGAIN occasion, Victoria University Wellington, School of Design have Swirling weather, pillowy white own shadow in a dazzling cryptic noir. donated a $5,000 jury award to go to the film judged best in fields, ominous cityscapes, shadowy Live-action photography also features: the programme. (Films in the Punto y Raya programme are not woodlands: watching this year’s Black American photographer Roger Ballen in competition.) The finalists will be shortlisted by a panel of & White programme shows us how plays himself as a man whose dreams programmers and animators here and in Melbourne and will be purposeful and expressive an absence are turned into a freakish theatre of announced on our website. You can see the finalists – and learn of colour can be. From the sparse to randy apparitions, and Little Red Riding the jury’s choice of ultimate prize winner – at Animation NOW! the splashy, all of these works wield Hood gets an industrial makeover in The Finalists on the final day of NZIFF. their limited palettes to staggering a striking rotoscope remake. Last, but effect. Wintry landscapes bring most certainly not least, comes the All films at Animation NOW! were selected by Malcolm Turner, atmosphere in spades in the opening highlight I Want Pluto to Be a Planet animation programmer at NZIFF since 1998 and currently director pair: a child’s mission to collect wood Again: a dystopian black comedy with of the Melbourne International Animation Film Festival. turns into a life journey in a stark one of the most potent closing images ecological omen, and a hunter traps you’ll see all festival. Go to nziff.co.nz a mythical sea creature in a brooding for full programme details. — JF feminist allegory. Urban streets become Animation NOW! The Finalists playgrounds for spectral visions in C AC Sat 15 Jul, 6.00 pm A AC Sun 6 Aug, 4.45 pm another set: a woman is haunted by C AC Tue 18 Jul, 4.15 pm strange creatures in a moody music video, and a man is pursued by his
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Animation NOW! Dark Hearts Animation NOW! International Showcase
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CANDIDE HOME SWEET HOME OUT OF INTERNAL WORLDS From creepy fables to Cronenbergian jet-black buddy comedy; and French If you’re after a taste of the Animation dreamscape. There will be danger: body horror, to absurdism of the Adult philosopher Voltaire gets a kick in the NOW! programme, the International dementia imagined as a paranoid Swim mould, this year’s Dark Hearts pants with a witty, modern update of Showcase is the ideal sampler: a Hitchcock homage, and a fictional Kiwi programme offers a suitably black his masterpiece Candide (with added smattering of the most inventive and city (with both Sky Tower and Beehive) bouquet of the macabre. For some the grotesquerie). In the rest, animation is audacious shorts the world has to destroyed in a DIY disaster blockbuster. morbid is a gateway to difficult truths: a licence to go deeper and darker than offer. This year brings a smorgasbord There will be debauchery: a quiet big existential questions are raised in live action will allow: an old hag climbs of virtuoso style and themes. There house party swelling into animalistic a schizoid sci-fi vision; a harrowing a mountain with the promise of youth will be deities: an abstracted creation hedonism, and an ode to booze from stop-motion apocalypse captures the but meets grisly consequences; a girl’s story told in strobes of red and white, poet Charles Bukowski transformed horrors of war; the sexual frustrations body becomes a vessel for larvae after and a power-hungry king taking on into a seedy noir. And there will be of a couple take on discomfiting she swats a fly; and cat video culture Death when there is no one else left to d’ohs: two decades of The Simpsons visuals; and we explore white-hot gets given a sinister twist. Go to nziff. usurp. There will be decency: a garbage chewed up and spat out into one hatred via the POV of a seething co.nz for full programme details. — JF man recounting his friendship with a shape-shifting howl. Go to nziff.co.nz ex-con on a vengeance mission. In feisty feline, and a moving anecdote for full programme details. — JF others, the bleakness opens up a world of compassion relayed via watercolour of twisted laughs: a plucky schoolkid C AC Sun 16 Jul, 8.30 pm postcards. There will be dread: a cellist’s C AC Sat 15 Jul, 8.00 pm experiments with rebellion in a blend C AC Mon 17 Jul, 2.15 pm pre-show jitters sliding into an anxious C AC Mon 17 Jul, 4.15 pm of stop frame and live action; an fever dream, and a bout of panic unlikely friendship is threatened in a morphing a bedroom into a sinister
Animation NOW! Animation NOW! New Chinese Animation Living Masters New Works
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THE BIG EYES Clearly marking the distinction between cameos from Jean Cocteau, Pablo If the breadth of the work here is two computers. There’s no shortage of auteur and animator, this selection Picasso and Charlie Chaplin); Dennis any indication, independent Chinese political critique: a marionette dictator rounds up nine masters of the medium Tupicoff dusts off an old baby photo animation is in something of a Golden loses his reign over an industrial for a showcase of new works. From and a film noir for an autobiographical Age. From the enigmatic to the wasteland; a troupe of animals flee Japan to Russia to Belgium to Australia, meditation on cinema and memory; electric, this collection of work is a through an apocalyptic ruin from a these filmmakers hail from a diverse and Igor Kovalyov delivers a sweeping series of unpredictable and provocative rocket ship full of sadistic toddlers; range of scenes, and yet share decades love triangle epic of voyeurism, infidelity statements. It seems every short here and in the most hypnotic short of the of broken ground between them. There’s and vengeance in his unmissable has its own rarefied world to explore: programme, a series of confounding, fresh material from some formidable programme-capper. And then there’s a shadow journeys a vivid landscape abstracted images reflect on China pioneers: Joan C. Gratz, the progenitor Marv Newland’s Scratchy, featuring a in a colourful meditation on memory; in split-screen – the effect is like a of clay painting, delves once again ditty about the perils of itching that red and blue cells take human form gallery show where the viewer is able into her brand of textured, expressive might not ever leave your head. Go to for a heated football match; and to wander into each individual canvas. symbolism; and Steven Woloshen, a nziff.co.nz for full programme details. body parts intermingle with flora and Go to nziff.co.nz for full programme forefather of drawn-on-film animation (in — JF fauna in a trippy riff on the quantum details. — JF the same breath as Len Lye), pays tribute theory. Some of these worlds reflect to jazz, blackjack and his late father. C AC Fri 14 Jul, 6.30 pm on technology: a man is overwhelmed C AC Sun 16 Jul, 4.15 pm Yamamura Koji uses Erik Satie’s C AC Mon 17 Jul, 6.30 pm by windows of images (many sexual C AC Tue 18 Jul, 6.30 pm ballet Parade as a launching pad for in nature), and scatters of information a surrealist parade of his own (with form a playful digital tapestry between
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Meet the Filmmakers As we go to print, the following international guests have confirmed their attendance at NZIFF in Auckland. These filmmakers will introduce their films and answer questions following the screening of the sessions indicated.
Jane Campion Alice Foulcher Luke Korem Gerard Lee Gregory Erdstein Russell Wayne Groves A AWT Sun 30 Jul, 1.00 pm B AWT Fri 21 Jul, 1.15 pm A AWT Mon 31 Jul, 6.15 pm A AWT Sun 23 Jul, 3.15 pm B AWT Tue 1 Aug, 1.15 pm Jane Campion, New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter, Alice Foulcher is an Australian Luke Korem is a director and is one of contemporary cinema’s actor and writer. She frequently producer whose recent work most notable filmmakers. She collaborates with her husband, includes the feature documentary JANE CAMPION ALICE FOULCHER LUKE KOREM is the first and only female director and co-writer Gregory Lord Montagu, which chronicles director to receive the coveted Erdstein. Their short films include the life of one of England’s Palme d’Or at Cannes (1993) Picking Up at Auschwitz (2012), most controversial and iconic and only the second of four A Bit Rich (2014) and Paris aristocrats of the 20th century. women ever to be nominated as Syndrome (2016). As a writer Korem directed and produced the Best Director at the Academy and director, Foulcher’s own short film, which premiered at London’s Awards (1994), both for The films have screened at major prestigious BAFTA Theater and is Piano (she went on to win Best film festivals in Australia and now being distributed worldwide. GERARD LEE GREGORY ERDSTEIN RUSSELL WAYNE GROVES Screenplay). Campion’s first internationally. Russell Wayne Groves has short film, Peel (1982), winner of the Short Film Gregory Erdstein is an award-winning filmmaker produced a wide array of projects, including Lord Palme d’Or in 1986, was followed in 1989 by and Masters graduate of the Victorian College of Montagu. Dealt (p67), Groves’ second documentary Sweetie, her first feature film, and, a year later, by the Arts (VCA) School of Film and Television. In 2014 feature with Korem, follows Richard Turner, widely An Angel at My Table, about author Janet Frame. Erdstein and Foulcher were granted an eight-month considered one of the world’s greatest card magicians She has also directed The Portrait of a Lady (1996), writing residency at the prestigious Cité des Arts – and who is also completely blind. Holy Smoke (1999), In the Cut (2003) and Bright Internationale in Paris, where they co-wrote the script Star (2009). Her first foray into long-form television, for That’s Not Me (p61). That’s Not Me is Erdstein’s Top of the Lake (2013), shot entirely in Queenstown feature debut as a director, and Foulcher’s feature Daniel Borgman and Glenorchy, further extended her public and debut as a writer and actor. A QSt Tue 1 Aug, 6.15 pm critical acclaim. The series’ second season received B QSt Wed 2 Aug, 1.45 pm rave reviews when it premiered at Cannes this year. Daniel Borgman is an Otago Gerard Lee is an Australian novelist, screenwriter Jennifer Peedom University graduate who has been and director. Lee’s creative partnership with Jane A CIVIC Tue 1 Aug, 6.30 pm based as a filmmaker in Denmark Campion goes back to her debut feature, Sweetie, B CIVIC Wed 2 Aug, 2.00 pm since 2005. He studied directing DANIEL BORGMAN which he co-wrote. He also co-wrote with Campion Jennifer Peedom is a BAFTA- at the Danish alternative film seasons one and two of Top of the Lake. His other nominated director, known for school Super16, before returning to New Zealand screenwriting credits include All Men Are Liars (1995, her gripping, intimate portraits of to film his debut feature, The Weight of Elephants. people in extreme circumstances. A Danish/New Zealand co-production, it premiered as writer-director), My Mistress (2014) and the JENNIFER PEEDOM upcoming film adaptation of acclaimed novelist Her documentaries include Solo at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2013 Tim Winton’s Breath. (2008, AFI for Best Documentary), Miracle on Everest and also screened at NZIFF. Loving Pia (p58) is his Straight from Cannes, Top of the Lake: China Girl (2010), Living the End (2011). Peedom was a guest second feature film. It was developed at the Berlinale (p12) screens in full at NZIFF 2017 before its television filmmaker at NZIFF with her 2015 documentary Residence and made with support from The Danish premiere on UKTV on SKY. Sherpa, and returns this year with her spectacular Film Institute and FilmFyn. new feature, Mountain (p13), a big screen celebration of the allure of the mountains, complemented by a Michael Galinsky grand orchestral score. Francis Lee Suki Hawley A CIVIC Wed 2 Aug, 6.30 pm A AC Sun 23 Jul, 4.15 pm B CIVIC Thu 3 Aug, 1.00 pm A AC Mon 24 Jul, 6.15 pm Khushboo Ranka Francis Lee was brought up on Michael Galinsky is a filmmaker, Vinay Shukla his parents’ farm on the Pennine photographer and musician. A AWT Wed 26 Jul, 8.00 pm Hills in Yorkshire, UK. After B AWT Thu 27 Jul, 3.15 pm Along with wife Suki, he’s training at Rose Bruford College, FRANCIS LEE MICHAEL GALINSKY produced six award-winning Khushboo Ranka recently he worked extensively as an actor feature films and dozens of co-wrote the fiction feature film in theatre, television and film. His directorial debut, shorts. He is also a contributing Ship of Theseus, which premiered The Farmer’s Wife, screened at many international KHUSHBOO RANKA editor for International at the Toronto International Film film festivals. God’s Own Country (p42) is his first Documentary Magazine, writing Festival 2012. Her first short film, feature-length film. articles about filmmaking and Continuum, was shown at various distribution. international film festivals. Suki Hawley is director and Vinay Shukla wrote and Kate Adie SUKI HAWLEY editor. She has collaborated directed his first short film, A AWT Fri 4 Aug, 8.45 pm Bureaucracy Sonata, in 2011. with husband Michael for 20 Kate Adie is an English journalist, Premiering at the 42nd years. She has also served as a consulting editor and one of the best-known faces VINAY SHUKLA International Film Festival of India, on various documentaries and TV series, including of British broadcasting. Radio it went on to win the HBO Best American Cannibal: The Road to Reality (NZIFF06). New Zealand listeners will also Short Film Award at the South Asian International A native of Dallas, she studied film at Wesleyan be familiar with Adie’s regular Film Festival in 2012. KATE ADIE University and after graduation worked in the reports on Nine to Noon. Highly For their first documentary feature, An Insignificant cutting room of Roger Corman’s legendary studio. regarded in her role as chief news correspondent for Man (p75), Ranka and Shukla spent two years Working in Protest (p77), a documentary covering the BBC (1989–2002), she has reported from such following polarising activist-turned-politician Arvind 17 years of protest and activism in America, is the hotspots as Tiananmen Square, the Gulf War, Rwanda Kejriwal – ‘the Bernie Sanders of India’ – and his duo’s latest film. and Sierra Leone. She broke ground in 1980 with campaign to overturn the corrupt status quo of her coverage of the Iranian Embassy siege in London. Indian politics as the head of the Common Man’s She is played by Abbie Cornish in 6 Days (p19), Toa Party (AAP). Fraser’s gripping dramatisation of events.
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Shorts with Features As we go to print the following shorts have been scheduled to precede features.
AMERICAN PARADISE
American Paradise Import World Premieres from USA 2017 | Director: Joe Talbot | Festivals: Sundance, SXSW 2017 Netherlands 2016 | Director: Ena Sendijarevic 16 mins Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight), Toronto | 17 mins Loading Docs 2107 A forgotten man tempts fate by committing the A family of Bosnian refugees try to make sense of #Losing perfect crime. Screening with Una (p43). their new home in a quaint Dutch village. Screening New Zealand 2017 | Directors: Stjohn Milgrew, Damian Golfinopoulos with The Future Perfect (p57). Boxes 4 mins New Zealand 2017 | Director: Jack Barrowman | 13 mins Oh What a Wonderful Feeling Spoken word artist Dominic Hoey aka Tourettes World Premiere Canada 2016 | Director: François Jaros | Festivals: Cannes (Critics’ Week), reflects on his losing battle with a degenerative bone Toronto, London, Vancouver 2016 | 15 mins A young man gets a reality check when his disease. Screening with Heal the Living (p29). grandmother suddenly falls ill. Screening with A Date At night, a truck stop becomes a sinister realm of The Coffin Club for Mad Mary (p36). mystery. Screening with The Untamed (p61). New Zealand 2017 | Director: Briar March | 4 mins Each to Their Own Stay A musical documentary about the celebration of life New Zealand 2016 | Director: Maria Ines Manchego New Zealand 2017 | Directors: Craig Gainsborough, Luke Thornborough and death. Screening with Hotel Salvation (p35). Festivals: Locarno 2016 | 19 mins 7 mins | World Premiere A grieving girl is drawn in by a charismatic church. The lives of June and her pet dog Lucas change East Meets East Screening with The Wound (p65). forever. Screening with Kedi (p69). New Zealand 2017 | Director: Julie Zhu | 4 mins A Chinese grandmother finds kinship on her bus trip For the Light We All Need Love to the Asian supermarket. Screening with Abacus: New Zealand 2017 | Director: Steven Chow | 15 mins New Zealand 2017 | Director: Brendan Donovan | 9 mins World Premiere Small Enough to Jail (p66) A man reflects as the New Year is celebrated outside. Screening with Marjorie Prime (p59). A solo mum working as a cam girl makes an My Dog Ajax unwanted connection. Screening with Kiki, Love to New Zealand 2017 | Director: Michael Weatherall | 4 mins Love (p41). Foraging A conservationist and his canine companion work New Zealand 2016 | Director: Simon Ogston | 5 mins The World in Your Window together to help save the Kea. Screening with Blue Musician Christoph el Truento explores a natural New Zealand 2016 | Director: Zoe McIntosh | Festivals: Tribeca 2017 (p74). soundscape. Screening with Bill Direen: A Memory of 15 mins Others (p18). Eight-year-old Jesse strikes up an unusual friendship. Grey William Screening with My Life As a Courgette (p59). New Zealand 2017 | Director: Sandy Augusto Burton | 14 mins World Premiere A quirky tour guide can’t let the past go. Screening with Ethel & Ernest (p41). SEE TEN FILMS OR MAKE NINE FRIENDS Have you tried, maybe, not Ten-Trip Pass on sale now from Ticketmaster. worrying? Please note Ten-Trip passes purchased online are New Zealand 2017 | Director: Rachel Ross | 15 mins | World Premiere activated the following business day, so buy ahead A young woman’s life is riven by a crippling anxiety and be ready to splurge! See page 4 for details. disorder. Screening with To Stay Alive: A Method (p72).
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Argentina A Gentle Creature 43 Bill Direen: A Memory of Others 18 Turkey The Free Man 19 The Desert Bride 26 I Am Not Your Negro 67 Free Theatre 19 Kedi 69 The Distinguished Citizen 26 Let the Sunshine In 31 The Midwife 31 Human Traces 21 The Future Perfect 57 UK My Life As a Courgette 59 The Inland Road 22 Australia Napalm 70 Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web 20 6 Days 19 Ethel & Ernest 41 Berlin Syndrome 63 The Paris Opera 79 Kobi 20 Bill Frisell: A Portrait 78 A Prayer Before Dawn 64 My Year with Helen 13 Final Portrait 82 Blue 74 The Venerable W. 73 New Zealand’s Best 2017 25 God’s Own Country 42 Don’t Tell 27 Winnie 77 Nga¯ Whanaunga… 2017 25 I Am Not a Witch 57 No Ordinary Sheila 21 Hounds of Love 85 A Woman’s Life 33 Lady Macbeth 58 The Workshop 33 Not Just Another Mountain 22 Jasper Jones 27 Leaning Into the Wind: Andy… 83 Wùlu 65 Spookers 23 Mountain 15 Minute Bodies: The Intimate World… 70 That’s Not Me 61 The Young Karl Marx 77 Swagger of Thieves 22 A Monster Calls 43 Top of the Lake: China Girl 12 TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home 24 Georgia We Don’t Need a Map 73 Waru 23 The Party 42 Whiteley 83 Hostages 62 What Lies That Way 24 A Prayer Before Dawn 64 Belgium Germany Norway Swallows and Amazons 62 Dries 82 Austerlitz 67 Nowhere to Hide 71 USA Beuys: Art As a Weapon 80 Portugal 20th Century Women 44 Bhutan Dries 82 Abacus: Small Enough to Jail 66 Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song… 57 Frantz 29 The Ornithologist 60 BANG! The Bert Berns Story 78 In Times of Fading Light 35 Brazil Russia Manifesto 58 Beach Rats 55 A Gentle Creature 43 Araby 54 Risk 75 Beatriz at Dinner 45 Loveless 14 Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! 55 Western 61 The Beguiled 45 Stalker 16 Gabriel and the Mountain 56 The Young Karl Marx 77 Born in China 52 Senegal Bulgaria Hungary Brigsby Bear 51 Félicité 39 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 74 Western 61 On Body and Soul 60 Wùlu 65 Columbus 56 Canada India Singapore Dark Night 84 All Governments Lie 66 An Insignificant Man 75 Dealt 67 Pop Aye 39 Maliglutit (Searchers) 28 Hotel Salvation 35 Dina 68 Maudie 27 Newton 35 Slovakia The Evil Within 84 Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked… 79 Indonesia The Teacher 37 A Ghost Story 55 Chile Good Time 11 Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts 62 South Africa House of Z 81 A Fantastic Woman 28 Iran Winnie 77 I Am Not Your Negro 67 China Starless Dreams 71 The Wound 65 Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial… 68 Born in China 52 Iraq South Korea It 17 China’s Van Goghs 81 Claire’s Camera 37 It Comes at Night 63 The Summer Is Gone 28 Nowhere to Hide 71 The Merciless 64 The Lost City of Z 51 Ireland Czech Republic Yourself and Yours 37 The Love Witch 87 The Teacher 37 A Date for Mad Mary 36 Spain Marjorie Prime 59 The Farthest 13 Denmark Kiki, Love to Love 41 Menashe 51 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 14 Multiple Maniacs 85 BIG Time 80 La Chana 81 Loving Pia 58 Italy Politics, an Instruction Manual 75 My Friend Dahmer 86 The War Show 72 Call Me by Your Name 15 Summer 1993 41 Quest 69 Patti Cake$ 59 DR Congo Japan Sweden Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan 83 Ancien and the Magic Tablet 37 The Nile Hilton Incident 64 Félicité 39 Risk 75 Bangkok Nites 54 Sami Blood 39 Step 71 Egypt Blade of the Immortal 85 The Square 9 Super Dark Times 87 The Nile Hilton Incident 64 Mali Switzerland Take Every Wave: The Life of… 64 Finland Wùlu 65 My Life As a Courgette 59 Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present 79 The Venerable W 73 Tragedy Girls 87 The Other Side of Hope 11 Mexico Trophy 73 France Syria The Untamed 61 Una 43 Belle de Jour 16 The War Show 72 Unrest 73 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 12 Netherlands Thailand Wind River 65 Faces Places 9 To Stay Alive: A Method 72 Félicité 39 Bad Genius 63 Working in Protest 77 Frantz 29 New Zealand Bangkok Nites 54 Happy End 29 6 Days 19 Pop Aye 39 Zambia Heal the Living 29 100 Men 18 A Prayer Before Dawn 64 I Am Not a Witch 57
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Dance La Chana 81 The Paris Opera 79 Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan 83 Step 71
Environment Blue 74 Born in China 52 Leaning Into the Wind: 83 Andy Goldsworthy No Ordinary Sheila 21 Trophy 73
Families 20th Century Women 44 THE SQUARE Ethel & Ernest 41 Félicité 39 Animals Belle de Jour 16 Stalker 16 Happy End 29 Berlin Syndrome 63 Born in China 52 Comedy In Times of Fading Light 35 Kedi 69 Blade of the Immortal 85 The Inland Road 22 20th Century Women 44 Pop Aye 39 Call Me by Your Name 15 Marjorie Prime 59 Beatriz at Dinner 45 Trophy 73 Don’t Tell 27 Menashe 51 Brigsby Bear 51 Ethel & Ernest 41 Quest 69 A Date for Mad Mary 36 Animation Heal the Living 29 Summer 1993 41 Hotel Salvation 35 See also Animation NOW! pp 88–89 In Times of Fading Light 35 The Summer Is Gone 28 Kiki, Love to Love 41 Ancien and the Magic Tablet 37 Jasper Jones 27 Waru 23 Animation for Kids 4+ 53 Lady Macbeth 58 Newton 35 Fashion Animation for Kids 8+ 53 The Lost City of Z 51 The Other Side of Hope 11 Ethel & Ernest 41 A Monster Calls 43 The Party 42 Dries 82 A Monster Calls 43 My Friend Dahmer 86 Patti Cake$ 59 House of Z 81 My Life As a Courgette 59 Secret Screening 86 Kobi 20 Architecture Spookers 22 A Prayer Before Dawn 64 Glamour BIG Time 80 Stalker 16 The Square 9 Belle de Jour 16 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 74 Swallows and Amazons 62 That’s Not Me 61 Call Me by Your Name 15 Columbus 56 A Woman’s Life 33 Tragedy Girls 87 Dries 82 The Teacher 37 Armchair Travel Based On True Stories House of Z 81 Call Me by Your Name 15 6 Days 19 Coming Of Age It 17 Columbus 56 Don’t Tell 27 20th Century Women 44 The Love Witch 87 Faces Places 9 Gabriel and the Mountain 56 Beach Rats 55 Health The Farthest 13 Hostages 62 Call Me by Your Name 15 BIG Time 80 Gabriel and the Mountain 56 Hounds of Love 85 My Friend Dahmer 86 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 12 Hotel Salvation 35 The Lost City of Z 51 Sami Blood 39 Heal the Living 29 Kedi 69 My Friend Dahmer 86 Costume Drama Unrest 73 The Lost City of Z 51 A Prayer Before Dawn 64 Mountain 15 The Beguiled 45 Horror Cannes Competition 2017 Frantz 29 Swallows and Amazons 63 The Evil Within 84 The Beguiled 45 Lady Macbeth 58 A Gentle Creature 43 Artists BPM (Beats Per Minute) 12 The Lost City of Z 51 It Comes at Night 63 See Portrait of the Artist pp 80–83 A Woman’s Life 33 Good Time 11 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 14 Faces Places 9 The Young Karl Marx 77 A Gentle Creature 43 Secret Screening 86 Kobi 20 Happy End 29 Crime Tragedy Girls 87 Maudie 27 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 14 Good Time 11 The Square 9 Loveless 14 Human Rights The Merciless 64 To Stay Alive: A Method 72 The Square 9 Araby 54 The Nile Hilton Incident 64 Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present 79 I Am Not Your Negro 67 Classics Top of the Lake: China Girl 12 Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial 68 Based On Books Belle de Jour 16 Wind River 65 & Depiction The Beguiled 45 It 17 Wúlu 65 Nowhere to Hide 71
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Quest 69 Maudie 27 The War Show 72 Westerns Starless Dreams 71 On Body and Soul 60 Religion Magilutit (Searchers) 28 The War Show 72 Quest 69 Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts 62 Hotel Salvation 35 Wind River 65 Indigenous Magic TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home 24 Western 61 See also Ma¯ori/Pacific Dealt 67 The Venerable W 73 Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! 55 What Lies That Way 64 Witches Félicité 39 Road Movies Mao¯ri/Pacific I Am Not a Witch 57 I Am Not a Witch 57 The Desert Bride 26 The Love Witch 87 New Zealand’s Best 2017 25 Maliglutit (Searchers) 28 Faces Places 9 Nga¯ Whanaunga 25 Writers Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked 79 Gabriel and the Mountain 56 Ma¯ ori Pasifika Shorts 2017 the World Bill Direen: A Memory of Others 18 Pop Aye 39 Not Just Another Mountain 23 Sami Blood 39 The Distinguished Citizen 26 Spookers 22 We Don’t Need a Map 73 School Days I Am Not Your Negro 67 Waru 23 The Wound 65 Bad Genius 63 No Ordinary Sheila 21 What Lies That Way 24 Jewish My Friend Dahmer 86 To Stay Alive: A Method 72 The Workshop 33 Menashe 51 Martial Arts Super Dark Times 87 The Young Karl Marx 77 Blade of the Immortal 85 The Teacher 37 Kids A Prayer Before Dawn 64 Women Make Features I Am Not a Witch 57 Science Beach Rats 55 My Life As a Courgette 59 Music Blue 74 The Beguiled 45 Summer 1993 41 See Music pp 78–79 The Farthest 13 Berlin Syndrome 63 The Summer is Gone 28 Bill Direen: A Memory of Others 18 Minute Bodies 70 The Desert Bride 26 Félicité 39 Kidult Don’t Tell 27 Minute Bodies 70 Science-Fiction Faces Places 9 Jasper Jones 27 Patti Cake$ 59 Marjorie Prime 59 he Future Perfect 57 A Monster Calls 43 Swagger of Thieves 23 Stalker 16 My Life As a Courgette 59 Heal the Living 29 Swallows and Amazons 62 Online Sports & Fitness I Am Not a Witch 57 Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web 20 The Free Man 19 Jasper Jones 27 Law & Order Let the Sunshine In 31 Risk 75 Mountain 15 Abacus: Small Enough to Jail 66 The Love Witch 87 Ostalgia Take Every Wave: The Life of 64 Don’t Tell 27 Laird Hamilton Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts 62 Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web 20 Hostages 62 Maudie 27 Risk 75 In Times of Fading Light 35 Summer Sun On Body and Soul 60 The Teacher 37 Call Me By Your Name 15 The Party 42 LGBT La Chana 81 Pop Aye 39 100 Men 18 Politics Kiki, Love to Love 41 Sami Blood 39 Beach Rats 55 6 Days 19 Summer 1993 41 Summer 1993 41 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 12 All Governments Lie 66 Swallows and Amazons 62 Swallows and Amazons 62 Call Me by Your Name 15 BPM (Beats per Minute) 12 Top of the Lake: China Girl 12 A Date for Mad Mary 36 An Insignificant Man 75 Theatre Waru 23 Dries 82 Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web 20 A Date for Mad Mary 36 Western 61 A Fantastic Woman 28 My Year with Helen 13 Free Theatre 19 God’s Own Country 42 Napalm 70 WTF? Marjorie Prime 59 Heal the Living 29 Newton 35 Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! 55 The Paris Opera 79 House of Z 81 The Party 42 The Evil Within 84 Una 43 Multiple Maniacs 85 Politics, an Instruction Manual 75 A Ghost Story 55 The Ornithologist 60 The Young Karl Marx 77 Thrillers Multiple Maniacs 85 The Wound 65 The Ornithologist 60 Winnie 77 See Thrill pp 62–65 Working in Protest 77 The Untamed 61 Love Stories Good Time 11 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 12 Prison Hounds of Love 85 Youth Call Me by Your Name 15 A Prayer Before Dawn 64 Secret Screening 86 20th Century Women 44 Dina 68 Starless Dreams 71 Super Dark Times 87 Bad Genius 63 Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! 55 The Workshop 33 Beach Rats 55 Dries 82 Refugees Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! 55 A Ghost Story 55 Nowhere to Hide 71 War Zones My Friend Dahmer 86 God’s Own Country 42 The Other Side of Hope 11 Nowhere to Hide 71 Super Dark Times 87 Loving Pia 58 TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home 24 The War Show 72
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6 Days 19 The Distinguished Citizen 26 L R 20th Century Women 44 Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! 55 La Chana 81 Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan 83 100 Men 18 Don’t Tell 27 Lady Macbeth 58 Risk 75 A Dries 82 Leaning Into the Wind: 83 Rumble: The Indians Who 79 Rocked the World Abacus: Small Enough to Jail 66 E Andy Goldsworthy S All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, 66 Ethel & Ernest 41 Let the Sunshine In 31 and the Spirit of I.F. Stone The Evil Within 84 The Lost City of Z 51 Sami Blood 39 Ancien and the Magic Tablet 37 F Loveless 14 Secret Screening 86 Animation for Kids 4+ 53 Love Witch 87 Spookers 23 Faces Places 9 Animation for Kids 8+ 53 Loving Pia 58 The Square 9 A Fantastic Woman 28 Animation NOW! Black & White 88 M Stalker 16 Animation NOW! Dark Hearts 89 The Farthest 13 Starless Dreams 71 Maliglutit (Searchers) 28 Animation NOW! 89 Félicité 39 Step 71 International Showcase Manifesto 58 Final Portrait 82 Summer 1993 41 Animation NOW! 89 Frantz 29 Marjorie Prime 59 The Summer Is Gone 28 Living Masters New Works The Free Man 19 Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts 62 Super Dark Times 87 Animation NOW! 89 89 Maudie 27 New Chinese Animation Free Theatre 19 Swagger of Thieves 22 Menashe 51 Animation NOW! 88 The Future Perfect 57 Swallows and Amazons 52 The Best of Punto y Raya G The Merciless 64 T An Insignificant Man 75 The Midwife 31 Gabriel and the Mountain 56 Take Every Wave: The Life of 64 Araby 54 Minute Bodies: The Intimate World 70 Laird Hamilton A Gentle Creature 43 of F. Percy Smith Austerlitz 67 The Teacher 37 A Ghost Story 55 B A Monster Calls 43 TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home 24 God’s Own Country 42 Mountain 15 That’s Not Me 61 Bad Genius 63 Good Time 11 Multiple Maniacs 85 Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present 79 Bangkok Nites 54 H My Friend Dahmer 86 Top of the Lake: China Girl 12 Bang! The Bert Berns Story 78 Happy End 29 My Life As a Courgette 59 To Stay Alive: A Method 72 Beach Rats 55 Heal the Living 29 My Year with Helen 13 Tragedy Girls 87 Beatriz at Dinner 45 Hema Hema: Sing Me A Song 57 Trophy 73 The Beguiled 45 N While I Wait U Belle de Jour 16 Hostages 62 Napalm 70 Berlin Syndrome 63 Una 43 Hotel Salvation 35 Newton 35 Beuys: Art As a Weapon 80 Unrest 73 Hounds of Love 85 New Zealand’s Best 2015 25 BIG Time 80 The Untamed 61 House of Z 81 Nga¯ Whanaunga Maori 25 Bill Direen: A Memory of Others 18 Pasifika Shorts 2017 V Human Traces 21 Bill Frisell: A Portrait 78 The Nile Hilton Incident 64 I The Venerable W. 73 Blade of the Immortal 85 No Ordinary Sheila 21 W Blue 74 I Am Not a Witch 57 Not Just Another Mountain 22 The War Show 72 Born in China 52 I Am Not Your Negro 67 Nowhere to Hide 71 Waru 23 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 12 The Inland Road 22 O We Don’t Need a Map 73 Brigsby Bear 51 Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial 68 On Body and Soul 60 Western 61 C & Depiction In Times of Fading Light 35 The Ornithologist 60 What Lies That Way 24 Call Me by Your Name 15 It 17 The Other Side of Hope 11 Whiteley 83 China’s Van Goghs 81 It Comes at Night 63 P Wind River 65 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 74 Winnie 77 J The Paris Opera 79 Claire’s Camera 37 A Woman’s Life 33 The Party 42 Columbus 56 Jasper Jones 27 Working in Protest 77 D K Patti Cake$ 59 The Workshop 33 Politics, an Instruction Manual 75 The Wound 65 Dark Night 84 Kedi 69 Pop Aye 39 Wùlu 65 A Date for Mad Mary 36 Kiki, Love to Love 41 A Prayer Before Dawn 64 Dealt 67 Killing of a Sacred Deer 14 Y Q The Desert Bride 26 Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web 20 The Young Karl Marx 77 Dina 68 Kobi 20 Quest 69 Yourself and Yours 37
Notes in this brochure are written and compiled by the programmers, Bill Gosden, Michael McDonnell, Ant Timpson, Sandra Reid and Malcolm Turner. Tim Wong, Toby Manhire, Nick Bollinger, Judah Finnigan, Jo Randerson, Andrew Langridge, Chris Tse, Rebecca McMillan, Graeme Tuckett and Nic Marshall also contributed notes. The brochure was edited, drawing on a wide array of writers we like, by Bill Gosden, who also wrote the unsigned notes, cribbing the occasional perfect adjective from said writers. It was managed by Tim Wong with the assistance of a squadron of ace proofreaders who labour beyond the call of duty. Views expressed in the brochure do not necessarily represent the views of the staff or trustees of the New Zealand Film Festival Trust.
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