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40TH DUNEDIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016

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WELCOME

Welcome to 2016 and to the 40th iteration of the International Film Festival in Dunedin. We’ve covered a lot of ground since the first one, not least several grand old Dunedin cinemas that have long since disappeared. The national event that NZIFF has become owes a good measure of its origin to Dunedin’s Richard Weatherly, whose programmes at the much lamented Century Theatre in the 70s blazed the trail.

The Festival’s collaboration with the Otago Theatre Trust and the fabulous Regent in 1995 inaugurated a bright new era for Dunedin filmgoers, augmented several years later when the programme spilled over to the Rialto. At a time when Sean Parker’s Screening Room project has cinema-owners (once again) predicting the last gasp, there could be no more resounding vindication of what we do than the lively audiences crowding those venues every winter.

At the margins of that threatened mainstream, cinema-going in 2016 feels increasingly specialised, independent and personal. NZIFF maintains a curatorial tradition that happily seems more attuned than ever to this rapidly evolving environment. The experiences we offer here vary enormously, from expertly crafted crowd ticklers or gripping dramas to deeply felt eccentricities and passionate exposés. Every one of them stands to become that much richer for being experienced in the company of appreciative strangers.

The major sponsorship we receive from the New Zealand Film Commission is a gratifying institutional endorsement of the popular support that drives us. We welcome 2degrees’ sponsorship of our action-packed World cinema section. Resene join us for their third year as sponsors of a stunning bunch of New Zealand films. Flicks.co.nz and RadioLIVE remain lively, proactive media partners. Thanks too to the SBS St James Gore for keeping the flag aloft further South.

Ultimately it’s the support of its audience that keeps our non-profit enterprise in action. Ticket sales contributed 88% of our income in 2015. But we never forget that filmmakers gave whatever it took to get these pictures into the world in the first place: we set aside 25% of our box office to go their way. We hope that filmmakers and filmgoers alike, like the characters gracing our poster art, you will find what you are looking for at NZIFF in 2016.

Bill Gosden Director 4 BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Poi E: The Story of Our Song Opening Night

We open NZIFF 2016 with a joyful Director/Screenplay: Tearepa Kahi rendition of our national anthem – the New Zealand 2016 | 96 mins one you can dance to. As irresistible Producers: Alexander Behse, Reikura Kahi, Tearepa Kahi as the song it celebrates, Tearepa Co-producer: Tuteri Dal Rangihaeata Kahi’s documentary explores the many Photography: Fred Renata, Jos Wheeler Editors: Tearepa Kahi, Francis Glenday tributaries that flowed into the mash- With: Dalvanius Prime, Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi, up of pop music, traditional waiata Pātea Māori Club, Barletta Prime, Taika Waititi, Stan Walker, the Topp Twins, and bop that first took New Zealand by Maaka Pōhatu storm in 1984. Dalvanius Prime, the man who made it happen, enjoyed an international R&B Declaration of interest: The staff and trustees of NZIFF career in the 70s. He returned from congratulate fellow trustee Sydney to Taranaki to nurse his dying Tearepa Kahi on his awesome film. mother and stayed to embrace his culture and Te Reo Māori. Collaboration with singer Prince Tui Teka led him to Māori language composer Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi. Together they composed ‘Poi E’: in this film you will hear the first ever recording, made soon after. Adding embellishments that did not The film, told largely in Dalvanius’ please his co-composer but impressed own words, is brimful of music and We are proud to open her mokopuna, he persuaded his frank and funny testimony from NZIFF 2016 with Tearepa Taranaki whānau, the Patea Māori Club, numerous participants in the song’s to perform it. A man on a mission, richly peopled history. Taking a lesson Kahi’s irresistible Poi E. chihuahuas under each arm, he pulled from the man himself, Kahi draws the together a diverse and talented bunch next generation into the story, ably of collaborators to record the song assisted by Taika Waititi, who provides and crowdfund a brilliant music video Stan Walker, aged 25, with essential that, amongst other things, captured information about what life was like the vitality and pride of his hometown before ‘Poi E’. facing hard times. A Regent Thu 4 Aug 7.30 pm

Elle Closing Night

Isabelle Huppert delivers a standout performance in this electrifying comeback from master genre disrupter Director: Paul Verhoeven Paul Verhoeven. France/Germany 2016 | 130 mins Producers: Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt “Paul Verhoeven’s Elle saw Cannes Screenplay: David Birke. Competition 69 out on a high note. Based on the novel Oh… by Philippe Djian This beautifully judged drama/thriller Photography: Stéphane Fontaine Editor: Job ter Burg is all about a provocatively powerful Music: Anne Dudley woman, much like Verhoeven’s last With: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Virginie Efria, Competition entry – Basic Instinct, Christian Berkel, Judith Magre, Jonas Bloquet, which played back in 1992. Elle is that Alice Isaaz, Vimala Pons Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016 picture’s equal, and, in a similar way, In French with English subtitles captures a new moment for film’s CinemaScope | R18 violence, sexual violence, offensive language femme fatale. Elle, starring the unrivalled Isabelle Closing Night begins with a brief address Huppert, threads sexual intrigue with from NZIFF Director Bill Gosden. knife-edged danger, punctuated by the occasional relief of unexpected, uneasy humour. It’s a film which could PROUDLY SPONSORED BY only have come from the hands of the GUY FRERANDIS / SBS PRODUCTIONS, COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES CLASSICS Dutch master, back after a 10-year- “If our modern age is partially defined absence since Black Book – and how by outrage culture, trigger warnings, “Suspenseful and unsettling we have missed him. and sensitivity training seminars (all of from first frame to last… Huppert has rarely been better as which have their function) the glee with the head of a videogame company which Verhoeven and Huppert openly, This audacious, irony-laced, who is attacked and raped in her home even playfully, defy any concession to convention-jumbling tale is by a masked intruder. This plays out, cultural correctness is breathtaking. The just plain fun to watch.” however, at the onset and is just a cinema of the #problematic may have launchpad for Verhoeven to examine just found its Citizen Kane.” — Jessica — Lisa Nesselson, Screendaily B Regent Fri 19 Aug 3.45 pm his career-long themes of power and Kiang, The Playlist A Regent Sun 21 Aug 8.15 pm domination afresh.” — Fionnuala Halligan, Screendaily A SJ Gore Sun 21 Aug 7.45 pm BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 5

A Quiet Passion Centrepiece

Terence Davies’ portrait of 19th-century Director/Screenplay: Terence Davies American poet Emily Dickinson, played UK/Belgium 2016 | 124 mins acutely well by Cynthia Nixon, may Producers: Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos Photography: Florian Hoffmeister be the perfect match of filmmaker Editor: Pia Di Ciaula and subject. Even audiences unfamiliar With: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Emma Bell, Duncan Duff, with Davies’ autobiographical classics Jodhi May, Catherine Bailey, Joanna Bacon, (Distant Voices, Still Lives; The Long Annette Badland, Eric Loren Festivals: Berlin 2016 Day Closes) will surely feel the sway CinemaScope | PG adult themes of an intense identification. “From the very opening scene, in which a stern, shrew-faced schoolmistress addresses her matriculating pupils – including the young Emily Dickinson – on the importance of faith and the perils of nonconformity, it’s clear we’re in safe hands… Only the first 20 minutes or so depict Emily’s youth, and they may surprise with their light-hearted, quasi-Wildean repartee as the fiercely intelligent young The film is not only a compelling woman exchanges opinions on life and and finally very affecting portrait of the “An exceptional film art – and, more particularly, on the place poet as an ageing woman, but another with a searing central of women in a patriarchal society – with entirely fresh variation on the themes her outspoken friend Vryling Buffam. that have preoccupied Davies since his performance from But an ellipsis… speeds us forward earliest work. To put it simply, there Cynthia Nixon.” into Emily’s later years, where her lack are moments here that are utterly and — Geoffrey Macnab, of recognition as a poet, her growing gloriously Davies: no other filmmaker loneliness and her frustrations regarding would have dreamed them up, let The Independent gender inequality and creative integrity alone have executed them with such A Regent Sat 13 Aug 5.30 pm make for an increasing reclusiveness and exquisite delicacy.” — Geoff Andrew, B Regent Tue 16 Aug 11.15 am an ever more loudly voiced bitterness… Sight & Sound

The Rehearsal Special Presentation

NZIFF is thrilled to present the World Director: Alison Maclean Premiere screenings of Alison Maclean’s New Zealand 2016 | 98 mins hotly anticipated adaptation of Eleanor Producers: Bridget Ikin, Trevor Haysom Screenplay: Alison Maclean, Emily Perkins. Catton’s debut novel. Based on the novel by Eleanor Catton Unpacking the dramas that energise Photography: Andrew Commis Editor: Jonno Woodford-Robinson a class of budding young actors, The Music: Connan Mockasin Rehearsal stars James Rolleston in the With: Kerry Fox, James Rolleston, Alice Englert, Ella Edward, Kieran Charnock, Michelle Ny, role of Stanley, a naive newcomer Scotty Cotter, Marlon Williams drawn to the city by his passion to Censors rating tbc make it on stage. While his new best rehearsalfilm.com friends indulge in wilder games, gentle Stanley tentatively romances 15-year- old Isolde (Ella Edward). His sweet dreams may have found their nemesis in Hannah (Kerry Fox), the school’s grandstanding senior tutor. Students must deconstruct themselves, she contends, before they can play at being anybody else. Stanley gradually bends to her taunting style, until, in one of the dazzling turns that stud The Rehearsal carries a potent extra- the film, he earns her applause with textual charge: there’s enough talent “I wanted it to be an a hilarious, treacherously accurate in this fictional drama school to intimate, authentic impersonation of his salesman father. constitute a real-world new wave. Even murkier waters await when Like the novel, the film (co-scripted experience of what it’s his class decides that a sex scandal with Emily Perkins) is as attentive to like to be a young person involving Isolde’s older sister should the misleading effect youthful nerve can in New Zealand now.” be intensively researched for their have on the ‘mature’ as it is to the crises end-of-year show. the teachers so blithely incite in the — Alison Maclean With Michelle Ny, Marlon Williams taught. It’s also its own sharp, original and Kieran Charnock providing vivid thing, a film by Alison Maclean, alive A Regent Sat 6 Aug 6.30 pm B Regent Tue 9 Aug 1.00 pm support to the young principals, with ambiguity and cinematic verve. 6 BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Aquarius Special Presentation

In a year worth noting for the number of strong women behind and in front of the camera, the most winning for Director/Screenplay: many in the NZIFF audience is bound Kleber Mendonça Filho Brazil/France 2016 | 140 mins to be Dona Clara, the indomitable Producers: Émilie Lesclaux, Saïd Ben Saïd, protagonist of Aquarius. She is played Michel Merkt with great authenticity and flair by Photography: Pedro Sotero, Fabricio Tadeu Editor: Eduardo Serrano Sonia Braga, the star of such landmark With: Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Brazilian films as Kiss of the Spider Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrão, Zoraide Coleto, Fernando Teixeira, Buda Lira, Woman and Dona Flor and Her Two Paula De Renor, Bárbara Colen, Daniel Porpino Husbands. A music critic in her mid-60s, Festivals: Cannes (In Competition), Sydney 2016 In Portuguese with English subtitles Clara is the last woman standing when Official Competition Winner, Sydney Film Festival developers propose to demolish the 2016 | lovely old beachside apartment building CinemaScope Censors rating tbc in which she’s spent the better part of a very full life. “Kleber Mendonça Filho’s stunning feature debut Neighbouring Sounds [NZIFF12] boldly announced a major new voice in Brazilian cinema… His much-anticipated follow-up is a more has presented this gift to her (and subtle film but no less mature, a calmer to the viewer) on a silver platter. A “Vibrant and bursting film but no less angry. Starring the breathtakingly intuitive actress, she’s with life… an engrossing, incomparable Sonia Braga as a well-off beautifully aged into an aristocratically widow holding on to her apartment sensual physicality and makes Clara’s intimate character against developer pressures, Aquarius firmness mingle with tenderness. The study that manages is a character study as well as a shrewd camera rarely leaves her, and we as to encompass plenty meditation on the needless transience audience value every moment we’re of place and the way physical space in her presence.” — Jay Weissberg, of universal truths.” elides with our identity… Variety — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair B Regent Wed 17 Aug 10.45 am If the film feels as much Braga’s A Regent Sun 21 Aug 3.15 pm as Filho’s, it’s because the director

I, Daniel Blake Special Presentation

British cinema’s veteran social realist enters his eighties with a second Palme d’Or to his name after the Director: Ken Loach Cannes Jury this year awarded his feisty UK/France/Belgium 2016 | 100 mins Producer: Rebecca O’Brien new film the festival’s highest prize. Screenplay: Paul Laverty “Fifty years since Ken Loach raged Photography: Robbie Ryan against homelessness in his television Editor: Jonathan Morris Music: George Fenton play Cathy Come Home, the British With: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, filmmaker has made a film infused with Dylan McKiernan, Briana Shann Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016 the same quiet but righteous anger Palme d’Or (Best Film), Cannes Film Festival 2016 about the failings of the society around Censors rating tbc him. I, Daniel Blake is the story of an unlikely but tender friendship between Katie (Hayley Squires), a single mother from London with two kids, and Dan (Dave Johns), a Geordie carpenter in his late fifties who’s out of work and recovering from a heart attack. Both Katie and Dan are feeling the sharp end of the shrinking welfare state: Katie has been forced to move he takes a stand. Dan, and people like her children north to Newcastle to find him everywhere, need a Katie watching “This is Loach – the a flat; Dan is stuck in a nightmarish their back; they need a community, a humorist, the dramatist, bureacratic limbo between work, illness benevolent government, us.” — Dave and benefits… Forces beyond both are Calhoun, Time Out the activist – firing on turning them into different people. Dan “The quiet beauty of I, Daniel Blake all cylinders.” is community-minded, gentle, a laugh. – the reason it’s the rare political drama — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice At first, he’s able to criticise, even laugh that touches the soul – is that we at, the system that’s crushing him. believe, completely, in these people.” A Regent Fri 5 Aug 6.30 pm The tragedy of the film – and its — Owen Gleiberman, Variety B Regent Thu 11 Aug 11.15 am rousing point – is that in the end it’s all A SJ Gore Sun 14 Aug 6.00 pm too much for one man, however much BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 7

Neruda Special Presentation

In this dense and scintillating mix of fact and fantasy, Gael García Bernal reteams with No director Pablo Larraín Director: Pablo Larraín to play an obsessive (fictional) detective Chile/Argentina/France/Spain 2016 107 mins on the trail of the famed Chilean Producer: Juan de Dios Larraín poet-politician forced into exile in 1948. Screenplay: Guillermo Calderón “A work of such cleverness and Photography: Sergio Armstrong Editor: Hervé Schneid beauty, alongside such power, Music: Federico Jusid that it’s hard to know how to parcel With: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán, Diego Muñoz, Pablo Derqui, out praise… Neruda is not a biopic Michael Silva, Jaime Vadell, Alfredo Castro, but an invention informed by Marcelo Alonso, Francisco Reyes Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2016 biography, conjuring a richly detailed In Spanish and French with English subtitles investigator with notions of self- CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc grandeur who’s hunting the famed leftist writer-politician… [Larraín] deftly mixes fiction with a form of truth, presenting Neruda not as the passionate romantic of his verse but a champagne communist very much tied to passing pleasures. Yet © 2016 – FABULA – AZ FILMS – FUNNY BALLOONS – SETEMBRO CINE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED what Larraín makes clear by the finale slips to reveal the character’s idealism is that who the artist is (any artist) is and solidarity… But perhaps it’s “Neruda works most less important than what they inspire… García Bernal who makes the greatest thrillingly as an effusive Every bit the film’s protagonist as much impression… Humorous, straight-faced as the poet, Peluchonneau [García and channeling any number of noir love letter to the Bernal]… serves as both Neruda’s detectives with a post-modern twist very concept of fiction nemesis and his creation, an ineffective that finally gives that misused concept and all the ways it can plainclothesman assisting in the legend a good name, the actor quite simply of the great man’s persecution. shines, once again proving himself one set you free.” All the performances are outstanding: of the smartest performers around.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist Luis Gnecco plays Neruda with a sense — Jay Weissberg, Variety A Regent Fri 12 Aug 8.30 pm of entitled vanity, which occasionally B Regent Mon 15 Aug 3.45 pm

Paterson Special Presentation

“Writer-director Jim Jarmusch often explores existential themes, but they’ve perhaps never been so beautifully Director/Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch unadorned as they are in Paterson, USA 2016 | 113 mins Producers: Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan a deceptively modest character piece Photography: Frederick Elmes that’s profound and moving while Editor: Affonso Gonçalves remaining grounded in the everyday. Music: Sqürl With: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Observing a bus driver (played with Chasten Harmon, Barry Shabaka Henley, incredible grace by Adam Driver) over William Jackson Harper, Rizwan Manji Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016 eight days, the movie turns the tiny Censors rating tbc details of its protagonist’s life into a deeply felt consideration of marriage, love, compromise and the casual oddities inherent in being alive... Living with his wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), a cupcake chef who dreams of becoming a country music star, Paterson (who just so happens to live in Paterson, New Jersey) goes through his daily routine, which © 2016 MARY CYBULSKI includes jotting down some lines for loneliness of couplehood, the way his latest poem and stopping by his the things we do in our spare time “What a pleasure... that favorite bar every night... can come to define who we are. Jarmusch’s film is as wise, Neither romanticizing Paterson’s It’s about love and poetry and ordinary life nor patronisingly lamenting dreams, and about the chance winning, and surprisingly it, Jarmusch crafts a wonderfully encounter that can close a wound moving as it is.” precise portrait that’s both specific and with the magic efficiency of a tiny — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair universal.” — Tim Grierson, Screendaily butterfly bandage. How you pour all “It’s about so many things: The of that into one movie is something B Regent Wed 17 Aug 3.45 pm energy that keeps even an economically of a mystery – but then, a good poem A Regent Sat 20 Aug 8.30 pm depressed city’s lifeblood thrumming, is always something of a mystery too.” A SJ Gore Sat 20 Aug 8.15 pm the closeness but also the inherent — Stephanie Zacharek, Time 8 BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

The Red Turtle Special Presentation

Studio Ghibli’s first international co-production is a ravishing castaway fable that combines beauty, mystery, Director: Michael Dudok de Wit drama and heartbreak – with not France/Japan/Belgium 2016 | 80 mins a word spoken. It’s a triumph for Producer: Takahata Isao animator Michael Dudok de Wit. Screenplay: Michael Dudok de Wit, Pascale Ferran “‘If one day Studio Ghibli decides to Editor: Céline Kélépikis Animation: Jean-Christophe Lie produce an animator from outside the Music: Laurent Perez del Mar studio, it will be him’, was Miyazaki’s Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2016 Special Jury Prize (Un Certain Regard), pronouncement after watching Dudok Cannes Film Festival 2016 de Wit’s Oscar-winning animated short PG cert Father and Daughter… Sixteen years after Father and Daughter, Studio Ghibli and Dudok de Wit’s collaboration has come into being. It begins in the middle of a storm. Grey waves and raindrops engulf the screen. In the corner, a tiny head surfaces and then sinks. The nameless man is washed up on a beach with bits of his broken boat. A crab crawls I’ll leave it there with the plot, up his leg. When he goes to explore, because you don’t really want to know “Dudok de Wit’s the view pulls right back so all we see much more about a mythical fantasy hypnotizing, entirely is a remote island while his cries ring like this one before you see it… out. His only company is a cast of Pictures are the film’s currency dialogue-free The Red crabs (such an apt collective noun!). and they are, without exaggeration, Turtle is a fable so Several times he tries to escape with a sublime… The depth and texture on simple, so pure, it feels makeshift bamboo raft, but each time show here – conjured from a surge a mysterious force in the water breaks of pencil marks and watercolour as if it has existed for B Regent Fri 19 Aug 1.45 pm up his boat. Eventually he discovers washes – is remarkable. The film is hundreds of years.” A Regent Sat 20 Aug 4.00 pm his secretive aggressor: the titular red a must for the big screen.” — Isabel — Peter Debruge, Variety A SJ Gore Sun 21 Aug 1.00 pm turtle. Stevens, Sight & Sound

Toni Erdmann Special Presentation

Writer/director Maren Ade’s epic comedy about a prankster dad’s campaign to connect with his mortified workaholic Director/Screenplay: Maren Ade daughter was the hands-down audience Germany/Austria 2016 | 162 mins Producer: Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, favourite at Cannes, and universally Jonas Dornbach tipped to win. Assuming the persona of Photography: Patrick Orth a clownish ‘life coach’, the eponymous Editor: Heike Parplies With: Peter Sinonischek, Sandra Hüller, anti-hero lays siege to the corporate Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl, lifestyle. Trystan Pütter, Hadewych Minis, Lucy Russell, Ingrid Bisu, Vlad Ivanov, Victoria Corciaş “Trust in the creative impulse informs Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016 every aspect of the film, from Ade’s In German and English, with English subtitles Censors rating tbc dazzling script which has just enough of a classical comedic structure to PROUDLY SPONSORED BY support two hours and 42 minutes of surprises big and small, to her direction, which is designed to liberate the actors as much as possible while the camera rolls, to the performances (Simonischek and Hüller seem to be as amazed as we are by the things their KOMPLIZEN FILM characters lead them to do)… like treacle, but here is thoroughly The last 45 minutes contains four earned and provokes the tears that “Get ready to retract every set pieces that take a film that is lay beneath the laughter all along.” cliché joke you’ve ever already great to a higher (say, The — Amy Taubin, Film Comment Rules of the Game) level, and the less “Long after this year’s juries have made about Germans and you know about them in advance the disbanded and the world has forgotten their sense of humour.” better. Let’s just say they involve a who won this year’s awards, the 2016 — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist karaoke performance, nudity, a very edition will best be remembered as hairy embrace, and finally, a from-the- the year Ms Ade gave us Toni Erdmann, heart statement about how we could a work of great beauty, great feeling and should live our lives, which in and great cinema.” — Manohla Dargis, B Regent Tue 9 Aug 3.00 pm almost any other film would seem NY Times A Regent Sun 14 Aug 5.00 pm RETRO 9

Chimes at Midnight Retro

The consensus choice for Orson Welles’ Director: Orson Welles late-career masterpiece, Chimes at Spain 1966 | 117 mins Midnight has been almost impossible Screenplay: Orson Welles. Based on the plays Henry IV, Part I and Part II; Richard II; Henry V; and to see in decent quality for many The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare decades. We are delighted to present Photography: Edmond Richard Editors: Elena Jaumandreu, Fritz Muller this new restoration. Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino Welles had long been fascinated With: Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud, Norman Rodway, Alan Webb, Tony Beckley, with Shakespeare’s English history plays. Margaret Rutherford, Jeanne Moreau, He produced a stage compendium of Marina Vlady, Fernando Rey B&W | PG cert nine of them as far back as 1939, and by 1960 this had evolved into a stage production entitled Chimes at Midnight, which was compiled from the second tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV Parts I & II, Henry V) and The Merry Wives of Windsor and focused on the character of Sir John Falstaff – the role Welles was born to play. Welles then dedicated half a decade to securing financing for a film version. The project eventually came together focus black-and-white photography – barely and with more than a little and Welles’ punchy editing make this “If I wanted to get into contractual sleight of hand – and filmed Shakespeare of uncommon heaven on the basis of Welles somehow managed to create vitality. Perhaps most remarkably, an earthy, intimate epic on the smell given the economy of the production, one movie, that’s the of an oily rag, calling in a lifetime Chimes at Midnight sports one of one I would offer up.” of accrued favours from an amazing cinema’s greatest battle sequences: — Orson Welles cast of actor friends (John Gielgud, inspired by Eisenstein, Welles turns Jeanne Moreau, Fernando Rey, the Battle of Shrewsbury into a barrage Margaret Rutherford). It’s one of the of sense impressions, an overwhelming greatest adaptations of Shakespeare. mixture of mist, mud and chaotic B Regent Fri 19 Aug 11.15 am A Regent Sat 20 Aug 1.30 pm The spectacular high contrast, deep brutality. — AL

McCabe & Mrs Miller Tokyo Story Tokyo monogatari

Director: Robert Altman Director: Ozu Yasujiro USA 1971 | 120 mins Japan 1953 | 136 mins Screenplay: Robert Altman, Screenplay: Noda Kogo, Brian McKay. Based on the novel Ozu Yasujiro McCabe by Edmund Naughton Photography: Atsuta Yuharu Photography: Vilmos Zsigmond With: Ryu Chishu, Higashiyama Music: Leonard Cohen Cheiko, Hara Setsuko, Sugimura With: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Haruko, Nakamura Nobuo, René Auberjonois, William Yamamura So, Miyake Kuniko, Devane, John Schuck, Kagawa Kyoko, Tono Eijiro, Corey Fischer, Bert Remsen, Osaka Shiro, Murase Zen, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Mori Mitsuhiro Michael Murphy In Japanese with English subtitles CinemaScope | M violence, B&W | PG low level offensive offensive language language

As vivid and haunting as the songs of by David Milch.) On its release critic Voted in Sight & Sound’s authoritative to grow apart; casual thoughtlessness Leonard Cohen that found an audience Andrew Sarris hailed it a ‘half-baked 2012 poll the third greatest film of can still cut like a knife; and regrets on its soundtrack, Robert Altman’s masterpiece’. Forty-five years later, the all time (and topping the list among remain infinite. indelible vision of two of the Wild apparent offhandedness of Altman’s directors), Ozu Yasujiro’s sublime family Ozu nails every interaction with West’s most beautiful losers is restored attention to story and dialogue feels drama is as relevant today as it has ever a rich emotional diversity, including to the giant screen. Warren Beatty integral to his evocation of elusive been, in a sparkling new restoration. moments of gentle humour. The and Julie Christie play an enterprising dreams and frail individual enterprises. When elderly parents travel from zen-like simplicity of Ozu’s mature gambler and a cynical bordello madam, The town, rising so randomly amongst their sleepy coastal town to visit style rejected the norms of Hollywood separate newcomers whose reputations the conifers, is said to have been their eldest children in Tokyo, life filmmaking and invented its own have preceded them to the raw Pacific built by a crew of US draft dodgers in in the big city doesn’t leave much sophisticated, flexible and extraordinarily Northwest mining town of Presbyterian British Columbia and the film was shot, time for hosting the old folks. Mild expressive film grammar that was Church. Channelling attraction into unforgettably, in rain and snow by the disappointments gradually turn into completely absorbing and startlingly a business proposition, they join late, great Vilmos Zsigmond. stealth tragedy when the mother falls ill emotionally direct. — AL forces to provide the miners with a on the way home. superior whorehouse experience. The Perhaps the most shocking thing arrival of representatives of a mining about Tokyo Story is how completely company with interests of its own recognisable the behaviours and threatens their plans. (Deadwood fans B Rialto Fri 5 Aug 1.30 pm attitudes are 60 years later, in an alien A Rialto Sun 14 Aug 5.15 pm will recognise the debt acknowledged A Rialto Sun 7 Aug 8.00 pm culture. Children and parents continue B Rialto Thu 18 Aug 4.00 pm 10

Apple Pie AOTEAROA

Sam Hamilton Director: Sam Hamilton New Zealand 2016 80 mins Producer: Lani Felthan Photography: Ian Powell Narrators: Christopher Francis Schiel, Muagututia Kelemete Fu’a With: Ioane Papali’i, Lauren Waudé, Dean Roberts, Kasina Campbell, Oscar Dowling, Jon Bywater, Louise Menzies, Andy Hamilton, Metusela Toso, Mosiana Webster PG nudity

Shot on 16mm celluloid across existence into focus, while Hamilton’s parts of New Zealand and Samoa, visual tableaux, as an extension interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s of his multifaceted practice, veer ten-part experimental magnum imaginatively between psychedelic opus makes thought-provoking imagery and performance art. connections between life on Earth and The centrepiece of the film is a the cosmos, and, ultimately, art and striking sequence involving dancer science. Structured around the ten Ioane Papali’i, whose limbs are tied most significant celestial bodies of the by long strands of rope to a tree. His Milky Way, Apple Pie’s inquiry begins struggle, perhaps, is one of trying to with the furthest point in our solar deviate from the blueprints of reality, system, Pluto, as a lens back towards a fundamental aspect of our species’ our home planet and the ‘mechanisms most constructive faculties, says by which certain aspects of scientific Hamilton. — Tim Wong knowledge are digested, appropriated and subsequently manifest within the general human complex’. Christopher Francis Schiel’s dry, functional narration brings a network of ideas about our A Rialto Fri 5 Aug 6.15 pm

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Luit Bieringa Director: Luit Bieringa New Zealand 2016 88 mins Producer: Jan Bieringa Photography: John Chrisstoffels, Davorin Fahn, Greg Jennings, John Irwin, Tony Hiles Editors: Annie Collins, Angela Boyd Research: Renee Gerlich Sound: Dick Reade Music: Warren Maxwell

NZIFF is proud to provide big screen premieres Under the leadership of a legendary Para Matchitt and Ralph Hotere. director general of education, Clarence Critically, they ensured that aspects for striking work made within our own horizons. Beeby, the years immediately after of Māori art such as kōwhaiwhai, In fact, it’s one of our key objectives. In 2016 we World War II saw the most remarkable kapa haka and waiata had a central shifts in educational philosophy New place in our mainstream classrooms platform four very different documentaries, two Zealand had ever experienced. through in-depth consultation with mighty programmes of shorts and some dazzling Luit Bieringa’s documentary traces Ngāti Porou kaumātua Pine Taiapa. those changes and the army of men Replete with archival interviews and experimental work. and women who worked to establish little-seen footage, this film is likely to a thoroughly bicultural and arts- transport any Kiwi-educated boomer If this section seems a little tighter than in centred education system. Gordon back to school, but its richly storied previous years, that’s because New Zealand films Tovey, national supervisor of arts and excavation of the past is as clearly crafts, and his team of artists and pointed towards the future as once take pride of place as our Opening Night and art specialists fostered the lively and were its public-servant heroes. Special Presentation choices. colourful classrooms that New Zealand is familiar with today, in stark contrast to the rote-learning environments preceding them. Contributing art A Rialto Tue 9 Aug 6.15 pm specialists included Cliff Whiting, B Rialto Thu 11 Aug 10.45 am AOTEAROA 11

Le Ride

Phil Keoghan, television personality, Director: Phil Keoghan adventurer and bike enthusiast, pays New Zealand/Australia/USA/France tribute to a little-known Kiwi sports 2016 | 90 mins hero by duplicating one of his most Producer: Louise Keoghan Screenplay: Phil Keoghan, Louise Keoghan remarkable feats in this documentary. Photography: Scott Shelley In 1928, New Zealander Harry Editor: Jess Bushyhead Narrator: Hewitt Humphrey Watson and three Australian cyclists With: Phil Keoghan, John Keoghan, teamed up to compete in the Tour Ben Cornell, Greg Peart de France. Racing as an untested team of four, the Australasians were conspicuously raw amongst the elite ten-man European teams, but they were tenacious and learned fast. The race was designed to eliminate as many riders as possible – and so, one might think, were the bikes. Most of the roads were unpaved and the heavy steel bikes weighed twice as much as a modern racing bike. More riders failed to finish the 1928 Tour de SALMINI SPORTFILM LLC France than any other Tour in history: vintage bikes with no gearshifts, they 168 riders began the arduous 3,500- keep pace with the daily progress (if “Man, do I have some mile race; only 41 finished. not the number of blow-outs) related respect for the riders Following the 1928 route around the by Watson in his vivid journals. perimeter of France 85 years later isn’t Handsomely shot, and rich in who rode in 1928.” always exactly possible, thanks to vastly fascinating detail and photographic — Phil Keoghan increased traffic and motorway systems, evidence of Watson and his teammates’ but Keoghan and mate Ben Cornell are epic achievement, Keoghan’s film feels A Regent Mon 15 Aug 8.15 pm determined – some might say recklessly their pain so that you don’t have to. so – to get as close to it as possible. It’s a stirring salute. OPENING NIGHT Travelling the 3,500 miles (5,600 km), ✪ SJ Gore Thu 11 Aug 8.15 pm in 22 stages over 26 days on restored See p44 for details

The 5th Eye On an Unknown Beach

Errol Wright, Adam Luxton Abi King-Jones Directors: Errol Wright, Directors/Photography: Abi King-Jones Adam Luxton, New Zealand 2016 Summer Agnew 112 mins New Zealand 2016 Producer/Photography: Errol Wright 90 mins Editor: Abi King-Jones Producers: Gayle Hogan, Sound: Matt Stutter Adam Luxton, Summer Agnew Music: David Long With: Bruce Russell, Di Tracey, With: Adrian Leason, Peter David Hornblow Murnane, Sam Land, Nicky Hager, CinemaScope Murray Horton, Michael Knowles, Paul Buchanan, Thomas Beagle, Robert Patman, Richard Jackson

If our PM or the relevant public servants thread an unlikely tale of protest through Longtime collaborators Adam Luxton navigating a fraught interior landscape, feel truly comfortable about New this scenario, following the actions of and Summer Agnew, creators of the poet and actor David Hornblow uses Zealand’s participation in the Five Eyes the three earnest bumblers who, singular Minginui (NZIFF05), return Regression Hypnotherapy to traverse intelligence alliance, it doesn’t show against all odds, successfully damaged to their experimental roots with his past experiences with addiction. when they are seen explaining it, the Waihopai spy station in 2008. this ‘speculative documentary’ on For Luxton and Agnew, their unique defending it, or downright refusing to When the GCSB has been so often landscapes of ruin, and the three subjects’ journeys into the unknown talk about it in this doco. Filmmakers in the news, there’s likely to be an explorers who dive deep into the abyss. have galvanised their own approach Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones embed audience, less heroic perhaps, that’s Aboard the state-of-the-art research to the aesthetic of this adventurous those TV interviews, parliamentary simply grateful to this film for providing vessel Tangaroa, coral scientist Di Tracey film, earthy in tone and form and declamations and media ops in a a salutary, blow-by-blow account of the surveys the Chatham Rise seabed to sublimely realised as a visual poem – its concise history of New Zealand’s post GCSB’s misadventures – and their document the impact of deep ocean images some of the most striking you’ll war dependency on the United States. expanding powers to make suspects of trawl fishing. Wandering through encounter at this festival. — Tim Wong For lucid, more confidently-held all of us. Christchurch’s eerie post-quake CBD, commentary, the filmmakers turn to Bruce Russell, a sound artist and inveterate watchdogs such as Nicky founding member of seminal noise Hager and Jane Kelsey, but evolve a band The Dead C, philosophises on position of their own through the urbanisation and regeneration through A Rialto Mon 8 Aug 6.00 pm accumulation and agile juxtaposition of improvised soundscapes and his own B Rialto Tue 9 Aug 3.15 pm some very telling material. They also highly evolved thought patterns. And A Rialto Wed 10 Aug 8.15 pm 12 AOTEAROA

COMING SOON BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (USA) | THE TRIP (UK) | AMAL (HINDI) TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (FRENCH) | A ROYAL AFFAIR (DANISH) SHORT TERM 12 (USA) | LOCKE (UK) | THE TRIP TO ITALY (UK) LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (UK) | FRANK (USA) CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER (CHINESE)

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MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT New Zealand’s Best 2016 JURY PRIZE 75 mins approx. | M horror scenes

For this year’s New Zealand’s Best short Spring Jam Wait Judgment Tavern film competition, NZIFF programmers NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Ned Wenlock NZ 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Yamin Tun Producers: NZ 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Dean Hewison Bill Gosden and Michael McDonnell Producer: Georgiana Plaister | 6 mins Vicky Pope, Daniel Higgins | Photography: Ryan Producer: Ruth Korver | Photography: Chris Matthews viewed 81 submissions to make a Alexander Lloyd | Editor: Simon Price | In Mandarin and | Editor: Jeff Hurrell | 11 mins A young buck suffers a major case of English, with English subtitles | 14 mins shortlist of 12, from which filmmaker antler-envy in this charming and witty A young girl and her disembodied A young girl helps her immigrant Lee Tamahori selected these six animated short. Great commentary on father search for his missing body in mother overcome both cultural and finalists. A jury of three will select New Zealand. Funny, irreverent, with this fantasy short filled with swords emotional barriers. Tense and absorbing the winner of the $5,000 Madman excellent use of music and imagery. and sorcery. Succinct narrative, Entertainment Jury Prize, while a narrative with an intentionally enigmatic excellent production and technical $3,000 Wallace Friends of the Civic Cradle finale. Good tech credits and finely skills. A concise piece of storytelling tuned performances. Award will be awarded by donors NZ 2016 | Director: Damon Duncan | Producer: Luke in such a short format. Good the Wallace Foundation and Wallace Robinson | Screenplay: Hugh Calveley Photography: performances help to sustain tension. Ian McCarroll | Editor: Alex O’Shaughnessy | 15 mins Shmeat Media Ltd to the film or contributor In this accomplished outer-space NZ 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Matasila Freshwater they deem to merit special recognition. Producer: Thomas Coppell | Animator/Editor: Chris The King drama, a stranded astronaut must | (The King, supported by Wallace Callus | 6 mins NZ 2016 Director/Screenplay/Producer: Ursula wrestle control of her spaceship from Grace Williams | Photography: Tim Flower | Editor: Media, is not eligible for this prize.) In an animated dystopia, where Gareth Moon | 23 mins its errant computer. A good story, well The winner of the audience vote in food and resources are scarce, a told. Great set design, sharp editing Meet Andy Stankovich, scrap- Auckland and Wellington takes away mad scientist ventures into the and generally excellent tech credits. metal merchant by day and sweet- the Audience Choice Award, consisting night to procure an icky new food A gripping sci-fi film. voiced performer by night. Likeable of 25 percent of the box office from source… Excellent production values documentary with a warm heart. the main-centre NZIFF screenings. encompassing a timely global story. A classic New Zealand character, with Lee’s comments on each film appear Very Tim Burton-esque, but thoroughly a touching bunch of associates. in italics. entertaining and humorous.

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PRESENTED IN Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori Pasifika Shorts 2016 ASSOCIATION WITH 89 mins approx. | PG violence, coarse language, deals with suicide | In English, Maˉori and Solomon Islands Pijin, with English subtitles

A collection of Māori and Pasifika The Chief’s Speech Smiths Ave Blackbird short films curated by Leo Koziol NZ 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Robert George Australia 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Amie Batalibasi (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka), (to the United Nations) (NZ Maˉori/Cook Island Maˉori) | 10 min (Solomon Islander) | 13 mins USA 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Vilsoni Hereniko director of the Wairoa Māori Film (Rotuman) | 6 mins An unexpected call from his estranged A story inspired by the untold history Festival, with guest co-curator Craig Chief Telematua’s impassioned speech father leads a young man to ponder of Australia’s ‘Sugar Slaves’. Fasi (Niue), director of the Pollywood may well change your understanding events from his childhood. Film Festival. Stevo of climate change. This year’s expression of ‘ngā The Lost Pearl NZ 2015 | Director: Heather Hayward | 15 mins whanaunga’ – which means The Spectacular NZ/Tahiti 2015 | Director: Temuera Morrison (Maˉori) A Wellington security guard brings relatedness and connectedness Producer: Tiairani Drollet-Le Caill (Tahitian Maohi) Imagination of the 20 mins traditional Māori ways of trade and between peoples – is realised with barter to his life in the city. A life-changing event sends a young films from Aotearoa, Hawaii, Tahiti Poˉhara Brothers man back to Tahiti where he discovers and Australia. The name was NZ 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Todd Karehana Uˉ kaipoˉ Whenua (Maˉori) | 8 mins a family he never knew. suggested by Leo’s mother, the late NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Kararaina Rangihau Two brothers try to help their (Maˉori) | Producer: Hineani Melbourne (Maˉori) Huia Kaporangi Koziol, who was 17 mins fluent in Te Reo Māori as a speaker, mother pay her power bill before it is In the misty mountains surrounding reader and writer. For curators’ disconnected in 24 hours. Lake Waikaremoana, another comments, go to nziff.co.nz generation is poised to inherit the land.

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THE SPECTACULAR IMAGINATION OF THE PŌHARA BROTHERS SMITHS AVE BLACKBIRD 14 ARGENTINA, BELGIUM

The Clan El Clan WORLD

Director/Screenplay: Pablo Trapero Argentina/Spain 2015 110 mins With: Guillermo Francella, Peter Lanzani, Lili Popovich, Gastón Cocchiarale, Giselle Motta Festivals: Venice, Toronto 2015 Best Director, Venice Film Festival 2015 In Spanish with English subtitles CinemaScope | R13 violence, offensive language, sex scenes

In Argentina everybody knows about (The Secret in Their Eyes) Francella’s the Puccio Clan case. In 1985 it was icy composure in the paternal role discovered that a spate of kidnappings dominates Pablo Trapero’s fearsomely and murders had been the work of the compulsive film. Puccios, a well-established Catholic “There’s such an irresistible, black- family with five children from San hearted swagger to [Pablo Trapero’s] Isidro, a high-class suburb of Buenos latest that Martin Scorsese would Aires. They had held the hostages immediately recognise a kindred spirit.” in their basement, then, after the — Robbie Collin, The Telegraph ransoms had been paid, murdered them. Mama Puccio and the daughters were allegedly oblivious, but the sons were up to their necks, none more so than golden-haired national rugby star Alejandro (Peter Lanzini), used as bait WORLD FILMS AT NZIFF ARE to attract victims by the controlling B Rialto Thu 11 Aug 3.45 pm paterfamilias. It is largely through the A Regent Sat 13 Aug 8.15 pm PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY conflicted eyes of young Alejandro that the story unravels, but Guillermo A SJ Gore Thu 18 Aug 8.30 pm

The First, the Last Les premiers, les derniers

Director/Screenplay: Bouli Lanners Belgium/France 2016 98 mins Photography: Jean-Paul De Zaeytijd Editor: Ewin Ryckaert With: Albert Dupontel, Bouli Lanners, Suzanne Clément, Michael Lonsdale, David Murgia, Aurore Broutin, Philippe Rebbot, Serge Riaboukine, Max von Sydow Festivals: Berlin 2016 In French with English subtitles CinemaScope | R13 violence, offensive language

Our pick of the features we have Bouli Lanners’ poker-faced crime hunters and hunted fall foul of a local drama favours black humour and criminal gang. encountered in a year of close engagement existentialism over genre heroics, A terrific supporting cast amplify the with international cinema. We do what almost like a gothic, Belgian riff on deadpan hijinks, including Canadian the Coens’ No Country for Old Men. actress Suzanne Clément (Mommy) as we can to cover many bases, while insisting In a god-forsaken no man’s land a lonely single mother who befriends on that certain indefinable quantity called somewhere in rural Western Europe, Cochise; French veteran Michael which could just as easily be the Lonsdale as the world’s most decrepit quality. We pay attention at the same time American West, two world-weary but hotelier; and Bergman regular Max to the films lavished with praise or box good-hearted bounty hunters, Cochise von Sydow as a grave undertaker. Oh, (Albert Dupontel) and Gilou (Lanners), and there’s also a homeless drifter office success in their countries of origin. have been hired to track down a stolen called Jésus (French character actor Films in this section are arranged by principal cellphone. They have a device that Philippe Rebbot), who bears a striking can track the phone but only when it’s resemblance to the real deal. — MM country of origin. switched on. Trouble is the thieves, two young lovers on the run, are convinced that the end of the world is nigh and don’t seem to have much use for B Rialto Tue 16 Aug 4.00 pm the phone. It’s not long before both A Rialto Thu 18 Aug 8.30 pm AUSTRALIA, CHILE, DENMARK WORLD 15

The Daughter

Drawing together a dream ensemble Director: Simon Stone that includes Geoffrey Rush, Sam Australia 2015 | 95 mins Neill, Miranda Otto and incendiary Producers: Jan Chapman, Nicole O’Donohue Screenplay: Simon Stone. Inspired by the play teenage newcomer Odessa Young, The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen The Daughter is the feature debut of Photography: Andrew Commis Editor: Veronika Jenet acclaimed Australian stage director Production designer: Steven Jones-Evans Simon Stone. Building on his theatrical Costume designer: Margot Wilson Music: Mark Bradshaw modus operandi of modernising 19th- With: Geoffrey Rush, Ewen Leslie, century Russian texts, he reimagines Paul Schneider, Miranda Otto, Anna Torv, for the screen his hugely successful Odessa Young, Sam Neill Festivals: Sydney, Melbourne, Venice, Toronto, stage adaptation of Ibsen’s The Wild Vancouver, London 2015; Rotterdam 2016 Duck, updated to 21st-century small CinemaScope | M sex scenes, offensive language town Australia. Paul Schneider is Christian, a prodigal son returning after many years to his rural hometown, for his father’s wedding. He finds the world he knew pushed into a deepening decline hastened by his father’s recent closure of the local saw-mill. His return brings with it the unravelling of a deep rooted family fashioned its most atmospherically secret that threatens to break apart the striking bloodline squabble yet. “Australian director lives of the few remaining townspeople, There are note-perfect performances Simon Stone, along and those once closest to him. The film from the pedigreed cast and Stone mines Ibsen’s themes of class and sexual spreads the love so that nobody and with big names Geoffrey division to suggest they are still painfully everybody steals the show… While Rush, Sam Neill and real in the contemporary world. — TW The Daughter is no lark, however, it Miranda Otto, take “Australian cinema is known to also exists on a level that distinguishes engage with long-standing familial it from most other dramas: it is a Ibsen’s The Wild Duck feuds… but debut feature filmmaker mood piece told with a lyrical energy to dark new places.” Simon Stone, writer, director and enfant both lush and dangerous.” — Luke A Regent Mon 8 Aug 6.15 pm — Tara Brady, Irish Times terrible of Australian theatre, may have Buckmaster, The Guardian B Regent Wed 10 Aug 1.15 pm

Endless Poetry The Idealist Poesía sin fin Idealisten

Director: Christina Rosendahl Director/Screenplay: Denmark 2015 Alejandro Jodorowsky 114 mins Chile/France/Japan 2016 Screenplay: Lars K. Andersen, 128 mins Simon Pasternak, Birgitte Stærmose, Christina Rosendahl. Photography: Christopher Doyle Based on the book Thulesagen, With: Adan Jodorowsky, løgnens univers by Poul Brink Pamela Flores, Brontis Jodorowsky, Photography: Laust Trier Mørk Leandro Taub, Jeremias Herskovits With: Peter Plaugborg, Søren Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Malling, Arly Jover, Thomas Bo Fortnight) 2016 Larsen, Jens Albinus In Spanish with English subtitles In Danish, English, Spanish and Censors rating tbc Greenlandic, with English subtitles M offensive language CHRISTIAN GEISNÆS A young man dives into the artistic life who meshes with the bohemian enclave In the vein of a classic investigative cars appearing in the rear-view mirror) of 40s Santiago and pursues a dream of of Santiago in the 40s and 50s and journalism thriller, Christina Rosendahl’s with real television footage from becoming a poet in this carnivalesque wanders through this nightworld of gripping drama The Idealist unravels Danish archives, grounding the events memoir from the perennially youthful sex and art and passion and destruction the compromised relationship between in a contextual immediacy that makes great-grandfather of cult cinema, 87-year- with a fervour of discovery… her home country of Denmark and its revelations all the more powerful. old Alejandro (El Topo) Jodorowsky. Endless Poetry is still very much the United States during the fraught In an age of rapid globalisation and “A work of transporting charm and a Jodorowsky film, dotted with his tensions of the Cold War. The titular international agreements around feeling. It’s the most accessible movie trademark phantasmagorical conceits, idealist is Poul Brink, a real-life Danish security and trade, The Idealist feels the director has ever made, and it may which are like candified bursts of radio journalist who started working like a particularly resonant reminder also be the best. Jodorowsky is on record comic-book magic realism. Yet more a story on plutonium poisoning in of the concessions that arise when as saying that his favorite filmmaker is than any previous Jodorowsky opus, it’s the late 80s, and ended up exposing a little nation aligns itself with the Federico Fellini, and indeed, the ghost also a work of disciplined and touching an international cover-up involving a powers of a major one. — JF of Fellini hovers over Endless Poetry in emotional resonance.” — Owen military plane crash, missing nuclear more ways than one can count… But Glieberman, Variety weapons, secret documents and more than that, it has an ingratiatingly sprawling governmental deceit. wide-eyed and adventurous As Brink’s investigation plunges him autobiographical hero, Alejandro deep into the shadowy corridors of Jodorowsky (played by the filmmaker’s A Regent Sun 7 Aug 8.30 pm power, Rosendahl combines the classic B Rialto Wed 17 Aug 1.45 pm youngest son, Adan Jodorowsky), B Rialto Tue 9 Aug 12.45 pm beats of the genre (i.e. ominous black A Rialto Sat 20 Aug 8.00 pm 16 WORLD DENMARK

Land of Mine Under sandet

Former enemies struggle to recognise Director/Screenplay: Martin Zandvliet their shared humanity in this moving Denmark/Germany 2015 | 101 mins and tension-filled drama that draws on Producers: Mikael Chr. Rieks, Malte Grunert Photography: Camilla Hjelm Knudsen a seldom discussed episode from the Editors: Per Sandholt, Molly Malene Stensgaard end of World War II. Winner of awards Music: Sune Martin With: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, and audience prizes at several festivals Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Laura Bro, already, Land of Mine acknowledges Zoé Zandvliet, Mads Riisom, Oskar Bökelmann, Emil Belton, Oskar Belton, Leon Seidel Denmark’s punitive treatment of young Festivals: Toronto, London 2015; Sundance, German POWs held in Denmark after Rotterdam 2016 In German and Danish, with English subtitles the Nazi surrender. CinemaScope | R13 violence, content that may The film’s protagonists are put to disturb work to search out and disarm mines that had been buried on Danish beaches by the Nazis in anticipation of an Allied invasion. At first, the Danish sergeant Rasmussen (Roland Møller) supervises his youthful charges with vengeful severity. A solitary individual but for the company of his faithful dog, he shows no hesitation in visiting the sins of the Third Reich on its youngest War II story that hasn’t been told, but sons, mere boys conscripted as German Danish director Martin Zandvliet has “Land of Mine shows us manpower dwindled. come up with a fresh and compelling what happens after a war, Gradually, though, the taskmaster approach… [Land of Mine] rediscovers finds himself at odds with those the past and brings it to life with it’s a story of survival whose orders it is his duty to enforce. remarkable assurance… This kind of and of forgiveness and The tension is absolute, but never plea for compassion will never lose its redemption, of needlessly ramped up in Martin relevance… Land of Mine serves up Zandvliet’s direction: humane concerns another vivid rendition of this always rediscovered humanity.” B Regent Thu 18 Aug 1.30 pm are very much at the centre of his timely theme.” — Stephen Farber, — Vittoria Scarpa, Cineuropa A Regent Fri 19 Aug 6.30 pm surprisingly poignant film. Hollywood Reporter A SJ Gore Sun 14 Aug 8.15 pm “It might seem hard to find a World

A War Krigen

A tense, measured investigation of the moral ambiguity of combat, Tobias Lindholm’s rattling new military drama Director/Screenplay: Tobias Lindholm has already proven its international Denmark 2015 | 116 mins Producers: René Ezra, Tomas Radoor resonance, securing an Oscar Photography: Magnus Nordenhof Jønck nomination in the Foreign Language Editor: Adam Nielsen category earlier in the year. A War Music: Sune Rose Wagner With: Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, Søren Malling, follows the trials of a compassionate Dar Salim, Dulfi Al-Jabouri military commander (Danish player and Festivals: Venice 2015 Nominated, Best Foreign Language Film, Game of Thrones star Pilou Asbæk) Academy Awards 2016 who, in the chaos of a firefight with the In Danish with English subtitles Censors rating tbc Taliban, makes a decision to save his facebook.com/krigenfilm men that has disastrous consequences. As the drama shifts from war zone to war trial, Lindholm proves as skilled in evoking the madness of the battlefield as he is in exploring the ethical ramifications that unspool from it. From his gripping ocean-set thriller A Hijacking (NZIFF13) to his wrenching MAGNOLIA PICTURES screenplays for Borgen and Thomas exact upon them, and taking a hard Vinterberg’s The Hunt (NZIFF12), look at the impossibility of justice “A powerful foreign Lindholm proves himself again a master in many cases of civilian casualties. language Oscar finalist, in presenting thorny moral arguments Lindholm manages all this without with a remarkable pulse for even- denying us the pleasures of suspenseful it proves yet again that handedness and authenticity. — JF storytelling, and without denying any agonizing moral dilemmas “Always compelling, A War demands character his or her due empathy.” make for the most that viewers engage with the questions — Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice your 13 Hours or American Sniper fears effective cinema.” to take on, weighing the moral costs — Kenneth Turan, LA Times of ‘our’ lives versus ‘theirs’, asking what A Rialto Sat 6 Aug 8.30 pm toll the choices that soldiers face B Rialto Thu 11 Aug 1.15 pm FRANCE WORLD 17

The Country Doctor Médecin de campagne

This gentle, good-humoured film Director: Thomas Lilti about a doctor (François Cluzet) facing France 2016 | 102 mins illness himself and reluctantly inducting Producers: Agnès Vallée, Emmanuel Barraux Screenplay: Thomas Lilti, Baya Kasmi a younger city doctor (Marianne Photography: Nicolas Gaurin Denicourt) into his country practice has Editor: Christel Dewynter Music: Alexandre Lier, Sylvain Ohrel, Nicolas Weil been a great hit in France. Upholding With: François Cluzet, Marianne Denicourt, the humane values embodied by the old Isabelle Sadoyan, Félix Moati, Christophe Odent, Patrick Descamps, Guy Faucher, Margaux Fabre, style GP, it has clearly touched a vein of Julien Lucas nostalgia which may run just as deep In French with English subtitles in New Zealand. Co-writer and director CinemaScope | PG offensive language Thomas Lilti is himself a qualified medical practitioner, and not one given to sentimentality. (Anyone who saw his film Hippocrates at this year’s French Film Festival can vouch for the refreshing sense of experience that lifted it apart from standard hospital dramas.) Cluzet (Intouchables) is fascinating as an immensely recognisable character, single (with an adult son in Paris), JAIR SFEZ wedded to his work, seriously empathetic “The Country Doctor finally plays out beneath the brusque, brooking-no-fools as a strongly observational character “This perfectly formed demeanour. Denicourt as Natalie is an drama that suggests something about and gently amusing excellent foil, the doctor’s match in so who these people are and how they many ways, but shrewdly respectful of deal with what’s thrown at them while drama from doctor- his self-defining conviction that he is also painting a convincing picture turned-director Thomas irreplaceable. It’s a view clearly shared of everyday life in rural France in the Lilti is a real pleasure.” by a lively array of farming folk who 21st-century and medical care… The A Regent Sun 14 Aug 2.45 pm parade through his surgery, or, in some film bristles with humor, mostly drawn — Edinburgh International B Regent Mon 15 Aug 11.15 am of the film’s most touching and from life, and illuminating moments of Film Festival memorable scenes, usher him, doctor’s irony.” — Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood B SJ Gore Fri 12 Aug 11.00 am bag in hand, into their houses. Reporter A SJ Gore Thu 18 Aug 6.15 pm

The Innocents Les innocentes

Anne Fontaine’s (Coco avant Chanel) Director: Anne Fontaine compelling and affecting drama The France/Poland 2016 | 116 mins Innocents illuminates events that Producers: Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer Screenplay: Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial, occurred in Poland in the aftermath Anne Fontaine, Pascal Bonitzer, Philippe Maynial of World War II, placing women’s Photography: Caroline Champetier Editor: Annette Dutertre experiences of war very much at its Music: Grégoire Hetzel centre. Mathilde (Lou de Laâge), a With: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig, Eliza Rycembel, young doctor with the French Red Anna Prochniak, Katarzyna Dabrowska, Cross, is entreated by a desperate Helena Sujecka, Dorota Kuduk Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco 2016 young nun to make a secret visit to In French, Polish and Russian, with English subtitles a nearby abbey. She arrives to find Censors rating tbc a young sister in labour. Mathilde is soon drawn into the intensely private world of the nuns as they confide the nightmare of the ‘liberating’ army that led to their predicament. Severely traumatised, some have refused to admit even to themselves that they are pregnant. Concealing her involvement from the Red Cross, Mathilde seeks allies in uphold the common humanity of the convent where many remain cowed those who foster renewal in its wake. “Anne Fontaine’s finest by a grim hierarchy determined to “The Innocents is a lovely ode to film in years observes suppress all evidence of their ‘shame’. healing through solidarity… Kudos She also enlists the support of a are due to Anne Fontaine for not the crises of faith that colleague, a Jewish doctor whose hopes only finding a tale not often seen, but emerge in a war-ravaged of impressing her must outweigh his imbuing it with a feminine perspective Polish convent.” bitter scepticism about Polish Catholic so often erased from wartime narratives… B Regent Fri 5 Aug 11.00 am piety. Elegantly shot and superbly We’ve held up many wartime heroes — Justin Chang, Variety A Regent Tue 9 Aug 6.15 pm performed in Polish and French, from this era, and this unsung heroine Fontaine’s war film eschews graphic deserves to be celebrated among them.” A SJ Gore Sun 14 Aug 3.30 pm B SJ Gore Fri 19 Aug 11.00 am depictions of violence to delineate and — Monica Castillo, RogerEbert.com 18 WORLD FRANCE

Things to Come L’avenir

Isabelle Huppert is in mesmerising Director/Screenplay: Mia Hansen-Løve form as Nathalie, a philosophy teacher France 2016 | 101 mins in her 60s withstanding a succession Producer: Charles Gillibert Photography: Denis Lenoir of hurtful losses and tempering a Editor: Marion Monnier lifetime’s self-assurance with admirable With: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard, composure. Solal Forte, Elise Lhomeau, Lionel Dray, “A wondrously assured look at a Grégoire Montana-Haroche, Lina Benzerti Festivals: Berlin 2016 philosophy teacher going through In French and German, with English subtitles what might be described as a mid- M drug use, offensive language life crisis… were it not for the stoic PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH fortitude and keen appetite for life with which she responds to whatever befalls her… Mia Hansen-Løve creates and sustains a light, delicate tone while never downplaying the difficulties of an unexpected, unwanted life- change. She’s helped enormously by a supremely witty, touching, utterly truthful performance by Isabelle Huppert as the protagonist – though the rest of the cast lend more than Parisian upper-middle-class life with its sterling support.” — Geoff Andrew, stamp of authenticity – and humor… “Mia Hansen-Løve’s Sight & Sound Due in no small part to the strength of Things to Come provides “The film oozes with such effortless Huppert’s subtly emotive performance, alchemy between director and actor the manner in which Nathalie simply an enrapturing platform that it’s hard to believe Mia Hansen-Løve, carries on without carrying on (i.e.: for Isabelle Huppert at who also wrote the script, is not more without suffering a total breakdown) her finest.” advanced in years (the writer-director is is so refreshingly… female… Ultimately still only 35). She does, however, draw she finds solace and security in her — Annabel Brady-Brown, 4:3 directly from her experience of growing books and her ideas – in short, in up with philosophy teachers as parents herself.” — Emma Myers, Brooklyn B Regent Mon 8 Aug 4.00 pm to provide this book-laden corner of A Regent Fri 12 Aug 6.15 pm

Francofonia Personal Shopper

Director/Screenplay: Aleksandr Sokurov France/Germany/ Director: Olivier Assayas The Netherlands 2015 France 2016 | 105 mins 87 mins Screenplay: Olivier Assayas, With: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Christelle Meaux Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Photography: Yorick Le Saux Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes With: Kristen Stewart, Lars Festivals: Venice, Toronto, Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders San Sebastián, Vancouver 2015 Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Hammou In French, Russian and German, Graïa, Nora Von Waldstätten with English subtitles Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) M adult themes 2016 Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2016 CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc MUSIC BOX FILMS Aleksandr Sokurov, best known for occupation. Mixing re-enactment and Olivier Assayas shared Best Director And are they following her, or are the Russian Ark, his historical fantasia archive footage, the film focuses on Award at Cannes this year for his open- insidiously instructive, anonymous texts shot in the galleries of the Hermitage, Jacques Jaujard, staunch Deputy Director ended hybrid of ghost story, thriller and that start invading her phone from moves his cameras now to the Louvre. of the French National Museums, one high-end sociological observation. another amorphous entity? Produced with the full cooperation of the few public servants not to flee “Amid all the shifting mirrored … For the preservation of enjoyment, of the museum, Francofonia evokes his post, and the rapport he cultivated surfaces and hazy ambiguities of no more should be revealed about the the history of the great Paris art with Count Wolff-Metternich, appointed Olivier Assayas’s bewitching, brazenly film’s gliding, glassy sashay through museum and its vast collections, from by Hitler to commandeer France’s prized unconventional ghost story, this much multiple, splintered genres and levels the Renaissance to the present day. art collection. “It’s a truly bracing, can be said with certainty: Kristen of consciousness – except to say that Mythic and historic figures wander provocative movie, and of course, as Stewart has become one hell of an Assayas, working in the high-concept, the halls, not least Napoleon, whose is always true with Sokurov, it’s a visual actress... game-playing vein of his Irma Vep and plundering of the Middle East ironically feast.” — Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com An haute couture clothes buyer and demonlover, is in shivery control of it preserved many great works of art general dogsbody to an insufferable all.” — Guy Lodge, Time Out from destruction in subsequent wars. A-list celebrity, practising medium Alert to the vexed role of Western Maureen is haunted, in all senses, by museums in the ebb and flow of the recent death of her twin brother. B Regent Thu 18 Aug 3.45 pm conquest and civilisation, Sokurov pays Stalking his former abode at night A Regent Fri 19 Aug 8.45 pm close attention to the remarkable A Regent Sat 13 Aug 11.30 am seeking a final communication, she events at the Louvre during the Nazi B Rialto Tue 16 Aug 12.00 pm encounters a spirit or two – but whose? A SJ Gore Wed 17 Aug 8.15 pm IRAN, JORDAN, INDIA WORLD 19

The Salesman Forushande

The director of A Separation returns to his native Tehran for a domestic drama bearing his unmistakable Director/Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi signature. The Salesman reaches Iran/France 2016 | 125 mins Producers: Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Asghar Farhadi NZIFF direct from winning Best Actor Photography: Hossein Jafarian and Screenplay awards at Cannes. Editor: Hayedeh Safiyari “The film is another of Farhadi’s Music: Sattar Oraki With: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, characteristically thoughtful Babak Karimi, Farid Sajjadihosseini, Mina Sadati morality plays stemming from a Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016 Best Actor and Best Screenplay, series of dangerous, all-too-human Cannes Film Festival 2016 misunderstandings: a woman in In Farsi with English subtitles M adult themes Tehran lets a man into her apartment, mistaking him for her husband; the accidental encounter leaves deep physical and psychological scars, awakening in her husband a wholly understandable yet all-consuming desire for revenge. Beautifully acted by its three principals (Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh HABIB MAJIDI Alidoosti and especially Babak Karimi), standing as a dramatist of the first Farhadi’s movie is a grave inquiry into rank, an artist whose far-flung domestic “The new movie from the many varieties of male aggression dramas can make us feel painfully at the masterly Iranian and the moral cost of punishing our home.” — Justin Chang, LA Times enemies, especially those who turn out “An expertly made, suspenseful director of A Separation to be as pitifully, redeemably human as film with a noxious political core… and The Past is another we are. Its title is a deliberate nod to [Farhadi’s] ability to stage a scene, finely cut gem of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, a to build the tensions between his local production of which the husband characters until you’re bursting with neorealist suspense.” and his wife are both performing in… anticipation, remains so potent.” — Owen Gleiberman, Variety The new film’s wrenching final — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice B Rialto Mon 8 Aug 11.00 am A Rialto Mon 15 Aug 8.15 pm moments ably confirm Farhadi’s

Theeb Thithi

Director: Naji Abu Nowar Jordan/UK/UAE/Qatar 2014 | 101 mins Director: Raam Reddy Screenplay: Naji Abu Nowar, India/USA 2015 Bassel Ghandour 123 mins Photography: Wolfgang Thaler With: Jacir Eid, Hassan Mutlag, Screenplay: Eregowda, Hussein Salameh, Marji Audeh, Raam Reddy Jack Fox With: Thammegowda S., Festivals: Venice, Toronto, Channegowda, Abhishek H.N. London 2014 Festivals: Locarno 2015; Nominated, Best Foreign Language New Directors/New Films, Film, Academy Awards 2016 Filmmakers of the Present Award In Arabic and English, and Best First Feature, Locarno with English subtitles International Film Festival 2015 CinemaScope | M violence In Kannada with English subtitles Censors rating tbc

“Eye-searing landscapes and a of Arabia territory, with Arab tribes This uproarious village comedy young shepherdess from a nomadic fascinating historical setting turn this caught between the Brits and the from southern India follows three family. Schemes are concocted, with tale of innocence lost into a classic Ottoman empire), but it does give the generations of misfits after the death everything coming to a head as the adventure film. First-time director, mounting peril even more heart-in- of a family’s cantankerous 101-year-old entire village gathers to pay their final Oxford-born, Jordan-based Naji Abu mouth intensity. patriarch, Century Gowda. While the respects to old Century. — MM Nowar, calls it a ‘Bedouin western’, The largely non-professional cast are villagers reverently plan the funeral “[In] a film that is funny, humane, and the honour and hospitality which as authentic as the craggy, unforgiving celebrations (the ‘thithi’), Century’s and seemingly effortless, this young his nomadic tribespeople value above surroundings, and the way the film grandson, Thamanna, is only interested director has coaxed from a massive all else informs Theeb first to last. It’s balances the simplicity of its central rite in making a quick buck by selling off cast and a specific setting a great deal the story of a British army officer of passage with a broader outlook on a block of land that Century owned. of character, an evocation of a locality at a desert encampment during WWI a people caught in the shifting sands Trouble is, technically it has now been and its society, and wrapped it all in who orders young Bedouin boy Theeb of time is a tribute to the filmmakers’ passed down to his gadabout of a a Renoirian understanding of human (Jacir Eid) and his older brother Hussein clarity of vision.” — Trevor Johnston, father, Gadappa, who has no interest in behavior. The film is a real pleasure.” (Hussein Salameh) to escort him on a Time Out material matters if they can’t be drunk — Daniel Kasman, Mubi perilous journey to the nearest or smoked, but nevertheless proves waterhole. The events are seen from uncooperative. Meanwhile, Thamanna’s the child’s perspective, which might teenage son, Abhi, should be helping leave some viewers struggling to fill in B Rialto Mon 15 Aug 11.00 am with the celebrations but is more A Rialto Sun 7 Aug 1.15 pm the historical gaps (we’re in Lawrence A Regent Tue 16 Aug 8.15 pm interested in romantically pursuing a B Rialto Fri 12 Aug 1.45 pm 20 WORLD ITALY

Like Crazy La pazza gioia

Two institutionalised women help themselves to a break from psychiatric care in this disarming blend of Director: Paolo Virzì comedy, social observation and tender Italy/France 2016 | 116 mins Producer: Marco Belardi psychological drama. The latest film Screenplay: Francesca Archibugi, Paolo Virzì from Italy’s Paolo Virzì (Human Capital, Photography: Vladan Radovic NZIFF14), Like Crazy was one of the Editor: Cecilia Zanuso Music: Carlo Virzì brightest surprises at Cannes this year. With: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti, At Villa Biondi, a congenial Tuscan Valentina Carnelutti, Tommaso Ragno, Bob Messini, Sergio Albelli, Anna Galiena, retreat for women in recovery, the Marisa Borini, Marco Messeri aristocratic Beatrice (Valeria Bruni Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2016 In Italian with English subtitles Tedeschi) queens it over staff and CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc fellow patients alike. A voracious snoop and fantasist of the first order, she’s the most outrageously quick- witted liar any of them have ever met. When newcomer Donatella (Micaela Ramazzotti) is admitted to the Villa, she’s in a pitiful state. Beatrice makes the wretched Donatella her project. PAOLO CIRELLI She love-bombs the younger woman, and our laughter in equal measure. dragging her out on a rather classy “A terrific comedy-drama about “The film’s freewheeling crime spree, assuming perhaps that two women in a mental institution energy is as appealing her own fabulous self-entitlement that avoids the pitfalls such a scenario will prove inspiring. Over the course could encounter… boasting a as its developments are of several crazy days they pay calls on deliriously loquacious script together unpredictable.” some of the key contributors to their with a rare understanding of how — Lisa Nesselson, Screendaily current plights. What we learn along to balance certain Italian caricatures A Regent Sun 7 Aug 3.15 pm the way fleshes out movingly realistic with a grounding sense of realism… B Regent Wed 10 Aug 10.45 am pictures of them both. A great script, Neither Valeria Bruni Tedeschi nor two bewitching performances and a Micaela Ramazzotti have been better.” B SJ Gore Thu 11 Aug 11.00 am A SJ Gore Sat 13 Aug 6.00 pm superb supporting cast earn our tears — Jay Weissberg, Variety

God Willing Perfect Strangers Se Dio vuole Perfetti sconosciuti

Director: Edoardo Falcone Director: Paolo Genovese Italy 2015 | 88 mins Italy 2016 | 96 mins Screenplay: Edoardo Falcone, Screenplay: Filippo Bologna, Marco Martani Paolo Costella, Paolo Genovese, Photography: Tommaso Borgstrom Paola Mammini, Rolando Ravello With: Marco Giallini, Alessandro Photography: Fabrizio Lucci Gassmann, Laura Morante, With: Giuseppe Battiston, Ilaria Spada, Edoardo Pesce, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini Enrico Oetiker, Carlo De Ruggieri Festivals: Tribeca 2016 Best New Director, David di Best Film, David di Donatello Donatello Awards 2015 Awards 2016 In Italian with English subtitles In Italian with English subtitles PG coarse language, sexual M offensive language, sexual references themes

In this Italian hit comedy, an atheist the streetwise priest Don Pietro, Named Best Film at the Donatellos, projects, extra-mural liaisons and cardiac surgeon, Tommaso, has his anchors the film soundly while farcical ‘the Italian Oscars’, Perfect Strangers uncool online hook-ups hit the table. staunch lack of faith pushed to the complications drive the narrative to its offers a fiendish take on mobile-device Complicating matters most adroitly – limit: his teenaged only son gets God, rather wistful conclusion. decorum. Fairly bristling with talking and lending a measure of credibility after falling under the influence of a “It’s an endearing homage to points, it became a national sensation to their recklessness – is some furtive charismatic young priest. Tommaso Italian comedy that is, in its own way, and box office hit. Three 30-something phone-swapping intended to protect is further horrified when his wife and delightfully retro… the pace is gentle couples and their bachelor friend who the guilty. A stellar cast, including Alba daughter also undergo a renaissance. and the acting is engaging, with have all known each other for years Rohrwacher, Marco Giallini, and other With a sharp script, agile direction and Giallini’s interaction with Gassman a meet for a dinner party. They agree Italian favourites skilfully manoeuvre spot-on performances all round, God particular delight.” — Fernando Gros, that no private calling or messaging the transitions from tender comedy Willing performs a shrewd balancing The Society for Film will disrupt their evening. Instead, in a through painful comeuppance to the act in a famously Catholic country. communal fit of ‘We have nothing to restoration of sanity. It is as dubious about the dogmatism hide’ bravado, they’ll place their devices of the hardcore atheist (hello, Richard on the table. Every incoming text, email Dawkins) as it is about the longevity of or call will be shared with the whole youthful religious zeal. The bantering A Regent Thu 11 Aug 6.15 pm party. (Letting a caller know they’re bromance that grows between Marco A Rialto Sun 14 Aug 1.00 pm on speaker is considered a cheat.) You B Regent Tue 16 Aug 4.00 pm Giallini, in the prize role of Tommaso, may soon be asking why they didn’t A SJ Gore Fri 19 Aug 6.15 pm A Regent Thu 18 Aug 6.15 pm and studly Alessandro Gassman, as just play Russian roulette, as the secret JAPAN, ITALY, ISRAEL WORLD 21

After the Storm Umi yori mo mada fukaku

This characteristically worldly, affectionate and wryly amusing family drama was this year’s Cannes Director/Screenplay/Editor: entry from NZIFF’s favourite Japanese Kore-eda Hirokazu Japan 2016 | 117 mins director, Kore-eda Hirokazu. It centers Producers: Matsuzaki Kaoru, Yose Akihiko, on handsome, charming Ryoto (Abe Taguchi Hijiri Hiroshi), a formerly successful novelist Photography: Yamazaki Yutaka, Oshita Eiji Music: Hanaregumi who pines for his ex-wife, the pretty With: Abe Hiroshi, Maki Yoko, Yoshizawa Taiyo, Kyoko (Maki Yoko) and his 12-year- Kiki Kirin Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2016 old son Shingo (TV actor Yoshizawa In Japanese with English subtitles Taiyo). Working as a private detective M adult themes to support a serious gambling habit, he seems an unlikely prospect for re- marriage, but when they are stranded together at his mother’s home during a typhoon, he sees a chance to reunite. “A young divorced dad tries to get back into the good graces of his ex-wife and son in After the Storm, a classic Japanese family drama of gentle © 2016 FUJI TELEVISION NETWORK, BANDAI VISUAL, AOI PRO. INC., GAGA CORPORATION persuasion and staggering simplicity “Kore-eda’s love for his characters, from Kore-eda Hirokazu. As sweet as his ability to imbue an exchange or “Even long-standing fans a ripe cherry at first glance, it has a glance with warmth and humor, keeps of the Japanese filmmaker rocky pit, as viewers who bite deeply us watching. You can lose yourself will find out… This bittersweet peek in his films – wondering what’s around might be taken aback by into the human comedy has a more every corner, and what’s going on in the supreme subtlety of subtle charm than flashier films like the mind of even the most minor of his latest, achingly the director’s child-swapping fable characters… He remains one of the Like Father, Like Son [NZIFF13] but best filmmakers the world has.” beautiful ode to the quiet A Regent Sat 6 Aug 4.00 pm the filmmaking is so exquisite and the — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice complexities of family life.” B Regent Mon 8 Aug 1.30 pm acting so calibrated it sticks with you.” — Robbie Colin, The Telegraph A SJ Gore Sat 13 Aug 3.30 pm — Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter

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Director: Stefano Sollima Italy/France 2015 135 mins Director/Screenplay: Screenplay: Sandro Petraglia, Elite Zexer Stefano Rulli, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Israel/France 2016 Carlo Bonini Photography: Paolo Carnera 87 mins Music: Pasquale Catalano, M83 Photography: Shai Peleg With: Pierfrancesco Favino, With: Lamis Ammar, Elio Germano, Claudio Amendola, Ruba Blal-Asfour, Haitham Omari, Alessandro Borghi, Greta Scarano, Khadija Alakel, Jalal Masarwa Giulia Elettra Gorietti, Antonello Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2016 Fassari, Jean-Hughes Anglade Grand Jury Prize (World Dramatic), Festivals: Rotterdam 2016 Sundance Film Festival 2016 In Italian with English subtitles In Arabic with English subtitles Censors rating tbc CinemaScope | PG adult themes

VERED ADIR A rush of fresh blood to a fine Italian rain and it’s the everymen struggling The traditional ties that bind together wife, and move her into the smart tradition, it doesn’t take long for beneath that get drenched. It seems a Bedouin family are being loosened by new house he’s built next door. Stefano Sollima’s enthralling crime the real-life resonances were felt too; modernity and patriarchal authority is Layla’s mother, Jalila, is expected to saga Suburra to transcend its familiar Suburra proved enough of a sensation looking frightfully strained, but it still organise the wedding. parts. As we begin, a crime lord starts in its home country that Netflix takes gumption for a young woman It will be the tense but intimate actioning plans to amass beachfront immediately commissioned a follow-up to pull free in this richly nuanced film. bond between the spirited Layla and properties for an Atlantic City-style television series for 2017. — JF Israeli filmmaker Elite Zexer has long the proud, scorned Jalilia that most gambling paradise. But as Sollima’s “Suburra is an atmospheric, fast- been acquainted with Bedouin village involves us. All women marry beneath web of desperate players quickly paced thriller… a vision of Rome as life and her film displays easy familiarity themselves in Jalila’s world, but when spreads, it seems nobody is above a decadent succubus, a sink of along with an intricate appreciation of she finds messages from a boyfriend on getting their hands dirty for a piece corruption where everything – sex, culturally ingrained male self-interest Layla’s phone it becomes clear that she of the action. Implicating a cast of votes, even the priesthood – can be and canny female retaliation. still sees marriageability as the central politicians, prostitutes, crooks and bought for a price” — Lee Marshall, Her portrayal of young Layla’s issue of a young woman’s life. clergymen, Suburra relishes playing Screendaily fledgling independence upends our its multiple threads against each other expectations from the start: the film in unpredictable ways. While the opens as Layla receives a secret driving bullets fly, Sollima paints a damning lesson from her father, but in short portrait of Rome’s upper echelon, B Rialto Mon 15 Aug 3.15 pm time we discover that this apparently A Rialto Fri 19 Aug 6.15 pm where corruption is as relentless as the A Rialto Fri 19 Aug 8.15 pm cool dad is about to take a second A Rialto Sun 21 Aug 3.45 pm 22 WORLD KOREA, ROMANIA, SPAIN

The Handmaiden Graduation Agassi Bacalaureat

Director: Park Chan-wook Director/Producer/ South Korea 2016 Screenplay: 145 mins Cristian Mungiu Screenplay: Chung Seo-kyung, Romania/France/Belgium Park Chan-wook. Based on the 2016 | 127 mins novel Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Music: Cho Young-wuk With: Adrian Titieni, Maria Drăguş, With: Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Lia Bugnar, Mălina Manovici Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016 2016 Best Director, Cannes Film Festival In Korean and Japanese, with 2016 English subtitles In Romanian with English subtitles CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc © MOBRA FILMS “Park [Oldboy] Chan-wook’s new movie, house sex, there’s some familiar Park 2007 Palme d’Or winner Cristian possibly even more eviscerating and a brazen lesbian twist-fest based Chan-wook arty gore, and there’s a lot Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 critical of Romanian society, because it on Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, of old-timey porn. Amid all that, Park Days) shared the Cannes Prize for offers its critique across such a broad doesn’t lose its duty to entertain doesn’t get distracted, keeping a tight Direction this year for this tense, canvas. Tracing the labyrinthine messes amid all its style. Set in 1930s Korea, focus on the winding story and coaxing intricately plotted and utterly plausible we get ourselves into the millisecond during the Japanese occupation, The great performances out of all four leads. tale of a middle-aged doctor’s slide we decide the end justifies the means, Handmaiden follows Sookee (Kim Tae- Kim Min-hee is especially entrancing, into a world of bribery and favouritism. pragmatism trumps integrity, and ri), a born thief who is recruited to robustly playing a nutty, devious rich His daughter needs to score qualifying moral relativism is preferable to moral help a con man (Ha Jung-woo) with girl with a soul. An intelligent, funny marks to take up a scholarship on offer absolutism, Graduation is intimate, epic his plan to seduce a lonely, addled erotic thriller, The Handmaiden seems from a British university. When she’s and crisply intelligent: Haneke with a heiress (Kim Min-hee), who lives in a destined for some kind of American subjected to a traumatic attack on the human touch and no desire to judge.” creepy manor house with her even remake that isn’t likely to live up to eve of her exams, he figures that she’s — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist creepier uncle (Cho Jin-woong). Park’s invention, wit, and daring.” handicapped by her injury and deserves I don’t want to tell you much of — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair whatever help he can provide. anything about how things play out, “An excoriating, gripping, intricately because there are plenty of nifty, nasty plotted morality play, Mungiu’s film surprises to be enjoyed here, but you is less linear, more circular or spiral- should know that there’s some rather shaped than his previous Cannes A Rialto Thu 11 Aug 8.15 pm explicit handmaiden-on-lady-of-the- A Regent Fri 5 Aug 8.45 pm titles… but it is no less rigorous and A Rialto Sun 14 Aug 8.00 pm

Julieta A Perfect Day

Director: Director: Fernando León Pedro Almodóvar de Aranoa Spain 2016 | 96 mins Spain 2015 | 105 mins Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar. Screenplay: Fernando León de Based on the short stories Aranoa, Diego Farias. ‘Chance’, ‘Soon’ and ‘Silence’ Based on the novel Dejarse llover by Alice Munro by Paula Farias With: Emma Suàrez, With: Benicio Del Toro, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Darío Grandinetti, Inma Cuesta, Mélanie Thierry, Fedja Stukan Rossy de Palma Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) Fortnight), Melbourne, 2016 Vancouver, London 2015 In Spanish with English subtitles In English, Bosnian, Spanish Censors rating tbc and French, with English subtitles M offensive language

Straight from its Cannes Competition the one woman transformed into the Commanded by an impressive roster Aided by a rambunctious soundtrack berth, Pedro Almodóvar’s new film other and learned to accept the hurt of of talent, including Benicio Del Toro of punk and rock ‘n’ roll hits, he elegantly elides three short stories by the world.” — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice and Tim Robbins, this ensemble evokes the shambling, nonchalant Alice Munro. Moving between past “This deceptively tamped-down tragicomedy strikes just the right energy of a Richard Linklater film, all and present, he explores the emotional film may not have the audacity and balance of bracing levity and sobering while admitting the uneasy suspense journey of his heroine as she embarks emotional force of an Almodóvar truths. An ode to the efforts of aid underscoring every moment. — JF on a long and revealing letter to her masterpiece, but it reveals his mastery workers during the Bosnian conflict “This wonderful little film, set estranged daughter – a letter filled with nonetheless. His manipulation of time of the 90s, A Perfect Day follows five ‘somewhere in the Balkans’ in 1996, regret, guilt and love. frames, his sly infusions of comedy of them as they attempt to hoist a is extremely witty and light on its feet, “When we first see the middle-aged and his flawless direction of his actors sizable corpse out of a village water yet it manages to be thoughtful, even Julieta, played by Emma Suárez, she’s – all merge together with the dexterity well before it poisons the local supply. philosophical, in an absurdist way, dressed head to toe in bright red, and of an artist who doesn’t need to wow Finding some rope for the job is just about the roots of human conflict.” in Almodóvar’s impeccably designed, us to earn our love.” — Justin Chang, one of the many challenges that ensue. — Joe Morgenstern, Wall St Journal colour-coordinated world, that means LA Times As the team navigate villages of rabid something. When we first see her dogs, trigger-happy children and younger self, played by Adriana Ugarte, landmines, the film’s title quickly finds she’s decked out all in bright blue, and its irony. the film is a steady cataloguing of how A Regent Wed 17 Aug 6.15 pm But director Fernando León de A Regent Tue 9 Aug 8.45 pm blue became red, of the ways in which B Regent Thu 18 Aug 11.30 am Aranoa plays against expectations. B Rialto Wed 10 Aug 1.45 pm SPAIN, UK WORLD 23

Sunset Song

A long-cherished project for director Director: Terence Davies Terence Davies, Sunset Song tells the UK/Luxembourg 2015 | 135 mins story of a young woman coming of age Producers: Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos, Nicolas Steil on a farm in northern Scotland on the Screenplay: Terence Davies. cusp of World War I. Like Lewis Grassic Based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Photography: Michael McDonough Gibbon’s 1932 novel on which it is Editor: David Charap based, the film is closely attuned to the Music: Gast Waltzing With: Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie moods of landscape and sky. If its lush Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, London 2015 visual poetry strikes a chord with New CinemaScope | M sexual violence, sex scenes, Zealand audiences it may be, at least in nudity part, because some scenes were shot in Canterbury. “Agyness Deyn’s soulful face tells the story of Sunset Song in an instant, as her expression tilts between vulnerability and determination… the film is set just before the First World War, and Deyn plays Chris Guthrie, a schoolgirl with a deep love of learning, a key to another life beyond her family’s farmhouse in SUNSET SONG LTD. IRIS PRODUCTIONS. THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE 2015 Aberdeenshire. The phrase ‘model- unostentatious tenderness and eliciting turned-actress’ often has negative uniformly lovely performances from the “The most English of connotations, but not so for Agyness rest of his cast. As a study in hardship, directors has done a Deyn.” — Kate Muir, The Times brutalizing family life, and romantic “It features an exceptionally strong loss, Sunset Song is a deeply felt return Scottish classic proud.” central performance by Agyness Deyn as to territory with which the director is — Ian Freer, Empire Chris, the bright daughter of a brutish intimately familiar… Nothing short of A Regent Sat 6 Aug 1.00 pm farmer (Peter Mullan in top form)… sublime, Sunset Song ranks with The B Regent Tue 9 Aug 10.00 am* With great exactitude, Davies traces House of Mirth and The Long Day Closes *Please note: Special Senior Price of $6.00 applies how Chris’s bleak future as her father’s among Davies’s finest achievements.” housekeeper is averted and where life — Gavin Smith, Film Comment B SJ Gore Wed 17 Aug 11.00 am takes her, imbuing the action with an A SJ Gore Sun 21 Aug 3.00 pm

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Director: Ben Wheatley UK 2015 | 119 mins Director: Cesc Gay Producer: Jeremy Thomas Spain/Argentina 2015 Screenplay: Amy Jump. Based on the novel by J.G. Ballard 109 mins Photography: Laurie Rose With: Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, Music: Clint Mansell Dolores Fonzi, Troilo, Eduard With: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Fernández, Álex Brendemühl Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, London 2015 Keeley Hawes, Peter Ferdinando Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, Actor, Supporting Actor, Goya Fantastic Fest, London 2015; Awards 2016 Tribeca, San Francisco 2016 In Spanish with English subtitles CinemaScope | R16 violence, drug R16 drug use, sex scenes, use, sexual material, offensive offensive language language, content that may disturb MAGNOLIA PICTURES Since the success of the Argentinian Cámara is Tomás, a teacher who left “A savage and utterly brilliant satire always comes back to Royal (Jeremy thriller The Secret in Their Eyes, actor years ago to start a new life in Toronto. of both 60s social idealism and the Irons in a pitch perfect performance Ricardo Darín has gone from national He returns to Madrid, unsure how he Thatcherite values that undermined that screams ‘empire in decline’), the hero to international star. This February can best serve his old friend. The two it, High-Rise opens with a dishevelled enigmatic architect who designed the he won Spain’s Oscar-equivalent, the men wander old haunts, recall the man (the ever-sublime Tom Hiddleston) building. However, as power outages Goya, for Best Actor for his beautifully past, try putting right a few old wrongs, eating barbecued dog on the balcony become more frequent and building layered performance in the Spanish notably with Julián’s son, and most of his trashed apartment, some 25 flaws emerge, particularly on the lower drama Truman. The film itself, a warm, important of all, seek a new owner for floors up. Director Ben Wheatley floors, the regimented social strata begin understated and frequently humorous his beloved bullmastiff, Truman. Their (Sightseers, Kill List) and regular to crumble. Nihilism, drugs and alcohol tale of male friendship in the face of rapport brings out the best in both collaborator and screenwriter Amy feed into wanton sex and destruction, imminent mortality, in fact scooped the actors and finds ample gentle laughter Jump tear into J.G. Ballard’s classic all underscored by Clint Mansell’s awards: Best Film, Director (Cesc Gay), in a very moving story. source novel with brutal gusto. wicked music and Mark Tildesley’s Original Screenplay and Supporting Hiddleston’s character, Dr Robert designs – revelling in decadent 70s chic.” Actor (Almodóvar favourite, Javier Laing, has just taken ownership of his — Tricia Tuttle, London Film Festival Cámara). luxurious apartment whose lofty location Darín plays Julián, a stage actor B Regent Fri 5 Aug 1.30 pm places him amongst the upper echelons. A Regent Sat 6 Aug 8.45 pm diagnosed with terminal cancer, A Regent Wed 10 Aug 6.15 pm He is immediately drawn into and B Regent Thu 11 Aug 3.45 pm making the very most, as stylishly seduced by the louche culture of nightly as possible, of the time left to him. A SJ Gore Tue 16 Aug 6.15 pm cocktail parties, where conversation A SJ Gore Tue 16 Aug 8.30 pm 24 WORLD USA

Captain Fantastic

In this energetic and touching dramedy, Viggo Mortensen kids his own image, playing an anarcho-survivalist solo Director/Screenplay: Matt Ross dad. In a remote Washington state USA 2016 | 119 mins Producers: Lynette Howell Taylor, forest, he’s raising his six children to be Jamie Patricof, Shivani Rawat, super-fit in body and mind. These mini Monica Levinson Photography: Stéphane Fontaine philosopher kings are equally confident Editor: Joseph Krings stalking a deer, skinning it, critiquing Music: Alex Somers With: Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, Lolita, Middlemarch and The Brothers George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Karamazov, or improvising a musical Annalise Basso, Nicholas Hamilton, Shree Crooks, Charlie Shotwell, jamboree around the campfire. Santa Ann Dowd, Erin Moriarty Claus is a joke, but they do get festive Festivals: Sundance, for Noam Chomsky’s birthday. Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2016 Best Director (Un Certain Regard), This idyll of off-the-grid existence is Cannes Film Festival 2016 challenged when their mother dies in CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc a New Mexico hospital. The long road trip to rescue her from the Christian funeral planned by her conservative parents may well remind you of Little Miss Sunshine. The kids are confronted for the first time with ‘normal’ American if the film doesn’t live up to it, the life. They’ve never seen fat people snarky review headlines just sort of “Viggo Mortensen… in a before. But nor have they seen their write themselves. Sadly for copy editors role that feels designed father subjected to the onslaught of the world over, Captain Fantastic criticism coming from his in-laws. The won’t have that problem. Not only is by the movie gods.” fantastic dad is obliged to defend his it wonderful – it is heartfelt, comedic, — Dan Mecca, The Film Stage rigorous regime – and the film’s register gorgeous and just the right amount of FEATURE PRECEDED BY moves from affectionate satire to a sad.” — Brian Moylan, The Guardian The Dragon’s Scale more heart-tugging evocation of the James Cunningham | New Zealand 2016 | 10 mins joys and pitfalls of education. “It’s always tricky using a modifier like A Regent Sun 7 Aug 5.45 pm B Regent Wed 10 Aug 3.30 pm ‘fantastic’ in a movie’s title, because

Everybody Wants Some!! Indignation

Director/Screenplay: Director: James Schamus Richard Linklater USA 2016 | 111 mins USA 2016 | 117 mins Screenplay: James Schamus. Photography: Shane F. Kelly Based on the novel by Philip Roth Editor: Sandra Adair Photography: Christopher Blauvelt With: Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Editor: Andrew Marcus Ryan Guzman, Glen Powell, Music: Jay Wadley J. Quinton Johnson, Wyatt Russell, With: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Austin Amelio, Temple Baker, Tracy Letts, Linda Edmond, Will Brittain, Tyler Hoechlin, Danny Burstein, Ben Rosenfield, Tanner Kalina, Juston Street, Pico Alexander, Philip Ettinger, Forrest Vickery Noah Robbins Festivals: SXSW 2016 Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, R16 drug use, sexual references, San Francisco 2016 offensive language M violence, offensive language, everybodywantssomemovie.com sex scenes

“Can there be any doubt by now But amid the squad’s constant game Acclaimed screenwriter (The Ice Christian college (especially those of a that Richard Linklater is America’s playing (and knuckle flicking and disco Storm) and producer of some of the devout dean, played with stern certitude most relaxed and quietly ambitious dancing and co-ed hunting), Linklater best American films of the last two by Tracy Letts), and with his own sense filmmaker? After all but reinventing the embarks on yet another subtle narrative decades (Lost in Translation, Brokeback of propriety, after he meets a beautiful, coming-of-age movie with his 12-years- experiment… After incorporating so Mountain), James Schamus makes his troubled fellow student, Olivia (Sarah in-the-making Boyhood… the director much bro-centric bickering, [he] widens directorial debut with this insightful Gadon…). Indignation is essentially now serves up a deceptively simple out to include the drama students and beautifully acted adaptation of about the rigidity of institutions – comedy. Everybody Wants Some!! is and one special thespian (Zoey Deutch) Philip Roth’s 2008 novel. academic, religious, philosophical – about nothing more (or less) than the who, on her lonesome, sends the “Indignation casts Logan Lerman as restricting and thwarting, but also weekend shenanigans that transpire movie into Boyhood’s euphoric zone college freshman Marcus Messner, the shaping, youthful idealism… Indignation on a Texas college campus in August of incipient adulthood. It’s Linklater son of a Jewish Newark butcher, who’s is a dedicated, unadorned drama of 1980. The school’s rowdy baseball team in a nostalgic mood – but also his been sent to small Winesburg College ideas, but Schamus has filled the picture returns, welcoming freshman pitcher most deeply felt piece of growing up.” in Ohio to pursue his ambitions of with subtle artistry.” — Richard Lawson, Jake (Blake Jenner, a clear-eyed find) — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out becoming a lawyer, and to avoid the Vanity Fair with the kind of genial hazing – ‘fuck- Korean War, which has begun killing with-ery’, the newbie calls it – that B Regent Fri 5 Aug 4.00 pm boys from his close-knit community. brings to mind Linklater’s Dazed and A Regent Thu 11 Aug 8.15 pm Smart and principled (perhaps to a Confused (NZIFF94). Bongs will be lit. fault, the movie argues), avowed atheist A Rialto Sun 14 Aug 3.00 pm Pink Floyd will be discussed. A SJ Gore Fri 19 Aug 8.15 pm Marcus clashes with the morals of his A Rialto Sat 20 Aug 5.45 pm USA WORLD 25

Little Men Midnight Special

Director: Ira Sachs Director/Screenplay: USA 2016 | 86 mins Jeff Nichols Screenplay: Ira Sachs, USA 2016 | 112 mins Mauricio Zacharias Producers: Sarah Green, Photography: Óscar Durán Brian Kavanaugh-Jones Editors: Mollie Goldstein, Photography: Adam Stone Affonso Gonçalves Editor: Julie Monroe Music: Dickon Hinchliffe Music: David Wingo With: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, With: Michael Shannon, Paulina García, Michael Barbieri, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Theo Taplitz Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, Sam Shepard San Francisco 2016 Festivals: Berlin, SXSW 2016 Censors rating tbc CinemaScope | M science fiction themes, violence midnightspecialmovie.com ERIC MCNATT Two 13-year-old boys pit their downstairs, Tony’s mother digs in. “Jeff Nichols [Mud, Take Shelter] is a parents and child, and the tenderness friendship against the growing tension Sachs details boyish friendship with distinctively Texas filmmaker; his work of their interactions. Nichols does so between their families in this touching affection and amusement, as the boys is giant yet personal, tackling huge many things so well, and all at once, tale of love and real estate from Ira feed each other’s enthusiasms and feel ideas on an intimate scale. His latest is that it sort of takes your breath away.” Sachs, director of the like-minded Love the world expand accordingly. The less a masterful blend of road adventure, — Jason Bailey, Flavorwire Is Strange (NZIFF14). Jake (Theo Taplitz), enchanted world of legacies, leases and family drama, and science fiction, in “Jangling, darkly addictive and a brainy, thoughtful kid, has moved law suits is conveyed without hostility: which two estranged parents, the super-mysterious… Jeff Nichols’s into the Brooklyn house inherited by there’s misbehaviour for sure, but no goons of a Jeffs-like cult leader, and sci-fi chase movie mixes super-powers, his father Brian (Greg Kinnear), an actor villainy. The contrast of innocence and the federal government are all after religion and an offbeat cast to dazzling, of no great note. Wife Kathy (Jennifer experience feels all the more poignant a remarkable child with inexplicable Spielbergian effect.” — Tim Robey, Ehle), a therapist, is the breadwinner. as a result. powers. As with his earlier Take Shelter, The Telegraph The shy Jake is befriended, to Nichols is using his large canvas to ask everyone’s delight, by the outgoing pressing questions about faith and kid downstairs, Tony (Michael Barbieri), belief, all the while acknowledging whose Chilean mother (Paulina García his story’s loudly ticking clock and of Gloria) rents the shop on the ground relentless momentum. The matter-of- B Regent Fri 12 Aug 3.45 pm floor for her dressmaking business. fact effects and bluntly efficient action A Regent Thu 18 Aug 8.30 pm All are under pressure financially, B Rialto Tue 9 Aug 11.00 am beats are marvels, but the real power but when Jake’s parents up the rent A Rialto Sat 13 Aug 2.15 pm here is in the connections between A SJ Gore Fri 12 Aug 8.00 pm

Animation Now 2016 78 mins approx. | M violence, content that may disturb

Our longstanding animation Jazz Orgie A Coat Made Dark Fish programmer Malcolm Turner, now Germany 2015 | Director: Irina Rubina | 1 min Ireland 2015 | Director: Jack O’Shea | 10 mins China 2014 | Director: Lin Zhang. | 5 mins head honcho at the Melbourne International Animation Festival and This glorious blast of animated geometry Navigating a feral film noir world, a Somewhere on a still ocean, a lone guest curator at festivals beyond, offers could be Kandinsky in motion. man follows the orders of a cosmically fisherperson snags an airborne grand ordained dog to wear a woman’s coat piano. Lin Zhang’s CGI has the glossy a miscellany of the brightest and best Spring Jam from a year’s worth of exploration. for protection. Creepy. finish of surrealist painting. New Zealand 2016. | Director: Ned Wenlock | 6 mins Rising stars, including New Zealand’s Go to City ELE Velodrool own, jostle with longstanding masters; A fun, perspective-bending runaway China 2015 | Director: Li Wenyu | 9 mins Estonia 2015 | Director: Sander Joon | 6 mins the playful with the profound. Here tale of a deer, a record player and an are flights of cinematic magic of an impromptu orchestra of native birds. A little piggy ventures into a gorgeously A nicotine-addicted racing cyclist finds rendered world of ELE(phants). Being the path to the finish line littered with individuality that only animators can Black Seed bring to the screen – delivering a trunkless can be lonely in such a world, peculiar distractions and hazards. Estonia 2014 | Director: Francesco Rosso | 7 mins but tides turn and all things change. cornucopia of creative excitement to The Sparrow’s Flight reward any moviegoer. An old man and a hungry raven are Corpses in the Drawer USA 2016 | Director: Tom Schroeder | 14 mins If you’re looking to sample the surrounded by loneliness in a secluded South Korea 2015 | Director: Kwon Byeok | 5 mins international animation ecosystem cabin. A scene of quivering dread Animator Tom Schroeder’s intensely in all of its multi-coloured, variously captured in animated sketches. Hand A rolling, gleeful carnival of underworld personal tribute to his late collaborator shaped glories, there’s no better place painted. murder, mayhem and inspired Dave Herr, and the many animated to begin. dismemberment. worlds they travelled together. There’s not room for a full listing here. Go to nziff.co.nz to inspect the complete programme.

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Heart of a Dog FRESH Director/Screenplay/ Music: Laurie Anderson USA/France 2015 | 75 mins Photography: Laurie Anderson, Toshiaki Ozawa, Joshua Zucker Pluda With: Archie, Gatto, Lolabelle, Little Will, Nitro, Etta Festivals: Venice, Toronto, New York, San Sebastián 2015 Colour and B&W

This riveting cinematic essay from Visually, it’s a mixed-media collage legendary avant-garde performance of her own animations and drawings, artist Laurie Anderson is a punk home movies, CCTV footage and static meditation on love and death. The images. The imagery is as diverse as 68-year-old’s philosophical interrogation Anderson’s wide-ranging associative leads us through an intensely moving thought. Exquisitely compiled, the film (yet not sentimental) journey beginning is accompanied by a powerful, dense with the death of her piano-playing soundscape (composed by Anderson) dog Lolabelle. Pondering safety and and self-narrated in her measured, freedom, Anderson deftly glances off unique style. — JR the terror of the American post-9/11 state and then, two unprocessed childhood traumas later, lands us at the Buddhist concept of Bardo (the 49-day post-death period). Anderson’s mother is another spectre in this story, while not mentioned but felt viscerally is the loss of her husband Lou Reed, who A Rialto Thu 18 Aug 6.45 pm passed in 2013. B Rialto Fri 19 Aug 2.15 pm

Neon Bull Boi neon

Director/Screenplay: Gabriel Mascaro Brazil/Uruguay/ The Netherlands 2015 | 101 mins With: Juliano Cazarré, Aline Santana, Carlos Pessoa Festivals: Venice, Toronto 2015; New Directors/New Films 2016 Horizons Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival 2015 In Portuguese with English subtitles CinemaScope | R16 nudity, explicit sexual material, offensive language

MATEUS SA We line up the films that grabbed our The sinuous physicality of the central a tetchily functional makeshift family. characters in this Brazilian slice of life The intriguing Iremar holds himself attention and held it with their sustained is rendered all the more tantalising apart from the earthier pursuits on offer energy and originality – in terms of subject, by the unpredictability of their – a botched raid on a prize stallion’s desires. The erotic tension in Neon precious bodily fluids notwithstanding. technique and sensibility. Bull is remarkable, and, as you may His aspirations lie away from the pens: have already heard, finds release in Galega, we discover, moonlights as a prolonged and tender sex scene, an exotic dancer and it is Iremar who at once monumentally strange and designs and sews her costumes. If you sublimely simple. Centred on a cowboy think you see where this is heading, working the pens on a backcountry you are bound to be wrong, but don’t rodeo circuit, the film draws us into a be surprised if you feel elated beyond tough, macho world in which gender reason when Iremar scores his fleeting roles are much less prescribed than taste of heaven. you might assume. Broad-chested, handsome Iremar (Juliano Cazarré), his A Rialto Sat 6 Aug 6.15 pm peroxide blonde boss, Galega, and A Rialto Tue 9 Aug 8.45 pm the streetwise young daughter, Cacá, whom she treats like a sister, constitute A SJ Gore Sat 13 Aug 8.30 pm FRESH 27

Certain Women

“Kelly Reichardt [Wendy and Lucy, Director/Editor: Kelly Reichardt NZIFF09; Meek’s Cutoff, NZIFF11] USA 2016 | 107 mins artfully merges her two obsessions, Producers: Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani Screenplay: Kelly Reichardt. Based on the short the mid-western American landscape stories ‘Tome’, ‘Native Sandstone’ and ‘Travis B’ (here, Livingston, Montana) and by Maile Meloy Photography: Christopher Blauvelt women’s psychology, by reworking Music: Jeff Grace and intertwining three short stories, With: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone, James Le Gros, with an uncanny gift for drawing Jared Harris, René Auberjonois, Sara Rodier forceful, yet intimate performances Festivals: Sundance 2016 M offensive language, nudity from actors (especially actresses).” — Bérénice Reynaud, Senses of Cinema “The great writer-director responsible for some of the best American films of the last decade… has made what may be her most beautiful work of art yet. Certain Women, adapted from three short stories by Montana author Maile Meloy, is a film so quiet and understated, that the emotional wallop it packs may seem unlikely at first NICOLE RIVELLI glance. With an incredible cast that you’re likely to see in a film this year.” features Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, — Adam Cook, Vancouver International “Kelly Reichardt’s and Kristen Stewart, it’s hardly the Film Festival wonderful triptych of film you’d expect would attract “Laura Dern, Jared Harris, Lily Gladstone Hollywood talent of that pedigree. and Kristen Stewart produce among female character studies But they’re in it for Reichardt’s vision, their best performances to date. But in confirms her status as and what a delicate and poetic vision the film’s sense of empathy for every the quietest of great it is, of the everyday lives of normal flawed character, this is Reichardt’s movie, women navigating the everyday. a hypnotic tale of detachment, isolation American filmmakers.” Master cinematographer Christopher but also of the nuggets of hope in every — Guy Lodge, Variety Blauvelt creates some of the most human interaction.” — Ed Frankl, Little B Rialto Fri 5 Aug 4.00 pm memorable and painterly images White Lies A Regent Mon 8 Aug 8.30 pm

Green Room

In an alternate universe, Captain Jean- Director/Screenplay: Jeremy Saulnier Luc Picard is transformed into a ruthless USA 2015 | 96 mins neo-Nazi who operates a criminal Producers: Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, Victor Moyers Photography: Sean Porter empire in the backwoods of Oregon. Editor: Julia Bloch The problem is, this is no episode of Music: Brooke Blair, Will Blair With: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Star Trek: TNG; it is director Saulnier’s Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, punks-vs-skins follow-up to his Eric Edelstein, Macon Blair, Kai Lennox, Patrick Stewart acclaimed indie thriller Blue Ruin Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight), (NZIFF13). Much like a nastier version Toronto, Vancouver, London 2015; Sundance, Rotterdam 2016 of John Carpenter’s seminal Assault R18 graphic violence, drug use, offensive language on Precinct 13, this is a classic wrong place, wrong time set-piece that takes well-worn tropes, amps them up to 11 and then stomps on their faces. An earnestly broke but resourceful four-person Arlington punk band, The Ain’t Rights, reluctantly accept a one-off gig after a long and fiscally sour tour. After polarising the jaded crowd by opening with Dead Kennedys anthem ‘Nazi Punks Fuck who makes a real meal of playing Off’, the band members eventually find against type. The tension escalates as “It’s a delightfully cruel themselves heading back to the titular both sides slowly realise that the only work of high tension, green room to collect their hard-earned way to end the impasse is for violence. $300. Unfortunately, they walk in on Even with notable performances from perfect in just how something they shouldn’t be seeing, all the cast, this is Saulnier’s set and quickly and easily it gets which ignites into a full-blown he loads up and delivers the cinematic under your skin.” stand-off between the terrified punks equivalent of a great punk song: and the disordered neo-Nazis. numerous short sharp jabs to the solar — Barry Hertz, Globe & Mail Entering the claustrophobic plexus that leave you wobbly and labyrinth is the calming presence of winded. — AT A Rialto Fri 5 Aug 8.30 pm B Rialto Mon 8 Aug 3.45 pm Shakespearian-trained Patrick Stewart, 28 FRESH

Lovesong

Jena Malone and rising star Riley Director: So Yong Kim Keough shine in this exploration of USA 2016 | 84 mins the ambiguous bond between a Producers: Alex Lipschultz, Bradley Rust Gray, David Hansen, Johnny MacDonald lonely soft-spoken young mother Screenplay: So Yong Kim, Bradley Rust Gray and her free-spirited friend. Photography: Kat Westergaard, Guy Godfree Music: Jóhann Jóhannsson Neglected by her husband, Sarah With: Jena Malone, Riley Keough, (Keough) embarks on an impromptu Brooklyn Decker, Amy Seimetz, Marshall Chapman, Ryan Eggold, road trip with her livewire college Rosanna Arquette, Cary Joji Fukunaga friend Mindy (Malone). After an Festivals: Sundance 2016 CinemaScope | M offensive language, alcohol-infused heart-to-heart, a long- sexual references unspoken intimacy emerges between the old friends, before both return to their respective lives. Some years later, Sarah accepts an invitation to Mindy’s wedding, guessing that her sense of unfinished business is not shared by the bride. The naturalistic style of American filmmaker So Yong Kim (Treeless Mountain, NZIFF08) perfectly captures intimacy and latent, sometimes to come up with something specific, unformed, emotional truths. Summoning nuanced and insightful… What Kim “A rare film of mature, beautiful performances from her is after here is nothing less than the emotional complexity actresses, she has crafted a bittersweet, magic of two people connecting… elliptical love story about muted desire Malone is a force of an actress who anchored by two and the grey areas that can make the also knows how and when to dial it remarkable and beautiful definition of a friendship so elusive. back… The revelation here, though, is performances.” “The wonder of this new film from Keough (Elvis Presley’s granddaughter So Yong Kim is how deftly it digs and a supporting player in Mad Max: — John Fink, The Film Stage beneath the clichés and formulas of Fury Road), who looks like Kristen familiar sub-genres (female friendship Stewart but has a presence all her own.” A Regent Sun 14 Aug 8.15 pm B Rialto Thu 18 Aug 12.15 pm movie, road movie, lesbian romance) — Jon Frosch, Hollywood Reporter

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Tanna

Filmed pre-Cyclone Pam on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu, this stunningly photographed film tells the star-crossed Directors: Bentley Dean, Martin Butler story of Wawa, a young woman Australia/Vanuatu 2015 | 104 mins Cultural director: Jimmy Joseph Nako who has fallen in love with her chief’s Producers: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean, dashing grandson, Dain. When an Carolyn Johnson Screenplay: Bentley Dean, Martin Butler, John inter-tribal war breaks out with a Collee in collaboration with the people of Yakel neighbouring community, the young Photography: Bentley Dean lovers are forced to choose between Editor: Tania Michel Nehme Music: Antony Partos their own happiness and the common With: Mungau Dain, Marie Wawa, Marceline Rofit, good. Mythic in its simplicity, the film is Chief Charlie Kahla, Albi Nangia, Lingai Kowia, Dadwa Mungau, Linette Yowayin, Kapan Cook, based on a true story that took place in Chief Mungau Yokay, Chief Mikum Tainakou 1985 and carried significant ramifications Festivals: Venice, London 2015; Rotterdam 2016 Critics’ Week Award, Venice Film Festival 2015 for the evolution of tribal society. In Nauvhal with English subtitles Working closely with the indigenous M violence facebook.com/TannaMovie community, acclaimed Australian filmmakers Martin Butler and Bentley PROUDLY SPONSORED BY Dean have expanded on their previous documentary work to produce a ravishing cinematic expression of traditional culture. and rites of passage in a society whose “Dean and Butler spent seven foundations are shifting, the picture “With its magnetic cast months living with the Yakel, a tribe surrounds [its heroine] Wawa’s daring and Venice award-winning whose customs and lifestyle have actions with enriching observations changed little for centuries. During by her mother and grandmother… cinematography, this film this time the filmmakers were told of Performed with conviction by actors treads the familiar theme a great love story from the recent past. who’d never seen a film or a movie of star-crossed lovers with The result was a screenplay written camera before, the picture is a stirring in close collaboration with the Yakel tribute to the power of love and will shimmering vitality.” and performed predominantly by its likely prompt many viewers to shed — Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian A Rialto Sat 6 Aug 4.00 pm members… tears of sadness and tears of joy.” B Rialto Wed 10 Aug 11.30 am Very much about female experiences — Richard Kuipers, Variety

Operation Avalanche Under the Shadow

Director: Matt Johnson Director/Screenplay: USA 2016 | 95 mins Babak Anvari Producers: Matthew Miller, UK/Jordan/Qatar 2016 Lee Kim, Matt Johnson 85 mins Screenplay: Matt Johnson, Josh Boles Photography: Kit Fraser Photography: Andy Appelle, With: Narges Rashidi, Jared Raab Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Editor: Curt Lobb Ray Haratian, Hamidreza Djavdan With: Matt Johnson, Festivals: Sundance, Owen Williams, Andy Appelle, New Directors/New Films, Jared Raab, Josh Boles, Ray James, San Francisco 2016 Sharon Belle, Kirsta Madison In Farsi with English subtitles Festivals: Sundance, SXSW, CinemaScope | M horror, Hot Docs 2016 supernatural themes Censors rating tbc

Let’s be honest: we’re all a bit over the this high-concept paranoid thriller. “Infused with autobiographical Shideh slowly realizes that her home is faux documentary sub-genre. So let’s The major achievement in this at elements, Babak Anvari’s debut feature haunted and gets sucked into a web hear it for Canadian Matt Johnson with times very funny quasi-fictional-doco is a terrifying allegory of the 1980-88 of paranoia wherein malevolent djinn his devilishly clever cinephile meta-take is the technically impressive and Iran-Iraq War, a now often overlooked mess with her mind. Like any insightful on the Apollo Moon landing. It’s 1967, seamless integration of all the kinds conflict that shaped much of this work of horror, Anvari’s film leaves the height of the cold war, and the of footage used, and the ballsy fact London-based Iranian filmmaker’s it to the viewer to decide whether CIA suspects a Russian mole is inside that Johnson and co actually fooled early childhood. the supernatural threat is a shared NASA sabotaging the programme. NASA in a cunning meta-squared A constantly shifting expressionistic reality or no more than a psychosomatic Two chipper young agents, disguised move. They got into the real NASA nightmare, Under the Shadow centers symptom – a harrowing projection as filmmakers capturing NASA’s race to by saying they were filming for a upon Shideh (Narges Rashidi), a of the protagonist’s deranged psyche.” the moon, are sent to uncover the mole. student film about the making of a frustrated mother unable to fulfill — Yonca Talu, Film Comment They uncover something more shocking making of a making… okay my head her career aspirations because of her than any Russian spy. Suddenly the hurts now… just come and see this former political activism. When her agents are in way over their heads very smart film. — AT doctor husband is drafted, Shideh is as they scramble to help save the USA’s left alone with her daughter Dorsa and credibility. Before too long guns start must protect her from supernatural blazing alongside incredible one-shot phenomena brought upon their Tehran car chases, as the influence of Stanley B Rialto Fri 19 Aug 4.00 pm apartment by a missile attack. A Rialto Fri 12 Aug 8.30 pm Kubrick may or may not come into A Rialto Sun 21 Aug 8.00 pm At first skeptical of ghost stories, B Rialto Wed 17 Aug 4.15 pm 30 FOR ALL AGES

Animation for Kids 4+ ALL AGES ALL FOR

Directors: Yulia Aronova, Ru Kuwahata, Dmitry Vysotskiy, Veronika Zacharová, Elena Walf, Chaïtane Conversat, Alexey Minchenok, Clémentine Robach, Mizue Mirai, Nakauchi Yukie, Nathan Jurevicius, Susann Hoffmann, Marjolaine Perreten, Peter Baynton, Dan Abdo, Jason Patterson, Julia Ocker 64 mins approx. | G cert

BEAR AND BIRD Each year our For All Ages animation Banjo, a musical tale of how a special collections provide a brilliant object can inspire anyone, big or opportunity to introduce our youngest small, to create. We even have enough friends to the pleasures of international animals to open a zoo: gorillas in cinema and the NZIFF experience. Veronika Zacharová’s Zoo Story; a little You name it, we’ve got it: from bat looking for friends to play with Yulia Aronova’s One, Two, Tree, about in Elena Walf’s Bat Time; a grey lynx a boot-wearing tree who invites all who doesn’t quite fit into a world of it meets to follow in its clomping colourful animals in Susann Hoffmann’s footsteps, to Dmitry Vysotskiy’s Pik Pik Looks; and unlikely videogaming Pik, in which a cheeky woodpecker bedfellows in Dan Abdo and Jason who peck-peck-pecks away at columns Patterson’s Bear and Bird. There’s of ants marching to a symphony of much more: go to nziff.co.nz for full syncopated rhythms. Everyday magic programme details. — NM is at work in Chaïtane Conversat’s The Little Seed, the story of a girl who catches floral patterns with a cloth and uses them to make her own dresses, B Rialto Sat 6 Aug 12.30 pm and in Peter Baynton’s Cookie-Tin B Regent Sun 14 Aug, 11.15 am

Animation for Kids 8+

Directors: Ned Wenlock, Éric Montchaud, Seth Boyden, Natalia Chernysheva, Elena Walf, Dina Velikovskaya, Olga Poliektova, Tatiana Poliektova, Antje Heyn, William Garratt, Kim Claeys, Karim Rhellam 68 mins approx. PG violence, scary scenes

SPRING JAM This section has been lovingly curated NZIFF 2016 presents not one but two for frogs and caterpillars to remain Animation for Kids collections – with lifelong friends in Natalia Chernysheva’s by our programmer Nic Marshall. Nic each film guaranteed to amuse, Two Friends, a bittersweet story of heads up Square Eyes Film Foundation, entertain and inspire curious young inter-species friendship and the tricky minds and indie-animation-loving side of metamorphosis. In Pawo, from ardent promoters of international cinema grown-ups alike. Antje Heyn, a toy figure finds herself in to our youngest audiences and their We’ve searched high and low, and a curious world with some wonderfully near and far, to present a selective strange companions. And in Dina movie-going companions. slate of the best animation for all Velikovskaya’s compelling About a ages from all corners of the world. Mother, we witness a mother raising These animated gems from eight her three boys and the power of countries offer a terrific range of sacrifice and familial love. For the full diverse adventures, and a whole load programme listing, go to nziff.co.nz of opportunity to fuel imagination and — NM make greater sense of our world. From New Zealand, Ned Wedlock’s Spring Jam brings together a runaway deer, a record player and an impromptu B Regent Sun 7 Aug 11.00 am orchestra of native birds. It’s super hard B Rialto Sat 13 Aug 12.30 pm FOR ALL AGES 31

The Eagle Huntress

Thirteen-year-old falconry prodigy Director: Otto Bell Aisholpan is ready to train her very USA 2016 | 87 mins own eagle to catch foxes in The Eagle Producers: Stacey Reiss, Sharon Chang Executive producers: Morgan Spurlock, Huntress – ending two millennia of Daisy Ridley Kazakh-Mongolian tradition that Photography: Simon Niblett Editor: Pierre Takal dictates this practice as the exclusive Music: Sia rite of men. Executive produced by With: Aisholpan Nurgaiv, Nurgaiv Rys, Alma Dalaykhan documentary filmmaker Morgan Festivals: Sundance 2016 Spurlock and Star Wars heroine Daisy Recommended for ages 12+ Ridley, the film, set in the glorious In English and Kazakh, with English subtitles theeaglehuntress.com remote Altai Mountains, follows Aisholpan as she bravely undertakes all aspects of ancient eagle hunting tradition. — NM “Step aside, Katniss! Make room for Aisholpan, the 13-year-old eagle huntress from Mongolia. For 2,000 years, the Kazakh people of the Altai region in western Mongolia have practiced a tradition of hunting with ASHER SVIDENSKY golden eagles… though this practice compete against 70 eagle hunters on has traditionally been the domain her quest to gain acceptance. “Capturing breathtaking of men, Aisholpan decides that she Featuring breathtaking cinema- views of snowy Mongolian wants to become an apprentice hunter tography and intimate footage, this film after spending her childhood helping not only explores the life of a young girl landscapes, this her father, a renowned eagle hunter, striving to pursue her passion and break documentary offers a care for his birds. Under the tutelage down gender barriers in a very bird’s eye view into the and support of her father and her traditional culture but also provides an grandfather… Aisholpan learns all engaging glimpse into the lives of this life of a true heroine.” aspects of falconry, from taming her remote community, as they balance — Dustin Jansick, WayTooIndie A Regent Sat 13 Aug 3.30 pm very own eagle to training for an their traditional lifestyle with the modern annual competition, where she will world.” — Sundance Film Festival A SJ Gore Sat 20 Aug 4.00 pm

PRESENTED IN Girls’ POV: ASSOCIATION WITH Long Way North NYICFF Retrospective Tout en haut du monde

Directors: Sarah Saidan, Martina Amati, Britta Wandaogo, Sumo Science, Marie-Christine Courtès, Susan Koenen Director: Rémi Chayé 70 mins approx. | PG adult themes France/Denmark 2015 Recommended For Ages 12+ 82 mins Voices: Chloé Dunn, Vivienne Vermes, Peter Hudson, Antony Hickling, Tom Perkins Recommended for ages 9+ Festivals: Annecy, Toronto 2015 Audience Award, Annecy International Animation Festival 2015 CinemaScope | PG violence longwaynorththemovie.com

CROCODILES WITHOUT SADDLES These six international short films come “With gender inequality in the film Long Way North is a beautifully told, Le Tableau (NZIFF12), has made a direct from the acclaimed New York industry as rampant and problematic visually stunning action-adventure powerful impression with his daringly International Children’s Film Festival as it is, it’s important to point out all featuring teenager Sasha, a young stylised, hand-drawn debut feature – (NYICFF) landmark programme, Girls’ the things that Hollywood could be aristocrat growing up in Russia at Long Way North received the Audience POV – aimed at providing intelligent, doing better when it comes to women the end of the 19th century. Sasha Award for Feature Film at the Annecy diverse and compelling films that speak – yet it’s equally essential to highlight dreams of the Great North and International Animation Festival in to the unique experience of girls. Each all the ways that the film industry is anguishes over the fate of her 2015. — NM of the films presented feature a strong doing feminism right… the New York grandfather, a renowned scientist “This French-Danish work offers all female lead, female director, or an International Children’s Film Festival is and Arctic explorer who has yet to you’d want in a young adventure – issue faced by girls around the world. featuring an entire program, the Girls’ return from his latest expedition to action, danger, a journey, a coming-of- Their narratives, themes and genres POV Retrospective, solely dedicated to the North Pole. In order to find her age, heartwarming and heartbreaking vary, but all shine much-needed light featuring movies starring women and/ grandfather’s ship and save her family’s moments, handsome animation and a on perspectives and experiences of or about women’s issues.” — Rachel honour, 15-year-old Sasha defies her strong statement of girl power.” young women. Now in its 20th year, Simon, Bustle parents’ expectations of her to act like — Mike Hale, NY Times NYICFF stands at the forefront of a a proper young woman of nobility, movement to define new, provocative and embarks on a treacherous voyage. and compelling films for young people. Director Rémi Chayé, who previously Go to nziff.co.nz for full programme worked on acclaimed animated films A Regent Sun 21 Aug 1.15 pm details. — NM A Rialto Sat 20 Aug 11.30 am The Secret of Kells (NZIFF09) and 32

Chasing Asylum REALITY FRAMING Director/Producer: Eva Orner Australia 2016 | 96 mins Photography: Tim Deagle, Martin Johnson, Michael Downey, Khadim Dai, Corey Baudinette Editor: Annabelle Johnson Music: Cornel Wilczek In English, Dari, Farsi and Arabic, with English subtitles M content may disturb chasingasylum.com.au

Drawing on an abundance of whistle- degradation of the detainees, Orner’s blower testimony and stealthily shot film surely reinforces the deterrent footage, Australian filmmaker Eva effect, while exposing forever the Orner (producer of Alex Gibney’s Taxi grotesquerie of the conscience-salving to the Dark Side) exposes the squalid humanitarian argument. Flouting a cruelty of the notorious detention widespread disclosure ban that carries centres established by the Australian draconian penalties, former aid workers government to house asylum-seekers and security staff provide us, through on Nauru and Manus Island. Claiming, their bravery, with some small hope not inaccurately, that they carry the that their compatriots may recoil just mandate of the Australian people, as decisively from the horrors being a succession of Australian prime committed to keep Australia Fair. ministers stonily insist that the net effect of the centres is humanitarian: by making it clear that asylum seekers are unwelcome, they have saved thousands from the clutches of ruthless people smugglers. Attesting in A Rialto Thu 11 Aug 6.15 pm heartbreaking detail to the relentless A Rialto Sat 13 Aug 10.30 am

Embrace

Director/Screenplay: Taryn Brumfitt Australia 2016 | 90 mins Producers: Anna Vincent, Taryn Brumfitt Photography: Hugh Fenton Editors: Bryan Mason, Lindi Harrison Festivals: Sydney 2016 The profusion of excellent documentaries submitted to us is staggering. We try to steer a course that favours formal sophistication and complexity, while allowing ourselves on occasion to fall for the most forthright This rousing documentary by Australian international approval and media body image activist Taryn Brumfitt attention. Following on, she set about advocacy and appeals to the heartstrings. should prove a most effective tool in crowdfunding this documentary, in Documentaries have always shared the her popular campaign to counteract the which she travels the world to interview gazillion pressures on Western women diverse women about body image. spotlight with dramatic features at NZIFF. and girls to fixate on appearance. We’re These include Mia Freedman, the You will find more fine examples filling the delighted to welcome Taryn to present youngest ever editor of Australian NZIFF’s premiere screenings ahead Cosmopolitan; talk-show hosts Ricki Aotearoa section of the programme and of the film’s New Zealand release. Lake and Amanda de Cadenet; body in the sections that follow. Also in our Big She traces her project back to the image blogger Jes Baker (aka The epiphany she experienced while Militant Baker); and motivational Nights, Fresh and For All Ages. In other words, contemplating cosmetic surgery for speaker Turia Pitt. All ages, shapes documentaries are everywhere at NZIFF. her post-baby body. She subsequently and sizes are included in the film’s posted an unconventional before-and- empowering embrace. after photo spread: Taryn in her earlier, competitive body-builder role alongside A Regent Sat 13 Aug 1.30 pm her ‘after’ photo, a plump, delighted B Regent Tue 16 Aug 2.00 pm mother of three. This was seen by more than 100 million worldwide and sparked A SJ Gore Sun 14 Aug 1.30 pm FRAMING REALITY 33

Another Country

A companion piece to her partner Rolf Director: Molly Reynolds de Heer’s Charlie’s Country (NZIFF14), Australia 2015 | 75 mins Molly Reynolds’ trenchant, wryly Producers: Peter Djigirr, Rolf de Heer, Molly Reynolds measured documentary is addressed Screenplay: David Gulpilil, Rolf de Heer, explicitly to non-Aboriginal Australia. Molly Reynolds Photography: Matt Nettheim The concept is simple and delivered Editor: Tania Nehme with devastating clarity: David Gulpilil, Narrator: David Gulpilil Festivals: Melbourne 2015; Hot Docs 2016 Charlie’s Country’s (and Australia’s In English and Yolngu, with English subtitles only) internationally renowned CinemaScope indigenous star, tells us the history of the community of Ramingining in the Northern Territory that he calls home. He provides laconic commentary on successive government projects to control the lands of the Yolngu people, to put the people to work, eliminate their ancient cultures and corral random groups into fixed communities where no towns stood before. Even if the general history is painfully familiar, there’s such vitality in his anecdote and place, Gulpilil and his co-writers see such mettle and gallows humour in his Ramingining as something of a “We can’t get there if you delivery that you’re likely to experience microcosm. It’s a location with a history think you know more this movie bolt upright in your seat. – starting with its construction in an “The richness of the film arises illogical place – and is symptomatic of about us than we do.” from the earthy elegance of Gulpilil’s countless other communities. Also, it — David Gulpilil narration matched with the uncluttered acts as a case study to springboard beauty of Reynolds’ photography. Her discussion of wide-reaching ignorance cameras, which explore the rural town, towards issues around compatibility feel nothing if not embraced by the of Indigenous and non-Indigenous community… communities.” — Luke Buckmaster, A Rialto Sun 14 Aug 11.15 am Anchored by an acute sense of The Guardian B Rialto Thu 18 Aug 2.15 pm

Fire at Sea Fuocoammare

A tiny island of around 6,000 people, Lampedusa lies 205 kilometres from Sicily and 113 from Tunisia. Superbly Director/Photography: shot by filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi Gianfranco Rosi Italy/France 2016 | 108 mins himself, this documentary provides Producers: Donatella Palermo, Gianfranco Rosi, an indelible and compassionate double Serge Lalou, Camille Laemle, Roberto Ciccutto, portrait of the island’s traditional Paolo Del Brocco, Martine Saada, Olivier Pere Editor: Jacopo Quadri community and the humanitarian crisis With: Samuele Pucillo, Pietro Bartolo thronging its shores. Festivals: Berlin 2016 Best Film, Berlin International Film Festival 2016 Rosi, who won Venice’s Golden Lion In Italian and English, with English subtitles for Sacro GRA (NZIFF14), may be the world’s most honoured documentary filmmaker. Fire at Sea likewise won the Golden Bear in Berlin this year. Disarmingly, he puts a 12-year-old local boy at the centre of his picture. Like boys since time immemorial, Samuele roves the island waging war on flora and fauna with his slingshot. He’s a touchingly earnest kid, applying himself without complaint to unforgettable clarity. overcoming the handicaps of wobbly The most explicit link between “Moral courage and filmic sea legs and a lazy eye. these worlds is Samuele’s doctor, artistry exist side by side Rosi regularly cuts from the homely who tends with equal kindness to world of Samuele and his family to locals and stricken refugees. For him in this essential offering.” the anonymous, high-tech Lampedusa compassion is a given. Rosi’s film tacitly — Trevor Johnston, Sight & Sound of sea rescues, with its landing and demonstrates how that principle can processing of teeming boatloads of and must be enacted for the stateless the homeless. Late in the film, sustained on a dauntingly large scale, while coverage of the evacuation of African keeping a tender eye on a 12-year- refugees from an appallingly crowded old boy preparing to grow within the B Rialto Mon 15 Aug 1.00 pm A Rialto Sun 21 Aug 5.45 pm boat confronts this grim reality with horizons he knows. 34

Life, Animated

Director Roger Ross Williams received a Sundance directing prize for this dynamic documentary about Owen Director: Roger Ross Williams Suskind and his equally extraordinary USA 2016 | 91 mins parents. Owen, now aged 23, is Producers: Roger Ross Williams, Julie Goldman Inspired by the book Life, Animated: A Story of graduating from a special needs Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism by Ron Suskind educational institute and into his first Photography: Tom Bergmann Editor: David Teague solo living situation, something his Music: Dylan Stark, T. Griffin parents never expected possible. With: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Cornelia Suskind, Walter Suskind Twenty years ago, they watched Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco, their three-year-old son stop talking Hot Docs 2016 Directing Award (US Documentary), and retreat into an unknowable autistic Sundance Film Festival 2016 reality. Watching Walt Disney movies lifeanimateddoc.com was one of the few family activities he PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH enjoyed. Years later, almost deemed unreachable, Owen suddenly speaks, describing his older brother in relation to The Jungle Book and Peter Pan. From there the story is remarkable. The playful Disney sidekick characters TOM BERGMANN in particular engaged his sympathy, With intimate family footage, while their uncomplicated, vividly close personal interviews and Disney “A powerful story of the conveyed feelings showed a way for clips, the film is beautifully enhanced profound and surprising Owen to process his own. Later, with original animations by French following bullying at his high school, company Mac Guff. It’s a moving and effects art can have on he obsessively drew an imagined league powerful story of an ongoing search those who embrace it.” of Disney sidekicks where ‘no sidekick for connection and expression. With — Gabor Pertic, Hot Docs would get left behind’. He set up his own the support of a loving family and a ‘Disney Club’ where he and his friends bunch of brightly coloured cartoon A Rialto Sat 6 Aug 10.30 am still discuss the emotional nuances of characters, Owen finds a way to A Rialto Wed 10 Aug 6.15 pm Disney movies while singing along to the triumph, negotiating the tough realities musical numbers. He finds a girlfriend. of his life and heart. — JR A SJ Gore Mon 15 Aug 6.15 pm

Free to Run Obit

Director: Pierre Morath Director: Vanessa Gould Switzerland/France/ USA 2016 | 94 mins Belgium 2016 | 99 mins Producers: Caitlin Mae Burke, Producers: Jean-Marc Fröhle, Vanessa Gould Fabrice Estève, Marie Besson Photography: Ben Wolf Photography/Editor: Editor: Kristin Bye Thomas Queille With: Bruce Weber, William Music: Kevin Queille, Polar McDonald, Margalit Fox, With: Bobbi Gibb, Kathrine William Grimes, Jack Kadden, Switzer, Noël Tamini, Fred Lebow, Douglas Martin, Jeff Roth, Steve Prefontaine, Franck Shorter Daniel Slotnik, Paul Vitello In French and English, Festivals: Tribeca 2016 with English subtitles

SALMINI SPORTFILM LLC This illuminating, clip-laden account of to professionalise the sport. Swiss The richest stories in the best obituaries it is disarmingly upbeat and the history of running over the last 50 documentarian Pierre Morath provides newspapers are often buried away life-affirming – but the film nonetheless years begins by detailing the long fight a telling exemplar for the sport’s on the obituaries pages. In Obit, feels in part a eulogy. It may not dwell against antiquated athletic authorities popularisation in his fascinating Vanessa Gould meets the people who on the digital upheaval in newspapers, to open up participation in competitive account of the chequered fortunes write them for the New York Times but it doesn’t need to: it is all there in events, and to allow women to compete of the New York City Marathon, – practitioners of a form which has the paper’s vault of yellowing clippings at all. After a single finish-line collapse at suggesting that commercial pressure ‘nothing to do with the death and and photographs. Known as ‘the the 1928 Olympics, the sport had been may be turning long-distance running almost everything to do with the life’. morgue’, the archive is presided over by deemed unsafe for women, who were into an exclusive pursuit once again. A thoughtful, entertaining and at the star of Obit, the wise and eccentric banned until 1960 from events over Switzer and her husband, one-time times eccentric bunch, the journalists Jeff Roth, the last man left in charge of 800 metres. In 1976, Kathrine Switzer NZ representative Roger Robinson, explain how they choose their subjects, these vast and unwieldy catalogues. was physically assaulted by officials head up a lustrous line-up of from Stalin’s daughter to the inventor Absorbing and affectionate, Obit is as she challenged the gender barrier commentators and interviewees. of the Slinky, the morbid calculus that a tonic for writers and lovers of good by competing gender-incognito in the determines who gets an ‘advance’ – an writing. — Toby Manhire Boston Marathon. obit prepared while its subject is still Inspirational figures, like Bobbi alive – and how they deal with questions Gibb, Fred Lebow and the charismatic about their jobs at dinner parties. Steve Prefontaine, also defied the There is nothing funereal about B Regent Thu 11 Aug 1.30 pm establishment’s closely guarded rules A Rialto Sun 7 Aug 6.00 pm Obit – like many of the best Times A Regent Sun 21 Aug 11.00 am FRAMING REALITY 35

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

For his latest trick, the tirelessly curious Director/Screenplay: Werner Herzog Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Cave of USA 2016 | 98 mins Forgotten Dreams) turns his camera Producers: Rupert Maconick, Werner Herzog Photography: Peter Zeitlinger on the internet. The German maestro Editor: Marco Capalbo is no digital native – he eschews even Music: Mark De Gli Antoni, Sebastian Steinberg With: Robert Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, a smartphone – but this proves a boon, Kevin Mitnick, Elon Musk, liberating Herzog to explore the digital Theodor Holm Nelson, Sebastian Thrun, Adrien Treuille, Lucianne Walkowicz future as if a tourist. Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco, Hot Docs 2016 Starting at the UCLA site where the first internet message was typed – a ‘holy place’ – Herzog leads us on a whistle-stop tour, encountering online evangelists and prophets of doom, organised under ten chapter headings. He travels to the town of Green Bank, where locals have settled because proximity to a telescope prohibits radio waves and cellular signals; to a laboratory where robot footballers are being constructed; to the home of a family tormented online following his interviewees, many of whom the death of a daughter; a self-driving may be more accustomed to speaking “Toeing the line between car developer; internet rehab clinics. in Ted Talk slogans. His abiding technophobia and awe… Elon Musk, a high-priest of digital fascination: whether ‘the internet entrepreneurship, preaches the can dream of itself’. — Toby Manhire [is] a kind of speculative importance of humans colonising “The virtual future may be now, science-fiction film that Mars. ‘A one-way ticket?’ chirrups but Lo and Behold, with its stimulating just happens to unfold in Herzog. ‘I would come along’. volley of insights and ideas, always Veering from impish exuberance feels persistently, defiantly human.” the present.” to almost apocalyptic scepticism, the — Justin Chang, Variety — Eric Kohn, Indiewire inimitable Herzog manages to extract B Rialto Wed 10 Aug 4.00 pm frank and unorthodox responses from A Regent Wed 17 Aug 8.30 pm

Notes on Blindness The Road

Director/Photography/ Sound: Zhang Zanbo Directors/Screenplay: China/Denmark 2015 Peter Middleton, 95 mins James Spinney Producer: Richard Liang UK 2016 | 90 mins Editors: Zhang Zanbo, Steen Johannessen, Jean Tsien Photography: Gerry Floyd Festivals: Sound: Joakim Sundström Amsterdam Documentary 2015 Festivals: Sundance, Tribeca, In Mandarin with English subtitles San Francisco 2016 theroad2015.com Special Jury Prize (Documentary), San Francisco International Film Festival 2016 CinemaScope notesonblindness.co.uk

“In 1983, after years of failing sight, family – performed by actors and woven For almost four years, Chinese with local Party officials, police and John Hull, a professor of theology into a sensitive sound design by the filmmaker Zhang Zanbo documented gangsters. Through it all, a gargantuan in Birmingham, England, became accomplished sound editor Joakim the construction of a massive highway new symbol of Chinese industrial completely blind. Soon after, he Sundström – with images that represent through a rural district in Hunan power takes shape to cut a swathe began keeping an audio diary… The his experiences, memories and dreams Province. Organising his often startling across mountain and valley. Whether understanding he reached, through through reenactment and metaphor. up-close footage into chapters, he it will pass safety requirements or even years of quiet and sometimes painful Tracing Hull’s struggle ‘to retain the reveals a project rife with corruption, conform to legal construction standards probing, was profound: Oliver Sacks fullness of my humanity’, Notes on violence and cynicism. His success in is anybody’s guess when government called the published version of Hull’s Blindness conjures both the loveliness showing events from the conflicting building inspectors arrive. Or are they diaries ‘the most extraordinary, precise, of a visual world tragically lost to him perspectives of three constantly too persuadable? Director Zhang has deep and beautiful account of blindness and the value of what remains. For skirmishing sectors makes this a himself suggested that the title might I have ever read’. Hull, out of sight was never out of singularly comprehensive indictment. not refer just to the Xu-Huai Highway, In this penetrating and eloquent mind.” — Juliet Clark, San Francisco Dislocated peasants see their homes but also to the road taken by China. documentary, filmmakers Peter International Film Festival literally dynamited, and clamour for Middleton and James Spinney have compensation. Migrant workers mined Hull’s original tapes as well regularly risk their lives for paydays that as interviews with Hull and his wife never seem to arrive. Fending off their to evoke Hull’s inner world. The film A Rialto Mon 15 Aug 6.15 pm demands, the embattled construction B Rialto Tue 16 Aug 2.00 pm combines the voices of Hull and his A Rialto Sun 21 Aug 1.45 pm company also juggles dubious alliances A Rialto Wed 17 Aug 6.15 pm 36 FRAMING REALITY

IT JUST TASTES Tomorrow BIGGER Demain Directors: Cyril Dion, Mélanie Laurent France 2015 | 119 mins Producer: Bruno Levy Screenplay: Cyril Dion Photography: Alexandre Leglise With: Anthony Barnosky, Emmanuel Druon, Jan Gehl, Elizabeth Hadly, Charles & Perrine Hervé-Gruyer, Rob Hopkins, Bernard Lietaer, Michelle Long, Kari Louhivuori In French and English, with English subtitles demain-lefilm.com/en

Think globally, act locally: you’ve heard it effective. In Copenhagen, nearly 70% before, but this stimulating documentary of energy is drawn from non-fossil fuels. makes it news, showing some great In an Indian village, a progressive mayor ideas for doing just that, translated into instigates participative democracy that action. Refusing to be overwhelmed by brings different castes to work together. the prospect of global meltdown, In Bristol, an alternative currency allows actress-filmmaker Mélanie Laurent and monies spent locally to stay in Bristol. ecological rights advocate Cyril Dion The film’s been a runaway hit resolved to make a film that would in France. No mere poster girl for energise people who they reasonably environmental action, Laurent shared assumed already knew the worst. top documentary honours at this year’s Upbeat, without ever denying the César Awards with Dion. scale of the challenges, Tomorrow travels the world to meet an array of resourceful activists and organisers working to make the world a more sustainable place. In Detroit, farming programs have flourished in vacant urban spaces. A Rialto Tue 16 Aug 6.15 pm www.epicbeer.com Recycling in San Francisco is actually A Regent Sat 20 Aug 11.00 am

When Two Worlds Collide 00226-epic-film-fest-ad-01.indd 2 1/06/10 8:50 AM

Directors/Photography: Heidi Brandenburg Sierralta, Mathew Orzel Peru 2016 | 103 mins Festivals: Sundance 2016 Special Jury Award (World Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2016 In Spanish with English subtitles whentwoworldscollidemovie.com

With up-close access to indigenous Garcia’s government spun into a public Peruvian activist Alberto Pizango, relations coup against the protesters. and a damning assemblage of news Police who died were granted massive reports, this documentary provides a state funerals, while Pizango was gripping account of years of struggle. demonised as a murderer, conspiring to Filmmakers Heidi Brandenburg hold the nation to ransom. Public anger Sierralta and Mathew Orzel lay out pulled back the government from Art the overwhelming imbalance in power some of the flagrant constitutional between those acting to conserve abuses Pizango had protested, but their natural environment and those he remained a wanted man, forced History determined to monetise it. They also into exile. In the film’s present we see draw on interviews with several of him return stoically to Peru to face Pizango’s antagonists, notably a former the music, and hopefully resume the Luxury Lima police officer who has come struggle. round to Pizango’s side. Third-party footage of a bloody skirmish between police and protesters Museum Art Hotel MuseumHotel.co.nz provides pivotal evidence, as it records B Rialto Fri 19 Aug 12.00 pm 90 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand | +64 4 802 8900 an incident that then-president Alan A Rialto Sun 21 Aug 11.45 am FRAMING REALITY 37

Weiner

American politics is replete with bizarreness, but the story of Anthony Weiner takes some beating. The Directors/Producers: Josh Kriegman, Democratic congressman hit global Elyse Steinberg USA 2016 | 95 mins headlines in 2011 when a photograph of Screenplay: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, his genitals appeared on Twitter. Denials Eli Despres that he had posted the image quickly Photography: Josh Kriegman Editor: Eli Despres fell apart, along with his reputation, as Music: Jeff Beal numerous earlier dick-pic peccadilloes With: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Barbara Morgan, Amit Bagga, Sydney Leathers were splashed across the media. Festivals: Sundance, New Directors/New Films, In this engrossing, highly entertaining San Francisco, Hot Docs 2016 Grand Jury Prize (US Documentary), fly-on-the-wall film we meet Weiner Sundance Film Festival 2016 two years after his resignation, in the early stages of a redemptive bid to PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH become the mayor of New York City. He has rebuilt his relationship with wife, Huma Abedin, the top aide to Hillary Clinton. He is politically reinvigorated. Early polls put him at the top of the Democratic pack. But then the wheels fall off: more pics emerge, sent – crucially to leverage some publicity. The – well after Weiner’s public apology. The reality for Weiner is less The West “With its ringside seat tabloid circus returns. Weiner insists he’ll Wing, more Curb Your Enthusiasm. to a Shakespearean plough on, as members of his team For all his cringe-making hubris, revolt. Abedin stares, disbelieving. however, the film depicts a more fall from grace, Weiner Somehow, the camera is allowed to go complex Weiner than the media easily stands out as the on rolling too – even as the campaign caricature. Abedin, meanwhile, is paragon of its genre.” culminates in unimaginable ignominy, enthralling: a picture of stillness, the with Weiner scurrying through a antithesis of a man who, by his own — Eric Kohn, Indiewire McDonald’s to evade ‘Pineapple’, the admission, possesses a ‘virtually code name for an aspiring porn star unlimited ability to fuck up things’. A Rialto Fri 12 Aug 6.30 pm who received Weiner-pics and is keen — Toby Manhire A Rialto Sat 20 Aug 3.30 pm

Zero Days

Investigative journalism meets Director/Screenplay: Alex Gibney conspiracy thriller as Alex Gibney USA 2016 | 113 mins (Going Clear, NZIFF15) goes on the Producers: Marc Shmuger, Alex Gibney Photography: Antonio Rossi, Brett Wiley trail of Stuxnet, the extraordinary Editor: Andy Grieve computer virus that metastasised Music: Will Bates With: Eric Chien, Richard A. Clarke, around the world before it arrived Michael Hayden, Vitaly Kamluk, at its target, Iranian nuclear facilities, Eugene Kaspersky, Ralph Langner, Liam O’Murchu, David Sanger, Sergey Ulasen and perform its mission: exploding Festivals: Berlin 2016 uranium-enrichment centrifuges. Undeterred by muzzled officials, the indomitable Gibney shows how Stuxnet – or ‘Olympic Games’, as its architects called it – was cooked up covertly by the US and Israel, creating a new level of virus complexity and a new class of weapon. One of Gibney’s sources, dramatised as a composite individual and played by a digitally reconstituted actor (one of many striking visual effects), says the worm may never have come to warning about the Pandora’s box it public attention had it not been for opens. Echoing ideas explored in his “[A] white-knuckle a unilateral Israeli move to recalibrate WikiLeaks film We Steal Secrets, nonfiction thriller... Stuxnet’s code and accelerate its Gibney argues that in the face of an impact. A wider operation had to be emerging cyber-conflict threat, which Clear, urgent and abandoned, and Tehran retaliated is analogous to that of nuclear weapons positively terrifying in kind, attacking US institutions many decades ago, international at times.” with malware and parading its own norms and rules of engagement must burgeoning ‘cyber army’. be developed outside the shadows — Peter Debruge, Variety Gibney manages not only to of denial. — Toby Manhire illuminate in plain terms how Stuxnet B Rialto Mon 8 Aug 1.30 pm A Regent Wed 10 Aug 8.45 pm worked, but to also issue a powerful 38

Ants on a Shrimp: Noma in Tokyo AN ARTIST AN OF PORTRAIT Director/Screenplay: Maurice Dekkers The Netherlands 2016 88 mins Producers: Dan Blazer, Nelsje Musch-Elzinga Photography: Hans Bouma Editor: Pelle Asselbergs Music: Nicolas Jaar, Halfdan E, Nielsen, Umebayashi Shigeru With: René Redzepi, Lars Williams, Rosio Sanchez, Thomas Frebel, Dan Giusti, Kim Mikkola Festivals: Berlin, Hot Docs 2016

NOMA IN TOKYO The worship of food has reached water and yes, live ants, may or may an elevated plain at Copenhagen’s not make the final cut when Redzepi Noma, repeatedly voted ‘World’s Best himself arrives to apply his hilariously Restaurant’ in Restaurant magazine. cryptic vocabulary of evaluation: “This Celebrity chef René Redzepi and a tight tastes good but it’s not working” vs circle of acolytes continually explore “This is totally amazing.” The film is new refinements to the arrangement designed, of course, to make you want of nature’s flavours. Filmmaker Maurice to taste and judge for yourself, while Dekkers provides vicarious access to the also making it perfectly clear why a circle as Redzepi’s team descend upon spoonful of ants at Noma might cost Tokyo to prepare for a five-week pop- way more than your movie ticket. up restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Putting Japanese cuisine and their own established repertoire to one side, they explore fields, forests and markets to identify distinctive flavours which they will combine to create a wholly new menu for a 15-course meal. Snapping turtles, fish sperm, mushroom A Regent Mon 15 Aug 6.15 pm

Argentina Zonda: folclore argentino

Director/Screenplay: Carlos Saura Argentina/France/Spain 2015 | 88 mins Photography: Félix Monti Music: Lito Vitale With: El Chaqueño Palavecino, Soledad Pastorutti, Jairo, Liliana Herrero, Luis Salinas, Jaime Torres, Metabombo, Ballet Nuevo Arte Nativo de Koki & Pajarin Saavedra Festivals: Venice 2015 In Spanish with English subtitles

See also Poi E (p4), A Quiet Passion (p5), Carlos Saura, a veteran chronicler testimony to the vitality of the country’s of Latin music and dance, turns his rich cultural history. Neruda (p7), Heart of a Dog (p26). attention to Argentina to record an “We want to show, through music all-star cavalcade of contemporary and dance, Argentina’s traditional folklore performers. Largely filmed in cultures and the country as a whole. a warehouse turned soundstage in The visual action centres around the La Boca, Buenos Aires, Saura’s film is various regions that make up Argentina simply intent on displaying exceptional and that, in turn, form a map of dancers and musicians in action. Using musical variants such as carnavalito, a complex series of mirrors to capture zamba, chacarera, the couplet, the artists without impeding them, chamamé, the tonada and many other Saura creates some impressive visual expressions rooted in the geography choreography of his own. Performances and soul of the various communities.” of traditional Argentine folk songs — Carlos Saura from revered vocalists such as Soledad Pastorutti and El Chaqueño Palavecino, B Rialto Fri 5 Aug 11.30 am not to mention archival tributes to A Rialto Sun 7 Aug 11.15 am Atahualpa Yupanqui and the great Mercedes Sosa, provide spine-tingling A SJ Gore Sat 20 Aug 2.00 pm PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST 39

The Dancer La Danseuse

This gorgeously mounted Belle Epoque drama presents a fictionalised account of the rise and fall of Loïe Fuller, the Director: Stéphanie Di Giusto American-born pioneer of modern France/Belgium/Czech Republic 2016 | 108 mins dance (and theatrical lighting design) Producer: Alain Attal whose ‘serpentine dance’ took Screenplay: Stéphanie Di Giusto, Sarah Thibau, Paris and then the world by storm. Thomas Bidegain. Based on the book Loïe Fuller, danseuse de la Belle Epoque by Giovanni Lista French singer-songwriter Soko plays Photography: Benoît Debie the dancer, opposite Gaspard Ulliel, Editor: Géraldine Mangenot Music: Max Richter with Lily-Rose Depp, the daughter of With: Soko, Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry, Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp, as Lily-Rose Depp, François Damiens, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Amanda Plummer, her friend and rival Isadora Duncan. Denis Ménochet “Combining furious movement, Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2016 In French and English, with English subtitles billowing costume, and theatrical CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc lighting, it’s not hard to imagine how the shows would have astounded audiences more than a century ago. The film doesn’t disappoint with its rendition of Fuller’s iconic pieces, either. Both on stage – where an incredibly © SHANNA BESSON agile human form whirls and twirls until Playing Louis, Ulliel is his usual it disappears into a storm of shifting charismatic self, exuding an effortless, “In her debut feature shapes – and out in nature – as a group pansexual allure that enriches a rather film, Stéphanie Di Giusto of female dancers becomes one with underwritten character infinitely. the misty forest under her guidance And though she only appears later in brings us an eye-opening – first-time director Stéphanie Di the film, Depp positively dazzles as experience with striking Giusto turns these sequences into feats Isadora. With her elfin litheness and an skill.” of electrifying elegance aided by artful almost contemptuous self-assuredness, B Regent Fri 12 Aug 1.15 pm production design, textured costuming, she owns the screen during every — Bénédicte Prot, Cineuropa A Regent Sat 20 Aug 6.00 pm and fluent cinematography… appearance.” — Zhuo-Ning Su, Soko has both the willful masculinity The Film Stage B SJ Gore Tue 16 Aug 11.00 am and a feminine vulnerability down. A SJ Gore Sat 20 Aug 6.00 pm

Cameraperson Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Director/Photography: Director: Kirsten Johnson Thorsten Schütte USA 2016 | 102 mins France/Germany 2016 Producers: Kirsten Johnson, 90 mins Marilyn Ness Producer: Estelle Fialon Editor: Nels Bangerter Co-producer: Jochen Laube Festivals: Sundance, SXSW, Editor: Willibald Wonneberger New Directors/New Films, Music: Frank Zappa San Francisco, Hot Docs 2016 Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2016 In English, Bosnian, Arabic, Dari, In English, French, Swedish and Hausa and Fur, Czech, with English subtitles with English subtitles Colour and B&W camerapersonfilm.com

Kirsten Johnson is a cinematographer movie footage makes us intensely Eat That Question draws together as a composer of serious orchestral who’s worked on some of the most aware that the eye that watches as interview, concert and behind- music… His flamboyant appearance notable documentaries of the past ostensibly untended children in Bosnia the-scenes footage to provide a was a double-edged sword. It gave him 20 years: Fahrenheit 9/11, The Two play with an axe is the same eye that comprehensive introduction to Frank great visibility… but it attracted press Towns of Jasper, Very Semi-Serious, falls on her own darling twins. By the Zappa (1940–93), one of the rock era’s headlines calling him a pervert. His Citizenfour and many more. Drawing time we see several scenarios fully most idiosyncratic musicians. lyrics aided in that corner as well, but on footage she’s shot for countless played out, the invisible cameraperson “As a solo act or with his band the for those willing to listen to his music other directors, she’s assembled in feels like someone we’re beginning to Mothers (originally called the Mothers (to open oneself up to excellence, Frank Cameraperson a unique memoir of the know. It may not be possible to watch of Invention), he has released roughly might say) there was a lot to offer… images she says have most marked her. this fascinating, beautifully layered film 70 albums, three feature films, multiple Eat That Question does a good job of Her selection of personal encounters without thinking hard about the power home video releases, and has written giving us just a taste of nearly every era in some of the world’s most sorely and the limitations of the camera – or a musical and an autobiography. A in Zappa’s multifaceted career.” troubled locations may initially seem the documentary medium itself – as an 90-minute film is, for a true fan, just — Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian random – until the absence of narrative instrument of compassion. going to scratch the surface… but you purpose draws us into another aren’t going to catch me complaining… level of enquiry about what we are Zappa’s first albums in the late 1960s witnessing and how it is marked by the mixed doo-wop, guitars, snorting and A Rialto Sun 7 Aug 4.00 pm cameraperson. A Rialto Sat 6 Aug 2.00 pm grunting and cheeseball lyrics, but B Rialto Fri 12 Aug 4.30 pm Johnson’s inclusion of her own home B Rialto Fri 12 Aug 11.30 am from the get-go he pitched himself 40 PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST

Miss Sharon Jones!

“The incendiary soul singer Sharon Director: Barbara Kopple Jones already had a few fans in USA 2015 | 95 mins the room when Barbara Kopple’s Producers: Barbara Kopple, David Cassidy Photography: Gary Griffin, Tony Hardmon, documentary Miss Sharon Jones! made Kyle Kibbe its world premiere during the Toronto Editors: Anne Fratto, Jean Tsien Music: Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings International Film Festival. By the end With: Sharon Jones, Megan Holken, of the movie everybody in the place Austen Holman, Gabe Roth Festivals: Toronto, Amsterdam Documentary 2015; had a jones for Jones. The narrative arc SXSW, San Francisco 2016 of the film is the diminutive (‘four foot 11 and a quarter’) singer’s more than year-long battle with cancer – and her return to performing. But by lavishing huge helpings of Jones’ music and explosive performances on what is a very intimate portrait, the two-time Oscar-winning Kopple keeps the doco from ever becoming maudlin, or predictable, or from even slowing down.” — John Anderson, Indiewire “Jones has a deep and forceful voice, and her stage presence and As much as Kopple objectively energy are equally electric, which portrays Jones’s experience kicking “Jones’ music will leads fans and critics to liken her to cancer ‘in the ass’ (to use the singer’s always be her legacy, James Brown. Forging a professional sassy terminology), she never defines career as a musician isn’t easy for Miss this soulful performer by her illness. but thanks to Kopple’s Sharon Jones, though, as the singer Sharon Jones is a fighter and a survivor, portrait we got a recalls how an executive at a major Kopple shows, whether she’s breaking chance to see her soul.” label told her she was ‘too black, too through barriers in the music business fat, too short, and too old’ to make it or beating cancer. Both are ruthless — Peter Debruge, Variety B Regent Wed 17 Aug 1.45 pm in the business… There’s no denying beasts and she trumps them.” A Regent Sun 21 Aug 6.15 pm that Miss Sharon Jones paid her dues — Patrick Mullen, POV Magazine a-plenty… A SJ Gore Sun 21 Aug 5.45 pm

PROUDLY Gimme Danger SPONSORED BY Mr Gaga

Director: Jim Jarmusch Director: Tomer Heymann USA 2016 | 108 mins Israel/Sweden/Germany/ Photography: Tom Krueger Netherlands 2015 Editors: Affonso Gonçalves, 100 mins Adam Kurnitz Music: Ishai Adar Music: The Stooges With: Ohad Naharin, Tzofia With: Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Naharin, Eliav Naharin, Judith Brin Scott Asheton, James Williamson, Ingber, Gina Buntz, Natalie Portman Steve Mackay, Mike Watt, Kathy Asheton, Danny Fields Festivals: London 2015; SXSW, San Francisco 2016 Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition) 2016 In English and Hebrew, with English subtitles Colour and B&W mrgagathefilm.com

GADI DAGON “Jim Jarmusch’s contention that the it extends to all the significant Stooges If you’ve not heard of Israeli dancers… offer insights in terms both Stooges were the best rock‘n’roll members, surviving and fallen; the film choreographer Ohad Naharin, you’ll admiring and blunt. Naharin is similarly band ever is the starting point for a is dedicated to four of the latter… But wonder how that could have been once expressive – about his development as wonderfully eloquent documentary; the real takeaway… is the enduring you’ve seen this spectacular film. For a dancer and a choreographer, the joys not only does Iggy Pop contribute charge of signature songs like ‘I Wanna dance aficionados, this is surely the most of physical expression, his struggles to (verbally and facially) articulate Be Your Dog’, ‘No Fun’, ‘TV Eye’ and ‘I anticipated artist portrait since Wim convey his vision to those tasked with reminiscences about the rise and fall Got a Right’. Nobody can dispute Pop’s Wenders’ Pina. Veteran documentary embodying it and the dance-world of the band, but there’s a lovely mix description of the latter as a track that’s filmmaker Tomer Heymann’s eight- backdrop against which he developed of archive footage, interviews, photos ‘fast as lightning and kicks like a mule’… year labour of love is most unlikely his singular choreographic style and and even animation to accompany the [Gimme Danger] will be devoured to disappoint. “Thoughtfully and movement language, known as Gaga.” music. The director’s enthusiasm and by nostalgic Stooges fans but also painstakingly researched, the film is — Lynn Rapoport, San Francisco erudition combine with his cinematic should send the uninitiated scrambling packed with visually arresting archival International Film Festival expertise to create one of the great for downloads.” — David Rooney, footage from every stage of Naharin’s rock documentaries of recent times.” Hollywood Reporter professional (and personal) life, as well FEATURE PRECEDED BY — Geoff Andrew, Sight & Sound as scenes from rehearsals and some 20 Nurse Me “What makes this witty, wildly performances that movingly illustrate his Kezia Barnett | New Zealand 2016 | 11 mins affectionate tribute to the proto-punk particular genius. Choreographed pieces band out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, so A Rialto Sat 13 Aug 8.30 pm move in kinetic bursts from the rehearsal A Rialto Sat 13 Aug 4.15 pm A Rialto Wed 17 Aug 8.15 pm inclusive… is the even-handed embrace A Rialto Tue 16 Aug 8.30 pm studio to the stage and, in interviews, PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST 41

The Music of Strangers: Our Last Tango Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble Un tango más

Director: Morgan Neville Director/Screenplay: USA 2015 | 96 mins German Kral Producers: Morgan Neville, Argentina 2015 | 85 mins Caitrin Rogers Photography: Jo Heim, Félix Monti Photography: Graham Willoughby Music: Luis Borda, Sexteto Mayor, Editors: Jason Zeldes, Helen Kearns Gerd Baumann Music: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk With: María Nieves Rego, Road Ensemble Juan Carlos Copes, Pablo Verón, With: Yo-Yo Ma, Wu Man, Alejandra Gutty, Juan Malizia, Kinan Azmeh, Kayhan Kalhor, Ayelen Álvarez Miño, Pancho Cristina Pato Martínez Pey, Johana Copes Festivals: Toronto 2015; Berlin, Festivals: Toronto 2015; San Francisco 2016 Berlin 2016 In Spanish with English subtitles Censors rating tbc

THE SILK ROAD PROJECT, INC “An infectious street concert opens between cultures where harmony Our Last Tango documents a love “German Kral’s documentary Our this buoyant musical journey, the story connects disparity… story involving perhaps the most Last Tango is a combination of things, of renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and This discerning and joyous famous couple in tango history and all fascinating: a portrait of María his Silk Road Ensemble, a collective of documentary includes many of the their shared passion for the partnered Nieves and Juan Carlos Copes, a world- the world’s greatest musicians. Initially backstories of the fascinating ensemble dance. Now in their 80s, María Nieves renowned pair of tango dancers, and drawn from the Central Asian ‘Silk members: Damascus-born clarinetist Rego and Juan Carlos Copes met their professional partnership of almost Road’ countries and regions of China, Kinan Azmeh; Iranian exile and when they were 14 and 17 respectively, 50 years; a stylized staging of their India, Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, acclaimed kamancheh player, Kayhan and have danced together for nearly romantic and artistic history, performed the composition of the group eventually Kalhor; Wu Man, master of the Chinese 50 years. Off the dance floor, they by young dancers; and a celebration broadened to include talents from all stringed instrument, the pipa; and the loved and hated each other in equal of the tango itself, which continues over the globe. exuberant Spanish bagpiper Cristina measure, broke up and reunited, but to bewitch with its writhing, gently As Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Pato, known as ‘the Jimi Hendrix of always generated sparks as performing jagged grace and torrid suggestiveness.” Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom, Galicia’.” — Leah LoSchiavo, partners. Now toward the end of their — Andy Webster, NY Times NZIFF13; Best of Enemies, NZIFF15) San Francisco International Film Festival lives, the pair share their tempestuous frames it, the Silk Road Ensemble personal history with a group of young arose out of Yo-Yo Ma’s quest to A B RTPegent SuMonnday 14 Aug 25 July,12 2.00.45 pmpm tango dancers and choreographers B Regent Mon 8 Aug 11.30 am uncover Leonard Bernstein’s theoretical AB RTPegent MoWednesdayn 15 Aug 27 1.July,30 8.15pm pm in Buenos Aires who transform the A Regent Tue 16 Aug 6.15 pm ‘universal language of music’, and to A NT Wednesday 3 August, 8.15 pm couple’s personal drama into sizzling identify and cultivate the intersections A SJ Gore Wed 17 Aug 6.15 pm dance numbers. A SJ Gore Fri 12 Aug 6.15 pm

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt Wide Open Sky

Director/Screenplay: Ada Ushpiz Israel/Canada 2015 Director: Lisa Nicol 124 mins Australia 2015 | 87 mins Producers: Ina Fichman, Ada Ushpiz Photography: Carolyn Constantine Photography: Itai Neeman, German Editor: Anna Craney Gutierrez, Philippe Lavalette With: Michelle Leonard, Khynan, Editor: Hadas Ayalon Opal, Mack, Taylah, Ella, Katelyn, Music: John Wilson Alice Chance, Dot, Justin Festivals: Jerusalem, Amsterdam Festivals: Sydney 2015 Documentary 2015 Audience Award (Documentary), In German, English and Hebrew, Sydney Film Festival 2015 with English subtitles wideopenskymovie.com Colour and B&W

The German-Jewish philosopher elimination of European Jews. There “Defined by images of children caught Punctuated by moments of unadorned Hannah Arendt left her indelible imprint are interviews with old friends and up in the joyous rigour of creative performance – a boy dances on a on 20th-century thought by coining the academic experts and extensive use of expression, Lisa Nicol’s Wide Open Sky tin roof in one – the documentary concept of the ‘banality of evil’ when filmed interviews Arendt herself gave, follows conductor and choirmaster focuses on individual personalities reporting on the 1963 trial of Nazi war as well as effective readings of excerpts Michelle Leonard across outback New and not socioeconomic factors, but criminal Adolph Eichmann. Directed by from her essays and letters by actress South Wales as she auditions thousands it makes it clear that there are Israeli documentarian Ada Ushpiz, who Alison Darcy. of primary school students to find numerous children whose creative has degrees in philosophy and history, “There are moments in Vita Activa, an the 130 annual participants for her instincts just need a little nurturing. this smart, spirited documentary urgent and often startling documentary Moorambilla Voices choir. Both Leonard and Wide Open Sky illuminates that often abused idea. from Israeli director Ada Ushpiz, where A formidable motivator who refuse to accept stereotypes, and the Ushpiz also draws a larger picture of I could feel her trying to reach across inclusively pushes her charges for reward for that is illuminating and Arendt’s often conflicted engagement the decades and talk to us.” — Andrew excellence, Leonard opens up the joyous.” — Craig Mathieson, The Age with the defining phenomena of her O’Hehir, Salon possibility of creative betterment era. Richly illustrated with rarely-seen and self-expression in children who historical footage, Vita Activa offers often come from disadvantaged A Regent Sat 6 Aug 11.00 am an intimate portrait of Arendt’s life backgrounds. As the film unfolds the B Regent Fri 12 Aug 11.15 am and work – both deeply informed by swell of their voices gradually builds as A SJ Gore Sat 13 Aug 1.30 pm the aftermath of World War I, the rise A Regent Sun 7 Aug 12.45 pm the story moves towards a headlining B SJ Gore Thu 18 Aug 11.00 am of Nazi Germany and its systematic B Rialto Wed 17 Aug 11.15 am appearance at a music festival. 42

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Thursday 4 August B 1.00 pm The Rehearsal (REGENT) 98 p5 A 8.30 pm Gimme Danger (RIALTO) 108 p40 A 7.30 pm Poi E (REGENT) 96 p4 B 3.00 pm Toni Erdmann (REGENT) 162 p8 Sunday 14 August B 3.15 pm The 5th Eye (RIALTO) 112 p11 Friday 5 August A 11.15 am Another Country (RIALTO) 75 p33 A 6.15 pm The Innocents (REGENT) 116 p17 B 11.00 am The Innocents (REGENT) 116 p17 B 11.15 am Animation for Kids 4+ (REGENT) 64 p30 A 6.15 pm The heART of the Matter (RIALTO) 88 p10 B 11.30 am Argentina (RIALTO) 88 p38 A 12.45 pm The Music of Strangers… (REGENT) 96 p41 A 8.45 pm A Perfect Day (REGENT) 105 p22 B 1.30 pm Truman (REGENT) 109 p23 A 1.00 pm God Willing (RIALTO) 88 p20 A 8.45 pm Neon Bull (RIALTO) 101 p26 B 1.30 pm McCabe & Mrs Miller (RIALTO) 120 p9 A 2.45 pm The Country Doctor (REGENT) 102 p17 B 4.00 pm Everybody Wants Some!! (REGENT) 117 p24 Wednesday 10 August A 3.00 pm Indignation (RIALTO) 111 p24 B 4.00 pm Certain Women (RIALTO) 107 p27 B 10.45 am Like Crazy (REGENT) 116 p20 A 5.00 pm Toni Erdmann (REGENT) 162 p8 A 6.15 pm Apple Pie (RIALTO) 80 p10 B 11.30 am Tanna (RIALTO) 104 p29 A 5.15 pm Tokyo Story (RIALTO) 136 p9 A 6.30 pm I, Daniel Blake (REGENT) 100 p6 B 1.15 pm The Daughter (REGENT) 95 p15 A 8.00 pm Graduation (RIALTO) 127 p22 A 8.30 pm Green Room (RIALTO) 96 p27 B 1.45 pm A Perfect Day (RIALTO) 105 p22 A 8.15 pm Lovesong (REGENT) 84 p28 A 8.45 pm The Handmaiden (REGENT) 145 p22 B 3.30 pm Captain Fantastic (REGENT) 119 + 10 p24 Monday 15 August B 4.00 pm Lo and Behold… (RIALTO) 98 p35 Saturday 6 August B 11.00 am Theeb (RIALTO) 101 p19 A 6.15 pm Truman (REGENT) 109 p23 A 10.30 am Life, Animated (RIALTO) 91 p34 B 11.15 am The Country Doctor (REGENT) 102 p17 A 6.15 pm Life, Animated (RIALTO) 91 p34 A 11.00 am Wide Open Sky (REGENT) 87 p41 B 1.00 pm Fire at Sea (RIALTO) 108 p33 A 8.15 pm On an Unknown Beach (RIALTO) 90 p11 B 12.30 pm Animation for Kids 4+ (RIALTO) 64 p30 B 1.30 pm The Music of Strangers… (REGENT) 96 p41 A 8.45 pm Zero Days (REGENT) 113 p37 A 1.00 pm Sunset Song (REGENT) 135 p23 B 3.15 pm Suburra (RIALTO) 135 p21 A 2.00 pm Cameraperson (RIALTO) 102 p39 Thursday 11 August B 3.45 pm Neruda (REGENT) 107 p7 A 4.00 pm After the Storm (REGENT) 117 p21 B 10.45 am The heART of the Matter (RIALTO) 88 p10 A 6.15 pm Ants on a Shrimp… (REGENT) 88 p38 A 4.00 pm Tanna (RIALTO) 104 p29 B 11.15 am I, Daniel Blake (REGENT) 100 p6 A 6.15 pm Notes on Blindness (RIALTO) 90 p35 A 6.15 pm Neon Bull (RIALTO) 101 p26 B 1.15 pm A War (RIALTO) 116 p16 A 8.15 pm Le Ride (REGENT) 90 p11 A 6.30 pm The Rehearsal (REGENT) 98 p5 B 1.30 pm Obit (REGENT) 94 p34 A 8.15 pm The Salesman (RIALTO) 125 p19 A 8.30 pm A War (RIALTO) 116 p16 B 3.45 pm High-Rise (REGENT) 119 p23 Tuesday 16 August A 8.45 pm High-Rise (REGENT) 119 p23 B 3.45 pm The Clan (RIALTO) 110 p14 B 11.15 am A Quiet Passion (REGENT) 124 p5 A 6.15 pm God Willing (REGENT) 88 p20 Sunday 7 August B 12.00 pm Francofonia (RIALTO) 87 p18 A 6.15 pm Chasing Asylum (RIALTO) 96 p32 B 11.00 am Animation for Kids 8+ (REGENT) 68 p30 B 2.00 pm Embrace (REGENT) 90 p32 A 8.15 pm Everybody Wants Some!! (REGENT) 117 p24 A 11.15 am Argentina (RIALTO) 88 p38 B 2.00 pm The Road (RIALTO) 95 p35 A 8.15 pm Graduation (RIALTO) 127 p22 A 12.45 pm Vita Activa… (REGENT) 124 p41 B 4.00 pm Perfect Strangers (REGENT) 96 p20

A 1.15 pm Thithi (RIALTO) 123 p19 Friday 12 August B 4.00 pm The First, the Last (RIALTO) 98 p14 A 6.15 pm Our Last Tango (REGENT) 85 p41 A 3.15 pm Like Crazy (REGENT) 116 p20 B 11.15 am Wide Open Sky (REGENT) 87 p41 A 4.00 pm Eat That Question: Frank Zappa… (RIALTO) 90 p39 A 6.15 pm Tomorrow (RIALTO) 119 p36 B 11.30 am Cameraperson (RIALTO) 102 p39 A 5.45 pm Captain Fantastic (REGENT) 119 +10 p24 A 8.15 pm Theeb (REGENT) 101 p19 B 1.15 pm The Dancer (REGENT) 108 p39 A 6.00 pm Free to Run (RIALTO) 99 p34 A 8.30 pm Gimme Danger (RIALTO) 108 p40 B 1.45 pm Thithi (RIALTO) 123 p19 A 8.00 pm McCabe & Mrs Miller (RIALTO) 120 p9 B 3.45 pm Midnight Special (REGENT) 112 p25 Wednesday 17 August A 8.30 pm Endless Poetry (REGENT) 128 p15 B 4.30 pm Eat That Question: Frank Zappa… (RIALTO) 90 p39 B 10.45 am Aquarius (REGENT) 140 p6 Monday 8 August A 6.15 pm Things to Come (REGENT) 101 p18 B 11.15 am Vita Activa… (RIALTO) 124 p41 B 11.00 am The Salesman (RIALTO) 125 p19 A 6.30 pm Weiner (RIALTO) 95 p37 B 1.45 pm Miss Sharon Jones! (REGENT) 95 p40 B 11.30 am Our Last Tango (REGENT) 85 p41 A 8.30 pm Neruda (REGENT) 107 p7 B 1.45 pm The Idealist (RIALTO) 114 p15 B 1.30 pm After the Storm (REGENT) 117 p21 A 8.30 pm Under the Shadow (RIALTO) 85 p29 B 3.45 pm Paterson (REGENT) 113 p7 B 1.30 pm Zero Days (RIALTO) 113 p37 B 4.15 pm Under the Shadow (RIALTO) 85 p29 Saturday 13 August B 3.45 pm Green Room (RIALTO) 96 p27 A 6.15 pm Julieta (REGENT) 96 p22 A 10.30 am Chasing Asylum (RIALTO) 96 p32 B 4.00 pm Things to Come (REGENT) 101 p18 A 6.15 pm The Road (RIALTO) 95 p35 A 11.30 am Francofonia (REGENT) 87 p18 A 6.00 pm The 5th Eye (RIALTO) 112 p11 A 8.15 pm Mr Gaga (RIALTO) 100 + 11 p40 B 12.30 pm Animation for Kids 8+ (RIALTO) 68 p30 A 6.15 pm The Daughter (REGENT) 95 p15 A 8.30 pm Lo and Behold… (REGENT) 98 p35 A 1.30 pm Embrace (REGENT) 90 p32 A 8.30 pm Certain Women (REGENT) 107 p27 A 2.15 pm Little Men (RIALTO) 86 p25 Thursday 18 August A 8.45 pm Animation Now 2016 (RIALTO) 78 p25 A 3.30 pm The Eagle Huntress (REGENT) 87 p31 B 11.30 am Julieta (REGENT) 96 p22 Tuesday 9 August A 4.15 pm Mr Gaga (RIALTO) 100 + 11 p40 B 12.15 pm Lovesong (RIALTO) 84 p28 B 10.00 am Sunset Song (REGENT) 135 p23 A 5.30 pm A Quiet Passion (REGENT) 124 p5 B 1.30 pm Land of Mine (REGENT) 101 p16 B 11.00 am Little Men (RIALTO) 86 p25 A 6.45 pm New Zealand's Best 2016 (RIALTO) 75 p13 B 2.15 pm Another Country (RIALTO) 75 p33

B 12.45 pm Endless Poetry (RIALTO) 128 p15 A 8.15 pm The Clan (REGENT) 110 p14 Continued over » 44

Dunedin schedule continued GORE TICKET PRICES GORE SCHEDULE B 3.45 pm Personal Shopper (REGENT) 105 p18 ✪ OPENING NIGHT GALA Thursday 11 August B 4.00 pm Tokyo Story (RIALTO) 136 p9 Includes drinks and nibbles (from 7.15 pm). B 11.00 am Like Crazy (116) p20 A 6.15 pm Perfect Strangers (REGENT) 96 p20 ✪ 8.15 pm Le Ride (90) p11 A 6.45 pm Heart of a Dog (RIALTO) 75 p26 Full Price $20.00 Seniors (65+)/Students (13 and over) $16.00 A 8.30 pm Midnight Special (REGENT) 112 p25 Friday 12 August A 8.30 pm The First, The Last (RIALTO) 98 p14 Children (12 and under) $14.00 B 11.00 am The Country Doctor (102) p17 A CODED SESSIONS Friday 19 August A 6.15 pm Our Last Tango (85) p41 Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all A 8.00 pm Midnight Special (112) p25 B 11.15 am Chimes at Midnight (REGENT) 117 p9 weekend sessions. B 12.00 pm When Two Worlds Collide (RIALTO) 103 p36 Full Price $15.00 Saturday 13 August B 1.45 pm The Red Turtle (REGENT) 80 p8 Seniors (65+)/Students (13 and over) $13.00 A 1.30 pm Wide Open Sky (87) p41 B 2.15 pm Heart of a Dog (RIALTO) 75 p26 A 3.30 pm After the Storm (117) p21 Gore Musical Theatre/Film Club members $12.00 B 3.45 pm Elle (REGENT) 130 p4 A 6.00 pm Like Crazy (116) p20 Children (12 and under) $9.00 B 4.00 pm Operation Avalanche (RIALTO) 95 p29 A 8.30 pm Neon Bull (101) p26 A 6.15 pm Sand Storm (RIALTO) 87 p21 B CODED SESSIONS A 6.30 pm Land of Mine (REGENT) 101 p16 Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays Sunday 14 August and others as indicated. A 8.15 pm Suburra (RIALTO) 135 p21 A 1.30 pm Embrace (90) p32 Full Price $10.00 A 8.45 pm Personal Shopper (REGENT) 105 p18 A 3.30 pm The Innocents (116) p17 Seniors (65+)/Students (13 and over) $10.00 A 6.00 pm I, Daniel Blake (100) p6 Saturday 20 August Children (12 and under) $8.00 A 8.15 pm Land of Mine (101) p16 A 11.00 am Tomorrow (REGENT) 119 p36 A 11.30 am Girls' POV… (RIALTO) 70 p31 Monday 15 August A 1.15 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga… (RIALTO) 89 p13 BUYING TICKETS A 6.15 pm Life, Animated (91) p34 A 1.30 pm Chimes at Midnight (REGENT) 117 p9 Tickets are available at the St James Theatre in advance. A 8.15 pm New Zealand's Best 2016 (75) p13 Please note: There is no allocated seating so arrive A 3.30 pm Weiner (RIALTO) 95 p37 early for the best seats. Tuesday 16 August A 4.00 pm The Red Turtle (REGENT) 80 p8 Budget Day Tuesday does not apply to NZIFF screenings. B 11.00 am The Dancer (108) p39 A 5.45 pm Indignation (RIALTO) 111 p24 No vouchers may be used for NZIFF screenings. A 6.15 pm Truman (109) p23 A 6.00 pm The Dancer (REGENT) 108 p39 MULTI-FILM DISCOUNT A 8.30 pm High-Rise (119) p23 A 8.00 pm The Idealist (RIALTO) 114 p15 Buy tickets for five or more films in one transaction and receive a 10% discount off the total amount. A 8.30 pm Paterson (REGENT) 113 p7 Wednesday 17 August GROUP BOOKINGS B 11.00 am Sunset Song (135) p23 Sunday 21 August For group bookings of 20 or more people, please A 6.15 pm The Music of Strangers… (96) p41 A 11.00 am Obit (REGENT) 94 p34 contact Peter Cairns at [email protected] or Ph (03) 208 7396 or 027 208 7393. A 8.15 pm Personal Shopper (105) p18 A 11.45 am When Two Worlds Collide (RIALTO) 103 p36 VENUE INFORMATION A 1.15 pm Long Way North (REGENT) 82 p31 Thursday 18 August SBS St James Theatre: 61 Irk Street, Ph (03) 208 7396 A 1.45 pm Notes on Blindness (RIALTO) 90 p35 B 11.00 am Wide Open Sky (87) p41 Wheelchair access is available at some screenings. A 3.15 pm Aquarius (REGENT) 140 p6 Please phone the St James Theatre for details. A 6.15 pm The Country Doctor (102) p17 A 3.45 pm Sand Storm (RIALTO) 87 p21 A 8.30 pm The Clan (110) p14 A 5.45 pm Fire at Sea (RIALTO) 108 p33 Friday 19 August A 6.15 pm Miss Sharon Jones! (REGENT) 95 p40 B 11.00 am The Innocents (116) p17 A 8.00 pm Operation Avalanche (RIALTO) 95 p29 A 6.15 pm God Willing (88) p20 A 8.15 pm Elle (REGENT) 130 p4 A 8.15 pm Everybody Wants Some!! (117) p24

Saturday 20 August A 2.00 pm Argentina (88) p38 A 4.00 pm The Eagle Huntress (87) p31 A 6.00 pm The Dancer (108) p39 A 8.15 pm Paterson (113) p7

Sunday 21 August A 1.00 pm The Red Turtle (80) p8 A 3.00 pm Sunset Song (135) p23 A 5.45 pm Miss Sharon Jones! (95) p40 A 7.45 pm Elle (130) p4

THE RED TURTLE 45

INDEX The 5th Eye 11 I I, Daniel Blake 6 A The Idealist 15 After the Storm 21 Indignation 24 Animation for Kids 4+ 30 The Innocents 17 Animation for Kids 8+ 30 Animation Now 2016 25 J Another Country 33 Julieta 22 Ants on a Shrimp: Noma in Tokyo 38 L Apple Pie 10 Land of Mine 16 Aquarius 6 Le Ride 11 Argentina 38 Life, Animated 34 C Like Crazy 20 Cameraperson 39 Little Men 25 Captain Fantastic 24 Lo and Behold: MCCABE & MRS MILLER Certain Women 27 Reveries of the Connected World 35 Chasing Asylum 32 Long Way North 31 Chimes at Midnight 9 Lovesong 28 The Clan 14 S U M The Country Doctor 17 The Salesman 19 Under the Shadow 29 McCabe & Mrs Miller 9 Sand Storm 21 Midnight Special 25 V D Suburra 21 Miss Sharon Jones! 40 Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt 41 The Dancer 39 Sunset Song 23 Mr Gaga 40 The Daughter 15 W The Music of Strangers: T A War 16 E Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble 41 Tanna 29 Weiner 37 The Eagle Huntress 31 Theeb 19 N When Two Worlds Collide 36 Eat That Question: Things to Come 18 Frank Zappa in His Own Words 39 Neon Bull 26 Wide Open Sky 41 Thithi 19 Elle 4 Neruda 7 Tokyo Story 9 Z Embrace 32 New Zealand’s Best 2016 13 Tomorrow 36 Zero Days 37 Endless Poetry 15 Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori Pasifika Shorts 2016 13 Toni Erdmann 8 Everybody Wants Some!! 24 Notes on Blindness 35 Truman 23 F O Fire at Sea 33 Obit 34 The First, the Last 14 On an Unknown Beach 11 Francofonia 18 WITHOUT WHOM Operation Avalanche 29 Free to Run 34 For Regent Theatre (Dunedin): Sarah Anderson (Director); Nelson Miles (Technical Our Last Tango 41 Manager); Russell Campbell (Projectionist Supreme); Andrea Ford (Administration Manager); G P Bernie Chatfield, Tess Palmer, Robin Dignan, Nikki Willems (Box Office); Hannah Molloy Gimme Danger 40 (Marketing Manager); Alison Cunningham (Chair), Sallyjane Cranfield (Deputy Chair), Paterson 7 Girls’ POV: NYICFF Retrospective 31 John Aitken, Russell Atkinson, Garry Gibson, Christine Hislop, Sandra Nixon, Kathleen Wallace, A Perfect Day 22 God Willing 20 Christine Hislop, Mayor Dave Cull (Regent Theatre Trust of Otago Trustees) Perfect Strangers 20 Graduation 22 For Rialto Cinemas (Dunedin): Craig Robinson (Manager); Gary Gutschlag (Head Projectionist); Personal Shopper 18 Green Room 27 Mike Dillon, Charlotte Haselden, Damian Smith (Venue Managers) Poi E: The Story of Our Song 4 For SBS St James Theatre (Gore): Peter Cairns H Q The Handmaiden 22 A Quiet Passion 5 Heart of a Dog 26 KEY TO ICONS The heART of the Matter 10 R High-Rise 23 The Red Turtle 8 Guest Appearance Cannes Selection 2016

The Rehearsal 5 Short Preceding Feature Major Festival Award The Road 35

Notes in this brochure are written and compiled by the programmers, Bill Gosden, Michael McDonnell, Ant Timpson and Malcolm Turner. Tim Wong, Toby Manhire, Jo Randerson, Judah Finnigan, Andrew Langridge, Nic Marshall and Tom Webb also contributed notes. The brochure was edited, drawing on a wide array of writers we like, by Bill Gosden, who also wrote the unsigned notes, cribbing the occasional perfect adjective from said writers. It was managed by Tim Wong with the assistance of a squadron of ace proofreaders who labour beyond the call of duty. Views expressed in the brochure do not necessarily represent the views of the staff or trustees of the New Zealand Film Festival Trust. Resene Resene ellywood Piha Sand

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