Friday 24 February to Sunday 12 March

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FILM PROGRAMMERS DAVID SIN & JONNY COURTNEY PUt A DOZEN FILMS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

FENCES p21 GRADUATION p23 THE HANDMAIDEN p24 THE HEADLESS WOMAN p26 Towering performances from Denzel Washington The moral dilemmas faced by a small town ’ novel sumptuously A road accident triggers an inscrutable chain and Viola Davis in Washington’s adaptation doctor surgically reveal in miniature the layers transposed to 1930s Korea and an intriguing of events in Lucrecia Martel’s exceptional and of August Wilson’s Pulitzer prize-winning play. of corruption that persist in Romanian society. game of seduction and betrayal. subversive .

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO p28 JACKIE p30 JULIETA p31 LADY MACBETH p33 From James Baldwin’s final novel, director This remarkable study of Jackie Kennedy after Almodóvar at his best in this colourful and British period drama from a dark 19th century Raoul Peck creates a stunning meditation the JFK assassination by Chilean director Pablo intense exploration of the interior lives Russian novella about a passionate young on what it means to be Black in America. Larrain stars Oscar contender Natalie Portman. of women, from three Alice Munro stories. woman trapped in a loveless marriage.

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA p36 MOONLIGHT p38 THE SALESMAN p45 TONI ERDMANN p50 Deceptively low-key, is janitor The coming-to-age of a young gay black man Drama takes the centre, onstage and off, in Sidesplittingly funny and achingly sad, this tale Lee, thrust back into his home town, to face up in present day Miami is a “nuclear-fission- the latest from Iranian director, won Best Director at the European to new responsibilities and a traumatic past. strength heartbreaker” (The Telegraph). (, The Past). Film Awards, a first for a woman. 4 / 5 Borderlines Film Festival 2017 Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Welcome to the FIFTEENTH Borderlines Film Festival! THE COURTYARD FESTIVAL PASS “easily rural UK’s FEASTING ON FESTIVAL FILMS? most impressive Get more cinema for your money with no transaction This edition is really worth celebrating PROGRAMMERS’ charges on Borderlines films at The Courtyard as we bring a staggering 33% of the Buy up to 2 tickets to any film at The Courtyard for just programme as films on preview, giving PICKS 02 film festival” £5 per ticket with The Courtyard Festival Pass THE Independent Festival Pass £20/ £15 Concs audiences in Herefordshire, Shropshire WELCOME 05 and the Borders a chance to see great COURTYARD PRICES FOR 2017 films before they go on general release. EVENTS 06 Tickets £7 / Concessions £6.5 Under 16s £5 / Courtyard Card & Club (14-25) £3 We are delighted to welcome Malvern 2017 FILM 0 Theatres into the festival fold and also draw your attention to a special weekend PROGRAMME 10 of films at Ludlow Assembly Rooms. A-Z FILM LISTINGS 11 DIARY 56 Borderlines is built on longstanding FUNDERS partnerships with our venues The VENUE INFO 62 Courtyard Hereford, Flicks in the Sticks and independent market town and village venues, and together with their staff, HOW TO BOOK volunteers and our funders, the BFI awarding funds from the National Lottery, In person PARTNERS The Elmley Foundation and Hereford City The Courtyard Hereford Council, make the Festival possible. Call We also thank our sponsors and ask 01432 340555 you to support them where you can. online borderlinesfilmfestival.org Naomi Vera-Sanso Or call individual venues Richard Booth’s Bookshop Cinema Festival Director (see p.62) www.boothbooks.co.uk

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Previews PREVIEW

The thrill of a film festival is the opportunity to DISCOVER films for yourself. In 2017 we’re screening more films in advance of their UK cinema release than ever before – 28 in total. Our thanks to the distributors of these titles and to our programmers at the independent Cinema Office for making this possible.

ALONE IN BERLIN AQUARIUS BERLIN SYNDROME BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK

WOMEN Image: By the Time It Gets Dark

CLASH FRANTZ GRADUATION THE HANDMAIDEN WOMEN IN WORLD CINEMA – AND BEYOND! THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE HEAL THE LIVING I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO LADY MACBETH OF OLLI MÄKI Borderlines revels in bringing world cinema Anocha’s Suwichakornpong’s By the Time it Gets to its audiences and, over the years, has Dark is a shape-shifting poetic narrative based featured retrospectives of some of the most on the lingering trauma of the 1977 government exciting world cinema directors. We are sanctioned massacre of student demonstrators conscious that women’s voices are under- in Bangkok, while The Headless Woman by Lucrecia LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD MINDHORN MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE NERUDA represented in film-making in general: only Martel is an hynoptic psychological thriller and one woman director, Kathryn Bigelow has won the most successful Argentinian film at the UK the Best Director Oscar and there’s a stubornly box office. Naomi Kawase’s 2015 Sweet Bean small number of women working as directors shifts the attention to older women as Tokue, in the UK, just 14%. a lady in her seventies, tries to charm her way

into a job at a Japanese pancake shop and THE ODYSSEY THE OLIVE TREE THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE PERSONAL SHOPPER For 2017 we are highlighting women directors in Anne Hui’s A Simple Life continues that focus world cinema with 7 films from Argentina, Iran, with a touching meditation on ageing as Ah Tao, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Thailand and a servant in the same Hong Kong family for Hong Kong. From Samira Makhmalbaf, one of 60 years, suffers a stroke. the most influential directors of the Iranian New Wave’s directorial debut The Apple and Haifaa Al By screening films made by women directors A QUIET PASSION THE RED TURTLE ROCK DOG THE SALESMAN Mansour, the first female Saudi director making we want to encourage conversations around who Wadjda under very restricted circumstances to Mira tells the stories that we see on screen. So we are Nair’s (Salaam Bombay! Monsoon Wedding) recent joining Bath Film Festival in using the F-Rating collaboration with Disney on Queen of Katwe, the stamp that highlights films made by and featuring true story of young slum girl’s journey against the women. To find out more, visit f-rated.org. odds to compete at the World Chess Olympiads. SLACK BAY (re-release) THEIR FINEST TRESSPASS AGAINST US 8 / 9 2017 Events Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org MASH Cinema AT OLD MARKET HEREFORD

BORDERLINES AT THE LEFT BANK

SCREENEASY AT THE SPEAKEASY BORDERLINES PARTY Founded in 2002, MASH Cinema celebrates turning 15 with three events at Borderlines Film Festival. Ever wondered what’s on that old film reel Come and help us celebrate the Borderlines MASH Cinema has performed at Glastonbury, BLOC gathering dust in your attic? Let’s find out 15th Anniversary! Live music, bar and Beefy Weekend and other high profile UK festivals as together! Bring it along to an informal screening Boys available if you get peckish, all in the well as curating film programmes for The Big Chill, session at the Left Bank. We’ll have a projectionist beautiful riverside surroundings of the Left Bank. Nozstock and venues across Europe. with 35mm, 16mm, Super 8 and standard Don’t miss out on this red carpet event! 8 projectors lined up, the cafe/bar open and Thursday 9 March, 7.30pm £7/£6.50 conc Saturday 11 March, 7.30pm £7/£6.50 conc the Beefy Boys on hand for some delicious STATIC: TREELINE Run Wrake Retrospective burgers. Screening is free and open to the Saturday 11 March 8.00pm public. Donations welcome. The Left Bank, Bridge Street, MASH Cinema and Herefordshire New Leaf invite Widely regarded as one of the most influential Hereford HR4 9DG you to an evening of music, installations, audio animation filmmakers of our time, Run Wrake had visual performances and films where artist the ability to synthesize everything happening Tickets £10 from Central Box Office biomimcry-ists explore nature to help solve around him in contemporary culture – Pop Art Thursday 9 March 4.00- 8.00pm, FREE our climate crisis. Although humans are part and collage, Punk/New Wave graphics, video art, Image: ©Christopher Preece infinityunlimited.co.uk of nature we understand ourselves to be separate Electronica – and filter it through a trippy, looping – but are we? Fleischer Bros. animation sensibility. While it’s sad SILENTS GALORE Best Short Film Award for that we won’t be seeing any new films from Run Breakthrough Talent Friday 10 March, 7.30pm £7/£6.50 conc Wrake, he leaves behind a rich legacy that will Some exceptional silent films accompanied by live MASH CINEMA SHORT FILMS continue to inspire and influence artists for many music are coming to Borderlines. Early pioneers Together with the Rural Media Company, Reaching deep into its back catalogue of weird years to come. Also featuring animations produced figure, thanks to support from South West Silents: Borderlines are running a short film prize for and wonderful short films, MASH Cinema takes by students from Hereford College of Arts BA the astounding Asta Nielsen in Hamlet (p.24) and young film-makers aged 16-25. The lucky winner us on a journey into the unknown. It promises Illustration and Animation course. Proceeds from one of the earliest features directed by a woman, will take home a £500 cash prize, and the finalists to be inspiring, challenging and visually arresting. this screening go to St Michael’s Hospice, Hereford Lois Weber’s rarely seen Shoes (p.46), both with going before the prestigious judging panel are: Also featured are 90-second films produced by and Pilgrims Hospice, Ashford. live accompaniment. Don’t miss the chance to Rosa Galvin Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel, students from Hereford College of Arts BA Short catch the new digital restoration of Abel Gance’s Sophie Marsh Unnamed Truths, Joey Mottershead Film course. Food and drink will be available to purchase five-hour epic Napoleon (p.40) with a recorded Dirty Re-Birth, and Lucie Rachel Where Are We Now. courtesy of The Beefy Boys. Supported by Old score by Carl Davis and, if you like your silents Market, Hereford. more light-hearted, go to Ludlow’s Assembly FUTURE FILMMAKERS Rooms to see Buster Keaton in The General (p.23) Wednesday 8 March 3.00pm The Courtyard Hereford FREE with live piano by Paul Shallcross.

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OUR FILM PROGRAMMERS TALK PREVIEW THROUGH THE 2017 FESTIVAL LINE-UP

It’s difficult to talk about the upcoming of the UK. One of the real pleasures of being Borderlines Film Festival without first a programmer is introducing new discoveries casting an eye back over 2016 – a year to audiences, so we’re delighted to share them that was, in so many ways, one of with you. difficult shocks and surprises. But on In this year’s programme, Cannes prize-winners the film festival circuit there were a The Salesman and Graduation sit alongside new number of very positive and unusual British features Their Finest and Lady Macbeth. stories, which combined, look set to The best of South American cinema, Aquarius make 2017 one of the most exciting and Neruda, rub shoulders with great South- AMATEUR WOMEN years in cinema for some time. East Asian cinema, like Park Chan Wook’s The FILMMAKERS Handmaiden (an exquisite reimagining of Sarah Who would have thought that the talk of Cannes Directors: various Waters’s Fingersmith). Film Festival back in May 2016 would be a 3 hour UK, 1928 – 1986, 50 minutes German comedy? The quite brilliant Toni Erdmann The bigger films battling it out in awards season ALONE IN BERLIN (15) Tuesday 28 February 2.30pm surprised and delighted us and fellow festival- this year – Jackie, La La Land, Manchester by the The Courtyard Hereford £5 Director: Vincent Perez Saturday 4 March 1.30pm goers throughout the year, and will surely do the Sea, Fences and Lion, as well as Moonlight and Toni Starring: Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl Germany/France/UK, 2016, 1 hour 43 minutes Oswestry, kinokulture cinema £5 same here as it screens over the first weekend of Erdmann – are all of superlative quality, ensuring the Festival. that cinema in 2017 will get off to a flying start. Friday 24 February 5.00pm, Sunday 26 February 11.30am Uncover the hidden but vibrant Elsewhere in the Festival we take a look at the The Courtyard Hereford talent within the Women Also, in a year when political events worldwide cinema of Cuba, a country undergoing rapid Thursday 2 March 7.45pm Malvern Theatres Amateur Filmmakers in Britain might suggest that social progress is stalling, change, with two great works of Cuban cinema, collection from the East Anglian one of the most revered films to emerge in 2016 Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson give committed, insightful Memories of Underdevelopment and Soy Cuba, Film Archive (EAFA). This is Moonlight, a superbly crafted and emotionally performances in Vincent Perez’s (Once Upon an Angel) adaptation documentary maker Miriam Day’s A Wedding in selection includes an extract complex look at black gay masculinity in modern- of Hans Fallada’s 1947 novel, based on the true story of a husband Havana, and Return to Ithaca, Laurent Cantet’s from 1928 comedy Sally Sallies day Miami. Universally acclaimed by critics and and wife who became part of the German Resistance during WWII. first film since his Palme d’Or winner The Class. Forth, the first amateur film to Thompson and Gleeson are Anna and Otto Quangel, living in 1940s audiences alike, this film feels more vital than be made with an all-female crew. Berlin. Their grief and despair at a war tragedy turns them into ever before in the wake of the US elections... Along with a focus on Women Directors of World Drama-documentary England unlikely agitators, denouncing Hitler in a series of subversive Cinema, there is a tribute to the late great Iranian May be Home offers an insight We’re delighted that a third of the films in the postcards strewn across the city. Hotly pursued by Gestapo detective director , considered among into the Italian community in festival this year are previews, the most in its Escherich (Daniel Brühl) and under threat from anyone who sees the giants of the world cinema. We are offering Bedford. Animators Sheila history. This is a fantastic opportunity for local them, they live out a bleak and terrifying existence. Fallada’s chilling a very rare chance to see two of his earliest films Graber (Face to Face, 1986) and audiences to experience new films before the rest masterpiece was one of the first anti-Nazi novels published by a The Traveller and The Report together with his Joanna Fryer (Make-Up, 1978) German after the war and shows how ordinary citizens subsumed modern classic A . We hope the went on to work professionally the reign of the Third Reich – with its intimate terror, violence, programme gives you a large number of reasons on the Paddington TV series treachery and censorship – into their everyday consciousness; ideas to be optimistic about the year to come. and The Snowman. Time-lapse well served by Perez’s handsome and very moving adaptation. photography is used to explore

Jonny Courtney identity in Freak and a pair of David Sin Previews courtesy of Altitude Film Distribution dramas, Only For a Moment and The Stray, complete the line-up.

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WOMEN PREVIEW PREVIEW

subtitles THE APPLE (PG) THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK (12A) Director: Samira Makhmalbaf Starring: Massoumeh Naderi, Zahra Director: Ron Howard Naderi, Ghorban Ali Naderi subtitles US/UK, 2016, 2 hours 18 minutes Iran/France, 1998, 1 hour 26 minutes AQUARIUS (15) Monday 6 March 7.30pm Monday 6 March 12.00pm Church Stretton School The Courtyard Hereford Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho Tuesday 7 March 7.30pm Starring: Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos Brazil/France, 2016, 2 hours 22 minutes Oswestry, kinokulture cinema The Apple dramatises a real life (Oswestry Film Society) case in which an elderly man Thursday 2 March 7.30pm, Friday 3 11.15am Thursday 9 March 7.30pm and his wife kept their twin The Courtyard Hereford Eye, Cawley Hall daughters locked away inside BERLIN SYNDROME (15) Lauded by critics and generating controversy in Brazil due Produced with the cooperation their house for the first 11 Director: Cate Shortland of Paul McCartney, Ringo years of their lives, for fear of to its incendiary political implications, Brazilian writer-director Starring: Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt, Matthias Habich Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon and Australia, 2017, 1 hour 56 minutes what might happen to them if Kleber Mendonça Filho’s (Neighbouring Sounds) Aquarius features Olivia Harrison, this vivid released into the outside world. a superb performance by Sônia Braga, icon of Brazilian cinema. Sunday 12 March 8.30pm documentary explores the Samira Makhmalbaf’s deeply She plays retired music critic Clara, who’s living in a building The Courtyard Hereford touring years of the most affecting, award-winning film targeted by rapacious property developers. When it becomes clear successful band ever, The Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland’s new thriller – adapted follows the sisters as they that no cheque from Diego (Humerto Carrão) will convince her to Beatles. Between 1962 and 1966 by Snowtown writer Shaun Grant from Melanie Joosten’s novel begin to engage with the world, abandon her home, an escalating conflict begins. Embracing his the Fab Four were catapulted – looks set to garner the same critical acclaim as her first two learning to move beyond their protagonist in all her thrilling, maddening complexity, Aquarius from their first performances features, Lore and Somersault. On holiday in Berlin, photojournalist house, find new friends and is both a portrait of an individual in modern Brazil and a wider in Liverpool’s Cavern Club to Clare (Teresa Palmer) embarks on a passionate romance with begin to communicate. The Apple statement of intent: that its citizens will ultimately resist corruption. unprecedented, stratospheric charismatic Andi (Max Riemelt). But their affair changes pace is one of the most astonishing fame. As ‘Beatlemania’ gathered when she wakes up in his apartment to discover she is locked directorial debuts of the past Preview courtesy of Arrow Films momentum they toured all over inside, and Andi seemingly has no intention of letting her leave... 25 years, a brilliantly simple the globe until their final show Debuting at Sundance this year, Berlin Syndrome promises story about personal freedoms in San Francisco in 1966. Fan- to be a rich, subtle and insightful psychological thriller from which emerged from the heavily sourced clips and remastered this most perceptive of filmmakers. regulated culture of post- original footage offer new Revolution Iran, and made all perspective and insight for even the more extraordinary by the the most hardcore fans, with an Preview courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye fact that Samira Makhmalbaf was evocative look back at a wild, just 17 when she co-wrote and tumultuous time in rock music. directed. 14 / 15 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

BLOW-UP (15) BRITAIN ON FILM:

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni RURAL LIFE (U) Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, Jane Birkin, Director: various John Castle, Tsai Chin, Veruschka von UK, 1903-1981, 1 hour 15 minutes Lehndorff, Peter Bowles UK/Italy/US, 1966, 1 hour 51 minutes BRITAIN ON FILM: RAILWAYS (U) Sunday 5 March 2.00pm Ludlow Assembly Rooms Friday 3 March 4.30pm Director: various Sunday 12 March 11.00am UK, 1898 to 1970, 1 hour 23 minutes Ludlow Assembly Rooms The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 4 March 4.30pm Ludlow Assembly Rooms subtitles Michelangelo Antonioni’s Sunday 12 March 8.00pm Bromyard, Conquest Theatre Relive the work of the local Oscar and BAFTA-nominated blacksmith preparing shoes THE BLACK HEN (12A) English language debut is a Your chance to travel back to a time when rail travel was for the horses that will plough Director: Min Bahadur Bham mod classic, a hypnotic study comfortable, punctual – maybe even glamorous! Britain on Film: the fields, and the shepherd’s Starring: Khadka Raj Nepali, Sukra Raj Rokaya, Jit Bahadur Malla of style, perception, and reality. Railways is a major new collection of rare archive films, many trials as he protects his flock Nepal/France/Germany/Switzerland, 2015, 1 hour 30 minutes Photographer Thomas (modelled previously unseen, which chart the history of the UK’s railways from an encroaching storm. See Monday 27 February 5.00pm, Tuesday 28 12.00pm on David Bailey) works mainly and bring home the romance and heady freedoms offered by train the homemade entertainments The Courtyard Hereford in fashion, taking pictures of travel as it expanded across the country from the Victorian age at the country fair and the exquisitely beautiful models on. Sourced from the national and regional archives and newly joyful freedoms of the village A wistful, deeply touching drama and an outstanding feature and partying to excess. After digitised, it’s an immensely nostalgic and evocative collection of hall dance. Touching on all the debut of emerging Nepali director Min Bahadur Bham. Set in 2001, a shoot, he sees an ambiguous films documenting not just the glories of the railway but also the technological, industrial and a temporary ceasefire gives a much-needed break to a small village image in one of his pictures: changing social, political and economic climates of the 20th century. social changes affecting our in northern Nepal, previously ravaged by the ongoing conflict has he captured a shadow, or countryside throughout the between the government and insurgent Maoists. The village a crime? Full of famous faces, 20th century, these fascinating chief’s grandson Kiran and Prakash, son of a servant, become beautifully photographed and Steve Foxon, Curator of Moving Image at the BFI National Archive will films offer reminiscence, inseparable best friends despite the divisions of caste and social introduce the films in Ludlow superbly soundtracked by but also broader and more creed. Their only concern is to retrieve the hen they’ve been raising Herbie Hancock, Blow-Up is a Please note: the programme contains a sequence of flashing lights meaningful reflections on the in order to sell its eggs. But when they set out to find it, they’re glamorous, provocative murder which might affect audience members with photosensitive epilepsy. nature of rural life and village unaware of the fragility of the situation – and that they may soon mystery and an evocative time communities in the UK today. be caught between rival forces. capsule of swinging London.

“A gentle, humane and beautifully photographed movie” Philip Leach, Senior Curator Peter Bradshaw, Peter Burden, the ghost at the Media Archive for Central writer of David Hemmings’ The screening on Sunday is sponsored by England will introduce the films autobiography, will introduce in Hereford

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PREVIEW WOMEN

subtitles BY THE TIME CAFÉ SOCIETY (12A) CAPTAIN CHEWING THE CUD

IT GETS DARK (15) Director: Woody Allen FANTASTIC (15) Memories from Starring: Kristen Stewart, Hereford’s Old Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong , Blake Lively, Director: Matt Ross Starring: Arak Amornsupasiri, Steve Carell, Parker Posey Starring: , Frank Livestock Market Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Atchara Suwan US, 2016, 1 hour 36 minutes Langella, Kathryn Hahn, George MacKay Thailand/France/Qatar, 2016, US, 2016, 1 hour 59 minutes A collaborative film 1 hour 45 minutes Saturday 4 March 7.30pm with Catcher Media Social and trainees Saturday 25 February 7.30pm UK, 2014, 1 hour 10 minutes Much Birch Community Hall, Friday 3 March 2.00pm Leominster, Playhouse Cinema Friday 10 March 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Friday 3 March 7.30pm Bedstone Friday 3 March 7.30pm Dorstone Village Hall & Hopton Castle Village Hall Tarrington, Lady Emily Hall A young woman filmmaker Tuesday 7 March 8.00pm CERTAIN WOMEN (12A) Woody Allen’s (Annie Hall, travels to the country with Michaelchurch Escley, This entertaining and warm- Director: Kelly Reichardt a writer who was a political Manhattan) latest, set during Escleyside Hall hearted film captures the the 1930s golden age of cinema, Starring: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone activist in her youth. She’s US, 2016, 1 hours 47 minutes showmanship and characters that Viggo Mortensen (Eastern interviewing her with a view to is a glittering romantic comedy. gave the market its vibrancy. Promises, The Road) stars as Friday 10 March 1.15pm, Saturday 11 5.45pm, Sunday 12 1.15pm putting together a script for a Bobby (a perfectly cast Jesse There are tales of traders juggling an idealistic father raising The Courtyard Hereford documentary. This is just the Eisenberg), a wide-eyed young china, an escaped bull in a his children away from start. The girl who serves their New Yorker, heads west to Winner of ‘Best Film’ at the London Film Festival, Kelly china-shop from the market’s contemporary civilisation meals asks, “Why doesn’t SHE , dreaming of an Reichardt’s (Wendy and Lucy, Old Joy) latest is an exquisite mood oldest employee John Harris, in the charming, eccentric (the activist) tell her story?” exciting career in the movies. piece, a meditation on the lives of women in rural Montana. visits by The Queen, and a story story. In the lush wilderness From that point, the narrative His uncle Phil (Steve Carell) Based on short stories by American writer Maile Meloy, it studies about how Heather Knight used of the Pacific Northwest, Ben fragments; characters emerge is a film agent who introduces lawyer Laura (Laura Dern), Gina (Michelle Williams), a wife and it as a playground after-hours. lives with his six children in and reappear in other places his nephew to the glamour mother building a home and Jamie (Lily Gladstone), a lonely ranch Anecdotes galore from farmers, Thoreau-esque seclusion, giving and guises, objects move of of the film industry, as well hand. All are embattled – Laura by a disgruntled client, Gina by her auctioneers, townspeople, them a rigorous physical and their own accord, there are as to his beautiful young unsupportive husband and Jamie by a sudden, passionate attraction breeders, traders and council intellectual education of his digressions on dreams, tobacco assistant Vonnie (Kristen to Beth, a teacher (Kristen Stewart). Envisioning her heroines workers are complemented own design, until a family crisis and fungi, and the image itself Stewart), for whom Bobby as pioneers, Reichardt elicits luminous performances in this slow- by archive film footage and forces him to re-enter normal breaks up. Uncompromising, promptly falls… Exquisitely burning, melancholic, austerely beautiful film. photographs. society. Reminiscent of Little thoughtful and exhilarating, photographed by Vittorio Miss Sunshine in its study Suwichakornpong’s second Storaro, Allen pays fitting With a Q&A for people to share of a dysfunctional family stories, photos and artefacts feature is a hauntingly beautiful tribute to the romance and Winner Best Film, BFI London Film Festival 2016 finding its way, and with fine and poetic treatise on memory, elegance of early Hollywood. performances throughout. politics, subjectivity and cinema.

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PREVIEW

subtitles CHRISTINE (15) THE COMMUNE (15)

Director: Antonio Campos Director: Thomas Vinterberg Starring: Rebecca Hall, Starring: Trine Dyrholm, Michael C Hall, Tracy Letts Ulrich Thomsen, Fares Fares US, 2016, 1 hour 59 minutes subtitles Denmark, 2016, 1 hour 51 minutes

Wednesday 1 March 11.00am, CLASH (15) Thursday 2 March 7.30pm Thursday 2 5.00pm Pudleston Village Hall Director: Mohamed Diab The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Nelly Karim, Hany Adel, Tarek Abdel Aziz Wednesday 8 March 8.00pm Egypt/France, 2016, 1 hour 37 minutes Ledbury, The Market Theatre One morning in 1974, news Tuesday 28 February 7.45pm The Courtyard Hereford reporter Christine Chubbuck The new film from Thomas Vinterberg () is a shot herself dead during a live Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab (director of the widely acclaimed DENIAL (12A) change of pace from last broadcast for the TV station CAIRO 678, which depicted female harassment in Egyptian society) year’s sumptuous Far From Director: Mick Jackson in Sarasota, Florida where took four years to develop Clash, which was initially supposed to Starring: Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Tom Wilkinson the Madding Crowd remake. UK/US, 2016, English, 1 hour 50 minutes she worked. Chubbock was a be about the rise of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, but ended up This is the story of Erik and dedicated and diligent reporter, capturing its fall. The scene is set in 2013 just after the Egyptian Friday 24 February 11.00am, Saturday 25 2.15pm, Anna, an academic couple tackling issues of concern to military toppled the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohamed Sunday 26 5.00pm, Monday 27 11.00am, Tuesday 28 5.15pm who set up a Danish commune her local community. Antonio Morsi. Almost all the action takes place within the claustrophobic The Courtyard Hereford in bohemian 1970s Copenhagen. Campos’ third feature is an confines of a police van, with rival demonstrators trapped inside What follows is a compelling Jewish American historian Deborah Lipstadt’s compelling story attempt to through the in stifling heat, and tells a disorientating, frightening story about clash between their personal of the 1996 libel case against her brought by notorious Holocaust sensationalism surrounding a country descending into lawless chaos, a ferocious free-for-all desires and the dream of denier David Irving is adapted by David Hare. Denial is powered the case. Influenced by Network, that sees revolutionaries pitted against Islamic fundamentalists communal solidarity. Their by performance; Spall’s Irving is a poisonous mix of insecurity he dramatises the events and both factions confronting the army. It’s a harrowing watch ideal of tolerant socialist and bravado, a man blinded by his own prejudice and amplified leading up to the suicide in the but also a very humane one with Diab seeking to portray the conflict living is eclipsed by an earth- by bluster, while Weisz gives a nuanced turn as the impassioned form of an incisive psychological from all possible angles, and depicting with immense cinematic verve shattering love affair, putting Lipstadt, who finds herself representing an entire people in her quest study of a driven, intensely the violent dismantling of the Arab world’s most populous nation. principled and passionate, their relationship, their to prove the truth. It’s an essential tale for our ‘post-fact’ times but disturbed young woman. community and the commune – with parallels to Brexit politics and Donald ’s mendacious Rebecca Hall’s career-best Preview courtesy of Arrow Films to its greatest test. presidential campaign – documenting a necessary triumph of truth, performance as Christine, as reason and forensic fact over ignorance and prejudice. an individual who simply didn’t Sponsored by The Private Life of A Masterpiece conform to female stereotypes, is tinged with dark comedy. 20 / 21 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

EAT THAT QUESTION: THE FOUNDER (12A)

FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS Director: John Lee Hancock OWN WORDS (15) Starring: , Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson Director: Thorsten Schütte US, 2016, 1 hour 55 minutes Starring: Frank Zappa, Steve Allen, Theodore Bikel ERIC FREEMAN (U) FENCES (12A) Friday 10 March 3.30pm, France/Germany, 2016, 1 hour 33 minutes Saturday 11 1.00pm, A Legend in These Parts Director: Denzel Washington Starring: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Mykelti Williamson Sunday 12 8.15pm Saturday 25 February 4.45pm Directors: Tish Faith & Tim Rickard US, 2016, 2 hours 18 minutes The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford UK, 2015, 45 minutes Friday 3 March 7.45pm, Saturday 4 4.30pm & 7.45pm, Tuesday 28 February 11.00am After his Oscar-winning In the 20th century Frank Sunday 5 4.30pm, Monday 6 7.45pm, Tuesday 7 10.30am, The Courtyard Hereford performance in Birdman and his Zappa made his mark as a Wednesday 8 7.45pm, Thursday 9 10.30am Malvern Theatres critically acclaimed turn in last popular musician unlike any Eric, a third generation farmer from Newent, Gloucestershire, year’s Spotlight, Michael Keaton In 1950s Pittsburgh, middle-aged refuse collector Troy Maxson other in America. A weird, has witnessed 80 years of changing farming practice since he first portrays businessman Ray Kroc, (Washington) is just about managing to raise his family on wild, eccentric, iconoclastic helped his father in the 1930s with the horse and cart milk round. a struggling travelling salesman a municipal pay packet until a striking revelation throws his attitude, guided by a firm A gifted storyteller Eric recalls traditional practices from winter work in 1950s America who makes domestic life even further out of kilter. This long cherished big intellectual integrity, drove his mending hedges to building up his poultry business when electricity his money selling milkshake screen adaptation retains all the dramatic fireworks of August music, making it distinctive. first arrived in the village. Passionate about wildlife and everything makers to restaurants. Visiting a Wilson’s original Tony-award winning stageplay, which is surely This excellent documentary Gloucester based he has contributed substantially to preserving rare successful diner owned and run destined to enter the pantheon of great American theatre. covers his life and work with breeds and heritage crops, and has a keen eye for a good furrow. by hardworking brothers Mac and superb archive footage taken Powerhouse performances from Denzel Washington as Troy and Dick McDonald, he finds it unlike from across the decades. From + GOLDEN FIRE Viola Davis as his long-suffering wife Rose make this everyday anything he’s witnessed before his early taboo-challenging story a completely compelling drama across themes of family and, spotting an opportunity, The Rural Media Company dynamics, ambition, race and the American Dream whilst the begins to entertain dreams creations, his outspoken efforts UK, 2016, 30 minutes against the political forces elegant cinematography by Charlotte Bruus Christensen illuminates of building an empire way beyond the brothers’ ambitions. determined to censor him Cider production is the beating heart of Herefordshire, and the universal themes. With Fences, Washington as director has John Lee Hancock’s film is an and his constant quest for recent years have seen the county’s pulse race as interest pulled off the remarkable coup of translating Wilson’s theatrical immensely entertaining fable new artistic challenges, in cider, and particularly craft cider, has surged. But cider’s role tour-de-force to cinema without losing any of the urgency portraying one of American Zappa was possibly the most in Herefordshire’s economy, culture and way of life goes deep into or immediacy of the live performance. 20th century capitalism’s most innovative musician of his the past in this documentary about the county’s cider heritage extraordinary stories. generation, dangerous but from 1945 to the present. ferociously compassionate. On Sunday the screening is sponsored by 22 / 23 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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FUTURE THE GENERAL (U)

FILMMAKERS Director: Buster Keaton A Celebration of Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender subtitles Breakthrough Talent UK, 1926, 1 hour 19 minutes subtitles

FRANTZ (12A) Wednesday 8 March 3.00pm Sunday 5 March 4.30pm GRADUATION (15) The Courtyard Hereford FREE Ludlow Assembly Rooms Director: François Ozon Director: Cristian Mungiu Starring: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Marie Gruber Starring: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Drăgus, Rares Andrici France/Germany, 2016, 1 hour 53 minutes Rural Media and Borderlines Widely considered one of /France, 2016, 2 hours 7 minutes invite you to celebrate the the greatest films ever made Sunday 26 February 7.45pm, Monday 27 7.30pm Thursday 2 March 8.00pm, Saturday 4 2.00pm remarkable young filmmaking and one of the most revered The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford talent emerging locally and comedies of the silent era, French auteur François Ozon’s (The New Girlfriend, 8 Women) Frantz across the UK as we reveal the Buster Keaton’s effortless Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation screened in is a magnificent black and white period drama, a striking adaptation winner of the Best Short Film masterpiece sees hapless Competition at Cannes this May, where it won him Best Director (or re-imagining) of one of Ernst Lubitsch’s lesser known films, the Award for Breakthrough Talent. Southern railroad engineer (shared with Olivier Assayas). It’s as brilliantly constructed 1932 Broken Lullaby. It’s set in a small German town just after World Join us first in a screening of Johnny Gray (Keaton) facing off as you’d expect from the man who took home the Palme d’Or War I, when Anna discovers the mysterious Adrien laying flowers at films from Rural Media’s BFI against Union soldiers during in 2007 for the searing pregnancy drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and her fiancé’s grave. Claiming connection to her lost love, he befriends Academy as well as a collection the American Civil War. When 2 Days. The story depicts a doctor in a small Romanian town Anna, who introduces him to her late fiancé’s initially resistant of bold and creative shorts from Johnny’s fiancée, Annabelle Lee and the moral complexities of the decisions he makes to provide parents. Exploring themes of grief and alienation, this is a sweeping Channel 4 and Arts Council’s (Marion Mack), is accidentally a better life for his daughter. As the film progresses, the love story with plenty of Ozon’s signature touches (mischievous First Acts programme. Finally, taken away while on a train consequences of these decisions slowly unravel to reveal the narrative twists, an affection for classical melodrama and playful a panel of industry professionals stolen by Northern forces, Gray shifty, shabby layers of corruption and ensuing shame still present sexual ambiguity) and a standout central performance by Beer. will be on hand to review the pursues the soldiers, using in Romanian society, as citizens compromise on ethics in the 4 award finalists’ films before various modes of transportation (understandable) hopes of gaining something better for themselves, we ***drum roll*** announce in comic action scenes that or in this case, their loved ones. It’s masterful stuff, superbly Preview courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye the winner of the competition highlight Keaton’s boundless, made, and gives you the rewarding sense of watching a director and hand over the cash prize. innovative wit and joyful, in complete command of his craft. Afterwards, meet the young lighthearted dexterity, to artists and media organisations reclaim the train and thereby Joint Winner Best Director, 2016 nurturing the new talent in save the South. the Foyer for drinks, nibbles and natter. Preview courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye With live piano accompaniment by Paul Shallcross 24 / 25 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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subtitles HAMLET (PG)

Starring: Asta Nielsen, Paul Conradi, Mathilde Brandt Germany, 1921, 1 hour 50 minutes subtitles Sunday 26 February 2.15pm The Courtyard Hereford THE HANDMAIDEN (18) Director: Park Chan-wook Starring the gorgeous Danish Starring: Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Kim Tae-ri , 2016, 2 hours 25 minutes siren of the silent screen, subtitles Asta Nielsen, this adaptation Sunday 5 March 7.00pm Hay, Booth’s Bookshop Cinema supposes that Hamlet’s inner Tuesday 7 March 7.30pm, Wednesday 8 4.45pm The Courtyard Hereford THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE turmoil centred on being born a South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s (Oldboy, , girl and having to pass incognito OF OLLI MÄKI (12A) Stoker) erotic psychological thriller is adapted from Sarah Waters’ as the male heir to the throne. historical novel Fingersmith. It relocates Waters’ story from Victorian Director: Juho Kuosmanen Visually stunning and tragically Starring: Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, Eero Milono , Joonas Saartamo Britain to 1930s Korea during Japanese colonial rule. fated, this will be a familiar yet Finland/Germany/Sweden, 2016, 1 hour 32 minutes New girl Sookee (Kim Tae-ri) is hired as handmaiden to Japanese novel adaptation for young and heiress Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee), who lives on a rural estate Monday 6 March 7.45pm, Tuesday 7 March 5.45pm The Courtyard Hereford old fans of the Bard. Presented with her domineering uncle Kouzuki (Cho Jin-woong). But Sookee here in a vibrant new restoration An irresistible sports biopic is inspired by the real-life showdown “Juho Kuosmanen’s tender, has a secret: she was recruited to carry out a devilish plan of with tinted colour tones, this between Finnish boxer Olli Mäki (Jarkko Lahti) and American melancholic boxing biopic robbery, seduction and imprisonment which seems set to succeed, screening will be accompanied champion Davey Moore in 1962 Helsinki. Shot in black and white beguiles from start to Finnish” until she and Lady Hideko fall prey to unexpected emotions. by the wonderful Lillian Henley, with scrupulous period detail, it depicts Olli as a wistful, vulnerable Guy Lodge, Variety The Handmaiden’s simmering exploration of lesbian sexuality, experienced pianist at the small-town boy, whose innocence is at odds with the hyperbolic sublime set design and sensational plot twists are more than met Winner , Cinema Museum in London. showmanship of his bombastic manager Elis (Eero Milono). by its cast, who deliver performances of genuine emotional power. Cannes Film Festival 2016 A thrilling live experience! All he has to do is lose weight to qualify and concentrate on This is wildly entertaining, consummate filmmaking from Chan-wook. his training, but there’s just one problem: he’s falling in love. Full of trenchant commentary about the sports and media industries “Park Chan-wook’s lurid lesbian potboiler simmers with sexual tension” Preview courtesy of MUBI With live piano accompaniment and their symbiotic relationship, which tends to pressurise and Benjamin Lee, The Guardian by Lilian Henley corrupt competitors, the film is also a charming and comedic depiction of Finland’s excitement about its appearance on the A presentation by South West Silents, in collaboration with Film London, BFI Preview courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye world stage and a startlingly sweet romance. and Deutsches Filminutestitut.

The screening on Tuesday is sponsored by 26 / 27 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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subtitles HEAL THE LIVING (15) HELL OR

Director: Katell Quillévéré HIGH WATER (15) Starring: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval Director: David Mackenzie subtitles France/Belgium, 2016, 1 hour 44 minutes Starring: Ben Foster, Chris Pine, , Katy Mixon US, 2016, 1 hour 42 minutes THE HEADLESS WOMAN (12A) Wednesday 8 March 6.00pm, Thursday 9, 7.45pm Director: Lucrecia Martel Friday 24 February 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Maria Onetto, Claudia Cantero, Ines Efron Garway Village Hall Argentina/Spain, 2010, 1 hour 55 minutes Wednesday 1 March 8.00pm It all starts at daybreak, three Bromyard, Conquest Theatre Saturday 25 February 8.00pm Presteigne Screen young surfers on the raging Friday 10 March 8.00pm Ledbury, Wednesday 1 March 12.00pm The Courtyard Hereford The Market Theatre Friday 10 March 7.30pm Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall seas. A few hours later, on the HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (12A) way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to Much more than a modern Director: Taika Waititi Another chance to see director Lucrecia Martel’s extraordinary, Western with getaway cars Starring: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rhys Darby, Rima Te Wiata enigmatic film which broke box office records when it opened in life-support in a hospital in New Zealand, 2016, 1 hour 41 minutes Le Havre, Simon’s existence replacing horses, Hell or High London’s West End. Verónica, an elegant, middle-aged woman who Sunday 26 February 7.30pm Leominster, Playhouse Cinema is little more than an illusion Water is one of the most works as a dentist is driving back from a family get-together when accomplished films of 2016. Friday 3 March 7.30pm Burghill, The Simpson Hall and his parents must make Thursday 9 March 7.00pm Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall her car hits something. Bang! – her forehead lunges forward and Brothers Toby and Tanner appears to smash either into the steering wheel or the windshield, some crucial decisions about plan a series of heists against From Taika Waititi, director of cult vampire comedy What We Do In and whiplashes back. Verónica brakes and for a long, long moment, their beloved son. Meanwhile, the bank about to foreclose the Shadows, comes the utterly hilarious Hunt for the Wilderpeople, the camera holds the shot of her profile as she sits immobile and in Paris, a woman awaits the on their family ranch, but which set box office records in New Zealand this year. Ricky Baker silent in the car. Is she in shock? Is she gazing at what she has hit organ transplant that will allow standing in their way is Marcus (Julian Dennison) is a defiant, trash-talking misfit sent to live in the rear-view mirror? This is the starting point of Martel’s her to continue her own life. (a mesmerising Jeff Bridges), in rural New Zealand with a foster family: aunt Bella, gruff uncle hypnotic psychological thriller. Or is it a cinematic dissection Director Katell Quillévéré builds a crafty Texas Ranger soon to Hec (Sam Neill) and dog Tupac. When events threaten his of Argentina’s declining middle class? on the huge promise shown in her previous films Suzanne and retire and not quite ready to ride return, Ricky runs into the bush with Hec in pursuit, unwittingly off into the sunset. At once a kickstarting a national manhunt. Based on the book Wild Pork “ a masterly, disturbing and deeply mysterious film“ Love Like Poison, to deliver an morality play (the worst villains and Watercress by Barry Crump, it’s a visually inventive, pleasingly The Guardian emotionally-charged, brilliantly cast drama exploring people’s are the banks), a character bittersweet and effortlessly funny film that’s full of Waititi’s interwoven fates. study and a thriller, the rich distinctive comedy. script is played to perfection The screening at The Courtyard will be followed by an informal discussion in the Foyer against a wide and desolate Preview courtesy of landscape and with haunting Curzon Artificial Eye original music by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. 28 / 29 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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I AM NOT YOUR iSHORTS (15)

NEGRO (PG) Selected by Hereford 6th Form College students Director: Raoul Peck Directors: Various Starring: Samuel L. Jackson UK, 2016, 1 hour subtitles US/France/Belgium/Switzerland, 2016, 1 hour 33 minutes I, DANIEL BLAKE (15) IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD (15) Wednesday 1 March 3.00pm Friday 10 March 6.00pm Director: The Courtyard Hereford FREE Director: Xavier Dolan The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Dylan McKiernan, Starring: Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Nathalie Baye Briana Shann, Mick Laffey, Harriet Ghost From the third series of Creative Canada/France, 2016, 1 hour 37 minutes UK, 2016, 1 hour 40 minutes Award-winning filmmaker Raoul England’s iShorts comes a Friday 10 March 11.00am, Saturday 11 3.30pm, Sunday 12 4.00pm Peck (Murder in Pacot, Moloch Thursday 2 March 7.30pm Brilley Village Hall diverse and powerful mix of The Courtyard Hereford Tropical, Lumumba)’s stunning Friday 3 March 7.30pm Dorstone Village Hall short films: the strange but cinema essay – stirring and & 8.00pm Market Theatre, Ledbury true Wash Club, a quirky tale Canadian enfant terrible Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World Saturday 4 March 7.30pm Leominster, Playhouse Cinema boasts a fantastic ensemble cast, a measure of the success of his timely – utilises the words Friday 10 March 7.30pm Burghill, The Simpson Hall of a laundrette cult rich in of author and thinker James dark humour; enigmatic but superlative 2014 melodrama, Mommy. Gaspard Ulliel plays Louis, Baldwin. Planned, but never The triumphant winner of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or, Ken Loach’s stylistically bold The Crossing a writer; Léa Seydoux his sullen, punky sister; Vincent Cassel his written, Remember This House, fierce, emphatic drama I, Daniel Blake is purportedly his last film. takes us deep into the turmoil volatile brother Antoine and Marion Cotillard, Antoine’s diminutive a radical narrative of race in With a script by regular collaborator Paul Laverty, it follows fifty- of a man struggling with wife Catherine. The story, adapted from a stage play by Jean-Luc America focused on the lives something Newcastle carpenter Daniel (Dave Johns) who, after infertility; Chippy Tea, an earthy Lagarde, follows Louis as he returns to his troubled family home and assassinations of Baldwin’s suffering health problems, seeks to claim benefits but is rejected northern family drama that’s with a secret to share. The reunion is something like a volcanic friends: Martin Luther King Jr., by the welfare system. Labelled a scrounger when he’s anything as heartwarming as it is funny; eruption, with Dolan exploiting (much as he did in Mommy) the Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. but, Daniel befriends Katie (Hayley Squires), a single mother who’s Trigga, which gives the familiar dramatic power and claustrophobic nature of family love and Anchored in these lives, and the also on the breadline. Almost painfully moving, it’s a stark reminder ‘girls with horses’ trope an questioning the value of maintaining such toxic relationships. Civil Rights movement, it also of injustice in contemporary Britain and a fitting end – if indeed uplifting twist on the theme It is an overwhelmingly powerful story played with such conviction illuminates the contemporary it is – to Loach’s astounding career. of bullying; and Lambing and styled with such an effortlessly cinematic sense of drama that black experience. With a powerful Season which vividly captures it sweeps you away. mosaic of interviews, music, the brooding beauty of the archive footage and imagery it North Yorkshire Moors in “A brilliant, stylised... evocation of family dysfunction” lays bare the continuing violence an emotionally stark tale Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian and inequality faced by African- of family secrets. Winner Grand Prix Cannes Film Festival 2016 Americans.

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subtitles JACKIE (15) JULIETA (15)

Director: Pablo Larraín Director: Pedro Almodóvar Starring: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Greta Gerwig Starring: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Michelle Jenner, Rossy de Palma, Inma Cuesta Chile/France/US, 2016, 1 hour 40 minutes Spain, 2016, 1 hour 36 minutes

Friday 24 February 7.45pm, Sunday 26 7.45pm, Monday 27 4.30pm, Tuesday 28 10.30am, Tuesday 28 February 7.00pm Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall Wednesday 1 March 7.45pm, Thursday 2 2.00pm Malvern Theatres Thursday 2 March 8.00pm Market Theatre, Ledbury Friday 3 March & Saturday 4 7.30pm, Wednesday 8 1.30pm Oswestry, kinokulture cinema Friday 3 March 7.30pm Garway Village Hall Friday 3 March 5.00pm, Saturday 4 11.30am, Sunday 5 7.45pm, Monday 6 2.00pm, Sunday 5 March 7.30pm Leominster, Playhouse Cinema Tuesday 7 11.00am, Wednesday 8 12.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Julieta finds Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar (, ) “…a sumptuous and Oscar-winner Natalie Portman (Black Swan) gives a virtuoso “A singular vision from in austere, reflective mode. It’s based on three short stories heartbreaking study of the viral performance as Jackie Kennedy in acclaimed Chilean filmmaker an uncompromising director following the same character by Nobel Prize-winning writer Alice nature of guilt, the mystery Pablo Larraín’s (No, The Club, Neruda) daring study of the former that happens to be about one Munro. In 2015, Julieta is a teacher of fifty-five, writing to her of memory and the often First Lady following her husband’s assassination in 1963. She plays of the most famous women daughter Antía to explain the secrets she’s kept hidden over the past unendurable power of love.” Jackie playing herself: as a controlling, very private woman who in American history” 30 years. But when she finishes her confession she doesn’t know Mark Kermode, The Observer fully understood the business of mythmaking. She must cope with Nigel M. Smith, where to post it; because they’ve been estranged for years... Moving overwhelming trauma, comfort her children, lead a nation to grieve The Guardian back and forwards in time and space, this is an eloquent, colourful JFK, all the while being watched by millions. Eschewing genre and richly resonant film returning to Almodóvar’s favourite theme: conventions, Jackie is an intimate, visionary and startlingly eerie the interior lives of women. film about an epoch in American history, as well as one of its most complex and elusive characters.

The screening on Friday at Hereford The screening on Sunday at Hereford is sponsored by is sponsored by 32 / 33 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD (PG)

Directors: Sabine Krayelbühl, Zea Oelbaum With the voices of: Tilda Swinton, Rose Leslie, Andrew Havill UK/US/Germany, 2016, 1 hour 35 minutes

Sunday 12 March 11.30am The Courtyard Hereford LA LA LAND (12A) LADY MACBETH (18) Through letters, photographs, Director: William Oldroyd archive footage, and the Director: Damien Chazelle Starring: Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Bill Fellows, Cosmo Jarvis, Naomi Ackie testimony of peers including Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, J.K. Simmons, Finn Wittrock, Rosemarie DeWitt, John Legend UK, 2016, 1 hour 29 minutes US, 2016, 2 hours 8 minutes T. E. Lawrence and Vita Saturday 25 February 8.45pm, Monday 27 February 2.15pm Sackville-West, this fascinating Friday 24 February 7.45pm, Saturday 25 7.30pm, Sunday 26 11.00am, Monday 27 2.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 28 8.00pm, Wednesday 1 March 2.00pm, Thursday 2 5.30pm The Courtyard Hereford documentary provides insights Sunday 5 March 7.30pm Ludlow Assembly Rooms Friday 10 March 7.30pm, Saturday 11 7.30pm Oswestry, kinokulture cinema into the extraordinary career of Gertrude Bell. A pioneering A thrilling 19th century tragedy and one of the most exciting Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone give terrific performances in Whiplash “An all-singing, all-dancing English explorer, writer, discoveries of this year’s London Film Festival, British director director Damien Chazelle’s beguiling musical romance. The setting Oscars frontrunner” archaeologist, diplomat and William Oldroyd’s exceptional debut stars the luminous Florence is contemporary Hollywood, the tone light and airy, the story simple, Robbie Collin, Telegraph spy, she was recruited by British Pugh (The Falling) as a defiant, passionate young woman struggling but lent immense verve by the chemistry and sheer charisma of its Military Intelligence after World Winner of 7 Golden Globes 2017 against suffocating societal norms. Adapted from Nikolai Leskov’s two leads, who radiate charm, sincerity and vulnerability as they War I, and played an important, Nominated for 11 Baftas 1865 novella and set in rural England, it follows young bride open up to each other. Wannabe movie star Mia and pianist Seb often unrecognised role in including Best Film and Director Katherine (Pugh), trapped in a loveless marriage and browbeaten are hobbled by frustrated ambition when they meet and fall in love. British imperial policy in the by her sadistic husband’s callous family. But when she embarks But success – when it finally arrives – may come at a personal Middle East, notably Iraq. Openly on a passionate affair with a young worker on their estate, a new cost. Sweet-natured, open-hearted and full of smartly choreographed critical of colonial practices, force is unleashed inside her; so powerful that she will stop musical numbers, Chazelle’s musical is being hailed a masterpiece Bell’s writings (voiced by Tilda at nothing to get what she wants. – a contemporary Singin’ in the Rain that joyously invokes Swinton) have astonishing – and its cinematic heritage. often alarming – contemporary Preview courtesy of Altitude Film Distribution relevance. The screening on Friday The screening on Tuesday The screening on Thursday In Hereford is sponsored by In Hereford is sponsored by In Hereford is sponsored by Preview courtesy of Verve Pictures Ltd 34 / 35 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

LITTLE MEN (PG)

Director: Ira Sachs Starring: Jennifer Ehle, , Talia Balsam, Alfred Molina, Michael Barbieri, Theo Taplitz US/Greece, 2016, 1 hour 25 minutes

Friday 24 February 8.00pm Presteigne Screen Friday 3 March 7.30pm Leominster, Playhouse Cinema LOVING (12A)

Quiet, sensitive Jake meets Director: Jeff Nichols LION (PG) Starring: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton brash but affable Tony at his UK/US, 2016, 2 hours 3 minutes Director: Garth Davis Starring: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Sunny Pawar, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Aditya Roy Kapoor grandfather’s funeral and the Australia, 2016, 1 hour 58 minutes Sunday 5 March 5.00pm, Monday 6 11.00am, charming odd couple become Tuesday 7 4.45pm, Wednesday 8 2.00pm, Saturday 25 February 2.00pm, Sunday 26 4.30pm, Monday 27 & Tuesday 28 7.45pm, inseparable best friends during Thursday 9 5.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Wednesday 1 & Thursday 2 March 4.30pm Malvern Theatres their school vacation. Their new Friday 3 March 11.00am, Saturday 4 7.45pm, Sunday 5 11.00am, Monday 6 5.00pm, Tuesday 7 2.30pm bond is tested, though, when It is hard to credit that in the late 1950s a black woman and a white The Courtyard Hereford Jake’s parents become embroiled construction worker who fell in love and married could be convicted Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman lead the cast of Garth Davis’s “Lion sneaks up on you as it in a battle over a dress shop of outraging the ‘peace and dignity’ of the State of Virginia through (co-director of Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake) rousing, gripping proceeds to pluck your heart lease with Tony’s mother. their inter-racial marriage. Yet in real life, Mildred and Richard Lion, adapted from Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home. strings with its little cat feet.” Anchored by wonderfully Loving were imprisoned, exiled from their state, families and home. Patel plays the adult Saroo, adopted from a Kolkata orphanage as a rogerebert.com natural performances from Jeff Nichols dramatises what happened slow and straight, without young boy by an Australian couple and who, as an adult, is haunted its two young leads, Ira Sachs’ sentimentality or embellishment. With great sensitivity, the two by memories of his past. Discovering Google Earth, he begins an much anticipated follow-up leads, Negga and Edgerton, play out their love story that nearly a obsessive search for his biological family, withdrawing from both his to his acclaimed Love Is Strange decade later led to a fundamental change in US law. adoptive parents and his girlfriend (Rooney Mara) on a journey to is a similarly understated, “Here is a film with its heart in the right place, an anatomical find them. Addressing the emotional complexities of adoption with profoundly humane story. correctness coexisting with heartfelt, forthright conviction and depth and clarity, Lion is a hugely involving and moving true story It’s a tale of platonic love and an admirable belief in the virtue of simplicity and underplaying.” boasting excellent performances and stunning cinematography. the difficulty of maintaining childhood innocence amidst Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian adult troubles, investigating The screening on Saturday The screening on Monday Ruth Negga nominated for EE Rising Star Award Bafta at Hereford is sponsored by at Hereford is sponsored by the social divides of race, class and culture. Mrs Christine Evans 36 / 37 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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MINDHORN (15)

Director: Sean Foley Starring: Julian Barratt, Andrea Riseborough, Essie Davis, Harriet Walter, Russell Tovey, Simon Callow, Steve Coogan UK, 2016, 1 hour 29 minutes

Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 March 8.00pm The Courtyard Hereford subtitles MEMORIES OF UNDER-DEVELOPMENT (15) The new creation from The MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (15) Mighty Boosh’s Julian Barratt Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is joyously off-the-wall and Director: Kenneth Lonergan Starring: Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez sits within the British comic Starring: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges Cuba, 1968, 1 hour 37 minutes US, 2016, 2 hours 15 minutes tradition of pompous, self- Thursday 2 March 11.30am absorbed and tragicomically Friday 24 February 2.00pm, Saturday 25 11.15am, Sunday 26 7.30pm, Monday 27 4.45pm, The Courtyard Hereford naff losers like Alan Partridge Tuesday 28 5.00pm, Thursday 2 March 2.15pm The Courtyard Hereford Friday 24 February 7.30pm Saturday 25 1.30pm, Monday 27 7.30pm Oswestry, kinokulture cinema and David Brent. Actor Richard Alea established his reputation with this stylish, fascinating Thorncroft hit his peak with film that occupies a defining place in Latin American cinema. In this shattering, superlative drama, Casey Affleck stars as Lee, “The way Affleck, Hedges and 1980s detective show Mindhorn, Deserted by his wife and rejected by his lover, Sergio feels a solitary Boston janitor who after a family tragedy, returns to his Williams inhabit his [Lonergan’s] playing an Isle of Man-based redundant, unable either to leave or to come to terms with the North Shore hometown to visit his nephew. There, he must take on characters in all of their sleuth with a robotic eye that changes after the revolution. Stimulating in its intellectual curiosity new responsibilities while coming back into contact with his ex-wife complicated, uncomfortable enabled him to literally ‘see and formal experimentalism, this reflection on being an outsider at the truth’. Decades later – with Randi (Michelle Williams) and confronting the weight of the past. sadness is the film’s strength, a time of change has a universal appeal. Bold, brave and brilliant, Thorncroft now thoroughly As with his previous films, Manchester by the Sea evinces Lonergan’s making the time spent with them Cuba still suffers from many of the problems Alea identified nearly washed up – a deranged eye for comedy amidst tragedy, a sprawling interest in an array an exercise in human grace” fifty years ago. Manx criminal declares him of supporting characters and most of all an investigation into what Simran Hans, Sight and Sound his nemesis, and forces him constitutes the texture of real life, as well as brilliant performances. “It is a miracle... a beautifully understated film, sophisticated and to return to the scene of his It’s also perhaps his most fully realised film to date, offering us Nominated for 6 Baftas cosmopolitan in style, fascinating in its subtlety and complexity... greatest triumphs. With a wealth a glimpse into a near complete, emotionally overwhelming world. including Best Film, Director and a profound, noble film.” New York Times of comic and dramatic talent, Leading Actor it’s both a loving send-up of homegrown detective shows and The screening on Sunday is sponsored The screening on Tuesday Introduced by writer and Cuban cinema expert Michael Chanan by The Private Life of a Masterpiece is sponsored by a hilariously funny farce.

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MY FERAL HEART (12A)

Director: Jane Gull Starring: Steven Brandon, Shana Swash, subtitles Will Rastall, Pixie Le Knot, Eileen Pollock & Suzanna Hamilton MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE (12A) UK, 2016, 1 hour 23 minutes Director: Claude Barras Friday 3 March 2.00pm With the voices of: Gaspard Schlatter, Sixtine Murat, Paulin Jaccoud Ludlow Assembly Rooms Switzerland/France, 2016, 1 hour 6 minutes

This feature debut by British Saturday 4 March 5.15pm, Monday 6 5.30pm The Courtyard Hereford MOONLIGHT (15) shorts director Jane Gull boasts Director: Barry Jenkins a superb central performance by Nine-year-old Icare, nicknamed ‘Courgette’, is transported from Starring: Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monáe, Trevante Rhodes, Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, André Holland US, 2016, 1 hour 51 minutes Steven Brandon, an actor with his city apartment to a suburban orphanage when his abusive Down’s syndrome. He portrays mother is accidentally killed. A raggle-taggle bunch of children, Friday 10 March 8.15pm, Saturday 11 8.00pm, Sunday 12 3.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Luke, a fiercely independent each with different and difficult emotional baggage, are now young man with the condition. his daily companions and gradually they are forced to find Perhaps the film of the year, Moonlight is a revelation. It tells “A disarmingly, at times almost Isolated and thrust into a ways to rub along together and create bonds. Though its vivid, its beautiful, vital and devastating story in three acts. Meet Little, unbearably personal film and daunting new environment colourful claymation is instantly appealing, a mature, imaginative a young African-American boy in Miami who lives with his drug- an urgent social document, after sudden bereavement, and often very funny script by Céline Sciamma (Girlhood) opens addicted mother and deals with his frequent victimisation at school a hard look at American reality he finds unexpected support this animated feature up for older children, teens and adults. by befriending local drug dealer Juan. Revisit him as teenager and a poem” A. O. Scott, from his new carer, Eve and Avoiding sentimentality, it tackles serious issues thoughtfully and Chiron, who lashes out when he becomes unable to cope; and finally troubled local heir Pete. But head-on and as a new inmate Camille arrives at the home, new as Black, an adult whose hardened exterior belies his extreme whilst starting valuable new possiblilities, a sense of belonging and even of romance, stretch “A thrilling, deeply vulnerability and who dreams of reconnecting with childhood friendships and broadening out in front of sensitive young Courgette. friend Kevin. Artistically striking and viscerally powerful, Moonlight necessary work” his horizons, Luke also verges Benjamin Lee, The Guardian is a breathtaking achievement, an unforgettable film and feels dangerously close to disaster as “utterly wonderful in every way imaginable... Pixar-level like a landmark in the portrayal of blackness (especially black gay long-buried secrets are revealed. great, even though there’s no way America’s finest would masculinity) onscreen – a story you haven’t seen before, at least My Feral Heart is a sensitive, The screening on Sunday will tackle such dangerous, politically-trenchant material.” not like this. be followed by an informal beautifully realised and very Little White Lies discussion in the Foyer empathetic character study, with distinctive cinematography On Friday the screening is sponsored by and an evocative score. Preview courtesy of Soda Pictures 40 / 41 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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subtitles subtitles subtitles subtitles NERUDA (15) THE ODYSSEY (12A) THE OLIVE TREE (12A) THE OTHER SIDE

Director: Pablo Larraín Director: Jérôme Salle Director: Icíar Bollaín OF HOPE (15) Starring: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Starring: Lambert Wilson, Starring: Anna Castillo, Bernal, Alfredo Castro Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou Javier Gutiérrez, Pep Ambròs Director: Aki Kaurismäki Chile/Argentina/France/Spain, 2016 France, 2016, 2 hours 2 minutes Spain/Germany, 2016, 1 hour 40 minutes Starring: Tommi Korpela, 1 hour 48 minutes Kati Outinen, Sakari Kuosmanen NAPOLEON (PG) Saturday 25 February 7.30pm Sunday 26 February 7.30pm Finland, 2017,1 hour 38 minutes Thursday 2 March 7.00pm Oswestry, kinokulture cinema Hay, Booth’s Bookshop Cinema Director: Abel Gance Hay, Booth’s Bookshop Cinema Sunday 12 March 6.15pm Starring: Albert Dieudonne, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daele Wednesday 1 March 5.15pm, Sunday 5 March 1.45pm France, 1927 5 hours 30 minutes (plus 3 intervals) Monday 6 March 8.00pm, Thursday 2 March 11.00am The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 7 11.30am The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 5 March 12.00pm The Courtyard Hereford £12/£10 conc The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 4 March 7.30pm This earthy, stirring, poignant In the latest wry comedy from Ludlow Assembly Rooms and playful Spanish fable is the Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki, Abel Gance’s extraordinary, exhilarating depiction of the heroic Pablo Larraín’s follow-up to The third collaboration between a poker-playing Helsinki rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an undisputed landmark in cinema Club is this superb ‘anti-bio’ of Featuring a gleaming cast, restaurateur and former one of Chile’s most vital and Goya Award-winning director history, lauded by directors including Martin Scorsese and Stanley Jérôme Salle takes us on a travelling salesman befriends a intriguing figures: poet-diplomat Icíar Bollaín (Take My Eyes) and Kubrick, and a film that very few audiences have had the opportunity voyage through the life of group of refugees newly arrived and politician Pablo Neruda. It’s Ken Loach screenwriter Paul to experience until now. Gance’s epic depicts Napoleon’s formative legendary French oceanographer from Aleppo. Simultaneous a brilliantly ambiguous, insidious Laverty. Beautifully shot and experiences, the circumstances that enabled his rapid advancement and filmmaker Jacques hysterical and heart-breaking, portrait of an often venal and scored, it follows complicated, and the temperament that helped him overcome fierce rivals, Cousteau. Filmed across the Kaurismäki combines his dry wit hypocritical man. Larraín’s skill engaging young woman Alma the deadly Terror and political machinations to seal his imperial globe, this is no hagiography; and idiosyncratic visual style is to draw him as someone who (Anna Castillo), who adores destiny. Painstakingly reconstructed, digitised and accompanied Salle gives us the flawed with an incredibly pertinent nevertheless deserves his heroic her grandfather Ramón, a man by internationally renowned composer Carl Davis’s new score, Cousteau, a visionary who and timely subject matter to status as a key figure in Chile’s greatly affected by the loss it is a monumental, visionary achievement and a rare opportunity struggled to reconcile his devastating effect – creating struggle. 1948: Neruda finds of a beloved, 2000-year old to see cinema history onscreen. More than just a film screening, ambitions against a family himself on the wrong side of an olive tree sold against his will. one of his warmest and most it’s a happening. life with his wife Simone anti- communist drive and is Desperate to help him and with human films to date, and one and son Philippe. The film’s with an almost frenzied sense “As a war movie, it has a scale, ambition... forced into hiding. Gael García hardly any money, she embarks personal dramas are married of political immediacy. that puts even Apocalypse Now to shame” Bernal plays a detective who is to breathtaking underwater on a journey through Europe Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent part-antagonist, part-acolyte to scenery, a glimpse of the world to try and retrieve it, aided Neruda. They engage in mutual that fired Cousteau’s pioneering by friends old and new and Preview courtesy of Curzon pursuit, a beautifully shot dance spirit, a fine tribute to one inveigling everyone she meets Artificial Eye Presented in 3 Acts in which it’s uncertain who is into her quest with unexpected 1.55pm 50-minute break for lunch, 3.50pm 20-minute break for tea, of France’s most beloved and chasing whom. 5.55pm short 10-minute break. The screening ends at 6.55pm. idiosyncratic cultural icons. consequences. For Tea/Coffee and Cake offer, £3.50 extra

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PREVENGE (15) QUEEN OF KATWE

Director: Alice Lowe (PG) Starring: Alice Lowe, Gemma Whelan, Kate Dickie Director: Mira Nair UK, 2016, 1 hour 28 minutes Starring: Madina Nalwanga, Lupita Nyong’o, David Oyelowo South Africa/US, 2016, 2 hours 4 minutes PERSONAL SHOPPER (15) Friday 24 February 8.00pm, A QUIET PASSION (12A) Saturday 25 February 6.45pm Friday 24 February 7.30pm Director: Terence Davies Director: Olivíer Assayas The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz Eye, Cawley Hall Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, France, 2016, 1 hour 45 minutes Thursday 2 March 7.30pm Eric Loren, Catherine Bailey, Jodhi May UK, Belgium, 2016, 2 hours 5 minutes Outwardly an ordinary, Leominster, Playhouse Cinema Wednesday 8 March 8.15pm, Thursday 9 2.00pm harmless, heavily pregnant Saturday 4 March 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 7 March 2.00pm, Wednesday 8 8.00pm The Courtyard Hereford woman, there’s a perturbing Brilley Village Hall small inner voice egging Ruth Friday 10 March 7.30pm Hot on the heels of British filmmaker and writer Terence Davies’s At once an audacious ghost story and a terse psychological thriller, Bodenham Parish Hall this is the second collaboration between Kristen Stewart and the on to shape-shift. Each new & Tarrington, Lady Emily Hall 2015 release Sunset Song comes this exquisitely controlled, spirited acclaimed French director Olivier Assayas (The Clouds of Sils Maria, persona cooks up its own and refreshingly funny biopic of 19th century American poet Emily Something in the Air). We first encounter American Maureen (Stewart) delectable form of retaliation. Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o Dickinson, with a taut, central performance by Sex and the City’s as she prepares to spend a night alone in a rambling, very empty Alice Lowe’s directorial debut (12 Years a Slave) and nominee Cynthia Nixon. Dickinson’s life was extraordinarily cerebral: she house in the French countryside in an attempt to establish contact starts as a dark, deadpan David Oyelowo (Selma) star in was born and died in Amherst, Massachusetts, never married and with its previous inhabitant, her recently deceased twin brother. comedy, and just keeps getting Mira Nair’s (Monsoon Wedding) lived a reclusive existence while writing some of the most piercingly Maureen’s fascination with the spiritual world is disturbingly at odds darker. More than Sightseers, exuberant, uplifting Queen of beautiful, directly emotional and innovative verse ever published. with her banal Parisian job, as personal shopper for Kyra, a petulant which Lowe co-scripted and Katwe. It tells the true story of While the circumstances of her life suggest a quiet and self-effacing A-list supermodel/designer. Her compulsion to communicate with starred in, the film succeeds in a young girl, Phiona who sells soul, Davies shows her as a passionately conflicted figure who the dead leads her to undertake journeys that are both physically holding on to an exhilarating, corn in the slums of Kampala, continually questioned the patriarchal society in which she lived. threatening and appear to reveal disconcerting truths about her inventive strain of incongruity. but whose world rapidly changes He explores her various relationships – her supportive father, her own desires. Directed and performed when she is introduced to confidante sister Lavinia, the local Reverend and her proto-feminist when Lowe herself was seven the game of chess. Coached friend Vryling – alongside the flowering and frustrations of her Joint Winner Best Director Cannes Film Festival 2016 months pregnant, a state rarely by engineer Robert Katende remarkable work. presented onscreen with any (Oyelowo) she finds she has kind of authenticity, Prevenge a natural gift for the game, “An absolute drop-dead masterwork” Richard Brody,

Preview courtesy of Icon offers a rationale that goes and supported by her family far beyond hormonal havoc. (including her fiercely protective Preview courtesy of Soda Pictures

Murderous, but fun. mother, played by Nyong’o) and her community, she is inspired The screening on Wednesday is sponsored by to become an international chess champion. Helen Lee 44 / 45 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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subtitles subtitles THE RED TURTLE (PG) THE REPORT (12A) RETURN TO ROCK DOG (PG)

Director: Michaël Dudok de Wit, Director: Abbas Kiarostami ITHACA (15) Director: Ash Brannon France/Belgium/Japan, 2016, Starring: Shohreh Aghdashloo, With the voices of: Luke Wilson, Eddie 1 hour 20 minutes Kurosh Afsharpanah, Mehdi Montazar Director: Laurent Cantet Izzard, J.K. Simmons, Lewis Black, Iran, 1977, 1 hour 50 minutes Starring: Isabel Santos, Keenan Thompson, Mae Whitman Jorge Perrugorría, Fernando Hechevarria, China/US, 2016, 1 hour 20 minutes Saturday 4 March 11.00am, Nestor Jiménez Tuesday 7 8.00pm Saturday 4 March 2.30pm France/Belgium, 2014, 1 hour 35 minutes The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 4 March 2.00pm Monday 6 March 2.30pm Ludlow Assembly Rooms subtitles Saturday 11 March 11.00am Oscar-winner Michaël Dudok Never before released in the The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford THE SALESMAN (12A) de Wit’s exquisite wordless UK or the US, here (as with Over the course of one night, animation, his debut feature, The Traveller) is a rare chance Deep in the Himalayas, Director: Asghar Farhadi five former comrades from the Starring: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi is a co-production between to see Abbas Kiraostami’s early get together on a rooftop wide-eyed Tibetan mastiff Iran/France, 2016, 2 hours 5 minutes Wild Bunch and Studio Ghibli. feature, a piercing morality terrace in present-day Havana. Bodi is expected to take over A man is marooned on a desert tale made in the years leading Monday 27 February 7.45pm, Tuesday 28 1.45pm The occasion is the visit of the role of village bodyguard The Courtyard Hereford island populated by turtles up to the Islamic Revolution. one of their number, Amadeo, from his dad, Khampa. But Thursday 2 March 7.30pm Oswestry, kinokulture cinema and crabs but devoid of people. The Report follows the life of formerly an acclaimed writer, everything changes when a He tries desperately to escape a senior civil servant in Iran’s Like A Separation and The Past, celebrated Iranian auteur from Spain where he has lived radio falls out of the sky and until one day he meets a Ministry of Finance, whose Asghar Farhadi’s new film examines the strained relationship in exile for many years. What he becomes hooked on music. strange, giant red turtle and dedicated professional life is of a middle-class married couple, Rana and Emad. Emad is a teacher starts as a good-humoured Leaving home to pursue his rock begins a friendship that will thrown into turmoil when he and Rana his stay-at-home wife. In their spare time, they’re also reunion changes as the evening star ambitions, Bodi attracts the change his life. Mixing hand is accused of accepting bribes part of a theatre group, working on a production of Arthur Miller’s deepens; recriminations, attention of Khampa’s nemesis and computer-drawn animation, and suspended. Sent home, he Death of a Salesman in which they play Miller’s careworn Willy Loman hopes, fears, betrayals and Linnux, the leader of a hungry the imagery of sea and the returns to a crumbling marriage, and his wife, Linda. Preparations for the play are going well until reconciliations rise to the wolf pack, and his challenge island’s flora and fauna bring mounting debts and is forced Rana and Emad suffer a disturbing domestic incident which triggers surface as life in the city carries is to protect family and friends, to life a fable permeated with to face up to the real issues in emotional fault lines across their marriage. Exploring challenging on around them. A collaboration notably a pack of fun-loving ideas about nature, human his life. Shot in real locations questions of morality and retribution, The Salesman is a beautifully between accomplished French sheep, without giving up his expectation and endurance, and and with naturalistic dialogue, observed, painstakingly crafted drama. director Laurent Cantet (The newfound dream. This graphic the power of companionship. the film began to establish Class) and Cuban novelist novel-based animation boasts the ‘documentary’ style which a superb comedy voice cast Winner Best Screenplay and Best Actor (Shahab Hosseini), “Mesmerising [...] Leonardo Padura, this drama the director later pursued to including Eddie Izzard and will Cannes Film Festival 2016 a wordless wonder” makes for an absorbing and interesting and rewarding appeal to all ages. Tim Robey, The Telegraph extremes. incisive foray into Cuba’s past and present. Previews courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye Previews courtesy of Altitude Preview courtesy of Studiocanal Film Distribution 46 / 47 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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subtitles subtitles subtitles SHOES (PG) A SIMPLE LIFE (PG) SLACK BAY (18) LA STRADA (PG)

Director: Lois Weber Director: Bruno Dumont Director: Director: Ann Hui Starring: Mary MacLaren, Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Starring: Giulietta Masina, Starring: Andy Lau, Harry Griffith, Mattie Witting Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi , Richard Basehart Deannie Yip, Dennis Chan US, 1916, 1 hour, silent Germany/France, 2016, 2 hours 2 minutes subtitles Italy, 1954, 1 hour 48 minutes Hong Kong, 2011, 1 hour 58 minutes Friday 3 March 3.00pm Saturday 25 February 4.30pm The SOY CUBA (PG) Wednesday 8 March 11.00am Sunday 12 March 6.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Director: Mikhail Kalatozov Wednesday 1 March 7.00pm Hay, Starring: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, Jose Gallardo Booth’s Bookshop Cinema The prolific female director Lois Ah Tao (Deannie Yip) has been Cuba/Soviet Union, 1964, 2 hours 21 minutes Italian master Federico Fellini’s Weber is a key figure in the (8 1/2, ) a servant for four generations Juliette Binoche gives an Friday 24 February 11.15am The Courtyard Hereford pioneering years of film and her bittersweet comedy drama and of a Hong Kong family for 60 outrageous performance 1916 social drama Shoes is one From the fluid opening shot that swoops across a molten sea over neo-realist fable La Strada was years. Most of the family have in French enfant terrible of the era’s masterpieces. Dime a land covered with white palm fronds, Soy Cuba mesmerises. Made his international breakthrough, moved to California and only Bruno Dumont’s (L’Humanité, store clerk Eva Meyer supports barely two years after the Cuban missile crisis the film was made winning the inaugural Academy film producer Roger, single, Hadewijch) surreal slapstick her entire family on five dollars with considerable technical and financial Soviet input, directed by Award for Best Foreign Film in middle-aged, busy, remains comedy, a radical tonal shift a week and must soul search to Kalatozov (The Cranes Are Flying) and co-scripted by poet Yevgeny 1956. Giuliette Masina plays to be looked after. Following from his bleak previous works. find the money to buy a new pair Yevtushenko. Four separate stories exemplify the Cuban experience, Gelsomina, a sweet young a stroke, Ah Tao chooses It’s a crime caper set in Belle of shoes for work. An objective from ‘Yankee’ exploitation in the bars of Havana and on the sugar woman sold as performing to live in a nursing home and Époque France; two incompetent which could lead her down a cane fields, to student resistance and joining the rebel army in assistant to brutish circus the transference of care between policemen investigate the worrying path… Rarely seen, the Sierra Maestra. Dismissed as formalist and stereotypical at the strongman Zampanò (an her and Roger, played by disappearance of tourists in a this forgotten classic has recently time, it was hailed as a masterpiece in the 1980s for its dream-like, immensely charismatic Anthony Cantonese superstar Andy Lau seaside community including been beautifully restored by Eye sinuous camera-work and intoxicating use of light. Quinn). Trying to learn the (Infernal Affairs, House the curious Bruforts and the Film Institute Netherlands and ropes, she is repeatedly rebuffed of Flying Daggers) and Yip’s degenerate Van Peteghems – gives a sense of Weber’s talent “The island of Cuba has never looked as fantastically exotic” by Zampanò as they perform own godson, begins. Ostensibly André (Fabrice Luchini), Isabelle behind the camera. Stephen Holden, The New York Times their way through the a film about not very much, (Valerie Bruni-Tedeschi), streets of central Italy and it is through veteran director and André’s imperious sister encounter his rival, the Fool With live piano accompaniment Hui’s eye for small details, food (Binoche). It’s an original, (Richard Baseheart). A film that by John Sweeney preparation, quiet gestures and diabolically funny satire of the transcends realism, La Strada resolute unsentimentality that bourgeoisie, abetted by some Ellen Cheshire, contributor is a parable about life as artistic it achieves enormous resonance of France’s most accomplished to the book ‘Silent Women quest. – Pioneers of Cinema’, will about ageing and the nature performers. introduce the film of human attachment. Preview courtesy of Independent Previews courtesy of New Wave Cinema Office/Studiocanal 48 / 49 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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subtitles subtitles subtitles SWALLOWS AND SWEET BEAN (PG) A TASTE THINGS TO COME

AMAZONS (U) Director: Naomi Kawase OF CHERRY (PG) (12A) Starring: Kirin Kiki, Director: Philippa Lowthorpe Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida Director: Abbas Kiarostami Director: Mia Hansen-Løve Starring: Gwendoline Christie, Japan/France/Germany, 2015 Starring: Homayon Ershadi, Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Kelly Macdonald, Jessica Hynes, 1 hour 53 minutes Adolhossein Bagheri André Marcon, Roman Kolinka Andrew Scott, Rafe Spall Iran, 1998, 1 hour 35 minutes THEIR FINEST (12A) France/Germany, 2016, 1 hour 42 minutes UK, 2016, 1 hour 40 minutes Wednesday 1 March 7.30pm Sunday 12 March 1.45pm Monday 27 February 7.30pm Oswestry, kinokulture cinema Director: Lone Scherfig Saturday 4 March 2.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy, Sam Claflin, Leominster, Playhouse Cinema Much Birch Community Hall Jack Huston, Paul Ritter, Rachael Stirling Friday 10 March 8.00pm UK, 2016, 1 hour 57 minutes In this graceful, delicate Badii, a middle-aged man, drives Presteigne Screen and compassionate drama A beautifully realised adaptation around the dusty outskirts of Friday 3 March 7.30pm, Saturday 4 5.00pm The Courtyard Hereford of Arthur Ransome’s enduring Sweet Bean refers to anko, Tehran looking for someone to Tuesday 7 March 7.45pm Malvern Theatres Mia Hansen-Løve (Father children’s novel, Swallows the delicious red paste in bury him under a cherry tree of My Children; Goodbye, My Continuing her fascination with British manners, Danish director and Amazons is an inspiring, the middle of the dorayaki after he has carried out his Love; Eden) takes on late-life Lone Scherfig () delivers an evocative study of the rambunctious and nostalgic pancakes that Sentaro sells planned suicide. In Kiarostami’s misdirection in this exquisite, Second World War period. Catrin, a talented young copy-writer is summer adventure with a first- from his bakery to a small but modern classic, the title refers resonant new drama with a enticed to London from Wales by her self-absorbed artist husband. rate cast. Set over an idyllic loyal clientele. A remote man, to one of the simple pleasures superb central performance She finds a job as a script editor with the Ministry of Information, summer holiday, it sees the absorbed in difficult memories, of life as explained to the from Isabelle Huppert. Nathalie hired to write convincing women’s dialogue (or “slop”) for morale- four Walker children and their Sentaro cooks with skill but world-weary Baddii during (Huppert) teaches philosophy boosting propaganda films. Quickly noticed for her ability, she’s sailing rivals the Blacketts, without much enthusiasm. his search for assistance. at a high school in Paris. She’s drafted by dashing movie producer Buckley to work alongside a running amok in their When eccentric 76-year-old A Taste of Cherry is a cinematic passionate about her job and colourful crew and produce the cinematic stories the nation needs boats in the stunning Lake Tokue responds to his ad for an journey through life and death, particularly enjoys passing during the dark times of the Blitz. Arterton brings a subtlety to District. Their world is one of assistant, cheerfully agreeing to in equal parts absurdist drama, on the pleasure of thinking. Catrin’s self-discovery and Bill Nighy is perfectly cast as the ageing imagination, but the real world work for minimal pay, Sentaro full of unexpected humour, and Married with two children, movie star struggling with the fact that his days as a romantic-lead is on the brink of war, forcing is skeptical until she reveals to a poetic meditation on being, she divides her time between are over. Debut screenwriter Gaby Chiappe’s adaptation of the novel our motley crew to learn skills him the secret to the perfect and is now rightly viewed as her family, students and her by Lissa Evans blends shrewd wit with a lot of heart in a charming of survival, responsibility, and sweet bean paste. Gorgeously one of the great films of world possessive mother; until one and spirited wartime drama. the value of friendship. shot and wonderfully performed, cinema’s recent past. day, her husband Heinz drops Kawase balances elements of a bombshell. With new freedoms “as tangible as fresh air blowing sadness and tragedy against “…a masterpiece has a startling unexpectedly thrust upon her through your hair… high those of hope and wisdom in epilogue that radiates with Previews courtesy of Lionsgate late in life, Nathalie is forced adventure in safe hands…” this gentle, unassuming but wonder and euphoria.” The screening on Tuesday The screening on Saturday to rethink her future. Robbie Collin, The Telegraph profoundly affecting tale. Jonathan Rosenbaum is sponsored by is sponsored by “[a] gorgeous, heart-cradling Joint Winner Palme d’Or for Best post-divorce drama.” Film Cannes Film Festival 1997 Guy Lodge, Variety 50 / 51 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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subtitles THE TRAVELLER (U)

Director: Abbas Kiarostami Starring: Hassan Darabi, Masud Zandbegleh, Mostafa Tari Iran, 1974, 1 hour 30 minutes

Sunday 26 February 2.00pm TRESPASS AGAINST US (15) The Courtyard Hereford Director: Adam Smith Starring: Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Lyndsey Marshal, Rory Kinnear Here’s an extremely rare chance UK, 2016, 1 hour 40 minutes subtitles to see Abbas Kiarostami’s Wednesday 1 March 8.00pm Thursday 2 2.00pm delightful first feature, The Courtyard Hereford TONI ERDMANN (15) beautifully realised in its Director: Maren Ade simplicity, about a 12-year-old Starring: Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wittenborn A car with a small boy at the wheel, crammed with shouting men and Germany, Austria, Romania, 2016, 2 hours 42 minutes boy with an eye for the main kids, careers at breakneck speed around a Gloucestershire field after chance, who goes to some a hare. The high-adrenalin lead-in introduces the Cutler gang, who Friday 24 February 4.30pm, Saturday 25 1.30pm, Sunday 26 4.00pm The Courtyard Hereford lengths to raise enough money Sunday 5 March 7.45pm, Thursday 9 2.00pm Malvern Theatres conform to every stereotype in the book: thieving, caravan-dwelling, Monday 6 & Wednesday 8 March 7.30pm Oswestry, kinokulture cinema for two match tickets to see ruthless, raucous and living in rural semi-squalor. Tightly controlled his favourite football team in by Colby (a magnificently brooding Brendan Gleeson), the extended German filmmaker Maren Ade’s () astonishing Toni “Maren Ade’s unique study Tehran. Now retrospectively family depends on the criminal dexterity of his son and heir Chad Erdmann was hailed as one of the standout films of Cannes in 2016. of an estranged but mutually identified as the film that (Michael Fassbender). But Chad has a family of his own and the It’s a broad and outrageously funny comedy about the relationship depressive father and daughter established a template for appeal of a settled life and schooling for the kids is a strong pull. between a father and daughter. Peter Simonischek is Winifried, is a humane, hilarious triumph” many of the eye-catching Father-son conflict and a police dragnet loom while a fresh Chemical a divorced teacher with a baffling penchant for wacky humour; Guy Lodge, Variety films that won praise for the Brothers soundtrack heightens the pace. frequently donning ridiculous wigs and false teeth. His daughter Iranian New Wave a decade Ines (Sandra Hüller) – a sleek oil company executive – is less Winner FIPRESCI Best Film award later, The Traveller presents amused by such jokes; but Winifried suspects she is unhappy and Cannes Film Festival 2016 itself as the Kes of Iranian Preview courtesy of Lionsgate so kindly decides to show up at her offices in a new guise: that Cinema, a winning, naturalistic (and socially powerful) drama On Wednesday Damian Le Bas, Romani Writer, will introduce the film of ‘Toni Erdmann’, to help out. Highly original and hilarious, and host a Q&A it’s also astutely critical and achingly moving. It swept the board The screening on Sunday in that explores the intuitive at the and is a strong contender in the 2017 Hereford will be followed by an motivations of children and the Foreign Language Oscar shortlist. informal discussion in the Foyer sometimes misguided influences of adults and institutions. And it’s still viewed by many critics as the best ever film about football. 52 / 53 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

WOMEN CUBA

subtitles subtitles subtitles THE UNKNOWN VICEROY’S HOUSE WADJDA (12A) A WEDDING

GIRL (15) (12A) Director: Haifaa Al Mansour IN HAVANA (PG) Starring: Reem Abdullah, Waad Director: Gurinder Chadha Directors: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani Director: Miriam Day Starring: Gillian Anderson, Starring: Adèle Haenel, Saudi Arabia/Germany, 2012, UK, 1995, 50 minutes Michael Gambon, Hugh Bonneville, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier 1 hour 38 minutes France, 2016, French, 1 hour 53 minutes Manish Dyal, Simon Callow Thursday 9 March 12.00pm UK/India, 2017, 1 hour 46 minutes Saturday 25 February 11.00am The Courtyard Hereford Friday 24 February 2.15pm, The Courtyard Hereford Monday 27 11.30am Friday 10 March 4.30pm & A Wedding in Havana explores The Courtyard Hereford 7.45pm, Saturday 11 10.30am & 2.00pm, Sunday 12 March 4.30pm Wadjda brought a new voice to a Cuba in crisis. During the New from French social & 7.45pm Malvern Theatres world cinema, like a breath of WAITING FOR YOU (12A) ‘special period’ that followed the realist masters the Dardennes fresh air. Neo-realist at heart, collapse of the Soviet Union, the For 6 months in 1947, Lord Director: Charles Garrad brothers (Two Days, One Night; it was shot entirely on location. Starring: Colin Morgan, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Bastien Cuban government invested in Mountbatten, great grandson The Child), The Unknown Girl 10-year-old Wadjda wants to UK/France, 2016, 1 hour 32 minutes tourism to bring hard currency of Queen Victoria, assumed follows a young doctor as she buy a beautiful green bicycle into the island. A two-tiered the post of the last Viceroy, Friday 3 March 7.30pm investigates the death of an but her mother forbids it, afraid Ludlow Assembly Rooms economy developed. People charged with handing India immigrant. Gifted and idealistic, of repercussions in a closed with access to dollars lived a life back to its people. Mountbatten A lyrical mystery drama, Charles Garrad’s spellbinding feature debut Jenny (French rising star Adèle society. The spirited Wadjda sets undreamt of by those trapped in lived upstairs with his wife stars Northern Irish actor Colin Morgan (Merlin, Testament of Youth) Haenel) is a brilliant doctor in out to raise the money herself. the peso economy. Many Cubans and daughter. Downstairs lived and one of French cinema’s most celebrated performers, Fanny became ‘jiniteros’ offering illegal Liège who prides herself on her Clearly underpinned by its their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Ardant (The Woman Next Door). A coming-of-age story filmed services to tourists, from city professionalism with patients. representation of a society that Sikh servants. As the political on location in the south of France and urban England, it centres tours to prostitution, to get by. One evening after closing the is very restrictive for women, elite wrangled over the birth on a young man, Paul who – compelled by grief and curiosity Made at the height of this crisis, practice she hears her doorbell this charming film offers a of independent India, conflict – is keen to find out more about his late father’s life. Visiting the using a small Hi8 camera that ring, but doesn’t answer; the positive view of one girl’s erupted throughout the House mysterious, melancholic Madeleine, a musician, in her magnificently could pass for a tourist camera next day, the police inform determination to be different. and a catastrophic decision crumbling, secluded manor house, she reveals some disturbing in the streets, this is a snapshot her a young woman has been As one of the first films to led to global repercussions: secrets about both his father’s past and his own. of a moment of disillusion as found dead close by. While come out of Saudi Arabia and Partition. Gurinder Chadha’s seen through the eyes of three undertaking her usual rounds the first to be directed by a deeply personal film examines couples from Old Havana. and seeing patients, Jenny, now woman, Wadjda is as important those events through the Director Charles Garrad will introduce the film with a Q&A to follow stricken with guilt, obsessively as it is enjoyable and should be prism of both a marriage and tries to uncover the woman’s treasured the world over. a romance, as the lovers find Director Miriam Day will identity. But as she looks themselves caught up in the introduce the film with a Q&A further, the question of blame to follow seismic end of an Empire. becomes more complex than it first seems. Image: © Cristina Piza www.anzenbergergallery.com Hereford’s boutique city hotel with 24 luxury bedrooms ‘Best Stockbroker for Customer Service’ Creativity

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Friday 24 February Monday 27 February

11.00 1hr 50’ DENIAL The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 1hr 40’ JACKIE Malvern Theatres 11.15 2hrs 21’ SOY CUBA The Courtyard Hereford 4.45 2hrs 15’ MANCHESTER BY THE SEA The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 2hrs 15’ MANCHESTER BY THE SEA The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 1hr 30’ THE BLACK HEN The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr 53’ THE UNKNOWN GIRL The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hr 7’ GRADUATION The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 2hrs 42’ TONI ERDMANN The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 42’ THINGS TO COME Leominster, Playhouse 5.00 1hr 43’ ALONE IN BERLIN The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 15’ MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Oswestry, kinokulture cinema 7.30 2hrs 4’ QUEEN OF KATWE Eye, Cawley Hall 7.45 1hr 58’ LION Malvern Theatres 7.30 1hr 42’ HELL OR HIGH WATER Garway Village Hall 7.45 2hrs 5’ THE SALESMAN The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 15’ MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Oswestry, kinokulture cinema 7.45 2hrs 8’ LA LA LAND The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 28 February

7.45 1hr 40’ JACKIE Malvern Theatres 10.30 1hr 40’ JACKIE Malvern Theatres 8.00 1hr 25’ LITTLE MEN Presteigne Screen 11.00 1hr 15’ ERIC FREEMAN + GOLDEN FIRE The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 28’ PREVENGE The Courtyard Hereford 12.00 1hr 30’ THE BLACK HEN The Courtyard Hereford

1.45 2hrs 5’ THE SALESMAN The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 25 February 2.30 50’ AMATEUR WOMEN FILMMAKERS The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 38’ WADJDA The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 2hrs 15’ MANCHESTER BY THE SEA The Courtyard Hereford 11.15 2hrs 15’ MANCHESTER BY THE SEA The Courtyard Hereford 5.15 1hr 50’ DENIAL The Courtyard Hereford 1.30 2hrs 15’ MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Oswestry, kinokulture cinema 7.00 1hr 36’ JULIETA Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall 1.30 2hrs 42’ TONI ERDMANN The Courtyard Hereford 7.45 1hr 37’ CLASH The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 58’ LION Malvern Theatres 7.45 1hr 58’ LION Malvern Theatres 2.15 1hr 50’ DENIAL The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 2hrs 8’ LA LA LAND The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 2hrs 2’ SLACK BAY The Courtyard Hereford 4.45 1hr 33’ EAT THAT QUESTION The Courtyard Hereford Wednesday 1 March

6.45 1hr 28’ PREVENGE The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 59’ CHRISTINE The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 8’ LA LA LAND The Courtyard Hereford 12.00 1hr 55’ THE HEADLESS WOMAN + DISCUSSION The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 59’ CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Leominster, Playhouse 2.00 2hrs 8’ LA LA LAND The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 2’ THE ODYSSEY Oswestry, kinokulture cinema 3.00 1hr iSHORTS The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 55’ THE HEADLESS WOMAN Presteigne Screen 4.30 1hr 58’ LION Malvern Theatres 8.45 1hr 29’ LADY MACBETH The Courtyard Hereford 5.15 2hrs 2’ THE ODYSSEY The Courtyard Hereford

7.00 2hrs 2’ SLACK BAY Hay, Booth’s Bookshop Sunday 26 February 7.30 1hr 53’ SWEET BEAN Oswestry, kinokulture cinema 11.00 2hrs 8’ LA LA LAND The Courtyard Hereford 7.45 1hr 40’ JACKIE Malvern Theatres 11.30 1hr 43’ ALONE IN BERLIN The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 42’ HELL OR HIGH WATER Bromyard, Conquest Theatre 2.00 1hr 30’ THE TRAVELLER The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 40’ TRESSPASS AGAINST US + DAMIAN LE BAS The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr 50’ HAMLET + LILIAN HENLEY The Courtyard Hereford 4.00 2hrs 42’ TONI ERDMANN + DISCUSSION The Courtyard Hereford Thursday 2 March

4.30 1hr 58’ LION Malvern Theatres 11.00 2hrs 2’ THE ODYSSEY The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 1hr 50’ DENIAL The Courtyard Hereford 11.30 1hr 37’ MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 40’ THE OLIVE TREE Hay, Booth’s Bookshop + MICHAEL CHANAN 7.30 2hrs 15’ MANCHESTER BY THE SEA The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 40’ TRESSPASS AGAINST US The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 41’ HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE Leominster, Playhouse 2.00 1hr 40’ JACKIE Malvern Theatres 7.45 2hr 7’ GRADUATION The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 2hrs 15’ MANCHESTER BY THE SEA The Courtyard Hereford 7.45 1hr 40’ JACKIE Malvern Theatres 4.30 1hr 58’ LION Malvern Theatres

5.00 1hr 59’ CHRISTINE The Courtyard Hereford Monday 27 February 5.30 2hrs 8’ LA LA LAND The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 50’ DENIAL The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 1hr 48’ NERUDA Hay, Booth’s Bookshop 11.30 1hr 53’ THE UNKNOWN GIRL The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 40’ I, DANIEL BLAKE Brilley Village Hall 2.00 2hrs 8’ LA LA LAND The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 22’ AQUARIUS The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr 29’ LADY MACBETH The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 4’ QUEEN OF KATWE Leominster, Playhouse 7.30 2hrs 5’ THE SALESMAN Oswestry, kinokulture cinema 58 / 59 Diary Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Thursday 2 March Sunday 5 March

7.30 1hr 51’ THE COMMUNE Pudleston Village Hall 11.00 1hr 58’ LION The Courtyard Hereford 7.45 1hr 43’ ALONE IN BERLIN Malvern Theatres 12.00 5hrs 30’ NAPOLEON The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 53’ FRANTZ The Courtyard Hereford 1.45 1hr 40’ THE OLIVE TREE The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 36’ JULIETA Ledbury, The Market Theatre 2.00 1hr 15’ BRITAIN ON FILM: RURAL Ludlow Assembly Rooms 4.30 1hr 19’ THE GENERAL + PAUL SHALLCROSS Ludlow Assembly Rooms Friday 3 March 4.30 2hrs 18’ FENCES Malvern Theatres

5.00 2hrs 3’ LOVING The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 58’ LION The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 2hrs 25’ THE HANDMAIDEN Hay, Booth’s Bookshop 11.15 2hrs 22’ AQUARIUS The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 36’ JULIETA Leominster, Playhouse 2.00 1hr 45’ BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 29’ LADY MACBETH Ludlow Assembly Rooms 2.00 1hr 23’ MY FERAL HEART Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.45 1hr 40’ JACKIE The Courtyard Hereford 3.00 1hr SHOES + JOHN SWEENEY The Courtyard Hereford 7.45 2hrs 42’ TONI ERDMANN Malvern Theatres 4.30 1hr 51’ BLOW-UP + PETER BURDEN Ludlow Assembly Rooms 8.00 1hr 29’ MINDHORN The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 1hr 40’ JACKIE The Courtyard Hereford

7.30 1hr 59’ CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Bedstone & Hopton Castle Monday 6 March 7.30 1hr 41’ HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE Burghill, the Simpson Hall 7.30 1hr 40’ I, DANIEL BLAKE Dorstone Village Hall 11.00 2hrs 3’ LOVING The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 36’ JULIETA Garway Village Hall 12.00 1hr 26’ THE APPLE The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 57’ THEIR FINEST The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 40’ JACKIE The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 25’ LITTLE MEN Leominster, Playhouse 2.30 1hr 35’ RETURN TO ITHACA The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 32’ WAITING FOR YOU + CHARLES GARRAD Ludlow Assembly Rooms 5.00 1hr 58’ LION The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 10’ CHEWING THE CUD + SPEAKER Tarrington, Lady Emily Hall 5.30 1hr 6’ MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 40’ JACKIE Oswestry, kinokulture cinema 7.30 2hrs 18’ THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK Church Stretton School 7.45 2hrs 18’ FENCES Malvern Theatres 7.30 2hrs 42’ TONI ERDMANN Oswestry, kinokulture 8.00 1hr 40’ I, DANIEL BLAKE Ledbury, The Market Theatre 7.45 1hr 32’ THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI The Courtyard Hereford 7.45 2hrs 18’ FENCES Malvern Theatres Saturday 4 March 8.00 1hr 48’ NERUDA The Courtyard Hereford

11.00 1hr 20’ THE RED TURTLE The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 7 March 11.30 1hr 40’ JACKIE The Courtyard Hereford 1.30 50’ AMATEUR WOMEN FILMMAKERS Oswestry, kinokulture 10.30 2hrs 18’ FENCES Malvern Theatres 2.00 1hr 53’ FRANTZ The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 40’ JACKIE The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 20’ ROCK DOG Ludlow Assembly Rooms 11.30 1hr 48’ NERUDA The Courtyard Hereford 2.30 1hr 50’ THE REPORT The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 2hrs 5’ A QUIET PASSION The Courtyard Hereford 2.30 1hr 40’ SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS Much Birch Community Hall 2.30 1hr 58’ LION The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 1hr 23’ BRITAIN ON FILM: RAILWAYS + STEVE FOXON Ludlow Assembly Rooms 4.45 2hrs 3’ LOVING The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 2hrs 18’ FENCES Malvern Theatres 5.45 1hr 32’ THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 1hr 57’ THEIR FINEST The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 25’ THE HANDMAIDEN The Courtyard Hereford 5.15 1hr 6’ MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 18’ THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK Oswestry, kinokulture 7.30 2hrs 4’ QUEEN OF KATWE Brilley Village Hall 7.45 1hr 57’ THEIR FINEST Malvern Theatres 7.30 1hr 40’ I, DANIEL BLAKE Leominster, Playhouse 8.00 1hr 20’ THE RED TURTLE The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 2’ THE ODYSSEY Ludlow Assembly Rooms 8.00 1hr 59’ CAPTAIN FANTASTIC Michaelchurch Escley 7.30 1hr 36’ CAFÉ SOCIETY Much Birch Community Hall 7.30 1hr 40’ JACKIE Oswestry, kinokulture cinema Wednesday 8 March

7.45 1hr 58’ LION The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 58’ A SIMPLE LIFE The Courtyard Hereford 7.45 2hrs 18’ FENCES Malvern Theatres 12.00 1hr 40’ JACKIE The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 29’ MINDHORN The Courtyard Hereford 1.30 1hr 40’ JACKIE Oswestry, kinokulture 2.00 2hrs 3’ LOVING The Courtyard Hereford 3.00 2hrs FUTURE FILMMAKERS The Courtyard Hereford 4.45 2hrs 25’ THE HANDMAIDEN The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 44’ HEAL THE LIVING The Courtyard Hereford 60 / 61 Diary Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2017 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Wednesday 8 March Sunday 12 March

7.30 2hrs 42’ TONI ERDMANN Oswestry, kinokulture 11.00 1hr 15’ BRITAIN ON FILM: RURAL + Phil Leach The Courtyard Hereford 7.45 2hrs 18’ FENCES Malvern Theatres 11.30 1hr 35’ LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 2hrs 5’ A QUIET PASSION The Courtyard Hereford 1.15 1hr 47’ CERTAIN WOMEN The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 51’ THE COMMUNE Ledbury, The Market Theatre 1.45 1hr 35’ A TASTE OF CHERRY The Courtyard Hereford 8.15 1hr 45’ PERSONAL SHOPPER The Courtyard Hereford 3.30 1hr 51’ MOONLIGHT + DISCUSSION The Courtyard Hereford 4.00 1hr 37’ IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD The Courtyard Hereford Thursday 9 March 4.30 1hr 46’ THE VICEROY’S HOUSE Malvern Theatres

6.00 1hr 48’ LA STRADA The Courtyard Hereford 10.30 2hrs 18’ FENCES Malvern Theatres 6.15 1hr 38’ THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE The Courtyard Hereford 12.00 50’ A WEDDING IN HAVANA + MIRIAM DAY The Courtyard Hereford 7.45 1hr 46’ THE VICEROY’S HOUSE Malvern Theatres 2.00 1hr 45’ PERSONAL SHOPPER The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 23’ BRITAIN ON FILM: RAILWAYS Bromyard, Conquest Theatre 2.00 2hrs 42’ TONI ERDMANN Malvern Theatres 8.15 1hr 55’ THE FOUNDER The Courtyard Hereford 4.00 4hrs SCREENEASY AT SPEAKEASY Hereford, The Left Bank 8.30 1hr 56’ BERLIN SYNDROME The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 2hrs 3’ LOVING The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 1hr 41’ HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall 7.30 2hrs 18’ THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK Eye, Cawley Hall Festival Team: BOARD MEMBERS: 7.30 3hrs MASH CINEMA Hereford The Old Market Naomi Vera-Sanso John Banks, Richard Branczik, Jeremy Bugler, Mo Burns, 7.45 1hr 44’ HEAL THE LIVING The Courtyard Hereford (Festival Director) Anne Cottringer, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Heatly, David Sin (Film Programmer) Joanna Henshaw, Jane Jackson (Chair), Rachel Lambert, Friday 10 March Jonny Courtney Paul Murray, Marsha O’Mahony, Simon Scott, Nathan Williams (Film Programmer) 11.00 1hr 37’ IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD The Courtyard Hereford Jo Comino Festival Patrons: 1.15 1hr 47’ CERTAIN WOMEN The Courtyard Hereford (Marketing Manager/Press) Chris Menges, Francine Stock 3.30 1hr 55’ THE FOUNDER The Courtyard Hereford Alison Chapman (Press Assistant) A big thank you to the volunteer promoters and stewards working Carole-Anna Quinto 4.30 1hr 46’ THE VICEROY’S HOUSE Malvern Theatres with our partner venues for their invaluable contribution. 6.00 1hr 33’ I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO The Courtyard Hereford (Festival Co-ordinator) 7.30 1hr 55’ THE HEADLESS WOMAN Bedstone & Hopton Castle 7.30 2hrs 4’ QUEEN OF KATWE Bodenham Parish Hall 7.30 1hr 40’ I, DANIEL BLAKE Burghill, The Simpson Hall 7.30 1hr 36’ CAFÉ SOCIETY Dorstone Village Hall The Beefy Boys are proud to support borderlines films festival 2017 7.30 3hrs MASH CINEMA Hereford Old Market 7.30 2hrs 8’ LA LA LAND Oswestry, kinokulture 10% off your food with any Borderlines ticket 7.30 2hrs 4’ QUEEN OF KATWE Tarrington, Lady Emily Hall 7.45 1hr 46’ THE VICEROY’S HOUSE Malvern Theatres 8.00 1hr 42’ HELL OR HIGH WATER Ledbury, The Market Theatre 8.00 1hr 42’ THINGS TO COME Presteigne Screen 8.15 1hr 51’ MOONLIGHT The Courtyard Hereford

Saturday 11 March

10.30 1hr 46’ THE VICEROY’S HOUSE Malvern Theatres 11.00 1hr 20’ ROCK DOG The Courtyard Hereford 1.00 1hr 55’ THE FOUNDER The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 46’ THE VICEROY’S HOUSE Malvern Theatres 3.30 1hr 37’ IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD The Courtyard Hereford 5.45 1hr 47’ CERTAIN WOMEN The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 3hrs MASH CINEMA Hereford Old Market burgers beers cocktails 7.30 2hrs 8’ LA LA LAND Oswestry, kinokulture 8.00 4hrs BORDERLINES 15TH BIRTHDAY PARTY Hereford, The Left Bank open 7 days a week 8.00 1hr 51’ MOONLIGHT The Courtyard Hereford [email protected] 01432 359209 Old market, hereford

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VENUE INFORMATION Films and events at 24 Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall 01547 530282 SY7 0BE £4.50 £3.00 p16, 26 venues across 2,000 square Bodenham Parish Hall 01568 797473* HR1 3LB £4.50 p43 miles of Herefordshire Brilley Village Hall 01544 327227 HR3 6JZ £5.00 £3.00 p28, 43 Shropshire and the Marches Bromyard, The Conquest Theatre 01885 488575 HR7 4LL £6.00 £5.50 p15, 27 20 Burghill, The Simpson Hall 01432 760816* HR4 7RW £4.50 £2.50 p27-28 1 Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall Church Stretton School 01694 724330* SY6 6EX £4.00 £2.00** p13 2 Bodenham Parish Hall 3 Brilley Village Hall Dorstone Village Hall 01981 550943 HR3 6AN £4.50 £3.50 p16, 28 4 Bromyard, The Conquest Theatre Eye, Cawley Hall 01568 615836 HR6 0DS £5.50 p13, 43 5 Burghill, The Simpson Hall 6 Church Stretton School Garway Village Hall 01600 750465 HR2 8RQ £5.00 p27, 31 7 Dorstone Village Hall Hay, Booth’s Bookshop Cinema 01497 820322 HR3 5AA £8.50 £5.50 p24, 40-41, 46 8 Eye, Cawley Hall 6 9 Garway Village Hall Hereford, The Courtyard 01432 340555 HR4 9JR £7.00 £6.50 p10-26, 28-30, 32-53 10 Hay, Booth’s Bookshop Cinema Hereford, The Left Bank 01432 357753 HR4 9DG £10.00 p9 11 Hereford, The Courtyard 12 Hereford, The Left Bank 1 Hereford, Old Market 01432 340555 HR4 9HR £7.00 £6.50 p8 13 Hereford, Old Market Ledbury, The Market Theatre 07967 517125 HR8 2AQ £6.50 £3.50 p19, 27-28, 31 14 Ledbury, The Market Theatre 16 15 Leominster, Playhouse Cinema, Community Centre Leominster, Playhouse Cinema 01568 612583 HR6 8NJ £6.50 p16, 27-28, 31, 35, 16 Ludlow Assembly Rooms 8 21 Community Centre 43, 49 17 Malvern Theatres 18 Michaelchurch Escley, Escleyside Hall 15 22 Ludlow Assembly Rooms 01584 878141 SY8 1AZ £8.00 £7.50 p14-15, 23, 33, 39, 19 Much Birch Community Hall 2 £7.00 £6.50 41, 45, 53 20 Oswestry, kinokulture cinema 21 Presteigne Screen 3 4 17 Malvern Theatres 01684 892277 WR14 3HB £8.50 £6.50 p11, 21, 30, 34, 22 Pudleston Village Hall 5 10 Premium £9.50 £8.50 49-50, 52 23 Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall 11 24 Tarrington, Lady Emily Hall 7 12 Michaelchurch Escley, Escleyside Hall 01981 510696* HR2 0PT £4.50 £3.00 p16 13 24 14 18 Hereford Much Birch Community Hall 01981 540097* HR2 8HT £5.00 £4.00 p16, 48 19 Shrewsbury Oswestry, kinokulture cinema 01691 238167* SY11 1JN £7.50 £5.50 p11, 13, 30, 32, 36,

41, 45, 48, 50 23 9 Presteigne Screen 01544 370202 LD8 2AN £5.00 p26, 35, 49 Pudleston Village Hall 01568 760606* HR6 0RA £4.50 p19 Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall 01989 720341 HR9 5HR £5.00 £3.50 p27, 31 Tarrington, Lady Emily Hall 01432 890720* HR1 4EX £5.50 £3.50 p17, 43 Flicks in the Sticks 01588 620883

* enquiries only. Tickets on door More detailed ticketing information available via the Venues pages PArking at The ** students / *** under-16s of our website. Many venues have licensed bars and refreshments, see website for details. Please leave time to park before screenings, Courtyard especially at The Courtyard Hereford. Please leave time to park before screenings, especially at The Courtyard, Hereford which gets very busy. Please see map for alternative parking. Borderlines advert for 2017.qxp_Layout 1 24/11/2016 11:43 Page 1

LUCTON SCHOOL Senior School • Sixth Form • Nursery • Prep School

Hunky Dory (15) The Iron Lady (12A) Jack Goes Boating

Director: Marc Evans Director: Phyllida Law (15) Starring: Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard, Starring: Meryl Streep, , Danielle Branch, Robert Pugh Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant Director: UK, 2011, 1 hour 47 minutes UK, 2011, 1 hour 45 minutes Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz Monday 27 February 6.15pm Thursday 8 March 5.00pm USA, 2011, 1 hour 29 minutes The Courtyard Hereford & 7.30pm Wem Town Hall “An outstanding educationSaturday 3 March 7.30pm WRVS Hall Hereford Marc (Patagonia) Evans’s latest Love her or loathe her, this is is a good-natured, hugely a fascinating, intimate portrait A really sweet portrait of Jack, enjoyable musical set in– the long in of Margareta Thatcher,safe with rural a solitary limo driver, edging hot summer of ‘76 when Bowie Meryl Streep as the absolute towards a relationship with reigned supreme. Idealistic embodiment of Maggie herself. the similarly hesitant Connie drama teacher Vivienne is environment.”Mere mention of her name still with the help of his best friend, desperately trying to prove to provokes hugely emotional Clyde. As you’d expect from such her cynical older colleagues that responses so this will no doubt a great actor Philip Seymour her disaffected sixth formers can inspire furious arguments as Hoffman’s directorial debut pull off their musical version of to her legacy. But this isn’t a is beautifully performed all The Tempest. Through missed documentary on the Thatcher round, but also benefits from an rehearsals, teenage tantrums years but an exploration of one exquisitely well-observed script and a host of other problems she remarkable woman’s ambition and a subtle appreciation of the ploughs doggedly on, believing in and the price she paid as she rhythm and space needed to tell the power of music to transform hand-bagged her way to success. a good story. As Jack patiently the kid’s lives. With Minnie Driver Whatever your politics, what is learns the skills to convince at her captivating best and some undeniable is that Maggie came Connie of his honest intentions hugely talented kids on show, from nowhere (sorry Grantham!) he unintentionally sets in train thisDay, refreshingly boarding optimistic blend and toflexi-boarding. make her mark as one of the School a tale ofbuses love, betrayal, serving: jealousy of musical, comedy and social 20th century’s most famous, and most importantly friendship. realismShropshire, will have you rooting forHerefordshire, influential and controversial Worcestershire A funny, sometimes & Powys painfully Tel:the kids 01568 to succeed. 782000 • Email: [email protected]. honest • www.luctonschool.org tale, this is a quietly optimistic little gem. We hope that Marc Evans will be “One of Streep’s finest-ever present for a Q&A after the film performances.” Empire Regional premiere