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CHESTER INTERNATIONAL FILM The Farewell Rojo Balloon Dir: Lulu Wang Dir: Benjamín Naishtat Dir: Michael Bully Herbig FESTIVAL 2020 2019 (China/USA) 2018 (Argentina) 2018 (Germany) 98 minutes 109 minutes 125 minutes
OPENING NIGHT The push and pull between the bonds of A mid-sized, detached 1970s home, its You wouldn't think a family outing in a Friday 6th March blood and the ties of culture are explored windows shuttered like the closed eyes hot air balloon would be such a big deal. Golden Globe-winning comedy-drama with a light touch and a perceptive eye for of a coma patient. A portly, well-dressed But when the year is 1979 and you are The Farewell launches the festival in detail in this delightful, semi-autobiographical man emerges carrying an ornamental desperate to flee East Germany and reach style, followed by a drinks reception – family drama from writer and director Lulu clock before a girl scurries off with an the West, the stakes cannot get much your ticket stub includes a free drink. Wang. The Farewell is a drama in which a armful of clothes, an older lady totters out higher. The East German Balloon Escape
young woman and her family return to under the weight of a gilt mirror and some is the true story of two families driven to Tickets are just £5 with the code China to spend time with her maternal men manoeuvre a TV through the doorway. secretly stitch together a huge balloon CHESTERFS via the Storyhouse website grandmother, who has been diagnosed They are not residents, nor neighbours while hidden from the watchful eye of the www.storyhouse.com/guide/cinema. with a terminal cancer. A hastily convened attending a yard sale; they are scavengers, Stasi police. German writer/director Doors open 15 minutes before. wedding provides the cover story to bring implicitly turning some unseen family’s Michael Bully Herbig creates a cosy- CHESTER ANIMATION FESTIVAL the extended family back to China to misfortune to their own end. This is looking period story that is both funny and Our film festival incorporates the bid farewell to their unwitting matriarch. regional Argentina in 1975, and while the thrilling. As with other celluloid celebrations 7th Chester Animation Festival on Ultimately, it’s all about balance, a yin coup d’état won’t happen for months, the of real-life derring-do you have a pretty March 15th, showcasing the best and yang of roots and identities, humour unease of it is already an airborne disease good idea how things will turn out, but animated shorts from all over the world. and pathos that comes together into a carried backward on the wind. Argentina’s how they do and how close they come to satisfying, bittersweet wedding banquet middle-classes are battening down the death is told in brisk, heart-stopping style. of a movie. hatches of self-interest against the storm to come. Set before the coup that installed This screening will be followed by a drinks a military junta in Argentina, Benjamín reception – your ticket stub includes a free Naishtat’s satire is a disturbing parable of drink. iniquity in which a surreal night comes back to haunt a local counsellor.
Introduced by Dr Min Ge, a specialist Introduced by Dr Nicola Astudillo-Jones, Introduced by Dr Richard Millington, in contemporary Chinese culture and a specialist in Latin American cinema. a specialist in the East German history politics. He is also head of the China She is also a lecturer in Spanish at the and the Cold War. He is also a lecturer Centre at the University of Chester. University of Chester in German at the University of Chester.
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Monos And Then We Danced The Whistlers Permission Dir: Alejandro Landes Dir: Levan Akin Dir: Corneliu Porumboiu Dir: Soheil Beiraghi 2019 (Spain) 2019 (Georgia/Sweden) 2019 (Romania) 2018 (Iran) 102 minutes 113 minutes 98 minutes 88 minutes
Inspired by the upheaval in his native Merab, a young Georgian from a family of Veteran Romanian actor Vlad Ivanov Permission is a Handmaid’s Tale taken Colombia, Alejandro Landes’s story of dancers, has been training all his life for a is Cristi, a corrupt Bucharest cop who straight from the headlines. In 2015, teenage guerrillas descending into anarchy career with the National Georgian Ballet in has become involved in the drug money Niloufar Ardalan was captain of the Iranian is a hypnotic triumph. We begin above the And Then We Danced. Though his dance laundering setup he has been women’s indoor football team, which had clouds, with Andean peaks dotting the teacher is very demanding and daily investigating. Huge amounts of cash just reached the Asian Championships distant horizon: a ragtag teenage cadet rehearsals are physically draining, Merab’s are hidden in mattresses for export. final in Malaysia. Incredibly, she was corps, half boys, half girls, have been biggest obstacle to overcome is the fact These find their way to the island of prevented from playing, because her TV blindfolded for training. They’re being he starts to have feelings for a newly La Gomera in the Canaries, where the presenter husband would not give her the shaped into an armed guerrilla squad. arrived fellow dancer, who happens to bad guys are headquartered. Cristi must permission to travel abroad that married The children perform callisthenics, engage be not only also a man but his main rival be brought over to La Gomera to be women in Iran legally need. A fictionalised in ritualised capoeira fighting, and line up for a much-desired spot at the Ballet. schooled in the local tradition of silbo version of this extraordinary situation, for inspection by a drill sergeant who The subject of anti-LGBT protests when it whistling – the art of communicating in Permission is the debut feature from otherwise leaves them strictly to their own was released in Georgia in 2019, the film a whistled version of Spanish. Iranian dramatist and film-maker devices – which is to say, encamped on juxtaposes the conservative world of both The mobsters use it as a code that the Soheil Beiraghi. this mystic mountaintop, with only a Georgia and Georgian dance, with the police can’t crack. Director, Porumboiu bemused dairy cow called Shakira to freedom of self-discovery. gives us a knotty, twisty, nifty plot that’s sustain them. They have a hostage in their quite involved but hangs together well, charge, too – an American engineer they and there’s an amusing juxtaposition of call “Doctora”, who has been abducted for gloomy, rainy Bucharest and the sunny reasons at which we can only guess. terrain of La Gomera. These are children, play-acting at war – but with the dangerous combination of hormones and actual weapons.
Introduced by Dr Anna Clayfield, a Introduced by Professor Jo Crotty, Introduced by Professor Claire Parkinson, Introduced by Professor Roger Shannon specialist in Latin American culture and a specialist in the former Soviet a specialist in independent cinema. She has produced more than 25 UK award history. She is also a lecturer in Spanish Union. She is also the Director of the is also Professor of Film, Television and winning feature films. Until recently, and Latin American studies at the Institute for Social Responsibility at Digital Media at Edge Hill University he was also Professor of Film and University of Chester Edge Hill University. Television at Edge Hill University.