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Friday 26 February to Sunday 14 March www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Festival Director David Gillam puts Director’s a dozen films in the spotlight Dozen
DEPARTURES (12A) p.13 AN EDUCATION (12A) p.14 FISH TANK (15) p.15 KATALIN VARGA (15) p.19 Fascinating, surprisingly funny, and wise The giddy hopes and fears of adolescence at Pitch-perfect performances all round make This haunting debut plays out like winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign the dawn of the swinging sixties this the best British film of 2009! a cross between a revenge thriller and Language Film 2009 some half-forgotten folk tale
Me & Orson Welles p.22 A PROPHET (18) p.24 THE ROAD (15) p.25 SERAPHINE (PG) p.27 A wonderful, warm portrait of Welles at the Utterly gripping winner of the Best Film Prize at A brilliant adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s A wonderful performance by the imposing peak of his powers London Film Festival grabs you from the start great novel about the lengths a father will Yolande Moreau as the maid who was also and never lets go go to protect his son an inspired outsider artist
STILL WALKING (U) p.30 UP IN THE AIR (15) p.33 THE WIND JOURNEYS (15) p.35 WOMAN OF THE DUNES (15) p.36 Precisely observed, profoundly moving Clooney at his glorious comic best in this A real discovery – fantastically beautiful, Stark, haunting, brilliantly cinematic, masterpiece that distills the ebb and flow of thoughtful satire on the American way of extraordinary music – quite unlike anything a true one-of-a-kind that has to be seen family life to its essence life from the director of Juno you’ll ever have seen before on the big screen 4 / 54 AWelcome – Z Film to Index Borderlines 2010 www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Naomi Vera-Sanso Borderlines Film Festival Producer Welcome to the eighth Borderlines is always looking at ways Mavericks Mavericks Borderlines Film to reduce the Festival’s impact on the Festival! This year we environment and this year we have gone are travelling further to great lengths to improve the sustainability afield than ever – of this publication – from the paper we use from our new North to how our printer protects the environment. Shropshire venue, When you have finished with this brochure Wem Town Hall to please pass it to a friend or recycle it. Broken Embraces p.10 Fear Eats The Soul p.15 The Limits of Me & Orson Welles p.22 Ross-on-Wye in the south with a staggering Control p.19 38 venues in between, justifying our claim to Finally it has to be said that none of this be the largest rural film festival in Britain! would be possible without the continued Comic support of our funders: Screen WM and Comic Release Release David Gillam, our Festival Director, has once the National Lottery through the UK Film again pulled together a fantastic selection of Council, Herefordshire Council, The Elmley prize-winning cinema from across the world. Foundation, Hereford City Council and Don’t miss out on the special Borderlines Shropshire Council. We are also very grateful events either, with debate and industry- for the businesses that sponsor the Festival focused events, hands-on workshops and and the regional and national organisations directors and producers coming to discuss who partner us. IN THE LOOP p.18 LOUISE-MICHEL p.20 RUMBA p.26 UP IN THE AIR p.33 their work.
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Kids! Take a trip to the wilds of Southern Africa with Film Club! Special introductory screening FREE plus popcorn and refreshments Duma (U) MACHAN p.20 TREELESS MOUNTAIN p31 TULPAN p.32 THE WIND JOURNEYS p.35 an orphaned cheetah and a young boy become best friends A – Z Film Listings p6 – p37 / Venue Information p42 / Festival Diary p43 – p47
Tuesday 2nd March 4pm, The Hereford Academy Classics For further info contact [email protected] / Additional strand: Classics www.filmclub.org/filmclub-on-road 6 / 7 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Classics Hot Docs
All About Eve (U) Astro Boy (PG) Bhutan: The Height
Director: Joseph Mankiewicz Director: David Bowers of Happiness? (U) Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, With the voices of: Nicolas Cage, Samuel George Sanders, Marilyn Monroe L Jackson, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland Director: Brian Becker USA, 1950, 2 hours 18 minutes USA/Hong Kong/Japan, 2009 UK, 2008, 52 minutes 44 Inch Chest (18) 9 (12A) 1 hour 34 minutes Wednesday 10 March 2.15pm Saturday 6 March 2.15pm Director: Malcolm Venville Director: Shane Acker The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 13 March 11.30am, The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Ian McShane With the voices of: Elijah Wood, Sunday 14 11.30am UK, 2009, 1 hour 34 minutes Christopher Plummer, John C Reilly Bette Davis at her most world- The Courtyard Hereford Sandwiched between China and USA, 2009, 1 hour 19 minutes weary as ageing actress Margot India deep in the Himalayas, Sunday 28 February 2.00pm, Tuesday 2 March 6.15pm, In Metro City, scientist Dr Tenma Wednesday 3 8.45pm Friday 5 March 2.15pm, Channing, fighting back as Bhutan has remained one of the creates a robot with the most The Courtyard Hereford Monday 8 March 4.15pm a conniving (and youthful) few spots in the world untainted The Courtyard Hereford incredible abilities ever imagined protégée moves in to upstage by commercialism. Until the Col’s wife has announced she’s in love with a younger man. to replace his dead son. His both her career and her love life. late ‘90s, that is, when satellite The revenge scenario that this triggers off – in East End gangland In a post-apocalyptic future, creation Astro Boy is born with Back-stabbing is rife in the close communications arrived. In a territory and from a first-time director – doesn’t deliver glossy, sackcloth doll 9 wakes up to X-ray vision, super speed and theatrical circle, not least from country that retained its own gratuitous violence. Instead it delves with dark humour beneath the find others of his kind eking out strength, along with the power George Sanders as the sardonic customs, traditions and costume surface bravado into an exploration of pain, love, suffering and the a meagre existence and hiding to fly. A long journey lies ahead theatre critic, Addison DeWitt, and measured its output in terms nature of masculinity. With all the intensity of a carefully scripted from The Beast, a mechanical of him; Astro must face up to and sparks fly. In Margot’s of ‘Gross National Happiness’ chamber piece (from the writers of Sexy Beast) it makes fantastic use terror in the shape of a stalking being different from the other immortal and much quoted it’s the young who have of its talented troupe of actors who, with Ray Winstone at their cat. Produced by Tim Burton, children he meets and, like many words, “Fasten your seat bells, proved particularly vulnerable centre, wield bad language with pleasurable poetic precision. there’s more than a touch of a comic-book outcast, he must it’s going to be a bumpy night!” to the evils of globalisation: The Nightmare Before Christmas discover his true destiny. This consumerism, TV, gaming “…at its best, an acute, unblinking portrait of misogyny to the look of the film, but nifty piece of animated fun, full “Put simply, one of the greatest addiction and fast food. This in practice” Variety Acker has taken his impressive, of vigorous madcap action and movies ever made.” Anthony colourful and sympathetic photo-surreal animation in a sweet humour, makes for solid, Quinn, Independent documentary gives a balanced refreshing direction. Visually kid-friendly entertainment. view of a sheltered nation reeling extraordinary, with desolate Winner of 6 Oscars including landscapes washed in grey, green Best Picture, Best Director & from fast-forward exposure to and brown, 9 is a grim fairy tale Best Script 1951 the larger world. for these troubled times. Director Brian Becker will introduce the screening “Striking and ambitious” Total Film 8 / 9 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
World Cinema
Big Pictures, Birdwatchers (15)
Bigger Ideas Director: Marco Bechis Starring: Abrisio da Silva Pedro, Alicelia Batista Cabreira, Ambrosio Vilhava Short films by foundation Italy/Brazil, 2008, 1 hour 44 minutes, subtitles degree Film and Video students Saturday 13 March 7.00pm at Hereford College of Arts Ross St Mary’s Church Hall Tuesday 2 March 11.00am Bright Star (PG) The Courtyard Hereford Forced off their land, a group of Guarani Indians are paid to pose as FREE savages for passing tourists. Although they reclaim their territory and Director: Jane Campion Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox one boy, a trainee shaman, starts a relationship with the rancher’s UK/Australia/France, 2009, 2 hours Hereford College of Arts’ daughter, prejudice abounds. Through the story of two young boys film degree students will be caught between their father’s desire to continue to live the traditional Friday 26 February 8.00pm, Clungunford Parish Hall showcasing their most recently way and their own desire for Nike trainers this sensitively explores Saturday 27 February 7.30pm produced projects. Presenting a the devastation that results from displacement. Shot with a luminous, Chapel Lawn Redlake Valley Village Hall & Moccas Village Hall range of subjects from fairy tale dreamy clarity and underscored by a wit that cuts through solemnity Monday 1 March 7.30pm, Church Stretton School adaptations to documentary to and pretentiousness this is a gripping account of the fall-out that Friday 5 March 7.30pm, Bodenham Parish Hall more abstract work, the films occurs when two cultures collide. Monday 8 March 7.30pm, Aston on Clun Village Hall have been made to explore Thursday 11 March 7.30pm, Gorsley Village Hall how entertaining thoughtful Friday 12 March 7.30pm, Cardington Village Hall & Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall filmmaking can be.
The students will take part in a Finely crafted, terrifically well performed and subtly told tale about the Q&A panel after the screening relationship between John Keats and his Hampstead neighbour, Fanny Brawne whom he was unable to marry. Refreshingly, the film is free of the hysterics so often associated with films about writers and deftly avoids the distractions that plague so many British period pieces. It’s also remarkable for its lightness of touch. Campion chooses to concentrate on small gestures, moments and looks that represent her characters’ growing love and frustration. A well-focused, deeply affecting portrait of the poet and his muse at a particular time. 10 / 11 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Mavericks Hot Hot Classics Mavericks Hot Docs Docs Docs
Broken Embraces (15) Burma VJ – Bustin’ Down Chinatown (15) Coco Before The Cove (12A)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Reporting from a the Door (15) Director: Roman Polanski Chanel (12A) Director: Louie Psihoyos Starring: Penelope Cruz, Starring: Jack Nicholson, With: Richard O’Barry, Lluis Humar, Lola Duenas Closed Country (12A) Director: Jeremy Gosch Faye Dunaway, John Huston Director: Anne Fontaine Hayden Panetierre, Louie Psihoyos Spain, 2009, 2 hrs 7 minutes, subtitles With: Wayne Bartholomew, Ian Cairns, USA, 1974, 2 hours 10 minutes Starring: Audrey Tautou, USA, 2009, 1 hour 31 minutes Director: Anders Østergaard Tom Curren, Mark Richards Alessandro Nivola, Benoit Poelvoorde Denmark, 2008, 1 hour 24 minutes, USA, 2009 1 hour 36 minutes France, 2009, 1 hour 50 minutes, subtitles Sunday 28 February 8.00pm subtitles Thursday 4 March 2.15pm Friday 26 February 4.15pm, Ledbury Market Theatre The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 28 4.00pm Wednesday 3 March 4.00pm, Thursday 4 March 7.30pm Saturday 6 March 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Wednesday 3 March 11.00am, Saturday 6 4.15pm Gorsley Village Hall Lingen Village Hall Sunday 7 2.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Polanski rearticulates film noir Saturday 6 March 3.00pm The Courtyard Hereford in this classic, searing narrative Lingen Village Hall This shocking exposé of the A dazzling filmmaker and We’ve seen plenty of docs about of corruption and immorality Saturday 13 March 7.00pm secret slaughter behind a In 2007 100,000 people took distinctive stylist, Almodóvar guys who live for the waves, set in arid, late 1930s Southern Bishops Castle SpArC phenomenally lucrative dolphin to the streets to protest against crams everything he loves but this is one of the more California. Jake Gittes is the entertainment industry plays the cruel dictatorship that has The story of how Gabrielle Chanel about the movies into the story enlightening, focusing on a opportunistic private dick, hired out like an underwater thriller. run Burma for more than 40 (Tautou), abandoned by her of Harry, a filmmaker who’s formative – and dangerous – to investigate a marital infidelity Led by tireless activist Richard years. Foreign news crews were father when her mother died, been blind since a car accident period in surfing history. When but swept into something O’Barry, formerly the trainer of banned, the internet shut down, worked her way up to become that also claimed the life of his a group of Australian surfers with much bigger and more suspect. TV icon, Flipper, the filmmakers and Burma closed to the outside ‘Coco’, the most famous name in lover, Lena. A joy to watch, it’s attitude descended on Hawaii Working within Hollywood, work like double agents planning world. But a tenacious band of fashion. With her emancipated, a tribute to Almodóvar’s careful determined to put their sport Polanski ditched a softer, a sting. Hiding mikes and Burmese reporters armed with fearless approach to life she scripting and the skills of the on the map, they provoked compromised ending and turned cameras in fake rocks to bypass home video cameras risked transformed herself from lowly mesmerizing Cruz (and the rest beatings and death threats from the film into an altogether dark high security they reveal how death by covertly filming the peasant girl to the epitome of of the cast) that the intricate locals who felt their cultural parable of private evil a small seaside village in Japan crack-down. Their footage, rough style and class by bed-hopping plot with its disparate elements heritage was under attack. and public exploitation. is a microcosm of horrifying and unprofessional, but also her way into aristocratic circles. hangs together as well as it does. The awesome archive footage Dunaway, Nicholson and a ecological crimes happening raw, immediate and powerful, Elegantly shot, Tautou gives At heart it’s an optimistic film; of guys tackling monster waves menacing Huston are superb the world over. Hard facts, cold was smuggled to Norway, then a flawless performance as the despite his afflictions Harry has some thumping wipeouts. and watch out for Polanski’s scientific reason plus the tension broadcast back to Burma and beautifully costumed Chanel who embraces life. A film that makes An instructive story about how own infamous cameo appearance. and thrills of a Bond movie blend across the world via satellite, is daring, impish and very much you realise that no matter how a bunch of outsiders put it all Is Chinatown the best private eye to terrific effect. testimony to the importance of her own woman. bad things get, there’s always on the line to create a sport, film of all time? something to enjoy: cinema. collective protest. Brave, bold “Restrained and harrowing.” a culture and a multi-billion “a beautiful and beguiling citizen journalism in action. “This is a never-bettered noir Sunday Times dollar industry. homage to the first lady of “Penelope Cruz as beguiling masterpiece.” Empire “It’s guerilla film-making of fashion.” Little White Lies Winner of the Audience Award as ever” Time Out “Packed with awesome footage amazing courage.” Winner Best Original Screenplay for Best Documentary at and revealing interviews” Independent Oscar 1975 Sundance Film Festival 2009 Daily Mirror 12 / 13 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
World Director’s Cinema Dozen
Creation (PG) Creative Investment Roadshow Departures (12A) Dorian Gray (15)
Director: Jon Amiel Thursday 4 March 2.00–4.15pm Director: Yôjirô Takita Director: Oliver Parker Starring: Jennifer Connelly, The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Takizawa Starring: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Northam Japan, 2008, 2 hours 11 minutes, subtitles Rebecca Hall UK, 2009, 1 hour 48 minutes USA, 2009, 1 hour 52 minutes It can be difficult to understand the investment opportunities Wednesday 10 March 11.00am, 8.15pm, Thursday 11 8.30pm Wednesday 10 March 7.30pm available to creative businesses. So Business Link West Midlands, The Courtyard Hereford Friday 26 February 7.30pm Ballingham & Bolstone Leominster Lion Ballroom Screen WM and Borderlines Film Festival will be holding a FREE Sunday 14 March 5.00pm A wonderfully performed character study of a man who finds Village Hall seminar, to provide you with information on the range of funding Hereford Cathedral fulfillment and a depth of human connection in the most unlikely Saturday 27 February 7.30pm opportunities and support services available to help the development Dorstone Village Hall profession. After losing his job, Daigo Kobayashi moves back to his Bettany is brilliant in this of your business. Thursday 11 March 7.30pm thoughtful, moving take on hometown. He answers a classified ad entitled “Departures” believing Leominster Lion Ballroom Darwin’s lifelong struggle to 2.00 Registration 4.30–5.30 it to be for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually Dorian Gray, a beautiful but naïve overcome the loss of his beloved Hereford Media Network for a “Nokanshi”, someone who prepares bodies for entry into the 2.30–4.00 young man, arrives in Victorian daughter, Annie, and the parallel Please join us for the launch of next life. Little by little he warms to his new job, endowing the Short presentations from a London and comes under the dilemma whether to publish Hereford Media Network – aimed elaborate funeral ceremonies with grace and humanity. A beautiful, panel of investment bodies influence of the charismatic his world-shattering theory of at supporting all those involved occasionally comical reflection on death, that touches delightfully including Screen WM, 4iP, corrupter Henry Wotton (Colin evolution. This is an ambitious, in the growing media sector in on the joys and wonder of life. Digital Content Development, Firth) who introduces him to the original drama about the the rural West Midlands. Come UnLtd, Innovation Networks “a gentle, wise, immensely appealing film.” At The Movies seedier side of society. The latest importance of family, about the along and help us shape its and InnovationsVouchers. version of Oscar Wilde’s classic birth and nurturing of powerful future! Further information from Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film 2009 morality tale of the man who ideas and their impact on 4.00–4.15 Q&A [email protected] sells his soul for the pleasures society, indeed about the many To book call 0845 113 1234*/ Supported by Hereford & of eternal youth is darker meanings of the word ‘creation’. [email protected] Worcester Chamber of Commerce, than previous adaptations. Herefordshire Council, Screen WM But its contemporary themes “To be reminded of the power *Lines are open weekdays 8am–6pm and are charged at a local rate and Advantage West Midlands. – adulation of celebrity, the of love to redeem and repair, Image: Trainee on The Day (Screen WM) obsession with youth and catch Creation” Empire beauty, the pursuit of individual gratification above everything – make it bang-up-to-date. 14 / 15 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Hot Classics Mavericks Director’s Director’s Comic Docs Dozen Dozen Release
Every Good Marriage Fear Eats the Soul (15) Fish Tank (15)
Begins with Tears (15) Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director: Andrea Arnold Starring: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi Ben Starring: Katie Jarvis, Michael Director: Simon Chambers Salem, Barbara Valentin Fassbender, Kierston Wareing With: Shahanara Begum, W.Germany, 1974, 1 hour 32 minutes, UK, 2009, 2 hours 3 minutes Hushnara Begum, Simon Chambers subtitles UK, 2006, 1 hour 2 minutes Tuesday 2 March 8.00pm Wednesday 3 March 2.00pm Garway Village Hall Tuesday 9 March 8.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Friday 5 March 8.00pm The Courtyard Hereford The Screen at Hay A deceptively simple tale of the Chambers explores the arcane Saturday 6 March 8.00pm unlikely love affair between Ledbury Market Theatre intricacies of Bangladeshi family an ageing cleaner and a young traditions at first-hand by An Education (12A) Moroccan immigrant exposes Teetering dangerously between following his two young East Director: Lone Scherfig the racial prejudice and moral childhood and adulthood, Mia Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina End neighbours, feisty is a foul-mouthed 15 year-old UK, 2009, 1 hour 40 minutes hypocrisy at the heart of Shahanara and her younger, German society. Drawing upon simmering with resentment. Mia more submissive sister, Friday 26 February 6.15pm, Sunday 28 2.15pm, 6.30pm, the conventions of Hollywood loves to dance and clearly yearns Hushnara, as they undertake Wednesday 3 March 11.30am, Thursday 4 11.30am, 6.00pm melodrama (it’s heavily for better things, but the only arranged marriages. The result The Courtyard Hereford influenced by Sirk’s masterpiece pleasures on offer in her dreary is a funny, intimate, moving All That Heaven Allows), Essex estate are alcohol and sex. portrait of how two British Asian Mulligan is reason alone to see this lively Nick Hornby-scripted adaptation of Fassbinder uses dramatic and When her mum’s latest boyfriend girls cope very differently with visual excess to achieve a degree compliments Mia on her dancing Lynn Barber’s memoir of growing up in Twickenham in the early 1960s. Barber’s the conflicting demands made of psychological and political we’re clearly heading into deep schoolgirl alter ego, Jenny, falls into a relationship with the older, more worldly on them by society. truth beyond social realism. A waters. Totally gripping, with David who offers her a window on a more material world – clubs, champagne, excellent performances all round, “A joyous surprise especially as true maverick and extraordinarily drives in the country, sex – than her Oxbridge ambitions allow. He also charms Arnold’s clear understanding it was made by some white guy.” creative filmmaker (he made of what drives teenage girls her wide-eyed parents with his apparent wealth and wit. Often very funny, The Asian Times 43 films in 17 years before the direction is assured and the recreation of the London of the period utterly committing suicide at the age of makes for a sensitive, credible Director Simon Chambers and 37) Fassbinder himself plays the portrayal of Mia’s inner life that convincing, it’s also sensitive to how we often see only what we want to see. Shahanara Begum will introduce is unexpectedly optimistic. the film and answer questions reptilian son-in-law. afterwards Winner of the Jury Prize at “If this were the only film Cannes Film Festival 2009 Fassbinder ever made, it would On Friday the screening is sponsored by On Sunday the screening is sponsored by On Thursday the screening is sponsored still be one of the great works of by Mrs Christine Evans cinema.” Not Coming To A Cinema Near You 16 / 17 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Frozen River (15) Gaia: all things are The Grocer’s Son (12A) Here Comes Everyone :) Citizen Journalism in the Digital Age Director: Courtney Hunt connected Director: Eric Guirado Starring: Melissa Leo, Starring: Nicolas Cazale, Wednesday 3 March 11.00am, The Courtyard Hereford Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott Director: Joe Jenkins Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval Day Ticket £15/£12 USA, 2009, 1 hour 37 minutes UK, 2009 France, 2007, 1 hour 33 minutes, subtitles
Friday 5 March 8.00pm Saturday 27 February 2.15pm Saturday 27 February 7.30pm Digital technology promises a new world with a multiplicity of voices on affordable mobile and Clungunford Parish Hall The Courtyard Hereford Brilley Village Hall internet platforms, reducing the role and authority of traditional media. Be it images of Iranian Tuesday 9 March 8.00pm FREE Friday 5 March 7.30pm dissent via Twitter or local campaigns on council spending instigated by groups like Kington Garway Village Hall Lingen Village Hall & Blackboard, citizen journalism is having an impact on political life globally and locally. To open By comparing the life of planet Moccas Village Hall up the debate we bring together social media practitioners and print and broadcast journalists An excellent thriller with a Thursday 11 March 7.30pm earth to the life of a 45 year to consider practice, voice, impartiality and access. big heart, taut script and fine old woman, Gaia takes us on Pudleston Village Hall performances, this won two Oscar Friday 12 March 7.30pm a breathtaking journey from Bedstone & Hopton Castle 11.00 – 12.30 Burma VJ (12A) Chair: Bill Laws, freelance Talk About Local Workshop nominations – for Best Actress the beginnings of life on earth Village Hall journalist and author. and Best Script. Broke after to these last few seconds of Thursday 4 March 1.30 – 2.00 Christian Payne 10.00am – 2.00pm her husband runs off with her biological time and humankind’s Prodigal son Antoine reluctantly One of the most widely 3.15 – 4.15 Go Global The Courtyard Hereford savings, Ray Eddy is desperate returns from Paris to help run meteoric and often reckless rise recognised mobile media makers Speakers: Helen Iles of Workshop fee: £15/£10 to put food on the table for the family mobile shop and to ascendancy online, aka Documentally /Our Undercurrents, Winner Digital her kids. She finds herself in is gradually reintegrated into talk about local gives people Man Inside, Christian will talk Hero Wales Award 2009; partnership with Mohawk mum, Gaia: all things are connected both his family and the local the skills and support to find a about how he engages with his Christian Payne; Jake Bowers, Lila Littlewolf, who uses the consists of two short films community. As he chugs round powerful online voice. Join the immediate surroundings and the Editor of Travellers Times cover of the Reservation to written and directed by the beautiful French countryside team to learn to use simple, free wider world. Online and representatives from smuggle people across the iced- Herefordshire based filmmaker supplying the elderly and infirm yet powerful online platforms to Index on Censorship (TBC) and over St. Lawrence River between and teacher Joe Jenkins who (local villagers turn in scene- raise awareness on issues that 2.00 – 3.00 Get Local the Climate Camp. Chair: Nic Canada and the USA. Both leads will chair a discussion after stealing cameos), he discovers matter to you and make a real Speakers: Matthew Engel, Millington, CEO of Rural Media give outstanding performances the screenings. the joys of both family life and difference in your community! Guardian journalist; Jesse Company as determined women hardened life in the country. A modest, Please bring your own laptop. Norman, Conservative candidate by their circumstances who are UK Premiere feel-good comedy which paints for Hereford and contributions 4.45 – 6.15 The Yes Men Fix at odds with each other and an utterly convincing portrait of talkaboutlocal.org from the anarchist Hereford the World (12A) the world. a disillusioned young man who kingtonblackboard.org/ Heckler and online local news site discovers a brighter perspective Kington Blackboard. Winner Grand Jury Prize on life. Sundance Film Festival 2008 “Emotionally engaging, Supported by The event is also sponsored by impressively directed and superbly written” ViewLondon 18 / 19 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Hot Comic World Director’s Classics Mavericks Docs Release Cinema Dozen
Katalin Varga (15) Letter from an The Limits
Director: Peter Strickland Unknown Woman (U) of Control (15) Starring: Hilda Peter, Roberto Giacomello, Norbert Tanko Director: Max Ophuls Director: Jim Jarmusch Romania/ UK/Hungary, 2009, Starring: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan Starring: Isaach de Bakole, 1 hour 24 minutes, subtitles US, 1948, 1 hour 27 minutes, B/W Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, In Search of In the Loop (15) Bill Murray, Gael Garcia Bernal Sunday 28 February 4.30pm, Tuesday 2 March 2.00pm Spain/USA/Japan, 2009, Beethoven (U) Director: Armando Iannucci 1 hour 56 minutes Starring: James Gandolfini, Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, Gina McKee Tuesday 2 March 2.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford Director: Phil Grabsky UK, 2009, 1 hour 46 minutes Wednesday 3 6.45pm With: Gianandrea Noseda, Saturday 27 February 8.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford Based on a novella by Stefan Sir Roger Norrington, Riccardo Chailly, Friday 26 February 7.30pm, Cardington Village Hall Sunday 28 8.45pm, Claudio Abbado, Paul Lewis Zweig about a young girl who Saturday 27 February 7.30pm Aston on Clun Village Hall Monday 1 March 8.45pm UK/Netherlands/Finland, 2009, The haunting tale of Katalin The Courtyard Hereford 2 hours 19 minutes Saturday 6 March 7.30pm, Hereford WRVS Hall falls in love with the gifted Thursday 11 March 8.00pm, Michaelchurch Escley Escleyside Hall Varga, a woman banished by concert pianist in a neighbouring A taciturn, black ‘samurai’ Saturday 6 March 7.00pm Friday 12 March 7.30pm, Dorstone Village Hall her husband and forced to flee apartment, this is perhaps the Ross St Mary’s Church Hall travels across Spain to a string across the beautiful Romanian most piercingly evocative film A fantastic cast, a tremendous script and an all too realistic countryside, travelling in a of meetings with mysterious This highly entertaining and about unrequited love ever story make for fast and furious farce. This glorious sideswipe at horse-drawn cart with her son. strangers. At each, the rituals informative biography presents made. Music plays a significant international diplomacy sparkles with the same filthy humour, spoken Their search brings them to of an old-fashioned spy thriller Beethoven as a working artist role – this is turn of the century by the same morally empty vessels that marked the inspired TV a remote village and a final are enacted; passwords spoken, rather than a caricatured grumpy Vienna – but it’s the fluidity of series The Thick of It. In the build up to a war in the Middle East that confrontation with a man from identity established, cryptic genius. It consists largely of Ophuls’ direction that achingly nobody wants, an incompetent British minister is a pawn between a her past. Reminiscent of The messages passed. The men in sublime excerpts of his music invokes the passage of time, foul-mouthed Scottish spin doctor (the brilliant Peter Capaldi) and a Return in the way that it is black dog the trail that leads along with an extraordinary the memory of love lost and Pentagon general (James ‘Tony Soprano’ Gandolfini). Spot-on political pared down to essentials, a him to a heavily guarded villa collection of eminent and dissipated talent. Currently satire shot in documentary style, both insanely funny and a desperate captivating, audacious debut and a final showdown with Bill articulate musicians, conductors unfashionable but widely cry for sanity, like Spinal Tap meets Dr Strangelove. that makes superb use of Murray. A teasing, imaginative and musicologists sharing their regarded as one of the great glorious Transylvanian locations celebration of the artifice of enthusiasm in an accessible directors, Max Ophuls’ (Lola “Hilarious... the best British film of the year” The Times and a striking turn from Hilda cinema and how it influences and illuminating way. But most Montes, La Ronde, Madame de) Peter as a woman pushed to the our view of the world. importantly there’s plenty of trademark camera work, lavish point of no return. wonderful music performed and flowing, reflects the way the “brave, bizarre and very characters in his stories come by the world’s greatest “a film of remarkable assurance beautiful” London Film Festival tragically full circle. musicians with evident love and intensity.” Time Out and appreciation. “incredibly beautiful” “One of the finest movies about Francois Truffaut a great musician I’ve ever seen” “a perfect film,” David Thomson Philip French, Observer 20 / 21 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Louise-Michel (15) Machan (15) The Magic Hour (15) The Maid (PG) Man with Mascarades (PG)
Directors: Benoit Delepine, Director: Uberto Pasolini Directors: John Williams, William Mager, Director: Sebastian Silva a Movie Camera Director: Lyes Salem Gustave de Kervern Starring: Dharmapriya Dias, Gihan de Andrew Gibbs, Katherine Arianello Starring: Catalina Saavedra, Starring: Lyes Salem, Sarah Reguieg, Starring: Yolande Moreau, Chickera, Dharshari Dharmaraj UK, 2009, 1 hour 10 minutes Claudia Celadon, Mariana Loyala With piano accompaniment by Mohamed Bouchaib Bouli Lanners, Benoit Poelvoorde Sri Lanka/Italy/Germany, 2008, 1 hour 48 Chile, 2008, 1 hour 35 mins, subtitles Paul Shallcross Algeria/France, 2009, 1 hour 32 minutes, Belgium, 2008, 1 hour 34 minutes, minutes, subtitles Monday 1 March 4.30pm subtitles subtitles The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 14 March 4.30pm Director: Dziga Vertov Friday 5 March 4.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford USSR, 1929, 1 hour 8 minutes, B/W, silent Friday 12 March 6.30pm Tuesday 9 March 6.45pm Sunday 7 4.00pm, Five funny, insightful short films The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Monday 8 4.00pm by disabled directors. Funny, tense, and unpredictable, Plus Neighbors The Courtyard Hereford this is the tale of the pig-headed A delightful executed farce about A wild black comedy about a Director & Starring: Buster Keaton the wedding-that-never-was, this group of women who, after the The Sri Lankan Full Monty has Paraphernalia – cutting edge live Racquel, the maid-from-hell who USA, 1920, 18 minutes, See p28 action/animation about a boy has lived with the same family delivers sharp character comedy, factory they work in is closed been entertaining audiences Friday 26 February 8.00pm discovering the purpose of his for 20 years. Her increasingly trenchant social satire and a real down, pool their redundancy and picking up awards all over Wem Town Hall sense of the interplay between annoyingly rubbish robot. unreliable behaviour leads Thursday 4 March 8.30pm money to hire a hit man to bump the world, its underdog charm the domestic and public spheres off the boss. Things spiral out of sugarcoating a surprisingly direct them to recruit a string of The Courtyard Hereford Hands Solo – comic new servants to help her, but in Algerian village life. Things control and they leave a trail of indictment of global immigration Vertov was one of the pioneers mockumentary about a deaf Racquel soon sees them off. get out of hand when status- mayhem in their wake as they policy. It’s the funny, mostly of early Soviet newsreels. This porn star whose unique gifts Psychologically astute, The Maid hungry Mounir, the proud and seek revenge. Very, very funny true tale of a motley crew of pals documentary, his first feature, can send his co-star into an slyly overturns our expectations possessive brother of narcoleptic with a mordant sense of humour from the slums of Colombo who, is an extraordinary tour de orgasmic coma. as Racquel (a riveting Rym, drunkenly boasts that his that’s like a cross between Monty desperate to escape dead-end force using exuberant trick performance by Saavedra) sister is engaged to a mythical Python and Aki Kaurismaki. A jobs, debt and grinding poverty, Buttermouth – mesmerising photography and dynamic gradually emerges as a complex, European businessman. Rym singularly appropriate film at a form a handball team hoping it animation about a mother and editing to capture a day in the sympathetic character. however, is determined to marry time when bankers and bosses will prove their dream ticket to a daughter and their blindness. life of a composite city from Mounir‘s best friend who hasn’t can walk away with billions while Europe. The inevitable setbacks “funny as Almodóvar, creepy- every conceivable angle. But yet had the courage to ask the rest of us pick up the tab. on their journey to the Promised The Hunger House – drama that celebrates the friendship of two strange as Bunuel, and with a beyond that, it’s a powerful and for her hand. A tremendously Land make the fun-filled finale hopeful, humane heart to boot” surprisingly modern visual essay enjoyable film, this has real “a surreal, politically-incorrect all the more satisfying. disabled friends in Nazi Germany. black comedy” Edinburgh International Film on cinema itself. warmth and heart with its Follow Me on My Journey to Festival beautifully written script and Screen International “this is Slumdog sans songs, but “It is perfect. It is new still. with real soul. It’s funny, too.” Die – acerbic black comedy nicely judged performances. Winner World Cinema Special about a euthanasia craze hitting Winner of World Cinema Prize at And it makes you love the world” Time Out Sundance Film Festival 2009 Jury Prize Sundance Film London’s fashion victims. David Thomson “A whimsically charming comedy” Festival 2009 Winner of FEDIC Award at Venice At The Courtyard the film is sponsored by Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard Film Festival 2008 “deserves the widest possible audience.” Empire Winner of 2 Awards at the Dubai International Film Festival 22 / 23 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Me & Orson Moon (15) The Night of
Welles (12A) Director: Duncan Jones the Hunter (12) Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey Director: Richard Linklater (voice), Dominique McElligott Director: Charles Laughton Starring: Christian McKay, Claire Danes, UK, 2008, 1 hour 37 minutes Starring: Robert Mitchum, Zac Efron, Eddie Marsan Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish USA, 2009, 1 hour 54 minutes Friday 26 February 7.30pm USA, 1955, 1 hour 32 minutes Gorsley Village Hall Friday 12 March 8.30pm, Monday 8 March 2.00pm Saturday 13 March 7.30pm Saturday 13 6.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford Tarrington Lady Emily Hall Sunday 14 2.00pm Sunday 14 March 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford The only film Charles Yarpole Village Hall Laughton directed is one of This warm, exhilarating and Superior sci-fi, full of bright the masterpieces of American Nowhere Boy (15) truthful portrait of maverick ideas (how would you persuade cinema. It’s the story of two genius Orson Welles features Director: Sam Taylor-Wood your clone that you were the innocent young children Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Aaron Johnson, Anne-Marie Duff a hugely enjoyable central UK, 2009, 1 hour 38 minutes original?) with a killer lead threatened by an ex-con preacher performance by Christian performance from Sam Rockwell, who comes searching for the Friday 26 February 2.00pm, Sunday 28 6.00pm, Monday 1 March 6.00pm, McKay, physically and vocally this is funny, creepy and loot their father left. Told in Tuesday 2 11.15am & 5.30pm, Wednesday 3 8.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford convincing with the right mix intriguing. At the end of a memorable monochrome imagery of extreme self-confidence and Sunday 28 February 3.00pm, Wem Town Hall 3 year stint on the moon, Sam with a fairy tale-like simplicity a dash of vulnerability. Richard, Monday 1 March 7.30pm, Tuesday 2 7.30pm, Wednesday 3 7.30pm, Tuesday 4 7.30pm has definitely spent too much and clarity of execution, it a schoolboy wannabe-actor Ludlow Assembly Rooms time alone and his mind is welds a gothic Deep South with stumbles into the theatre where starting to play tricks with him. German expressionism into a Welles is pulling together a Liverpool 1955, teenage rebel John Lennon has been brought up by his respectable Set in an entirely plausible near biblical parable on the triumph of chaotic production of Caesar and Aunt Mimi. When he meets his mother Julia, she takes him to see an Elvis film future, Moon is an original, good over evil. Genuinely scary, lands a small part. Opening night smart, inventive mystery with Mitchum surpasses himself as and he’s converted to the world of rock’n’roll. He is bewitched by Julia and she and potential disaster looms but many a nod to the classics (2001, the charming embodiment of evil by him, but John soon finds himself caught between the two women. He escapes Richard is swept up in the Welles Solaris, Silent Running, Red while the crisp new print means into music, starts a band with a group of friends and finds a kindred spirit in Paul whirlwind, learning lessons in Dwarf). Laughton’s interplay between life, love and how to fake it from McCartney. A sensitive, sprightly look at what fuelled John’s musical genius, this light and dark, shadow and has a visual beauty that underscores its considerable emotional heart. the master. “a hugely enjoyable, impressively silhouettes, crooked angles and directed sci-fi drama” perfect symmetries looks more “The feel-good film of the year” On Tuesday the screening at On Wednesday the screening at Daily Star Winner of the Michael Powell luminous than ever. The Courtyard is sponsored by The Courtyard is sponsored by Award for Best New British Film “grows richer with every viewing” On Friday the screening is sponsored by at Edinburgh Film Festival 2009 David Thomson 24 / 25 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Ponyo (U) A Prophet (18)
Director: Hayao Miyazaki Director: Jacques Audiard With the voices of: Cate Blanchett, Starring: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arastrup, Adel Bencherif Cloris Leachman, Matt Damon France, 2009, 2 hours 38 minutes, subtitles Japan, 2009, 1 hour 43 minutes Friday 5 March 8.15pm, Saturday 6 8.30pm, Monday 8 8.15pm Saturday 6 March 2.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 7 2.15pm, Tuesday 9 4.15pm, An engrossing, terrifying thriller A Prophet provides insight into the The Road (15) Wednesday 10 2.00pm French prison system that turns Malik, a naïve, 19 year-old French- Director: John Hillcoat The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron Arab, into a career criminal. Taken under the wing of the ‘Italians’ USA, 2008, 1 hour 51 minutes Inspired by Hans Christian who rule the roost he soon finds that protection comes at a price. Friday 5 March 11.00am & 8.30pm, Saturday 6 6.15pm, Anderson’s fairy tale The Little An incorrigible loner, he adapts to the harsh pecking order of prison Mermaid, this vibrant, wildly and makes the most of the opportunities that arise among the Sunday 7 8.15pm, Monday 8 8.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford imaginative, occasionally shifting criminal loyalties. Brutal, authentic, thoughtful, wonderfully Friday 5 March 5.00pm, Sunday 7 7.30pm, Ludlow Assembly Rooms eccentric adventure follows cinematic and incredibly entertaining, this runs on a sense of sheer young Sosuke and his sweet dread as Malik walks an ever-lengthening tightrope merely to survive. A brilliant, largely faithful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s great novel about love affair with goldfish- a post-apocalyptic future in which one man’s determined battle to save his son “More exciting than Mesrine, more enthralling than Public Enemies, turned-girl Ponyo. Gorgeous this is undoubtedly the crime drama of the year.” plays out against a bleak background of death and destruction. As the pair hand-drawn animation creates a Nick James, London Film Festival plods slowly southward, around them the world dies, civilization breaks down dazzling evocation of the trials and marauding gangs of survivors are as big a threat as hunger. Anchored of childhood, the difficulty of Winner Grand Jury Prize Cannes Film Festival 2009 forming lasting friendships, by a suitably intense central performance from Viggo Mortensen, the film is, and the ecological threat to the Winner Best Film Prize London Film Festival 2009 thankfully, slightly lighter in tone than the book. Meticulously it captures both ocean from human pollution. the visceral beauty and horror of an unrelenting struggle to survive each day and
“Dazzling,“ Time Out the enduring love between father and son. “A heartbreaking classic” The Times On Monday the screening is sponsored by 26 / 27 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Rough Aunties (15) Rumba (PG) Saturday Screen The Search for Seraphine (PG) Sex and Drugs and
Director: Kim Longinotto Directors: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon Young Shoots Shangri-la (PG) Director: Martin Provost Rock and Roll (15) Starring: Mildred Ngcobo, Starring: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon Starring: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur Nontando Maphumolo, Thuli Sibiya Belgium/France, 2008, 1 hour 17 minutes, Let the Right One In (15) + Tibet, 1922–1950, 1 hour 20 minutes France, 2009, 2 hours 6 minutes, subtitles Director: Mat Whitecross Starring: Andy Serkis, Naomie Harris, UK, 2008 1 hour 43 minutes subtitles Horror filmmaking workshop Saturday 6 March 4.00pm Sunday 28 February 8.15pm, Olivia Williams, Bill Milner Monday 8 March 6.00pm, Friday 5 March 8.00pm Tuesday 9 4.30pm UK, 2009, 1 hour 55 minutes Saturday 27 February Monday 1 March 2.00pm, Tuesday 9 2.00pm Presteigne Film Society The Courtyard Hereford 10.00am–4.30pm Tuesday 2 8.15pm Saturday 13 March 8.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 6 March 7.30pm Ledbury Market Theatre The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 14 8.30pm Chapel Lawn Redlake Accompanied by a specially The Courtyard Hereford Valley Village Hall From one of British cinema’s Cloudy with a Chance commissioned score, life in An extraordinary central Friday 12 March 7.30pm unsung heroes, Kim Longinotto of Meatballs (U) + Tibet from the 1920s to the performance brings to life the A magical take on the life of (Hold Me Tight Let Me Go, Bosbury Parish Hall Sunday 14 March 4.00pm Animation Workshop 1940s is vividly captured in this story of the outsider artist, one of Britain’s most original Sisters-in-Law) triumphs again Yarpole Village Hall selection of extraordinarily rare Seraphine, a simple maid rock stars Ian Dury who, despite with this powerful story of Saturday 6 March footage from the BFI National inspired to paint by the Virgin childhood polio, found fame with the feisty, resolute ‘Rough A hysterical, distinctly non-PC, 10.30am–2.30pm Little Dewchurch Village Hall Archive. From the 1922 attempt Mary and her own love of nature. the Blockheads after years of Aunties’, the remarkable women virtually silent comedy about to climb Mount Everest to the An eccentric, private person, slogging round the pub circuit. who care for the abused and two teachers who live for their A not-to-be-missed chance home movies of British political Seraphine’s days of domestic The archetypal lovable rogue, neglected children of Durban. weekends of Latin dancing. When for 13-19 and 8-12 year olds to officers on diplomatic missions, drudgery contrast with the punk poet Dury’s sudden success Getting up close and personal they have a freak car accident watch a great film then try out these poignant images now blissful, transcendant state had a profound and damaging she shows how these incredible she loses a leg, he loses his some of the techniques provide unique evidence of the she attains when painting. effect on those around him, not women wage a daily battle memory. Featuring plenty of for themselves... colourful Tibetan customs lost Beautifully shot, this original least his son. With his uncanny against apathy and corruption, fancy footwork and some of the after the devastation of the portrait of a very different type resemblance to the leering, cocky supporting the victims and each best clowning and mime seen For more details see website: borderlinesfilmfestival.org Chinese invasion. of artist offers a compelling singer famed for his saucy, funny other through terrible traumas. on film in recent years, Rumba insight into the creative lyrics, Serkis gives an exuberant This is an intense, inspiring leaves you with the feeling that Tickets £2.00 screening and workshop Plus, Leaving Fear Behind (call Natalie at The Rural Media process and reveals the price performance as Dury repeats portrait of fearless African life is a miracle to be enjoyed Company 01432 344039 to book), (23 minutes), testimony from of success for a simple country every sad trick in the rock ’n’ roll £1.00 screening only (on door). women promoting positive whatever happens. ordinary Tibetans about life girl confused by the recognition book. A real blast with all the social change. Young Shoots is a pilot project run by The there now. The director, Dhondup she receives. good things the title promises “a masterclass in hilarity... rarely Rural Media Company funded by the UK Film Council’s Film: 21st Century Wangchen has since been and much more. Winner of the Grand Jury seen since the heyday of Laurel Literacy initiative. The project seeks to imprisoned for making this film. “suggest(s) the limitless Prize for Best Documentary at and Hardy” Empire increase access to film and filmmaking mystery of human possibility... “gorgeous, celebratory cinema, for young people in Herefordshire. Jan Faull, curator for the BFI Sundance Film Festival 2009 These events in collaboration with Flicks Truly, a celluloid epiphany.” unfettered and courageous” “a magical comedy” Film4 in the Sticks. National Archive will introduce the film on Tuesday 9 Time Out Time Out 28 / 29 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Shell Shock (15) Silent Comedy Sleep Furiously (U) Chris Atkins presents Starsuckers and Taking Liberties Director: James Price Classics Director: Gideon Koppel Starring: Robert Whitelock, Nina Fogg, UK, 2007, 1 hour 30 minutes Borderlines is pleased to Starsuckers (12A) Taking Liberties (15) UK, 2009, 1 hour 15 minutes With live piano accompaniment continue a collaboration with by Paul Shallcross Saturday 27 February 5.30pm Director: Chris Atkins Director: Chris Atkins BAFTA & Screen WM that has Thursday 4 March 6.15pm Brilley Village Hall Starring: Max Hastings Starring: David Morrissey, The Courtyard Hereford Friday 12 March 7.30pm allowed us to bring BAFTA- UK, 2009, 1 hour 43 minutes Ashley Jenkins, Mark Thomas Monday 1 March 7.00pm UK, 2007, 1 hour 40 minutes Eye Cawley Hall Ross St Mary’s Church Hall nominated Chris Atkins, director Shot in Tokyo, London and Monday 1 March 6.15pm, Tuesday 2 March 8.00pm of Starsuckers & Taking Liberties Tuesday 2 4.00pm Sunday 28 February 5.00pm Sherlock Junior (U) rural Herefordshire, this debut Ledbury Market Theatre to Hereford to introduce The Courtyard Hereford Hereford Cathedral Director: Buster Keaton Friday 5 March 7.30pm is a compelling portrait of the Starring: Buster Keaton, Monday 1 March 1.30pm Eye Cawley Hall screenings of his films. impact of war on a young man, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton A dark, satirical polemic that Hereford College of Arts USA, 1924, 45 minutes which anybody with serving BAFTA and Screen WM present probes our irrational obsession The landscape and its inhabitants Irreverent but revelatory, family or friends should see. Q & As with Chris Atkins after with fame and the insidious Buster plays a cinema are changing in the beautiful outrageous but true, Taking Tom is a veteran of an unknown Taking Liberties at Hereford techniques the media uses projectionist framed for theft valleys of rural mid-Wales. In Liberties highlights the erosion conflict, haunted by war-time Cathedral and Starsuckers to feed it. Its methods: a who daydreams himself into life this poetic and profound study of civil liberties under the Labour memories. Adrift in a strange on 1 March (followed by a combination of dazzling as a daring detective. the camera quietly observes government. A well-documented, city he reaches out to a young networking reception) animation and undercover as the population grows older, cautionary tale, this ticks off Japanese girl but life’s not Plus shorts exposés of the PR industry. the local primary school faces Monday 1 March assaults on such basic rights as easy with Post Traumatic Stress Neighbors (1920, 18 mins) A blisteringly paced, anarchic Directed by and starring: Buster Keaton closure, and the mobile library Hereford College of Arts freedom of speech and assembly, Disorder. Beautifully filmed with ride that uses scathing wit and resists a move into the 21st the rights to privacy and protest, a dreamy, poetic quality and a Workshops with Chris Atkins mischief to expose the immoral, A wonderfully fast-paced, century. Intertwined with an the presumption of innocence strong central performance that delightfully anarchic film this corrupt and illegal practices of original soundtrack by Aphex 11.30 Developing documentary and a fair trial. Screening a distinguishes it from many a first features some of Keaton’s most some of the biggest names in Twin, Sleep Furiously describes projects for new entrants polemical documentary that feature. the business. acrobatic stunts. the current issues facing highlights the systematic In association with the farming community by 1.30 Screening of Taking undermining of Habeus Corpus What It Feels Like “an intelligent, revelatory The Producers’ Forum transforming the ordinary into Liberties with discussion seems particularly appropriate to Be Run Over (1903, 1 min) polemic for our time.” the extraordinary. in a building that houses the Q&A session with director London Film Festival Mary Jane’s Mishap Magna Carta. James Price and Natasha “A poetic, profound and Carlish, regional producer and (1903, 4 mins) CEO of The Producers’ Forum contemplative journey...“ Little White Lies These events form part of BAFTA’s UK-wide learning and events programme which Screen WM is the regional agency Big Business (1929, 18 mins) aims to increase access behind the scenes of your favourite films, TV programmes working to support, promote and Starring: Laurel and Hardy and video games. For more information, visit the BAFTA website and sign up to our develop the screen media industry We hope that director Gideon e-bulletin www.bafta.org/accessallareas in the West Midlands. Koppel will visit the festival. See The screening is sponsored by website for final confirmation. 30 / 31 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Still Life Still Walking (U) Surprise Silent Film Tales from the Golden Times and Winds (15) Treeless Mountain (PG)
Director: Adrian Lambert Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda Programme (18) Age (12A) Director: Reha Erdem Director: So Yong Kim Starring: Chloe Bagley Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Starring: Ozakan Ozen, Ali Bey Kayali, Starring: Hee Yeon Kim, Song Hee Kim UK, 2009, 1 hour Yoshio Harada, Yui Natsukawa Introduced by Kevin Brownlow Directors: Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Uricaru, Elit Iscan, Bulent Emin Yarar South Korea, 2008, 1 hour 29 minutes, Japan, 2008, 1 hour 54 minutes, subtitles Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculesc Turkey, 2006, 1 hour 52 minutes, subtitles subtitles Saturday 6 March 11.30am Directors: Various Starring: Tania Popa, Liliana Mocanu, Saturday 6 March 6.00pm, Alexandru Potocean Wednesday 3 March 8.00pm Friday 5 March 8.00pm, Sunday 7 The Courtyard Hereford £3 Romania, 2008, 2 hours 11 mins, subtitles Sunday 7 8.30pm, Friday 5 March 4.30pm Bishops Castle Film Society 5.00pm, Ludlow Assembly Rooms Eleven year old Lauren has Tuesday 9 11.00am The Courtyard Hereford Friday 12 March 1.45pm, Wednesday 10 March 4.15pm, FREE almost come to terms with her The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 13 2.30pm Divided into five discrete Thursday 11 6.30pm, Friday 12 Monday 8 March 7.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford chapters to reflect the changing 4.30pm The Courtyard Hereford parents splitting up when a Kevin Brownlow is the renowned Tuesday 9 7.30pm textures of the Muslim day, this school history project re-kindles Ludlow Assembly Rooms film historian and filmmaker Two young girls, Jin and Bin, are A collection of five wry and is a beautifully photographed, some very painful memories and who has been fascinated by the amusing urban myths that left by their mother in the care A wonderful film from the pastoral portrait of the life, a violent and dangerous jealousy. silent era since he was eleven. circulated under Ceausescu’s of their aunt, a careless, unkind director of Afterlife and Maborosi, rhythms and seasons of a remote Set in Herefordshire, Still Life He brought to light many of paranoid regime, self-styled ‘The woman with little sympathy for that, in its gentle way, feels as mountain village. We experience wrestles with isolation and the ‘lost’ gems of silent cinema Golden Age of the Romanian their sense of loss. They amuse piercingly true as cinema ever the hardships and joys of rural identity in a rural market town, notably Abel Gance’s epic People’. Full of bleak humour, themselves, playing with the kid gets. At a family reunion there life through three troubled where people quickly learn how masterpiece Napoleon. He will be these stories poke fun at the next door, catching grasshoppers are no ‘dramatic’ incidents and adolescents whose subtly to move on rather than move introducing a carefully chosen bizarre lengths people had to go and grilling them. The money the tone is generally light and handled rites of passage reflect away. Still Life is The Rural Media programme which starts with to in order to survive – one tense they make goes in their piggy humorous, while memories, Turkey’s precipitous situation – Company’s latest ambitious the one-minute films which were tale tells of a family’s attempt bank as mum promised to return resentments and regrets surface. at a crossroads between Asia and community film production all you could see around 1900 to slaughter a pig in their flat once it was full. With a tender, But we note everything that Europe, tradition and modernity, created over the course of a year and will reveal the astonishing without the neighbours hearing. observant eye Kim draws us unites and divides this particular secularism and religion. An with the people of Bromyard. advances of silent film technique From the director of 4 Months, 3 into the girls’ imaginative world family as the stiff old doctor, his intriguing, truly original film. up to the coming of sound. Weeks, 2 Days, this has a similar showing their resilience as they “An inspiration to communities wife, son, daughter and their From ten-minute thrillers shot feel for the extraordinary just “One of the discoveries of the learn to cope with the mysteries everywhere as to what they can spouses eat, bicker, smile and try in the wilds of Hollywood beneath the surface of everyday year, an exquisite affirmation of of adult behaviour. The children, achieve with film… it is work that to get along. Evoking transient to monumental epics which life. Simply told with well-drawn film as art... breathtakingly fresh” of course, steal the show deserves a wide and appreciative pleasures, this quiet, wise film bankrupted their financiers, the characters, these stories have an Hannah McGill, Sight & Sound with their beautifully natural audience.” Lord Puttnam leaves one with much to ponder silent era produced virtually all easy charm and a canny take on performances but it is Kim’s about family life. the cinematic devices we now what makes people tick. thoughtful observation of their “moviemaking of a rare take for granted. Brownlow’s own predicament that stays with you. 1970s film Winstanley screens “Absurd, hilarious, poignant emotional subtlety.” Time Out “One of the best films about earlier in the day. and curiously affectionate” Winner Best Director Asian Film Wendy Ide, The Times childhood ever made.” Awards 2009 Village Voice 32 / 33 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Tulpan (PG) Up! (U)
Director: Sergey Dvortsevoy Director: Pete Docter Starring: Tulepbergen Baisakalov, Ondasyn Besikbasov, Zhappas Dzhailaubaev With the voices of: Ed Asner, Jordan Russia, 2008, 1 hour 40 minutes, subtitles Nagai, Christopher Plummer USA, 2009, 1 hour 36 minutes Wednesday 3 March 6.15pm, Friday 5 6.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 28 February 3.00pm Bedstone & Hopton Set on the Kazakh steppes where the pinnacle of achievement is Castle Village Hall Up in the Air (15) to become a shepherd, this delightful comedy is full of wonderfully Tuesday 2 March 7.30pm Director: Jason Reitman Lydbury North Village Hall Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman drawn characters eking out their nomadic life in a spectacular, empty Friday 5 March 7.30pm USA, 2009, 1 hour 49 minutes land. A sailor home from the sea, Asa is keen to marry. But Tulpan, Dilwyn Cedar Hall & the only potential bride for miles, is unimpressed by his tall stories Tarrington Lady Emily Hall Friday 5 March 11.30am & 6.15pm, Saturday 6 8.45pm, Sunday 7 6.00pm, and big ears. So Asa has to be content to share a crowded yurt with Saturday 6 March 7.30pm Monday 8 6.15pm, Tuesday 9 11.15am & 8.45pm, Wednesday 10 11.15am & 8.30pm Moccas Village Hall The Courtyard Hereford his sister, her noisy family and a brother-in-law who is always on his Friday 12 March 7.30pm case while he continues to dream... With a nice line in the absurd, Leominster Lion Ballroom this is dry, deadpan humour to relish. From the director of Juno, this genuinely funny comedy breezes right along A blend of excitement, hilarious with Clooney at his glorious best showing once again what a great comic actor “An amazing film.” slapstick and tender drama, he is. It’s the story of smooth, sardonic Ryan Bingham, a lone dog executive Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times this is the story of a plump boy who specializes in firing people, showing the ropes to Natalie, the pushy young scout and a grumpy old man Winner of Un Certain Regard Award at Cannes Film Festival 2008 who finally fulfills his lifelong executive who is threatening to undermine his whole way of life. With its crisp dreams of adventure when he direction and sharp script it brilliantly skewers the American corporate dream. ties thousands of balloons to his The gentle unraveling of all that the supremely self-centered Ryan holds dear house and floats away. Endlessly leaves him re-assessing his life’s priorities. inventive, utterly original and brilliantly crafted to appeal to old “a witty, thoughtful, surprisingly bleak satire on contemporary America, and young alike this may well be and the crumbling dream it represents.” Time Out Pixar’s finest family feature yet! On Sunday the screening is sponsored by On Monday the screening is sponsored by On Tuesday the screening is sponsored by “an unusual, magical film” Times 34 / 35 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Vanishing of the A View from the Past We Live in Public (15) Welcome (15) The White Ribbon (15) The Wind Journeys (15)
Bees (U) Tuesday 9 March 6.30pm Director: Ondi Timoner Director: Philippe Loiret Director: Michael Haneke Director: Ciro Guerra The Courtyard Hereford With: Josh Harris, Tom Harris, Starring: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi Starring: Christian Friedel, Starring: Marciano Martínez, Yull Núñez Directors: George Langworthy, David Amron, Alex Arcadia France, 2009, 1 hour 49 minutes, subtitles Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar Colombia/Germany/Argentina/ Maryam Henein Saturday 13 March 7.30pm USA, 2009, 1 hour 29 minutes Germany, 2009, 2 hours 25 minutes, Netherlands, 2009, 1 hour 57 minutes, With: David Hackenberg, Emilia Fox, Leominster Civic Society at Friday 26 February 8.30pm, subtitles subtitles USA, 2009, 1 hour 37 minutes Lion Ballroom Leominster Wednesday 10 March 6.15pm, Saturday 27 February 6.00pm Thursday 11 4.30pm Monday 1 March 8.15pm, Wednesday 10 March 6.00pm Monday 8 March 2.15pm, The Courtyard Hereford A nostalgic look at life around The Courtyard Hereford Thursday 4 11.00am & 8.15pm The Courtyard Hereford Thursday 11 2.15pm The Courtyard Hereford Thursday 11 March 8.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Leominster covering the A huge popular and critical Maverick web pioneer, Josh Wem Town Hall three counties of Shropshire, success in France this ode to In an isolated North German A cautionary tale about the Harris, cannily presaged many Worcestershire and Herefordshire the abandoned immigrants village where the local Baron Not to be missed if you like mystery of the disappearing of the interactive applications curated by the Media Archive trapped on the shores of Calais still holds sway, the feudal to travel off the beaten track. bees, its possible causes that of the Net that we now take for Central England with rarely is a real winner. Homing in structure is threatened by a Ignacio, an ageing nomadic are linked to industrial farming for granted. He made millions. seen films from the 1930s to on two men and what they’ll series of mysterious incidents maestro of traditional Colombian and our attitude to the natural Film-maker Timoner was on hand the ‘70s, remembering village do for the women they love, that suggest a nascent rebellion music, embarks on a journey world. Star of the show is the to capture some of what he did life and our shared heritage. it wisely makes its political against a patriarchal, deeply to return his cursed accordion commercial bee farmer who with his cash including the ‘Big From a 1960s Tenbury Wells points in passing. Bilal, a young Protestant world. Subjected to from where it came with a young rang the alarm bell when his Brother’-like art experiment in architectural tour to the 1974 Kurdish boy has undertaken the extreme discipline at home, a boy tagging along hoping to bee colonies collapsed and his the run up to the millennium. fight to save Leominster Town dangerous journey to Europe pack of creepy children roam learn how to play. Their journey business was decimated. What is 100 volunteers were incarcerated Hall via flooding in Eardisland, to join his girlfriend in London. the village with a look in their takes them through fantastically extraordinary is the scale of the in an underground New York hop picking and Hereford cattle. When he’s turned back, he eyes that belies their innocent, beautiful countryside and a commercial bee industry in the basement and subjected to decides he’ll have to swim the blonde appearance. Beautifully series of strange encounters USA, the distance the bees are constant public surveillance. Channel. He’s taken under the performed and shot in Haneke’s on what becomes an elemental shipped and the fact that people The results were scary, to say wing of Simon who decides to detached, magisterial style this quest punctuated by glorious, are surprised that bees don’t Tuesday’s screening at Hereford the least, but Harris didn’t stop impress his estranged wife by has an air of spite and malice haunting music. With a jaw- respond well to the treatment will include a presentation by there. As much the personal teaching Bilal how to swim. This that reminds one of The Crucible dropping accordion duel this is they receive. A wake-up call to WeVee, an innovative online story of a bizarre, obsessional experience allowing the user is a compassionate, humane in the way it suggests a link a real discovery, quite unlike us all about how dependent we man as a cautionary tale for to edit clips to music from the portrait of the lives of refugees between domestic repression and anything you’ll ever have seen are on the fragile balance of the social networkers, this is real-life region’s fantastic archive film that packs a powerful emotional public disorder. before. natural world that we understand collections to create your own documentary that is the stuff of punch thanks to compelling far less well than we think we do. personalised WeVee. science fiction. central performances. “a masterpiece” Time Out “stunningly captures the landscapes of northern Colombia, www.wevee.co.uk Winner of the Grand Jury “Fascinating subject expertly Winner of the Palme d’Or Cannes ...(it has) a unique, illuminating Prize for Best Documentary at Winner of 3 Prizes including covered.” Empire Film Festival 2009 quality.” London Film Festival Sundance Film Festival 2009 the Audience Prize Berlin International Film Festival 2009 36 / 37 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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Winstanley (PG) Woman of the Women of the The Yes Men Fix Young Farmers Youssou N’Dour: I
Directors: Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo Dunes (15) Yellow Earth the World (12A) Director: Anne Cottringer Bring What I Love (PG) Starring: Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, UK, 2009, 1 hour David Bramley Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara Director: John Bulmer Directors: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi UK, 1975, B/W, 1 hour 36 minutes Starring: Eji Okada, Kyoko Kishida UK, 1994, 50 minutes With: Reggie Watts, Mike Bonanno, Saturday 27 February 11.00am With: Youssou N’Dour, Peter Gabriel, Japan, 1964, 2 hours 4 minutes, Andy Bichlbaum Moustapha Mbaye The Courtyard Hereford Friday 5 March 2.00pm B/W, subtitles Saturday 27 February 4.00pm France/UK/USA, 2009, 1 hour 27 minutes Senegal/Egypt/France/USA, 2008, FREE 1 hour 42 mins, subtitles The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Monday 1 March 2.15pm Wednesday 3 March 4.45pm, The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 9 2.15pm This documentary follows Sunday 7 March 6.15pm Meticulously accurate, Travelling to far-flung places, The Courtyard Hereford members of Herefordshire Young The Courtyard Hereford luminously filmed account of John Bulmer has photographed Tuesday 9 March 8.00pm A film like no other; the plot Farmers Clubs over a year, as Gerrard Winstanley, pamphleteer and directed over forty films Two ‘jokers’ in cheap suits Wem Town Hall is simple, the telling truly they face the challenges of and leader of the Diggers who for the BBC, Channel 4 and the set out to pull a hoax and memorable. After a day spent keeping farming alive in this This refreshingly optimistic film started England’s first commune Discovery Channel. astoundingly knock $2 billion collecting insects among the part of the UK. From one of shows Youssou N’Dour, on his in 1649. Born out of the Civil off the market price of Dow dunes, Junpei misses the last bus Women of the Yellow Earth, made the most isolated farms on the world tour to promote Egypt, War at the dawn of a new era the Chemical. The context was and is invited by local villagers for BBC’s Under the Sun, tells the Welsh borders to the modern his ground-breaking album Diggers asserted their Christian the 1984 Bhopal tragedy in to take shelter in a widow’s story of two women, Bai and Ma technology of building your that united Arab and African right to plant crops on common which deadly gas leaked out ramshackle hut. In the morning Ning, who live in cave houses, herd through bull semen bought musical traditions in praise of land and start a new society of of the Union Carbide plant he finds himself trapped and cut out of the soft rock of the online, it follows the dramas, big Islam. Acclaimed as timely in free men where all are equal. contaminating local workers to forced to shovel away the sand Loess Plateau in Northern China and small of life on a farm: early the West, the album was labelled Their radical challenge to the devastating effect. Bichlbaum that fills the pit every night. and the often traumatic conflicts starts, volatile markets, threat blasphemous back home in rule of law was quintessentially and Bonanno (fictitious names) Out of this simple, if bizarre, between them and the harsh of TB, the arrival of a new calf, Senegal. N’Dour stresses the English, non-violent, and are the self-styled Yes Men with situation Teshigahara constructs family planning authorities. leaving home. And then there is compassionate, tolerant side of reasonable, but provokes an a mission to do the right thing. a highly charged and remarkably the packed social calendar of the Islam and his infectious belief in inevitable response. Shot in With apparent disingenuity sensual exploration of the “...extraordinary film, …intimate Young Farmers Clubs. Showing as the potential for young Africans stark black and white, Brownlow they combat globalisation by human condition. Accompanied and natural“ Daily Mail a work-in-progress Young Farmers to solve the problems they face, pays fluent tribute to the silent pulling outrageously inventive by a chilling, minimalist score, is a timely look at the new makes for a revealing spiritual cinema he adored (and did so John Bulmer will introduce anti-establishment stunts. a succession of extraordinary generation taking on this vital journey. much to champion) from Abel the film and producer Frances What’s chilling is that their images builds up a charged sector of our economy at a time Gance’s Napoleon to Carl Dreyer. Berrigan of Cicada Films transparently extremist Final physicality. will also be present for the of pressing issues. “...a voice so extraordinary that Solution rhetoric doesn’t fall on the history of Africa seems locked “this is a brave, grave and deeply discussion Winner Special Jury Prize Cannes completely deaf ears and their up inside it.” Rolling Stone rewarding... story of a committed Film Festival 1964 absurd gimmicks (Survivaballs!) activist.” Channel 4 Film “starkly haunting” Jonathan often impress. Serious and Director Kevin Brownlow will Romney, Independent delightful in equal measure. introduce the film !
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1. Aston on Clun Village Hall 01588 660545 SY7 8EH £4.00 £2.50 pp.9, 18 Friday 26 February
2. Ballingham & Bolstone Village Hall 01981 570640 HR2 6NH £4.00 £3.00 p.13 2.00 1hr 38’ Nowhere Boy (15) The Courtyard 3. Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall 01547 530282 SY7 0BE £4.00 £2.50 pp.16, 33 4.15 1hr 31’ The Cove (12A) The Courtyard 4. Bishops Castle Film Society 01588 680445 SY9 5BW £3.50 £1.50* p.31 6.15 1hr 40’ An Education (12A) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 52’ Dorian Gray (15) Ballingham Village Hall 5. Bishops Castle, SpArC 01588 630321 SY9 5AY £4.00 £2.00 p.11 7.30 1hr 46’ In the Loop (15) Cardington Village Hall 6. Bodenham Parish Hall 01568 797451 HR1 3LB £4.00 - p.9 7.30 1hr 37’ Moon (15) Gorsley Village Hall 7. Bosbury Parish Hall 01531 640415 HR8 1PX £4.00 - p.26 8.00 2hrs Bright Star (PG) Clungunford Parish Hall 8. Brilley Village Hall 01544 327227 HR3 6JZ £4.00 £2.50 pp.16, 28 8.00 1hr 40’ Man with a Movie Camera + Paul Shallcross Wem Town Hall 9. Cardington Village Hall 01694 771295 SY6 7JZ £4.00 - pp.9, 18 8.30 1hr 50’ Welcome (15) The Courtyard
10. Chapel Lawn, Redlake Valley V Hall 01547 530955 SY7 0BW £4.00 £3.00 pp.9, 26 Saturday 27 February 11. Church Stretton School 01694 724330 SY6 6EX £4.00 £2.50 p.9 10.00 6hr 30’ Saturday Screen/Let the Right One In (15) Ledbury Market Theatre 12. Clungunford Parish Hall 01588 660462 SY7 0PP £4.00 £2.00 pp.9, 16 11.00 1hr Young Farmers The Courtyard 13. Dilwyn Cedar Hall 01544 318633 HR4 8HS £3.50 - p.32 2.15 1hr Gaia: all things are connected The Courtyard 14. Dorstone Village Hall 01981 550451 HR3 6AN £4.00 £3.00 pp.13, 18 4.00 50’ Women of the Yellow Earth The Courtyard 15. Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 01981 240936 HR2 0EL £4.00 - p.9 5.30 1hr 30’ Sleep Furiously (U) Brilley Village Hall 6.00 16. Eye, Cawley Hall 01568 615836 HR6 0DS £4.00 - p.28 1hr 50’ Welcome (15) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 46’ In the Loop (15) Aston on Clun Village Hall 17. Garway Village Hall 01600 750461 / HR2 8RQ £4.00 - pp.15, 16 7.30 1hr 33’ The Grocer’s Son (12A) Brilley Village Hall 18. Gorsley Village Hall 01989 720654 HR9 7SJ £4.00 £2.50 pp.9, 11, 22 7.30 2hrs Bright Star (PG) Chapel Lawn Village Hall 19. Screen at Hay, Hay Parish Hall, Lion St 01497 831189 HR3 5AB £5.00 - p.15 7.30 1hr 52’ Dorian Gray (15) Dorstone Village Hall 20. Hereford Academy 01432 355213 HR2 7NG - - p.4 7.30 2hrs Bright Star (PG) Moccas Village Hall 8.30 1hr 56’ The Limits of Control (15) The Courtyard 21. Hereford Cathedral, College Hall 01432 374226 HR1 2NG - - pp.12, 29
22. Hereford College of Arts 01432 273359 HR1 1LT - - p.29 Sunday 28 February 23. The Courtyard, Hereford 01432 340555 HR4 9JR £6.00 £5.00 pp.6-8, 10-17, 2.00 1hr 34’ 44 Inch Chest (18) The Courtyard £3 before 3pm 19-37 2.15 1hr 40’ An Education (12A) The Courtyard 24. Hereford, WRVS Hall On door only HR1 2QN £4.00 - p.18 3.00 1 hr 36’ Up! (U) Bedstone Village Hall 25. Ledbury Market Theatre 01531 636147 HR8 2AQ £4.00 £2.50 pp.10, 15, 26, 28 3.00 1hr 38’ Nowhere Boy (15) Wem Town Hall 26. Leominster Civic Society 01568 780761 HR6 8BT £5 - p.34 4.00 1hr 31’ The Cove (12A) The Courtyard 4.30 1hr 24’ Katalin Varga (15) The Courtyard 27. Leominster Lion Ballroom 01568 611588 HR6 8BT £4.50, £4.00* pp.12, 13, 32, 34 5.00 1hr 40’ Taking Liberties (15) Hereford Cathedral 28. Lingen Village Hall 01544 262896 SY7 0DZ £4.00 £2.50 pp.10, 11, 16 6.00 1hr 38’ Nowhere Boy (15) The Courtyard 29. Little Dewchurch Village Hall 01432 840421 HR2 6PN £1.00 £1.00 p.26 6.30 1hr 40’ An Education (12A) The Courtyard 30. Ludlow Assembly Rooms 01584 878141 SY8 1AZ £5.00 £4.50 pp.23, 25, 30, 31 8.00 2hrs 7’ Broken Embraces (15) Ledbury Market Theatre 31. Lydbury North Village Hall 01588 680302 SY7 8AU £4.00 £2.50 p.32 8.15 2hrs 6’ Seraphine (PG) The Courtyard 8.45 1hr 56’ The Limits of Control (15) The Courtyard 32. Michaelchurch Escley, Escleyside Hall 01981 510696 HR2 0PT £4.00 £2.50 p.18
33. Moccas Village Hall 07776 121956 HR2 9LQ £4.00 £2.50 pp.9, 16, 18, 32 Monday 1 March
34. Presteigne Film Society 01544 260577 lD8 2AN £4.50 - p.26 1.30 1hr 40’ Taking Liberties (15) Hereford College of Arts 35. Pudleston Village Hall 01568 750349 HR6 0RA £4.00 £2.50 p.16 2.00 2hrs 6’ Seraphine (PG) The Courtyard 36. Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall 01989 720341 HR9 5HR £4.00 £3.00 pp.8, 18, 28 2.15 2hrs 4’ Woman of the Dunes (15) The Courtyard 37. Tarrington, Lady Emily Community Hall 01432 890720 HR1 4EX £4.00 - pp.22, 32 4.30 1hr 10’ The Magic Hour (15) The Courtyard 6.00 38. Wem Town Hall 01939 237075 SY4 5DG £4.50 £4.00 pp.21, 23, 35, 37 1hr 38’ Nowhere Boy (15) The Courtyard 6.15 1hr 43’ Starsuckers (12A) + Chris Atkins The Courtyard 39. Yarpole Village Hall 01568 780253 HR6 0BE £4.00 £3.00 pp.22, 26 7.00 1hr 30’ Sleep Furiously (U) Ross St Mary’s Church Hall 40. iNTERtEXT Gallery 01568 612612 HR6 8JA - - p.38 7.30 2hrs Bright Star (PG) Church Stretton School Flicks in the Sticks Main Office 01588 620883 7.30 1hr 38’ Nowhere Boy (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms * students 8.15 2hrs 25’ The White Ribbon (15) The Courtyard 8.45 1hr 56’ The Limits of Control (15) The Courtyard 44 / 45 Festival Diary www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Tuesday 2 March Friday 5 March
11.00 Big Pictures, Bigger Ideas The Courtyard 11.00 1hr 51’ The Road (15) The Courtyard 11.15 1hr 38’ Nowhere Boy (15) The Courtyard 11.30 1hr 44’ Up in the Air (15) The Courtyard 2.00 1hr 27’ Letter from an Unknown Woman (U) The Courtyard 2.00 1hr 36’ Winstanley (PG) The Courtyard 2.30 1hr 24’ Katalin Varga(15) The Courtyard 2.15 1hr 19’ 9 (12A) The Courtyard 4.00 1hr 40’ Hereford Academy Film Club Screening Hereford Academy 4.00 1hr 48’ Machan (15) The Courtyard 4.00 1hr 43’ Starsuckers (12A) The Courtyard 4.30 1hr Surprise Silent Film Programme (18) The Courtyard 5.30 1hr 38’ Nowhere Boy (15) The Courtyard 5.00 1hr 51’ The Road (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 6.15 1hr 34’ 44 Inch Chest (18) The Courtyard 6.00 1hr 40’ Tulpan (PG) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 38’ Nowhere Boy (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 6.15 1hr 44’ Up in the Air (15) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 36’ Up! (U) Lydbury North Village Hall 7.30 2hrs Bright Star (PG) Bodenham Parish Hall 8.00 2hrs 3’ Fish Tank (15) Garway Village Hall 7.30 1hr 36’ Up! (U) Dilwyn Cedar Hall 8.00 1hr 30’ Sleep Furiously (U) Ledbury Market Theatre 7.30 1hr 30’ Sleep Furiously (U) Eye Cawley Hall 8.15 2hrs 6’ Seraphine (PG) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 33’ The Grocer’s Son (12A) Lingen Village Hall 7.30 1hr 33’ The Grocer’s Son (12A) Moccas Village Hall Wednesday 3 March 7.30 1hr 36’ Up! (U) Tarrington Lady Emily Hall
8.00 1hr 37’ Frozen River (15) Clungunford Parish Hall 11.00 4hrs 45’ Here Comes Everyone :) Citizen Journalism The Courtyard 8.00 2hrs 3’ Fish Tank (15) The Screen at Hay 11.00 1hr 24’ Burma VJ (12A) The Courtyard 8.00 1hr 29’ Treeless Mountain (PG) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 11.30 1hr 40’ An Education (12A) The Courtyard 8.00 1hr 17’ Rumba (PG) Presteigne Film Society 1.30 30’ Keynote Speech/Christian Payne The Courtyard 8.15 2hrs 38’ A Prophet (18) The Courtyard 2.00 1hr 32’ Fear Eats the Soul (15) The Courtyard 8.30 1hr 51’ The Road (15) The Courtyard 2.00 1hr Here Comes Everyone :) Get Local The Courtyard
3.15 1hr Here Comes Everyone :) Go Global The Courtyard Saturday 6 March 4.00 1hr 36’ Bustin’ Down the Door (15) The Courtyard 4.45 1hr 27’ The Yes Men Fix the World (12A) The Courtyard 10.30 1hr 30’ Saturday Screen/ 6.15 1hr 40’ Tulpan (PG) The Courtyard Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (U) Little Dewchurch Village Hall 6.45 1hr 24’ Katalin Varga (15) The Courtyard 11.30 1hr Still Life The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 38’ Nowhere Boy (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 2.00 1hr 43’ Ponyo (U) The Courtyard 8.00 1hr 52’ Times and Winds (15) Bishops Castle FS 2.15 1hr 52’ Bhutan: The Height of Happiness? (U) The Courtyard 8.30 1hr 38’ Nowhere Boy (15) The Courtyard 3.00 1hr 50’ Coco Before Chanel (12A) Lingen Village Hall 8.45 1hr 34’ 44 Inch Chest (18) The Courtyard 4.00 1hr 20’ The Search for Shangri-la (PG) The Courtyard 4.15 1hr 36’ Bustin’ Down the Door (15) The Courtyard Thursday 4 March 6.00 1hr 54’ Still Walking (U) The Courtyard
6.15 1hr 51’ The Road (15) The Courtyard 10.00 4hrs Talk About Local Workshop The Courtyard 7.00 2hrs 19’ In Search of Beethoven (U) Ross St Mary’s Church Hall 11.00 2hrs 25’ The White Ribbon (15) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 17’ Rumba (PG) Chapel Lawn Village Hall 11.30 1hr 40’ An Education (12A) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 46’ In the Loop (15) Hereford WRVS Hall 2.00 30’ Creative Investment Roadshow Registration The Courtyard 7.30 2hrs 7’ Broken Embraces (15) Lingen Village Hall 2.15 2hrs 10’ Chinatown (15) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 36’ Up! (U) Moccas Village Hall 2.30 1hr 45’ Creative Investment Roadshow The Courtyard 8.00 2hrs 3’ Fish Tank (15) Ledbury Market Theatre 4.30 1hr Hereford Media Network Launch The Courtyard 8.30 2hrs 38’ A Prophet (18) The Courtyard 6.00 1hr 40’ An Education (12A) The Courtyard 8.45 1hr 44’ Up in the Air (15) The Courtyard 6.15 1hr 15’ Shell Shock (15) The Courtyard
7.30 1hr 50’ Coco Before Chanel (12A) Gorsley Village Hall Sunday 7 March 7.30 1hr 38’ Nowhere Boy (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 8.15 2hrs 25’ The White Ribbon (15) The Courtyard 2.00 1hr 24’ Burma VJ (12A) The Courtyard 8.30 1hr 40’ Man with a Movie Camera + Paul Shallcross The Courtyard 2.15 1hr 43’ Ponyo (U) The Courtyard 4.00 1hr 48’ Machan (15) The Courtyard 5.00 1hr 29’ Treeless Mountain (PG) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 6.00 1hr 44’ Up in the Air (15) The Courtyard 6.15 1hr 42’ Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love (PG) The Courtyard 46 / 47 Festival Diary www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
Sunday 7 March Thursday 11 March
7.30 1hr 51’ The Road (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1hr 33’ The Grocer’s Son (12A) Pudleston Village Hall 8.15 1hr 51’ The Road (15) The Courtyard 8.00 1hr 46’ In the Loop (15) Michaelchurch Escley 8.30 1hr 54’ Still Walking (U) The Courtyard 8.00 1hr 57’ The Wind Journeys (15) Wem Town Hall 8.30 2hrs 11’ Departures (12A) The Courtyard Monday 8 March
Friday 12 March 2.00 1hr 32’ The Night of the Hunter (12) The Courtyard 2.15 1hr 37’ Vanishing of the Bees (U) The Courtyard 1.45 2hrs 11’ Tales from the Golden Age (12A) The Courtyard 4.00 1hr 48’ Machan (15) The Courtyard 4.30 1hr 29’ Treeless Mountain (PG) The Courtyard 4.15 1hr 19’ 9 (12A) The Courtyard 6.30 1hr 32’ Mascarades (PG) The Courtyard 6.00 1hr 43’ Rough Aunties (15) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 33’ The Grocer’s Son (12A) Bedstone Village Hall 6.15 1hr 44’ Up in the Air (15) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 17’ Rumba (PG) Bosbury Parish Hall 7.30 2hrs Bright Star (PG) Aston on Clun Village Hall 7.30 2hrs Bright Star (PG) Cardington Village Hall 7.30 1hr 54’ Still Walking (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1hr 46’ In the Loop (15) Dorstone Village Hall 8.15 2hrs 38’ A Prophet (18) The Courtyard 7.30 2hrs Bright Star (PG) Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 8.30 1hr 51’ The Road (15) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 26’ Silent Comedy Classics (U) Eye Cawley Hall 7.30 1hr 36’ Up! (U) Leominster Lion Ballroom Tuesday 9 March 8.30 1hr 54’ Me & Orson Welles (12A) The Courtyard
11.00 1hr 54’ Still Walking (U) The Courtyard Saturday 13 March 11.15 1hr 44’ Up in the Air (15) The Courtyard 2.00 1hr 43’ Rough Aunties (15) The Courtyard 11.30 1hr 34’ Astro Boy (PG) The Courtyard 2.15 1hr 27’ The Yes Men Fix the World (12A) The Courtyard 2.30 2hrs 11’ Tales from the Golden Age (12A) The Courtyard 4.15 1hr 43’ Ponyo (U) The Courtyard 6.00 1hr 54’ Me & Orson Welles (12A) The Courtyard 4.30 1hr 20’ The Search for Shangri-la (PG) The Courtyard 7.00 1hr 50’ Coco Before Chanel (12A) Bishops Castle SpArC 6.30 1hr 15’ A View from the Past The Courtyard 7.00 1hr 44’ Birdwatchers (15) Ross St Mary’s Church Hall 6.45 1hr 30’ Louise-Michel (15) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 15’ A View from the Past Leominster Lion Ballroom 7.30 1hr 54’ Still Walking (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1hr 37’ Moon (15) Tarrington Lady Emily Hall 8.00 1hr 37’ Frozen River (15) Garway Village Hall 8.30 1hr 55’ Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (15) The Courtyard 8.00 1hr 42’ Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love (PG) Wem Town Hall 8.30 1hr 2’ Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears (15) The Courtyard Sunday 14 March
8.45 1hr 44’ Up in the Air (15) The Courtyard 11.30 1hr 34’ Astro Boy (PG) The Courtyard
2.00 1hr 54’ Me & Orson Welles (12A) The Courtyard Wednesday 10 March 4.00 1hr 17’ Rumba (PG) Yarpole Village Hall 11.00 2hrs 11’ Departures (12A) The Courtyard 4.30 1hr 35’ The Maid (15) The Courtyard 11.15 1hr 44’ Up in the Air (15) The Courtyard 5.00 1hr 48’ Creation (PG) Hereford Cathedral 2.00 1hr 43’ Ponyo (U) The Courtyard 6.30 Surprise Film Event The Courtyard 2.15 2hrs 18’ All About Eve (U) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 37’ Moon (15) Yarpole Village Hall 4.15 1hr 29’ Treeless Mountain (PG) The Courtyard 8.30 1hr 55’ Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll (15) The Courtyard 6.00 1hr 57’ The Wind Journeys (15) The Courtyard 6.15 1hr 29’ We Live in Public (15) The Courtyard 7.30 1hr 48’ Creation (PG) Leominster Lion Ballroom Hereford Cathedral Perpetual Trust by kind permission of Walt Disney Motion Pictures UK 8.15 2hrs 11’ Departures (12A) The Courtyard invite you to a regional premiere & a Mad Hatter reception of 8.30 1hr 44’ Up in the Air (15) The Courtyard
Thursday 11 March Alice in Wonderland 2.15 1hr 37’ Vanishing of the Bees (U) The Courtyard Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Mia Wasikowska 4.30 1hr 29’ We Live in Public (15) The Courtyard The Courtyard on 2 March, at 6.30pm for 7.45 screening 6.30 1hr 29’ Treeless Mountain (PG) The Courtyard Tickets £20 adults, £15 under 16s 7.30 2hrs Bright Star (PG) Gorsley Village Hall Tickets from the Courtyard Box Office 7.30 1hr 52’ Dorian Gray (15) Leominster Lion Ballroom 01432 340555 / www.courtyard.org.uk design: elfen.co.uk Over 70 top-flight films from all over the world to destinations in Herefordshire, Shropshire and the Marches
1. Aston on Clun Village Hall 2. Ballingham & Bolstone Village Hall 3. Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall 4. Bishops Castle Film Society 5. Bishops Castle, SpArC 38 6. Bodenham Parish Hall 7. Bosbury Parish Hall 8. Brilley Village Hall 9. Cardington Village Hall 10. Chapel Lawn, Redlake Valley V Hall 11. Church Stretton School 12. Clungunford Parish Hall 13. Dilwyn Cedar Hall 14. Dorstone Village Hall 9 15. Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 11 16. Eye, Cawley Hall 4 17. Garway Village Hall 5 31 18. Gorsley Village Hall 1 19. Screen at Hay, Hay Parish Hall, Lion St 20. Hereford Academy 12 21. Hereford Cathedral, College Hall 10 3 30 22. Hereford College of Arts 23. The Courtyard, Hereford 24. Hereford, WRVS Hall 28 39 25. ledbury Market Theatre 34 16 26. leominster Civic Society 26 35 27. leominster Lion Ballroom 27 40 28. lingen Village Hall 13 29. little Dewchurch Village Hall 6 30. ludlow Assembly Rooms 8 31. lydbury North Village Hall 22 7 32. Michaelchurch Escley, Escleyside Hall 19 33 24 33. Moccas Village Hall 14 23 37 21 34. Presteigne Film Society 20 25 32 35. Pudleston Village Hall 36. Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall 29 2 37. Tarrington, Lady Emily Community Hall 15 18 38. Wem Town Hall 36 39. Yarpole Village Hall 17 40. iNTERtext Gallery To help you find your way, maps are available on the Venues page of our website www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org