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Al Cossar Tickets & Venues 4 Artistic Director Galas 6 In a world where so many multi-task their media with gnawing familiarity, where so many stories congeal into cliché, where flms are everywhere but voices are few, it is a wonderful possibility to Special Events 8 ofer you the of-map and singular experiences of MIFF 2019. Welcome! Headliners 12 There are only-at-MIFF moments, spectacular sights and strange journeys all waiting to germinate through every corner of this year’s program – our 35mm screening of Quentin Tarantino’s hotly Australian Films 14 awaited Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; the Cine-Everest of the 14 hour+ La Flor; the all night brain- International Films 16 melt of the Goldblum Marathon; the magnetic half-3D noir of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, to name just a few. Music on Film 23 We present a series of more-than-Special Events featuring incredible collaborations and cross- Documentaries 24 pollinations designed to see another side of flm. We co-present with the MSO The Film Music Environmental Docs 26 of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, welcoming both in attendance to present a path through their blissfully, brutally beautiful body of cinema work; Hear My Eyes sees neo-soul wunderkind Sampa The World Online 27 The Great perform to Céline Sciamma’s paean to Parisian sisterhood, Girlhood; icons of cinema and music meet in Thurston Moore Plays Maya Deren. If that’s not enough to stir the senses, our Documentary Visions 28 culinary events with Supernormal will see multi-course banquets inspired by a duo of incredible Experimentations 28 flms within this year’s program. Restorations 29 MIFF is a festival that celebrates the indelible mark of the director; in 2019, our retrospectives foreground the rigour, risk-taking and bravado of three formidable ones in our Directors In Focus Directors in Focus: series: Agnieszka Holland, whose flms urge us presciently to recognise the recurrence of history; Penelope Spheeris 30 the pioneering work of the fearless Penelope Spheeris; and the fever-dream cinephile’s delight of Agnieszka Holland 30 Peter Strickland, in a collaborative strand also featuring his own personal selections and infuences. Peter Strickland 31 We are thrilled, also, to continue our work towards making MIFF a more accessible festival environment, ofering a number of screenings for our audience members who are Deaf or hard of Night Shift 32 hearing, as well as those providing audio description tracks. VR 33 Headliners is the place to go to see the biggest of the big, the blockbusters of the festival. We present MIFF Shorts 34 an incredible mix of homegrown talent and local stories within our Australian selections, including seven 2019 MIFF Premiere Fund flms. Elsewhere, expect globe-trotting within International Animation 36 Features; an exceptional range of Shorts and Talks, and an exciting line-up of flmmaking guests; we discover utopia/dystopia/calamity in The World Online and Environmental Docs; and MIFF Schools 37 Documentary Visions presents directors seeing the real world diferently. We look further forward MIFF Talks 38 to the boundaries of what’s next in VR; and look back in Restorations, celebrating the return of flm treasures from cinema history, ours and elsewhere, to the screen. Industry Public Events 29 Finally and importantly: MIFF is 18 days, together. An opportunity for our attentions to turn Screening Schedule 40 outward, to entertain, challenge, contort our brains once more into marathon viewing mode. Film Index 46 I welcome you to consider someone else’s story, to invite surprise with your festival choices, to see another side of flm this year at MIFF 2019! Credits 47 How to use this guide Browse MIFF’s program by section or use the Index on p46 to find specific films. At the bottom of each film description you’ll find the session screening details: Session Book with this date & time Venue session code

Sat 3 Aug 6.15pm Plenary 0072 The Hon. Daniel Andrews MP Martin Foley Sally Capp Wed 7 Aug 4pm Capitol 2320 Premier of Victoria Minister for Creative Industries Lord Mayor of Melbourne Sun 11 Aug 4.30pm Astor 0541 Welcome to the 2019 Melbourne International Melbourne International Film Festival The City of Melbourne is proud to support an Film Festival. exhilarates and captivates audiences with iconic flm festival that tells compelling stories As the world’s largest annual celebration of extraordinary flms from around the world. from all over the world. Australian flm, MIFF attracts some of the It also gives us a glimpse of our own refection For more than 60 years, the Melbourne Indicates audio description, Open Captions best flmmakers from around the globe while as a community, bringing us the stories International Film Festival has attracted or Auslan interpreter available at this session creating jobs in our creative economy. At the of who we are. flmmakers and enthusiastic audiences same time, and for close to 70 years, MIFF has The Andrews Labor Government is proud to to enjoy the latest in Australian and also enabled Victorians to share the stories that support MIFF and its industry development international cinema. bring them together. initiatives, creating a partnership focused This year the festival again promises a Book now at miff.com.au Our government is proud to support this on backing Australian screen talent. MIFF stimulating program of screenings, workshops, iconic event that, yet again, shows exactly why programs like the Accelerator Lab and 37ºSouth talks and world premieres of local flms. For full details, extended film descriptions, multiple ways to search, filter and Victoria is renowned as the cultural capital Market have helped launch careers and have This anticipated festival builds on our global view the 2019 program, and to book tickets or buy passes, visit miff.com.au. of Australia. brought countless local stories to screens reputation as a creative city. across the world. Don’t know where to start? Try our Recommendations tool and discover I hope you enjoy this year’s festival. On behalf of the City of Melbourne, I invite you something just right for you! I am particularly delighted that seven to immerse yourself in one of the world’s great Australian flms will have their premieres at flm festivals. this year’s festival, thanks to the MIFF Premiere MIFF screenings are strictly 18+ except where indicated. Screenings that are Fund. These flms are diverse, joyous and Unclassified 15+ require an adult to attend with anyone under 15 years of thought-provoking – and they all have strong age. See the MIFF Family Gala (page 8) and MIFF Schools (page 37) for connections to Victoria. children’s and young adult programming. Congratulations to the MIFF team. Access Meet our MIFF MIFF is committed to making the festival accessible. Ambassadors We are proud to offer a selection of films screening MIFF is the biggest flm festival in the southern We’ve invited these creatives and cinephiles with Open Captions, audio description tracks and hemisphere. We’re extremely proud to be to join us during the festival to help able to bring you such a vast wealth of global guide you through it. Look out for their Auslan-interpreted talks and events. Look for these cinema every year, but we also know it can recommendations, Q&As, introductions and symbols in this program as a guide: overwhelming. Where do you start?! How do observations. They’re here to make your MIFF you know what to choose?! experience more – more informed, more Our MIFF Ambassadors are here to help. entertaining, more unique. In 2019, the Ambassadors include chef Ben For additional ambassadors and further details, Shewry, street artist Rone, musician Remi, visit mif.com.au/ambassadors. Wheelchair Auslan Assistive Open Audio and actors Gyton Grantley, Megan Hajjar, Joel access interpreter listening Captions description Jackson, Lily Sullivan, Thomas Cocquerel and Anna McGahan. For more detailed access information, including complete lists of Open Captioned, subtitled and audio described sessions, visit miff.com.au/access. See page 4 for booking information including details about physical access to our venues.

MIFF Ambassador Megan Hajjar in Measure for Measure 3 miff.com.au How to Accessible Venues Buy Tickets bookings 1. Online at miff.com.au MIFF supports and accepts the Companion Card. 1. Arts House 521 Queensberry St, Purchase online and your tickets will be emailed to you. We can scan them To book tickets using your Companion Card, to book North Melbourne from your smartphone or you can print them at home. a wheelchair space or to advise us of your access 2. The Astor Theatre 2. Use the official iPhone and Android apps needs, call 03 8660 4898. Wheelchair spaces and 1 Chapel St, Companion Card tickets cannot be booked online. St Kilda East Proudly supported by Ferve Tickets 3. The Capitol If you are Deaf, hard of hearing or have difficulty 113 Swanston St speaking, contact the National Relay Service on 4. The MIFF Salon 133 677 or via relayservice.com.au then ask for presented by Chandon 03 8660 4898 during box office hours. There is no Level 2, The Capitol 113 Swanston St 3. By phone on 03 8660 4898 additional charge for this service. 5. Cinema Nova Pre-festival Further information: 380 Lygon St, Carlton Wednesday 10 July–Thursday 11 July: 11am–3pm (MIFF Members only) 03 8660 4898 or access@miff.com.au. Friday 12 July–Thursday 1 August: 11am–3pm 6. F ederation Hall 5 /7–17 Grant St, Southbank During the festival 7. F orum Melbourne Open from 10am until the start of the last session. 154 Flinders St (cnr Flinders & 4. At a MIFF box office Russell streets) Pre-festival 8. Grant St Theatre The Capitol, 113 Swanston Street MIFF Grant St, Southbank Wednesday 10 July–Thursday 11 July: 11am–3pm (MIFF Members only) Friday 12 July–Thursday 1 August: 11am–3pm Membership 9. Hoyts Melbourne Central Level 3, cnr Swanston During the festival Annual MIFF Membership is an investment in your cinema pleasure all & La Trobe streets Box offices at festival screening venues open one hour prior to the first year round. Members get exclusive access to the festival pre-sale, priority session, and close 15 minutes after the last session goes in. Please note, venue entry and ticket/pass discounts. Membership is also the only way 10. IMAX Cinema, cash is only accepted at The Forum Theatre and The Capitol; all other you can purchase a Festival Passport, which is valid for every session at Melbourne Museum venue box offices are card only. MIFF (excluding special events). When MIFF is not on, you’ll be invited to R athdowne St, Carlton at least 12 monthly preview screenings and get discounts at our partner 11. K ino Cinemas 5. Standby queues cinemas – over $300 worth of savings and value. A must for the true film aficionado! Lower Ground Level, MIFF will operate queues for all sessions listed on standby. Please see front 45 Collins St To sign up, visit miff.com.au/membership or ask at a MIFF box office. of house or box office staff at each venue for details. 12. L ibrary at the Dock Standby queues begin 30 minutes before sessions commence and will be Single membership $99 107 Victoria Harbour processed up to 15 minutes after session start times. Admission to sessions Concession membership $83 Promenade, Docklands Premium membership: $1350 is not guaranteed. 13. NGVA Ground Floor Theatrette Federation Square (Entry via atrium) Ticket Admission 14. Melbourne Planetarium, Options Conditions Scienceworks 2 Booker St, Standard session ticket prices Classification of Films Spotswood Monday to Friday after 5pm, and weekends The Classification Board has granted MIFF special customs and 15. The Plenary at Melbourne Full $21 censorship clearances. Except where indicated, anyone under 18 Convention & Exhibition Centre Concession $18.50 (including infants) cannot attend sessions. For MIFF Schools films and the 1 Convention Centre MIFF Members $17 Family Gala, no one under the age of 15 will be admitted unless in the Place, South Wharf Group, per person (10 people or more) $17 company of an adult guardian. Under 18 (MIFF Schools and Family Gala only) $13.50 16. SpACE @ Collins Family (MIFF Schools and Family Gala only; two adults/two children) $52 For more detailed information, visit miff.com.au/classification. L evel 1, 278 Collins St 17. S o fi t e l M e l b o u r n e O n Collins Monday to Friday special: sessions before 5pm Auditorium (SMOCA) Full $18 25 Collins St Concession $17 MIFF Members $15 How to 18. Supernormal 180 Flinders Ln Mini Pass get to MIFF Full $165 19. V illage Roadshow Theatrette Concession $150 Parking State Library Victoria Pre-book your car parking and save. MIFF Members $140 328 Swanston St (Entry from La Trobe St) The Mini Pass is valid for any 10 standard sessions (excluding special Discount parking is available at Secure Parking locations throughout events), plus three bonus sessions that can be used Monday to Friday the CBD, subject to availability. Discounted prices only available by pre- 20. The Wheeler Centre before 5pm. Entry is valid for the pass holder only, for any one session at booking online with Secure-A-Spot through secureparking.com.au/miff19. 1 76 Little Lonsdale St any one screening time. Use the code MIFFDAY19 for $20 weekday hourly parking Festival Passport (please select hourly parking). Festival Passport $379 Use the code MIFF19 for $7 weeknight parking (after 4pm) and all-day Available to MIFF Members only. The Festival Passport is valid for all weekend parking (please select night or weekend parking). standard sessions and selected talks (not valid for special events). 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Lounge in style at the Opening Weekend MIFF Salon at The Capitol at The Plenary Presented by Chandon Discover our newest venue and the most highly The MIFF Salon is your place to drink, eat, rub anticipated films of MIFF 2019 in a state-of-the-art shoulders with our glamorous international guests and screen-and-sound experience on the banks of the revel in the art deco splendour of this newly restored Yarra. Our exciting schedule of Opening Weekend picture palace. screenings at The Plenary at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre will be complemented by live Enjoy a glass of Australia’s best sparkling wine as you performance, surprise pop-ups, market stalls, delicious soak up the atmosphere of one of Melbourne’s most local food and beverages. Take advantage of great beloved architectural icons and be among the first to access to public transport and parking and settle in discover the rich history and sensational restoration of for a fun weekend at our biggest venue for 2019. this treasured Melbourne landmark. For opening hours visit miff.com.au/plenary. For opening hours visit miff.com.au/salon.

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Opening Night Gala Kick off MIFF 2019 with the world premiere The Australian Dream of The Australian Dream. Written by Australia 106 mins award-winning journalist Stan Grant, The Australian Dream is the story of World Premiere champion footy player and Indigenous rights For years, Adam Goodes was a beloved AFL activist Adam Goodes; more broadly, it’s a hero. Then the two-time Brownlow Medallist story about race, identity and belonging. and former Australian of the Year began to A searing document of the nation’s uneasy call out racism, and his Australian dream relationship with First Nations people, turned into a nightmare. it’s also a powerful celebration of a true Australian champion. Australia loves its footy, and for an elite player it should have been unimaginable: his career Join Goodes, the filmmakers and other special guests on the red carpet as we mark ending in a controversy that cost him his the film’s World Premiere in style. Following love of the game. But Australia has an uneasy the film, all ticketholders are invited to join relationship with its Indigenous peoples and our VIP guests for the official afterparty. Adam Goodes is a proud Adnyamathanha and Thu 1 Aug 7pm Plenary 0009 Narungga man. Afterparty: Plenary Featuring incredible archival footage alongside Dress: Cocktail illuminating interviews, The Australian Dream Full $155* | Conc. $145* | MIFF Members $135* questions what sort of country we want to be. MIFF passes not valid DIRECTOR: DANIEL GORDON Ticket price includes admission to afterparty Other sessions Sat 3 Aug 11.30am Plenary 0012 Sat 3 Aug 6.30pm Kino 3121

Centrepiece Gala MIFF’s Centrepiece Gala is a cinematic Little Monsters celebration of both Australian filmmaking Australia 94 mins and of the festival’s halfway point. Australian Premiere In 2019, enjoy the Australian premiere gala screening of Abe Forsythe’s Little Monsters, Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o shines a film that displays the same wicked mix as a ukulele-playing, zombie-slaying of black comedy and poignant heart as kindergarten teacher in Abe Forsythe’s zom- his previous work, Down Under (MIFF 16). com Little Monsters. Called “Australia’s funniest horror comedy Nyong’o is Miss Caroline, who’s of on a day in years” by We Got This Covered, it’s trip to Pleasant Valley Farm with her class. “charmingly innocent, sincerely appreciative, and uniquely brutal”. Accompanying them is lovesick slacker muso Dave. But Dave’s amorous attentions are Ticket price includes the gala screening the least of Miss Caroline’s problems when with our filmmaking guests and entry to the exclusive afterparty, with complimentary a beloved children’s entertainer proves to be drinks and canapés. a foul-mouthed drunk and the US military base next door accidentally unleashes a horde Sat 10 Aug 6.15pm Forum 1499 Sat 10 Aug 6.15pm Capitol 2499 of the undead. Afterparty: Forum Melbourne Little Monsters is a funny, gory, crowd-pleasing Full $77* | Conc. $72* | MIFF Members $67* love letter to all the kindy teachers who help children (and manchildren) bloom while MIFF passes not valid protecting them from zombies. Ticket price includes admission to afterparty DIRECTOR: ABE FORSYTHE

Closing Night Gala Farewell MIFF 2019 with the Australian The Farewell premiere of Lulu Wang’s funny, tender USA/China 98 mins and bittersweet autobiographical tale of family, tradition and cross-cultural, cross- Australian Premiere generational frustrations – a spectacular Awkwafina proves her dramatic chops are showcase for star Awkwafina. Indeed, as nuanced as her comedic ones in this RogerEbert.com predicted that “This will go Sundance hit about a Chinese-American down as one of the best performances of woman reuniting with family to farewell her Sundance 2019, a genuine, heartfelt acting dying grandmother – who doesn’t know of turn that proves Awkwafina has a range her deadly diagnosis. that even her most diehard fans may not have suspected.” The scene-stealing Crazy Rich Asians and Ocean’s 8 star steps into her frst lead role as Billi, After the film, join us for the fun of MIFF’s famous Closing Night festivities, with DJs, a semi-autobiographical version of writer/ dancing and drinks ‘til late. director Lulu Wang, who based The Farewell on “an actual lie”. Funny, heart-warming and Sat 17 Aug 6.45pm Forum 1869 Sat 17 Aug 6.30pm Capitol 2869 achingly honest, the flm expands on a true story Wang previously revealed on NPR’s Afterparty: Forum Melbourne This American Life. As a woman caught between Full $95* | Conc. $90* | MIFF Members $85* cultures, Awkwafna ensures The Farewell is MIFF passes not valid delightfully wry and deeply heartfelt. Ticket price includes admission to afterparty DIRECTOR: LULU WANG Other session Sun 18 Aug 7pm Kino 4921

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Family Gala MIFF’s Kids Gala turns five in 2019, and to H is for Happiness celebrate we’ve given it a makeover. Now Australia 103 mins known as the Family Gala, it’s the same World Premiere fun-filled, family-friendly gala screening you know and love. Miriam Margolyes, Emma Booth, Richard Join the stars for the family red-carpet Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman and MIFF world premiere of H is for Happiness, the Ambassador Joel Jackson star in this sunny feature debut from MIFF Accelerator delightful adaptation of award-winning novel alumnus John Sheedy, director of the multi- My Life as an Alphabet. awarded MIFF 17 Best Australian Short film H is for Happiness is the story of Candice Phee Mrs McCutcheon. (Daisy Axon), an optimistic and hilariously Festivities include a party, fun activities and forthright girl on the cusp of her 13th birthday. delicious treats for all the family. Candice’s family is in disarray, and as she faces Please note: children under the age of 15 the uncertainties of adolescence with her new must be accompanied by a parent or legal friend Douglas Benson (Wesley Patten), Candice guardian who is over 18 years of age. hatches a variety of outlandish schemes to make Sun 11 Aug 1.30pm Astor 0539 them happy again. Family of four $52* | Full $21* John Sheedy makes his feature debut with this Conc. $17* | Under 18 $13.50* sunny coming-of-age tale. The MIFF Premiere MIFF Members $18.50* Fund-supported H is for Happiness is a charming MIFF passes not valid flm for the whole family. DIRECTOR: JOHN SHEEDY Other sessions Thu 15 Aug 6.30pm Capitol 2751 Sat 17 Aug 1pm Forum 1841

Vibes MIFF + Girlhood + Supernormal Sampa The Great

In a treat for MIFF audiences, we’ve partnered France 113 mins with one of our favourite restaurants to bring MIFF’s third, exclusive Hear My Eyes event you two food-and-flm experiences. You’ll will see Sampa The Great performing live enjoy a bespoke menu created in response to alongside Céline Sciamma’s defiantly the accompanying flm – which will screen electrifying portrait of young women of colour following the meal. Utilising Asian favours growing up in the Paris projects. and local seasonal produce, chef Ben Pollard’s Writer/director Céline Sciamma’s Girlhood is fve-course menu (with drinks) will explore the a beautiful and emotionally afecting coming- colours, textures and themes of memory and of-age story. loss common across both flms. For this exclusive event, Sampa The Great Price includes the meal and the flm screening. will perform her signature style of neo-soul, Please arrive by 5.45pm for a 6pm start. hip-hop and spoken-word poetry, reinterpreting Full $150* Girlhood’s score into a vibrant, wholly original MIFF passes not valid live soundtrack that gives an exciting new energy to this refreshing celebration of female We Are Little Zombies friendship and empowerment. Japan 120 mins Tue 6 Aug Girlhood (M) screens courtesy of Palace Films. 6pm Supernormal/9pm Capitol 2291 DIRECTOR: CÉLINE SCIAMMA Long Day’s Journey Into Night Sat 3 Aug 9pm Plenary 0115 China/France 110 mins Full $55* | Conc. $52.50* MIFF Members $50* Tue 13 Aug 6pm Supernomal/9pm Hoyts 6661 MIFF passes not valid See page 19 for film details.

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World Premiere International Premiere World Premiere World Premiere World Premiere Below Buoyancy Measure for Measure No Time for Quiet Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks Australia 93 mins Australia 90 mins Australia 103 mins Australia 90 mins Australia 90 mins

Starring Ryan Corr, Anthony LaPaglia, Along with his young star Sarm Heng, Walk the red carpet with director Paul Supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund, No Enjoy your first in-cinema kung fu Phoenix Raei, Morgana O’Reilly and MIFF Accelerator Lab alumnus and award- Ireland and members of the cast – including Time for Quiet joins a group of girls and demonstration, and then join director more, the world premiere of MIFF Premiere winning director Rodd Rathjen joins us for the Hugo Weaving, MIFF Ambassador Megan gender-fluid youths as they discover the Serge Ou and producer Veronica Fury for the Fund-supported pitch-black comedy Below Australian premiere screening of Buoyancy, Hajjar, Fayssal Bazzi and more – to help empowering strength of music through a world premiere of the MIFF Premiere Fund- promises to be a memorable evening. a MIFF Premiere Fund-supported film inspired us celebrate the world premiere of the GIRLS ROCK! camp in Melbourne. supported Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks. by the real-life plight of workers sold into MIFF Premiere Fund-supported Measure Join MIFF Accelerator Lab alumnus director Southeast Asia’s fishing industry. for Measure. Be part of a unique world premiere, including And don’t miss the Shaw Brothers double Maziar Lahooti, playwright Ian Wilding and an extended Q&A/In Conversation with feature immediately following the second key cast as they participate in an extended They will introduce the session and participate Along with a tribute to Ireland’s long-time directors Hylton Shaw and Samantha Dinning, screening on Friday 16 August. See page 10 Q&A/In Conversation about the flm’s unique, in an extended post-screening Q&A/In collaborator Damian Hill, the cast and crew and the flm’s subjects, as well as a special for details. Conversation unpacking the many moral will take a deep-dive conversation into this and uniquely provocative, take on Australia’s live performance. Wed 14 Aug 6.15pm Capitol 2701 controversial asylum-seeker detention system. quandaries raised, including ethical food supply. contemporary, multicultural re-interpretation Thu 15 Aug 6.15pm Forum 1751 Full $29*/Conc. $27*/MIFF Members 25* Fri 9 Aug 6.45pm Capitol 2431 of Shakespeare. Sat 3 Aug 6.45pm Capitol 2121 Full $29*/Conc. $27*/MIFF Members 25* Fri 2 Aug 9pm Capitol 2071 Full $29*/Conc. $27*/MIFF Members 25* Full $29*/Conc. $27*/MIFF Members 25* Full $29*/Conc. $27*/MIFF Members 25*

All MIFF Premiere Fund Premium Events 8 will include a Welcome to Country and may miff.com.au *A booking fee between $1.40 and $7.90 may apply be booked on a pass Goldblum Once Upon Marathon a Time … USA 781 mins in Hollywood MIFF’s overnight marathon at The, uh, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (USA, USA 159 mins Astor returns and this year we’re going full… 119 mins, M): Wes Anderson’s homage to the err… Goldblum!!!! world and aesthetic of Jacques Cousteau, this Direct from Cannes Vibes (USA, 99 mins, PG): marching to no underrated classic features Jef alongside Bill “Bold, beautiful and brutal. It’s Tarantino’s beat but its own, Vibes is a perfect match for Murray, Owen Wilson and Cate Blanchett. best film since Kill Bill, perhaps even since Pulp Fiction.” – CINEVUE Goldblum, here getting his psychic vibes on Earth Girls Are Easy (USA, 100 mins, PG): opposite Cyndi Lauper. Goldblum stars as a blue alien, opposite his The most anticipated flm of Cannes 2019, Thor: Ragnarok (USA, 130 mins, M): Goldblum then-wife Geena Davis. Once Upon a Time … is a love letter to, and elegy for, the golden age of American movie-making has rarely been Goldblumier than in this Independence Day (USA, 145 mins, M): Roland flm, getting his blue(ish) alien vibes on as as well as a long overdue feature double bill for Emmerich’s bombastic paean to American Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt. The Grandmaster. exceptionalism features Goldblum at The Tall Guy (UK, 92 mins, M): written by “peak Goldblum”. It’s also the director’s most personal flm, nostalgic and even sweetly empathetic. Shot Richard Curtis, The Tall Guy stars Emma Fri 9 Aug 11.30pm Astor 0455 on 35mm, for this special premiere at MIFF Thompson and Rowan Atkinson. And, err, our Full $35* | MIFF Members $30* man Jef, of course. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood will also screen MIFF passes not valid on 35mm to make the most of its gorgeous The Fly (USA, 96 mins, R18+): an enduring cult celluloid texture. classic from legendary body-horror flmmaker David Cronenberg, The Fly is one of the best Don your best 1960s outfts and join us for this horror movies of all time. extra-special event. DIRECTOR: QUENTIN TARANTINO Sat 3 Aug 7.30pm Astor 0145 Full $35* | MIFF Members $30* MIFF passes not valid

Thurston The Film Music of Moore Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Thurston Moore Plays Maya Deren Thurston Moore in Conversation USA 60 mins USA 60 mins Nick Cave and Warren Ellis join the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to perform a Former Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore Join Thurston Moore and Jacinta Parsons for selection of suites from their highly distinctive joins us for a special live performance, an intimate In Conversation event. film scores as part of MIFF. playing original music to accompany four Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ flm scores are seminal works from pioneering experimental Former Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore filmmaker Maya Deren. may be one of the most innovative, infuential instantly recognisable for their minimal electric guitarists living today. Moore is and hauntingly beautiful tones. Full of light With Sonic Youth, Moore was a leading light of returning to Melbourne for MIFF, performing and shade, creeping dread and inconsolable post-punk, no wave noise rock. He is known for new scores to four short flms by pivotal yearning, the heavily instrumental sounds his often-experimental approach to sound, so mid-century Ukrainian-American flmmaker inject humanity into the ghostly frontier towns, it’s hardly surprising that he’s found inspiration Maya Deren. parched desert landscapes, post-apocalyptic in the work of a woman considered one of the war zones and extra-terrestrial vistas of their He’ll also join us to discuss his career in music most important and infuential avant-garde renowned flms. flmmakers in the US. and writing, and his latest foray into the world of cinema. Cave and Ellis join the MSO for the frst time to For this unique MIFF experience, Moore will perform a selection of suites from their highly Presented in partnership with perform live original scores he’s composed distinctive flm scores in full symphonic sound. for Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, Ritual in The Wheeler Centre. Arts Centre, Hamer Hall Transfgured Time and Witch’s Cradle Outtakes. Sat 3 Aug 12.30pm Plenary 0035 Thu 8 Aug 7.30pm 0385 DIRECTOR: MAYA DEREN Full $35* | MIFF Members $30* Fri 9 Aug 7.30pm 0435 Sat 10 Aug 2pm 0475 MIFF passes not valid Fri 2 Aug 9pm Astor 0075 Sat 10 Aug 7.30pm 0485 Full $77* | MIFF Members $71.50* Visit mso.com.au for details. MIFF passes not valid

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Shaw Brothers double feature To celebrate the world premiere season of Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks (page 15), join us for this special late-night double featuring two of the most iconic works from the famed Shaw Bros studio. If you’ve got iron stamina, start with the Iron Fists session at 8.45pm on Friday 16 August. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter Hong Kong (M) 115 mins Hong Kong (M) 93 mins

One of the most celebrated kung fu films from Gordon Liu and Alexander Fu Sheng star in the Shaw Brothers stable, and one of the this Shaw Brothers classic about two Liao most revered martial arts films of all time. Dynasty brothers out for revenge. Gordon Liu is San Te, a student devastated A breathtaking action fable of grief, madness when Manchu soldiers slaughter his family. and revenge, this 1983 rumble from veteran Seeking refuge in the Shaolin Temple, San Te choreographer and director Liu Chia-liang ranks masters all 35 chambers of kung fu discipline – among the Shaw Brothers’ greatest productions. an extraordinary hour-long training montage – Two brothers survive a slaughter at the hands before taking his revenge. of a bloodthirsty general, but while Yeung Directed by one of the Shaw Brothers’ most Chiu succumbs to madness, Yeung Dak takes famed fght choreographers, the flm has up training in the ancient art of pole fghting, inspired countless fans. leading to a spectacular, operatic showdown DIRECTOR: LIU CHIA-LIANG with their sworn enemy. DIRECTOR: LIU CHIA-LIANG Fri 16 Aug 11.30pm SMOCA 5821 Standard peak ticket prices May be booked on a pass

Planetarium Fulldome Showcases Australia: MIFF’s popular annual program of fulldome screenings at the Melbourne Planetarium The Wild Fulldome Showcase 1 Fulldome Showcase 2 Top End 3D Kagaya’s Aurora Five Films by Diana Reichenbach Australia 45 mins Japan 27 min USA 30 mins Experience the spectacular glory of the A program of five fulldome films from the Come on a visually stunning journey through northern auroras. award-winning multimedia artist. one of the most remote areas on the planet: far Northern Australia. Using time-lapse photography and CG, the From immersive animations exploring famed Aurora Borealis and other auroras have the evolution of human perception to a Narrated by Indigenous elder Balang T E Lewis, been recreated. Combined with stunning aerial collaboration set to the Concerto for Violin, this inspiring documentary will take you on an shots of glaciers and the Arctic, Kagaya’s Aurora Rock Band, and String Orchestra by REM’s adventure to explore the culture and wildlife of will transport you to Iceland and Alaska. Mike Mills and violinist Robert McDufe. Australia’s remote wild north. Extraordinary visuals will transport audiences DIRECTOR: KAGAYA STUDIO DIRECTOR: DIANA REICHENBACH to pristine wilderness areas, where the oldest Horizon: Beyond the Edge Sphere surviving human culture has lived for over of the Visible Universe Germany 45 min 50,000 years. Learn about the lives of the Japan 41 min inhabitants of this ancient landscape; follow the Award-winning German composer Robot life cycle of the saltwater crocodile; and observe Take a journey through modern astronomy, Koch joins forces with visual artist Mickael Le the deep connection frst Australians have with and through the cosmos. Goff to present Sphere, an audiovisual show designed especially for planetariums. their land and country. From steady-state cosmology to the Big Bang DIRECTOR: NICK ROBINSON theory, the fulldome digital planetarium flm The show will take the audiences on a trip Horizon gets to the bottom of space exploration. through space and time, oscillating between Wed 7 Aug 6.30pm IMAX 0331 Horizon is informative, entertaining and out dark, synth-driven science-fction moments Sat 10 Aug 1.30pm IMAX 0001 of this world. and blissful suspension, carried by lush Standard peak ticket prices string arrangements. May be booked on a pass DIRECTOR: HIROMITSU KOHSAKA Sat 3 Aug 7pm Planetarium 0125 DIRECTORS: ROBOT KOCH, MICKAEL LE GOFF Sat 10 Aug 7pm Planetarium 0495 Sat 3 Aug 9pm Planetarium 0135 Full $29*/Concession $26* Sat 10 Aug 9pm Planetarium 0505 MIFF passes not valid Full $29*/Concession $26* MIFF passes not valid Presented by

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Young Ahmed Les Misérables Matthias & Maxime The Dead Don’t Die Pain and Glory Belgium/France 84 mins France 102 mins Canada 119 mins USA 103 mins Spain 113 mins

Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes The Dardenne brothers scooped Cannes’ Best Tensions between violent cops and French-Canadian auteur Xavier Dolan returns Jim Jarmusch reunites with Adam Driver, Bill Pedro Almodóvar reunites with actors Antonio Director prize for this provocative but tender neighbourhood youth explode in this fiery, with a funny, tense and heartfelt love story Murray, Tilda Swinton and an all-star cast for Banderas – who won the Cannes Best Actor tale of an Islamic teenager who falls under Cannes Jury Prize-winning film from director about two childhood best friends coming to his Cannes-opening, deadpan take on the prize – and Penelope Cruz in a typically the influence of an extremist. Ladj Ly, who brings the spirit of Victor Hugo to terms with their secret feelings for each other. zombie comedy that simmers with the terror vibrant, provocative and nostalgic homage to the cultural skirmishes of the Parisian suburbs. of the present. an endlessly fascinating topic: himself. Thirteen-year-old Ahmed goes from average Best friends since childhood, queer Maxime high schooler to radicalised extremist when a Inspired by the riots of 2005, César nominee and straight Matthias continue to keep the The planet’s out of whack, people are getting Filmmaker Salvador Mallo is a fading auteur, militant imam plants some deadly ideas in the and Kourtrajmé collective member Ladj Ly same company of afable twentysomething restless, and in the sleepy town of Centreville, increasingly unsure if there’s anything he still boy’s head. After attacking his teacher, Ahmed (Speak Up, MIFF 18) makes his kinetic solo debut Québécois bros, even as their paths diverge: the the dead are about to rise from their graves to wants to say. When Salvador discovers that is dispatched to a rehabilitation centre in an with a powerful, thrilling work that swings former is derailed caring for his mother while feast on the fesh of the living – and on all the one of his earliest flms is being re-released, he efort to quell his ferocious anger. between brutal social realism and moments of the latter is entertaining obnoxious clients as he zombie clichés in movie history. reunites with estranged star Alberto, and refects electric melodrama. on his childhood, sexuality and relationship to The Dardennes handle this potentially climbs the corporate ladder. But a play-acting Jarmusch assembles a dream team for an friends, family and lovers. controversial premise with their trademark The flm critiques systemic corruption and kiss uncorks a rollercoaster of emotions that alternately ofeat, unusually tense flm that humanist touch, creating a complex, explores the fraught tension between cops and can’t be suppressed, and Dolan negotiates the pays homage to the classic zombie canon while Pain and Glory could be the most honest and sympathetic portrait of a teenager at war with African and Arab teenagers with a sensitivity simmering tension with beautifully poised and taking a swing at the dead-eyed consumerism perceptive flm yet from the undisputed master himself and the world around him. to the complicated perspectives at play personal assurance. of the present. of Spanish cinema. on both sides. DIRECTOR: XAVIER DOLAN DIRECTORS: JEAN-PIERRE DARDENNE, DIRECTOR: JIM JARMUSCH DIRECTOR: PEDRO ALMODÓVAR LUC DARDENNE DIRECTOR: LADJ LY Fri 2 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 9061 Sun 4 Aug 6pm Plenary 0202 Sun 4 Aug 3pm Plenary 0172 Sun 4 Aug 9pm Plenary 0232 Sat 3 Aug 6.15pm Plenary 0072 Fri 2 Aug 9.15pm SMOCA 5071 Tue 6 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 8291/9291 Mon 12 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8601/9601 Mon 12 Aug 9pm Astor 0611 Wed 7 Aug 4pm Capitol 2320 Sun 4 Aug 12pm Plenary 0142 Sat 17 Aug 9pm Hoyts 8871/9871 Sun 18 Aug 1.30pm Hoyts 8901/9901 Sun 11 Aug 5.45pm Astor 0541 Sun 11 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8551/9551

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FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE WINNER AND THE COMPETITION, VISIT: miff.com.au MIFF.COM.AU/SPLITSECONDFILMCOMP Sorry We Missed You The Wild Goose Lake Portrait of a Lady on Fire Bacurau UK 100 mins China 113 mins France 119 mins France/Brazil 132 mins

Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes “Another passionate bulletin from the heart The director of the acclaimed Black Coal, Girlhood director Céline Sciamma returns A mythological Brazilian town falls under of modern Britain, the land of zero-hours Thin Ice (MIFF 14) returns with his latest from with this beautifully calibrated, incandescent attack from invading forces in this explosive, vassalage and service-economy serfdom – a Cannes competition, a densely layered neo- romance between a painter and her subject, Cannes Jury Prize-winning genre cocktail of film in the tradition of Loach’s previous work noir set in the Chinese underworld. which took home both Best Screenplay and sci-fi western and action-packed colonial and reaching back to Vittorio De Sica’s the Queer Palm at this year’s Cannes. allegory from the director of Aquarius. Acclaimed auteur Diao Yi’nan plunges the Bicycle Thieves.” – THE GUARDIAN audience into the treacherous, dimly lit terrain Marianne, a young painter in 18th-century In the near future, the tiny Brazilian town of Proud of his work ethic, Ricky takes a freelance of his nation’s modern gangland, where Zhou is France, has been commissioned to do the Bacurau – perched somewhere between the courier job to provide a better future for his on the run from police when he connects with wedding portrait of Héloïse. Intimacy and sertão and a distant land of fable – mourns the aged-carer wife and their two teenage children. sex worker Liu Aiai, who has instructions to attraction swiftly develop between the two death of its fery matriarch, Carmelita. But happiness, prosperity and navigating the gig bring him in. women, even as circumstance drives them apart. The locals soon start to notice some very strange economy rarely go hand in hand, especially for Sciamma tightens the emotional screws things going down. The water supply has been everyday workers. The pair is hunted along the shores of the titular lake, as Diao weaves his intricate tapestry with devastating precision, while actors cut of, the community is disappearing from Ken Loach remains as empathetic and angry as of criminal double-crosses and brilliantly Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel explore maps, and … is that a UFO hovering ominously ever in this scorching, heartbreaking rebuke of orchestrated violence – you may never look at their characters’ emotionally overwhelming over the town outskirts? today’s oppressive working conditions. an umbrella the same way again. relationship with heartbreaking clarity. DIRECTORS: KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO, JULIANO DORNELLES DIRECTOR: KEN LOACH DIRECTOR: DIAO YI’NAN “A painterly masterpiece.” – INDIEWIRE Sat 3 Aug 3pm Plenary 0052 Sat 3 Aug 8.30pm Plenary 0102 Sat 3 Aug 6.45pm Plenary 0092 DIRECTOR: CÉLINE SCIAMMA Wed 14 Aug 6pm Astor 0701 Sat 10 Aug 6.30pm Astor 0491 Mon 5 Aug 9pm Forum 1241 Sat 3 Aug 12pm Plenary 0022 Sun 18 Aug 7pm Forum 1921 Tue 13 Aug 9pm Astor 0661 Sat 10 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8491/9491 Sun 18 Aug 4pm Hoyts 8911/9911

The Day Shall Come Official Secrets The Nightingale Buoyancy UK/USA 87 mins UK/USA 112 mins Australia 136 mins Australia 92 mins

International Premiere Once again filtering today’s bleak political Keira Knightley leads a star-studded cast in A dual award winner at Venice, Jennifer Inspired by the real-life plight of workers sold reality through a scathingly satirical lens, this true story thriller about Katharine Gun, Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook pulls into slavery, this gripping high-seas drama provocateur Chris Morris takes inspiration the British secret service whistleblower who no punches in its brutal depiction of life in was awarded the Panorama Prize by the from a hundred true stories with this Anna tried to stop the Iraq War. colonial Tasmania – especially for women Berlinale’s Ecumenical Jury. Kendrick-starring counterterrorism farce. and Indigenous Australians. Gavin Hood (Tsotsi, Eye in the Sky) weaves in Supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund, Where the director’s debut, Four Lions (MIFF news footage from the time to underscore After being deported to Van Diemen’s Land, Buoyancy follows teenage Chakra, who leaves 10), found the funny side of jihad, The Day Shall the deception and lies that led to the Iraq Irish convict woman Clare fnds herself under Cambodia in search of a Bangkok factory job Come examines the aspiring revolutionaries War. Knightley’s impassioned performance is the rule of a sadistic lieutenant … until she but ends up being traded to a seafood trawler radicalised by screw-turning law enforcement supported by an ensemble of standout British reaches breaking point and seeks revenge, with where violence and murder are routine. ofcers willing to weaponise, incentivise and help from a local Aboriginal tracker, Billy. stage and screen actors including Matt Smith, Buoyancy is a visually stunning, sensitively mobilise potential terrorists, then claim their Ralph Fiennes and Rhys Ifans. With extraordinary performances from Aisling told thriller. capture as a victory. DIRECTOR: GAVIN HOOD Franciosi and Elcho Island’s Baykali Ganambarr DIRECTOR: RODD RATHJEN Miami resident Moses is one such target. But Sat 3 Aug 4pm Plenary 0062 (who won Venice’s Marcello Mastroianni Award the impoverished preacher is no mere patsy, as for Best Emerging Actor), The Nightingale is an Fri 9 Aug 6.45pm Capitol 2431 Sun 11 Aug 7.45pm Astor 0551 Mon 12 Aug 4pm Kino 4590 Morris explores in a fttingly raucous, astute and Wed 14 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 9701 essential, if unsettling, cinematic experience. Thu 15 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 8761 absurd black comedy. Contains high-impact sexual violence and DIRECTOR: CHRIS MORRIS depictions of violence against children Tue 6 Aug 6.15pm Capitol 2281 Presented by DIRECTOR: JENNIFER KENT Thu 8 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1381 Sat 10 Aug 11.15am SMOCA 5461 Sun 4 Aug 8.30pm Plenary 0222 Wed 14 Aug 9pm Astor 0711 The Dead Don’t Die Buoyancy

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Words And Silk: The Imaginary and Real Worlds of Gerald Murnane Kairos The Leunig Fragments Smoke Between Trees Australia (G) 86 mins Australia 89 mins Australia 97 mins Australia 105 mins

World Premiere Australian fiction writer Gerald Murnane is One of the breakout stars of Down Under For more than five decades, Michael Leunig Starring Tiriel Mora, Smoke Between Trees tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (MIFF 16) and Little Monsters (page 6), Chris has opined on the state of the nation, one is the sensitive and emotionally rich story of this year. There’s no better time to watch Bunton packs a punch in this trailblazing drawing at a time. In this lively documentary a broken man whose life is forever changed Philip Tyndall’s little-seen 1989 film about Australian drama, which places both a by MIFF Accelerator alumnus Kasimir Burgess, when he’s reunited with his grandson. Murnane, which will screen at MIFF in performer and a character with Down the cartoonist shares his own story. celebration of its 30th anniversary. Syndrome at its centre. Told in three parts, Smoke Between Trees traces Enigmatic artist? Playful provocateur? An an intimate and sensitive arc of interpersonal Before the renewal of interest in Melbourne- Bunton plays Danny, who wants to box as a way imaginative cartoonist who takes the pulse of relationships as it sketches a broader picture born writer Gerald Murnane that followed a to prove he’s more than his disability. Ex-fghter the nation, or one who anarchically taps into of family, race, cultural resilience and love. 2018 feature article about him in The New York and trainer John takes Danny under his wing; its divisions? All of these descriptions have been Newcomer Robert-Joseph Slockee is wonderful Times, flmmaker Philip Tyndall created this however their mentoring relationship takes a levelled Leunig’s way. as the boy, while Tiriel Mora (Book Week, MIFF inventive hybrid flm: a poetic, vital study of beating when a sparring session accidentally Burgess (Fell, MIFF 14) wades beyond Leunig’s 18) ofers a sympathetic and captivating portrait arguably Australia’s greatest living writer – more turns violent. celebrated work and sometimes-polarising of a devastated man putting himself back compelling today than he ever was. Kairos is the frst feature from actor-turned- public persona to produce a spirited look at the together again. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see the flm director Paul Barakat. Collaborating closely ability of art to probe and ponder, refect and Smoke Between Trees is a deeply moving, on the big screen. with Bunton, this is a powerful, empathetic, resonate, and enrage and engage. compassionate and engaging flm. coming-of-age tale flled with complex DIRECTOR: PHILIP TYNDALL DIRECTOR: KASIMIR BURGESS characters and themes. DIRECTOR: MICHAEL JOY Sun 11 Aug 4pm Hoyts 6541 Sun 11 Aug 6.45pm Capitol 2551 Sat 10 Aug 1.15pm Capitol 2471 DIRECTOR: PAUL BARAKAT Tue 13 Aug 3.45pm Forum 1640 Mon 12 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 7601 Mon 12 Aug 9pm Kino 4611 Wed 14 Aug 6.30pm Kino 4701

Hearts and Bones Emu Runner Martha: A Picture Story Cerulean Blue Australia 107 mins Australia 95 mins Australia/USA 81 mins Australia 72 mins

World Premiere Hugo Weaving plays a war photojournalist An intimate and uplifting coming-of-age Filmmaker Selina Miles illuminates a Mismatched travelling companions grappling with his profession, personal drama, this Indigenous tale of community, remarkable figure: intrepid photojournalist reveal long-held secrets, broken hearts life and a refugee affected by one of culture and coping with tragedy is the result Martha Cooper, known for her trailblazing and unexpected connections during an his photographs in the fiction debut of a 15-year collaboration between first-time documentation of street art and graffiti eye-opening drive to Melbourne in this of Australian filmmaker Ben Lawrence Australian director Imogen Thomas and the culture. A Sydney Film Festival Audience understated drama – an independent debut (Ghosthunter, MIFF 18). people of Brewarrina. Award winner. feature from local director Adrian Ortega. After decades spent cataloguing the world’s When nine-year-old Gem Daniels loses her With disarming curiosity and a razor-sharp Anxious, coping with obsessive compulsive worst horrors, Daniel Fisher is haunted by what mother, she feels as if no one understands her eye, Cooper became a champion of the disorder and chasing a memory from the he’s seen – and yet he can’t stop picking up his pain – not her similarly grieving father, her underground. As a lone female intern at past, Alex is determined to drive cross-country camera. But when Dan meets Sebastian Aman, well-meaning teachers nor the inexperienced National Geographic, staf photographer at the to Melbourne. Planning on only having the a South Sudanese refugee with links to one social worker dispatched to discover why New York Post in the 70s and in her freelance winding highway for company, he reluctantly of his harrowing images of a village massacre, she’s skipping school. Instead, the spirited girl work, she captured renegade street art, Japanese picks up Lily, a high-spirited hitchhiker running their unlikely friendship has unexpected and only feels at ease with a wild emu, forging a tattoos, ancient Mayan culture and American from something with as much determination as rewarding consequences. rewarding bond with her ancestors’ traditional gentrifcation. The New York Times dubbed her Alex is running to something. Hearts and Bones is a complex and totem animal. 1984 Subway Art book the grafti bible. As well as boasting stunning cinematography compassionate drama. Emu Runner is a standout local drama for all ages. This dynamic and exhilarating flm uncovers a and vibrant performances, this nuanced DIRECTOR: BEN LAWRENCE DIRECTOR: IMOGEN THOMAS character as colourful as her extraordinary work. two-hander astutely questions and undermines familiar gender clichés. Sun 4 Aug 6.30pm Plenary 0212 Tue 13 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 7651 DIRECTOR: SELINA MILES Sat 10 Aug 1.45pm Hoyts 9471 Sat 17 Aug 11am Hoyts 6831 Fri 16 Aug 6.30pm Capitol 2801 DIRECTOR: ADRIAN ORTEGA Wed 14 Aug 3.45pm Forum 1690 Sun 18 Aug 1.30pm Kino 3901 Sun 11 Aug 4.15pm Hoyts 7541 Tue 13 Aug 6.30pm Kino 3651

Slam Judy & Punch Sequin in a Blue Room In My Blood It Runs Australia/France 115 mins Australia 105 mins Australia 80 mins Australia (PG) 84 mins

After the psychological thrills of MIFF 15 Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman star High school and hook-up apps go hand-in- Four years after Gayby Baby (MIFF 15), Maya drama Sunrise, Partho Sen-Gupta returns in this delightfully offbeat feminist update of hand in this provocative debut queer feature, Newell crafts another powerful portrait of with a raw look at racial divisions in Sydney’s Punch and Judy from Mirrah Foulkes, making an adventurous exploration of technology Australian youth, putting the plight of the western suburbs. the leap from award-winning shorts to and young sexuality. A Sydney Film Festival Northern Territory’s Indigenous children in critically acclaimed feature filmmaking. Audience Award winner. the spotlight. Following a proudly feminist, anti-racist slam poetry performance, young Palestinian- Returning to MIFF after winning our 2016 Sequin in a Blue Room is the erotic story of Never more excited than when he’s talking Australian woman Ameena Nassar disappears. Best Australian Short Film award for Trespass, 16-year-old student Sequin, who is exploring about his heritage and homeland, precocious With the media dubbing her an Islamic terrorist, Foulkes’s live-action reinterpretation of the his burgeoning sexuality through an obsession 10-year-old Dujuan has a strong connection to and police far from helpful, her older brother 16th-century puppet show is a blackly comic with anonymous, no-strings sexual encounters. his culture, speaks three languages and works Ricky is thrust back into a world he thought he and fendish contemporary fairytale in which Distant to those around him, one night at a sex as a healer. But he also struggles with school, had escaped. travelling puppeteers Judy and her husband party the boy shares a feeting encounter with a acts out in class, and attracts attention from the Punch return home to the superstitious, man whose quick exit sends him on a hunt for police and the welfare system. With a narrative that could’ve been ripped misogynistic town of Seaside when their the mysterious stranger. from the headlines, Sen-Gupta’s third feature Intimate and impassioned, In My Blood It Runs daughter is born. The outwardly charming was inspired by his increasing dismay at the rise An atmospheric take on the queer coming- follows Dujuan’s attempts to reconcile the Punch fts right in, but if Judy’s going to survive of xenophobic attitudes within Australia and of-age drama, this evocative flm recalls traditions he holds dear with the colonised in Seaside, she’ll need a diferent approach. around the globe. bold and vibrant queer stories such as world he inhabits. DIRECTOR: MIRRAH FOULKES Hard Paint (MIFF 18). DIRECTOR: PARTHO SEN-GUPTA DIRECTOR: MAYA NEWELL Sun 4 Aug 2.30pm Plenary 0162 Fri 9 Aug 9pm Hoyts 6441 DIRECTOR: SAMUEL VAN GRINSVEN Sat 3 Aug 4pm Capitol 2111 Tue 6 Aug 6.30pm SMOCA 5281 Mon 5 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8231 Sun 11 Aug 3.45pm Kino 3541 Fri 16 Aug 4pm Capitol 2790 Wed 14 Aug 9pm Kino 3711 Fri 16 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 6801

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Angel of Mine Morgana Measure for Measure Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks No Time for Quiet Australia 97 mins Australia 70 mins Australia 103 mins Australia 90 mins Australia 90 mins

World Premiere World Premiere World Premiere World Premiere World Premiere Noomi Rapace, Luke Evans, Yvonne In her late forties, Morgana Muses was an Following the acclaimed Pawno, Paul Ireland From Hong Kong to Hollywood, the Shaw Featuring appearances from Courtney Strahovski and Richard Roxburgh star in unhappy housewife. By 50, she was a feminist moves from Footscray to Prahran for this Brothers to The Matrix, iron fists and kung Barnett and Cable Ties, No Time for Quiet the Melbourne-shot-and-set second feature pornography icon. Melbourne filmmakers contemporary take on Shakespeare, with fu kicks have been busting box offices and joins a group of girls and gender-fluid youths from Strangerland’s Kim Farrant, as scripted Isabel Peppard and Josie Hess journey from Hugo Weaving leading a powerful cast. breaking barriers since the 1960s. This is as they discover the empowering strength of by Oscar-nominated Lion screenwriter rural Victoria to Berlin’s BDSM scene to tell the wild story of how the way of the dragon music through a GIRLS ROCK! band camp Luke Davies. this empowering story. Ireland and his co-writer, the late Damian Hill became a global phenomenon. in Melbourne. (West of Sunshine, MIFF 18), have reimagined the Seven years after the death of her daughter, Peppard (short flm Butterfies, MIFF 12) and Bard’s play into a modern story of multicultural Supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund, Lizzie locks eyes on a sight she thought she’d Hess celebrate Morgana’s late-in-life calling, Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks kinetically Hylton Shaw and Samantha Dinning were love, set against the backdrop of racial prejudice, there when the frst Melbourne GIRLS ROCK! never see again: a girl, Lola, who is the spitting and the intimacy and community she found drugs and gang culture. charts the kung fu genre’s unexpected image of her own lost child. As she battles for along the way – as well as her ability to path to worldwide domination, amassing camp began, and the young participants ofered custody of her surviving son, Lizzie’s obsession dismantle stereotypes, and the catharsis she With a beautifully shot Melbourne as its a wealth of clips, action stars and industry the directors extraordinary access as they with Lola only grows – befriending the young discovered by forging her own path. setting, this MIFF Premiere Fund-supported fgures for a sweeping kick of action-packed bonded, found a sense of belonging and identity, girl’s mother, following her everywhere and flm ofers an emotional, action-packed ride, moviemaking mayhem. and discovered their voices over the course of DIRECTORS: ISABEL PEPPARD, JOSIE HESS with a diverse ensemble including Megan the program and beyond. forcing long-held secrets out into the open. DIRECTOR: SERGE OU Contains graphic sexual themes and nudity Hajjar, Harrison Gilbertson, Fayssal Bazzi, Supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund, No Time DIRECTOR: KIM FARRANT Daniel Henshall, John Brumpton and Mark Screens with a panel discussion as part of See page 10 for details of the Shaw Brothers for Quiet is a joy and a privilege to witness. Wed 14 Aug 9.15pm Forum 1711 Leonard Winter. MIFF Talks (see page 38). late-night double, which follows the session on Thu 15 Aug 9pm Hoyts 7761 Friday 16 August. Contains suicide themes Sat 17 Aug 4pm Hoyts 6851 Fri 16 Aug 9.15pm Capitol 2813 DIRECTOR: PAUL IRELAND Wed 14 Aug 6.15pm Capitol 2701 DIRECTORS: HYLTON SHAW, SAMANTHA DINNING Presented by Fri 2 Aug 9pm Capitol 2071 Thu 8 Aug 6pm Kino 4381 Fri 16 Aug 8.45pm SMOCA 5811 Thu 15 Aug 6.15pm Forum 1751 Tue 13 Aug 8.45pm Capitol 2661 Sat 17 Aug 1.15pm Kino 3841 Fri 16 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 6811 Sun 18 Aug 1.30pm SMOCA 5901

Collingwood: White Light From the Inside Out A Family Below H is for Happiness Australia/USA 87 mins Australia 58 mins Australia/Ukraine 93 mins Australia 93 mins Australia 103 mins

World Premiere World Premiere World Premiere World Premiere World Premiere Fearless Australian artist, activist and From Josh Cable and Marcus Cobbledick, Deadpan to its core, A Family is an offbeat Starring Ryan Corr and Anthony LaPaglia, Miriam Margolyes, Emma Booth, Richard documentary maker George Gittoes reports co-director of the MIFF 17 Audience Award- comedy that ventures into the home of a Below is a pitch-black comedy with a unique, Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman and Joel from the epicentre of America’s gun violence winning All For One, comes this insightful, lonely man who hires actors to play his and uniquely provocative, take on Australia’s Jackson star in this delightful adaptation of catastrophe: Southside Chicago. intimate look at Collingwood Football parents, brother and sister. controversial asylum-seeker detention system. award-winning novel My Life as an Alphabet. Club over 2018. Nicknamed Chiraq in recognition of the fact The man knows what he wants in a family. He Needing money, con-artist Dougie takes a job at H is for Happiness is the story of Candice Phee, that more Americans have been shot there With unprecedented access, Cable and has scripts, props and a home in which to stage a refugee detention centre, where he discovers an optimistic and hilariously forthright girl on than in Iraq, Southside Chicago has become Cobbledick chart the club’s fortunes from crisis his domestic production. But he’s a demanding a way to make extra cash by live-streaming the cusp of her 13th birthday. Candice’s family a fashpoint for a racially divided America. mode to the MCG on that fnal Saturday in director, and eventually his actors rebel, and the underground fght club run by the centre’s is in disarray, and as she faces the uncertainties A wealthy city sits alongside broken, black- September and beyond. Coach Nathan Buckley then quit. Inspired by the man’s methods, his morally bankrupt staf. But when things of adolescence with her new friend Douglas majority suburbs where gun violence and gang and players Brodie Grundy, Jarryd Blair and fake sister and her real mother soon recruit the inevitably go south, Dougie may be the only Benson, Candice hatches a variety of outlandish warfare have become a feature of everyday life. Adam Treloar open up about the physical, man into their family. one willing to take a stand. schemes to make them happy again. mental and emotional challenges faced White Light brings to the streets of Chicago The MIFF Premiere Fund-supported A Family The MIFF Premiere Fund-supported Below isn’t MIFF Accelerator Lab alumnus John Sheedy, throughout the year, making this more than just Gittoes’ trademark humanity and grows funnier as it gets weirder. afraid to get its hands dirty as it tackles dirty director of MIFF 17 Best Australian Short Mrs another footy documentary. cinematographic verve, once again staking his DIRECTOR: JAYDEN STEVENS issues, resulting in a striking flm bound to get McCutcheon, makes his feature debut with this claim as our most clear-eyed and compassionate DIRECTORS: JOSH CABLE, MARCUS COBBLEDICK audiences talking. sunny coming-of-age tale. The MIFF Premiere documentary flmmaker. Thu 8 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 6391 Fund-supported H is for Happiness is a charming Screens with a panel discussion as part of Tue 13 Aug 6.15pm Kino 4651 DIRECTOR: MAZIAR LAHOOTI flm for the whole family. DIRECTOR: GEORGE GITTOES MIFF Talks (see page 38). Sat 3 Aug 6.45pm Capitol 2121 Wed 7 Aug 9.15pm Capitol 2341 Thu 15 Aug 6.15pm Hoyts 9751 Mon 5 Aug 9pm Capitol 2241 DIRECTOR: JOHN SHEEDY See page 13 for the MIFF Premiere Sat 10 Aug 4pm Hoyts 8481 Wed 14 Aug 4pm Kino 4690 Sun 11 Aug 1.30pm Astor 0539 (Family Gala) Fund-supported film Buoyancy, screening Thu 15 Aug 6.30pm Capitol 2751 in Headliners. Sat 17 Aug 1pm Forum 1841 STUDIO EXCELLENCE ON MELBOURNE’S DOORSTEP

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15 miff.com.au International Films

Europe God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya Beats A Regular Woman North Macedonia/Belgium/ Journey to a Mother’s Room Scotland 101 mins Germany 92 mins France/Croatia/Slovenia 100 mins Spain/France 94 mins

Journey back to the halcyon daze of the UK’s The real-life ‘honour’ killing of a young Turkish- This multiple Berlinale award winner from A touching portrait of a mother-daughter 90s rave scene with this nostalgic coming- Kurdish woman, Aynur, is given a unique North Macedonia is a savage and hilarious relationship and life in an empty nest of-age tale, executive produced by Steven narrative treatment by German- feminist polemic against patriarchal control. from one of Catalan cinema’s up-and- Soderbergh and set to the most electrifying coming directors. American filmmaker Sherry Hormann in Every January, the men of Štip dive into sounds of the Trainspotting era. this empathetic and uncompromising film. the river, angling to retrieve a submerged Estrella and her daughter Leonor are a close-knit It’s the summer of 94, and the free rave scene Hormann fuses still images and video footage crucifx and earn a year of good luck. When pair, sharing quiet meals at home and working has exploded across the UK. In small-town of the real Aynur with an unadorned visual the downtrodden Petrunya (a blistering together. But while Estrella dotes on her Scotland, two childhood best friends about to style to create an unsensational exploration performance from comic stage performer daughter, Leonor privately harbours a plan to go their separate ways decide to escape for one of the events leading to Aynur’s death, and an turned flm debutant Zorica Nusheva) becomes work as an au pair abroad and when she leaves, last memorable adventure: a night at an illegal ongoing global issue. Employing a voiceover the frst woman to claim the statue, the town Estrella must learn to navigate life on her own. rave, and a journey deep into an underworld of from Aynur’s perspective reclaims the dead explodes with fury, but a police investigation, Journey to a Mother’s Room swept up the Youth anarchy and freedom they’ll never forget. woman’s agency, as played by Almila Bagriacik; media scrutiny, religious pressure and angry Jury and New Directors Awards at the San “Consistently exploding with energy in a powerfully controlled performance, we are male mobs can’t rob this determined crusader Sebastián Film Festival, as well as Gaudí Awards and emotion.” – TIME OUT LONDON able to celebrate Aynur’s freedom, brief as it is, of her prize – or principles. for its screenplay and two actors. through the beauty and self-determination of DIRECTOR: BRIAN WELSH her defance. DIRECTOR: TEONA STRUGAR MITEVSKA DIRECTOR: CELIA RICO CLAVELLINO Sat 3 Aug 9.15pm Kino 3131 Tue 6 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1281 Sun 11 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 7551 DIRECTOR: SHERRY HORMANN Sat 10 Aug 9pm Nova 0961 Sun 18 Aug 1.45pm Capitol 2901 Fri 16 Aug 11am Forum 1770 Sun 11 Aug 1.30pm SMOCA 5531 Thu 15 Aug 3.45pm Forum 1740

Stitches Angelo Ray & Liz Kursk Serbia 97 mins Austria/Luxembourg 111 mins UK 108 mins Belgium/Luxembourg 117 mins

The loss of a child haunts a needleworker An 18th-century African boy, kidnapped into Revered photographer Richard Billingham Thomas Vinterberg directs Matthias who doggedly looks for answers to her slavery, rises through the ranks of Viennese revisits his coming of age in a chaotic council Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Colin Firth and own history and uncovers a troubling high society in this powerful, formally flat in the 1980s, portraying it with a tender, Max von Sydow in this captivating and system of deception in this riveting stunning work. melancholy beauty full of subtle humour suspenseful true tale, recounting the final psychological portrait. and pathos. hours of the supposedly unsinkable K-141 Based on true events, the second feature from Kursk submarine as it descends to the bottom Every year, Ana celebrates the birthday of Markus Schleinzer tells the story of Angelo In 1996, Richard Billingham published of the Barents Sea. the son she was told was stillborn 18 years Soliman, a young Nigerian boy taken from Ray’s a Laugh, an uncompromising set of photos earlier. Ana doesn’t believe he’s dead, and her his homeland and sold to a European countess of his alcoholic father Ray and his chain- Recreating the tragedy with assistance from compulsive pursuit of this ‘truth’ adds pressure (Happy As Lazzaro’s Alba Rohrwacher). Drawing smoking mother Liz. His feature flm debut, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robert Rodat, to an already fraught family dynamic and from a wide palette of cinematic references, Ray & Liz, brings those vivid images to life, Vinterberg (The Commune, MIFF 16; The Hunt, her own fragile state. Never giving up hope, from Kubrick to Pedro Costa and Lucrecia crafting a stark portrait of Thatcher’s England. MIFF 12) honours the men who lost their lives however, Ana pushes on, digging ever deeper Martel, Schleinzer builds on his austere during the disaster. Kursk explores the plight Winner of the Locarno Film Festival Special of their worry-stricken families, while also into the dark reality of the past. formalism to explode the hypocrisy of the Jury Prize, Ray & Liz renders these surrounds era’s class privilege, while charting Angelo’s conveying the bureaucratic incompetence that “An unusually thoughtful, psychologically on 16mm flm with the striking compositions condemned 118 people to their watery fate. compelling character study.” – VARIETY strange journey into whiteness and its echoes in expected from a Turner Prize-nominated artist. today’s culture. “A heartbreaking, troubling DIRECTOR: MIROSLAV TERZIĆ DIRECTOR: RICHARD BILLINGHAM Contains high-impact themes flm.” – THE GUARDIAN Sun 11 Aug 1.30pm Nova 0971 Fri 9 Aug 9pm Forum 1441 DIRECTOR: THOMAS VINTERBERG Tue 13 Aug 4pm Kino 4640 DIRECTOR: MARKUS SCHLEINZER Sun 11 Aug 3.45pm Forum 1541 Wed 7 Aug 9.15pm SMOCA 5341 Sat 3 Aug 4pm Kino 4111 Tue 13 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1651 Thu 15 Aug 11am Forum 1720 Doc Visions

Dirty God Benjamin Queen of Hearts Animals Netherlands/UK/Belgium/Ireland 104 mins UK 85 mins Denmark 128 mins UK/Ireland/Australia (MA15+) 109 mins

A visually expressive, emotionally raw A fable of faltering romance and a withering Trine Dyrholm is magnetic in this Sundance Alia Shawkat and Holliday Grainger give a account of a South London woman’s satire of the artistic temperament from UK Audience Award winner about the abuse of beautifully lived-in authenticity to Australian determined fight to reclaim her life. comic Simon Amstell. power and just how far we’ll go to hold on to director Sophie Hyde’s adaptation of the our comfortable existence. acclaimed novel described as “Withnail & Following a vicious acid attack, Jade’s toddler On the verge of releasing the follow-up to his I for girls”. cries at her newly scarred appearance, strangers BAFTA-winning debut, gangly flm prodigy High-fying lawyer Anne seems to have and colleagues alike are quick to share their Benjamin is crippled with self-doubt. He skulks it all: beautiful children, a doctor husband Grainger and MIFF 18 guest Shawkat star as callous thoughts, and the only human between London clubs and galleries, wired and and a picture-perfect house. But when her best friends Laura and Tyler. They’re either side connection Jade can fnd is via online hook-ups neurotic. When he falls for aloof French singer troubled teenage stepson joins the household, of 30, and have spent the last decade indulging and dimly lit nightclub trysts. Noah, he wonders ‘Could it get any worse?’ Anne forms a bond that eventually oversteps their every hedonistic whim, arm in arm. But their bond begins to crack under the weight of Newcomer Vicky Knight – who sufers from UK comic Simon Amstell’s debut feature is the bounds, putting her family and career in jeopardy. looming adulthood when Laura falls for teetotal severe scarring herself – stunned audiences at painfully true to life, sharply examining creative pianist Jim. the Rotterdam and Sundance flm festivals for and romantic angst. But in mining his own About as far from Mrs Robinson as you can get, her fearless performance. Dirty God takes her life, Amstell has created a tender and knowing the flm withholds passing judgement in favour Following her award-winning flms 52 Tuesdays lead, earning director Sacha Polak comparisons exploration of self-sabotage and self-acceptance. of ofering a complex examination of moral and Life in Movement (MIFF 11), Hyde returns to Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold. sexual transgression in a post-#MeToo era. with a nuanced, honest and non-judgemental DIRECTOR: SIMON AMSTELL look at contemporary female friendship. Contains strobe lighting effects and brief Sun 11 Aug 4pm Kino 4541 DIRECTOR: MAY EL-TOUKHY sexual imagery Sun 18 Aug 6.30pm Nova 0921 Wed 7 Aug 6.30pm SMOCA 5331 DIRECTOR: SOPHIE HYDE DIRECTOR: SACHA POLAK Mon 12 Aug 4pm Forum 1590 Fri 2 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 8061 Sun 4 Aug 6.30pm Capitol 2181 Sat 10 Aug 1.30pm SMOCA 5471 Sun 18 Aug 11am Hoyts 9891 Animals Sat 17 Aug 4pm Kino 3851 miff.com.au 16 Happy New Year, Colin Burstead Alice And Then We Danced Once in Trubchevsk Particles UK 95 mins France/Australia 103 mins Sweden/Georgia/France 106 mins Russia 80 mins France/Switzerland 98 mins

Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes “Ben Wheatley strips things way back for Josephine Mackerras’s SXSW Grand A young dancer’s outlook is challenged Larisa Sadilova’s first film in nearly a decade Teenage kicks and the Large Hadron Collider his nerve-raddled family reunion comedy, Jury Prize winner is an intimate story of by his intense attraction to a rival in Georgia, is a richly textured portrait of a daring come together for the first time in this striking and the result is one of his best, most one woman’s empowerment that also a country that remains deeply rooted woman’s desires as they play out within the mix of coming-of-age drama and eerie fluid films.” – VARIETY destigmatises common ideas about sex work. in tradition. confines of small-town Russian life. sci-fi dread from adventurous new voice, Blaise Harrison. Colin Burstead (Neil Maskell) plans to ring When her husband disappears, Alice discovers Merab is a talented dancer who specialises in Anna is having an afair with her married in the new year with his extended family at he’s been leading a double life, leaving her in a Georgian traditional dance. His burgeoning neighbour. When their afair is discovered, both Teenage P A and his group of friends – who a lavish country mansion. Burstead family precarious fnancial position. As the bills pile up romance with stage partner Mary is thrown into Anna and her lover have to decide what they attend high school mere metres from CERN’s gatherings are usually explosive afairs, but and she’s threatened with eviction, Alice fnds disarray by the arrival of the magnetic Irakli: are willing to risk in the face of community proton-smashing behemoth – start to witness Colin is determined that this one will go freedom and purpose as a high-class escort. a forbidden sexual attraction that recalls those scrutiny and familial obligation. strange phenomena manifesting in their tiny French-Swiss border town, and soon smoothly. Unfortunately, his plan is stymied An understated and unadorned debut, in Moonlight and God’s Own Country (MIFF 17). Once in Trubchevsk is a charming, understated their whole world seems to be on the verge of by the reappearance of his brother David, the with a riveting performance from Emilie Swedish director Levan Akin (Certain People, consideration of what it takes to challenge the turning inside out. family’s black sheep. As tensions rise and the Piponnier in the title role, Alice is striking for MIFF 12) has captured something uniquely status quo. Sadilova captures the rhythms of clock ticks towards midnight, the one thing the its lack of melodrama and unsensationalised tender and personal. small-town life, integrating local residents into Combining atmospheric cinematography and Bursteads can count on is plenty of freworks. unusual sound design, Particles conjures a world representation of sex work, raising “An instantly engaging tale of a young male her narrative to impressive efect. DIRECTOR: BEN WHEATLEY complex ethical questions without ever on the edges of realism and fantasy and of dancer’s sexual awakening.” – SCREEN DAILY DIRECTOR: LARISA SADILOVA moralising on them. adolescence and an uncertain adulthood. Fri 2 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1061 Thu 8 Aug 11am Forum 1350 Tue 13 Aug 6.30pm Capitol 2651 DIRECTOR: LEVAN AKIN DIRECTOR: JOSEPHINE MACKERRAS Mon 12 Aug 6.30pm Kino 4601 DIRECTOR: BLAISE HARRISON Sun 4 Aug 4.30pm Kino 4171 Wed 7 Aug 9pm Kino 3341 Sun 11 Aug 8.45pm Hoyts 6561 Sun 4 Aug 9.30pm Capitol 2191 Sat 10 Aug 6.15pm Hoyts 7491 Thu 15 Aug 4.15pm Capitol 2740

Noah Land Retrospekt Frankie Beanpole Fire Will Come Turkey 109 mins Netherlands/Belgium 102 mins France/Portugal 98 mins Russia 140 mins Spain 85 mins

Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Winning Best Actor and Best Screenplay A bold psychological drama about women, Starring Isabelle Huppert as a famous Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize and Best Director Winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at at Tribeca, Noah Land contemplates faith, work and domestic violence that rejects French actress, Frankie is the latest intimately award in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section, Cannes, the latest from Franco-Spanish auteur trust and the trappings of masculinity, clichés and treads a thin line between observed, tenderly wrought drama from Kantemir Balagov’s second feature is a fierce Oliver Laxe returns the director to his Galician earning comparisons to Abbas Kiarostami’s experimental and narrative filmmaking. Ira Sachs – with Marisa Tomei, Brendan tale of two women rebuilding their lives in the roots for a mesmerising tale of a mysterious filmography. Gleeson, Greg Kinnear and Jérémie Renier shadow of World War II. arsonist and the forces of nature. Dedicated to her work, domestic violence also featuring. As his death approaches, the terminally ill counsellor Mette brings a distressed client into After wowing critics with his dazzling, Following on from his Cannes Critics Ibrahim has one last wish: to be buried under her home, muddying the margins between her After discovering that she has terminal cancer, FIPRESCI-winning debut Closeness (MIFF 17), Week-winning Moroccan road movie Mimosas the tree he planted in his rural village as a child. professional and personal life. It’s a decision Frankie gathers up her nearest and dearest for a Balagov returns with a starkly unnerving, (MIFF 16), Oliver Laxe returns to his birthplace Son Ömer promises to follow through; however, that will have far-reaching consequences, which communal vacation in Portugal. Accompanied achingly beautiful story of nurse Iya, played for an absorbing meditation on the tension the townsfolk have other plans. award-winning director Esther Rots depicts by her current husband, her ex, her son, her by the extraordinary Viktoria Miroshnichenko, between the landscape and those that inhabit it, friends and various children, it’s a last hurrah – Noah Land is a deeply intense character with an experimental style, building suspense as and returning soldier Masha. capturing haunting imagery and unforgettable and yet the minutiae of life don’t fade even study – as evidenced in Ali Atay’s award- she fashes back and forward to reveal a tragedy Balagov crafts a heartbreaking drama that moments of the sublime. when death lingers around the corner. winning performance as Ömer. early on before detailing the events that cause it. sympathetically explores the slippery terrain of “Laxe paints an immersive portrait of the Galician “Reveals a quietly exquisite beauty.” – INDIEWIRE – SIGHT & SOUND DIRECTOR: CENK ERTÜRK Defying expectations, Retrospekt will get gender and humanity – and leaves its audience countryside.” under your skin. gasping at its masterly twists and tension. Screens with Butterfies (Israel, 7 mins), a flm DIRECTOR: IRA SACHS DIRECTOR: OLIVER LAXE about no ordinary car trip, direct from Cannes. DIRECTOR: ESTHER ROTS Sun 4 Aug 5.30pm Plenary 0192 Contains depictions of violence Sat 3 Aug 4.15pm SMOCA 5111 Mon 12 Aug 6.30pm Astor 0601 Sun 11 Aug 7pm Nova 0991 against children Fri 9 Aug 1.30pm Forum 1410 DIRECTOR: YONA ROZENKIER Thu 15 Aug 9pm Kino 3761 DIRECTOR: KANTEMIR BALAGOV Wed 7 Aug 4pm SMOCA 5320 Sun 18 Aug 4.15pm Hoyts 7911 Sun 4 Aug 9pm Forum 1191 Sun 18 Aug 4pm Forum 1911

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Europe Asia Pacific Dwelling in the House of Tommaso Vivarium The Whistlers Fuchun Mountains Hummingbird Italy 118 mins Ireland/Belgium/Denmark/USA 97 mins Romania/France/Germany 97 mins China 154 mins South Korea/USA 138 mins

Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes “Abel Ferrara digs deep into his personal life Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots are a Corneliu Porumboiu’s noir-ish crime caper “As mesmerizing and immersive as the Winner of multiple awards from Berlin and to deliver a sweet, honest character study young couple trapped in a nightmarish takes more than a few cues from Hitchcock, legendary 14th-century landscape painting Busan to Tribeca and beyond, House of of a man struggling with guilt and anxiety.” suburban labyrinth in this bold sci-fi/horror. gleefully name-checks John Ford, and that inspired it.” – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Hummingbird is the debut feature from – LITTLE WHITE LIES plays up the writer/director’s own offbeat one of South Korea’s most celebrated Director Lorcan Finnegan began his career sensibilities. Shot over two years, Xiaogang Gu’s ambitious, new directors. Ferrara enlisted his muse, Willem Dafoe, to editing Black Mirror and that infuence assured debut follows the Yu family as their play Tommaso, a thinly veiled version of the shows in this unnerving flm about a young Ten years after the events of Porumboiu’s Police, lives ebb and fow like the seasons over one Eun-hee is 14 years old and adrift. The year indefatigable director as he tries to reconcile his couple who fnd themselves in a housing Adjective, Bucharest detective Cristi is still on the eventful year, as an elderly Fuyang matriarch is 1994 and South Korea is going through flmmaking and career while living in Rome development somewhere between suburban job. As well as upholding the law, however, he’s and her four adult sons weather the vagaries a period of upheaval, renewal and disaster. with a new wife and child – played by Ferrara’s Ireland and The Twilight Zone, in possession of also taking orders from European mobsters. To of fate – in the restaurant trade, in the pursuit Mirroring the nation’s mood, Eun-hee begins real-life partner, Cristina Chiriac, and their a creepy, demanding baby – and no apparent skirt state surveillance, and to help his mafa of wealth and social standing, and in following to explore who she is and who she truly wants daughter, Anna Ferrara. means of escape. cronies, the wearied cop is given a new task: their hearts. to be, while struggling with her dysfunctional learning an ancestral whistling language. family and the swinging moods of friends, and Dafoe stretches out in a combustible lead Vivarium is an eerie portrait of domestic life Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains proves as embarking on romances with both male and performance that fnds the genius, cruelty and This blackly comic, thrillingly entertaining that poses questions of class and gender roles, visually rich as it is emotionally resonant, female classmates. complexity in the artist behind such classics as even as it sucks the audience into its hellish genre piece is a fast-paced blend of gangster, earning comparison to the work of Edward Bad Lieutenant and The Addiction. suburban maze. heist and espionage antics. Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien. “A warm, complex and hopeful slice of teen life.” – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER DIRECTOR: ABEL FERRARA DIRECTOR: LORCAN FINNEGAN DIRECTOR: CORNELIU PORUMBOIU DIRECTOR: XIAOGANG GU DIRECTOR: BORA KIM Fri 2 Aug 1.30pm Forum 1040 Fri 2 Aug 6pm Capitol 2061 Sun 4 Aug 1.30pm Forum 1161 Mon 12 Aug 10.30am F orum 1570 Wed 7 Aug 6.30pm Capitol 2331 Sun 4 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 6181 Wed 7 Aug 9.15pm Forum 1341 Sat 17 Aug 6.15pm Kino 3861 Mon 5 Aug 4pm SMOCA 5220 Thu 15 Aug 1.30pm Forum 1730 Fri 9 Aug 6.15pm Kino 3431

System Crasher Take Me Somewhere Nice Germany 118 mins Netherlands/Bosnia and Herzegovina 91 mins

A wrenching tale of a foster child pushing a A cool, idiosyncratic debut feature (and system to its limits, System Crasher picked up award winner) about a young woman on the Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlinale. a surreal journey of self-discovery into the Bosnian homeland she doesn’t know. Nine-year-old Benni is a system crasher: a foster kid whose behaviour is so out of control Alma hits the road from her home in the she cannot be placed with families. When Netherlands to Bosnia, to visit the sick father social worker Micha takes Benni to stay at a she has never met. Along the way she picks up cottage in the woods, she discovers glimmers her cousin Emir and his best friend Denis for a of a childhood she never experienced. But the road trip that takes her deep into her homeland idyll can only last so long in this no-holds- and into herself. barred, deeply humane glimpse into the Ena Sendijarević’s visually innovative flm ofers fraught and at times impossible world of child a deadpan, absurdist view of the world, perfectly protection services. capturing the inertia of being between cultures By the director of Boulevard’s End (MIFF 14). and between adolescence and adulthood. “Mesmerising.” – THE UPCOMING DIRECTOR: ENA SENDIJAREVIĆ DIRECTOR: NORA FINGSCHEIDT Tue 6 Aug 9pm Hoyts 7291 Wed 14 Aug 4.15pm SMOCA 5690 Sat 3 Aug 4pm Forum 1111 Tue 13 Aug 9pm Hoyts 8661

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

A Family Tour The Souvenir Sunset Rosie Manta Ray Hong Kong/Taiwan/ UK 119 mins Hungary/France 142 mins Ireland 86 mins Thailand/France/China 105 mins Singapore/Malaysia 107 mins

Tilda Swinton stars alongside her Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Homelessness takes centre stage in this Delving into Thailand’s treatment of Ying Liang is inspired by his own daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne – a Film Festival, this allegorical mystery offers a heartbreaking and urgent portrait of one Rohingyan refugees, cinematographer autobiographical history in this poignant revelation – in Joanna Hogg’s intimate decadent premonition of Europe in chaos. working-class family’s increasingly desperate Phuttiphong Aroonpheng turns director with portrait of an unusual family reunion that semi-autobiographical drama, which won a search for sanctuary amid Ireland’s this visually stunning drama, which won last occurs despite exile, threats and the grief Sundance Grand Jury Prize. In 1913, while Budapest feverishly prepares housing crisis. year’s Venice Film Festival Orizzonti Prize born of forced separation. to receive the Habsburg royals, 20-year-old for Best Film. An aspiring flmmaker searching for her voice, Irisz Leiter senses dark undercurrents beneath After a decision by their landlord to sell the Ying Liang’s 2012 flm When Night Falls was the Julie is a woman newly in love, falling for the the glamour. Setting out to make sense of home they rent, Rosie, her husband John Paul When a mute man washes up on the Thai subject of intense government disapproval in rakish charms of older civil servant Anthony. her family’s secrets, she uncovers a suspicious and their four children are suddenly without a coastline, a young fsherman takes him in, China, resulting in the director exiling himself But as their romance plays out, largely in her fre, a notorious hidden brother, a shadowy fxed address. John Paul takes extra shifts at his nurses him back to health and gives him a name. to Hong Kong. Now he takes this experience comfortable London fat in the early 1980s, German count … and social climbers who hate restaurant dishwashing job, while Rosie searches But the more the stranger becomes immersed and transposes it into a powerful exploration of emotions are laid bare and secrets are exposed – inconvenient questions. for the impossible – an afordable home to in his new friend’s life, the more comfortable what it means to be displaced and the trauma of and Julie learns more than she ever expected rent in a brutally expensive market – as the he becomes – especially when the fsherman being torn away from family. With a lightness about life, heartbreak and herself. László Nemes follows his Oscar-winning Son of family spends more time cramped together in suddenly disappears. of touch and an element of farce, A Family Tour Saul with this disorienting, even hallucinatory their small car. is deeply personal, poetic cinema. Perfectly cast, The Souvenir is both unmistakably quest. He reminds us how quickly certainties Aroonpheng’s feature flm directorial debut is a personal and tenderly universal. can unravel, and how easily tyranny This Dublin Film Critics Circle award-winning work of simmering political power, as conveyed DIRECTOR: YING LIANG with dreamlike, symbolism-laden visual style. DIRECTOR: JOANNA HOGG can take root. flm is timely, necessary viewing. Mon 5 Aug 1.15pm SMOCA 5210 Sun 11 Aug 11am Kino 4521 Thu 8 Aug 6.30pm Capitol 2381 DIRECTOR: LÁSZLÓ NEMES DIRECTOR: PADDY BREATHNACH DIRECTOR: PHUTTIPHONG AROONPHENG Sat 10 Aug 1.30pm Astor 0471 Sun 11 Aug 3.45pm Capitol 2541 Fri 9 Aug 4pm Forum 1420 Fri 9 Aug 9.15pm Kino 3441 Wed 14 Aug 6pm Forum 1701 Fri 16 Aug 6.30pm Nova 0801 Tue 13 Aug 4.15pm SMOCA 5640 Sat 17 Aug 10.45am SMOCA 5831

miff.com.au 18 Bellbird His Lost Name Memories of My Body Photograph Nina Wu New Zealand 96 mins Japan 113 mins Indonesia 106 mins India/USA/Germany 110 mins Taiwan/Malaysia 103 mins

Direct from Cannes MIFF Accelerator alumnus Hamish Bennett Previously working with Hirokazu Kore-eda Winner of UNESCO’s Cultural Diversity Award Reuniting with Bollywood star Nawazuddin Direct from Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, The makes his feature directorial debut with on Like Father, Like Son and Our Little at the 2018 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Siddiqui, The Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra Road to Mandalay director Midi Z returns this tender drama about grief-stricken dairy Sister, debut feature film director Nanako Indonesian auteur Garin Nugroho’s Memories contemplates love, life and the complexities with a stylish, riveting thriller about a young farmers, a follow-up to his award-winning Hirose directs a drama about family, of My Body dances through gender of culture, religion and class on the actress losing control. short film Ross & Beth (MIFF 14). secrets and trauma. stereotypes, societal oppression and his subcontinent. homeland’s recent political history. Nina (regular Midi Z collaborator Wu Ke-xi, Ross has always been a farmer, like his father Found washed up by the local river, the Photographer Raf is accustomed to his friends’ who also wrote the script) is struggling to and grandfather before him. And, if he has his enigmatic Shin-ichi is taken in by an ageing Java, 1980. Abandoned as a boy, Juno fnds and family’s disapproval. Student Miloni knows break out of bit parts and achieve success. But way, his son will be too. But Bruce has other furniture maker. The pair lack any obvious a new life with a traditional Lengger dance she’s supposed to study hard, get a job and settle when she’s fnally given the chance to become ideas about his future, which are thrown into similarities, but they’re soon drawn together by company, warming to its graceful movements down with a man of her parents’ choosing, but a breakout star, it’s via a role that results in chaos when his mother passes away. their pasts. while embracing its complicated approach to dreams of escaping the city for a quiet, rural degradation both on and of camera. masculinity. In the group’s performances, male Anchored by a breakout performance from Infuenced by Kore-eda’s fondness for rich existence instead. He’s Muslim and poor; she’s dancers take on female roles, opening Juno’s Nina Wu was inspired by the Weinstein news newcomer Kahukura Retimana, Bellbird emotions, evocative imagery and naturalistic Hindu and middle class. But after he snaps her eyes to the fuidity of gender, sexuality and but is much more than a twisted, Technicolor presents an insightful, empathetic and amusing performances, His Lost Name is a powerful portrait on the street, they form an unexpected sensuality – and the struggle that can stem from #MeToo adjacent narrative: this is a top-tier portrait of resilience and togetherness, inspired and engaging directorial debut for Hirose that bond – especially after Miloni agrees to pose as being diferent, including within himself. psychological thriller. by Bennett’s own upbringing. announces her as an exciting new voice in Raf’s girlfriend. Contains sexual violence DIRECTOR: GARIN NUGROHO DIRECTOR: RITESH BATRA DIRECTOR: HAMISH BENNETT Japanese cinema. DIRECTOR: MIDI Z DIRECTOR: NANAKO HIROSE Thu 15 Aug 6.15pm Hoyts 7751 Thu 8 Aug 1.15pm Forum 1360 Fri 9 Aug 6.15pm Hoyts 6431 Fri 16 Aug 9pm Kino 3811 Sun 11 Aug 1.15pm Kino 4531 Sun 18 Aug 11am SMOCA 5891 Sat 3 Aug 9pm Hoyts 6131 Sat 3 Aug 11am Kino 3091 Fri 9 Aug 6.30pm Kino 4431 Tue 6 Aug 4pm Forum 1270

Vai Daffodils Hotel by the River Baby The Halt New Zealand 95 mins New Zealand 93 mins South Korea 96 mins China 96 mins Philippines 278 mins

Direct from Cannes

Eight female directors from eight separate New Zealand’s smash-hit musical is a The latest from Hong Sang-soo is a lyrical Executive produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien and The year is 2034. In Lav Diaz’s sci-fi vision of Pacific Island nations celebrate Indigenous feelgood, nostalgic romance set to some of meditation on family, friendship and the anchored by a powerhouse performance the future, a deadly flu has killed millions, resilience and creativity through the life of the biggest hits in Kiwi pop history. eternal, which won Gi Ju-bong the Best Actor from popular star Yang Mi, this propulsive while the sun has stopped shining over one extraordinary woman. award at Locarno. South-East Asia. A despotic president grasps Kiwi pop star Kimbra is Maisie, an indie singer social thriller examines the far-reaching consequences of China’s one-child policy. his chance to turn the desolated Philippines Pacifc languages retain many key words in who rushes to be by her ailing father, Eric. As Harnessing melancholy with poetic force, Hong into an oppressive dystopia. common. Vai, the word for water, is one of Eric recounts his life and romance with Maisie’s captures all the awkwardness, ambivalence and Nineteen-year-old Jiang Meng assists these. That’s also the name of the protagonist mother, Rose, the young woman starts to beauty of human interaction in this story of disadvantaged kids – born with a congenital As rebel forces rally against their maniacal of this portmanteau flm – eight vignettes about imagine their story through music. poet Young-hwan who, convinced he’s dying, condition, she was one herself. Just as she’s Filipino ruler, The Halt proves a blistering Vai, played by eight individual actresses in invites his sons to join him at a hotel on the trying to build her adult life, Meng discovers treatise on power and corruption, painted A rollercoaster of emotional energy, Dafodils various stages of her life. Han River. But father and progeny have been a newborn infant with the same illness as across the screen with Lav Diaz’s intoxicatingly brings Eric and Rose’s three-decade romance estranged for some time and their reunion her, and a father who’s decided against life- detailed visuals. Vai traverses several Pacifc nations to to exuberant life through contemporary simmers with unspoken frustrations. saving surgery. draw connections across the ocean re-imaginings of classic New Zealand hits you’ll DIRECTOR: LAV DIAZ between Indigenous women, family and already know – from Crowded House, Bic Introspective yet buoyant, this monochromatic With an impassioned attitude, Liu expertly Screens with Man in the Well (China, 16 min), storytelling traditions. Runga and Dave Dobbyn to LIPS, The Mint musing fts neatly within the oeuvre of South builds the tension, escalating the everyday Hu Bo’s tale of torment and survival, created DIRECTORS: NICOLE WHIPPY, ‘OFA-KI-LEVUKA Chicks and The Exponents. Korea’s most cyclical auteur. reality of China’s uncaring bureaucracy into under the tutelage of Béla Tarr. GUTTENBEIL-LIKILIKI, MATASILA FRESHWATER, a dynamic thriller that champions empathy DIRECTOR: HONG SANG-SOO AMBERLEY JO AUMUA, MĪRIA GEORGE, MARINA DIRECTOR: DAVID STUBBS above all else. DIRECTOR: HU BO ALOFAGIA MCCARTNEY, DIANNA FUEMANA, Sun 4 Aug 1.30pm Hoyts 6161 BECS ARAHANGA Thu 15 Aug 6.45pm Kino 4751 Sat 10 Aug 11am Kino 4461 Sat 17 Aug 1.45pm Hoyts 7841 Tue 13 Aug 1.15pm Forum 1630 DIRECTOR: JIE LIU Tue 13 Aug 6.30pm SMOCA 5651 Fri 2 Aug 9pm Kino 4071 Thu 15 Aug 4pm Kino 4740 Sat 10 Aug 1.30pm Hoyts 7471

We Are Little Zombies Long Day’s Journey Into Night Dying to Survive Jinpa First Love Japan 120 mins China/France 110 mins China 117 mins China 86 mins UK/Japan 108 mins

Direct from Cannes Four teens numbed by tragedy form a After the allure of MIFF 16’s Kaili Blues, An enterprising businessman takes on Acclaimed Tibetan director Pema Tseden The unstoppable, incomparable Takashi Technicolor pop band in this riotous yet Bi Gan returns with another entrancing visit Big Pharma to provide cancer patients veers away from his usual naturalistic style in Miike returns with a sweet and gentle love emotionally trenchant feature debut from the to Guizhou province – constructed around with expensive, life-extending medicine this metaphysical road movie produced by story. Only joking! First Love is characteristic award-winning Makoto Nagahisa. an astonishing 55-minute single take in in this socially conscious drug-smuggling Wong Kar-wai. Miike: a brutal, bloody, hyper-violent and mesmerising 3D. drama, which is based on a touching and hyperreal tale of a boxer and a call girl Hikari, Ikuko, Ishi and Takemura meet at a astonishing true story. A truck driver named Jinpa is travelling across caught between the yakuza, the triads and crematorium. All four have recently lost their Embracing the immersive possibilities of Tibet, feeling guilty that he’s just run over a all-out anarchy. parents, yet are unable to grieve. Finding their cinema, Bi Gan plunges viewers into a textured, Receiving three Golden Horse Awards, sheep. He picks up a hitchhiker, also named costumes in the garbage, they create a band that 2D-to-3D tapestry of yearning in this story of including best new director for flmmaker Jinpa, who’s on his way to avenge his father’s From the mind behind flms such as Blade of catapults them to instant fame. a man returning home, desperate to fnd the Muye Wen, Dying to Survive isn’t just an murder. The driver drops his passenger of but the Immortal (MIFF 17) and Yakuza Apocalypse woman he loved, lost and hasn’t been able to impassioned exploration of the injustice of (MIFF 15), First Love is a breakneck, slapstick, Nagahisa has poured his lurid, ultra-paced, their journey together continues in strangely get out of his head. putting profts before lives. It’s also credited with converging dreams. live-action cartoon. Leaning more heavily video-game-inspired aesthetic into a wild ride changing China’s healthcare policy, including into his light-hearted side without sacrifcing Gan luxuriates in style and story, his sensual that questions how people are expected to the cost of pivotal treatments for chronic The latest from Tseden (Tharlo, MIFF 16) his bloodlust, Miike delivers another images demanding to be seen on the big screen. experience life-changing emotion. myeloid leukaemia suferers. won Best Screenplay in the Venice characteristically pulpy explosion of action, DIRECTOR: BI GAN Horizons program. mayhem and surreal lunacy. DIRECTOR: MAKOTO NAGAHISA “This Chinese cousin of Dallas Buyers Club is See page 8 for details of the See page 8 for details of the laced with caustic humour … delivers laughs and “A fable, a Tibetan road movie, and a tribute to “Relentlessly, outrageously entertaining.” classic Westerns.” – CINEMA SCOPE MIFF + Supernormal event. MIFF + Supernormal event. tears in equal measure.” – SCREEN DAILY – SCREEN DAILY DIRECTOR: PEMA TSEDEN Tue 6 Aug 9pm Capitol 2291 Sat 3 Aug 1.30pm Hoyts 6101 DIRECTOR: MUYE WEN DIRECTOR: TAKASHI MIIKE Mon 12 Aug 9pm Hoyts 8611 Tue 13 Aug 9pm Hoyts 6661 Tue 13 Aug 11am Forum 1620 Mon 5 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 6231 Fri 9 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 8441/9441 Sat 17 Aug 4pm Forum 1851 Thu 15 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8751 Tue 13 Aug 6.30pm Astor 0651

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aKasha Flesh Out Working Woman Adam Sudan/South Africa/Qatar/Germany 78 mins Italy 94 mins Israel 93 mins France/Morocco 98 mins

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Just your not-so-average romantic comedy A young Mauritanian woman wakes up to the The question often asked of women who Two women, marginalised by Moroccan about a South Sudanese rebel soldier, his misogyny of her society’s beauty standards experience sexual harassment is “why don’t society, transform each other’s lives in long-suffering girlfriend and the prized AK-47 in this emotionally rich story of female they just leave?”. Working Woman shows us Maryam Touzani’s impressive debut feature called Nancy that stands between them. empowerment. precisely why it’s not that simple. about the courage and compassion it takes to move beyond living with grief and shame. There are few things Adnan loves more than his Verida is preparing for her arranged marriage by Orna returns to the workforce, securing a job rife, much to the chagrin of his sweetheart Lina. gaining weight – a symbol of beauty and wealth as an assistant to real estate developer Benny, Abla lives with her daughter Warda in After a post-coital argument, the weapon ends in her West African nation. Although she whose interest in her isn’t entirely professional. Casablanca. Samia – young, unwed and up in her hands rather than his, and the young doesn’t question this tradition, it’s achieved via Smart and capable, Orna’s quickly promoted pregnant – is seeking a place to live and work rebel embarks on a quest to reunite with his girl gavage, or being force-fed up to 10 meals a day but Benny’s suggestive comments soon escalate in the city. Abla reluctantly opens her home to and reclaim his gun. by her mother. But when the man who brings into more aggressive behaviour that threatens the shunned, desperate woman, but a profound bond develops between them over baking, their Making his narrative feature debut after the the scales that measure her progress shows her marriage, career and mental health. unique struggles, and the shared experience of award-winning documentary Beats of the an unexpected interest in Verida, it ofers the A flm fuelled by quiet fury, Working Woman motherhood. Antonov, Hajooj Kuka approaches a tense possibility of something more. speaks to the stories of countless women situation with humour, insight and heart in this “A fresh perspective on body image and whose ambitions are thwarted by male Touzani’s flm is part social commentary, part spirited comedy. self-worth.” – SCREEN abuses of power. intimate exploration of the depth and strength of women’s friendships. DIRECTOR: HAJOOJ KUKA DIRECTOR: MICHELA OCCHIPINTI Contains sexual violence DIRECTOR: MARYAM TOUZANI Tue 6 Aug 9.15pm Kino 3291 Sat 3 Aug 1.30pm Kino 3101 DIRECTOR: MICHAL AVIAD Fri 9 Aug 4.15pm Kino 4420 Wed 14 Aug 1.15pm Forum 1680 Sun 4 Aug 4pm Forum 1171 Sun 4 Aug 6.45pm SMOCA 5181 Fri 16 Aug 6.45pm Kino 3801 Thu 8 Aug 9pm Kino 4391 aKasha

It Must Be Heaven The Orphanage The Unknown Saint Palestine/France/Qatar/ Abou Leila Afghanistan/Denmark/Germany/ Papicha Morocco/France 100 mins Germany/Canada/Turkey 97 mins Algeria/France/Qatar 139 mins France/Luxembourg/Qatar 90 mins Algeria/France/Belgium/Qatar 105 mins

Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes “A droll, entertaining, absurdist fable about A Palestinian filmmaker goes globetrotting Setting off into the Sahara in search of The Orphanage is Afghan filmmaker “A feminist portrait, Papicha seduces spirituality and greed that signals an only to be shadowed by reminders of home an elusive terrorist, two childhood friends Shahrbanoo Sadat’s 80s-set mixture of especially for its energy, its freshness and the important new talent.” – VARIETY in this very meta, Cannes FIPRESCI Prize- confront their traumas in this road movie realism and inspired Bollywood-style musical, charisma of its lead character.” – CINEUROPA winning film. meets meditative absurdist western, which set on the streets of Kabul. As the best crime capers do, Alaa Eddine Aljem’s screens at MIFF straight from Cannes Nedjma and her best friend are studying at debut feature starts with a big bag of money. Elia Suleiman’s alter ego E S wanders the globe, Critics’ Week. Qodrat is a daydreaming 15-year-old selling university. At night, they sneak out to go With the cops on his tail, thief Amine stashes wordlessly observing its absurdities wherever he movie tickets on the streets of Kabul in the late clubbing in fabulous outfts made by Nedjma. his stolen funds, disguising it in a makeshift goes. Tanks roll into the streets of a near-empty In Algiers circa 1994, the civil war rages on. For 1980s. Taken to a Soviet orphanage by police, But it’s the 1990s, a time of violent civil desert grave. When he returns from his 10-year Paris, cops ride Segways in balletic formation Lotf and his lifelong pal S, it’s reason enough to Qodrat and his fellow teenagers soon fnd war with religious fundamentalism on the prison sentence to reclaim the loot, he fnds and citizens casually carry AK-47s in American escape the city, with the pair endeavouring to themselves defending their home in the wake of rise. Disobeying a ban on Friday gatherings his hiding place bordered by a new village and supermarkets. Along the way, his meetings hunt down infamous terrorist Abou Leila. But the Islamist government takeover. of women, Nedjma and her friends stage a buried beneath a new mausoleum honouring with flm producers end unsuccessfully as the further they journey into the desert, the fashion show based on the haik, the traditional more Lotf’s worries for his friend grow. Mixing gorgeously lensed realism with “the unknown saint”. his comedy feature pitch is rejected as “not folklore and afectionate musical bursts, Sadat Maghreb women’s robe. Palestinian enough”. Earning comparisons to the Coen Brothers Making full use of the flm’s sprawling sensitively evokes the interior world of her Funny and joyous, even in its rage, Papicha and Aki Kaurismäki, Aljem crafts a light, Often likened to a modern-day Buster setting, Abou Leila is evocative, immersive and protagonist and the turbulent political climate celebrates the beauty and expressive solidarity farcical comedy. Keaton, Suleiman employs silent comedy to visually sumptuous. of the era, crafting a humanist experience with of women’s clothes. wryly refect on questions of home, identity a dash of fantasy. DIRECTOR: ALAA EDDINE ALJEM DIRECTOR: AMIN SIDI-BOUMÉDIÈNE DIRECTOR: MOUNIA MEDDOUR and belonging. Wed 7 Aug 11am Forum 1300 Fri 9 Aug 9pm Hoyts 7441 DIRECTOR: SHAHRBANOO SADAT Sat 3 Aug 6.45pm Kino 4121 Mon 12 Aug 4pm SMOCA 5590 Mon 12 Aug 9.15pm SMOCA 5611 DIRECTOR: ELIA SULEIMAN Sat 10 Aug 9.15pm Kino 3501 Sun 11 Aug 9pm Forum 1561 Fri 9 Aug 11am Forum 1400 Fri 16 Aug 1.15pm Forum 1780 Sun 11 Aug 11am Capitol 2521

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miff.com.au 20 Latin America North America Too Late to Die Young Divine Love End of the Century Chile/Brazil/Argentina/ Brazil/Uruguay/Denmark/Chile/ The Tomorrow Man Argentina/USA 84 mins Netherlands/Qatar 110 mins Norway 101 mins USA 94 mins

An erotically charged romance across two When democracy returns to Chile in 1990, After dazzling MIFF 16 audiences with Neon John Lithgow and Blythe Danner star together time periods set among the sun-drenched a group of families flee the city in this Bull, Gabriel Mascaro turns his gaze to in this eccentric later-in-life love story. beaches and architecture of Barcelona. emotionally poignant, visually sumptuous religious raves and evangelical sex therapy portrait of youth – the 2018 Locarno winner in this playful, probing foray into sci-fi. Ed Hemsler is a doomsday prepper, spending The very nature of time itself is explored for Best Direction in the festival’s international his days organising his backyard bunker in through the intricacies of a firtatious encounter competition. In Brazil in 2027, the secret to a happy marriage readiness for the collapse of society. On one between two strangers while on vacation is church-sanctioned orgies – or so civil servant of his regular supply trips to the supermarket in Spain. A fresh encounter leads to their Suddenly switching busy streets for a quiet life Joana hopes. She spends her nights attending he spots a fellow loner in Ronnie Meisner, a recollections of an earlier meeting at a time at the base of the Andes, 16-year-olds Sofía cult-like worship sessions and every minute woman who also has her own idiosyncrasies. As when the two men were very diferent. Fate and Lucas and 10-year-old Clara endeavour to praying to conceive a baby with her husband they grow closer, the question arises: can love has perhaps brought them together, but as told navigate their new world order. As New Year’s Danilo. But when her dreams come true, her save us from the end of the world? through the flm’s nonlinear style, their love Eve approaches, it’s a time flled with carefree faith is tested. “John Lithgow and Blythe Danner are afair is something potentially much bigger than days, frst romances and a pervasive feeling Shot with intoxicating colour, Divine Love is a perfectly paired with incredibly endearing just a holiday fing. of freedom, as well as bitter struggles and big questions. vibrant feast for the eyes, exploring romance, chemistry.” – WE LIVE ENTERTAINMENT “Castro’s inventive and enigmatic debut feature is technology and humanity’s near future. DIRECTOR: DOMINGA SOTOMAYOR DIRECTOR: NOBLE JONES consistently surprising.” – REMEZCLA Contains graphic sex scenes Fri 2 Aug 6.30pm Kino 3061 Mon 5 Aug 11am Forum 1200 DIRECTOR: LUCIO CASTRO Sun 18 Aug 1.30pm Hoyts 6901 DIRECTOR: GABRIEL MASCARO Sat 10 Aug 1.30pm Hoyts 8471 Sat 10 Aug 1.30pm Nova 0931 Mon 5 Aug 9.15pm SMOCA 5241 Thu 15 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 6751 Wed 14 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 7711

Our Mothers Land of Ashes Litigante Song Without a Name France/Belgium/Luxembourg/ Port Authority Costa Rica/Argentina/Chile/France 82 mins Colombia 93 mins Peru/Spain/USA 103 mins Netherlands/Guatemala 77 mins USA/France 94 mins

Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes “Entrancing … teems with verdant, Just one of Silvia’s problems would be The first film directed by a Peruvian woman Winner of the Camera d’Or, Our Mothers Executive-produced by Martin Scorsese, ungovernable life, made somehow more enough to break most people – she’s under to screen at Cannes is a visually striking, takes a sensitive look at the effect of Port Authority follows Fionn Whitehead’s magically intense by the constant, hovering investigation for corruption, her mother elegiac look back at Peru’s not-so-distant Guatemala’s brutal military dictatorship on naïve young drifter Paul as he arrives proximity of death.” – VARIETY Leticia is terminally ill and refusing treatment, dark history. the country’s women. in New York, where he is drawn to the and her five-year-old son is starting to ask glamorous dancer Wye and her friends. Selva’s mother is gone in body, but her spirit awkward questions about his father. Georgina, an Andean peasant woman, is Ernesto works in forensics, identifying the lingers. The 13-year-old dotes on her ailing drawn to Lima by a radio ad for a private clinic bodies of people who ‘disappeared’ during the Fionn Whitehead (The Children Act, MIFF 18) grandfather, but she cares more about him As Leticia and Silvia, Leticia Gómez and promising free medical care. After giving birth, 1980s Guatemalan civil war. Testimony from and superb newcomer Leyna Bloom give than vice versa. And with elderly local woman Carolina Sanín prove not only natural and her daughter is stolen from her. When the clinic one of the women who hold on to this dark Paul and Wye a sweet, low-key chemistry, Elena, she weathers a tumultuous love/hate nuanced, but riveting and revelatory as well – then mysteriously disappears and her pleas for history ofers Ernesto a chance to fnd out the with Whitehead believably evincing his relationship – until that, like much in Selva’s and, thanks to their powerful work, director assistance are met by government indiference, truth about his own father – pursuing the case character’s conficting emotions as he struggles life, also proves feeting. Franco Lolli makes stars out of his own mother Georgina seeks help from journalist Pedro. against his mother’s wishes to its emotionally with loyalties and societal norms. Bloom, and cousin. meanwhile, is a revelation of charisma and Writer/director Sofía Quirós Ubeda (MIFF 17 Inspired by real events, Melina Léon constructs wrenching conclusion. grace, and the welcoming embrace she and her short flm Selva) makes her feature debut with While Litigante’s story is fctional, this a mesmerising underworld of crime and DIRECTOR: CÉSAR DÍAZ community ofer to an outsider is cinematic this spellbinding coming-of-age story that’s contemplative flm teems with authenticity, corruption, with bold, beautiful black-and- capturing the thorniness of life with a delicate Screens with Omarska (France/Bosnia and balm for the soul. shot with dreamlike lushness and is flled with white photography. Herzegovina, 19 mins), a short documentary about but realistic touch. “Vehement, urgent and sensual.” – THE GUARDIAN emotional tenderness. DIRECTOR: MELINA LÉON survivors of the Omarska concentration camp. DIRECTOR: SOFÍA QUIRÓS UBEDA DIRECTOR: FRANCO LOLLI DIRECTOR: DANIELLE LESSOVITZ Sun 4 Aug 11am Capitol 2151 DIRECTOR: VARUN SASINDRAN Mon 5 Aug 9pm Kino 4241 Fri 2 Aug 1.45pm SMOCA 5040 Mon 12 Aug 6.45pm Forum 1601 Fri 9 Aug 6.30pm Astor 0431 Sat 10 Aug 1.30pm Forum 1471 Fri 2 Aug 4pm Forum 1050 Wed 14 Aug 9.15pm Capitol 2711 Wed 7 Aug 6.30pm Kino 3331 Sat 10 Aug 4pm Nova 0941

Monos The Invisible Life More The Gasoline Thieves Colombia/Argentina/Netherlands/ of Eurídice Gusmão American Woman International Mexico/USA/UK 94 mins Germany /Sweden/Uruguay 102 mins Brazil/Germany 139 mins USA 111 mins Films As the Melbourne International Film Festival, you’ll find films from around the world throughout our program. On page 34, for instance, you’ll find details of our two dedicated programs Direct from Cannes of internationally awarded A lovesick Mexican teen is lured into the Winner of a Sundance Special Jury Award, Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz took out Sienna Miller, Christina Hendricks and Aaron and acclaimed short films, volatile underground of oil bandits in this Monos is a visually astounding, thrillingly Cannes’ prestigious Un Certain Regard prize Paul lead a sterling cast in Jake Scott’s suspenseful Tribeca award winner. original fever dream situated somewhere with this ravishing tropical melodrama about engrossing tale of a single mother grappling including the Cannes Short between Lord of the Flies, Apocalypse Now two sisters who share an unshakable bond in with her worst nightmare. Film Palme d’Or winner. When teen farmhand Lalo’s savings are needed and Aguirre, the Wrath of God. an oppressively patriarchal culture. for his mother’s medical bills, his only option In her early thirties, Deb Callahan is a single The MIFF Schools program is to join the huachicolero – opportunistic In a remote mountain range, a troupe of Opening in early 1950s Rio de Janeiro, the mother and a grandmother, raising her comprises films in some of gangs who tap into the pipelines of crooked adolescent soldiers guard an American hostage. story picks up with virtuous teenage pianist teenaged daughter Bridget and Bridget’s infant the languages commonly corporations. He soon discovers that there’s no They run drills, tend to a cow, and do what teens Eurídice and her older, fun-loving sister Guida son. Life is tough but for the most part they do – get high, have sex, hang out. That they as they aim to escape their overbearing family taught in Victoria, including honour among thieves. are happy ... until Bridget suddenly vanishes have loaded guns and zero accountability works life – Guida elopes and runs away to Greece, without a trace. As the years pass, life goes on Winner of Tribeca’s Best New Narrative French, German, Italian, out as well as you’d imagine, but in the hands of while Eurídice dreams of studying in Austria – but Deb keeps searching for the truth about her ART DE VIVRE Director award, Edgar Nito has made a Japanese, Mandarin and Alejandro Landes (with help from Jasper Wolf’s and follows their trials and tribulations over daughter’s disappearance. Spanish. These films have been remarkable debut that humanises the real-life breathtaking widescreen imagery and Mica the ensuing decades. Lushly expressive and “Sienna Miller ofers a beautiful, agile programmed to enrich the cartel crisis, amping up the tension until it’s Levi’s nerve-racking, otherworldly score) it’s an emotionally operatic, it’s a wholly immersive, primed to explode. performance.” – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. cinema experience for younger extraordinary descent into surreal savagery. rewarding cinematic experience. “One of the best Mexican flms so far DIRECTOR: JAKE SCOTT Sofi tel-Melbourne.com.au viewers but they are open to DIRECTOR: ALEJANDRO LANDES DIRECTOR: KARIM AÏNOUZ all audiences – we encourage in 2019.” – SCREEN ANARCHY Mon 5 Aug 4pm Forum 1220 Fri 2 Aug 11.30pm SMOCA 5081 Fri 2 Aug 11am SMOCA 5030 Sat 10 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 8501/9501 you to take a look at these DIRECTOR: EDGAR NITO Sun 4 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1181 Sat 10 Aug 9.15pm Capitol 2501 wonderful films on page 37. Sat 3 Aug 1.45pm SMOCA 5101 Sat 10 Aug 9.15pm Forum 1501 Mon 12 Aug 1.45pm Forum 1580

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Share Them That Follow Fourteen The Mountain Goldie USA 89 mins USA 98 mins USA 94 mins USA 108 mins USA 88 mins

Direct from Cannes “An uncommonly knotty and fiercely intelligent With a star-studded cast that includes Olivia Two twentysomething women watch their Jeff Goldblum stars as a charismatic Fashion model and Instagram sensation story of assault and blame in the social Colman, Walton Goggins and Alice Englert, teenage friendship fade away in the latest lobotomist on an oddball roadtrip across Slick Woods makes her explosive film debut media age.” – THE PLAYLIST Them That Follow examines an overtly keenly observed feature from critic-turned- 1950s America in The Mountain, the latest in a quintessentially New York tale about religious, Pentecostal society that has cut filmmaker Dan Sallitt (The Unspeakable work of madness and magic from cinematic chasing a dream. After blacking out drunk at a party, 16-year-old itself off from the rest of the world. Act, MIFF 13). iconoclast Rick Alverson. Mandy awakens to a phone flled with Goldie is bursting to make it as a hip-hop dancer. notifcations and a scandal sparked by Somewhere in the Appalachians, snake-handler When they were 14, Mara and Jo’s odd-couple Ignored by his father and long abandoned by If she can land a music video gig, in the perfect confronting viral video footage. As the preacher Lemuel Childs leads a small sect of bond was a soothing balm in a tumultuous his mother, Andy’s constrained universe is gold-coloured coat, the world will be hers. But victimised high-school sophomore forced to devout believers. When the preacher’s daughter world. Now, for the reliable and increasingly blown open when he’s hired by Dr Fiennes. when her mother’s jailed, Goldie must protect puzzle together the pieces of her own widely fnds herself hiding a secret that could tear the focused Mara at least, it’s just work. The ever- The two form an unlikely duo as Dr Fiennes her little sisters from the system. Can she keep shared assault, Rhianne Barreto is a revelation – community apart, she has a choice to make: erratic Jo is always in need of help but can never shops his services from asylum to asylum, but her family together, and fnd stardom? remain true to her faith, or to her heart. reciprocate. when they fall into the orbit of a French mystic, making viewers step into the shoes of a teenager DIRECTOR: SAM DE JONG forced to live out a nightmarish experience. Them That Follow is a slow-burning, deeply In a role that was written for her, The the stage is set for wholesale breakdown. Screens with Black Bus Stop (USA, 9 mins), about empathetic thriller, driven by outstanding Unspeakable Act’s Tallie Medel anchors an A work of jet-black humour and unexpected Contains sexual violence themes an iconic gathering place for black students performances – especially from Englert and intricate examination of a complicated beauty, The Mountain ofers an unforgettable being reclaimed. DIRECTOR: PIPPA BIANCO Oscar-winner Colman. relationship, stripping away the rose-tinted vision of American cultural collapse. Sat 3 Aug 1.30pm Capitol 2101 sisterhood that typically colours flms about DIRECTORS: KEVIN JEROME EVERSON, Fri 9 Aug 1.30pm SMOCA 5410 DIRECTORS: BRITT POULTON, DIRECTOR: RICK ALVERSON CLAUDRENA N HAROLD DAN MADISON SAVAGE female friendships. Fri 9 Aug 9pm Astor 0441 Fri 2 Aug 9.15pm Kino 3071 Presented by Sun 11 Aug 1.30pm Hoyts 8531 DIRECTOR: DAN SALLITT Sat 17 Aug 9.15pm SMOCA 5871 Sat 17 Aug 6.30pm Nova 0861 Wed 14 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 8711 Thu 8 Aug 4pm Kino 4370 Sun 11 Aug 9.30pm Kino 4561

A Brother’s Love Ghost Town Anthology Swallow The Beach Bum Skin Canada 117 mins Canada 97 mins USA/France 94 mins USA/Switzerland/UK/France 95 mins USA 118 mins

Direct from Cannes Winner of the special Coup de Coeur award Continuing to prove one of Canada’s most Haley Bennett won Best Actress at Tribeca “A collaboration between Matthew Jamie Bell is outstanding in this expansion of at this year’s Cannes Un Certain Regard, intriguing auteurs, MIFF regular Denis Côté for her portrayal of a newly pregnant McConaughey and filmmaker Harmony the 2019 Oscar-winning short inspired by the French-Canadian filmmaker Monia Chokri’s examines the pervasive influence of grief on woman with a seemingly perfect home and Korine, this portrait of a dissolute poet pissin’ true story of reformed neo-Nazi Byron Widner. rapid-fire comedy of thirtysomething romance a tiny Québécois town. husband in this boldly satirical psychological away the days in Margaritaville and Miami is Bell delivers a riveting performance as Widner, and sibling rivalry evokes the exuberant feminist thriller. a match made in heaven.” – ROLLING STONE energy of her sometime collaborator When beloved 21-year-old Simon Dubé spanning his descent into racist violence, his Xavier Dolan. dies suddenly and violently, the 215-strong Hunter goes about her days alone, preparing Seven years after Spring Breakers, Korine subsequent escape and the protracted, painful population of Irénée-les-Neiges is consumed by dinner for her husband and tending to their heads back to the beach, re-teams with tattoo removal to erase the hate etched onto Thirty fve and single, Sophia misses out on a the unexpected tragedy. Still, the no-nonsense impeccable home. But beneath Hunter’s cinematographer Benoît Debie and serves his face. Supporting him is a stellar ensemble plum academic job and is forced to move in mayor is certain the community will weather fawlessly coifed exterior roils a quiet rage. up another slice of neon-hued debauchery – that includes Australia’s Danielle Macdonald with her older brother Karim, with whom she’s the storm – until the remote, snow-swept After she fnds out she’s pregnant it emerges – as trading gun-toting college co-eds for a bongo- (Patti Cake$, MIFF 17), Vera Farmiga, Bill Camp always been extremely close. But when Karim village becomes literally haunted by generations pica, a compulsive eating disorder where she playing, bong-smoking free spirit by the and Mike Colter. falls for Sophia’s gynecologist Eloïse, their of the dead. swallows inedible objects. name of Moondog. unbreakable sibling bond is tested and Sophia’s As a resurgent white supremacist movement is directionless life is sent spiralling out of control. As textured as the speckled 16mm flm Côté The unpredictable, tense and radical Swallow Also starring Snoop Dogg, Zac Efron, increasingly emboldened by leaders across the uses to evocative efect, Ghost Town Anthology is a takes on patriarchal control over female bodies Martin Lawrence, Isla Fisher and Jimmy world, Skin ofers a timely antidote, reminding A Brother’s Love is a funny, sometimes bittersweet measured, moving and purposefully ambiguous and the misery that often underpins the Bufett, The Beach Bum charts the anarchic us that people can change. debut that lingers. musing on living with the spectre of loss. performance of expected gender roles. misadventures of South Florida’s least DIRECTOR: GUY NATTIV DIRECTOR: MONIA CHOKRI motivated wordsmith. DIRECTOR: DENIS CÔTÉ Contains high-impact themes Tue 6 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 8281/9281 Mon 5 Aug 6.15pm Capitol 2231 Mon 5 Aug 9pm Hoyts 7241 DIRECTOR: HARMONY KORINE Tue 13 Aug 9pm Forum 1661 Sat 10 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 6491 DIRECTOR: CARLO MIRABELLA-DAVIS Fri 9 Aug 4pm SMOCA 5420 Sat 3 Aug 9.30pm Plenary 0122 Fri 16 Aug 1.30pm SMOCA 5780 Sat 3 Aug 9pm SMOCA 5131 Mon 5 Aug 9pm Hoyts 8241/9241 Thu 8 Aug 9.30pm Kino 3391

Give Me Liberty The Kill Team Brittany Runs a Marathon The Art of Self-Defense Sword of Trust USA 119 mins Spain/USA 87 mins USA 103 mins USA 104 mins USA 89 mins

Direct from Cannes Heartfelt and hilarious, Give Me Liberty Oscar-nominated director Dan Krauss An audience award-winner at Sundance, “Jesse Eisenberg plays a wimp whose Marc Maron teams up with Lynn Shelton for channels the spirit of the Czech New Wave in presents a fictionalised version of his award- Brittany Runs a Marathon is a warm, funny desperate bid to man up compels him to a rambling, lovable comedy of small-town its freewheeling tale of life on the edges of winning war-crimes documentary of the same and relatable comedy about body positivity, join an off-kilter karate studio in this smart, grifters and Civil War truthers. Midwestern America. name, featuring a bone-chilling performance self-love and acceptance. machismo-critiquing cult comedy … dark, Following the death of her grandfather, Cynthia from Alexander Skarsgård. sinister, and disarmingly hilarious.” – VARIETY Russian-American Vic is having one of the Chronic underachiever Brittany Forgler (former hopes she and partner Mary will inherit his most chaotic days of his life. While juggling Screening at MIFF in 2014, following its Saturday Night Live writer Jillian Bell, a delight) Accountant Casey Evans thinks he has a girl’s Alabama house. But all she got was a Civil War- family pressures and the responsibilities of his Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary win, is a hot mess: 27 years old, clubbing every name and (to his mind) the persona to match. era sword. When she attempts to pawn the relic, job driving wheelchair-bound people to their Krauss’s original Kill Team was an intimate, night and barely scraping by. Looking to score When he’s mugged while buying dog food, pawnbroker Mel and his wayward assistant destinations, he’s roped into getting a group of harrowing observation of the moral casualties an Adderall prescription, Brittany is instead Casey decides enough is enough and signs up to Nathaniel discover the sword might just prove elderly relatives to a funeral – and the day has of war, focused on uncovering the truth behind faced with some hard truths about her lifestyle. karate classes at his local dojo. that the South won the War of Northern barely begun yet. the infamous Maywand District murders in Determined to change her ways but too broke to A wry, withering take on toxic masculinity, Aggression. The question is: should this unlikely Kandahar. Adapting that story, he returns with Give Me Liberty is a funny, touching portrayal of join a gym, she starts running, setting her sights The Art of Self-Defense is an increasingly surreal quartet try to proft from conspiracists who this nerve-frying narrative thriller in which a marginalised people navigating life’s roadblocks on the New York Marathon. parable of failed expectations and misplaced want the South to rise again? conscientious young soldier, Specialist Andrew and trying to fnd the American Dream in “Terrifcally engaging … the best kind of hope from young-gun writer/director Briggman, is caught between loyalty to his DIRECTOR: LYNN SHELTON spite of it all. crowdpleaser.” – VARIETY Riley Stearns. platoon and standing up for what’s right. Sun 11 Aug 4.15pm Hoyts 8541 DIRECTOR: KIRILL MIKHANOVSKY DIRECTOR: PAUL DOWNS COLAIZZO DIRECTOR: RILEY STEARNS Wed 14 Aug 9pm SMOCA 5711 DIRECTOR: DAN KRAUSS Sun 4 Aug 4.15pm SMOCA 5171 Fri 2 Aug 4.15pm SMOCA 5050 Sun 4 Aug 3.30pm Plenary 0182 Mon 12 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 9611 Sun 11 Aug 1.45pm Hoyts 9531 Wed 7 Aug 6.15pm Hoyts 8331/9331 Fri 9 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8431/9431 Thu 15 Aug 9pm Hoyts 9761 Sun 18 Aug 7pm Hoyts 6921

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Wu-Tang Clan: The Gift: The Journey David Crosby: It Must Schwing! Of Mics and Men of Johnny Cash Remember My Name The Blue Note Story USA 234 mins USA 94 mins USA 95 mins Germany 113 mins

“One of the best music docu-series in a very Johnny Cash’s story has never been told like With producer Cameron Crowe interviewing, The impeccably stylish history of legendary long time, a piece of work that doesn’t just this. Thom Zimny’s seamless, collage-style David Crosby opens up in a refreshingly jazz label Blue Note, executive produced by relay the chronological facts of the band’s oral history refuses to walk the line, gazing honest and revealing documentary. Wim Wenders. existence but translates their art ... and past the myth of the Man in Black and fully conveys their cultural importance.” into his soul. Grammy winner, Woodstock star, multi- After escaping Nazi Berlin, childhood friends – ROGEREBERT.COM million-seller, and double Rock and Roll Hall Alfred Lion and Francis Wolf reunited in The flm’s emotional centre is Cash’s 1968 of Fame inductee, David Crosby became an New York City in 1939 and created one of Hip-hop chronicler Sacha Jenkins (Fresh performance at Folsom State Prison, California. emblem of the hope and hedonism of the 60s. the most infuential jazz labels in history. Dressed, MIFF 15) has assembled all nine living Cash himself narrates from tapes recorded The giants they enlisted – Miles Davis, John members of the Wu-Tang Clan in a vintage for his 1997 autobiography, while other In his autumn years, Crosby bares all: his ageless music, tumultuous high-profle relationships, Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, New York theatre to reminisce, bicker, laugh voices – his friends, children, admirers and Ornette Coleman – shaped Blue Note’s and spin stories. music historians – illuminate Zimny’s tapestry the damage done by addiction, and the chronic illness that could kill him at any minute. quintessential cool. Across four one-hour episodes, Wu-Tang Clan: of archival photos and footage. Both devoted fans and newcomers who only know Cash’s Remember My Name reaches far beyond the rock It Must Schwing! recreates Wolf and Lion’s Of Mics and Men is packed with priceless vision of the true American art form through behind-the-scenes footage, soundtracked by legend will be thrilled by this flm’s insistence doc template to reveal the tarnished soul of on his humanity. a generation. moody animation, indelible photographs their razor-sharp raps, and accented by celebrity and footage, contemporary insider interviews fans paying their respects. DIRECTOR: THOM ZIMNY DIRECTOR: AJ EATON (including Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock and DIRECTOR: SACHA JENKINS Sat 3 Aug 1.15pm Forum 1101 Sun 11 Aug 4pm SMOCA 5541 Sonny Rollins) and, of course, the music. Mon 5 Aug 6.45pm SMOCA 5231 Wed 14 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 6701 Wed 7 Aug 9pm Hoyts 8341/9341 DIRECTOR: ERIC FRIEDLER Thu 8 Aug 9pm Hoyts 8391/9391 Sun 11 Aug 11am Hoyts 6521 Mon 12 Aug 6.15pm Kino 3601

Marianne & Leonard: Cool Daddio: The Second Amazing Grace Carmine Street Guitars Words of Love Youth of R. Stevie Moore USA 87 mins Canada 80 mins USA 102 mins UK 78 mins

“The glorious Aretha Franklin concert Spending an hour or so with guitar-maker Nick Broomfield offers a highly personal view Four hundred albums in, the secret godfather documentary Amazing Grace finally emerges Rick Kelly and the famous faces who visit on the love affair between Leonard Cohen of indie rock R. Stevie Moore is finally leaving 46 years later … an unmitigated joy.” his shop – an old-school holdout against and Marianne Ihlen that resulted in some of the bedroom. – LOS ANGELES TIMES gentrified New York – is like the best kind of Cohen’s most iconic songs. hangout with your friends. Son of Nashville session bassist Bob Moore, In 1972, at her Grammy-winning peak, Aretha In 1960, on the Greek island of Hydra, a Robert Stevie Moore caught the music bug recorded a live album at the New Temple At the Greenwich Village shop that gives Ron depressed Canadian poet and aspiring novelist like no other. This self-confessed recluse spent Missionary Baptist Church. Director Sydney Mann’s flm its title, master luthier Rick Kelly named Leonard Cohen met Norwegian woman decades creating twisted, catchy beat pop, lo-f Pollack, then a talented up-and-comer, was creates guitars using timber from demolished Marianne Ihlen, who inspired Leonard to set rock and freak-folk, distributing cassettes by there to document it. 19th-century buildings – preserving the city’s his words of love to music. mail order. It took 40 years for the rest of the history in sound. Amazing Grace would become Franklin’s biggest- Broomfeld, too, found his way to Hydra world to catch on. selling album, but sound synchronisation Joining him and his talented young apprentice and was beguiled by Ihlen. His gentle and Featuring ultra-rare footage, music, and problems kept Pollack’s footage in the vault. Cindy is a who’s who of virtuoso musicians who profoundly moving flm is an elegy to a cheers from superfans Ariel Pink, MGMT, Then came legal dramas, but after her death in drop by to test out his work: Charlie Sexton, lost decade of free love, and an ambivalent Mac DeMarco and more, Cool Daddio cements 2018, Aretha’s family gladly gave permission legendary jazzman Bill Frisell, Jim Jarmusch meditation on the fgure of the muse. Moore’s legacy as one of the weirdest and best. for audiences to witness something truly and many more. DIRECTOR: NICK BROOMFIELD DIRECTORS: IMOGEN PUTLER, MONIKA BARAN transcendent. DIRECTOR: RON MANN Tue 6 Aug 1.45pm Forum 1260 Sat 3 Aug 9pm Kino 4131 REALISED BY: ALAN ELLIOT Tue 6 Aug 6.45pm Kino 3281 Sat 10 Aug 11am Capitol 2461 Sat 17 Aug 4pm Nova 0851 Sun 4 Aug 12.30pm Plenary 0152 Sun 18 Aug 11.15am Hoyts 6891 Fri 16 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 8801/9801 It Must Schwing! The Blue Note Story

Bros: PJ Harvey: Suzi Q Mr Jimmy After the Screaming Stops A Dog Called Money Suede: The Insatiable Ones Australia 99 mins USA 113 mins UK 95 mins Ireland/UK 90 mins UK 110 mins

World Premiere After more than five decades in the music Akio Sakurai is not merely an impersonator of Who would have predicted that a doc about In this dynamic, globe-trotting mix of “Painfully honest and deeply moving … industry, rock star Suzi Quatro looks back on Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. He is the 80s boyband Bros would be hailed as “the travelogue and music documentary, revered Mike Christie’s portrait of Brett Anderson’s her pioneering career. personification. To a fault. best music film since Spinal Tap” and even rocker PJ Harvey roams the world in search 1990s glam-pop outsiders gets everything “the best music documentary of all time”? of inspiration for a recording project. right.” – THE SUNDAY TIMES From her rise to fame in the early 1970s and Akio spent 35 years in Tokyo perfecting Page’s the immense strain on her personal life, to her chops and mannerisms. Rumours spread, For about 15 minutes in the late 80s, twins Matt Harvey and Irish war photojournalist Seamus Award-winning British director Mike Christie committed touring schedule and recent forays and when Page himself pops up at a show and Luke Goss were the one of the biggest pop Murphy explore war-torn Kosovo, Afghanistan tracks Suede’s forid reign with a stark honesty. into radio broadcasting, this wide-ranging and delivers a rousing ovation, Akio quickly acts in the world: Bros. and the poor neighbourhoods of Washington Candid behind-the-scenes footage – thanks documentary gives the Detroit-born, UK-based abandons his kimono salesman day job and After the Screaming Stops follows their reunion DC, capturing impressions, sounds and ideas to drummer Simon Gilbert’s handicam star the spotlight she deserves – with help from moves to LA to live the dream with cover band 28 years after they split, professionally and that served as the catalyst for her 2016 album, obsession – delivers us into the studio and onto spirited interviewees such as Joan Jett, Debbie Led Zepagain. personally. It ofers a poignant, emotional The Hope Six Demolition Project. the stage. Interviews with former bassist Justine Frischmann, former manager Ricky Gervais Harry, Henry Winkler and Alice Cooper. Mr Jimmy captures Akio’s astounding feats and insight into the perils of feeting fame. But it’s PJ Harvey: A Dog Called Money moves between and other luminaries deepen the portrait. Like Also featuring candid chats with the singer failures, questioning both art and identity. It’s a Matt and Luke’s un-ironic spouting of pithy, the far-fung corners of the globe and a the music itself, The Insatiable Ones is timely, herself, as well as energetic concert footage fascinating tale of perfectionism that tilts on the self-important phrases that has audiences soundproofed recording box in London with nakedly emotional and ultimately triumphant. and a wealth of archival materials, Suzi Q pays precipice of crippling obsession. frothily recreating Brosmania. Murphy’s vivid imagery matched by Harvey’s evocative, poetic musing. “The ugly beautiful truth is a must watch.” tribute to a trailblazer. DIRECTOR: PETER MICHAEL DOWD DIRECTORS: DAVID SOUTAR, JOE PEARLMAN – GQ MAGAZINE DIRECTOR: LIAM FIRMAGER Fri 9 Aug 9pm Nova 0021 Fri 2 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 6071 “A thrilling document.” – THE QUIETUS DIRECTOR: MIKE CHRISTIE Thu 15 Aug 9.30pm Capitol 2761 Sun 11 Aug 7pm Kino 4551 Sun 11 Aug 9.30pm Capitol 2561 DIRECTOR: SEAMUS MURPHY Sat 17 Aug 4pm SMOCA 5851 Fri 2 Aug 9pm Hoyts 8071/9071 Fri 2 Aug 6.15pm Kino 4061 Fri 9 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1431 Sat 10 Aug 4pm Hoyts 6481 Wed 14 Aug 9pm Hoyts 9711

23 miff.com.au Documentaries

Dark Suns Each and Every Moment Evelyn Canada 154 mins France/Japan 105 mins UK 100 mins

Winner of the FACT Award at CPH:DOX, Nicolas Philibert has made a career out Oscar-winning filmmaker Orlando von Dark Suns is an investigation into decades of of calmly documenting France’s public Einseidel turns the lens on himself and the cartel-related violence and murder in Mexico institutions. In Each and Every Moment, he ghosts that have haunted his family. and one of the most ambitious, damning and turns his camera on nurses in training. masterful documentaries of the year. Von Einseidel (Virunga, MIFF 14) is known for Every year, more than 30,000 French students embedding himself in war zones. In his latest Julien Elie speaks to those left in the wake, start training for one of the world’s most work, the war zone is his own family, who uncovering a pervasive misogynistic culture demanding jobs: caring for others during the have long avoided the elephant in the room: that infects all it touches. The stories of those worst moments of their lives. It takes three the suicide death of Orlando’s brother, Evelyn. speaking on behalf of the dead and disappeared years of nursing school to prepare them. Here, they confront the issue head-on in a series are often being documented for the frst time. Filled with gentle humour, empathy and of self-flmed bushwalks through the British DIRECTOR: JULIEN ELIE introspection, Each and Every Moment follows countryside. Screens with Call Confession (Spain/Mexico, a group of trainee nurses through this process; Named Best Documentary at the British 9 mins), the Hot Docs Best International Short it’s a fascinating and moving insight into the Independent Film Awards, Evelyn is a cathartic Documentary Award winner. people at the heart of modern medicine. cinematic experience, opening an important, honest discussion about the mental health DIRECTOR: ARTURO AGUILAR DIRECTOR: NICOLAS PHILIBERT of young men. Fri 2 Aug 9pm Hoyts 7071 Mon 5 Aug 1.30pm Forum 1210 Sun 11 Aug 3.45pm Nova 0981 Sat 17 Aug 1.30pm Nova 0841 Contains suicide themes DIRECTOR: ORLANDO VON EINSEIDEL Fri 9 Aug 6.30pm Nova 0011 Sun 11 Aug 1.45pm Hoyts 6531

Friedkin Uncut Halston Leftover Women Italy 107 mins USA 105 mins Israel 84 mins

“A startling aperture onto the bright, “An intimate, clear-eyed portrait of 1970s Finding Mr Right has a deadline in marriage- witty, original mind of a man who isn’t A-list fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick … obsessed China. afraid to make unconventional leaps and a celebration, saluting a superstar.” – After stepping inside Chinese internet addiction dotes on controversy and hell-raising.” SCREEN DAILY – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER camps in Web Junkie (MIFF 14), Hilla Medalia No name evokes 1970s fashion quite like and Shosh Shlam examine the country’s Friedkin Uncut brings us into the world of the Halston. Handsome as a Hollywood star, he stigmatisation of unmarried young women: legendary director responsible for classics moved in rarefed circles, and this riveting without a husband by the age of 27, they are The Exorcist, The French Connection, Sorcerer and documentary intelligently explores how his deemed sheng nu, or leftover. And although Cruising. This time, William Friedkin is in front fuid, minimalist clothes in soft, luxurious single men under 30 outnumber single women of the camera, opening up about his career fabrics sparked a fever among the Studio 54 set. by 20 million, it’s the latter who are pressured to and his life. Fashion lovers will adore the lavish archival wed, procreate and maintain the population. With insights from Quentin Tarantino, footage and interviews with Halston’s famous Public dating contests, marriage markets and Wes Anderson, Ellen Burstyn, Matthew friends, including Liza Minnelli. But the flm government-sponsored matchmaking festivals McConaughey, Francis Ford Coppola, Dario also recounts Halston’s pursuit of mass-market are just some of the humiliating ordeals Argento, Willem Dafoe and more, Friedkin appeal and the cruelty with which corporate that unwed women face, as Medalia and Uncut helps explain the profound impact of backers strangled his creative control. Shlam show in their intimate, eye-opening Friedkin and his flms. DIRECTOR: FRÉDÉRIC TCHENG documentary. DIRECTOR: FRANCESCO ZIPPEL Sat 3 Aug 9.15pm Forum 1131 DIRECTORS: HILLA MEDALIA, SHOSH SHLAM Wed 14 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 8701 Sun 4 Aug 9.15pm Kino 3191 Sat 3 Aug 4pm Hoyts 6111 Mon 12 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 6601 Sat 17 Aug 1.45pm SMOCA 5841 Seahorse Merata: How Mum Capital in the 21st Century Decolonised the Screen Meeting Gorbachev Midnight Family More New Zealand/France 103 mins New Zealand 95 mins UK/USA/Germany 90 mins Mexico 81 mins Documentaries There are even more documentary advenatures in this year’s program. On pages 14 and 15 you’ll find some Australian docos, among them the Sydney Film Festival Documentary Audience Award- Justin Pemberton brings famed French In 1988, Merata Mita was the first Māori Werner Herzog presents a disarmingly Meet a family of unregistered paramedics winner, Martha: A Picture Story. economist Thomas Piketty’s landmark woman to write and (solo) direct a narrative personal conversation with the man cruising Mexico City’s streets in this frenetic bestseller Capital in the 21st Century to an feature film in New Zealand. In 2019, she who drew back the Iron Curtain, eye-opener – winner of Best Documentary at On page 33, you’ll find several even larger audience by adapting it into an remains the only Māori woman to do so. This Mikhail Gorbachev. the Hong Kong Film Festival, and Sundance’s accessibly entertaining and enlightening film. is her story, as told by her son. Special Jury Award for Cinematography. immersive VR documentaries, One of the most visionary politicians of our and on page 34 is our Ofering a rousing study of contemporary Disappointed with the representation of lifetime, former Soviet president Mikhail Nine million people. Forty-fve government- Documentary Shorts program. capitalism, Pemberton’s flm features analysis Indigenous people in her homeland and abroad, Gorbachev was the architect of opening Russia run ambulances. When an emergency from Piketty alongside The End of History Mita picked up a camera in her late 30s with the to the world. Herzog and collaborator André occurs in Mexico’s capital, help isn’t always And don’t forget our author Francis Fukuyama, Nobel laureate goal of changing the narrow, limited picture of Singer discover an 87-year-old statesman and on its way. Running their own unlicensed extraordinary Opening Night Joseph Stiglitz, award-winning fnance Māori and women. Nobel Prize winner, in waning health, refective paramedic service, the Ochoas assist the ailing Gala film, The Australian Dream, journalist Gillian Tett and more. It weaves Heperi Mita’s intimate, compelling celebration but resolute. and injured in their times of need. But, while their commentary into a dynamic, pop- their hearts are in the right place, they rely on about AFL star and Indigenous of his mum is a fascinating insight into the These intimate exchanges are backed by culture-infused rallying cry – scored by Air’s uncomfortable truths – bribing corrupt police rights activist Adam Goodes – life and legacy of a flmmaker who remains interviews with the major players of the JB Dunckel – which persuasively argues that to receive calls, racing fellow private operators for more details, including relatively unknown and underseen. glasnost and perestroika era, and illuminating what’s good for Wall Street is pretty terrible for to accident scenes and fnding customers non-gala sessions, see page 6. archival footage. Packed with emotion, Meeting the rest of us. DIRECTOR: HEPERI MITA who can pay. Gorbachev is a unique take on the political Mon 12 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 7611 DIRECTOR: JUSTIN PEMBERTON DIRECTOR: LUKE LORENTZEN Wed 14 Aug 6.15pm Kino 3701 documentary. Mon 5 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 9231 DIRECTORS: WERNER HERZOG, ANDRÉ SINGER Tue 6 Aug 6.30pm Kino 4281 Thu 8 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 9381 Thu 8 Aug 9pm SMOCA 5391 Fri 2 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 6061 Sat 17 Aug 9pm Nova 0871 Wed 7 Aug 4pm Forum 1320 mimiffff.com.au/documentaries.com.au 24 Documentaries

Nothing Fancy: Recorder: The Marion Monrovia, Indiana Diana Kennedy One Child Nation Our Time Machine Stokes Project USA 143 mins USA/Mexico 73 mins China/USA 85 mins China/USA 86 mins USA 87 mins

“Frederick Wiseman’s new film may just For nonagenarian chef and activist Diana Winner of this year’s Sundance documentary This Tribeca award winner follows renowned For more than 30 years, Marion Stokes change the way you look at small-town Kennedy, cooking is more than a mere Grand Jury Prize, this eye-opening film lays Chinese artist Maleonn’s quest to recreate recorded every minute of every TV channel in America.” – THE WASHINGTON POST profession: it’s an act of revolutionary bare China’s population-shaping policy, history on stage before his father’s America, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. But culinary anthropology. the accompanying propaganda and memory fades. who was she and why did she dedicate her Between the bright lights of LA and NY lies the the multi-generational impact that’s still life to something so obsessive? ‘real’ America. It’s the Land of the Free, centred British-born Diana Kennedy may well be being felt today. When Maleonn learns his father, Ma Ke, has on family, farming, God, sports and guns. It’s the world’s foremost expert on Mexican Alzheimer’s, he decides to lead the ailing Marion Stokes frst pressed record on her VCR the 1000 citizens of Monrovia. cooking. Honoured repeatedly by the Mexican Ofcially, China’s one-child policy ended in man through an ambitious project: Papa’s during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 and government and with nine cookbooks and 2015. But after 36 years, the restrictive regime Time Machine. Life-sized mechanical puppets, didn’t stop until her death in 2012. Is this a case Quietly perceptive but never moralising, two James Beard awards to her name, Kennedy isn’t easily shaken. Interviewing victims and steampunk contraptions of steel and leather of OCD taken to its extreme, or was Marion Monrovia, Indiana emerges as another gleaming is still going strong at 95, after more than six instigators, and delving into her own traumatic and wood, will interpret their lives on the Stokes a visionary archivist, documenting the tile in Wiseman’s expansive mosaic of decades documenting the vast cornucopia of family history, Nanfu Wang (co-directing with stage. Both men rejoice in the present but how great transformation of American media? American life. Shorter than recent oferings Mexico’s culinary landscape. fellow documentarian Jialing Zhang) not only long will these memories remain? And what such as Ex Libris (MIFF 18) but no less epic Recorder is Matt Wolf’s (Teenage, MIFF 13) uncovers heartbreaking truths that have been happens when the project runs out of both in ambition, it remains as expressive and The SXSW Special Jury Award winning fascinating attempt to answer that question. kept secret for decades but also trains her gaze money and time? enjoyable a portrait as anything the renowned Nothing Fancy takes us inside Kennedy’s famed on the gender discrimination at the centre of DIRECTOR: MATT WOLF Michoacán kitchen to reveal the woman behind Our Time Machine presents an extraordinary documentarian has done. Chinese society. Sat 10 Aug 4.15pm Hoyts 7481 the ferce and opinionated persona. creative repudiation of a devastating disease. Tue 13 Aug 9.15pm SMOCA 5661 DIRECTOR: FREDERICK WISEMAN DIRECTORS: NANFU WANG, JIALING ZHANG “Richly enjoyable.” – VARIETY DIRECTORS: S LEO CHIANG, YANG SUN, Sat 3 Aug 1pm Kino 4101 Sat 3 Aug 11.15am Capitol 2091 SHUANG LIANG Sun 18 Aug 10.45am Forum 1891 DIRECTOR: ELIZABETH CARROLL Fri 16 Aug 6.30pm SMOCA 5801 Sat 10 Aug 6.45pm Kino 4491 Sun 4 Aug 1.45pm SMOCA 5161 Sun 18 Aug 11.15am Kino 3891 Sat 10 Aug 4pm Forum 1481

Scheme Birds Seahorse Talking About Trees For My Father’s Kingdom The Rest Scotland/Sweden 87 mins Spain/UK 130 mins France/Germany/Sudan/Qatar 94 mins New Zealand 97 mins Germany 79 mins

The Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary “A nuanced, tender look at the life of trans Winner of both Documentary and Audience New Zealand filmmaker Vea Mafile’o Ai Weiwei fills his latest affecting, insightful winner, Scheme Birds is an unforgettable man Freddy McConnell and his struggle awards at this year’s Berlinale, Talking About contemplates the competing forces of faith and highly topical documentary with the work of cinema verité, a compassionate to conceive and deliver his own child.” Trees is a look at four retired Sudanese and family in the most intimate and personal voices, faces and bodies caught in Europe’s account of teenage life at Scotland’s – THE GUARDIAN filmmakers attempting to revive the cinematic way – by examining her ageing Tongan refugee crisis. forgotten margins. experience in a country determined to father’s unrelenting commitment to his church, Seahorses are almost alone in the animal suppress it. as well as the connection it represents to his Continuing the impassioned advocacy that For teens in Motherwell, there are two paths kingdom for giving the male of the species ancestral culture. has driven his recent artistic practice, the art in life: you can be “locked up or knocked up”. sole responsibility for carrying and birthing While the theatrical versus streaming debate superstar takes a personal approach to the plight That’s according to 17-year-old Gemma, a their ofspring. rages in the West, spare a thought for four Frustrated by their father’s devotion to a of displaced masses – recording their pleas for self-declared “top girl” whose lot is thrown into veteran Sudanese flmmakers who’ve been far-fung religious institution, and the impact For journalist Freddy McConnell, a trans help, their hopes for the future and their dismay disarray when she becomes pregnant to the unable to direct a movie in a country where an it has had on their lives, Vea and her brother man desperate to have a child, they ofered a at the hostility that greets their every move. wild, prison-bound Pat and must make her own oppressive regime has all but wiped the national Robert make the pilgrimage to his homeland model for how he might bring his own dream In stunning close-up portraits, The Rest follows difcult transition into adulthood. cinema from the culture. in an efort to comprehend his actions and to fruition. But being a pregnant man is even motivations. individual stories that contribute to an DIRECTORS: ELLEN FISKE AND ELLINOR HALLIN more complicated than it sounds, and Freddy’s An argument for the cultural vitality of unfinching and forthright examination of life cinema in troubled times, Talking About “A very personal insight into Tongan culture … Screens with The Jump (France, 12 mins), decision will challenge himself, his family and in tents, behind barbed wire and battling against Trees is a lovingly assembled portrait of this [and] an attempt, out of love, to understand a flm about how doing what you love will his entire community. unwelcoming bureaucracy. “Sudanese Film Club”. a father.” – THE MOVIE ISLE change your life. DIRECTOR: JEANIE FINLAY DIRECTOR: AI WEIWEI DIRECTOR: SUHAIB GASMELBARI DIRECTORS: VEA MAFILE’O, JEREMIAH TAUAMITI DIRECTORS: NICOLAS DAVENEL, Tue 6 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 6291 Sun 4 Aug 11.30am Plenary 0132 VANESSA DUMONT Thu 8 Aug 6.15pm Kino 3381 Sun 4 Aug 4pm Hoyts 6171 Thu 15 Aug 6.30pm Kino 3751 Wed 14 Aug 6.30pm SMOCA 5701 Sat 17 Aug 11am Kino 3831 Sun 4 Aug 11.15am Kino 3151 Sun 11 Aug 1.30pm Forum 1531 Tue 6 Aug 4pm SMOCA 5270

The Amazing Johnathan Documentary Cold Case Hammersjköld Walking on Water Vision Portraits Watergate USA 91 mins Denmark 128 mins Italy/USA 100 mins Canada/Germany/USA 78 mins USA 270 mins

Truth completely unravels in a wild meta- “This could either be the world’s biggest A behind-the-curtain peek at the creation of In this deeply personal documentary, An epic retelling of the loss of a nation’s documentary about a dying comedy trickster murder mystery, or the world’s most idiotic maverick artist Christo’s monumental Floating award-winning filmmaker Rodney Evans innocence, from Academy Award-winning and the director he torments. conspiracy theory.” – MADS BRÜGGER Piers installation in Italy. contemplates his loss of vision alongside the director Charles Ferguson. artistic processes of three other artists. Cult comic magician The Amazing Johnathan In 1961, on his way to negotiate a ceasefre Following the loss of his wife and muse in 2009, Corruption, cover-ups, Russia and Roger Stone – was diagnosed with a severe heart condition ... in the Congo, UN Secretary-General Dag Christo embarked on a project they began Diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder that it could only be one president. Conniver-in-Chief and one year to live. Naturally, he retires. Three Hammersjköld died in a plane crash. But planning 45 years ago: to create a glorious causes the gradual deterioration of vision, Evans Richard M Nixon was dethroned almost 50 years years later, he isn’t dead but he certainly is why was his corpse found with an ace of golden foating pathway between the Sulzano (Brother to Brother, MIFF 05) takes audiences ago, yet new revelations still emerge and the bored. So, why not go back on the road? spades tucked into his collar? Why were shore and San Paolo island in Italy. on a journey through the creative processes of contemporary parallels are obvious. himself and three other artists with disabilities Benjamin Berman, director of TV comedies there reports of gunfre? Did someone want With a keen eye for the situational absurdity This forensic investigation brings together while empathetically evoking the sensation of such as Man Seeking Woman, Workaholics and Hammersjköld dead? behind the scenes, Andrey Paounov tracks historic reporting, in-depth re-enactments losing eyesight and immersing the viewer in the Maria Bamford’s Lady Dynamite, is overjoyed. Parachuting himself into the centre of the Christo as he embarks on this gargantuan and new interviews with political and media world of the visually impaired. Finally, a chance to immortalise his childhood mystery, Mads Brügger (The Ambassador, feat of organisation, assisted by his highly powerbrokers. It reveals how paranoia of the hero’s comeback tour. But what was planned as MIFF 12) uncovers an outrageous parade strung, always entertaining nephew Vladimir. DIRECTOR: RODNEY EVANS press, Democrats and the ‘elites’ poisoned an adoring tribute soon rockets of the rails. of revelations involving secret death squads, What emerges is a unique portrait of an artist Screens with Lives in Action (Australia, 9 mins), Nixon’s presidency. DIRECTOR: BENJAMIN BERMAN international spies and white supremacist determined to realise his ambition. in which six Australians challenge stereotypes DIRECTOR: CHARLES FERGUSON militias, which earned him Sundance’s World DIRECTOR: ANDREY PAOUNOV and assumptions. Sat 10 Aug 6.30pm SMOCA 5491 Cinema Documentary Directing Award. Sun 4 Aug 1.15pm Capitol 2161 Sat 17 Aug 4.30pm Hoyts 7851 Sat 10 Aug 4pm SMOCA 5481 DIRECTORS: LILLIAN PATERSON, DIRECTOR: MADS BRÜGGER Wed 14 Aug 11am Forum 1670 HAWANATU BANGURA Presented by Sat 3 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1121 Sat 3 Aug 4.15pm Kino 3111 Thu 8 Aug 9.15pm Capitol 2391 Sat 10 Aug 11.15am Kino 3461

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5B For Sama The Cordillera of Dreams Untouchable Watson USA 93 mins Syria/UK 95 mins Chile/France 85 mins UK 98 mins USA 99 mins

Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes The AIDS crisis inflicts heartbreak but “A rare window into a woman’s experience Winning a Special Mention for Cannes’ The catalyst that launched #MeToo in global A passionate documentary about Sea pioneering nurses inspire hope in two-time of the Syrian conflict … Simple in concept coveted Golden Eye award for Documentary, consciousness, the fall of Harvey Weinstein is Shepherd co-founder Paul Watson and his Academy Award nominee Dan Krauss’s and shattering in execution, blending hard- the latest from Chilean master Patricio told through the testimony of the women he fight to save the world’s oceans. documentary, which he co-directed with headed reportage with unguarded personal Guzmán completes his superb trilogy of allegedly targeted in this powerful, damning Academy Award-winner Paul Haggis. testimony, it’s you-are-there cinema of the personal and political reflection on his documentary. An important record of the tireless crusader’s most literal order.” – VARIETY country’s landscape. activism, and of his decades-long battle to Krauss and Haggis train a sympathetic social Focusing on the survivors and creating a protect the oceans and their wildlife, Watson lens on Ward 5B in San Francisco General When the Arab Spring came to Aleppo in 2012, Having explored the north in Nostalgia for the safe space for them to tell their stories in compiles archival footage and personal Hospital. Founded in 1983 at the height of the Waad al-Kateab was one of the frst on the street. Light (MIFF 10) and the south in the The Pearl their own words, Untouchable pulls apart and anecdotes into a must-see portrait of a man AIDS crisis, this dedicated care unit provided A 20-year-old student and amateur flmmaker, Button (MIFF 15), Patricio Guzmán returns to contextualises the myths that allowed one of who’s a hero to many but an “eco-terrorist” to a refuge for those battling the merciless she began documenting the protests and the his homeland to reckon with the mysteries of Hollywood’s most rapacious accused predators some. The flm’s stunning underwater footage disease and its toxic stigma. It was an oasis for prolonged urban war that followed. the immense, yet unknowable “spine” of the free rein for decades. By situating his victims is extraordinary, showing just what Watson is compassion at a time when those aficted with Winner of both the Grand Jury and Audience nation: the vast, towering mountain range that centre stage, Ursula Macfarlane confronts desperately trying to protect. HIV were all too often spurned by medical Award for Best Documentary at SXSW, For closes it of from the rest of the world. audiences with the sheer scale of Weinstein’s facilities and even their own families. alleged crimes. As Untouchable proves, the story “A vital showcase of the power a person can have Sama is a documentary of savage power “The trilogy represents one of the great artistic to afect change and how far-reaching that change “An uplifting flm about human and immediacy. statements of the decade.” – CINEVUE of Harvey Weinstein is not really his story. It’s the story of women under patriarchy. can be.” – FILM INQUIRY decency.” – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Contains depictions of violence DIRECTOR: PATRICIO GUZMÁN Contains distressing scenes involving animals Contains high-impact sexual violence DIRECTORS: DAN KRAUSS, PAUL HAGGIS against children Thu 8 Aug 9.15pm Forum 1391 DIRECTOR: LESLEY CHILCOTT Sun 4 Aug 9pm Kino 4191 DIRECTORS: WAAD AL-KATEAB, EDWARD WATTS Sun 18 Aug 1.45pm Forum 1901 DIRECTOR: URSULA MACFARLANE Sun 11 Aug 11am Forum 1521 Sun 18 Aug 6.45pm SMOCA 5921 Sat 3 Aug 3.30pm Plenary 0042 Fri 2 Aug 6.45pm SMOCA 5061 Tue 13 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 9651 Thu 8 Aug 4.15pm Capitol 2370 Fri 9 Aug 9.45pm Capitol 2441

What You Gonna Do Los Reyes Maiden When the World’s on Fire? On the President’s Orders Aquarela Chile/Germany 78 mins UK 97 mins Italy/USA/France 123 mins USA/UK/Philippines 72 mins Denmark/Germany/USA/UK 89 mins

Get up close and personal with two adorable “An all-women crew’s entry in a fabled The breakout hit of the Venice Film Festival – “The searing story of President Duterte’s “Victor Kossakovsky’s bombastic documentary stray dogs in this unusual documentary, which around-the-world yacht race gets a where it won four awards – this is an bloody campaign against drug dealers captures the raw power of water … an won the International Documentary Film lively retelling in this exciting, inspiring exquisite portrait of life in New Orleans and and addicts in the Philippines, told with experience of shock and awe, as well Festival Amsterdam’s Special Jury Award. documentary.” — VARIETY the people making their way on the black unprecedented and intimate access.” as wonder.” – SCREEN DAILY side of America’s race divide. – WE ARE MOVING STORIES It’s a dog’s life for Fútbol and Chola, a pair of In 1989, 24-year-old Tracey Edwards made In Aquarela, boundary-pushing documentary playfully inquisitive strays who’ve become a history skippering the frst all-female crew in Unfolding over the course of one sweltering In this explosive investigation, James Jones maker Victor Kossakovsky (¡Vivan Los Antipodas!, fxture at the Los Reyes skatepark in Santiago. the Whitbread Round the World yacht race. But summer, Roberto Minervini’s flm ofers us and Olivier Sarbil’s cameras stand before the MIFF 12) turns his unparalleled cinematic eye The spritely Chola chases balls down halfpipes the world of sailing was still a boys’ club, and four glimpses into the city’s psyche: Judy, a victimised slum communities and the police to the most fundamental of all subjects: water. recovering addict and bar owner; young squads blithely executing their countrymen. and the older Fútbol looks on with gentle her decision to enter the race with only women A jaw-droppingly vivid collage of footage shot in brothers Ronaldo and Titus; Kevin, a proud The staggering visions of violence, shot with admonishment, but these two mutts share a on board faced derision from the media, the Russia, Miami, Venezuela, Greenland and more, Mardi Gras chief; and the New Black Panthers. a kinetic slickness and immediacy, are so charmingly unshakable bond. sailing community, and sponsors. Aquarela is a globe-trotting and at times death- electrifying viewers will have to remind Los Reyes will melt the heart and pique the Maiden tells the story of how Edwards and her Shot in lustrous, high-contrast black-and-white, defying exercise in documentary flmmaking – a themselves: this is happening now, this is real. senses as it focuses – in empathetic detail – on crew overcame all the odds to not only launch What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? is truly visceral cinematic experience that serves its four-legged stars, while capturing a vivid their boat but also to triumphantly navigate it an astonishing exercise in cinéma vérité. DIRECTORS: JAMES JONES, OLIVIER SARBIL as a tribute to the power of water and a warning impression of the park’s human life. around the world. DIRECTOR: ROBERTO MINERVINI Screens with Lost Rambos (Australia/PNG, about the dangers of taking it for granted. DIRECTORS: BETTINA PERUT, IVÁN OSNOVIKOFF DIRECTOR: ALEX HOLMES Wed 7 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1331 22 mins), about tribal disputes in PNG and how DIRECTOR: VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY Sat 3 Aug 11am Forum 1091 Mon 5 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1231 Sun 18 Aug 4pm Hoyts 6911 they’ve been reshaped by guns. Sat 3 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 6121 Sat 10 Aug 4pm Capitol 2481 Sun 11 Aug 6.45pm SMOCA 5551 DIRECTOR: CHRIS PHILLIPS Mon 12 Aug 9pm Forum 1611 Thu 8 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 8381 Sat 10 Aug 9pm SMOCA 5501

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Picture Character Bellingcat: Truth in Sea of Shadows The Biggest Little Farm USA/Germany/Japan/Argentina/ Sakawa a Post-Truth World Austria 104 mins USA (PG) 92 mins Austria/UK/Scotland 80 mins Belgium/Netherlands 81 mins Netherlands 88 mins

A Sundance Audience Award winner, “The Biggest Little Farm feels like fresh air It’s the 21st century’s lingua franca: a global After mainstream media ‘fake news’ scandals An arresting vision of the scammers of Ghana Sea of Shadows is a riveting eco-thriller for the soul … an inspirational story of one pictorial alphabet that has turned our into and cost-cutting, now citizen journalists are behind the computer keyboards. documenting the fight to save the world’s couple who made an impact by entirely a hotbed of , and . Picture Character breaking the world’s most compelling stories. most endangered whale from a high-stakes rethinking their ecological footprint.” – VARIETY is the fascinating inside story of emojis. Sakawa introduces us to three impoverished Pinpointing the cause of the MH17 catastrophe, black market involving Mexican cartels and Ghanians who join gangs of scammers the Chinese mafia. Married couple John and Molly Chester The contemporary hieroglyphs known as unmasking Unite The Right attackers, exposing knew nothing about agriculture when they emojis have been adopted with gusto. But in crumbling buildings to con westerners the secret agents who poisoned the Skripals – it The Sea of Cortez is home to the totoaba, ambitiously decided to start a biodiverse farm how does this ideographic garden grow? out of money with promises of love and wasn’t Al Jazeera or The New York Times, it was dubbed aquatic cocaine due to the exorbitant on depleted land an hour’s drive from LA. But Picture Character takes us behind the scenes sex. Drenched in e-waste, superstition and Bellingcat. Led by stay-at-home dad Eliot prices it fetches, and the vaquita porpoise, in directing this joyful documentary, John on the campaigns for a hijab, maté gourd and desperation, they plot a better life. Higgins, these armchair sleuths and spare-room collateral damage in the illegal fshing of the Chester turns his and Molly’s tree change period emojis. Framed and shot as artfully as a verité drama, data-crunchers might just be the future of totoaba. In this gripping, beautifully shot cri de into something both enchanting and morally Thoughtful, fun and engaging, Picture Sakawa is the true story of the dark corners investigative journalism. cœur, Richard Ladkani (The Ivory Game) charts challenging. of our interconnected internet village, where the many eforts to bring the vaquita back from Character follows the diverse petitioning the Director and cinematographer Hans Pool’s eye Thanks to John’s background shooting nature predominantly white, Unicode Consortium, globalism’s prey become predators across a for mood and menace, on the major players the brink of extinction, while also combating satellite link and phone line. the poachers, trafckers and mobsters documentaries, the flm is packed with stunning proving that representation matters, on silver and the experts who watch the watchers, makes threatening the totoaba. imagery as it charts their quiet, radical changes screens as much as on phone screens. “A morally complex and deeply Bellingcat play out like a spy thriller. over eight years. DIRECTORS: MARTHA SHANE, IAN CHENEY human flm.” – SCREEN ANARCHY Contains distressing scenes involving animals DIRECTOR: HANS POOL DIRECTOR: JOHN CHESTER Sat 3 Aug 11.15am Kino 4091 DIRECTOR: BEN ASAMOAH Tue 6 Aug 9pm Kino 4291 DIRECTOR: RICHARD LADKANI Fri 2 Aug 4pm Kino 4050 Sat 17 Aug 6.45pm SMOCA 5861 Mon 5 Aug 4.15pm Kino 4220 Thu 15 Aug 4.15pm SMOCA 5740 Sun 4 Aug 9.30pm Plenary 0242 Sun 11 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 6551 Sun 11 Aug 11am SMOCA 5521 Sat 17 Aug 10.45am Capitol 2833 Sat 17 Aug 11am Hoyts 9831

The Seer and the Unseen Honeyland Present.Perfect. Jawline Machine Iceland 86 mins North Macedonia 85 mins USA/Hong Kong 124 mins USA 98 mins Australia 86 mins

World Premiere The future of the planet is at stake, and one A multiple award winner at Sundance, “[This Rotterdam Film Festival] Tiger Award Tennessee teen Austyn Tester chases his Infiltrating everything from transport to woman won’t give up without a fight – for Honeyland is a visually sumptuous look at the winner looks at the culture of live-streaming version of the American dream one like and military to healthcare – among an ever- both Iceland’s volcanic plains, and for the endangered tradition of Macedonian wild in China … [and] raises important questions live-stream at a time in this eye-opening growing list of fields – artificial intelligence country’s elves. beekeeping, the tenacious woman keeping it about the politics of viewership, the exploration of today’s influencer culture. is no longer merely the realm of science alive, and the powerful message her efforts documentary form’s complex ties to reality fiction. In a world where machines are Expanding your Icelandic bed and breakfast? have for us all. and about human relationships in a digitally Sixteen-year-old aspiring social media star fast becoming smarter than people, what Erecting a new building on the island’s connected world.” – CINEVUE Tester doesn’t just want his 15 minutes of makes humanity special? And what does our sprawling countryside? Worried about the Deep in the Balkans, Hatidze Muratova tends fame. He wants a whole lifetime of it. Posting increasing reliance upon and subservience to impact upon the Nordic nation’s magical to her elderly mother, and to her wild bees. The In 2017, over 400 million everyday Chinese inspirational videos beloved by besotted girls, technology mean for our future? inhabitants? Then Ragnhildur Jonsdottir is an women are the last hold-outs of a crumbling “anchors” were regularly sharing every he’s trying to earn his big break by selling village, and of a dying way of life. But when a moment from their “studios” – homes, ofces, A hard-hitting, wide-ranging and eye-opening essential port of call. Ragga can see and speak self-empowerment to the masses – but, at a documentary astutely compiled and edited by with the huldufólk: elves, dwarves and trolls new family arrives, bringing modernity with classrooms – through video live-streaming sites. time when everyone has a smartphone and an the team behind Netfix’s Chef’s Table, Machine that occupy a unique place in Icelandic identity. them, they threaten everything Hatidze has Then the government shut it all down. Instagram feed, it’s a ruthless business. spent her life protecting. ponders these questions, and examines our Protecting their habitats and rallying against Composed entirely from footage sifted out of “An engaging, amusing and occasionally fast-changing, AI-infused reality, as well as its Iceland’s development boom, she’s also waging hundreds of hours of streams, Present.Perfect. is Honeyland is an engaging parable for humanity’s jaw-dropping portrait.” – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER immense impact upon everything from identity a determined war to save her homeland. fractured relationship with nature. both a time capsule from another era while also and creativity to longevity and sexuality. being a remarkably pertinent commentary on DIRECTOR: LIZA MANDELUP DIRECTOR: SARA DOSA DIRECTORS: LJUBOMIR STEFANOV, contemporary Chinese society. Mon 5 Aug 6.30pm Kino 3231 DIRECTOR: JUSTIN KROOK Sun 4 Aug 11am Forum 1151 TAMARA KOTEVSKA Wed 7 Aug 9.15pm Kino 4341 Fri 16 Aug 6.15pm Hoyts 7801 Wed 7 Aug 1.30pm Forum 1310 Fri 2 Aug 11am Forum 1030 DIRECTOR: SHENGZE ZHU Sun 18 Aug 7pm Capitol 2921 Sat 17 Aug 1.30pm Hoyts 6841 Wed 7 Aug 6.15pm Hoyts 7331 Sun 18 Aug 4pm Kino 3911 Sat 10 Aug 6.30pm Nova 0951

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Chinese Portrait The Hidden City La Flor Hong Kong 79 mins Spain/France/Germany 80 mins Argentina 868 mins

Chronicling the state of the nation one A subterranean symphony that takes Settle in for 14 hours of remarkable carefully arranged image at a time, the us deep below the modern metropolis, filmmaking that takes cinematic storytelling to first feature-length documentary from The Hidden City transforms the labyrinth of unequalled new heights. Wang Xiaoshuai (Red Amnesia, MIFF 15) tunnels and sewers beneath Madrid into an provides an illuminating window into China’s otherworldly fantasia. La Flor builds an engaging, bingeable, recent history. metatextual work about storytelling, authorship The Hidden City takes a visually abstract, and viewership. Call it a single-origin anthology Shooting over 10 years and inspired by the alien-eye view of the vast networks that lie flm that traverses multiple languages and work of painter Liu Xiaodong, Wang traverses deep below the surface of Madrid, following genres – from B-grade mummy movie to the country to capture factory employees, workers who seem to be exploring intergalactic musical melodrama, 80s espionage thriller to farmers, fshermen, construction workers, train realms, travelling through tunnels that evoke self-referential satirical ‘documentary’ – always passengers, beachside tourists, students and 2001: A Space Odyssey, and capturing the remaining entertaining, amusing and enjoyable. more, all in motionless poses. But, in a ftting city’s underground menagerie in haunting parallel of contemporary Chinese life, nothing night vision. La Flor’s six parts will screen across three one-of truly remains static in these intricate tableaux. sessions with built-in intermissions. DIRECTOR: VICTOR MORENO “An utterly revealing snapshot of the state of DIRECTOR: MARIANO LLINÁS Screens with House of Glass (Portugal, Wang’s country.” – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Fri 16 Aug 6.30pm Kino 4805 23 mins), winner of the Voices Short Award at Sat 17 Aug 10.15am Kino 4835 DIRECTOR: WANG XIAOSHUAI International Film Festival Rotterdam. Sun 18 Aug 10.45am Kino 4895 Sun 11 Aug 1.30pm Hoyts 7531 DIRECTOR: FILIPE MARTINS Full $60* | Conc. $55* | MIFF Members $50* Sun 18 Aug 4pm Nova 0911 Sat 10 Aug 1.45pm Hoyts 6471 Valid with all passes except Admit Ones Thu 15 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 6761 Can only be booked as a package of all Your Face three sessions

Over the Rainbow The Trial Bait Ghost Tropic Your Face USA 75 mins Netherlands 128 mins UK 87 mins Belgium 85 mins Taiwan 77 mins

Direct from Cannes

A unique and arresting examination of Composed exclusively from real courtroom Class divisions and the threat of gentrification Arriving at the end of the subway line, a Tsai Ming-Liang swaps the virtual-reality Scientology, straight from the mouths of those footage, The Trial finds Sergei Loznitsa giving tear apart culture and community in a small woman plunges into an overnight odyssey splendour of The Deserted (MIFF 18) for a within and those escaping the church. audiences a front-row seat to a chilling Soviet fishing village in this arresting fusion of social through a hushed and haunting Brussels in contemplative work of close-up portraiture, show trial. realism and avant-garde filmmaking. this 16mm gem. paired with a score by Ryuichi Sakamoto. The Church of Scientology is a big target, a religion young enough that its roots are bare, The Trial takes place in Moscow in 1930 where a At the heart of Cornish flmmaker Mark Khadija falls asleep on the train and awakes at Tsai crafts a refective, meticulous compilation its dogma lacking centuries of patina. While Stalin-orchestrated plot sees a group of scientists Jenkin’s monochromed experimental the end of the line. With no means of getting of 13 expressive faces all training their gazes at pointed exposés have abounded in recent years, accused of planning a coup d’état. The suspects melodrama are two brothers: one determined home, she must make the journey back to the camera. Across a series of unbroken shots, award-winning documentary maker Jefrey are questioned in a packed courtroom where to maintain the traditional fshing industry; Brussels on foot and gets up close with the Your Face roves over a revealing gallery of people, Peixoto takes a diferent tack in his frst feature – charges are fabricated and the punishment, if the other using the family boat to cater to changing face of her adopted homeland. peering at twinkling eyes, crinkled noses and he listens to the believers. convicted, is death. The footage is real, but the tourists. Bitter and angry at each other’s Touching and generous, this story of a mild- awkward smiles to examine the world of stories story is not – the judges, prosecutors, witnesses stubborness, the brothers are at the centre of a contained in each face. Confronting and compelling, Over the Rainbow mannered cleaning woman making her way and the suspects are all telling lies. divided community. provides a rare space for viewers to engage with through the night is a rare and spirited dose DIRECTOR: TSAI MING-LIANG humanity’s unshakeable urge to structure its “The flm’s present-day resonances, right down Shot on 16mm, Bait feels like a strange remix of compassion. Screens with Light (Taiwan, 18 mins), which of British New Wave cinema where the world through faith. to the Kafa reference in its title, could not “A stunning little gem.” – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Tsai shot in the same hall as Your Face, this time be clearer.” – POV MAGAZINE clash of stylistic devices mirrors the onscreen focusing on the building’s light. “A profound, productively unsettling, and cultural clash. DIRECTOR: BAS DEVOS DIRECTOR: SERGEI LOZNITSA extremely accomplished flm.” – FILM COMMENT Mon 12 Aug 1.15pm SMOCA 5580 DIRECTOR: TSAI MING-LIANG DIRECTOR: MARK JENKIN DIRECTOR: JEFFREY PEIXOTO Tue 6 Aug 11am Forum 1250 Sun 18 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 7921 Sat 10 Aug 4.30pm Kino 4481 Tue 13 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 7661 Thu 8 Aug 9pm Hoyts 7391 Wed 14 Aug 9.15pm Kino 4711 Tue 6 Aug 4.15pm Kino 4270 Sat 17 Aug 4.15pm Kino 4851 Sat 10 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 7501

Taking the Horse Ridge to Eat Jalebis The Grand Bizarre I Was at Home, But 2019 MIFF Sweden 71 mins India 122 mins USA 61 mins Germany/Serbiia 105 mins Audience Award BAUHAUS

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hate it, A mesmerising Scandi experience, this “A highly imaginative panoramic portrait This dazzling experimental animation tours Charting a widowed mother’s unusual award-winning blend of documentary and of [Old Delhi] … a thrilling tribute to one of the global textile marketplace at a pace reaction to the disappearance of her rate it! drama recalls Reygadas and Tarkovsky. the oldest, most vibrant parts of one of the that’ll get your heart racing. teenage son, this unconventional family world’s great cities.” – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER portrait by Angela Schanelec took home this John Skoog turns the camera on the Swedish Experimental animator Jodie Mack loves a pun. year’s Berlinale Silver Bear for Best Director. Cast your vote at village where he was born. Local residents Based on the accounts of the residents of Old Her debut feature rifs on the imagery of bazaars Delhi – many of whom star in the flm – Taking One of the Berlin School’s leading lights miff.com.au/rate or on mingle with actors in this enigmatic and and their patterned textiles, which globalisation bewitching hybrid where farmers, tourists, the Horse to Eat Jalebis is the bold and unique has rendered both omnipresent and strange. alongside Maren Ade and Christian Petzold, the MIFF app to go into migrant workers and modern machinery help flm debut from acclaimed playwright Anamika The Grand Bizarre is an exhilarating audiovisual no one makes flms quite like Schanelec to draw to win a premium tell the story of his peaceful town over one Haksar. A sprawling, multi-focal exercise in adventure, flmed in 16mm, and stufed full (The Dreamed Path, MIFF 17); her intimate ticket suite to MIFF 2020. summer. Ridge won the top award at CPH:DOX style, genre and cinematic technique, it is by of colours and textures. With its cross-cultural observations, stylised imagery and often and Best Cinematography prize at the Goteborg turns comic, tragic and surreal, hurtling from celebration of pace and abundance, this is an elliptical narratives prove equally challenging, Film Festival. animated dreamscape to documentary realism immersive sensory pleasure. playful and enthralling. The German with a vividness and verve that befts Old flmmaker is at her best with this insightful and DIRECTOR: JOHN SKOOG DIRECTOR: JODIE MACK Delhi itself. amusing drama. Screens with The Kiss of the Catfsh (France, Screens with Hoarders Without Boarders (USA, DIRECTOR: ANAMIKA HAKSAR “A confdent doubling-down on [Schanelec’s] 15 mins), in which a fsherman eagerly searches 6 mins), Jodie’s Mack’s entrancing new uber-distinctive style … calmly, radically for the mysterious aquatic beast. Tue 6 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 7281 experimental work on mineralogist Mary Sun 11 Aug 9.15pm SMOCA 5561 mystifying.” – SIGHT & SOUND DIRECTOR: JUNE BALTHAZARD Johnson and her collection. DIRECTOR: ANGELA SCHANELEC Wed 7 Aug 4.15pm Kino 4320 DIRECTOR: JODIE MACK Sun 4 Aug 4.15pm Kino 3171 Sat 17 Aug 11.15am Hoyts 7831 Fri 2 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 7061 Thu 8 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 7381 Wed 7 Aug 6.45pm Kino 4331

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NFSA Restores: Black Robe Sátántangó Brick and Mirror The Queen Canada/Australia/USA (M) 96 mins Hungary/Germany/Switzerland 450 mins Iran 130 mins USA 68 mins

“An absorbing intellectual epic … it is hard to Restored to mark its 25th anniversary, Béla A pioneering example of the first Iranian Before the iconic Paris is Burning, before shake the memory of Black Robe.” – LA TIMES Tarr’s breathtaking magnum opus is an New Wave, and a key influence on Abbas RuPaul’s Drag Race, there was The Queen. examination of time and human decline set Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi, Ebrahim Discover Frank Simon’s groundbreaking 1968 Australian flmmaker Bruce Beresford won during the dying days of communism. Golestan’s journey through pre-revolutionary documentary, set in New York’s competitive much acclaim with this tale of a Jesuit priest Tehran is as powerful today as it was five drag world, in this fabulous new restoration. trekking through 17th-century Canada to Irimiás, a man thought to have died long ago, decades ago. spread Christianity’s infuence, with his teenage returns to a desolate Hungarian community Debuting just before the Stonewall Riots, Frank translator in tow and with the Algonquin just as its desperate inhabitants are planning After a woman leaves a baby in Hashem’s taxi, Simon’s queer classic focuses on the 1967 Miss people as their guides. to escape. He predicts better times ahead. But he tries to fnd someone to take the child – but All-America Camp Beauty Pageant, taking he’s a false prophet, and what unfolds is a even in the seemingly calm Tehran of the early audiences inside the world of competitive Anchored by Lothaire Bluteau’s exceptional nightmarish vision of a decaying social order. 1960s, help isn’t easy to come by. drag and introducing two LGBTQI icons performance, Black Robe is a magnifcently and activists: Crystal LaBeija, the founder of Tarr’s flm is a masterpiece of contemporary In its probing story, its exploration of shot, multi-award-winning exploration of “house” culture for drag queens, and transgender cinema, regularly lauded but rarely screened. corruption and responsibility, and its the missionary impulse, and Indigenous and pioneer Flawless Sabrina. French colonist life. This beautiful restoration from the original meticulously expressive imagery – as newly 35mm negative is an absolute must-see restored in all of its black-and-white glory – It’s a fascinating snapshot of an era, and a DIRECTOR: BRUCE BERESFORD for cinephiles. this is a groundbreaking classic. formative moment in queer cinema. Sat 17 Aug 1.15pm Capitol 2841 Contains images of animal cruelty DIRECTOR: EBRAHIM GOLESTAN DIRECTOR: FRANK SIMON See page 38 for the MIFF Talks Sun 4 Aug 11am Kino 4151 event Bruce Beresford In Conversation. DIRECTOR: BÉLA TARR Sat 17 Aug 4pm Capitol 2851

Presented by the National Film and Sat 3 Aug 10am Astor 0095 Sound Archive’s digital restoration program: NFSA restores – reviving Full $40* | Conc. $35* | MIFF Members $30* our cinema icons. Valid with all passes except Admit Ones

Distant Voices, Still Lives Return Home Pixote Seven Beauties The Juniper Tree UK (PG) 84 mins Australia (M) 87 mins Brazil (R18+) 126 mins Italy (R18+) 117 mins Iceland 78 mins

Direct from Cannes Terence Davies’ moving memoir of family life Ben Mendelsohn plays a headstrong “A trenchant, uncompromising look at A stunning new restoration of the great Lina Beautifully restored in 4K, the feature-film in working-class Liverpool during the 1940s mechanic in this astutely observed Brazilian juvenile delinquents, Pixote is Wertmüller’s multiple-Oscar-nominated classic, debut of Björk is a dreamy, monochromatic and 50s is gorgeously restored to mark its snapshot of suburban Australia, starring a social exposé of the first order.” – VARIETY a bitingly funny and savage look at fascism poem of a film that gives a feminist twist to a 30th anniversary. opposite Dennis Coard and Frankie J that retains its bracing power to unnerve. lesser-known Grimm fairytale. Holden – the restored print of which world Four decades ago, more than half of Brazil’s Davies declared himself a flmmaker of singular premieres at MIFF. population was aged under 21, including over Lovingly restored from its original 35mm In a stark medieval Iceland, Katla and Margit vision with his frst feature flm, a deeply three million homeless children. Pixote is one negatives, the masterful Seven Beauties returns in are orphaned when their mother is burned as a personal view of life with an abusive father, and When divorce beckons for Noel McKenzie, he of them: a 10-year-old forced to grow up fast in an unmissable new presentation that showcases witch. Katla marries widower Jóhann to secure the aftermath of his death for his wife and three returns to Adelaide. It’s the promise of comfort, the slums, and left to fght for survival in the its undiminished power to shock, thrill the sisters’ safety, but their new life on Jóhann’s adult children. familiarity and stability that draws Noel country’s unforgiving underworld. and surprise. farm is complicated by his son, who resents in – that, and the visions of his carefree youth Katla’s presence as his stepmother. Winner of the International Critics Prize at he sees in apprentice Gary. But as shopping First screened at MIFF in 1982, Hector The flm follows self-absorbed Neapolitan Cannes in 1988, it’s an exquisitely composed centres and discount service stations destabilise Babenco’s Golden Globe-nominated drama is dandy and low-level mafoso Pasqualino Shot in 35mm, American director Nietzchka triumph of visual storytelling and memoir the community, his old stomping ground also a landmark piece of cinema. With the original Frafuso through World War II-era Italy and Keene’s debut delivers its own allegorical cinema. This British Film Institute restoration faces a diferent future. 35mm print having been painstakingly restored Germany. A vicious indictment of fascism, reading of the original story, as a 21-year-old confrms its position among the greatest of all in 4K, this extraordinary work has never looked entitlement and complacency that’s just Björk’s other-worldly performance underscores British flms. “A joyous, unafected but also melancholy portrait better on the big screen. as confronting and hilarious as it was in the flm’s rising, atmospheric tension. of masculinity.” – SENSES OF CINEMA 1975, Seven Beauties remains a high point in DIRECTOR: TERENCE DAVIES Contains depictions of high-impact sexual DIRECTOR: NIETZCHKA KEENE DIRECTOR: RAY ARGALL Wertmüller’s career. Sat 10 Aug 4.15pm Astor 0481 violence against children Sun 11 Aug 6.45pm Forum 1551 Sat 10 Aug 4pm Kino 3481 DIRECTOR: LINA WERTMÜLLER DIRECTOR: HECTOR BABENCO Mon 12 Aug 9pm Capitol 2611 Thu 15 Aug 9.15pm Kino 4761 BAUHAUS Cnr Southbank Boulevard & Dodds Street, Southbank VIC

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Peter D Cole, Elemental landscape 2009–19 (detail), enamel on brass, 52 parts, dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist, © the artist Penelope Spheeris Agnieszka Holland Directors in Focus Directors in Focus

Dudes The Boys Next Door Mr. Jones Angry Harvest Burning Bush USA (M) 90 mins USA (MA15+) 91 mins UK/Poland/Ukraine 118 mins West Germany 105 mins Czech Republic 232 mins

“A somewhat forgotten but simply Penelope Spheeris’s visionary polemic Agnieszka Holland’s new film is a biopic An act of kindness becomes a terrifying trap Agnieszka Holland’s searing three-part opus unforgettable punk rock western, against toxic masculinity stars Charlie Sheen about Welsh journalist Gareth Jones and in Agnieszka Holland’s Oscar-nominated recounts the fiery sacrifice of a young Prague dubbed ‘The Easy Rider of the Eighties’.” and Maxwell Caulfield as the titular boys: his efforts to expose Soviet atrocities drama about a woman on the run through student protesting the Soviet occupation of – NIGHT FLIGHT young, white, resentful and deadly. during the 1930s. World War II Poland who becomes an object Czechoslovakia in 1969. of fascination for a local farmer. Three New York punks (Jon Cryer, Daniel On the eve of their graduation, teens Roy and Jones became the frst person to report on the This three-part epic returned Holland to Roebuck and Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Bo take a road trip to LA. What begins as one Holodomor, the man-made famine that killed After being separated from her family while the Prague Spring of her own youth, a Flea) decide to move to LA, and drive straight last weekend of fun before settling into a life of millions. But his coverage came at signifcant escaping a prisoner transport on its way to a time in which the flmmaker was arrested into a bloodthirsty cat-and-mouse game with a drudgery turns into an of-the-rails rampage, risk, and cost, to his safety, his reputation concentration camp, Rosa stumbles into the for supporting the dissident movement in redneck gang, led by the scenery-chewing Lee as the otherwise unassuming ‘boys next door’ and his career. As Jones, James Norton turns felds belonging to Leon. Taking pity on Rosa, communist Czechoslovakia. the farmer decides to hide her. But Leon’s act of Ving from LA punk band Fear. descend into homicidal sociopathy. in a career-best performance. Also starring Burning Bush follows the aftermath of those benevolence soon turns sinister when he allows Blending action, drama and comedy, Penelope Driven by a punk and metal soundtrack Peter Saarsgard and Vanessa Kirby, Mr. Jones events, when history student Jan Palach set his passion for Rosa to overcome his morality. Spheeris’s punk western feels ahead of its featuring Iggy Pop and The Cramps, The Boys is compelling, powerful flm about a crusader himself on fre to protest the Soviet occupation. time, bridging her early cult flms and her Next Door is arguably more relevant today than determined to reveal the truth even in the face This electrifying work is a clash of class, religion, Holland’s acclaimed, historically rigorous later studio comedies. The soundtrack ofers when it was released in 1985. extreme danger. principles and sex that provides no easy answers. drama tracks the battle for Palach’s legacy and just as much fun as the flm’s hallucinatory DIRECTOR: PENELOPE SPHEERIS “Rousingly speaks to our current global DIRECTOR: AGNIESZKA HOLLAND the values of democracy itself, and is one of her western fourishes. condition.” – LITTLE WHITE LIES most haunting and unmissable works. Sun 11 Aug 9.15pm Kino 3561 Sat 10 Aug 9pm Kino 4501 DIRECTOR: PENELOPE SPHEERIS DIRECTOR: AGNIESZKA HOLLAND DIRECTOR: AGNIESZKA HOLLAND Sat 17 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 7861 Sat 3 Aug 6.30pm SMOCA 5121 Sun 11 Aug 11.15am Kino 3521 Thu 8 Aug 4pm Forum 1370

Suburbia Penelope Spheeris Shorts Fever A Woman Alone In Darkness USA (R18+) 94 mins USA 91 mins Poland 116 mins Poland 92 mins Poland/Germany/Canada (MA15+) 145 mins

“Probably the best teenagers-in-revolt movie See all of the early short films directed Released in 1981 and immediately banned Banned for six years, then censored by Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film since Jonathan Kaplan’s Over the Edge.” by Penelope Spheeris, screening at MIFF by the communist government, Agnieszka the state when it finally aired on television, at the 2012 Academy Awards, Agnieszka – THE NEW YORK TIMES thanks to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Holland’s striking film about anarchists Agnieszka Holland’s last film before Holland’s starkly realistic World War II and Sciences. and a bomb is a powerful exploration of emigrating from Poland examines the drama explores a complex true tale of Penelope Spheeris encapsulates the ethos of 80s revolutionary ideals. Holocaust heroism. punk in America under Reagan: down, dirty Restored and preserved by the Academy desolate lives of the poor and disabled during the country’s Solidarity era. and do-it-yourself. She recruited street kids Film Archive, these eight independent Based on Andrzej Strug’s 1910 novel The Story In her third flm about the period after fellow and punks as actors (including a young Flea of short flms – made between 1968 and of a Bullet, Holland’s flm is ostensibly a For divorcée Irena, communism’s promised Oscar nominees Angry Harvest and Europa the Red Hot Chili Peppers) and flmed in drug- 1998 – showcase an emerging director already biography of a bomb and the young militants utopia is merely a dream. When she begins Europa, Holland doesn’t sugar-coat her story or infested squats. Killer live performances from breaking rules, embracing diversity and opposing Poland’s tsarist regime who come in a relationship with coalminer Jacek, Irena shy away from its difcult reality. In Darkness underground legends T S O L, The Vandals and championing underdogs. From experimental contact with it. dares to hope for a diferent life, but luck is delves into the minutiae of struggling to D I amp up the nihilism. works to documentaries and sci-f, Spheeris’s Released in the midst of the anti-communist hard to fnd. survive amidst unthinkable cruelty, as aided by shorts reveal an ambitious flmmaker with a cinematographer Jolanta Dylewska’s stunningly Raw, real and heartfelt, Suburbia is the perfect strikes that led to Poland’s Solidarity Movement, Screening at MIFF in its restored form, singular vision. textured images. fctional bookend to Spheeris’s legendary punk Fever is a vital document against oppression, as including fve minutes of previously cut doc The Decline of Western Civilization. Screening will be: Synthesis, Bath, The National brutally signifcant now as it was before the material, this handheld social realist drama “Convincing in its detail, nail-chewing in Rehabilitation Center, Shit, I Don’t Know, Hats Of collapse of communism across Eastern Europe. ranks among Holland’s most impassioned, its mounting suspense, In Darkness is “One of the great flms of all time.” to Hollywood, No Use Walking When You Can Stroll critical works. illuminating, provocative and bracingly – DESTROY ALL MOVIES DIRECTOR: AGNIESZKA HOLLAND and Boy and Crows. unsentimental.” – TIME OUT Sat 10 Aug 1.30pm Kino 3471 DIRECTOR: AGNIESZKA HOLLAND Contains images of violence DIRECTOR: PENELOPE SPHEERIS DIRECTOR: AGNIESZKA HOLLAND and animal cruelty Mon 5 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 7231 Mon 5 Aug 9.15pm Kino 3241 Fri 9 Aug 3.30pm Capitol 2420 DIRECTOR: PENELOPE SPHEERIS Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive Fri 9 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 7431

Man of Marble Provincial Actors Europa Europa Poland (M) 153 mins Poland 121 mins Germany/France (M) 115 mins

Agnieszka Holland collaborated with Andrzej Agnieszka Holland’s compelling, FIPRESCI Truth is stranger than fiction in Agnieszka Wajda on this powerful reckoning with the Prize-winning debut film goes behind the Holland’s Golden Globe-winning masterwork hypocrisy of the Soviet regime, which won scenes of a theatre troupe to explore the about a young Jewish man who survives the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes 1978. human cost of censorship and ideological World War II as a member of the Hitler Youth. conflict in communist Poland. Although she went uncredited due to Soviet Germany 1938. Solomon “Solly” Perel is censorship laws, Holland served as assistant A young Warsaw theatre director travels to preparing for his bar mitzvah as the Nazi director to Wajda (Afterimage, MIFF 17) on the provinces to mount a classic play and fnds persecution of Jews begins. Separated from his Man of Marble, whose lead character doubles as himself in confict with his ageing lead actor, family, Solly becomes Josef Peters, an Aryan an avatar for Holland herself. Krzysztof. Pushed to the brink, Krzysztof risks German, who struggles in the face of increasing his already fraught relationship with his wife In a clever formal rif on Citizen Kane, a young horrors to hide who he really is. and his sanity in pursuit of one fnal great flmmaker explores the life of bricklayer Based on Perel’s memoir, Holland’s flm is a performance. Mateusz Birkut. Her search leads her to clash powerful evocation of the moral complexities with authorities, as Wajda stages a scathing Part black comedy on collective ideological and absurdities of war. It will be presented at assault on government manipulation and a delusion, part intimate tragedy of one man’s MIFF in a meticulous 2K restoration. mental decline, Provincial Actors persuasively moving refection on the power of art. DIRECTOR: AGNIESZKA HOLLAND captures the desperate mood of its time. DIRECTOR: ANDRZEJ WAJDA Tue 13 Aug 9.15pm Kino 4661 Sun 18 Aug 1.15pm Hoyts 7901 DIRECTOR: AGNIESZKA HOLLAND Sun 4 Aug 1.45pm Kino 4161

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miff.com.au 30 Peter Strickland Directors in Focus Peter Strickland Presents: Influences & Inspirations

In Fabric Katalin Varga The Cremator Trash UK 118 mins UK/Romania 84 mins Czechoslovakia 96 mins USA 110 mins

Peter Strickland is beloved for his exquisitely Peter Strickland’s low-budget debut is an A damning political parable banned in its Legendary Factory director Paul Morrissey’s tactile, European genre homages and unsettling and slow-burning tale of revenge native Czechoslovakia, Juraj Herz’s deeply transgressive tale of down-and-out sex and his unsettling command of mood. But this and redemption that announced the arrival unsettling film chronicles the corruption of drugs in underground New York remains screamingly funny, Fassbinder-does-giallo of a major new British filmmaking talent. a crematorium director in the face of the a highlight of his collaborations with fable, which follows a cursed dress thirsting 20th century’s greatest horror. Andy Warhol. for blood, is outré even for him. Expelled from her house and village, Katalin Varga takes her son and heads into the Hiding behind a seemingly harmless exterior, Warhol’s go-to Factory flmmaker, Morrissey Lonely divorcée Sheila has a blind date. Carpathian Mountains seeking revenge for head cremator Karel Kopfrkingl is a morbid created one of the great American avant-garde Shopping for a dress, she ends up at an eccentric the horrifc crime perpetrated against her 11 obsessive, believing he holds power over life works with 1970’s Trash, a skuzzy, lurid and department store where a witchy saleswoman years earlier. and that death ofers purity. Given this is late often archly hilarious exploitation movie sells her the hypnotically gorgeous ‘artery red’ 1930s Prague, Karel is about to be ofered an starring Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro UK-born Strickland decamped to Transylvania dress. But caveat emptor … ideology that fts all too well with his growing as a heroin addict who shares a downtown to make this suspenseful, morally complex flm. convictions, in exchange for the loss of basement with his sexually frustrated, on-and- With a cast that includes Sidse Babett Knudsen, With echoes of Tarkovsky, Tarr and Dostoevsky, his humanity. of girlfriend Holly. Filled with vivid passages cult comedians Julian Barrett and Steve Oram, an everyday nightmare is rendered gothic of sex and drug use fltered through Morrissey’s and Gwendoline Christie, In Fabric is a surreal, through the eerie, empty landscape, Hilda Disorientating in its daring and expressionistic experimental eye, Trash is a classic not to be sensual delight. Péter’s edgy, unpredictable performance, and visuals, The Cremator twists genres and missed on the big screen. Screens with The Cobbler’s Lot, Strickland’s the provocative, award-winning sound design. expectations equally. DIRECTOR: PAUL MORRISSEY segment from Field Guide to Evil (MIFF 18). Screens with Strickland’s short flm DIRECTOR: JURAJ HERZ Sat 17 Aug 9pm Kino 4871 DIRECTOR: PETER STRICKLAND A Metaphysical Education. Sun 18 Aug 11am Hoyts 7891 Sat 3 Aug 5.30pm Plenary 0082 DIRECTOR: PETER STRICKLAND Sat 10 Aug 9pm Astor 0501 Fri 9 Aug 9pm Kino 4441

Shadows of Our Berberian Sound Studio The Duke of Burgundy Forgotten Ancestors Strickland Selections UK (M) 92 mins UK (MA15+) 104 mins USSR 97 mins UK/USA/Austria 80 mins

Outer Space

As he chops more cabbage than a hipster Dominance, bondage and lepidopterology – “Sergei Parajanov’s extraordinary merging One of the UK’s most singular directors, Peter sauerkraut artisan, an English foley artist what more could you want from a love story? of myth, history, poetry, ethnography, dance Strickland has a distinct style. As part of this hired for a lurid Italian giallo film becomes Peter Strickland’s third film hums with desire and ritual remains one of the supreme works retrospective, he’s selected five short films unhinged in Peter Strickland’s highly as Sidse Babett Knudsen and Chiara D’Anna of the Soviet sound cinema … intoxicating.” that have inspired his vision. unnerving 2012 feature that warns of the create a fluttering cacophony of lovers at – CHICAGO READER “I love each of these flms for diferent reasons,” deceptive nature of cinematic sound. play and at odds. Ivanko and Marishka are Romeo and Juliet by Strickland says, “but what they have in Character actor Toby Jones is the meek yet In a world populated solely by women, Evelyn any other name: their love for each other defes common is the power to invoke awe, no matter talented Gilderoy, ensconced in an eerie submissively serves Cynthia, a professor their family’s longstanding feud, with tragic how many times I see them.” sound studio as reality starts to merge with specialising in butterfies and moths, both consequences. Screening will be the “intense cosmological bloody fantasy. professionally and sexually. But who is really in Parajanov was inspired by the culture and rapture” of avant-garde flmmaker Jordan the dominant position of power? The flm that saw critics hail Strickland as folklore of the Hutsul people, infusing it with Belson’s Allures; Street of Crocodiles, by an heir to the likes of Lynch and Polanski, Lavishly evoking the visuals and mood of 60s symbolic and impressionistic colour, sound stop-motion pioneers the Brothers Quay; Berberian Sound Studio announced the director’s and 70s European softcore sexploitation flms, and fury. This eschewal of the social realism the “aggressively cinematic” Outer Space, by unique aesthetic – a world of lush visuals, The Duke of Burgundy is in love with its heroines, mandated by the communist government found-footage flmmaker Peter Tscherkassky; disquieting soundscapes and unrepentant and with cinema itself. landed him in a Soviet gulag, but also won him underground director Richard Kern’s cinephilia. Screens with Strickland’s short flm awards the world over. transgressive Submit to Me; and The Flicker, Screens with Strickland’s short flm Rising Conduct Phase. “Pure genius.” – EMPIRE experimental video artist Tony Conrad’s Within Realms. “ultimate abstract flm”. DIRECTOR: PETER STRICKLAND DIRECTOR: SERGEI PARAJANOV Sun 4 Aug 9pm SMOCA 5191 DIRECTOR: PETER STRICKLAND Sat 10 Aug 6.30pm Kino 3491 Sun 4 Aug 6.45pm Kino 4181 Wed 7 Aug 9pm Hoyts 7341 @handpickedwines

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Dark Place Something Else Deerskin You Don’t Nomi Australia 75 mins USA 83 mins France 77 mins USA 92 mins

Direct from Cannes Outback zombies, supernatural housing “Sublime and emotional, Something Else is Thanks to one very special jacket, it’s “You Don’t Nomi … examines the complex projects, female revenge, sleep deprivation one hell of a love story, a nightmarish open season on killer style – and on legacy of Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls and and Gothic spookiness electrify this twisted monster movie, and an overall fantastical filmmaking itself. in the process delivers a smart, well-made horror anthology from five up-and-coming experience. Five stars.” – DREAD CENTRAL crowd-pleaser.” – THE POP BREAK Indigenous filmmakers. Georges splashes €8000 on a fringed deerskin Hank and Abby are in love – or, at least, that’s jacket. It ignites in him a madness of taste and, Is Paul Verhoeven’s stripper-centric Showgirls Take a trip into the dark heart of terror what Hank thinks until he fnds a Dear John convinced he shares a special understanding low-minded nonsense, or subversive high art? nullius with this bold new anthology of short note from Abby, sending him into a spiral of with the supple suede, Georges decides nobody The 1995 erotic drama was widely mocked on flms from a group of Australia’s rising new depression, drowning his sorrows in alcohol, else must ever wear a jacket. its release, immediately becoming the symbol Indigenous flmmakers. watching cable TV late into the small hours … for a particularly 90s brand of tawdry excess. But In Rubber (MIFF 10), Quentin Dupieux and being visited each evening by what he starts the flm has its defenders, and the argument Produced by Majhid Heath (Warwick imagined a rampaging telekinetic tyre. He’s to believe is something supernatural. over whether Showgirls is a faming trash pile or Thornton’s The Darkside), Dark Place gives since produced surreal rifs on the slasher flm a misunderstood masterpiece rages to this day. fve young auteurs the space to explore Something Else is a beautifully realised flm about and the buddy-cop comedy; and now he’s ready It’s a debate that You Don’t Nomi is determined contemporary Indigenous ideas via the the monsters we create for ourselves. to kill another cinematic sacred deer: the auteur. expressive medium of fantasy/horror – with to answer, in the most entertaining, fascinating DIRECTORS: CHRISTIAN STELLA, DIRECTOR: QUENTIN DUPIEUX way possible. deliciously entertaining results. JEREMY GARDNER Screens with Rain (Poland, 5 mins), DIRECTORS: KODIE BEDFORD, LIAM PHILLIPS, Wed 14 Aug 9pm Hoyts 6711 DIRECTOR: JEFFREY MCHALE ROB BRASLIN, PERUN BONSER, BJÖRN STEWART Sat 17 Aug 6.30pm Kino 4861 a corporate tragicomedy. Sat 10 Aug 11.30pm SMOCA 5511 Wed 14 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 7701 DIRECTOR: PIOTR MILCZAREK Sat 17 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 6861 Fri 16 Aug 9pm Hoyts 7811 Sat 3 Aug 9.45pm Capitol 2131 Fri 9 Aug 11.30pm SMOCA 5451

Tito Greener Grass The Lodge Come to Daddy Canada 71 mins USA 95 mins UK/USA 108 mins New Zealand/Canada/Ireland/USA 93 mins

Emerging talent Grace Glowicki directs Pastel coordinates, perfect hair, soccer “The Lodge starts subtle … but on a dime, As an insufferably moustachioed millennial and stars in this provocative debut that practice, golf carts … the suburbs are as it spirals into outright insanity, taking turn battling for his estranged father’s affections, mixes midnight-movie madness, psycho- horrifying as you suspect. after shocking turn, leaving the audience Elijah Wood is brilliant in Ant Timpson’s expressionism and stoner comedy to confront out of breath and praying for a reprieve.” unpredictably bizarre and hilarious Sitcom Stepford wives Lisa Wetbottom and gender and fear in thrilling new ways. – BLOODYDISGUSTING.COM directorial debut. Jill Davies have Ken-doll husbands, cherubic An anxiety-wracked young man – played in kids, nice houses … and therefore ideal lives. A snowstorm has trapped Grace in an isolated Norval is a thirtysomething misft hipster a cross-gender performance by Glowicki – is So, when Lisa notices that Jill has a new baby alpine lodge with her boyfriend Richard’s two DJ who still lives at home with his mother. trapped in a house, cowering in fear of unseen, daughter, Jill cheerily gifts the baby to her best kids. The atmosphere is chilly, as Aidan and Mia He’s not seen his dad in decades, but when demonic predators. On the verge of a complete friend. You see, it’s the neighbourly thing to do. refuse to replace their beloved mother Laura. As he receives an invitation from the man who breakdown, Tito is visited by a seemingly temperatures drop and paranoia grows, is Grace abandoned him, Norval naïvely jumps at the friendly stoner neighbour, but is he the With soft-focus aesthetics, neck-snapping plot right to suspect the children of manipulating opportunity. Big mistake! salvation he needs? twists, and a gleeful surrealist streak, Greener her? Are malevolent spirits haunting the lodge? Grass is an absurdly weird treat. Horror producer Timpson (Turbo Kid and Glowicki’s debut is an of-kilter surreal Or perhaps the never-exorcised demons of Deathgasm, MIFF 15) makes a thrilling leap to experience, ofering a confronting, sometimes “Destined to be a cult classic … fun and f***ed up Grace’s childhood in an evangelical cult are directing with this black comedy. Violent, gory, disturbing thesis on male predation and in the best way possible.” – BIRTH.DEATH.MOVIES being unleashed, to harrowing efect. twisted and twisty, it’s as messed up and nutty female fear. DIRECTORS: JOCELYN DEBOER, DAWN LUEBBE DIRECTORS: VERONIKA FRANZ, SEVERIN FIALA as you’d expect. DIRECTOR: GRACE GLOWICKI Tue 13 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8651 Contains suicide themes DIRECTOR: ANT TIMPSON Thu 15 Aug 9pm SMOCA 5761 Fri 9 Aug 11.30pm Nova 0451 Thu 8 Aug 6.30pm SMOCA 5381 Fri 2 Aug 9pm Forum 1071 Sat 17 Aug 9.15pm Kino 3871 Thu 15 Aug 9.45pm Forum 1761 Sat 3 Aug 11.30pm SMOCA 5141

Memory – Extra Ordinary Violence Voyager Koko-di Koko-da The Origins of Alien Ireland/Belgium 94 mins Japan 84 mins Sweden 86 mins USA 95 mins

Will Forte, Australian comedian Claudia “Like the Ladybird Book of Cronenberg … Death comes for a bereaved young couple – Forty years after the release of Ridley Scott’s O’Doherty and Irish stand-up Maeve Higgins storytelling without restraint – a truly radical again and again and again – in this weird Alien, why are we still so captivated by this ain’t afraid of no ghosts in this supernatural piece of cinema.” – EYE FOR FILM and wild horror fable set deep in the creepy game-changing film? side-splitter, an audience favourite at this Nordic woods. year’s SXSW. It may look like a child’s picture book but This is the mystery unravelled by Alexandre this mind trip of a midnight movie defnitely In his second feature flm, Swedish artist O Philippe, who brought us the captivating Life for small-town driving instructor Rose isn’t for young eyes. A grotesquely glorious and animator Johannes Nyholm (The Giant, Psycho shower scene dissection 78/52 (MIFF 17). couldn’t be more average, although she boasts comedy flled with more body horror and MIFF 17) takes a premise rooted in real-world Philippe explores how an aborted script called a lively past. As a child, she deployed her visceral violence than anyone would ever expect grief and loss and augments it with the stuf of Starbeast became a sci-f horror inspired by psychic talents on otherworldly cases, working from paper puppetry, Violence Voyager steps Grimm fantasy, mixing live action, fairytale-like HP Lovecraft, Francis Bacon, feminism, ancient with her paranormal investigator dad. Then into strange and unsettling territory. The flm animation and eerie puppetry efects to deliver myths and the disease that would eventually kill tragedy struck, and she’s ignored her gift ever follows Bobby, who stumbles across a seemingly an experience quite unlike any other. screenwriter Dan O’Bannon. since – until an American rockstar and wannabe abandoned amusement park with his best “Johannes Nyholm’s fable about grief is at once Satanist uses dark magic to resurrect his career, Memory digs deep into the cultural anxieties, friend Akkun, only to enter a twisted world of brutal and childlike, a horror-show that hums embroiling Rose’s new driving student and his collective unconsciousness and classical robot-like humanoids. Then the mutations and along to a nursery rhyme.” – VARIETY mythology behind the origins of Alien, teenage daughter in his unearthly plans. mayhem start. DIRECTOR: JOHANNES NYHOLM enhancing the way audiences experience this DIRECTORS: MIKE AHERN, ENDA LOUGHMAN Contains images of violence and much-loved modern classic. Sat 3 Aug 11.30pm Nova 0141 Fri 2 Aug 11.30pm Nova 0081 animal cruelty Wed 7 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 6341 DIRECTOR: ALEXANDRE O PHILIPPE Sat 10 Aug 9pm Hoyts 6501 DIRECTOR: UJICHA Sun 4 Aug 1.30pm Kino 3161 Sat 10 Aug 11.30pm Nova 0511 Tue 6 Aug 9pm Forum 1291 Sat 17 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 7871

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VR at Arts House Virtual Reality returns to The Waiting Room Future Dreaming Common Ground MIFF in 2019 to continue Australia, 7 minutes Australia 13 mins UK 30 mins rewriting the frontiers of storytelling through total immersive cinema. MIFF is thrilled to partner with Arts House this year for three of these VR experiences focused on experimentation, new technologies and untold stories. From revered filmmakers Molly Reynolds and Drawing inspiration from Dreamtime stories An extraordinary use of the VR medium, Rolf de Heer comes a groundbreaking 3D and practices, four young Aboriginal Common Ground explores South London’s Standalone interactive VR experiences VR experience that asks the question: what if Australians take you on an immersive journey notorious Aylesbury Estate, currently subject humans are an invading alien force? Full $18* | MIFF Members $16* through their visionary futures. to a ground-breaking but controversial MIFF passes not valid regeneration project. The Waiting Room ruminates on humanity, on Working with mentor Sutu (MIFF 18’s Mind VR packages its creativity and its destructiveness. Presented Home to over 7000 residents, Aylesbury at War) as part of the Yijala Yala Project run Full $25* | MIFF Members $23* on the Dreamdeck360 platform, it invites by Australian social justice organisation stands both as a monument to the history and MIFF passes not valid participants to consider a deep, meditative Big hART, Roebourne teens Alison Lockyer, future of British social housing. Intelligently engagement with the questions at the heart Maverick Eaton, and Nelson and Max Coppin and creatively combining 360˚ video, 3D of the work. They are questions familiar to used Google Tilt Brush and motion capture modelling, archival footage and interactive directors Reynolds and de Heer, who have technologies to bring their future dreams to real-time environments, Darren Emerson has frequently addressed issues of colonisation life – from driving big-rigs through the Pilbara built a visceral, moving and dynamic study and cultural survival, through flms such as to becoming the frst Indigenous Australian not just of the physical space of the estate but Another Country (MIFF 15) and Still Our Country – astronaut (watch out for space emus)! of its inhabitants’ lives, examining how urban Refections on a Culture (MIFF 14). planning, long-forgotten utopian ideals and DIRECTOR: SUTU CAMPBELL CREATORS: MOLLY REYNOLDS, the instability of changing politics impacts ROLF DE HEER, MARK ELAND 9–16 Aug everyday people. 9–16 Aug DIRECTOR: DARREN EMERSON Full $15* | MIFF Members $12*

VR at SpACE@Collins

Ayahuasca VR PACKAGE 1 VR PACKAGE 2 France/Luxembourg 15 mins Argentina/Taiwan 36 mins USA 41 mins

Afterimage Ayahuasca for Tomorrow Ashe ‘68

Tactile and trippy, Ayahuasca takes you on a Enjoy two VR experiences that put the focus Three VR works immersing audiences into hallucinogenic journey … from the safety of on dance and movement. lived African American experiences. your VR headset. Disability activist Rosario Perazolo Masjoan Thoughtful and powerful, Travelling While Black Jan Kounen’s mind-expanding “spiritual based the script for 4 Feet: Blind Date on her takes us on a journey with the Green Book, reality” experience travels deep into a personal experience of exploring her sexuality from the perspective of African Americans. world – and visions – inspired by psychedelic while using a wheelchair, while director María DIRECTOR: ROGER ROSS WILLIAMS brew ayahuasca. Vivid and intense colours and Belén Poncio uses the immersive 360˚ work to images fip and fold before your eyes as space realistically show viewers the world from her Ashe ’68 tells the story of US tennis champion scales and changes in a fantastic voyage. character’s POV. and civil rights activist Arthur Ashe, re-creating his historic 1968 US Open win through archival “Imaginative, architectural and delirious DIRECTORS: MARÍA BELÉN PONCIO, ROSARIO footage, animation and 360˚ re-enactments. visualizations. More than an imitation of a PERAZOLO MASJOAN, DAMIÁN TURKIEH, EZEQUIEL LENARDÓN drug trip, the world presented is a spiritual one. DIRECTORS: BRAD LICHTENSTEIN, REX MILLER, JEFF FITZSIMMONS Chants fll the headphones. Snakes slither. And no Collaborating with choreographer Chou amount of text we draft can dig deep enough into Shou-yi, Afterimage for Tomorrow director In Send Me Home, gentle soul Rickey Jackson the actual experience.” – COOL HUNTING Singing Chen has crafted a dynamic VR shares his perspective on life following his experience that asks us to question our own release from jail, where he served 39 years for a DIRECTOR: JAN KOUNEN refections of self, and to ponder the power of murder he didn’t commit. 9–16 Aug our memories. Major Partner DIRECTORS: CASSANDRA EVANISKO, DIRECTOR: SINGING CHEN JONATÁN LÓPEZ Fri 9 Aug Sat 10 Aug Mon 12 Aug Wed 14 Aug

Bonfire VR PACKAGE 3 VR PACKAGE 4 USA 15 mins USA 32 mins Uganda/Brazil/USA/Belgium/France 30 mins Program Partner

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Passenger The Atomic Tree

Featuring the voice of Always Be My Maybe’s Three exciting new animated VR works from Memories of war and peace are explored in Ali Wong, Bonfire is the latest VR work from around the world. these three unique VR experiences. Eric Darnell. Accused #2: Walter Max Sisulu is a creative, 11.11.18 embeds you with a group of soldiers Madagascar and Antz director Eric Darnell entertaining and emotional work that places in the trenches on 11 November 1918, ten is familiar to MIFF audiences thanks to you in the courtroom during South Africa’s minutes before World War I ends. his works Invasion (MIFF 16) and Crow: infamous Rivonia Trial. DIRECTOR: DJANGO SCHREVENS Supporting Partners The Legend (MIFF 18). DIRECTORS: NICOLAS CHAMPEAUX, The Atomic Tree tells the story a 400-year-old Bonfre brings his trademark sense of humour GILLES PORTE Japanese White Pine bonsai that ‘witnessed’ and fun to a new interactive sci-f adventure in Using stop-motion animation, puppetry, 360˚ and survived Hiroshima. which you are Space Force Scout 817, sent into sound and VR, Passenger amusingly showcases the stars to look for a habitable new world. After DIRECTORS: ADAM LOFTEN, the strangeness of arriving in a new country. EMMANUEL VAUGHAN-LEE crash landing on a jungle planet and building DIRECTORS: ISOBEL KNOWLES, VAN SOWERWINE a bonfre for warmth, you and Debbie, your Over decades, tens of thousands of children trusty robot sidekick, begin exploring. From Emmy-winning studio Felix & Paul comes in Uganda were either enslaved or trained the dark, twisted fantasy of Gynmasia, a weird as soldiers. Children Do Not Play War gives DIRECTOR: ERIC DARNELL and spooky, Tim Burton-esque puppet show. survivors space to tell their own stories. Special thanks to 9–16 Aug DIRECTORS: MACIEK SZCZERBOWSKI, DIRECTOR: FABIANO MIXO CHRIS LAVIS Tue 13 Aug Sun 11 Aug Fri 16 Aug Thu 15 Aug

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International Shorts 1 International Shorts 2 Animation Shorts Documentary Shorts 112 mins 113 mins 101 mins 99 mins

Lucía en el limbo Tattoo Under Covers All Inclusive

Internationally acclaimed and awarded More award-winning and acclaimed short Diverse new animated shorts from around the Short documentaries from around the globe. short films. films from around the globe. world and closer to home. Corina Schwingruber Ilić’s All Inclusive reveals This program features international award This program features multiple award winners, Screening in this program are Merlin Flügel’s what happens on a cruise ship. Julie Buck winners including TIFF’s Best Canadian including the Cannes Short Film Palme d’Or Rules of Play; Wiep Teeuwisse’s Intermission explores her family archive in Double Exposed. Short Film, Meryam Joobeur’s Brotherhood, winner, Vasilis Kekatos’s The Distance Between Expedition; Pedro Casavecchia’s Pulsión; Michaela John Henry Theisen and Luis Gutiérrez which focuses on a family reunion; and Us and the Sky, as well Sandhya Suri’s The Field Olsen’s Under Covers; Jim Batt’s The Grave of Arias tackle the impenetrable in It’s Going to the Cannes Critics’ Week Leitz Cine (TIFF Best International Short Film), Farhad St Oran; Agnès Patron’s And Then the Bear; be Beautiful. Lukas Berger and Mário Gajo Discovery Prize-winner She Runs, from MIFF Delaram’s Tattoo (the Berlinale’s Crystal Bear for Scarlet Sykes Hesterman’s Dance of the Dead; de Carvalho’s Circus Movements observes Accelerator alumnus and former Palme d’Or Best Short Film – Generation 14plus) and Irene Daria Kashcheeva’s Daughter and Mateusz Ethiopian acrobats. winner Qiu Yang. Moray’s Watermelon Juice (awarded the Short Jarmulski’s The Hunt. Sandra Winther’s Lowland Kids visits Film Candidate for the European Film Awards Best friends do everything together in Thea The package also features award winners America’s frst climate refugees, while water at the Berlinale). Hvistendahl’s Virgins4Lyfe. Love on the edges Reneepoptosis, by Renee Zhan, which won the contamination threatens a community in Jason is treacherous in Aung Rakhine’s The Last Post Also screening are Charles Wahl’s Little Grey Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated De Santolo’s Warburdar Bununu: Water Shield. Ofce. Lucía is desperate to lose her virginity in Bubbles, direct from SXSW; Erenik Beqiri’s Short; and Flóra Anna Buda’s Entropia, which Laura Huertas Millán’s jeny303 brings together Valentina Maurel’s Lucía en el limbo. Meanwhile, The Van, direct from Cannes; and Victoria took home Berlin’s Teddy Award for Best Short. an architectural icon and a young lady. Oil on worlds collide on the way to an important Giesen Carvajal’s Héctor, direct from Berlin. Contains violence and animal cruelty canvas never looked so good in Nastia Korkia’s audition in the triple award winner Patision Contains high-impact violence Dramatic and Mild. Aveneue, from Thanasis Neofotistos. Fri 9 Aug 6.15pm SMOCA 5431 Thu 8 Aug 6.15pm Hoyts 6381 Sat 17 Aug 9pm Hoyts 6871 Tue 6 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 6281 Wed 7 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 6331 Tue 13 Aug 9pm Kino 3661 Fri 16 Aug 4pm SMOCA 5790 Mon 12 Aug 9.15pm Kino 3611

Eyes Wide Open: Childhood Shorts Experimental Shorts Australian Shorts WTF Shorts 109 mins 102 mins 96 mins 105 mins

Elders Altiplano Living Room Docking

Small people. Big stories. Short films. Films that experiment with form, Australia’s finest short films. Weird. Terrifying. Funny. Or just WTF? content and style. The Sapphires writer Tony Briggs makes his In her Living Room, Jessica Barclay Lawton Trevor Anderson goes on a ballsy mission with directorial debut with Elders. A V Rockwell’s Hanna Chetwin’s Southern Climes is a study in follows a middle-aged man who passes each Docking. A man unkowingly gives birth in Luca Feathers examines trauma at the intersection colour and landscape. Akosua Adoma Owusu night without a purpose. Jane Cho’s The Egg Tóth’s Mr Mare. The Procedure 2 is Calvin Lee of race and masculinity. Tommy Hart explores reinterprets Diana Ross’s Mahogany (MIFF 18) features one little girl, and one giant egg. A Reeder’s follow-up to his award-winning The community, empathy and queer identity with Mahogany Too. Sabina Meselli’s Landing secret rendezvous takes a turn in Bonnie Moir’s Procedure. Falling in love is messy in Aaron with Kids on Fire. A young boy comes face to explores memory and magic. From the ashes, a We’re Not Here. A supportive dad wants to ask Petersen’s Wet. Warm. Dribble. Carlota Pereda’s face with death for the frst time in Marcus new story arises in Sami van Ingen’s Flame. his son something in Madeleine Gottlieb’s Snare. Piggy shows that sometimes revenge seeks Nøhr’s Tracking. See the Andes anew with Malena Szlam’s Thomas Wilson-White’s St Augustine reveals that you. Mordechay Jonathan’s SHHHH implores: Aditya Ahmad’s A Gift won Venice’s Orizzonti Altiplano. Critical theory gets clitical in Nazlı sometimes we’re our own worst enemy. don’t wake the baby! Best Short Film award. Marijana Jankovic’s Dinçel’s Between Relating and Use. Laure MIFF Accelerator alumni Lewis Attey and John From Cannes comes Teemu Nikki’s All Inclusive, Maja was Tribeca’s Best Narrative Short winner, Prouvost’s Shed A Light visits a secret garden. Harvey return, with a collection of vignettes Brandon Cronenberg’s Please Speak Continuously while Yuchao Feng’s Pearl won a Tribeca Special Siegfried A Fruhauf’s Water and Clearing in Three Stories Inside a Rental Van and a tale of and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You Jury Mention. Carlos Felipe Montoya’s The Size is a techno-primitivist experiment. Ross kinship and country, Out of Range, respectively. and Barbara’s Rupik’s The Little Soul. Tanya’s of Things scored a Berlinale Generation Kplus Meckfessel’s The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs Sun 11 Aug 1.15pm Capitol 2531 taste in lovers is unsual in Sophie Koko Gate’s Special Prize. challenges our perceptions. A Return, from Tue 13 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 9661 award-winning Slug Life. James Edmonds, received a Special Mention Contains animal cruelty Fri 9 Aug 9pm SMOCA 5441 at Oberhausen. Fri 16 Aug 11.30pm Nova 0821 Sun 4 Aug 6.30pm Kino 3181 Fri 16 Aug 9pm Nova 0811 Tue 6 Aug 9pm SMOCA 5291 Mon 12 Aug 6.45pm SMOCA 5601 Girl and Body

Mountain Goat presents the Best MIFF Shorts 58th MIFF Shorts Competition 120 mins A collection of the best short films of the festival, MIFF features one of the most highly regarded short flm competitions in the Southern Hemisphere. Thanks to our Shorts Awards partners, eligible short flms as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards jury and the compete for a total cash prize pool of $56,000. MIFF Shorts programmer. The MIFF Shorts Awards are Academy Awards® accredited. The winners of the Best MIFF Short, Best Australian Short and Best Documentary awards are eligible Films will be announced to submit their flm for the 92nd Academy Awards® in 2020. during the festival. Sun 18 Aug 4.15pm Capitol 2911 Sun 18 Aug 4.30pm Kino 4911

Awards Ceremony Partner City of Melbourne Grand Prix Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Short Film for Best Australian Short Film

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Accelerator 1 Accelerator 2 Australia/New Zealand 90 mins Australia/New Zealand 91 mins

Falling Up Daniel

Short films by emerging filmmakers from See the work of tomorrow’s hottest Australia and New Zealand. directors today. Sometimes things are better left unsaid in Kimia Hendi’s award-winning VCA short Anoop Lokkur’s Long Distance. Charlotte Mars Passage ofers a diferent perspective on loss. explores a dancer’s loss of bodily autonomy Jamieson Pearce’s Strangers proves it’s never too in Girl and Body. A young girl encounters a late for love. A close encounter forces a young mobster in Matthew Smolen’s There’s a Mobster woman to confront her repression in Claire van Under my Bed. Beek’s Daniel. Jeremiah Tauamiti’s Liliu introduces us to a With My Name is Mudju, Chantelle court interpreter stuck between two worlds. Murray shares the true story of her Nana’s In Dannika Horvat’s Triple Swear, Jess slowly determination to be reunited with her daughter. realises her summers will never be the same. Paddy Hay’s Cuckoo Roller introduces us to a A girl fghts for love in Sam Lara’s Featherweight. young man in search of a connection. Seamus And poetry is found in the midst of heartache in Murphy’s Henry Needs a New Home is a tale of Chelsie Preston Crayford’s Falling Up. hope and home that will leave you spinning. Sat 10 Aug 4.15pm Hoyts 9481 Contains animal cruelty images Sat 17 Aug 11.15am Hoyts 8831 Sun 11 Aug 4pm Hoyts 9541 Sun 18 Aug 11.15am Hoyts 8891 All Accelerator directors are guests of the festival.

Accelerator Lab, an annual initiative run by MIFF 37°South Market to assist selected filmmakers make the transition to feature filmmaking, provides four days of workshops, screenings, seminars and networking events on the business and creative aspects of the film industry by leading local and international film practitioners. Accelerator Lab could not happen without the support of its partners. Accelerator Lab Partners

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Accelerator Lab acknowledges the support of The William Angliss Charitable Fund. On Vulnerability and Doubt 29 June —1 September 2019 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art acca.melbourne

Exhibition Image: Andrea Büttner, Beggar 2016 (detail), woodcut on paper, 149.0 x 130.0 cm. Courtesy the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London; Partners: David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; and Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz. © Andrea Büttner / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn; Photograph: Andy Keate

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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of Turtles Funan The Swallows of Kabul I Lost My Body Children of the Sea Buñuel in the Labyrinth of Turtles France/Belgium/ France 90 mins France 81 mins Japan (PG) 110 mins Spain/Netherlands 77 mins Luxembourg/Cambodia 86 mins

Direct from Cannes Direct from Cannes Love in a time of tyranny: this stunning A severed hand goes in search of its owner Brought to the screen with stunning animation This absorbing film tells the tale behind Best Feature Film winner at the 2018 Annecy animation chronicles life under the Taliban, in this endlessly inventive, surprisingly moving and a spectacular score by veteran Studio Luis Buñuel and his 1933 controversial short International Animated Film Festival, this and bravely doesn’t shy away from either animated adventure that won the Cannes Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi, this vivid documentary Las Hurdes. meticulous, hand-drawn recreation of brutality or hope. Critics Week Grand Prix. eco-conscious adventure is based on Daisuke Cambodian life under the Khmer Rouge isn’t Igarashi’s award-winning manga. Using animation to vivid efect, Salvador Simó easily forgotten. In the summer of 1998, young lovers Mohsen The feature debut from award-winning short- recognises Buñuel’s unique brilliance, yet never and Zunaira try to covertly experience passion flm director Jérémy Clapin follows the journey Teenager Ruka has always been fascinated by shies away from his difculties – or willingness On 17 April 1975, Pol Pot’s army captured in spite of the oppressive presence of the ruling of its fve-fngered hero as it escapes from a the sea. Her dad works at the local aquarium to manipulate Las Hurdes to shock and Phnom Penh. Along with millions of the city’s Taliban that afects even the most private aspects Parisian dissection lab and runs, jumps and where, when Ruka was younger, she saw a provoke. Incorporating footage from the short residents, young couple Chuo and Khuon are of life. Simultaneously, older couple Atiq and tumbles through the streets of the city in search glowing ghost calling to her from the water. itself, including confronting scenes involving forced to trek to rural work camps. When their Mussarat are dealing with a threat even more of its owner. After meeting Umi and Sora, two boys animals, this inventive making-of flm proves as four-year-old son is taken from them along the way, their story becomes one of not just of deadly than fundamentalism. “If The Beast with Five Fingers were updated raised by dugongs, Ruka is drawn back challenging and rewarding as its iconic subject. endurance, but of hope – that they’ll survive DIRECTORS: ZABOU BREITMAN, ELÉA into an eerie yet heartfelt coming-of-age cartoon, into the ocean’s vivid depths with her new “It was a brilliant choice to use such an years of punishing labour, widespread starvation GOBBÉ-MÉVELLEC the result would be something like I Lost My friends – just as the world’s marine life begins to expressionistic medium to examine how surrealist and brutal violence to see their child again. Screens with Son of the Sea (Iran, 10 mins), Body … A highly original and rather touching mysteriously disappear. flmmaker Luis Buñuel bent reality to his DIRECTOR: DENIS DO winner of the City of Annecy Award at the account of loss.” – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER DIRECTOR: AYUMU WATANABE own ends.” – VARIETY Annecy Animation Festival. DIRECTOR: JÉRÉMY CLAPIN Mon 12 Aug 6.30pm Capitol 2601 Mon 5 Aug 6.45pm Kino 4231 Contains images of archival animal cruelty Sun 11 Aug 6.45pm Kino 3551 DIRECTOR: ABBAS JALALI YEKTA Sat 17 Aug 10.30am Forum 1831 Thu 15 Aug 6.30pm SMOCA 5751 DIRECTOR: SALVADOR SIMÓ Sat 10 Aug 11am Forum 1461 Sat 17 Aug 4.15pm Hoyts 8851 Wed 14 Aug 3.45pm Capitol 2690 Thu 8 Aug 4.15pm SMOCA 5370 Tue 13 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 6651

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Okko’s Inn Long Time No Sea A Colony Butterfly Japan 120 mins Taiwan 96 mins Canada 102 mins Italy 80 mins

Former Studio Ghibli animator Kitarō Kōsaka Best Newcomer winner at the Golden Horse Winner of the Berlinale’s Crystal Bear for Best In 2016, 18-year-old Irma “The Butterfly” Testa brings his magic touch to this fable about a Film Festival, Tsui Yung-hui’s charming debut Film – Generation 14plus, A Colony is the became Italy’s first woman boxer to compete young orphan girl running her grandmother’s mixes music and drama to tell the uplifting story of a girl on the cusp of adolescence in the Olympics. This is her story. inn with some supernatural help. tale of an Indigenous children’s troupe struggling with a new school, familial conflict training for a national dance competition. and finding confidence in herself. Growing up in one of the poorest, most violent This charming feature from Kōsaka – a parts of Naples, Testa defed the odds to win leading animator on Akira, Spirited Away and Based on real-life experiences, this wonderful, Naïve 12-year-old Mylia exists on the fringes Olympic selection. But selection is only the frst Princess Mononoke – follows Okko, a young family-friendly flm centres on Manawei, a of her new high school’s social world. But two battle: Testa must train like she never has before, girl dispatched to live with her grandmother young boy from Taiwan’s Tao tribe, as he new friends draw her closer to the precipice of and what if it’s all for nothing? What is she after her parents die. While tending to chores joins his school’s dance troupe and prepares teenage experience: streetsmart, troublesome giving up to make it happen? Can she handle at grandma’s traditional Japanese inn, Okko for their journey to the National Indigenous Jacinthe; and fellow outsider Jimmy, who helps the pressure of hers and others’ expectations? befriends a group of mischievous ghosts that Dance Competition. Mylia better understand her place in the world. And if she doesn’t achieve her dream of a medal, only she can see. With its use of traditional Tao songs and a cast A Colony is a deeply assured example of the what will that mean for her future? With the help of her spooky new pals, Okko of non-professional actors, Tsui’s winning debut coming-of-age genre, with a tremendous lead Butterfy is an inspiring, humble flm that transforms the inn, while Kitarō delivers a foregrounds themes of cultural identity and performance from Emilie Bierre. follows Testa’s path to, and through, Rio. moving refection on grief, selfessness and family responsibility while being funny, sweet DIRECTOR: GENEVIÈVE DULUDE-DE CELLES DIRECTORS: ALESSANDRO CASSIGOLI, inclusivity. and entertaining. Thu 8 Aug 1.30pm SMOCA 5360 CASEY KAUFFMAN DIRECTOR: KITARŌ KŌSAKA DIRECTOR: TSUI YUNG-HUI Fri 16 Aug 11am SMOCA 5770 Wed 7 Aug 1.30pm SMOCA 5310 Tue 13 Aug 11am SMOCA 5620 Thu 8 Aug 11am SMOCA 5350 Fri 9 Aug 11am SMOCA 5400 Wed 14 Aug 1.30pm SMOCA 5680 Thu 15 Aug 1.30pm SMOCA 5730

Cleo: Days of the Whale Cats If I Could Turn Back Time Stars by the Pound Colombia 77 mins China 105 mins Germany 99 mins France 86 mins

Debut director Catalina Arroyave won a Blanket and Cape are cats, father and The city of Berlin, and its history, star in this A science-obsessed teen battles negative Special Jury Mention at SXSW for this free- kitten, living in a comfortable apartment in playful, joyous and visually inventive story assumptions about her body to reach for the spirited story of young love and defiance in Chongqing ... until the curious Cape decides about a magical clock and a young woman’s stars in this out-of-this-world comedy. Medellín, Colombia. to set out on an adventure to find the desire to rewind time. legendary cat paradise, Peachtopia. Lois has a dream: to be an astronaut. With her Cristina is a grafti artist, living with her dad Convinced she can rewrite the past – and fantastic maths and physics grades you’d think and his new wife. Her journalist mother has Inspired by a 4th-century Chinese fable about her parents’ deaths – with a mythical clock, she would be encouraged in this ambition, but fed the city, for her own safety. Cristina escapes the mythical source of the peach blossoms, Cats efervescent but emotionally guarded Cleo the adults in her life cannot see beyond her the dramas at home by hanging out with fellow is gorgeous. The stunning vistas and cityscapes embarks on an adventure through Berlin’s weight. When Lois takes to drastic measures, street artist Simon and as their friendship are based on real-world views, and rendered streets, and past, helped by the cheerful Paul she meets Amélie, Stannah and Justine – three evolves, the teens use their creative skills to take with exquisite detail, while the furry cast is and a treasure map to the clock’s whereabouts. girls who also struggle with accepting adorable. The bond between Blanket and his on a local gang. Using optical illusions, colourful animation and themselves. son is sweet, and the lessons both learn along Buoyed by an upbeat soundtrack, and fzzing splendid cinematography, Cleo: If I Could Turn the way are layered and poignant. A heartfelt ode to female friendship and teenage with youthful energy, Days of the Whale is Back Time takes viewers on a fantastical journey dreams, Stars by the Pound is a buoyant flm that a compassionate, vibrant portrait of hope A memorable flm for the whole family. that weaves a delightful tale about the power of humorously tackles issues of self-worth and and humanity. DIRECTOR: GARY WANG hope and the importance of imagination. embraces bodies of all shapes and sizes. DIRECTOR: CATALINA ARROYAVE Wed 7 Aug 11am SMOCA 5300 DIRECTOR: ERIK SCHMITT DIRECTOR: MARIE-SOPHIE CHAMBON Thu 15 Aug 11am SMOCA 5720 Tue 6 Aug 1.30pm SMOCA 5260 Tue 6 Aug 11am SMOCA 5250 Mon 5 Aug 11am SMOCA 5200 Wed 14 Aug 11am SMOCA 5670 Mon 12 Aug 11am SMOCA 5570 Tue 13 Aug 1.30pm SMOCA 5630

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Art of the Score: The Film Music Telling Other Thurston Moore In Conversation of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis The World Online People’s Stories

Jawline Vai

Thurston Moore may be one of the most A live presentation of the film soundtrack The internet has become central to our A panel of critics and filmmakers discuss innovative, influential electric guitarists living podcast Art of the Score, a show that aims to way of living and social networking is a if there are certain stories that cannot – or today. With Sonic Youth, Moore and his explore, demystify and celebrate some of the global revolution. should not – be told, except by artists of bandmates connected America’s thriving greatest soundtracks of all time. a particular race, gender or lived experience? experimental underground. How has the online environment altered In this session, the team dive into a selection of the way we behave, relate to each other and Should storytellers be discouraged from writing Now based in London, Moore is returning to flm music composed by Nick Cave and Warren understand the world? about characters and worlds that are diferent to Melbourne for MIFF – performing new scores Ellis, including their scores from The Proposition, their own? How do we make space for minority How has popular culture attempted to refect, to four short flms by pivotal mid-century The Road and The Assassination of Jesse James by the voices while fostering greater diversity in understand and challenge the impact of the Ukrainian-American flmmaker Maya Deren – Coward Robert Ford. the mainstream? online world? to discuss his career in music and writing, and Mon 5 Aug, 6.30pm–7.30pm Wed 7 Aug 6.30pm–7.30pm his latest foray into the world of cinema. Wheeler Centre 0243 Tue 6 Aug 6.30pm–7.30pm Wheeler Centre 0343 Wheeler Centre 0293 Sat 3 Aug 12.30pm–1.30pm Free Regular session pricing Plenary 0035 Regular session pricing Please note: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis will not Full $35 | MIFF Members $30 appear as part of this session. Co-presented with (MIFF passes not valid) Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences Co-presented with the Wheeler Centre

Beyond Buoyancy: International Disability and Cinema: Barbara Creed Lecture: Slavery and Our Seafood What is Virtual Reality Now? Beyond Representation #MeToo, Women, Film and Revolt

Buoyancy Future Dreaming Kairos

Buoyancy (page 13) draws attention to the The past five years have seen tremendous Films often still struggle to accurately Ahead of the release of her new book, plight of boys and young men exploited developments in virtual reality technologies. and compassionately represent expanding the concepts explored in the in Southeast Asia’s fishing industry, which disability on screen. ground-breaking The Monstrous-Feminine: supplies much of the world’s seafood. In this panel presentation, we ask experts and Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, film theorist practitioners at the forefront of the feld some of Drawing from disability scholars, activists and Barbara Creed will discuss a range of This panel discussion – consisting of experts the most pressing questions in VR today. flmmakers, this panel considers some of the contemporary films and television shows. dedicated to exposing and preventing ways people with disabilities are marginalised Sun 11 Aug 1.30pm–2.30pm She will also discuss this year’s MIFF flms, the human rights abuses – continues the Arts House 0533 both on-screen and behind the scenes, and discussion the flm begins, with a focus on and how they grapple with real, imagined Free celebrates the work of disabled artists and providing information and strategies to call practitioners working today. and symbolic horror in our post #MeToo for transparency and traceability of seafood Co-presented with Screening Ideas world. Barbara’s lecture will be followed by an Mon 12 Aug 6.30pm–7.30pm audience Q&A. products in our supply chains. Grant Street Theatre 0603 Sat 10 Aug 1.30pm–2.30pm Free Tue 13 Aug 6.30pm–7.30pm Wheeler Centre 0473 Federation Hall 0653 Co-presented with Screening Ideas Free Free Co-presented with Screening Ideas

Collingwood: Bruce Beresford Australian Cities on Film From the Inside Out Morgana In Conversation

Collingwood: Measure for Measure From the Inside Out Morgana

Australian cinema beautifully captures our A world premiere screening of Collingwood A world premiere screening of Morgana, Bruce Beresford is one of Australia’s most landscapes and our suburbs. But where are Football Club documentary Collingwood: about Australian feminist pornography icon celebrated, prolific and successful filmmakers, our cities? From the Inside Out – by filmmakers Josh Morgana Muses, who reinvented herself in having worked extensively at home and Cable and Marcus Cobbledick (All for One, her 50s from lonely and unhappy housewife internationally: from iconic Australian New Join flmmakers, critics and academics as they MIFF 2017; Fairless, MIFF 2015) to adult film superstar. Wave films such as The Getting of Wisdom explore the few examples of how Australian and Breaker Morant, to the Academy Award- cities are represented on flm, and imagine what The screening will be followed by a panel After the screening join Morgana herself, the winning Driving Miss Daisy. Australian cities on flm might look like as our discussion about mental health in sport, dealing flmmakers and other special guests for a panel urban populations boom. with expectations, how the culture of playing discussion about seeing past the stereotypes to On the day after the MIFF screening of the and coaching has changed, and the highs and embrace sex-positive and diverse erotica. NFSA’s digital restoration of his 1991 Australian/ Wed 14 Aug 6.30pm–7.30pm Canadian co-production Black Robe, Bruce will Wheeler Centre 0703 lows of being a one-eyed supporter. Fri 16 Aug 9.15pm–11.15pm sit down for a one-hour conversation about his Thu 15 Aug, 6:15pm–8:15pm Capitol 2813 Free extraordinary career. Hoyts 9751 Regular session pricing Co-presented with the City of Melbourne Regular session pricing Sun 18 Aug 1.30pm–2.30pm Wheeler Centre 0903 Regular session pricing Co-presented with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Supported by

Morgana miff.com.au *A booking fee between $1.40 and $7.90 may apply 38 MIFF 37°SOUTH & ACCELERATOR LAB PUBLIC EVENTS

Organised by MIFF’s Industry Programs Unit, which runs f lm f nancing forum 37ºSouth Market, emerging director clinic Accelerator Lab, and the MIFF Premiere Fund, these public-access ticketed events are for you – whether you are a f lm or media student; an aspiring or existing screen- writer, editor, director or producer; a f lm af cionado or just curious!

ADRIAN WOOTTON TALKS MUSICAL MOVIE LEGENDS BOBETTE BUSTER: WHAT’S THE STORY? Film culture tsar and former London Film Festival director Adrian Woot on OBE returns with his Illustrated Film Talks series, Hollywood script and story consultant to the likes of Disney, Pixar and the BBC, Bobet e Buster’s f ve-part seminar series ex- this year focusing on four Musical Movie Legends – recounting these unique stars’ enthralling lives and careers, accompanied plores the factors, in scriptwriting, screen craf and our own senses, that help take storytelling to the next level by learning by swathes of f lm clips and images from their personal and professional histories. what makes a great story well told. Buster has writ en two books (Do Story and Do Listen) and the Cannes-selected feature Each lecture is $15 and occurs at the Village Roadshow Theatrette at the State Library documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, and was a creative executive for Hollywood greats Tony Scot (The Good Wife), Ray Stark (Steel Magnolias) and Larry Gelbart (Tootsie). All sessions occur at Village Roadshow Theatrette *MIFF passes not valid; no refunds or exchanges

TELL YOUR STORY SO THE WORLD CINEMA’S INVISIBLE PARTNERS: LISTENS: 10 proven concepts How Sound and the Senses Tell Story A great story well told can change the world. Buster’s 10 Cinema relies on masterful sound design to evoke power- principles of storytelling demonstrate how to turn stories ful emotional responses critical to a fi lm’s success. Buster’s f om good to great. Whether developing a fi lm script, lit- seminar demonstrates how directors with creative sound erary work, a pitch or writing a company’s ‘About’ page, designers create specifi c, subconscious, emotional reac- this seminar reveals why you should aim to “only connect”. tions and story moments in iconic fi lms. The session So, what’s your story? starts with viewing Cannes-selected feature documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (which Buster wrote/ Mon 5 Aug 10am-1pm; $40* 0204 produced) that captures the history, impact and creative process of this art form via stories of legendary directors DECONSTRUCTING MASTER like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Barbra Streisand, Ang Lee and Sofi a Coppola and the sound FILMMAKERS TELLING GREAT STORIES: practitioners they collaborate with. Jordan Peele’s Get Out Wed 7 Aug 10am-1:30pm; $45* 0304 SAMMY DAVIS JR: Breaking Barriers DAVID BOWIE: Iconoclastic genius A breakthrough masterpiece in cinematic storytelling, Get Out collides the classic Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner with hor- A ground-breaking all-round entertainer (musician, One of last century’s most infl uential artists, songwriter, ror, and, perhaps for the fi rst time in cinema, yields a fi lm THE USES OF WONDER: singer, dancer, impressionist and actor in musical theatre rockstar, fashion icon, and actor Bowie (1947-2016) pio- giving white audiences a visceral experience of racism. Ask the Right Questions of Your Story and fi lm & TV), Davis Jr (1925-1990) was part of Frank neered glam rock with his fl amboyant androgynous alter This session analyzes the fi lm’s storytelling: the develop- Sinatra’s famed ‘Rat Pack’, appearing in the likes of Ocean’s ego Ziggy Stardust, while memorable fi lm roles included ment of its “Big Idea” and its reinforcement by all seven Do we have imagination to live our best lives and be our 11, Salt & Pepper, One More Time and Cannonball Run, plus Bob The Man Who Fell to Earth, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Labyrinth, cinematic arts - directing, writing, acting, cinematogra- own best storytellers? This session explores the uses of Fosse’s Sweet Charity, while Broadway successes included The Last Temptation of Christ and The Prestige. Wootton discusses phy, sound/music, art department/FX, costume/produc- wonder and enchantment in storytelling and shares how to Golden Boy and Mr. Wonderful. Wootton explores the legacy the complex life of the iconoclastic Bowie, who was widely tion design – demonstrating how every department is led ask the right questions of your story, including: What’s the of this remarkable artist, who was a civil rights champion hailed as the Picasso of Pop and a Master of Reinvention by the writer/director’s “Big Idea” of the fi lm. Big Idea?; Why Do We Care?; What Do You Feel?; What’s helping break-down showbiz racial barriers. and had 140m+ record sales. the Cinema Language?; as well as examining How to Raise Tue 6 Aug 10am-4pm; $75* 0254 the Stakes in a Scene, Mining the zeitgeist, and All Roads Mon 5 Aug; 5.15pm to 7.15pm 0233 Wed 7 Aug; 5.15pm to 7.15pm 0333 Leading to the Last Emotion. Thu 8 Aug 10am-12pm; $30* 0354 BARBRA STREISAND: Diva & Activist MARILYN MONROE: Enduring pop-icon Showbiz legend Streisand has recorded 60+ albums and One of the most photographed persons of the 20th century, sold 150m+ records. Her movie career started by repris- 1950s celebrity chanteuse and musical star Monroe (1926- LISTEN-UP: How Really Listening ing her Broadway and West End hit turn in Funny Girl, with 1962) played comic ‘blonde bombshell’ characters in leg- Enhances Story other fi lm musicals including Hello, Dolly! and A Star is Born, endary fi lms Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, As J. K. Rowling said: “You cannot tell a story unless some- while playing screwball heroines in Owl and the Pussycat and The Seven Year Itch (one of her biggest box offi ce hits) and her one wants to listen.” But is social media killing the art of What’s Up, Doc?, and dramatic roles in The Way We Were and Golden Globe-winning turn in all-time classic Some Like it listening and really hearing? To listen is an active verb and Nuts while being director, producer and star of Yentl, Prince Hot. Wootton explores the legacy of Monroe, whose trag- this session dissects the strength of listening and reveals its of Tides and The Mirror Has Two Faces. Wootton chronicles the ically short life, confl icted public image, troubled private power in creating wonder, connections, f iends, lovers, life of Streisand, who is known for outspokenness, phi- life and struggle for professional respect all contribute to community – and great stories. Discover how learning to lanthropy and activism. the endless fascination with this doomed legend. listen helps us hear and share great stories well told. Tue 6 Aug; 5.15pm to 7.15pm 0283 Thu 8 Aug: 5.15pm to 7.15pm 0383 Thu 8 Aug 2pm-4pm; $25* 0374 Bobbet e Buster

MIRANDA HARCOURT: ACTING-UP SCRIPT LIVE: Praised by as “intuitive, unique, amazing” and Nicole Kidman Session 1: Directors Working with Actors THAT TIME OF YEAR by Peter Jackson as “at the top of her f eld”, Harcourt has coached many award-winning screen performances, includ- Supported by real-world examples and clips, Harcourt dis- For the fi rst time, 37ºSouth presents a live script-reading ing actors Juliet e Binoche and Dev Patel, while working with cusses how directors' relationships with actors can thrive; of a project seeking fi nance at the market. such directors as Jane Campion, Morten Tyldum, Gaylene she reveals rehearsal techniques and on-set approaches, Developed with Screen Australia and Film Victoria, and and teaches quick and simple ways to empower actors and Preston and Garth Davis. Recent Australia/NZ f lms Harcourt written by Gina Lambropoulos and produced by Lee achieve directorial vision. has worked on include Judy & Punch, Dirt Music, Vai and the Matthews (Emo: The Musical, Premiere Fund 16), That Time MIFF Premiere Fund-supported Buoyancy; recent interna- Wed 14th Aug; 9:30am – 3:30pm; $65* 0674 of Year is a warm comedic tale (think About a Boy meets tional titles include f lms The Aftermath and Leave No Trace, The Birdcage) about a gay-bar owner whose life is disrupted and TV series This Country, Big Little Lies and The Undoing. when he must care for his estranged pious sister af er she’s Session 2: Actors Working with Directors hit by a bus full of drag queens, and the eight-year-old In the workshops, Harcourt introduces simple but innova- With practical exercises, clips and real examples, Harcourt niece he’s never known. tive ways of achieving great performances with tools for re- introducesconcepts and approaches to help actors deliver Audience feedback is invited af er the performance. hearsal and on set that get actors where they need to be – f esh, connected and alive performances, meeting the Buoyancy fast – along with the concepts of Connection, White Space, director’s vision and maximising the actor’s own off ering. While booking is essential, this is a f ee event open to Internal Landscape, Vista and Objects. Harcourt’s coaching is industry and general public alike. Both sessions occur at The Victoria Room, Queen Victoria enriched by her work with Verbatim theatre using real voic- Thu 15 Aug; 9:30am – 3:30pm $65* 0724 Women's Centre, 210 Lonsdale Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Fri 2 Aug 3.15–5.45pm 0054 es and real texts. *MIFF passes not valid; no refunds or exchanges Kino 6

ACCELERATOR LAB: BEHIND THE SCENES All sessions occur at: NGVA Ground Floor Theatrette, Federation Square (entry via atrium) *MIFF passes not valid; no refunds or exchanges

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bryan Mason SCREEN DIVERSITY: ACTING: Emma Booth & Daisy Axon The craf of cinematography is explored by director of Breaking Barriers & Building Bridges Fresh f om Premiere Fund-supported H is for Happiness, photography Bryan Mason, whose credits include the Filmmakers and screen practitioners discuss issues Booth and Axon explore the unique relationship and Sundance-selected titles 52 Tuesdays, Shut Up Little Man! and around building an inclusive screen industry refl ecting, dynamic between actors and directors. Axon also appears this year’s Animals. and enriched by, Australia’s diversity. The panel includes in Judy & Punch at MIFF 2019, while Booth’s extensive cred- its include Extinction, Glitch and an AACTA-winning turn in Thu 8 Aug 2pm–3pm; $16* 0364 three Accelerator Lab alumni with feature debuts at MIFF: John Sheedy (with MIFF Premiere Fund- Venice-selected Hounds of Love. supported H is for Happiness); Maziar Lahooti (Premiere Sun 11 Aug 9am-10.20am; $25* 0514 EDITING: Johanna Scot Fund-supported Below); and Hamish Bennett (Bellbird); Presented with Australian Screen Editors, the art and alongside actor Chris Bunton (Little Monsters and Kairos), secrets of fi lm editing are explored by Johanna Scott, producer Lisa Wang (ABC-TV’s Please Like Me and Premiere PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGN: whose credits include I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story Fund-supported Monsieur Mayonnaise), and sales agent Debra Bethany Ryan & Zohie Castellano Liang (Level-K). and Premiere Fund-supported titles H is for Happiness and Fresh f om Premiere Fund-supported fi lms Buoyancy and Have You Seen the Listers? Fri 9 Aug 4pm–5.20pm; $18* (includes short networking Measure for Measure, production designer Ryan and costume Sat 10 Aug 10.30am-11.45am; $25* 0464 event with panel af er the session) 0424 designer Castellano, respectively, explore how the two craf s come together with the director to bring the world of a fi lm to life. Sun 11 Aug 1pm-2pm; $18* 0524 H is for Happiness

MIFF’s Industry Unit also manages the MIFF Premiere Fund (miffpremierefund.com), which, over the past dec- ade has invested in more than 70 local f lms for premiering at MIFF. See pages 8, 13 and 15 for details of Premiere Fund f lms premiering at MIFF 2019: A Family, Below, Buoyancy, Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks, Measure for Measure, No Time for Quiet and the festival’s Family Gala f lm, H is for Happiness.

39 *A booking fee between $1.40 and $7.90 may apply Screening Schedule Using this Program Screening Schedule Streams

Animation Restorations Film title Screens with short Guest in attendance* Australian Films MIFF Schools Directors In Focus MIFF Shorts A Family (S) ! Documentaries MIFF Talks 6.15pm (93) 4651 p15 Documentary Visions Music on Film Experimentations Nightshift Galas Special Events Start time Audio described Festival Program page number Headliners VR International Open Captions

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* When a guest is in attendance, session may include a post-screening Q&A ** Session times may be longer than flm length

Friday 2 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Honeyland Tommaso Our Mothers (S) Happy New Year, Co... Come To Daddy ! 11am (85) 1030 p27 1.30pm (118) 1040 p18 4pm (96) 1050 p21 6.30pm (95) 1061 p17 9pm (93) 1071 p32 SMOCA The Invisible Life of Euríd... Litigante Brittany Runs a Marath... For Sama Les Misérables Monos 11am (139) 5030 p21 1.45pm (93) 5040 p21 4.15pm (103) 5050 p22 6.45pm (95) 5061 p26 9.15pm (102) 5071 p12 11.30pm (102) 5081 p21

Capitol Theatre Vivarium ! Measure For Measure ! 6pm (97) 2061 p18 9pm (103) 2071 p15 Kino Cinema 1 Too Late To Die Young Goldie (S) 6.30pm (110) 3061 p21 9.15pm (88) 3071 p22 Kino Cinema 2 The Biggest Little... Suede: The Insatiable... Baby 4pm (92) 4050 p27 6.15pm (110) 4061 p23 9pm (96) 4071 p19 Hoyts Cinema 3 Meeting Gorbachev Bros: After the Screa... 6.30pm (90) 6061 p24 9.15pm (95) 6071 p23 Hoyts Cinema 6 The Grand... (S) Dark Suns (S) 6.45pm (67) 7061 p28 9pm (154) 7071 p24 Hoyts Cinema 10 Animals PJ Harvey... 6.45pm (109) 8061 p16 9pm (90) 8071 p23 Hoyts Cinema 11 Matthias & Maxime PJ Harvey... 6.30pm (119) 9061 p12 9pm (90) 9071 p23 The Astor Theatre Thurston... ! 9pm (60) 0075 p9 Cinema Nova Extra Ordinary 11.30pm (94) 0081 p32 Saturday 3 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Plenary 1 The Australian Dream ! Untouchable Young Ahmed Bacurau 11.30am (106) 0012 p6 3.30pm (98) 0042 p26 6.15pm (84) 0072 p12 8.30pm (132) 0102 p13 Plenary 2 Portrait Of A Lady On Fire Sorry We Missed You In Fabric (S) Hear My Eyes: Girlhood 12pm (119) 0022 p13 3pm (100) 0052 p13 5.30pm (118) 0082 p31 9pm (113) 0115 p8 Plenary 3 Thurston... Official Secrets The Wild Goose Lake The Beach Bum 12.30pm (60) 0035 p9 4pm (112) 0062 p13 6.45pm (113) 0092 p13 9.30pm (95) 0122 p22 Forum Los Reyes The Gift: The Journey of... ! System Crasher Cold Case Hammarskjöld Halston 11am (78) 1091 p26 1.15pm (94) 1101 p23 4pm (118) 1111 p18 6.30pm (128) 1121 p25 9.15pm (105) 1131 p24 SMOCA The Gasoline Thieves Fire Will Come Mr. Jones Swallow Come To Daddy 1.45pm (94) 5101 p21 4.15pm (85) 5111 p17 6.30pm (118) 5121 p30 9pm (94) 5131 p22 11.30pm (93) 5141 p32 Capitol Theatre One Child Nation Share In My Blood It Runs ! Below ! Deerskin (S) 11.15am (85) 2091 p25 1.30pm (89) 2101 p22 4pm (84) 2111 p14 6.45pm (93) 2121 p8 9.45pm (77) 2131 p32 Kino Cinema 1 His Lost Name Flesh Out Vision Portraits (S) The Australian Dream ! Beats 11am (113) 3091 p19 1.30pm (94) 3101 p20 4.15pm (87) 3111 p25 6.30pm (106) 3121 p6 9pm (101) 3131 p16 Kino Cinema 2 Picture Character Monrovia, Indiana Kursk Papicha Cool Daddio:... 11.15am (80) 4091 p27 1pm (143) 4101 p25 4pm (117) 4111 p16 6.45pm (105) 4121 p20 9.15pm (78) 4131 p23 Hoyts Cinema 3 Long Day’s Journey Into... Leftover Women Aquarela Nina Wu 1.30pm (110) 6101 p19 4pm (84) 6111 p24 6.30pm (89) 6121 p26 9pm (103) 6131 p19 The Astor Theatre Sátántangó Once Upon A Time In Hollywood 10am (450) 0095 p29 7.30pm (159) 0145 p9 Cinema Nova Koko-Di Koko-Da 11.30pm (86) 0141 p32 Special Events Fulldome...1 Fulldome...2 See page number for venue 7pm (68) 0125 p10 9pm (75) 0135 p10 Sunday 4 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Plenary 1 The Rest Judy & Punch ! Frankie The Nightingale 11.30am (79) 0132 p25 2.30pm (105) 0162 p14 5.30pm (98) 0192 p17 8.30pm (136) 0222 p13 Plenary 2 Les Misérables Pain and Glory The Dead Don’t Die Matthias & Maxime 12pm (102) 0142 p12 3pm (113) 0172 p12 6pm (103) 0202 p12 9pm (119) 0232 p12 Plenary 3 Amazing Grace The Art Of Self-Defense Hearts and Bones ! Sea Of Shadows 12.30pm (87) 0152 p23 3.30pm (104) 0182 p22 6.30pm (107) 0212 p14 9.30pm (104) 0242 p27 Forum The Seer And The... The Whistlers Adam Monos Beanpole 11am (86) 1151 p27 1.30pm (97) 1161 p18 4pm (98) 1171 p20 6.30pm (102) 1181 p21 9pm (140) 1191 p17 SMOCA Nothing Fancy:... Give Me Liberty Working Woman Strickland Selections 1.45pm (73) 5161 p25 4.15pm (119) 5171 p22 6.45pm (93) 5181 p20 9pm (80) 5191 p31 Capitol Theatre Song Without A Name Watergate Animals ! Particles 11am (103) 2151 p21 1.15pm (270) 2161 p25 6.30pm (109) 2181 p16 9.30pm (98) 2191 p17 Kino Cinema 1 Scheme Birds (S) Memory—The Origins of... ! I Was At Home, But Childhood Shorts ! Friedkin Uncut 11.15am (99) 3151 p25 1.30pm (95) 3161 p32 4.15pm (105) 3171 p28 6.30pm (109) 3181 p34 9.15pm (107) 3191 p24 Kino Cinema 2 Brick And Mirror Provincial Actors And Then We Danced Shadows Of Our... 5B 11am (130) 4151 p29 1.45pm (121) 4161 p30 4.30pm (106) 4171 p17 6.45pm (97) 4181 p31 9pm (93) 4191 p26 Hoyts Cinema 3 Hotel By The River Talking About Trees Vivarium ! 1.30pm (96) 6161 p19 4pm (94) 6171 p25 6.30pm (97) 6181 p18 miff.com.au 40 Monday 5 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Theatre The Tomorrow Man Each And Every Moment American Woman Maiden The Wild Goose Lake 11am (94) 1200 p21 1.30pm (105) 1210 p24 4pm (111) 1220 p21 6.30pm (97) 1231 p26 9pm (113) 1241 p13 SMOCA Stars By The Pound A Family Tour House of Hummingbird The Gift: The Journey of... ! Divine Love 11am (86) 5200 p37 1.15pm (107) 5210 p18 4pm (138) 5220 p18 6.45pm (94) 5231 p23 9.15pm (101) 5241 p21 Capitol Theatre A Brother’s Love Below ! 6.15pm (117) 2231 p22 9pm (93) 2241 p8 Kino Cinema 1 Jawline ! Penelope Spheeris... 6.30pm (98) 3231 p27 9.15pm (91) 3241 p30 Kino Cinema 2 Sakawa Funan Land Of Ashes ! 4.15pm (81) 4220 p27 6.45pm (86) 4231 p36 9pm (82) 4241 p21 Hoyts Cinema 3 Dying To Survive 6.45pm (117) 6231 p19 Hoyts Cinema 6 A Woman Alone Ghost Town Anthology 6.30pm (92) 7231 p30 9pm (97) 7241 p22 Hoyts Cinema 10 In My Blood It Runs ! The Beach Bum 6.30pm (84) 8231 p14 9pm (95) 8241 p22 Hoyts Cinema 11 Capital in the 21st... The Beach Bum 6.45pm (103) 9231 p24 9pm (95) 9241 p22 Special Events Wootton: Sammy Davis Jr See page number for venue 5.15pm (120) 0233 p39 Art of the... 6.30pm (60) 0243 p38 Tuesday 6 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Theatre The Trial Marianne & Leonard:... His Lost Name God Exists, Her Name... Memory—The Origins of... ! 11am (128) 1250 p28 1.45pm (102) 1260 p23 4pm (113) 1270 p19 6.30pm (100) 1281 p16 9pm (95) 1291 p32 SMOCA Cleo: If I Could Turn... Days Of The Whale Scheme Birds (S) Judy & Punch Experimental Shorts ! 11am (99) 5250 p37 1.30pm (77) 5260 p37 4pm (99) 5270 p25 6.30pm (105) 5281 p14 9pm (102) 5291 p34 Capitol Theatre The Day Shall Come We Are Little Zombies... 6.15pm (87) 2281 p13 9pm (120) 2291 p19 Kino Cinema 1 Carmine Street... aKasha 6.45pm (80) 3281 p23 9.15pm (78) 3291 p20 Kino Cinema 2 Over the Rainbow Midnight Family ! Bellingcat: Truth in... 4.15pm (75) 4270 p28 6.30pm (81) 4281 p24 9pm (88) 4291 p27 Hoyts Cinema 3 Documentary Shorts ! Seahorse ! 6.30pm (99) 6281 p34 9.15pm (130) 6291 p25 Hoyts Cinema 6 Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis Take Me Somewhere... 6.30pm (122) 7281 p28 9pm (91) 7291 p18 Hoyts Cinema 10 Skin The Dead Don’t Die 6.45pm (118) 8281 p22 9.15pm (103) 8291 p12 Hoyts Cinema 11 Skin The Dead Don’t Die 6.45pm (118) 9281 p22 9.15pm (103) 9291 p12 Special Events Wootton: Barbara Streisand See page number for venue 5.15pm (120) 0283 p39 The World... 6.30pm 0293 p38 Wednesday 7 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Theatre The Unknown Saint The Seer And The... Meeting Gorbachev What You Gonna Do When... The Whistlers 11am (100) 1300 p20 1.30pm (86) 1310 p27 4pm (90) 1320 p24 6.30pm (123) 1331 p26 9.15pm (97) 1341 p18 SMOCA Cats Butterfly Noah Land (S) Queen of Hearts Angelo 11am (105) 5300 p37 1.30pm (80) 5310 p37 4pm (109) 5320 p17 6.30pm (128) 5331 p16 9.15pm (111) 5341 p16 Capitol Theatre Young Ahmed Tommaso White Light ! 4pm (84) 2320 p12 6.30pm (118) 2331 p18 9.15pm (87) 2341 p15 Kino Cinema 1 Land Of Ashes ! Alice ! 6.30pm (82) 3331 p21 9pm (103) 3341 p17 Kino Cinema 2 Ridge (S) The Grand... (S) Jawline ! 4.15pm (71) 4320 p28 6.45pm (67) 4331 p28 9.15pm (98) 4341 p27 Hoyts Cinema 3 International Shorts 1 ! Koko-Di Koko-Da 6.30pm (112) 6331 p34 9.15pm (86) 6341 p32 Hoyts Cinema 6 Present.Perfect. Berberian Sound... (S) 6.15pm (124) 7331 p27 9pm (92) 7341 p31 Hoyts Cinema 10 Brittany Runs a Marathon Wu Tang Clan: of Mics and Men 6.15pm (103) 8331 p22 9pm (234) 8341 p23 Hoyts Cinema 11 Brittany Runs a Marathon Wu Tang Clan: of Mics and Men 6.15pm (103) 9331 p22 9pm (234) 9341 p23 Special Events Wootton: David Bowie See page number for venue 5.15pm (120) 0333 p29 Telling... 6.30pm 0343 p38 The Wild... 6.30pm 0331 p10 Thursday 8 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Theatre Once in Trubchevsk Photograph Mr. Jones The Day Shall Come The Cordillera Of... 11am (80) 1350 p17 1.15pm (110) 1360 p19 4pm (118) 1370 p30 6.30pm (87) 1381 p13 9.15pm (85) 1391 p26 SMOCA Okko’s Inn A Colony Buñuel In The... The Lodge Midnight Family ! 11am (120) 5350 p37 1.30pm (102) 5360 p37 4.15pm (77) 5370 p36 6.30pm (108) 5381 p32 9pm (81) 5391 p24 Capitol Theatre For Sama The Souvenir Cold Case Hammarskjöld 4.15pm (95) 2370 p26 6.30pm (119) 2381 p18 9.15pm (128) 2391 p25 Kino Cinema 1 Seahorse ! Swallow 6.15pm (130) 3381 p25 9.30pm (94) 3391 p22 Kino Cinema 2 Fourteen Measure For Measure ! Working Woman 4pm (94) 4370 p22 6pm (103) 4381 p15 9pm (93) 4391 p20 Hoyts Cinema 3 International Shorts 2 ! A Family 6.15pm (113) 6381 p34 9.15pm (93) 6391 p15 Hoyts Cinema 6 I Was At Home, But Bait 6.30pm (105) 7381 p28 9pm (87) 7391 p28 Hoyts Cinema 10 On The President’s... (S) Wu Tang Clan: of Mics and Men 6.45pm (72) 8381 p26 9pm (234) 8391 p23 Hoyts Cinema 11 Capital in the 21st... Wu Tang Clan: of Mics and Men 6.30pm (103) 9381 p24 9pm (234) 9391 p23 Special Events Masterclass Wootton: MARILYN MONROE Nick Cave & Warren Ellis See page number for venue 2.30pm 0364 p39 5.15pm (120) 0383 p39 7.30pm 0385 p10

41 miff.com.au Friday 9 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Theatre It Must Be Heaven Fire Will Come Rosie PJ Harvey... Ray & Liz ! 11am (97) 1400 p20 1.30pm (85) 1410 p17 4pm (86) 1420 p18 6.30pm (90) 1431 p23 9pm (108) 1441 p16 SMOCA Long Time No Sea Share Ghost Town Anthology Animation Shorts ! WTF Shorts ! Deerskin (S) 11am (96) 5400 p37 1.30pm (89) 5410 p22 4pm (97) 5420 p22 6.15pm (101) 5431 p34 9pm (105) 5441 p34 11.30pm (82) 5451 p32 Capitol Theatre In Darkness Buoyancy ! Untouchable 3.30pm (145) 2420 p30 6.45pm (92) 2431 p8 9.45pm (98) 2441 p26 Kino Cinema 1 House of Hummingbird Manta Ray 6.15pm (138) 3431 p18 9.15pm (105) 3441 p18 Kino Cinema 2 aKasha Nina Wu Katalin Varga (S) 4.15pm (78) 4420 p20 6.30pm (103) 4431 p19 9pm (84) 4441 p31 Hoyts Cinema 3 Bellbird ! Slam ! 6.15pm (96) 6431 p19 9pm (115) 6441 p14 Hoyts Cinema 6 Suburbia Abou Leila 6.30pm (94) 7431 p30 9pm (139) 7441 p20 Hoyts Cinema 10 The Art Of Self-Defense First Love 6.30pm (104) 8431 p22 9.15pm (108) 8441 p19 Hoyts Cinema 11 The Art Of Self-Defense First Love 6.30pm (104) 9431 p22 9.15pm (108) 9441 p19 The Astor Theatre Port Authority The Mountain Goldblum Marathon 6.30pm (94) 0431 p21 9pm (108) 0441 p22 11.30pm (781) 0455 p9 Cinema Nova Evelyn Mr Jimmy Tito 6.30pm (100) 0011 p24 9pm (113) 0021 p23 11.30pm (71) 0451 p32 Special Events VR Masterclass - Screen Diversity Nick Cave and Warren Ellis See page number for venue p33 4pm (135) 0424 p39 7.30pm 0435 p9 Saturday 10 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Theatre The Swallows of Kabul (S) Litigante Nothing Fancy... Centrepiece Gala... ! Monos 11am (100) 1461 p36 1.30pm (93) 1471 p21 4pm (73) 1481 p25 6.45pm (94) 1499 p6 9.15pm (102) 1501 p21 SMOCA The Day Shall Come Dirty God Walking On Water The Amazing... On The President’s... (S) You Don’t Nomi 11.15am (87) 5461 p13 1.30pm (104) 5471 p16 4pm (100) 5481 p25 6.30pm (91) 5491 p25 9pm (94) 5501 p26 11.30pm (92) 5511 p32 Capitol Theatre Marianne & Leonard... Smoke Between Trees ! Los Reyes Centrepiece Gala... The Invisible Life of Eurídice... 11am (102) 2461 p23 1.15pm (105) 2471 p14 4pm (78) 2481 p26 6.15pm (94) 2499 p6 9.15pm (139) 2501 p21 Kino Cinema 1 Vision Portraits... (S) Fever Return Home The Duke of Burgundy (S) The Orphanage 11.15am (87) 3461 p25 1.30pm (116) 3471 p30 4pm (87) 3481 p29 6.30pm (104) 3491 p31 9.15pm (90) 3501 p20 Kino Cinema 2 The Halt (S) Your Face (S) Our Time Machine Angry Harvest 11am (278) 4461 p19 4.30pm (95) 4481 p28 6.45pm (86) 4491 p25 9pm (105) 4501 p30 Hoyts Cinema 3 The Hidden City (S) Suede: The Insatiable... A Brother’s Love Extra Ordinary 1.45pm (103) 6471 p28 4pm (110) 6481 p23 6.30pm (117) 6491 p22 9pm (94) 6501 p32 Hoyts Cinema 6 Baby Recorder: The... Alice ! Over the Rainbow 1.30pm (96) 7471 p19 4.15pm (87) 7481 p25 6.15pm (103) 7491 p17 9.15pm (75) 7501 p28 Hoyts Cinema 10 The Tomorrow Man White Light ! Portrait Of A Lady On Fire American Woman 1.30pm (94) 8471 p21 4pm (87) 8481 p15 6.30pm (119) 8491 p13 9.15pm (111) 8501 p21 Hoyts Cinema 11 Hearts and Bones Accelerator 1 ! Portrait Of A Lady On... American Woman 1.45pm (100) 9471 p14 4.15pm (90) 9481 p35 6.30pm (119) 9491 p13 9.15pm (111) 9501 p21 The Astor Theatre Goldblum Marathon (cont.) The Souvenir Distant Voices... Sorry We Missed You In Fabric (S) from 12am (781) 0455 p9 1.30pm (119) 0471 p18 4.15pm (84) 0481 p29 6.30pm (100) 0491 p13 9pm (118) 0501 p31 Cinema Nova End Of The Century Our Mothers (S) Present.Perfect. Beats Violence Voyager 1.30pm (84) 0931 p21 4pm (96) 0941 p21 6.30pm (124) 0951 p27 9pm (101) 0961 p16 11.30pm (84) 0511 p32 Special Events Beyond... Fulldome 1 Fulldome 2 See page number for venue 1.30pm 0473 p38 7pm (68) 0495 p10 9pm (75) 0505 p10 Editing: Cutting... The Wild... Nick Cave and Warren Ellis 10.30am 0464 p39 1.30pm 0001 p10 7.30pm 0485 p9 VR Nick Cave and Warren Ellis p33 2pm 0475 p9 Sunday 11 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Theatre Watson Talking About Trees Ray & Liz ! The Juniper Tree Papicha 11am (99) 1521 p26 1.30pm (94) 1531 p25 3.45pm (108) 1541 p16 6.45pm (78) 1551 p29 9pm (105) 1561 p20 SMOCA Sakawa A Regular Woman David Crosby:... Maiden Taking the Horse to Eat Jalebis 11am (81) 5521 p27 1.30pm (92) 5531 p16 4pm (95) 5541 p23 6.45pm (97) 5551 p26 9.15pm (122) 5561 p28 Capitol Theatre It Must Be Heaven Australian Shorts ! Sunset The Leunig Fragments ! Bros: After the... 11am (97) 2521 p20 1.15pm (96) 2531 p34 3.45pm (142) 2541 p18 6.45pm (97) 2551 p14 9.30pm (95) 2561 p23 Kino Cinema 1 Burning Bush Slam ! Funan The Boys Next Door 11.15am (232) 3521 p30 3.45pm (115) 3541 p14 6.45pm (86) 3551 p36 9.15pm (91) 3561 p30 Kino Cinema 2 A Family Tour Bellbird ! Benjamin Mr Jimmy Fourteen 11am (107) 4521 p18 1.15pm (96) 4531 p19 4pm (85) 4541 p16 7pm (113) 4551 p23 9.30pm (94) 4561 p22 Hoyts Cinema 3 It Must Schwing! The Blue... ! Evelyn Words And Silk... ! The Biggest Little... And Then We Danced 11am (113) 6521 p23 1.45pm (100) 6531 p24 4pm (86) 6541 p14 6.30pm (92) 6551 p27 8.45pm (106) 6561 p17 Hoyts Cinema 6 Chinese Portrait Cerulean Blue ! Journey to a Mother’s... 1.30pm (79) 7531 p28 4.15pm (72) 7541 p14 6.45pm (94) 7551 p16 Hoyts Cinema 10 Them That Follow Sword Of Trust Les Misérables 1.30pm (98) 8531 p22 4.15pm (89) 8541 p22 6.30pm (102) 8551 p12 Hoyts Cinema 11 The Kill Team Accelerator 2 ! Les Misérables 1.45pm (87) 9531 p22 4pm (91) 9541 p34 6.30pm (102) 9551 p12 The Astor Theatre H is for Happiness ! Young Ahmed Official Secrets 1.30pm (103) 0539 p8 5.45pm (84) 0541 p12 7.45pm (112) 0551 p13 Cinema Nova Stitches Dark Suns (S) Retrospekt 1.30pm (97) 0971 p16 3.45pm (154) 09810981 pXX p24 7pm (102) 0991 p17 Special Events What is... See page number for venue 1.30pm 0533 p38 Acting... VR Design... 9am (70) 0514 p39 p33 1pm 0524 p39

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Forum Theatre Dwelling In The Fuchun Mountains The Gasoline Thieves Queen of Hearts Song Without A Name Aquarela 10.30am (154) 1570 p18 1.45pm (94) 1580 p21 4pm (128) 1590 p16 6.45pm (103) 1601 p21 9pm (89) 1611 p26 SMOCA Cleo: If I Could Turn... Ghost Tropic Abou Leila Experimental Shorts The Unknown Saint 11am (99) 5570 p37 1.15pm (85) 5580 p28 4pm (139) 5590 p20 6.45pm (103) 5601 p34 9.15pm (100) 5611 p20 Capitol Theatre Children Of The Sea Seven Beauties 6.30pm (110) 2601 p36 9pm (117) 2611 p29 Kino Cinema 1 It Must Schwing! The Blue... ! International Shorts 1 6.15pm (113) 3601 p23 9.15pm (112) 3611 p34 Kino Cinema 2 Buoyancy ! Once in Trubchevsk Kairos ! 4pm (92) 4590 p13 6.30pm (80) 4601 p17 9pm (89) 4611 p14 Hoyts Cinema 3 Friedkin Uncut 6.45pm (107) 6601 p24 Hoyts Cinema 6 Smoke Between Trees ! Merata: How Mum... ! 6.30pm (105) 7601 p14 9.15pm (95) 7611 p24 Hoyts Cinema 10 Pain and Glory We Are Little Zombies 6.30pm (113) 8601 p12 9pm (120) 8611 p19 Hoyts Cinema 11 Pain and Glory Give Me Liberty 6.30pm (113) 9601 p12 9.15pm (119) 9611 p22 The Astor Theatre Frankie Matthias & Maxime 6.30pm (98) 0601 p17 9pm (119) 0611 p12 Special Events VR Disability... See page number for venue p33 6.30pm 0603 p38 Tuesday 13 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Theatre Jinpa Hotel By The River The Leunig Fragments ! Angelo Skin 11am (86) 1620 p19 1.15pm (96) 1630 p19 3.45pm (97) 1640 p14 6.30pm (111) 1651 p16 9pm (118) 1661 p22 SMOCA Butterfly Stars By The Pound Manta Ray Vai ! Recorder: The... 11am (80) 5620 p37 1.30pm (86) 5630 p37 4.15pm (105) 5640 p18 6.30pm (95) 5651 p19 9.15pm (87) 5661 p25 Capitol Theatre Happy New Year,... Measure For Measure... ! 6.30pm (95) 2651 p21 8.45pm (103) 2661 p8 Kino Cinema 1 Cerulean Blue ! International Shorts 2 6.30pm (72) 3651 p14 9pm (113) 3661 p34 Kino Cinema 2 Stitches A Family ! Europa Europa 4pm (97) 4640 p16 6.15pm (93) 4651 p15 9.15pm (115) 4661 p30 Hoyts Cinema 3 Buñuel In The... Long Day’s Journey Into... 6.45pm (77) 6651 p36 9pm (110) 6661 p19 Hoyts Cinema 6 Emu Runner ! The Trial 6.30pm (95) 7651 p14 9.15pm (128) 7661 p28 Hoyts Cinema 10 Greener Grass System Crasher 6.30pm (95) 8651 p32 9pm (118) 8661 p18 Hoyts Cinema 11 Watson Australian Shorts 6.45pm (99) 9651 p26 9.15pm (97) 9661 p34 The Astor Theatre First Love The Wild Goose Lake 6.30pm (108) 0651 p19 9pm (113) 0661 p13 Special Events VR Barbara... See page number for venue p33 6.30pm 0653 p38 Wednesday 14 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Theatre Walking On Water Flesh Out Hearts and Bones Sunset Angel of Mine ! 11am (100) 1670 p25 1.15pm (94) 1680 p20 3.45pm (107) 1690 p14 6pm (142) 1701 p18 9.15pm (97) 1711 p15 SMOCA Days Of The Whale Okko’s Inn Take Me Somewhere... The Rest Sword Of Trust 11am (77) 5670 p37 1.30pm (120) 5680 p37 4.15pm (91) 5690 p18 6.30pm (79) 5701 p25 9pm (89) 5711 p22 Capitol Theatre The Swallows of Kabul (S) Iron Fists and Kung Fu... ! Port Authority 3.45pm (100) 2690 p36 6.15pm (90) 2701 p8 9.15pm (94) 2711 p21 Kino Cinema 1 Merata: How Mum... ! Sequin in a Blue Room ! 6.15pm (95) 3701 p24 9pm (80) 3711 p14 Kino Cinema 2 Below ! Kairos ! Your Face (S) 4pm (93) 4690 p15 6.30pm (89) 4701 p14 9.15pm (95) 4711 p28 Hoyts Cinema 3 David Crosby: Remember... Something Else 6.45pm (95) 6701 p23 9pm (83) 6711 p32 Hoyts Cinema 6 Dark Place ! Divine Love 6.30pm (75) 7701 p32 9.15pm (101) 7711 p21 Hoyts Cinema 10 Halston Them That Follow 6.45pm (105) 8701 p24 9.15pm (98) 8711 p22 Hoyts Cinema 11 Official Secrets PJ Harvey... 6.30pm (112) 9701 p13 9pm (90) 9711 p23 The Astor Theatre Bacurau The Nightingale 6pm (132) 0701 p13 9pm (136) 0711 p13 Special Events VR Aust Cities... See page number for venue p33 6.30pm 0703 p38 Thursday 15 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Theatre Kursk The Whistlers A Regular Woman No Time For Quiet ! The Lodge 11am (117) 1720 p16 1.30pm (97) 1730 p18 3.45pm (92) 1740 p16 6.15pm (90) 1751 p15 9.45pm (108) 1761 p32 SMOCA Cats Long Time No Sea Bellingcat: Truth... I Lost My Body Greener Grass 11am (105) 5720 p37 1.30pm (96) 5730 p37 4.15pm (88) 5740 p27 6.30pm (81) 5751 p36 9pm (95) 5761 p32 Capitol Theatre Particles H is for Happiness ! Suzi Q ! 4.15pm (98) 2740 p17 6.30pm (103) 2751 p15 9.30pm (99) 2761 p23 Kino Cinema 1 For My Father’s Kingdom Retrospekt 6.30pm (97) 3751 p26 9pm (102) 3761 p17 Kino Cinema 2 Vai ! Daffodils ! Pixote 4pm (95) 4740 p19 6.45pm (93) 4751 p19 9.15pm (126) 4761 p29 Hoyts Cinema 3 End Of The Century The Hidden City (S) 6.30pm (84) 6751 p21 9.15pm (103) 6761 p28 Hoyts Cinema 6 Memories Of My Body ! Angel of Mine ! 6.15pm (106) 7751 p19 9pm (97) 7761 p15 Hoyts Cinema 10 Dying To Survive Buoyancy ! 6.30pm (117) 8751 p19 9.15pm (92) 8761 p13 Hoyts Cinema 11 Collingwood: From the... ! The Kill Team 6.15pm (106) 9751 p15 9pm (87) 9761 p22 Special Events VR See page number for venue p33

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Forum Theatre Journey to a Mother’s... The Orphanage 11am (94) 1770 p16 1.15pm (90) 1780 p20 SMOCA A Colony Skin Documentary Shorts One Child Nation Iron Fists and Kung Fu... ! Shaw Brothers Double Feature 11am (102) 5770 p37 1.30pm (118) 5780 p22 4pm (99) 5790 p34 6.30pm (85) 5801 p25 8.45pm (90) 5811 p15 11.30pm (204) 5821 p10 Capitol Theatre Judy & Punch Martha: A Picture Story ! MIFF Talks - Morgana ! 4pm (105) 2790 p14 6.30pm (81) 2801 p14 9.15pm (106) 2813 p38 Kino Cinema 1 Adam Memories Of My Body ! 6.45pm (98) 3801 p20 9pm (106) 3811 p19 Kino Cinema 2 La Flor 6.30pm (868) 4805 p28 Hoyts Cinema 3 Sequin in a Blue Room ! No Time For Quiet ! 6.45pm (80) 6801 p14 9.15pm (90) 6811 p15 Hoyts Cinema 6 Machine ! Dark Place ! 6.15pm (86) 7801 p27 9pm (75) 7811 p32 Hoyts Cinema 10 Amazing Grace Surprise Screening 6.45pm (87) 8801 p23 9pm 8811 Hoyts Cinema 11 Amazing Grace Surprise Screening 6.45pm (87) 9801 p23 9.15pm 9811 Cinema Nova Rosie Childhood Shorts WTF Shorts 6.30pm (86) 0801 p18 9pm (109) 0811 p34 11.30pm (106) 0821 p34 Special Events VR See page number for venue p33

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Forum Theatre Children Of The Sea H is for Happiness ! Jinpa Closing Night Gala ! 10.30am (110) 1831 p36 1pm (103) 1841 p15 4pm (86) 1851 p19 6.45pm (100) 1869 p6 SMOCA Sunset Leftover Women Suzi Q ! Picture Character The Mountain 10.45am (142) 5831 p18 1.45pm (84) 5841 p24 4pm (99) 5851 p23 6.45pm (80) 5861 p27 9.15pm (108) 5871 p22 Capitol Theatre Sea Of Shadows NFSA Restores: Black Robe ! The Queen Closing Night Gala ! Surprise Screening 10.45am (104) 2833 p27 1.15pm (96) 2841 p29 4pm (68) 2851 p29 6.30pm (100) 2869 p6 9.30pm 2871 Kino Cinema 1 For My Father’s Kingdom Iron Fists and Kung Fu... ! Dirty God Dwelling In The Fuchun Mountains Tito 11am (97) 3831 p25 1.15pm (90) 3841 p15 4pm (104) 3851 p16 6.15pm (154) 3861 p18 9.15pm (71) 3871 p32 Kino Cinema 2 La Flor Bait Something Else Trash 10.30am (868) 4835 p28 4.15pm (87) 4851 p28 6.30pm (83) 4861 p32 9pm (110) 4871 p31 Hoyts Cinema 3 Emu Runner ! Machine Angel of Mine ! You Don’t Nomi Animation Shorts 11am (95) 6831 p14 1.30pm (86) 6841 p27 4pm (97) 6851 p14 6.45pm (92) 6861 p32 9pm (101) 6871 p34 Hoyts Cinema 6 Ridge (S) Daffodils ! The Amazing... Dudes Violence Voyager 11.15am (86) 7831 p28 1.45pm (93) 7841 p19 4.30pm (91) 7851 p25 6.30pm (90) 7861 p30 9.15pm (84) 7871 p32 Hoyts Cinema 10 Accelerator 1 Surprise Screening I Lost My Body Surprise Screening The Dead Don’t Die 11.15am (90) 8831 p35 1.30pm 8841 4.15pm (81) 8851 p36 6.45pm 8861 9pm (103) 8871 p12 Hoyts Cinema 11 The Biggest Little Farm Surprise Screening Surprise Screening Surprise Screening The Dead Don’t Die 11am (92) 9831 p27 1.30pm 9841 4pm 9851 6.30pm 9861 9pm (103) 9871 p12 Cinema Nova Each And Every Moment Cool Daddio:... Goldie (S) Midnight Family 1.30pm (105) 0841 p24 4pm (78) 0851 p23 6.30pm (97) 0861 p22 9pm (81) 0871 p24 Sunday 18 August Venue 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm 12am

Forum Theatre Monrovia, Indiana The Cordillera Of... Beanpole Sorry We Missed You 10.45am (143) 1891 p25 1.45pm (85) 1901 p26 4pm (140) 1911 p17 7pm (100) 1921 p13 SMOCA Photograph No Time For Quiet ! Surprise Screening 5B 11am (110) 5891 p19 1.30pm (90) 5901 p15 4pm 5911 6.45pm (93) 5921 p26 Capitol Theatre Surprise Screening God Exists, Her Name... Best MIFF Shorts Honeyland 11am 2891 1.45pm (100) 2901 p16 4.15pm (120) 2911 p34 7pm (85) 2921 p27 Kino Cinema 1 Our Time Machine Martha: A Picture Story ! Machine 11.15am (86) 3891 p25 1.30pm (81) 3901 p14 4pm (86) 3911 p27 Kino Cinema 2 La Flor Best MIFF Shorts The Farewell ! 11am (868) 4895 p28 4.30pm (120) 4911 p34 7pm (100) 4921 p6 Hoyts Cinema 3 Carmine Street... Too Late To Die Young What You Gonna Do When... Brittany Runs a Marathon 11.15am (80) 6891 p23 1.30pm (110) 6901 p21 4pm (123) 6911 p26 7pm (103) 6921 p22 Hoyts Cinema 6 The Cremator Man of Marble Noah Land (S) Ghost Tropic 11am (96) 7891 p31 1.15pm (153) 7901 p30 4.15pm (109) 7911 p17 6.45pm (85) 7921 p28 Hoyts Cinema 10 Accelerator 2 Pain and Glory Portrait Of A Lady On Fire Surprise Screening 11.15am (91) 8891 p35 1.30pm (113) 8901 p12 4pm (119) 8911 p13 6.45pm 8921 Hoyts Cinema 11 Animals Pain and Glory Portrait Of A Lady On Fire Surprise Screening 11am (109) 9891 p16 1.30pm (113) 9901 p12 4pm (119) 9911 p13 6.45pm 9921 Cinema Nova Surprise Screening Chinese Portrait Benjamin 1.30pm 0901 4pm (79) 0911 p28 6.30pm (85) 0921 p16 Special Events Bruce... See page number for venue 1.30pm (60) 0903 p38

HITTING THE ROAD WITH A SERIES OF WEEKEND SCREENINGS ACROSS REGIONAL VICTORIA 30 AUG – 6 OCT 2019

H is for Happiness

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Film Date Page Film Date Page Film Date Page Film Date Page Film Date Page 4 Feet: Blind Date 9, 12 33 Cremator, The 18 31 Honeyland 2, 18 27 Mr Jimmy 9, 11 23 Snare 11, 13 34 5B 4, 18 26 Cuckoo Roller 11, 18 35 Horizon: Beyond the Edge Mr. Jones 3, 8 30 Something Else 14, 17 32 3, 10 10 11.11.18 13, 16 33 Daffodils 15, 17 19 of the Visible Universe Mr. Mare 9, 16 34 Son of the Sea 10, 14 36 36th Chamber of Dance of the Dead 9, 17 34 Hotel by the River 4, 13 19 My Name is Mudju 11, 18 35 Song Without a Name 4, 12 21 16 10 Shaolin, The Daniel 11, 18 35 House of Glass 10, 15 28 National Sorry We Missed You 3, 10, 18 13 5 30 Abou Leila 9, 12 20 Dark Place 14. 16 32 House of Hummingbird 5, 9 18 Rehabilitation Center, The Southern Climes 6, 12 34 Accused #2: Hunt, The 9, 17 34 NFSA Restores: Black Robe 17 29 11, 15 33 Dark Suns 2, 11 24 Souvenir, The 8, 10 18 Walter Max Sisulu Daughter 9, 17 34 I Don’t Know 5 30 Nightingale, The 4, 14 13 Sphere 3, 10 10 Adam 4, 16 20 David Crosby: I Lost My Body 15, 17 36 Nina Wu 3, 9 19 St. Augustine 11, 13 34 11, 14 23 Afterimage for Tomorrow 9, 12 33 Remember My Name I Was at Home, But 4, 8 28 15, 16, No Time for Quiet 8, 15 Stars by the Pound 5, 13 37 Air of the Earth in 18 6, 12 34 Day Shall Come, The 6, 8, 10 13 In Darkness 9 30 Stitches 11, 13 16 Your Lungs, The No Use Walkin’ When Days of the Whale 6, 14 37 In Fabric 3, 10 31 5 30 aKasha 6, 9 20 You Can Stroll Strangers 11, 18 35 Dead Don’t Die, The 4, 6, 17 12 In My Blood It Runs 3, 5 14 Alice 7, 10 17 Noah Land 7, 18 17 Street of Crocodiles 4 31 Deerskin 3, 9 32 Independence Day 99 All Inclusive (Corina Nothing Fancy: Submit to Me 4 31 6, 16 34 4, 10 25 Schwingruber Ilic) Dirty God 10, 17 16 Intermission Expedition 9, 17 34 Diana Kennedy Suburbia 9 30 Distance Between Us and Invisible Life of All Inclusive (Teemu Nikki) 9, 16 34 8, 13 34 2, 10 21 Official Secrets 3, 11, 14 13 Suede: The Insatiable Ones 2, 10 23 the Sky, The Eurídice Gusmão, The Allures 4 31 Okko’s Inn 8, 14 37 11, 14, Distant Voices, Still Lives 10 29 14, 16, Sunset 18 Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks 8, 15 17 Altiplano 6, 12 34 17 Omarska 2, 10 21 Divine Love 5, 14 21 Suzi Q 15, 17 23 Amazing Grace 4, 16 23 It Must Be Heaven 9, 11 20 On the President’s Orders 8, 10 26 Docking 9, 16 34 Swallow 3, 8 22 Amazing Johnathan It Must Schwing! The Once in Trubchevsk 8, 12 17 10, 17 25 Double Exposed 6, 16 34 11, 12 23 Documentary, The Blue Note Story Once Upon a Time Swallows of Kabul, The 10, 14 36 Dramatic and Mild 6, 16 34 39 American Woman 5, 10 21 It’s Going to be Beautiful 6, 16 34 In Hollywood Sword of Trust 11, 14 22 Dudes 17 30 And Then The Bear 9, 17 34 Jawline 5, 7 27 One Child Nation 3, 16 25 Synthesis 5 30 Duke of Burgundy, The 10 31 And Then We Danced 4, 11 17 jeny303 6, 16 34 Orphanage, The 10, 16 20 System Crasher 3, 13 18 14, 15, Dwelling in the Our Mothers 2, 10 21 Angel of Mine 15 12, 17 18 Jinpa 13, 17 19 Take Me Somewhere Nice 6, 14 18 17 Fuchun Mountains Journey to a Our Time Machine 10, 18 25 Taking the Horse Dying to Survive 5, 15 19 11, 16 16 6, 11 28 Angelo 7, 13 16 Mother’s Room Out of Range 11, 13 34 to Eat Jalebis Each and Every Moment 5, 17 24 Angry Harvest 10 30 Judy & Punch 4, 6, 16 14 Outer Space 4 31 Talking About Trees 4, 11 25 Earth Girls Are Easy 99 Animals 2, 4, 18 16 Jump, The 4, 6 25 Over the Rainbow 6, 10 28 Tall Guy, The 99 Egg, The 11, 13 34 Aquarela 3, 12 26 Juniper Tree, The 11 29 Pain and Glory 4, 12, 18 12 Tattoo 8, 13 34 Eight Diagram Pole Art of Self-Defense, The 4, 9 22 16 10 Them That Follow 11, 14 22 Fighter, The Kagaya’s Aurora 3, 10 10 Papicha 3, 11 20 Ashe ‘68 10, 14 33 There’s a Mobster Elders 4, 16 34 Kairos 12, 14 14 Particles 4, 15 17 10, 17 35 At Land 29 Under My Bed! Emu Runner 13, 17 14 Katalin Varga 9 31 Passage 11, 18 35 Atomic Tree, The 13, 16 33 Thor: Ragnarok 99 End of the Century 10, 15 21 Kids on Fire 4, 16 34 Passenger 11, 15 33 Australia: The Three Stories Inside 7, 10 10 Kill Team, The 11, 15 22 Patision Avenue 7, 12 34 11, 13 34 Wild Top End 3D Entropia 9, 17 34 a Rental Van Kiss of the Catfish, The 7, 17 28 Pearl 4, 16 34 Australian Dream, The 1, 3 6 Europa Europa 13 30 Tito 9, 17 32 Koko-Di Koko-Da 3, 7 32 Photograph 8, 18 19 Ayahuasca 9–16 33 Evelyn 9, 11 24 Tommaso 2, 7 18 Kursk 3, 15 16 Picture Character 3, 17 27 Baby 2, 10 19 Extra Ordinary 2, 10 32 Tomorrow Man, The 5, 10 21 16, 17, Piggy 9, 16 34 Bacurau 3, 14 13 Falling Up 10, 17 35 La Flor 28 Too Late to Die Young 2, 18 21 18 Pixote 15 29 Bait 8, 17 28 Family Tour, A 5, 11 18 Tracking 4, 16 34 Land of Ashes 5, 7 21 PJ Harvey: A Dog Family, A 8, 13 15 2, 9, 14 23 Trash 17 31 Bath 5 30 Landing 6, 12 34 Called Money Farewell, The 17, 18 6 Traveling While Black 10, 14 33 Beach Bum, The 3, 5 22 Last Post Office, The 7, 12 34 Please Speak Continuously Beanpole 4, 18 17 Feathers 4, 16 34 and Describe Your Trial , The 6, 13 28 Leftover Women 3, 17 24 9, 16 34 Beats 3, 10 16 Featherweight 10, 17 35 Experiences as Triple Swear 10, 17 35 Les Misérables 2, 4, 11 12 They Come to You Bellbird 9, 11 19 Fever 10 30 Under Covers 9, 17 34 Leunig Fragments, The 11, 13 14 Port Authority 9, 14 21 Field, The 8, 13 34 Unknown Saint, The 7, 12 20 Bellingcat: Truth in a Life Aquatic with 6, 15 27 99Portrait of a Lady on Fire 3, 10, 18 13 Post-Truth World Fire Will Come 3, 9 17 Steve Zissou, The Untouchable 3, 9 26 Present.Perfect. 7, 10 27 Below 3, 5, 14 8, 15 First Love 9, 13 19 Light 10, 14 28 Vai 13, 15 19 Procedure 2, The 9, 16 34 Benjamin 11, 18 16 Five Films By Van, The 8, 13 34 3, 10 10 Liliu 10, 17 35 Diana Reichenbach Provincial Actors 4 30 Berberian Sound Studio 7 31 Litigante 2, 10 21 Vibes 99 Flame 6, 12 34 Pulsión 9, 17 34 Between Relating And Use 6, 12 34 Little Grey Bubbles 8, 13 34 Violence Voyager 10, 17 32 Flesh Out 3, 14 20 Queen of Hearts 7, 12 16 Biggest Little Farm, The 2, 11, 17 27 Little Monsters 10 6 Virgins4Lyfe 7, 12 34 Flicker, The 4 31 Queen, The 17 29 Black Bus Stop 2, 17 22 Little Soul, The 9, 16 34 Vision Portraits 3, 10 25 Fly, The 99 Rain 3, 9 32 Bonfire 9–16 33 Lives in Action 3, 10 25 Vivarium 2, 4 18 For My Father’s Kingdom 15, 17 25 Ray & Liz 9, 11 16 Boy and Crows 5 30 Living Room 11, 13 34 Waiting Room, The 9–16 33 Recorder: The Marion Boys Next Door, The 11 30 For Sama 2, 8 26 10, 13 25 Lodge, The 8, 15 32 Stokes Project Walking on Water 10, 14 25 Fourteen 8, 11 22 Brick and Mirror 4 29 Long Day’s Warburdar Bununu: 3, 13 19 Regular Woman, A 11, 15 16 6, 16 34 Brittany Runs a Marathon 2, 7, 18 22 Frankie 4, 12 17 Journey Into Night Water Shield Reneepoptosis 9, 17 34 Bros: After the Friedkin Uncut 4, 12 24 Long Distance 10, 17 35 Water and Clearing 6, 12 34 2, 11 23 Rest, The 4, 14 25 Screaming Stops Funan 5, 11 36 Long Time No Sea 9, 15 37 Watergate 4 25 Retrospekt 11, 15 17 Brother’s Love, A 5, 10 22 Future Dreaming 9–16 33 Los Reyes 3, 10 26 Watermelon Juice 8, 13 34 Return Home 10 29 Brotherhood 7, 12 34 Gasoline Thieves, The 3, 12 21 Lost Rambos 8, 10 26 Watson 11, 13 26 Buñuel in the Return, A 6, 12 34 8, 13 36 Ghost Town Anthology 5, 9 22 Lowland Kids 6, 16 34 We Are Little Zombies 6, 12 19 Labyrinth of Turtles Ridge 7, 17 28 Ghost Tropic 12, 18 28 Lucía en el limbo 7, 12 34 We’re Not Here 11, 13 34 Buoyancy 9, 12, 15 8, 13 Rising Within Realms 7 31 Gift, A 4, 16 34 16, 17, Wet. Warm. Dribble. 9, 16 34 Burning Bush 11 30 Machine 27 Ritual in Transfigured Time 29 Gift: The Journey of 18 What You Gonna Do When 3, 5 23 7, 18 26 Butterflies 7, 18 17 Johnny Cash, The Mahogany Too 6, 12 34 Rosie 9, 16 18 the World’s on Fire? Butterfly 7, 13 37 Girl and Body 10, 17 35 Maiden 5, 11 26 Rules of Play 9, 17 34 Whistlers, The 4, 7, 15 18 Call Confession 2, 11 24 Girlhood 38Maja 4, 16 34 Sakawa 5, 11 27 White Light 7, 10 15 Capital in the 21st Century 5, 8 24 Give Me Liberty 4, 12 22 Man in the Well 10 19 Sátántangó 3 29 Wild Goose Lake, The 3, 5, 13 13 Carmine Street Guitars 6, 18 23 God Exists, Her Scheme Birds 4, 6 25 Witch’s Cradle Outtakes 29 6, 18 16 Man of Marble 18 30 Name is Petrunya Cats 7, 15 37 Manta Ray 9, 13 18 Sea of Shadows 4, 17 27 Woman Alone, A 5 30 Goldie 2, 17 22 Cerulean Blue 11, 13 14 Marianne & Leonard: Seahorse 6, 8 25 Words And Silk: The 6, 10 23 Children Do Not Play War 13, 16 33 Grand Bizarre, The 2, 7 28 Words of Love Seer and the Unseen, The 4, 7 27 Imaginary and Real 11 14 Worlds of Gerald Murnane Children of the Sea 12, 17 36 Grave of St Oran, The 9, 17 34 Martha: A Picture Story 16, 18 14 Send Me Home 10, 14 33 Working Woman 4, 8 20 Chinese Portrait 11, 18 28 Greener Grass 13, 15 32 Matthias & Maxime 2, 4, 12 12 Sequin in a Blue Room 14, 16 14 Wu Tang Clan: Of Gymnasia 11, 15 35 7, 8 23 Circus Movements 6, 16 34 Measure for Measure 2, 8, 13 8, 15 Seven Beauties 12 29 Mics and Men 11, 15, Cleo: If I Could H is for Happiness 8, 15 Meeting Gorbachev 2, 7 24 Shadows of Our 6, 12 37 17 4 31 You Don’t Nomi 10, 17 32 Turn Back Time Memories of My Body 15, 16 19 Forgotten Ancestors Halston 3, 14 24 Young Ahmed 3, 7, 11 12 Cobbler’s Lot, The 3, 10 31 Memory — The Share 3, 9 22 4, 6 32 Your Face 10, 14 28 Cold Case Hammarskjöld 3, 8 25 Halt, The 10 19 Origins of Alien She Runs 7, 12 34 Happy New Year, Collingwood: From 2, 13 17 Merata: How Mum Shed a Light 6, 12 34 15 15 Colin Burstead 12, 14 24 The Inside Out Decolonised the Screen SHHHH 9, 16 34 Hats off to Hollywood 5 30 Colony, A 8, 16 37 Meshes of the Afternoon 29Shit 5 30 Hearts and Bones 4, 10, 14 14 Come to Daddy 2, 3 32 Metaphysical Education, A 9 31 Size of Things, The 4, 16 34 Héctor 8, 13 34 Common Ground 9–16 33 Midnight Family 6, 8, 17 24 Skin 6, 13, 16 22 Henry Needs a New Home 11, 18 35 Conduct Phase 10 31 Monos 2, 4, 10 21 Slam 9, 11 14 Cool Daddio: The Second Hidden City, The 10, 15 28 Monrovia, Indiana 3, 18 25 3, 17 23 Slug Life 9, 16 34 Youth of R. Stevie Moore His Lost Name 3, 6 19 Morgana 16 15 Smoke Between Trees 10, 12 14 Cordillera of Dreams, The 8, 18 26 Hoarders Without Borders 2, 7 28 Mountain, The 9, 17 22 miff.com.au 46 Credits

Board of Directors Administration Festival Publicists: Common State Premium Members Thank You Accounts Cecily Wallace Thank you to all the ticketing and front- Claire Dobbin (Chair) Luke McKinnon Ling Ang of-house staff whose cheer and diligence Tim McGregor (Deputy Chair) Systems & Operations Tiki Menegola Ying Ang keep the festival ticking along smoothly. Teresa Zolnierkiewicz (Deputy Chair) Jadan Carroll Stephen Boundouris Systems Manager Simon Bedford Dennis Tomaras (Secretary) Charly Binney Elizabeth Bromham And a very special shout-out to all of the Andrew Lu Operations Manager Tash Commons Natacha Hofand Ian A Chapman volunteers. Without you, there simply would be no MIFF. Thank you all so much. Joel Pearlman Box Ofce Managers F iona Collins Jack Christian Sam Mostyn (until July 2019) MIFF Industry Teresa Cianciosi Zahava Elenberg MIFF Premiere Fund, 37˚South Market & Bernie Cliford Yun Bond Accelerator Lab Julia Cofeld Staff (from July 2019) Industry Programs Ofcer Eddie Coupe Peter Cole Management Assistant Box Ofce Scott Dicker PLEASE NOTE: Details in this guide are as 37˚South Market & Accelerator accurate as possible at the time of printing. Artistic Director Al Cossar Managers Lucy Fekete Lab Coordinators Aurélia Porret Mark Dorset Bonnie Perry Niels Endres MIFF accepts no responsibility for any late Industry Director & Premiere Chantal Chateauneuf changes after the guide has gone to print. Nick Turner Rosemary Forbes Fund Executive Producer Mark Woods Anthoula Ververis Opinions stated in the guide do not necessarily Venues Manager Erin Hutchinson Peter Guest reflect those of MIFF, its staff or affiliates. General Manager Victoria Pope 37˚South Market & Accelerator Suzanne Hampel For late scheduling and program changes Assistant Venues Managers Mitchell McKay Lab Administrators Madelaine Ure Finance Manager Amanda Sole Ian Hocking please check miff.com.au, or subscribe to Alyce Stampa Scott Joblin Greg Hughan MIFF’s official newsletter, Widescreen, at Programming miff.com.au/subscribe. Membership Coordinator Tiana Stefanic Industry Placement Liam Sydow M A Johnston Programmer Thomas Caldwell Tamara Joyner DO NOT LITTER Access Ofcer Danielle Reynolds 37˚South Consultants Mary Chen Heather Kenihan Programmer MIFF Schools & Matt Atkins VR, Program Coordinator Kate Fitzpatrick Volunteers Manager Georgia Smedley Alex Lowes Events Manager Tom Noble Interns & Volunteers Pamela Macklin Programmer Shorts & VR, Vlad Mijic Submissions Coordinator Mia Falstein-Rush Systems & Operations Programming Interns Anthea Clarke Natalie Miller VR Producer Steve Spangaro Coordinator Kim Haworth Scarlette Nhi Do Zoe Milnes Julia Flaster Robyn Peck Guest Coordinators Sarah Poppitz Database Development Feature Power Rosalie Ridler Bridget Geraghty VR Intern Callum Stewart Technical George Rubanov Critics Campus Coordinator Luke Goodsell VR Volunteer Aaron Richardson Festival Technical Manager David Thomas Martina Schaerf Projects Coordinator Adele Moreira Digital Marketing Interns Aa yushi Parikh Anthony Scott Technical Coordinator Mark Walker Georgia Howard Yvonne Segal Programming Assistant Gisselle Gallego Film Handler Greg Anderson Partnerships Intern Jenny Li Anne Smith Partnerships Print Trafc Will MacFarlane Michael Smith Partnerships Manager Sarah Wild Feature Film Panellists Maria Sola ACMI Cinema at the Daniel Stoeski Partnerships Coordinator Harry Seward Capitol Technical Manager Andre Bernard Brian Brown, Lisa Daniel, Yask Desai, Tanja Stoeski Samuel Harris, Andy Hazel, Alexandra Marketing & Communications ACMI Projectionists Tim McGrath Dahle Suggett Heller-Nicholas, Louise Malcolm, Doosie Ricci Swart Marketing & Phil Grace Morris, Kai Perrignon, Tim O’Farrell, Dorcas Communications Manager Claire La Greca Dale Putting Paul Wiegard Utkovic, Keva York Zygmunt Zayler Digital Content Producer Damon Branecki Forum Theatre Vic Zbar Projectionists Phil Comey Short Film Panellists Marketing & Communications Animation Coordinator Joanne Warrener Chris Elliot Kat McDowell Simon Norton, Isabel Peppard, Neil Salmon Publications Zac Olsen Documentary Publications Editor Melanie Sheridan Bec Bartlett Melissa Acker, Ana Boado, Caroline Döring, Hoyts MCE Projectionists Will MacFarlane Graphic Designer Boruk Gradman River Jiang, Erin Rosenberg Chris Karagiannis Design assistance Jef van de Zandt Experimental Kino Projectionist John Koutsoumis Writers Andrew Tijs Lesley Chow, Giles Fielke, Kristy Matheson Chloe Walker Arthur Street Auditorium Glenn Dunks Projectionists Darren Brown Fiction Hayley Inch Carl Liou Hieu Chau, Tess Flynn, Eliza Janssen, Luke Lee Zachariah MCEC Projectionists Ben Atkinson King, Alice McShane, Max Minkof, Oliver Luke Goodsell Daniel Knight Nolan, Davina Rimmer, André Shannon, Luke Ryan Travis Geldard Tiana Stefanic, Jo Warrener Mel Campbell VR Sarah Ward With additional help and thanks to the Will Higginbotham Marriner Mechs and LXs, Simon Dargaville Emma Roberts, Sarah-Jane Woulahan and Travis at ACMI and Kevin, Neale and Guide Proof Readers Jackie Goldberg Bruce at Hoyts CTG. 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