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Canberra International Film Festival Inc. CONTENTS ABN 22 O55 774 493 GPO Box 2495 Canberra ACT 26O1 WELCOME MESSAGES MADNESS & MAYHEM RETRO TRIPLE-TREAT T O2 623O 5211 2 Katy Gallagher 21 Queen Freak 38 Hundra ACT Chief Minister 21 Sightseers 39 Maniac Cop 22 Turn Me on Goddammit 39 The Stuff President Nicole Mitchell 2 Nicole Mitchell CIFF President 22 Let My People Go! Vice President Virginia Haussegger 23 Paris-Manhattan FAR CORNERS 3 Ivan Slavich 23 Sex, Lies & Surgery Public Officer Shaun Creighton TransACT 41 ¡Vivan las Antipodas! Treasurer Cath Ingram Chief Executive Officer TALKING POINT 41 11 Flowers Member John Frohlich 3 Simon Weaving 42 Like Someone in Love CIFF Artistic Director 25 Step Up to the Plate 42 Naked Harbour Member Dianne Ireland 25 For the Love of Movies 43 No General Manager Paul Donohoe 26 The Imposter 43 Love Story Artistic Director Simon Weaving CIFF MEMBERSHIP 26 Chasing Ice 27 Room 237 Operations Katherine Morrell 1O CIFF Membership outline PERSONAL JOURNEYS 27 Shadows of Liberty Print Traffic Jerry Francis 11 Membership and ticket prices 45 Broken 45 Children of Sarajevo Tritia Evans 11 Membership application form Publicity STRANGE & DEADLY 46 Monsieur Lazhar Social & Digital Media Bree Winchester 12 Panel discussions @ ARC 29 Grabbers 46 Rust and Bone Smartphone App Imagine Team 12 Chats in the festival lounge 29 Crawlspace 47 Sister 3O Errors of the Human Body 47 Smashed Festival Lounge Fiona van der Plaat 13 Free film screening before The Shining the festival starts 3O Design & Website Some Cowboy & Giraffe 31 Q, The Winged Serpent TURN UP THE MUSIC Venue Dendy Sean O’Sullivan 13 Free film screening at the 31 Robot Monster end of the festival 49 Neil Young Journeys Venue Arc Cynthia Piromalli 49 Charles Bradley: Soul of A LONG WAY FROM HOME America FILM FESTIVAL PLANNER 33 33 Postcards 5O Paul Kelly: Stories of Me RATINGS 5 Opening Night 33 Berberian Sound Studio 5O Searching for Sugar Man The Angels’ Share 34 Silent City 51 Violeta Went to Heaven 34 Stella Days 51 The Ringmaster General The office of Film and Literature Classification ratings Closing Night are included where films have been classified at the 7 35 The Loneliest Planet Save Yer Legs time of printing. All other films are classified R18+. 35 Xingu SPECIAL SCREENING AWARD WINNING CINEMA DARK & DANGEROUS AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA 53 Keyhole DISCLAIMER 17 Amour 36 American Mary 17 Caesar Must Die 37 I, Anna 53 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry All information contained in this program 37 Sleepless Night was correct at time of printing 18 Faust 18 The Hunt 19 Beyond the Hills 19 In the Fog 2 WELCOME KATY GALLAGHER NICOLE MITCHELL ACT CHIEF MINISTER CIFF PRESIDENT The Canberra International Film Festival provides Welcome to the 16th Canberra International Film a unique opportunity for ACT audiences to see a Festival — a 12-day showcase of the best films from great variety of international films of the highest around the globe. calibre. Each year, many Canberrans look forward to celebrating cinema across a 12-day program The CIFF team passionately believes in the power of that showcases extraordinary films from both cinema to communicate and to share universal stories Australia and around the globe. As a curated festival, audiences can from different cultures. The 6O extraordinary films in this year’s program be assured of seeing 6O world class feature films and feature length will entertain and engage us, and confront and challenge too — the documentaries in 2O12. In addition to the screenings, movie goers can perfect film festival mix! participate in a suite of additional events such as Q&A sessions and This year we invite you to join us in the Festival Lounge to discuss the panel discussions with directors, producers and actors. I am excited issues revealed in this year’s films. Filmmakers, critics, commentators to note that Australia’s leading singer/songwriter Paul Kelly is coming and the best experts will be at the Lounge to help us unpack all those to the Canberra International Film Festival this year to participate in intriguing ideas. The Festival Lounge will be the place to have a drink as some of these events. well as talk and think all things film! Canberra residents are enthusiastic mover goers. In 2OO9–1O, 76% of CIFF is brought to you by our dedicated board, staff, volunteers and residents over the age of 15 years attended cinemas compared with partner organisations. I’d like to thank each of them for their enormous 67% of Australians. In addition of those who went to the Cinema, enthusiasm and support. Special thanks to the ACT Government for their 43% went more than five times in the year. ongoing commitment to CIFF through artsACT, Festivals, and of course The arts are an intrinsic part of a lively and engaged community. The ACT Centenary 1OO. I applaude our principal partner TransACT as well as our is a unique jurisdiction and home to a distinctive and valuable local arts other major partners Canberra CBD Limited and DHL Express. We also scene. Access to and participation in the arts is vital to our continued warmly acknowledge our founding partner the University of Canberra as enjoyment of a productive, healthy and creative community. The Canberra well as the ongoing support of Screen Australia. community enjoys not only viewing but also making films. The ACT film I’d like to take this opportunity to particularly thank my predecessor sector is diverse and highly capable with many talented filmmakers. CIFF President Virginia Haussegger, for her leadership and inspiration. I have enjoyed watching the Festival develop in scope and audience I’m pleased Virginia will remain on the Board and involved with CIFF. numbers over the past few years and I wish the Canberra International I hope you are as excited as I am at the prospect of being immersed in Film Festival well for its 2O12 season. 12 days of provoking cinema! 3
IVAN SLAVICH SIMON WEAVING TRANSACT CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER CIFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR This year marks TransACT’s fifth year as major There’s nothing quite like the buzz of a film festival – movie sponsor of this iconic event and each year CIFF just lovers pushing into big-screen cinemas to experience the keeps getting better. The line-up for 2O12 again has world’s best filmmaking, and then emerging back out 1OO a great range of films on offer, showcasing incredible minutes later to share that experience or rush to the filmmaking talent from around the globe. next screening. It’s an intense and highly social experience – watching, learning, sharing and debating the meaning This year we’re excited to unveil the very first CIFF 2O12 mobile app, of images and sound. And once again I am thrilled to present you with an brought to you by TransACT. This fantastic app allows you to view the extraordinary line-up of international cinema: stories and documentaries CIFF program on the move and check out movie trailers straight from that will make you laugh and cry, that will fill you with a sense of the beauty your mobile. It also allows you to search for favourite films by country, of the world, and allow you to witness characters making choices that you showing time or genre, plan your CIFF schedule, and share your schedule TM may never dare to make. Whatever your taste in films, I am sure you will find with friends. It’s available for both Apple® and Android devices, and something to get you talking. best of all, it’s free! After last year’s great event, the TransACT team thought long and hard After opening the last three festivals with some seriously challenging about how to make CIFF even better. As a result, the CIFF app was born. stories, it’s great to kick off this year with comedy – Ken Loach’s riotous We have worked closely with Canberra-based app development experts, whisky heist The Angels’ Share. Twelve days – and 6O films – later, we close Imagine Team, over many months to make this awesome app a reality with an Australian comedy Save Yer Legs. In between there are award- and we know it will make your CIFF experience richer. winning films from all over the world and a great line up of international and national guests – all here to enrich the festival chatter! Remember that you can extend your entertainment experience after CIFF with TransACT’s Subscription TV services. Subscribers to My thanks again to the University of Canberra for their ongoing support TransACT TV can add on our Movie Package to unlock a world of movies and commitment as the Festival’s founding partner. It is their generous from Movie One, Movie Two, Movie Extra and Movie Greats – perfect for contribution that allows me to take part in the Cannes Film Festival each movie buffs! year – a critical part of the process of bringing the world’s best cinema to Canberra. You can download your free CIFF app via the App Store and Google PlayTM, and don’t forget to let us know what you think of it. The 16th Join us for 12 days of moving, stimulating, and thrilling filmmaking, and do Canberra International Film Festival is set to be a memorable event and look out for the Festival Lounge sessions in the Premium Bar of the Dendy we look forward to enjoying it with you. – where we will get some seriously hot discussions going about what you’ve just seen. Android and Google Play are trademarks of Google Inc. Use of these trademarks is subject to Google Permissions. Apple is a trademark of I hope you enjoy the buzz – and always let us know what you think, either on Apple Inc our website, via Facebook or come and catch up with me for a chat in the foyer. Welcome to the 16th Canberra International Film Festival. 4
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OPENING NIGHT
WED 31 OCT THE ANGELS’ SHARE 7.OOPM / DENDY Comedy, politics and a drop of the hard stuff combine in this hilarious kilts-up FRI 2 NOV comedy about a whisky heist. 2.OOPM / DENDY A rat-bag group of young offenders meet to carry out their community service and visit a distillery under the watchful eye of their supervisor Harry. As they learn more UK, France, Belgium, about each other – and about the power and value of whisky – they hatch a crazy Italy / 2O12 / MA 15+ / plan to solve their financial problems by stealing the most valuable keg of whisky in Comedy / 1O1mins Scotland. With writing by long-time collaborator Paul Laverty (Looking for Eric, The Director Wind that Shakes the Barley), director Ken Loach creates a feel-good comedy with a Ken Loach bunch of highly likeable and unforgettable characters. Writer Paul Laverty Producer “ A warm, deftly-plotted heist movie.” Rebecca O’Brien Philip French, The Guardian Cast Paul Brannigan, John Henshaw, Jury Prize – Cannes Film Festival. Gary Maitland Screenings at Sydney Film Festival. Print Source Vendetta Films 6
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CLOSING NIGHT
SUN 11 NOV SAVE YER LEGS 6.15PM / ARC A perfect way to close the festival – this inspirational Australian film has it Australia / 2O12 / all – comedy, cricket and Bollywood music. Comedy, Sport / 9Omins Teddy (Steven Curry) is a 3O-something bachelor and President of The Abbotsford Anglers – a Director D-grade cricket team from Melbourne. When given the chance to tour India, Teddy is forced to Boyd Hicklin spend more time with his ageing cricket buddies than usual, and starts to realise what growing Writer up really means. Written by (and starring) Brendan Cowell, Save Yer Legs is a warm and funny Brendan Cowell odyssey, and a coming-of-middle-age story with a cast that also includes Damien Gameau and Producer Brenton Thwaites. Nick Batzias Join director Boyd Hicklin for this special screening and our closing night party at the National Cast Film and Sound Archive. Brenton Thwaites, David Lyons, Brendan Cowell Print Source “ The right mix of hi-jinks, heart and cross-cultural romance.” Madman Richard Kuipers, Variety Entertainment Screenings at Melbourne International Film Festival. 8 GREAT CAREERS IN FILM START HERE www.canberra.edu.au UC1332 CRICOS#00212K 9 GREAT CAREERS IN FILM START HERE www.canberra.edu.au UC1332 CRICOS#00212K 1O CIFF MEMBERSHIP A YEAR OF GREAT FILM!
Become a 2O12 CIFF Member for only YOU’LL GET $35 Single or $6O Double and reward yourself with huge discounts to films and special Huge discounts on CIFF Tickets Members’ screening before and after Access to the Opening and Closing Nights and VIP Party the festival is over. You’ll also receive Free Screening on Wednesday 16 October of invitations to 6 special screenings over ROBOT & FRANK with CIFF Artistic Director Simon Weaving the next 12 months. Free Screening on Wednesday 14 November of UNDEFEATED as well as the 2O12 CIFF Audience Award announcement 6 Free Screenings throughout the year
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All information contained in this program was correct at time of printing. Privacy Act * Full details are required for membership / personal information will not be passed on to third parties / CIFF ensures membership details are securely maintained. 12 CHATS IN THE FESTIVAL LOUNGE AT DENDY AFTER THE SCREENING Come across to the Dendy Premium Bar for a festival chat and join our special guests to talk all things film. You’ll meet other like-minded cinephiles as well as a great line up of guest commentators, not to mention a complimentary glass of champagne. The Dendy bar will also be open to CIFF members Monday – Friday before 5pm to debrief on all the titles so far.
THE STEP UP TO IMPOSTER CHASING THE PLATE TUESDAY 6 XINGU ICE THE HUNT WEDNESDAY 7 ENTRE LE BRAS SUNDAY 4 AMOUR NOVEMBER THURSDAY 8 THURSDAY 1 MONDAY 5 6.3OPM NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 6.3OPM NOVEMBER NOVEMBER 6.3OPM NOVEMBER Ross Solly [666ABC] talks 6.3OPM 6.3OPM 6.3OPM with Rebecca Kotz, Team Professor Carlos Pio, Margaret Pomeranz Leader of the Australian a Brazilian academic Professor Tony Alex Sloan [666ABC] talks Mads Mikklesen Margaret Pomeranz Federal Police’s National with the ANU School Peacock, head of chats with Michael and this award- chats to Simon Weaving Missing Persons of Politics and the the Co-operative Harrington, of the winning film directed about this very moving Coordination Centre. National Centre for Research Centres acclaimed Canberra by Thomas Vinterberg, film and about director Rebecca will share her Latin American Studies Association talks restaurant Sage about one of the founders Michael Haneke’s unique insights into the reveals where Brazil is about science’s the inspiration of chef of the Dogme 95 intensely disciplined extraordinary true story headed – and where it big issue, climate Michel Bras. filmmaking school. approach to filmmaking. told in The Imposter. has been. change. 13
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WED 17 OCT WED 14 NOV ROBOT & FRANK 6.3OPM / DENDY UNDEFEATED 6.3OPM / DENDY With a sci-fi twist on the crime caper, a retired burglar In a story that’s almost impossibly too good to be true, gets an unlikely new partner when his family decides he USA / 2O12 / M / a dedicated football coach grapples with an under- USA / 2O11 / M / Sci-Fi, Comedy / 9Omins Documentary, needs a robot to help around the house. resourced and emotionally battered high-school team. Director Sport / 113mins Much-loved actor Frank Langella plays Frank, an irritable Jake Schreier Documentary filmmakers Dan Lindsay and T. J. Martin spent Director Writer Daniel Lindsay, retiree, and ex-cat burglar, whose wife and children have a year in the underprivileged and mainly black community of T.J. Martin long since gone. Since he is alone and barely able to Christopher D. Ford Manassas, Tennessee, with a local high-school football team Producer Producer manage, his absent family decide to buy him a robot – one Lance Acord, – a raggedy bunch of sullen teenagers who had an abysmal Ed Cunningham, that walks, talks, cooks and tries to civilise its cantankerous Galt Neiderhoffer record of failure. Enter Coach Bill Courtney – a busy father Seth Gordon, master. Initially intolerant of Robot’s patronising manner, of three who decided he might be able to turn things Daniel Lindsay, Cast Glen Zipper Frank comes to realise that the machine might just make Peter Sarsgaard, around. This extraordinary documentary charts the year Frank Langella, Print Source the perfect partner for one last burglary. With a playfully that followed: the overwhelming and institutionalised odds Madman sharp script from Christopher D. Ford and a light and easy Susan Saradon against success, the disruptive personalities of the players, touch from director Jake Schreier, this film was one of the Print Source and the personal anguish that everyone went through as Sony Releasing big hits from this year’s Sundance Film Festival. the season progressed. “ The kind of comedy that could well inspire “An inspirational sports saga.” love… half sci-fi and half shaggy dog.” Claudia Puig, USA Today. John Anderson, Variety Best Documentary Feature – USA Academy Awards. Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize – Sundance Film Festival. Screenings at SXSW, Dubai International Film Festival. Screenings at Sundance Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival. 14 2O12 FILM FESTIVAL PLANNER
TIME WED 17 OCT WED 31 OCT THU 1 NOV FRI 2 NOV SAT 3 NOV SUN 4 NOV MON 5 NOV TUES 6 NOV WED 7 NOV THUR 8 NOV FRI 9 NOV SAT 1O NOV SUN 11 NOV WED 14 NOV
For The Love 1.15 PM of Movies [25] Room 237 [27] Ai Weiwei: The Angels’ Share [5] Keyhole [53] Monsieur Lazhar [46] 33 Postcards [33] Step Up To The Plate [25] Silent City [34] The Loneliest Planet [35] 2.OOPM Never Sorry [53]
2.OOPM Stella Days [34] !Vivan Las Antipodas! [41] Xingu [35] Love Story [43] The Imposter [26] Smashed [47]
2.OOPM Turn Me On Goddammit [22] Let My People Go! [22]
2.15 PM Crawlspace [29] Shadows of Liberty [27] 3.15 PM The Shining [30]
4.OO Monsieur Lazhar [46] Queen Freak [21] Caesar Must Die [17] I, Anna [37] Sleepless Night [37] Paris-Manhattan [23] Sex, Lies & Surgery [23] PM
4.OO Naked Harbour [42] Broken [45] Chasing Ice [26] Like Someone In Love [42] PM
Violeta Went Charles Bradley: Violeta Went Errors Of The Berberian Sound 4.15 PM Hundra [38] The Ringmaster General [51] To Heaven [51] Soul of America [49] To Heaven [51] Human Body [30] Studio [33] Charles Bradley Soul Searching For CLOSING NIGHT 6.15 PM Grabbers [29] Maniac Cop [39] Silent City [34] Stella Days [34] The Hunt [18] 11 Flowers [41] Neil Young Journeys [49] Like Someone In Love [42] of America [49] Sugar Man [50] Save Yer Legs [7] 6.15 PM 33 Postcards [33] Naked Harbour [42] Smashed [47] Children of Sarejevo [45] Broken [45] Love Story [43] MEMBERS LAUNCH Step Up To CIFF AWARDS 6.3O PM Sex, Lies & Surgery [23] 11 Flowers [41] The Hunt [18] Amour [17] 6pm start The Imposter [26] Xingu [35] Chasing Ice [26] Sister [47] Turn Me On Goddammit [22] Paris-Manhattan [23] Robot & Frank [13] The Plate [25] Undefeated [13] OPENING NIGHT 7.OO PM The Angels’ Share [5]
Paul Kelly: Stories 7.3OPM of Me [50] 8.15 PM In The Fog [19] Caesar Must Die [17] In The Fog [19] Let My People Go! [22] Sightseers [21] Amour [17] Beyond The Hills [19] Sleepless Night [37] Children of Sarejevo [45] American Mary [36]
Berberian Sound Q, The Winged Errors Of The Human 8.15 PM The Stuff [39] Grabbers [29] Robot Monster [31] Studio [33] Serpent [31] Body [30] 8.3O PM Queen Freak [21] !Vivan Las Antipodas! [41] Sightseers [21] Beyond The Hills [19] I, Anna [37] American Mary [36] Faust [18] No [43] The Loneliest Planet [35] Rust & Bone [46] VENUE ARC / National Film and Sound Archive Canberra Theatre Centre Dendy James Fairfax Theatre – National Gallery of Australia 15 2O12 FILM FESTIVAL PLANNER
TIME WED 17 OCT WED 31 OCT THU 1 NOV FRI 2 NOV SAT 3 NOV SUN 4 NOV MON 5 NOV TUES 6 NOV WED 7 NOV THUR 8 NOV FRI 9 NOV SAT 1O NOV SUN 11 NOV WED 14 NOV
For The Love 1.15 PM of Movies [25] Room 237 [27]
Ai Weiwei: The Angels’ Share [5] Keyhole [53] Monsieur Lazhar [46] 33 Postcards [33] Step Up To The Plate [25] Silent City [34] The Loneliest Planet [35] 2.OOPM Never Sorry [53]
2.OOPM Stella Days [34] !Vivan Las Antipodas! [41] Xingu [35] Love Story [43] The Imposter [26] Smashed [47]
2.OOPM Turn Me On Goddammit [22] Let My People Go! [22]
2.15 PM Crawlspace [29] Shadows of Liberty [27] 3.15 PM The Shining [30]
4.OO Monsieur Lazhar [46] Queen Freak [21] Caesar Must Die [17] I, Anna [37] Sleepless Night [37] Paris-Manhattan [23] Sex, Lies & Surgery [23] PM
4.OO Naked Harbour [42] Broken [45] Chasing Ice [26] Like Someone In Love [42] PM
Violeta Went Charles Bradley: Violeta Went Errors Of The Berberian Sound Hundra [38] The Ringmaster General [51] 4.15 PM To Heaven [51] Soul of America [49] To Heaven [51] Human Body [30] Studio [33]
Charles Bradley Soul Searching For CLOSING NIGHT Grabbers [29] Maniac Cop [39] Silent City [34] Stella Days [34] The Hunt [18] 11 Flowers [41] Neil Young Journeys [49] Like Someone In Love [42] 6.15 PM of America [49] Sugar Man [50] Save Yer Legs [7]
6.15 PM 33 Postcards [33] Naked Harbour [42] Smashed [47] Children of Sarejevo [45] Broken [45] Love Story [43]
MEMBERS LAUNCH Step Up To CIFF AWARDS 6.3O PM Sex, Lies & Surgery [23] 11 Flowers [41] The Hunt [18] Amour [17] 6pm start The Imposter [26] Xingu [35] Chasing Ice [26] Sister [47] Turn Me On Goddammit [22] Paris-Manhattan [23] Robot & Frank [13] The Plate [25] Undefeated [13] OPENING NIGHT 7.OO PM The Angels’ Share [5]
Paul Kelly: Stories 7.3OPM of Me [50]
8.15 PM In The Fog [19] Caesar Must Die [17] In The Fog [19] Let My People Go! [22] Sightseers [21] Amour [17] Beyond The Hills [19] Sleepless Night [37] Children of Sarejevo [45] American Mary [36]
Berberian Sound Q, The Winged Errors Of The Human The Stuff [39] Grabbers [29] Robot Monster [31] 8.15 PM Studio [33] Serpent [31] Body [30] 8.3O PM Queen Freak [21] !Vivan Las Antipodas! [41] Sightseers [21] Beyond The Hills [19] I, Anna [37] American Mary [36] Faust [18] No [43] The Loneliest Planet [35] Rust & Bone [46] James Fairfax Theatre – National Gallery of Australia KEY [XX] Program page Intro and Q&A by Director / Actor Chats in the Festival Lounge Panel discussions at ARC 16 AWARD
AMOUR CAESAR MUST DIE FAUST WINNING MONDAY 5 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER DY6.3O PM / DEN 8.15PM / DENDY DY8.3OPM / DEN TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER CINEMA 8.15PM / DENDY 4.OOPM / DENDY
Six of the best movies from the past year that have won outstanding acclaim around the world
THE HUNT BEYOND THE HILLS IN THE FOG SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER DY6.3OPM / DEN DY8.3OPM / DEN 8.15PM / DENDY TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER 6.15PM / DENDY 8.15PM / DENDY 8.15PM / DENDY 17 AMOUR CAESAR MUST DIE CESARE DEVE MORIRE
This uncompromising and moving study of two people A brooding and original tale of how murderers and the growing old centres on extraordinary performances MON 5 NOV Mafiosi deal with a production of Shakespeare’s Julius FRI 2 NOV and the storytelling discipline of one of Europe’s 6.3O PM / DENDY Caesar inside a maximum security prison. 8.15PM / DENDY most celebrated directors. From inside Rebibbia maximum security prison, directors George and Anne are in their 8Os and live in an elegant TUES 6 NOV Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Padre Padrone, The Night of the SUN 4 NOV apartment in Paris, surrounded by a lifetime of carefully 8.15PM / DENDY Shooting Stars) follow a group of inmates as they rehearse 4.OOPM / DENDY manicured memories. As Anne’s health slowly and and stage Shakespeare’s famous play about treachery and inevitably deteriorates, both she and George start France, Germany, politics. The use of actors serving multiple life sentences for Italy / 2O12 / M / Austria / 2O12 / Drama / Drama / 76mins making difficult adjustments to what will clearly be a range of violent crimes serves to highlight the themes of 125mins Director the final phase of their lives together. Multiple award- Director/Writer the play and creates an unusual and sinister atmosphere. Paolo Taviani, winning Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke (The White Michael Haneke As they prepare for their scenes, these real-life criminals Vittorio Taviani Ribbon, The Piano Teacher) uses this simple story to Producer often reflect on the nature of vengeance, honour and Writer explore the nature of selfless, unromantic love and the Margaret Ménégoz betrayal with a disquieting personal intensity. This is brooding William Shakespeare, challenges that come with trying to remain dignified in Cast drama from two brothers who have been making award- Paolo Taviani, the face of debilitation and death. Jean-Louis Trintignant, winning cinema for more than 4O years. Vittorio Taviani Emmanuelle Riva, Producer Isabelle Huppert Grazia Volpi “ Magnificent in its simplicity and its Print Source “ Magnificent in its simplicity and its Cast Transmission Films Cosimo Rega, relentless honesty.” Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter relentless honesty.” Gary Maddox, Sydney Morning Herald Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri, Antonio Frasca Winner Palme d’Or – Cannes Film Festival 2012. Golden Bear – Berlin Film Festival. Print Source Screenings at Cannes and Sydney Film Festivals. Screenings at Berlin and Sydney Film Festivals. Palace Films Join us in the Dendy Premium Lounge after the Monday screening for a chat with special guest Margaret Pomeranz. 18 FAUST THE HUNT JAGTEN
This visually stunning adaptation of the Faust legend Mads Mikkelsen gives an outstanding performance in this sees a doctor turn to a moneylender to help secure the WED 7 NOV spine-chilling drama about an innocent man whose life is SUN 4 NOV woman of his desires. 8.3OPM / DENDY threatened by a child’s lie. 6.3OPM / DENDY Russian director Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Mother Russia / 2O11 / Recently divorced kindergarten teacher Lucas (played and Son) spins his idiosyncratic version of the Faust story Drama / 14Omins by Mads Mikkelsen) is a much-admired member of a TUE 6 NOV around a doctor seeking to understand the meaning Director small Danish community. When one of his young students 6.15PM / DENDY of life and death and understand the place of the soul. Aleksandr Sokurov accuses him of sexual misconduct, Lucas is forced to Befriending a moneylender – who takes the role of Writer take time off as an investigation gets underway. But with Denmark / 2O12 / Yuri Arabov, Aleksandr Drama / 1O6mins Mephistopheles – he meets the beautiful Margarete, and the small town disintegrating into hysteria and official Sokurov Director cannot resist doing a deal in order to spend one night Producer processes woefully inept, the story turns into a shocking Thomas Vinterberg with her. witch-hunt with nowhere for Lucas to find calm. Director Andrey Sigle Writer Thomas Vinterberg – one of the founders of the Dogme Director Sokurov collaborates with French Cast Tobias Lindholm, Johannes Zeiler, Anton 95 school of filmmaking – makes a stunning return to form Thomas Vinterberg cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel to create a sublime Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk with this thrilling drama. Producer and complex tale, rich in detail and meaning. Print Source Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Films Boutique Morten Kaufmann “ A hugely affecting film, inspiring Cast “ There are some films that change you forever Mads Mikkelsen, the full gambit of emotions.” Thomas Bo Larsen, after you see them; and this is one of them.” Simon Gallagher, Film School Rejects Annika Wedderkopp Darren Aronofsky, Jury President – Venice Film Festival Print Source Madman Entertainment Best Actor Prize – Cannes Film Festival. Golden Lion – Venice Film Festival. Screenings at Cannes and Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Best ART Direction – Gijon International Film Festival. Screenings at Venice, Toronto and London Film Festivals. Join us in the Dendy Premium Lounge after the Monday screening for a chat with special guest Margaret Pomeranz. 19 BEYOND THE HILLS DUPA DEALURI IN THE FOG V TUMANE
Mysterious and beautiful, this slow-burning drama – A mysterious and quietly terrifying journey into the soul about two friends at an Orthodox monastery in rural SUN 4 NOV of a man wrongly accused of collaborating with Russia’s THUR 1 NOV Romania – deals with the irrational fears that come with 8.3OPM / DENDY Nazi invaders. 8.15PM / DENDY faith and devotion. With German forces occupying the western front of the Voichita and Alina are friends who grew up in an WED 7 NOV USSR, a brutal resistance campaign is being fought by SAT 3 NOV orphanage but haven’t seen each other for some years. 8.15PM / DENDY partisans. Railway worker Sushenya is arrested with a group 8.15PM / DENDY When Alina returns to the remote monastery where of others and charged with derailing a train. Refusing to Voichita has now found some kind of calm, it’s not only Romania / 2O12 / cooperate with his German captors, Sushenya is surprisingly 2O12 / Germany, Drama / 15Omins Netherlands, Belarus, their friendship that is put to the test, but the entire set free – only to find himself condemned by the belief that Director/Writer/Producer Russia, Latvia / Drama, authority of the small and austere institution. Acclaimed Cristian Mungiu he must have been collaborating with the enemy. With a War, History / 127mins director Cristian Mungiu (who won the 2OO7 Palme d’Or background in documentary filmmaking, Ukrainian director Cast Director for 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days) explores the clash Cosmina Stratan, Sergei Loznitsa allows the poetry and pain of Sushenya’s Sergei Loznitsa of personal and institutional values and the mistakes Cristina Flutur situation to play out slowly, emphasizing the fatalistic and Writer that are made in the name of faith, with two riveting Print Source chaotic forces that seem to dominate during times of war. Vasili Bykov, performances from his leading actresses. Madman Sergei Loznitsa Entertainment Producer “ A brilliant, scary portrayal of irrationality “ An intense, slow-burning and haunting drama.” Heino Deckert Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian Cast Vladimir Svirskiy, and fear in Europe’s dark heart.” Vladislav Abashin, Sergei Kolesov Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian FIPRESCI Prize (International Film Critics) – Cannes Film Festival. Print Source Screenings at Cannes and Karlovy Vary Film Festivals. Sharmill Films Best Screenplay & Best Actress – Cannes Film Festival. Screenings at Cannes Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival. 2O MADNESS
& MAYHEM QUEEN FREAK SIGHTSEERS TURN ME ON GODDAMMIT THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER DY8.3OPM / DEN DY8.3OPM / DEN 2.OOPM / DENDY SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER MONDAY 5 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 1O NOVEMBER From the suburbs of Finland to 4.OOPM / DENDY 8.15PM / DENDY DY6.3OPM / DEN the boulevards of Paris, these comedies are full of warm and deranged characters, crazy plotlines and a lot of laughs.
LET MY PEOPLE GO! PARIS-MANHATTAN SEX, LIES & SURGERY SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 1O NOVEMBER FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER 8.15PM / DENDY 4.OOPM / DENDY DY6.3OPM / DEN SATURDAY 1O NOVEMBER SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2.OOPM / DENDY DY6.3O PM / DEN 4.OOPM / DENDY 21 QUEEN FREAK SIGHTSEERS
21 Obsessive 16-year-old Emily decides to take matters A mix of quirky, understated English characters and into her own hands when pushed to the limit by her THUR 1 NOV bizarre homicidal violence that is sure to become a cult SAT 3 NOV dysfunctional family’s self-absorbed ways. 8.3OPM / DENDY comedy classic. 8.3OPM / DENDY In this hilarious comedy, 16 year-old Emily Smith-Dungy Tina is into knitting and dogs, and finally plucks up the (Olesya Rulin) decides to teach her family a thing or SAT 3 NOV courage to leave her grumpy mother and go for a MON 5 NOV two about how to act like a family. With dad (Matthew 4.OOPM / DENDY camping trip with nerdy new boyfriend Chris. But as they 8.15 PM / DENDY Modine) a dreamy artist, and mum (Kristin Chenoweth) tick off the sights – tram museums and pencil-making a high-flying executive, she organises her two wacky USA / 2O12 / factories – Tina gets to experience the darker side of UK / 2O12 / Comedy / 95mins Comedy / 95mins siblings to kidnap their parents and give them some Chris, who’s not averse to a spot of accidently-on- Director Director intensive training. Director Benjamin Epps keeps the Benjamin Epps purpose murder when he meets someone annoying. Billed Ben Wheatley pace cracking along in this warm and delightful comedy as “Natural Born Campers”, this is an offbeat and very Writer Writer about a family weekend with a difference. Matt K. Turner dark comedy from director Ben Wheatley, with a richly Alice Lowe, observed script developed by the two lead actors, Alice Steve Oram, The film will be introduced by the director Producer Adam Saunders, Lowe and Steve Oram. Amy Jump Benjamin Epps and the screening on Thursday Chris Aronoff Producer will be followed by a Q&A session. Cast Claire Jones, Matthew Modine, “A black-comedy holiday hoot.” James Roche, IndieWire Nira Park Kristin Chenoweth, Cast Olesya Rulin Alice Lowe, Print Source Screenings at Cannes Film Festival, Melbourne Steve Oram Footprint Features International Film Festival. Print Source Rialto 22 TURN ME ON GODDAMMIT FÅ MEG PÅ, FOR FAEN LET MY PEOPLE GO!
This warm and deadpan comedy sees a horny, romantic This blend of retro fairy tale and riotous farce sees a gay, teenager ostracized when she tells her friends about the SAT 3 NOV Jewish, Parisian postman forced to flee Finland with a bag SUN 4 NOV boy of her dreams. 2.OOPM / DENDY of cash, leaving his true love behind. 8.15PM / DENDY In a remote village in Norway, hormonal schoolgirl Alma (Helene Chock full of misunderstandings and wacky characters, this Bergsholm) has a crush on Artur, a dreamy boy who makes an SAT 1O NOV very snappy, clever farce follows the mildly neurotic Ruben, SAT 1O NOV advance on her. But when she shares the details of Artur’s 6.3OPM / DENDY who is working as a postie in Finland while living in bliss with 2.OOPM / DENDY behaviour with her friends, Alma pays a heavy social price. his adorable blonde boyfriend Teemu. But when Ruben is Bringing new meaning to the phrase “coming-of-age”, director Norway / 2O11 / handed a bag of cash in dangerous circumstances, he and France / 2O11 / Comedy / 76mins Comedy / 96mins/ Jannicke Systad-Jacobsen creates an affectionate, charming Teemu argue, forcing Ruben to flee home to Paris. Things Director Director tale of the quirks and cruelties of adolescence – infused with Jannicke Systad Jacobsen get quickly messy as Ruben rediscovers his quirky Jewish Mikael Buch that special brand of deadpan Norwegian humour. The film family and becomes enmeshed in a series of hilarious Writer Writer recently took out the top honours at Norway’s “Oscars”, and is Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, subplots. Original, quirky and stylish, this is a highly enjoyable Christophe Honoré, based on the best-selling Norwegian novel of the same name. Olaug Nilssen film by first-time director Mikael Buch, who keeps the pace Mikael Buch Producer tight and the tone satirical and sharp. Producer Brede Hovland Philippe Martin, “ A wry if saucily subversive charmer.” Cast Géraldine Michelot Michael O’Sullivan, Washington Post Helene Bergsholm, “ An unholy alliance of camp and farce.” Cast Malin Bjørhovde, Alissa Simon, Variety Nicolas Maury, Henriette Steenstrup Carmen Maura, Best Film, Best Cinematography – Amanda Awards, Norway. Print Source Jean-François Stévenin Screenings at Tribeca Film Festival, Stockholm International Madman Entertainment Screenings at Montreal World Film Festival, Print Source Film Festival. Taipei Film Festival. Fims du Losange AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE 23 PARIS-MANHATTAN SEX, LIES & SURGERY LA CLINIQUE DE L’AMOUR!
A delicious and charming romantic comedy about a young A riotous comedy – full of gleefully farcical characters – that Parisian woman whose choices in life and love are shaped SAT 1O NOV centres around the love, lies and finances of two brothers and FRI 2 NOV by her favourite filmmaker – Woody Allen. 4.OOPM / DENDY their family-owned medical centre. 6.3OPM / DENDY Thirty-something Alice is highly intelligent, unable to settle Inspired by A Fish Called Wanda, and a hilarious spoof of for anything but the best, and is convinced that being SUN 11 NOV American medical TV dramas like ER, this riotous farce centres SUN 11 NOV single works just fine for her. She’s also obsessed with 6.3O PM / DENDY on two brothers running a family-owned medical clinic. Older 4.OOPM / DENDY Woody Allen and, when her family sets her up with what brother John is gentle, timid and desperately in love with seems to be the man of her dreams, it’s the huge poster France / 2O12 / PG / Priscilla. But when younger brother and ladies man Michael sets France, Luxembourg, Comedy/ 77mins Belgium 2O12 / of Woody on her bedroom wall that she turns to for advice. eyes on her, family relations get more than stretched. To make Director/Writer Comedy / 83mins Debut director Sophie Lellouche creates a light and breezy Sophie Lellouche matters worse, the clinic is losing money and likely to be taken Director atmosphere for this shamelessly romantic tale of love and over by a pharmaceutical giant, forcing Michael to try out some Producer Artus de Penguern the warm wisdom of the movies, and French actress Alice Philippe Rousselet new techniques in plastic surgery to make money quickly. Add a Writer Taglioni concocts an endearingly quirky character in search Cast conniving, sexy nurse called Samantha Bitch, bumbling hit men Artus de Penguern, of a happy ending. Alice Taglioni, and alternative forms of anaesthesia, and you have a recipe for Gábor Rassov Patrick Bruel, more than madness. Actor-director Artus de Penguern pushes Producer Marine Delterme everything to the extreme, playfully mixing screwball comedy, Thibault Gast, Jesus Gonzalez-Elvira, Nicolas “ Utterly endearing. As bubbly and Print Source silent slapstick and deadpan farce. Palace Films Steil, Matthias Weber lively as Paris in spring.” Oliver Delcroix, Le Figaro Cast Bruno Salomone, Artus de “ Colourful, effervescent and Penguern, Héléna Noguerra more-than-slightly insane.” Boyd Van Hoiej, Variety Print Source Rezo Films AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE 24 TALKING
STEP UP TO THE PLATE FOR THE LOVE THE IMPOSTER POINT THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER OF MOVIES TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER DY6.3OPM / DEN SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER 6.3DY OPM / DEN TUESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 1.15PM / ARC SATURDAY 1O NOVEMBER Inspiring documentary 2.OOPM / DENDY 2.OOPM / DENDY cinema that will get you fired up, intrigued or gasping about the beauty of the world around us.
CHASING ICE ROOM 237 SHADOWS OF LIBERTY THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 1O NOVEMBER DY6.3OPM / DEN 1.15PM / ARC 2.15PM / ARC SATURDAY 1O NOVEMBER 4.OO PM / DENDY 25 STEP UP TO THE PLATE ENTR LES BRAS FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES
This delicious and poignant portrait of France’s Five stars? Four and a half? Your chance to discover finest family of chefs might just change the way THUR 1 NOV everything you ever wanted to know about film critics and SUN 4 NOV you cook forever. 6.3OPM / DENDY the state of a vanishing profession. 1.15PM / ARC In 1992, on the distant plains of Laguiole in southern In this unique account of the history of film criticism, director USA / 2O1O / France, Michel Bras established a now legendary TUE 6 NOV Gerald Peary (himself a film critic) traces the origins of criticism Documentary / 8Omins restaurant, a rebuilding of the family owned eatery 2.OOPM / DENDY from early Hollywood to the internet era. Using interviews Director/Writer established by his mother decades earlier. Ranked in the with top critics and filmmakers, the documentary explores Gerald Peary top 1O restaurants in the world, it is home to Bras’ highly France / 2O12 / the role and future of criticism, and covers some of the most Producer Documentary / 86mins Sharon Brooks, flamboyant culinary style, backed by his deep knowledge controversial debates in film history. Given the recent death of Director Amy Geller of the local flora and a focused mastery of technique. Paul Lacoste renowned critic Andrew Sarris (who appears in the film), this is a Cast Filmmaker Paul Lacoste follows Bras as he decides – timely and lively documentary for movie lovers and film students. Producer Patricia Clarkson, tentatively – to hand over the 3 Michelin-star business Didier Creste Robert Ebert, Andrew Sarris to his son Sebastian. It’s a rare insight into the creative Print Source process of the kitchen and the difficulties of handing Jour2fete “ A valentine to a vanishing profession.” Print Source down tradition – it will leave you in need of something Anne Thompson, Variety AG Films sensational to eat. AUSTRALIAN Screenings at SXSW, Vancouver International Film Festival, PREMIERE “ A must-see for foodies.” Edinburgh Film Festival. Ian Bartholomew, Taipei Times Join us after the screening for a panel discussion on the state of film criticism in Australia. Chaired by Simon Screenings at Berlin and Sydney Film Festivals. Weaving, the panel includes Margaret Pomeranz and Alan Sko, publisher of BMA Magazine. Join us in the Dendy Lounge after the Thursday screening for a chat about food and the film with Michael Harrington Co-owner of Sage Restaurant and Alex Sloane from 666ABC. 26 THE IMPOSTER CHASING ICE
Utterly implausible but completely true, this astonishing A breathtakingly beautiful and deeply worrying documentary explores how a con man convinced a grieving TUE 6 NOV documentary that provides clear evidence of the THUR 8 NOV family that he was their missing son. 6.3OPM / DENDY severity of climate change. 6.3OPM / DENDY In 1994, 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay went missing on his Multi-award winning nature photographer James Balog and way home from school in Texas. Nearly four years later his SAT 1O NOV a team of dedicated helpers spent five years struggling to SAT 1O NOV family received a phone call from police with the news that 2.OOPM / DENDY set up time-lapse cameras on the world’s most significant 4.OO PM / DENDY Nicholas had been found in Spain. British director Bart glaciers as part of the Extreme Ice Survey. He was joined Layton reinvents the crime documentary with cinematic UK / 2O12 / Documentary / by filmmaker Jeff Orlowski, who follows the group through USA / 2O12 / Biography / 99mins Documentary / 1O2mins re-enactments and compelling storytelling techniques blizzards and freezing temperatures, capturing on camera Director Director to create a film about the most duplicitous behaviour Bart Layton the team dealing with failures in technology and the Jeff Orlowski imaginable. Full of dramatic twists, the film raises complex emotional constraints of human endurance. The result Producer Writer questions of just how far people will go to believe what Dimitri Doganis – including Balog’s astounding time-lapse images – is a Mark Munroe they want to be true. The man at the dark heart of the Cast compelling argument for the impact of climate change and Producer story – con man Frederic Bourdin – is utterly captivating as Adam O’Brian, a celebration of the beautiful architecture of ice. Jerry Aronson, he reveals to camera just how and why he managed to do Frederic Bourdin, Paula DuPré Pesmen, the impossible. Carey Gibson Jeff Orlowski Print Source “ An entrancing and devastating documentary.” Cast Madman Entertainment Christie Ko, ScreenCrave James Balog “ An entrancing and devastating Print Source Join us in the Dendy Premium Lounge after the Madman Entertainment documentary.” Christie Ko, ScreenCrave Thursday screening for a chat about the film with Professor Tony Peacock, CEO of the Co-operative Join us in the Dendy Premium Lounge after the Research Centres Association and Artistic Director Tuesday screening for a chat about the film with Simon Weaving. Rebecca Kotz, Team Leader of the AFP’s Missing Person’s Coordination Unit and Ross Solly from 666ABC. 27 ROOM 237 SHADOWS OF LIBERTY
Wacky, jaw-dropping and frequently hilarious, this With opinions from people such as Julian Assange and Dan documentary takes a look at some of the more bizarre SUN 11 NOV Rather, this hard-hitting documentary takes a critical look at SAT 1O NOV interpretations of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. 1.15PM / ARC the impact of corporate control over the media. 2.15PM / ARC Director Rodney Ascher started an innocent search for USA / 2O12 / Documentary With the Levinson Inquiry underway in the UK, WikiLeaks founder UK / 2O12 / fans and academics who liked to talk about the meaning Blue Ray / 1O2mins Julian Assange holed up in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy, and Documentary / 93mins behind Kubrick’s 198O horror film The Shining. What he Director Gina Rinehart calling for tighter control of the media, there Director/Producer: found was a bizarre and outrageous collection of people Rodney Ascher couldn’t be a better time for this in-depth examination of the Jean-Philippe Tremblay – from academics to obsessives – each with the most Producer impact of corporate control over the media landscape. Canadian Cast Tim Kirk David Simon, obscure interpretations of the film. And that’s just for director Jean-Philippe Tremblay asks tough questions about just Print Source Julian Assange, starters – some of the nuttier interpretations involve The Film Sales Company how government deregulation in the media industry in America Dan Rather a detailed analysis of the film’s continuity errors and has influenced freedom of the press and democracy, putting the Print Source subliminal messages, concluding that the film proves the questions to media personalities ranging from Assange, to Dan Docfactory moon landings were faked. Made with intelligence and a Rather and Amy Goodman. AUSTRALIAN healthy dash of tongue-in-cheek, the film is for more than PREMIERE just Kubrick fans. “ Tremblay marshals a wealth of evidence to The Shining screens after this documentary – you will definitely want to see it again! demonstrate that government deregulation has paved the way for the perversion of the media’s “ A fanatical, sometimes hilarious analysis newsgathering function.” Julian Carrington, Torontoist and deconstruction of hidden meanings.” Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter Join us after the screening for a panel discussion chaired by Virginia Haussegger and featuring panel members: Katherine Murphy, Steve Lewis and Julie Posetti. Screenings at Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals. 28 STRANGE
GRABBERS CRAWLSPACE ERRORS OF THE & DEADLY THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER HUMAN BODY 6.15PM / ARC 2.15PM / ARC THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 8.15PM / ARC Join us at the National 8.15PM / ARC FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 4.15PM / ARC Film and Sound Archive for a collection of the latest SPECIAL OUTDOOR sci-fi thrillers, spoofs and SCREENING monster pics, along with a few of the best and worst classics ever made.
SPECIAL OUTDOOR THE SHINING Q, THE WINGED SERPENT ROBOT MONSTER SCREENING SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 1O NOVEMBER 3.15PM / ARC 8.15 PM / ARC OUTDOORS 8.15 PM / ARC OUTDOORS 29 GRABBERS CRAWLSPACE
A smash hit straight from the Edinburgh International Film A taut, futuristic thriller that follows a group of Festival, this sci-fi comedy sees a small Irish town invaded THUR 1 NOV soldiers sent to an underground military research SAT 3 NOV by creatures who can’t kill you if you’ve had a few drinks. 6.15PM / ARC facility, where they meet more than their minds can 2.15PM / ARC deal with. When an idyllic fishing village on a remote coast of Ireland Australia / 2O12 / Sci-Fi, is invaded by giant tentacled creatures from the sea, it FRI 9 NOV Set in an underground facility at Pine Gap that is in Thriller, Action / 85mins seems like nothing can stop the beasts from sucking all the 8.15PM / ARC emergency lockdown after it is attacked by unknown Director blood and popping the heads of anyone they come across. forces, this claustrophobic, spooky Australian thriller Justin Dix But newly arrived policewoman Lisa Nolan discovers – with UK, Ireland / 2O12 / Sci-Fi, mixes intense action and psychological drama to Writer Comedy, Thriller / 94mins Eddie Baroo, a little help from a local drunk and a posh scientist – that create an intense genre film. Opening with a group of Director Jon Wright Justin Dix, the creatures are allergic to alcohol. With the grabbers elite special forces soldiers dropped into the tunnels Adam Patrick Foster Writer Kevin Lehane increasing in number the only hope for survival is for the and air-shafts above a research centre where mind- Producer entire village to head for the pub. Director Jon Wright Producer control experiments have been taken to a new level, Justin Dix, crafts an easy-to-watch monster movie, adding lashings Tracy Brimm, the story centres on the unpredictable character of John Finemore, Eduardo Levy, Nicolas Sherry of Irish wit and charm to the low-key gore. Kate Myers Eve, an inmate who seems to have the most intimate Cast Cast connections to some of the soldiers who have been Peta Sergeant, Richard Coyle, sent to kill her. Director Justin Dix – with a strong Nicholas Bell, “ Funny, gory and with some Ruth Bradley, background in special effects – keeps the tension David Whiteley Russell Tovey Total Film tight and the twists coming as the battle for control Print Source feckin’ good CGI. Grand.” Print Source of the small space develops. Arclight Films Monster Films Audience Award – Neuchâtel International AUSTRALIAN AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE PREMIERE Fantasy Film Festival. The film is introduced by director Justin Dix, with Screenings at Sundance, Edinburgh and Karlovy a Q&A after the screening. Vary Film Festivals. 3O ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY THE SHINING
This taut psychological thriller, set in the mysterious world Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of of genetic engineering, sees one man on a dangerous THUR 8 NOV metaphysical terror remains a horror movie classic and a SUN 11 NOV journey of discovery and redemption. 8.15PM / ARC brilliant example of Kubrick’s calculating cinema. 3.15PM / ARC Canadian scientist Geoff Burton joins an elite institute “Here’s Johnny!” Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining probably UK, USA / 198O / in wintry Dresden, bringing his knowledge of the human FRI 9 NOV needs little introduction to cinema lovers – a film now so Horror, Thriller, regeneration gene to former colleagues who have continued 4.15PM / ARC familiar that it’s both homaged and parodied. ‘Blocked’ Retrospective / 119mins his work. Still grieving the death of his infant son, Burton novelist Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the Director discovers that his research is being used in ways that push Germany, USA, winter caretaker of the isolated Overlook Hotel holiday Stanley Kubrick Australia / 2O12 / Sci-Fi, the limits of ethics and medical safety. Australian director Thriller / 1O1mins château. He’s hoping to free up the creative juices and Writer Eron Sheean ratchets up the tension, and uses a cool, maybe improve the work-life balance with his shy wife Steven King, Stanley Director Kubrick evocative aesthetic to capture the increasingly challenging Eron Sheen Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son, Danny (Danny personal dilemma of a thoughtful man of science. Writer Lloyd). But Overlook’s been built on a traditional Native Producer Eron Sheean, American burial ground, and is also sitting over a few of the Stanley Kubrick Shane Danielsen White Man’s inner demons. As the snow, the isolation and Cast “ Captivating from start to finish.” Producer cabin fever sets in, Danny begins to ‘shine’ and the horrors Jack Nicholson, Paul Kelly, Melbourne WeekendNotes Mike Dehghan, of Overlook emerge. Shelley Duvall, Cole Payne, Danny Lloyd Darryn Welch A masterpiece of psychological horror from one of the Screenings at Fantasia and Melbourne International Print Source Cast world’s great directors, The Shining screens after the Film Festivals. Michael Eklund, Park Cirus, Karoline Herfurth, documentary Room 237 – a highly entertaining examination MGM, Tómas Lemarquis of some of the interpretations of Kubrick’s work. NFSA Collection Film Source Curios Films “ Kubrick’s spellbinding foray into the realm of the horror film” Janet Maslin, New York Times 31 Q, THE WINGED SERPENT ROBOT MONSTER
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A giant flying lizard is brought back to life to Dress for the end of the world and come see one of the best terrorise New York in this highly original, classic SAT 3 NOV worst sci-fi monster films ever made. SAT 1O NOV 198O’s monster movie. 8.15 PM / ARC Made in four days for a budget of $US16,OOO, Robot Monster 8.15 PM / ARC Resurrected by followers of a bizarre cult, the OUTDOORS has become a much-loved film and is regularly rated among OUTDOORS Aztec god Quetzalcoatl (Q for short) starts nipping the worst sci-fi movies ever made. Sent from outer space by USA / 1982/ M / USA / 1953 / PG / the heads off window washers and bikini-glad girls Horror, Retrospective / “The Great Guidance” to destroy all humans is the mysterious Sci-Fi, Classic / sunbathing on New York rooftops. Police Detective 35mm / 93mins Ro-Man Extension XJ-2, his mission becomes delayed when 35mm / 66mins Shepard (David Carradine) starts an investigation Director/Writer/Producer the last handful of survivors find a strange immunity from the Director/Producer of the case – following the entrails that lead to the Larry Cohen electrifying death ray that has destroyed everyone else. What Phil Tucker top of the Chrysler Building. It’s witty, fast-paced, Cast will the robot monster do …? As the trailer says, “see sultry Writer guerilla filmmaking from the 198Os with some clever David Carradine, beauty in the clutches of a half-crazed monster … see the Wyott Ordung Michael Moriarty, Producer references to monster movies like King Kong, and a Candy Clark world battle for survival”. compelling performance by Carradine. Phil Tucker Print Source Famously, the film’s budget didn’t allow for a robot costume so Cast Monster Films director/producer Phil Tucker borrowed a gorilla suit from a George Nader, Sarah Boslaugh, Playback friend and topped it with a diving helmet – and the result has Gregory Moffett, “an inspired bit of madness” Claudia Barrett gone down in movie history. Dress up and join us in the courtyard of the NFSA for 66 minutes of sci-fi retro madness. Print Source Come on down for a special outdoor screening at the Chapel Films NFSA and join writer/producer/director Larry Cohen as he introduces one of his classic films from the 198Os. “The less said, the better.” Variety, December 1952
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Like fish out of water or innocents abroad, the central characters in these STELLA DAYS THE LONELIEST PLANET XINGU SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER films find themselves 2.OOPM / DENDY DY8.3OPM / DEN DY6.3OPM / DEN strangers in strange lands MONDAY 5 NOVEMBER SUN 11 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER and well out of their 6.15PM / DENDY 2.OOPM / DENDY 2.OOPM / DENDY comfort zones. 33 33 POSTCARDS BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
This moving drama with a strong Australian cast sees Toby Jones gives an inspiring performance as a timid a Chinese girl travel to Australia to discover that her THUR 1 NOV sound engineer sent to Italy to work on a mysterious THUR 1 NOV long-term sponsor isn’t the perfect man she imagined. 6.15PM / DENDY and exotic horror film. 8.15PM / ARC Chinese orphan Mei Mei (Zhu Lin) has been supported A smash hit at the Edinburgh Film Festival, this sinister by donations from her Australian sponsor Dean Randall MON 5 NOV and moody thriller follows a timid English sound engineer SAT 1O NOV (Guy Pearce) for many years. So when she tours Australia 2.OOPM / DENDY (Toby Jones) who finds himself working with a group of 4.15PM / ARC with her orphanage choir, she dreams of finding him and mysterious filmmakers on a horror film in Italy. Director becoming part of the family he has described to her in Australia, China / 2O11 / Peter Strickland uses sound and an innate understanding UK / 2O12 / Drama, M / Drama / 97mins Horror / 92mins his letters. Managing to give her minders the slip, Mei Mei of the psychology of fear to slowly build the tension of Director Director/Writer tracks down Dean, only to discover the shocking truth Pauline Chan this moody, paranoid thriller to fever pitch. Toby Jones Peter Strickland about who he really is. Written and directed by Australian gives another outstanding performance as Gilderoy, a man Writer Producer filmmaker Pauline Chan, the film explores cultural Philip Dalkin, permanently uncomfortable in a strange environment, and Keith Griffiths, differences with great warmth and sensitivity, supported Martin Edmond forced to deal with the minutiae of his work as the tone Mary Burke by a wonderful Australian cast that includes Claudia Producer shifts from dark humour to claustrophobic mystery. Cast Karvan and Lincoln Lewis. Penny Carl, Toby Jones, Liu Zhijiang, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Lesley Stevens “ Lip-smacking cinema, gamy and complex … Cosimo Fusco “ A universal story that is sure to please Cast Print Source Guy Pearce, consider it unmissable.” Robbie Collin, The Telegraph Madman Entertainment any audience.” Mia Robinson, Australian Film Review Zhu Lin, Claudia Karvan Print Source Screenings at Edinburgh Film Festival, Melbourne Rising Star Award – Shanghai Film Festival. Titan View International Film Festival. Screenings at Sydney Film Festival.
The film will be introduced by the director Pauline Chan and the Thursday screening will be followed by a Q&A session. 34 SILENT CITY DE STILLE STAD STELLA DAYS
This heart-warming, fish-out-of-water story about Martin Sheen stars as a progressive, movie-loving priest cultural differences sees a young woman trying to learn SAT 3 NOV caught in a clash between tradition and modernity in an SAT 3 NOV the art of preparing fish from a famous Japanese chef. 6.15PM / DENDY isolated town in 195Os Ireland. 2.OOPM / DENDY Rosa – a young Dutch woman – is a long way from home, After 2O years in the USA and the Vatican, urbane living in Tokyo to learn the art of filleting fish from the WED 7 NOV intellectual Father Barry (Martin Sheen) is dispatched to MON 5 NOV famous Master Hon, the best fish chef in the world. 2.OOPM / DENDY the Irish wilderness where electricity is reluctantly being 6.15PM / DENDY Battling prejudice, hierarchy and the difficulties of introduced to a remote parish in Tipperary. Bored, lost communication, Rosa slowly becomes more and more Netherlands, Luxembourg, and more interested in the status of his application to Ireland, Norway, Belgium / 2O11 / Drama, Germany / 2O11 / Drama, isolated, unaccustomed to the strange workplace Comedy / 87mins return to Rome, Barry reluctantly immerses himself in local Comedy / 1OOmins culture and the high cost of living in Japan. Broke and Director/Writer affairs, bumping up against the tiny town’s conservative Director desperate, she decides to make some money working in Threes Anna forces when he tries to screen Hollywood films in the local Thaddeus O’Sullivan a club, entertaining Japanese businessmen, but this only Producer hall. With superb supporting performances from a cast Writer takes her further from her ambitions. Director Threes Hans de Wolf, that includes Stephen Rea and Marcella Plunkett, director Antoine O. Flatharta, Anna – who won acclaim with her previous feature The Hanneke Niens Thaddeus O’Sullivan creates a gem of a film based on Michael Doorley Bird Can’t Fly – draws inspiration from Lost in Translation, Cast Michael Doorley’s novel of the same name. Producer and Laurence Roothooft gives a warm and affectionate Laurence Roothooft, Jackie Larkin, Makoto Makita, Lesley McKimm, performance as an awkward but determined young Shinji Otani “ Sheen’s first-rate performance and Maggie Pope woman trying not to drown. Print Source Cast Key Film Martin Sheen, Screenings at San Sebastian Film Festival. O’Sullivan’s flair for atmosphere could AUSTRALIAN Stephen Rea, PREMIERE make the film a fave.” John Anderson, Variety Marcella Plunkett Print Source Aztec International Screenings at Tribeca and Pusan Film Festivals. Entertainment AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE 35 THE LONELIEST PLANET XINGU
In this much talked-about drama, the blissful mood of An epic true story of how three brothers trekked into the a young couple’s backpacking adventure through the FRI 9 NOV interior of Brazil to work with indigenous tribes and create WED 7 NOV Caucasus Mountains turns on an incredible moment. 8.3OPM / DENDY South America’s largest national park. 6.3OPM / DENDY In their thirties and about to be married Alex (Gael Garcia In the early 194Os, Claudio and Leonardo Villas-Boas joined the Bernal) and Nica (Hani Furstenburg) hire a guide to take SUN 11 NOV Brazilian Government’s “march to the west” program to map THUR 8 NOV them through the beautiful and frequently ominous 2.OOPM / DENDY and civilise previously unexplored territory deep in the country’s 2.OOPM / DENDY mountains of Georgia. As they get further from civilization interior. Joined by their elder brother Claudio, the adventurous and learn more about the man who is leading them, their USA, Germany / 2O11 / and visionary threesome found themselves in the middle of the Brazil / 2O12 / Drama, Drama / 113mins History, Biopic / 1O2mins childish and naïve ways seem to become more and more complex and potentially destructive politics of progress. With Director Director out of place. It’s in this atmosphere that writer/director Julia Loktev breathtaking cinematography and a focus on the human stories Cao Hamburger Julia Loktev (working from a story originally by Ernest that come with imposed interventions on traditional cultures, Writer Writer Hemmingway) inserts an incident of such simplicity and Julia Loktev, director Cao Hamburger makes this fact-based historical epic Helena Soarez, damage that no-one’s life will be the same. With a highly Tom Bissell both an adventure and a powerful drama. Cao Hamburger, naturalistic aesthetic, and three riveting performances, you Producer Anna Muylaert will be left wondering what you would have done had the Helge Albers, Producer same thing happened to you. Marie-Therese Guirgis, “ This is a wild adventure that drags us – like Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Lars Knudsen, Bel Berlinck, Jay Van Hoy its three main protagonists – along on a grand Fernando Meirelles Cast D. B. Burroughs, Unseen Films Cast “ Powerful, exquisite. Will provoke passionate Hani Furstenberg, journey.” João Miguel, Gael García Bernal, Felipe Camargo, arguments over post-screening drinks.” Bidzina Gujabidze Caio Blat Leslie Felperin, Variety Join us in the Dendy Premium Lounge after the Print Source Print Source Palace Films Wednesday screening for a chat about the film with Rezo Films Grand Jury Prize – AFI Fest. Professor Carlos Pio (National Centre for Latin American Studies, ANU) and Artistic Director Simon Weaving. AUSTRALIAN Screenings at Toronto International Film Festival, New PREMIERE York and London Film Festivals. 36 AMERICAN MARY DARK & DANGEROUS
Three highly distinctive films, marked by their Stylish, wicked, and darkly funny – this horror film sees a TUE 6 NOV unique and stylish young medical student looking for answers in the bizarre world of underground surgery. 8.3OPM / DENDY approach to the dark After their break-out hit Dead Hooker in a Trunk, twin sisters Jen and Sylvia Soskia follow up with a dark tale of SAT 1O NOV genres of horror, a young woman who immerses herself in the strange world 8.15PM / DENDY of body modification. Broke but determined to find a way to noir and thriller. continue her education at medical school, Mary (Katharine USA / 2O12 / Horror, Thriller / 1OOmins Isabelle) discovers a world where surgeons can make good Director/Writer money as long as no questions are asked. But this bizarre Jen Soska, world is full of both strangely warm characters who need Sylvia Soska a little help, and those with other ideas about what Mary Producer should be doing in her spare time. Fascinating, disturbing John Curtis, and with a highly sophisticated visual aesthetic, American Evan Tylor Mary promises to be a game-changing film in the genre. Cast Katharine Isabelle, Julia Maxwell, “ A stylish, artful and darkly funny tragedy… Antonio Cupo Print Source this is the most original film I have seen for Monster Films a very long time.” Nia Edwards, Brutal as Hell
The writers/directors Jen and Sylvia Soskia will introduce the film and hold a Q&A after the Tuesday screening. 37 I, ANNA SLEEPLESS NIGHT NUIT BLANCHE
In this moody, stylish film noir, Charlotte Rampling With heart-stopping action and a continually twisting and Gabriel Byrne play lonely divorcees on either MON 5 NOV plot, this superb action thriller follows a policeman THURSDAY 8 side of a mysterious murder. 8.3OPM / DENDY trying desperately to rescue his son. NOVEMBER When police detective Kominski (Gabriel Byrne) You won’t see a better action thriller than this for a 8.15PM/ DENDY spots Anna (Charlotte Rampling) coming out of THUR 8 NOV long time, as director Frederic Jardin jumps straight a building where he’s investigating a murder, he 4.OOPM / DENDY into a frenetic story with a drug bust that goes horribly FRIDAY 9 tracks her down through her car number plate wrong. Finding himself somewhere between the law and –not because he suspects she has anything to UK, Germany, France / a vicious gang of drug dealers, undercover policeman NOVEMBER 2O12 / Thriller, Drama / do with the crime, but because he wants to see 93mins Vincent (Tomer Sisley) then spends a chaotic night in 4.OOPM / DENDY her again. Their obvious attraction to each other Director an enormous, busy night club where his son has been and brooding relationship is hampered only by Barnaby Southcombe hidden. With both the police and the gang in the hunt, a France, Belgium, Luxembourg / 2O11 / Thriller, Drama / Anna’s hazy memories of why she was in the Writer superbly staged game of cat-and-mouse gets underway. Digital Cinema / 98mins victim’s building in the first place. Director Barnaby Elsa Lewin, The film, which was a huge hit at the French box office, is Director Southcombe blends the moody atmospherics of Merlin Massara, about to be remade in Hollywood by Warner Bros. Barnaby Southcombe Frédéric Jardin film noir with the cold modernity of contemporary Writer London to create an elegant psychological thriller Producer Michael Eckelt, Frédéric Jardin, with Rampling at her best as a sensitive and Ilann Girard, “Starts in high gear and Nicolas Saada under-confident older woman. Felix Vossen accelerates steadily from there.” Rob Nelson, Variety Producer Cast Marco Cherqui, Charlotte Rampling, David Grumbach, “ Rampling is as magnetic as ever.” Gabriel Byrne, Screenings at Tribeca Film Festival, Toronto International Jean-Jacques Neira Hayley Atwell Cast Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily Film Festival Print Source Tomer Sisley, Transmission Serge Riaboukine, Screenings at Berlin and Locarno Film Festivals Julien Boisselier Print Source Vendetta Films 38 HUNDRA RETRO TRIPLE-TREAT
Join legendary filmmaker Larry Cohen and leading lady Laurene Landon as we In a rollicking female version of Conan the Barbarian, take a trip back to the 198Os for some of Laurene Landon jumps, swings and battles it out as Hundra, SAT 3 NOV the best B-grade action you’ll find. a warrior protecting her desperate tribe. 4.15PM / ARC Born into a tribe of fiercely independent women, Hundra Spain, USA / 1983 / Action, (Laurene Landon) is superior to all of the violent male Retrospective / Digital warriors who slay her family while she is away. Armed with Cinema / 9Omins sword, knife, bow and arrow, she takes to the trail for Director Matt Cimber revenge, dishing out some bruises as she proves who is the Writer finest warrior in the land. Jose Trucado, John F. Goff Producer “ Bad-ass mofo Hundra has some Cihangir Gaffari, José Truchado girl power for you.” David Johnson, DVD Verdict Cast Laurene Landon, Join Laurene Landon as she introduces the film – a Cihangir Gaffari, cheesy, action-packed sword-and-sandal romp – and María Casal stay as she explains (in the Q&A after the screening) how Print Source Monster Films she did her own stunts. 39 MANIAC COP THE STUFF
About to be remade by Nicolas Winding Refn, this classic Introduced by Larry Cohen himself, this is one of the most 198Os action-horror film sees innocent people murdered FRI 2 NOV sought after B-grade horror/sci-fi flicks of all time. You may FRIDAY 2 on the streets of New York by a man dressed in blue. 6.15PM / ARC never eat ice-cream again. NOVEMBER With innocent people being murdered by a uniformed man USA / 1988 / Horror, A sweet sticky substance found bubbling out of the ground 8.15PM / ARC who should be protecting the streets of New York, Jack Retrospective / 85mins becomes a best-selling ice-cream substitute and possible Director USA / 1985 / Sci-Fi, Classic, Forrest (Bruce Campbell) finds himself the main suspect. solution to world hunger. But ice-cream moguls, unhappy with Horror / 93mins But, as Police Lieutenant Frank McCrea (Tom Atkins) William Lustig the product’s success, enlist an ex-FBI agent to find out what it investigates, the body count keeps rising and the mystery Writer/Producer really is so they can destroy it. Slowly they discover that the big Director/Writer Larry Cohen Larry Cohen keeps getting deeper. question is – as the immortal line goes – “Are you eating it, or is Cast it eating you?” Producer Tom Atkins, Paul Kurta Bruce Campbell, “ Gruesome, gory and actually kinda fun.” Laurene Landon Cast Scott Weinburg, eFilmCritic Print Source “ Evil ice cream? What more could Michael Moriarty, Andrea Marcovicci, Monster Films any horror fan ask for?” Christina Durner, The Examiner Screenings at Fantafestival, Italy (1988). Garrett Morris Print Source The film is a classic piece of 198Os video horror and Writer-director Larry Cohen – who will introduce the film – Monster Films will be introduced by writer-producer Larry Cohen made one of the legendary spoofs of 195Os science-fiction and star Laurene Landon, who will be available for a Q&A movies, blending it with some deadly social satire about the after the screening. evils of fast-food marketing and American consumerism. 4O FAR
¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! 11 FLOWERS LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE CORNERS FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 1O NOVEMBER DY8.3OPM / DEN 6.3DY OPM / DEN 6.15PM / DENDY SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER Cinema that has the power to 2.OOPM / DENDY 6.15PM / DENDY 4.OOPM / DENDY transport us back in time and to the remotest part of our extraordinary planet.
NAKED HARBOUR NO LOVE STORY FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 6.15PM/ DENDY DY8.3OPM / DEN 2.OOPM / DENDY SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 4.OOPM / DENDY 6.15PM / DENDY 41 ¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! 11 FLOWERS WO 11
A mesmerising and stunning beautiful film that In this exquisitely beautiful coming-of-age story, a young finds the wonder of what happens on opposite sides FRI 2 NOV boy is witness to the frightening and fascinating events of SAT 3 NOV of planet Earth. 8.3OPM / DENDY China’s Cultural Revolution in his small village. 6.3OPM / DENDY Ever wondered what you’d find if you dug a hole straight Multiple award-winning director Wang Xiaoshuai through the Earth to the other side? Award-winning SUN 4 NOV takes a personal look at China in 1975 with this semi- WED 7 NOV filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky points his camera at the 2.OOPM / DENDY autobiographical tale of growing up during the last days of 6.15PM / DENDY question and answers with a film of breathtaking beauty. Chairman Mao’s rule. In a small village in China’s southwest, Choosing four pairs of dry-land spots, or antipodes, that Germany, Argentina, Wang Han and his school friends seem as carefree as China, France / 2O11 / Netherlands, Chile / 2O11 / Drama / 11Omins lie diametrically opposite each other, and without any any children, but, as they play by the river or in the woods Documentary / 1O8mins Director voice-over narration, Kossakovsky builds a mesmerising Director that surround their village, they come face to face with Xiaoshuai Wang celebration of diversity from places as unique and the human consequences of a violent and repressed adult Victor Kossakovsky Writer different as China and Argentina or Spain and New Producer society they do not yet understand. Wang Xiaoshuai re- Lao Ni, Zealand. Alexander Popov provides a rich musical score for Heino Deckert creates an absorbing sense of time and place, rich in both Xiaoshuai Wang Kossakovsky’s poetic and playfully symmetrical study of Print Source the small details that attract a young boy’s attention and Producer nature and culture on opposite sides of the Earth – making Madman Entertainment the sense of the powerful dangers that lie beyond childhood. Wang Xiaoshuai, this a totally bewitching big-screen experience. Isabelle Glachant, Didar Domehri “ An absorbing coming-of-age drama.” Cast Liu Wenqing, “ A brightly original and, for once, entirely Justin Chang, Variety Yan Ni, Wang Buqu, positive take on the planet Earth.” Mo Shiyi, Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter Screenings at Toronto and Pusan International Film Festivals. Wang Ziyi Print Source Palace Films Screenings at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Venice and Sydney Film Festivals. 42 LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE NAKED HARBOUR VUOSAARI
Renowned Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami travels to A powerful and moving multi-narrative story of a group of Japan to create a mysterious story of desire, identity and SAT 1O NOV characters from the same Finnish community all looking for FRI 2 NOV missed opportunity. 6.15PM / DENDY love during one wintry week. 6.15PM/ DENDY Beautiful and timid Akiko is a student who works as an escort In the multicultural seaside suburb of Vuosaari in Helsinki, girl in a bar in Tokyo, keeping her night-time job secret SUN 11 NOV Finnish director Aku Louhimies follows a fascinating SAT 3 NOV from her jealous boyfriend. But when he sees her with an 4.OOPM / DENDY collection of characters all dealing with the complexities of 4.OOPM / DENDY elderly academic she has been paid to spend time with, life life, and all trying to find ways to feel. Among the group are a becomes strangely complicated for all three people. Abbas France, Japan / 2O12 / woman neglected by her cheating husband, a young boy left Finland / 2O12 / Drama / Drama / 35mm / 1O9mins 35mm / 9Omins Kiarostami (whose film Certified Copy screened at CIFF in alone with his pet dog, and a young teenage girl desperate Director/Writer Director 2O1O) creates a playful, measured and mysterious story of Abbas Kiarostami for fame. Louhimies explores themes of alienation, celebrity Aku Louhimies identity, storytelling and lives half-lived. Beautifully shot, with and conformity with emotion, but always maintaining a warm Producer Writer a compelling performance by Rin Takanashi as the girl who’s Charles Gillibert, sense of the underlying strength of human nature. It’s a Mikko Kouki, not sure what she’s doing in the world, the film is a quiet and Nathanaël Karmitz deeply touching multi-narrative film with a strong ensemble Aku Louhimies, paradoxical work from one of the great living auteurs. Cast cast and a particularly stunning performance by Finnish Niina Repo Ryo Kase, singer Leena Kuurmaa – who also provides some of the film’s Producer Denden, haunting music. Pauli Pentti, “ An enchanting game of misfired Rin Takanashi Liisa Penttilä Print Source Cast passions and mistaken identities.” MK2 “ A serious and ambitious movie, which Alma Pöysti, Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter Aino Louhimies, is likely to be discussed for a long time.” Sean Pertwee Antti Alanen, Film Diary Print Source Screenings at Cannes Film Festival, Melbourne Wide International Film Festival. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE 43 NO LOVE STORY
A cynical advertising executive takes on the Pinochet A delightful and totally original mix of dream and reality as a regime in this uniquely stylish celebration of the power THUR 8 NOV man searches for the love of his life on the streets on New York. FRI 9 NOV of jingles and graphic design. 8.3OPM / DENDY After meeting a mysterious woman holding a piece of cake 2.OOPM / DENDY Set in Chile in 1988, and shot in low-grade video style Chile, France, USA / outside a New York railway station, filmmaker Florian Habicht to capture the feel of the time, this award-winning film 2O12 / Drama, History / decides to track her down and woo her – all with the help of the SUNDAY 11 NOV stars Gael Garcia Bernal as Rene Saavedra, an ad-man 1O8mins citizens of the city. Blurring the lines between fiction, fantasy 6.15PM / DENDY on an impossible mission. Asked by a friend to develop a Director/Writer and documentary, Habicht places himself at the centre of this Pablo Larraín campaign to fight the referendum that would see Pinochet funny, touching and utterly unique love-story, all played out New Zealand / 2011 Producer Romance / Comedy / in power for another eight years, Saavedra is cynical about Daniel Marc Dreifuss, on the streets of New York. Narrative ideas are provided by 94mins the chances of getting people to vote at all – let alone Juan de Dios Larran, passers-by and acted out by Habicht and the woman he fell in support the ‘NO’ campaign. Director Pablo Larrain takes us Pablo Larraín love with at first sight. Director / Writer / Producer through the process like a thriller, adding plenty of smart Cast Florian Habicht humour and dunking the story in the vintage aesthetic Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, of U-matic video camera cinematography. The film won “ an innovative and very funny piece of planned Cast Antonia Zegers Florian Habicht, the coveted Director’s Fortnight Prize at Cannes and is Print Source whimsy” Masha Yakovenko Larrain’s third and final film about the Pinochet era. Rialto Helene Wong, The NZ Listener Print Source Sharmill Films “ A lively, mesmerizing drama about a nation- Screenings at New Zealand Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival. al call to action.” Eric Kohn, IndieWire
Best Film – Director’s Fortnight, Cannes Films Festival. Screenings at Melbourne International Film Festival, Cannes and New York Film Festivals. 44 PERSONAL JOURNEYS BROKEN CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO MONSIEUR LAZHAR SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER 4.OOPM / DENDY 6.15PM / DENDY 4.OOPM / DENDY Follow the lives of FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER extraordinary people as 6.15PM / DENDY 8.15PM / DENDY 2.OOPM / DENDY they search for love, calm and a deeper sense of self in a complicated world.
RUST AND BONE SISTER SMASHED SATURDAY 1O NOVEMBER FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER DY8.3OPM / DEN DY6.3OPM / DEN 6.15PM / DENDY SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2.OOPM / DENDY 45 BROKEN CHILDREN OF SARAJEVO DJECA
A quirky 11-year-old girl tries to find her own way This quietly powerful story of determination sees a stunning through the holidays and the vagaries of adult life in SUN 4 NOV performance by Marija Pikic as a young woman dealing with a THUR 8 NOV her small and fractured neighbourhood. 4.OOPM / DENDY society in transition, and with the ghosts of her past. 6.15PM / DENDY Skunk is the quirky daughter of lawyer and single dad Award-winning Bosnian filmmaker Aida Begic explores the Archie (Tim Roth). From the window of her bedroom FRI 9 NOV complexities of dealing with loss and change in this story of a FRI 9 NOV in a quiet suburban cul-de-sac, she watches the 6.15PM / DENDY young woman named Rahima and her teenaged brother – both 8.15PM / DENDY dysfunctional families around her and tries to navigate orphaned during the siege of Sarajevo. As the two struggle to her own more positive path towards adulthood. A UK / 2O12 / Drama / get ahead in a society that is rapidly transforming, Rahima must Bosnia and Herzegovina, 9Omins Germany, France, debut feature from theatre director Rufus Norris, the battle corrupt politicians, petty criminals and the ever-present Director Turkey / 2O12 / film is beautifully shot, mixing a warm poetic sensibility Rufus Norris echoes of her warn-torn past. Drama / 9Omins with the drama of social realism. Newcomer Eloise Writer Director/Writer/ Laurence is astonishing in the role of Skunk – a young The film was selected to open the Sarajevo International Film Producer Mark O’Rowe, Festival earlier this year and Begic intercuts news footage girl finding equilibrium in a dark and violent world. Daniel Clay Aida Begic from the Bosnian war to create a haunting and redemptive Producer Cast Dixie Linder, tale with a striking performance from a talented young Marija Pikic, Tally Garner, actress in the lead role. Ismir Gagula, “ Always emotionally engaging.” Bojan Navojec David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter Nick Marston, Bill Kenwright Print Source Cast “ A passionately stark story of the strength Pyramide International Screenings at Cannes Film Festival. Cillian Murphy, AUSTRALIAN Tim Roth, of family, driven by an intense sense of honour PREMIERE Robert Emms Mark Adams, Screen Daily Print Source and compassion.” Wildbunch AUSTRALIAN Screenings at Cannes Film Festival, Melbourne PREMIERE International Film Festival. 46 MONSIEUR LAZHAR RUST AND BONE DE ROUILLE ET D’OS
A profoundly moving story about a group of schoolchildren A powerful, moving and candid love story about two coming to terms with the adult world through the FRI 2 NOV damaged people on a bruising journey of healing and SAT 1O NOV inspirational educator who transforms their lives. 4.OOPM / DENDY redemption. 8.3OPM / DENDY In Montreal, 55-year-old Algerian immigrant Bachir Lazhar After a catastrophic accident, killer whale trainer France / 2O12 / Drama, joins a primary school on a temporary basis following the SUN 4 NOV Stephanie (Marion Cotillard) finds friendship with an Romance / 12Omins death of a teacher. Although his teaching methods are 2.OOPM / DENDY emotionally damaged bouncer (Matthias Schoenaerts) and Director a little unusual, his desire to connect with his students is the two embark on a hesitant and awkward relationship. Jacques Audiard unshakeable, and before long he’s both making a difference Canada / 2O11 / M / Jack Audiard’s much anticipated follow-up to his award- Writer Drama / 94mins with some of the trickiest students and in trouble with an winning film A Prophet is a powerful and candid film Jacques Audiard, Director/Writer Thomas Bidegain, education system bound by political correctness. Director Philippe Falardeau marked by extraordinary performances from Cotillard and Craig Davidson Philippe Falardeau’s sensitive portrayal of life in and out of Schoenaerts. In this tender and painful love story about Producer Producer the classroom has won the film a swag of awards, including a Luc Déry, two people who have what seems like insurmountable Jacques Audiard, nomination for Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards. Kim McCraw personal problems, Audiard never lets his storytelling stray Martine Cassinelli, Cast too far from the grit and grind of reality. Pascal Caucheteux Mohamed Fellag, Cast “ Truly unforgettable. An exquisite, Sophie Nélisse, Marion Cotillard, Émilien Néron “ This moving love story, which surges Matthias Schoenaerts, humanistic and subtly topical Print Source Armand Verdure Palace Films out of the screen like a flood tide, deserves Print Source work of cinema art.” Jennie Punter, The Globe & Mail to be awash with awards.” Hopscotch Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian AUSTRALIAN Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film – USA PREMIERE Academy Awards. Best Film – Cabourg Romantic Film Festival. Screenings at Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals. 47 SISTER L’ENFANT D’EN HAUT SMASHED
A young boy from the backblocks steals from nearby With a highly acclaimed performance from Mary Elizabeth ski-fields to make ends meet for his older sister FRI 9 NOV Winstead, this is a warm and poignant tale of a hard- SUN 4 NOV 6.3OPM / DENDY drinking woman who decides to get sober after one too 6.15PM / DENDY Twelve-year-old Simon lives with his flighty older sister many late nights. Louise (Lea Seydoux) near the ski-fields of Switzerland. France, Switzerland / Sharing a grubby apartment and with no sign of any 2O12 / Drama / 1OOmins Kate is a busy schoolteacher who works hard by day and SUN 11 NOV parents, the two live from the spoils of Simon’s trips Director plays even harder at night. Together with her loving and 2.OOPM / DENDY to the mountain, where he pilfers from wealthy holiday Ursula Meier equally hard-drinking husband Charlie, the weekends and makers. As Christmas approaches and Louise becomes Writer nights blur past in a warm, fun-filled haze of booze. But USA / 2O12 / Antoine Jaccoud, Drama / Digital increasingly irresponsible, Simon must use his steadfast Ursula Meier, when she starts waking up in strange places and brings Cinema / 85mins determination and guile to save their relationship. With Gilles Taurand the effects of her addiction to the classroom, she realizes Director two exceptional performances, Director Ursula Meier is Producer that it’s time to clean up her act. With a sharp and witty James Ponsoldt able to focus her story on the world of the youngsters, Ruth Waldburger script, director James Ponsoldt manages to keep a positive, Writer exploring where the boundaries of adulthood lie. Cast life-affirming hold on the story and allows Mary Elizabeth Susan Burke, Kacey Mottet Klein, Winstead to shine as a woman torn between a warm, loving James Ponsoldt Léa Seydoux, but alcohol-fuelled past and a tough dry future. Producer “ Bears the mark of a filmmaker with supreme Gillian Anderson Jonathan Schwartz, Print Source Andrea Sperling control over her material.” Eric Kohn, IndieWire Palace Films “ Sad, funny and strangely exuberant.” Cast Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Justin Chang, Variety Aaron Paul Silver Bear – Berlin Film Festival. Screenings at Berlin and Taipei Film Festivals. Print Source Special Jury Prize – Sundance Film Festival. Sony Releasing 48 TURN UP THE NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS CHARLES BRADLEY: PAUL KELLY: THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER SOUL OF AMERICA STORIES OF ME 6.15PM / ARC FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER MUSIC 4.15PM / ARC 7.3OPM / CANBERRA THEATRE SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER 6.15PM / ARC A celebration of the power of music and the lives of some of the world’s greatest musicians.
SEARCHING FOR VIOLETA WENT THE RINGMASTER SUGAR MAN TO HEAVEN GENERAL FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 6.15PM / ARC 4.15PM / ARC 4.15PM / ARC SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER 4.15PM / ARC 49 NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS CHARLES BRADLEY: SOUL OF AMERICA
In this intimate portrait of a legendary singer-songwriter, The extraordinary rise of a homeless soul singer who, at Neil Young returns to his hometown to sing many of his THUR 8 NOV 62, made his recording debut, resulting in one of the most FRI 2 NOV classic songs and talk about his childhood influences. 6.15PM / ARC electrifying albums of the year. 4.15PM / ARC Cutting between a rapturously received concert Neil 2O11 / USA / PG / Charles Bradley grew up in extreme poverty in the Brooklyn Young gave in Toronto last year and Young reminiscing Documentary, Biography, housing projects, dropping out of school and taking to SUN 4 NOV back in his home town of Omemee, Ontario, this is director Music / 87mins the stage as a James Brown impersonator – thanks to his 6.15PM / ARC Jonathan Demme’s third documentary about one of Director physical resemblance to the great soul legend and a more Jonathan Demme Canada’s greatest contemporary musicians. Up close and than powerful voice. Yet, at 62, Bradley was still living in a tiny USA / 2O12 / Producer Documentary, Biography, personal in a concert that covers both Young’s greatest Jonathan Demme, apartment, nursing his elderly mother and learning to read. Music / 75mins classics and some of his most recent songs, Demme Elliot Rabinowitz But his obvious talent had not gone unnoticed and Daptone Director ensures you get the pure Neil Young – stripped back, Print Source Records decided to work with Bradley on a debut album of Poull Brien playing solo, with full emphasis on his distinctive voice Sony Releasing his own material. Director Poull Brien follows Bradley in the Producer and fabled minor-key guitar work. Back in his home town, lead-up to the album’s release, capturing both the emotional Alexander Brough Demme conducts an intimate interview with Young as they potency of his stage act and his humble personal situation. Print Source tour his early life in a 1956 Crown Victoria. It’s a must-see Madman Entertainment concert film with unparalleled insight into one of the great living poet-songwriters – ending with an extraordinary “ Only the soulless will fail to respond rendition of Walk with Me. to footage of this passionate, powerful singer doing his thing.” John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter “ One is left in awe at the richness of Young’s oeuvre.” James Adams, The Globe & Mail Screenings at SXSW, Melbourne International Film Festival.
Screenings at Toronto International Film Festival, Milan Film Festival. 5O PAUL KELLY: STORIES OF ME SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN
A classic tale of passion and dedication, this feature-length With a surprising twist and music you will surely remember, documentary charts the remarkable life of one of Australia’s FRI 2 NOV this documentary follows two filmmakers who set out to FRI 9 NOV most gifted and beloved singer-songwriters. 7.3OPM / find their rock hero from the 197Os – a forgotten legend 6.15PM / ARC named Rodriguez. For almost 4O years, in more than 35O songs, Paul Kelly has CANBERRA Sweden, UK / 2O12 / M / been mapping out the Australian landscape and its people Growing up in South Africa in the 197Os, record shop Documentary, Biography, through melody and verse. For the first time in film, Kelly THEATRE manager Stephen Segerman and music journalist Craig Music / 86mins speaks candidly about the people who have helped shape Bartholomew-Strydom were – like everyone they knew – Director Australia / 2O12 / Malik Bendjelloul his life and music – from his musical lineage and formative M / Documentary, fans of Detroit-based folk-rock singer Rodriguez. His two Biography, Music / 95mins Producer childhood, through his difficult period as a young musician, albums had made a huge impact among young white liberals Simon Chinn to his strong and varied career. A moving portrait that Director living through apartheid, and the singer became bigger Print Source will charm life-long Kelly fans and newcomers alike, the Ian Darling than Elvis Presley and The Rolling Stones. Nearly 3O years Madman Entertainment film features many of Kelly’s best songs and rare archival Producer later, the two fans decided to track down the singer, who footage, and unveils newly recorded live performances as Ian Darling, had disappeared into obscurity. Swedish filmmaker Malik well as interviews with family, former and current band Susan MacKinnon, Bendjelloul met the two men in Cape Town and immediately members, music contemporaries and music commentators. Mary Macrae recognised the power of their story, crafting fascinating Print Source and insightful documentary about the nature of global show Madman Entertainment business, fuelled with the power of Rodriguez’ poetic music. “ This fine, fascinating, foot-tapping and slightly subversive documentary will go down a treat.” “ A fresh and unexpected documentary Sandy George, Screen Daily that plays like a nail-biting mystery.” Screenings at Melbourne International Film Festival. Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The film will be introduced by director Ian Darling with Audience Award – Sundance Film Festival. an appearance by Paul Kelly after the screening. Screenings at Tribeca Film Festival. 51 VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN VIOLETA SE FUE A LOS CIELOS THE RINGMASTER GENERAL
This prize-winning biopic charts the turbulent life and Full of great songs and a star-studded line up of musicians, extraordinary legacy of Chilean musician and folklorist THUR 1 NOV this inspiring fly-on-the wall documentary follows the THUR 8 NOV Violeta Parra, whose moving songs expressed the soul of 4.15PM / ARC eccentric Dave Stewart as he records two great albums. 4.15PM / ARC her nation. Stranded in London by the eruption of the Iceland volcano, USA / 2O12 / Australian Raised in extreme poverty in Southern Chile by an alcoholic SUN 4 NOV Dave Stewart (formerly with The Eurythmics and The Premiere / Biopic, Music, father, Violeta Parra grew up incredibly talented, deeply 4.15PM / ARC Spiritual Cowboys) wandered into a guitar shop and became Documentary / 9Omins committed to social justice and profoundly insecure. inspired by an old acoustic guitar, to head to Nashville. Director Chris James Champeau, The film – featuring a moving and gutsy performance by Chile, Argentina, One impulsive act of creativity led to another and before Brazil / 2O11 / Drama, Dave Stewart Francisca Gavilan in the central role, traces Parra’s difficult Biopic, Music / 11Omins his manager could track him down, he was underway with Producer life from obscurity to the music festivals of Europe where Director a crazy five-day session of creative genius. Directed by Paul Boyd, she passionately revived traditional Chilean folk songs Andrés Wood Stewart and Chris James Champeau, the documentary gives Dave Stewart and met Swiss flautist Gilbert Favre, with whom she had a Writer you a ringside seat as Stewart unleashes his talent on two Cast tumultuous affair. Director Andres Wood builds his story Eliseo Altunaga albums – The Blackbird Diaries and The Ringmaster General Dave Stewart, Stevie Nicks, around the deeply moving music of the “Nueva Cancion” Producer – involving talent such as Alison Krauss, Stevie Nicks, Joss Joss Stone, movement, which Parra pioneered across Latin America in Patricio Pereira Stone, Nathan Followill (Kings of Leon), Travis McNabb from Amy Keys the 196Os, and then took to the world. Cast Sugarland and many more. Print Source Francisca Gavilán, Roadshow Films Thomas Durand, Luis Machín, AUSTRALIAN “ Violeta’s heart-wrenching, indelible songs Gabriela Aguilera “ Captures the crazy joy of making music with PREMIERE permeate this film, and they will penetrate Print Source classic tongue-in-cheek moments” Dan Harr, Music News Madman Entertainment the viewer’s soul.” Kim Voynar, Movie City News
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