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borderlinesfilmfestival.org @borderlines #borderlines2015 2 / 3 Programmer’s Picks Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2015 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Film Programmer DaviD Sin PutS a Dozen FilmS in the spotlight Black coal, thin ice (15) p.21 Foxcatcher (15) p.34 ida (12a) p.39 love iS Strange (15) p.44 Winner of Berlin’s Golden Bear, a strange, Steve Carell is a revelation as sinister patron Beautifully spare and critically acclaimed, Lithgow and Molina as a newly married gay dark thriller about a cop obsessed with to two world wrestling champion brothers in a journey of discovery and initiation for couple, homeless and thrust on the kindness a femme fatale suspect fact turned to fiction a young novice in 1960s Poland of New York friends and relatives Pelo Malo (15) p.51 Phoenix (12a) p.52 a Pigeon Sat on a Branch reFlecting Still liFe (12a) p.58 In teeming Caracas, nine-year-old Junior From the same stable as Barbara, a gripping on exiStence (15) p.53 Eddie Marsan excels as a scrupulous council is fixated on taming his bad hair. But why does tale of double take and betrayal in post-war Absurdist vignettes from Swedish director Roy worker whose job is to locate the next of kin it bother his mother so much? Germany Andersson (You the Living) of those who have died alone tiMBuktu (18) p.61 the triBe (18) p.63 WhiPlaSh (15) p.65 Winter SleeP (15) p.68 Terrifying yet funny, small stories about how Conducted entirely in sign language, this Superb performances, unconventional Master director Ceylan offers an absorbing Northern Mali citizens cope as foreign jihadis startling drama about deaf adolescents in a Kiev use of music and percussive editing deliver domestic drama set in a remote Anatolian hotel. enforce strict sharia law boarding school breaks cinematic boundaries a devastating emotional punch Winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes 4 / 5 Borderlines Film Festival 2015 Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2015 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org WelCome to the thirteenth “easily rural UK’s BorDerlineS Film FeStival! most impressive Borderlines is back, loud Borderlines is a partnership and we thank all our and proud in 2015, offering collaborating venues, staff and volunteers for film festival” our biggest ever selection their enthusiasm and commitment: The Courtyard the indePendent of films for audiences Hereford, Flicks in the Sticks, independent market PROGRAMMER’S in Herefordshire and town venues and film societies. www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Shropshire with the added boost of a thrilling three- Our funders continue to make the Festival PiCKS 02 day Festival of British possible: the BFI awarding funds from the National Here Lottery; Ffilm Cymru Wales; Herefordshire Council; and Cinema at Hay-on-Wye WELCOME 05 to launch our opening The Elmley Foundation; and Hereford City Council. Now weekend. We are also grateful to our film sponsors both new and returning for their support. FridayFe 26S FebruaryTIVAL oF BRITISh Festival Patron Francine Stock continues her guest curation from last year with a trio of films After four years of keeping the Courtyard Festival to Sunday 14 March featuring her personal heroines of French cinema, Pass at a heavily subsidised rate we are reverting CINEMA 06 while Ken Loach, one of Britain’s foremost to the prices charged in 2011. This income helps directors, has selected three British films that us to sustain the Festival into the future and 2015 FILM PROGRAMME 12 influenced him for screening at the Festival of to support what has become the fourth largest British Cinema. film festival in England. a-z FILM LISTINGS 17 Our Film Programmers from the Independent Enjoy what promises to be our biggest and Cinema Office, David Sin and Jonny Courtney, best Festival ever! have brought in a wealth of terrific films on Naomi Vera-Sanso FeSTIVAL DIARY 72 preview, screening at the Festival with special Festival Director permission from the distributors. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to see fascinating and VENUE INFORMATION 78 absorbing films before they go on general release. We are privileged to launch a UK wide tour of Palestinian films and welcome accompanying Palestinian directors to the Courtyard Hereford THE COURTYARD hoW TO BOOK with support from the BFI funded Conflict strand. FESTIVAL PASS They join a host of directors, producers, critics, The finest FEASTING ON FESTIVAL FILMS? BooK in PerSon at the CourtYarD hereForD film journalists, musicians and British production Get more cinema for your money filmsCall available Central Box oFFiCe 01432 340555 talent who will be coming to the Festival with with no transaction charges on Borderlines films at The Courtyard toBoo humanityK online at WWW.BorDerlineSFilmFeStival.org their films or for special one-off events. The Festival of British Cinema will be bringing Buy up to 2 tickets to any film or Call inDiviDual venueS (See P.78) at The Courtyard for just in The Picturehouse Mobile Cinema on its first UK Tour. This really is a remarkable vehicle, The Courtyard£5 per ticket Festival with Pass tickets for other venues booked via the Central Box office at the Courtyard can Festival Pass £15/ £10 Concs be collected at the venue before the screening. converting to a 100-seater fully raked cinema with the latest projection facilities. It will be COURTYARD PRICES FOR 2015 Tickets £6.80 / Concessions £5.80 Cover: Testament of Youth screening for just two days at Hay-on-Wye, The Limits of Control so best book your tickets early. FUNDERS CourtyardUnder Card 16s (14-25) £4.80 £3.00 Wem Town Hall Wem Town Hall 6 / 7 Festival of British Cinema Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2015 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org our opening Weekend FeSTIVAL oF BritiSh Cinema Started initially by a group of volunteers, 2015 Screenings and events take place at four special We are delighted to progamme the three- marks the relaunch of the Festival under the venues in Hay: the luxurious Richard Booths Borderlines brand. Set close to the Brecon Beacons Bookshop Cinema, part of a famous Hay bookshop day Festival of British Cinema at hay-on- in the internationally renowned Welsh Border town with its own highly rated café, The Parish Hall of Hay-on-Wye, it holds a unique position as the on Lion Street, St Mary the Virgin Church and Wye from Friday 27 February to Sunday only Festival devoted to British Cinema in the UK. The Picturehouse Mobile Cinema at Oxford Road Car Park. All the films and events that form part 1 march. Join us to celebrate the best We welcome directors Uberto Pasolini (Still Life), of the Festival are marked with the Festival Morgan Matthews (X+Y), and producer Sinead of British Cinema green badge in the A-Z list. of British Cinema from the very latest Kirwan (Still the Enemy Within) and Festival Director Berwyn Rowlands (Iris Prize: Best British LGBT The Picturehouse Mobile Cinema provides an shorts) to Hay. Fr Richard Williams will provide exclusive addition to the line-up. A newly films on preview to some of the earliest, live accompaniment on the Bevington Organ to refurbished 100 seater mobile cinema travelling A Cottage on Dartmoor at St Mary the Virgin Church the country’s highways and byways, this impressive from lesser known masterpieces that and editor Tony Lawson will discuss his remarkable 55 foot long, 36 ton articulated lorry, parks up career working with stellar directors from the UK and within an hour, transforms into a comfortable, resonate today to special presentations and Ireland. Professor Ian Christie, a leading air conditioned cinema auditorium, with full expert on British Cinema, will reassess the work digital projection facilities for patrons to enjoy from leading critics and production talent. of Britain’s forgotten women directors from the the latest films. 40s and 50s. there’ll be a good helping of Welsh films, old and new, along with a chance to hear from film directors and producers. 8 / 9 Festival of British Cinema Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2015 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org WHAT Do Women Want? Ken loaCh: mY BritiSh Film historian and broadcaster ian Christie presents Cinema inFluenCeS a programme exploring the legacy of Britain’s forgotten women filmmakers of the 40s and 50s Ken loach is one of Britain’s most distinctive and committed directors with award-winning films focusing on social issues, depicted through wider political dramas or in personal Saturday 28 February 5.15pm Hay Parish Hall Tickets £6.00/£4.50 relationships. We asked Ken to select for the Festival three British films that have influenced him and to tell us why. France, America and Russia all had women among their most innovative early filmmakers. But Britain appears to have had none, in a solidly night Mail & housing Problems Brief encounter male industry – unless we look sideways at documentary, where women began to make their “These two documentaries give two glimpses of “I remember very little about this film; I knew way during the 1930s. Confusingly, several of Britain in the middle of the last century. I like the play from seeing it in the theatre. The story is these were sisters of John Grierson, the pioneer them for two reasons. First, they use the medium pleasing in the simplicity of its central idea. The spokesman for documentary, which has probably in a direct but imaginative way. The images filmmaking is clear, unfussy and, with monochrome helped to blur their reputation. But Ruby and are considered and the editing enables you to photography, allows space for the audience’s Marion Grierson were filmmakers of independent understand and reflect on what you are seeing and imagination. And who can fail to be touched by vision, although Ruby tragically died young image: The Passionate Stranger hearing.