NELSON 9–30 AUGUST 2017 NZIFF.CO.NZ

NZIFF0517_Nelson-1_1.indd 1 11/07/17 2:29 PM TICKET PRICES GENERAL INFORMATION ✪ OPENING FILM – My Year with Helen WEBSITE – www.nziff.co.nz Doors open at 7.30 pm. Film starts at 8.00 pm. Register on our website to customise your view of NZIFF, select your favourite films, send films to your friends, and create your own schedule. The site also features an at-a-glance » All tickets $25.00 planner that shows you exactly when each movie is scheduled to start and finish. A CODED SESSIONS Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all weekend sessions. www.facebook.com/nzfilmfestival » Adults $16.50 www.twitter.com/nzff » Film Society/Students* $13.50

» Children (15 and under)/Senior Citizens (65+) $11.50 www.youtube.com/nzintfilmfestival B CODED SESSIONS Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays. www.instagram.com/nziff » Adults/Film Society/Students $13.50 GENERAL ENQUIRIES » Senior Citizens (65+) $11.50 For daily screening times, phone State Cinemas Nelson Festival Information Line » Children (15 and under) $11.50 (03) 548 0808 *CONCESSION DISCOUNTS (Students/Film Society) CENSORSHIP CLASSIFICATION Students and Film Society members are entitled to purchase one ticket per session at the discount rate. Student/ Membership ID is required – please ensure you bring it with you to the venue to present to staff on request; failure to G – Suitable for general audiences do so will result in the full price being charged for attendance. The concession price is not available to those holding PG – Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers Film Society three-film sampler cards. This concession is not available after 5.00 pm on Friday and Saturday evenings. M – Unrestricted. Recommended as more suitable for mature audiences 16 years and over Prices are GST inclusive and in NZD. RP13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian RP16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian R13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over R16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over BUYING TICKETS R18 – Restricted to persons 18 years and over TICKETS ON SALE NOW Classifications will be displayed at the venue’s box office. Children’s tickets are available Advance bookings are available for all NZIFF sessions. Seats are allocated on the basis only for films classified G, PG and M. At the time of printing some films have not been of best available at the time of purchase. Book early to secure the best seats. rated. Until they receive a censor rating, they are considered R18 (unless clearly aimed ONLINE www.statecinemas.co.nz (Suter page, booking fees apply) at children) and can only be purchased by and for people aged 18 and over. For more information please visit the ticketing and venue information page on our website. IN PERSON Please note that ID may be requested for restricted films. Bookings for all NZIFF sessions can be made in advance at State Cinemas box office SPONSORSHIP, BROCHURE AND WEBSITE ADVERTISING or on the day at the Suter Theatre, 208 Bridge Street, Nelson. Contact: Sharon Byrne Ph: (04) 802 2570 PHONE State Cinemas Nelson: (03) 548 3885 NELSON PROGRAMME ADVERTISING METHODS OF PAYMENT Contact: Richard Hadfield Ph: (03) 548 3885 ext 8 State Cinemas Movie Gift Cards/Cash/EFTPOS: Accepted for box office bookings only. Credit card: Accepted for all bookings. Please note that State Cinemas (yellow) Free Vouchers and Hoyts Vouchers are not accepted. KEY TO ICONS TICKET COLLECTION All advance bookings can be collected from the Self Ticketing Kiosk located in the foyer Guest Appearance Cannes Selection 2017 of State Cinemas Nelson. REFUNDS Short Preceding Feature Major Festival Award Please note that NO REFUNDS will be given for uncollected 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. Notes in this brochure are written and compiled by the programmers, Bill Gosden, Michael McDonnell, Ant Timpson, Sandra Reid and Malcolm Turner. Tim Wong, Toby Manhire, Nick Bollinger, Judah Finnigan, Jo Randerson, Andrew Langridge, Chris Tse, Rebecca McMillan, Graeme Tuckett and Nic Marshall also contributed notes. The brochure was VENUE INFORMATION edited, drawing on a wide array of writers we like, by Bill Gosden, who also wrote the unsigned notes, cribbing the occasional perfect adjective from said writers. It was managed by Tim Wong with the assistance of a squadron of ace All titles will be screened at the Suter Theatre, 208 Bridge Street, Nelson. 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.

PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

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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

STATE CINEMAS NELSON

Director: Bill Gosden General Manager: Sharon Byrne Communications Manager: Rebecca McMillan CONTENTS Assistant to General Manager: Lisa Bomash Programmer: Sandra Reid Assistant Programmer: Michael McDonnell 03 06 10 Animation NOW! Programmer: Malcolm Turner Big Nights Aotearoa World All Ages Programmer: Nic Marshall Incredibly Strange Programmer: Anthony Timpson Online Content Coordinator: Kailey Carruthers 24 26 30 Content Manager: Ina Kinski Materials and Content Assistants: Fresh Framing Reality Portrait Ian Freer, Jule Hartung of an Artist Technical Adviser: Ian Freer Publications Coordinator: Tim Wong Administration Coordinator: Estela Sangkop Audience Development Coordinator: Alice Vilardel Communications Assistant (Wellington): Abby Cattermole Guest Coordinator: Pamela Harvey-White Festival Accounts: Alan Collins Festival Interns: Miles Chan (Auckland), Kezia Dwyer (Wellington) Director, State Cinemas (Nelson): WELCOME Mark Christensen General Manager, State Cinemas (Nelson): Nelson’s per capita support of NZIFF is legendary Twané Chéze-Gower and we’re back with a programme we think will Events & Marketing Manager, keep it that way – this year hosted down the road State Cinemas (Nelson): Wendy Belcher from State Cinemas at the elegant Suter Theatre. Publication Design: Ocean Design Group 2degrees Mobile returns as sponsor of a massive Publication Production: Greg Simpson World cinema section for a second year. Resene Cover Design: Ponui Patuaka, Meri Gracia join us for their fourth year as sponsors of another Cover Illustration: Tom Simpson Animated Title: Anthony Hore (designer), stunning bunch of New Zealand films. Flicks.co.nz, Aaron Hilton (animator), Tim Prebble (sound), RadioLIVE and Metro magazine remain proactive Catherine Fitzgerald (producer) media partners. We also welcome NZherald.co.nz as our digital news partner. THE NEW ZEALAND FILM FESTIVAL TRUST Chair: Catherine Fitzgerald Ultimately it’s the support of its audience that keeps our non-profit enterprise Trustees: Louise Baker, Tearepa Kahi, in action, and, it always bears saying, the perseverance of independent Robin Laing, Andrew Langridge, filmmakers who did whatever it took to get these films made. 25% of your Jacquie Kean, Tanya Surrey, Chris Watson Financial Controller: Chris Prowse ticket money goes their way. Ticket sales contributed 88% of our income in 2016. The major sponsorship we receive from the New Zealand Film The New Zealand Film Festival Trust Commission is a gratifying institutional contribution to that support system. Box 9544, Marion Square Wellington 6141, New Zealand Come in out of the rain, says our poster. Though not every great film yielded ph: (64 4) 385 0162 by the last turbulent year was intended to fold you in a warm embrace, there’s [email protected] fun in store at NZIFF and life to be had together at the movies.

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My Year with Helen Opening Night

Gaylene Preston’s My Year with Gaylene Preston* Helen delivers a fascinating portrait of Helen Clark on a mission – and a Director/Producer: Gaylene Preston laconic account of the exasperating New Zealand 2017 | 93 mins Co-producer: Catherine Madigan circumstances wherein she hit the glass Executive producer: Alexander Behse ceiling at the United Nations. Photography: Sam Russell, Colin Sonner, Early in the film the former PM spells Gaylene Preston Editor: Paul Sutorius out her primary professional objective: Music: Jan Preston find herself a job where she can “do With: Helen Clark Festivals: Sydney 2017 a power of good.” Keen to discover what that might look like in 2015, Preston followed Clark to Botswana in her position heading up the UN Development Programme. She didn’t know that in the year that followed Clark would also be campaigning for the position of secretary general. The election of the UN’s top official had once been so secretive that not even the candidates knew they were in the official running. For 2016 the UN singles out a wealth of clued-up announced that the contest would be commentators and shrewdly observes “We do have a way much more transparent. Considering multiple angles to the story. Nothing of women taking charge the organisation’s remits around gender anyone has to say is intended to equality, the time felt ripe for the first convince you that this was a transparent that a lot of other female SG in its 80-year history. process, or even, in fact, a race. nationalities don't.” The media love a horse race, and Clark is dignified and resilient in the — Gaylene Preston politicians, diplomats and feminist face of loss. She can always congratulate organisations were immediately abuzz herself on having had Preston on hand with speculation and opinion. Shuttling to mine her disappointing experience between a forthright Clark and UN and discover in it the fuel for future fire. ✪ SUTER Wednesday 9 Aug, 8.00 pm* briefings which reveal nothing, Preston B SUTER Tuesday 15 Aug, 12.00 pm

The Square Closing Night

We close our 41st edition with a blast, Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner, a sprawling, jaw-dropping satire, centred Director/Screenplay: Ruben Östlund on a Swedish museum curator (Claes Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark 2017 | 147 mins Bang), an exhibit, a stolen phone and Producers: Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober an American journalist (Elisabeth Moss). Photography: Fredrik Wenzel “The Square [is] a sardonic, darkly Editors: Ruben Östlund, Jacob Secher Schulsinger With: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, funny picture about a dashing Terry Notary, Christopher Laessø, Marina museum curator whose dysfunctional Schiptjenko, Elijandro Edouard, Daniel Hallberg, Martin Sööder institution is a microcosm of the Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 larger world. Can art, or the tools Palme d’Or (Best Film), Cannes Film Festival 2017 In English and Swedish, with English subtitles used to promote it, cross the bounds M violence, sexual violence, sex scenes of moral responsibility? What does & offensive language it take to jog the upper classes out PROUDLY SPONSORED BY of their comfortable insularity? The Square is both outlandishly funny and biting – and features a fascinating and sometimes disturbing performance by Terry Notary, the gifted actor and [Hobbit] movement choreographer.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Time organizing principle relating to the “The Square is set in the rarefied chasm between the social faces we “Östlund’s eye for the reaches of Sweden’s art world, but wear and the self-interested creatures subtleties of human from that vantage point takes pot we really are. Snip by snip, in scenarios shots at marketing, the media, the dripping with acidly observed behavior, especially public Swedish culture of militant political discomfort, Östlund clips precisely behavior, never fails.” correctness as well as the pretension, through the barbed-wire barrier — Emily Yoshida, Vulture self-deception, and pseudospeak of the fences of culture, sophistication and cultural elite… socialization that refined middle-class While the targets are many and modern humans erect between our Östlund, admirably, almost always public selves and our private, animal B SUTER Tuesday 29 Aug, 3.15 pm punches up, there is a kind of natures.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist A SUTER Wednesday 30 Aug, 8.00 pm

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Faces Places Visages villages Centrepiece

88-year-old Agnès Varda, working in collaboration with the young photo- muralist JR, reminds us that big themes Directors/Screenplay: Agnès Varda, JR can live in small places – and that every France 2017 | 89 mins Photography: Claire Duguet, Nicolas Guicheteau, life yields something to celebrate. As Valentin Vignet, Romain Le Bonniec, the two travel across France, looking Raphael Minnesota, Roberto De Angelis, Julia Fabry Editors: Agnès Varda, Maxime Pozzi Garcia up old friends and creating artworks Music: M (Matthieu Chedid) from photographs of the people they With: Agnès Varda, JR meet, a friendship blossoms – and Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition) 2017 In French with English subtitles with it a wonderful free flow of ideas Censors rating tbc and observations. “She is nearly 90; he is 34. She PROUDLY SPONSORED BY worked with Jean-Luc Godard; he looks like Jean-Luc Godard (and, much to Varda’s consternation, will similarly not take off his sunglasses). And yet, the movie is barely five minutes old before it’s clear that these two are a screen duo for the ages... Varda has always possessed a warm and compulsively watchable screen nearly 60-year career, this is one of presence, and the pint-sized iconoclast her most profoundly personal and “Serendipities fly as still has more pep in her step than exuberantly populist works. A tour cinema’s greatest most of us have ever had… JR is an de France that is both a romp and a absolute joy (and a mensch, to boot)… meditation on photography, cinema, gleaner goes rambling Teasing at times, quietly deferential and mortality, with brief appearances in the cine-van of at others, he taps into his co-star’s by Mimi, the scene-stealing cat, it is magnum muralist JR.” inherent sense of wonder and creates at once poetry and the naked truth, a canvas big enough for her to fit all shape-shifting before one’s eyes, and — Isabel Stevens, Sight & Sound of the ideas that she’s still dying to promising ever more pleasure with project.” — David Ehrlich, Indiewire each viewing.” — Amy Taubin, Film A SUTER Saturday 19 Aug, 6.00 pm “In her magnificent, groundbreaking, Comment B SUTER Wednesday 23 Aug, 11.15 am

BPM (Beats Per Minute) 120 battements par minute Special Presentation

The personal and the political are as vitally connected as the chicken and the egg in Robin Campillo’s moving and Director/Screenplay/Editor: inspiring Cannes Grand Prix winner. Robin Campillo France 2017 | 144 mins The writer/director draws on his own Producers: Hugues Charbonneau, experience as a member of AIDS activist Marie-Ange Luciani organisation ACT UP in 90s Paris, Photography: Jeanne Lapoirie Music: Arnaud Rebotini embedding an intimately observed love With: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, story within a vivid evocation of the Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud, Ariel Borenstein, Aloïse Sauvage, Simon Bourgade, dynamics of radical protest. Médhi Touré, Simon Guélat, Coralie Russier Hunky Arnaud Valois plays Nathan, Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival 2017 a wary, HIV-negative newcomer to the In French with English subtitles movement who falls for firecracker CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc Sean (incandescent Argentinean actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), HIV-positive and irresistibly impatient with the group’s more pragmatic leadership. Campillo wrote Laurent Cantet’s The Class and this year’s The Workshop (p33). His skill for catching the currents of a CELINE NIESZAWER group discussion is as persuasive as ever. The film’s political and moral weight The issues that once exercised ACT UP should not overshadow the artistry of “A slice-of-life look at a take on clear and present life in 2017 as its design, nor the quiet profundity of time in history that feels the young activists brainstorm, strategise its unreserved and admirable approach dramatic interventions and storm the to gay intimacy. Campillo has given incredibly urgent in institutions that would let them die. his movie the breath of true life. It today’s torn-up world.” “It’s both devastating and heartening grieves and triumphs and haunts with — Nikola Grozdanovic, The Playlist to watch, these horrifyingly young abounding grace and understanding, people bravely confronting vast and its heartbeat thumping with genuine, seemingly unmovable systems… while undeniable resonance.” — Richard attending to their own fears, their own Lawson, Vanity Fair A SUTER Friday 11 Aug, 8.00 pm fragile mortality… B SUTER Monday 14 Aug, 3.15 pm

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Loveless Nelyubov Special Presentation

Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) won the Cannes Jury Prize for his stark and gripping tale of a divorcing couple Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev caught in a missing-child procedural. Russia/France/Belgium/Germany 2017 128 mins “Andrey Zvyagintsev has produced Producers: Alexandre Rodnyansky, another masterpiece in this apocalyptic Serguey Melkumov study of a failed marriage and the Screenplay: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev Photography: Mikhail Krichman subsequent disappearance of a child. Editor: Anna Mass Loveless is a stark, mysterious and Music: Evgeni Galperin With: Maryana Spivak, Alexey Rozin, terrifying story of spiritual catastrophe: Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva, a drama with the ostensible form of a Andris Keishs, Alexey Fateev Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 procedural crime thriller. It has a hypnotic Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2017 intensity and unbearable ambiguity In Russian with English subtitles which is maintained until the very end. 4K DCP | CinemaScope | M sex scenes & offensive language This is a story of modern Russia whose people are at the mercy of implacable forces, a loveless world like a planet without the full means to support human life, a place where the ordinary need for survival has mutated or upgraded into an unending aspirational demand prepared for the crystalline perfection for status, money, freedom to find an of Russian genius Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Loveless is a tragic advantageous second marriage which style… There is no way to do the fairytale we can all brings a nice apartment, sex, luxury and film justice while also selling it as an the social media prerogative of selfies appealing way to spend two devastating believe in.” and self-affirmation. But all of it is hours. But Zvyaginstev’s skill as a — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice underpinned, or overseen, by intensely filmmaker is such that as discomfiting conservative social norms of Christianity, as it is, it’s deeply compelling and conformism and nationalism.” — Peter immersive.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist Bradshaw, The Guardian “After four films, including the A SUTER Sunday 20 Aug, 7.30 pm brilliant Leviathan, we are almost B SUTER Thursday 24 Aug, 1.45 pm

The Other Side of Hope Toivon tuolla puolen Special Presentation

Aki Kaurismäki, Finland’s deadpan laureate of life at the bottom of the heap, responds to Europe’s refugee Director/Producer/Screenplay: crisis with a seriously funny film about Aki Kaurismäki Finland/Germany 2017 | 98 mins a young Syrian mechanic (soulful Photography: Timo Salminen Sherwan Haji) who finds his way into Editor: Samu Heikkilä Finland by stowing away on a container With: Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Ilkka Koivula, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu, ship full of coal. “Show me to the Kaija Pakarinen, Niroz Haji, Simon Hussein police station,” he asks the first person Al-Bazoon Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2017 he meets, intending to take the legal Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival 2017 path to political asylum. “Are you In Finnish, English and Arabic, with English subtitles sure?” comes the reply. M violence The refugee is slowly drawn, by a newly flush (though hopelessly melancholic) entrepreneur, into life under the radar working and living in what is surely Finland’s dodgiest sushi restaurant. “It’s difficult to imagine anyone coming away from Aki Kaurismäki’s MALLA HUKKANEN gorgeous tragicomedy about the Not unlike the salted herring with refugee crisis in Europe, the challenges wasabi that gets served to a busload of “The warmest, most of the restaurant business and the unfortunate Japanese diners, this is a life-enhancing film I’ve rewards of self-reinvention without movie about foreign elements coming feeling gentle elation sparked by the together, whether it’s displaced Middle seen this year.” story’s evidence of human kindness Easterners fleeing atrocity in sleepy — Saskia Baron, The Arts Desk amid cruelty and indifference. This Scandinavia or two men from different is a world that reeks of cigarette worlds forging a mutually enriching smoke and cheap vodka, yet as always friendship that speaks of selfless in the work of Finland’s maestro of compassion without sentimentality.” droll melancholy, the perfume that — David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter B SUTER Monday 21 Aug, 4.00 pm lingers longest is empathy… A SUTER Saturday 26 Aug, 6.15 pm

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Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web AOTEAROA Director: Annie Goldson New Zealand 2017 112 mins Producer: Alexander Behse With: Kim Dotcom, Mona Dotcom, Glenn Greenwald, Lawrence Lessig, Gabriella Coleman, Jimmy Wales, Jonathan Taplin, Greg Sandoval, Sean Gallagher, Mike Masnick, Moby Festivals: SXSW, Hot Docs 2017

Kim Dotcom has become such a entrepreneur. He attracts the attention familiar part of New Zealand’s media of Hollywood bosses bent not just and cultural furniture that it is easy to upon disabling a website awash forget the jaw-dropping astonishment with pirated content, but sending a of the dawn raid on 20 January 2012, resounding message to those who when 76 officers swarmed upon the might seek to emulate his business. German internet mogul’s mansion, In documenting the drama – court bounding from helicopters, armed to tussles, scraps with John Key, the the teeth. Internet Party, the ‘Moment of Truth’ In the definitive filmed account – Goldson resists any temptation to of the saga to date, Annie Goldson extol or excoriate, while underscoring, (Brother Number One) delivers a jolting beyond the political circus and reminder of the legal, political and braggadocio, just how pivotal this case personal upheavals ignited by the US is in the internet age. — Toby Manhire government’s attempt to extradite Dotcom and colleagues for copyright- related offences. It begins with the formative years: convicted hacker turns A SUTER Wednesday 16 Aug, 8.30 pm security consultant turns file-sharing

NEW ZEALAND FILMS AT NZIFF ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Kobi

Directors/Producers/ Photography: Andrea Bosshard, Shane Loader New Zealand 2017 103 mins Editor: Shane Loader Music: Plan 9 With: Kobi Bosshard, Patricia Bosshard-Browne, Trixie Woodill, Peter McKay NZIFF is proud to provide a big screen showcase In English and German, with English subtitles for striking work made within our own shores.

We are honoured in 2017 to host the first New Zealand screenings of Gaylene Preston’s In a modest workshop in a beautiful Super 8 home movies brim with Central Otago landscape, Swiss flowers and sunny days and evince fascinating portrait of Helen Clark, My Year with goldsmith Kobi Bosshard, approaching an idyllic view of a fresh landscape Helen (p2), and Nic Gorman’s Human Traces, 80 and widely regarded as the and a young family in the New World. grandfather of contemporary New Plentiful archival footage reminds us direct from its NZIFF World Premiere much closer Zealand jewellery, continues to produce of the days when TV broadcasters to home, in Christchurch. Documentary filmmakers works of classic simplicity and elegance. covered the arts, while readings from Daughter Andrea Bosshard’s lucid family letters take us into the heart of have brought us a record number of films about and loving film portrait of her father the family. This may be a very personal New Zealanders this year – and our two regular – and of her mother, Patricia, too – is history, but it’s perfectly pitched for an one of the year’s loveliest films, a lyrical audience of strangers: the filmmaker short film programmes shine as bright as ever. evocation of rich, unhurried life. Kobi inscribes her own presence in the moved to New Zealand in the early inspiring story of her parents’ lives with 60s, with goldsmithing in his blood. unusual grace. The ethos of the hippie era may have enabled his choice of profession, but there’s no mistaking the work ethic or quiet single-mindedness underlying his A SUTER Sunday 13 Aug, 3.30 pm subsequent life of creativity. B SUTER Monday 14 Aug, 1.00 pm

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Human Traces

After imbuing horror tropes with Director/Screenplay: Nic Gorman genuine feeling in his award-winning New Zealand 2017 | 87 mins zombie short Here Be Monsters, Kiwi Producer: Nadia Maxwell Photography: John Chrisstoffels writer-director Nic Gorman brings Editor: Richard Shaw a grounded human touch to his Music: Stephen Gallagher With: Sophie Henderson, Mark Mitchinson, feature debut. A knotty psychological Vinnie Bennett, Sara Wiseman, Peter Daubè, thriller set on an isolated subantarctic Milo Cawthorne island, Human Traces deftly pairs taut CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc suspense with slippery character study, refusing to let any of its players fall into simplistic archetypes. The drama takes place 750 kms south of New Zealand, where husband-and- wife scientist team Sarah (Sophie Henderson) and Glenn (Mark Mitchinson) have been posted to monitor the ecosystem of a remote island. When a mysterious stranger (Vinnie Bennett) arrives, paranoia and deception begin to disrupt the order. Splitting his film into three chapters, each told from a Bennett who shines most, lending his different character’s perspective, Gorman mysterious homme fatale a disarming “Human Traces tells a delights in disorienting his audience. naturalism. complex story on a big Each new act is designed to reassemble Beyond expertly deploying spilled the last: no sooner have you sided secrets, climactic confrontations and canvas… [It’s] about with one character than you find your washed-up corpses for dramatic humans and how they are allegiance complicated by the next effect, it’s Gorman’s understanding shaped by forces they can point of view. The tension builds from of the humanity within beneath the a trio of stellar performances, with each genre beats that grounds the film. be entirely oblivious to…” allowed equal time to thicken; national This gripping examination of human — Nic Gorman treasures Henderson and Mitchinson behaviour reminds us that everyone is A SUTER Thursday 24 Aug, 8.00 pm do impressive work, but it’s newcomer only the hero of their own story. — JF B SUTER Tuesday 29 Aug, 1.15 pm

No Ordinary Sheila

If you haven’t already heard of Sheila Director: Hugh Macdonald Natusch, prepare to be inspired. The New Zealand 2017 | 98 mins life story of this nonagenarian natural Producer/Screenplay: Christine Dann Photography: Richard Mekalick, Hugh Macdonald, historian, illustrator and writer is a Graeme Moffatt, Dave McCarlie, Ivars Berzins, beautiful, truly Antipodean journey, Tim Butters, Dave Asher, Ben Gustavson, Mary Khanna, Steve Pearce, Vanessa Carruthers, made with love by her nephew and Kate Le Comte long-time Kiwi filmmaker, Hugh Editor: Abi King-Jones Narrator: Phil Darkins Macdonald (This is New Zealand). With: Sheila Natusch, Kim Hill, Susan Hamel, Born in 1926 on Rakiura (Stewart Dinah Priestley, Shaun Barnett, Ken Scadden, Andy Dennis, Euan Macdonald, Mark Gee, Island) to the Traill family, Sheila’s early Maraea Kiel, Gary Kiel childhood memories include a near- drowning at the hands of schoolmates – this and other life misfortunes she shrugs off casually. Growing up in the deep south led to an adventurous resilience which saw her climb multiple mountains, cycle from Picton to Bluff and write dozens of groundbreaking natural history books, including her magnum opus, Animals of New Zealand. stints at the National Library and Featuring beautiful historic footage Correspondence School. “You just get on with it. of the lower south in the 30s and 40s, Viewers will love this radiant, defiant You can’t go under. There this film offers fascinating glimpses into and unconventional life story which life as one of few female students at ranges from the southern wilds to the are such people, but I Otago University, and covers Sheila’s rugged Wellington coastline, where am not one of them.” friendship with Janet Frame and their Sheila still lived until very recently, — Sheila Natusch subsequent and unsuccessful foray without car, TV, lipstick or alcohol, into teaching. Moving to Wellington planning to “get the last bit of fun out in the 50s saw Sheila and husband of life that there is.” — Jo Randerson Gilbert Natusch take up residence in A SUTER Saturday 19 Aug, 2.00 pm Owhiro Bay, while she had professional B SUTER Monday 21 Aug, 11.45 am

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Seven Rivers Walking – Haere Ma¯rire TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home

Gaylene Barnes Director/Producer: Kathleen Gallagher Robin Greenberg Directors: New Zealand 2017 Gaylene Barnes, 160 mins Kathleen Gallagher Photography: Waka Attewell, New Zealand 2017 Costa Botes, John Chrisstoffels, Ruth Korver, Chris Li, the Tibetan 84 mins Audio Visual Section Photography: Gaylene Barnes, Editor: Peter Metcalf James Ellis, Whare Mihinui, With: Thuten Kesang, Dave Perry, Mark Collins Tenzin Atisha, the Dalai Lama Editor: Gaylene Barnes In English and Tibetan, Yates-Smith, Aroha Yates-Smith, with English subtitles Bob Bickerton, Richard Nunns

FAIRFAX MEDIA NZ / SUNDAY STAR-TIMES Who can deny that the city rivers of Barnes and Kathleen Gallagher have Filmed over a period of 22 years by recounting his own personal history Christchurch and the braided rivers taken their cues from the diverse Wellington filmmaker Robin Greenberg or outlining the environmental and of the Canterbury Plains have been collectives of Cantabrians who have (Huloo, The Free China Junk), TEAM political implications of China’s poisoned and depleted for the sake been walking and rafting the length TIBET provides a thorough and inspiring occupation of its ‘Western Treasure of agri-business? In one of the many of the rivers, from the mountains to account of Tibetan culture in exile House’. A vital point of contact for the personal anecdotes that drive this film, the sea, to educate themselves and through the experience and advocacy international exile community, as the a fisherman recalls how the mighty others, about the damage done and of the delightful Thuten Kesang, Dalai Lama himself is happy to testify, Rakaia once pushed its way a mile out the opportunities available for remedial New Zealand’s first Tibetan refugee. he’s been a tireless advocate too for to sea. Aerial footage shows us the action. Anglers, rafters, trampers, Ngāi Having run away from the monastery multicultural visibility in Auckland. river today as it slinks into the sea, Tahu, Fish and Game, Forest and Bird, as a child, he was sent by his father to Greenberg summons up a multitude obliterated by the first breaker that natural scientists, farming families, school in India in 1954, where he was of admirers, leaving us in no doubt crosses its path. old and new, all bear witness, some raised by Scottish Presbyterians. Unable at all that her film is a labour of love, In the polarised political environment as designated experts, all as sentient to return to Tibet after his parents richly deserved. of 2017, this film is a disarmingly inhabitants of the only planet we’ve were arrested in the wake of the 1959 peaceable one. It places the hope of got. uprising, he’s been a fully committed change in a shared love of Canterbury’s Kiwi since 1967, without ever losing his rivers and riparian environments defining Tibetan identity. and a profound appreciation of A SUTER Monday 21 Aug, 7.45 pm Charismatic and funny, he’s a B SUTER Friday 25 Aug, 11.00 am their ecology. Filmmakers Gaylene marvellous storyteller, whether A SUTER Saturday 26 Aug, 1.15 pm

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MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT New Zealand’s Best 2017 JURY PRIZE 75 mins approx. | R16 violence & offensive language

For this year’s New Zealand’s Best short Do No Harm Thicket Waiting film competition, NZIFF programmers NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Roseanne Liang NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Julian Vares NZ 2016 | Director: Amberley Jo Aumua Bill Gosden and Michael McDonnell Producer: Hamish Mortland | Photography: Andrew Producer: Craig Gainsborough | Photography: Eoin Screenplay: Samuel Kamu | Photography: Greer viewed 83 submissions to make a McGeorge | Editor: Tom Eagles | With: Marsha Yuan, O’Liddigh | Editor: Richard Lord | With: Tim Hamilton, Lindsay | Editor: Huhana Ruri-Panapa Jacob Tomuri | Festivals: Sundance 2017 | 12 mins Peter Tait, Albertine Jonas | 16 mins With: Desmond Malakai, Casta-Troy Cocker-Lemailie shortlist of 12 from which filmmaker 12 mins Gaylene Preston selected these six A doctor abides by her Hippocratic A farmboy is inspired to stand-up to oath even when violent gangsters his overbearing father. In the classic Two boys wait outside a dairy for a finalists. A jury of three will select phone call. An outstanding student the winner of the $5,000 Madman interrupt her surgery. Female power NZ rural tradition marked by excellent rendered extreme by a director performances. film set in a harsh world so rarely Entertainment Jury Prize, while a presented with such charm married $3,000 Wallace Friends of the Civic successfully stretching her muscles in every direction. Untitled Groping with a sharp aesthetic eye for raw Award will be awarded by donors, the truth. Wallace Foundation and Wallace Media Revenge Fairytale Laundry NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Catherine Bisley Ltd, to the film or contributor to a film NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Becs Arahanga Producer: William Bisley | Photography/Editor: Paul The Dregs they deem to merit special recognition. Producers: Julian Arahanga, Kath Akuhuata-Brown Wedel | With: Loren Taylor | 9 mins NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Matt Campbell The winner of the audience vote takes Photography: Chris Mauger Editor: Luke Evans With: Producer: Annabel Carr | Photography: Clayton Aidee Walker, Jarod Rawiri | 11 mins A woman pitches a tent on the edge Carpinter | Editor: Jeremy Masters | With: Eamonn Tee, away the Audience Choice Award, of a forest and starts to collect men. A Shayla Crombie, Florence Noble | 15 mins A frustrated mum struggles to find consisting of 25 percent of the box most satisfying piece of wry feminist intimacy while raising a young family. A teenage misfit starts a band only office from the main-centre NZIFF myth making that makes me want to A real woman’s sexy adventure to lose control to the school bully. screenings. Gaylene’s comments on see a lot more from this director. I cannot believe this director was each film appear in italics. elevating domestic life and putting the poems of Hone Tuwhare in a place not not born in 1975! A tribute to high usually found! school bands, the Gordons and what elevation from dorkhood a guitar can accomplish.

A SUTER Wednesday 23 Aug, 6.15 pm

DO NO HARM LAUNDRY UNTITLED GROPING REVENGE FAIRYTALE

PRESENTED IN Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori Pasifika Shorts 2017 ASSOCIATION WITH 91 mins approx. | M violence & sex scenes | In English, Maˉ ori, New Zealand Sign Language and Tongan, with English subtitles

A collection of Māori and Pasifika Natalie Lady Eva Tree short films curated by Leo Koziol NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Qianna Titore Tonga/USA 2017 | Directors: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Lauren Jackson (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka), Producer: Eloise Veber | 9 mins Producer: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu | 11 mins Producers: Andrew Cochrane, Jeremy Macey | 16 mins Director of the Wairoa Māori Film A Māori girl receives a precious A young trans woman becomes her A young woman with a shameful Festival, with guest co-curator Craig waiata composed by her deceased true self. Being fakaleiti in Tonga is secret hides out from friends and Fasi (Niue), Director of the Pollywood grandfather. In this story from a challenge – but there’s a beauty family in a massive tree. A lonely tree Film Festival. Curators’ comments on Hokianga, tragedy strikes but there is pageant where your star can shine no in a crowded city becomes the symbol each film appear in italics. hope in a new beginning. — CF matter who you are. — LK for a young Tongan woman's personal journey, and a family that loves her no Tama Sunday Fun Day matter what. — LK Mannahatta NZ 2017 | Directors: Jared Flitcroft, Jack O’Donnell NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Dianna Fuemana NZ 2017 | Director/Producer/Screenplay: Renae Maihi Producer: Ashleigh Flynn | Screenplay: Jared Flitcroft, Producer: Jay Ryan | 15 mins Possum 15 mins Jack O’Donnell, David Hansen | 9 mins A teenager and a solo mum prepare to NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Dave Whitehead An ancient spirit tries to send a A deaf Māori boy feels isolated from have their own fun on a Sunday. Tiger Producers: Sadie Wilson, Paul Murphy | 15 mins message to a recent immigrant in the his family but draws strength from knows exactly how the world looks at Two brothers hatch a plan to head into city that never sleeps. Stones are the performing the haka. Having reminders her, but still fights to be accepted by the woods and hunt for a notorious symbol of burden – a burden that of what is important is a necessity. her peers. Acceptance in this case is to possum named Scar. Step back to the needs an open heart to carry and put Forgetting what’s important may cost be left alone without question. — CF 70s in this fantastical Oˉ taki-filmed to rest. — CF you your life. — CF story of two Maˉ ori boys growing up in the wild world of Wairoa. — LK

A SUTER Saturday 12 Aug, 2.00 pm

MANNAHATTA TAMA TREE

NZIFF0517_Nelson-1_1.indd 9 11/07/17 2:29 PM 10 AUSTRALIA, CANADA

That’s Not Me WORLD

Director: Gregory Erdstein Australia 2017 | 86 mins Screenplay: Gregory Erdstein, Alice Foulcher Photography: Shelley Farthing-Dawe Editor: Ariel Shaw Music: Nicholas Pollock With: Alice Foulcher, Isabel Lucas, Richard Davies, Belinda Misevski, Rowan Davie, Andrew Gilbert, Catherine Hill, Lloyd Allison-Young, Janine Watson, Steve Mouzakis Festivals: Sydney 2017 M sex scenes, offensive language & drug use

Melbourne director Gregory Erdstein Let’s just say she does not always and co-writer/star Alice Foulcher have correct those who mistake her for the created a sassy, slyly sympathetic real actress in the family. Polly’s sorry satire of celebrity dreams in this neatly world is amusingly filled out by a wryly proportioned debut feature. Polly funny ensemble, including Isabel Lucas (Foulcher) can’t remember when as a spaced-out compatriot with one she didn’t fantasise about being an toe firmly placed on the Hollywood acclaimed actress, and she’s already ladder; Richard Davies as a self-styled turned down daytime TV to prove it. guru of Melbourne fringe theatre; and So it’s a rude shock when her identical Catherine Hill and Andrew Gilbert twin sister Amy (Foulcher again), as doting stage parents, eager to showing no such qualms, steps from fill scrapbooks with reports of their Aussie soap to HBO kudos and starts daughters’ stellar achievements. dating Jared Leto. Polly’s desperate measures are best WORLD FILMS AT NZIFF ARE left to the film to divulge, but they PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY put her firmly in line with the unruly young women driving such era-defining A SUTER Thursday 10 Aug, 6.15 pm comedies as Bridesmaids and Girls. B SUTER Friday 11 Aug, 4.15 pm

Maudie

Director: Aisling Walsh Canada/Ireland 2016 115 mins Screenplay: Sherry White Photography: Guy Godfree With: Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Kari Matchett, Gabrielle Rose, Zachary Bennett, Billy MacLellan Festivals: Toronto, Vancouver 2016; Berlin, San Francisco, Sydney 2017 People’s Choice Award, Vancouver International Film Festival 2016 PG violence & sex scenes Help yourself to our pick of the features “The life of legendary Canadian folk Undaunted by his curmudgeonly artist Maud Lewis is painted in exquisite nature, she’s inspired by the natural we have encountered in a year of intense detail in this impeccably acted, incredibly splendour surrounding their hovel to engagement with international cinema. affecting biopic. At the beating heart take up a paint brush. Operating with of Aisling Walsh’s film is Sally Hawkins no preconceptions of what ‘art’ should We do what we can to cover many bases, (Happy-Go-Lucky) who not only be, her charmingly unsophisticated, while always insisting on that certain captures the contorted physicality of uniquely one-dimensional paintings this self-taught painter, who contended strike a chord with tastemakers… indefinable quality. We pay attention too, with rheumatoid arthritis, but also Her exuberance proves infectious.” to the films lavished with praise or box exudes the creative spirit raging within — Vancouver International Film Festival her despite her debilitated frame. office success in their countries of origin. The film’s backdrop is undeniably cinematic: the rugged beauty and expansive vistas of 1930s Nova Scotia. Likewise, its primary setting is unspeakably intimate: the comically tiny one-room house that Maud shares with misanthropic fish peddler Everett A SUTER Saturday 12 Aug, 4.00 pm (Ethan Hawke)… B SUTER Thursday 17 Aug, 12.15 pm

NZIFF0517_Nelson-1_1.indd 10 11/07/17 2:29 PM CHILE, FRANCE WORLD 11

A Fantastic Woman Una mujer fantástica

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio follows his marvellous Gloria (2013) with another resoundingly affirmative Director: Sebastián Lelio portrait of a marginalised woman Chile/USA/Germany/Spain 2017 105 mins holding her ground. Santiago bar singer Producers: Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Marina Vidal, played by the sensational Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza trans actress Daniela Vega in her screen Screenplay: Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza Photography: Benjamín Echazarreta debut, is headstrong, vivacious and Editor: Soledad Salfate happily in love. When her lover dies, Music: Matthew Herbert With: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Marina finds herself, a trans woman Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Saavedra, living with an older man, immediately Amparo Noguera, Néstor Cantillana, Alejandro Goic, Antonia Zegers, Sergio Hernandez suspected of foul play. Festivals: Berlin 2017 The labyrinth of transphobia Marina Best Screenplay, Berlin International Film Festival 2017 must navigate is galling to behold, In Spanish with English subtitles because every insidious blow seems so CinemaScope | M violence, offensive language familiar and credible. It’s in the way & sex scenes Marina registers the humiliations without allowing them to bring her down that Lelio’s film constantly surprises and Vega’s performance enthrals. “While it’s politically charged and hypnotic scene where Marina is forced very much of the moment in terms to pass as a man. Vega even does her “It may be a timely film, of its representation of trans-rights own singing, with impressive ability. No but it is its timelessness, issues, what’s perhaps most remarkable less than Paulina García’s astonishing is that not a word of direct advocacy work in Gloria, this is acting at its most as well as its depths is spoken. Any trace of the agenda fearless. The movie represents a huge of compassion, that movie is deftly subsumed in pulsing leap in terms of trans narratives qualify it as a great one.” human drama… onscreen, but by any standard, it’s a The movie’s stunning revelation, powerful drama of a woman whose — Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian however, is Vega…. It’s a transfixing suffering never dims her determination performance, restrained and moving, to keep moving forward.” — David A SUTER Friday 25 Aug, 6.15 pm with a gut-wrenching impact in one Rooney, Hollywood Reporter B SUTER Tuesday 29 Aug, 11.00 am

Frantz Happy End

Director: François Ozon Director/Screenplay: France/Germany 2016 Michael Haneke 114 mins France/Germany/Austria Screenplay: François Ozon, Philippe 2017 | 110 mins Piazzo. Loosely based on the film Photography: Christian Berger Broken Lullaby by Ernst Lubitsch Editor: Monika Willi With: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer With: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Festivals: Venice, Toronto, San Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Sebastián, Vancouver, London, Fantine Harduin, Toby Jones Busan 2016; Sundance 2017 Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) Best Young Actress (Paula Beer), 2017 Venice Film Festival 2016 In French with English subtitles B&W and Colour | CinemaScope Censors rating tbc PG violence

In a small German town, in the shooting on 35mm and largely in Happy End sees Michael Haneke, grim satire that skewers the isolation aftermath of WWI, young Anna black and white, director François Austria’s micro-surgeon of European of modern technology and the moral mourns her fiancé Frantz who died in Ozon couches his elegiac tale in decadence, in black comic mode, failings of polite society with a grave the trenches. One day a French soldier, the formal poise of an earlier era’s applying his scalpel to a rich Calais face. Haneke has assembled a stellar Adrien (Pierre Niney, surely the leading ‘quality’ historical drama. There’s one family, the Laurents, who own a cast to illustrate all this, including a French screen actor of his generation), distinctive difference: as always for construction company and cohabit typically laser-focused Isabelle Huppert arrives and lays flowers at Frantz’s Ozon, the film’s title notwithstanding, uneasily in separate apartments housed as the head of the family company, her grave. In the war-battered community it is the complex journey of the female within a luxurious estate. Amour co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant passions run high at the effrontery of protagonist that most engages him. “A series of unfortunate events – an as the family’s senile, fatalist patriarch, the Frenchman. Among those most Tracing Anna’s return to the world overdose (or was it?), a wall collapse and a striking Fantine Harduin as Ève, affected is Anna, who decides to get of the living, actress Paula Beer is a on a job site, a suicide attempt – sends a young scion of the family who may to know the sad young stranger. As revelation. the family spinning, and Haneke be the most dangerous one of all.” she draws him out about his pre-war mines strange comedy out of the — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair friendship with Frantz in Paris, our Laurents’ relatively emotionless, passive picture of their generation struggling reactions… to recover after the betrayals of war Happy End is as amusingly deepens and takes unexpected turns. inscrutable and coy about its themes Expanding on the plot of a little B SUTER Friday 11 Aug, 11.45 am as his masterful 2005 creeper Caché A SUTER Monday 14 Aug, 8.15 pm remembered Lubitsch film from 1932, A SUTER Wednesday 16 Aug, 6.15 pm was. But Happy End is a wryer work, a B SUTER Tuesday 15 Aug, 4.00 pm

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BEETHOVEN: Let the Sunshine In A Woman’s Life THE PIANO & Un beau soleil interieur Une vie VIOLIN SONATAS Director: Claire Denis Director: Stéphane Brizé France 2017 | 94 mins France/Belgium 2016 Screenplay: Claire Denis, 119 mins Christine Angot Screenplay: Stéphane Brizé, Photography: Agnès Godard Florence Vignon. Based on the Music: Stuart A. Staples novel by Guy de Maupassant With: Juliette Binoche, Xavier With: Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Beauvois, Philippe Katerine, Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Alex Descas, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Swann Arlaud, Nina Meurisse Gérard Depardieu Festivals: Venice, Toronto 2016 Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Critics’ Prize, Venice Film Festival Fortnight) 2017 2016 In French with English subtitles In French with English subtitles Censors rating tbc M violence & sex scenes MICHAÂL CROTTO A radiant Juliette Binoche absorbs our who, one way or another, come on Director Stéphane Brizé (Mademoiselle fictional heroines – Emma Bovary, Jane attention through every moment of to her. Chambon, The Measure of a Man) Eyre, Anna Karenina – is evident. She this unexpected foray into romantic There’s wry comedy in Isabelle’s applies his keen eye for social suffers, but she also reads, thinks and dramedy by the great French director impatience to cut to the unspoken observation to costume drama with desires, and strives to find a zone of Claire Denis. This is comedy in a specific intent in their blandishments, though this striking adaptation of Guy de freedom within boundaries dictated by literary mode, written by Denis in the delight of consummation – so Maupassant’s first published novel. fate and society… collaboration with the novelist and empathetically evoked by Denis, one A young aristocrat named Jeanne A Woman’s Life… moves calmly playwright Christine Angot. A leading of the cinema’s great sensualists – is (Judith Chemla) raised and educated and deliberately, but it never feels light of the ‘autofiction’ movement, likely to be followed by bemusement by kind, progressive parents seems slow. Instead, its images and scenes Angot is famous for the frankness or dismay until she rallies for the next poised on the brink of modern are suffused by an intensity that seems with which she has placed her own suitor. womanhood, but finds herself almost to be a quality of the light and emotional life on the printed page. “A series of richly human encounters ill-prepared for a feckless husband air as they play across Ms Chemla’s Binoche plays the Angot surrogate, that flow, meander and pulse with life.” and a pious, hypocritical society. watchful, sometimes inscrutable Isabelle, a Parisian artist, recently — Justin Chang, LA Times “The pathos and wonder of features.” — A.O. Scott, NY Times divorced from the father of her A Woman’s Life comes from its ten-year-old daughter. Alone and recognition that Jeanne is at once a unleashed, she remains undaunted in captive of cruel circumstances and her yearning to connect sexually and A SUTER Tuesday 29 Aug, 6.15 pm a wilful, intelligent human being. A SUTER Sunday 27 Aug, 3.00 pm romantically with a succession of men B SUTER Wednesday 30 Aug, 11.45 am Her kinship with other 19th-century B SUTER Monday 28 Aug, 1.30 pm

Chamber Music New Zealand presents PRESENTED IN A Date for Mad Mary ASSOCIATION WITH

Director: Darren Thornton Ireland 2016 | 82 mins Screenplay: Darren Thornton, Colin Thornton. Based on the play 10 Dates with Mad Mary by Yasmine Akram With: Seána Kerslake, Tara Lee, Charleigh Bailey, Denise McCormack, Siobhán Shanahan Festivals: Galway, Karlovy Vary, London 2016; San Francisco 2017 Best Irish Feature Film, Galway Film Fleadh 2016 M offensive language

Seána Kerslake is completely winning both hilarious and touching. Will it as the larrikin Mary out to prove she’s dawn on Mary, as it dawns on us, that not a loser in this funny, soulful Irish hiding in plain sight there’s a member romcom. While Mary’s been doing time of the wedding offering much more for a spontaneous gesture she’d rather than a chance to get back at the bride? “Every sound forget, her best girlfriend Charlene If the origins in a stage play by [Bella] draws has disappeared, heart and soul, into Yasmine Akram show in the adaptation wedding planning land. Mary gets by writer/director brothers Darren and is superb” out of jail in time for the big day, Colin Thornton, it’s simply because - The Strad bridesmaid’s speech at the ready. But the dialogue, quick and salty, is such oops, Charlene is wavering on having a driving force. The Drogheda settings her wild and crazy old mate at the top hum with life and devilry. table and has cut her back to a single BEETHOVEN: invite. All Mary’s hurt and indignation THE PIANO & VIOLIN SONATAS are channelled into a single mission: showing up with a plus-one. Wednesday 6 September, 7.30pm As she assesses partner options, OLD ST JOHN’S CHURCH • NELSON Core Funder Kerslake makes Mary’s mix of bluntness, B SUTER Wednesday 16 Aug, 4.30 pm A SUTER Friday 18 Aug, 6.15 pm chambermusic.co.nz/michaelandbella sarcasm and minimal self-awareness

NZIFF0517_Nelson-1_1.indd 12 11/07/17 2:29 PM FRANCE, IRELAND WORLD 13

The Midwife Sage femme

Two of France’s most distinguished Director/Screenplay: Martin Provost stars, Catherine Deneuve and Catherine France/Belgium 2017 | 117 mins Frot share the screen in this touching Producer: Olivier Delbosc Photography: Yves Cape tale of the unlikely connection of Editor: Albertine Lastera opposites. Claire (Frot) is a dedicated Music: Grégoire Hetzel With: Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve, Olivier and tireless midwife whose sense of Gourmet, Quentin Dolmaire, Mylène Demongeot pride and responsibility clash with the Festivals: Berlin 2017 In French with English subtitles depersonalised efficiency of modern CinemaScope | PG coarse language hospitals. She’s raised her son solo and is well pleased that he’s made PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH it to medical school. One day she receives a strange phone call, a voice from the past. Béatrice (Deneuve), the extravagant and frivolous mistress of her late father, has pressing news and wants to see her again, over a drink, 30 years after having disappeared without a trace. Claire, habitually conscientious and sober, bridles at the prospect of having this foolish woman back MICHAÂL CROTTO in her life, but prepares to meet her again proves that French filmmakers regardless. know how to treat actresses of a “A bittersweet delight Writer/director Martin Provost certain age… As the reigning grande written to order for (Séraphine) has gifted two expert dame of French cinema, Deneuve actresses with marvellously individual could easily rest on her laurels, only two consummate roles for an entertaining and emotional taking roles that befit and reinforce her performers who inhabit pas de deux. As old resentments are stature. Which makes her vulnerable their diametrically faced down, they tacitly acknowledge turn here all the more special. Playing common fears, begin to enjoy each a heart-on-her-sleeve, still-crazy-after- opposed characters other’s shortcomings and build anew all-these-years free spirit, Deneuve with satisfying élan.” on their shared past. delivers her best performance in recent B SUTER Thursday 10 Aug, 11.15 am — Lisa Nesselson, Screendaily “Martin Provost’s The Midwife once memory.” — Ben Croll, Indiewire A SUTER Sunday 20 Aug, 3.15 pm

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

This new movie by the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) is a meticulously wrought Director: Yorgos Lanthimos chiller, visiting the retribution of Ireland/UK 2017 | 125 mins Producers: Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos classical tragedy on a fatally flawed Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou surgeon, played by Colin Farrell. Photography: Thimios Bakatakis “The rich vein of unsettling darkness Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis With: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, and psychological unease that ripples Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, like a treacherous underground stream Bill Camp Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 beneath the absurdist humour of Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2017 Yorgos Lanthimos' work becomes a Censors rating tbc brooding requiem of domestic horror in his masterfully realized fifth feature, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Reaching back to classical Greek tragedy for inspiration, this hypnotic tale of guilt and retribution provides an even more riveting role for Colin Farrell after his collaboration on the director's English-language debut, The Lobster. He's flanked by a never- better Nicole Kidman and a performance who cares about bold filmmaking… of chilling effectiveness from emerging This is a movie that closes its grip “When absurdism feels Irish talent Barry Keoghan in a thriller on our fears by infinitesimal degrees, this wrong, you know it’s that frequently invites comparison to demonstrating that bone-deep, tightly vintage Polanski… clamped anxiety can be scarier than being done right.” The new film's grim scenario of screaming terror.” — David Rooney, — Robbie Colin, The Telegraph a family under dire threat will make Hollywood Reporter it hard for some to watch. But the “A film of clean hands, cold impressive rigor of its craft, the skilfully heart, and near-Satanic horror, it was subdued intensity of the acting and garlanded with boos at its Cannes press the startling originality of the story will screening and it is absolutely fucking A SUTER Thursday 17 Aug, 8.45 pm make the film unmissable for anyone brilliant.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist B SUTER Friday 18 Aug, 3.30 pm

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NZIFF0517_Nelson-1_1.indd 14 11/07/17 2:29 PM ITALY, SINGAPORE, SLOVAKIA WORLD 15

Call Me by Your Name

Luca Guadagnino, the Italian writer- Director: Luca Guadagnino director of I Am Love and A Bigger Italy/France 2017 | 132 mins Splash, winds back the flamboyance Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, to powerful effect in this languorous, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman sun-filled and wonderfully empathetic Screenplay: James Ivory, Luca Guadagnino, Walter Fasano. Based on the novel by André Aciman tale of first love. Timothée Chalamet Photography: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom is riveting as Elio, a smart, musically Editor: Walter Fasano Music: Sufjan Stevens gifted 17-year-old hanging out for With: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, the summer of 1983 with his parents Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois at their villa in northern Italy. Elio is Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2017 obliged to move out of his bedroom In English, Italian and French, with English subtitles to make way for his father’s American RP13 sex scenes research assistant, 20-something Oliver (Armie Hammer). Brash and handsome, Oliver immediately sets local hearts aflutter and irritates the hell out of Elio. But the two increasingly find themselves together. A dance of attraction and retreat begins and gradually consumes them both. “Luca Guadagnino likes to show off Elio’s great leap into emotional risk his homeland as a place of sensual self- “A swirling wonder, a film touches everyone in his idyllic world: discovery… But he’s never mounted the about coming of age, the depth of understanding granted to total swirl of sultry weather, budding him in this film feels like a gift to every libidos and teenage confusion that about the secrets of youth, one of us. marks his new drama, Call Me by Your the magic of summer, the The film’s stock of sensual pleasures Name, a triumphant, heartbreaking beauty of Italy.” extends to its exquisite use of music, tale of coming out based on André including the Psychedelic Furs, Elio’s Aciman’s acclaimed 2007 novel… Sweet — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair amusingly bad-tempered renditions of and salty, his movie burns like a suntan.” Bach and three perfectly attuned songs — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY A SUTER Saturday 19 Aug, 8.00 pm by Sufjan Stevens. B SUTER Wednesday 23 Aug, 1.15 pm

Pop Aye The Teacher U cˇ i t e l k a

Director: Jan Hrˇebejk Slovakia/Czech Republic Director/Screenplay: 2016 | 102 mins Kirsten Tan Screenplay: Petr Jarchovský Singapore/Thailand Photography: Martin Žiaran With: Zuzana Mauréry, Csongor 2017 102 mins Kassai, Peter Bebjak, Martin Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam Havelka, Ondřej Malý, Éva Bandor, 2017 Zuzana Konečná, Richard Labuda, Screenwriting Award (World Oliver Oswald, Tamara Fischer, Cinema Dramatic), Sundance Film Ina Gogálová, Monika Čertezni Festival 2017 Festivals: Karlovy Vary, Busan 2016 In Thai with English subtitles In Slovak with English subtitles CinemaScope | M sex scenes, M offensive language & nudity sexual references & offensive language

An architect, feeling past his use-by uprooted characters, from a wild- A communist-era schoolroom is a suggested. What can the parents of the date, and his long-lost elephant take haired vagabond who seems to foretell microcosm of outrageous political successful students say in response to a road trip across Thailand to find the future to a ladyboy with karaoke favouritism in this highly enjoyable such slanders? Their faked rectitude is their childhood home in this rueful, aspirations. return to form from Czech director astutely caricatured in a nimbly scripted, funny Sundance award winner. Once In her debut feature writer/director Jan Hřebejk (Divided We Fall). The increasingly tense battle of wits. a cutting edge architect in Bangkok, Kirsten Tan takes full advantage of the setting is Bratislava in 1983, drolly While the accusers fret and stew, Thana is facing the imminent beautiful scenery, characterful actors evoked in an array of wacky wallpapers their hapless children suffer the demolition of the mall that was once and a charismatic elephant to tell a and goofy sweaters, where a parent– consequences, and we root against his crowning glory. His wife’s flagrant story about our drift from fundamental teacher meeting is hearing the case the odds for the bully’s comeuppance. lack of concern is doing nothing to human needs and values. Her tale of against the eponymous Comrade In the title role Zuzana Mauréry is a quiet his fear of obsolescence. man and pachyderm is unsentimental, Drazděchová. Under her watch some sneaky, deplorable wonder, a richly Wandering the streets of the city gently comic and thoughtful. of the brightest pupils have been realised screen villain surpassed in 2017 he is amazed to come across a fellow receiving the poorest grades. only by her real-world equivalents. throwback, Pop Aye, the elephant he Their aggrieved parents claim that grew up with in his rural village. On a she aids and abets other pupils in direct whim he buys Pop Aye and sets off on proportion to the goods and services a road trip, walking and hitching back she receives from their parents: a free to where they came from. On the way A SUTER Sunday 27 Aug, 5.30 pm haircut here, free electrical repairs there. A SUTER Tuesday 29 Aug, 8.15 pm they befriend a succession of equally B SUTER Wednesday 30 Aug, 1.45 pm Even more intimate favours have been B SUTER Wednesday 30 Aug, 4.00 pm

NZIFF0517_Nelson-1_1.indd 15 11/07/17 2:29 PM 16 WORLD UK

Ethel & Ernest A Monster Calls

Director: Roger Mainwood UK 2016 | 94 mins Director: J.A. Bayona Screenplay: Roger Mainwood. UK/Spain/USA 2016 Based on the graphic novel by 109 mins Raymond Briggs Editor: Richard Overall Screenplay: Patrick Ness. Animation director: Peter Dodd Based on his novel Music: Carl Davis, Paul McCartney Photography: Óscar Faura Voices: Jim Broadbent, With: Lewis MacDougall, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Festivals: London 2016 Liam Neeson, Toby Kebbell PG violence Festivals: Toronto, London 2016 Best Director, Cinematography & Editing, Goya Awards 2017 CinemaScope | PG violence & scary scenes

This funny and poignant animated household in Wimbledon might be Twelve-year-old English boy Conor ravishing painterly animation for the feature perfectly captures the tone and considered working class. O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall) is a monster’s enthralling tales, to impart visual style of Raymond Briggs’ tender The voice work of Jim Broadbent lonely kid. His father lives in California; tough and fortifying wisdom about life, graphic novel about his ‘very ordinary’ and Brenda Blethyn is a treat, with his loving mother (Felicity Jones) is and about stories too. parents, from their first trip to the Luke Treadaway as the grown-up terminally ill, and his grandmother “Mixing horror movie imagery with pictures in 1928 (Hangman’s House Raymond who came of age in the 60s (Sigourney Weaver) makes a chilly honest, heart-wrenching human truths, with Victor McLagen!) to their deaths, and headed to art school – much to his substitute. His sole companion appears Bayona has created a dark, coming- just months apart, in 1971. mother’s dismay. A soundtrack marking nightly in the intimidating form of a of-age masterpiece… Entertaining, There’s a canny social and political out the years in popular music also gigantic tree creature (voiced by Liam tonally impeccable, and heartbreaking, history of Britain traced through their features original contributions from Neeson) who tells him fantastic tales this is a monster movie with a very experiences and amusingly expressed Carl Davis and Paul McCartney. of apothecaries and kings, handsome human heart.” — Marten Carlson, through decades of gentle crossfire princes and wicked stepmothers. The Consequence of Sound between Labour Dad and Tory Mum. monster challenges Conor to discover A lifelong milkman with few complaints, the truth in the stories that might give Ernest keeps a close eye on world him the strength to make the best of events, while Ethel, a former lady’s his sorry lot. maid, would rather sleep than watch J.A. Bayona’s adaptation of Patrick the moon landing on TV and bristles A SUTER Sunday 13 Aug, 1.30 pm Ness’ young adult novel draws on a A SUTER Tuesday 15 Aug, 6.15 pm B SUTER Friday 18 Aug, 1.30 pm B SUTER Monday 21 Aug, 1.45 pm at any suggestion that their little spectacular arsenal of CGI, shifting into

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Summer 1993 Estiu 1993

As enthralling a child’s-eye view as has graced the screen in many a year, Summer 1993 draws us into the new Director/Screenplay: Carla Simón world of six-year-old Frida, transplanted Spain 2017 | 97 mins Producer: Valérie Delpierre from Barcelona to live with her aunt, Photography: Santiago Racaj uncle and three-year-old cousin Anna Editors: Didac Palou, Ana Pfaff in the country. It’s summer and living Music: Ernest Pipo, Pau Boïgues With: Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí, around this bohemian couple is certainly David Verdaguer, Fermi Reixach easy, but adjustment for the little girl is Festivals: Berlin 2017 Best First Feature, Berlin International Film Festival not easy at all. While Anna fastens like 2017 glue onto her brand new older sister, In Catalan with English subtitles PG adult themes Frida’s not so sure she actually needs a sister, let alone a new pair of parents. It’s not long before we deduce that the real parents have died and Frida’s change of scene will be permanent. Catalan director Carla Simón’s feature debut is autobiographical. Her memory of childish schemes and dreams is acute and bracingly free of sentimentality. The performances Though programmed in the festival’s she’s drawn from the two children Young Adult section, Summer 1993 Carla Simón’s are miraculously unaffected, so when took the prize for Best First Feature at autobiographical jewel Frida leads her trusting little charge this year’s Berlinale. It’s a beautiful film. up the garden path you may want “A summer of troubled and troubling is one of the most to leap into the movie and sort experience is reshaped into a delicately evocative and affecting things out. What’s just as piercing is crafted, moving filmic memoir by Carla depictions of childhood the filmmaker’s appreciation of the Simón… That the film draws deeply kindness, imagination and patience on personal recollection can be sensed seen in years. required of her aunt and uncle to in virtually every frame.” — Jonathan convince a defiant little orphan that Holland, Hollywood Reporter B SUTER Wednesday 16 Aug, 12.00 pm she was important and loved. A SUTER Saturday 26 Aug, 4.15 pm

The Party Kiki, Love to Love Kiki, el amor se hace

Director/Screenplay: Director: Paco Léon Sally Potter Spain 2016 | 102 mins UK 2017 | 71 mins Producers: Ghislain Barrois, Producers: Christopher Sheppard, Álvaro Augustin, Andrés Martín Kurban Kassam Screenplay: Paco Léon, Photography: Alexey Rodionov Fernando Pérez With: Kristin Scott Thomas, Photography: Kiko de la Rica Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, Editor: Alberto de Toro Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, With: Paco Léon, Ana Katz, Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy Belén Cuesta, Álex García, Festivals: Berlin 2017 Natalia de Molina, Candela Peña, B&W | M violence, offensive Luis Callejo, Luis Bermejo language & drug use In Spanish with English subtitles CinemaScope | R18 sexual violence, sex scenes & offensive language

The dinner-party-from-hell genre Mortimer and Cherry Jones) intent on Born under the sign of Almódovar, Paco you to learn that in this film’s sunny is delivered a short sharp shock by sharing some good news. Silly them. León’s homeland hit finds comedy and view of gratification, nobody ends up veteran British writer-director Sally “One shouldn’t pull a muscle… in a little pathos in the mismatched sexual feeling used. Potter in this gleaming black comedy. reaching for the subtext of Potter’s kinks of a group of interconnected A remake of The Little Death, it Kristin Scott Thomas is hosting a witty shaggy-dog story: Its giddy in- Spaniards. Paco (director León) and could hardly differ more in spirit, group of friends to celebrate her the-moment pleasures are enough… Ana, for example, work on reigniting transposing the action to a sweltering promotion as shadow Minister of Months after the US election campaign their passion by visiting bondage Madrid and celebrating difference, its Health, elegantly juggling dinner turned an intended jibe into a rallying parties and furry nightclubs – and message never more sweetly displayed preparation, congratulatory calls and cry, Sally Potter’s latest further proves find themselves igniting unexpected than when a hearing-impaired call surreptitious messaging from a lover. that there’s pleasure, pride or both to passions in others. Natalia, meanwhile, centre worker (fetish: silk) helps a Husband Timothy Spall plays aggressive be taken in being a nasty woman.” — discovers after getting mugged that she voiceless customer indulge his fantasies DJ, otherwise upright but catatonic in Guy Lodge, Variety has a case of harpaxophilia, helpfully through a phone sex line. the living room as the guests arrive. explained on-screen as “sexual arousal These include her best friend (Patricia being produced by being robbed with Clarkson, wryly acidic), her life-coach violence,” while José learns he has boyfriend (Bruno Ganz, wondrously somnophilia, sexual pleasure caused by inane), a coked-up venture capitalist watching someone sleep. If you caught (Cillian Murphy) who arrives sans wife, A SUTER Friday 11 Aug, 6.15 pm a whiff of the non-consensual in any B SUTER Tuesday 22 Aug, 4.00 pm and an earnest lesbian couple (Emily B SUTER Monday 14 Aug, 11.15 am of this, it may or may not encourage A SUTER Wednesday 23 Aug, 8.00 pm

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20th Century Women

A loving, funny and insightful memoir Director/Screenplay: Mike Mills of the mother who brought him up USA 2016 | 119 mins – and two younger women she might Producers: Megan Ellison, Anne Carey, Youree Henley have enlisted to assist – Mike Mills’ Photography: Sean Porter 20th Century Women swirls happily Editor: Leslie Jones Music: Roger Neill around a richly shaded performance With: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, from Annette Bening. Set in sunny, Billy Crudup, Lucas Jade Zumann, Alia Shawkat Festivals: New York 2016; Rotterdam 2017 late-70s southern California on the Nominated, Best Screenplay, Academy Awards 2017 brink of the Reagan era, the film is CinemaScope | M offensive language, nudity, drug brimful with the music, artefacts and use & sexual references

attitudes of its day, a lively time capsule PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH inviting constant comparison with where we have landed now. Lucas Jade Zumann plays 15-year-old Jamie and it’s through his eyes that we see the bohemian household over which his mother, Dorothea, holds uncertain dominion. There are two boarders, Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a purple-haired punk photographer, and William (Billy Crudup), a hippie handyman – and “A captivating Annette Bening is pushover for any woman who fancies the beating heart of this gloriously “A funny, emotionally him. Dorothea is unaware of a third unclassifiable movie… Part comedy piercing story about house guest, Julia (Elle Fanning), the girl of manners, part mother–son love next door whose propensity for chaste story, it had me laughing and tearing a teenager and the sleepovers is driving Jamie insane. up simultaneously… Although Bening women who raise him.” The plot is wafer-thin, but the joy of reigns supreme, Mills zigzags through — Manohla Dargis, NY Times 20th Century Women is in how these time and his characters’ lives with a beautifully realised individuals bounce messy amplitude that is downright off each other and bring the joys, Renoiresque. Everyone has his reasons. frustrations and fashions of 40 years Everyone has her say.” — Molly A SUTER Sunday 13 Aug, 5.45 pm A SUTER Thursday 17 Aug, 6.15 pm ago wafting into the present. Haskell, Sight & Sound

The Beguiled

Sofia Coppola was crowned Best Director at Cannes this year for arguably her best film to date: a crisp, Director: Sofia Coppola unsettling, absolutely essential remake USA 2017 | 94 mins Producers: Youree Henley, Sofia Coppola of Don Siegel’s 1971 oddity starring Screenplay: Sofia Coppola. Based on the novel Clint Eastwood. Everything about this by Thomas Cullinan and the screenplay by Albert Maltz, Grimes Grice new interpretation beguiles, from its Photography: Philippe Le Sourd exciting cast of fresh and familiar faces, Editor: Sarah Flack to its unexpected jabs of humour, to Music: Phoenix With: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, its almost shocking sense of brevity – Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice, though above all else, it is Coppola’s Addison Riecke, Emma Howard, Wayne Pére, Matt Story, Joel Albin gaze that enthrals, placing female Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 desire and self-preservation at the film’s Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2017 M violence, sex scenes & content that may disturb tipping point. — Tim Wong “In Sofia Coppola’s elegantly spare, psychosexual Civil War drama The Beguiled, a wounded Union soldier, Colonel John McBurney (Colin Farrell), is discovered in the surrounding woods of a Virginia all-girls seminary school, circa 1864… The girls and women of them all… Coppola deepens the the property, overseen by headmaster material’s implicit wellsprings of “Coppola’s new take Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman) loneliness and longing, mitigating the burnishes a vision of slowly begin to vie for the attention sexism by diverting the point of view of this enemy from the other side, away from McBurney to the women hard-won female conveniently laid up with a bum leg just he’s attempting to manipulate… autonomy… [and] brings down the hall from their bedrooms… It’s a magnificently shot movie, a dreaminess… and a The Eastwood version was a kinky and often a very funny one, as tense joke of a psychodrama: a retrograde dinners with the stranger from minimalism where before curiosity about a gaggle of repressed, the North transform into duels of nightmares had reigned.” sheltered Confederate belles being innuendo.” — A.A. Dowd, AV Club A SUTER Saturday 12 Aug, 6.15 pm — Isabel Stevens, Sight & Sound seduced by the manliest Yankee of A SUTER Tuesday 15 Aug, 8.30 pm

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Good Time

“This eyes-open-to-the-world NYC crime thriller from filmmaking brothers Benny and Josh Safdie is cocky, grubby Directors: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie and electric. It features Robert Pattinson USA 2017 | 100 mins Producers: Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear-McClard on top form as Connie, a quick-thinking Screenplay: Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein chancer who we first meet extracting Photography: Sean Price Williams his mentally challenged brother Nick Editors: Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein Music: Oneohtrix Point Never (Benny Safdie) from a therapy session With: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, so they can spend the morning Jennifer Jason Leigh, Buddy Duress, Barkhad Abdi, Taliah Webster robbing a bank. Connie is violent and Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 dangerous, but he’s also quick-witted CinemaScope | R16 violence, offensive language, drug use & sex scenes and charismatic, so he’s teasingly fun and rewarding company – for us at PROUDLY SPONSORED BY least; not for those he meets… Once the Brooklyn bank job goes south the film stays on the move, running, punching, tumbling, stumbling over 24 hours as the fallout drags us through streets, vehicles, homes, jail, a hospital, a theme park and more. Racing through the gutter of the city, he’s quick and coarse yet he also lends it’s all shot in a scuzzy, real-world style, the character a glint in the eye and a “A riveting race-against- , although the photography by Sean spark in the brain – he’s always more time thriller with Price Williams also runs with a theme than just bad. The Safdies are show-off of neon and scarlet - and bathing some filmmakers, for sure – this is a directing a pounding heart.” scenes in brothel-red isn't the only tour de force. But what makes the — David Rooney, Hollywood thing here that nods to early Martin film more than just a hugely enjoyable Reporter Scorsese… It also boasts a terrific, thriller is that it so clearly has its eyes throbbing electronic score by Daniel on the world around it.” — Dave Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never. Calhoun, Time Out Pattinson is great in this, surely his A SUTER Friday 25 Aug, 8.30 pm best post-Twilight performance to date: B SUTER Monday 28 Aug, 4.00 pm

Brigsby Bear A Ghost Story

Director/Screenplay/ Editor: David Lowery Director: Dave McCary USA 2017 | 87 mins USA 2017 | 98 mins Photography: Screenplay: Kevin Costello, Andrew Droz Palermo Kyle Mooney Music: Daniel Hart With: Kyle Mooney, Greg Kinnear, With: Casey Affleck, Rooney Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins, Mara, Will Oldham, McColm Mark Hamill, Ryan Simpkins, Cephas Jr., Kenneisha Thompson, Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Claire Danes, Grover Coulson, Liz Franke, Jane Adams, Kate Lyn Sheil, Barlow Jacobs Alexa Demie, Andy Samberg Festivals: Sundance 2017 Festivals: Sundance, Cannes M offensive language (Critics’ Week), Sydney 2017 M sex scenes, offensive language & drug use

In this inventive, Gondry-esque comedy, sweet fellowship in extreme fan One of the wonders of this or any year, jag as a drunken doom theorist – and Saturday Night Live’s earnest goofball culture, and the liberating power of David Lowery’s film takes the homeliest radical bends in time. Kyle Mooney is a man obsessed by sheer silliness with the conviction of images for the supernatural – a “A Ghost Story has the structure the only TV show he’s ever seen, a little- of the true believer. sheet with two forlorn eyeholes – and and rhythm of a musical suite, with known series about a magic bear saving “Brigsby Bear’s strongest asset (well, places it at the centre of a layered and Lowery working variations on the same the world. after the gobs of in-universe verbiage piercing contemplation of existential themes, the same characters, and the James (Mooney) has lived in a bunker that come spilling from James’ mouth) mystery. As the ghost of a young same location. The result can be lyrical for 25 years. His only contact is with is Kyle Mooney’s extraordinary husband (Casey Affleck) observes the and poetic, or more naturalistic and his parents (Mark Hamill and Jane performance… To hang around James grief of his partner (Rooney Mara) minimalist. In both cases, A Ghost Story Adams), and his only source of external and soak up some of his positivity and then lingers through subsequent is absolutely mesmerizing, with an stimulation is the 80s-style ‘Brigsby (even if it is a little unclear if he knows tenancies of the house they shared, anything-goes quality that’s endlessly Bear Adventures’, delivered weekly what’s going on half the time) is a joy.” the helpless ghost’s attachment to the fascinating.” — Noel Murray, The on VHS cassettes. He’s probably the — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair place he loved becomes increasingly Playlist world’s most intense student of the impersonal and unsettled. Lowery’s Brigsby mythos. theme is realised in delicate, folkloric When James has to leave his bunker images of a distinctly American and meet other people, he loses access paradise lost, its hushed mood to new episodes. The slow-dawning A SUTER Tuesday 22 Aug, 8.00 pm disrupted by abrupt bursts of activity A SUTER Thursday 10 Aug, 8.15 pm solution to this emergency celebrates B SUTER Friday 25 Aug, 4.00 pm – notably Will Oldham on a brilliant B SUTER Thursday 17 Aug, 4.15 pm

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The Lost City of Z

In the early 20th century British explorer Director: James Gray Percy Fawcett made eight expeditions USA 2016 | 141 mins into the Amazonian jungle pursuing Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Anthony Katagas, James Gray, Dale Armin Johnson evidence of a lost, highly evolved Screenplay: James Gray. Based on the book by civilisation. James Gray’s spectacular David Grann Photography: Darius Khondji film collapses those expeditions into Editors: John Axelrad, Lee Haugen a tidier history, but the enquiring Music: Christopher Spelman With: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, spirit of the movie holds closely to the Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Edward Ashley, wanderlust of the incurable adventurer. Angus Macfadyen, Ian McDiarmid, Clive Francis, Pedro Coello, Matthew Sunderland, It’s hard to think of another film on Johann Myers, Franco Nero such epic scale that contains so careful Festivals: New York 2016; Berlin, San Francisco 2017 and nuanced a portrait of the explorer In English, Spanish, Portuguese and German, hero or his conflicted relationship with with English subtitles 4K DCP | CinemaScope | M violence & offensive the society that he, in name at least, language represents. Charlie Hunnam’s Fawcett is a commanding slow burn from class resentment to mystic quest, with Robert Pattinson barely recognisable as his companion in adventure. Sienna Miller makes a powerful impression as the wife chafing to join him but forever protagonist that avoids the clichés of left behind. The cinematography, by the genre. It feels like a work of classic “Pictures with the grand Darius Khondji (Se7en, Delicatessen), Hollywood cinema, but without the sweep and dreamy energy captures the seductive allure of jungle arch, mannered quality that can come and river in ravishing imagery fit only with a contemporary director trying to of The Lost City of Z don’t for the giant screen. harken back to the past. Gray’s film is come along every year “The Lost City of Z is a miraculous beguiling and poetic, capable of gluing – they barely come along movie, at once moving, intimidating, you to the screen for every second of its and gorgeous to behold. It’s a tale of languorous running time and lingering at all.” colonial exploration that’s aware in the brain for weeks after.” — David — Stephanie Zacharek, Time B SUTER Tuesday 22 Aug, 11.45 am of the sins of the past, and a portrait Sims, The Atlantic A SUTER Sunday 27 Aug, 7.30 pm of a driven, obsessive, flawed male

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Director: Lu Chuan Director: USA/China 2016 Philippa Lowthorpe 79 mins UK 2016 | 97 mins Producers: Phil Chapman, Producers: Nicholas Barton, Roy Conli, Brian Leith Nick O’Hagan, Joe Oppenheimer Screenplay: David Fowler, Brian Screenplay: Andrea Gibb. Based Leith, Phil Chapman, Lu Chuan on the novel by Arthur Ransome Photography: Irmin Kerck, Photography: Julian Court Justin Maguire, Shane Moore, Editor: David Thrasher Rolf Steinmann, Paul Stewart Music: Ilan Eshkeri Editor: Matthew Meech With: Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Music: Barnaby Taylor Kelly Macdonald, Dane Hughes, Narrator: John Krasinski Orla Hill, Teddie-Rose Festivals: San Francisco 2017 Malleson-Allen, Bobby McCulloch G cert Recommended for ages 9+ PG low level violence

The visual splendour of the natural of the harshest and most unforgiving “The four Walker children have finally “Arthur Ransome’s classic pre-war world and its extraordinary creatures is environments on the planet. convinced their parents to let them tale of childhood adventure Swallows captured on a grand scale in this true- The footage captured on this set off on their own for a sailing and Amazons still evokes a golden, life adventure from Disneynature – ideal epic journey into the wilds of China adventure during summer vacation. prelapsarian age when kids were free for young animal lovers. is breathtaking for its access and Their summer of freedom quickly turns range and mucking about in boats In an epic tale of four seasons, we intimacy – presented as an opportunity into a fierce turf war when they learn was the acme of excitement… Director follow some of the animal families that for young audiences to relate the their island camp has been claimed Philippa Lowthorpe and screenwriter populate various corners of China’s natural world to their own lives, and to by the boisterous Amazons, and find Andrea Gibb have tweaked one or expansive terrain. Meet Ya Ya, a panda contemplate the mysteries of the circle themselves caught in the midst of two details of Ransome’s original. bear mother guiding her growing of life. — Nicola Marshall some nefarious international intrigue And they’ve added an extra dash of baby Mei Mei as she begins to explore Note: Animal survival depicted. Some that’s landed in their sleepy byways. derring-do. But at heart their film is as and seek independence; Tao Tao, scenes may be upsetting for very young Based on the beloved English novels cosily nostalgic as the cherished 1974 a mischievous two-year-old golden children. by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and version.” — Jason Best, Movie Talk snub-nosed monkey nudged toward Amazons is filled with dramas big and self-sufficiency after the arrival of his small… that come together to create new baby sister; and Dawa, a mother a fluidly captivating story of bravery snow leopard – an elusive animal rarely set against the languorous beauty of caught on camera – facing the very real A SUTER Sunday 20 Aug, 11.15 am the English countryside.” — New York A SUTER Sunday 27 Aug, 11.00 am drama of raising her two cubs in one International Children’s Film Festival

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Gabriel and the Mountain Gabriel e a montanha FRESH

Director: Fellipe Barbosa Brazil/France 2017 127 mins Screenplay: Fellipe Barbosa, Lucas Paraizo, Kirill Mikhanovsky With: João Pedro Zappa Festivals: Cannes (Critics’ Week) 2017 In English, Portuguese, Swahili, Chichewa and French, with English subtitles CinemaScope | M sex scenes, offensive language, drug use & content that may disturb

Spectacular and thrumming with life, The director is alive to his friend’s this richly layered road movie shows us vanity and the ironies attendant on Africa through the eyes of an eager gap- his “total immersion in the heart of year backpacker. “I travel as I’ve always Africa.” Required by a waitress at a dreamed of doing in a nontouristic and beachside cafe to order a meal, Gabriel sustainable manner,” he emails back is outraged to be mistaken for a mere home to Brazil. “Spending $2 or $3 a tourist. But his appetite for the freedom day and giving 80% of my daily budget and friendship of the road gives this to the locals who feed and shelter me.” film irresistible exuberance and heart. Brazilian director Fellipe Barbosa’s There’s mystery too: his impatience to film recreates the journey of his friend knock off the achievements he’s set Gabriel Buchmann who died on the himself brings his brief and brilliant life slopes of Malawi’s Mount Mulanje to an end and sets this wonderfully in 2009. The African cast is made enlivening film in motion. up almost entirely of people whom the open-hearted young Brasileiro befriended along the way. They play themselves – and deliver personal B SUTER Thursday 10 Aug, 3.45 pm tributes in voiceover. A SUTER Saturday 12 Aug, 8.15 pm

I Am Not a Witch

Director/Screenplay: Rungano Nyoni UK/France/Zambia/ Germany 2017 | 95 mins Photography: David Gallego We line up the films that held our attention Music: Matthew James Kelly With: Margaret Mulubwa, Henry B.J. Phiri, Nancy Murilo with their energy and originality – in terms Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2017 of subject, technique and sensibility. Not every In English, Bemba, Nyanja and Tonga, with English subtitles film that feels like a harbinger of the future PG adult themes is the work of a young filmmaker – though In Zambian-born, Welsh-raised director eventually start believing you’re a an encouraging number on the pages that Rungano Nyoni’s truly surreal tale, a witch… Rungano Nyoni has made follow are. nine-year-old village girl is accused the subject the focus of her debut of witchcraft and hauled off to do feature… a biting satire attacking the witches’ work. Soon she’s identifying ignorance which provides oxygen for the culprit in a police line-up, bringing this hokum… on the rain, or just posing for tourists. Underneath the humor there’s Though accusing someone of staunch determination from the witchcraft is illegal in Zambia, Nyoni’s director. ‘It’s so important that we’re tale is based on continuing practices not precious about [witchcraft], she observed herself living for a month otherwise nothing gets done,’ she in a witches’ camp. The awfulness of said.” — Thomas Page, CNN.com her story is leavened by the merciless satirical eye she trains on superstition’s perpetrators – the men who put these ‘witches’ to work. “When you’ve been told you’re a witch, forced to live as a witch, B SUTER Friday 25 Aug, 2.00 pm forced to act as a witch, you might A SUTER Monday 28 Aug, 8.15 pm

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Lady Macbeth

Victorian patriarchy meets its match in this juicy period drama. The title alerts us to murderous intent, but the source Director: William Oldroyd material here is one step removed UK 2016 | 89 mins Producer: Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly from Shakespeare: this striking debut Screenplay: Alice Birch. Based on the novella Lady is a stylised reinvention of the 1865 Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov Russian novella Lady Macbeth of the Photography: Ari Wegner Editor: Nick Emerson Mtsensk District. Katherine (Florence Music: Dan Jones Pugh) is a young bride, a virtual With: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie, Christopher Fairbank captive in the draughty mansion of her Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, London 2016; dour mine owner husband. Her flinty Sundance, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco 2017 father-in-law pressures her for an heir, Critics’ Prize, San Sebastián International Film though the sadistic ritual unfolding Festival 2016 CinemaScope | R16 violence, offensive language nightly in the marital bedroom scarcely & sex scenes favours reproduction. The incredulous Katherine plots her liberation. If she’s prepared to contemplate murder to escape this disgusting prison, what won’t she do to guarantee her pleasure when she finds it in the arms of the taunting hunk (Cosmo Jarvis) who runs casting adds a frisson of racism to the the household stable? Her maid (Naomi routine abuse of the servant class while “A barbed feminist fable Ackie) stands by, rendered mute by the Katherine’s self-empowerment may feel of class, cruelty and trouble she sees. Pugh, in virtually every proto-feminist in intent. scene, is mesmerising – her insolence “Oldroyd coolly subverts the sexual power that feels smouldering as she’s corseted into fusty conventions of British costume absolutely true to its tight bodices and hooped skirts, her drama… [the film] deliberately incurs period and uncannily abandon as sumptuous as her flesh as many debts to Chandler and when she casts them off. Hammett as it does to Austen or Eliot.” attuned to the present Twenty-first century identity — Jonathan Murray, Cineaste moment.” politics flicker through this revisionist B SUTER Thursday 24 Aug, 4.15 pm — A.O. Scott, NY Times masterpiece theatre. Colour-blind A SUTER Saturday 26 Aug, 8.15 pm

PRESENTED IN My Life As a Courgette ASSOCIATION WITH Patti Cake$ Ma vie de courgette

Director: Claude Barras Director/Screenplay: Switzerland/France 2016 Geremy Jasper 66 mins USA 2017 | 108 mins Screenplay: Céline Sciamma. Photography: Federico Cesca Based on the novel by Gilles Paris Editor: Brad Turner Animation director: Kim Keukeleire Music: Geremy Jasper, Voices: Erick Abbate, Ness Krell, Jason Binnick Romy Beckman, Nick Offerman, With: Danielle Macdonald, Briget Ellen Page Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay, Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Mamoudou Athie, Cathy Fortnight), Melbourne, Toronto, Moriarty, Sahr Ngaujah London 2016; Sundance 2017 Festivals: Sundance, SXSW, Nominated, Best Animated New Directors/New Films, Feature, Academy Awards 2017 San Francisco, Cannes (Directors’ PG sexual references Fortnight) 2017 Censors rating tbc

A bunch of kids from nightmare film has a keen eye and ear for the “Two stars are born in Patti Cake$, The audience at the film’s world backgrounds find refuge and way children process the inconceivable one of those rare crowd-pleasers that premiere gave an audible gasp when companionship in this soulful and (neglect, abuse, deportation, murder)… earn their love honestly. The first is she answered her first question because subversive Oscar-nominated animated The feeling of melancholy is undercut the sensational Danielle Macdonald, no one had a clue she was Australian feature. Painstakingly crafted over by the resilience of these children, their who plays the second: the movie’s let alone not American. In a movie like a decade, Courgette marks another ability to forge relationships and create title character, also known as Patricia this, filmmakers often have to convince triumph for animation director Kim life out of chaos… Dombrowski, a poor white New Jersey the audience an actor playing a Keukeleire, who worked on Wes My Life As a Courgette never rapper who, with her tiny diverse posse musician is as good as the story says Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox. sacrifices what’s true for what’s trite yearns to cross the bridge to fame there are. At no point in Patti Cake$ “My Life As a Courgette is a stop- and easier to sell. This is animation as and fortune. Written and directed by is there ever a hint that Macdonald is motion cartoon, blessed with both an art form, inspiring and indelible.” Geremy Jasper, the movie treads familiar unable to legitimately rap. She’s simply a Swiss director (Claude Barras), and — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone aspirational ground: Patricia has dreams, a revelation.” — Gregory Ellwood, an ambition not to do anything the pluck and obstacles (she’s routinely The Playlist conventional way. The animated taunted because of her weight), but characters… are beautifully realized, her outsider status isn’t fetishized or and the delicate touch of Barras works romanticized, and she’s divinely real.” wonders. Skillfully adapted by Céline — Manohla Dargis, NY Times Sciamma (Girlhood) from the hit 2002 A SUTER Monday 21 Aug, 6.15 pm “It’s hard to equate what a star- A SUTER Friday 18 Aug, 8.00 pm young adult novel by Gilles Paris, the B SUTER Tuesday 22 Aug, 2.30 pm making turn this is for Macdonald. B SUTER Wednesday 23 Aug, 4.00 pm

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Blue REALITY FRAMING Director/Screenplay: Karina Holden Australia 2017 | 76 mins Photography: Jody Muston Underwater photography: Jon Shaw Editor: Vanessa Milton With: Lucas Handley, Madison Stewart, Mark Dia, Phillip Mango, Jennifer Lavers, Tim Silverwood, Valerie Taylor Festivals: Sydney 2017 PG cert

With a background in natural history patiently extracting some of that waste TV, director Karina Holden has made from the bellies of endangered sea birds. an empowering conservationist On Cape York Peninsula the Nanum documentary showcasing the work Wunghtim rangers clear the coastal and advocacy of six `ocean guardians'. waters of the vast ghost nets abandoned Madison Stewart, who grew up on by fishing boats and trapping sea life. the Great Barrier Reef, has become Proving that conservation is not the an underwater filmmaker, using her sole preserve of the young, pioneering camera and social media to increase diver, shark advocate, artist and public awareness of the plight of sharks. Australian heroine Valerie Taylor is Mark Dia, regional oceans campaigner cautiously upbeat at 82. The ocean will for Greenpeace South Asia, uncovers recover, she says, “if we leave it alone.” illegal fishing practices, corruption and labour abuses in the seafood industry. Following the surf was what led Tim Silverwood to combat the appalling ubiquity of plastic waste in sea and on shoreline, Dr Jennifer Lavers is a marine B SUTER Monday 28 Aug, 11.45 am eco-toxicologist, seen in the film A SUTER Wednesday 30 Aug, 6.15 pm

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

Director: Matt Tyrnauer USA 2016 | 92 mins Producer: Robert Hammond, Corey Reeser, Jessica Van Garsse, Matt Tyrnauer Photography: Chris Dapkins Editors: Daniel Morfesis, Andrea Lewis Music: Jane Antonia Cornish The profusion of excellent documentaries With: Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses Festivals: Toronto, Amsterdam submitted to us is staggering. We try to steer Documentary 2016; Sydney 2017 a course that favours formal sophistication Colour and B&W and complexity, while allowing ourselves on occasion to fall for the most forthright advocacy At his most powerful in the years has fashioned a lively documentary and appeals to the heartstrings. after World War II, powerbroker about the enduring issues enunciated and developer Robert Moses was so clearly in their clash. You will find more fine examples filling the determined to modernise New York “Tyrnauer transforms what could and speed up the traffic. He demolished be a staid profile film into an urgent Big Nights, Aotearoa and Portrait of an Artist great swathes of housing to build story about the dangers of ‘urban sections of the programme. In other words, high-rise accommodation and construct renewal,’ something Jacobs herself superhighways the length of Manhattan. would admire… How do we retain documentaries are everywhere at NZIFF. David to his Goliath, Jane Jacobs led a neighborhood diversity amid rapid grass-roots campaign to thwart his plan gentrification? Can a metropolis retain to plough an expressway across town, its humanity when everyone’s living in right through Lower Manhattan. Author high-rises?” — April Wolfe, Village Voice of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs had a vision of urban life that involved people, neighbourhoods, heritage and habitation on a human scale, qualities Lower Manhattan enjoyed in abundance. Director Matt A SUTER Monday 28 Aug, 6.15 pm Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor)

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The Farthest

More than 12 billion miles away a Director/Screenplay: Emer Reynolds spaceship the size of a bus has left our Ireland 2017 | 121 mins Solar System and is entering deep space. Producers: John Murray, Clare Stronge Photography: Kate McCullough Slowly dying within its heart is a nuclear Editor: Tony Cranstoun generator that will beat for perhaps Music: Ray Harman With: Fran Bagenal, Jim Bell, John Casani, another decade before the lights on Timothy Ferris, Suzanne Dodd, Amahl Drake, Voyager finally go out. But this little Frank Drake, Don Gurnett, Heidi Hammel, Candy Hansen-Koharcheck, Andrew Ingersoll, craft could travel on for millions of years, Charley Kohlhase, Lawrence Krauss carrying the ‘Golden Record’ bearing Festivals: Tribeca, Sydney 2017 recordings and images of life on Earth. In this spectacular and immensely enjoyable documentary, some of the women and men who have worked on NASA’s Voyager mission look back in wonder and sheer joy at what they achieved and the extraordinary wealth of knowledge that the tiny spaceship has beamed back to earth. As many of them ruefully acknowledge, it’s the most inward- looking, least scientific aspect of the best science project of all time, their project – that famous Golden Record passion for exploring the great beyond “This 40-year retrospective with its Bach, Beethoven, Balinese is inspiring. of the ongoing Voyager gamelans and Chuck Berry – that’s “It’s the right film at the right time, dominated the public imagination a cathartic moment in which audiences missions brings the around Voyager. This film, in which will shed tears for a little machine made humor and humanity they retrace Voyager’s 40-year journey of silicon and aluminium, wrapped in to the science.” and successive revelations from Jupiter tin foil and running on less computing (1979), Saturn (1981), Uranus (1986) power than our smartphones, yet — Tasha Robinson, The Verge and Neptune (1989), provides the which will outlive us all – perhaps best possible hope of changing that. by billions of years.” — Fionnuala A SUTER Sunday 13 Aug, 11.00 am When these enthusiasts talk about the Halligan, Screendaily B SUTER Wednesday 16 Aug, 2.00 pm

PROUDLY I Am Not Your Negro SPONSORED BY Kedi

Director: Raoul Peck USA/France 2016 93 mins Director: Ceyda Torun Screenplay: Raoul Peck, Turkey/USA 2016 James Baldwin 79 mins Photography: Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, Turner Ross Producers: Ceyda Torun, Narrator: Samuel L. Jackson Charlie Wuppermann With: James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Photography: Martin Luther King Jr, Medgar Charlie Wuppermann Evers, Lorraine Hansberry Editor: Mo Stoebe Festivals: Toronto, New York With: Sari, Bengü, Aslan Parçasi, 2016; Berlin 2017 Psikopat, Deniz, Gamsiz, Duman Nominated, Best Documentary, Festivals: Melbourne, Vancouver Academy Awards 2017 2016 B&W and Colour In Turkish with English subtitles

“Whatever you think about the past ever assembled on the tortured subject of “It’s hard to say whether Ceyda Torun’s In all great cities, the magnificent and future of what used to be called American identity – accompany images delightful and visually splendid Kedi is intersects with the mundane – that’s ‘race relations’ – white supremacy and from old talk shows and news reports, a documentary about Istanbul, with what makes them not only livable but the resistance to it, in plainer English – from classic movies and from our own cats, or a documentary about cats vital. The cats of Kedi tell that story, in this movie will make you think again, decidedly non-post-racial present… that happens to be set in Istanbul… between naps. They know a good place and may even change your mind. I Am Not Your Negro is a thrilling If Kedi is any sort of anthropological when they’ve found it.” — Stephanie Though its principal figure, the novelist, introduction to his work, a remedial examination of the life of a city, it Zacharek, Time playwright and essayist James Baldwin, course in American history, and an works because its vision is filtered is a man who has been dead for nearly advanced seminar in racial politics – a through the lazy-looking but in 30 years, you would be hard-pressed to concise, roughly 90-minute movie with fact hyper-aware eyes of our feline find a movie that speaks to the present the scope and impact of a 10-hour compatriots… moment with greater clarity and force, mini-series or a literary doorstop.” The picture’s pleasures are bountiful,

insisting on uncomfortable truths — A.O. Scott, NY Times particularly for cat lovers…There are FEATURE PRECEDED BY and drawing stark lessons from the cats sleeping obliviously on unnervingly Stay shadows of history… high-up ledges; cats padding across Craig Gainsborough, Luke Thornborough | New Zealand The voice-over narration… is entirely corrugated rusty-red roofs; cats just 2017 | 7 mins drawn from Baldwin’s work… His hanging out in doorways, their ears published and unpublished words – some B SUTER Thursday 10 Aug, 1.45 pm barely twitching as nearby humans B SUTER Friday 18 Aug, 11.30 am of the most powerful and penetrating A SUTER Monday 14 Aug, 6.15 pm extol their virtues… A SUTER Saturday 26 Aug, 11.15 am

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Mountain

Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom Director: Jennifer Peedom follows her extraordinary Sherpa with a Australia 2017 | 74 mins giant screen celebration of the allure of Producers: Jennifer Peedom, Jo-anne McGowan Screenplay: Robert Macfarlane, Jennifer Peedom the mountains, created in collaboration Photography: Renan Ozturk with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Editors: Christian Gazal, Scott Gray Music: Richard Tognetti, the Australian Chamber Spectacular images, shot in 21 Orchestra countries by legendary mountaineer/ Narrator: Willem Dafoe Festivals: Sydney 2017 cinematographer Renan Ozturk (Meru, CinemaScope Sherpa) and others, have been cut together thematically to an orchestral score drawing on Chopin, Grieg, Vivaldi, Beethoven and new works by Richard Tognetti. The orchestra will perform live when the film tours Australia in August, but we’re delighted to have secured NZIFF big-screen engagements for the soundtracked version. Drawing from Robert Macfarlane’s book Mountain, read on the soundtrack by Willem Dafoe, the film considers the changes in humanity’s relationship to capture the exultant top-of-the-world mountains over recent times. Not so imagery that makes this film such an “To those who are long ago they represented the divine exhilarating experience. As Peedom enthralled by the and mysterious; to many indigenous offers us a jaw-dropping montage communities living on their flanks they of people throwing themselves off mountains, their wonder always will. By the time Hillary and precipices for the sheer thrill of it, is beyond all dispute. To Tenzing ascended Everest, mountains her film revels both in the dramatic those who are not, their had been colonised by the west and grandeur of the mountains and in the filled our imaginations as personal glorious irrationality which may be the allure is a kind of madness.” challenges to be overcome. only sane human response. — Robert Mcfarlane, Mountain That spirit of conquest may be hard A SUTER Sunday 20 Aug, 5.45 pm to separate from the risks taken to A SUTER Tuesday 22 Aug, 6.15 pm

Step Unrest

Director: Amanda Lipitz Director: Jennifer Brea USA 2017 | 83 mins USA 2017 | 97 mins Photography: Casey Regan Screenplay: Jennifer Brea, Editor: Penelope Falk Kim Roberts Music: Laura Karpman, Photography: Sam Heesen, Raphael Saadiq Christian Laursen With: Blessin Giraldo, Cori With: Jennifer Brea, Omar Wasow, Grainger, Tayla Solomon, Gari Jessica Taylor, Lee Ray Denton, McIntyre, Paula Dofat Randy Denton, Casie Jackson Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco Festivals: Sundance, SXSW 2017 2017 Special Jury Prize (Documentary), Special Jury Prize (Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017 In English and Danish, with English subtitles

If you come to NZIFF in search of Director Amanda Lipitz gets close to A largely mysterious condition that Unrest tells the story of Jen and her real-life heroines, the ‘Lethal Ladies’ of her subjects and into their relationships reportedly afflicts as many as 17 husband, Omar, facing the unexpected, Baltimore Leadership School for Young with the women who champion and million people worldwide, chronic and four of the community of ME Women are here to steal your hearts challenge them: their mothers, a fatigue syndrome or myalgic patients whom Jen brings together on – before they dazzle you in a blaze of heroically persistent college counsellor encephalomyelitis (ME) still perplexes the internet, in the United States, UK step dance fury. and the no-bullshit step coach. With most doctors and is often dismissed and Denmark. Together they explore Opened in 2009 with a mandate to so much effort concentrated on as a psychosomatic illness. how to make a meaningful life when send every student to university, the getting into college, the outcome of Director Jennifer Brea was a everything changes. The film is a feat school is well attuned to the fractured the step competition assumes a lesser journalist and academic studying for of disability filmmaking, made with an home lives and poverty facing many of significance than in the standard ‘Best a PhD at Harvard. Months before her international team and using innovative their brightest charges. The film trails in Show’ documentary, which only wedding she became progressively technologies to allow the bedbound three very differently positioned seniors makes it more loaded when the big ill, losing the ability even to sit in a director to cover the world and film as as each is guided through a nerve- moment suddenly arrives. wheelchair. When told by her doctor if she’s in the room. wracking college application process. it was ‘all in her head’, her response Where they find unity, relief and was to start filming from her bed, exhilaration is on the step dance team. gradually deploying crews globally Under the new step mistress, that’s no to document the world inhabited by walk in the park either: she’s pushing B SUTER Thursday 17 Aug, 2.30 pm millions of patients whom medicine A SUTER Saturday 19 Aug, 12.00 pm them to kill at the state dance-off. A SUTER Thursday 24 Aug, 6.15 pm forgot.

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Beuys: Art As a Weapon AN ARTIST AN OF PORTRAIT Director/Screeplay: Andres Veiel Germany 2017 107 mins Photography: Jörg Jeshel Editors: Stephan Krumbiegel, Olaf Voigtländer With: Joseph Beuys, Caroline Tisdall, Rhea Thönges-Stringaris, Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Johannes Stüttgen, Klaus Staeck Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2017 In German and English, with English subtitles Colour and B&W

“Most Germans, regardless of their level Beuys shows you the man, his of education or their interest in art have interactions with the press, his inner heard of Joseph Beuys [1921– 1986]. family life and the dilemmas he faced in Born in Kleve, he walked the earth like his career: from youthful depression to a shaman, dressed in a hat and a khaki starting a counter-cultural revolution.” fishing vest, offered healing thoughts, — Rene J. Meyer-Grimberg, Berlin aktionen (happenings) and confusing Film Journal installation pieces suggesting ways to “Veiel’s film strives to not only heal a wounded post-war Germany. invite viewers to reminisce over the His personal legend includes being a importance of Beuys’ work, but also member of Hitler youth, a gunner with provide us with an insight into the the Luftwaffe and getting shot down workings of a true anti-conformist’s over the Caucasus. His pilot died but mind.” — Josef Proimarkis, Cineuropa he survived and, according to his story (which is gently questioned in the film), the Tartars rolled him in fat and wool until he could be brought to a hospital. Consequently, fat and wool figure A SUTER Sunday 20 Aug, 1.00 pm prominently in his work.

BIG Time

Director/Photography: Kaspar Astrup Schröder Denmark 2017 | 93 mins Producer: Sara Stockmann Editors: Bobbie Esra G. Pertan, Cathrine Ambus, Kaspar Astrup Schröder Music: Ali Helnwein With: Bjarke Ingels In Danish and English, with English subtitles

As a kid, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels there’s a world of difference between See also: considered the flat roof on his parents’ fielding such paltry objections on home Faces Places (p3), Kobi (p6), Maudie (p10). house to be a waste of space – with ground and opening a New York office potential. In 2016, his plans for a to embark on mammoth projects that smoke ring-blowing power plant with will join the most famous architectural a ski slope on its roof in Copenhagen skyline of them all. attracted attention outside the usual Schröder documents the architect’s architectural press. Time magazine struggle to balance ambition, ill health named him, at the age of 42, one of and relationships with remarkable the world’s 100 most influential people intimacy, but his film never feels closer of the year. to the heart of its subject than when it Filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schröder lets him talk about buildings, marker at filmed Ingels on and off over several hand, dashing off lightning illustrations years, and the portrait of a driven of everything he says. man stretched increasingly thin is both compelling and alarming. Early in the film there’s wry coverage of the fallout that occurs when the power company A SUTER Saturday 12 Aug, 12.00 pm asks who’s paying for the ski slope, but

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House of Z

“As good looking and stylish as its Director: Sandy Chronopoulos subject, House of Z is a portrait of the USA 2017 | 90 mins artist as a young man. Famously well Producers: Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Sandy Chronopoulos connected, Zac Posen rode a rocket Photography: Konrad Czystowski, Nadia Hallgren, ship to fame and success at the age of Mark Klassen Editors: Hollie Singer, Madeleine Gavin 21. But his is a cautionary tale of what Music: Eric Stamile happens to those whose PR machines With: Zac Posen, Susan Posen, Alexandra Posen, Stephen Posen, Naomi Campbell, are steps ahead of reality. As quickly Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, André Leon Talley, as the handsome Zac made a name Paz de la Huerta, Claire Danes for himself, he found himself on the Festivals: Tribeca 2017 receiving end of damaging gossip, PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH bad reviews and dropping sales. Told with the help of a star-studded cast, including Puff Daddy, Naomi Campbell and Claire Danes, this all-access story charts the rise and fall – and rise again – of a fashion world wunderkind.” — Aisha Jamal, Hot Docs “‘Fashion has a dark side. Not all runways and lipstick and fishtail gowns,’ Posen says about his chosen In Posen’s continued dedication to milieu, and while House of Z is making dresses in his atelier – and by “An enjoyable doc aesthetically quite straightforward, personally draping gowns over female overflowing with stunning it receives a jolt of unique energy bodies, as the foundation of his process from Posen’s own front-and-center – House of Z captures the way in which pieces of clothing, both participation in this portrait… He direct hands-on engagement is vital on models and on its star.” comes across as a young man to an artist’s continued relevance, and — John DeFore, Hollywood humbled by failure and appreciative vitality.” — Nick Schager, Variety of the opportunities he still has, not to Reporter mention now capable of viewing his past through a more mature, objective B SUTER Thursday 24 Aug, 11.45 am lens… A SUTER Sunday 27 Aug, 1.00 pm

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY Dries RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Director/Producer/ Screenplay: Reiner Holzemer Director: Germany/Belgium 2017 Catherine Bainbridge 90 mins Canada 2017 | 102 mins Photography: Reiner Holzemer, Co-director: Alfonso Maiorana Toon Illegems, Erwin Van Der With: Robbie Robertson, Buffy Stappen Sainte-Marie, John Trudell, Editors: Helmar Jungmann, Pat Vegas, Martin Scorsese, Stephan Krumbiegel Tony Bennett, Steven Tyler, Music: Colin Greenwood, Matthew Iggy Pop, Taj Mahal, Adam Beach Herbert, Sam Petts-Davies Festivals: Sundance 2017 With: Dries Van Noten, Iris Apfel, Special Jury Prize (World Cinema Pamela Golbin, Geert Brulot Documentary), Sundance Film In English and Dutch, with English Festival 2017 subtitles

Belgian designer Dries Van Noten gets unique counterpoint to an industry This revealing tribute to Native thunder of drummer Randy Castillo to the fashion documentary treatment in driven by trends. Although the new American musicians celebrates their the glides and slides in the singing of this intimate and understated portrait. collections are the film’s focus, Dries little credited contributions to popular early jazz queen Mildred Bailey. All the requisite fashion film fixtures are is also a chance to revisit Van Noten’s contemporary music from blues to jazz, In the end, though, the point is not on show: gorgeous clothes, stunning past through archival footage of his from Hendrix to Metallica. to untie the tangled blood knot of models and plenty of sartorial drama. previous shows. These are some of the “A Native American singer of the American music so much as celebrate For 30 years, Van Noten has carved film’s most insightful scenes, allowing Tuscarora tribe, Pura Fe Crescioni sits the greatest Native American music a successful career as an independent Van Noten to chart the evolution of his beside a turntable as it plays a 1929 stars, many of whom kept their origins designer. His shows are must-see abilities and confidence as a designer. recording of the bluesman Charley concealed. As Robbie Robertson of The events and he can count Iris Apfel and Like its subject, Dries is a quietly Patton. ‘When I hear this, it’s Indian Band was warned when he was young, Kanye West as fans. Dries provides a modest film that allows the opulent music to me,’ she says. ‘That rhythm. ‘Be proud you’re an Indian, but be peek at Van Noten’s creative process fashion to soar. — Chris Tse Do you hear it?’ After the field careful who you tell.’” — Nick Bollinger as he and his team prepare four new recordings of Mississippi Chocktaws collections. His clothes revel in clashing performing their ‘Drunk Dance’ just prints and the incorporation of low and moments earlier, I hear it. high culture, exhibiting an unrivalled Once this idea has been sown, it’s eye for detail. In a world where we’re hard not to hear Native American constantly told what’s hot or not, B SUTER Tuesday 15 Aug, 2.00 pm elements throughout the music profiled B SUTER Friday 11 Aug, 2.00 pm designers like Van Noten provide a A SUTER Saturday 19 Aug, 4.00 pm in this film, from the heavy metal A SUTER Sunday 13 Aug, 8.15 pm

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SCHEDULE Wednesday 9 August Thursday 17 August B 4.15 pm Lady Macbeth (89) 25 ✪ 8.00 pm My Year with Helen (93) 3 B 12.15 pm Maudie (115) 10 A 6.15 pm Step (83) 29 Thursday 10 August B 2.30 pm Step (83) 29 A 8.00 pm Human Traces (87) 7 B 11.15 am The Midwife (117) 13 B 4.15 pm A Ghost Story (93) 21 Friday 25 August B 1.45 pm I Am Not Your Negro (93) 27 A 6.15 pm 20th Century Women (119) 19 B 11.00 am TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home (160) 8 B 3.45 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (127) 24 A 8.45 pm The Killing of a Sacred Deer (125) 13 B 2.00 pm I Am Not a Witch (95) 24 A 6.15 pm That’s Not Me (86) 10 Friday 18 August B 4.00 pm Brigsby Bear (98) 21 A 8.15 pm A Ghost Story (93) 21 B 11.30 am Kedi (79 + 7) 27 A 6.15 pm A Fantastic Woman (105) 11 Friday 11 August B 1.30 pm Ethel & Ernest (94) 16 A 8.30 pm Good Time (100) 21 B 3.30 pm The Killing of a Sacred Deer (125) 13 B 11.45 am Frantz (114) 11 Saturday 26 August A 6.15 pm A Date for Mad Mary (82) 12 B 2.00 pm RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked… (102) 31 A 11.15 am Kedi (79 + 7) 27 A 8.00 pm Patti Cake$ (108) 25 B 4.15 pm That’s Not Me (86) 10 A 1.15 pm TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home (160) 8 A 6.15 pm The Party (71) 17 Saturday 19 August A 4.15 pm Summer 1993 (97) 17 A 8.00 pm BPM (Beats Per Minute) (144) 4 A 12.00 pm Unrest (97) 29 A 6.15 pm The Other Side of Hope (98) 5 A 2.00 pm No Ordinary Sheila (98) 7 A 8.15 pm Lady Macbeth (89) 25 Saturday 12 August A 4.00 pm Dries (90) 31 Sunday 27 August A 12.00 pm BIG Time (93) 30 A 6.00 pm Faces Places (89) 4 A 11.00 am Swallows and Amazons (97) 23 A 2.00 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga... 2017 (91) 9 A 8.00 pm Call Me by Your Name (132) 15 A 1.00 pm House of Z (90) 31 A 4.00 pm Maudie (115) 10 Sunday 20 August A 3.00 pm A Woman’s Life (119) 12 A 6.15 pm The Beguiled (94) 19 A 11.15 am Born in China (79) 23 A 5.30 pm Pop Aye (102) 15 A 8.15 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (127) 24 A 1.00 pm Beuys: Art As a Weapon (107) 30 A 7.30 pm The Lost City of Z (141) 23 Sunday 13 August A 3.15 pm The Midwife (117) 13 Monday 28 August A 11.00 am The Farthest (121) 27 A 5.45 pm Mountain (74) 29 B 11.45 am Blue (76) 26 A 1.30 pm Ethel & Ernest (94) 16 A 7.30 pm Loveless (128) 5 B 1.30 pm A Woman’s Life (119) 12 A 3.30 pm Kobi (103) 6 Monday 21 August B 4.00 pm Good Time (100) 21 A 5.45 pm 20th Century Women (119) 19 B 11.45 am No Ordinary Sheila (98) 7 A 6.15 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (92) 26 A 8.15 pm RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked… (102) 31 B 1.45 pm A Monster Calls (109) 16 A 8.15 pm I Am Not a Witch (95) 24 Monday 14 August B 4.00 pm The Other Side of Hope (98) 5 Tuesday 29 August B 11.15 am The Party (71) 17 A 6.15 pm My Life As a Courgette (66) 25 B 11.00 am A Fantastic Woman (105) 11 B 1.00 pm Kobi (103) 6 A 7.45 pm Seven Rivers Walking (84) 8 B 1.15 pm Human Traces (87) 7 B 3.15 pm BPM (Beats Per Minute) (144) 4 Tuesday 22 August B 3.15 pm The Square (147) 3 Roll out A 6.15 pm I Am Not Your Negro (93) 27 B 11.45 am The Lost City of Z (141) 23 A 6.15 pm Let the Sunshine In (94) 12 A 8.15 pm Happy End (110) 11 B 2.30 pm My Life As a Courgette (66) 25 A 8.15 pm The Teacher (102) 15 Tuesday 15 August B 4.00 pm Kiki, Love to Love (102) 17 Wednesday 30 August B 12.00 pm My Year with Helen (93) 3 A 6.15 pm Mountain (74) 29 B 11.45 am Let the Sunshine In (94) 12 B 2.00 pm Dries (90) 31 A 8.00 pm Brigsby Bear (98) 21 B 1.45 pm Pop Aye (102) 15 B 4.00 pm Happy End (110) 11 Wednesday 23 August B 4.00 pm The Teacher (102) 15 A 6.15 pm A Monster Calls (109) 16 B 11.15 am Faces Places (89) 4 A 6.15 pm Blue (76) 26 the digital A 8.30 pm The Beguiled (94) 19 B 1.15 pm Call Me by Your Name (132) 15 A 8.00 pm The Square (147) 3 Wednesday 16 August B 4.00 pm Patti Cake$ (108) 25 B 12.00 pm Summer 1993 (97) 17 A 6.15 pm New Zealand’s Best 2017 (75) 9 B 2.00 pm The Farthest (121) 27 A 8.00 pm Kiki, Love to Love (102) 17 B 4.30 pm A Date for Mad Mary (82) 12 Thursday 24 August A 6.15 pm Frantz (114) 11 B 11.45 am House of Z (90) 31 red carpet. A 8.30 pm Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web (112) 6 B 1.45 pm Loveless (128) 5 Official Sponsors of NZIFF 2017 INDEX 20th Century Women 19 The Farthest 27 L Patti Cake$ 25 Innovative Festivals choose forward B Frantz 11 Lady Macbeth 25 Pop Aye 15 The Beguiled 19 G Let the Sunshine In 12 R thinking technology partners. Beuys: Art As a Weapon 30 Gabriel and the Mountain 24 The Lost City of Z 23 RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked… 31 BIG Time 30 A Ghost Story 21 Loveless 5 S Blue 26 Good Time 21 M Seven Rivers Walking 8 Born in China 23 H Maudie 10 The Square 3 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 4 Happy End 11 The Midwife 13 Step 29 Brigsby Bear 21 House of Z 31 A Monster Calls 16 Summer 1993 17 C Human Traces 7 Mountain 29 Swallows and Amazons 23 Call Me by Your Name 15 I My Life As a Courgette 25 T Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 26 I Am Not a Witch 24 My Year with Helen 3 The Teacher 15 D I Am Not Your Negro 27 N TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home 8 A Date for Mad Mary 12 K New Zealand’s Best 2017 9 That’s Not Me 10 Dries 31 Kedi 27 Nga¯ Whanaunga… 2017 9 U E Kiki, Love to Love 17 No Ordinary Sheila 7 Unrest 29 Ethel & Ernest 16 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 13 O W F Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web 6 The Other Side of Hope 5 A Woman’s Life 12

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