www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org 2011

Friday 25 March to Sunday 10 April 2 / 3 Director’s Dozen www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Festival Director David Gillam puts a dozen films and very special events in the spotlight

Animal Kingdom (15) p.20 Benda Bilili! (15) p.23 Biutiful (15) p.24 Circo (PG) p.28 Top-notch Aussie thriller – “an Australian “86 minutes of total joy” “Bardem is magnificent” “A gem of a documentary... crisply shot, answer to Goodfellas” New York Times Cath Clarke, The Guardian Total Film emotionally frank, and genuinely moving” Time Out

Fezeka’s Voice (PG) p.31 Of Gods & Men (15) p.40 Rashomon (12A) p.43 Nicolas Roeg in Conversation p.9 “Warm-hearted and heart-warming” “Nothing less than sublime” The most influential Japanese film ever made The great British director talks about Philip French, Observer The Wall Street Journal his career

The Silent Pianist Speaks p.7 True Grit (15) p.50 Waste Land(PG) p.52 Winter’s Bone (15) p.53 An insight into the hilarious life of Britain’s Nominated for 10 Oscars including A fascinating, Oscar-nominated documentary “A tense, evocative, powerfully finest silent film pianist Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director that explores the power of art to change observed drama.” The Guardian people’s lives www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org )FSF BOE www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org /PX 4 / 5 Borderlines Film Festival 2011 )FSF www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Friday 26 February BOE to Sunday 14 March /PX www.borderlinesfilmfestival.orgWelcome to the ninth Friday 26 FebruaryBorderlines Film Festival!)FSF to Sunday 14 March BOE /PX With more than two weeks of wall-to-wall cinema at steel and glass arts Friday 26 February centres, stuccoed assembly rooms, Norman churches, the back rooms of pubs DIRECTORS PICKS 02 and innumerable village halls, we’ll be visiting a remarkable 37 venues spread to Sunday 14 March throughout Herefordshire, Shropshire and the Welsh Marches. WELCOME TO BORDERLINES 04 This year we are offering audiences the opportunity to delve deeper and wider into the communities where we screen, exploring the rich and unusual variety DON’T MISS! 06 of things to do and see in the surrounding area from glamping in a shepherd’s hut by the River Teme to llama trekking in the Black Mountains. Visit www. borderlinesinthevillages.co.uk for details of how to make the most of your SHROPSHIRE EVENTS 11 trip to a Borderlines screening in the Herefordshire villages and market towns.

The programme, brought together by Festival Director David Gillam, HEREFORDSHIRE EVENTS 12 is a fantastic selection of mouth-watering treats from across the world, along with the finest British films, unmissable documentary features, directors’ introductions and Q&As, hands-on workshops for young film-makers, special UNDER OPEN SKIES Awards 17 5IFGJOFTU events for schools and lots more!

GJMNTBWBJMBCMF Borderlines would not be possible without our long standing partners – A-Z FILM LISTINGS 18 The Courtyard, Flicks in the Sticks, the new Shropshire Screen Consortium and UPIVNBOJUZ independent film societies and we thank them. Neither could we do without FESTIVAL DIARY 58 support from our funders: ScreenWM and the National Lottery through the 5IFGJOFTU UK Film Council, Herefordshire Council, The Elmley Foundation, Hereford GJMNTBWBJMBCMF5IFGJOFTU City Council, our new funders the Herefordshire Leader programme (part VENUE INFORMATION 63 funded by the European Union (EAFRD) and Defra) and the Shropshire Screen The Courtyard UPIVNBOJUZGJMNTBWBJMBCMF Consortium, through the UKFC Rural Cinema Pilot Scheme. Festival Pass UPIVNBOJUZ Enjoy the Festival! 5IF-JNJUTPG$POUSPM Are you planning to tuck in to the F Naomi Vera-Sanso Borderlines Film Festival Executive Director Get a pair of tickets for any film at The Courtyard at £5 per ticket with The Courtyard Wem estival? Town Hall Festival Pass £15/ £10 concs

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Jo Brand’s Desert Island Films

Sunday 27 March 7.30pm, Ledbury Market Theatre Tickets £12 / Book 01531 636147 or www.themarkettheatre.com or buy in person at The Master’s House, St Katharine’s Car Park, Ledbury Borderlines Open 9.00am–4.45pm Mon-Thurs and 9.00am–4.30pm Fri Events Special Expect plenty of witty, pungent digression as well as “scoffing in the dark” when comedian, psychiatric nurse, best-selling writer, Jo Brand reveals her Desert Island Films to Newsnight, Front Row, and now Radio 4’s The Film Programme presenter, Francine Stock. ‘Scoffing in the Dark: My Favourite Films’ is indeed the title of a chapter in Jo’s recently published volume of autobiography Can’t Stand Up For Sitting Down. A rare chance to share in person Jo’s observations on the films she’s enjoyed most.

“Jo is the best female comic in Britain” The Mirror

Neil Brand – The Silent Pianist Speaks

Wednesday 30 March 7.30pm, Cawley Hall, Eye Tickets £7, £3.50 concessions / Licensed bar Book 01568 615836 or www.courtyard.org.uk

Fresh from co-starring with Paul Merton in the UK tour of Paul Merton’s Silent Clowns, Neil Brand, the ‘doyen of silent film pianists’ is proud to present his own critically acclaimed show. From the earliest, earthiest comedies and thrillers, through a silent cine-verité classic scripted by a young Billy Wilder which the audience gets to score, to the glories of Hollywood glamour and the sublime Laurel and Hardy, Neil provides improv accompaniment and laconic commentary on everything from deep focus to his own live cinema disasters. A hilarious, sharp and ultimately moving show about cinema and music that pays tribute to the musicians of the silent era through the observations of one of the world’s finest exponents.

“richly diverting... entertainment – Brand should break his silence more often” Metro 2007 8 / 98 ADon’t – Z Filmmiss! Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

On the Black Hill Walk

Sunday 27 March, Sunday 10 April 10.30am (2–2.5 hours) Bull’s Head, Craswall, HR2 0PN £5 / Places are limited so pre-booking advisable via The Courtyard Box Office or www.courtyard.org.uk

An atmospheric 3 mile walk, guided by British Mountaineering Council qualified Mountain Walking Leader, Nic Howes, through a beautiful Craswall Priory ruins valley close to the border between England and Wales. The walk starts and finishes at the isolated Bull’s Head inn and takes in the tiny church at Craswall, Abbey Farm (the setting of the documentary film Real Life in the Black Mountains) and the romantic ruins of Craswall Priory and its associated fishpond dam. The walk is overlooked by the steep north face of the Black Hill, location of the feature film On the Black Hill. The walk is easy going, mostly across grass fields and along paths which are uneven and may be muddy; there are several stiles and three short steep climbs.

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Nicolas Roeg at 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival The Moviebus Photo: Petr Novák, Wikipedia Nicolas Roeg in Conversation Tuesday 29 March 10.30am – 5.30pm, High Town, Hereford, HR1 2AA Wednesday 30 March 11.30 – 6.00pm, England’s Gate Inn, Tuesday 5 April 6.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford Bodenham, HR1 3HU Tickets £8 / The Courtyard Box Office or www.courtyard.org.uk In association with BAFTA, Borderlines is proud to present a unique Nicolas will be joined on Climb aboard North Devon’s Moviebus, the last survivor of a batch opportunity to hear one of the greats of British cinema, Nicolas Roeg. stage by his editor for 18 years, of seven custom built mobile cinema units reputedly commissioned Tony Lawson. by Tony Benn while at the Ministry of Technology in the late 1960s. During Nicolas Roeg’s golden period in the early 70s he directed It’s a stunning piece of British transport heritage and comes complete On Saturday 2 April at The some of the most distinctive films ever made in Britain - Performance, Courtyard (see p51) we will be with tiered plush seating for 22 and the latest digital screening Walkabout, Don’t Look Now, The Man Who Fell To Earth. During screening Walkabout, Nicolas technology with surround sound. The Moviebus will be parked at that period of extraordinary creativity his work with some iconic Roeg’s stunning debut that has been re-released in a beautiful High Town Hereford on Tuesday 29 March and at England’s Gate Inn, performers (David Bowie, Mick Jagger, , Donald Bodenham on Wednesday 30 showing a good selection of archive digital restoration to coincide Sutherland) seemed to capture the times like no other filmmaker. with its 40th anniversary. material from Herefordshire, including films courtesy of MACE When he directed his first film in 1970 he was already a 23-year Archive’s Heritage Lottery Funded Full Circle project. industry veteran having worked as cinematographer on Lawrence of Arabia, Far From The Madding Crowd, and Fahrenheit 451. His visually Or you could also get on your bike and join Cycle Hereford as they imaginative films expressed a uniquely off-kilter view of the world, ride out from The Courtyard to the Moviebus on Wednesday 30 through fragmented images and a highly original, non-linear yet at Bodenham and take in a special feature film screening, featuring strangely accessible approach to story telling. bikes of course! To join the ride contact Rob Owens on [email protected] or 07794 755762. In association with BAFTA, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts. For details of screening schedules on both days see BAFTA’s public events and online resources bring you closer to the creative www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org talent behind your favourite games, films, and TV shows. Find out more at To book a meal contact England’s Gate Inn on 01568 797286 www.bafta.org/newsletter, www.facebook.com/bafta or .com/bafta www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org )FSF BOE /PX

10 / 11 Don’t miss! / Shropshire events www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Friday 26 February FREE EVENT Simon Roberts – The Election Project FILM NATION to Sunday 14 March Run in partnership with Panasonic, Film Nation: Shorts will introduce young Friday 8 April 8.00pm, Bromyard Conquest Theatre Tickets £5 / Licensed bar / Book 01885 488575 people to film-making, support them in developing their talent, and give everyone who enters a chance to have their work screened around the UK. As the official Election Artist, Simon Roberts was commissioned Winning films will be screened in front of the crowds in venues during the by the House of Commons to produce a series of artworks that Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in 2012. responded to the 2010 UK General Election. During the 24 days of official campaigning Roberts went around the UK in a motor home Make a Film in a Day Workshop for 14–19 year olds photographing local landscapes and scenes connected to the election, Saturday 26 March 10.00am – 5.00pm, Wem Town Hall / Book 01939 238279 focusing on the relationship between politicians and the voting Saturday 9 April 10.00am – 5.00pm, SpArC, Bishops Castle / Book 01588 630243 public. Here he gives a fully illustrated low-down on the experience, including the stories behind the images – being at Duffygate with Working with industry professionals through First Light, learn how to make Gordon Brown, covering Nick Clegg after the first TV debate when a short film in a day, themed around the Olympic and Paralympic Games. he briefly became the new ‘prince of politics’ and David Cameron All young people will learn about story, camera, sound, directing, editing on polling day. Simon will also screen an exclusive preview of the and producing a short film. film he shot at the time. His talk is a fascinating exposé of how the main parties try to control images from their political campaigns and, setting these against the photographs submitted by the general public to the project, reveals much about the democratic process we take FREE EVENT for granted. A Different Kind of Image An exhibition of prints from The Election Project will be on show Wednesday 6 April, DASH (the region’s leading Disability Arts agency), Shrewsbury Simon Roberts © Daniel Lillie at MAC in Birmingham from 8 April - 5 June 2011. Book 01743 272939/ 271676 or [email protected] / www.dasharts.org Three screenings that explore the ways different kinds of people create different kinds of images about themselves and others.

1.30 – 3.30pm Raspberry Ripple I Married a Foley Footstep! Produced by the BBC, Raspberry Ripple features John Gordon Sinclair A live performance by Matt Wand & Ben Gwilliam (of Gregory’s Girl fame) as a doleful young man who uses a wheelchair and 5IFGJOFTU regularly escapes reality by dreaming about American gangster movies Thursday 31 March 7.30pm Leintwardine Community Centre Tickets £5 / Book www.artsalive.co.uk or 01588 620883 / 07973GJMNTBWBJMBCMF 746223 4.00 – 6.00 pm Mystery Film A sound(effects)track is performed to a snowballing montage of new 7.30 – 9.30pm Three Film-makers Talk About Film and archive Super-8 footage. The extreme close-up doppelgangerUPIVNBOJUZ Three of the UK’s leading disabled filmmakers, Nicola Lane, Simon McKeown sounds of Foley... the scrunching of cat litter trays, the rumble of and Paul Darke screen new work and talk about their practice. Animation, inflated rubber gloves, 9-volt batteries skittering across bathroom documentary and drama. tiles... is married to the comic-nihilist journey of life as Wand & Gwilliam perform their movie ventriloquist act. Shropshire Screen You may not know the name but you’ll know the work! The Foley artist recreates sound effects in the studio for film, television and radio. A newly formed consortium of rural cinema providers will bring the latest in digital cinema to venues across Shropshire. Supported by the regional PLUS extra screenings of short Super-8 films with soundtracks played screen agency ScreenWM and with lottery funding from the UK Film Council, by Wand & Gwilliam as electronic duo – The Pollinators of Eden. Festival Market Drayton, Ludlow Assembly Rooms and Wem Town Hall will 5IF-JNJUTPG$POUSPM screen the latest releases, 3D films and live satellite content while Flicks A co-commission with Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Abandon Normal Devices in the Sticks, Reels on Wheels and DASH will reach audiences in Shropshire and Cornerhouse, Manchester. villages. Shropshire Screen will launch its own website with listings, reviews, and trailers soon. Wem Town Hall

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FREE EVENT Same But Different FILM NATION FREE EVENT Friday 25 March 10.30am–12.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford Run in partnership with Panasonic, Film Nation: Shorts will introduce young Produced by The Rural Media Company, this programme of short films made people to film-making, support them in developing their talent, and give in Herefordshire in 2010 is an exploration of diversity in a rural county. The everyone who enters a chance to have their work screened around the UK. result is highly charged, inspirational testimony from individuals brave enough Winning films will be screened in front of the crowds in venues during the to open up their personal experiences for scrutiny. Funded by the Equality and Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in 2012. Human Rights Commission, the programme will be launched by Jesse Norman, Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire and the Right Worshipful Film Director Masterclass

XXXSVSBMNFEJBDPVLTBNFCVUEJGGFSFOUthe Mayor of Hereford, Councillor Anna Toon. For 19-25 year olds THE RURAL MEDIA COMPANY Friday 8 April 2.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford

A masterclass to offer insight into the work of Desire director Gareth Jones, describing the behind the scenes inspiration, challenges and production processes that have shaped his films. FREE EVENT Just War (PG) screening and discussion To book please email [email protected]

Director: Joe Jenkins, UK, 2010, 19 minutes Saturday 26 March 1.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford An Introduction to Directing: Creating Performance When is war just? Workshop for 19-25 year olds

“Made with much skill, this timely film explains clearly and succinctly the Wednesday 30 March 10.00am – 2.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford challenges faced by those who have the terrible responsibility of engaging in a war and how those who are engaged should behave” Working with 104 Films and a guest director, learn the necessary skills General Lord Guthrie, Former Head of the British Army & techniques to successfully direct actors on screen. 15 places available only. To book please email [email protected] Herefordshire based filmmaker Joe Jenkins will chair a post-screening discussion / UK Premiere See www.filmnation.org.uk for the latest entries to the competition and vote on your favourite or upload your own film.

The Things We Took With Us FREE EVENT FREE EVENT Hereford College of Arts Film and Director: Toni Cook, UK, 2010, 7 mins Screen Media Showcase Wednesday 30 March 4.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 29 March 11.30am – 1.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford When three teenagers revisit their former family home they are confronted Work from current students at Hereford College of Arts. From documentary to by the memories and experiences that previously haunted their young lives. music video and everything in between, come and see films that might amuse, Set in Herefordshire, The Things We Took With Us explores the impact of move and intrigue you. domestic abuse on children and young people who live in rural areas. Working in partnership with Women’s Aid, The Rural Media Company worked with young people who have experienced domestic abuse in their own lives. Their stories and emotions have been developed into this short moving film in which they also perform. 14 / 15 Herefordshire events www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

The Close in Living Memory FREE EVENT Monday 4 April 6.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford / £7.50 Script to Screen: how to write for film and TV Learning Zone – Bringing history to life Special event for people wanting to get into the film and TV industry Thursday 31 March 4.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford from the new professional group, Herefordshire Media Network. A chance for Herefordshire schools teachers to experience the huge educational potential of this project. St. James CE Primary School, Lord Former Brookside scriptwriter Peter Cox MBE and award winning film and radio Scudamore Foundation School and Catcher Media have created two short dramatist Simon Bovey give a warts and all insight into their craft, with clips films, A Journey Around The Close and World War 2 in Herefordshire, that of their work. provide new National Curriculum linked learning materials to give pupils a For more information contact Herefordshire Media Network great introduction to local history and World War 2. Join us for the films, see on 01432 383064 [email protected] intergenerational reminiscence work in action and talk directly to the creators of the resources. DVD and activity pack to take away. Event open to public.

“Children who see this DVD will be very lucky” St. Martin’s Primary School pupil

Hereford Cathedral Close Oral Reminiscences FILMCLUB FREE EVENT Thursday 31 March 6.15pm, The Courtyard Hereford / £4 Tuesday 5 April 10.00am, The Courtyard Hereford This film brings to us many of the stories and events that have been lived out in and around one of Hereford’s most significant public spaces. Tales of ghosts, Primary school screening of Tangled (p49) royal picnics in the rain, rice pudding, playing football with medieval skulls, Wednesday 6 April 10.00am, The Courtyard Hereford VE celebrations and buskers. Beautiful archive images, great characters and fascinating stories celebrate a unique moment in time as the multi-million Secondary school screening of Benda Belili! (p23) pound, Heritage Lottery Fund supported restoration of the close moves to Introduced by Ellen E Jones, Film Programmer at FILMCLUB completion – if you thought the cathedral close was just a place to pass Please contact Sam Wilson at FILMCLUB on [email protected] to book. through to get to town, think again! Spaces will be issued on a strict first come, first served basis.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with participants from the film. FILMCLUB is a charity that sets schools and colleges up with the resources to run an after-school Film Club. Please register on the website www.filmclub.org Both events are a Catcher Media presentation for the Hereford Cathedral Close for more details. Project in association with In Our Age supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

FREE EVENT Fun for Life! In Arcadia FREE EVENT Director: Liz Bailey, UK, 2009, 21 minutes Monday 4 April 4.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford Thursday 7 April 5.00pm, The Courtyard Hereford

Funforlife is an international performing arts organisation that empowers Set in the Welsh Marches near Ewyas Harold this film utilizes the concept young people disadvantaged through sickness, war or poverty, teaching them of landscape to explore change within a small farming community and focuses vital life skills and inspiring them in a joyful way. on the cultural environment and working practice of people who are being The charity works regularly in the UK, Sri Lanka and India and now Haiti – increasingly challenged by changes occurring in the wider economy. connecting with thousands of children. The short film New Moves (dir Alison Director Liz Bailey will answer questions after the screening George) celebrates FFL dance, theatre and puppetry workshops in orphanages and camps during the war in Southern Sri Lanka in 2009/10 while a rough cut of Hip Hop in Haiti covers a project in February when Herefordshire-based 2Faceddance joined the team in Haiti.

FFL directors Dragan Matajevic and Ellie Parker will answer questions after the films. There will be a collection for Funforlife www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

If you like wildlife, natural landscapes and have the slightest interest in Britain’s rich flora and fauna, then this is for you. Witness some of the very best amateur filmmaking and revel in spectacular professional films as they compete in our new Award for the Best Films on Britain’s Natural World.

Amateur Competition + Award Ceremony The Rural Media Company Thursday 7 April 6.15pm, The Courtyard Hereford THE BORDERLINES Luxuriate in some breathtaking images. Experience Britain’s largest ‘an inspiration to communities everywhere as to what they can achieve with film’- Lord Puttnam HARRY WILLIAMSON Film Screenings at Borderlines 2011 AWARD beetle Hudson’s Monarch in the Hampshire countryside and our largest land mammal in the Caledonian forest of Where the Wild Things Friday 25th March 10.30 am Were. Delight in rare, chance footage of Dartmoor Otter Cubs and the exquisite images of south Shropshire wildlife that are Born to Run. ‘Same But Different’ Join schoolchildren in an enchanting film as they go on Sprogwatch Powerful short films on race, gender, faith, age, disability and LGBT issues in at the Gartside RSPB reserve. Herefordshire Wednesday 30th March 4.00 pm ‘The Things We Took With Us’ Professional Competition Screenings 1 A moving short film that explores the impact of domestic violence on young people Thursday 7 April 8.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford First up, the big birds in East Scotland Sea Eagles – a behind the tel: 01432 344039 www.ruralmedia.co.uk [email protected] scenes insight from the RSPB into the re-introduction of wild Sea Eagle chicks from Norway to the east coast of Scotland. Followed by The Wild Places of Essex, a beautifully crafted homage to that most maligned of English counties – written and presented by Robert Macfarlane.

Professional Competition Screenings 2 + Award Ceremony Saturday 9 April 8.15pm, The Courtyard Hereford Masked Raiders from Ibex films, takes the unusual form of an historical retelling of the conflict between people and one of Britain’s rarest predators, the polecat, from the 1800s to the present day. Lost Call, an RSPB film made over 10 years, chronicles the ambitious re-introduction of the corncrake to the East Anglian lowlands. Borderlines thanks Borderlines thanks Inspired by the wilderness of Dartmoor and presented by Resurgence editor and former Jain monk Satish Kumar, Earth Pilgrim is a eulogy Fulmar Film Mrs Christine Evans on the transformative power of the natural world. and Television for her support Our judges are Liz Bomford, wildlife photographer and writer; Malcolm Penny, writer and producer on the Survival series; and for their support Wincey Willis, TV & radio presenter and author. 18 / 19 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Africa United (12A) The African Queen (U) Alamar (U)

Director: Debs Gardner-Paterson Director: John Huston Director: Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio Starring: Roger Nsengiyumva, Sherrie Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Starring: Jorge Machado, Nestor Marin Silver, Eriya Ndayambaje Katherine Hepburn, Robert Morley Mexico, 2009, 1 hour 13 minutes, subtitles UK, 2010, 1 hour 30 minutes USA, 1951, 1 hour 45 mins 127 Hours (15) Abel (15) Tuesday 5 April 7.00pm Friday 1 April 7.30pm Wednesday 6 April 2.00pm Ross St Mary’s Church Hall Director: Danny Boyle Director: Diego Luna Bodenham Parish Hall The Courtyard Hereford Friday 8 April 7.30pm Starring: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Clemence Poesy Starring: Christopher Ruiz-Esparza, Saturday 9 April 7.00pm Lingen Village Hall USA/UK, 2010, 1 hour 34 minutes Gerardo Ruiz-Esparza, Karina Gidi Bishops Castle SpArC Mexico, 2009, 1 hour 25 minutes, This entertaining wartime Friday 25 March 2.00pm, Saturday 26 6.15pm, Sunday 27 6.30pm, subtitles romantic adventure is famous for This fabulously beautiful, gently Monday 28 6.00pm, Tuesday 29 4.15pm The amazing story of three the fabulous chemistry between contemplative celebration of The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 27 March 4.30pm, Tuesday 29 4.00pm Rwandan street kids who make Bogart and Hepburn in their only the joys of a fisherman’s life an incredible journey across With its energy and immediacy Danny Boyle’s gripping new film The Courtyard Hereford onscreen pairing. Forced to travel will transport you to a Mexican Monday 4 April 7.30pm Africa with only a World Cup wall is certainly proof of his versatility and ambition. It’s based on the together down a dangerous coral reef. Jorge brings his five- Ludlow Assembly Rooms chart to guide them. They walk true story of the headline-grabbing ordeal of Aron Ralston (Franco) river, Charlie, a disreputable, year-old son to this wilderness over 3,000 miles through seven gin-swigging river-boat captain paradise to live the natural life a climber who becomes pinned by a boulder while exploring an Diego Luna’s first film as a different countries, in order forms an unlikely alliance with before his mother takes him off isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days the cocky, daredevil director is a brave mix of comedy, to fulfil their dream of seeing prim missionary Rose. The film to Rome. Not much happens, Ralston examines his life, recalling friends, family and lovers until drama, and coming of age movie the World Cup in South Africa. succeeds on so many counts – they catch barracuda, go diving he eventually lapses into despair at his impending death. When he that provides telling observations Full of joy, laughter and hope, as comedy as the mismatched for lobster, feed the crocodile decides to free himself at any cost it is a climactic moment of such on fatherhood and masculinity their sassy ingenuity sees them duo really rile one another, the scraps and befriend an strength that, when you leave the cinema, you can’t help feeling that through the tale of a small boy’s through a series of dangerous, as thriller, as they negotiate egret that they feed by hand. the world is a different place from when you went in. Oedipal woes. No ordinary nine- hilarious and often bizarre German patrols, rapids and the But total immersion in sea, year-old, the mute Abel returns situations. This is a delightful jungle while concocting a plan to sky and sunshine has a lovely “Simply unmissable.” Time Out home after spending time in story about friendship, loyalty blow a hole in a German gunboat, calming effect as it quietly a psychiatric facility. Then and determination, suitable for Nominated for 6 Oscars including Best Picture & Best Actor and, of course, as a romance. washes over you. suddenly Abel starts to speak children from 8 years up. again, acting as if he’s his father, “a great story enlivened by great Winner of Tiger Award Rotterdam ordering his siblings and mother On Saturday the screening is sponsored by On Sunday the screening is sponsored by actors sparking off one another International Film Festival 2010 around and insisting he is the and a director keen enough to just boss. Insightful, unsentimental, let it flow.” Time Out with charming performances from two real-life brothers this Winner of Best Actor Oscar 1951 takes you on a very different and affecting journey. 20 / 21 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

An American Animal Kingdom (15)

in Paris (U) Director: David Michod Starring: Ben Mendelsohn, Guy Pearce, Joel Edgerton Director: Vincente Minnelli Australia, 2010, 1 hour 54 minutes Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch Saturday 2 April 8.45pm, Monday 4 2.00pm, Wednesday 6 6.00pm USA, 1951, 1 hour 53 minutes The Courtyard Hereford Monday 28 March 2.00pm Another Year (12A) The Courtyard Hereford Teenager Josh is catapulted by circumstances into the bosom of his Director: Mike Leigh maternal family, a collection of hard-bitten career criminals who Starring: Jim Broadbent, Ruth Sheen, Lesley Manville, Oliver Maltman, Imelda Staunton Widely considered the greatest make the Mitchells from EastEnders look insipid. At the bottom of UK, 2010, 2 hours 9 minutes dance musical of all time, a the pecking order he’s caught haplessly in the violent recriminations Friday 25 March 7.30pm, Tarrington Lady Emily Hall joyful, tremendously stylized riot between his psychopathic uncles and a far from squeaky clean police Saturday 26 March 7.30pm, Chapel Lawn Village Hall, of colour, movement and song. force. Played out in the deceptive sunshine of the Melbourne suburbs, Hereford WRVS Hall & Leominster Playhouse Cinema Gene Kelly stars as a young artist the twists and turns of plot that will determine the survival of the Thursday 31 March 7.30pm, Goodrich Village Hall Friday 1 April 7.30pm, Dilwyn Cedar Hall who finds romance on the Left fittest build up to a muscular, hair-tingling thriller, with all the Friday 1 April 8.00pm, Ledbury Market Theatre Bank. But the story is simply menace of a modern day film noir. Saturday 2 April 7.30pm, Cawley Hall, Eye the mundane underpinning Thursday 7 April 7.30pm, Brilley Village Hall for a glorious Technicolor “an Australian answer to Goodfellas” Friday 8 April 7.30pm, All Stretton Village Hall celebration of love. As well as New York Times Saturday 9 April 7.30pm, Moccas Village Hall the fabulous Gershwin score, this Mike Leigh’s latest thoughtful, delicately crafted and often moving “A mature, wise reflection is memorable for Kelly’s final Winner of the World Cinema Jury Prize at 2010 ballet sequence, a masterpiece film explores the lives of a contented couple in their early sixties and on life’s joys and sorrows,” of design, lighting, costumes, Nominated for Best Supporting Actress Oscar their rather less than contented friends and family. Happily married Daily Telegraph colour and choreography inspired Gerri and Tom soak up the grudges and grievances of Tom’s brother by the work of painters such Ronnie and their friends Ken and Mary whose mistakes, anger and Nominated for as Renoir, Dufy, Rousseau and fragility provide the drama and pathos of the film. Leigh directs Best Screenplay Oscar Toulouse-Lautrec. with a lightness of touch that makes the smallest of dramas seem all the more powerful. The cast are uniformly excellent, they inhabit rather than portray the characters, helping make the film even more convincing and engaging. 22 / 23 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Benda Bilili! (15) Best Of Festival The Big Lebowski (18)

Directors: Renaud Barrett, Sunday 10 April 2.00pm & 4.15pm Director: Joel Coen Florent de la Tullaye The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Starring: Staff Benda Bilili Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi France, 2010, 1 hour 26 minutes, subtitles USA, 1998, 1 hour 54 minutes This year, we’re giving our Tuesday 5 April 4.30pm, Friday 8 April 2.00pm Wednesday 6 6.30pm, audience the opportunity The Courtyard Hereford The Ballad of Mott The Hoople (15) Friday 8 8.30pm to reprise their choice of the Directors: Chris Hall, Mike Kerry The Courtyard Hereford best films from the Festival Regarded by many as one of Starring: Mott the Hoople, David Bowie UK, 2010, 1 hour 45 mins programme at our main venue. the greatest comedies of all This joyful documentary was Simple voting slips will be time. This surreal, comic take Friday 25 March 8.30pm, Monday 28 8.30pm the most fun film at last year’s handed out at all performances on Raymond Chandler charts The Courtyard Hereford Cannes. It follows a group at The Courtyard enabling you the unwitting involvement of of disabled street musicians to rate each film as you see it. laid back dopehead Jeff ‘the The director and many of the ‘The rock’n’roll circus is in town...’, but no other rock doc starts from Kinshasa who overcome The results will be tallied and Dude’ Lebowski in a kidnapping with pictures of High Town and Hereford United’s dressing room band will be present to answer huge obstacles, and is full of the two highest rating films questions after the screening case involving the wife of his in the 60s! The story of the rise and fall of Hereford’s most famous drama, comedy, tragedy and on Friday will receive a repeat screening millionaire namesake. Inventive rock band is enlivened by dazzling raconteur, Ian Hunter’s sharp hope. Although they live on on the closing day of the and entertaining, full of pithy insights into the ups and downs of rock stardom, and some great 70s the streets, staying sane by Festival. Your chance to have dialogue, it looks and sounds footage of Mott in their pomp that shows what a fabulous live band GUEST making music that mixes rumba, SPEAKER your say & help choose the wonderful. Far from being they were. There’s also a young, starry-eyed David Bowie generously reggae, blues and funk, they festival finale. shallow pastiche, it’s actually giving them All The Young Dudes to record so giving a new lease of life dream of being the most famous about what it means to be Bring a friend to see your to a band on the point of collapse. All the interviewees here are open African band in the world while a man, a friend and a ‘hero’ and fascinating, and directors, Chris Hall and Mike Kerry, present rehearsing in the zoo. Their favourite film of the Festival or catch up on what you for a particular time and place. their story with the passion and affection of genuine fans. music, their humour, their spirit missed. Start times may vary and their resilience in the face depending on the length of “Stylish and wickedly funny of repeated setbacks make for a the selected films. Titles will black comedy” Film 4 truly inspiring story that would be announced on Tuesday 5 be unbelievable if it weren’t true. April. Check our website www. borderlinesfilmfestival.org for details For details of FilmClub schools screening see p15 24 / 25 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Biutiful (15) Black Swan (15) Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Director: Darren Aronofsky Starring: Javier Bardem, Maricel Alvarez, Eduard Fernandez Starring: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder Spain, 2010, 2 hours 18 minutes, subtitles USA, 2010, 1 hour 48 minutes

Tuesday 29 March 7.30pm, Wednesday 30 7.30pm, Thursday 31 7.30pm Saturday 26 March 8.30pm, Sunday 27 8.30pm, Monday 28 6.15pm, Tuesday 29 6.15pm, Ludlow Assembly Rooms Wednesday 30 8.30pm, The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 2 April 8.30pm, Sunday 3 5.00pm, Wednesday 6 8.15pm Thursday 31 March 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Wem Town Hall

Bardem is magnificent as Uxbal, a hustler fixing things between “[It] ultimately gives us a story Driven by her failed ballerina mum, Nina is desperate to reach the top “An extraordinary, illegal immigrants, the police and construction site employers in of hope, and from Bardem, a in the bitchy ballet world. Always striving for perfection, she makes intoxicating masterpiece” contemporary Barcelona. He’s bringing up two kids while avoiding performance of staggering depth, an ideal Swan Queen but must tap into her dark side to dance the Empire the clutches of his unreliable ex. Although he knows he’s dying unquestionably one of the year’s Black Swan that’s required for the prima ballerina role in Swan Lake. of cancer, he chooses not to tell anyone. Caught up in an intricate best.” LA Times Aronofsky pulls out all the stops, making great use of the emotional Nominated for 5 Oscars web of events he’s a kind, dignified man, pained by the pain power of Tchaikovsky’s music, a no-holds-barred performance from including Best Picture, he sees people inflict on one another, but always trying to do “A near perfect film. Bardem Natalie Portman and beautiful black and white design to draw out Best Director & Best Actress his best for others. An excellent adult movie about death and is remarkable.” Esquire neat parallels with the story of Swan Lake. Ballet has never looked how to face it, thanks to Bardem’s compelling Oscar-worthy so brutal as Aronofsky (as he did in The Wrestler) makes much of the performance this is a powerfully emotional, tough but biutiful Winner Best Actor physical demands of being a top performer and the resulting tension film about life and how to lead it. Cannes Film Festival 2010 between age and ambition.

Nominated for 2 Oscars including Best Foreign On Saturday the screening On Monday the screening On Wednesday the screening Language Film & Best Actor is sponsored by is sponsored by is sponsored by 26 / 27 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

GUEST SPEAKER

Bonnie & Clyde (15) Bull Magic (15) Chico And Rita (15)

Director: Arthur Penn Director: John Bulmer Directors: , Starring: Warren Beatty, UK, 1994, 48 minutes Javier Mariscal Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman Starring: Limara Meneses, Eman Xor Oña USA, 1968, 1 hour 47 minutes Saturday 26 March 2.15pm Spain/Cuba, 2009, 1 hour 36 minutes, Blood of a Poet [PG] Blue Valentine (15) The Courtyard Hereford subtitles Monday 4 April 2.15pm Friday 25 March 6.30pm, with live score by Director: Derek Cianfrance The Courtyard Hereford The island of Madura off Sumatra Steven Severin Starring: John Doman, Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams Sunday 27 2.15pm, USA, 2010, 2 hours A great gangster movie and a key in Indonesia is famous for its Wednesday 30 6.00pm Director: Jean Cocteau Bull Racing. Small boys are the The Courtyard Hereford Friday 1 April 7.30pm, expression of late 60s sensibility Starring: Lee Miller, Enrique Rivero, jockeys, and they drive a pair Jean Desbordes, Féral Benga Sunday 3 7.30pm that highlighted both the Buena Vista Social Club meets France, 1930, 49 minutes, B/W Ludlow Assembly Rooms of bulls at breakneck speed down brutality and the attractiveness The Illusionist in this visually Friday 8 April 8.45pm, a 100 metre track, balancing on Friday 1 April 8.30pm of murder and so paved the way hypnotic, musically electric blend Saturday 9 2.30pm, a simple wooden skid. John The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 10 8.00pm for Tarantino and his ilk. Penn of hand-drawn animation and £10 Bulmer’s film, made for BBC’s The Courtyard Hereford coaxes career best performances beautiful Cuban soundtrack: out of both the handsome Beatty Under the Sun and National “Poets... shed not only the red all crooning love songs, fiery This wonderful debut from newcomer Cianfrance (who is already and the divine Dunaway while Geographic, follows the story blood of their hearts but the dances and passionate farewells. drawing comparisons to John Cassavetes) is a heartbreaking, powerful portraying the world around the of Sahmahi, a young jockey with white blood of their souls,” Cuba, 1948, young pianist Chico drama about falling in and out of love. The story of a couple who famous outlaws as unremittingly plenty of ambition, and his hero proclaimed Jean Cocteau of his and beautiful singer Rita fall in married too young and are facing the fall-out is hardly new but is hostile. Beautifully shot in Ayup, the previous champion. groundbreaking first film – an love over a shared passion for told with intelligence, authenticity and originality. You won’t see a muted tones of green and gold, exploration of the plight of the “The most entertaining music, but their fiery romance more honest film this year – Gosling and Williams give outstanding its climax is the famous orgasmic artist, the power of metaphor programme of the week...” splutters and dies and Rita leaves performances that are so truthful it hurts, this is a raw but beautiful finale (the lovers’ death as their and the relationship between Time Out. for New York. So they embark story that will touch every one who has been in or out of love. final passion) that explicitly art and dreams. One of cinema’s on the eternal Cuban story of links sexual satisfaction with Director John Bulmer will great experiments, this first emigration, separation and a “tender, real and heartfelt” Empire being an outlaw and suggests introduce the film and answer instalment of the Orphic Trilogy questions after the screening longing for love lost, a journey that there is no hope of justice. that brings happiness and stretches the medium to its Nominated for Best Actress Oscar heartache. With its exuberant limits in an effort to capture “it was the first masterpiece mood, lush visuals and wonderful the poet’s obsession with the I had seen on the job. I felt an jazz classics this will appeal to struggle between the forces of exhilaration beyond describing.” hopeless romantics everywhere. life and death. Roger Ebert “Beautiful, seductive and “... one of the must-see events Winner of Best Supporting of the year.” Dangerous Minds Actress and Best Cinematography spellbinding, ...a sensuous Oscars 1968 pleasure. ” Metro 28 / 29 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

GUEST SPEAKER

Circo (PG) Le Comte Ory / Desire (18)

Director: Aaron Shock Met Opera Live Director: Gareth Jones Starring: The Ponce Family Starring: Oscar Pearce, Mexico/USA, 2010, 1 hour 15 minutes, Director: Maurizio Benini Tella Kpomahou, Daisy Smith subtitles Starring: Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato, Wales, 2009, 1 hour 31 minutes Susanne Resmark, Juan Diego Flórez, Despicable Me (U) Distant Voices Still Lives (15) Wednesday 30 March 4.30pm, Stéphane Degout, Michele Pertusi Friday 8 April 6.00pm Sunday 10 4.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 9 April 6.00pm Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Director: Terence Davies The Courtyard Hereford With the voices of: Steve Carell, Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams 3 hours with interval Jason Segel, Julie Andrews UK, 1988, 1 hour 24 mins The Courtyard Hereford A sexually charged psychodrama USA, 2010, 1 hour 35 minutes This is a poignant portrait of £17.50 that deals head-on with the Thursday 31 March 2.00pm Saturday 2 April 6.30pm the impact of changing times on passions and frustrations The Courtyard Hereford Live from the Met in New York, Moccas Village Hall a small family circus that plies unleashed by the creative Rossini’s two-act opera follows Friday 8 April 6.30pm its trade down dusty rural back process, Desire intelligently Bishops Castle SpArC This inspired blend of musical and melodrama that first brought the convoluted machinations roads in small Mexican towns. explores the link between sex Pete Postlethwaite to public attention is a remarkable evocation of the dissolute young Comte Dad, Tino, has never known and creativity. Crippled by Deliciously anarchic kids comedy of working-class family life in the 40s and 50s. Set in a world before D’Ory to win the favours of a lady any other life, Mum, Ivonne agoraphobia and by the success about criminal mastermind Elvis, a Liverpool before the Beatles, Davies’ poetic masterpiece paints who resists his charms. Rossini’s struggles with the demands of of his soap-star wife Phoebe, Gru who tries to outdo his rival an autobiographical picture of a family dominated by a taciturn, vocally dazzling comedy soars the nomadic lifestyle and thinks Ralph sits frozen, unable to by plotting to steal the moon. oppressive father. The women in the family achieve partial escape with bel canto sensation Juan it’s time to give it all up and complete the screenplay that However when he fosters three from his dominance through the popular songs of the period that Diego Flórez in the title role of settle down so the kids can go will restore his self-confidence. little girls and Margo, Edith and punctuate this powerful British classic. A heartbreaking work that this Met premiere production. to school. The kids, engaging if With the deadline looming, he Agnes begin to melt his heart shifts between melancholy and optimism, this visionary exploration He vies with mezzo-soprano illiterate acrobats, practice hard invites beautiful Parisian au pair Gru discovers that there are some of memory, full of visual beauty and life-affirming humour, attains Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser all day. The simmering family Néné to look after the children. things that can’t be planned for. an extraordinary emotional power. role of Isolier, for the love of dispute over whether they should But is she carer, muse, or lover? Some clever gags and well-paced the lonely Countess Adèle, pass their century-old circus As Ralph succumbs to his desire, action plus a smart idea make “A unique and thoroughly moving masterpiece.” sung by soprano Diana Damrau. tradition on to their children Néné embarks on a passionate this a lot of fun for kids and Film 4 adds to the cinematic potential relationship with both husband adults alike. of circus life to create and wife. a really entertaining picture of a disappearing way of life. Director Gareth Jones and producer Fiona Howe will answer “A gem of a documentary . . . questions after the screening crisply shot, emotionally frank, and genuinely moving” Time Out 30 / 31 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

GUEST GUEST SPEAKER SPEAKER

Photo Rory Keegan Exit Through the Gift Festival of Britain Shop (15) David (U)

Director: Not Known Director: Paul Dickson Starring: Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Starring: Gomer Roberts, Sam Jones, Gwyneth Petty Space Invader Wales, 1951, 38 minutes UK, 2010, 1 hour 27 minutes Thursday 31 March 2.00pm & 8.00pm Monday 28 March 7.30pm Ludlow Assembly Rooms Fezeka’s Voice (PG) Cawley Hall Eye Thursday 31 March 4.00pm Saturday 2 April 7.30pm Director: Holly Lubbock The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Phumo Tsewu, Busi, Nokwanda, Zukisa, Desmond Tutu Brilley Village Hall UK, 2009, 1 hour 20 minutes, subtitles This special screening to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Festival Banksy’s film is a rousing Wednesday 30 March 6.15pm, Thursday 31 2.15pm, Saturday 2 April 4.15pm, The Courtyard Hereford of Britain includes two shorts made in 1951 about the events on the Friday 8 April 8.00pm, Clungunford Parish Hall tribute to street art, a crafty South Bank, the colourful, joyous Festival in London and the more autobiography and a cheeky meditative Brief City, featuring architect, Sir Hugh Casson. The Welsh comment on the bravado of A sweet portrait of the Fezeka High School Choir, their inspirational “Warm-hearted and heart- selection for 1951 Festival of Britain screenings in London, a miniature teacher, Phumo Tsewu, and their two week trip-of-a-lifetime to warming” Philip French, artists. Sparky, funny and masterpiece, was David, a reflective, engrossing documentary portrait invigorating to watch this is no perform in Salisbury Cathedral. The tireless, spirited Tsewu’s Observer of a saintly, profound man content to work as a school caretaker infectious love of music and belief in them inspires 77 children from standard issue documentary but whose simple life reveals a history of self-sacrifice. Subtly evoking a clever, sideways look at street Guguletu township to have confidence in themselves and their ability “Fezeka’s Voice is atmosphere and character, it gives a remarkable impression of Wales to shape their own future. This beautifully reveals the life-changing IMMEASURABLE... it needs art and how it’s sold to gullible 60 years ago. punters that is every bit as power of music and the real value of cultural exchange. But most to be shared with as wide quirky, engaging and rebellious importantly of all it shows the power of Phumo Tsewu’s belief that the an audience as possible.” “[David is] one of the finest films ever made in Wales” only way for black South Africans to claim their right to a free and Archbishop Desmond Tutu as the artwork it celebrates. If Dave Berry, author of Wales & Cinema it’s a hoax, as it just might be, just society is to teach its children that they are worthy of it. The director Holly Lubbock it’s an extremely clever one. Robinson in Ruins director and architect Patrick Keiller will introduce will answer questions after the the screening at The Courtyard screening on Wednesday 30 “Slick, sharp and fantastically entertaining” Radio Times

Nominated for Best On Wednesday the screening is sponsored by Chris Evans Documentary Oscar 32 / 33 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Best of FLIP Four Lions (15) Gasland (PG)

Animation Festival Director: Chris Morris Director: Josh Fox Starring: Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Starring: Weston Willis, Directors:Various Nigel Lindsay, Adeel Ahktar Maurice Henchey, Josh Fox Italy, UK, Netherlands, Hungary, Finland, UK, 2009, 1 hour 34 minutes USA, 2010, 1 hour 48 minutes Germany, 2010, 1 hour 8 minutes Genius Within: The How I Ended This Summer (15) Friday 25 March 7.00pm Tuesday 5 April 8.30pm, Friday 8 April 4.45pm Ross St Mary’s Church Hall Friday 8 2.15pm Inner Life Of Glenn Director: Alexei Popogrebsky The Courtyard Hereford Tuesday 29 March 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Gould (U) Starring: Grigory Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis Tarrington Lady Emily Hall Russia, 2010, 2 hours 4 minutes, subtitles Friday 1 April 7.30pm Directors: Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont This is a specially curated This absorbing documentary Saturday 2 April 6.00pm Lingen Village Hall Starring: Cornelia Foss, Roxolana Roslak, programme of award winning The Courtyard Hereford Friday 8 April 7.30pm began when director Josh Fox Petula Clark, Vladimir Ashkenazi, films from FLIP Animation USA, 2010, 1 hour 58 minutes Dorstone Village Hall wondered why a company was In beautifully minimalist fashion, this taut psychological drama is Festival. The international Sunday 10 April 8.00pm offering $100,000 to drill for Tuesday 29 March 11.00am, made all the more gripping by the isolation and desolation of the programme includes the Bromyard Conquest Theatre gas on his land. He set out on Thursday 31 6.00pm spectacular polar landscape of its setting. On a deserted, windswept beautiful crafted stop motion a journey of discovery across The Courtyard Hereford Russian island inside the Arctic Circle, two men spend the summer of The Astronomer’s Sun, winner Consistently funny, daring and America where gas companies working at a remote meteorological station. The gruff polar veteran of 12 festival awards; the horribly spot-on Chris Morris, the are destroying the environment This thoughtful, absorbing Sergei barely tolerates the inexperienced Pavel, a feckless graduate minimalist drawing and dry warped satirical genius behind by using hydraulic fracturing documentary pierces through on a temporary posting. Then a series of misunderstandings and humour of The Goat and the Well; TV’s Brass Eye, hits a raw nerve (“fracking”) to drill for gas. He the myths about Glenn Gould, mishaps cause them to turn against one another. Both actors give the sumptuous and painterly with his first film. It’s the story discovered flammable tap water, the enigmatic musical poet, subtle, compelling performances, and the film also boasts striking animation, L’Anima Mavi from of a bunch of bumbling, inept severe health problems, and who continues to captivate cinematography and well-chosen music. Highly original, and with Italy and Post!, the funny and terrorists – Omar and his dim- pollutants contaminating earth, audiences twenty-six years a unique atmosphere and sense of place, this is a memorable and moving tale of an enterprising witted brother Waj, angry white air and water. With sharp editing, after his death to reveal his deeply affecting work. postman by multi-award winning convert Barry, and apprehensive thorough research and a merciful thoughts on music, art, society, Trick Studios from Germany. bomb-maker Fessal – planning love and life. A treasure trove sense of humour, Fox exposes Thanks to New Wave Films for permission to show this prior a suicide bomb attack. Some for fans this weaves together an the way in which nothing is to its UK release FLIP is an award winning festival people will no doubt be offended allowed to stand in the path of unprecedented array of very rare which has been animating but, with its blend of farcical archive footage with interviews audiences since 2004. corporate greed. A must-see for Winner Best Film Award London Film Festival 2010 buffoonery, petty squabbling, any concerned environmentalists of Gould’s closest friends, www.flipfestival.co.uk and mix of home and ‘combat’ as we’re next, with UK companies plus previously unheard home life, this plays like a 21st keen to start ‘fracking’ here. recordings and excerpts from his century, jihadi equivalent private diaries. of Dad’s Army. “Gasland is a powerful, well made eco-documentary that carries a On Thursday the screening is “Laugh-out-loud-funny from start vitally important message.” sponsored by Simon Scott to finish” Daily Telegraph ViewLondon 34 / 35 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

GUEST SPEAKER

Into Eternity (PG) The Karamazovs (15) Killing Bono (15)

Director: Michael Madsen Director: Director: Nick Hamm Starring: Michael Madsen, Starring: Ivan Trojan, Starring: Ben Barnes, Timo Aikas, Peter Wikberg David Novotny, Lenka Krobotova Robert Sheehan, Pete Postlethwaite Finland, 2010, 1 hour 18 minutes, Czech Republic/Poland, 2008, UK, 2010, 1 hour 54 minutes Howl (15) The Illusionist (U) subtitles 1 hour 40 minutes, subtitles Tuesday 29 March 8.00pm Directors: Rob Epstein and Director: Sylvain Chomet Sunday 27 March 4.15pm, Wednesday 6 April 8.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Jeffrey Friedman With the voices of: Jean-Claude Donda, Eilidh Rankin Monday 28 4.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Starring: James Franco, UK/France, 2010, 1 hour 23 minutes The Courtyard Hereford David Strathairn, John Hamm In partnership with BAFTA, we USA, 2010, 1 hour 30 mins Saturday 2 April 5.00pm The play’s the thing - but are proud to present a special Probably the most thought- Brilley Village Hall certainly not everything - in pre-release Gala screening of Pete Saturday 2 April 2.15pm, Wednesday 6 April 7.30pm provoking film in the festival, Sunday 3 4.15pm, this tremendous version of Postlethwaite’s last movie, the Leominster Playhouse Cinema this stunning documentary Monday 4 4.30pm the Brothers Karamazov. The hilarious Killing Bono, introduced Saturday 9 April 7.30pm examines the dilemmas The Courtyard Hereford Cawley Hall Eye phenomenal performances by BAFTA-winning director Nick Wednesday 6 April 7.30pm thrown up by the construction are alone worth the price of Hamm. Set in Dublin in 1976, Ludlow Assembly Rooms of ONKALO the world’s first Based on a Jacques Tati script, set in Edinburgh and London in the admission, as a Czech company’s during a period of political and ‘permanent’ nuclear waste store. rehearsal at a Polish steelworks Consistently engaging and late 50s, this is a beautifully animated, poignant, nearly wordless, social upheaval, the film is based Like a poisoned Pyramid this showcases the power of this visually inventive, this inter- evocation of the end of music hall as it is overtaken by TV and on Daily Telegraph music critic colossal underground tomb is particular adaptation and cuts a performance of Allen rock’n’roll. An over-the-hill magician roams far and wide to perform Neil McCormick’s memoir, I Was designed to last for 100,000 underlines Dostoyevsky’s Ginsberg’s famous poem with his routine to unappreciative audiences, living in digs and making Bono’s Doppelganger. It’s the years – 10 times longer than timeless themes. We see the vibrant animated sequences, and ends meet through odd jobs. Like Chomet’s previous film Belleville story of two brothers trying to human civilization thus far. actors offstage as they bicker the obscenity trial of Lawrence Rendez-vous, this is delightfully drawn, amusing and rich with visual become global rock stars who The challenges are not so much and joke and it’s these side Ferlinghetti, Howl’s publisher. jokes - the work of a master in his field. can only look on in horror as old the actual construction as how stories and the sophisticated James ‘127 Hours’ Franco gives school friends U2 become the to guarantee something we interplay among the different another committed, selfless Nominated for Best Animated Film Oscar biggest band in the world. can barely conceive. A suitably levels of text (novel, play, film, central performance as beat On Saturday 2 the Brilley screening is an optional double bill deadpan guide to one of our “real life”) that bring out the Director Nick Hamm will answer legend Ginsberg talking about with Exit Through The Gift Shop. Licensed bar, Ploughmans Supper ultimate challenges, Madsen does parallels between their lives and questions after the screening his creative process and why on sale between films. not simply ask tough questions the Karamazovs’. This ambitious he writes. Like the poem itself, about our use of nuclear energy, homage to acting will appeal to Howl is a powerful roar from the In association with BAFTA, but how we, as a race, conceive anybody who enjoys seeing the counter-culture that love comes The British Academy of Film our future. National Theatre live shows. and Television Arts. in many forms, non-conformity is essential for human diversity and “one of the most extraordinary A part of Made in ; The that all is not well in this best of documentaries to be shown this New Czech Cinema UK Tour, see all possible worlds. year.” Peter Bradshaw, Guardian www.czechcentre.org.uk 36 / 37 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

GUEST SPEAKER

Lourdes (U) Made in Birmingham The Maid (15) The Man in the White (PG) Metropolis (PG)

Director: Jessica Hausner – Reggae Punk Director: Sebastian Silva Suit (U) Director: Tom McGrath Director: Fritz Lang Starring: Sylvie Testud, Starring: Catalina Saavedra, With the voices of: Will Ferrell, Starring: Brigitte Helm, Lea Seydoux, Bruno Todeschini Bhangra (PG) Claudia Celadon, Mariana Loyala Director: Alex Mackendrick Brad Pitt, Tina Fey Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich France, 2010, 1 hour 39 minutes, subtitles Chile, 2008, 1 hour 35 mins, subtitles Starring: Alec Guiness, USA, 2010, 1 hour 36 minutes Germany, 1927 restored 2010, Director: Deborah Aston Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker 2 hours 25 minutes, silent, B/W Starring: Brian Travers (UB40) UK, 1951, 1 hour 22 mins Saturday 26 March 7.30pm Dennis Seaton (Musical Youth) Friday 25 March 8.00pm Saturday 26 March 11.00am, St Peter’s Church, Peterchurch Garway Village Hall Sunday 27 2.00pm Friday 25 March 8.00pm Amlak Tafari (Steel Pulse) Tuesday 29 March 2.00pm Saturday 26 March 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford The Screen at Hay The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 2 April 4.30pm A subtle, thought-provoking Leintwardine Community Centre The Courtyard Hereford Two years ago, several dusty pleasure about love and faith, A classic Ealing comedy, this The Incredibles meets Despicable Funny, tense, and unpredictable, reels were discovered in a small there’s a delicious streak of charming portrait of a by-gone Me in this fun, energetic, Birmingham’s reggae, punk and this is the tale of the grumpy, museum in Buenos Aires; this subversive black humour that age boasts Alec Guiness at the at times dazzling animated bhangra musicians (including pig-headed Racquel, the maid- remarkable find was the lost stops this from becoming too height of his powers as Sidney superhero comedy. Sent to Earth local legends UB40, Steel from-hell who has lived with footage cut from Metropolis on pious or maudlin. The focus is on Stratton, a humble inventor, as a baby, Megamind has grown Pulse, Au Pairs, The Prefects, the same family for 20 years. its initial release. Now you have wheelchair-bound Christine, one who develops a fabric that never up to be the most brilliant super- Nightingales, The Beat, Dexys When her increasingly unreliable the chance to see the film as the of a group of spiritually flawed, gets dirty or wears out. This villain the world has ever known. Midnight Runners, Musical behaviour leads them to recruit director originally intended. This often cynical pilgrims, who make would seem to be a boon for But all his attempts to conquer Youth) discuss their distinctive a string of new servants to help definitive restoration of Lang’s a life-changing pilgrimage. The mankind, but incurs the wrath Metro City have ended in failure musical styles and reflect on her, Racquel sees them off by bizarre sci-fi dystopian fairytale beauty of Hausner’s exquisitely of both cynical management thanks to the caped superhero, the role of music in creating any means necessary. But when now looks bigger, madder and shot film is that just when and horrified labour, satirically Metro Man. That is, until the day a sense of identity in the city. the latest recruit, the lovely more fascinating than ever. The you think she’s going to take depicted as being hand-in-glove one of Megamind’s evil plans The musicians’ recollections are Lucy is genuinely kind to her, plot now makes more sense, but a sneering swipe at Lourdes, in their desire to suppress it. succeeds and he finds himself in juxtaposed with some rare gems Racquel has to learn about it is the indelible images of vast its tacky trinkets and deluded In its gentle way this raises charge. Then a new villain arrives from the archives to shed new something she’s never known skyscrapers towering above an visitors, the film takes a much questions about the application on the scene and Megamind light on Birmingham’s rich but before – friendship and her underground hell of workers less easy, more inquiring turn. of science and the potentially has to decide whose side he’s largely ignored musical history. own poignant need for human strapped to torture machines, disastrous effects of new really on. With its outstanding contact. Psychologically astute, and the gleaming, seductive, “This film is both good and Director Deborah Aston and technology that are as pertinent animation and the gags coming The Maid slyly, sweetly overturns female robot driving men mad powerful... It is as magically, producer Roger Shannon will now as then. There’s more good- thick and fast, this is great our expectations as Racquel with lust or leading a riot that richly ambivalent as life itself.” answer questions after the natured whimsy than out and out family entertainment. screening (a riveting performance by stay with you. Financial Times comedy but there’s a lot of fun to Saavedra) gradually emerges as a be had from the debunking of all complex, sympathetic character. “The restored version gives more sorts of sacred cows. depth and new meaning to the “One of Guiness’ best cult movie” The Guardian performances” Time Out 38 / 39 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Mr Nice (18) My Afternoons with Neds (18)

Director: Bernard Rose Margueritte (15) Director: Starring: Rhys Ifans, Starring: Conor McCarron, Chloë Sevigny, David Thewlis Director: Jean Becker Louise Goodall, Marianna Palka UK, 2010, 2 hours 1 minute Starring: Gérard Depardieu, UK, 2010, 2 hours 4 minutes Gisele Casadesus, Maurane Never Let Me Go (12A) Norteado (15) Saturday 2 April 7.30pm France, 2010, 1 hour 22’, subtitles Friday 25 March 4.00pm, Tarrington Lady Emily Hall Monday 28 8.15pm Saturday 26 March 4.00pm, Director: Mark Romanek Director: Rigoberto Perezcano Thursday 7 April 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Starring: Harold Torres, Sonia Couah, Sunday 27 6.00pm, Goodrich Village Hall Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins Alicia Lagunes Tuesday 29 2.15pm UK, 2010, 1 hour 45 minutes Mexico, 2009, 1 hour 34 minutes, The Courtyard Hereford Peter (Magdalene Sisters) Spanish with English subtitles Perfectly cast, Rhys Ifans gives Saturday 26 March 7.30pm, Sunday 27 7.30pm, Monday 28 7.30pm Mullan’s latest is the tale of Tuesday 29 March 6.00pm his best-ever performance as Ludlow Assembly Rooms A delightful story of lumbering, John McGill, a bright lad who Friday 1 April 11.00am & 6.30pm, Saturday 2 11.15pm, The Courtyard Hereford Howard Marks, the amiable bloke illiterate handyman Germain and falls in with the wrong crowd Sunday 3 2.30pm, Monday 4 8.30pm from Bridgend who somehow his relationship with a cultured in 70s Glasgow. A no-nonsense, The Courtyard Hereford A charming, cleverly composed ends up as the worlds most little old lady he meets in the sometimes brutal film with drama with a wonderful sense of infamous cannabis smuggler, park. She opens his eyes to the the odd hint of dreamy, comic Kathy, Ruth and Tommy are brought up together at an exclusive humour and strong performances wanted by law enforcement joys of reading, he rescues her fantasy, this explores the boarding school in the British countryside, a world of anachronistic throughout. When Andres fails agencies around the world. from the boredom of life in the brooding, bubbling anger of customs and unquestioned rules. It’s only as they grow up discovering to make it across the border to Vividly capturing his life and old people’s home. As with his adolescence and the social ties exactly why they are special that the ties between them ebb and flow, the promised land of the USA, times, from 60s free love Oxford previous film, Conversations with that bind. Mullan points the threatening to dissolve altogether. Steady, understated performances he settles into a job in a Tijuana to the 80s ‘war on drugs’, this my Gardener, Becker whips up finger at both school and home, from Oscar-nominated Mulligan (An Education) and Knightley grocery store where he finds comedy of errors offers a light- a sweet chemistry between two showing John’s teachers to be (Atonement) and from Andrew Garfield in particular do justice to this people who understand him. His hearted, entertaining insight endearing central characters as brutal as his violent peers. moving adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel that sets up a haunting growing relationship with the into the life of the charming, who are unconcerned with what Not for the squeamish, a good fictional world in order to quantify what it is that makes us human. owner and her daughter makes enigmatic Mr Nice. society might say about their script and utterly authentic him realise that there’s more to friendship. This endearingly performances from a young “Beautifully shot, superbly written and powerfully emotional,” life than money. But with his “Ifans delivers a magnetic, robust celebrates the simple joys of life cast make for a hard-hitting, View London wife and children waiting on the performance that’s both funny in small-town France. look at the making of a young other side his attempts to cross and surprisingly introspective.“ delinquent. the border become increasingly Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall “Small but perfectly formed, this daring and bizarre. On Friday the screening On Monday the screening unassuming French comedy is “shocking, powerful and utterly is sponsored by is sponsored by smart, emotionally engaging relevant.” Time Out Winner of Best Actress Award and often very funny.” Jack Roe (CS) Ltd San Sebastian Film Festival 2009 Winner Best Film & Best Actor Shadows on the Wall San Sebastian Film Festival 40 / 4140 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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Patagonia (15) Ponyo (U)

Director: Marc Evans Director: Hayao Miyazaki Starring: Matthew Rhys, Nia Roberts, Duffy With the voices of: Cate Blanchett, Cloris Wales, 2010, 1 hour 58 minutes, subtitles Leachman, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson Japan, 2009, 1 hour 43 minutes Monday 4 April 8.15pm, Tuesday 5 5.45pm, Thursday 7 2.30pm The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 3 April 3.00pm Bedstone & Hopton Castle Of Gods & Men (15) This beautiful meditation on culture, roots and identity interweaves Village Hall Director: Xavier Beauvois two journeys. In the first, insecure, uptight Rhys drags his girlfriend Starring: Michael Lonsdale, Lambert Wilson, Olivier Rabourdin France, 2010, 2 hours, subtitles off to Patagonia so he can photograph disused chapels in exotic Inspired by Hans Christian locations, where Gwen soon falls into the arms of their gorgeous Anderson’s fairy tale The Little Sunday 27 March 8.15pm, Tuesday 29 8.30pm, Wednesday 30 8.15pm, Thursday 31 11.00am gaucho guide (Matthew Rhys) – and who could blame her? Meanwhile Mermaid, this vibrant, wildly The Courtyard Hereford Patagonian Grannie Cerys fools her grandson Alejandro into imaginative, occasionally eccentric adventure follows A very fine film about love, about the nature of faith and the “nothing less than sublime” accompanying her to Wales to find the farmhouse her mum was forced young Sosuke and his sweet, brotherhood of men, that is also a compassionate plea for The Wall Street Journal to leave when pregnant with Cerys. The meandering journeys are love affair with goldfish-turned- reconciliation and understanding between cultures. It’s based on the enlivened by Evans’ fine eye for both landscapes, and his intelligent girl Ponyo. true story of a group of monks in a remote monastery in the Atlas “thrillingly audacious, moving reflections on contemporary Wales and its place in the world. Mountains of Algeria who continue with their peaceful daily routines and real” The Guardian “Dazzling“ and tending to the sick while around them terrorist atrocities gather “with unaffected performances and an intelligent score, Winner of the Grand Prix at Time Out pace. Inevitably they too are threatened, causing them to question it’s a tender, quietly funny film” Cannes Film Festival 2010 their faith and the purpose of their life’s work. With its excellent Empire ensemble cast, intelligent script and refusal to judge, this is a Director Marc Evans will answer questions after the screening nuanced, humane study of religion and the motives of the religious. on Monday

On Sunday the screening On Wednesday the screening is sponsored by is sponsored by 42 / 43 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Precious (15) Protektor (15) Rabbit Hole (12A)

Director: Lee Daniels Director: Marek Najbrt Director: John Cameron Mitchell Starring: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo ‘Nique, Starring: Marek Daniel, Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey Jana Plodkova, Tomas Mechacek Dianne Wiest USA, 2009, 1 hour 50 minutes Czech Republic, 2009, 1 hour 40 minutes, USA, 2010, 1 hour 31 minutes Czech with subtitles Rashomon (12A) Revanche (15) Tuesday 29 March 8.00pm Friday 8 April 4.30pm, Bromyard Conquest Theatre Thursday 31 March 8.15pm, Saturday 9 6.15pm, Director: Akira Kurosawa Director: Gotz Spielmann Friday 1 April 7.30pm Saturday 2 Aprill 2.00pm Sunday 10 6.00pm Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Starring: Johannes Krisch, Andreas Lust, Ursula Strauss Leintwardine Community Centre The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori Austria, 2009, 2 hours 2 minutes, subtitles Japan, 1950, 1 hour 28 minutes, Friday 1 April 7.30pm B/W, subtitles Sunday 27 March 7.30pm Leominster Lion Ballroom In 1930s occupied Prague the Brittle, uptight Becca (Kidman Leominster Playhouse Cinema ambitious Emil joins a Nazi- Wednesday 30 March 2.00pm Friday 1 April 7.30pm at her very best) and Howie The Courtyard Hereford Illiterate, overweight, thrown controlled radio station telling (Eckhart) are struggling to Bosbury Parish Hall out of school for being pregnant himself that this is to protect Monday 4 April 7.30pm cope with tragic circumstances Innovative, experimental Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall with her father’s child for the his Jewish wife Hana. However, but their differing approaches and brilliantly constructed, second time, living with her foul once compromised Emil finds threaten to tear their marriage Kurosawa’s masterly examination Full of suspense and the fatalism of the best film noir, this is as good and abusive mother, 16 year-old that his Nazi overlords demand apart. As they bitch and joke, of the subjective nature of truth a thriller as you’ll see this year. Ex-jailbird, Alex and debt-ridden Precious looks like a hopeless deeper collaboration. Like The this expertly blends compassion has often been copied but never prostitute, Tamara are set on bank robbery as the only way out, and case so painfully extreme are her Lives of Others this is a powerfully and humour to create an bettered. A woodcutter witnesses their paths soon cross those of honest cop, Robert and his childless misery and despair. But inside performed drama with an surprisingly fresh, affectingly a horrific series of events but wife, Suzanne. More concerned with the aftermath of the robbery she has a fierce determination intelligent script that skillfully real take on how grief can affect each of the four participants than the deed itself, Spielmann explores the two couples’ physical, that the alternative education raises questions about what people. Don’t be put off by the gives a contradictory account emotional and moral parallels through thought-provoking contrasts system nurtures. So begins a happens when you make a pact subject; this is an understated, of what happened. The vigour, and comparisons. An impressive, moody thriller firmly rooted in heart-rending journey to self- with the devil and the impact superbly written drama with fluidity and sheer invention as everyday realities this successfully tackles ideas of guilt, revenge, acceptance and hope punctuated that has on your nearest and pitch-perfect performances that Kurosawa’s camera slices through and restitution. by some wonderful fantasy dearest. is hugely compelling in its slow, the forest is staggering, clearly sequences. Unbelievably moving, purposeful exploration of the the love and respect this shows “the film works superbly, the precursor of modern action “This riveting study of desire, isolation, guilt and redemption bears the myriad ways in which we learn cinema. The first film to alert influence of both Robert Bresson and Michael Haneke,” Radio Times its unlikely heroine will reaffirm depicting the slow-boil acceptance to deal with the unthinkable. your belief in the power of of an unbearable reality.” Western audiences to the riches of Japanese cinema and regularly cinema. Time Out “Kidman is utterly mesmerizing… voted one of the top ten films of her finest ever performance” Winner of Audience Award Winner of 6 Czech Lions all time, this is essential viewing. Karen Krizanovich and Best Film Prize at Sundance including Best Film, Best Film Festival 2009 Winner Golden Lion Venice Film Director, and Best Screenplay Nominated for Best Actress Oscar Festival 1951 44 / 45 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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The Road (15) Robinson in Ruins (U) Samson & Delilah (15)

Director: John Hillcoat Director: Patrick Keiller Director: Warwick Thornton Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit- Narrator: Vanessa Redgrave Starring: Rowan McNamara, Alfred Watkins, Volunteer Fete, Vineyard Croft, 1915 ©Herefordshire Libraries McPhee, Guy Pearce, Charlize Theron UK, 2010, 1 hour 41 minutes Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Gibson USA, 2008, 1 hour 51 minutes Australia, 2009, 1 hour 41 minutes, REWIND Archive Screenings The River (PG) Thursday 31 March 8.30pm Aboriginal with English subtitles Monday 4 April 7.30pm Friday 1 2.15pm Tuesday 29 March 7.00pm Friday 25 March 7.30pm Director: Jean Renoir Church Stretton School The Courtyard Hereford Ross St Mary’s Church Hall Cawley Hall, Eye with afternoon activities at Berrington Hall Starring: Patricia Walters, Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Radha Monday 4 April 7.30pm £4 / Book 01568 615836 France/India/USA, 1951, 1 hour 39 A brilliant, largely faithful Keiller’s mordantly witty Leominster Playhouse Cinema minutes, subtitles Saturday 26 March adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s fictionalised film essays are quite Friday 8 April 7.30pm Moccas Village Hall, 7.30pm Friday 1 April 2.00pm great novel about a post- unlike anything else you will Tarrington Lady Emily Hall £4, concs £2.00, family ticket £10 / Enquiries 07776 121956 The Courtyard Hereford apocalyptic future in which see. Through the testimony of a one man’s determined battle to friend (as narrated by Vanessa Visually stunning and exquisitely A film from another era that As part of Flicks in the Sticks’ community film archive project, save his son plays out against Redgrave) we follow his elusive made love story about two self- tackles eternal themes, The River REWIND, volunteers, trained as film archivists, have catalogued a bleak background of death and reclusive alter-ego Robinson destructive teenagers, petrol- is a lyrical coming-of-age tale hitherto unviewed footage from the Huntley Film Archives based and destruction. The pair on a forensically detailed sniffing Samson and the feisty about an adolescent English girl at Ewyas Harold. Screenings of some of this material have been plods slowly southward while journey through the Berkshire Delilah, who live on a remote set during the waning years of taking place in Herefordshire and Shropshire with input from local around them the world dies, and Oxfordshire countryside. Aboriginal reserve. The teenagers British colonial life in India. community groups and museum services. Highlights include very early civilization breaks down and It’s at a moment in 2008 that communicate non-verbally, but A visual tour de force, this is material shot by photographic innovator, Alfred Watkins, showing marauding gangs of survivors coincides with the near-collapse deeply expressively, and it’s clear Renoir’s most spiritual film, lively scenes at Hereford May Fair circa 1910 as well as volunteers are as big a threat as the lack of the banking system and the they rely on, and need, each and it remains one of the most marching off from Hereford in 1914 to fight in World War I. There is of food. Anchored by a suitably threat of ecological meltdown. other to get by particularly once successful attempts to explain also plenty of archive film that reflects the rural character of the area intense central performance Past facts, present observations they flee to Alice Springs. The the mysteries of India to a including cider making in the 1930s, the cattle market in the 1940s from Viggo Mortensen, the film and speculation about the sparse storytelling has a brutal Western audience. Set aside the and Leominster Three Counties Fair in the 1950s. is, thankfully, slightly lighter in future fix onto the landscape narrative simplicity and the cut-glass accents, the curious tone than the book. It captures and the images you take away texture of a parable. This tender, naivety of the script and some A speaker from the Huntley Film Archives will introduce the films meticulously both the visceral are persistent, visionary and beguiling, near-silent portrait uncomfortable amateur acting beauty and horror of an endless, thought-provoking. gives a rare, authentic glimpse and you will discover a glorious, unrelenting struggle to survive into life on the edge with a ray of compassionate and gentle film each day and the enduring love “one of the most singular hope at the end of the journey. that is absolutely one-of-a-kind. between father and son. achievements in post-war British cinema “ Sight and Sound “Timeless and also utterly “A story based on the immemorial “Superb” The Guardian contemporary, it will leave hearts themes of childhood, love and Director Patrick Keiller bruised, but aching with joy.” death” Jean Renoir will answer questions after Daily Telegraph the screening 46 / 47 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Separado! (12) The Shop Around The Singing,

Director: Dylan Goch Jones the Corner (U) Ringing Tree (U) Starring: Gruff Rhys Wales, 2010, 1 hour 24 minutes Director: Ernst Lubitsch Director: Francesco Stefani Starring: James Stewart, Starring: Christel Bodenstein, Sunday 27 March 7.30pm Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan Charles-Hans Vogt, Eckart Dux The Secret in Their Eyes (18) The Secret USA, 1940, 1 hour 37 minutes, B/W East Germany, 1957, Kington Burton Hotel of Kells (PG) 1 hour 14 minutes, dubbed Director: Juan José Campanella Sunday 27 March 8.00pm Thursday 7 April 2.00pm Starring: Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago Clungunford Parish Hall Saturday 9 April 4.30pm, Argentina, 2009, 2 hours 7 minutes, subtitles Directors: Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey The Courtyard Hereford With the voices of: Evan McGuire, Tuesday 5 April 7.30pm Sunday 10 2.15pm Wednesday 30 March 8.00pm Mick Lally, Brendan Gleason Wem Town Hall The Courtyard Hereford France / Belgium / Ireland, 2009, Romantic comedy, blessed with Ledbury Market Theatre 1 hour 15 minutes Lubitsch’s legendary lightness Friday 8 April 7.30pm Wild, wacky but rather Betrayal, deceit, jealousy, of touch, that evokes a vision Leominster Playhouse Cinema Saturday 26 March 2.00pm wonderful, psychedelic road forgiveness and love - what St Peter’s Church, Peterchurch of pre-war Europe about to trip round Patagonia with Gruff more can you expect from a disappear for ever. Klara Novak A very fine mystery-thriller-love story cleverly structured between Rhys of the Super Furry Animals classic children’s fairy tale? Set in the small villages and wild (Sullavan) and Alfred Kralik past and present over 25 years so that memory, regrets, and desire who is in search of his long-lost Wishing to win the hand of the forests of Ireland, this beautifully (Stewart) are shop assistants in a can play their tricks on ‘truth’. The beautifully written script, full of Uncle and the singing Gaucho, beautiful but conceited Princess drawn, gorgeous looking Budapest department store who well-drawn characters, humour and the texture of life, deals with the Rene Griffiths. An endearing Thousandbeauty, a Prince is animation is a feast for the eyes. bicker and compete in the run- themes of justice, coming to terms with the past, and taking your companion, Gruff’’s search set the task of bringing her the With Vikings threatening to up to Christmas, unaware that chances in life. Add the ever-dependable Darin as Benjamin, a lawyer for a Welsh connection leads mythical Singing Ringing Tree attack and the other villagers out-of-hours they’re engaged haunted by a crime and his undeclared love for his boss Irene, and across the wilds of Argentina, from an enchanted garden, which afraid to venture into the woods in an anonymous but intensely an experienced director using all his powers to tell a fascinating story punctuated with a series of is guarded by an evil dwarf. But Brendan, a young boy who lives amorous correspondence with full of twists and turns, and the result is that rare beast – a truly bizarre gigs with local musicians, her scornful treatment of him in the monastery of Kells, sets one another. The truth unravels satisfying cinema experience. so it’s a music documentary too. turns her into an ugly hag and out in search of the ingredients in a delightfully witty way but renders him victim to a cruel needed to make inks and finish not before the lady has made a “Packs an emotional punch” “It’s also a magic-realist spell. With deep, rich colours and the famous illuminated Book thorough appraisal of her lover’s Screen International transcontinental quest. We wanted minimal effects, this beautiful, if of Kells. legs. to create a sense of disbelief, so slightly spooky, story in the style Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film 2010 you couldn’t tell what was real of the Brothers Grimm is told “The film’s spectacularly and what we had made up.” with an appealing simplicity. good-looking.” Empire Gruff Rhys 48 / 49 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

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Some Like It Hot (U) SoulBoy (15) Surprise Film Tangled (PG) The Time That Tricks (12A)

Director: Billy Wilder Director: Shimmy Marcus Sunday 10 April 8.30pm Director: Byron Howard, Nathan Greno Remains (15) Director: Andrzej Jakimowski Starring: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Starring: Martin Compston, The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Zachary Levi, Mandy Moore, Starring: Damian Ul, Ewelina Walendziak, Marilyn Monroe Nichola Burley, Richard Kiel Director: Elia Suleiman Tomasz Sapryk USA, 1959, 1 hour 56 minutes, B/W UK, 2010, 1 hour 22 minutes USA, 2010, 1 hour 40 minutes Starring: Elia Suleiman, Poland, 2007, 1 hour 35 minutes, subtitles Last year, the announcement Saleh Bakri, Ali Sulman Tuesday 5 April 2.15pm Thursday 7 April 7.30pm Saturday 2 April 11.00am, France/Belgium/Italy, 2009, Wednesday 30 March 8.00pm that Kathryn Bigelow was the 1 hour 50 minutes, subtitles The Courtyard Hereford Wem Town Hall first woman to win the Oscar for Sunday 3 2.00pm Bishops Castle Film Society The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 9 April 7.30pm Best Director came through when Thursday 31 March 7.30pm Pudleston Village Hall St Peter’s Church, Peterchurch Widely regarded as the funniest 1970s Northern Soul provides Borderlines was in full swing. We Hilarious, heartwarming and Friday 1 April 8.00pm film of all time this is one that a dynamic backdrop to this screened her searing war film The loads of action-packed fun, Presteigne Film Society Beautifully told, gently can best be appreciated on the sweet-natured coming-of-age Hurt Locker on the closing day of Saturday 9 April 7.30pm Disney’s latest rendition of the humorous tale of Stefek, a young big screen with an audience story. The music is infectious, the Festival. You came. So we’ve Leintwardine Community Centre laughing around you. Wilder’s the period detail is unobtrusive, Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale, boy who becomes convinced decided this year to reserve a that the man who changes satirical script, jazz musicians the sweaty dance floor sequences Rapunzel, is a total delight. This extraordinary, uplifting special slot for a Surprise Film. trains at his little local station Curtis and Lemmon in drag feel authentic and Martin The artwork and animation story of how one Palestinian has What will it be? All we know at is his absent father. Desperately fleeing from the mob as members Compston is rock solid in the are superb, filled with bright survived the absurdities of Israeli this stage is that it will be worth keen to reunite him with his of an all-girl band, and Monroe at role of gauche, gormless Joe imagery and glorious colors in occupation, is shot through with watching… mum he tries many tricks to get her best as an actress, what more who is smitten by hairdresser the grand tradition of Disney a streak of bizarre humour that chance to intervene. In Stefek’s could you want? Inevitably, there Jane and by her passion for the animation. Utterly charming, has been compared with both world crossing fingers, spinning are moments when the pace of burgeoning Northern Soul scene. visually sumptuous and often Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati. coins and magical thinking can this madcap farce flags, but hey witty, this is animation at its Suleiman himself plays a silent, influence the outcome of events. “Nobody’s perfect!’ Producer Natasha Carlish best. An almost perfect Disney impassive observer through a will answer questions after A delightful blend of sensitivity, family film that will delight series of surreal, blackly comic the screening intelligence, humour, and “This is a flawlessly scripted, youngsters and entertain the episodes from his family’s history magical realism, this provides superbly performed and endlessly rest of the family too. that show how people learn a quirky and highly original witty comedy that deserves its to live in the face of death, For details of FilmClub schools window into Polish small town place among the all-time greats.” dispossession and destruction. screening see p15 life. Film4 Revealing how each generation has found its own strategy Winner of the “One of the greatest comedies of resistance (Suleiman’s is Europa Cinemas Prize at ever.” BBC deadpan ridicule), and how, Venice Film Festival 2007 despite everything he has found his own particular way to do something meaningful with the time that remains. 50 / 51 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Uncle Boonmee Who Walkabout (12A)

Can Recall His Past Director: Nicolas Roeg Starring: Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil Lives (12A) UK, 1971, 1 hour 40 minutes Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Starring: Thanapat Saisaymar, Saturday 2 April 6.15pm Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee The Courtyard Hereford Thailand, 2010, 1 hour 53 minutes, True Grit (15) subtitles To mark the film’s 40th anniversary we are showing this beautiful new Directors: Ethan and Joel Coen Starring: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Hailee Steinfeld Sunday 3 April 8.30pm, digital restoration of Nicolas Roeg’s stunning debut that highlights USA, 2011, 1 hour 50 minutes Tuesday 5 2.00pm his breathtaking cinematography of its Australian outback setting. The Courtyard Hereford Friday 1 April 11.15am & 8.45pm, Sunday 3 8.00pm, Monday 4 6.00pm, When two posh English kids are abandoned in the outback, they have to learn to fend for themselves. They meet a young Aboriginal Tuesday 5 11.00am & 8.15pm, Wednesday 6 2.15pm The Courtyard Hereford On his deathbed in a remote on his ‘walkabout’, the adolescent boy’s rite of passage in which he forest hut, Boonmee’s spirit The Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men) are back on top form “one of the most crowd-pleasing is initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone. undertakes a meandering with a flawless cast in this hard-hitting, stripped to its bare bones films I think the Coens have ever Divided by language but united by the need to stay alive, the three journey through various times Western. Mattie, a stubborn resolute young girl hires tough as nails made, accessible and simple and form their own primitive family. This startling tale of love thwarted and bodies. Apichatpong doesn’t US marshal and heavy-drinking reprobate Reuben “Rooster” Cogburn mythic and beautiful...” by cultural barriers is also a haunting meditation on how different tell us what we should be looking to help her catch her father’s killer. Texas Ranger La Boeuf joins their HitFix cultures view the world around them. at, thinking or hearing but odd posse as they head deep into wild and dangerous territory. generates moods, atmospheres There they meet challenges that test their strength more than any Nominated for 10 Oscars “a stunning fable about the importance of respecting the earth.” and feelings. This beautiful, of them had imagined and prove that, each in their own way, possess including Best Picture, San Francisco Chronicle spiritual meditation on life, plenty of ‘true grit’. The Coen Brothers have done it again – exciting, Best Actor, Best Director death and reincarnation is not Director Nicolas Roeg will be talking about his career funny (the language is endlessly amusing), gorgeous to behold and for everybody, but relax and go on Tuesday 5 April bewitchingly acted, this is as good as it gets! with the flow and you’ll discover a sublime, dreamlike film that will soak into your subconscious. On Friday the 8.45pm On Sunday the screening On Monday the screening On Tuesday the 8.15pm screening is sponsored by is sponsored by is sponsored by screening is sponsored by “It is a total wonderwork: enchanting, bizarre, original.” Nigel Andrews Financial Times 52 / 53 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

Waste Land (PG) West is West (15) Whatever Works (12A)

Director: Director: Andy De Emmony Director: Woody Allen Starring: Vik Muntz, Tiao, Zumbi, Irma Starring: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Lesley Starring: Larry David, UK/Brazil, 2010, 1 hour 38 minutes, Nicol, Emil Marwa, Jimi Mistry Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson subtitles UK, 2010, 1 hour 43 minutes USA/France, 2009, 1 hour 32 minutes Winter’s Bone (15) With Gilbert Friday 1 April 6.15pm, Friday 8 April 6.30pm, Wednesday 30 March 8.00pm Sunday 3 6.15pm, Saturday 9 2.15pm, Esclyside Hall, Director: Debra Granik & George (15) Wednesday 6 4.15pm Sunday 10 6.15pm Michaelchurch Escley Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Dale Dickey USA, 2010, 1 hour 40 minutes Director: Julian Cole The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 2 April 7.30pm Starring: Gilbert & George, Friday 8 April 7.30, Aston on Clun Village Hall Friday 25 March 7.30pm, Dorstone Village Hall Gilbert Proesch, George Passmore Sunday 10 7.30pm Sunday 3 April 7.30pm UK, 2009, 1 hour 42 minutes The funny, poignant sequel to Monday 28 March 7.30pm, Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall Ludlow Assembly Rooms Leominster Lion Ballroom East is East is set in Salford in Tuesday 29 March 8.00pm, Ledbury Market Theatre Wednesday 30 March 2.15pm, 1976. Young Samir bunks off Saturday 2 April 7.30pm, Leominster Lion Ballroom Thursday 31 11.15am, An uplifting portrait of Brazilian Full of Allen’s acerbic views Friday 8 April 7.30, Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall school every day to avoid the Friday 1 April 4.15pm photographer Vik Muntz who on life and love, this is both The Courtyard Hereford racist bullies so his Dad (the worked with the slum-dwellers very, very funny and totally Life in Missouri’s desolate Ozark Mountains is tough, especially for incomparable Om Puri) ships him who survive by scavenging ridiculous. One night, crotchety, resourceful Ree Dolly, who must look after her younger siblings as Gilbert & George have lived off to Pakistan to learn some through the world’s largest hypochondriac old curmudgeon their mother is incapable and her father, Jessup, is continually absent, their lives as an enigmatic and respect and discover where he’s rubbish dump in Rio. The pickers Boris (brilliantly played by Larry making and dealing crystal meth. When it emerges that Jessup has controversial double act since really from. Cue much comic help to make giant portraits David) takes pity on innocent, put their house up as bail, Ree sets out to find him. She delves deep they first met at art school. misunderstanding, some life of themselves out of rubbish homeless runaway Melody and into his shadowy world and confronts violent, unstable characters, not With their motto ‘Art for All’ lessons, and Dad having to face that Muntz then photographs. lets her stay. If you’ve ever least her uncle, Teardrop before the film comes to its final, haunting, the duo have mounted more the consequences of what he’s While Walker takes us into the laughed at a Woody Allen movie, climax. With the pace and intrigue of a mystery thriller, Lawrence’s exhibitions than any living artist, done in abandoning one family pickers’ homes, building a series you’ll definitely enjoy this one. indomitable performance as a dogged young woman pushed to transcending cultural barriers over there to start another of character studies that reveal breaking point has her tipped for Oscar glory. with ground breaking shows in here. This entertaining comedy their determination and dignity. “There’s an abundance of incisive China and Russia. Filmed over about the clash of cultures and This wonderfully explores one-liners” Radio Times “A tense, evocative, powerfully observed drama.” The Guardian 20 years, with unrivalled access generations also tackles some how the pickers’ participation and frank interviews about how serious issues about people changes their view of themselves Winner of Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2010 they work, this intimate portrait whose lives are divided between and so transforms their lives. reveals the complexity of G & G’s Britain and Pakistan. Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture & Best Actress relationship. “[An] inspiring documentary.” New York Times “...one of the most important films ever made about an artist Nominated for Best and contemporary art.” Ben Documentary Oscar 2011 Borthwick, Tate Modern BEST GREEN BUSINESS & BEST OVERALL BUSINESS AWARD WINNER 2010

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Friday 25 March 6.15 1hr 45’ Black Swan (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 44’ Never Let Me Go (12A) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 10.30 2hrs Same But Different The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 40’ Winter’s Bone (15) Bedstone & Hopton Castle VH 2.00 1hr 34’ 127 Hours (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 27’ Exit Through The Gift Shop (15) Cawley Hall Eye 4.00 2hrs 4’ Neds (18) The Courtyard Hereford 8.15 2hrs 4’ Neds (18) The Courtyard Hereford 6.30 1hr 36’ Chico and Rita (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 45’ The Ballad of Mott The Hoople (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 1hr 34’ Four Lions (15) Ross St Mary’s Church Hall 7.30 1hr 40’ Winter’s Bone (15) Dorstone Village Hall Tuesday 29 March 7.30 1hr 45’ REWIND Archive Screening Cawley Hall Eye 7.30 2hrs 9’ Another Year (12A) Tarrington Lady Emily Hall 10.30 7hrs Moviebus High Town, Hereford 8.00 1hr 35’ The Maid (15) Garway Village Hall 11.00 1hr 51’ Genius Within The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (U) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 2hrs 25’ Metropolis (PG) The Screen at Hay 11.30 1hr 30’ HCA Showcase The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 45’ The Ballad of Mott The Hoople (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 22’ The Man in the White Suit (U) The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr 22’ My Afternoons With Margueritte (15) The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 26 March 4.00 1hr 22’ Abel (15) The Courtyard Hereford 4.15 1hr 34’ 127 Hours (15) The Courtyard Hereford 10.00 7hrs Make a Film in a Day Workshop Wem Town Hall 6.00 1hr 34’ Norteado (15) The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 36’ Megamind (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 45’ Black Swan (15) The Courtyard Hereford 1.00 45’ Just War (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 1hr 41’ Samson & Delilah (15) Ross St Mary’s Church Hall 2.00 1hr 15’ The Secret of Kells (U) St Peter’s Church 7.30 2hrs 28’ Biutiful (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 2.15 1hr 15’ Bull Magic (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 34’ Four Lions (15) Tarrington Lady Emily Hall 4.00 1hr 22’ My Afternoons With Margueritte (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 50’ Precious (15) Bromyard Conquest Theatre 6.15 1hr 34’ 127 Hours (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1 hr 54’ Killing Bono (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 9’ Another Year (12A) Chapel Lawn Village Hall 8.00 1hr 40’ Winter’s Bone (15) Ledbury Market Theatre 7.30 2hrs 9’ Another Year (12A) Hereford WRVS Hall 8.30 2hrs 2’ Of Gods & Men (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 35’ The Maid (15) Leintwardine Com. Centre 7.30 2hrs 9’ Another Year (12A) Leominster Playhouse Wednesday 30 March 7.30 1hr 44’ Never Let Me Go (12A) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 1hr 45’ REWIND Archive Screening Moccas Village Hall 10.00 4hrs An Introduction to Directing Workshop The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 39’ Lourdes (U) St Peter’s Church 11.30 6hrs 30’ Moviebus England’s Gate Inn Bodenham 8.30 1hr 45’ Black Swan (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 28’ Rashomon (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr 42’ With Gilbert & George (15) The Courtyard Hereford Sunday 27 March 4.00 45’ The Things We Took With Us The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 1hr 15’ Circo (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 10.30 2hrs 30’ On the Black Hill Walk Bull’s Head, Craswall 6.00 1hr 36’ Chico and Rita (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 36’ Megamind (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 20’ Fezeka’s Voice (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr 36’ Chico and Rita (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs The Silent Pianist Speaks Cawley Hall Eye 4.15 1hr 15’ Into Eternity (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 28’ Biutiful (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 4.30 1hr 22’ Abel (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 35’ Tricks (12A) Bishops Castle FS 6.00 1hr 22’ My Afternoons With Margueritte (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 2hrs 7’ The Secret in Their Eyes (18) Ledbury Market Theatre 6.30 1hr 34’ 127 Hours (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 32’ Whatever Works (12A) Michaelchurch Escley 7.30 1hr 24’ Separado! (12) Kington Burton Hotel 8.15 2hrs 2’ Of Gods & Men (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 2’ Revanche (15) Leominster Playhouse 8.30 1hr 45’ Black Swan (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1 hr 30’ Jo Brand’s Desert Island Films Ledbury Market Theatre 7.30 1hr 44’ Never Let Me Go (12A) Ludlow Assembly Rooms Thursday 31 March 8.00 1hr 24’ Separado! (12) Clungunford Parish Hall 8.15 2hrs 2’ Of Gods & Men (15) The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 2hrs 2’ Of Gods & Men (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 45’ Black Swan (15) The Courtyard Hereford 11.15 1hr 42’ With Gilbert & George (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 24’ Distant Voices Still Lives (15) The Courtyard Hereford Monday 28 March 2.00 1hr 15’ Festival of Britain (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 2.15 1hr 20’ Fezeka’s Voice (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 10.30 2hrs 30’ On the Black Hill Walk Bull’s Head, Craswall 4.00 1hr 15’ Festival of Britain (U) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 53 ‘ An American in Paris (U) The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 24’ A Journey Around The Close / WW2 in Hereford The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 1hr 15’ Into Eternity (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 51’ Genius Within The Inner Life of Glenn Gould (U) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 34’ 127 Hours (15) The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 30’ The Close in Living Memory The Courtyard Hereford 60 / 61 Festival Diary www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

7.30 2hrs 9’ Another Year (12A) Goodrich Village Hall 4.15 1hr 30’ Howl (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 35’ I Married a Foley Footstep! Leintwardine Comm. Centre 5.00 2hrs 28’ Biutiful (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 28’ Biutiful (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 6.15 1hr 38’ Waste Land (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 50’ The Time That Remains (15) Pudleston Village Hall 7.30 1hr 32’ Whatever Works (12A) Leominster Lion Ballroom 7.30 1hr 45’ Black Swan (15) Wem Town Hall 7.30 1hr 52’ Blue Valentine (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 8.00 1hr 15’ Festival of Britain (U) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 8.00 1hr 50’ True Grit (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.15 1hr 40’ Protektor (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 53’ Uncle Boonmee (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 41’ Robinson in Ruins (U) The Courtyard Hereford Monday 4 April Friday 1 April 2.00 1hr 53’ Animal Kingdom (15) The Courtyard Hereford 11.00 1hr 44’ Never Let Me Go (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr 47’ Bonnie & Clyde (15) The Courtyard Hereford 11.15 1hr 50’ True Grit (15) The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 1hr Fun for Life! The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 39’ The River (U) The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 1hr 30’ Howl (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr 41’ Robinson in Ruins (U) The Courtyard Hereford 6.00 1hr 50’ True Grit (15) The Courtyard Hereford 4.15 1hr 42’ With Gilbert & George (15) The Courtyard Hereford 6.30 1hr Script to Screen The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 38’ Waste Land (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 2’ Revanche (15) Bedstone & Hopton Castle VH 6.30 1hr 44’ Never Let Me Go (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 51’ The Road (15) Church Stretton School 7.30 1hr 30’ Africa United (12A) Bodenham Village Hall 7.30 1hr 41’ Samson & Delilah (15) Leominster Playhouse 7.30 2hrs 2’ Revanche (15) Bosbury Village Hall 7.30 1hr 30’ Abel (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 2hrs 9’ Another Year (12A) Dilwyn Village Hall 8.15 1hr 58’ Patagonia (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 50’ Precious (15) Leintwardine Comm. Centre 8.30 1hr 44’ Never Let Me Go (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 50’ Precious (15) Leominster Lion Ballroom 7.30 1hr 34’ Four Lions (15) Lingen Village Hall Tuesday 5 April 7.30 1hr 52’ Blue Valentine (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 8.00 2hrs 9’ Another Year (12A) Ledbury Market Theatre 11.00 1hr 50’ True Grit (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.00 1hr 50’ The Time That Remains (15) Presteigne FS 2.00 1hr 53’ Uncle Boonmee (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 15’ Blood of a Poet (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr 56’ Some Like It Hot (U) The Courtyard Hereford 8.45 1hr 50’ True Grit (15) The Courtyard Hereford 4.30 1hr 26’ Benda Belili (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 5.45 1hr 58’ Patagonia (15) The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 2 April 6.30 1hr 30’ Nicolas Roeg in Conversation The Courtyard Hereford 7.00 1hr 13’ Alamar (U) Ross St Mary’s Church Hall 11.00 1hr 40’ Tangled (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 24’ Separado! (12) Wem Town Hall 11.15 1hr 44’ Never Let Me Go (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 8.15 1hr 50’ True Grit (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 40’ Protektor (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 48’ Gasland (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr 30’ Howl (15) The Courtyard Hereford 4.15 1hr 20’ Fezeka’s Voice (PG) The Courtyard Hereford Wednesday 6 April 4.30 1hr 15’ Made in Birmingham (15) The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 1hr 23’ The Illusionist (U) Brilley Village Hall 1.30 6hrs A Different Kind of Image (3 x shows) DASH 6.00 2hrs 4’ How I Ended This Summer (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 45’ The African Queen (U) The Courtyard Hereford 6:15 1hr 40’ Walkabout The Courtyard Hereford 2.15 1hr 50’ True Grit (15) The Courtyard Hereford 6.30 1hr 35’ Despicable Me (U) Moccas Village Hall 4.15 1hr 38’ Waste Land (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 32’ Whatever Works (12A) Aston on Clun Village Hall 6.00 1hr 53’ Animal Kingdom (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 27’ Exit Through The Gift Shop (15) Brilley Village Hall 6.30 1hr 26’ Benda Belili (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 2hrs 9’ Another Year (12A) Cawley Hall Eye 7.30 1hr 23’ The Illusionist (U) Leominster Playhouse 7.30 1hr 40’ Winter’s Bone (15) Leominster Lion Ballroom 7.30 1hr 22’ Howl (15) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 7.30 2hrs 1’ Mr Nice (18) Tarrington Lady Emily Hall 8.15 2hrs 28’ Biutiful (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 2hrs 28’ Biutiful (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.30 1hr 50’ The Karamazovs (15) The Courtyard Hereford 8.45 1hr 53’ Animal Kingdom (15) The Courtyard Hereford Thursday 7 April Sunday 3 April 2.00 1hr 37’ The Shop Around the Corner (U) The Courtyard Hereford 2.00 1hr 40’ Tangled (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 2.30 1hr 58’ Patagonia (15) The Courtyard Hereford 2.30 1hr 44’ Never Let Me Go (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 5.00 30’ In Arcadia (U) The Courtyard Hereford 3.00 1hr 43’ Ponyo (U) Bedstone & Hopton Castle VH 6.15 1hr 15’ Under Open Skies/Amateur Films + Award The Courtyard Hereford 62 / 63 Festival Diary www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org

7.30 2hrs 9’ Another Year (12A) Brilley Village Hall Venue Information 7.30 2hrs 1’ Mr Nice (18) Goodrich Village Hall 7.30 1hr 22’ SoulBoy (15) Wem Town Hall 1. All Stretton Village Hall 01694 723378*** sy6 6JR £4.00 – p.21 8.30 1hr 29’ Under Open Skies / Professional 1 The Courtyard Hereford 2. Aston on Clun Village Hall 01588 660545 SY7 8EH £4.00 £2.00 p.52

3. Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall 01547 530282 sy7 0BE £4.00 £2.50 p.41, 43, 53 Friday 8 April 4. Bishops Castle Film Society 01588 630068 SY9 5BW £3.50 £1.50** p.49 2.00 1hr 52’ The Big Lebowski (18) The Courtyard Hereford The Three Tuns 2.00 1hr 30’ Gareth Jones Masterclass The Courtyard Hereford 5. SpArC, Bishops Castle 01588 630243 sy9 5AY £4.00 £2.00 p.11, 19, 29 2.15 1hr 48’ Gasland (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 6. Bodenham Parish Hall 01568 797451*** HR1 3LB £4.00 – p.19 4.30 1hr 31’ Rabbit Hole (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 7. Bosbury Parish Hall 01531 640415 hr8 1PX £4.00 – p.43 4.45 1hr 8’ Best of FLIP Animation Festival The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 31’ Desire (18) The Courtyard Hereford 8. Brilley Village Hall 01544 327227 hr3 6JZ £4.00 £3.00 p.21, 30, 34 6.30 1hr 35’ Despicable Me (U) Bishops Castle SpArC 9. Bromyard, Conquest Theatre 01885 488575 hr7 4LL £4.50 £4.00 p.10, 32, 42 6.30 1hr 43’ West is West (15) The Courtyard Hereford 10. Chapel Lawn Village Hall 01547 530955 sy7 0BW £4.00 £3.00 p.21 7.30 2hrs 9’ Another Year (12A) All Stretton Village Hall 11. Church Stretton School 01694 724330*** sy6 6EX £4.00 £2.00 p.45 7.30 1hr 34’ Four Lions (15) Dorstone Village Hall 12. Clungunford Parish Hall 01588 660462 sy7 0PP £4.00 £2.00 p.31, 47 7.30 1hr 40’ Winter’s Bone (15) Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 7.30 2hrs 7’ The Secret in Their Eyes (18) Leominster Playhouse 13. DASh, Shrewsbury 01743 272939 sy2 5st free p.11 7.30 1hr 13’ Alamar (U) Lingen Village Hall 14. Dilwyn Cedar Hall 01544 318633*** hr4 8HS £3.50 £2.00 p.21 7.30 1hr 38’ Waste Land (PG) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 15. Dorstone Village Hall 01981 550451 hr3 6AN £4.00 £3.00 p.32, 53 7.30 1hr 41’ Samson & Delilah (15) Tarrington Lady Emily Hall 16. Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 01981 240565*** hr2 0EL £4.00 £2.50 p.53 8.00 1hr 30’ Simon Roberts: The Election Project Bromyard Conquest Theatre 8.00 1hr 20’ Fezeka’s Voice (PG) Clungunford Parish Hall 17. Cawley Hall, Eye 01568 615836 hr6 0DS £4.00 – p.7, 21, 30, 8.30 1hr 26’ Benda Belili (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 34, 44 8.45 1hr 52’ Blue Valentine (15) The Courtyard Hereford 18. Garway Village Hall 01600 750461*** hr2 8RQ £4.00 – p.36 19. Goodrich Village Hall 01600 890609 hr9 6HY £4.50 – p.21, 38 Saturday 9 April 20. Screen at Hay, Parish Hall, Lion St 01497 831189*** hr3 5AB £5.00 – p.37

10.00 7hrs Make a Film in a Day Workshop Bishops Castle SpArC 21. The Courtyard, Hereford 01432 340555 hr4 9JR £6.50 £5.50 p.9, 12-15, 17-20 2.15 1hr 43’ West is West (15) The Courtyard Hereford See also p.5 22-45, 47-53 2.30 1hr 52’ Blue Valentine (15) The Courtyard Hereford 22. WRVS Hall, Hereford On door only hr1 2QN £4.00 – p.21 4.30 1hr 14’ The Singing Ringing Tree (U) The Courtyard Hereford 23. Burton Hotel, Kington 01544 231579 hr5 3BQ £4.00 – p.47 6.00 3hrs Met Opera: Le Comte Ory The Courtyard Hereford 6.15 1hr 31’ Rabbit Hole (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 24. The Market Theatre, Ledbury 01531 633345 hr8 2AQ £4.00 £2.50 p.7, 21, 46, 53 7.00 1hr 30’ Africa United (12A) Bishops Castle SpArC 25. Leintwardine Community Centre 07973 746223 sy7 0LZ £4.00 – p.10, 36, 42, 49 7.30 1hr 23’ The Illusionist (U) Cawley Hall Eye 26. Lion Ballroom, Leominster 01568 611588 hr6 8BT £5.00 – p.42, 52-53 7.30 1hr 50’ The Time That Remains (15) Leintwardine Comm. Centre 27. Playhouse Cinema, Leominster 01568 612583 hr6 8NJ £4.50 – p.21, 34, 45-46 7.30 2hrs 9’ Another Year (12A) Moccas Village Hall 28. Lingen Village Hall 01568 770920 sy7 0DY £4.00 £3.00 p.19, 32 7.30 1hr 35’ Tricks (12A) St Peter’s Church 8.15 2hr 30’ Under Open Skies/Professional 2 + Award The Courtyard Hereford 29. Ludlow Assembly Rooms 01584 878141 sy8 1AZ £5.00 £4.50 p.24, 26, 30, 34, 39, 52 Sunday 10 April 30. Escleyside Hall, Michaelchurch Escley 01981 510696*** hr2 0PT £4.00 £2.50 p.52 31. Moccas Village Hall 07776 121956*** hr2 9LQ £4.00 £2.00* p.21, 29, 44 10.30 2hrs 30’ On the Black Hill Walk Bull’s Head, Craswall 2.00 Best Of Festival The Courtyard Hereford 32. St Peter’s Church, Peterchurch 07818 248795 hr2 0RT £4.00 £3.00 p.36, 46, 49 2.15 1hr 14’ The Singing Ringing Tree (U) The Courtyard Hereford 33. Presteigne Film Society, Assembly Rooms 01544 370202*** LD8 2AN £4.50 – p.49 4.00 1hr 15’ Circo (PG) The Courtyard Hereford 34. Pudleston Village Hall 01568 750630*** hr6 0RA £4.00 £2.50 p.49 4.15 Best Of Festival The Courtyard Hereford 35. St Mary’s Church Hall, Ross 01989 720341 hr9 5HR £4.00 £3.00 p.19, 32, 45 6.00 1hr 31’ Rabbit Hole (12A) The Courtyard Hereford 36. Lady Emily Hall, Tarrington 01432 890720*** hr1 4EX £4.50 – p.21, 32, 38, 45 6.15 1hr 43’ West is West (15) The Courtyard Hereford 7.30 1hr 38’ Waste Land (PG) Ludlow Assembly Rooms 37. Wem Town Hall 01939 237075 sy4 5DG £5.00 £4.50 p.11, 25, 47, 48 8.00 1hr 34’ Four Lions (15) Bromyard Conquest Theatre Flicks in the Sticks/Arts Alive 01588 620883 8.00 1hr 52’ Blue Valentine (15) The Courtyard Hereford Prices are for regular film shows, event prices may vary and are indicated 8.30 Surprise Film The Courtyard Hereford * family ticket £10 / ** students / *** enquiries/info only – tickets on door 64design / 64elfen.co.ukFestival Diary

A big thank you to all the volunteers who help to get the Festival off the ground, and to the venue promoters in particular!

1. All Stretton Village Hall 2. Aston on Clun Village Hall 3. Bedstone & Hopton Castle Village Hall 4. Bishops Castle Film Society 5. spArC, Bishops Castle 6. Bodenham Parish Hall 7. Bosbury Parish Hall 37 8. Brilley Village Hall 9. Bromyard, Conquest Theatre 10. Chapel Lawn Village Hall 11. Church Stretton School 12. Clungunford Parish Hall 13 13. dASH, Shrewsbury 14. dilwyn Cedar Hall 15. dorstone Village Hall 16. ewyas Harold Memorial Hall 1 17. Cawley Hall, Eye 18. garway Village Hall 11 19. goodrich Village Hall 4 20. screen at Hay, Parish Hall, Lion St 5 21. the Courtyard, Hereford 22. WRVS Hall, Hereford 2 12 23. Burton Hotel, Kington 3 24. the Market Theatre, Ledbury 10 25 25. leintwardine Community Centre 29 26. lion Ballroom, Leominster 27. Playhouse Cinema, Leominster 28. lingen Village Hall 28 33 29. ludlow Assembly Rooms 17 30. escleyside Hall, Michaelchurch Escley 26 31. moccas Village Hall 34 27 32. st Peter’s Church, Peterchurch 23 14 33. Presteigne Film Society, Assembly Rooms 6 9 34. Pudleston Village Hall 8 35. st Mary’s Church Hall, Ross 36. lady Emily Hall, Tarrington 21 7 37. Wem Town Hall 31 20 15 22 36 30 24 32

16 35 18 Many venues have licensed bars, (see above), 19 some offer light suppers on the night and most have interval refreshments on sale.

A map is available on the Venues page of our website to help you find your way www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org