HAMILTON 22 AUGUST – 19 SEPTEMBER 2018

PALMERSTON NORTH 23 AUGUST – 9 SEPTEMBER 2018

TAURANGA 23 AUGUST – 16 SEPTEMBER 2018 NZIFF.CO.NZ BOOK AT NZIFF.CO.NZ

NZIFF 2018 40th Hamilton International Film Festival 42nd Palmerston North International Film Festival 42nd Tauranga International Film Festival

Presented by New Zealand Film Festival Trust under the distinguished patronage of Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy, Governor-General of New Zealand

LIDO CINEMA, HAMILTON EVENT CINEMAS, PALMERSTON NORTH RIALTO CINEMAS, TAURANGA

Director: Bill Gosden General Manager: Sharon Byrne Communications Manager: Rebecca McMillan Assistant to the General Manager: Lisa Bomash Programmer: Sandra Reid Programme Manager: Michael McDonnell Animation NOW! Programmer: Malcolm Turner All Ages Programmer: Nic Marshall Incredibly Strange Programmer: Anthony Timpson Programme Consultant: Chris Matthews Online Content Manager: Kailey Carruthers Content Manager: Ina Kinski Materials and Content Assistant: Matt Wilshere Publications Coordinator: Tim Wong Audience Development Manager: PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Alice Vilardel Social Media Coordinator: Rebecca Shannon Guest Coordinator: Pamela Harvey-White Technical Adviser: Ian Freer Festival Accounts: Alan Collins Festival Interns: Jean Teng (Auckland) Zoe Pattinson Fan, Liam Reid (Wellington) Publication Design: Ocean Design Group Publication Production: Greg Simpson Cover Design: Matt Bluett Cover Illustration: Ken Samonte Animated Title: Anthony Hore (designer), Aaron Hilton (animator), Tim Prebble (sound), Catherine Fitzgerald (producer)

THE NEW ZEALAND FILM FESTIVAL TRUST Chair: Catherine Fitzgerald Trustees: Louise Baker, Adrienne Bonell, James Every-Palmer, Tearepa Kahi, Robin Laing, Andrew Langridge, Helen Marie O’Connell, Chris Watson Financial Controller: Chris Prowse

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Notes in this brochure are written and compiled by the programmers, Bill Gosden (unsigned), Michael McDonnell (MM), Ant Timpson (AT), Sandra Reid (SR), Nic Marshall (NM) and Malcolm Turner (MT). Judah Finnigan (JF), Tim Wong, Kailey Carruthers, Toby Manhire, Nick Bollinger, Clare Stewart, Chris Tse, Catherine Bisley, Jo Randerson, Rebecca Priestley, Angela Lassig and Chris Kirk also contributed notes. The brochure was edited, drawing on a wide array of writers we like, by Bill Gosden, cribbing the occasional perfect adjective from said writers. It was managed by Tim Wong with the assistance of a squadron of ace proofreaders who labour beyond the call of duty. Views expressed in the brochure do not necessarily represent the views of the staff or trustees of the New Zealand Film Festival Trust. HAMILTON PALMERSTON NORTH TAURANGA LIDO CINEMA EVENT CINEMAS RIALTO CINEMAS

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Opening night with light food and drinks from 7.00 pm; screening of A CODED SESSIONS A CODED SESSIONS Birds of Passage starts at 7.45 pm. Sessions starting after 4.30 pm weekdays and all Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all weekend sessions weekend sessions A CODED SESSIONS Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all » Full Price $17.00 » Full Price $17.00 weekend sessions » Student/Film Society/ » Tertiary Student/Film Society/ Nurses/Community Services Card* $13.00 Film Industry Guilds/Nurses* $14.00 » Full Price $17.00 » Senior Citizen (65+) $12.50 » Secondary Student* $12.50 » Student/Film Society/Film Industry Guilds* $13.00 » Child (14 and under) $12.50 » Child (15 and under)/Senior Citizen (60+) $10.50 » Nurses/Community Services Card* $13.00 » Senior Citizen (65+)/Child (15 and under) $10.00 B CODED SESSIONS B CODED SESSIONS Sessions starting before 4.30 pm weekdays Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays B CODED SESSIONS Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays » Full Price $14.00 » Full Price $15.00 » Student/Film Society/ » Tertiary Student/Film Society/ » Full Price/Student/Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/ Nurses/Community Services Card* $12.50 Film Industry Guilds/Nurses* $14.00 Nurses/Community Services Card* $13.00 » Senior Citizen (65+) $12.50 » Child (15 and under)/Senior Citizen (60+) $10.50 » Senior Citizen (65+)/Child (15 and under) $9.00 » Child (14 and under) $10.00 Please note: We are unable to accept any vouchers including Please note: We regret that we cannot accept movie money Hoyts passes, Event passes, discounter vouchers and complimentary redemptions, gift vouchers, discount cards or any complimentary Please note: We regret that we cannot accept Event Cinemas passes unless they are Gold Rialto Tauranga Gift Vouchers or marked passes unless marked NZIFF 2018. vouchers, Hoyts Super Savers or other discount vouchers for NZIFF NZIFF 2018. * Students, Film Society members, Film Industry Guild members, screenings. * Tertiary/Secondary Students, Nurses, Film Society members and Nurses and Community Services Card holders are entitled to * Students, Film Society members, Nurses and Community Services Film Industry Guild members are entitled to purchase one ticket purchase one ticket per session at the discount rate. Student/ Card holders are entitled to purchase one ticket per session at per session at the discount rate. Student/Staff/Membership ID is Staff/Membership/CSC ID is required – please ensure you bring the discount rate. Student/Staff/Membership/CSC ID is required required – please ensure you bring it with you to the venue to it with you to the venue to present to staff on request; failure to – please ensure you bring it with you to the venue to present to present to staff on request; failure to do so will result in the full do so will result in the full price being charged for attendance. staff on request; failure to do so will result in the full price being price being charged for attendance. The concession price is not The concession price is not available to those holding Film Society charged for attendance. The concession price is not available to available to those holding Film Society three-film sampler cards. three-film sampler cards. those holding Film Society three-film sampler cards. Prices are GST inclusive and in NZD. A $0.25 per ticket transaction fee is already included in the Prices are GST inclusive and in NZD. price of the ticket. Prices are GST inclusive and in NZD. BUYING TICKETS BUYING TICKETS Advance sales are available for all sessions from Rialto Tauranga Advance sales are available for all sessions from Event Cinemas Cinemas during normal box office hours. Please note that all from 10.00 am to 8.30 pm daily. Please note that all sessions have BUYING TICKETS sessions have allocated seating. Phone reservations are available on allocated seating. Advance sales are available for all sessions from Lido Cinema (07) 577 0445; tickets reserved by phone need to be collected 30 Hamilton during normal box office hours. As seats are not allocated, ONLINE www.eventcinemas.co.nz minutes prior to film screening. Book tickets online and you can choose your own seats. we recommend arriving early to your session. Phone reservations are ONLINE www.rialtotauranga.co.nz available on (07) 838 9010. Tickets reserved by phone need to be A booking fee of $1.40 per ticket applies. Book tickets online and you can choose your own seats. collected at least 15 minutes prior to the session. METHOD OF PAYMENT A booking fee of $2.00 per ticket applies. ONLINE www.lidocinema.co.nz Cash/EFTPOS: Accepted for box office bookings. METHOD OF PAYMENT Please visit our website to purchase your tickets online. Visa/Mastercard: Accepted for all bookings. Cash/EFTPOS: Accepted for box office bookings. METHOD OF PAYMENT Visa/Mastercard: Accepted for all bookings. Cash/EFTPOS/Visa/Mastercard/Amex: Accepted for all online and box office ticket sales. VENUE INFORMATION All screenings will be held at Event Cinemas, Broadway Avenue, Palmerston North. Ph (06) 355 5655. VENUE INFORMATION All screenings will be held at Rialto Tauranga Cinemas, Level 1, VENUE INFORMATION BOOKING OFFICE ENQUIRIES Goddard Centre, 21 Devonport Road, Tauranga; Ph (07) 577 0445. Free 24-hour information line: (06) 355 5656. All screenings will be held at Lido Cinema, The Balcony, CONCESSION SALES Centre Place, 501 Victoria St, Hamilton. WHEELCHAIR ACCESS As well as popcorn, confectionary, ice cream and pizza, Ph (07) 838 9010 [email protected] Wheelchair spaces are available in all cinemas. Rialto Cinemas have a selection of beer, wine and coffee available for purchase. Wheelchair access and assistive listening are both available. ASSISTIVE LISTENING Assistive listening devices are available – please inform us of your WHEELCHAIR ACCESS requirements when purchasing your tickets. There is a lift available on the Ground Floor which will take you to both the Ticketing area and the Cinemas. All three of our cinemas have been designed to accommodate wheelchairs. KEY TO ICONS For more detailed information regarding disabled access please contact us on (07) 577 0445. Guest Appearance Meet the makers. Films programmed with introductions and post-screening Q+As with the artists in person. Correct at the time of printing. See website for latest updates. ASSISTIVE LISTENING Cannes Selection 2018 Direct from the Competition and Croisette in the South of France, we bring you the There are hearing assistive headphones available free of charge. movies making waves at the most famous film festival of them all. Major Festival Award Films judged the best and brightest at A-list film festivals around the world, from Venice, to Berlin, to Sundance and Cannes. CONTENTS

GENERAL INFORMATION 04 08 14 REFUNDS Please note that NO REFUNDS will be given for uncollected Big Nights Aotearoa World tickets or tickets collected late. Bookings once made cannot be altered. Please choose carefully as there are no exchanges or refunds except as required by law. PROGRAMME CHANGES We reluctantly reserve the right to change the schedule by 29 30 amending dates or replacing films. Any necessary changes will be For All Framing Reality advertised on our website and at our venues. Ages PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY There are no advertising films or trailers at NZIFF. We reserve the right to ask latecomers to wait until the conclusion of any introductions or short films before they are seated. Session starting times will not be delayed in deference to late arrivals. If collecting tickets prior to a screening please allow extra time in case there are queues. MOBILE PHONES Please ensure mobile phones are switched off before entering the auditorium. WELCOME CENSORSHIP CLASSIFICATION We could not be prouder or happier about fronting G – Suitable for general audiences PG – Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers up, in this winter of 2018, to offer you a programme as M – Unrestricted. Recommended as more suitable for mature audiences 16 invigorating and timely as any we have ever presented. years and over Support for the Festival around the country is legendary. RP13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian And if you’ve not joined us before, you have chosen a great RP16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over, unless they are year to do so. accompanied by a parent or guardian R13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over NZIFF is an audience-driven event, dependent for almost R16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over R18 – Restricted to persons 18 years and over 90% of its income on box office. We return 25% of that Classifications will be published on NZIFF’s website income to filmmakers. The major sponsorship we receive and displayed at the venues’ box offices. Children’s tickets are from the New Zealand Film Commission is a gratifying available only for films classified G, PG institutional endorsement of that principle. Some other and M. At the time of printing some films have not been rated. crucial supporters should also be acknowledged. Resene join us for their fifth year as Until they receive a censor rating, they sponsors of another stimulating strand of films from Aotearoa. Flicks.co.nz, RadioLIVE, are considered R18 (unless clearly aimed at children) and can only nzherald.co.nz and Metro magazine are exactly the media partners an event like ours be purchased by and for people aged can work with, engaging directly with the films we present. In 2018 we welcome a new 18 and over. For more information please visit the ticketing and Artistic Development Partner in Creative New Zealand. venue information page on our website. Though we encounter numerous not-quite contenders as we go, the thing we NZIFF programmers do for work, we also do for fun. There are debates, difficult decisions and EXPLORE THE hallelujah moments aplenty, which is exactly how we hope selecting your NZIFF will turn PROGRAMME ONLINE out for you. May our efforts help you spot the movies that will mean the most to you. www.nziff.co.nz Find out more about the 60+ feature films and short film programmes we’ve selected for this year’s NZIFF, access exclusive trailers and content, and curate your own shortlist and schedule of screenings to watch this winter. FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for behind-the- Bill Gosden scenes photos and footage, sneak peeks, trailer reveals and Director giveaways.

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Birds of Passage Pájaros de verano Opening Night, Hamilton & Palmerston North

A vibrant Colombian indigenous culture that’s survived centuries of colonisation takes on the 1970s drug trade in our Directors: Cristina Gallego, visually and aurally astounding opener. Ciro Guerra Colombia/Denmark/Mexico 2018 Directors Ciro Guerra (Embrace of the 125 mins Serpent, NZIFF16) and Cristina Gallego Producers: Katrin Pors, Cristina Gallego shake off the clichés of crime-war and Screenplay: María Camila Arias, Jacques imperialism and imbue their saga with Toulemonde. Based on a story by Cristina Gallego Photography: David Gallego surreal beauty and the elemental power Editor: Miguel Schverdfinger of ancient proverb. Music: Leonardo Heiblum With: Carmiña Martínez, Jose Acosta, The film’s formidable matriarch Jhon Narváez, Natalia Reyes, Jose Vicente Cotes, (Carmiña Martínez) knows full well Juan Martínez, Greider Meza Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2018 that the young chancer (José Acosta) In Wayuunaiki, Spanish and English, who has courted her daughter with English subtitles M violence, offensive language & sex scenes (Natalia Reyes) could only have paid the outrageous dowry she demanded PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH by selling dope to the gringos. But the seed is sown: insisting traditional honour codes be observed in enrichening her clan, she bends her shamanistic authority to building an ancestry, or any connection to the empire in the desert. region to understand the broader “Hardly a scene goes “Colombians are sick to the back implications of this epic story of haunted by without something teeth of filmmakers exploiting their druglords and ruthless power grabs troubled past, but Gallego and Guerra’s that are partly predicated on traditional fundamentally familiar A Hamilton Wed 22 Aug, 7.45 pm inspired take on the blood feud yarn beliefs and shibboleths. Guerra and being rendered in a B Hamilton Thu 23 Aug, 3.30 pm A Hamilton Sat 25 Aug, 5.45 pm and mob thriller is really unique and far Gallego’s film is no dusty period piece, unique fashion.” — Jordan from cheap genre thrills as it gets. Birds it is wildly alive, yet it reminds us that Hoffman, The Guardian A P. North Thu 23 Aug, 6.00 pm of Passage is an enthralling, powerful no matter how modern we are, there B P. North Fri 24 Aug, 3.30 pm statement.” — Martyn Conterio, Cinevue are ancient songs our forebears knew “This is an absolutely extraordinary whose melodies still rush in our blood.” A Tauranga Sat 8 Sep, 8.00 pm film… You do not have to have Wayuu — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist A Tauranga Thu 13 Sep, 8.15 pm

Shoplifters Manbiki kazoku Opening Night, Tauranga

Few filmmakers are as delicate observers of family units – and especially of children – as Kore-eda Hirokazu, and Director/Screenplay/Editor: Shoplifters radiates with the same Kore-eda Hirokazu Japan 2018 | 121 mins joyous naturalism and sad wisdom of Producers: Matsuzaki Kaoru, Yose Akihiko, his best work. The eponymous shoplifters Taguchi Hijiri are the Shibatas, a low-income family of Photography: Kondo Ryuto Music: Hosono Horuomi five struggling away in a tiny corner of With: Lily Franky, Ando Sakura, Matsuoka Mayu, Tokyo. Scrimping and saving, as well as Kiki Kilin, Jyo Kairi, Sasaki Miyu Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2018 stealing whenever necessary, this Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival 2018 overcrowded household one day opens In Japanese with English subtitles M sexual references their door to an abused child wandering the neighbourhood. Wary of exposing PROUDLY SPONSORED BY their own living situation, they ignore the authorities and secretly adopt the little girl – to everyone’s greater happiness, but also peril. The permissible definition of what makes a family is constantly under suspicion, even as we witness the © 2018 FUJI TELEVISION NETWORK / GAGA CORPORATION Shibata’s closeness. Their ethical latest caught everyone off guard ­– a predicament will ultimately be laid bare testament to his masterfully understated “Profoundly moving… in ways that resound long after this approach to human life, and to the a haunting film about passionately humane film reaches its power of calm, compassionate voices B Hamilton Mon 27 Aug, 11.45 am final frame. in a world where we can barely hear abandoned people, A Hamilton Sat 1 Sep, 6.00 pm A triumph of subtlety over spectacle, one outrage over another for all the and the beautiful things A Hamilton Mon 3 Sep, 8.15 pm Shoplifters was awarded this year’s screaming. — Tim Wong that are lost and found B P. North Thu 23 Aug, 11.15 am “[Kore-eda’s] embrace is as ferocious Palme d’Or at a festival usually overrun A P. North Sat 25 Aug, 5.45 pm by the most controversial or brazenly and beautiful and loving as that of a between.” — David Ehrlich, political films. In fact, as socially mother trying to hug away all her child’s Indiewire A Tauranga Thu 23 Aug, 6.15 pm conscious as recent Cannes-winner fears. His… film is a gorgeous thing.” A Tauranga Sun 26 Aug, 3.30 pm I, Daniel Blake, the potency of Kore-eda’s — Jessica Kiang, Sight & Sound B Tauranga Wed 29 Aug, 11.30 am BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 5

Cold War Zimna wojna Closing Night

This dazzling Cannes winner from Paweł Pawlikowski, the director of Ida, feels like the perfect closing night Director: Paweł Pawlikowski choice: you don’t want such glorious Poland/UK/France 2018 | 89 mins Producers: Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska filmmaking to end. Pawlikowski whisks Screenplay: Paweł Pawlikowski, Janusz Głowacki, his two fatally attracted lovers, a singer Piotr Borkowski Photography: Łukasz Żal and a composer, through myriad, Editor: Jarosław Kamiński brilliantly evoked musical styles and Music: Marcin Masecki With: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, settings either side of the Iron Curtain Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn, Jeanne Balibar – from Stalin-era folk troupes to 1950s Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2018 Paris jazz bars. Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2018 In Polish and French, with English subtitles “Portraying a whirlwind, border- B&W | M offensive language, sex scenes & suicide hopping amour fou in gorgeous black references and white, Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold PROUDLY SPONSORED BY War won him the Best Director prize. In post-war Poland, pianist composer Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) tours villages with his lover, music teacher Irena (Agata Kukezsa) in search of folk-based talent. At an audition, Zula (Joanna Kulig) cons her way into a duet with a more Much of the film is a thrillingly talented singer. Though Irena tells seductive musical, shot and edited with “The torn curtain of love Wiktor that Zula is just out of prison for the rhythm of dance, but the surface is the theme of Paweł stabbing her father, he feels that ‘she whirl would not fascinate without the has something’. luminous presence of Joanna Kulig… Pawlikowski’s mysterious, B Hamilton Tue 18 Sep, 11.45 am Soon she is a star… When the troupe The hopelessly unsuited couple are musically glorious and A Hamilton Wed 19 Sep, 8.00 pm performs in Berlin, Wiktor askes Zula to fictionalised versions of Pawlikowski’s visually ravishing film.” B P. North Thu 6 Sep, 1.45 pm parents, and through them we cross to the West with him; thereafter A P. North Sun 9 Sep, 7.30 pm many borders are crossed, many lines experience near equal disenchantment — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian of fate are broken… jealousies and with socialist and capitalist mores. I A Tauranga Thu 13 Sep, 6.15 pm betrayals flourish and die, but the two loved it.” — Nick James, Sight & Sound B Tauranga Fri 14 Sep, 11.30 am continue to attract and repel each other. A Tauranga Sun 16 Sep, 8.00 pm

Leave No Trace Centrepiece

Director Debra Granik introduced Jennifer Lawrence to the world in Winter’s Bone. In Leave No Trace she Director: Debra Granik directs young New Zealand actress USA 2018 | 109 mins Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie in a lead Producers: Anne Harrison, Linda Reisman, Anne Rosellini performance that is just as remarkable. Screenplay: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini. She plays Tom, a teenager who has Based on the novel My Abandonment by Peter Rock Photography: Michael McDonough been living off the grid with her father, Editor: Jane Rizzo Will (Ben Foster), from an early age. Music: Dickon Hinchliffe With: Ben Foster, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie, Camped in a forest outside Portland, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey they are peaceable, lo-tech survivalists, Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco, Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight), Sydney 2018 perfectly attuned to each other and PG drug references the natural world. Will’s alienation from society is profound – he and Tom run drills in preparation for any human intrusion – but it doesn’t prevent him from providing his daughter an education. Discovery is probably inevitable. When social services try to intervene and Tom’s sheltered life is threatened equally heart-warming and heart- her responses are complex, not least breaking story of the unconditional “Something deeply as she comes to see the shelter she love shared between father and compassionate, a story herself affords her troubled father. daughter. Foster and McKenzie Though there’s the trajectory of a deliver raw, tender, captivating and of a father and daughter chase movie in the pair’s flight from transcending performances. The bond that speaks truths about B Hamilton Thu 6 Sep, 11.45 am A Hamilton Sat 8 Sep, 6.00 pm authority, the heart of the drama lies between them isn’t only compelling, some large things.” in the perceptible shifts in Tom’s view it is inspiring… A profound story about — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair A P. North Sat 1 Sep, 6.15 pm of the world – and in the compassion love, family, loyalty, understanding, and B P. North Wed 5 Sep, 11.30 am extended to the two of them by a compassion.” — Tiffany Tchobanian, whole world of backwoods dwellers. Film Threat B Tauranga Tue 28 Aug, 11.30 am “Leave No Trace tactfully tells an A Tauranga Sat 1 Sep, 6.00 pm 6 BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Burning Beoning Special Presentation

By critical consensus a masterpiece, and the highest ever rated film on the Screen International’s eagerly pored- Director: Lee Chang-dong over Cannes jury grid, Burning, like South Korea/Japan 2018 | 148 mins Producers: Lee Joon-dong, Lee Chang-dong, previous record holder Toni Erdmann, Ok Gwang-hee left the Competition officially prizeless Screenplay: Oh Jung-mi, Lee Chang-dong. Based on the short story ‘Barn Burning’ by but showered in glory. A love triangle Murakami Haruki and a mystery, it concerns an earnest Photography: Hong Kyung-pyo young writer’s (Yoo Ah-in) jealous crush Editors: Kim Hyun, Kim Da-won Music: Mowg on a mercurial woman (Jun Jong- With: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yuen, Jun Jong-seo seo) who takes up with a handsome, Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2018 In Korean with English subtitles prosperous companion (Steven CinemaScope | M violence, sex scenes, nudity Yeun, The Walking Dead). & drug use “Not a lot actually burns in Lee Chang-dong’s Burning… But the cumulative effect of all its perfect moments, all its perfectly true, unexpected and consequential scenes, is scorching. The embers are banked up so gradually and relentlessly that it’s not until a few hours after the ending short of miraculous… The narrative is of this elusive, riveting masterpiece that slippery as silk, eliding from romance “Intensely captivating… you are far enough away to appreciate to tragedy to mystery to something Burning handles the the scale of the conflagration… more unsettling… This sense of It is based on a skeletal short story surprise and inevitability is a hallmark ideas of a triangulated by Murakami Haruki in the same way a of truly masterful writing… and such relationships and emotions B Hamilton Tue 11 Sep, 1.15 pm spreading oak is based on an acorn… skillful direction that it feels like you’re in intensely mesmerizing The absolute precision of craft, from suspended within the story in an invisible A Hamilton Sat 15 Sep, 3.15 pm and subtle ways.” — Jordan Hong Kyung-pyo’s unerring camera tangle of glances and exchanges, secrets A P. North Sat 1 Sep, 3.15 pm placement to [the] stunningly variegated and lies, tricks and cruelties and lucky Ruimy, The Playlist and cleverly deployed score, illuminates shafts of reflected sunlight.” — Jessica B Tauranga Fri 7 Sep, 3.15 pm a trio of performances that are little Kiang, Sight & Sound A Tauranga Sun 16 Sep, 5.00 pm

Happy As Lazzaro Lazzaro felice Special Presentation

Part bucolic fable, part social realism and all fertile imagination, Alice Rohrwacher’s beguiling third feature Director/Screenplay: Alice Rohrwacher proves she is one of the most inventive Italy/Switzerland/France/Germany | and compelling voices in contemporary 2018 125 mins Producer: Carlo Cresto-Dina world cinema. Photography: Hélène Louvart Set in rustic Italy, rewarding ground Editor: Nelly Quettier With: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, for her previous feature NZIFF14 Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Chikovani, Centrepiece, The Wonders (in which Tommaso Ragno, Sergi Lopez, Natalino Balasso, Gala Othero Winter, David Bennent, sister Alba also had a significant Nicoletta Braschi role), the film opens as a peasant Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2018 Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2018 boy serenades his love with fairy-tale In Italian with English subtitles conviction. The revellers, it transpires, PG violence & coarse language are tobacco harvesters subjugated by an over-entitled marchesa. Village innocent Lazzaro (divine newcomer Adriano Tardiolo) becomes the unlikely friend and accomplice of Tancredi, the marchesa’s dandified son. Imbued with a saint-like beauty, Lazzaro is alternately adored and exploited by all and is soon Rohrwacher’s poetic amalgam of the unwittingly embroiled in a kidnapping two is as deliberate as it is teasing and “Alice Rohrwacher’s plot by his manipulative friend. magical. To give the rest away would supernatural sun-drenched What seems at first to be a story be an injustice to her breathtaking ‘out of time’ reveals itself to be a very cinematic logic (she jointly won the Best folk tale of the birth of particular historical moment and then, Screenplay award at Cannes this year). modern Italy is as sublime B Hamilton Mon 3 Sep, 1.45 pm with a sly and unexpected narrative spin, Gorgeously filmed on Super 16 by as it is beautiful.” becomes decidedly more immediate regular collaborator Hélène Louvart, A Hamilton Sat 8 Sep, 3.30 pm — Joseph Walsh, Time Out and familiar. The biblical stories of the this modern-day allegory is no flight A P. North Sun 2 Sep, 3.00 pm resurrected Lazarus and the beggar of fancy; it also serves as a biting Lazarus are frequently conflated – critique of our own very troubled times. A Tauranga Sat 1 Sep, 3.30 pm either by accident or ignorance – but — Clare Stewart B Tauranga Wed 5 Sep, 11.30 am BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 7

Yellow is Forbidden Special Presentation

Chinese designer Guo Pei made fashion Director/Screenplay: Pietra Brettkelly headlines around the world when New Zealand/China/France 2018 Rihanna wore her massive canary yellow 97 mins gown to the Met Gala in 2015. If ever Producers: Pietra Brettkelly, Richard Fletcher, Naomi Wallwork a dress was intended to stop the show, Photography: Jacob Bryant this was it. Typically of Guo Pei, it was Editors: Nicolas Chaudeurge, Margot Francis Music: Tom Third intricately embroidered and bejewelled, With: Guo Pei, Philip Treacy, Wendi Murdoch, the product of years rather than Godfrey Deeny Festivals: Tribeca, Hot Docs, Sydney 2018 months of work – an opulent one-off, In Chinese, French and English, likely only ever to be worn on a catwalk with English subtitles or red carpet. How did the daughter of a communist soldier and primary school teacher, educated, as she informs a bemused Western press at ‘No 2 Light Industry School, Beijing’, become the designer of choice to China’s one percent, positioning herself for global significance? We are taken into her world as she seeks acceptance from Paris’ Chambre Syndicale de la Haute for imperial grandeur may never have Couture. Her irresistible force may have looked more insanely magnificent than “Compelling and met an immovable object. in Guo Pei’s world of wearable arts. Its stimulating… an intimate, In milieux as different as Afghanistan roots in suppression, aptly alluded to in A Hamilton Sun 16 Sep, 12.45 pm (A Flickering Truth), South Sudan (The the film’s title, are astutely observed in involving portrait of A Hamilton Mon 17 Sep, 6.15 pm Art Star and the Sudanese Twins) Brettkelly’s fascinating, gorgeous film. Chinese fashion designer B Hamilton Wed 19 Sep, 12.00 pm and a NZ high school (Ma¯ori Boy “With a remarkable eye for detail Guo Pei.” — Keith Uhlich, B P. North Fri 24 Aug, 11.30 am and exquisite blending of visual art Genius), Pietra Brettkelly has excelled A P. North Sun 26 Aug, 3.15 pm as an enthralled yet keenly perceptive forms, Pietra Brettkelly captures Guo’s Hollywood Reporter observer of highly driven individuals. drive, artistry, meticulousness, and A Tauranga Sat 25 Aug, 1.45 pm In Guo Pei she meets a subject fit for acumen.” — Brian Gordon, Tribeca Film B Tauranga Mon 27 Aug, 11.30 am the times. The contemporary hankering Festival A Tauranga Thu 6 Sep, 6.15 pm

Wings of Desire Der Himmel über Berlin Special Presentation

For many the highlight of this year’s Director: Wim Wenders Berlinale was the premiere of this West Germany/France 1987 dazzling new 4K restoration of Wim 128 mins Wenders’ spectacularly aerial Wings of Producers: Wim Wenders, Anatole Dauman Screenplay: Wim Wenders, Peter Handke Desire. Shot in Berlin two years before Photography: Henri Alekan the fall of the Wall, it’s a palpably Editor: Peter Przygodda Music: Jürgen Knieper, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds humanistic film purporting to see into With: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, the anxious souls of city dwellers Curt Bois, Peter Falk Festivals: Cannes 1987; Auckland 1988 through the eyes of angels. One of Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 1987 them (Bruno Ganz) hankers to become In German, French and English, with English subtitles human and taste the coffee. The B&W and Colour | PG coarse language surround-soundscape is as gloriously untethered as the film’s floating camera, a symphony of voices, music and urban ambience cradling the poetry of Peter Handke’s script. Lyrically articulating a profusion of existential doubts and fleeting sensory delights, it’s one of the great Rorschach test movies, many things to many people – and incidentally a must for Nick Cave completists. a world that is 30 years old, but it is No longer subject to the intermediate so succinct, so there and so rich that “It’s full of astonishingly steps entailed in printing black and it could also be a new film.” — Wim hypnotic images… and white imagery on colour film stock, the Wenders digital restoration, scanned from the “Wings of Desire is shot in a silvery manages effortlessly original negative, renders the legendary black and white so that Berlin seems to turn Wenders’ and B Hamilton Fri 7 Sep, 3.30 pm A Hamilton Sun 16 Sep, 5.00 pm cinematography of Henri Alekan even dusted with celestial soot… The first Peter Handke’s poetic, more vividly than when we first showed time I saw the film I thought it was a literary script into pure A P. North Mon 27 Aug, 8.00 pm the film in 1988. Don’t miss your chance knockout; on second viewing it already B P. North Fri 31 Aug, 3.30 pm to experience it on the big screen. seemed a classic.” — J. Hoberman, cinematic expression.” “Wings of Desire on the big screen Village Voice B Tauranga Fri 24 Aug, 3.45 pm — Geoff Andrew, Time Out in 4K shows us a city and shows us A Tauranga Sat 15 Sep, 3.30 pm 8

Bludgeon AOTEAROA Directors/Producers: Ryan Heron, Andy Deere New Zealand 2018 90 mins Photography: Ryan Heron, Tim Flower, Andy Deere Editor: Andy Deere Camera assistant: Kaleb Brown Music: Jeremy Toy Sound design: Department of Post With: Nicholas Matepo Waiariki, Martainn Cuff, Justin Stockbridge Cinemascope

Ryan Heron and Andy Deere’s Captain of the Thorns, Martainn ‘The affectionate and funny documentary Machine’ Cuff, has a lifelong dream introduces us to the competitive sport to represent his country but has an of ‘medieval combat’ and its eccentric unexpected obstacle to overcome – cast of characters – each vying to swing his pathological fear of wolves. Thorns swords (not to mention battle axes, manager and master armourer Justin maces and halberds) for New Zealand Stockbridge is one of New Zealand’s on the world stage. Just don’t call it most experienced fighters, but his re-enactment or LARPing, because take-no-prisoners management style this intensely physical and exhausting ruffles more than a few feathers. Does sport of violent armour-clad combat is this oddball crew have what it takes anything but play-acting. to compete internationally in what Our initiation into this weird and must be one of the world’s most brutal wonderful world comes through the combat sports? — MM enthusiastic but self-confessedly out-of- shape rookie Nick Waiariki. His quest for A Hamilton Fri 7 Sep, 6.15 pm glory takes him from Rotorua to Taranaki, B Hamilton Tue 11 Sep, 4.15 pm where he is set to try out for the number one-ranked Kiwi team, the Steel Thorns. A P. North Thu 6 Sep, 8.00 pm

NEW ZEALAND FILMS AT NZIFF ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Celia

Director/Producer: Amanda Millar New Zealand | 102 mins Executive Producer: Garry Robertson Photography: Belinda Walshe, David Paul Editor: Lala Rolls Music: Naia Alkhouri, Michel Alkhouri With: Celia Lashlie, Salvatore ‘Salvi’ Gargiulo, Gabe Quirke, Rebekah Henderson, Heather Main, Adele Bull

© TARANAKI DAILY NEWS NZIFF is always proud to provide a big screen showcase Celia Lashlie, an impassioned, woven through this one: a theme song charismatic advocate for equality of composed and performed by 12-year- for striking work made within our own shores. opportunity in New Zealand, is mourned old Naia Alkhouri; and the portrait Documentary filmmakers celebrate remarkable New and celebrated in this documentary painted by her close friend Heather by former TV current affairs journalist Main. Four symbols on Main’s painting Zealanders on this year’s programme – and our two Amanda Millar. Millar was responsible structure the film to describe the four regular short film programmes shine as bright as ever. for several 60 Minutes items that cornerstones of Lashie’s life, ultimately enabled Lashlie, frequently at odds landing on the deep respect for human See also: with bureaucracy, to put her case to potential expressed through the the nation. When Lashlie received a transformative originality of her work. Yellow is Forbidden (p7) terminal cancer diagnosis in late 2014, Dog’s Best Friend (p30). she invited Millar to film the final year A Hamilton Sun 9 Sep, 12.30 pm of her life. The end came much sooner B Hamilton Mon 10 Sep, 12.00 pm than expected, but Lashlie’s final leading B Hamilton Mon 17 Sep, 11.30 am of a domestic violence camp, and an A P. North Sun 2 Sep, 11.00 am intensely moving interview filmed days B P. North Mon 3 Sep, 1.45 pm before she died, provide the heart of this inspiring portrait. B Tauranga Mon 10 Sep, 11.30 am Two other memorial projects are A Tauranga Sun 16 Sep, 11.00 am AOTEAROA 9

Angie

When Angie Meiklejohn’s mother Director/Producer/Cinematography/ followed the latest love of her life to Editor: Costa Botes Centrepoint in 1985, taking Angie, New Zealand 2018 | 119 mins her younger brother and two little Associate producer/Researcher: Anke Richter Music: Richard Adams, Nigel Gavin, Jonathan Besser sisters, they’d never lived anywhere so Additional music: Harley Greene, Podington Bear, nice. The parkland setting was idyllic, Blue Dot Sessions With: Angie Meiklejohn with an Olympic-size swimming pool, R16 sexual abuse themes and all their material needs were covered. As we now know, what happened to children at Bert Potter’s alternative lifestyle settlement was far from nice. Costa Botes’ film about Angie and her siblings provides a vivid, multidimensional view of the damage done – often to already damaged people. Angie herself was in trouble even before the move to Centrepoint. She and her brother had been wards of the state. She’d been sexually abused by one of her mother’s lovers, and then raped, aged 11, by the teenage Her younger sisters recall just as clearly, son of another. Desperate for some but remember nothing but horror. “Funny, smart, big hearted, sense of belonging and approval, she The catalogue of projects and love unflinchingly honest, embraced the community’s values and affairs subsequently undertaken and the attention of its founder. abandoned by Angie is staggering. a steadfast friend – Angie and her siblings are compelling, What never seems in doubt is her whatever her past hurts, A Hamilton Sun 2 Sep, 2.30 pm B Hamilton Tue 4 Sep, 1.30 pm strikingly assured camera subjects. One great appetite for life and a mind that’s Angie is an engaging and of the many salutary virtues of Angie’s never sharper than when dissecting the loveable human being.” A P. North Sat 1 Sep, 12.45 pm account is the livid clarity with which dynamics of sexual abuse, and the way B P. North Tue 4 Sep, 1.15 pm she recalls, for example, how empowered parental neglect and that abuse have — Costa Botes she felt being wanted by old men that shaped her choices. She has much to A Tauranga Sat 1 Sep, 1.00 pm she could barely bring herself to look at. tell us all. B Tauranga Mon 3 Sep, 12.15 pm

The Heart Dances – the Journey of The Piano: the ballet

Czech choreographer Jiří Bubeníček Director: Rebecca Tansley and his twin brother and designer, New Zealand 2018 | 99 mins Otto are stars in the European dance Producers: Robin Laing, Rebecca Tansley Photography: Simon Raby world, creators of vital, innovative Editor: Thomas Gleeson contemporary ballets. Director Rebecca Music: Aldous Harding, Charles Ives, Michael Nyman, Bic Runga, Alfred Schnittke, Tansley (Crossing Rachmaninoff) follows Dmitri Shostakovich, Bedřich Smetana, Flavio Villani them from Prague to Aotearoa as With: Jiří Bubeníček, Otto Bubeníček, Moss Patterson, Patricia Barker, the dancers and staff they take up an invitation from the of the Royal New Zealand Ballet Royal New Zealand Ballet to expand their adaptation, made in Germany in 2015, of Jane Campion’s film. Tansley’s documentary feasts on the sheer beauty of the Bubeníčeks’ work – the music, the theatricality, the costumes, the suite of achingly expressive pas de deux at the heart of the piece. It also presents a delicately traced picture of the Old World at sea in the New, and vice versa. The Bubeníčeks arrive apparently unaware that the work they have been invited to stage but above all she celebrates his vigour poses significant problems for Moss and enthusiasm for communication. “This is the 21st century Patterson, the Māori cultural adviser She observes the enormous reserves of and we have to stand contracted by the RNZB. (The original skill and discipline required of classical ballet gave prominent place to ‘Ka performers, all the more to savour the proud as Maˉori, but we Mate’.) Only someone who’s never thrill when everything takes flight. also have to find ways B Hamilton Thu 13 Sep, 11.30 am A Hamilton Sat 15 Sep, 6.15 pm worked in the New Zealand cultural Intercutting rehearsal and performance, to work together, to be sector could be surprised that the The Heart Dances weaves a seductive, together and to create B P. North Fri 7 Sep, 2.00 pm ensuing struggle, signally embedded in elegant celebration of a vital, centuries- A P. North Sat 8 Sep, 6.00 pm the 2015 work, unfolds over the four old art that still has a squillion tiny together.” — Moss Te Ururangi weeks before opening night. dancers line up to audition for the B Tauranga Fri 7 Sep, 11.30 am Patterson Tansley sees Bubeníček’s dismay, Anna Paquin role. A Tauranga Sun 9 Sep, 3.00 pm 10 AOTEAROA

M a¯ u i ’ s H o o k Mega Time Squad

Director: Paora Joseph Director/Screenplay: New Zealand 2018 Tim van Dammen 92 mins New Zealand 2018 Screenplay: Lani-rain Feltham. 79 mins Based on a story by Paora Joseph Producer: Anna Duckworth Photography: Bevan Crothers, Photography: Tim Flower Maria Ines Manchego Editor: Luke Haigh Editor: Gareth Dick With: Anton Tennet, Jonny Brugh, With: Niwa Whatuira, Hera Foley, Milo Cawthorne, Hetty Nicola Kawana, Paora Joseph Gaskall-Haan, Josh McKenzie, In Māori and English, with English Arlo Gibson, Jaya Beach- subtitles Robertson, Tian Tan, Mick Innes RP13 deals with suicide CinemaScope | R13 violence & offensive language

Invoking the skills, cunning and suicide statistics he introduces their Tim van Dammen made his name as an This laconic action comedy features a defiance of the legendary tupuna, the fictional surrogate in young Tama (Niwa award-winning music video director in fully committed cast, alongside inspired title of this stirring film by psychologist Whatuira), who observes the suffering the UK and New Zealand, but it was his performances from genre stalwarts and filmmaker Paora Joseph also alludes of loved ones left behind and comes feature debut, Romeo and Juliet: A Love Jonny Brugh and Milo Cawthorne. to the line on a map traced by the bus too late to apprehend that his pain Song, that garnered major attention. Wearing its cinematic influences trip he takes us on from Parihaka to and anger need not be permanent, but He’s now back with an utterly bonkers like a badge of honour – from the Te Rerenga Wairua (Cape Reinga). The death most surely is. time-shifting crime caper set in the goofy mysticism and inspired action travellers who join this hikoi wairua are thriving metropolis of… Thames. sequences of Hong Kong cinema, to five families, four Māori, one Pākehā, Anton Tennet is John, a small-town the rapid-fire repartee of contemporary each grieving the suicide of someone criminal with a heart of gold and a crime comedies – Mega Time Squad very close. In the bravest, most sobering mind like melted hokey pokey. Sent is not only a blast, but is wrapped in a of interviews, these five families each by his boss to rob the local triad, John hopeful veneer that could only come gather to tell the story of the person in B Hamilton Fri 24 Aug, 2.00 pm snags an ancient Chinese bracelet with from a filmmaker who once worked at their midst who took their own life. A Hamilton Sat 25 Aug, 3.45 pm mysterious powers. Absconding with Pak‘nSave Thames. — AT Joseph conducts and films wānanga the stolen cash, he uses the bracelet’s A P. North Sun 26 Aug, 5.15 pm with the families as they journey north B P. North Mon 27 Aug, 1.45 pm time-travelling properties to escape his to release and farewell their loved enraged boss, only to discover that when A Hamilton Fri 24 Aug, 8.45 pm ones. Addressing the demographic A Tauranga Sun 26 Aug, 6.00 pm you start altering timelines, nothing will A Hamilton Sun 26 Aug, 8.15 pm most commonly reflected in our tragic B Tauranga Tue 28 Aug, 4.15 pm ever quite be the same again. B Hamilton Mon 27 Aug, 4.30 pm AOTEAROA 11

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

By the time the pioneering indigenous Director: Heperi Mita filmmaker and activist Merata Mita died New Zealand 2018 | 95 mins suddenly in 2010, she had packed an Producer: Chelsea Winstanley Executive producer: Cliff Curtis extraordinary amount of action into her Creative producer: Tearepa Kahi 68 years. If her youngest son Heperi Associate producer: Manutai Schuster Photography: Mike Jonathon Mita became a film archivist and a Editor: Te Rurehe Paki filmmaker in order to discover the stories Consulting editor: Annie Collins With: Merata Mita, Rafer Rautjoki, Richard Rautjoki, she did not live to tell him, then we in Rhys Rautjoki, Awatea Mita, Eruera `Bob' Mita, Aotearoa have something new to thank Heperi Mita, Taika Waititi, Alanis Obomsawin, her for. His first film is a remarkable Bird Runningwater In Māori and English, with English subtitles accomplishment, a compelling Great Colour and B&W Woman portrait that speaks intimately from personal experience. He has an abundant archive of film and TV appearances to draw on, beginning with his mother’s mesmerising testimony as a Māori woman bringing up children alone in the 1977 TV documentary Maˉori Women in a Paˉkehaˉ World. By 1979 she was making © GIL HANLEY landmark documentaries herself, most when Merata and his father Geoff notably Bastion Point: Day 507 (1980) Murphy lived in LA and Hawaii. He “Merata Mita is the and Patu! (1983) which rattled Kiwi turns to his older siblings to learn about grandmother of complacency by so clearly identifying earlier days when living was often the violation of Māori rights – the latter hand-to-mouth and police raided the Indigenous Cinema. film explicitly tying New Zealand’s record house in search of Patu! footage. They This film is a dedication A Hamilton Tue 18 Sep, 6.15 pm B Hamilton Wed 19 Sep, 4.15 pm to apartheid in South Africa. In 1988 are a loving whānau whose testimony to her life’s work her film Mauri, deftly quoted in this reverberates with the conviction that towards that goal.” A P. North Thu 30 Aug, 6.00 pm one, was the first feature written and their mother’s fierce maternal instinct B P. North Fri 31 Aug, 1.30 pm directed by a Māori woman. was integral to her work as a fighter, — Chelsea Winstanley Heperi is the first to acknowledge mover, shaker, mentor and artist of A Tauranga Wed 29 Aug, 6.15 pm that he grew up in the best of times, abiding international significance. B Tauranga Tue 4 Sep, 4.15 pm

Paul Callaghan: Dancing with Atoms

Sir Paul Callaghan, physicist, science Director/Producer/Screenplay: communicator, entrepreneur and 2011 Shirley Horrocks New Zealander of the year, died in New Zealand 2018 | 103 mins 2012, of cancer, when he was in his Photography: Craig Wright Editor: Steven Mountjoy prime. As well as doing research into Sound: Tony Parkinson nuclear magnetic resonance, he was Research: Roger Horrocks, Shirley Horrocks Cartoons: Dylan Horrocks writing books, giving public lectures and sharing his vision of a prosperous and predator-free New Zealand – “a place,” he said, “where talent wants to live.” Shirley Horrocks, who met Callaghan while making her 2012 film Venus: A Quest, focuses here on his life in science. Through big brother Jim, classmates, colleagues and Callaghan himself – in a series of interviews filmed in 2010 – we journey from Callaghan’s childhood in Whanganui, to his work at Massey University, then to Victoria University of Wellington and the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Shaun Hendy about his former mentor. Materials and Nanotechnology. There Poet Bill Manhire, cartoonist Dylan “It was the wonder of are dramatisations of schoolboy high Horrocks, broadcaster Kim Hill and science that charged jinks and footage from Callaghan’s trips Weta Workshop’s Richard Taylor are to Antarctica. among those who describe how him. He was tremendously Callaghan’s life, and the film, takes Callaghan expanded the conversation excited by it and he a turn after his move to Wellington, between science and wider society and A Hamilton Thu 30 Aug, 6.15 pm wanted to convey that B Hamilton Fri 31 Aug, 1.45 pm where he applied himself beyond rallied people to his causes, many of excitement to other physics to art–science collaborations, which continue after his death. A P. North Wed 5 Sep, 6.00 pm economics and conservation. Anyone who knew Paul, or was people.” — Kim Hill “Suddenly it became OK for scientists affected by his work, will want to see A Tauranga Wed 12 Sep, 6.15 pm to work with artists,” says physicist this tribute. — Rebecca Priestley B Tauranga Thu 13 Sep, 4.00 pm 12

Stray

One of the most strikingly Dustin Feneley* photographed New Zealand films in recent memory, Stray is the statement- Director/Screenplay: Dustin Feneley making feature debut of writer/director New Zealand 2018 | 104 mins Producers: Desray Armstrong, Dustin Feneley Dustin Feneley. Set in the wintry south, Photography: Ari Wegner this bracingly spare character drama Editor: Dione Chard frames Aotearoa’s oft-filmed landscapes Production designer: Sophie Durham Sound designer: Dick Reade in a clear and startling new light. With: Arta Dobroshi, Kieran Charnock, Joel Fili, Jack (Kieran Charnock, The Ross Harper, Mia Blake, Sean Crawford Festivals: Moscow 2018 Rehearsal), a taciturn young man on Best Actor (Kieran Charnock), Moscow International parole for grievous bodily harm, holes Film Festival 2018 M adult themes up in a cabin somewhere in Central Otago. It’s not clear whether he’s trying to forget the past or reconcile with it, although his hesitancy with locals suggests he’s much closer to the scene of the crime than he’d care to admit. Locked away in a prison of his own making, Jack one evening encounters Grace, very far from home and seeking refuge. Played by the emotions lend greater power to its captivating Arta Dobroshi, star of the visuals. Ari Wegner, the talented DP Capturing New Zealand’s Dardenne brothers’ Lorna’s Silence, behind Lady Macbeth’s intense painterly moody and majestic Grace’s own private struggles linger compositions, does astonishing things beneath her attraction to Jack. These with darkness and diffused natural southern landscape with lonely, enigmatic strangers drift into a light. Within these stunning images, terrific clarity, Stray relationship that promises to either heal the Man Alone tradition is alive and demands to be seen on or hurt. well, but it’s also crisply refocused There’s a deliberate – in the context through Feneley’s commitment to stark the big screen. of the short history of our national silences and bold cinematic spaces into A Hamilton Sun 9 Sep, 5.00 pm* cinema even daring – aesthetic a kind of hard-edged New Zealand A Hamilton Mon 10 Sep, 8.30 pm* discipline to this film, whose suppressed poetry. — Tim Wong B Hamilton Fri 14 Sep, 4.00 pm

She Shears

Director: Jack Nicol New Zealand 2018 86 mins Producers: Georgina Allison Conder, Ainsley Gardiner Screenplay: Jack Nicol Photography: David Russell Editor: Gretchen Peterson Music: Stephen Gallagher With: Jills Angus Burney, Hazel Wood, Catherine Mullooly, Pagan Karauria, Emily Welch

© REBECCA MCMILLAN PHOTOGRAPHY When a Kiwi girl sets her heart on no special category for women. For becoming a shearer there’s not a lot Ruawai’s Hazel Wood, busting to that’s going to stop her, as the five escape the world of dairy conversion, women profiled in this lively doco the competition represents a first foot happily testify. Central Otago’s Pagan on the ladder. Though Pagan claims Karauria admits it was tough getting a she’s bent on placing ‘first or second’, gig at the start, but with her champion her true determination lies in beating dad staunchly behind her, she’s made the terrible internal injuries suffered in a the shearing shed the focus of her road accident. While the Golden Shears career, not just as a competitive shearer, comperes freestyle with verbal flair on but as an ace wool sorter and mentor a flying fleece or a kicky ewe, director to other young women. With whānau Jack Nicol applies camera poetry to the solidly backing them, each of these agility, strength, skill and rhythmic grace women strive, more than anything, of women wielding blades of steel. World Cinema. Cult Movies. Silent Classics. The Avant-Garde. to better themselves. For legends The best films from the greatest directors. Jills Angus Burney and Emily Welch, 555 VICTORIA ST · PH: 834 2485 personal bests have been world records. ABOVE MARK ONE COMICS & GAMES, ACROSS FROM KATHMANDU 555 VICTORIA STREET Open 7 days, 10am to 10pm. At the Golden Shears, the world’s B Tauranga Tue 11 Sep, 4.30 pm biggest shearing competition, there’s A Tauranga Fri 14 Sep, 6.15 pm INDEPENDENT DVD RENTAL & SPECIALIST BOOK STORE AOTEAROA 13

MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND New Zealand’s Best 2018 JURY PRIZE EMERGING TALENT AWARD 87 mins approx. | R16 violence, domestic violence, cruelty, offensive language & suicide

For this year’s New Zealand’s Best short Run Rabbit No Shame My Friend Michael Jones film competition, NZIFF programmers NZ 2018 | Director/Screenplay: Robyn Paterson NZ 2018 | Director: Brendan Donovan | Producer: NZ 2018 | Directors: Ian Leaupepe, Samson Rambo Bill Gosden, Sandra Reid and Michael Producer: Paula Boock | Photography: Alun Bollinger Alex Clark | Screenplay: Carl Shuker, Brendan Donovan. Producers: Alex Lovell, Eldon Booth | Screenplay: McDonnell viewed 84 submissions Editor: Gretchen Petersen | With: Saman Tehrani, Based on the novel The Lazy Boys by Shuker Eldon Booth, Ian Leaupepe, Samson Rambo Ram Al Laham | 19 mins Photography: Ian McCarroll | Editor: Chris Plummer Photography: Ian McCarroll | Editors: Luke Haigh, to make a shortlist of 12 from which With: Kieran Charnock | 13 mins Eldon Booth | With: Villa Junior Lemanu, Luciane director and cinematographer Leon A refugee boy in an alien landscape. Buchanan | 15 mins A delicate work where reflections of Be warned, this is scary stuff. A Narbey selected these six finalists. A Being different is difficult within a war and family tragedy are triggered young man returns home fractured jury of three will select the winner of school where bullying and torment are by everyday actions. Captured with by past relationships. Love and family the $5,000 Madman Entertainment the norm. Tight storytelling and great a very real sense of place and an cannot uncover his hurt. Close and Jury Prize and a Creative New performances, with select camera unhurried openness of storytelling. intense performances edited with a Zealand Emerging Talent Award of clarity where you can almost smell coverage allowing the characters to $4,000. A $4,000 Wallace Friends Charmer the adrenaline. work the frame. of the Civic Award will be awarded NZ 2018 | Director/Screenplay: Judah Finnigan by donors the Wallace Foundation Producer: Olivia Shanks | Photography: Matt Henley Falling Up Sail Away | | and Wallace Media Ltd to the film or Editor: Paul Wedel With: Robyn Malcolm, Stephen NZ 2018 | Director/Screenplay: Chelsie Preston NZ 2018 Director: Ella Becroft, Tama Jarman | | Lovatt 12 mins Crayford | Producer: Andrew Marshall | Photography: Producer: Ilai Amar Screenplay: Tama Jarman contributor to a film they deem to | Raymond Edwards | Editor: Sarah Grohnert | With: Photography: Matt Henley Editor: Dione Chard A dating couple’s first real encounter. | merit special recognition. The winner Chelsie Preston Crayford | 13 mins With: Tama Jarman, Jarod Rawiri 15 mins Intimate and sensitive performances of the audience vote takes away the A young man dreams of escape into where sexuality, loneliness and age When a relationship collapses and Audience Choice Award, consisting of a childhood passion. Mad, funny and are covered in unhurried moments. the mother is trapped with the child, 25 percent of the box office from the on the edge of the grotesque. A very Enhanced use of colour expresses the love and anguish are portrayed in an main-centre NZIFF screenings. Notes on stylish film with formal compositions feelings of the situation. almost raw documentary way where each film provided by Leon Narbey. all the emotional and telling details adding to a theatrically absurdist are present. cabaret quality.

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RUN RABBIT CHARMER FALLING UP

PRESENTED IN Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori Pasifika Shorts 2018 ASSOCIATION WITH 94 mins approx. | R16 violence, domestic violence & offensive language | In English and Maˉori, with English subtitles

A collection of Māori and Pasifika Ka Piko Moon Melon Mouse short films curated by Leo Koziol USA 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Bryson Chun NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Trina Peters NZ 2018 | Director/Screenplay: Lani-rain Feltham (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka), Producer: Grace Lim | 8 mins Producer: Unitec Institute of Technology Screen Arts Producers: Alyx Duncan, Lani-rain Feltham, Emma Programme | 9 mins Mortimer | 15 mins Director of the Wairoa Māori Film A young native Hawaiian man must Festival, with guest co-curator Craig undergo an unfamiliar tradition A night out with a group of young A strained relationship is tested Fasi (Niue), Director of the Pollywood following a tragic death. A beautiful Pasifika women. Much more than by the encroachment of a chaotic Film Festival. Curators’ comments on story of love, ownership and a slice of life portrait, Moon Melon natural world. When love has left the each film appear in italics. acceptance. — CF portrays Poly women breaking room, the rodents return to breed boundaries of culture and stereotype resentment. — LK My Brother Mitchell on the street. — LK Native in Nuhaka NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Todd Karehana The Messiah NZ 2017 | Director: Hiona Henare | Producers: Hiona Producer: Mia Mārama Henry-Tierney | 9 mins Shadow Cut NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Vela Manusaute Henare, Louisa Tipene Opetaia | 15 mins Producers: Sandra Kailahi | 15 mins A Māori boy comes to terms with the NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Lucy Suess Producer: Johnny Lyon | 14 mins A short doco exploring the Māori death of his brother. A matter of the A young runaway finds refuge with passion for cinema against the heart must be resolved between two A young man has decided to leave his a self-proclaimed teenaged Messiah. backdrop of the annual Wairoa Māori young brothers. — LK small town but struggles to tell the one A sublime, dreamy and surreal Film Festival. Beautiful and undeniably friend he should. Drawn to a world Polynesian parable. — LK real, Native in Nuhaka encourages beyond restrictive walls of rural NZ, a more natives to use film as their young couple finds truth. — CF statement of choice. — CF

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KA PIKO MY BROTHER MITCHELL THE MESSIAH 14 BULGARIA, LEBANON

Ága WORLD Director: Milko Lazarov Bulgaria/Germany/France 2018 | 96 mins Screenplay: Milko Lazarov, Simeon Ventsislavov Photography: Kaloyan Bozhilov Editor: Veselka Kiryakova Music: Penka Kouneva With: Mikhail Aprosimov, Feodosia Ivanova, Galina Tikhonova, Sergey Egorov, Afanasiy Kylaev Festivals: Berlin 2018 In Sakha (Yakut) with English subtitles PG cert

Writer/director Milko Lazarov’s second emotional piece of cinema where feature spotlights an aging Yakut couple animals, bloodied or mystical, are key whose lifestyle is on the wane. In snow- players. A dangerous imminence hangs covered North Eastern Siberia, every heavily over the film, as with many footprint, every cloud, every passing stories set in such harsh conditions, but airplane must be interpreted carefully a sudden emotional finale bursts this for meaning. So too must the couple movie into a whole new genre. This is a listen attentively to each other’s dreams. formally surprising and clever piece of Despite their long intimacy there are story-telling which lands an unexpected personal mysteries and complicated conclusion – the triumph of connection dynamics to unravel with their children, over disengagement. — Jo Randerson one of whom (Ága) works in a diamond mine, several days journey away. A Hamilton Tue 28 Aug, 6.15 pm Kaloyan Bozhilov’s majestic B Hamilton Fri 31 Aug, 11.45 am cinematography sinks the viewer deep A P. North Tue 28 Aug, 6.00 pm into each magnificent icy frame. Nothing B P. North Thu 30 Aug, 12.00 pm exists in this landscape without a reason, and Lazarov’s precise cinematic poetry A Tauranga Sun 26 Aug, 11.15 am creates an intense, affecting and A Tauranga Thu 30 Aug, 6.15 pm

The Insult L’insulte

Help yourself to our pick of the features we have encountered in a year of intense engagement Director: Ziad Doueiri Lebanon/France 2017 with international cinema. We do what we can to 113 mins With: Adel Karam, Rita Hayek, cover many bases, not least the Festival de Cannes, Kamel El Basha, Christine Choueiri Festivals: Venice, Toronto, yielding some of our most exciting choices in the Vancouver 2017; Rotterdam 2018 Audience Award, Sydney Film frantic fortnight before we close our schedule. Festival 2018 Nominated, Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards 2018 In Arabic with English subtitles CinemaScope

© TESSALIT PRODUCTIONS / ROUGE INTERNATIONAL Galvanizing performances and even- depicted and still come away completely handed moral inquiry bring a bracing captivated… A riveting courtroom power to The Insult – the tale of how a drama that shows how even minor bitter feud between a mechanic and a interpersonal tensions can boil over construction foreman snowballs into a into national traumas. While the issues national crisis. it engages are timely and important, “Two words set the story in motion. the film's claim to fame really comes One man shouts an insult at another, from its terrific accomplishments on who's infuriated and demands an every front, from writing and directing apology… Soon things escalate and to acting and cinematography.” the men end up in the first of two — Godfrey Cheshire, RogerEbert.com courtrooms where they will face off against each other… Does it matter that B Hamilton Mon 27 Aug, 2.15 pm Toni is a right-wing Christian and Yasser A Hamilton Sun 2 Sep, 7.30 pm a Palestinian? In this context, it matters A P. North Mon 3 Sep, 8.00 pm a lot… One can learn a lot about B P. North Wed 5 Sep, 3.45 pm contemporary Lebanon from The Insult, but it's also possible to go into the A Tauranga Wed 29 Aug, 8.15 pm film knowing little about the situation A Tauranga Sun 9 Sep, 7.00 pm AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM WORLD 15

Breath

Actor Simon Baker, star of The Mentalist, Director: Simon Baker returns to his native Australia for his Australia 2017 | 116 mins directorial debut adapting, with Top Producers: Mark Johnson, Simon Baker, Jamie Hilton of the Lake writer Gerard Lee, Tim Screenplay: Gerard Lee, Simon Baker, Tim Winton. Winton’s celebrated novel. Based on the novel by Tim Winton Photography: Marden Dean The film follows two teenage boys Editor: Dany Cooper (both played by first-time actors who Music: Harry Gregson-Williams With: Simon Baker, Elizabeth Debicki, grew up surfing competitively), Pikelet Samson Coulter, Ben Spence, Richard Roxburgh (Samson Coulter) and Loonie (Ben Festivals: Toronto 2017 Spence) awkwardly carrying their crappy M sex scenes & offensive language surfboards out to the beach on their bikes. When former surf champ Sando (Simon Baker) takes the boys under his wing, their passion for the surf becomes an obsession with upping the odds. While Loonie lives up to his name when it comes to taking risks on the ocean, Pikelet is more contemplative and hesitant, embracing Sando as an exciting role model while observing the © NIC DUNCAN quiet commitment of his own father the relationship between Pikelet and his (Richard Roxburgh) to a simple family father told in shifting glances; Pikelet’s “Never had I seen something life. Sando’s intriguingly sidelined wife realisation of the implications of his so beautiful, so pointless (Elizabeth Debicki) however hints at decisions more observed than stated. risks to be taken ashore. Dealing with the basic, universal and elegant, as if dancing The surfing scenes are magnificently elements of budding manhood with on water was the best A Hamilton Fri 24 Aug, 6.15 pm A Hamilton Tue 28 Aug, 8.15 pm shot, often under dark skies, tracking simplicity and integrity, the film speaks thing a man could do.” the cresting waves with grace and with loving nostalgia about passion, risk — Pikelet in Breath B P. North Thu 30 Aug, 3.45 pm capturing the boys’ relationship with and the ripples of our decisions. Winton A P. North Sun 2 Sep, 7.30 pm the water with intimacy and immediacy. provides the ultimate seal of approval, The film suggests deep undercurrents doing the voiceovers of Pikelet as an A Tauranga Fri 31 Aug, 6.15 pm beneath its straightforward narrative: adult looking back. — Chris Kirk A Tauranga Mon 3 Sep, 8.00 pm

Girl

This achingly beautiful drama about a teenager who is transitioning gender while training to be a ballerina was one Director: Lukas Dhont of Cannes 2018’s most talked about Belgium/The Netherlands 2018 105 mins films, deservedly winning the Camera Producer: Dirk Impens d’Or for first-time director Lukas Screenplay: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens Dhont, and the Un Certain Regard Photography: Frank van den Eeden Editor: Alain Dessauvage acting award for its standout central Music: Valentin Hadjadj performance from Victor Polster. With: Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart, Tijmen Govaerts, Katelijne Damen, Valentijn While Lara already identifies as a girl, Dhaenens, Magali Elali, Alice de Broqueville, her world is undergoing significant and Alain Honorez, Chris Thys, Angelo Tijssens, Marie-Louise Wilderijckx much desired transformation. She has Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2018 just moved with her father and beloved Camera d’Or (Best Film Film) & Best Actor (Un Certain Regard, Victor Polster), Cannes Film kid brother to a new city where she Festival 2018 has been provisionally accepted into a In French and Dutch, with English subtitles R16 sex scenes, sexual themes, nudity, self-harm prestigious dance school and she will & content that may disturb soon be old enough to start hormone replacement therapy. Lara's aspiration to femininity is so great that she has chosen the most extreme physical form of its expression. But here, dance is not external conflict and prejudice, the a release. Held captive by her body, camera movement and performance “Girl has the power to she tapes her genitals and hides the revealing the tumult beneath Lara’s not just change lives but bloodied feet which have not grown steely poise. And while the casting up en pointe like the other girls. While of Polster, who identifies cis gender, reinvigorate your belief her father offers her nothing but will be the subject of debate at a in cinema.” — Jordan Ruimy, support, she is all teenage uncertainty time when awareness of transgender The Playlist and impatience and her interior world actors is improving, there can be no moves closer to self-destruction even as argument that this is a deeply intuitive A Hamilton Tue 4 Sep, 6.15 pm her outer beauty blooms. performance, rendering the truth B Hamilton Thu 6 Sep, 4.00 pm Dhont and co-writer Angelo Tijssens of Lara’s battle with indelible grace. keep the screenplay stripped bare of — Clare Stewart A P. North Tue 4 Sep, 6.00 pm 16 WORLD BRAZIL, DENMARK

Loveling Benzinho

Certain travails of motherhood are Director: Gustavo Pizzi embraced with buoyant good humour Brazil/Uruguay 2018 | 98 mins and poignancy in this film written Producers: Tatiana Leite, Gustavo Pizzi Screenplay: Gustavo Pizzi, Karine Teles by husband-and-wife team, director Photography: Pedro Faerstein Gustavo Pizzi and lead actress Karine Editor: Livia Serpa Music: Dany Roland, Pedro Sá, Maximiliano Silveira Teles (The Second Mother). With: Karine Teles, Otávio Müller, Adriana Esteves, Irene (Teles) has four sons. The Konstantinos Sarris, César Troncoso, Artur Teles Pizzi, Francisco Teles Pizzi, Vicente Demori, youngest are six-year-old twins, Luan Teles played by Teles and Pizzi’s sons. (The Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam 2018 abundance of first-hand experience In Portuguese with English subtitles CinemaScope | M offensive language clearly informing the film extends to the casting.) Middle boy Rodrigo (played by Teles’ nephew) is overweight and permanently attached to his tuba, while the apple of everybody’s eye, 17-year-old Fernando (charismatic Konstantinos Sarris) is an ace high school athlete. Irene also plays mother to her sweet but impractical husband, Klaus. Miraculously, she has carved © BIANCA AUN BENZINHO out some space for herself, studying “The first pangs of empty nest to complete the high school diploma syndrome hit the devoted, exuberant “A vibrant and sap-free she abandoned to take up work as mom at the center of Loveling, a valentine to motherhood… a maid. captivating portrait of the joys and When Fernando announces that aches of family life. Karine Teles its deft mix of humor and he wants to leave home, Irene is brings ferocious warmth and humor melancholy never falters.” A Hamilton Mon 10 Sep, 6.15 pm blindsided. Like many before her, to the lead role… She creates an — Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter she does not rise to the occasion. exceptionally sympathetic focal point B Hamilton Wed 12 Sep, 11.30 am Loveling’s winning shrewdness lies for a story that embraces the messy A P. North Thu 6 Sep, 6.00 pm in understanding all too well that tenderness of life as it’s lived.” — Sheri awkward rites of passage are not for Linden, Hollywood Reporter A Tauranga Wed 5 Sep, 6.15 pm 17-year-olds only. B Tauranga Thu 6 Sep, 11.30 am

The Guilty Den skyldige

This innovative debut from Danish filmmaker Gustav Möller has racked up audience awards from the Sundance Director: Gustav Möller and Rotterdam film festivals, delivering Denmark 2018 | 85 mins Producer: Lina Flint a tension-packed crime drama without Screenplay: Emil Nygaard Albertsen, Gustav Möller ever leaving the claustrophobic confines Photography: Jasper Spanning of an emergency call centre. Editor: Carla Luffe Music: Carl Coleman, Caspar Hesselager Police officer Asger Holm has With: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, been suspended from active duty Johan Olsen, Omar Shargawi, Katinka Evers-Jahnsen and assigned to a desk job as an Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam, New Directors/ emergency dispatcher while he awaits New Films 2018 Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival an upcoming court case that could have & Rotterdam Film Festival 2018 serious ramifications for his future. A In Danish and English, with English subtitles CinemaScope | M offensive language & content frustratingly mundane shift dealing with that may disturb abusive drunks and ripped-off johns is suddenly upended when he receives a panicked call from an abducted woman, who is soon cut off. With the clock ticking, the short-fused Asger decides to ignore bureaucratic process and take © NIKOLAJ MLLER matters into his own hands. Piecing aids, forcing viewers to dust off their together clues with little more than a imaginations and put them to work with “A claustrophobic thriller phone and a headset at his disposal, the chillingly effective results.” — Michael that finds fascinating more he finds out the more the mystery Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter deepens. Are things really as they ways to spiritually B Hamilton Thu 30 Aug, 4.30 pm seem? — MM transcend its confines.” A Hamilton Sat 15 Sep, 8.30 pm A Hamilton Tue 18 Sep, 8.15 pm “A twisty crime thriller that’s every — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice bit as pulse-pounding and involving B P. North Tue 28 Aug, 4.15 pm as its action-oriented, adrenaline- A P. North Thu 30 Aug, 8.00 pm soaked counterparts… Gustav Möller masterfully ratchets up tension A Tauranga Sun 2 Sep, 5.30 pm without the benefit of the usual visual A Tauranga Fri 7 Sep, 8.15 pm FRANCE WORLD 17

Climax

When Argentinian-born, French director Gaspar Noé (Irréversible, Enter the Void) stages a techno dance musical, you’d Director/Screenplay: Gaspar Noé be naive not to be expecting LSD in the France 2018 | 96 mins Producers: Edouard Weil, Vincent Maraval, sangria. Noé’s new film, acclaimed at Brahim Chioua Cannes, is a brilliantly staged descent Photography: Benoît Debie Editors: Denis Bedlow, Gaspar Noé from dancefloor nirvana (captured in With: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, one enthralling single take) to paranoid Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude Ajan Maull, Giselle Palmer, inferno. The film, with its diverse cast Taylor Kastle, Thea Carla Schøtt, Sharleen Temple, of virtuoso dancers joined by Sofia Lea Vlamos, Alaia Alsafir, Kendall Mugler Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight), Boutella, was choreographed and shot Sydney 2018 in a remarkable 15 days. Revelling in In French and English, with English subtitles CinemaScope | R18 violence, sexual content, sex, drugs, dance and dread, Climax self-harm, drug use & offensive language offers the year’s most visceral big screen experience. PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH “Noé may actually have a critical darling on his hands. And for good reason, as Climax is more brilliantly deranged, in its microscopic vision of society in collapse, than anything the director has ever inflicted on Climax isn’t just 90-some minutes of us. It is a party movie gone epically sustained sex, violence, and panic – a “A blazingly original, awry, a claustrophobic zombie- rollercoaster ride of very bad vibrations. extremely disturbing apocalypse potboiler in abstract, even In the hedonistic, mass-hysteric a kind of ecstatically Satanic dancehall implosion of the film’s surrogate family film… a psychotropic musical. And it finds, for once, the – a wide cross section of ethnicities and street dance movie that A Hamilton Sat 25 Aug, 8.15 pm perfect application of Noé’s abrasive, sexual orientations – one can see the turns into an orgiastic A Hamilton Wed 29 Aug, 8.30 pm showboating, hallucinatory style, portrait of a multicultural Europe tearing B Hamilton Mon 3 Sep, 4.15 pm locking the audience itself into the itself apart from the inside… He’s made horror trip.” — Jonathan A P. North Sat 25 Aug, 8.15 pm world’s worst collective freak-out, a a horror movie of uncommon topicality Romney, Screendaily drug-trip straight to the inner circles and resonance: a danceable nightmare A Tauranga Fri 24 Aug, 8.30 pm of hell… for our now.” — A. A. Dowd, AV Club B Tauranga Wed 29 Aug, 4.15 pm

The World Is Yours Le monde est à toi

Louche and charming in a distinctly Gallic fashion, this star-studded, action-packed gangster comedy pits a Director: Romain Gavras criminal matriarch (scary Isabelle Adjani) France 2018 | 104 mins Producers: Charles Marie Anthonioz, against her peace-loving son (Karim Mourad Belkeddar, Jean Duhamel, Leklou) who dreams of setting up a Mr Nicolas Lhermite, Vincent Mazel, Hugo Selignac Screenplay: Romain Gavras, Noé Debré, Freeze franchise in the Maghreb. Karim Boukercha Unfortunately, Mama has squandered Photography: André Chémétoff Editor: Benjamin Weill the money he needed to secure the deal, Music: Jamie XX & Sebastian so it’s time to head to the Costa Brava With: Karim Leklou, Isabelle Adjani, Vincent Cassel, Oulaya Amamra, for that one last dope consignment that François Damiens, Philippe Katerine will put him in the clear. The loose- Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2018 cannon team accompanying him on the In French and English, with English subtitles CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc trip includes Henry (Vincent Cassel), a garrulous Illuminati obsessive who sees triangles everywhere, and a gold- digging beauty (Oulaya Amamra), whose loyalty seems highly negotiable. “A hyper-stylish and unexpectedly sweet rebuke to the idea that screwing people is a good way to get ahead, tormented young daughter, a Jewish [Romain] Gavras’ second feature lawyer, a group of 20 bleached-blond “A French gangster comedy manages the almost impossible task Zairian guys, a karaoke singalong of that zips along with of mining something nice from the Toto’s ‘Africa’, and a live grenade in me-first mentality that’s been sweeping a Hello Kitty backpack. This strange all the bright, bouncy across… Europe. It’s Sexy Beast, Spring potpourri is strung together on the energy of a live-action A Hamilton Sat 8 Sep, 8.15 pm B Hamilton Thu 13 Sep, 4.00 pm Breakers, and Little Miss Sunshine all strength of André Chémétoff’s glossy Looney Tunes cartoon.” blended together and served with a cinematography and a bouncy score by A Hamilton Mon 17 Sep, 8.30 pm — Peter Debruge, Variety lad-rock swagger; it’s the best movie Jamie XX and Sebastian… It helps that A P. North Sat 8 Sep, 8.00 pm that Guy Ritchie never made… every single one of the performances The World Is Yours somehow comes is extraordinary.” — David Erhlich, A Tauranga Sat 1 Sep, 8.15 pm to involve a Scottish drug lord, his Indiewire A Tauranga Tue 11 Sep, 8.30 pm 18 WORLD GERMANY

Transit

Set in a present-day Marseille occupied Director: Christian Petzold by phantoms from a wartime past, Germany/France 2018 | 101 mins Transit is Christian Petzold’s follow-up Producers: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber to his sublime period pieces Barbara Screenplay: Christian Petzold. Based on the novel and Phoenix. Echoes of Casablanca, by Anna Seghers Photography: Hans Fromm Kafka and Hitchcock reverberate Editor: Bettina Böhler around this coolly existential love With: Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree, Barbara Auer, story, which is also very much its own, Matthias Brandt, Sebastian Hülk, unique thing: a haunting daylight noir Emilie de Preissac Festivals: Berlin 2018 whose characters, refugees seeking In German and French, with English subtitles safe passage from a fascist threat, CinemaScope | M cert bewitch from the first frame to the last. — Tim Wong “In Petzold’s adaptation [of Anna Seghers’ 1944 novel]… a Jewish audio technician named Georg (Franz Rogowski) assumes the identity of a recently deceased communist author after accepting a job to deliver his personal effects to the Mexican © MARCO KRÜGER / SCHRAMM FILM Consulate in Marseille. Though still Hoss), whose mysterious dealings [referencing] World War II, Transit draws lead him further into a web of false “Patient, probing, and plain but potent parallels with the identities and unrequited romance. poetic in both its affairs ongoing European refugee crises, not Shooting with customary economy, to mention the more unsettling rise Petzold takes full advantage of the of the heart and its A Hamilton Sun 9 Sep, 7.45 pm of neo-Nazism. Armed with the dead story’s genre machinations, chiseling the worries of the soul… A Hamilton Tue 11 Sep, 6.15 pm B Hamilton Fri 14 Sep, 1.45 pm author’s transit papers, Georg finds melodramatic gestures that punctuated a film of intricately his escape plan getting complicated his previous triumph, Phoenix, into layered artistry.” A P. North Wed 5 Sep, 8.15 pm when he crosses paths (and slowly falls a taut thriller whose incongruous B P. North Fri 7 Sep, 4.00 pm in love) with his surrogate’s widowed narrative elements only accentuate the — Sarah Ward, Goethe-Institut wife (Paula Beer, looking uncannily film’s timelessly tragic arc.” — Jordan A Tauranga Sun 26 Aug, 8.00 pm like the director’s longtime muse Nina Cronk, Film Comment A Tauranga Thu 6 Sep, 8.15 pm Everything you could be doing. Right now.

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Woman at War Kona fer í stríð

Meet Halla, Icelandic superwoman in a woolly jumper. At 49 and single, she leads a full and satisfying life. She’s Director: Benedikt Erlingsson the popular conductor of an a capella Iceland/France/Ukraine | 101 mins Producers: Marianne Slot, Benedikt Erlingsson, choir, practices tai chi, swims laps, cycles Carine Leblanc everywhere – and unbeknownst to all Screenplay: Benedikt Erlingsson, Ólafur Egill Egilsson bar a single tremulous accomplice, is Photography: Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson saving the countryside from industrial Editor: Davíð Alexsander Corno pollution, one exploded pylon at a time. Music: Davíð Þór Jónsson With: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Dubbed the ‘Mountain Woman’ in Juan Camillo Roman Estrada, Jörundur Ragnarsson the media, demonised as an economic Festivals: Cannes (Critics’ Week) 2018 In Icelandic with English subtitles spoiler by government spinners, she’s CinemaScope | PG cert feeling the pressure when a letter arrives reminding her that four years earlier, supported by her twin sister, she applied to adopt a Ukrainian orphan. Actress Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir makes Halla an engagingly formidable eco-justice warrior (and plays her twin as an equally dedicated activist – of the self) in this delightfully off-the-wall new scampers across the highlands, pursued film from Benedikt Erlingsson, director by drones. “Offbeat, poignant and of Of Horses and Men. Funny – in the “Is there anything rarer than an visually exquisite… a way Halla exploits the invisibility of intelligent feel-good film that knows A Hamilton Wed 12 Sep, 8.30 pm middle-aged womanhood – suspenseful how to tackle urgent global issues with work that’s both quirky A Hamilton Sun 16 Sep, 2.45 pm and as spectacular as any film shot humor as well as a satisfying sense of and altogether timely.” B Hamilton Tue 18 Sep, 4.00 pm in Iceland, Woman at War is further justice? Look no further than Woman — Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood A P. North Wed 29 Aug, 8.00 pm at War, Benedikt Erlingsson’s gloriously graced by the wittiest of musical B P. North Fri 31 Aug, 11.30 am soundtracks, performed by an Icelandic Icelandic (for lack of a better adjective), Reporter oompah band and Ukrainian vocal trio near-perfect follow-up to Of Horses A Tauranga Sat 25 Aug, 6.00 pm within the movie, standing by even as and Men.” — Jay Weissberg, Variety A Tauranga Tue 28 Aug, 8.00 pm Halla aims her crossbow at pylons or B Tauranga Thu 6 Sep, 4.15 pm

Arctic

It’s Mads Mikkelsen versus the elements in this intense survival story shot on location in the frozen grandeur of Director: Joe Penna Iceland’s polar wilderness. Iceland/USA 2018 | 97 mins Producers: Noah C. Haeussner, Having crash-landed somewhere in Christopher Lemole, Tim Zajaros the arctic tundra, Mikkelsen’s stranded Screenplay: Joe Penna, Ryan Morrison Photography: Tómas Örn Tómasson pilot seems to have been surviving for Editor: Ryan Morrison what seems like months as the film Music: Joseph Trapanese opens. He has set up a shelter in the With: Mads Mikkelsen, María Thelma Smáradóttir, Tintrinai Thikhasuk broken fuselage of his plane and is Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition) 2018 living on a diet of raw trout from a CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc nearby frozen lake, where an ominous paw print in the snow may be a sign of dangers to come. He has meticulously carved the ice away from the rocky hillside to form a giant SOS and keeps a regular timetable signalling with a handcranked location beacon, until one day his routine is broken by a surprise occurrence. To say more would give away too much, suffice to say staying “The movie is built around the gruff put is no longer an option. mystique of Mads Mikkelsen, who “Mads Mikkelsen doesn’t First time director Joe Penna came never betrays a hint of showiness. need any dialogue to into filmmaking by producing his own Mikkelsen’s height and stalwart YouTube clips, but Arctic is a far cry presence fill the frame, and his face deliver the best from the rapid-fire cuts of his viral looks inward and outward at the same performance of his career.” A Hamilton Thu 6 Sep, 8.30 pm B Hamilton Mon 10 Sep, 4.15 pm MysteryGuitarMan videos. He packs time; it’s tense, focused, ravaged, not — David Ehrlich, Indiewire afraid to be a little blank. He speaks the film with plenty of incident and A P. North Thu 23 Aug, 8.30 pm excitement but keeps the action firmly just a few words (of English), yet his B P. North Wed 29 Aug, 4.00 pm grounded and believable with the rapt desperation consumes the viewer.” assistance of Mikkelsen’s impressively — Owen Glieberman, Variety A Tauranga Mon 10 Sep, 8.15 pm stoic performance. — MM A Tauranga Sat 15 Sep, 8.00 pm 20 WORLD IRAN

3 Faces Se rokh

Co-winner of the Cannes Best Screenplay award, 3 Faces is Jafar Panahi’s fourth under-the-radar production since the Director/Producer/Screenplay: Iranian government hit him with a Jafar Panahi Iran 2018 | 100 mins 20-year travel and filmmaking ban. Photography: Amin Jafari Panahi was a guest at NZIFF06 with his Editor: Mastaneh Mohajer filmOffside . With: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei, Narges Del Aram “An artful, surprising and thrillingly Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2018 intelligent story about a few women Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2018 In Farsi and Azeri, with English subtitles trying to make a difference, forging CinemaScope | M suicide references bonds of solidarity in quiet defiance of the repressive, small-minded men in their rural village… 3 Faces may be modest and low-key on the surface, but its surprises are worth preserving, its insights casually profound. At the heart of the story is a mystery: What happened to Marziyeh (Marziyeh Rezaei), a teenage girl and aspiring actress from Iran’s Turkish-speaking Azerbaijan region, who has suddenly gone missing? Panahi and Jafari as they drop in on Before she vanished, Marziyeh, whose the villagers and make inquiries… They “The most feminist film family strongly disapproves of her choice drive slowly around the hilly, rocky of the [Cannes] festival… of calling, sent an alarming self-shot countryside, along winding mountain video to the famed actress Behnaz Jafari roads that are often too narrow is the quiet, subtle and (playing herself). Jafari was sufficiently to accommodate two cars passing beautiful work of art of a A Hamilton Sat 8 Sep, 1.15 pm B Hamilton Mon 17 Sep, 1.45 pm rattled by the footage that she has now each other in opposite directions – a 57-year-old male Iranian.” come to the girl’s village in search of situation that Panahi turns into an — Agnès Poirier, The Guardian B P. North Mon 27 Aug, 11.45 am answers, chauffeured by none other ingenious metaphor for a society mired A P. North Wed 29 Aug, 6.00 pm than Panahi himself. in tradition for tradition's sake, unable Much of this subtly, bracingly to see past the end of its patriarchal B Tauranga Wed 12 Sep, 4.15 pm pleasurable movie is spent following nose.” — Justin Chang, LA Times 06-2018_RialtoUNLOCKED_NZIFF.qxp_SKYWatchA Tauranga 20/05/18Sat 15 Sep, 9:27 1.30 PM pm Page 1

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Dogman

A gentle dog groomer makes the perilous mistake of thinking he can pacify the town psycho as readily as a Director: Matteo Garrone snarling mutt in this darkly flamboyant Italy/France 2018 | 103 mins Producers: Matteo Garrone, Paolo Del Brocco, Cannes Competition crime thriller from Jean Labadie, Jeremy Thomas the director of Gomorrah. Screenplay: Matteo Garrone, Ugo Chiti, Massimo Gaudisio “Though it has far less outright Photography: Nicolaj Bruel violence than Gomorrah, whose Editor: Marco Spoletini oppressive criminal atmosphere it Music: Michele Braga With: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, shares, Matteo Garrone’s Dogman is Adamo Dionisi, Francesco Acquaroli, just as intense a viewing experience, Gianluca Gobbi, Nunzia Schiano, Alida Baldari Calabria one that will have audiences gripping Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2018 their armrests with its frighteningly real Best Actor (Marcello Fonte), Cannes Film Festival 2018 portrayal of a good man tempted by the In Italian with English subtitles devil. Once again set in the Camorra- CinemaScope | R18 graphic violence, drug use & offensive language ridden hinterlands around Naples, the new film pours the various threads running through the Italian director's work into a boiling cauldron of poverty, ignorance and self-interest…. Here the conflict is reduced to its “Instead of simply returning to the barest existential essentials: A good comfortable well that yielded his best “A movie with man who loves dogs and grooms them notices, Garrone looks at the seed of incomparable bite for a living is tempted by a demonic, violence through another lens; not half-crazed brute to steal… Superb the pervasive malignancy of mafia and strength.” performances by Marcello Fonte as corruption, but rather an unsettling, — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian a mild-mannered dog groomer and malevolent individual perpetrating his A Hamilton Fri 14 Sep, 8.15 pm a crazed Edoardo Pesce as his fatal own brand of terror. A hyper-realistic B Hamilton Mon 17 Sep, 4.00 pm attraction poise the film midway urban tragedy Dogman is ferocious and A P. North Fri 7 Sep, 8.15 pm between the realistic criminal world in its own way, much more frightening and a symbolic, universal dimension.” than Gomorrah.” — Jordan Ruimy, B Tauranga Thu 30 Aug, 4.00 pm — Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter The Playlist A Tauranga Fri 31 Aug, 8.30 pm

The Heiresses Las herederas

In a Festival abounding with lesbian characters, this richly modulated tale of a couple who have been together Director/Screenplay: for three decades may be the most Marcelo Martinessi Paraguay/Germany/Brazil/Uruguay/ remarkable. Chela (Ana Brun) and Norway/France 2018 | 98 mins Chiquita (Margarita Irún) have long Producers: Sebastian Peña Escobar, been living a life of privilege in Marcelo Martinessi Chela’s family mansion. A crack in the Photography: Luis Armando Artega Editor: Fernando Epstein elaborate pattern of their lives becomes With: Ana Brun, Margarita Irún, Ana Ivanova, apparent when the much worldlier Nilda Gonzalez, María Martins, Alicia Guerra, Yverá Zayas Chiquita is imprisoned for fraud, Festivals: Berlin 2018 related, we guess, to keeping Chela in Silver Bear, Berlin Film Festival 2018 Best Film, Sydney Film Festival 2018 the style to which she is accustomed. In Spanish with English subtitles The sheltered Chela must for the CinemaScope | M sexual references first time fend for herself. Barely acknowledging that she’s actually doing it, she begins accepting payment from the wealthy dowagers of the neighbourhood when she drives them about in the family car. The breezily confiding daughter of one of her her journey is emotionally captivating, passengers sparks feelings in Chula Martinessi persuasively merges her “[A] beautifully realized she’d forgotten she ever knew. fate with that of a nation, providing a debut that exquisitely Ana Brun was awarded the Best lace draped window in which to pry Actress Award at Berlin this year for her on a section of Paraguayan society balances character study mesmerising performance – and first- that prefers to cling to the shadows with shrewd commentary B Hamilton Fri 24 Aug, 11.45 am A Hamilton Wed 29 Aug, 6.15 pm time writer/director Marcelo Martinessi of its past, than embrace the future.” on class, desire, and took the Silver Bear for “a feature that — Patrick Gamble, Cine Vue the lingering privileges B P. North Tue 4 Sep, 11.15 am opens up new perspectives.” A P. North Sat 8 Sep, 4.00 pm “Brun has created one of the most of Paraguay’s elite.” complex, fully fleshed-out over-50 B Tauranga Tue 4 Sep, 11.30 am — Jay Weissberg, Variety females to ever hit the screen. Though A Tauranga Sun 9 Sep, 5.00 pm 22 WORLD SPAIN, TURKEY

Petra

Petra (Bárbara Lennie), a painter in her 20s, arrives to take up a residency in the workshops of Jaume, a sculptor Director: Jaime Rosales of grand-scale commissions. Jaume’s Spain/France/Denmark 2018 107 mins Catalan estate encompasses forest Producers: Bárbara Díez, José María Morales, lands and a magnificent home. Invited Antonio Chavarrías, Jérôme Dopffer, to dinner by the great man’s wife Katrin Pons, Mikkel Jersin, Eva Jakobsen Screenplay: Jaime Rosales, Michel Gaztambide, Marisa (Marisa Paredes), Petra speaks Clara Roquet of art as a path to the truth. Marisa, it Photography: Hélène Louvart Editor: Lucía Casal transpires, has reason to be sceptical Music: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen about such idealism: the truth Petra With: Bárbara Lennie, Alex Brendemühl, Joan Botey, Marisa Paredes, Petra Martínez, seeks is the identity of her father, and Carme Pla, Oriol Pla, Chema Del Barco, she has reason to believe he might be Natalie Madueño Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2018 Jaume. This possibility rules out romantic In Spanish and Catalan, with English subtitles adventures offered by handsome Lucas CinemaScope | M Violence, nudity & suicide (Alex Brendemühl), Jaume’s intriguingly disenchanted photographer son. Jaime Rosales’ supremely elegant feature contains enough switches to furnish a soap opera and a body count akin to classical tragedy, satisfaction, is where the final chapter which it more closely resembles in should be. “An intense, cunningly tone. Rosales distances himself from As Jaume, the breaker-in-chief, structured and rewarding emotional frenzy, serving his story in Joan Botey makes an indelible screen achronological chapters, several of debut at the age of 77. Actually the item about a woman’s B Hamilton Wed 5 Sep, 11.30 am which bear titles that resonate with owner of the estate where the film was search for her father.” A Hamilton Thu 6 Sep, 6.15 pm B Hamilton Thu 13 Sep, 1.45 pm the authority of irrevocable fate. The shot, Botey may have taken the role — Jonathan Holland, Hollywood effect is curiously engaging, each scene to discourage the tourist invasion that Reporter B P. North Fri 7 Sep, 11.45 am exploring the one-to-one dynamics Hélène Louvart’s camerawork surely A P. North Sun 9 Sep, 5.15 pm within a seriously broken family and encourages. In an NZIFF not short of their co-dependent staff. And the men behaving badly, he plays a villain A Tauranga Sat 25 Aug, 3.45 pm final chapter, offering some gentle it’s a pleasure to heartily loathe. B Tauranga Thu 30 Aug, 11.30 am

The Wild Pear Tree Ahlat agaci

“The Wild Pear Tree is a gentle, humane, beautifully made and magnificently acted movie from the Director/Editor: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkish filmmaker and former Palme Turkey/France/Germany/Bulgaria 2018 | 188 mins winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan: garrulous, Producer: Zeynep Özbatur Atakan humorous and lugubrious in his Screenplay: Akın Aksu, Ebru Ceylan, unmistakable and very engaging style. Nuri Bilge Ceylan Photography: Gökhan Tiryaki It’s an unhurried, elegiac address to With: Aydin Doğu Demirkol, Murat Cemcir, the idea of childhood and your home Bennu Yildirimlar, Hazar Ergüçlü, Serkan Keskin, Tamer Levent town – and how returning to both has Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2018 a bittersweet savour… In Turkish with English subtitles CinemaScope | M offensive language An ambitious, malcontent young graduate and would-be writer comes back to his rural village with a diploma but no job… The graduate is Sinan (Aydın Doğu Demirkol), who has come back with ambiguous feelings about the place where he grew up. As for so many writers, his home looks wonderful when he is away from it, © NBC FILM when it is tamed and transformed by bluster and cajoling. He is a gambling his imagination. But actually being addict who has borrowed money all “Ceylan expertly draws there reminds him of all its irritations over town; his addiction has kept his your eye and ear to and absurdities. Sinan is from a village family on the poverty line… near the port of Çanakkale, a tourist The question of life, and the gamble the drama behind the destination on account of being near on life that we are required to make drama, and gives the A Hamilton Sun 26 Aug, 2.15 pm the site of the Gallipoli campaign, and in our early 20s, runs under the most gently naturalistic also the ancient city of Troy… movie’s meandering path. It is another B Hamilton Thu 30 Aug, 11.00 am scenes the weight and His father is Idris, tremendously deeply satisfying, intelligent piece of A P. North Sun 9 Sep, 1.45 pm played by Murat Cemcir, a man whose film-making from Ceylan.” — Peter grain of visions.” — Robbie youthful charm and romanticism has Bradshaw, The Guardian A Tauranga Sun 2 Sep, 2.00 pm Collin, The Telegraph curdled with age into a pre-emptive B Tauranga Mon 3 Sep, 2.45 pm UK WORLD 23

Disobedience

“Is the greater sin to defy God, or defy Director: Sebastián Lelio your true nature? It’s not a question UK 2017 | 114 mins that’s asked directly in Disobedience, Producers: Frida Torresblanco, Ed Guiney, Rachel Weisz but lingers at the edges of the turmoil Screenplay: Sebastián Lelio, Rebecca Lenkiewicz. that slowly simmers into passion Based on the novel by Naomi Alderman Photography: Danny Cohen and penitence, in a story that turns Editor: Nathan Nugent a colorful premise into a thoughtful Music: Matthew Herbert With: Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, rumination on choice. Set inside the Alessandro Nivola conservative community of Orthodox Festivals: Toronto 2017; Tribeca 2018 In English, Hebrew and Yiddish, Judaism, Sebastián Lelio’s graceful with English subtitles adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s novel R13 sex scenes & sexual references is a probing look at the illusion of freedom in both religious and secular life, and the bracing reality faced by two women when the relationship between them sparks back to life. When Ronit (Rachel Weisz), a portrait photographer living in New York City, learns that her father Rav, a revered rabbi and community leader, has passed © BLEEKER STREET away, she temporarily numbs the pain After the transcendent Gloria and in booze and sex, before boarding a [last] year’s buzzworthy A Fantastic “[A] striking and warmly plane to London… Ronit has been Woman, Lelio once again shows a nuanced portrait of the disconnected for so long, she’s surprised remarkable sensitivity to the challenges B Hamilton Tue 28 Aug, 3.45 pm to learn her former friends Dovit women face, particularly those who are kinds of women whose A Hamilton Fri 31 Aug, 6.15 pm (Alessandro Nivola) – who became Rav’s marginalized by their age or identity… internal lives are rarely A Hamilton Sun 2 Sep, 5.00 pm spiritual son and protegé – and Esti [He] crafts a drama that’s both sensual portrayed on screen.” B P. North Thu 6 Sep, 3.45 pm (Rachel McAdams) are now married. and spiritual, deeply moving and A P. North Fri 7 Sep, 6.00 pm However, Ronit and Esti have a surprise tender.” — Kevin Jagernauth, The — Andrew Barker, Variety of their own – a long buried connection Playlist A Tauranga Fri 24 Aug, 6.15 pm that will be rekindled, and unravel the B Tauranga Fri 31 Aug, 11.30 am orderly world around them… A Tauranga Sun 2 Sep, 7.15 pm

Lean on Pete

One could be forgiven for fearing Director/Screenplay: Andrew Haigh syrupy sentimentality from a drama UK 2017 | 121 mins about the emotional bond between a Producer: Tristan Goligher Photography: Magnus Jonck boy and his horse. But easy pathos isn’t Editor: Jonathan Alberts in the toolbox of British master Andrew Music: James Edward Barker With: Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny, Haigh, whose last two films, Weekend Steve Buscemi, Travis Fimmel, Steve Zahn, and 45 Years, put him on the map as Justin Rain, Lewis Pullman, Bob Olin, Teyah Hartley, Alison Elliot, Amy Seimetz an understated and achingly perceptive Festivals: Venice, Telluride, Toronto, London 2017; chronicler of human relationships. Rotterdam, SXSW 2018 His focus here is on a sensitive M violence & offensive language teenager named Charley (gifted newcomer Charlie Plummer), who, in the absence of his deadbeat dad, bonds with the damaged goods (both human and equine) at his local racecourse. Taken under the wing of jaded race- circuit vet, Del (Steve Buscemi), and jockey Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny), Charley quickly empathises with a racehorse named “Lean on Pete”, especially after discovering he’s being dangerously resilience as the reality of his character’s overworked to make a quick buck. worsening situation dawns on him… “I marveled at the humanist When the fate of the horse is thrown Haigh also demonstrates his continued depth of the world Haigh into jeopardy, Charley escapes with him mastery of his craft, following here and begins an odyssey through rural in the grand tradition of US-bound creates, one that can only A Hamilton Thu 23 Aug, 6.00 pm America that is as eye-opening as it is Euro auteurs like Wim Wenders by be rendered by a truly A Hamilton Sat 25 Aug, 1.15 pm B Hamilton Wed 29 Aug, 11.30 am deeply affecting. — JF delivering an outsider’s portrait of great writer and director, “An emotionally complex film, America that’s fully attuned to both the working near the top of A P. North Fri 24 Aug, 8.00 pm economically scripted and full of mythic grandeur and the harsh realities B P. North Tue 28 Aug, 11.45 am delicately crafted performances… of life in a country where wide-open his game.” — Brian Tallerico, Plummer is magnificent in the lead, spaces belie the high cost of freedom.” A Tauranga Thu 30 Aug, 8.15 pm RogerEbert.com intuitive and naturalistic, exuding quiet — Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman A Tauranga Sat 8 Sep, 5.30 pm 24

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Beirut

The magnetic Jon Hamm brings Director: Brad Anderson swagger in spades to this cracking, USA 2018 | 109 mins old-fashioned spy thriller from the Producers: Mike Weber, Tony Gilroy, Shivani Rawat, Monica Levinson writer of Michael Clayton. Hamm plays Screenplay: Tony Gilroy Mason Skiles, an alcoholic ex-diplomat Photography: Bjorn Charpentier Editor: Andrew Hafitz who fled Beirut in 1972 when a terror Music: John Debney raid upended his life. When an old With: Jon Hamm, Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris, Mark Pellegrino, Larry Pine, Shea Whigham colleague is taken hostage ten years Festivals: Sundance 2018 later, and the kidnappers ask for him In English, Arabic and French, with English subtitles by name, Mason is forced to return and CinemaScope | M violence & offensive language navigate a web fraught with danger, deceit and personal demons. Viewers can expect the requisite twists and jolts of gritty action characteristic of its writer Tony Gilroy, while Hamm and a roster of ace supporting players (that includes Rosamund Pike, Shea Whigham and Dean Norris) bring welcome human gravitas to the knotty plot workings. — JF © SIFE EDDINE EL AMINE “A handsome, charismatic actor with the force of surprise… Beirut is as who has had difficulty finding film roles relevant as it is entertaining, and it is “A tense, tight kidnapping that suit him as well as his TV success very entertaining indeed.” — Kenneth thriller about shifting in Mad Men, Hamm is all he should be Turan, LA Times as the film's flawed hero, projecting “Beirut is a crafty drama that doesn’t loyalties and finding B Hamilton Wed 29 Aug, 4.00 pm a juicy combination of weakness and depend on car crashes or shootouts redemption, Beirut marks A Hamilton Fri 31 Aug, 8.30 pm A Hamilton Tue 4 Sep, 8.30 pm strength that involves us completely… for its sense of propulsive action. It Jon Hamm’s finest film As any fan of the Bourne films can may be a mostly pessimistic portrait of work to date.” — Adam A P. North Sat 1 Sep, 8.30 pm attest, screenwriter Gilroy is a master at its time and place, but it offers hope, B P. North Tue 4 Sep, 3.45 pm laying out a twisty plot, and Anderson if only that movies of its style, scope Graham, The Detroit News directs with the kind of verve that and smarts can still get made.” — Ann A Tauranga Sat 25 Aug, 8.15 pm enables almost all the twists to hit us Hornaday, The Washington Post A Tauranga Wed 5 Sep, 8.15 pm

Juliet, Naked

Annie (Rose Byrne) has long tolerated Director: Jesse Peretz her partner Duncan’s (Chris O’Dowd) USA 2018 | 97 mins obsession with the obscure rocker Producers: Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel, Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa, Jeffrey Soros Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke), but Screenplay: Tamara Jenkins, she’s reaching the end of her tether. Jim Taylor, Phil Alden Robinson, Evgenia Peretz. Based on the novel by Nick Hornby Crowe had a following in the 1990s, With: Ethan Hawke, Rose Byrne, Chris O’Dowd, but he disappeared after a mid-show Jimmy O. Yang Festivals: Sundance 2018 breakdown, to become the subject of CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc rumour and legend ever since – at least to those who care. No one cares more than Duncan, who runs a fan forum for similar obsessives around the world. When a previously unknown demo of a Crowe album emerges after 25 years, Annie finally takes to Duncan’s forum with a withering review. Amongst the startled readers there’s one Tucker Crowe. Perfectly cast, Jesse Peretz’s film nails Hornby’s smart, pop culture obsessed, © ALEX-BAILEY. COURTESY OF LIONSGATE & ROADSIDE-ATTRACTIONS emotionally stunted characters. Juliet, you’ve got him pegged, keeps finding Naked is a witty, niftily constructed and new flavors of disillusioned charisma. “A winsome screwball love sneakily romantic film – with a great And Byrne… keeps us on her side by story that grows on you soundtrack, of course. investing Annie with that most indelible “Juliet, Naked is something lightly of qualities: the innocence that lives on and takes you somewhere B Hamilton Wed 12 Sep, 4.00 pm unusual: a romantic comedy about the other side of heartbreak.” — Owen charming… It leaves you A Hamilton Thu 13 Sep, 8.30 pm A Hamilton Sun 16 Sep, 7.45 pm three people who all appear likable Gleiberman, Variety completely happy you met enough, but who have made quiet “[It’s] everything a mainstream the people in it.” — Owen B P. North Thu 23 Aug, 4.00 pm messes of their lives. None of them are rom-com should be but no longer is – A P. North Fri 24 Aug, 6.00 pm spring chickens; that’s part of what literate, unpredictable, full of bustling Gleiberman, Variety charges the film with a certain wistful tangents.” — David Edelstein, Vulture A Tauranga Fri 7 Sep, 6.15 pm urgency… Hawke, just when you think A Tauranga Wed 12 Sep, 8.30 pm 26 WORLD USA

First Reformed

Gripping and intensely focused, First Director/Screenplay: Paul Schrader Reformed is Paul Schrader’s latest USA 2017 | 114 mins character study of male self-destruction Producers: Christine Vachon, David Hinojosa, Frank Murray, Jack Binder, Greg Clark, Victoria Hill, and redemption. Haunted by the Gary Hamilton, Deepak Sikka ghost of Taxi Driver, it stands as the Photography: Alexander Dynan Editor: Benjamin Rodriguez Jr. culmination of a writing/directing career Music: Lustmord studded with God’s lonely men – and With: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric Antonio Kyles, Victoria Hill, Philip Ettinger one of Schrader’s most personal films Festivals: Venice, Toronto, New York 2017; in decades. Rotterdam, SXSW 2018 A terrific Ethan Hawke cuts a stern, R16 violence, suicide & content that may disturb troubled figure as Toller, a Protestant minister of a tiny congregation overshadowed by a nearby populist church. His internal and spiritual despair – rivetingly chronicled in Schrader’s powerful script – begins to seep out into the unforgiving world upon meeting Mary (Amanda Seyfried) and her husband Michael, a distraught environmental activist whose salvation lies in a suicide vest. of the great American filmmakers. As Toller’s dwindling faith and — Tim Wong “An important and moving growing political rage points ostensibly “First Reformed [is] the writer/ work by a master towards an explosive final act, director’s best work in a very long Schrader’s artistry, heavily indebted to time. The writer of Taxi Driver [and] filmmaker.”— Godfrey his cinematic heroes Carl Dreyer and Raging Bull… is having a crisis of faith, Cheshire, RogerEbert.com B Hamilton Tue 4 Sep, 4.00 pm Robert Bresson, beautifully counteracts examining personal issues of religion A Hamilton Fri 7 Sep, 8.15 pm in a way that he hasn’t done in a very the violent pathos of his most iconic B P. North Mon 27 Aug, 3.45 pm screen antiheroes. At once austere and long time… It’s the kind of work of art A P. North Fri 31 Aug, 8.00 pm electrifying, First Reformed is directed that seems like it could inspire fantastic with startling simplicity and profundity; conversation. We need more movies like B Tauranga Mon 10 Sep, 4.00 pm a bravely un-American film by one it.” — Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com A Tauranga Fri 14 Sep, 8.00 pm

Little Woods

Set in a fracking boomtown in North Director/Screenplay: Nia DaCosta Dakota, Little Woods’ wide-open prairies USA 2018 | 103 mins are inhabited by people who have little Producers: Rachael Fung, Gabrielle Nadig, Tim Headington room to move. Trapped by poverty and Photography: Matt Mitchell failed by a broken health system, for Editor: Catrin Hedström Music: Brian McOmber them it’s hard work for little return. First- With: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, time writer and director Nia DaCosta James Badge Dale, Lance Reddick, Luke Kirby Festivals: Tribeca 2018 has drawn a rich world of dynamic Censors rating tbc characters, complex relationships and hard choices that recalls Winter’s Bone. She expertly draws on crime movie tropes to tell an important story: that of the female rural poor. Everyone is after OxyContin, but Ollie (Tessa Thompson) isn’t selling it anymore. She hawks only coffee and sandwiches to cold men at cold worksites. She’s almost completed probation after being caught smuggling Canadian prescription meds, mainly for her terminally ill mum, over the nearby way to get that sort of money. When border. Her mum has now passed away Deb realises she cannot have the baby, “Nia DaCosta’s absorbing and she’s grieving, but things might it turns out that finding a safe abortion debut is laced with urgent finally be looking up: with support is just as difficult. from her probation officer there’s the The sisterly bond between Ollie dread, experienced by possibility of a new job in a new town. and Deb is at the heart of this story. characters you care deeply But that all changes when her adoptive Little Woods is a tense watch that about.” — Sam Weisberg, sister Deb (Lily James), a struggling solo illuminates many aspects of the US Village Voice B Hamilton Fri 24 Aug, 4.00 pm mother with a dropkick ex, finds out political zeitgeist from a strong female A Hamilton Sun 26 Aug, 6.00 pm she’s pregnant and in need of a place perspective. This is deeply felt cinema, to live. The sisters need $3,000 to save a directorial debut that is not to be B P. North Thu 23 Aug, 1.45 pm the family home and there’s only one missed. — Catherine Bisley A P. North Sun 26 Aug, 7.15 pm USA WORLD 27

Mandy

It was labelled the ‘midnight-iest’ of Director: Panos Cosmatos midnight films at this year’s Sundance USA 2018 | 121 mins Film Festival. It promised Nicolas Cage Producers: Adrian Politowski, Martin Metz, Nate Bolotin, Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, in full beast mode surrounded by Elijah Wood dream fugues, animation, psychedelia Screenplay: Panos Cosmatos, Aaron Stewart-Ahn Photography: Benjamin Loeb and demonic symbolism. And it Editor: Brett W. Bachman delivered on those promises and more. Music: Jóhann Jóhannsson With: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Now it’s your turn – to turn up, tune in Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy, Olwen Fouéré, and wig the f-out. Bill Duke, Richard Brake Festivals: Sundance, Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) Director Panos Cosmatos’ debut 2018 feature, the surreal and atmospheric CinemaScope | R18 violence, offensive language, Beyond the Black Rainbow, was a real drug use, sex scenes & content that may disturb eye-opener, but now he’s back to rip PROUDLY SPONSORED BY your eyes out. Things begin quietly and soothingly enough in his sophomore effort as we meet lumberjack Red (Cage), who lives with his beloved Mandy (Andrea Riseborough) in a remote cabin – an enviable idyllic co-existence that involves lazing under blankets beneath moonlight and acid wasp-sting ritual before posing the whispering sweet nothings. Before long, terrifying question, “Do you like The “Were scientists to into this Prozaced wilderness rom-com Carpenters?” Eventually Red breaks engineer an uncut, comes The Children of the New Dawn loose (just before all hell does) as the – a cult run by Jeremiah (Linus Roache), narrative dissolves like strong lysergic 100-proof cult sensation, who has eyes for Mandy and demands acid and begins invoking the aesthetic it would probably look, “Get me that girl!” to his followers. of fantasy novels and heavy metal sound, and kick like this.” After suiting up in their Frank imagery. As Red, Cage is gloriously and Frazetta-inspired heavy metal armour, ferociously over-the-top, taking us along — A.A. Dowd, AV Club the cult descends on the couple’s on one hell of a vengeance-seeking, A Hamilton Thu 23 Aug, 8.30 pm tranquil abode, overpowering Red, tripping-balls-to-the-max path of A Hamilton Sat 1 Sep, 8.30 pm kidnapping Mandy and performing an bloodlust and spiritual salvation. — AT B Hamilton Wed 5 Sep, 3.45 pm

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

It’s 1993 in small town America and as Cameron (Chloë Grace Moretz) prepares for prom, Irma Thomas’ Director: Desiree Akhavan ‘Anyone Who Knows What Love Is’ USA 2018 | 90 mins Producers: Cecilia Frugiuele, Jonathan Montepare, plays over the proceedings. We can Michael B. Clark, Alex Turtletaub sense this is not going to end well. Screenplay: Desiree Akhavan, Cecilia Frugiuele. Based on the novel by Emily M. Danforth Before the night is over she and her Photography: Ashley Connor girlfriend Coley are caught getting Editor: Sara Shaw hot and heavy in the back of a car by Music: Julian Wass With: Chloë Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane, Cameron’s boyfriend. Just as quickly Forrest Goodluck, John Gallagher Jr., Jennifer Ehle as passion flared, Cameron is whisked Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco, Tribeca 2018 Grand Jury Prize, Sundance 2018 off to God’s Promise, a gay conversion M sex scenes, offensive language & drug use camp in remote Montana. Run by the Nurse Ratched-like Dr Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle), God’s Promise works with its ‘disciples’ to identify the root cause of their same-sex attraction and cure them of their sinful ways. Cameron shares a room with the fully indoctrinated Erin, a young woman whose gender confusion and ‘SSA’ she haunting music direction. While the enthusiastically confesses stem from her leaders truly believe they are doing “Peppered with biting love of sports. Cameron’s attempts at right by these young people, Cameron humor and warmed by a fitting into the programme are written attempts to come to terms with her ‘sins’ all over her face as she searches for the before realising the truth of her situation. generous spirit that answers they want to hear rather than Featuring strong supporting extends understanding, if A Hamilton Fri 14 Sep, 6.15 pm B Hamilton Wed 19 Sep, 2.15 pm fighting for her truth. performances by Sasha Lane (American not forgiveness, even to Never resorting to shocking or Honey) and Forrest Goodluck (The the religious zealot A P. North Sun 2 Sep, 5.30 pm confrontational scenes, director Desiree Revenant) as the camp’s surreptitious B P. North Mon 3 Sep, 4.00 pm Akhavan keeps the darkness in her rebels, The Miseducation of Cameron characters.” — Leslie Felperin, material always hovering just on the Post is an ode to survival and finding B Tauranga Fri 14 Sep, 4.15 pm Hollywood Reporter surface, blossoming with Julian Wass’ your logical family. — Kailey Carruthers A Tauranga Sat 15 Sep, 6.00 pm 28 WORLD USA

Puzzle

“Marc Turtletaub’s film… revels in Director: Marc Turtletaub the possibilities of finding something USA 2018 | 104 mins new in a wholly ordinary life. For Producers: Wren Arthur, Guy Stodel, Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf Agnes (Kelly Macdonald), that starts Screenplay: Oren Moverman with the literal opening of a birthday Photography: Chris Norr Editor: Catherine Haight gift, one that contains a 1,000-piece Music: Dustin O’Halloran jigsaw puzzle that ignites in her With: Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan, David Denman, Bubba Weiler, Austin Abrams, Liv Hewson not only a new passion, but also Festivals: Sundance, Sydney 2018 the long-dormant sense that she’s M offensive language & sexual references excellent at something. And Agnes is really, really good at puzzling, a quick PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH worker who takes great pride in the finished product – before she breaks it all up to start again… Oren Moverman’s script, based on the Argentinian film by Natalia Smirnoff [NZIFF10], is graceful with the details and its characters. Agnes never went to college, lives in the same house she did while growing up with her Hungarian © CHRIS NORR immigrant dad, and looks way too looking for a partner. Agnes’ entire life young to already have two grown sons. blows up. “Puzzle is a superb Her husband Louie (David Denman, Puzzle toes a tough line, managing vehicle for the talents essentially playing the same role he did to stay relentlessly good-hearted and A Hamilton Sun 9 Sep, 2.45 pm in The Office) is a blue-collar dude who deeply humane, even as Agnes herself of Kelly Macdonald A Hamilton Thu 13 Sep, 6.15 pm loves his wife, but is unable to truly plunges into deeper, more dramatic and Irrfan Khan, and B Hamilton Fri 14 Sep, 11.30 am see her. Agnes’ world is a tight circle, waters. It’s the kind of mid-life crisis a sweet and empathetic B P. North Thu 6 Sep, 11.30 am story that so rarely centers on a moving between home and church and A P. North Sat 8 Sep, 1.45 pm errands and back again… woman and Macdonald shines in the film about finally At the puzzle store, a small note role, riveting even in the quietest of finding independence.” A Tauranga Sun 9 Sep, 12.45 pm hangs from the register: a champion moments.” — Kate Erbland, Indiewire A Tauranga Tue 11 Sep, 6.15 pm — Sydney Film Festival puzzler [charismatic Irrfan Khan] is B Tauranga Wed 12 Sep, 11.30 am

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Once again, we’re thrilled to share an Two Trams Blueberry Hunt Outdoors eclectic and electric line-up of short Russia 2016 | Director: Svetlana Andrianova | 10 mins Czech Republic, 2017 | Directors: Alexandra France 2017 | Directors: Anne Castaldo, Sarah Chalek, animated tales. Carefully selected from Hetmerová, Kater˘ina Karhánková | 7 mins Elsa Nesme, Adrien Rouquié | 7 mins Klick and Tram stick together through all corners of the world, they’re sure thick and thin, to stay bang on time Two bear pals head out to gather An elderly woman tries to find her to amuse and engage our favourite and right on track. blueberries for breakfast dumplings missing pet. A little girl tries to find little audience – and those who attend – but first they must deal with a crazy her missing neighbour. Both find with them. Come and travel from a case of double hiccups. themselves in the middle of a New mysterious dark forest to a bustling I Want to Live in the Zoo York adventure. big city, or dive deep underwater Russia 2017 | Director: Evgenia Golubeva | 6 mins Dark, Dark Woods and dance with an elephant – all Denmark 2017 | Director: Emile Gignoux | 6 mins Sasha decides that she would much without leaving the comfort of your Big Block Singsong: Duck rather live in the zoo than at home Royal life’s not always so grand. One cinema seat. Visit nziff.co.nz for full Canada 2017 | Director: Warren Brown | 2 mins with her parents, but quickly finds little princess trades it all in for a wilder programme details. — NM that animal life is not all she hoped it kind of adventure. It’s a quack attack! You better stand back. Jazzoo would be. Funny Fish Sweden 2016 | Director: Adam Marko-Nord | 9 mins Henriyeti: Sock It To Me France/Switzerland 2018 | Director: Krishna Nair The House Fish behind the wheel, flying hippos 6 mins Czech Republic 2016 | Director: Veronika Zacharová Yeti! 5 mins and dancing elephants – all set to the Somewhere in the middle of the ocean, USA 2016 | Director: Greg Walter | 2 mins super jazzy sounds of the award- a not-so-smart school of fish come to With only one tiny clue to help him winning Oddjob quintet. Henriyeti – a little bit girl, a little bit the rescue of a mysterious creature along the way, a small house journeys Yeti – demonstrates that great matches who suddenly appears in their waters. to the big city in search of those who Boulle go well beyond appearances. left him behind. Russia 2016 | Directors: Elizaveta Monokhina, Polina Manokhina | 4 mins When you have to share a really small space, it’s definitely better to work together.

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Animation for Kids 8+ 76 mins approx. | PG some scenes may scare very young children

Come join us for your annual wintery Odd Is an Egg Awaker Tip-Top fix of all-ages animated magic. From Norway 2016 | Director: Kristin Ulseth | In Norwegian Czech Republic 2017 | Director: Filip Diviak | 9 mins Russia 2016 | Director: Alla Vartanyan | 2 mins slick computer animation to hand- with English subtitles | 12 mins The Awaker leads a mundane life Here’s one way to keep warm while crafted stop motion, filmmakers the Odd is hugely protective of his head. waking people up for a living. One waiting for the bus in the middle of world over have melded exquisite When he meets Gunn, his life is turned day he receives something which winter. technique and brilliant storytelling upside down, freeing him from his transforms his humdrum routine. that’s certain to appeal to discerning anxiety in the most unexpected way. Catmos young and young-at-heart NZIFF Gokuroˉsama Czech Republic 2017 | Director: Katya Miloslavskaya audiences. Chase an elusive selfie, Undiscovered France 2016 | Directors: Clémentine Frère, Aurore Gal, 5 mins take a feline-centric ride through USA 2017 | Director: Sara Litzenberger | 3 mins Yukiko Meignien, Anna Mertz, Robin Migliorelli, Romain A unique cat takes a miraculous ride Salvini | 7 mins space, hang out after hours in a surreal There is no photo evidence of through space and time. shopping mall, and ponder some big Sasquatch – but maybe it’s for a reason A quirky tale of early morning goings- existential questions. Visit nziff.co.nz that may surprise you. on in a surreal mega-mall of the future. for full programme details. — NM Theory of Sunset If You Fall Poles Apart Russia 2016 | Director: Roman Sokolov | 9 mins UK 2017 | Director: Paloma Baeza | 12 mins Humus Canada 2017 | Director: Tisha Deb Pillai | 6 mins In the dead of night, while the world Italy 2017 | Directors: Simone Di Rocco, Simone In a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry Cirillo, Dario Livietti, Alice Tagliapietra | 7 mins Lila takes on the daunting task of is sleeping, someone has the very learning how to balance on a bike, as and solitary polar bear must decide if a important job of ensuring the start of In a magical laboratory in the woods, a those around her balance family life. naïve Canadian grizzly bear is her food a new day. gardener tries to school his young and or her friend. wayward apprentice about the power of nature. Power USA 2017 | Director: Dana Sink, USA, 2017 | 2 mins Intersecting machinery comes together, inspired by Muybridge.

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The Ancient Woods Sengire˙ REALITY FRAMING Director/Photography: Mindaugas Survila Lithuania/Estonia/ Germany 2017 | 86 mins Producers: Mindaugas Survila, Ginté Žulyte˙, Radvile Šumile Screenplay: Mindaugas Survila, Ginté Žulyte˙ Editor: Danielius Kokanauskis Sound: Mindaugas Survila, Ginté Žulyte˙, Ainis Pivoras Festivals: Amsterdam Documentary 2017; Sydney 2018 Cinemascope

Immerse yourself in the life of an a stork’s nest or the struggles of a ancient Baltic forest, a habitat abundant snowbound spider with equal delight with wildlife little touched as yet by and fascination… Crows predictably human habitation. Lithuanian biologist steal the show, as their desperate turned filmmaker Mindaugas Survila fight for food provokes some impolite spent almost ten years making The but highly entertaining reactions, Ancient Woods, often taking weeks to but Survila also pays attention to the set up and capture the perfect shot. His smallest of [the forest’s] habitants, all patience and unerring eye have resulted the while making some very interesting in an enchanting, meditative experience visual choices, such as looking away – a walk in the woods where every when the violence proves too draining, creature is espied in exquisite close-up, plunging underwater or showing a and no voice of authority is explaining rather frenzied feast in slow motion.” what they are up to. — Marta Bałaga, Cineuropa “Without a clear point to make or a theory to prove, Survila simply comes as close as possible and… observes. He doesn’t limit himself to any B Hamilton Tue 11 Sep, 11.15 am particular subject, ending up watching A Hamilton Sat 15 Sep, 11.15 am

The Cleaners

Directors: Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck Germany/Brazil 2018 89 mins Photography: Axel Schneppat, Max Preiss Editors: Philipp Gromov, Hansjörg Weißbrich, Markus CM Schmidt The profusion of excellent documentaries Music: John Gürtler, Jan Miserre, Lars Voges submitted to us is staggering. We try to steer Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam, Hot Docs 2018 In English and Tagalog, a course that favours formal sophistication with English subtitles R16 sexual abuse, sexual violence, and complexity, while allowing ourselves suicide & graphic physical harm on occasion to fall for the most forthright © GEBRUEDER BEETZ FILMPRODUKTION Ever wondered who polices Facebook? the cultural disparities that complicate advocacy or – hey, puppy – blatant appeals This rattling documentary should the work, an issue which artist Illma to the heartstrings. make for illuminating viewing. The Gore’s banned portrait of Trump (with Cleaners introduces us to five content his iconic micro-penis) deftly illustrates. You will find more fine examples filling moderators, all based in the Philippines, There are myriad implications here, but whose services are contracted to crucially the filmmakers follow through the Big Nights and Aotearoa sections of social media giants like Facebook, on them, broadening their portrait into the programme. In other words, documentaries Twitter and Google. Every day, these an urgent exploration of the perils of ‘cleaners’ scan through thousands the digital age. The results will both are everywhere at NZIFF. of images and videos that have been absorb and disturb. — JF flagged as ‘objectionable’. There’s an obvious toll to sweeping our feeds for sinister material. As the subjects present us with their harrowing A Hamilton Mon 27 Aug, 8.15 pm testimony, it quickly becomes clear B Hamilton Thu 30 Aug, 2.30 pm how psychologically ill-equipped A P. North Tue 4 Sep, 8.15 pm anyone would be for the violence and pornography they wade through daily. B Tauranga Mon 27 Aug, 4.15 pm That’s not even taking into account A Tauranga Tue 4 Sep, 8.00 pm FRAMING REALITY 31

Kusama – Infinity

Escaping a traumatic family upbringing Director/Screenplay: Heather Lenz in Japan, a young female artist hit USA 2018 | 83 mins 1960s New York determined to succeed. Producers: Karen Johnson, David Koh, Dan Braun, Heather Lenz Propelled by a psychological need to Photography: Hart Perry, Itaya Hideaki, make art for her own survival, Yayoi Ken Kobland, Takeda Shinpei Editors: Ideno Keita, Takeda Shinpei, Kusama’s extraordinary career has Carl Pfirman, Heather Lenz, Sam Karp, traversed highs and deep lows. Widely John Northrup, Nora Tennessen Music: Allyson Newman known for her polka dot covered With: Yayoi Kusama realities, she also staged public political Festivals: Sundance 2018 happenings as well as gate-crashing In English and Japanese, with English subtitles the Venice Biennale with an uninvited outdoor work. Routinely copied by male contemporaries such as Andy Warhol, she faced enormous hurdles of racism and sexism in the post-World War II American art world. Yet her relentless pursuit of recognition, and her ground- breaking use of participatory installation, eventually led her to the fame she © TOKYO LEE PRODUCTIONS INC. deserves. receives today. That’s the bittersweet Kusama literally transforms the world story of Yayoi Kusama, the 89-year-old “I hope that the power around her into colourful, boundary-less Japanese painter and sculptor whose of art can make the infinities. Now living, age 89, in a mental social-media-friendly mirror rooms have institution in Toyko, she continues to made her the most-viewed female world more peaceful.” output work which sells for millions. artist of all time. It’s vindication for a — Yayoi Kusama A Hamilton Sat 25 Aug, 11.15 am This is a riveting and comprehensive unique artistic vision that… created B Hamilton Tue 28 Aug, 11.45 am soft sculptures before Claes Oldenburg, portrait of the world’s most successful B P. North Thu 30 Aug, 2.00 pm living female artist. — Jo Randerson multiples as wallpaper before Andy A P. North Sun 2 Sep, 1.15 pm “Imagine if the unhappy Vincent van Warhol and mirrored rooms before Gogh had finally, in late middle age, Lucas Samaras.” — Kate Taylor, Globe A Tauranga Sat 1 Sep, 11.15 am witnessed the acclaim that his work and Mail A Tauranga Tue 4 Sep, 6.15 pm

Dog’s Best Friend Gurrumul

Director/Screenplay: Eryn Wilson* Paul Damien Williams Director: Eryn Wilson Australia 2017 | 100 mins New Zealand 2017 Photography: Dan Maxwell, 78 mins Katie Milwright, Matt Toll, Gavin Head Producers: Gareth Wallis, Editors: Shannon Swan, Eryn Wilson Ken Sallows Photography: James Boddy Music: Michael Hohnen, Editor: James Brown Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Music: Dean Kerr Erkki Veltheim With: Jacob Leezak, Festivals: Melbourne 2017; Jennah Leezak Berlin 2018 In English and Yolngu Matha, with English subtitles Cinemascope

A canine rehabilitation centre is misunderstood canines and the “A profound and transporting and passed away last year at age 46, tenderly profiled in Kiwi director Eryn traumatic backgrounds that brought songline… Paul Damien Williams’ released his first solo album in 2008. Wilson’s affectionate documentary both him and his fiancée Jennah to this poignant film captures the singular He sang mostly in the Indigenous Dog’s Best Friend. Run by ex-soldier line of work. qualities – both as an artist and a man languages of the Gumatj, Galpu and Jacob Leezak, the Canine Behaviour Without ever succumbing to – of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, the Djambarrpuyngu people, and attracted Expert Dog Psychology Centre is soapboxing, this sweet and unassuming widely celebrated aboriginal Australian immense global acclaim, including being located on a property in outer Sydney portrait is essential viewing for dog- musician known for soulful tenor vocals hailed by Rolling Stone as ‘Australia’s that houses no fewer than 30 dogs at lovers and dog-haters alike. — JF that blended his traditional cultural most important voice’… For Gurrumul a time – all either abandoned, set to heritage and Yolngu language with fans, the film is obviously a must-see. be euthanised or brought in by clients Western folk, gospel and classical For those unfamiliar, or vaguely familiar unable to handle their pet’s aggressive elements. Approaching its reclusive with his work, it’s an even greater treat: side. While Jacob will often allude to subject with unerring respect, the they will be entertained, enthralled, the media stigmatisation of particular elegantly composed doc mirrors the perhaps in some small way changed.” breeds (the film even opens with some A Hamilton Sat 1 Sep, 3.30 pm* gentle power and ethereal hush of — Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian sobering euthanisation stats), Wilson B Hamilton Mon 3 Sep, 12.00 pm Gurrumul’s singing.” — David Rooney, wisely never centres the story on that A P. North Tue 28 Aug, 8.00 pm Hollywood Reporter debate. Instead, he focuses on the “Formerly a member of Yothu Yindi bond between man and dog, observing A Tauranga Sun 26 Aug, 1.15 pm* and Saltwater Band, Geoffrey Gurrumul A Hamilton Tue 11 Sep, 8.30 pm Jacob’s tailored process of rehabilitating A Tauranga Mon 27 Aug, 8.15 pm Yunupingu, who was blind from birth B Hamilton Tue 18 Sep, 1.45 pm 32 FRAMING REALITY

I Used to Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story

Director: Jessica Leski Australia 2018 | 96 mins Producers: Jessica Leski, Rita Walsh Photography: Jason Joseffer, Simon Koloadin, Eric Laplante, Cesar Salmeron Editor: Johanna Scott Music: Jed Palmer Festivals: Hot Docs, Sydney 2018

“What was life like before One music idols, and how deep love for Direction?” Jessica Leski’s opening these groups has helped them through question to 1D superfan Elif jump-starts pivotal life experiences. a vigorous investigation of the sacrifices Like a glitter cannon of boyband and sweet experiences of boyband adoration, the film is bursting with fandom. Losing friends, frustrating your colour, music and its manifesto for parents and hiding a closeted obsession music lovers of any age or gender: let from co-workers is par for the course, your freak flag fly proud. Release the but not all is lost for the fangirls screams and the sing-alongs and feel documented in I Used to Be Normal. the music you love unashamedly. As Leski profiles the lives and loves Dara puts it in the closing moments, of Elif, Sadia, Dara and Susan, four “What’s life without a big major Combining creativity women aged 16 –64 who are self- chorus?” — Kailey Carruthers with expertise confessed boyband fangirls. From Beatlemania, through Take That and the Backstreet Boys to 1D, the B Hamilton Mon 10 Sep, 2.15 pm P 07 856 4236 • 120 Silverdale Rd • Hamilton documentary celebrates and explores A Hamilton Sat 15 Sep, 1.15 pm www.theframingworkshop.co.nz women’s stories of coming of age (and coming out) through their beloved A P. North Fri 31 Aug, 6.00 pm

Chamber Music New Zealand presents PRESENTED IN Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. ASSOCIATION WITH Ioana Cristina

Director: Steve Loveridge Goicea & USA/UK/Sri Lanka 2018 101 mins Photography: Graham Boonzaaier, Catherine Goldschmidt, Andrey Gugnin Matt Wainwright Editors: Marina Katz, Gabriel Rhodes SCHUBERT, ENESCU & BRAHMS Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2018 Special Jury Award, Sundance 2018 In English and Tamil, with English subtitles M violence, offensive language & Tuesday 9 October, 7.30pm content that may disturb Globe Theatre PALMERSTON NORTH An unconventional biography of a who was trained in a London art school defiantly unconventional pop star, this and steeped in US hip-hop. Her early Thursday 11 October, 7.30pm doco delivers a rousing and multifaceted aspiration of becoming a documentary portrait of Sri Lankan rapper M.I.A. filmmaker means Loveridge has a Gallagher Academy HAMILTON Her exceptional path from stardom – trove of electrifying pre- and post- propelled by her megahit ‘Paper Planes’ fame footage to work with, which he Free Prelude Q&A at 6.45pm – to media pariah is charted by first- uses for a smart, lively investigation of time documentarian Steve Loveridge, M.I.A.’s own vital themes: the lives of who attended art school with her in the immigrants worldwide, the plight of 1990s. — MM the Sri Lankan people, and the question chambermusic.co.nz/ “Loveridge’s movie is a fantastic of whether pop stars can make goicea&gugnin and kinetic fulfillment of Maya effective political activists.” — Spencer Arulpragasam’s desire to be heard as Kornhaber, The Atlantic more than an entertainer. Starting with her 2004 debut, M.I.A. beat an aesthetically game-changing and Core Funder Tour Partner A Hamilton Thu 30 Aug, 8.30 pm controversy-strewn path across pop B Hamilton Fri 31 Aug, 4.00 pm culture, broadcasting her backstory as a Tamil revolutionary’s refugee daughter A P. North Mon 27 Aug, 6.00 pm FRAMING REALITY 33

The Ice King

British Olympic figure skater John Curry, Director/Screenplay: James Erskine the trailblazing subject of The Ice King, UK 2018 | 89 mins sought to change the world of ice Producer: Victoria Gregory Photography: Paul Williams skating for the better. Often hailed as Editor: Stephen Parkinson the greatest skater of all time, Curry Music: Stuart Hancock, Bratislava Symphony Orchestra drew acclaim for his innovative balance Narrator: Freddie Fox of artistry and athleticism, bridging the divide between dance and skating. PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH When his coaches told him he was ’too soft‘ and needed to skate like a man, Curry carved his own indelible path and, in doing so, challenged what ice skating could be. The Ice King is a compassionately constructed film that explores the pressures that Curry fought against and placed on himself. The first openly gay Olympian, he was adored by his critics and fans, but his struggle with loneliness and depression often © CHRISTIE JENKINS threatened to bring it all down. After By the time he was diagnosed with a winning streak that culminated HIV and eventually AIDS, Curry had “This poignant with a gold medal at the 1976 Winter withdrawn from performance and the remembrance of a Olympics, Curry retired from competing public eye, his body broken by both the and turned his attention to his first sport and the disease. Curry became troubled soul captures the love, dance, forming a dance company another young talent lost too soon, but essence of the man, his A Hamilton Mon 3 Sep, 6.15 pm and taking ballet on ice to some of the his legacy lives on in athletes like Adam times and his genius.” world’s grandest venues. It’s here that Rippon who challenge the performative B Hamilton Tue 4 Sep, 11.30 am — David Parkinson, Radio Times the film takes flight with rare footage masculinity that still exists in the world A P. North Sat 25 Aug, 3.45 pm of legendary performances, including of competitive figure skating today. breathtaking solo pieces that showcase — Chris Tse B Tauranga Wed 5 Sep, 4.15 pm his incredible grace. A Tauranga Sat 8 Sep, 3.30 pm

Pick of the Litter

“Meet Patriot, Poppet, Potomac, Directors/Producers: Primrose, and Phil, five impossibly Dana Nachman, Don Hardy adorable Labrador Retriever puppies. USA 2018 | 81 mins We meet them at the moment of Screenplay: Dana Nachman Photography/Editor: Don Hardy their birth when they are enrolled Music: Helen Jane Long into the national Guide Dogs for the Festivals: Slamdance, San Francisco, Hot Docs 2018 Blind (GDB) program based in San PROUDLY SPONSORED BY Rafael, CA. Soon after, they are placed with temporary trainers, individuals who have volunteered to shepherd the puppies through months of intensive training. Their emotional commitment to the dogs is intense and inspiring, making this documentary an emotional roller coaster once we realize that not all the dogs have what it takes to succeed.” — San Francisco International Film Festival “With most of the focus on the puppies, cinematic options might appear limited, but because there are entertainingly excels at maintaining so many people involved in raising the interest and building tension “A thoughtful film about dogs, Nachman and Hardy readily gain throughout the film’s succinctly the exacting selection access to puppy trainers, [Guide Dogs packaged 81-minute run time. B Hamilton Thu 23 Aug, 11.45 am for the Blind] staff and sight-impaired While Pick of the Litter stands out process for guide dogs, A Hamilton Sun 26 Aug, 12.30 pm individuals. While there are plenty of for its canine characterizations, it’s and the bonds that form A Hamilton Wed 19 Sep, 6.15 pm shots featuring gamboling puppies, fundamentally a film about the between the pups and B P. North Wed 29 Aug, 12.15 pm the filmmakers also demonstrate the endlessly fascinating, constantly A P. North Sat 1 Sep, 11.00 am training process, with detailed scenes evolving relationship between dogs and the people.” — Norman Wilner, showing how the dogs are instructed. humans, cultivated over millennia of Now B Tauranga Fri 24 Aug, 11.30 am Juggling more than a half-dozen advantageous interaction.” — Justin A Tauranga Mon 3 Sep, 6.15 pm storylines, Hardy’s editorial work Lowe, Hollywood Reporter A Tauranga Sun 9 Sep, 11.00 am

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The Price of Everything

An eye-opening and highly entertaining Director: Nathaniel Kahn ride through the excesses of the USA 2018 | 99 mins contemporary art market, The Price of Producers: Jennifer Blei Stockman, Debi Wisch, Carla Solomon Everything loosely tracks the lead-up Photography: Bob Richman to a major Sotheby's auction in New Editor: Sabine Krayenbühl Music: Jeff Beal York City. This is a world in which visual With: Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, Njideka Akunyili art “has become a luxury brand,” an Crosby, Larry Poons acceptable, if not essential part of any Festivals: Sundance 2018 self-respecting super-wealthy investor’s PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH portfolio. Works are traded like stocks. There is even a futures market. Oscar-nominated director Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect) has won extraordinary access to this strange and at times intoxicating bazaar. Conceptual artist Jeff Koons guides us through the workshop where, under his instructions, technicians knock out artefacts that will sell for tens of millions despite his barely having touched them. As Zen as a comic- make beautiful things – keep it floating,” book supervillain, Koons has mastered he chuckles. At the film’s heart is Larry “A brilliant and captivating the marketplace. Some artists, not so Poons, the abstract painter who enjoyed documentary about much; they watch their works being a burst of stardom in the 60s before onsold between collectors without disappearing from view. After decades how the art world got B Hamilton Thu 6 Sep, 2.00 pm getting so much as a sliver of kickback. of artist exile in upstate New York, converted into a money A Hamilton Sat 8 Sep, 11.00 am B Hamilton Wed 12 Sep, 1.45 pm Among the other characters we meet Poons has put a new collection together; market.” — Owen Gleiberman, along the way are the auction house’s a dealer is enthusiastically arranging a Variety B P. North Wed 5 Sep, 1.45 pm encyclopaedic art expert, who disdains comeback show in Manhattan for an A P. North Sat 8 Sep, 11.45 am sales to public galleries and lives for underappreciated talent. Or, to put it “the chase and the deal,” and an another way, for an undervalued stock. A Tauranga Sun 2 Sep, 12.00 pm amiable, ancient collector. “Bubbles — Toby Manhire A Tauranga Mon 10 Sep, 6.15 pm

PRESENTED IN RBG Westwood: ASSOCIATION WITH Punk, Icon, Activist

Directors/Producers: Director: Lorna Tucker Betsy West, Julie Cohen UK 2018 | 78 mins USA 2018 | 98 mins Producers: Eleanor Emptage, Photography: Claudia Raschke Shirine Best, Nicole Stott, Editor: Carla Gutierrez John Battsek Music: Miriam Cutler Editor: Paul Carlin Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco Music: Dan Jones 2018 Festivals: Sundance, Sydney 2018 M offensive language & nudity

‘Witch’, ‘Anti-American’, ‘The law and elevating women from second- Dame Vivienne Westwood, Britain’s most Using great archival footage, Tucker Notorious RBG’: US Supreme Court class citizenship. iconic and iconoclastic fashion designer, has managed to craft an engaging rags Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been In contrast to the hard, heartless emerged from the punk movement in to riches to rags to riches story that is called it all. Before she became an image her dissenters would like you to the 1970s but has always drawn deeply as much about the nuts and bolts of internet sensation, Ginsburg was laying believe, Betsy West and Julie Cohen’s from historical sources in her collections. the business of fashion as it is about the foundation for a fairer and more documentary presents a full picture of Those most familiar with Westwood’s Westwood’s own inimitable sense of just America by fighting against gender Ginsburg, introducing us to a pioneering well-documented punk back-story style. — Angela Lassig discrimination and blazing a highway of women’s rights activist, grandmother might be surprised to find the progress one step at a time. Following and fighter. — Kailey Carruthers septuagenarian subject is too bored her graduation from Columbia Law with it to repeat the familiar stories School, the Women’s Liberation to director Lorna Tucker. But Tucker A Hamilton Sun 2 Sep, 12.45 pm movement of the 1970s allowed the has deftly turned potential chaos – a A Hamilton Wed 5 Sep, 6.15 pm reserved yet powerful Ginsburg to B Hamilton Wed 5 Sep, 1.45 pm reluctant interviewee squirming in her B Hamilton Fri 7 Sep, 11.30 am utilise her legal prowess to push the A Hamilton Wed 12 Sep, 6.15 pm chair – into the anchor for her portrait: B P. North Mon 3 Sep, 12.00 pm revolution forward with the ACLU. a compelling insight into what it is A P. North Sun 26 Aug, 1.15 pm A P. North Sun 9 Sep, 12.00 pm Working on sex discrimination B P. North Tue 28 Aug, 2.15 pm to be the aging head of a major, and cases for both men and women, fiercely independent, fashion house that A Tauranga Tue 28 Aug, 6.15 pm her professional life was focused on A Tauranga Sat 25 Aug, 11.45 am continues to grow, perhaps faster than B Tauranga Tue 11 Sep, 11.30 am providing equal protection under the A Tauranga Mon 27 Aug, 6.15 pm she can handle. A Tauranga Sun 16 Sep, 3.15 pm FRAMING REALITY 35

The Song Keepers

In Australia’s Central Desert, west Director/Screenplay: Naina Sen of Alice Springs, a 140-year musical Australia 2017 | 88 mins legacy of ancient Aboriginal languages Producers: Rachel Clements, Naina Sen, Trisha Morton-Thomas and German Baroque chorales is Photography: Chris Phillips, Naina Sen, being preserved by four generations Raoul Amaar Abbas Editors: Bergen O’Brien, Naina Sen of women who form the Central Music: Erkki Veltheim Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir. Festivals: Melbourne 2017 In English, Western Arrernte and Pitjantjatjara, The Lutheran hymns they sing were with English subtitles brought by missionaries who translated them into the local Arrarnta and PROUDLY SPONSORED BY Pitjantjatjara tongues. The rich choral harmonics of these 16th-century hymns feel innately sacred a world away from their origins, and no lover of the repertoire will want to miss this movie. The men in the communities have, for the most part, long defected from the missionary legacy which, several of the women here attest, disrupted traditional culture to protect women and children. Though it’s the arrival of Central Australia, her camera follows of a charismatic male conductor from the women to the small Lutheran “Naina Sen’s joyful, outside that galvanises the choir into churches of Germany, where they sing compassionate film about taking a tour of Germany, filmmaker to amazed German congregations. and installation artist Naina Sen’s film The choir’s joy is palpable (and the an Aboriginal women’s feels like privileged admission into an fun they have on the road is infectious). choir shows the complex, B Hamilton Thu 23 Aug, 1.30 pm A Hamilton Sat 1 Sep, 11.15 am enclave of indigenous women. There's no simple takeaway from unexpected consequences Sen spent three years alongside the this cross-cultural exchange, but its of colonisation.” A P. North Sat 25 Aug, 11.45 am Women’s Choir where, she reports, complexity is underscored by the most B P. North Wed 29 Aug, 2.00 pm “nothing happens without long-term uplifting language of all: human song. — Jack Latimore, The Guardian thought and consensus.” Earthed in B Tauranga Thu 13 Sep, 11.30 am the colourful landscapes and traditions A Tauranga Sun 16 Sep, 1.15 pm

Speak Up À voix haute

Every year there’s a breakout film Director: Stéphane de Freitas at NZIFF that reminds us of the France 2017 | 96 mins importance of being seen and heard, Co-director: Ladj Ly Producers: Harry Tordjman, Anna Tordjman not least those of us who belong to Editors: Jessica Menéndez, Pierre Herbourg minority groups. This year, that film is Photography: Ladj Ly, Timothée Hilst Music: Superpoze Speak Up, an inspiring documentary In French with English subtitles that follows a group of French university students as they prepare for a public speaking competition, and, in doing so, tap into the liberating power of finding one’s own voice. The students come from a variety of academic disciplines and socio- economic backgrounds, clearly standing in for the diversity of modern-day France. Some understandably express a fear of public speaking, but all appear determined to make the most of this experience. With a training programme that © INGRID CHABERT borrows equally from creative writing – free speech, outrage culture and workshops and drama classes, the feminism are all addressed in class and “Without sentimentality, students are put through their paces by on the auditorium floor. Speak Up proves how the coaches in rhetoric, debate, slam poetry Although the contest is the film’s and acting techniques. In between endgame, it’s the journey we take art of speech is key to writing prompts, they tumble through with these hopeful orators that leaves universal understanding, B Hamilton Wed 29 Aug, 2.00 pm A Hamilton Sat 1 Sep, 1.15 pm physical exercises and trust games the lasting impression. Their tales of social ascension, and designed to help them draw strength homelessness, immigration and cancer personal revelation.” B P. North Fri 24 Aug, 1.30 pm from their vulnerabilities. The classroom fuel the speeches they deliver with A P. North Sun 26 Aug, 11.15 am becomes not only their training ground unquestionable passion, but it’s what — New York Film Festival but a forum in which they can debate they do with their past traumas that B Tauranga Fri 31 Aug, 4.15 pm issues that arise from their lessons truly inspires. — Chris Tse A Tauranga Sat 8 Sep, 11.30 am 36

HAMILTON SCHEDULE A 5.00 pm Disobedience (114) 23 A 8.30 pm Juliet, Naked (97) 25 B 3.45 pm First Reformed (114) 26 A 7.30 pm The Insult (113) 14 Friday 14 September A 6.00 pm Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (101) 32 Wednesday 22 August Monday 3 September B 11.30 am Puzzle (104) 28 A 8.00 pm Wings of Desire (128) 7 A 7.45 pm Birds of Passage (125) 4 B 12.00 pm Dog's Best Friend (78) 31 B 1.45 pm Transit (101) 18 Tuesday 28 August Thursday 23 August B 1.45 pm Happy As Lazzaro (125) 6 B 4.00 pm Stray (104) 12 B 11.45 am Lean on Pete (121) 23 B 11.45 am Pick of the Litter (81) 33 B 4.15 pm Climax (96) 17 A 6.15 pm The Miseducation of… (90) 27 B 2.15 pm RBG (98) 34 B 1.30 pm The Song Keepers (88) 35 A 6.15 pm The Ice King (89) 33 A 8.15 pm Dogman (103) 21 B 4.15 pm The Guilty (85) 16 B 3.30 pm Birds of Passage (125) 4 A 8.15 pm Shoplifters (121) 4 Saturday 15 September A 6.00 pm Ága (96) 14 A 6.00 pm Lean on Pete (121) 23 Tuesday 4 September A 11.15 am The Ancient Woods (86) 30 A 8.00 pm Dog's Best Friend (78) 31 A 8.30 pm Mandy (121) 27 B 11.30 am The Ice King (89) 33 A 1.15 pm I Used to Be Normal… (96) 32 Wednesday 29 August Friday 24 August B 1.30 pm Angie (119) 9 A 3.15 pm Burning (148) 6 B 12.15 pm Pick of the Litter (81) 33 B 11.45 am The Heiresses (98) 21 B 4.00 pm First Reformed (114) 26 A 6.15 pm The Heart Dances… (99) 9 B 2.00 pm The Song Keepers (88) 35 B 2.00 pm Ma¯ui’s Hook (92) 10 A 6.15 pm Girl (105) 15 A 8.30 pm The Guilty (85) 16 B 4.00 pm Arctic (97) 19 B 4.00 pm Little Woods (103) 26 A 8.30 pm Beirut (109) 25 Sunday 16 September A 6.00 pm 3 Faces (100) 20 A 6.15 pm Breath (116) 15 Wednesday 5 September B 11.00 am Animation for Kids 8+ (76) 29 A 8.00 pm Woman at War (101) 19 A 8.45 pm Mega Time Squad (79) 10 B 11.30 am Petra (107) 22 A 12.45 pm Yellow is Forbidden (97) 7 Thursday 30 August Saturday 25 August B 1.45 pm RBG (98) 34 A 2.45 pm Woman at War (101) 19 B 12.00 pm Ága (96) 14 A 11.15 am Kusama – Infinity (83) 31 B 3.45 pm Mandy (121) 27 A 5.00 pm Wings of Desire (128) 7 B 2.00 pm Kusama – Infinity (83) 31 A 1.15 pm Lean on Pete (121) 23 A 6.15 pm Westwood: Punk… (78) 34 A 7.45 pm Juliet, Naked (97) 25 B 3.45 pm Breath (116) 15 A 3.45 pm Ma¯ui’s Hook (92) 10 A 8.00 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga… (94) 13 Monday 17 September A 6.00 pm Merata: How Mum… (95) 11 A 5.45 pm Birds of Passage (125) 4 B 11.30 am Celia (102) 8 A 8.00 pm The Guilty (85) 16 A 8.15 pm Climax (96) 17 Thursday 6 September B 11.45 am Leave No Trace (109) 5 B 1.45 pm 3 Faces (100) 20 Friday 31 August Sunday 26 August B 2.00 pm The Price of Every… (99) 34 B 4.00 pm Dogman (103) 21 B 11.30 am Woman at War (101) 19 B 11.00 am Animation for Kids 4+ (65) 29 B 4.00 pm Girl (105) 15 A 6.15 pm Yellow is Forbidden (97) 7 B 1.30 pm Merata: How Mum… (95) 11 A 12.30 pm Pick of the Litter (81) 33 A 8.30 pm The World Is Yours (104) 17 A 2.15 pm The Wild Pear Tree (188) 22 A 6.15 pm Petra (107) 22 B 3.30 pm Wings of Desire (128) 7 Tuesday 18 September A 6.00 pm Little Woods (103) 26 A 8.30 pm Arctic (97) 19 A 6.00 pm I Used to Be Normal… (96) 32 B 11.45 am Cold War (89) 5 A 8.15 pm Mega Time Squad (79) 10 Friday 7 September A 8.00 pm First Reformed (114) 26 B 1.45 pm Gurrumul (100) 31 B 11.30 am Westwood: Punk… (78) 34 Saturday 1 September Monday 27 August B 4.00 pm Woman at War (101) 19 B 1.30 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga… (94) 13 A 11.00 am Pick of the Litter (81) 33 B 11.45 am Shoplifters (121) 4 A 6.15 pm Merata: How Mum… (95) 11 B 3.30 pm Wings of Desire (128) 7 A 12.45 pm Angie (119) 9 B 2.15 pm The Insult (113) 14 A 8.15 pm The Guilty (85) 16 A 6.15 pm Bludgeon (90) 8 A 3.15 pm Burning (148) 6 B 4.30 pm Mega Time Squad (79) 10 Wednesday 19 September A 6.15 pm New Zealand's Best (87) 13 A 8.15 pm First Reformed (114) 26 A 6.15 pm Leave No Trace (109) 5 B 12.00 pm Yellow is Forbidden (97) 7 A 8.15 pm The Cleaners (89) 30 Saturday 8 September A 8.30 pm Beirut (109) 25 B 2.15 pm The Miseducation of… (90) 27 A 11.00 am The Price of Every… (99) 34 Sunday 2 September Tuesday 28 August B 4.15 pm Merata: How Mum… (95) 11 A 1.15 pm 3 Faces (100) 20 A 11.00 am Celia (102) 8 B 11.45 am Kusama – Infinity (83) 31 A 6.15 pm Pick of the Litter (81) 33 A 3.30 pm Happy As Lazzaro (125) 6 A 1.15 pm Kusama – Infinity (83) 31 B 1.45 pm New Zealand's Best (87) 13 A 8.00 pm Cold War (89) 5 B 3.45 pm Disobedience (114) 23 A 6.00 pm Leave No Trace (109) 5 A 3.00 pm Happy As Lazzaro (125) 6 A 6.15 pm Ága (96) 14 A 8.15 pm The World Is Yours (104) 17 A 5.30 pm The Miseducation of… (90) 27 A 8.15 pm Breath (116) 15 Sunday 9 September A 7.30 pm Breath (116) 15 Wednesday 29 August B 11.00 am Animation for Kids 4+ (65) 29 PALMERSTON NORTH Monday 3 September B 11.30 am Lean on Pete (121) 23 A 12.30 pm Celia (102) 8 Thursday 23 August B 12.00 pm Westwood: Punk… (78) 34 B 2.00 pm Speak Up (96) 35 A 2.45 pm Puzzle (104) 28 B 11.15 am Shoplifters (121) 4 B 1.45 pm Celia (102) 8 B 4.00 pm Beirut (109) 25 A 5.00 pm Stray (104) 12 B 1.45 pm Little Woods (103) 26 B 4.00 pm The Miseducation of… (90) 27 A 6.15 pm The Heiresses (98) 21 A 7.45 pm Transit (101) 18 B 4.00 pm Juliet, Naked (97) 25 A 6.00 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga… (94) 13 A 8.30 pm Climax (96) 17 Monday 10 September A 6.00 pm Birds of Passage (125) 4 A 8.00 pm The Insult (113) 14 Thursday 30 August B 12.00 pm Celia (102) 8 A 8.30 pm Arctic (97) 19 Tuesday 4 September B 11.00 am The Wild Pear Tree (188) 22 B 2.15 pm I Used to Be Normal… (96) 32 Friday 24 August B 11.15 am The Heiresses (98) 21 B 2.30 pm The Cleaners (89) 30 B 4.15 pm Arctic (97) 19 B 11.30 am Yellow is Forbidden (97) 7 B 1.15 pm Angie (119) 9 B 4.30 pm The Guilty (85) 16 A 6.15 pm Loveling (98) 16 B 1.30 pm Speak Up (96) 35 B 3.45 pm Beirut (109) 25 A 6.15 pm Paul Callaghan… (103) 11 A 8.30 pm Stray (104) 12 B 3.30 pm Birds of Passage (125) 4 A 6.00 pm Girl (105) 15 A 8.30 pm Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (101) 32 Tuesday 11 September A 6.00 pm Juliet, Naked (97) 25 A 8.15 pm The Cleaners (89) 30 Friday 31 August B 11.15 am The Ancient Woods (86) 30 A 8.00 pm Lean on Pete (121) 23 Wednesday 5 September B 11.45 am Ága (96) 14 B 1.15 pm Burning (148) 6 Saturday 25 August B 11.30 am Leave No Trace (109) 5 B 1.45 pm Paul Callaghan… (103) 11 B 4.15 pm Bludgeon (90) 8 A 11.45 am The Song Keepers (88) 35 B 1.45 pm The Price of Every… (99) 34 B 4.00 pm Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (101) 32 A 6.15 pm Transit (101) 18 A 1.45 pm New Zealand's Best (87) 13 B 3.45 pm The Insult (113) 14 A 6.15 pm Disobedience (114) 23 A 8.30 pm Gurrumul (100) 31 A 3.45 pm The Ice King (89) 33 A 6.00 pm Paul Callaghan… (103) 11 A 8.30 pm Beirut (109) 25 Wednesday 12 September A 5.45 pm Shoplifters (121) 4 A 8.15 pm Transit (101) 18 Saturday 1 September B 11.30 am Loveling (98) 16 A 8.15 pm Climax (96) 17 Thursday 6 September A 11.15 am The Song Keepers (88) 35 B 1.45 pm The Price of Every… (99) 34 Sunday 26 August B 11.30 am Puzzle (104) 28 A 1.15 pm Speak Up (96) 35 B 4.00 pm Juliet, Naked (97) 25 A 11.15 am Speak Up (96) 35 B 1.45 pm Cold War (89) 5 A 3.30 pm Dog's Best Friend (78) 31 A 6.15 pm RBG (98) 34 A 1.15 pm RBG (98) 34 B 3.45 pm Disobedience (114) 23 A 6.00 pm Shoplifters (121) 4 A 8.30 pm Woman at War (101) 19 A 3.15 pm Yellow is Forbidden (97) 7 A 6.00 pm Loveling (98) 16 A 8.30 pm Mandy (121) 27 Thursday 13 September A 5.15 pm Ma¯ui’s Hook (92) 10 A 8.00 pm Bludgeon (90) 8 Sunday 2 September B 11.30 am The Heart Dances… (99) 9 A 7.15 pm Little Woods (103) 26 Friday 7 September B 11.00 am Animation for Kids 8+ (76) 29 B 1.45 pm Petra (107) 22 Monday 27 August B 11.45 am Petra (107) 22 A 12.45 pm Westwood: Punk… (78) 34 B 4.00 pm The World Is Yours (104) 17 B 11.45 am 3 Faces (100) 20 B 2.00 pm The Heart Dances… (99) 9 A 2.30 pm Angie (119) 9 A 6.15 pm Puzzle (104) 28 B 1.45 pm Ma¯ui’s Hook (92) 10 B 4.00 pm Transit (101) 18 37

A 6.00 pm Disobedience (114) 23 Tuesday 28 August A 8.00 pm The Cleaners (89) 30 B 4.15 pm 3 Faces (100) 20 A 8.15 pm Dogman (103) 21 B 11.30 am Leave No Trace (109) 5 Wednesday 5 September A 6.15 pm Paul Callaghan… (103) 11 Saturday 8 September B 4.15 pm Ma¯ui’s Hook (92) 10 B 11.30 am Happy As Lazzaro (125) 6 A 8.30 pm Juliet, Naked (97) 25 A 11.45 am The Price of Every… (99) 34 A 6.15 pm Westwood: Punk… (78) 34 B 4.15 pm The Ice King (89) 33 Thursday 13 September A 1.45 pm Puzzle (104) 28 A 8.00 pm Woman at War (101) 19 A 6.15 pm Loveling (98) 16 B 11.30 am The Song Keepers (88) 35 A 4.00 pm The Heiresses (98) 21 Wednesday 29 August A 8.15 pm Beirut (109) 25 B 4.00 pm Paul Callaghan… (103) 11 A 6.00 pm The Heart Dances… (99) 9 B 11.30 am Shoplifters (121) 4 Thursday 6 September A 6.15 pm Cold War (89) 5 A 8.00 pm The World Is Yours (104) 17 B 4.15 pm Climax (96) 17 B 11.30 am Loveling (98) 16 A 8.15 pm Birds of Passage (125) 4 Sunday 9 September A 6.15 pm Merata: How Mum… (95) 11 B 4.15 pm Woman at War (101) 19 Friday 14 September A 12.00 pm Westwood: Punk… (78) 34 A 8.15 pm The Insult (113) 14 A 6.15 pm Yellow is Forbidden (97) 7 B 11.30 am Cold War (89) 5 A 1.45 pm The Wild Pear Tree (188) 22 Thursday 30 August A 8.15 pm Transit (101) 18 B 4.15 pm The Miseducation of… (90) 27 A 5.15 pm Petra (107) 22 B 11.30 am Petra (107) 22 Friday 7 September A 6.15 pm She Shears (86) 12 A 7.30 pm Cold War (89) 5 B 4.00 pm Dogman (103) 21 B 11.30 am The Heart Dances… (99) 9 A 8.00 pm First Reformed (114) 26 A 6.15 pm Ága (96) 14 B 3.15 pm Burning (148) 6 Saturday 15 September A 8.15 pm Lean on Pete (121) 23 A 6.15 pm Juliet, Naked (97) 25 A 11.30 am Nga¯ Whanaunga… (94) 13 A 1.30 pm 3 Faces (100) 20 TAURANGA Friday 31 August A 8.15 pm The Guilty (85) 16 A 3.30 pm Wings of Desire (128) 7 B 11.30 am Disobedience (114) 23 Saturday 8 September Thursday 23 August A 6.00 pm The Miseducation of… (90) 27 B 4.15 pm Speak Up (96) 35 A 11.30 am Speak Up (96) 35 A 6.15 pm Shoplifters (121) 4 A 8.00 pm Arctic (97) 19 A 6.15 pm Breath (116) 15 A 1.30 pm New Zealand's Best (87) 13 Friday 24 August Sunday 16 September A 8.30 pm Dogman (103) 21 A 3.30 pm The Ice King (89) 33 B 11.30 am Pick of the Litter (81) 33 A 11.00 am Celia (102) 8 Saturday 1 September A 5.30 pm Lean on Pete (121) 23 B 3.45 pm Wings of Desire (128) 7 A 1.15 pm The Song Keepers (88) 35 A 11.15 am Kusama – Infinity (83) 31 A 8.00 pm Birds of Passage (125) 4 A 6.15 pm Disobedience (114) 23 A 3.15 pm Westwood: Punk… (78) 34 A 1.00 pm Angie (119) 9 Sunday 9 September A 8.30 pm Climax (96) 17 A 5.00 pm Burning (148) 6 A 3.30 pm Happy As Lazzaro (125) 6 A 11.00 am Pick of the Litter (81) 33 Saturday 25 August A 8.00 pm Cold War (89) 5 A 6.00 pm Leave No Trace (109) 5 A 12.45 pm Puzzle (104) 28 A 11.45 am RBG (98) 34 A 1.45 pm Yellow is Forbidden (97) 7 A 8.15 pm The World Is Yours (104) 17 A 3.00 pm The Heart Dances… (99) 9 A 3.45 pm Petra (107) 22 Sunday 2 September A 5.00 pm The Heiresses (98) 21 A 6.00 pm Woman at War (101) 19 A 12.00 pm The Price of Every… (99) 34 A 7.00 pm The Insult (113) 14 A 8.15 pm Beirut (109) 25 A 2.00 pm The Wild Pear Tree (188) 22 Monday 10 September Sunday 26 August A 5.30 pm The Guilty (85) 16 B 11.30 am Celia (102) 8 A 11.15 am Ága (96) 14 A 7.15 pm Disobedience (114) 23 B 4.00 pm First Reformed (114) 26 A 1.15 pm Dog's Best Friend (78) 31 Monday 3 September A 6.15 pm The Price of Every… (99) 34 A 3.30 pm Shoplifters (121) 4 B 12.15 pm Angie (119) 9 A 8.15 pm Arctic (97) 19 A 6.00 pm Ma¯ui’s Hook (92) 10 B 2.45 pm The Wild Pear Tree (188) 22 Tuesday 11 September A 8.00 pm Transit (101) 18 A 6.15 pm Pick of the Litter (81) 33 B 11.30 am Westwood: Punk… (78) 34 Monday 27 August A 8.00 pm Breath (116) 15 B 4.30 pm She Shears (86) 12 B 11.30 am Yellow is Forbidden (97) 7 Tuesday 4 September A 6.15 pm Puzzle (104) 28 B 4.15 pm The Cleaners (89) 30 B 11.30 am The Heiresses (98) 21 A 8.30 pm The World Is Yours (104) 17 A 6.15 pm RBG (98) 34 B 4.15 pm Merata: How Mum… (95) 11 Wednesday 12 September A 8.15 pm Dog's Best Friend (78) 31 A 6.15 pm Kusama – Infinity (83) 31 B 11.30 am Puzzle (104) 28

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