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FORUM 6 CINEMAS Travelling Film Festival acknowledges the financial assistance of Screen Australia and Create NSW and distinguished partner Princess Cruises. 6 - 8 MARCH 2020 SCHEDULE OPENING NIGHT: HEARTS AND BONES FRIDAY 6 MARCH 6:00 PM OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION 7:00 PM HEARTS AND BONES (15+) SATURDAY 7 MARCH 12:00 PM HONEYLAND (All Ages) 2:30 PM PHOTOGRAPH (M) 5:00 PM THE FAREWELL (PG) Screens with short film TIES THAT BIND (PG) 7:30 PM PAIN AND GLORY (15+) SUNDAY 8 MARCH 11:00 AM WHEN TOMATOES MET WAGNER (PG) Screens with short film TUNGRUS (PG) 1:30 PM OUT STEALING HORSES (15+) 4:30 PM THE TRUTH (PG) 7:30 PM PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (M)

FRIDAY 6 MAR 6:00 PM RECEPTION, 7:00 PM FILM Directed by Ben Lawrence | Australia | In English | 107 mins | 15+ SELECTED: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2019 War photographer Daniel Fisher (Hugo Weaving, Mystery Road, The Matrix STAY IN TOUCH trilogy) returns home to Sydney, and despite his partner’s protests, prepares for yet another hazardous overseas assignment. At the same Keep up to date with program and tour announcements, time, he is organising an upcoming exhibition of his work from the world’s giveaways and more! war zones. South Sudanese refugee, Sebastian (Andrew Luri), living happily in Australia with his wife and young child, learns that the exhibition will /travellingfilmfestival include images of a massacre in his village 15 years earlier. He finds Daniel #travellingfilmfestival and begs him to exclude those photographs. An unlikely friendship develops between the two men, but it is severely tested when Daniel makes a shocking discovery. With powerful performances from Weaving and Luri @travellingfilmfestival portraying men from very different backgrounds who bond over their shared trauma, director Ben Lawrence’s beautifully acted debut feature is an intelligent, morally complex and deeply moving film. Sign up to our eNews or to receive a print program in the post next year at “One of Hugo Weaving’s finest performances on screen.” sff.org.au/tff - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD WHEN TOMATOES HONEYLAND PHOTOGRAPH THE FAREWELL PAIN AND GLORY MET WAGNER

SAT 7 MAR 12:00 PM SAT 7 MAR 2:30 PM SAT 7 MAR 5:00 PM SAT 7 MAR 7:30 PM SUN 8 MAR 11:00 AM Directed by Ljubomir Stefanov, Directed by Ritesh Batra I India, USA, Directed by Lulu Wang I USA | In Directed by Pedro Almodóvar I Spain Directed by Marianna Economou Tamara Kotevska I North Macedonia Germany | In Hindi, Gujarati and English, Mandarin, Japanese and | In Spanish with English subtitles | | Greece | In Greek, English and | In Turkish with English subtitles | 87 English with English subtitles | Italian with English subtitles | 115 mins | 15+ French with English subtitles | mins | All Ages 110 mins | All Ages 100 mins | PG NOMINATED: BEST ACTOR, BEST 72 mins | PG NOMINATED: BEST FOREIGN FILM, SELECTED: SYDNEY AND WINNER: BEST ACTRESS, GOLDEN FOREIGN FILM, ACADEMY AWARDS, SELECTED: SFF 2019 BEST DOCUMENTARY OSCARS 2020 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVALS 2019 GLOBES 2020 GOLDEN GLOBES 2020 In a small rural Greek village, two Filmmakers Stefanov and Kotevska Nawazuddin Siddqui (The Lunchbox, NOMINATED: BEST FOREIGN FILM, Revered filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar cousins run an organic farm, growing filmed Hatidze and her bees over Lion) is Rafi, a street photographer BAFTA 2020 reunites with actor Antonio Banderas, tomatoes with the help of some following their previous highly three years. The 50-something in frenzied Mumbai, snapping Billi (Awkwafina, Crazy Rich Asians, hard-working old ladies – and successful collaborations (The apiarist lives in an isolated cottage improvised portraits for tourists Jumanji 2) is caught between two classical music blasted across the with her frail elderly mother. She at the city’s landmarks. When Skin I Live In), in this personal and fields. Little jars of tomato paste, and countries, not wholly identifying moving film. Filmmaker Salvador seems content to tend her bees and his ailing grandmother—who with American culture or Chinese layered antipasto savoury snacks are make the occasional four-hour trip has always hoped that Rafi would Mallo (Banderas, in one of his very their hallmarks. With no machines traditions. When her beloved finest performances) is suffering to market. One day, a large family start a family—comes to visit, he grandmother’s persistent cough turns for mass production, only weathered from a range of health issues and hands to crank the honey, slice the and their herd of cattle move into scrambles to appease her. A chance out to be terminal, the family decides finds himself in a creative rut. This the otherwise deserted mountain encounter with kind-hearted and it’s better not to tell her the prognosis. tomatoes, and apply each label one artistic limbo leads Salvador to by one. They’re clearly dedicated, valley and her peaceful life is turned lonely Miloni (Sanya Malhotra, Instead, they arrange a quasi-fake reflect on his childhood (raised in upside down. At first, Hatidze Dangal, Badhaai Ho) offers the wedding so the clan can pay their but hampered by marketing poverty by his doting mother - a acumen. With its sunny approach enjoys the company, and willingly perfect opportunity, since she is respects to their beloved matriarch, superb Penelope Cruz), his lovers, shares her special brandy and her happy to play along when Rafi asks without mentioning her illness. In this that’s as laid-back and no-frills as films and past glories. Almodovar’s the villagers themselves, this is a ancient beekeeping ways. But her her to be his pretend companion. smart and funny tale, director Wang latest masterpiece, full of life’s small wonderfully endearing and optimistic trust is betrayed, and all too soon cleverly highlights the cultural and yet absurd moments and exquisite A film based on beautifully resonant documentary. her bees are in jeopardy. Intimate, moments, director Ritesh Batra’s generational differences between East styling, which clearly riffs on his and West and the impact of severed own life, is ultimately a gorgeous “Economou’s passionate approach, humorous and timeless, Honeyland follow up to his festival favourite, The connections and renewed family ties. reflection on cinema, art, family combined with a carefully measured also epitomises the delicate balance Lunchbox, beautifully captures the between humankind and nature. “The comedy ranges from sly verbal and love. balance between the personal thin line between hypothetical and and the general on one hand, and “This bitter and beautiful Sundance- real, longing and nostalgia. wit through borderline broad crowd- “The artful symmetry is an Almodovar pleasing gags, but it’s anchored at hallmark, and his cinematic the local and the universal on the winning doc focuses on a single “A lovely ending, feels like a other, makes for a deeply satisfying beekeeper as though our collective every step by the filmmaker’s direct memento is filled with the intimate, throwback to the old-fashioned big ties to the situation.” indelible moments that made a life. viewing experience.” future hinges on her hives.” screen romances of yore.” -THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER You can feel his passion for cinema -INDIEWIRE -INDIEWIRE in every frame.” -SCREEN INTERNATIONAL Screens with short film Screens with short film TIES THAT BIND -ROLLING STONE TUNGRUS

PORTRAIT OF A OUT STEALING HORSES THE TRUTH LADY ON FIRE SHORT FILMS SUPPORT TFF TIES THAT BIND

SUN 8 MAR 1:30 PM SUN 8 MAR 4:30 PM SUN 8 MAR 7:30 PM As a non-profit organization, the Directed by Hans Petter Moland | Directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu | Directed by Céline Sciamma I France Directed by Michael Hudson | Australia Travelling Film Festival exists through Norway | In Norwegian and Swedish France | In French and English with | In French with English subtitles | 12 mins | PG support from you—our audience. Your with English subtitles | 123 mins | M English subtitles | 107 mins | PG 119 mins | M SELECTED: SFF 2019 donations are an investment in the Festival’s future and enable us to keep WINNER: BERLIN FILM SELECTED: VENICE INTERNATIONAL SELECTED: SFF 2019 A young man (Kamil Ellis) is at odds with his single mother (Elaine Crombie), who bringing the best and most important FESTIVAL 2019 FILM FESTIVAL 2019 WINNER: BEST SCREENPLAY, pushes him away with her bullying ways. stories from around the world to Wagga Stellan Skarsgård (Chernobyl, Written and directed by Shoplifters CANNES Screens with feature film Wagga each year. director, Kore-eda Hirokazu, outside Mamma Mia) shines as old Trond, Set in 18th century France, Céline THE FAREWELL Make a tax-deductible donation of his native Japan, this enjoyable a thoughtful yet lonely man who today at sff.org.au/tff/support story brings together iconic Oscar- Sciamma (Girlhood, SFF2014) is prompted to recall a certain returns with this beautifully Norwegian summer that changed nominated actresses Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche. calibrated, incandescent romance his life forever. Based on the novel between a painter and her subject. of the same name, in 1948 young Deneuve plays Fabienne, an iconic Marianne is commissioned to do the French actress, currently shooting Trond and his father escape Oslo wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young her latest movie, who is demanding for the summer, arriving at a lodge lady who has just left the convent. in the idyllic forests of rural Norway. and dismissive to those around TUNGRUS OUR AUDIENCES SAY: her. When it comes to her own Héloïse is a reluctant bride-to-be They wander through fields of tall and Marianne must paint her without grass, shower in the blistering rain, autobiography, however, she is more “One of the best. Love the than happy to fudge the details. Upon her knowing. She observes her by and fell trees for timber. Trond even variety and high standard.” the release of her book, she’s visited day and secretly paints her at night. makes friends with the boy next door. by her estranged daughter Lumir Intimacy and attraction grow all Their vacation is perfect until several (a soulful Binoche), son-in-law and whilst Marianne paints the portrait “Really enjoy the film festival incidents occur that mark a turning struggling actor Hank (Ethan Hawke), that will end it all. With vulnerable even though I have to travel. point in everyone’s lives. With and her young granddaughter. As and nuanced performances by its Good excuse to stay in town. masterfully interwoven timelines Lumir dives into her mother’s book, superb leads. spanning across generations, she finds that almost none of it aligns Directed by Rishi Chanda | India Please keep coming.” director Moland delivers a film with her own memory of growing “Céline Sciamma has brought a 13 mins | PG superbly elegant, enigmatic drama immersed in Scandinavian nature up, leading to confrontations and SELECTED: SFF 2019 “We look forward to the festival that deals sensually with memory long-buried resentments that jumbles that compels a shiver of aesthetic pleasure and fear.” A bolshy pet rooster turns the domestic returning year after year.” and loss. truth and fiction. life of a Mumbai family upside down. -THE GUARDIAN “A hugely accomplished meditation on “If Shoplifters was a story about Screens with feature film life, guilt and responsibility.” strangers pretending to be relatives, WHEN TOMATOES MET WAGNER this is a story about relatives -HOLLYWOOD REPORTER pretending to be strangers.” -INDIEWIRE