Friday 1 to Sunday 17 March BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL 2013

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Film Programmer David Sin puts a dozen films in the spotlight

BeastS of the Southern Wild (12A) p.15 Blackmail (PG) p.16 The Conformist (15) p.19 Hitchcock (12A) p.21 Showy, bold and richly imaginative, this debut Hitchcock’s final silent film with haunting Simply one of the most influential films Anthony Hopkins and feature, set in a semi-mythical Deep South, London locations and live accompaniment of the 20th century and one of Festival in a wonderful behind-the-scenes drama is hard to resist from the accomplished Stephen Horne Patron Chris Menges’ favourites about the making of Psycho

In the House (15) p.24 I Wish (PG) p.25 A Late Quartet (15) p.27 McCullin (15) p.31 Kristin Scott Thomas in sparkling comedic From the director of Still Walking, a marvellous A nuanced affirmation of the power of music If you grew up in the ‘60s or ‘70s this form features in this sly, teasing conundrum evocation of childhood against the growing as inner and outer tensions threaten the honest and riveting documentary will stir of a movie with a strong backbite cloud of volcanic ash dynamics of a New York chamber quartet up strong memories

No (15) p.34 Rust & Bone (15) p.39 Starbuck (15) p.46 Wadjda (12A) p.50 Chilean director Larraín and lead Gael García Muscular and tender, this unlikely love story Warm, witty comedy about a hapless Directed by a woman, a story about a girl who Bernal transform dry history into daring, between a whale trainer and a nightclub Québécois delivery driver who had so many wants a bike takes you where you’ve never enthralling and even comic agit-prop bouncer totally mesmerises children he didn’t know what to do been before, into Saudi Arabian domestic life 4 / 5 Borderlines Film Festival 2013 Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Welcome to the ELEVENTH “easily rural UK’s most impressive Borderlines Film Festival! film festival” Borderlines returns for Finally the Festival would not be possible Independent its second decade with without the participation of our partner venues: PROGRAMMER’S a cornucopia of films The Courtyard Hereford, Flicks in the Sticks, and special events at 39 Shropshire Screen Consortium members and venues spread throughout independent film societies and we thank them PICKS 02 Herefordshire and all. We welcome Richard Booth’s Bookshop Shropshire. Our new film Cinema, Hay’s latest new venue to our roster. Welcome 05 programmer David Sin of the Independent Cinema Our funders are vital for the Festival: BFI Office has drawn together a host of fascinating and Creative England awarding funds from EVENTS 06 films including five major titles showing at The National Lottery; Herefordshire Council; Borderlines as special previews before they Hereford City Council; Shropshire Screen 2013 FILM go on general release. Don’t miss them! Consortium (through BFI Rural Cinema Pilot Scheme and Shropshire Council) and The This year we have some very special guests at the Elmley Foundation. Lastly we would also PROGRAMME 10 Festival. Our opening night brings our two Festival like to thank our long standing sponsors patrons together in an In Conversation, when and our new sponsors. A-Z Film Listings 11 Chris Menges, one of the UK’s most distinguished cinematographers, will discuss his career with Enjoy the Festival! Francine Stock, broadcaster, novelist and presenter FESTIVAL PARTY 57 of Radio 4’s The Film Programme. Chris, winner Naomi Vera-Sanso of two Oscars for The Killing Fields and The Mission, Festival Director Festival Diary 58 has collaborated with highly respected directors and also directed award-winning films. VENUE INFORMATION 63 On Sunday 10 March we welcome renowned The British actor Sir Derek Jacobi to reflect on his film and television career with Francine Stock, as a FestCivalour tPassyard fundraiser for our partner, The Courtyard Hereford. For a lucky few there will be a chance to meet Sir Feasting on Festival films? HOW TO BOOK Derek in person afterwards at a special reception. The price of The Courtyard Festival Pass stays the same and gets you more cinema

Book in person at The Courtyard Hereford Ken Loach’s latest film Spirit of ‘45 will for your money Call Central Box Office 01432 340555 be screened on our last day, Sunday 17, with a A pair of tickets to any film at The Courtyard simulcast discussion with the director. But before costs £5 per ticket with– The Courtyard Book online at www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org that on the Ides of March, Friday 15, join us for Festival Pass £10/ £5 Concs the first Borderlines La dolce vita Party at The Or call individual venues (see p.63) Courtyard prices for 2013 Haywain, Lyde Arundel and get in the mood Under 16sTickets £4.80 £6.80 / Courtyard / Concessions– Card (14-25) £5.80 £3.00 with our Festa strand of Italian films. 14-25? 2 FREE TICKETS + 20% Cover: In the House FOOD & DRINK DISCOUNT WITH

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Chris Menges Alongside the brand new Hitchcock biopic, and Psycho, the film at its heart, we are delighted In Conversation with Francine Stock to be showcasing two out of Alfred Hitchcock’s nine surviving silent films, essential to an understanding of the director’s later work. These films have recently undergone the biggest and most complex restoration project ever undertaken by the BFI National Archive. Decades of damage and wear have been removed; the sharpness of the image improved; new shots discovered and intertitles and tinting restored. We are fortunate to have Bryony Dixon, one of the supervisors of the Hitchcock Silents project, to introduce The Lodger and talk about the restoration process as well as Stephen Horne to provide live accompaniment to Blackmail.

Cinematographer Chris Menges (L) with Director Tommy Lee Jones. Tommy Chris Menges (L) with Director Cinematographer All rights reserved. EuropaCorp. to exclusively © 2005 Dawn Jones/ Licensed Photo Blackmail (see p.16) Friday 1 March 8.15pm with Stephen Horne The Courtyard Hereford £6.80, concs £5.80 Wednesday 6 March 6.45pm The Courtyard Hereford Don’t miss a rare opportunity to hear both our to name but a few. As well as a long and fruitful £7.50, concs £6.50 Festival Patrons at a very special event. Double collaboration with Ken Loach he has worked, Academy Award winning cinematographer and among others, with Stephen Frears, Roland Joffé The Lodger (see p.29) Stephen Horne has long been considered one director Chris Menges talks to The Film Programme’s (winning Oscars for Cinematography on The Killing with Bryony Dixon of the leading silent film accompanists. Based Francine Stock about a life dedicated to cinema. Fields and The Mission), Neil Jordan, Bill Forsyth at London’s BFI Southbank, but playing at all Sunday 3 March 6.45pm the major UK venues such as the Barbican Centre and Stephen Daldry as well as directing five feature The Courtyard Hereford Born in Kington, Herefordshire, Chris embarked on films himself. £6.80, concs £5.80 and the Imperial War Museum, he has recorded his career at the tender age of 16 as an apprentice music for DVD releases, BBC TV screenings and on documentaries and, as a young man, travelled Modest and unassuming, Menges nevertheless has Bryony Dixon is curator of silent film at the BFI museum installations of silent films. Although as a cameraman to South Africa, Angola, Zanzibar, a wealth of unrivalled cinematic expertise to share, National Archive and has been a key member principally a pianist, he often incorporates flute, Cyprus, Vietnam and Tibet, often in perilous and a host of amazing stories to tell. To accompany of the Hitchcock Silents restoration project. accordion and keyboards into his performances, circumstances. this event we will showing four of the films he has In 1998 she co-founded the British Silent Cinema sometimes simultaneously. He regularly worked on: Kes (1969), The Killing Fields (1984), Festival in order to promote research into British performs internationally and in recent years his As director of photography on feature films his list The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (1996) and silent film. Bryony has written extensively on accompaniments have met with acclaim at film of credits is astounding: Kes, Local Hero, Angel, A World Apart (1988), which he directed. the subject, including on silent comedy and the festivals in Pordenone, Telluride, San Francisco, Michael Collins, The Reader, Notes on a Scandal, relationship of early film and the music hall. Cannes, Bologna and Berlin. 8 / 9 Borderlines Film Festival 2013 Events Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Adventures in Alternative Cinema

Do you want to find out more about World Cinema and Documentary genres? Then come along Sir Derek Jacobi On Stage to two free presentations as part of a new film On Screen With Francine Stock education initiative supported by Creative England, Shadowlands Walk Sunday 10 March 7.00pm Mediamaker, Shropshire Council and Wem Town Saturday 9 March 10.30am (3hrs) £6.00 The Courtyard Hereford Hall. The sessions, led by film industry and guest £10.00/£25.00* No concs. speakers, will provide insight into specialist film Meeting point: Forestry Commission car park, Meet the Directors of and, whilst aimed at young people, are open to Symonds Yat Rock (£3.50 charge) by WC block Born, like Alfred Hitchcock, in Leytonstone, OS Grid ref: SO564158 A Liar’s Autobiography: Sir Derek’s early theatrical career was established adults too. The events are followed by regular Maximum number: 20. Places MUST be booked The Untrue Story of Monty at the National Theatre during the 1960s. His screenings leading up to a three-day film festival through the Box Office. No dogs permitted. in June 2013. As part of events during Borderlines Guided by British Mountaineering Council qualified Python’s Graham Chapman defining role on TV came with his wonderfully Mountain Walking Leader, Nic Howes underplayed portrayal of the Emperor in I, Claudius there will be a screening of Rust and Bone and Thursday 7 March 8.30pm a chance to see Ping Pong and meet the director (1976) and he also took the lead in the popular It is 20 years since the release of Shadowlands The Courtyard Hereford Hugh Hartford. £6.80, concs £5.80 series Cadfael, set in Shrewsbury. His film credits in which Herefordshire’s ‘Golden Valley’ features include collaborations with on All events at Wem Town Hall significantly as a “view of heaven” even though Bill Jones (son of Terry), Jeff Simpson (who Henry V, Dead Again, Hamlet as well as Little Dorrit, the Wye was actually chosen as a location rather has family connections in Lingen, North Gladiator and Gosford Park. Sir Derek is currently in than the River Dore. Alongside a screening of the Herefordshire) and Ben Timlett will be present World Cinema: An Introduction the limelight for the romantic drama Last Tango in film (see p.42) the walk celebrates this anniversary. to introduce this very unusual, often hilarious - Halifax on BBC1, with sitcom Vicious, in which he Friday 8 March 11.00am-12.30am It takes in two key shots used in the film and Cameron Diaz as Sigmund Freud! - autobiography co-stars with Ian McKellen as two ageing gay men FREE but please book passes a barn (since turned into a home) that of one of the legendary Pythons, Graham Chapman, With Kate Taylor from the Independent who co-habit, coming up on ITV in the spring. Cinema Office figures in a key scene. who died in 1989. Narrating from beyond the grave, Chapman had made audio recordings of his own As a fundraiser for The Courtyard this audience with The walk is only about 2.5 miles on the map and Rust and Bone (15) (see p.39) somewhat fictitious account of his life. The film Sir Derek, hosted by Festival Patron, novelist and includes some spectacular views from the rim of Wed 13 March 7.30pm £5.00, U16s £4.00 version was put together using, incredibly, the broadcaster Francine Stock, explores the renowned the Wye Gorge. It descends about 400 feet steeply talents and styles of fourteen different animation British actor’s varied and distinguished film and TV to the riverside (and climbs back up again on a Ping Pong (PG) (see p.35) studios and with the collaboration of four out career. We will also be screening Love is the Devil, zig-zag path). It also takes in the remains of the Thursday 14 March 7.30pm £5.00, U16s £4.00 of five of the remaining Pythons. Come and find which features his acclaimed and edgy portrayal early Nineteenth Century “Coldwell Walks”, laid out With director Hugh Hartford out the inside story, how it was all put together. of the artist Francis Bacon, at the Festival. in the Picturesque manner by Edward Machen, who We hope, too, to welcome another surprise guest Documentary: An Introduction oversaw the enclosure of areas of the Forest of Dean * A limited number of £25 tickets are available associated with the film. for an exclusive post-interview reception (with and the planting of millions of trees therein. Muddy Friday 15 March 11.00am-12.30am wine) with the opportunity to meet Sir Derek. FREE but please book conditions underfoot are a certainty so please come The reception will commence at approximately Speakers TBC – please see shropshirescreen.co.uk suitably attired. 8.30pm on the Mezzanine. 10 / 11 2013 Film Programme / A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org FROM OUR NEW FILM PROGRAMMER DAVID SIN

A 17-day feast of Zero Dark Thirty, and by Pablo Larraín, whose trio contemporary world cinema of acclaimed films about Chile under Pinochet awaits you at Borderlines receives a rare outing here. 2013 with over 80 new and classic films from as Seeing these films will, I’m sure, restore your faith far north as Greenland and in cinema’s continued ability to find dazzling south as Chile, looking new ways to tell new and beguiling stories about east to Japan and west, the world at precisely the moment when cinema inevitably, at the US. itself is experiencing its biggest change since the arrival of sound in 1927. The film industry has 7 Days In Havana (15) At the heart of the 2013 programme, both now embraced digital technology across the board, Directors: , geographically and culturally, is Wadjda, a first and you, as audiences, can experience this at first Benicio Del Toro, Julio Medem, feature from Saudi Arabia that has made a huge hand through two new films about this subject, Gaspar Noé, , Juan Carlos Tabío, impact at a number of international film festivals. Side By Side and The Last Projectionist and with Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Why? Well, it’s no mean achievement to make many of the festival venues now equipped with Daniel Brühl, Emir Kusturica France/Spain, 2012, 2 hours 9 minutes, a feature film in a country where there are no 21st century projection equipment. subtitles cinemas; an even greater accomplishment when the director Haifaa Al Mansour is a woman The programme is book-ended by a small selection Thursday 7 March 8.00pm The Market Theatre Ledbury in a country where women aren’t allowed to drive, of films by and about Alfred Hitchcock, including let alone helm a film. And not forgetting that two silent features that have been restored by the Incorporating shorts by an it’s a perfectly formed piece of storytelling, BFI over recent years and an entertaining new impressive array of contemporary a seemingly small personal drama which, when biopic set during the director’s Hollywood years directors including Laurent projected onto the big screen, immediately takes as he attempts to finance and make Psycho 5 Broken Cameras (12A) Cantet (The Class), Gaspar Noé on wider and deeper resonances. in the face of studio apathy. If the film (Irreversible), Elia Suleiman Directors: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi is anything to go by, the great British director Palestine/France/Netherlands/Israel, 2011, 1 hour 34 minutes, subtitles (), Pablo Risk-taking runs through the programme in was never afraid to take risks, artistic or personal, Trapero () and actor different guises - by David O Russell, whose Silver in order to bring to audiences the cinematic riches Sunday 3 March 2.00pm, Tuesday 5 8.45pm Benicio Del Toro (Che), this The Courtyard Hereford Linings Playbook could easily have ended up being of Blackmail or Psycho. I very much hope the spirit energetic portrait of Havana a by-the-numbers romcom instead of an original, of Hitchcock runs through the programme and A powerful personal testimony that shows exactly what life is like in offers seven fascinating stories, emotionally intelligent adult comedy; by Danish you find the 2013 Borderlines Film Festival an the occupied West Bank. Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat bought his snapshots of a city in flux, director Thomas Vinterberg in the gripping social entertaining and rewarding experience. first camera to record the birth of his youngest son. Over five years encapsulating all the vibrancy, drama The Hunt; by Ang Lee in daring to take on of village turmoil, Emad records as olive trees are bulldozed, protests charm and brio of the Cuban Yann Martel’s ‘unfilmable’ Life Of Pi; by Kathryn See you in the dark… intensify, Israeli settlers take their land, his cameras are smashed, and capital’s history, culture and Bigelow with the contentious manhunt thriller lives are lost. With overwhelming power it gives us a direct experience contemporary scene. David Sin of what it’s like to be on the receiving end of oppression and Film Programmer dispossession. A defiant, hopeful, incredibly moving, hugely revealing film about how people struggle and survive such hostility. The Audience Tuesday 12 March 8.30pm The Courtyard Hereford “A touching and revelatory piece of film-making about the plights of real The voting system at The Courtyard has proved a big hit people living in an uncertain world.” David Parkinson, Empire Recommends… and this year we will reprise the film that has received the highest rating to date. Keep in touch with the latest news Winner Sundance World Cinema Documentary Directing Award 2012 via our website, Facebook or Twitter... 12 / 13 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

ARTISTS FESTA

African Cats (U) Ai Weiwei: Amarcord (15) Aurora (12A)

Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Never Sorry (15) Director: Federico Fellini Director: Cristi Puiu Keith Scholey Starring: Magali Noël, Starring: Cristi Puiu, Clara Voda, With the voice of: Samuel L. Jackson Director: Alison Klayman Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio Catrinel Dumitrescu US, 2011, 1 hour 29 minutes Starring: Ai Weiwei, Italy/France, 1973, 2 hours 3 minutes Romania, 2010, 3 hours 4 minutes, Danqing Chen, Ying Gao subtitles Sunday 3 March 4.00pm US, 2012, 1 hour 31 minutes Thursday 7 March 3.45pm Bedstone & Hopton Castle The Courtyard Hereford Thursday 14 March 3.00pm Tuesday 5 March 2.00pm & Village Hall The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 pm Hereford College of Arts Federico Fellini’s warmly £4.00, Students £2.00. Director Cristi Puiu’s follow-up to This epic documentary follows All 3 Artists films: nostalgic memory piece Mara, an endearing lion cub The Death of Mr Lazerescu shares £10.00, Students £5.00 examines daily life in the Anna Karenina (12A) growing up amid the stunning Italian village of Rimini under with that film its Kafkaesque beauty of the African savannah An internationally renowned Mussolini. The film’s greatest Director: Joe Wright take on daily life, a sense of Chinese artist and activist with Starring Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, real time passing, a refusal to and trying to emulate her asset is its ability to be sweet but Jude Law, Kelly Macdonald, Matthew McFadyen parents, Sita, a fearless cheetah a strong social media presence, not cloying, due in great part to UK/France, 2012, 2 hours 10 minutes dramatise. Puiu himself takes and single mother of five Ai Weiwei was responsible for Danilo Donati’s surrealistic art the lead role of Viorel, a divorcé the hand-painted porcelain Friday 1 March 7.30pm The Simpson Hall Burghill mischievous cubs, and leader of direction and to the frequently Monday 4 March 7.30pm Cawley Hall Eye with blank eyes who goes about the pride Fang, who must defend sunflower seeds that were bawdy injections of sex and Tuesday 5 March 8.00pm Escleyside Hall Michaelchurch Escley his humdrum business. He’s his family from a rival. Boasting scattered over Tate Modern’s politics by screenwriters Fellini Saturday 9 March 7.30pm Lady Emily Hall Tarrington obviously up to something. What some astounding photographic Turbine Hall. The director gained Monday 11 March 7.30pm The Edge Much Wenlock exactly is his intent unravels and Tonino Guerra. Fellini clearly Friday 15 March 7.00pm SpArC Theatre Bishops Castle footage and directed by Keith unprecedented access to follow has deep affection for the people slowly, in a deadpan fashion, Scholey and Alastair Fothergill him over a two year period as of this seaside village, warts and Keira Knightley teams up again with Pride & Prejudice and rather than building to a climax. (producer of the award-winning he prepared for a series of major all, and communicates it through Atonement director Joe Wright, starring as Russian literature’s At slightly over three hours this TV series Earth), it tells a moving exhibitions. The documentary episodic visual anecdotes seen as most compelling tragic heroine in this gorgeous, stirring adaptation demands patience and does story that will appeal to children captures Ai’s intimate exchanges through the mists of a favourite of Tolstoy’s novel. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy) is Vronsky, not reward with answers and as much as adults. with family members and his dream, lovingly photographed, to whom socialite Anna is irrevocably attracted, despite her marriage solutions. Instead the slow and increasingly public clashes with and playfully scored by Nino Rota. to senior statesman Alexei Karenin with whom she has a small son. detailed unfolding of a bizarre “A visually and aurally stunning the Chinese government, at once The bold decision to tread a new path in telling a classic story sequence of events really does film that brings viewers up close a fascinating portrait of the artist “[Fellini] leaves us with the hope pays off; Knightley is superb as Anna, the archetypal romantic, leave you asking questions. and very personal with several and his defiant, often humorous that the human comedy just may well supported by a tremendous cast, lavish production values and “Aurora is not a movie to make ‘big cat’ families living in ’s output and an insight into how be able to survive everything.” outstanding cinematography. you glad that you exist; it’s a sprawling Masai Mara National contemporary China ticks. Los Angeles Times movie that makes you aware that Reserve” Los Angeles Times Winner Oscar Best Foreign “...full of dash and glitter...Wright’s film is a joy on many levels.” you do.” Village Voice

Language Film 1975 Jenny McCartney, Sunday Telegraph 14 / 15 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Babette’s Feast (U)

Director: Gabriel Axel Starring: Stephane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel Denmark, 1987, 1 hour 43 minutes, subtitles

Friday 1 March 1.00pm, Saturday 2 10.30am The Courtyard Hereford

The first Danish picture to win Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, Babette’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A) Feast is a rich and detailed study Director: Benh Zeitlin Barbara (12A) Starring: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly of a religious family living in US, 2012, 1 hour 33 minutes rural Denmark who embark upon Director: Christian Petzold a voyage of discovery when a Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock Saturday 2 March 7.00pm St Mary’s Church Hall Ross, 7.30pm WRVS Hall Hereford Germany, 2012, 1 hour 45 minutes, subtitles & 8.00pm The Market Theatre Ledbury French refugee - Babette - arrives Monday 4 March 7.30pm Playhouse Cinema Leominster & The Edge Much Wenlock at their door and becomes their Friday 1 March 3.30pm, Monday 4 1.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 9 March 7.30pm Chapel Lawn Village Hall cook. A sumptuous and delicate Sunday 17 March 7.30pm Leintwardine Community Centre film about how family, friendship One of Germany’s leading filmmakers, Christian Petzold returns to Sunday 17 March 8.000pm Bromyard Conquest Theatre and food unite us, this is a the screen with this expectedly elegant but surprisingly taut drama Hushpuppy is an indomitable six year old who lives with her father “Sometimes miraculous films truly wonderful film, certainly about the conflict between politics and the human spirit. Doctor Wink on a ramshackle boat in ‘the Bathtub’, an area of swampland come into being, made by people deserving of its unexpected Barbara Wolff is punished for her desire to leave East Germany by south of the levees in Louisiana. When the waters surrounding their you’ve never heard of, starring accolades and sympathetic 2013 demotion from her prestigious post in Berlin to a small country community begin to rise and Wink is taken ill, Hushpuppy sets out unknown faces, blindsiding you re-issue. hospital. Her new colleagues view Barbara with suspicion, although on her own to find her long lost mother. Partly referencing Where with creative genius. Beasts of the amiable, approachable young doctor André encourages her not to be “Audran is luminous as the the Wild Things Are, but creating a vivid landscape all its own, this Southern Wild is one of the year’s so ‘separate’. She, however, has no illusions about André’s role as an centre of a gentle, generous film beautiful, individual fantasy has delighted critics and audiences best films.” Roger Ebert, observer reporting to Stasi officer Klaus Schütz. Likened to the hugely about grace. Oh, and grub.” worldwide. Zeitlin’s remarkable debut feature barely pauses for breath Chicago Sun-Times successful The Lives of Others, Barbara is certain to become as lauded from first frame to last, offering a hugely energetic, soaring drama of Philip Kemp, Total Film Winner Camera d’Or, in its own right. human survival in an environment at once nurturing and threatening. Winner Un Certain Regard Cannes Film Festival 2012 Cannes Film Festival 1987 “With Barbara, Petzold earns his stripes among Europe’s great auteurs” Little White Lies Winner Grand Jury Prize Sundance 2012 16 / 17 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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Bicycle Thieves (U) Can you see me?

Director: Vittorio De Sica Director: Rachel Lambert Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Starring Katy Dalton and Billy Herrin Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell UK, 2012 20 minutes Italy, 1948, 1 hour 33 minutes, subtitles Blackmail (PG) Wednesday 6 March 2.00pm Saturday 9 March 1.15pm The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Director: Alfred Hitchcock, FREE Starring: Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood UK, 1929, 1 hour 25 minutes, silent This landmark Italian neorealist “A part of you is lost forever” drama became one of the With live accompaniment by Stephen Horne (see p.7) Can you see me? is a powerful best-known and most widely and compelling new film that Wednesday 6 March 6.45pm The Courtyard Hereford Bullhead (18) acclaimed European films, £7.50, concs £6.50 dramatically explores teenage receiving a special Academy Director: Michael R. Roksam, Starring: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeroen Perceval, Jeanne Dandoy relationship abuse. Created Award as “most outstanding Following a major restoration of Hitchcock’s early silent works by the Belgium, 2011, 2 hours 9 minutes, subtitles by The Rural Media Company foreign film” seven years before BFI, Blackmail is finally beginning to receive some of the accolades it and commissioned by The Monday 11 March 3.45pm, Tuesday 12 11.00am that Oscar category even existed. has long deserved. Whilst on a secret rendezvous with a man she met The Courtyard Hereford Midcounties Co-operative and Antonio finds a coveted job at a restaurant, Alice White kills him in self-defence when he attacks Women’s Aid, the film forms part that requires a bicycle. When her at his photography studio. Her fiancé Police Detective Frank is Roksam’s brilliant debut film is a complex study of one man’s desire of an education resource that the bike is stolen on his first assigned to the case, quickly determining that Alice is the killer… to outgrow the traumas of his past and, inadvertently, to fight free will be distributed across the UK. day of work, Antonio and his and that someone else knows this fact too. Cementing Hitchcock’s from the shackles of normative society altogether. Rust & Bone Can you see me? raises important young son Bruno begin a frantic reputation as a master story-teller, the film displays many of the lead Matthias Schoenaerts transforms into Jacky, the domineering issues about controlling and search, learning valuable lessons suspenseful traits that would later come to define his great works and figurehead of a family of cattle breeders who dabble in illegal abusive behaviour in young along the way. De Sica focuses is never less than enthralling. A must-see. hormones to enhance their meat. Constantly pumped on the same relationships and how this can on ordinary details of ordinary steroids issued to their animals, Jacky initiates a deal with a notorious potentially escalate into domestic “A critical and commercial triumph…and confirmed Hitchcock lives as a way to dramatize wider Mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent and a violence. social issues. as the most admired British director of the time.” woman from his bruised past resurface, Jacky must confront his Maxine Sharman of Midcounties BFI Screenonline demons and face the far-reaching consequences of his actions. “De Sica balances a generally Co-op & Director Rachel An uncompromising vision of masculinity in the modern age. tragic sensibility with a quiet Lambert will introduce the film undercurrent of hope, all the “Bullhead is an intense, shattering film, a confident and UK Premiere while sucking us into the story accomplished punch-in-the-gut.” Los Angeles Times with the sheer urgency of the The screening is sponsored search for a stolen bicycle.” by Jack Roe (CS) Ltd Time Out 18 / 19 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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Caravan of Sounds A Cat In Paris (PG) Chasing Ice (12A) The Conformist (15)

Director: Barrie Gavin Directors: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Director: Jeff Orlowski Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Germany, 1999, 59 minutes Alain Gagnol Starring: James Balog Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, France/Netherlands/ Switzerland/ USA, 2012, 1 hour 16 minutes Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin Saturday 10 March 3.00pm Belgium, 2010,1 hour 10 minutes, dubbed Italy/France/West Germany, 1970, The Courtyard Hereford Friday 8 March 2.30pm, 1 hour 48 minutes, subtitles Elena (12A) Friday 1 March 8.00pm Monday 11 2.00pm Clungunford Parish Hall The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 5 March 1.00pm Director: Andrey Zvyaginstev From the Bedouin of Sinai across The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Elena Lyadova to the oases on the border with , 2011, 1 hour 49 minutes, subtitles This superbly sparky and Tackling the environmental debate Libya, this is a portrait of the The great Italian director’s dark exquisitely hand-drawn about the melting ice caps head Saturday 2 March 2.30pm, Thursday 7 6.00pm Egypt that the tourist never sees, masterpiece is a must-see for animation draws you into the on, acclaimed National Geographic The Courtyard Hereford an Egypt with its own thriving those who haven’t experienced imaginary world of cats living in photographer and former climate vernacular culture. It follows it, a must-return-to for those Elena is a gripping modern twist on the noir-thriller that questions the shadowy alleyways of Paris. change sceptic James Balog the Nile from Alexandria to the who have. The conformist is the morality of its central character and, ultimately, of Mother Russia. Dino leads a double life - by day, deploys revolutionary time-lapse south, where a whole culture, Marcello Clerici, a coward who A nurse from the proletariat, Elena, is a sweet, simple woman who he’s the treasured pet of Zoe, cameras on the world’s changing the Nubian, has been swallowed has spent his life accommodating is more like a maid than a spouse in the expensive, ultra-modern a little mute girl whose mother glaciers. His hauntingly beautiful up by the waters of vast others so that he can ‘belong.’ home of late-in-life second husband Vladimir. After Vladimir is Jeanne is a Paris detective. By videos compress years into hydroelectric projects. On the On his honeymoon trip to hospitalized, he tells his docile and obedient wife that he is going night, he sneaks out to work seconds and capture ancient way we meet dancing dervishes, Paris, Marcello agrees to kill to write a will and leave most of his fortune to the spoiled and with Nico, a slinky cat burglar, mountains of ice in motion as ballad singers on the banks of a political refugee on orders estranged daughter from his first marriage, and only a monthly leaping across rooftops across they disappear at a breathtaking the Nile, ceremonies marking the from Mussolini’s Fascist annuity to her. The shock forces Elena to make a Sophie’s Choice the Parisian skyline. His two rate. Travelling with a team of cycle of weddings, births and government, even though decision: should she side with her ne’er-do-well son - who needs the worlds collide when Zoe decides young adventurers across the funerals - a panoply of vibrant the victim-to-be is his college money to pay bribes - or with her devoted husband, honouring his to follow her beloved cat on his brutal Arctic, Balog risks career folk culture. mentor… Through flashback final wish by doing nothing? Markina’s magnificent performance will nocturnal adventures and falls and well-being in pursuit of the we begin to understand why give all audiences a way into this compelling drama, which marks Barrie Gavin has been making into the hands of a gangster biggest story facing humanity Marcello is capable of such Zyaginstev (The Return, The Banishment) as one of the pre-eminent documentaries on music for planning the theft of a rare and the results are fascinating, acts. Structurally daring, voices in world cinema. nearly 50 years. His main statue. Thrilling and great fun. magnificent and ultimately tragic. enthusiasms have been for visually complex and sublimely “A deeply satisfying film.” Peter Bradshaw, Guardian contemporary music, both in ”…the animation of ‘A Cat in Climate Week 4-10 March performed by the illustrious the concert hall and with ethnic Paris’ itself is so artful, it steals cast, The Conformist is a hugely music out on remote locations. climateweek.com the day.” Los Angeles Times rewarding character study. Director Barrie Gavin On Friday the screening is sponsored by will introduce the film and “’The Conformist’ is not just answer questions a triumph, it is one of the On Saturday the film is sponsored by Claire and Simon Scott greatest films ever made.” Film4 20 / 21 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Ginger & Rosa (12A) Herefordshire Media Herefordshire on Film

Director: Sally Potter Network - Supporting Tuesday 12 March 6.30pm Starring: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, The Courtyard Hereford Christina Hendricks, Annette Bening New & Local Talent UK 2012 1 hour 30 minutes Monday 11 March 6.15pm The Media Archive for Central Friday 1 March 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford England presents an intriguing FREE Dilwyn Cedar Hall compliation of rarely seen and Saturday 2 March 7.30pm Playhouse Cinema, Leominster This programme of short films newly transferred archive film Sunday 10 March 7.30pm highlights some of the raw talent of Herefordshire. The original Leintwardine Community Centre of up and coming filmmakers cine films feature war-time Friday 15 March 7.30pm All parades, floral fetes and the May Stretton Village Hall that now exists within the Hitchcock (12A) county. Films include; Men Can’t Fair, the Queen’s first visit to Director: Sacha Gervasi Teenagers Ginger and Rosa have Make Beds, Getting Close, A Letter Hereford in 1957 and city centre Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, been best friends since birth, Every Day, Stop/Eject (trailer) views from the 1950s and ‘60s. Jessica Biel, Danny Huston, James D’Arcy US, 2012, 1 hour 38 minutes growing up together in the and Injured Birds. For train and pub enthusiasts, semi-bohemian North London there’s footage of the last train Friday 15 March 8.45pm, Saturday 16 11.00am, Sunday 17 8.15pm The Courtyard Hereford Herefordshire Media Network to run between Monmouth and Sunday 17 March 4.00pm & 7.00pm Booth’s Bookshop Cinema Hay of the early ‘60s. They discuss (HMN) connects media everything from politics, poetry professionals from different Ross, and a tour of the pubs and religion to the best method creative disciplines who live of Lyonshall in 1961 as well as This long overdue Hitchcock biopic brings together a scintillating “’A snappy adaptation of Stephen of shrinking jeans. As the and work in the county. footage of how the different A-list cast headed by Anthony Hopkins to tell the story of the great Rebello’s acclaimed non-fiction Through events, networking villages in the county celebrated account about the making of Cuban missile crisis draws to and the sharing of information British filmmaker’s combustible romance with his steadfast wife a head, their idealistic take we act as a resource to promote the Queen’s coronation in 1953. and filmmaking collaborator, Alma Reville (Mirren). Though the ‘Psycho’.” Mary F. Pols on life is questioned and the growth within the media sector production was not given permission to use any footage or locations bond between them - as well in Herefordshire. from the original film, the backdrop is the making of Psycho “Hopkins and Mirren have as relationships with parents (screening in the Festival), which would require both a financial and terrific chemistry” Telegraph - comes under severe strain as an emotional commitment that would test their professional and interests diverge. Potter’s most personal relationship. A homage to the personalities and the period, personal film to date coaxes this is a highly entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable romp in the feisty performances from its tradition of the classical Hollywood ‘woman’s picture’. young performers, especially Elle Fanning. 22 / 23 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Holy Motors (18) The Hunter (15)

Director: Leos Carax Director: Daniel Nettheim Starring: Denis Lavant, Eva Mendes, Starring: Willem Dafoe, Edith Scob, Kylie Minogue Sam Neill, Frances O’Connor, France/Germany, 2012, 1 hour 56 minutes Callan Mulvey, Morgana Davies subtitles The Hunt (15) Australia, 2011, 1 hour 42 minutes

Sunday 3 March 8.45pm, Director: Thomas Vinterberg Tuesday 5 March 7.30pm Monday 4 8.45pm Starring: , Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp Playhouse Cinema, Leominster The Courtyard Hereford Denmark, 2012, 1 hour 56 minutes, subtitles The Impossible (12A) Based on Julia Leigh’s acclaimed Released at Cannes - where Tuesday 5 March 6.15pm, Saturday 9 3.45pm Director: Juan Antonio Bayona The Courtyard Hereford novel, The Hunter is a powerful Starring: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland it competed for the Palme d’Or psychological drama telling the Spain, 2012, 1 hour 54 minutes - to uproarious acclaim, Leos Lucas is a 40-year-old primary school assistant in small-town story of Martin (Willem Dafoe), Friday 8 March 7.30pm, Saturday 9 7.30pm Ludlow Assembly Rooms Carax’s wildly stylish Holy Motors Denmark, popular with children and staff alike. When one day a mercenary sent undercover Saturday 9 March 1.00pm, Sunday 10 6.00pm The Courtyard Hereford stars Denis Lavant as a shadowy a child makes an untrue claim about his behaviour, the accusation to the Tasmanian wilderness from character who travels between blazes, unstoppable, with inhabitants quick to abandon reason. Europe by a mysterious biotech Director of surprise horror smash hit The Orphanage, Juan Antonio multiple parallel lives - as a As you witness the community disintegrate, questions arise about company on a dramatic hunt Bayona presents this incredible real-life horror story about the travails captain of industry, assassin, the close-knit web of social and personal relationships. Shot in for the last Tasmanian Tiger. of a family caught in the devastating tsunami of 2004, which killed beggar, monster, family man. a confident, pared-down style, this is widely heralded as a return An elegant, gritty story exploring over 230,000 people. Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their A deeply experimental film, to Festen-like form for director Vinterberg, and features a series themes of isolation and survival, winter holiday in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical Holy Motors is impossible to of knock-your-socks-off exchanges between actors Mads Mikkelsen with an excellent central paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes describe adequately in a neat (A Royal Affair) as Lucas and Thomas Bo Larsen as the girl’s father performance from Dafoe. around the pool after their Christmas festivities, a terrifying roar synopsis - suffice to say that it and Lucas’ best friend. Powerful, resonant stuff. rises up from the centre of the earth. As Maria freezes in fear, a huge is one of the most compelling “Haunting, atmospheric and full wall of black water races across the hotel grounds towards her. With “Thomas Vinterberg’s best film since ‘Festen’ is an unsettling cinematic experiences you’ll of mystery” Megan Lehmann, exemplary performances and visual effects that have to be seen to psychological drama built around a harrowing performance from ever have. Hollywood Reporter be believed, Bayona thrusts the audience into the heart of a natural Mads Mikkelsen.” Hollywood Reporter disaster that literally shook the world. “Weird and wonderful… rich and strange… weightless “Affecting and powerful” and euphoric.” Peter Bradshaw, Damon Wise, Guardian Guardian

On Sunday the screening is sponsored by 24 / 25 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

PREVIEW

The Imposter (15) Jiro Dreams

Director: Bart Layton of Sushi (PG) Starring: Adam O’Brian, Frederic Bourdin UK, 2012, 1 hour 39 minutes Director: David Gelb Starring: Jiro Ono, Yoshikazu Ono Tuesday 5 March 7.30pm In the House (15) USA, 2011, 1 hour 21 minutes, subtitles Acton Scott Village Hall Monday 11 March 12.00pm Thursday 7 March 7.30pm Director: Francois Ozon The Courtyard Hereford Playhouse Cinema Leominster Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner France, 2012, 1 hour 45 minutes, subtitles Friday 8 March 8.00pm The story of 85-year-old Jiro The Market Theatre Ledbury Friday 8 March 8.45pm, Saturday 9 6.15pm The Courtyard Hereford I Wish (PG) Ono, possibly the world’s This truly astonishing greatest sushi chef, the A scintillating and witty thriller about story-telling from Ozon - the Director: Hirokazu Koreeda documentary has garnered internationally acclaimed enfant terrible of French cinema. Weary Starring: Koki Maeda, Ohshirô Maeda, Ryôga Hayashi proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, fantastic reviews. A teenage literature teacher Germain finds himself diverted by talented student Japan, 2011, 2 hours 8 minutes, subtitles a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant boy disappears from Texas. Four Claude who infiltrates the middle-class family of classmate Ralph for Saturday 16 March 1.00pm, Sunday 17 6.15pm inauspiciously located in a years later he reappears in Spain; a writing assignment. Germain and his art curator wife (Kristin Scott The Courtyard Hereford Tokyo subway station. Despite but amid a flurry of press, and Thomas) are soon transfixed, critically examining the merits of what its humble appearance, it is the Two young brothers find themselves divided by their parents’ a loving reunion with his family, might be a genius work of naturalism, a class satire, or something else first restaurant of its kind to separation, attending different schools and living at opposite ends doubts begin to arise. Unfolding entirely... Using familiar narrative conventions to entice and entwine, be awarded a prestigious 3 star of one of Japan’s largest landmasses. Keen to reunite, and in doing like a gripping thriller, The Ozon soon turns the tables on the audience as Claude’s sexual Michelin review. Sushi lovers so repair the rift between their parents, the boys cook up an almost Imposter is a dizzying watch, preoccupations with Ralph’s mother cause surreal and questionable from around the globe make mystical solution involving the exact point where two Bullet trains proving fact is often much events to occur that blur the line between fact and fiction for repeated pilgrimages, calling pass each other. Once again, Koreeda (Nobody Knows, Still Walking) stranger than fiction, and it characters and spectators alike. months in advance and shelling delivers a devastating final twist. reveals his mastery in working with children and teasing out the out top dollar for a coveted seat “Effortlessly shifts between genres, tones and styles... complexities of adult life through his young cast. It’s at once at Jiro’s sushi bar. At the heart “A mesmerising, path-breaking A sparkling and superbly acted black comedy.” a wonderful evocation of childhood and an emotionally stirring of the story is Jiro’s relationship tour de force.” The Telegraph The List but completely unsentimental tale of innocence slowly evolving with his eldest son Yoshikazu, into experience. the worthy heir to Jiro’s legacy, “This outstanding documentary Preview courtesy of Momentum Pictures but unable to live up to his …is pure suspense from start “’I Wish’ makes us feel like we are watching these kids discover full potential in his father’s to finish.” Peter Bradshaw, each new sensory pleasure of youth for the first time, or that we’re shadow. As delicate, precise and Guardian experiencing it ourselves.” Village Voice enjoyable as the morsels of food Jiro prepares.

On Sunday the screening is sponsored by Pat and Grace Lally 26 / 27 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

PREVIEW

Kes (U) The Killing Fields (15) The Last A Liar’s

Director: Ken Loach Director: Roland Joffé Projectionist (12A) Autobiography: The Starring: David Bradley, Colin Welland, Starring: Sam Waterston, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich Director: Tom Lawes Untrue Story of Monty UK, 1969, 1 hour 52 minutes UK, 1984, 2 hours 21 minutes Starring: John Brockington, Les Castree, Paul Curtin Python’s Graham Monday 4 March 12.30pm, Monday 11 March 8.15pm, UK, 2012, 1 hour 22 minutes Chapman (15) Tuesday 5 1.00pm Tuesday 12 1.00pm Sunday 10 March 1.00pm The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Directors: Bill Jones, The Courtyard Hereford Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett With the voices of: Graham Chapman, One of the most revered films Chris Menges won his first Oscar “When the UK’s oldest working A Late Quartet (15) John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, of post-war British cinema, for Best Cinematography for The Michael Palin, Cameron Diaz cinema opened in 1909 it took UK, 2012, 1 hour 25 minutes Director: Yaron Zilberman Kes is a devastating exercise Killing Fields, a harrowing and five years to train a projectionist... Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken, Thursday 7 March 8.30pm, in storytelling that stands the personal account of the chaos A century later it takes less Catherine Keener, Imogen Poots test of time. Bullied at school, and horror of the Khmer Rouge’s US, 2012, 1 hour 45 minutes Sunday 10 2.00pm than an hour.” The Electric in The Courtyard Hereford ignored and abused at home by ‘Year Zero’ policy. Assisted by Birmingham is one of the oldest Friday 15 March 6.30pm, Sunday 17 8.45pm his indifferent mother and older local representative Dith Pran, working cinemas in Britain that The Courtyard Hereford Graham Chapman writes and brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year- Sydney Schanberg is a New York typifies the changing face of stars in the animated movie Inspired by and structured around Beethoven’s Opus 131 String old working-class Yorkshire Times journalist covering the British cinema-going through of his own life story. Although Quartet in C-sharp minor, A Late Quartet is an intricate and rousing boy, tames and trains his pet civil war in Cambodia. When the the 20th and now 21st centuries. Chapman died in 1989, he had homage to chamber music and the cultural world of New York. When kestrel falcon, Kes. Encouraged US forces bail out, Pran chooses Using archive footage, interviews recorded himself reading his the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life by his English teacher and to stay behind to help Schanberg and tours of eye-catching book, A Liar’s Autobiography, and changing diagnosis, the group’s future suddenly hangs in the balance: fellow students, Billy finally with dispatches. As an American, theatres, this documents the those recordings have now been suppressed emotions, competing egos, and uncontrollable passions finds a purpose to his unhappy Schanberg will have no trouble development of cinema at the used ingeniously here. Fellow threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are existence, until he makes the leaving, but Pran is a local, and sharp end - from the perspective Pythons Cleese, Jones, Palin, and about to play their 25th anniversary concert, quite possibly their last, mistake of stealing from his the Khmer Rouge is moving in to of those who worked behind the Gilliam also turn up, along with only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their brother. Shot by cinematographer tighten its grip. Admirably free scenes. As we move forward into a few surprise guests. Neither a legacy. With an outstanding ensemble cast and a deeply felt affinity Chris Menges, whose work we are of cliché and melodrama, Killing the age of digital film exhibition documentary, nor a for the music, this has unquestionable power. celebrating, Kes remains a near Fields is a tough but worthy (see also Side By Side), this offers film, this is Chapman’s own take perfect picture. account of one of the greatest an affectionate glance back at “A small, shining gem of a movie.” on his bizarre life and search for atrocities in human history. self-knowledge. Hilarious and “Seen today, it still cries cinema’s analogue golden age. Pete Travers, Rolling Stone imaginative, this is a must-see. its authentic song of rage. “Without doubt one of the finest “Beautiful, timely and ever Preview courtesy of Artificial Eye On Thursday the directors It still cuts like a knife.” British films of the past 50 years.” so slightly heartbreaking… Sukhdev Sandhu, Telegraph Film4 will introduce the film and I love it!” Mark Kermode, answer questions BBC Radio 5 28 / 29 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Love is the Devil (18)

Director: John Maybury Starring: Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton Japan/UK/France, 1998, The Lodger (PG) 1 hour 38 minutes

Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Sunday 10 March 8.45pm Starring: Miss June, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, Ivor Novello The Courtyard Hereford UK, 1926, 1 hour 30 minutes, silent with recorded score by Nitin Sawhney John Maybury’s unflinching Sunday 3 March 6.45pm Friday 15 11.00am The Courtyard Hereford vision of Francis Bacon’s Life of Pi (PG) relationship with George Dyer This classic ‘tale of the London fog’ has long been recognised, not manages to capture the essence Director: Ang Lee least by its director, as ‘the first true Hitchcock movie’. Inspired Starring: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain of the great artist’s work. In US, 2012, 2 hours 7 minutes by a play and novel about Jack the Ripper, Hitchcock’s second the 1960s, Bacon surprises a feature and first suspense film anticipated his interest in erroneous burglar and invites him to share Monday 4 March 8.30pm, Tuesday 5 3.15pm, Thursday 7 6.15pm, Saturday 9 6.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Wednesday 6 March 2.00pm (Senior Screen) & 7.30pm, Thursday 7 5.00pm & 7.30pm Wem Town Hall accusations and his increasingly expert play with point of view. his bed. The burglar, a working Monday 11 March 2.00pm (HOH) & 7.30pm, Tuesday 12 4.30pm & 7.30pm, After a remarkably dynamic first 15 minutes beginning with a blonde’s class man named George Dyer, Wednesday 13 7.30pm Ludlow Assembly Rooms murder and charting the responses of police, press and public, the 30 years Bacon’s junior, accepts. Saturday 16 March 7.30pm Attfield Theatre Oswestry story proper starts with the emergence from the foetid city fog of Bacon finds Dyer’s amorality a mysterious stranger (Novello) keen to rent a room in the home of and innocence attractive and Academy Award winning director Ang Lee brings Yann Martel’s Man Thanks to Film Club for golden-haired fashion model Daisy (Miss June). Despite her detective introduces him to his Soho set at Booker Prize winning novel to the screen to dazzling effect. Pi Patel supporting our schools screenings of Life of Pi (Thursday boyfriend’s objections, Daisy takes to the handsome newcomer The Colony Room. But as Dyer’s is the son of a zoo keeper who lives in Pondicherry, India. Financial 7 March 10.30am) and African to the consternation of her mother, who is troubled by her tenant’s bouts with depression spiral into hardship drives his family to move to Canada and they hitch a ride Cats (Friday 8 March 10.30am). nocturnal outings… on a freighter with rare and valuable animals in tow. A severe storm Film Club is an educational heavy drinking and drug taking, charity that helps set up FREE he begins to suffer from satanic leaves Pi shipwrecked; alone on a lifeboat with an orangutan, hyena, “This restoration of Hitchcock’s 1926 silent melodrama offers a gripping after-school film clubs in state- visions, confounded by Bacon’s wounded zebra and Bengal tiger – all fighting for survival. Wondrous funded schools. prehistory not just of his own work, but the Hollywood thriller itself.” casual infidelities. With terrific, childhood adventure; symbolic ode to spirituality; allegorical study of Peter Bradshaw, story-telling, Ang Lee orchestrates Life of Pi into a cohesive movie- uncompromising performances going experience for audiences of all ages; with stunning visual On Sunday, Bryony Dixon, the BFI’s curator of silent film will introduce from Derek Jacobi as Bacon and effects that will take your breath away. the film and answer questions Craig as Dyer, the film has a terrible truthful power.

On Monday at The Courtyard See also Sir Derek Jacobi the screening is sponsored by event (p.9) 30 / 31 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

ARTISTS ARTISTS

The Man Who Fell The Mexican To Earth (18) Suitcase (12A)

Director: Nicolas Roeg Director: Trisha Ziff Starring: David Bowie, Mexico/Spain/US, 2012, Candy Clark, Rip Torn 1 hour 26 minutes, subtitles US/UK, 1976, 2 hours 19 minutes Monday 11 March 2.00pm & Sunday 3 March 6.30pm 7.30 pm Hereford College of Arts The Market Theatre Ledbury £4.00, Students £2.00. All 3 Artists films: Nic Roeg’s sci-fi classic is an £10.00, Students £5.00 adaptation of Walter Tevis’s novel McCullin (15) about an alien who comes to This gripping documentary Directors: David & Jacqui Morris starts with the discovery of Earth seeking a solution to his Starring: Don McCullin home planet’s woes, only to find UK, 2012, 1 hour 35 minutes three boxes in a closet in Mexico himself lost in an unfamiliar, City, 2007. The boxes contained Wednesday 6 March 8.45pm, Thursday 7 1.00pm some 4,500 negatives taken by corrupt and sometimes hostile The Courtyard Hereford society. Roeg turns the alien’s Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and encounter with planet earth into Marina Abramovic´: The Artist Is Present (15) This astounding documentary covering McCullin’s entire career (from David Seymour, three of the a dazzling critique of a society Directors: Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre working with Antonioni on Blow Up, reporting for The Observer, then finest photojournalists of their dominated by consumerism and Starring: Marina Abramovic´, Ulay and Klaus Biesenbach The Sunday Times), is not for the easily shocked, but while the images time. Committed anti-fascists, US, 2012, 1 hour 46 minutes mass media. themselves are haunting, it is the lengthy interview with the man they travelled to Spain in the Wednesday 6 March 2.00pm & 7.30pm Hereford College of Arts himself which makes for the most moving viewing. McCullin discusses mid-1930s to fight the rise “David Bowie is perfect in the £4.00, Students £2.00. All 3 Artists films: £10.00, Students £5.00 the almost disabling effect of a lifetime capturing atrocities committed of Franco with their cameras. by his fellow man, often in the name of peacekeeping or as a result Their work tells the story of the lead role of Nic Roeg’s prescient Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, the Serbian performance artist of religious conflict. It’s truly humbling to hear McCullin describe Spanish Civil War and the exile alien-stranded tale” Guardian Marina Abramovi´c has been redefining art for nearly 40 years. Using the most horrible of experiences and yet also some incredible acts of of over 500,000 Spaniards to her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her limits - and individual compassion, all largely documented by his lens. A stunning Europe and Mexico. All three at times risking her life in the process - she creates performances that document of a quite incredible life. photographers met untimely challenge, shock, and move us. This elegant documentary follows the deaths in war zones, adding to artist as she prepares for what may be the most important milestone the poignancy of this film, which in her life: a major new retrospective of her work, taking place is complemented by an original at New York’s MoMA. For Marina, this prestigious event is the chance On Thursday the screening is sponsored by score by Michael Nyman. to finally silence the question, “But why is this art?” Winner Documentary Miami Film Festival 32 / 33 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Monsieur Lazhar My Brother the (12A) Devil (15)

Director: Philippe Falardeau Director: Sally El Hosaini Starring: Mohamed Fellag, Starring: James Floyd, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron Fady Elsayed, Said Taghmaoui Canada, 2011, 1 hour 34 minutes, UK, 2012, 1 hour 52 minutes subtitles Monday 4 March 6.00pm, Saturday 2 March 7.30pm Thursday 7 3.30pm Brilley Village Hall & The Courtyard Hereford Moccas Village Hall Friday 15 March 7.30pm Moonrise Kingdom (12A) This hard-hitting but heart-felt Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village tale of modern city living proves Midnight’s Children (12A) Hall & Bosbury Village Hall Director: Wes Anderson that Sally El Hosaini is one of Director: Deepa Mehta Starring: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Starring: Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Alan Rickman, Salman Rushdie When a primary school teacher Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton the brightest British filmmaking Canada/UK, 2012, 2 hours 26 minutes commits suicide, Algerian US, 2012, 1 hour 34 minutes talents around. Mo is a young Sunday 3 March 11.00am, Wednesday 6 3.30pm immigrant Bachir Lazhar Friday 1 March 8.00pm Bromyard Conquest Theatre boy growing up in a traditional The Courtyard Hereford steps forward as the stand-in. Thursday 7 March 7.30pm Gorsley Village Hall Egyptian household, but beyond Monday 4 March 7.30pm, Tuesday 5 2.00pm Somewhat rusty in his teaching Friday 8 March 7.30pm Bodenham Parish Hall the front door are the streets of Friday 15 March 7.30pm The Simpson Hall Burghill Ludlow Assembly Rooms experience, we watch as he Hackney. The impressionable Mo idolises his older brother Adapting his own Best of Booker prize-winning novel, Salmon Rushdie adjusts to school life and the The gorgeously realised Moonrise Kingdom promises a rare treat, Rashid, a shrewd and charismatic entrusts the filming of this most beloved work to Deepa Mehta, various culture clashes with especially for lovers of Wes Anderson’s work (Rushmore, The Royal member of a local gang, and acclaimed director of Fire, Water and Earth. Saleem is born at the his young students and fellow Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr Fox). Set on a picturesque island off New wants to follow in his footsteps. stroke of midnight on August 15 1947, the very moment India gained teachers. Treading with great care England in the ‘60s, a young boy and girl fall in love and run away Rashid, however, wants a its independence from the British Raj. Like other children born of this as the children come to terms with together, causing various factions of the town to mobilise a search. different life for his little moment, he possesses extraordinary powers. In order to understand grief and the guilt and confusion Chaos - of a wittily deadpan, beautifully styled kind - ensues. brother and deals drugs to and come to terms with his gift, Saleem must look into his own and it brings, Monsieur Lazhar niftily Anderson fills his colourful world with delightfully guileless put Mo through college. One his nation’s past. Mehta has a great affinity for Rushdie’s world and avoids getting soppy. Reminiscent characters including Bruce Willis as the town sheriff and Edward eventful summer, Rashid’s sexual portrays the complex relationships of the novel with real heart and of The Chorus with a bit of Être Norton as a scout camp leader in this almost absurdly pleasing film. awakening forces the tensions soul, transporting us effortlessly to the Indian sub-continent for an tet Avoir thrown in, this is a warm “eccentric but heartfelt - a soufflé of strangeness that rises superbly” between the brothers to a head. enchanting, sumptuous and unforgettable cinematic event. and ultimately uplifting experience, showing what life Peter Bradshaw, Guardian “…bursting with energy and lessons pupils can learn under the “A moving account of a man whose many experiences mirror “Full of a joyous love for the medium [...] a very easy film to love.” adrenaline.” Guardian tutelage of an inspirational but the growing pains of an independent India.” Screen International Dave Calhoun, Time Out imperfect teacher. Winner Best British Newcomer Award London Film Festival 2012 34 / 35 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Mystery Film Once Upon a Time Ping Pong (PG) Post Mortem (15)

Saturday 9 March 8.30pm In Anatolia (15) Director: Hugh Hartford Director: Pablo Larraín The Courtyard Hereford UK, 2011, 1 hour 20 minutes Starring: Alfredo Castro, Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell Starring: Muhammet Uzuner, Thursday 14 March 7.30pm Chile/Mexico/Germany, 2010, Previous Surprise Films have Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel 1 hour 38 minutes, subtitles Turkey/Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2011, Wem Town Hall included Kathryn Bigelow’s 2 hours 38 minutes, subtitles Tuesday 12 March 4.00pm Oscar-winning The Hurt Locker Ping Pong is a film about growing The Courtyard Hereford and Richard (The It Crowd) Saturday 2 March 8.00pm old and staying fit and active. Garway Village Hall Pablo Larraín (No) continues his Ayoade’s Submarine. We’ve Friday 15 March 8.00pm In fact it’s about people well into decided once again to reinstate The Market Theatre Ledbury their ninth decade who are still post mortem of Chilean society this special, much anticipated competing in the sport of life in the wake of General Pinochet’s As dusk falls, a convoy of cars dictatorship with this unnerving slot and will announce the title No (15) or, to be precise, table tennis. of the Mystery Film during the makes its way across the remote The film follows eight players account of a morgue attendant’s Festival. You can guarantee it Director: Pablo Larraín Anatolian steppes, a murder at the World over-80s Table descent into madness. As he Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfredo Starringro, Antonia Zegers types up autopsy reports, Mario will be worth watching… Chile/France/USA, 2012, 1 hour 58 minutes, subtitles investigation looking for a crime tennis championships held in fantasizes about his neighbour, scene and a body. Through Inner Mongolia. These include Wednesday 13 March 4.00pm, Thursday 14 8.45pm Nancy, a cabaret dancer who the night you gradually get Dorothy DeLow, 100, a veteran The Courtyard Hereford mysteriously disappears on acquainted with the personnel; of the tournament, and Terry, September 11th 1973. He Born to politician parents during General Pinochet’s militaristic rule, from the lowly diggers and 81, recently told he has a week outlandish, prophet-like hears about the arrest of her acclaimed director Pablo Larraín is perfectly placed to dramatise to live, who gets within touching brother and father, prominent murderer to the harassed local Chile’s fascinating 1988 referendum, which would decide the fate of distance of the gold medal. Communist and Salvador Allende police chief, urbane prosecutor the dictator and the nation. The leaders of the opposition persuade supporters in a violent raid. and city-educated doctor. The “A twinkly, lovely documentary a young and daring advertising executive - René Saavedra (Bernal) Troubled and madly passionate, shambolic, digressive, sometimes about the over-80s table tennis - to head their ‘No’ campaign. With limited resources and under the Mario begins his frantic search world championships, featuring constant scrutiny of the despot’s watchmen, Saavedra and his team comic inquiry picks at the past for Nancy… Heart-pounding, remarkable men and women conceive of a bold plan to win the election and free their country and turns into a richly rewarding humorous and hurtful, Larraín is whom age cannot wither, nor from oppression. Filmed on U-matic cameras to emulate the standard meditation on the strangeness of able, enviably, to bring together custom stale their infinite television broadcasts of the age, and seamlessly intercut with archive life, love, marriage and death. multiple themes and tones into backhand flicks.” The Observer footage from the time, No is an ambitious, daring and worthy film one coherent whole. that is never short of enthralling. “[Ceylan] continues to gnaw at The director Hugh Hartford the boundaries of film storytelling will introduce the film and “A sometimes shocking, often “Skillfully made and hugely entertaining.” with humour, grace, empathy and answer questions moving journey through a blood- Demetrios Matheou, Sight & Sound a dry, wry view of everyday life.” stained corner of the past.” Time Out Empire 36 / 37 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

PREVIEW

Psycho (15)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles US, 1960, 1 hour 49 minutes Post Tenebras Lux (18) Wednesday 13 March 11.30am Director: Carlos Reygadas The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Adolfo Jimenez Castro, Nathalia Acevedo Mexico/France/Netherlands/Germany, 2012, 2 hours, subtitles Hitchcock’s most commercially Monday 11 March 6.15pm successful film famously The Courtyard Hereford opened with press and audience embargoes and reactions to his Quartet (12A) Carlos Reygadas’ (Battle in Heaven, Silent Light) latest is a gorgeous, pared down telling of a true story allusive masterpiece examining marriage, poverty, class, gender, Director: of a momma’s boy living in a Starring: Maggie Smith, Pauline Collins, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly our place in nature and how evil lives with us in the most intimate UK, 2012, 1 hour 38 minutes haunted house with a macabre and ordinary of places. Largely non-linear in its structure, preferring secret were strong and visceral. instead to show a series of striking images from the past, present and Sunday 3 March 7.00pm Booth’s Bookshop Cinema Hay To complement Hitchcock, Sacha Monday 4 March 6.15pm, Tuesday 5 6.00pm, Wednesday 6 3.45pm & 6.00pm, possible futures, there is a clear centre to the film. Juan is a wealthy Gervasi’s wonderful behind- Thursday 7 March 1.15pm & 8.45pm, Friday 8 6.00pm The Courtyard Hereford industrialist who has chosen to live with his wife and two children the-scenes drama about the Wednesday 13 March 1.30pm Attfield Theatre Oswestry away from the trappings of wealth and the city. Yet isolation in this film’s financing and production, superficially idyllic rural landscape seems to have brought little peace Having spent nearly half-a-century in front of camera as an “Hoffman has delivered a love his game-changing horror to his world. Juan’s marriage to Natalia is suffering under the strain undisputed screen icon, Dustin Hoffman makes his directorial debut letter to the elderly thesps masterpiece is presented here of sexual ennui, the banal rigours of bringing up young children with this charming and joyful dramatic comedy about a group of of his adoptive country...” in a recent digital transfer. and living in a community where he is clearly an outsider. There is opera singers whose easy life is thrown into disarray by a new arrival Catharine Shoard, Guardian It will still make you shriek. a density to this film which truly repays repeat viewings allowing at their bucolic retirement home. With such a glorious stage and its myriad ideas to slowly rise to the fore and coalesce into perhaps “Besides making previous horror such wonderful players - Dame Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay and Reygadas’ most personal and complex work to-date. films look like variations of Billy Connolly delivering the wry, spry dialogue from writer Ronald ‘Pollyanna,’ ‘Psycho’ is overlaid Harwood - Hoffman shows great skill in allowing these elements to Winner Best Director Cannes Film Festival 2012 with a richly symbolic commentary shine and so we are treated to a plethora of screen greats operating Preview courtesy of ICO on the modern world as a public at the top of their game. swamp in which human feelings This film contains scenes of a sexual nature and nudity and passions are flushed down On Wednesday in Hereford the 6.00pm the drain.” Andrew Sarris, screening is sponsored by Village Voice (1960) 38 / 39 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

The Quince Tree Sun Roadkill Roll Out the Barrel A Royal Affair (15) With a selection of Shoot Out (Dream of Light) (U) Directors: Philip Trevelyan, Director: Nikolaj Arcel films (1 hour programme) Richard Massingham et al Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Director: Victor Erice UK, 2012, 1 hour 20 minutes Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Alicia Vikander Starring: Antonio López, Director: Nathan Williams Denmark/Sweden/Czech Republic/ Marina Moreno, Enrique Gran UK, 2012, 16 minutes Wednesday 13 March 7.30pm Germany, 2012, 2 hours 18 minutes, Spain, 1992, 2 hours 13 minutes, subtitles The Sun Inn Leintwardine £5.50 subtitles Monday 11 March 5.00pm Limited capacity. Book in advance Wednesday 6 March 8.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Friday 8 March 3.30pm to secure ticket. Bishops Castle Film Society FREE The Market Theatre Ledbury Saturday 9 March 7.30pm From the BFI, this intoxicating From the director of The Spirit A young soldier begins to lose his Moccas Village Hall of the Beehive this supremely grip on reality as he adjusts to selection of archive shorts Saturday 16 March 7.30pm Rust and Bone (15) contemplative film sets its is an essential history of the Lady Emily Hall Tarrington life at home. A chance encounter Director: Jacques Audiard own boundaries. Beyond British boozer on film - and with the girl of his dreams may Based on a remarkable true story, Starring: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure ‘documentary’, it follows plays aptly enough at one of France/Belgium, 2012, 2 hours, subtitles be the only way he can find some this historical epic is set in 18th Madrileño painter Antonio López Britain’s surviving parlour pubs. inner peace. century Denmark at the court Friday 8 March 8.00pm Presteigne Film Society as he labours meticulously, From Arnold Miller’s swinging of the psychologically unstable Sunday 10 March 7.30pm Playhouse Cinema Leominster year after year over a painting Shoot Out is a 3-year Big Lottery Under the Table You Must Go, Tuesday 12 March 7.00pm SpArC Theatre Bishops Castle King Christian VII. When German of a quince tree in his garden. funded project delivered by Philip Trevelyan’s beautifully Wed 13 March 7.30pm Wem Town Hall advisor Johann Struensee arrives Friday 15 March 8.00pm Clungunford Parish Hall His patience and motivation The Rural Media Company. expressionistic The Ship Hotel Tyne Main to the local quirks to help control affairs, he and is interesting in itself but the Over 900 13-19 year-olds have It’s impossible to keep your emotions in check during Rust and Bone, and characters of Richard English-raised Queen Caroline are subject matter is explored taken advantage of filmmaking a modern love story from director Jacque Audiard (A Prophet) at Massingham’s wartime Down at drawn together by Enlightenment through conversation with training through Shoot Out, the very top of his game. Marion Cotillard plays Stephanie, a young the Local, and Michael Palin and thinking. Realising they have friends, his wife, admirers, creating over 100 drama woman who trains killer whales at a marine theme park. One evening Terry Jones humorous trade film extraordinary influence over and builders at work on his and documentary films with she meets Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts), a feckless nightclub bouncer Henry Cleans Up, this programme the King, they try to use their house, framing the painter’s community & voluntary groups and single father, who dreams of becoming a kick boxer. The two is brimful of the sights and power to change Denmark for the bizarre, and sometimes narrow across Herefordshire. Roadkill begin an unexpectedly tentative romance but after a terrible accident sounds of the great British pub, better. Years in the making, the conception of artistic endeavour. was created as part of the at her work, they’re forced to reappraise their relationship. Award- exploring its role as a place of depth of the characterisation, Put aside preconceptions and summer school and gave young grabbing lead performances from Cotillard and Schoenaerts, elegant communal gathering, game and sumptuous production values you will find this film visually people the opportunity to work cinematography and an affecting score bv Alexandre Desplat turn playing and opinion debating. lend a rich and satisfying feel. extraordinary, funny, touching, alongside professionals to create what could have been a bizarre or sentimental scenario into a subtle and quite unlike anything else. this moving new drama. “A voluptuous slice but immensely powerful romantic drama. The screening of historical drama” is sponsored by Empire “It is a passionate and moving love story which surges out of the screen like a flood tide.” Peter Bradshaw, Guardian 40 / 41 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Samsara (12A) The Sessions (15)

Director: Ron Fricke Director: Ben Lewin, US, 2012, 1 hour 42 minutes Starring: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy Saturday 16 March 8.00pm US, 2012, 1 hour 35 minutes Garway Village Hall Seven Psychopaths (15) Sunday 17 March 7.30pm Friday 8 March 12.00pm & Playhouse Cinema Leominster 6.30pm, Wednesday 13 2.00pm Director: Martin McDonagh The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Christopher Walken, Abbie Cornish Samsara is a film of extraordinary US/UK, 2012, 1 hour 51 minutes Mark O’Brien has lived most sights and sounds, filmed over of his life confined to an iron Monday 4 March 3.00pm, Friday 8 8.30pm, five years and in 25 countries lung. A journalist with a dry, Monday 11 1.30pm The Courtyard Hereford (in Europe, Africa, Asia, the self-deprecating wit that some of Middle East, the Americas), that A hugely enjoyable, witty, bloody, foul-mouthed meta-movie about his female carers respond to, he takes the form of a non-verbal, screenwriter Marty (Farrell) and his friends (played with joyous The Sapphires (PG) determines - at age 38 - to lose guided meditation that will abandon by Walken and Rockwell) attempting to write a Hollywood his virginity. With the help of transform viewers in countries Director: Wayne Blair film called Seven Psychopaths. To help him through his writer’s block, Starring: Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy his therapist and guidance of his around the world as they are Marty’s friends hit upon the wheeze of advertising for psychos in the Australia, 2012, 1 hour 43 minutes priest (Macy - always a delight) swept along a journey of the local newspaper. Simultaneously, Marty is determined to come up he contacts a professional sex soul. Through powerful images Wednesday 6 March 7.30pm Moccas Village Hall with a script about the aforementioned seven psychopaths without Thursday 7 March 7.30pm surrogate, in another life, a pristinely photographed in 70mm resorting to violence or cliché - just as his real life quickly descends Brilley Village Hall & Pudleston Village Hall typical soccer mom with a house, and a dynamic music score, Friday 8 March 7.30pm Playhouse Cinema Leominster into the very thing he pompously critiques. Directed by playwright mortgage and a husband. Based the film illuminates the links Tuesday 12 March 7.30pm Much Birch Community Hall Martin McDonagh, Psychopaths expands upon his debut In Bruges’ upon a real autobiography, this between humanity and the rest absurdist, existential explorations of masculinity with brio and wit. An adaptation of the hugely successful Australian stage musical tender, funny and touching of the nature, showing how our of the same name, and based on a true story, The Sapphires is set drama provides an interesting life cycle mirrors the rhythm “It’s an old-fashioned John Huston caper film extended in the heady days of the late ‘60s. It’s an inspirational tale about a counterpoint to Rust and Bone of the planet. to sulfurous comedy.” TIME Magazine quartet of young, talented singers from a remote Aboriginal mission, but proves it’s possible for discovered and guided by a kind-hearted, soul-loving manager Hollywood to produce a grown- played by Bridesmaids’ Chris O’Dowd. Plucked from obscurity, the four up movie about sex. spirited women with powerhouse voices are given the opportunity to entertain American troops in Vietnam as Australia’s answer to The “a pleasant shock… equates sex Supremes. What it offers is a crowd-pleasing combination of comedy, with intimacy, tenderness and heart and romance and an unbeatable soul music soundtrack. emotional connection instead of performance, competition and conquest.” New York Times 42 / 43 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Shadowlands (U) Shropshire Lives Side By Side (15)

Director: Richard Attenborough Short extracts will be shown Director: Chris Kenneally Starring: Anthony Hopkins, before the Shropshire Flicks in Starring: Keanu Reeves, James Cameron, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes Martin Scorsese, Danny Boyle UK, 1993, 2 hours 11 minutes the Sticks and Attfield Theatre US, 2012, 1 hour 39 minutes Oswestry screenings and Life Friday 8 March 1.00pm of Pi at Wem Town Hall Tuesday 12 March 1.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford Wednesday 13 6.30pm This compilation of short films The Courtyard Hereford With its extensive use of from the 1960s and 1970s, Herefordshire locations and made for Associated Television’s Since the invention of cinema people - and a script that regional news, was researched the standard format for recording portrays the Golden Valley as ‘the and produced by Neil Kendall moving images has been film. Sightseers (15) Over the past two decades a new promised land’ - Shadowlands from the University of Lincoln’s Director: Ben Wheatley has become an important School of Media and is now a form of digital filmmaking has Starring: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies UK, 2012, 1 hour 28 minutes touchstone in the film scene marvellous collection of archive emerged - a groundbreaking, seismic evolution that has of the region. Here we present films preserved at the Media Friday 1 March 6.00pm, Saturday 2 12.45pm The Courtyard Hereford a (now very rare) screening to Archive for Central England. changed the way we make and Saturday 2 March 7.30pm Booth’s Bookshop Cinema Hay mark the twentieth anniversary They provide a snapshot of receive films. Hollywood A-lister “Sightseers is a horrifically of Richard Attenborough’s deeply people and places of the county Keanu Reeves takes us on a tour Tina lives with her mother in suburban Redditch. Her new boyfriend charming treat, with a surprising moving account of the love story and a glimpse into everyday lives of filmmaking’s past and future in Chris wants to show Tina his world and, against her mother’s wishes, sweetness shining through at its between writer C.S. Lewis, who in the period, including some of a fascinating study of the effect takes her off in his caravan on ‘an erotic odyssey’ through the north heart.” London Film Festival is to be commemorated in Poet’s the wonderful characters who technology has had upon the of England. Along the way they encounter other tourists whose little Corner later in the year, the 50th were known well in their own industry via in-depth interviews acts of selfishness, pomposity and anti-social behaviour spoil Chris “Lowe and Oram’s script balances since his death, and American communities and an eclectic mix with Hollywood greats. This is and Tina’s perfect holiday, forcing them to take a wrong turn... nimbly on the thread of razor poet Joy Gresham. of occupations including grass essential viewing for anyone with Following the critical successes of Down Terrace and The Kill List, wire between horror and farce...” cutting, creel making and stunt an interest in film. Sightseers cements director Ben Wheatley’s reputation as the most A guided Shadowlands walk original new voice in British cinema since Shane Meadows. With its Robbie Collin, Telegraph is also on offer (see p.8) horse-riding! “For a film geek this movie carefully controlled shifts in tone, by turns hilarious, charmingly is absolute heaven.” A.O. Scott, romantic, dark and graphically violent, here is a comic nightmare of New York Times distinctively British bad behaviour that will leave audiences at once looking forward to and dreading their next staycation.

On Wednesday the screening is sponsored by 44 / 45 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

The Spirit of ’45 (PG)

Director: Ken Loach UK, 2012, 1 hour 32 minutes

Sunday 17 March 3.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Live simulcast to include discussion with the director Ken Loach

1945 was a pivotal year in Sister (15) British history: the unity that Silver Linings Playbook (15) had carried us through the war Director: Ursula Meier Director: David O. Russell set against the bitter memories Starring: Lea Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston, Gillian Anderson Starring: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert DeNiro, Jacki Weaver France/Switzerland, 2012, 1 hour 37 minutes, subtitles of the inter-war years led to USA, 2012, 2 hours 9 minutes a vision of a better society. Monday 4 March 3.45pm, Wednesday 6 1.00pm Tuesday 5 March 8.30pm, Wednesday 6 8.15pm The spirit of the age was to be The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford our brother’s and our sister’s Every day 12-year-old loner Simon commutes by cable car to the Swiss keeper. Using film from Britain’s Following his hugely successful sports drama, The Fighter, director “The best movie I’ve seen regional and national archives, David O. Russell adapts Matthew Quick’s popular seriocomic novel this year.” Diane Karger, Alps ski resort above, pilfering equipment and clothing from well- alongside sound recordings and about mental illness and falling in love. Pat Solatano has lost Entertainment Weekly heeled tourists to sell on to locals at knockdown prices. He uses the everything - his house, his job, and his wife - and now finds himself proceeds to support his older sister, who drifts through a succession contemporary interviews, Ken Loach creates a rich political and living back with his parents after spending eight months in a “This is a date movie that caters of unsuitable men, postponing the moment when she will have to social narrative that illuminates psychiatric unit. He is determined to rebuild his life by remaining to the needs of both men and take responsibility for her own life. Nudged by Simon’s seemingly upbeat and reuniting with his wife. When he meets Tiffany, a strange and celebrates a period of women: American football and random attachment to a wealthy woman he encounters at the resort, girl with problems of her own, things get complicated. Tiffany offers unprecedented community spirit comedy, ballroom dancing and the dynamic between brother and sister turns out to be much more to help Pat reconnect with his wife, but only if he’ll do her a favour complex than it first appears. Low-key and observational, but playing in the UK, the impact of which in return. As their arrangement develops, an unexpected bond begins romance. ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ deftly on visual contrasts, this is an arresting follow-up to Meier’s first endured for many years and to form between them, and silver linings appear in both of their lives. covers all those bases - and rises which may yet be rediscovered Refreshingly free of cliché, this is a heart-felt, feel-good frolic that above them too.” feature Home. today. Fascinating in its piecing unsentimentally addresses the obstacles that must be overcome when Kate Muir, Times dealing with mental illness and nascent love. “Meier quietly goes for the emotional jugular in a story that together of historical footage, is simultaneously personal and political, intimate and bigger enlightening in its portrayal of the British public and On Tuesday the screening than any one life.” New York Times will be sponsored by ultimately optimistic, this is a love letter to British society. 46 / 47 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

The Sun-Beaten Tess (12A) The Three Burials Tony Manero (18)

Path (PG) Director: Roman Polanski of Melquiades Director: Pablo Larraín Starring: Natassia Kinski, Peter Firth, Starring: Alfredo Castro, Director: Sonthar Gyal Leigh Lawson, John Collin Estrada (15) Amparo Noguera, Hector Morales Starring: Yeshe Lhadruk, Lo Kyi France/UK, 1979, 2 hours 51 minutes Chile/Brazil, 2008, 1 hour 37 mins, Tibet, 2011, 1 hour 29 minutes, subtitles Director: Tommy Lee Jones subtitles Starbuck (15) Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Thursday 14 March 11.30am, Barry Pepper, January Jones Director: Ken Scott Sunday 10 March 8.30pm Sunday 17 11.30am US/France, 1996, 2 hours 1 minute Sunday 10 March 4.45pm Starring: : Patrick Huard, Antoine Bertrand, Julie LeBreton The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Canada, 2011, 1 hour 50 minutes, subtitles Wednesday 6 March 11.00am, Directed by the cameraman Saturday 9 3.30pm With the release of No, Pablo Sunday 3 March 4.00pm, Tuesday 5 3.30pm, Polanski’s thoughtful, masterful of Old Dog, this debut feature The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 12 6.00pm The Courtyard Hereford adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Larraín’s body of work is rightly follows a young man’s journey acclaimed as a distinctive voice Tuesday 5 March & Monday 18 7.30pm Ludlow Assembly Rooms Tess of the D’Urbervilles was Veteran screen actor Tommy from Lhasa to his home in a of the free Chilean cinema, of undertaken in memory of his Lee Jones makes his directorial A huge local hit in Quebec last year, Starbuck is already being remade remote part of the north-eastern which Tony Manero is a blistering, murdered wife Sharon Tate debut with this fractured tale separately in both Hollywood and Bollywood. But this small quiet film Tibetan Plateau. Through a series brilliant example. During when seeking refuge in Paris. of murder and injustice on the has a sweet humanity to it that defies translation. David Wozniak of flashbacks, we learn the Pinochet’s dictatorship, Raul The production was fraught US/Mexico border, scripted is a shaggy, genial 42-year-old delivery driver for his father’s reason for Nyma’s melancholic Peralta is obsessed with John with problems, from the death by Amores Perros screenwriter struggling butcher firm. Something of a disappointment to his family, disposition and the guilt that Travolta’s character in Saturday of cinematographer Geoffrey Guillermo Arriaga and shot by he seems trapped in a state of arrested development, always letting drives him on this journey. Night Fever especially when Unsworth, weather conditions Chris Menges - one of four films his friends and family down and never quite able to make a go of Returning from his pilgrimage, national television announces and the need to recreate the from the great cinematographer’s life. He’s also in debt up to his ears and spends much of the film angst-ridden Nyma is joined a Tony Manero impersonation Dorset countryside beyond oeuvre that illustrates his acute dodging the unwelcome attentions of a local debt collector - despite by an old man. The vast and contest. Raul’s compulsion to the UK. It became the most understanding of the complex his romance with pregnant police officer Valerie. But Wozniak has desolate backdrop stands succeed drives him to commit expensive French movie relationship between man and a secret: he is the father of 533 children through a sperm donation as a striking metaphor for a series of crimes, just as of its time yet from these nature. A man is shot and quickly program. Only he certainly doesn’t want anyone to know it, least Nyma’s sense of desolation, his dancing partners - who difficulties arose something buried in the high desert of west of all the lawyer heading a class action lawsuit representing 142 whilst the old man’s musings are involved in underground magnificent. Painstakingly Texas. Pete Perkins (Jones), a of these now grown up children all aiming to uncover his identity. contrast sharply with Nyma’s activities against the regime - are restored by Pathé, this stunning local ranch foreman, kidnaps The film takes an unbelievable situation (which incidentally is based inner reflections and near persecuted by the government’s presentation of the film honours a Border Patrolman and forces on a true story - albeit of a Holstein cow rather than a human being) silence. With breathtaking, secret police. As much a study of Unsworth and Cloquet’s Oscar- him to disinter the body. With and treats the people in it with real affection and respect to produce windswept landscapes and the affects of cultural imperialism winning cinematography, his captive and the body in tow, something at once alive, warm and very funny. frequent dreamlike sequences, as it is about living in a police Kinski’s enthralling breakout Pete undertakes a dangerous and Gyal brings to the screen state, this is a complex, thrilling “Good fun and well performed with plenty of charm.” performance and Polanski’s quixotic journey into Mexico for a cinematic gem, affirming and distinctive work. Daily Express heartfelt understanding of a truth and justice. the emergence of a new woman “more sinned against “Totally compelling.” The Times Tibetan cinema. than sinning”. 48 / 49 A - Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

PREVIEW

To Rome With Untouchable (15)

Love (12A) Directors: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano Starring: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Director: Woody Allen Anne Le Ny Starring: Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, France, 2011 1 hour 52 minutes, subtitles Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg Tu Seras Mon Fils (tbc) US/Spain/Italy, 2012, 1 hour 52 minutes Monday 4 March 7.30pm Director: Giles Legrand, Church Stretton School Friday 1 March 7.30pm Starring: Niels Arestrup, Lorant Deutsch, Patrick Chesnais Thursday 7 March 7.00pm Dorstone Village Hall France, 2011, 1 hours 42 minutes, subtitles SpArC Theatre Bishops Castle Saturday 9 March 8.00pm Friday 15 March 7.30pm Bromyard Conquest Theatre Thursday 7 March 2.00pm & 7.30pm Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall Monday 11 March 7.30pm Ludlow Assembly Rooms Cawley Hall Eye Monday 11 March 8.45pm, Tuesday 12 3.30pm Saturday 16 March 7.00pm The Courtyard Hereford The second most successful St Mary’s Church Hall Ross film of all time at the French & 7.30pm Playhouse Cinema Paul de Marseul is a celebrated wine-maker and owner of a renowned box office, Untouchable charts Leominster chateau and vineyard in Saint-Émilion. Paul is disheartened by the an unlikely friendship between Village at the End of the World (PG) notion of his son Martin taking over the family business; he doesn’t wealthy, middle-aged tetraplegic Director: Sarah Gavron For his latest film, veteran believe Martin has inherited the qualities needed in a wine-maker: Philippe and poverty-stricken UK/Denmark/Greenland, 2012, I hour 18 minutes director Woody Allen moves persistence, creative insight, technical prowess and passion - and he Driss that starts when Driss is from Paris (Midnight in Paris) Saturday 9 March 8.45pm, Sunday 10 4.00pm is quick to remind Martin of this at every opportunity. When Philippe, hired as Philippe’s live-in carer. The Courtyard Hereford to Rome where he cuts together the son of the vineyard manager, appears at the vineyard, Paul leaps Expanding each other’s horizons, four separate stories: a worker This first documentary by acclaimed British filmmaker Sarah Gavron, at the chance to name him as his successor, neglecting the wishes they show each other that there who wakes up to find himself (Brick Lane) is a compelling and detailed real-life drama following, of his own son, which will bring all the familial tension to a head. are different ways to live. It’s a a celebrity, an architect who through the course of year, the daily lives of four residents of As full-bodied, complex and enjoyable as a fine wine, this is a heartening sign that this moving takes a trip back to the street Niaquornat, a tiny and remote village in the far north of Greenland, fascinating study of heritage and tradition. film has done so well in France, he lived on as a student, where there are more dogs than people. There’s teenager Lars, and where the divide between rich a young couple on their huntsman Karl, who may or may not be Lars’ father, Illangauq, an “Lustrous photography and a fine cast make this dark drama and ghettoised poor in the honeymoon, and a frustrated outsider who came to the village after ‘meeting’ his wife online, and a compelling one.” David Parkinson, Empire banlieux is often pronounced, opera director who has a talent Annie, old enough to remember the ways of the Shamen. The harshly exemplified by the riots in 2005. for discovering talented singers. beautiful icy setting, ravishingly photographed by David Katznelson Some gloriously comic moments (Downton Abbey), envelops the protagonists making us all too aware with terrific performances from of the fragile ecology of the village and wider surroundings. Alec Baldwin, Cruz, and Judy Davis in particular. Preview courtesy of Dogwoof films 50 / 51 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

PREVIEW

War Witch (15)

Director: Kim Nguyen Starring: Rachel Mwanza, Alain Bastien, Serge Kanyinda Canada, 2012, 1 hour 30 minutes, subtitles What Richard Did (15)

Friday 15 March 4.15pm Director: Lenny Abrahamson The Courtyard Hereford Starring, Jack Reynor, Róisín Murphy, Sam Keeley, Lars Mikkelsen Ireland, 2012, 1 hour 28 minutes This is a beautiful, powerful Friday 8 March 4.15pm, Sunday 10 12.00pm fairytale about love, the like of The Courtyard Hereford Wadjda (12A) which you’ve never seen before. Komona, a child soldier in the Lenny Abrahamson’s (Garage) latest is a tense and terrific account Director: Haifaa Al Mansour of a young Irish school boy who makes a terrible mistake that will Starring: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani Congo, tells her extraordinary Saudi Arabia/Germany, 2012, 1 hour 38 minutes, subtitles life story to her unborn child: change his life forever. Richard (newcomer Reynor) is a middle-class how she was abducted, became rugby player destined for great things until a moment’s thoughtless Wednesday 13 March 8.45pm, Thursday 14 6.30pm violence turns him from star pupil to guilt-wracked outsider. As The Courtyard Hereford a sorceress and fell in love with an albino. It’s a story about war pressure mounts to turn himself in, his parents and friends close ranks A big hit with audiences and critics at festivals this year, Wadjda Preview courtesy of Soda and finding inner peace that has to hide him, but guilt eats away at his conscience. This is a beautifully comes like a breath of fresh air, bringing a new voice to world cinema. Pictures been labeled ‘too tough a sell’, calibrated, understated, perfectly pitched work that doesn’t waste a Its heart is neo-realist and, given its subject matter, also stands but which audiences all over the single shot, lingering long in the mind after the credits have rolled. up to comparison with Bicycle Thieves. Shot entirely on location, world have embraced. A film with the film centres on 10-year-old Wadjda - she wants to buy many facets, and an amazing “Abrahamson has pulled off something quietly remarkable: a study of a beautiful green bicycle but her mother forbids it, afraid performance from an amateur morality which never feels like a treatise, a bracingly realistic film about of repercussions in a closed society. The spirited Wadjda sets out actress that is so moving and teenagers which never becomes patronising and a gripping melodrama to raise the money herself. Clearly underpinned by its representation surprising that it is not easily which swerves sentiment.” Tom Huddleston, Time Out of a society which is very restrictive for women, this charming film forgotten. offers a positive view of one girl’s determination to be different. Nominated for Best Foreign As one of the first films to come out of Saudi Arabia and the first Language Film Oscar to be directed by a woman, Wadjda is as important as it is enjoyable and should be treasured the world over. Winner Cambridge Film Festival Audience Award 2012

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Where Do We Go Now? (12A)

Director: Nadine Labaki Starring: Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Leyla Hakim, Nadine Labaki Lebanon/Egypt, 2011, 1 hour 42 minutes, subtitles

Sunday 10 March 7.00pm St Mary’s Church Hall Ross

Winning awards at festivals worldwide, Nadine Labaki’s Zero Dark Thirty (15) (Caramel) bittersweet comedy Director: Kathryn Bigelow has also garnered rave reviews Starring: Chris Pratt, Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong from audiences. Set in a A World Apart (PG) US, 2012, 2 hours 37 minutes Lebanese village inhabited by Director: Chris Menges Tuesday 12 March 8.15pm, Friday 15 1.00pm, both Muslims and Christians, Starring: , , Jeroen Krabbe, Saturday 16 8.45pm The Courtyard Hereford Linda Mvusi, , Paul Freeman where, as civil war threatens to UK, 1988, 1 hour 52 minutes Friday 15 March 7.30pm Attfield Theatre Oswestry engulf the country, the women of the village plot to keep their Friday 8 March 3.45pm For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives “What it does in the course of The Courtyard Hereford hotheaded men in the dark - across the globe worked secretly towards a single goal: to find and telling a seminal story of our eliminate Osama bin Laden. To tell this story, Zero Dark Thirty reunites time is what contemporary films sabotaging the radio, destroying The first and most successful of the five films Chris Menges has the Oscar-winning production team of director Kathryn Bigelow and so rarely do, serve as brilliant the TV, and eventually going to directed, informed by his early experiences working as an undercover writer Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker). Controversy was inevitable and provocation.” Wall Street Journal almost any lengths to ensure cameraman for World in Action in South Africa under the film poses more questions than answers. On one hand, it can be their community remains intact. in the 1960s during the 90-day law. Based on a true story made into seen to be an important, powerful and painstakingly-researched film Charming, funny, fresh and a BAFTA-winning screenplay by , it conveys the political drama, brilliantly shot by Hollywood’s pre-eminent woman director romantic, Labaki’s film shows turmoil of the time movingly and with conviction through the eyes and with an extremely contained performance from Jessica Chastain. a natural storyteller at work. of a 13-year-old girl, Molly Roth. Molly’s parents are committed On the other, the depiction of the CIA’s early torture tactics in the left-wing dissidents and the knock-on effects of their activism ‘war against terror’ has stirred up moral reservations and provoked cause her deep hurt and bewilderment as well as informing her heated argument, particularly in the US. Join the debate here. own political awakening.

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Friday 1 March Tuesday 5 March

1.00 1hr 43’ Babette’s Feast (U) The Courtyard Hereford 1.00 1hr 50’ Kes (U) The Courtyard Hereford 3.30 1hr 45’ Barbara (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 1.00 1hr 48’ The Conformist (15) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 28’ Sightseers (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 31’ Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Hereford College of Arts 7.30 2hrs 10’ Anna Karenina (12A) Burghill The Simpson Hall 2.00 2hrs 26’ Midnight’s Children (12A) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1hr 30’ Ginger and Rosa (12A) Dilwyn Cedar Hall 3.15 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 52’ To Rome With Love (12A) Dorstone Village Hall 3.30 1hr 50’ Starbuck (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 34’ Moonrise Kingdom (12A) Bromyard Conquest Theatre 6.00 1hr 38’ Quartet (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 10’ A Cat in Paris (PG) Clungunford Parish Hall 6.15 1hr 56’ The Hunt (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.15 1hr 15’ Chris Menges in Conversation The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 39’ The Imposter (15) Acton Scott Village Hall 7.30 1hr 31’ Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Hereford College of Arts Saturday 2 March 7.30 1hr 42’ The Hunter (15) Leominster Playhouse

7.30 1hr 50’ Starbuck (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 10.30 1hr 43’ Babette’s Feast (U) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 2hrs 10’ Anna Karenina (12A) Michaelchurch Escley 12.45 1hr 28’ Sightseers (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 2hrs 9’ Silver Linings Playbook (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.30 1hr 49’ Elena (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 8.45 1hr 34’ 5 Broken Cameras (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 1hr 33’ Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A) Ross St Mary’s Church Hall

7.30 1hr 34’ Monsieur Lazhar (12A) Brilley Village Hall Wednesday 6 March 7.30 1hr 28’ Sightseers (15) Hay Booth’s Bookshop 7.30 1hr 33’ Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A) Hereford WRVS Hall 11.00 2hrs 1’ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 30’ Ginger and Rosa (12A) Leominster Playhouse 1.00 1hr 37’ Sister (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 34’ Monsieur Lazhar (12A) Moccas Village Hall 2.00 1hr 46’ Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present Hereford College of Arts 8.00 2hrs 38’ Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (15) Garway Village Hall 2.00 1hr Can you see me? The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 33’ Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A) Ledbury Market Theatre 2.00 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) (Senior Screen) Wem Town Hall 3.30 2hrs 26’ Midnight’s Children (12A) The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 3 March 3.45 1hr 38’ Quartet (12A) The Courtyard Hereford

6.00 1hr 38’ Quartet (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 2hrs 26’ Midnight’s Children (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 6.45 1hr 25’ Blackmail (PG) with Stephen Horne The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 34’ 5 Broken Cameras (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 46’ Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present Hereford College of Arts 4.00 1hr 29’ African Cats (U) Bedstone & Hopton Castle 7.30 1hr 43’ The Sapphires (PG) Moccas Village Hall 4.00 1hr 50’ Starbuck (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) Wem Town Hall 6.30 2hr 19’ The Man Who Fell to Earth (18) Ledbury Market Theatre 8.00 2hrs 13’ The Quince Tree Sun (U) Bishops Castle Film Society 6.45 1hr 30’ The Lodger (PG) with Bryony Dixon The Courtyard Hereford 8.15 2hrs 9’ Silver Linings Playbook (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 1hr 38’ Quartet (12A) Hay Booth’s Bookshop 8.45 1hr 35’ McCullin (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.45 1hr 56’ Holy Motors (18) The Courtyard Hereford

Thursday 7 March Monday 4 March

10.30 2hrs 7’ Film Club: Life of Pi (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 12.30 1hr 50’ Kes (U) The Courtyard Hereford 1.00 1hr 35’ McCullin (15) The Courtyard Hereford 1.30 1hr 45’ Barbara (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 1.15 1hr 38’ Quartet (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 3.00 1hr 51’ Seven Psychopaths (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 42’ Tu Seras Mon Fils Ludlow Assembly Rooms 3.45 1hr 37’ Sister (15) The Courtyard Hereford 3.30 1hr 52’ My Brother the Devil (15) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 52’ My Brother the Devil (15) The Courtyard Hereford 3.45 2hrs 3’ Amarcord (15) The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 38’ Quartet (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) Wem Town Hall 7.30 1hr 52’ Untouchable (15) Church Stretton School 6.00 1hr 49’ Elena (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 10’ Anna Karenina (12A) Eye Cawley Hall 6.15 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 33’ Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A) Leominster Playhouse 7.00 1hr 52’ Untouchable (15) Bishops Castle SpArC 7.30 2hrs 26’ Midnight’s Children (12A) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1hr 43’ The Sapphires (PG) Brilley Village Hall 7.30 1hr 33’ Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A) Much Wenlock The Edge 7.30 1hr 34’ Moonrise Kingdom (12A) Gorsley Village Hall 8.30 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 39’ The Imposter (15) Leominster Playhouse 8.45 1hr 56’ Holy Motors (18) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 42’ Tu Seras Mon Fils (TBC) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1hr 43’ The Sapphires (PG) Pudleston Village Hall 7.30 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) Wem Town Hall 60 / 61 Diary Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

8.00 2hrs 9’ 7 Days in Havana (15) Ledbury Market Theatre 8.30 1hr Reception with Sir Derek Jacobi The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 25’ A Liar’s Autobiography (15) with Directors The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 29’ The Sun-Beaten Path (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 8.45 1hr 38’ Quartet (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 8.45 1hr 38’ Love is the Devil (18) The Courtyard Hereford

Friday 8 March Monday 11 March

10.30 1hr 29’ Film Club: African Cats (U) The Courtyard Hereford 12.00 1hr 21’ Jiro Dreams of Sushi (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 30’ World Cinema: An Introduction Wem Town Hall 1.30 1hr 51’ Seven Psychopaths (15) The Courtyard Hereford 12.00 1hr 35’ The Sessions (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 26’ The Mexican Suitcase (12A) Hereford College of Arts 1.00 2hrs 11’ Shadowlands (U) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 16’ Chasing Ice (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 2.30 1hr 16’ Chasing Ice (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) (HOH screening) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 3.30 2hrs 18’ A Royal Affair (15) Ledbury Market Theatre 3.45 2hrs 9’ Bullhead (18) The Courtyard Hereford 3.45 1hr 52’ A World Apart (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 1hr Roadkill The Courtyard Hereford 4.15 1hr 28’ What Richard Did (15) The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 15’ Herefordshire Media Network - local shorts The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 38’ Quartet (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 2hrs Post Tenebras Lux (18) The Courtyard Hereford 6.30 1hr 35’ The Sessions (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 52’ To Rome With Love (12A) Eye Cawley Hall 7.30 1hr 34’ Moonrise Kingdom (12A) Bodenham Parish Hall 7.30 1hr 26’ The Mexican Suitcase (12A) Hereford College of Arts 7.30 1hr 43’ The Sapphires (PG) Leominster Playhouse 7.30 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1hr 54’ The Impossible (12A) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 2hrs 10’ Anna Karenina (12A) Much Wenlock The Edge 8.00 1hr 39’ The Imposter (15) Ledbury Market Theatre 8.15 2hrs 21’ The Killing Fields (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 2hrs Rust and Bone (15) Presteigne Film Society 8.45 1hr 42’ Tu Seras Mon Fils (TBC) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 51’ Seven Psychopaths (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.45 1hr 45’ In the House (15) The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 12 March

11.00 2hrs 9’ Bullhead (18) The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 9 March 1.00 2hrs 21’ The Killing Fields (15) The Courtyard Hereford 10.30 1hr 29’ Film Club: African Cats (U) The Courtyard Hereford 1.30 1hr 39’ Side By Side The Courtyard Hereford 10.30 3hrs Shadowlands Walk Symonds Yat Rock Car Park 4.30 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 1.00 1hr 54’ The Impossible (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 3.30 1hr 42’ Tu Seras Mon Fils (TBC) The Courtyard Hereford 1.15 1hr 33’ Bicycle Thieves (U) The Courtyard Hereford 4.00 1hr 38’ Post Mortem (15) The Courtyard Hereford 3.30 2hrs 1’ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (15) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 50’ Starbuck (15) The Courtyard Hereford 3.45 1hr 56’ The Hunt (15) The Courtyard Hereford 6.30 1hr 30’ Herefordshire on Film (MACE) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 2hrs Rust and Bone (15) Bishops Castle SpArC 6.15 1hr 45’ In the House (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1hr 33’ Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A) Chapel Lawn Village Hall 7.30 1hr 43’ The Sapphires (PG) Much Birch Community Hall 7.30 1hr 54’ The Impossible (12A) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 8.15 2hrs 37’ Zero Dark Thirty (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 18’ A Royal Affair (15) Moccas Village Hall 8.30 The Audience Recommends... The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 10’ Anna Karenina (12A) Tarrington Lady Emily Hall 8.00 1hr 52’ To Rome With Love (12A) Bromyard Conquest Theatre Wednesday 13 March

8.30 Mystery Film The Courtyard Hereford 11.30 1hr 48’ Psycho (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.45 1hr 18’ Village at the End of the World (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 1.30 1hr 38’ Quartet (12A) Oswestry Attfield Theatre

2.00 1hr 35’ The Sessions (15) The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 10 March 4.00 1hr 58’ No (15) The Courtyard Hereford 12.00 1hr 28’ What Richard Did (15) The Courtyard Hereford 6.30 1hr 39’ Side By Side The Courtyard Hereford 1.00 1hr 22’ The Last Projectionist (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 20’ Roll Out the Barrel Leintwardine The Sun Inn 2.00 1hr 25’ A Liar’s Autobiography (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 3.00 1hr 15’ Caravan of Sounds The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs Rust and Bone (15) Wem Town Hall 4.45 1hr 37’ Tony Manero (18) The Courtyard Hereford 8.45 1hr 38’ Wadjda (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 4.00 1hr 18’ Village at the End of the World (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 54’ The Impossible (12A) The Courtyard Hereford Thursday 14 March

7.00 1hr 42’ Where Do We Go Now? (12A) Ross St Mary’s Church Hall 11.30 2hrs 51’ Tess (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 1hr 15’ Sir Derek Jacobi On Stage On Screen The Courtyard Hereford 3.00 3hrs 4’ Aurora (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 30’ Ginger and Rosa (12A) Leintwardine Comm. Centre 6.30 1hr 38’ Wadjda (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs Rust and Bone (15) Leominster Playhouse 62 / 63 Diary Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2013 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

7.30 1hr 20’ Ping Pong (PG) Wem Town Hall 8.45 1hr 58’ No (15) The Courtyard Hereford Venue Information Acton Scott Village Hall 01694 781260* SY6 6QN £4.00 £2.00 p.24 Friday 15 March All Stretton Village Hall 01694 723378* SY6 6JR £4.00 – p.20

11.00 1hr 30’ The Lodger (PG) The Courtyard Hereford Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall 01547 530282 SY7 0BE £4.00 £2.50 p.12, 32 11.00 1hr 30’ Documentary: An Introduction Wem Town Hall Bishops Castle Film Society, The Three Tuns 01588 680445 SY9 5BW £4.00 £2.00** p.38 1.00 2hrs 37’ Zero Dark Thirty (15) The Courtyard Hereford Bishops Castle, SpArC 01588 630243 SY9 5AY £4.00 £3.00 p.13, 39 4.15 1hr 30’ War Witch (15) The Courtyard Hereford Bodenham Parish Hall 01568 797451* HR1 3LB £4.00 – p.33 6.30 1hr 45’ A Late Quartet (15) The Courtyard Hereford Bosbury Parish Hall 01531 640415 HR8 1PX £4.50 £2.50 p.32 7.00 2hrs 10’ Anna Karenina (12A) Bishops Castle SpArC 7.30 1hr 30’ Ginger and Rosa (12A) All Stretton Village Hall Brilley Village Hall 01544 327227 HR3 6JZ £3.50 £2.50 p.32, 40 7.30 1hr 34’ Monsieur Lazhar (12A) Bedstone & Hopton Castle Bromyard, Conquest Theatre 01885 488575 HR7 4LL £5.00 £4.50 p.15, 33, 48 7.30 1hr 34’ Monsieur Lazhar (12A) Bosbury Parish Hall Burghill, The Simpson Hall 01432 760816* HR4 7RW £4.00 £2.00 p.13, 33 7.30 1hr 34’ Moonrise Kingdom (12A) Burghill The Simpson Hall Chapel Lawn Village Hall 01547 530530 SY7 0BW £4.00 – p.15 7.30 1hr 52’ Untouchable (15) Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall Church Stretton School 01694 724330* SY6 6EX £4.00 £2.00 p.49 7.30 5hrs 30’ Festival Party Lyde Arundel, The Haywain Clungunford Parish Hall 01588 660126 SY7 0PP £4.50 £2.00 p.18, 39 7.30 2hrs 37’ Zero Dark Thirty (15) Oswestry Attfield Theatre 8.00 2hrs Rust and Bone (15) Clungunford Parish Hall Dilwyn Cedar Hall Tickets on door HR4 8HS £4.00 £2.00 p.20 8.00 2hrs 38’ Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (15) Ledbury Market Theatre Dorstone Village Hall 01981 550451 HR3 6AN £4.00 £3.00 p.48 8.45 1hr 38’ Hitchcock (12A) The Courtyard Hereford Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 01981 240565* HR2 0EL £4.00 – p.49 Eye, Cawley Hall 01568 615836 HR6 0DS £5.00 – p.13, 48 Saturday 16 March Garway Village Hall 01600 750461* HR2 8RQ £4.00 – p.35, 40 11.00 1hr 38’ Hitchcock (12A) The Courtyard Hereford Gorsley Village Hall 01989 720358* HR9 7SJ £4.00 £2.00 p.33 1.00 2hrs 8’ I Wish (PG) The Courtyard Hereford Hay, Booth’s Bookshop Cinema 01497 820322 HR3 5AA £7.50 £5.00 p.21, 37, 43 7.00 1hr 52’ To Rome With Love (12A) Ross St Mary’s Church Hall Hereford College of Arts Tickets on Door HR1 1LT £4.00 £2.00** p.12, 30-31 7.30 2hrs 7’ Life of Pi (PG) Oswestry Attfield Theatre 7.30 1hr 52’ To Rome With Love (12A) Leominster Playhouse Hereford, The Courtyard 01432 340555 HR4 9JR see p.5 p.6-7, 9-14, 16-29, 31-38, 7.30 2hrs 18’ A Royal Affair (15) Tarrington Lady Emily Hall 41-53 8.00 1hr 42’ Samsara (12A) Garway Village Hall 8.45 2hrs 37’ Zero Dark Thirty (15) The Courtyard Hereford Hereford, WRVS Hall Tickets on Door HR1 2QN £4.00 – p.15 Ledbury, The Market Theatre 01432 383663 HR8 2AQ £4.50 £2.50 p.15, 24, 30, 34, Sunday 17 March 39, 49 Leintwardine Community Centre 07973 746223 SY7 0LZ £4.50 £3.00 p.15, 20 11.30 2hrs 51’ Tess (12A) The Courtyard Hereford Leintwardine, The Sun Inn 01432 340555 SY7 0LP £5.50 – p.38 3.00 1hr 32’ The Spirit of ‘45 (PG) (live) The Courtyard Hereford 4.00 1hr 38’ Hitchcock (12A) Hay Booth’s Bookshop Leominster, Playhouse Cinema 01568 612583 HR6 8NJ £4.00 – p.15, 20, 23-24, 6.15 2hrs 8’ I Wish (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 39-40, 48 7.00 1hr 38’ Hitchcock (12A) Hay Booth’s Bookshop Ludlow Assembly Rooms 01584 878141 SY8 1AZ £6.50 £4.50 p.23, 28, 32, 7.30 1hr 33’ Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A) Leintwardine Comm. Centre 46, 48 7.30 1hr 42’ Samsara (12A) Leominster Playhouse Michaelchurch Escley, Escleyside Hall, 01981 510696* HR2 0PT £4.00 £2.50 p.28 8.00 1hr 33’ Beasts of the Southern Wild (12A) Bromyard Conquest Theatre Moccas Village Hall 07776 121956* HR2 9LQ £4.00 £2.00 p.32, 40 8.15 1hr 38’ Hitchcock (12A) The Courtyard Hereford Much Birch Community Hall 01981 580298* HR2 8HT £4.00 £3.00 p.40 8.45 1hr 45’ A Late Quartet (15) The Courtyard Hereford Much Wenlock, The Edge 01952 728911 TF13 6NB £5.00 £4.00 p.13, 15 Oswestry, Attfield Theatre 0845 2500517 SY11 1PZ £5.00 £3.00 p.28, 37, 53 Presteigne Film Society, Assembly Rooms 01544 370202 LD8 2AN £5.00 £2.50** p.39 Festival Team: Alison Chapman (Press Assistant), Festival Patrons: Jo Comino (Marketing Manager/Press), David Sin (Film Programmer), Chris Menges, Francine Stock Pudleston Village Hall 01568 760606* HR6 0RA £4.00 – p.40 Naomi Vera-Sanso (Festival Director) Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall 01989 720341 HR9 5HR £4.00 £3.00 p.15, 48, 52 And a big thank you to all our Board members: Maggie Ayre, John Banks, Tony Blench, volunteer promoters and stewards Symonds Yat Rock Car Park (Walk) 01432 340555 GL16 7NZ £6.00 – p.8 Richard Branczik, Jeremy Bugler, Luke Doran, Richard Heatly, working with our partner venues Tarrington, Lady Emily Hall 01432 890720* HR1 4EX £4.50 – p.13, 39 Jane Jackson, Deborah Summerfield for their invaluable contribution Wem Town Hall 01939 238279 SY4 5DG £5.00 £4.00 p.8, 28, 35, 39

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Films and events at 39 venues across 2,000 square miles of Herefordshire Shropshire 33 and the Marches 39

1. Acton Scott Village Hall 2. All Stretton Village Hall 3. Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall 4. Bishops Castle Film Society, The Three Tuns S 5. Bishops Castle, SpArC 32 6. Bodenham Parish Hall 2 7. Bosbury Parish Hall 12 8. Brilley Village Hall 4 1 9. Bromyard, Conquest Theatre 5 10. Burghill, The Simpson Hall 13 11. Chapel Lawn Village Hall 11 12. Church Stretton School 3 25 13. Clungunford Parish Hall 28 14. Dilwyn Cedar Hall 26 15. Dorstone Village Hall 34 16. Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 17 17. Eye, Cawley Hall 35 18. Garway Village Hall 27 19. Gorsley Village Hall 14 20. Hay, Booth’s Bookshop Cinema 10 6 9 21. Hereford College of Arts 8 21 22. Hereford, The Courtyard 22 23 23. Hereford, WRVS Hall 7 20 30 H 24. Ledbury, The Market Theatre 15 38 25. Leintwardine Community Centre 28 24 26. Leintwardine, The Sun Inn 29 27. Leominster, Playhouse Cinema, The Community Centre 31 28. Ludlow Assembly Rooms 16 29. Michaelchurch Escley, Escleyside Hall 19 30. Moccas Village Hall 18 36 31. Much Birch Community Hall 37 32. Much Wenlock, The Edge 33. Oswestry, Attfield Theatre 34. Presteigne Film Society, Assembly Rooms 35. Pudleston Village Hall 36. Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall 37. Symonds Yat Rock Car Park (Shadowlands Walk) 38. Tarrington, Lady Emily Hall 39. Wem Town Hall

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