Program 2 27 July – 19 September

Program 3 of 4 | 2021 July 27 Tue 7.00 Locked Down 24 Tue 7.00 Hi, Mom BELL 28 Wed 7.00 Summer of ‘85 (Été 85) 25 Wed 7.00 Aalto Café Cinema Free to Members 29 Thur 7.00 June Again 26 Thur 7.30 The United States vs Billie Holliday Star 30 Fri 7.00 Land 27 Fri 7.00 Greenfield 8.45 Locked Down 8.30 Aalto BELL 31 Sat 7.00 Valerie Taylor: Playing with Sharks OC 28 Sat 7.00 Spirit Untamed 8.45 Summer of ‘85 (Été 85) BELL 8.45 Rosemary’s Way BELL 29 Sun 7.00 Samsara Territory Day August 30 Mon 7.00 Moon Rock for Monday BELL 1 Sun 7.00 Nomadland Fundraiser for Garuda FC 31 Tue 7.00 Death of a Ladies’ Man 2 Mon 7.00 Land 3 Tue 7.00 Breaking Bread September 4 Wed 7.00 Locked Down BELL Star 1 Wed 7.00 The United States vs Billie Holliday BELL 5 Thur 7.00 Final Account 2 Thur 7.00 Space Jam: A New Legacy BELL 6 Fri 7.00 Space Jam: A New Legacy 3 Fri 7.00 The Godmother (La Daronne) BELL 9.15 June Again 9.00 Death of a Ladies’ Man 7 Sat 7.00 Land BELL 4 Sat 7.00 Moon Rock for Monday 8.45 Final Account BELL 9.00 Greenfield BELL 8 Sun 7.00 Fast and Furious 9 5 Sun 7.00 Blazing Saddles Fundraiser for Friends of DSO Fundraiser for GRANT 6 Mon 7.00 Unsound 9 Mon 7.00 Memory Box Darwin Festival Presents 7 Tue 7.00 Three Summers (Três Verões) Star 10 Tue 7.00 Carmilla 8 Wed 7.00 The Xrossing Star 11 Wed 7.00 Hi, Mom 9 Thur 7.00 Death of a Ladies’ Man BELL 12 Thur 7.00 Djäkamirr NT Premiere 10 Fri 7.00 Valerie Taylor: Playing with Sharks BELL Fundraiser for Mum on Country Project 8.45 Moon Rock for Monday BELL 13 Fri 7.00 Breaking Bread Middle Eastern Feast BELL 11 Sat 7.00 Three Summers (Três Verões) 9.15 Valerie Taylor: Playing with Sharks 9.00 Sisters with Transistors 14 Sat 7.00 June Again BELL 12 Sun 7.00 Storks 9.00 Carmilla Fundraiser for Palmerston Game Fishing Club 15 Sun 7.00 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 13 Mon 7.00 Sound of Metal OC Fundraiser for Top End Pride 14 Tue 7.00 The Xrossing 16 Mon 7.00 Blood Quantum Darwin Festival Presents 15 Wed 7.00 Sisters with Transistors BELL 17 Tue 7.00 Top Dog 16 Thur 7.30 Sound of Metal OC BELL Star 18 Wed 7.00 Gutsy Girls 17 Fri 7.00 Spirit Untamed BELL 19 Thur 7.00 Sunset Boulevard 8.45 Three Summers (Três Verões) BELL 20 Fri 7.00 Rosemary’s Way Star 18 Sat 7.00 Unsound BELL 8.45 Hi, Mom 8.45 The Xrossing BELL 21 Sat 7.00 Aalto 19 Sun 7.00 The Croods Fundraiser for Waratah Hockey Club 9.00 The Godmother (La Daronne) 22 Sun 7.00 Bohemian Rhapsody Fundraiser for Pints Cricket Club Fundraiser | Special screening BELL 23 Mon 7.00 Carmilla Star+NT Short | BELLLast screening | OC Open caption Aalto Breaking Bread Carmilla Death of a Ladies’ Man 2021, Timo Vierimaa 2021, Beth Elise Hawk 2021, Emily Harris 2021, Matthew Bissonnette 99m, Finland, Norway PG 86m, Israel M 94m, UK MA15+ 101m, Canada, Ireland MA15+ The life and work of one of the The A-Sham Arabic Food Festival A gothic-horror inspired by the Inspired by the life of Leonard greatest modern architects invites Arab and Jewish chefs to 1872 vampire novella by Joseph Cohen, and set to some of his Alvar Aalto. For the first time the celebrate their shared culinary Sheridan Le Fanu. Isolated most beloved music, Death of intimate love story of Alvar and history as they exchange stories, from the outside world, fifteen- a Ladies’ Man tells the story of his architect wife, Aino Aalto is recipes and techniques. A mouth- year-old Lara lives in seclusion. a carousing college professor shared. It takes the viewer on a watering celebration of diverse Late one evening, a mysterious whose life takes a series of cinematic tour to their creative cuisines and people. carriage crash brings a young unimaginable turns. processes and iconic buildings girl into the home to recuperate. *Middle Eastern Feast event 31 Aug, 3, 9 Sept all over the world. English and This strange visitor arouses before the 13 August screening. Finnish with English Subtitles Lara’s curiosity and awakens her See special screenings section. 21, 25, 27 Aug burgeoning desires. 3, 13* Aug 10, 14, 23 Aug

Final Account Greenfield Hi, Mom June Again

2021, Luke Holland 2021, Julius Telmer 2021, Jia Ling 2021, JJ Winlove 94m, Germany / USA M 73m, Australia MA15+ 128m, China PG 99m, Australia M The last living generation of A dark shadow unsettles the The second highest grossing A heartfelt Australian dramedy. everyday Germans to participate town of Greenfield when one non-English language film of Family matriarch June decides in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich – man’s secret is revealed. all time. After her mother Li that it’s up to her to get her their memories, perceptions James enters the small town Huanying is fatally injured in wayward family back on track. and personal appraisals of their of Greenfield to win his former a car accident in 2001, grief- When her meddling backfires, own roles in the greatest human girlfriend Kelly back, but tensions stricken Jia Xiaoling finds herself June sets out on a romantic crimes in history. Vital questions soon explode when her brother transported back in time to the journey of her own and soon are raised about authority, confides a volatile secret. year 1981, where she becomes discovers she needs help from conformity, national identity 27 Aug, 4 Sept her mother’s close friend. the very people she was trying and responsibility. German with Mandarin with English Subtitles. to rescue. English Subtitles. 11, 20, 24 Aug 29 July, 6, 14 Aug 5, 7 Aug Land Locked Down Moon Rock for Rosemary’s Way Monday 2021, Robin Wright 2021, Doug Liman 2020, Kurt Martin 2021, Ros Horin 89m, Canada, USA M 118m, UK, USA M 96m, Australia M 88m, Australia CTC Robin Wright’s directorial debut Just as they decide to separate, When terminally ill nine-year- Rosemary’s Way celebrates the is a poignant story of mourning, Linda and Paxton find life has old Monday gets caught up in a remarkable Rosemary Kariuki and crisis and uplift. In the aftermath other plans when they are police chase involving street kid the group of vulnerable migrant of an unfathomable event, Edee stuck at home in a mandatory Tyler, she seizes the opportunity women of suburban Sydney finds herself unable to stay lockdown. Co-habitation is to go on the run, leaving whose lives she helps transform. connected to the world she proving to be a challenge, but home to explore the Northern From cultures as diverse as Iraq, once knew. She retreats to the fuelled by poetry and copious Territory. They set out to find the Congo and Peru, the women magnificent, but unforgiving, amounts of wine, it will bring the Moon Rock (Uluru) which are taken on a powerful cross- wilds of the Rockies. them closer together in the most Monday believes will cure her, cultural journey to integrate them 30 Jul, 2, 7 Aug surprising way. encountering outback characters into the homes and communities 27, 30 Jul, 4 Aug and evading the pursuing police. of everyday Aussies. 30 Aug, 4, 10 Sept 20, 28 Aug

Sisters with Space Jam: Spirit Untamed Summer of ’85 Transistors A New Legacy (Été ’85) 2021, Lisa Rovner 2021, Malcom D. Lee 2021, Elaine Bogan 2021, François Ozon 86m, UK PG 120m, USA CTC 88m, USA G 101m, France MA15+ The remarkable untold story When LeBron James and his After moving to a sleepy little When Alexis capsizes off the coast of electronic music’s female young son Dom are trapped in a town, young Lucky Prescott of Normandy, David comes to the pioneers, composers who digital space, LeBron must get befriends a wild mustang named rescue and opens the younger embraced machines and their them home safe by leading Bugs, Spirit, who shares her rebellious boy’s eyes to a new horizon of liberating technologies to utterly Lola Bunny and the whole gang spirit. When a heartless wrangler friendship, art, and sexual bliss. transform how we produce and of undisciplined Looney Tunes plans to capture Spirit and his Their seaside summer fling lasts listen to music today. The film to victory. In the highest-stakes herd, Lucky and her new friends just six weeks, but casts a shadow maps a new history of electronic challenge of his life, LeBron has embark on the adventure of a over a lifetime in François Ozon’s music through the visionary to redefine his bond with his son lifetime to rescue the horse that sexy, nostalgic reverie of first women who redefined the and shine a light on the power of forever changed her life. love and its consequences. boundaries of music. being yourself. 28 Aug, 17 Sept French with English Subtitles. 11, 15 Sept 6 Aug, 2 Sept 28, 31 Jul Sunset Boulevard The Godmother (La Sound of Metal The United States Daronne) vs. Billie Holiday 1950, Billy Wilder 2021, Jean-Paul Salomé 2020, Darius Marder 2021, Lee Daniels 107m, USA PG 105m, France M 120m, USA M 130m, Canada, USA MA15+ Billy Wilder’s 1950 classic won Patience works as a police Winner of two Oscars, Sound A moving biographical film three Oscars and sits in many interpreter in the narcotics unit of Metal is a must-see film this about Billie Holiday, one of the critics top 100 movies of all time. listening to wire taps. When she program! Heavy metal drummer greatest jazz musicians of all hears a nurse at her mother’s Ruben lives for the moment, time. Her hit ‘Strange Fruit’ 1950’s Hollywood. Screenplay care home in the recordings, touring with his girlfriend, had propelled her to fame, but writer Joe Gillis is down on his she is moved to protect him. devoted to his art. When his the US government sought to luck. After a chance encounter Soon she is entangled in the hearing starts to rapidly decline stop her singing it. Unable to with aging silent movie star Paris underworld, using her his life goes into freefall. stop her singing, the FBI began Norma Desmond, Joe is drawn inside knowledge to stay one Ruben checks into a small deaf undercover stings aiming to down a path of love, jealousy step ahead of the police. community to learn how to live arrest her for drugs charges. and violence. French with English Subtitles. again. Open Captioned. 26 Aug, 1 Sept 19 Aug 21 Aug, 3 Sept 13, 16 Sept (OC)

The Xrossing Three Summers Unsound Valerie Taylor: (Três Verões) Playing with Sharks 2020, Steven J. Mihaljevich 2021, Sandra Kogut 2020, Ian Watson 2021, Sally Aitken 99m, Australia UC15+ 94m, Brazil PG 84m, Australia MA15+ 91m, Australia PG A powerful film from Western We follow Madá, a fifty-something When guitarist Noah finds This highly anticipated Australia. When a murder caretaker for a cluster of luxury himself disillusioned and documentary chronicles the remains unsolved, three boys beach-side condos. Over the transient, he quits the band, life story of pioneering scuba suspect and harass a reclusive course of three summers, she and returns to his mother’s diver Valerie Taylor. A fearless indigenous man. One boy invests in a roadside snack kiosk home. Noah soon finds himself marine maverick whose passion decides to break the cycle to while tending to the every needs with a young trans man, Finn, for sharks knows no bounds – make amends, however the of her condescending employers, who is a proud Auslan-only even when it really should! The inertia of past actions results becomes a bystander in a major speaker. They risk hurting each powerful documentary draws in a thrilling climax. money-laundering scandal, and other as they learn to be true on five decades of remastered 8, 14, 18 Sept eventually launches a new career. to themselves. footage, a stranger than fiction Portuguese with English Subtitles. 6, 18 Sept script and, of course, sharks. 7, 11, 17 Sept 31 Jul (OC), 13 Aug, 10 Sept Special screenings & NT Shorts

Samsara Territory Day screening 2011, Ron Fricke 102m, USA PG We gave ourselves the challenge Middle Eastern Feast of selecting a film that wouldn’t be disturbed by cracker night and Before Breaking Bread the non-narrative documentary Foodies will delight in this opportunity to enjoy a Middle Eastern feast Samsara topped the list. It’s a from Flavours of Damascus on the dining deck before the culinary film journey of spectacle through the Breaking Bread. Book for a couple or a group and enjoy tasty treats natural and human world. Enjoy before moving across to watch the film. the amazing cinematography to the background of fireworks. The regular catering will also be available for standard ticket holders. 29 Aug Limited tickets available for the feast. 13 Aug

Gutsy Girls Top Dog Film Darwin Festival presents Darwin Festival presents Festival CTC Festival CTC Blood Quantum Memory Box A Festival Film Tour aimed at A canine celebration showcasing 2019, Jeff Barnaby 2021, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil connecting like-minded women the incredible bond between dogs 98m, Canada UC18+ Joreige, 100m, Canada CTC and building a community of and their human counterparts. supportive adventurous women. With over two hours of carefully Darwin Festival Presents Blood Darwin Festival presents Memory By showcasing and celebrating the curated independent films from Quantum: the dead are coming Box: Maia, a single mother living female adventurous spirit we hope around the globe you can take back to life outside the isolated in Montreal with her teenage to make women in the outdoors a deep dive into the complex Mi’kmaq reserve of Red Crow in daughter, Alex. On Christmas more visible. But a Gutsy Girls relationship between dogs and Canada, except for its Indigenous Eve, they receive an unexpected screening isn’t just for women their humans. All tickets sold inhabitants who are strangely delivery: notebooks, tapes, – it is for everyone who loves through topdogfilmfestival. immune to the zombie plague. and photos Maia sent by her adventure. All tickets sold through com.au 16 Aug best friend from 1980’s Beirut. Maia refuses to open the box or gutsygirlsadventurefilmtour. 17 Aug com.au confront its memories, but Alex secretly begins diving into it. 18 Aug 9 Aug

Balibo Fire Birds Ego Lemnos / Music Video Emma Masters / Factual From Ego Lemos’s album ‘O Hele Le’. Also The Karrkanj bird picks up burning from the sound-track of the motion picture sticks of fire and flies to a fresh piece of Balibo. 2009 APRA Screen Music Award grass and drops them to create new fire. winner. Screening 20 Aug. Screening 10 Aug. Blinky’s Lures Mangroves = Sandy Ash Blenkinsop / Factual Paul Richard Read / Factual Iconic Barra lure maker, Shane ‘Blinky’ A quite meditation through the tranquil Blenkinsop invites you into his workshop to mangroves of the Casuarina Coastal Reserve. show his handcraft lures, his process and his Screening 4 Aug. beginnings. Screening 8 Sept. Bush Food is Really, Really Good Food Elcho Island Boys Narbarlek Band / Music Video Saltwater Band / Music Video The kids of Manmoyi community wanted Saltwater Band is one of the great bands of to encourage everyone to eat better food Northern Australia, and the source of the and the best food of all is ‘Bush Tucker’. amazing Gurrumul Yunupingu. Screening Screening 26 Aug. 16 Sept.