Bath Film Festival 3 - 13 November 2016 bathfilmfestival.org.uk

Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 3 Welcome to #BFF2016 At Bath Film Festival we aim to bring you a truly eclectic and inspiring mix of film that you won’t find anywhere else. How? Our programming team scour the world for the most compelling, fresh and fascinating films for you to enjoy. Over the last three years, since our successful launch of the much-talked-about F-Rating (see page 8), our focus increasingly has been on films made by and about societies, cultures and people that we don’t often see on the big screen in Bath. This year look out for the many films receiving an F-Rating stamp of approval, as well as those included in two new strands: Pan-Asian and Queer Film. We think they all add up to our most vibrant and AD (Bath Theatre) diverse film festival yet – enjoy!

Holly Tarquini, Executive Director

Contents Festival Schedule 4 - 5 Festival Highlights 6 - 15 Map and Bookings 16 - 17 Our Sponsors 18 - 19 All the Films 20 - 41

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The Odyssey (L’Odyssée) Odeon Screen 1 19.30 20 Hamlet Chapel Arts 18.00 26 The Salesman Odeon Screen 1 20.30 32 Swallows and Amazons Odeon Screen 1 18.00 38 The Red Turtle (La Tortue Rouge) Odeon Screen 1 18.00 26 The Music of Strangers Chapel Arts 20.40 33 Creepy Odeon Screen 2 20.40 39 Friday 4 November Sonita Odeon Screen 2 18.30 27 Miss Hokusai Rondo 105 21.00 33 A Strange Love Affair With Ego ICIA, Edge Arts 19.30 39 A Monster Calls Odeon Screen 6 18.30 21 Only The Dead Rondo 19.00 27 The Salt of the Earth BRLSI Elwin Rm 19.30 39 Tickled Mission Theatre 18.30 21 Harmonium Odeon Screen 1 20.10 28 Thursday 10 November The Birth of a Nation Odeon Screen 1 20.50 40 Tidal Tales Widcombe SC 19.00 21 Baden Baden Chapel Arts 20.30 28 The Duchess Assembly Rooms 18.00 34 Under The Shadow Odeon Screen 2 21.00 40 Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words Mission Theatre 20.40 22 Burn Burn Burn Odeon Screen 1 18.00 35 Tuesday 8 November Ethel and Ernest Odeon Screen 2 18.30 35 Sunday 13 November Saturday 5 November Certain Women Odeon Screen 1 18.00 29 Cameraperson Chapel 135 19.00 35 Paterson Odeon Screen 1 18.00 40 Railways On Film Mission Theatre 19.00 22 Seed: The Untold Story Chapel Arts 18.10 29 Neruda Odeon Screen 1 21.00 36 A United Kingdom Odeon Screen 6 20.40 41 Summertime (La Belle Saison) Mission Theatre 20.40 23 Closet Monster Rondo 18.30 30 Alone In Berlin Odeon Screen 1 20.40 30 Friday 11 November Sunday 6 November Girls Lost (Pojkarna) Chapel Arts 20.50 31 The Levelling Odeon Screen 1 18.00 36 Freaky Friday Little Theatre 1 12.00 23 Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? Odeon Screen 2 18.30 36 Long Way Noth Chapel Arts 16.00 23 Wednesday 9 November The Handmaiden Odeon Screen 1 20.30 37 Forever Pure Chapel Arts 18.00 24 The Pass Odeon Screen 1 18.00 31 Desierto Odeon Screen 2 18.30 38 The Olive Tree (El Olivo) Odeon Screen 1 18.00 25 Omo Child: The River And The Bush Chapel Arts 18.00 31 The Clan (El Clan) Chapel Arts 20.10 25 Sweet Bean Rondo 18.30 32 Lady Macbeth Odeon Screen 1 20.30 25 IMDb Awards Assembly Rooms 19.00 32 6 Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm bathfilmfestival.org.uk7 P A N -ASIAN As well as promoting queer voices and women’s stories, we are also delighted to focus on Asian films in 2016, and we have discovered some THE PASS THE HANDMAIDEN / AH-GA-SSI GIRLS LOST / POJKARNA absolute gems that we’re sure you’ll enjoy. Wed 9 Nov, 6pm, Odeon Fri 11 Nov, 8.30pm, Odeon Tue 8 Nov, 8.50pm, Even now, in 2016, no top flight This hits all the marks: adapted Chapel Arts footballer has come out openly from Sarah Walters’ Fingersmith After drinking from some as gay in their playing career. novel, directed by Park Chan-wook mysterious, magical plants, This superb film tells the story (of Old Boy fame), prioritising three bullied teenaged girls of a closeted soccer player, female sexuality and stunningly experience life as boys in this played by Russell Tovey who gorgeous, we cannot wait to see fairytale film about sexual gives a “knockout performance” this Korean gem: “clever, heady awakening: “deliciously – Variety. and sensually lavish” – Variety. dark and profoundly vital” – The Film Stage.

SWEET BEAN / AN MISS HOKUSAI / SARUSUBERI: KURÎPÎ: ITSUWARI Wed 9 Nov, 6.30pm Rondo MISS HOKUSAI NO RINJIN / CREEPY, Each frame of this film is Wed 9 Nov, 9pm, Rondo Theatre Sat 12 Nov, 6pm, Odeon 2 beautiful; a feel good feature Katsushika Hokusai, the famous Helmed by cult horror director about the pleasure of exquisite 9th-century Japanese painter and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, this Japanese food. “If it is possible to printmaker had a daughter, who thriller is mesmerizingly tense Q UEER FILM be at once clear-eyed and was also an extremely talented from the outset and is terrifying LM sentimental, Kawase achieves painter. This stunning, award- because it deals with the everyday

FI Our new Queer film strand is part of our commitment to that in this heartbreakingly winning film is an absolutely must and not with Freddie Kruger. As SIAN

amplifying diverse voices in film and features six superb beautiful film” – Sydney see movie, “an art form, not a The Japan Times says: “it doesn’t A - movies, all of which you are going to want to see. Morning Herald. genre” – Variety. get much eerier than this”. AN QUEER QUEER P 8 Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 9

By championing their films, we can encourage critics to review them, inspire audiences to watch them and ultimately influence studios to F -R ATED GEMS fund more female filmmakers. The F-Rating stamp sits alongside a film’s standard age classification and can be awarded to any film that The F-Rating exists to shine a light on the answers “yes” to one or more of the following questions: amazing work that women are doing in film. 1. Does it have a female director? 2. Is it written by a woman? 3. Are there significant female characters on screen in their own right? We are thrilled that for the second year running, Pukka Herbs are supporting the F-Rating, and we look forward to once again greeting you at F-Rated screenings with a cup of FREE Pukka tea: in our opinion, the very best herbal tea around.

THE LEVELLING BURN BURN BURN CERTAIN WOMEN BADEN BADEN Fri 11 Nov, 6pm, Odeon Thu 10 Nov, 6pm, Odeon Tue 8 Nov, 6pm, Odeon Mon 7 Nov, 8.30pm, Chapel Arts Set on the Somerset Levels, This film has been winning Directed by the brilliant Kelly “A laid-back feminist fable about this debut feature from Hope audience awards at festivals Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff, Night a young woman pulling her life Dickenson Leach (who will around the world, with a great Moves etc) and featuring Kristen together over a complicated be joining us via Skype for a cast and a fascinating theme: Stewart, Michelle Williams and summer, Franco-Belgian Q&A), explores the effect of an dead friend Dan insist that Alex Laura Dern, this is deeply drama Baden Baden S unexpected suicide on a daughter- and Seph (Laura Carmichael moving slow-burner of Triple F-rated is a confident, father relationship. With a fantastic from Downton Abbey and Chloe a movie about three films answer “yes” to witty debut for all three questions and

GEM lead performance from Game Of Pirrie from War & Peace) take women striving to French writer- are our gold standard. D Thrones star Ellie Kendrick who his ashes on a road trip. “A great forge their own paths director Rachel

E Look out for the F-rating will be joining us in person, this is film about being alive” – Neel amidst the wide- Lang” – Screen and Triple F-rated logos AT “a small jewel of a film” – TIFF. Bhat. Followed by Q&A with open plains of the as you go through the Daily. R

- director Chanya Button. American Northwest. brochure F Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 11 D OCUMENTARIES One of the very best mediums for giving us insight into lives, cultures and experiences beyond our own is of course documentary film. As always we have scoured the earth for the very best feature docs for the 2016 programme.

INGRID BERGMAN IN HER OWN SONITA CAMERAPERSON, WORDS / JAG ÄR INGRID Mon 7 Nov, 6.30pm Odeon Thu 10 Nov, 7pm Fri 4 Nov, 8.40pm Mission Theatre This is a perfect example of the Chapel Arts Ingrid Bergman was the star unyielding power documentary. Kirsten Johnson was of Casablanca and some of Sonita is an undocumented the person behind the Hitchcock’s best films. Her Afghan refugee in Iran who raps camera for Fahrenheit private life was full of controversy defiantly about her experience 9/11, Darfur Now and S E and she was vilified for some of as a teenager at odds with her Citizenfour (among many I the decisions she made about her sexist surroundings, while her others). In this award winning R relationships. This film combines parents try to sell her off to the autobiographical film told footage she shot through her life highest-bidding prospective in images, she “delivers a NTA with interviews from those who husband. uniquely insightful memoir-cum-

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ethics of her craft” – Variety. C O D 12 Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 13

HAMLET THE DUCHESS Mon 7 Nov, 6pm, Thu 10 Nov, 6pm, The Assembly Rooms Chapel Arts The brilliant Fangirl Quest (Tiia Öhman 2016 IMDB AWARDS This 1921 classic is presented and Satu Walden) travel the world in a vibrant new restoration “Sceneframing” images from their Always an inspiring and wonderfully enjoyable evening, this year the with tinted colour tones, with favourite films (look at the photo – live accompaniment from and you’ll instantly get it). They’ll be IMDb Awards takes place at The Assembly Rooms with an amazing line up the wonderful Lillian Henley, teaching us how to do the same, in the of industry judges. If you have any interest in film do not miss this gala event. experienced pianist at the very room where one of the scenes from Cinema Museum in London. The Duchess was filmed. A thrilling live experience. 190 2016 Shortlisted films are... This year we had a record 190 submissions for the 2016 IMDb New Filmmaker Award. FULFILAMENT Dedicated to finding and supporting emerging by Rhiannon Evans talent, this award gives filmmakers the financial backing and exposure they need to take their first step in the film world.

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NTS itself and an enamel IMDb badge, usually only available to IMDb employees. HELP! I’M SPECIAL EVENTS TRAPPED EVE

IN A MOVIE DB AWA DB L As well as these two very special events, do not miss by Riley MAKEUP the Natural Theatre Company’s immersive walking We will also be premiering the 2016 KAREN Madincea by Hannah M CIA winner of the IMDb Script to Screen Award: by Aqsa Altaf Whisenant E tour of Bath’s film locations on 4 and 5 Nov (see page 22). Dig by Amanda Richardson. SP 2016 I /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 15 D O NOT MISS! With 46 features screening over 11 days, it would be easy to miss some of the less obvious treasures hidden in the schedule. Here are a handful to look out for.

OMO CHILD Weds 9 Nov, 6pm, Chapel Arts John Rowe’s documentary introduces us to the Kara tribe of the Omo valley who have THE OLIVE TREE / EL OLIVO DESIERTO always killed the cursed, Sun 6 Nov, 6pm, Odeon Fri 11, 8.40pm, Odeon “Mingi” children. Lale Directed by Madrid-born Icíar When their truck breaks down, Labuko left the tribe to Bollaín and written by her a migrant leads 13 others on a study in the West and husband Paul Laverty this is “an trek through the harsh terrain is returning to save the earthy, quietly stirring Spanish along the US - Mexico border. cursed children and fable that finds familial, regional Their situation turns to horror as overturn this tradition. and environmental grievances they are attacked by a psychotic Gripping and eye inseparably tangled in its sniper and his vicious dog. A opening. branches” - Variety. nerve shredding thriller, which conveys a particularly timely message, screening just three days after the US election. 16 Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 17 5 U SEFUL INFORMATION VENUE MAP 3

Booking Information General booking information Venues

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AY ODEON Screens 1, 2 and 6 are allocated Standard concessionary rates apply for full 1 Odeon Bath ILSOM S seating, so please book early to get a good seat. time students, registered unemployed, under Kingsmead Leisure Complex, T S T GREAT PULTENEY ST Tickets for ALL screenings are available 15s and those living on state pension. Proof James St W, Bath BA1 2BX of concessionary status must be provided at on the Bath Film Festival website 2 Chapel Arts ST the time of purchase or collection. CHARLOTTE bathfilmfestival.org.uk Lower Borough Walls Bath BA1 1QR 6 When available, tickets will be on sale on SQ UEEN And from Bath Box Office in person, MONMOUTH PLACEQ the door at the venue 30 minutes before the 3 Assembly Rooms by phone or by email. advertised start time. Bennett St, Bath BA1 2QH Bath Visitor Information Centre, Abbey Tickets are non-refundable, but if an event 4 Chambers, Abbey Green, Bath BA1 1NL sells out we are happy to offer returned Mission Theatre Mondays – Saturdays 10.30am – 5pm tickets for resale. A £2 per ticket handling 32 Corn St, Bath BA1 1UF charge will apply on all resold tickets. Closed Sundays & Bank Holidays 5 Rondo Theatre JAMES ST WEST 01225 463362 Please note we cannot refund postage or 8 St. Saviours Rd, Bath BA1 6RT 1 YORK ST N boxoffi[email protected] transaction fee. Contact Bath Box Office.

O 6 BRLSI MIDLAND BRIDGE RD Chapel Arts Café 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN ST JAMES’S PARADE

ATI 4 The wonderful Chapel Arts Café will be 7 staying open Sun 6 Nov – Thu 10 Nov serving 7 ICIA at The Edge 2 drinks and snacks (and hopefully some University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY ORM Book now… of their AMAZING cakes!) until the final these films will sell out 8 screening of the day has gone in. Little Theatre

INF A Monster Calls Cinema St Michael’s Place, G A United Kingdom Disability Access Bath BA1 1SF

IN The Birth of a Nation All of our venues have disabled access and The Duchess toilets apart from Chapel Arts (with huge

Lady Macbeth AP OOK apologies)

B Paterson M 18 Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 19 A HUGE THANK YOU Silver supporters Partners Each seat at a festival screening costs us an average of £27. But thanks to the generosity of our amazing partners sponsors, we’re able to make each seat affordable and put on a great festival year after year. Enormous thanks to:

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Bath Film Festival Team 2016 Supporters

Honorary President Sir Christopher Frayling Festival Patrons Sally Potter, Peter Gabriel, Ken Loach, Amanda Nevill, Pawel Pawlikowski, Thelma Schoonmaker, Stephen Woolley Chair of Trustees Barbara ANTHONY & SYLVIA MACKEWN VAN & EVA DUBOSE Carroll Trustees Mary Burton, Rona Fineman, Alastair Goolden, Valencia Haynes, Elspeth Hinde, Andrew Morgan, Ken Littlewood, Philip Raby Executive Director Holly Tarquini Creative Director Philip Raby Technical Manager Alastair Goolden Festival Schedulers Chris Baker, Jason Barker Press Officer Pam Beddard Festival & Marketing Coordinator Jessica Edge Marketing & Copy Assistants Maïwenn Lemouee & Abbie Robinson Copy Editor Ben Rive with Barry Dobson & Anika Schulze Programming Team Philip Raby, Chris Baker, Alastair Goolden, Mel Henry, Valencia Haynes, Elspeth Hinde, Sven De Hondt and Jason Barker Website Design & Build Burfield Website Manager Hannah Atkinson Ident Chris Day at Little Creature Promo Films Artswork Media Brochure Design TheGroupofSeven.co.uk RABY FAMILY TRUST STEPHEN TAYLOR JENNY MACKEWN Brochure Copy 2016 Philip Raby, Holly Tarquini, Elspeth Hinde, Chris Baker PLUS over 70 of the very best volunteers in the country. A heartfelt and MASSIVE thank you to you all. THANK YOU THANK YOU 20 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 21

Thu 3 Nov Preview THE ODYSSEY / L’ODYSSÉE

Serenity below the waves, turbulence above Director: Jérôme Salle France, 2016, 122m, PG (tbc), subtitles With: Lambert Wilson, Audrey Tautou, Pierre Niney Odeon, 7.30pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8

Jacques Cousteau is one of the most celebrated television naturalists of the 20th century. His underwater voyages were the staple diet of wildlife documentaries long before David Attenborough cosied up to a gorilla. The Odyssey explores Fri 4 Nov Preview Fri 4 Nov Documentary Fri 4 Nov Preview Cousteau’s life and work, featuring the man himself (Lambert Wilson), his wife Simone (Audrey Tautou) A MONSTER CALLS TICKLED TIDAL TALES and his son Philippe (with whom he had a complex and sometimes hostile relationship), and presents Breathtakingly beautiful masterpiece Fetish doc goes from giggly to grim Short films about tides, estuaries and the coastline Cousteau as part serious oceanologist and part Director: J A Bayona Director: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve Various directors, 90m, nc salesman who was always on the lookout for the USA, Spain, 2016, 108m, 12A New Zealand, 2016, 92m, 15 Widcombe Social Club, 7pm, £8/£6

next investor. The underwater footage is staggeringly With: Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Lewis With: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve, David Starr Estuaries and shorelines hold a deep fascination beautiful, and the drama above the waves is equally MacDougall Mission Theatre, 6.30pm, £8/£6 for us – washed by the tides, they are constantly enthralling. The ubiquitous red bobble hats will Odeon, 6.30pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8 When he stumbles across a “competitive endurance changing places of climate and light extremes, remind all Wes Anderson fans of The Life Aquatic. This could well be one of the monster hits of 2017. tickling” video online, offbeat New Zealand journalist working to overlapping sets of rhythms and tempos, Preview screening courtesy of Altitude Film J A Bayona’s film, adapted from the award-winning David Farrier decides that the “sport” would make often alluring and sometimes dangerous. Professor Distribution book of the same name, concerns a 13-year-old the perfect topic for his latest story. What starts as a Owain Jones of the Environmental Humanities Plus: First Cut, Gareth C Scales, UK, 10m boy whose mother (Felicity Jones) is dying. Plagued lighthearted study of a niche soft porn fetish quickly Research Centre at Bath Spa University, and prime Sponsored by Wessex Water by recurring nightmares, the boy struggles to cope reveals a much more sinister ethical and legal mover behind the Towards Hydrocitizenship project, with his mother’s terminal illness until he hears underbelly. After screening at Sundance Film Festival has long been enthralled by tides and tidal cultures. a voice calling him through the bedroom window earlier this year, Tickled has shocked and stunned Tonight he introduces and discusses a collection of

M one night. The voice belongs to a very large tree audiences and critics alike. The Guardian called it “a fascinating short films (see our website for details) M

IL monster (voiced by Liam Neeson) with stories to fascinating piece of investigative film-making about that explore our relationship with the ebb and flow IL F F

tell. The unfurling stories describe a world in which a subject that is not nearly as innocuously fluffy as of arguably the most powerful and transforming things are not always as they should be, and help it sounds”, proving that sometimes, tickling is no natural force on the planet.

UR the boy to understand that sometimes life is far from laughing matter. UR easy. Sigourney Weaver co-stars as the boy’s stern grandmother in this emotional fantasy story.

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N Research Council N I Preview screening courtesy of Entertainment One UK Plus: Working Late, David Gilbank, UK, 5m Creative Partner Bath Spa University I F F Sponsored by Bath Pizza Co Sponsored by thepigguide.com Sponsored by Wessex Water 22 Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 23

Fri 4 Nov F-Rated / Documentary Sat 5 and Sun 6 Nov Sat 5 Nov Preview Sat 5 Nov Triple F-Rated / Bath Debut / Queer Sun 6 Nov F-Rated / Special Event Sun 6 Nov F-Rated INGRID BERGMAN IN HER BATH: THE MOVIE RAILWAYS ON FILM SUMMERTIME / FREAKY FRIDAY LONG WAY NORTH /

OWN WORDS / JAG ÄR INGRID Immersive walking tour of Bath’s film venues The train now arriving on screen 2... LA BELLE SAISON The original identity-swap comedy TOUT EN HAUT DU MONDE

1.30 / 2 / 2.30 / 3 / 3.30 / 4pm Director: Various Director: Gary Nelson Saint to whore and back again Sunny celebration of ‘70s sexual revolution Fearless female protagonist in the icy north £12.50 UK, 1898-1970, 73m, U USA, 1976, 95m, U Director: Stig Björkman Director: Catherine Corsini Director: Rémi Chayé Meeting point revealed when ticket is bought. Mission Theatre, 7pm, £8/£6 With: Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris, John Astin Sweden, 2015, 114m, PG, subtitles France, Belgium, 2015, 105m, 15, subtitles France, Denmark, 2015, 81m, PG Little Theatre, 12 noon, £12/£10 (sofa seats), £9/£7 With: Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Pia Join the world-famous Natural Theatre Company One of the very first films to delight, and supposedly With: Cécile de France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky With (voice artists): Christa Théret, Féodor Atkine, Lindström on a fascinating walking tour to celebrate Bath’s terrify, cinema audiences was the Lumière Brothers’ Mission Theatre, 8.40pm, £8/£6 This original version of Freaky Friday is now Antony Hickling

Mission Theatre, 8.40pm, £8/£6 long and varied celluloid history. This entertaining static shot of a train arriving at a station. Since 1895, 40 years old, and is the special choice of Chapel Arts, 4pm, £8/£6 Catherine Corsini’s gorgeous film is set in journey around some of the city’s many film locations when that revolutionary 50-second documentary Lauren Child, world famous author of the Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest film France in 1971, at the dawn of a new era. St Petersburg, 1892. Sasha idolises her has a hilarious and dramatic twist. Over the years, consummated the cinema’s love affair with railways, Charlie and Lola, Clarice Bean and Ruby Redfort stars of all time. Her rise – from an obscure Delphine lives with her parents on a remote explorer grandfather Oloukine, and has Bath has been the backdrop for films telling stories filmmakers have been inspired to point cameras at books. Presented in conjunction with the Bath Swedish background, to Hollywood superstar farm, aware that there is something different about bittersweet memories of his last departure from many different periods of history. But what if it and from trains. This captivating collection of restored Children’s Literature Festival, Freaky Friday stars the by the age of 27 (when she made Casablanca) – was her but doesn’t understand exactly what. When she for the North Pole, from which he failed to return. was all just one big story? Watch a new film unfold archive films ranges from pure documentary to the 14-year-old Jodie Foster, who had just completed followed by public disapproval caused by a divorce travels to Paris she chances upon a group of feminists Convinced that his ship, the “unsinkable” Davia, is before your eyes as you meet familiar characters in fanciful and the wildly creative, reflecting the changing Taxi Driver and Bugsy Malone. The magical mother/ from her neurosurgeon husband and remarriage and joins their ranks, unable to resist their playful sitting in the ice just waiting to be found, she tries M amazing locations throughout central Bath. Enjoy social, political and economic climate of the UK in the daughter body swap story is unforgettable and M to Roberto Rossellini, in turn succeeded by her style of protest. She is particularly drawn to Carole, to convince anyone who will listen, including the

IL the movie that has never been made! Walks will 20th century, as well as recording the sheer glories of hilarious. After the screening Lauren Child will IL reacceptance. Bergman did whatever she wanted the most dazzling of the women. Their relationship Czar, to mount a rescue mission. Naturally, nobody F F

take about 60 minutes. Please make sure you have railway travel. All are imbued with a degree of poetry talk about why she loves the film so much, answer to, professionally and personally. Centred on her develops unexpectedly, and they find themselves back does listen, so Sasha pursues the only conceivable waterproofs if it looks like rain. that betrays our fascination for the beauty, power and questions about her work and will also be available extraordinary self-shot footage, and supported by on the farm when Delphine’s father has a stroke. course of action open to her. Sporting a striking,

UR potential of these magnificent rail-bound machines. to sign her books. Plus, a fabulous prize for the UR conversations with friends and family, Ingrid Bergman At this point, the film’s tone shifts from political to often breathtaking graphic style, this spellbinding Please note: the programme contains a sequence of best-dressed parent and child – wearing each other’s in Her Own Words gives a unique insight into one of emotional in a way that is both effective and moving. animated adventure bolsters its compelling narrative flashing lights, which might affect audience members clothes, naturally! the most intriguing stars of the golden age of cinema. with strong characterisation and a very real sense of

D YO with photosensitive epilepsy. D YO quest. Winner of the Audience Award at this year’s

N N I Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Long I Plus: The Blind Side, Karan Ananth, India, 3m Preview screening courtesy of The Independent Plus: Older and Younger, Jamieson Pearce, In partnership with The Children’s Literature F Way North is an absolute treat for the whole family. F Sponsored by Van and Eva DuBose In partnership with The Natural Theatre Company Cinema Office Australia, 9m Festival 24 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 25

Sun 6 Nov F-Rated / Preview Sun 6 Nov Bath Debut Sun 6 Nov F-Rated / Preview

Sun 6 Nov F-Rated / Preview / Documentary THE OLIVE TREE / EL OLIVO THE CLAN / EL CLAN LADY MACBETH

David & Goliath clash over ancient olive tree Swaggering true-crime saga worthy of Scorsese Imagine Hitchcock directing Wuthering Heights FOREVER PURE Director: Icíar Bollaín Director: Pablo Trapero Director: William Oldroyd

Spain, 2016, 100m, 12 (tbc), subtitles Argentina, Spain, 2015, 108m, 15, subtitles UK, 2016, 89m, 15 (tbc) Middle East tribalism distilled in compelling doc With: Anna Castillo, Javier Gutiérrez, Pep Ambròs With: Guillermo Francella, Peter Lanzani, Lili With: Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Director: Maya Zinshtein Odeon, 6pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8 Popovich Jarvis UK, Israel, Russia, 2016, 85m, 15 (tbc), subtitles Chapel Arts, 8.10pm, £8/£6 Odeon, 8.30pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8 Chapel Arts, 6pm, £8/£6 Alma is mad as hell, and she’s not going

to take it anymore. She’s a young Spanish Argentine director Pablo Trapero has been William Oldroyd’s new film was one of the If you want to understand the role that Israel woman caught between the competing chronicling the problems of his country for nearly hits of this year’s Toronto International plays in the Middle East, and in particular, priorities of the men in her family. Her primary 20 years, but he has surely never come across a Film Festival, where it attracted a lot of the reason that the government of loyalty though, lies with her mute grandfather who stranger subject than the Puccio family. Arquímedes, positive response. Based on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 Netanyahu is so popular with key sections of Israeli has retreated into silence since his wife died, and – the patriarch, made himself useful under the Junta novel Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and society, then watch this film. If you are a football fan, equally importantly – since his children bullied him between the mid ‘70s and early ‘80s, when people adapted by Alice Birch to a new location (19th- be glad that you don’t support Beitar Jerusalem. into selling a 2,000-year-old olive tree to a German opposed to the government tended to disappear. century Somerset), this has little overt connection Their fans are – by their own proud admission – the M multinational. So Alma is going to get it back – with Puccio senior continued kidnapping people, with the with Shakespeare’s play, apart from the fact M most racist in the world, which is why the purchase

IL no plan, but oceans of ferocious determination. help of his son (one of five children), then claiming that the character played by Florence Pugh is IL of the club by oligarch Arcadi Gaydamak was such F F

Directed by Icíar Bollaín, who made the wonderful a ransom before killing the victims. Trapero’s remorselessly ruthless. She has reason to be. a catalyst for outrage. Gaydamak had no interest Even the Rain, and scripted by Ken Loach’s favoured adaptation of this true story is chilling in its exposé Married off at the age of 19, to a middle-aged in football, and his signing of two Chechen players

UR screenwriter Paul Laverty, this is a terrific film that of a society for which law and order was merely man who has no interest in her, she vents her UR – Muslims – was designed to be inflammatory. He encapsulates the wider story of modern Spain within an option. Guillermo Francella excels as the grim frustration and fury on one servant, and her lust on succeeded in uniting the most bigoted elements a very personal narrative. patriarch (fans of The Secret in Their Eyes may another. This could be the surprise hit of the year. amongst the club’s supporters into a single force of

D YO recognize him). D YO hatred. It’s an amazing film, and compulsive viewing.

N Preview screening courtesy of Eureka Entertainment Preview screening courtesy of Altitude Film N I Preview screening courtesy of Dogwoof Plus: Pangaea, Olivia Peace, USA, 6m Plus: Tricks, Melina Meraki, Australia, 7m Distribution I F F Plus: Love, Albert, Louisa Brett, UK, 5m Sponsored by Anthony & Sylvia Mackewn Sponsored by Hawker Joinery Limited Plus: Sunset Rose, Zoe McCarthy, UK, 8m 26 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 27

Mon 7 Nov Preview THE RED TURTLE / LA TORTUE ROUGE

Artistry and philosophy in one magical package Director: Michael Dudok de Wit Japan, France, Belgium, 2016, 80m, PG (tbc) Odeon, 6pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, The Red Turtle is the first feature from Michael Dudok de Wit. Nine years Mon 7 Nov F-Rated / Special Event / Classic ago a dream-come-true email from Studio Mon 7 Nov Triple F-Rated / Documentary Mon 7 Nov Documentary Ghibli invited the Oscar-winning director of HAMLET short films to co-create an animated feature. SONITA ONLY THE DEAD The result has been universally acknowledged A treasure of early German cinema as the most visually astonishing cinema Afghan teenaged rapper rebels Absolutely outstanding, piercing documentary Director: Svend Gade, Heinz Schall experience of the year. The apparently simple, Director: Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami Director: Bill Guttentag, Michael Ware Germany, 1921, 110m, PG, silent and dialogue-free, story of a man spewed up Germany, Switzerland, Iran, 2015, 90m, 12A (tbc), Australia, Iraq, 2015, 77m, 18 (tbc) With: Asta Nielsen, Paul Conradi, Mathilde Brandt by a raging sea onto the shores of a deserted subtitles With: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Michael Ware Chapel Arts, 6pm, £12/£10 island and his subsequent battle for survival, With: Sonita Alizadeh, Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami Rondo Theatre, 7pm, £8/£6

overlays profound musings on humanity’s place Odeon, 6.30pm, £12/£10 (premier seats), £9/£7 It’s the 400th anniversary year of If you only ever see one film about Iraq, make sure in the natural world. Combining European Shakespeare’s death, and we are thrilled Sonita is a young Afghan woman living, like it’s this one. Forget The Hurt Locker and American and Japanese sensibilities with an intense to present this unique screen version many others, in a kind of limbo in exile with Sniper – this is the real deal. Australian war romanticism and an unforgettable hand-drawn of his most famous play. Starring the gorgeous her mother and family in Iran. Her ambitions correspondent Michael Ware arrived in Iraq shortly aesthetic, The Red Turtle will have you reaching Danish siren of the silent screen, Asta Nielsen, this are clear; in her poster-lined room she practises before the 2003 invasion and ended up staying for for your tissues whilst your jaw drops. adaptation supposes that Hamlet’s inner turmoil being a rap star. But from the family’s perspective several years. Not only did he witness a good deal centred on being born a girl and having to pass she is a financial asset. Her bride price of several of military action at first hand, but he also became Preview screening courtesy of StudioCanal incognito as the male heir to the throne. Visually thousand dollars makes her a meal ticket for them, the unwilling conduit to the outside world for Abu Plus: A Love Story, Anushka Kishani stunning and tragically fated, this will be a familiar and will allow them to find a wife for one of their Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq

M Naanayakkara, UK, 7m M yet novel adaptation for young and old fans of the sons. The director, who achieved an extraordinary and perpetrator of attacks on US troops, civilians Sponsored by Gradwell IL Bard. Presented here in a vibrant new restoration level of access to Sonita and her family, is faced with and anyone else caught up in his campaign IL F F

with tinted colour tones, this screening will have live the dilemma of how to respond to this crisis. An of indiscriminate slaughter. This challenging,

R accompaniment from the wonderful Lillian Henley, amazing true story. disturbing and electrifying documentary is the best R

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N N I Plus: Dumrakatak, Mert Edis, Turkey, 10m Plus: Property, Allison Otto, USA, 4m I F F Sponsored by FCB Studios Sponsored by Stephen Taylor 28 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 29

Mon 7 Nov Preview / Pan Asian Mon 7 Nov Triple F-Rated / Bath Debut Tue 8 Nov Preview / Documentary HARMONIUM / BADEN BADEN SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY

FUCHI NI TATSU Beautiful, beguiling and bonkers You reap what you sow Tue 8 Nov Triple F-Rated / Preview Director: Rachel Lang Director: Jon Betz, Taggart Siegel A resonant, enigmatic thriller Belgium, France, 2016, 96m, 15, subtitles USA, 2016, 94m, PG (tbc) Director: Kôji Fukada With: Salomé Richard, Claude Gensac, Lazare CERTAIN WOMEN With: Vandana Shiva, Andrew Kimbrell, Jane Goodall Japan, France, 2016, 118m, 15 (tbc), subtitles Gousseau Chapel Arts, 6.10pm, £8/£6 With: Mariko Tsutsui, Tadanobu Asano, Kanji Amazing cast, brilliant director - watch it Chapel Arts, 8.30pm, £8/£6 Furutachi Director: Kelly Reichardt It’s no exaggeration to say that seeds are Odeon, 8.10pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8 Ana is a 26-year-old whose job is shuttling USA, 2016, 107m, 15 (tbc) the bedrock of our existence – without them, Q&A people from the airport to a film set. She With: Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Laura Dern nothing grows. Yet 94% of seed varieties In this slow-burn Japanese thriller a man invites hates the job and does it badly, so when Odeon, 6pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8 have disappeared in the last 100 years, largely an old acquaintance, Yasaka (just released from she’s fired she heads for Strasbourg to visit her because of the destructive goals of multinational prison) to come and live with his family. Toshio lives Kelly Reichardt’s latest film was received with rapturous grandmother, and tries to work out what to do with seed companies. This amazingly entertaining film above the small factory that he owns with his wife, enthusiasm at both Sundance and the Toronto her life. Director Rachel Lang’s first feature is a film tracks down a number of brilliantly eccentric and Akie, and their daughter, Hotaru. It is not clear why International Film Festival. Based on short stories by of exceptional wit and originality, while its heroine is passionate seed collectors, whose mission in life is Toshio offers Yasaka a job; it doesn’t seem to be Maile Meloy, the events take place in the Pacific North West, M a character impossible to dislike, despite (or because to preserve as many seed varieties as possible, and M out of friendship or goodwill. Akie and Hotaru are where three women (Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams and

IL of) her flaws. The pleasure of the film lies in the – in some cases – to locate new ones. The reason the IL wary of the new lodger, but his persistent charm Laura Dern) struggle with everyday life and the minor irritations F F

simple brushstrokes of detail, such as Ana’s efforts film works so well is that it never forgets to engage and goodwill cause them to unbend, and it is not that make it so tricky. Reichardt’s style is clean, direct and to build a bathroom for her grandmother with the the audience with graphics, beautiful footage, long before the family dynamic begins to shift in eloquent. Like Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson (which we are also

UR help of an endearingly useless handyman. Baden fascinating experts and the underlying sense that UR his favour. Director Kôji Fukada is a master of showing this year), the film beautifully and eloquently conveys Baden is funny, touching and very human. this really is a matter of life and death. incremental development, drawing the audience into the essential nature of the lives we lead. Variety calls Reichardt the unfolding outcome. One of the outstanding films “the quietest of great American film directors”.

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N Preceded by a recorded introduction from director Preview screening courtesy of Park Circus Followed by a Skype Q&A with director Jon Betz N I Preview screening courtesy of Eureka Entertainment Rachel Lang. Plus: A Lot Meant, Alexander Winterbottom, UK, 5m Preview screening courtesy of Collective Eye Films I F F Plus: Life Between, Vagelis Zouglos, Greece, 6m Sponsored by Hawker Joinery Limited Sponsored by Hawker Joinery Limited Sponsored by Jenny Mackewn 30 Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 31

Tue 8 Nov Bath Debut / Queer CLOSET MONSTER

Not just any old talking hamster film Director: Stephen Dunn Canada, 2015, 90m, 15 With: Connor Jessup, Aaron Abrams, Isabella Rossellini Rondo Theatre, 6.30pm, £8/£6

This breakout debut from 27-year-old Canadian director Stephen Dunn was one of the great surprises at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. It stars Tue 8 Nov Preview Tue 8 Nov Triple F-Rated / Queer Wed 9 Nov Bath Debut / Queer Wed 9 Nov Preview / Documentary the remarkable Connor Jessup as 16-year- old Oscar, who spends half his life living with ALONE IN BERLIN GIRLS LOST / POJKARNA THE PASS OMO CHILD: THE RIVER his deadbeat dad. Oscar’s unusual pet is a talking hamster called Buffy – voiced by Isabella Thompson and Gleeson in Hitler’s Berlin Deliciously dark and profoundly vital A sharp, richly emotional, brilliantly-acted drama AND THE BUSH

Rossellini. The most compelling issue in Oscar’s Director: Vincent Perez Director: Alexandra-Therese Keining Director: Ben A Williams An emotionally cathartic adventure life is his relationship to young men of his own UK, France, Germany, 2016, 103m, 12A (tbc) Sweden, Finland, 2015, 106m, 15, subtitles UK, 2016, 88m, 15 Director: John Rowe age. The great thing about this film is it’s so With: Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl With: Mandus Berg, Adam Dahlgren, Malin Eriksson With: Russell Tovey, Arinzé Kene USA, Ethiopia, 2015, 89m, 15 (tbc), subtitles well made – witty, original, unexpected Odeon, 8.40pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8 Chapel Arts, 8.50pm, £8/£6 Odeon, 6pm, £12/£10 (premier seats), £9/£7 Chapel Arts, 6pm, £8/£6 and liable to swerve into weird. , Very little is known of the resistance to Hitler’s Three young teenagers at a Swedish school Ben A Williams’ directorial debut is set One man sets out to eradicate a brutal Plus: My Cousin Kiara, Aviva rule from within Germany, mostly because it was are bullied on a daily basis because they in three hotel rooms over ten years in the Q&A superstition practised by his own tribe. Lale Neuman, Sweden, 8m so ruthlessly crushed. In this powerful new film, don’t conform to the young male idea of life of Jason, a Premier League football Q&A Labuko grew up in the Kara tribe of the Omo adapted by director Vincent Perez from Hans how girls should behave. But Momo, Bell and star, played brilliantly by Russell Tovey (Being valley in Ethiopia, who believe that certain children are Fallada’s unforgettable book, Brendan Gleeson Kim have their own issues to resolve – what is Human, The History Boys). It begins when Jason, born cursed – as mingi. To avoid disaster for the tribe, and Emma Thompson play a middle-aged married their relationship to one another and how are they as an ambitious 19-year-old, shares a room with the women kill them. Lale’s older sisters died this way couple, whose world is destroyed by the death going to protect themselves from the daily abuse? teammate Ade (Arinzé Kene) on the night before and, having experienced life and education outside of their son – killed in France in 1940. Unable to Enter one magical plant which – to the surprise of their first international match. There’s laddish the tribe, he has returned to his home determined to M demonstrate their defiance more dramatically, they all three – turns them into boys for a few hours. banter, jokes, high jinks and then, out of nowhere, M change the Kara’s behaviour. Made over five years, the

IL start to leave postcards in public places, encouraging This fairytale potion allows them to experience a a kiss. It’s a moment that changes everything, but IL documentary follows Lale’s challenging mission. It F F

their fellow Germans to rise up against their different reality, and gives them the confidence to as Jason will later say “Course I’m not gay - I’m a also allows us to see how the values of modern liberal oppressor. The quietly subversive parents, based on tackle the bullies. For Bella and Momo being a boy footballer”. With pitch-perfect performances, The humanist democracies can seem entirely at odds with

UR a real life couple, are pursued by a Gestapo officer is a just an interesting experiment but for Kim it’s Pass explores the price of success in a sport where UR tradition – something we also like to uphold. Who (Daniel Brühl) who is determined to root out even the a dream come true. image is everything. chooses which values are right, and how? tiniest flicker of dissent.

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N Ethiopiaid. There will be a collection for Ethiopiad at N I Preview screening courtesy of Altitude Film the end of the screening I F F Distribution Plus: Rink, Gail Hackston, UK, 7m Followed by a Q&A with director Ben A Williams Preview screening courtesy of Journeyman Films 32 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 33

Wed 9 Nov Preview THE SALESMAN / FORUSHANDE

A finely cut gem of neorealist suspense Director: Asghar Farhadi Iran, France, 2016, 125m, 15 (tbc), subtitles With: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi Odeon, 8.30pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8

Asghar Farhadi has established himself as one of the world’s leading directors with films like Wed 9 Nov F-Rated / Bath Debut / Pan Asian Wed 9 Nov Special Event Wed 9 Nov Preview / Documentary Wed 9 Nov F-Rated / Bath Debut / Pan Asian A Separation and The Past receiving universal critical acclaim. His latest film maintains that SWEET BEAN / AN IMDb AWARDS astonishingly high standard. Emad and Rana THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS MISS HOKUSAI / SARUSUBERI:

are a married couple appearing as Willy Loman A taste of prejudice in stunning Japanese drama Superb gala night for everyone Can a piece of music stop a bullet? MISS HOKUSAI and his wife in an amateur production of Arthur Director: Naomi Kawase 130m Director: Morgan Neville Miller’s Death of a Salesman. But they have Stunningly gorgeous tribute to an uncredited artist Japan, France, Germany, 2015, 113m, PG, subtitles Assembly Rooms, 7pm, £6/£4 USA, 2015, 96m, 12A (tbc) more pressing things to worry about – their Director: Keiichi Hara With: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida With: Yo-Yo Ma, Kinan Azmeh, Kayhan Kalhor The 5th IMDb awards are being held for the first apartment block is about to collapse, and their Japan, 2015, 93m, 12A, subtitles Rondo Theatre, 6.30pm, £8/£6 Chapel Arts, 8.40pm, £8/£6 time in Bath’s world famous Assembly Rooms, precarious housing situation precipitates a With (voice artists): Kumiko Asô, Gaku Hamada, You know how it is; you’re running a bean the scene of lively events in the works of both series of crises. This is more of a thriller than The Silk Road Project was conceived and Kengo Kôra stall in downtown Tokyo and looking for a Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Following Farhadi’s previous films, and is directed with his initiated by world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma at Rondo Theatre, 9pm, £8/£6 Q&A new employee. When an elderly lady applies a screening of the shortlisted entries for the trademark brilliance. the turn of the millennium, as an experiment Set in 1814 Tokyo, then called Edo, Miss for the job, you’re too polite to turn her down, but massively prestigious IMDb New Filmmaker in assembling musicians from all parts of the world Hokusai is the daughter of Katsushika she’s the last person you’d want working for you. Award 2016, a glorious panel of brilliant judges Preview screening courtesy of Curzon and from a variety of musical influences. The group, Hokusai, creator of the Japanese ‘pictures of Then she drops off a carton of her bean paste and will choose the winner from Karen (Aqsa Altaf), Artificial Eye as many as 60-strong, has since toured the world the floating world’ (ukiyo-e) and of possibly the most one mouthful convinces you that she is the answer Makeup (Hannah Whisenant), Help! I’m Stuck in and inspired young people to achieve excellence famous woodblock print of a wave, The Great Wave to your prayers. This is the basis for a delightful film a Movie (Riley Madincea), First Response (Carl and diversity in their music-making. This wonderful off Kanagawa. Like her father, the daughter is also an M that tells you so much while saying so little. The Mason) and Fulfilament (Rhiannon Evans). There documentary was directed by Morgan Neville, who won M artist, and, according to this superbly designed anime

IL themes of age, gender, well-being and decency are will also be a big moment for Amanda Richardson, an Oscar for 20 Feet from Stardom, which we screened IL film, the two of them live in a world in which creativity F F

all touched upon, leaving the audience with a happy the 2016 winner of the IMDb Script to Screen in 2013, and shows the ways in which imagination, is everything. Miss Hokusai is based on a manga series sense of being part of a world which they would never Award – chosen six months ago. Her winning playfulness and an open mind can transform the suggesting that Katsushika Ði (as she was known) was

UR have known, were it not for the medium of film. script, Dig, has been made into a short film and world. Look out for Cristina Pato, the Jimi Hendrix of UR a crucial collaborator with her father, and that she you’ll have the opportunity to see it on the big the bagpipes. Not to be missed by any music lover. should justly be credited. “Shines as an example of one screen. Do not miss it. creative soul paying tribute to another” – Variety.

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N Creative Partner Bath Spa University Preview screening courtesy of Shear Entertainment Plus: Pearl, Patrick Osborne, UK, 6m N I Plus: Dakota, Nathan Sacharow, USA, 4m With thanks to Bath’s Historic Venue Creative Partner Bath Spa University Creative Partner Bath Spa University I F F Creative Partner Bath Spa University In partnership with IMDb Sponsored by The Norie Trust Sponsored by Hawker Joinery Limited 34 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 35

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Thu 10 Nov F-Rated / Special Event Thu 10 Nov Triple F-Rated / Bath Debut Thu 10 Nov Bath Debut Thu 10 Nov Triple F-Rated / Preview / Documentary THE DUCHESS BURN BURN BURN ETHEL & ERNEST CAMERAPERSON

A very special event Great Brit flick about being alive Beatifully hand-drawn feature Without a doubt the best documentary of 2016 Director: Saul Dibb Director: Chanya Button Director: Roger Mainwood Director: Kirsten Johnson UK, 2008, 110m, 12 UK, 2015, 106m, 15 UK, 2016, 94m, PG (tbc) USA, 2016, 102m, nc With: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes With: Laura Carmichael, Chloe Pirrie, Joe Dempsie, With (voice artists): Jim Broadbent, Pam Ferris, With: Kirsten Johnson Assembly Rooms, 6pm, £12/£10 Sally Phillips Brenda Blethyn Chapel Arts, 7pm, £8/£6

Odeon, 6pm, £12/£10 (premier seats), £9/£7 Odeon, 6.30pm, £12/£10 (premier seats), £9/£7 The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley as You may not know her name, but you’ll the 18th-century Georgiana, Duchess of It’s such a treat to find an original, Raymond Briggs is most famous for The Snowman, Q&A be familiar with Kristen Johnson’s Devonshire, was partly shot in Bath. One Q&A funny and imaginative British road he has been producing outstanding works of art work – she was cinematographer for particularly famous scene features the duchess movie which feels entirely fresh. Alex for almost 60 years. Fungus the Bogeyman, Father CitizenFour and This Film Is Not Yet Rated, as well as on the balcony of the Tea Room at The Assembly and Seph have the unwelcome task of following the Christmas and When the Wind Blows are amazing working with Michael Moore on Fahrenheit 9/11. This Rooms. We’ll be screening the film below that wishes of their dead friend, Dan. Their mission is to achievements of imagination. This new animated new documentary is her choice of footage she has shot very balcony. Before the film, we’ll hear from the drive around the country with his ashes in the glove film is based on his most autobiographical work, over the years. We see what she witnessed in Bosnia, amazing FanGirlQuest, a Finnish duo who travel the compartment, while he issues instructions from about the 41-year marriage of his parents. We follow Iraq and other war zones, and also observe her

M world ‘sceneframing’ images from their favourite beyond the grave about the next destination and task. Ethel and Ernest as they meet and are married in mother, afflicted with Alzheimer’s, and her two young M

IL films and shows; in other words, aligning a A magnificent supporting cast includes Jane Asher, the 1920s, as they live in London with their only son, children, who are fascinated by the cine camera. A rare IL F F

screenshot with the original background used Alice Lowe and Alison Steadman. through all the changes that take place in their lives, glimpse of the documentarian behind the lens, giving in the film. FanGirlQuest (Tiia Öhman and and right up until their deaths. The achievement of us a sense of how hard it is to maintain a balance

UR Satu Walden) will also be showing us how to Briggs (and of this film) is to describe the mundane between objectivity and involvement. UR

O sceneframe our favourite scenes. existence of unimportant people and to make us Followed by a Skype Q&A with director Kirsten Johnson O

Y realise how much they contribute by their very and film critic Sophie Mayer Y In partnership with The Bath Film Office

D ordinariness. Preview screening courtesy of Cat&Docs D With thanks to Bath’s Historic Venues

N Followed by a Q&A with director Chanya Button In partnership with Pop Up Docs N I Sponsored by Hawker Joinery Limited I Sponsored by Deely Freed and Aaron Evans Creative Partner Bath Spa University F F Architects Plus: The Moment, Karis Oh, USA, 2m Sponsored by The Norie Trust 36 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 37

Fri 11 Nov F-Rated / Preview / Queer / Pan Asian THE HANDMAIDEN / AH-GA-SSI

Exquisitely designed, sexually liberating thriller Director: Chan-wook Park South Korea, 2016, 145m, 18 (tbc), subtitles With: Min-hee Kim, Kim Tae-ri, Jung-woo Ha Odeon, 8.30pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8

Fans of Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith will be thrilled about this new film set in Korea in the 1930s. Admirers of the unique Thu 10 Nov Preview Fri 11 Nov Triple F-Rated / Preview Fri 11 Nov Preview / Documentary / Queer directing style of Chan-wook Park (Old Boy) will be equally excited to see his adaptation of this erotic, NERUDA THE LEVELLING WHO’S GONNA LOVE ME NOW? double-crossing thriller. Count Fujiwara hires a

pickpocket to pose as the maid of a rich heiress Moody, unsentimental, gorgeous & intriguing Brooding, emotional drama on the Somerset Levels Entertaining and powerful whom he is hoping to seduce, marry and relieve Director: Pablo Larraín Director: Hope Dickson Leach Director: Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann of her fortune. But like all best-laid plans this one Chile, Argentina, France, Spain, USA, 2016, 107m, 15 UK, 2016, 83m, 15 (tbc) Israel, UK, 2016, 85m, 15, subtitles goes awry, not least because mistress and maid (tbc), subtitles With: Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden Odeon, 6.30pm, £12/£10 (premier seats), £9/£7 fall in love. There are many more twists and turns With: Gail García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Alfredo Castro Odeon, 6pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8 Saar is a 40-year-old ex-Israeli army paratrooper. A as the tale is told from the perspective of three Odeon, 9pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8 After the death of her brother Harry, resident of London for 17 years, he sings in a men’s different characters. Park’s film is mesmerizingly In 1945, Chile’s most famous poet, Pablo Neruda, Q&A apparently by suicide, Clover Catto choir and is popular with everyone who knows him. beautiful, endlessly riveting and was nominated was elected as a Communist senator. He didn’t enjoy (Ellie Kendrick, Game of Thrones) He comes from a traditional Jewish family, which is for the Palme d’Or at Cannes.

his new role for long because the government – who returns to the farm on the Somerset Levels where a problem because he is gay and HIV positive. Family Preview screening courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye saw him as a thorn in their side – tried to arrest him. she grew up. She finds the house still uninhabitable members reveal their true nature in different ways, Neruda, torn between escaping capture and taunting and the farm in disarray after devastating floods. mostly judgemental, moralistic and unkind. Only his his enemies, went on the run, keeping his pursuers Her father, Aubrey, blithely carries on as if it’s mother is torn between her personal views and her at arm’s length. In Pablo Larraín’s wonderful new business as usual, insisting Harry’s death was a love for her son, whom she visits in England. Saar is

M film, Neruda’s foe is a hapless police inspector tragic accident. But Clover is determined to find out looking for love - the relationship that meant most to M

IL played by Gael García Bernal. But is the lawman the truth. This debut by writer/director Hope Dickson him is over and he would like to be reconciled with IL F F

everything that he seems? Larraín (director of No Leach was described by the London Film Festival as his family, if they will open their hearts. The ultimate and The Club) has concocted a “beautifully inventive” “a sophisticated feature of deep emotional heft and paradox of this tender and moving documentary is

UR (Variety) narrative that has received rave reviews. power” and by the Toronto International Film Festival that Saar is so easy to love. UR as a “small jewel of a film”.

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N Plus: The Song of Wandering Aengus, Matthew Followed by a Q&A with actor Ellie Kendrick Preview screening courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures N I Lawes, UK, 4m Preview screening courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures Plus: Khota Ishq? – What Is the SEX of Love, Nitin I F F Creative Partner Bath Spa University Sponsored by Hawker Joinery Limited Das, India, 1m 38 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 39

Sat 12 Nov F-Rated / Special Event SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS

Special screening with the director, writer & actors Director: Philippa Lowthorpe UK, 2016, 97m, PG With: Kelly Macdonald, Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott Odeon, 6pm, £12/£10 (premier seats), £9/£7

Philippa Lowthorpe’s wonderful version of Q&A Arthur Ransome’s classic story has been one of UK cinema’s success stories of the summer. In conjunction with Bath Children’s Literature Fri 11 Nov Preview Festival, Bath Film Festival presents a very special Sat 12 Nov Preview / Pan Asian Sat 12 Nov F-Rated / UK Premiere / Documentary Sat 12 Nov Documentary screening of the film. A Q&A session with director Philippa DESIERTO Lowthorpe and scriptwriter Andrea Gibb will follow our CREEPY / KURÎPÎ: ITSUWARI A STRANGE LOVE AFFAIR THE SALT OF THE EARTH screening, allowing the audience to quiz them about the Sadistic vigilante border patrol and a dog choices they made in adapting so popular a book, and how NO RINJIN WITH EGO Multi award-winning; stunningly gorgeous

Director: Jonás Cuarón they approached the challenge of satisfying fans of the Director: Juliano Ribiero Salgado, Wim Wenders It doesn’t get much eerier than this Powerful, uplifting psychological doc Mexico, France, 2015, 94m, 15, subtitles source material. Do not miss this unique opportunity to go France, Brazil, Italy, 2014, 110m, 12, subtitles Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Director: Ester Gould With: Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, behind the screen with the film-makers. With: Sebastião Salgado, WIm Wenders, Lélia Wanick Japan, 2016, 130m, 15 (tbc), subtitles Netherlands, USA, 2015, 93m, 15 (tbc) Alondra Hidalgo Salgado Followed by Q&A with the director, Phillipa Lowthorpe, With: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba With: Viviana Sciara, Marianne ‘Geisha’ Cotan, Renee Odeon, 8.40pm, £12/£10 (premier seats), £9/£7 BRLSI, 7.30pm, £8/£6 writer Andrea Gibb and possibly some of the young actors Odeon, 6pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8 van Trier

Jonás Cuarón (son of Oscar-winning Alfonso of In partnership with The Children’s Literature Festival ICIA Edge Arts, 7.30pm, £8.75/£6.50 Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated, spell-blindingly Takakura was good at his job, but being a detective Gravity fame) directs this nail-biting film set in the Sponsored by FCB Studios beautiful documentary about the brilliant social specialising in criminals with psychopathic Award-winning documentary A badlands of the Mexican border. A group of illegal documentarian and photographer, Sebastião tendencies is never easy. When a misjudged action Q&A Strange Love Affair with Ego, immigrants is trying to cross over to the promised Salgado, understandably had accolades and awards leads to an innocent’s death, Takakura retires to directed by Scottish/Dutch land when their vehicle breaks down. Worse is to heaped upon it. Salgado’s stunning images of the academia. But a life in the suburbs and a teaching filmmaker Ester Gould, is a magical anthem to follow, when a lone gunman starts to implement world’s dispossessed people are a testimony to job aren’t always as safe as they appear. Based on narcissism, and focuses on four highly expressive his own (unexplained) form of immigration his global engagement. The film also follows the the mystery novel by Yutaka Maekawa, and helmed subjects who represent the four seasons within the M control. Gael García Bernal is one of the handful unexpected path of his life which is crucially anchored M by cult horror director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, this life of the director’s supremely confident, extrovert

IL of survivors, alone in the desert and pitted against by a devoted partnership with his wife. Salgado’s IL Japanese thriller is mesmerizingly tense from the sister Rowan. In this beautiful, haunting, wonderfully F F

a man and his dog in a primal battle for survival. son, Juliano Ribeiro, co-directs this masterpiece outset. Laced with unease and dread, The Japan cinematic and ultimately uplifting film, the human Like Spielberg’s Duel, this is an uncomplicated, of modern documentary-making, described as Times said it best, “Keep telling yourself none of affair with ego, the fragility of self-esteem, and the

UR cut-to-the-bone, and highly effective thriller, where “mesmeric and unforgettable” by The Playlist. UR it could really happen, ever, ever. It’s too creepy to lighter/darker sides of narcissism are laid bare. Very staying alive is the only priority. Screened in partnership with PhotoBath who are think about otherwise.” few documentaries can pack such a climactic punch. exhibiting a selection of prints from Salgado’s Genesis This screening is the film’s UK premiere.

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N Entertainment Creative Partner Bath Spa University N I Preview screening courtesy of Altitude Plus: I Should Have Run, Gabriela Staniszewska, In partnership with PhotoBath I F F Plus: Jailbreak, Aaron Sorenson, USA, 1m UK, 4m Followed by a skype Q&A with director Ester Gould Sponsored by The Norie Trust 40 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 41

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Royal romance and racism in 1940s Africa Director: Amma Asante USA, UK, Czech Republic, 2016, 111m, 12A With: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton Odeon, 8.40pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8

Amma Asante’s new film was chosen to open this year’s London Film Festival, and you can understand why. Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo), Prince of Botswana – at that Sat 12 Nov Preview Sat 12 Nov F-Rated / Bath Debut Sun 13 Nov Preview time known as Bechuanaland – came to Britain in his 20s, just after World War II, to continue his THE BIRTH OF A NATION UNDER THE SHADOW PATERSON education. Here he met a young Englishwoman (Rosamund Pike) and fell in love. The problem Controversial, brutal and tremendous Sundance horror hit to scare you silly Jim Jarmusch’s new movie is a quiet delight was she was white, he was black, and they wanted Director: Nate Parker Director: Babak Anvari Director: Jim Jarmusch to get married. Botswana’s neighbour, South USA, 2016, 120m, 15 Iran, Jordan, Qatar, UK, 2016, 84m, 15, subtitles USA, France, Germany, 2016, 113m, 15 (tbc) Africa, with its fresh apartheid laws, didn’t want With: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aunjanue Ellis With: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi With: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Helen-Jean a mixed-race marriage on its doorstep. Whitehall Odeon, 8.50pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8 Odeon, 9pm, £12/£10 (premier seats), £9/£7 Arthur sided with the Boers and the scene was set for

Odeon, 6pm, £15/£13 (premier seats), £10/£8 a confrontation of epic proportions. A great cast, The decision as to which films we should screen Few films tackle such complex and varied superb director and an extraordinary true story is always taken seriously, and the choice of Nate subjects as Babak Anvari’s debut feature. A Jim Jarmusch’s new film has been received with an make this an unmissable film. Parker’s film has been one of the toughest. Not couple live in Tehran with their daughter – avalanche of enthusiastic praise: “How Jarmusch because of the subject matter of the film, but it’s 1988 and Iran’s war with Iraq is at its height. The takes this match-stick of nothings and fills it with Preview screening courtesy of 20th Century Fox because of the background story of the writer/ father is sent off to war and, despite his request that such calm and wisdom is a mystery with only one Sponsored by Westside Design & Wraxall Builders director/star, which has provoked more controversy they stay with his relatives, mother and daughter answer: he’s an artist” – The Telegraph. The film is than the film itself. The title of The Birth of a Nation remain in the apartment. The mother is not allowed the story of Paterson (played by Adam Driver), a poet is a deliberate riposte to DW Griffith’s racist classic to study because she has been accused of anti- and bus driver living in Paterson, New Jersey, with M M made in 1915 as a tribute to the Ku Klux Klan. revolutionary activities and the film gradually morphs the love of his life, his wife, Laura. While he drives a IL IL Parker’s film focuses on the slave revolt led by Nat into a horror story, as she begins to believe that an bus and ruminates on his poetry, she stays at home F F

Turner in 1831, when he and a small number of evil missile-borne djinn has entered the home, and and makes beautiful things. The film is not about slaves attacked several white households, killing the daughter’s fears of strange noises turn out to what happens, it’s about the way they live their lives. UR UR their inhabitants. It is a seminal event in the history have a basis in reality. A tense and memorable film Sight & Sound describes it as “wondrously tender”. O O of slavery in the USA, and played its part in the build- that was received with great acclaim at Sundance. Y Y up to the Civil War 30 years later. D D Preview screening courtesy of Soda N N Plus: One More Cigarette, Caterina Salvadori, Italy, 7m I I Creative Partner Bath Spa University F F Preview screening courtesy of 20th Century Fox Plus: Avo, Golnaz Jamsheed, Iran, 9m Sponsored by Donald Insall Associates