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Hello & Welcome At FilmBath we like to look on the bright side of life, so have chosen ‘Love Wins’ as the rallying cry for this year’s selection of films. Why? Well there’s little doubt that current news can be depressing, whether it’s abuse in the film industry, a beleaguered NHS or the turmoil of Brexit. Taking Jo Cox’s lead that ‘we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us’, we are very proud to have a programme which is 55% directed by women, with superb films from every corner of the world and a wonderful LGBT strand. Don’t despair - love will win. Come on in.

Holly Tarquini, Executive Director

Contents Festival Schedule 6 – 7 Find Your Film 8 – 17 Map and Bookings 18 – 19 Our Sponsors 20 – 21 All the films 22 – 46

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GREAT FILMS! We have a team of eight people who spend nine months watching over 600 films to bring you the very best selection of previews, world cinema, LGBT films, F-Rated features, documentaries and more.

Here’s what people had to say about last year’s festival

‘I love the personal feel - that ‘It was a joy to see a really well ‘Excellent organisation at all the films are personally written film in a room full of the event. Fabulous selection introduced. Sometimes people cracking up together’ of films. Personal and the director is there. Great inclusive experience’ atmosphere always’ ‘The festival manages to achieve this large sense of ‘Wide range of films including ‘The two films I saw now rank community within Bath, LOADS ahead of their release; among my favourite films. people go to watch the films carefully and wisely chosen - Love the fact that the festival – and there’s an incredibly always a delight!’ invented the F-Rating, and diverse selection of films to that it’s taken off’ choose from’

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Thursday 1 November Monday 5 November Wednesday 7 November Friday 9 November Burning Odeon 19.30 22 Kusama: Infinity Odeon 18.00 28 U - July 22 Odeon 18.00 36 The Heiresses Odeon 18.00 43 The Favourite Odeon 20.00 22 Lois Weber Chapel Arts 18.00 28 if…. Chapel Arts 18.00 37 Wildlife Odeon 20.00 43 Pili Odeon 18.15 30 IMDb Awards Komedia 18.30 37 Skate Kitchen Odeon 20.20 44 Friday 2 November Colette Odeon 18.30 29 The Workshop Odeon 20.30 37 Shoplifters Odeon 18.00 23 Lizzie Odeon 20.10 30 The Divine Order Odeon 21.00 38 Saturday 10 November Can You Ever Forgive Me? Odeon 18:30 24 One Sings, the Other Doesn’t Odeon 20.30 31 The Silence of Others Chapel Arts 21.00 39 Zama Odeon 18.15 44 Birds of Passage Odeon 20.45 24 Still Waters Chapel Arts 20.30 32 Don Quixote Odeon 18.30 44 Thursday 8 November Saturday 3 November Tuesday 6 November Happy as Lazzaro Odeon 18.00 39 Sunday 11 November RBG Odeon 18.00 25 The Other Side of Everything Odeon 18.00 32 Voices of the Sea Chapel Arts 18.00 40 A Love That Never Dies Widcombe SC 17.30 45 Nancy Odeon 20.00 25 Half the Picture Chapel Arts 18.00 32 Wajib Odeon 18.15 40 The Old Man & the Gun Odeon 18.30 46 The Kindergarten Teacher Odeon 20.30 26 Pandora’s Box Odeon 18.15 33 Funny Cow Pound Arts 19.30 40 Shorts Showcase Widcombe SC 20.00 46 Summer 1993 Odeon 20.30 34 Too Late to Die Young Odeon 20.00 41 Sunday 4 November A Woman Captured Chapel Arts 21.00 34 The Wound Odeon 20.45 42 C’est la vie! Odeon 18.00 26 Rafiki Odeon 21.10 34 A Deal with the Universe Chapel Arts 20.45 43 Leaning into the Wind Odeon 18.20 26 Vagabond Odeon 20.40 27 Beautiful Boy Odeon 21.00 28

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The F-Rating originated at the 2014 Bath Film Lois Weber – Festival and really grabbed public attention. Suspense and The Blot There are now over 80 cinemas and film festivals Agnès Varda - in the UK and around the world which F-Rate Mon 5 Nov, 18:00, Chapel Arts their programme, including the Barbican, ‘Along with D W Griffith, Weber was Vagabond and One Raindance Festival and the Irish Film Institute. American cinema’s first genuine auteur, Sings, the Other Doesn’t a filmmaker involved in all aspects of Pukka Herbs have been the sole The F-Rating is applied to all films which are production and one who utilized the Sun 4 Nov, 20:50, Odeon directed and/or written by women. If in addition motion picture to put across her own and Mon 5 Nov, 20:30, Odeon sponsor of the F-Rating since 2015 to both of these the film also prominently features ideas and philosophies’ - Anthony Slide. It should be impossible not to love women in their own right, then it is Triple F-Rated - We should all know her name, and Agnès Varda, the radical 90-year-old our gold standard. her films - we’re thrilled to have this filmmaker, pioneer of the Nouvelle It’s a partnership made in heaven: Pukka believe in using opportunity to screen two of them. Vague and joyous human being. business as a force for good; we believe that having 64% of films in our programme are F-Rated at To celebrate her 60-odd years of this year’s festival. Here’s a small selection of them. Half the Picture filmmaking, we’re screening two of her equal representation on screen and behind the camera classics; treat yourself and go to both. has the potential to benefit all of our lives. Tues 6 Nov, 18:00, Chapel Arts ’A vital, comprehensive documentary The Divine Order / on a subject that’s so fundamental You can get your delicious FREE cup of Pukka organic to the industry it’s about, you have to Die göttliche Ordnung herbal tea at most F-Rated screenings – look out wonder why dozens of movies on this Wed 7 Nov, 21:00, Odeon scale or bigger haven’t already been 77 years after New Zealand led the for the logo in the brochure. made. It seems absurd that we’ve had way, Switzerland was still not allowing to wait until 2018 for a film to address women to vote in 1971. This feel-good the essential question at the core comedy follows housewife Nora (Marie Look out for the logo of this inquiry: Why are there so few Leuenberger) as her consciousness is throughout the women film directors working today?’ - raised and her world expands beyond programme . her priggish village. filmbath.org.uk Bath Box Office: 01225 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 11 Doc uMENTARIES

US film critic Roger Ebert said that ‘movies are like a machine that generates empathy’, and La grande documentaries are arguably the Voices of The Sea Kusama: Infinty very best way to draw back Thur 8 Nov, 18:00, Chapel Arts Mon 5 Nov, 18:00, Odeon Uses the microcosm of a marriage ‘Functions as a portrait of the the curtain on other societies, to explore the macrocosm of life ravages of misogyny. Namely, the experiences and cultures of which in Cuba versus the draw of life in ways in which sexism, heightened bouffe. America. Mariela longs to live the by racism, can push creativity to we may have no knowledge or American dream; her husband Pita the most beguiling of places’ - Slant understanding. Here is a small loves his community and his life Magazine. Kusama should be as selection of our brilliant documentary as a fisherman. This film expertly much of a household name as Andy features in this year’s festival. explores the tension between them. Warhol or Hokusai. A Love That Never Dies Leaning into the Wind Sun 11 Nov, 17:30, Sun 4 Nov, 18:20, Odeon Widcombe Social Club Andy Goldsworthy is an This ‘shocking and yet therapeutic’ extraordinary British artist: he (The Wee Review) film is itself works in and with nature, creating the healing journey taken by two ephemeral pieces which are grieving parents who travel around beautifully captured here by the United States meeting other cinematographer-director-editor parents whose children have died. Thomas Riedelsheimer. This film We’re thrilled to be welcoming the definitely deserves to be seen on thepigguide.com directors for a very special Q&A. the big screen.

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People who come to the IMDb Awards always talk about how much they have enjoyed seen cr AWARD the event, how much they have appreciated hearing from our wonderful judges and how they love taking part in selecting the winner of the IMDb New Filmmaker Award. Judges 2018 shortlisted films are: The IMDb Script to Screen Award is Col Needham CEO of IMDb and the Mind F*#k by Sherill Turner Two cinema open to anyone who has written a ‘most powerful Brit in Hollywood’ - ushers share a mutual crush, but both are script for a short film — we even offer The Guardian. too shy to do anything about it - until they FREE script advice. Ivana MacKinnon Producer - Beast, start hearing each other’s thoughts, that is. Slumdog Millionaire, etc Happy New Year by Wander Theunis The winner takes home £5,000 cash, Alex von Tunzelmann Historian and writer & Brandon Grötzinger On the last day of Churchill, Medici: Masters of Florence, etc of the year, a dispirited work-at-home £1,000-worth of hire kit AND an IMDb phone interpreter has her moribund life badge usually only awarded to IMDb The IMDb New Filmmaker Award is turned upside down when she answers an employees. dedicated to finding and supporting unexpected emergency call. emerging talent. The winner is awarded T he Wait by Jason McColgan Two people Go to filmbath.org.uk for more details. £1,000 cash and £1,000-worth of hire kit find comfort in one another after striking to go towards their next film. up a conversation at a bus stop. Fuck The Boxes by Abel Rubinstein ‘Having experienced the elation of being We will also be premiering the 2018 winner A gay 20-year-old student, Dan, and his best selected, it is fair to say that the evening of the IMDb Script to Screen Award, friend Ray share their joint with a couple of Service by Theo Watkins. boys in the park; Dan discovers jealousy, an of June 16th, 2015, is now permanently emotion he’s not used to. etched on my brain as one of the most Life in Miniature by Ellen Evans amazing evenings of my life.’ A documentary film about small things - and the woman who creates them. Finalist Steve Brehm filmbath.org.uk Bath Box Office: 01225 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 14 15 Wod rl 50% off for U25s Thanks once again in part to funding from the BFI and FilmHub Cinema SW, we are offering everyone who is 25 and under a whopping 50% off ALL full price tickets! Here’s a handful of films on which From award-winning new you might want to use your discount. releases poised to hit Birds of Passage / big screens all over the Pájaros de verano The Workshop Shoplifters / Manbiki kazoku world, to films that have Fri 2 Nov, 20:45, Odeon Weds 7 Nov 20:30, Odeon Fri 2 Nov, 18:00, Odeon It’s the late ’60s in Colombia. A young A diverse group of teenagers are brought played arthouse cinemas Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda and Wayuu woman performs a traditional dance together by a famous author to write a Too Late to Die Young / internationally, yet somehow winner of the 2018 Cannes Palme d’Or, for her suitors. An onlooker falls for her - but crime novel together. One of the group T arde para morir joven missed our corner of the ‘Shoplifters showcases one of the modern how will he raise the large dowry her family begins expressing far-right views - is he cinema’s great empaths deploying asks for? So begins the involvement in the just goading the others, or will life imitate Thur 8 Nov, 20:00, Odeon West Country, we bring you compassion like a time-delay nerve agent; bloody and brutal drugs trade that will art? ‘Laurent Cantet makes an enthralling ‘Captain Fantastic meets Lucrecia Martel an exciting selection of films this is Koreeda’s expansive humanism, change their way of life forever. return to form with this topical fusion in stunning tale of growing up’ - from around the globe. weaponised’ - Sight & Sound. of political debate session and socially IndieWire. In 1990s Chile, 16-year-olds Burning conscious thriller’ - Variety. Sofia and Lucas, and 10-year-old Clara face their first loves and fears. Wajib Thur 1 Nov, 19:30, Odeon Thur 8 Nov, 18:15, Odeon Jong-su, a country boy, is flattered when Wildlife Pioneering Palestinian filmmaker Hae-mi pays him attention - thinking Fri 9 Nov, 20:00, Odeon Skate Kitchen Annemarie Jacir continues to impress her ‘out of his league’ - but when she Teenager Joe watches his mother change Fri 9 Nov, 20:20, Odeon with this poignant, bittersweet comedy of introduces him to Ben, her rich and from a stereotypical 1960s housewife to When Long Island skater Camille is injured, estrangement and identity, producing ‘a worldly beau, Jong-su is consumed with a sensual and rebellious woman after her her mother forbids her to skate again. film of surprising warmth and generosity, envy. And then things become decidedly marriage breaks down. ‘It’s an extremely Ignoring her, Camille joins an all-female which takes a situation riven by discord strange. Nothing is as it appears in this watchable movie, beautifully and even crew who talk about feminism and life. and turns it into a melancholy song of South Korean mystery thriller. ‘A gripping luxuriously appointed in its austere evocation When she falls for skater dude Devon resolution’ - Mark Kermode. nightmare’ - Peter Bradshaw. of smalltown America’ - The Guardian. (Jaden Smith), everything changes.

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S These films will sell out! Booking information Komediat St 22-23 Westgate St Pound Arts Charlotte This year, films in the Odeon can be Tickets are non-refundable, but if an event Bath BA1 1EP Pound Pill, Corsham Book early for... Sq ueen booked at odeon.com or in person at sells out we are happy to offer returned MONMOUTH PLACE Q SN13 9HX Can You Ever Forgive Me? Odeon Bath. tickets for resale. A £2 per ticket handling The Old Man & The Gun charge will apply on all resold tickets. You can book all of the films by phone, The Favourite Please note we cannot refund postage or email or in person from Bath Box Office. transaction fee. Please contact the vendor Colette ODEON Bath WESTGATE ST Films in the Odeon have allocated seating, that originally sold the tickets. Kingsmead Leisure JAMES ST WEST so please do book early to get a good seat. Complex, James St W, To find out if we have any ticket sales/ YORK ST 25s and under get 50% off ALL full returns on the door, follow us on Bath BA1 2BX price tickets. Facebook/Twitter @FilmBathUK

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Honorary President Sir Christopher Frayling Festival Champions Sally Potter, , Peter Gabriel, Ken Loach, Amanda Nevill, Pawel Pawlikowski, Stephen Woolley Executive Director Holly Tarquini Creative Director Philip Raby Technical Manager Alastair Goolden Film Booker Jason Barker Festival Founder Chris Baker Press Officer Sam Walker Festival Assistant Sophie Overment Marketing Assistant Amy Sutton Production Assistant Luisa Smith Copy Editors Hamish Duncan, Nicky Roberts Consultant Suzanne Vennard Programming Team Philip Raby, Elspeth Hinde, Jason Barker, Clair Titley, Chris Baker, Lorena Pino, Alastair Goolden, Valencia Haynes Website Manager Hannah Atkinson Brochure Design TheGroupofSeven.co.uk Brochure Copy 2018 Philip Raby, Holly Tarquini, Jason Barker Trustees Margaret Heffernan, Rona Fineman, Alastair Goolden, Valencia Haynes, Elspeth Hinde, Murray Kenneth, Ken Littlewood, Susan McMillan, Andrew Morgan PLUS over 50 of the very best volunteers in the world and YOU, our brilliant audience. A heartfelt and MASSIVE thank you to you all; without you all there would be no film festival.

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Thu 1 Nov Preview The Favourite

Olivia Colman in punk Restoration romp Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Cast: Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone USA, UK, Ireland, 2018, 120m, 15 tbc Odeon, 20:00, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) ‘Olivia Colman is priceless’ (Peter Bradshaw) as the middle-aged Queen Anne, burdened by a weight problem, gout, depression and grief from a series of miscarriages. Her favourite is the cunning and ambitious Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (Rachel Weisz) - Thu 1 Nov Preview / World but Anne is fickle, and when Sarah’s cousin (Emma Stone) Fri 2 Nov Preview / World appears at court, the two vie for the Queen’s affections. Burning / Beoning Director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Killing of a Shoplifters / Manbiki kazoku Sacred Deer) brings a wickedly subversive touch to this Multi-award-winning Korean thriller year’s Venice Grand Jury Prize winner. ‘The Favourite is a Heartwarming exploration of what makes a family Director: Lee Chang-dong filthy, violent and outrageous period comedy that drips Director: Hirokazu Koreeda Cast: Yoo Ah-in, Jeon Jong-seo, Steven Yeun with bad language and worse behaviour’ - BBC. Cast: Lily Franky, Kirin Kiki, Sakura Andō South Korea, 2018, 148m, 18 tbc, subtitles Japan, 2018, 121m, 12A tbc, subtitles Odeon, 19:30, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) Preview screening courtesy of Fox Searchlight Odeon, 18:00, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) Supported by Pukka Herbs ‘Burning is a character study that morphs, Hirokazu Koreeda ‘reaffirms himself as one of the Sponsored by The Norie Trust & Mallory with masterly patience, subtlety and nary world’s best auteurs’ (IndieWire) with Shoplifters. a single wasted minute, into a teasing A Cannes veteran with nominations for films mystery and eventually a full-blown thriller’ - LA including Nobody Knows and Like Father, Like Son, Times. A provincial young man, Jong-su (Yoo he went on to win this year’s Palme d’Or. The story Ah-in) meets and starts dating Hae-mi (Jeon he tells is of a family of petty thieves and outcasts Jong-seo). She returns from a trip overseas with - not blood relations, but a dedicated, loving a flashy new companion (Steven Yeun). With very family all the same, depicted with his usual eye for different backgrounds and motivations, they form telling details. One night, the de facto father (Lily an uneasy love triangle. Then Hae-mi goes missing. Franky) acquires an apparently abandoned young Based (very loosely) on Haruki Murakami’s short girl, adopting her into the gang. ‘Compassionate, story Barn Burning, Lee Chang-dong’s film earned socially conscious filmmaking with a piercing him a FIPRESCI prize at this year’s Cannes. intelligence’, Koreeda’s latest is ‘a film that steals in and snatches your heart’ - The Telegraph.

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Fri 2 Nov Preview / World Birds of Passage / Pájaros de verano

Thrilling Colombian story of indigenous clan meets drug trade Directors: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra Cast: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes Colombia, Denmark, Mexico, 2018, 125m, 15 tbc, subtitles Odeon, 20:45, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) Fri 2 Nov Preview / LGBT Sat 3 Nov Preview / Documentary Sat 3 Nov Bath Debut The follow-up to Ciro Guerra’s Embrace Can You Ever Forgive Me? of the Serpent (another wonderful RBG Nancy recent South American feature), Birds Powerhouse acting in darkly humorous biopic of Passage is ‘a south-of-the-border drug A vital, fist pumping, crowd pleasing doc Twisted Sundance award winner Director: Marielle Heller epic like you’ve never seen before’ - Variety. Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West Director: Christina Choe Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant, Jane Curtin Codirected by Cristina Gallego and set in the Cast: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jane Ginsburg, Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Steve Buscemi, Ann Dowd USA, 2018, 107m, 15 tbc rural hinterland of Colombia, it traces the Gloria Steinem USA, 2018, 87m, 12A Odeon, 18:30, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) beginnings of the drug trade via a remote USA, 2018, 98m, PG tbc Odeon, 20:00, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) indigenous community where a young man is Odeon, 18:00, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) After 2015’s award-winning The Diary of a trying to raise the bride price for the woman Christina Choe’s debut feature is Teenage Girl, Marielle Heller returns with he wants to marry. One small action leads to A US Supreme Court Justice since 1993 illuminated by a dazzling performance by this adaptation of Lee Israel’s memoir. much bigger consequences which no one and currently 85, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Andrea Riseborough in the eponymous Melissa McCarthy gives a tour de force performance can control. The film is a superb evocation of has become an unexpected cultural role. Riseborough intrigues as a thirty-something as Lee, a booze-soaked writer with a career in a time and a place, beautifully portraying the icon: inspiring, self-effacing - and she still works woman whose take on life is less than reliable. decline and an urgent need to find an income. In spreading ripples of impact from one small out every day. This is her story; ‘what makes She convinces herself that she is the daughter of a cahoots with her friend, fellow down-and-out Jack area to the breadth of a continent. Not to be it memorable is its portrait of a woman with couple whose child disappeared several decades (Richard E Grant), she starts forging (and stealing) missed. an exceptional intellect ... but also a lifelong ago. The next step is to convince them of the same letters by well-known people and selling them. capacity for staggering amounts of minutely thing. The film’s strength comes not only from Heller’s sophomore film ‘comes from a place of Preview screening courtesy of Curzon detailed, unswervingly purposeful work’ - Wall Riseborough’s complex depiction of an unstable understanding and love that few other biopics do, Plus: Two Balloons, Mark C Smith, USA, 9m Street Journal. personality, but also from the uncertainty Choe and it makes this difficult character a joy to meet’ - Supported by Pukka Herbs creates in the minds of the audience as to where RogerEbert.com. their loyalty and credulity should lie. ‘Nancy hits you like a potent short story: What? Is that it? And Preview screening courtesy of Fox Searchlight then come the shivers’ - Vulture. Plus: Candice, George Watson, UK, 10m Preview screening courtesy of Dogwoof Supported by Pukka Herbs Plus: One Small Step, Bobby Pontillas, China, USA, 8m Plus: Spokke, Jim Archer, UK, 3m Sponsored by Specsavers, Bath Supported by Pukka Herbs Supported by Pukka Herbs filmbath.org.uk Box Office 012235 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 26 | FIND YOUR FILM FIND YOUR FILM | 27

Sun 4 Nov Vintage

Sat 3 Nov Preview Sun 4 Nov Bath Debut Sun 4 Nov Bath Debut / Documentary Vagabond / Sans toit ni loi The Kindergarten Teacher C’est la vie! / Le sens de la fête Leaning into the Wind A fable for our times from a legend of cinema Director: Agnès Varda Talented youngster creates ethical dilemma Laugh-out-loud French wedding comedy Doc captures transient work of nature artist Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Director: Sara Colangelo Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer Yolande Moreau Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rosa Salazar, Gael García Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Paul Rouve, Cast: Andy Goldsworthy, Holly Goldsworthy France, 1985, 105m, 15, subtitles Bernal Gilles Lellouche UK, Germany, 2017, 97m, PG Odeon, 20:40, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) Director: Sara Colangelo USA, 2018, 96m, 15 tbc Belgium, Canada, France, 2017, 117m, 15, subtitles Odeon, 18:20, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) Odeon, 20:30, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) Odeon, 18:00, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) ‘Leaning into the Wind is a work of art in itself; Agnès Varda’s seminal 1985 work is as Obsession takes many forms. In Sara Jean-Pierre Bacri - known for Alain Resnais’s beautifully and meditatively shot’ - The Seattle powerful as ever. The film opens with Colangelo’s US remake of a 2014 Israeli film, and for Agnès Jaoui’s Look at Times. Andy Goldsworthy takes tremendous the discovery of a corpse, then rewinds kindergarten teacher Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Me and The Taste of Others - plays caterer and care and patience creating his works - which sit to discover the possible reasons why this young Gyllenhaal) is amazed when one of her charges wedding planner Max in a virtuoso farce from somewhere between sculpture and performance woman called Mona (Sandrine Bonnaire), from shows a mysterious capacity to create superb writing/directing duo Olivier Nakache and Éric art, always completely embedded in the natural a well-off family, has been found dead in a ditch poetry. No one else seems to care, so Lisa decides Toledano (Untouchable). Everything that can world. This is director Thomas Riedelsheimer’s in a field. The film is a celebration as well as a to go above and beyond - perhaps alarmingly so. go wrong, does, in beautifully choreographed second documentary about Goldsworthy - and post-mortem examination of a life lived on the Ambiguous and utterly convincing, ‘Gyllenhaal fashion. The groom is a monstrously demanding his films are perhaps the best way to experience margins, as Mona moves from place to place, offers a beautifully nuanced performance full diva, the singer thinks he’s a star, the staff are in the artist’s vision. ‘Riedelsheimer is extraordinarily meeting people but never settling or connecting. of intelligence and desperation. She taps into revolt and Max’s mistress is threatening to dump sensitive to the precarious impermanence of much She is a restless spirit, looking for meaning and something deep about the unmet emotional needs him if he doesn’t get a divorce in this ‘expertly of Goldsworthy’s work: his creations can last a purpose - and finding everyday life. Winner of the of a woman whose life is spent putting forth energy assembled, tartly played and hugely enjoyable matter of seconds. And the camera captures it all’ Golden Lion at Venice in 1985, Vagabond remains toward others’ - The Wrap. romp’ - The Hollywood Reporter. - The Observer. ‘a veritable masterwork from one of our greatest living filmmakers’ -CineVue . Preview screening courtesy of Thunderbird Plus: What does it mean when you dream Plus: Everything is Upstream, Martin Ponferrada, Plus: Street Fight, Jane Geisler, USA, 6m about carparks?, Natalys Willcox, UK, 5m Australia, 10m Plus: From Life, Uli Meyer, UK, 9m Supported by Pukka Herbs Sponsored by Reel People Sponsored by Jenny Mackewn Supported by Pukka Herbs filmbath.org.uk Box Office 012235 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 28 | FIND YOUR FILM FIND YOUR FILM | 29

Mon 5 Nov Preview / Special Event / LGBT Colette

Sun 4 Nov Preview Mon 5 Nov Bath Debut / Documentary Mon 5 Nov Special Event / Vintage Fun, frothy, feminist biopic Director: Wash Westmoreland Beautiful Boy Kusama: Infinity Revolutionary Director: Cast: Keira Knightley, Eleanor Tomlinson, Dominic West Heartbreaking tale of father, son & addiction Remarkable story of a brilliant artist Lois Weber UK, USA, Hungary, 2018, 111m, 15 tbc Director: Felix Van Groeningen Director: Heather Lenz Odeon, 18:30, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) Cast: Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney Cast: Yayoi Kusama American cinema’s first genuine auteur Born in rural France in 1873, Sidonie- USA, 2018, 112m, 15 tbc USA, 2018, 80m, 12A, subtitles Director: Lois Weber Q&A Gabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) moves Odeon, 21:00, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) Odeon, 18:00, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) Cast: Claire Windsor, Margaret McWade, Philip Hubbard to Paris with her new husband, where Yayoi Kusama (who will be 90 next year) her Claudine novels - semi-autobiographical and Is there anything you wouldn’t do for your child? USA, 1913/1921, 10m/91m, U is one of the most imaginative and risqué, drawing on her own affairs with women - What if that child is an addict? Is there anything Chapel Arts, 18:00, £9 / £7 dynamic artists at work in the last 60 years, sell like hot cakes. Her husband Willy, however - a you can do? This is the desperate question with a wide-ranging palette of media through At one time the highest paid publisher at the heart of the city’s literary scene facing David Sheff (Steve Carell), whose son Nic which she expresses her vision of reality. This Q&A director in Hollywood, Lois - puts his own name on the books. Dominic West (Timothée Chalamet) is hopelessly hooked on superb documentary covers large sections of her Weber (1879–1939) made over produces ‘undoubtedly the best film performance crystal meth. Based on their real-life memoirs, this fascinating life, in which she has collaborated with 40 features and 100 short films. FilmBath and he’s ever given’ as the manipulative Willy, while is an extraordinary story of the importance and Fleetwood Mac and Peter Gabriel, and chosen to South West Silents are proud to present this Knightley is on ‘top form: luminous, clever, sexy impotence of love. Audiences will be familiar with live in a mental institution since 1977. Heather evening celebrating her work, with a screening and sympathetic’ - The Guardian. Following Chalamet’s talent from Call Me by Your Name; both Lenz’s argument is that - paradoxically - Kusama is of two Weber classics: her one-reel short Colette as she reclaims her personal and literary he and Steve Carell give blistering performances. one of the most influential yet underrated artists in Suspense (1913) and feature filmThe Blot (1921). freedom, Still Alice director Wash Westmoreland’s Directed by Felix Van Groeningen (The Broken Circle the world. ‘Lenz has made a loving respectful film Both will be accompanied on piano by Lillian film is ‘a transgressive, funny biopic about female Breakdown), Beautiful Boy is an artful voyage into about a subject well worth documenting. If you Henley, with introductions and Q&A sessions excellence’ - Elle. family tragedy, ‘scrupulous and tenderly wounding - love art, this is a must-see’ - POV Magazine. by esteemed film critics and writers Pamela a drama that seizes and holds you’ - Variety. Hutchinson and Ellen Cheshire. Followed by a Q&A with producers Elizabeth Plus: The Pattern, Azad Jannati, Iran, 7m Karlsen & Stephen Woolley Preview screening courtesy of Studiocanal Supported by Pukka Herbs Preview screening courtesy of Lionsgate Plus: Hate For Sale, Anna Eijsbouts, Netherlands, 3m Sponsored by Caroline Curran Design Supported by Pukka Herbs Sponsored by The Norie Trust filmbath.org.uk Box Office 012235 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 30 | FIND YOUR FILM FIND YOUR FILM | 31

Mon 5 Nov Preview / LGBT Lizzie

Gruesome lesbian axe-murder yarn Director: Craig William Macneill Cast: Kristen Stewart, Chloë Sevigny, Kim Dickens USA, 2018, 105m, 15 tbc Odeon, 20:10, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) ‘Lizzie Borden took an axe / And gave her mother forty whacks. / When she saw what she had done, / She gave her father forty-one.’ Mon 5 Nov Bath Debut / World Immortalised in rhyme, the Borden murders Mon 5 Nov Vintage of 1892 continue to hold a grim fascination - Pili despite the real Lizzie’s acquittal. Now comes One Sings, the Other Doesn’t a ‘sensitive and stylish take on the legend’ (The Focuses on the universal aim for a better life Hollywood Reporter), starring Chloë Sevigny / L’Une chante, l’autre pas Director: Leanne Welham as Lizzie - a woman trapped in a suffocating Cast: Bello Rashid, Nkwabi Elias Ng’hangasamala, household with a tyrannical and unloving Remarkable story of life long friendship Sesilia Florian Kilimila father and a chilly stepmother. The arrival of a Director: Agnès Varda UK, Tanzania, 2017, 83m, nc, subtitles new maid (Kristen Stewart) brings matters to Cast: Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès Odeon, 18:15, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) a head, especially after she and Lizzie start to Venezuela, France, Belgium, 1977, 120m, 12A, explore their attraction to one another. subtitles Set and filmed in Tanzania, Leanne Odeon, 20:30, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) Welham’s debut feature is both Preview screening courtesy of Bulldog heartwarming and heartwrenching. We Pomme and Suzanne meet when one is Plus: Full English, Charlie Parham, UK, 9m follow Pili, a single mother of two, scraping a living 17 and an aspiring singer, and the other Supported by thepigguide.com from the land. She is HIV-positive; her partner 22, with a depressed partner, two children has left her and she is afraid to discuss her illness and a third on the way. Their commitment to each openly. The only glimmer of hope is to get hold of other lasts over many years and through all sorts the money needed to rent a kiosk in the village. of challenges and changes. Basing a movie around But her options become increasingly limited, the non-sexual relationship between two women with an impossible choice having to be made. was as radical an act four decades ago as it would Using a mainly non-professional cast - many of be now. ‘It is intensely optimistic, even utopian - a whom live with HIV/AIDS - and a script drawing on word that the film periodically uses unashamedly, improvisation and interviews with local women, Pili indeed with pride’ - Film Comment. is an honest, authentic view of Tanzanian life.

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Mon 5 Nov Preview / Documentary / Special Event Tue 6 Nov Preview / Documentary Tue 6 Nov Preview / Special Event / Documentary Still Waters The Other Side of Everything Half the Picture Tue 6 Nov LGBT / Vintage Pandora’s Box / Die Büchse One teacher changes the fates of his students / Druga strana svega Calls time on sexism in Hollywood Director: Peter Gordon Director: Amy Adrion der Pandora Cast: Stephen Haff A daughter’s film about her revolutionary mother Cast: Ava DuVernay, Jill Soloway, Lena Dunham USA, UK, 2017, 79m, nc Director: Mila Turajlić USA, 2018, 94m, nc Louise Brooks still looks modern and sets the Chapel Arts, 20:30, £9 / £7 Cast: Srbijanka Turajlić, Nina Turajlić, Stevan Turajlić Chapel Arts, 18:00, £9 / £7 screen on fire Serbia, France, Qatar, 2017, 100m, 15 tbc, subtitles Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst In a one-room shopfront in Bushwick, How many female directors have Odeon, 18:00, FREE Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer Q&A Brooklyn, Stephen Haff is changing lives Q&A won an Oscar? How many have Germany, 1929, 135m, PG, subtitles on a shoestring. This is the Still Waters When Mila Turajlić was growing up in been nominated? Why even talk Odeon, 18:15, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) in a Storm school, where children from an Belgrade, there were doors in the family about female directors - as though it’s a gender- increasingly stigmatized Hispanic community apartment that were always locked specific job? Half the Picture examines the After nearly 90 years, G W Pabst’s extraordinary are offered free lessons to salvage their often and never spoken of. The truth inspired her to grotesque bias against women in the world’s film has stood the test of time better than most overlooked education. Haff reads Milton with make this documentary, based around a series most powerful creative industry. This film is of its contemporaries - not least through the truly them and teaches them Latin; through simple of conversations with her mother, Srbijanka - a what FilmBath’s F-Rating is all about - if your iconic presence and look of Louise Brooks, whose virtues, he gives them something that no ordinary college professor and political activist, instrumental eyes aren’t already open, this will make your jaw gaze remains as compelling and modern as ever. school offers. No tests, no measures, just respect, within the student protests that helped bring drop. ‘An important piece of testimony in the Brooks - as Lulu, a young woman whose passions ambition and the promise to teach them that they down Milošević. ‘Accessible, informative and wryly fight for the civil rights of female directors in include all ages and genders - sets the screen on too are intelligent, worthwhile and creative. humorous,’ it uses Srbijanka’s home ‘as a prism Hollywood’ - LA Times. fire. Aged 21 when she appeared in the feature through which to view the woman, her turbulent and already regarded as trouble, she elevated the times and the complicated history of the former Followed by director Amy Adrion & F-Rating film into a different realm, where it has remained We hope to welcome director Peter Gordon for a Yugoslavia’ - The Hollywood Reporter. founder Holly Tarquini in conversation ever since: ‘full of striking imagery which, once Q&A after the screening Lux Film Prize nominee Preview screening courtesy of CatnDocs seen, will stay with you forever’ - Eye for Film. Preview screening courtesy of Shoot Films Ltd In association with UK Film Festival London Plus: Forgive Me, Father, Doreen Nasimbwa, UK, 7m Sponsored by Anthony & Sylvia Mackewn Supported by Pukka Herbs Supported by Pukka Herbs Supported by Walcot House filmbath.org.uk Box Office 012235 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 34 | FIND YOUR FILM FIND YOUR FILM | 35

Tue 6 Nov Preview / LGBT / World Rafiki

Daughters of opposing politicians fall in love Director: Wanuri Kahiu Tue 6 Nov Bath Debut Tue 6 Nov Bath Debut / Documentary Cast: Samantha Mugatsia, Sheila Munyiva, Nini Wacera Summer 1993 / Estiu 1993 A Woman Captured / Kenya, South Africa, Germany, etc, 2018, 83m, nc, subtitles Stunning drama of a childhood ripped apart Egy nő fogságban Odeon, 21:10, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / Director: Carla Simón £12.25 premier) Cast: Laia Artigas, Bruna Cusí, David Verdaguer True story of modern slavery This wonderful Kenyan film has Spain, 2017, 97m, 12A, subtitles Director: Bernadett Tuza-Ritter recently come to wider public Odeon, 20:30, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) Cast: ‘Marish’ Hungary, 2017, 89m, 15, subtitles attention with director Wanuri Kahiu ‘Not since Boyhood has a film shown this Chapel Arts, 21:00, £9 / £7 fighting to get a ban lifted so that it can be much respect and understanding for what entered as Kenya’s Oscar contender. Why it’s like to be a child’ - San Diego Reader. In 21st-century Europe, a woman is kept was it banned? The film has two female After her mother’s death, six-year-old Frida (Laia as a slave by an arrogant, middle-class characters who love each other - and Artigas) moves from Barcelona to live with her Hungarian family. For a decade they have currently homosexuality is illegal in Kenya. Far uncle and his family in the Catalan countryside. forced her to work at the house and at a factory; from being suppressed, the film should be The pain and shock of her loss is a strain on the the mental and physical abuse is constant and celebrated for being tender, loving and playful. young child, but the film is neither sentimental nor brutal. Surprisingly, the family allowed filmmaker It delivers an exhilarating enchantment that tragic. This is her new life and she is surrounded by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter to come and stay, thus contrasts with the absolutist morality found kindness and love; she must learn to live it without enabling her to record everything that goes on where religion is allowed to dictate what the person she loved best. Writer/director Carla - and form a bond with the enslaved woman. people may or may not feel. At the time of Simón’s ‘entirely beguiling’ (Peter Bradshaw) debut Making waves at Sheffield Doc/Fest and Sundance, going to press, the ban was momentarily lifted won Best First Feature at Berlin 2017. the result is ‘an outstanding example of how film- to allow entry to the Oscars. making can make a difference’ - The Guardian. In partnership with Afrika Eye Preview screening courtesy of MPM Film Plus: Deliria, Tomas Stark, Sweden, 8m Plus: Spirit, Dillon M Banda, Hong Kong, 4m Supported by Pukka Herbs Supported by Pukka Herbs Supported by Pukka Herbs Sponsored by Specsavers, Bath filmbath.org.uk Box Office 012235 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 36 | FIND YOUR FILM FIND YOUR FILM | 37

Wed 7 Nov Bath Debut U - July 22 / Utøya 22. juli Wed 7 Nov Special Event / Vintage Wed 7 Nov Wed 7 Nov Preview if.... IMDb Awards The Workshop / L’Atelier Utøya summer camp massacre in real time Director: Erik Poppe Subversive, anti-authoritarian masterpiece An illuminating & entertaining special event He’s talented, but what about his ethics? Cast: Andrea Berntzen, Elli Rhiannon Müller Director: Lindsay Anderson 120m, 18 Director: Laurent Cantet Osbourne, Aleksander Holmen Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Komedia, 18:30, £6 / £4 Cast: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Warda Rammach Norway, 2018, 90m, 18 tbc, subtitles Richard Warwick France, 2017, 113m, 15, subtitles Always a fascinating and fun event, this is the 7th Odeon, 18:00, FREE UK, 1968, 111m, 15 Odeon, 20:30, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) annual IMDb New Filmmaker Award. Following a Chapel Arts, 18:00, £9 / £7 Esteemed Norwegian director Erik screening of the shortlisted entries, a glorious panel Laurent Cantet has built a reputation as one of Poppe’s U - July 22 is a ‘visceral, brutal, 50 years ago, a film was released that of talented industry judges will choose the winner France’s leading contemporary directors with films yet heartfelt and earnest movie, which Q&A exposed the moral rot at the heart of the from this year’s shortlisted films:Happy New Year including Time Out, Human Resources and 2008 imbibes the innocent bewilderment and horror English public school. Director Lindsay by Wander Theunis & Brandon Grötzinger, Mind Palme d’Or winner The Class. His latest is intriguing of its young characters’ - Peter Bradshaw. Anderson had been a pupil at Cheltenham F*#k by Sherill Turner, The Wait by Jason McColgan, - a drama, but structured like a thriller, set in La The film follows Kaja (Andrea Berntzen), a College and managed to get permission to shoot Fuck The Boxes by Abel Rubinstein and Life in Ciotat: a blue-collar town reeling from the closure young woman caught up in the 2011 Utøya there, making his subversive film under their Miniature by Ellen Evans. There will also be a big of its shipyard. A successful author (Marina Foïs) is shooting. Once the attack begins, Poppe’s noses. A then-unknown Malcolm McDowell plays moment for Theo Watkins, who won the 2018 hosting a summer writing workshop, though the camera remains with her throughout, in a single Mick, who together with Johnny and Wallace IMDb Script to Screen Award back in June. His group’s dynamic is unsettled by Antoine - by far 72-minute take, as she desperately looks for (David Wood and Richard Warwick), takes on the winning script, Service, has been made into a short the angriest but also the most fiercely creative of her sister. Technically brilliant and ‘a moving might of the Establishment in ‘one of the best film and this is its world premiere. Compered by the group. A ‘sly, supple and repeatedly surprising testimony’ (Screen International) to the victims films to have come from these shores, a subversive, the BBC’s Laura Rawlings. Perfect couple of hours collision of literary, moral and political lines of and survivors, the film received a ten-minute anti-authoritarian masterpiece’ - BBC. for anyone interested in filmmaking. debate’ - Variety. standing ovation at its Berlin premiere. We’re thrilled to be able to welcome McDowell’s Lux Film Prize nominee costar David Wood; he will answer questions and In association with UK Film Festival London talk about the film afterwards. Supported by IMDb Preview screening courtesy of Curzon Supported by Pukka Herbs Sponsored by Westside Design & Wraxall Builders Also by Visual Impact & GWR Plus: My 70’s Vlog, Paul Howard Allen, UK, 7m filmbath.org.uk Box Office 012235 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 38 | FIND YOUR FILM FIND YOUR FILM | 39

Wed 7 Nov Bath Debut The Divine Order /

Die göttliche Ordnung Wed 7 Nov Preview / Documentary Thu 8 Nov Preview Very funny film about Swiss suffragists in 1971 The Silence of Others / Happy as Lazzaro / Director: Petra Volpe Cast: Marie Leuenberger, Maximilian Simonischek, El Silencio de Otros Lazzaro felice Rachel Braunschweig Switzerland, 2017, 96m, 12A, subtitles Still fighting against Franco’s atrocities Magical allegory of love, loss & compassion Odeon, 21:00, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) Directors: Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar Director: Alice Rohrwacher Spain, USA, 2018, 96m, 12A tbc, subtitles Cast: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziane, Luca This year the UK celebrates the 100th Chapel Arts, 21:00, £9 / £7 Chikovani anniversary of (some) women securing the Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, 2018, 125m, After Franco died in 1975 and democracy right to vote. But in deeply conservative 12A tbc, subtitles was restored to Spain, the Amnesty Law Switzerland, the fight for universal suffrage is a Odeon, 18:00, FREE much more recent one: until 1971, women still was passed. This bill not only freed all could not vote in federal elections; fully equal of Franco’s victims, but also pardoned all the Alice Rohrwacher’s new film won Best voting rights were adopted only in 1990. Petra perpetrators, glossing over 40 years of atrocities. Screenplay at its Cannes premiere. Lazzaro Volpe‘s comedy charts the beginning of the This film follows a few brave people who challenge is a touchingly naive young man living in struggle, as initially placid housewife Nora (Marie that decision in modern-day Spain and fight for a tiny village in Italy, whose inhabitants are still Leuenberger) starts to question the status quo justice for their forgotten loved ones. With the kept in thrall to a long-outlawed feudal system. and rallies the women of her village to demand support of the Almodóvar brothers, Carracedo and After the landowner’s son befriends him, things go their rights as human beings. ‘The excellent Bahar have made a powerful and evocative film. awry and the film changes gear into something ensemble deliver a genuine sense of sisterhood’ ‘Unfolding with all the force of a classic political wonderfully unexpected. ‘Rohrwacher has much (Total Film), while Leuenberger’s nuanced thriller ... The Silence of Others emerges as a to say, and her own beguiling ways of saying it’ - performance won her Best Actress (International) moving salute to the small victories of determined IndieWire. at Tribeca 2017. individuals’ - Screen International. Lux Film Prize nominee Plus: The Vest, Lesley Manning, UK, 7m In association with UK Film Festival London Supported by Pukka Herbs Supported by Pukka Herbs Supported by Pukka Herbs filmbath.org.uk Box Office 012235 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 40 | FIND YOUR FILM FIND YOUR FILM | 41

Thu 8 Nov Preview / World Too Late to Die Young / Tarde para morir joven

Outstanding Chilean coming-of-age drama Director: Dominga Sotomayor Cast: Demian Hernández, Antar Machado, Magdalena Tótoro Chile, Brazil, Argentina, etc, 2018, 110m, 15 tbc, subtitles Odeon, 20:00, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) At the recent Locarno Festival, Dominga Sotomayor became the first woman to Thu 8 Nov Preview / Special Event / Doc / World Thu 8 Nov Bath Debut / World Thu 8 Nov Preview win Best Director for Too Late to Die Voices of the Sea Wajib Funny Cow Young - set in Chile in 1990 after the fall of General Pinochet. Sofia is a 16-year-old living with Insight into modern life in Cuba Touching story about a Palestinian father & son Maxine Peake at the top of her game her father in a commune in the foothills of the Director: Kim Hopkins Director: Annemarie Jacir Director: Adrian Shergold Andes, where they hope to escape the city and UK, Cuba, 2018, 99m, 15 tbc, subtitles Cast: Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri, Tarik Kopty Cast: Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine, Tony Pitts the politics of their country. She dreams of living Chapel Arts, 18:00, £9 / £7 France, Palestine, Colombia, etc, 2017, 96m, 15, UK, 2017, 103m, 15 with her mother and practises being grown up subtitles Pound Arts - Corsham, Box, 19:30, £7.50 / £6 by chasing older boys and smoking. Gorgeously Mariela and Orlando ‘Pita’ live in a Odeon, 18:15, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) photographed, with a sensational central Q&A poor Cuban fishing village. Pita is a It’s hard enough being a stand-up comedian performance, the period of hope and anxiety proud fisherman and a linchpin for The titular wajib (‘duty’ in Arabic) is the trying to make your way in Northern clubs in the surrounding Pinochet’s departure is evoked in the local community with his cheerful character traditional Palestinian custom of delivering 1970s. It’s a whole lot harder if you’re a woman. Sotomayor’s ‘stunning tale of growing up in and his willingness to share. Mariela on the other wedding invitations by hand. Abu Shadi’s Maxine Peake, only ever known as Funny Cow, is a small moments’ - IndieWire. hand is frustrated by the lack of opportunities daughter is getting married and his emigré son has woman from a dysfunctional family (abusive father) and often yearns to move away - especially returned to Nazareth to help with the preparations. who’s determined to make a go of it in front of Preview screening courtesy of Day for Night after her brother flees to the US. Dominated by Played by real-life father and son Mohammad and unsympathetic punters (to put it politely) - using Plus: Waldwölfe (Forest Wolves), Peter Allen, the ever changing blues of the Caribbean, this Saleh Bakri, the pair drive from house to house her background as source material. Costars Paddy Australia, 8m documentary is even-handed and sympathetic - carrying out their duty - talking and arguing all Considine, Alun Armstrong and Stephen Graham Supported by Pukka Herbs director Kim Hopkins ‘doesn’t play the middleman the while. From this simple setup, Annemarie Jacir all provide excellent support, but it is Maxine Peake and fully trusts the subjects with her platform’ - builds an incisive yet sensitive study of the two who is the reason to see this film, with a blazing POV Magazine. men and their Arab Christian community, in which performance as a damaged woman trying to assert ‘dry humour and understated heartbreak intersect her individuality in an unforgiving man’s world. We will be joined by director Kim Hopkins & as Jacir deftly blends the personal and the political’ producer Margareta Szabo for Q&As - Mark Kermode. Preview screening courtesy of Labor of Love Films ltd Plus: Invisible, Arthur Cauty, UK, 8m Plus: White Lies, Harry Hitchens, UK, 8m NB This screening is in Corsham, Box Supported by Pukka Herbs Supported by Pukka Herbs Plus: Stalemate, Kieran Stringfellow, UK, 10m filmbath.org.uk Box Office 012235 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 42 | FIND YOUR FILM FIND YOUR FILM | 43

Thu 8 Nov Bath Debut / LGBT / World The Wound / Inxeba

Beautifully wrought study of clashing models Thu 8 Nov Preview / Special Event / Doc / LGBT Fri 9 Nov Bath Debut / LGBT / World Fri 9 Nov Bath Debut of masculinity Director: John Trengove A Deal with the Universe The Heiresses / Wildlife Cast: Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay Ncoyini Gender, pregnancy and cats Las Herederas Powerful drama about relationship disintegration South Africa, Germany, Netherlands, France, Director: Jason Barker Director: Paul Dano 2017, 88m, 15, subtitles Cast: Jason Barker, Tracey Learning to live and love in later life Cast: Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Odeon, 20:45, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) UK, 2018, 90m, nc Director: Marcelo Martinessi Oxenbould Chapel Arts, 20:45, £9 / £7 Cast: Ana Brun, Margarita Irún, Ana Ivanova USA, 2018, 104m, 12A In South Africa, Xhosa teenagers mark the Paraguay, Germany, Uruguay, etc, 2018, 98m, Odeon, 20:00, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) transition into manhood with ritual group If ever there was an eloquent story to 12A, subtitles circumcision; they remain in a closed group Q&A open closed minds that think we can Odeon, 18:00, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) As an actor, Paul Dano will be familiar to away from the world until the wound heals. be compartmentalised, this may be it. many from his award-winning performances Xolani (Nakhane Touré) returns to the ceremony Director Jason Barker transitioned to being a Chela and Chiquita have lived affluently in a large in Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be every year, ostensibly to supervise the initiates man over many years, but paused mid-transition house in Asunción, Paraguay for 30 years. But when Blood. He now makes his debut as director with - but more importantly, it is the only time he to become pregnant and have a baby. With the they fall on hard times and Chiquita is sent to this ‘tender, gorgeous, and exquisitely understated spends with his secret lover. In the prison-like, unwavering support of his astonishing partner, prison on fraud charges, Chela must survive on her drama’ (IndieWire), based on the novel by Richard hypermasculine atmosphere, homosexuality is Tracey, Jason undertakes a process of parenthood own - a skill she has never learned. As she makes Ford. Set in 1960 in small-town Montana, the film highly taboo. Xolani’s initiate, the feisty, streetwise that redefines the conventional roles that have a go of it, she begins to meet other people - in studies the disintegration of a family through the Kwanda (Niza Jay Ncoyini), rebels against the been ascribed - though at the end of the day, particular the younger, more glamorous Angy, who eyes of Joe, the teenage son. When his deadbeat elders and, it emerges, is also gay. The Wound is ‘a it’s still just two people having a child together. starts to give her a greater sense of self-confidence. father (Jake Gyllenhaal) leaves town on a job, his beautifully hewn, brave piece of filmmaking that Funny, moving, touching and tender, ‘this film is Illuminating the plight of older unattached women long-frustrated mother (Carey Mulligan in ‘one of asks difficult, searching questions that will haunt groundbreaking in terms of its intimate insights and the complacent privilege of the middle class, the best roles and best performances of her career’ - you long after the credits roll’ - Empire. into gender identity and new parenthood’ - British ‘this entirely female-driven story is full of gentle wit Peter Bradshaw) breaks loose. Council Film. and playful observations on the crumbling upper Plus: Mariposas, Adrian Carey, USA, 3m echelons of Paraguayan society’ - The Observer. In partnership with Afrika Eye Followed by a Q&A with director Jason Barker Plus: Jean, J D Hampton, UK, 10m Sponsored by Specsavers, Bath Preview screening courtesy of Peccadillo Supported by Pukka Herbs filmbath.org.uk Box Office 012235 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 44 | FIND YOUR FILM FIND YOUR FILM | 45

Fri 9 Nov Bath Debut Sat 10 Nov Bath Debut / World Sat 10 Nov Preview Skate Kitchen Zama The Man Who Killed Sun 11 Nov Special Event / Bath Debut / Doc A Love That Never Dies Spiky youth culture drama Desire & despair at the end of the world Don Quixote Director: Crystal Moselle Director: Lucrecia Martel Bereaved parents set out to find kindred spirits Cast: , Elizabeth Rodriguez, Cast: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus An intelligent, joyous film within a film Directors: Jane Harris, Jimmy Edmonds Jaden Smith Nachtergaele Director: Terry Gilliam Cast: Jane Harris, Jimmy Edmonds USA, 2018, 106m, 15 Argentina, Brazil, Spain, etc, 2017, 115m, 15, Cast: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Olga Kurylenko UK, India, USA, Vietnam, 2017, 75m, 12A Odeon, 20:20, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) subtitles Spain, Belgium, France, etc, 2018, 132m, 15 tbc Widcombe Social Club, 17:30, £9 / £7 Odeon, 18:15, £11 / £9 (£12.50 / £10 premier) Odeon, 18:30, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / £12.25 premier) It’s refreshing to see a group of young ‘In offering a road map and women forming a feminist, sex-positive, Don Diego de Zama is a minor functionary In the making for almost 30 years, this film has Q&A reassurance for parents joining shred-happy collective they call the Skate in a remote Spanish colony on the coast overcome countless setbacks to emerge a triumph a club that nobody wants to of Terry Gilliam’s self-belief and perseverance. Adam Kitchen. Newcomer Camille - after initially being of South America, who dreams of a more join, Harris and Edmonds have done something accepted into the group - makes some bad glamorous posting in Buenos Aires. But his Driver is Toby - a vain advertising director trying to courageous and constructive with their grief’ - decisions that jeopardise her position. Director requests for a transfer get him nowhere amid film in Spain. An encounter with a delusional old Culturefly. Losing a child is possibly the worst Crystal Moselle (The Wolfpack) again finds a way the stultifying colonial bureaucracy. Languishing man (Jonathan Pryce) he once cast as Don Quixote thing that can ever happen to a parent and many to let us into the fascinating rituals and dynamics in the tropical heat, he treats his inferiors with many years previous sets the pair on a path of hold their grief close to their broken hearts. of teen bonding and collaborative play. The mostly callousness as the edges of reality begin to surreal adventures across the country, with Driver Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds decided to do non-professional cast are terrific, and the film is a blur. Adapted by Lucrecia Martel from Antonio unwillingly playing Sancho Panza to Pryce’s Quixote. something different: they made a film about the joy: the crew ‘film Vinberg and her fellow skaters Di Benedetto’s 1956 novel, ‘Zama may just be ‘Gilliam has delivered a sun-baked fable of money, death of their son Josh, and travelled across the with poetic, looping agility, following behind as her left-field masterpiece; a picture that’s antic, madness and the movie business - and done so world to talk to others who have suffered the they shred their way through Manhattan streets’ - sensual and strange, with a top-note of menace with trademark infectious charm’ - Peter Bradshaw. same unbearable loss. The Washington Post. and a malarial air’ - The Guardian. Followed by a Q&A with directors Jane Harris & Plus: Belief, Alan Griswold, UK, USA, 9m Plus: Silence, Mahdi Borjian, Iran, 10m Preview screening courtesy of Kinology Jimmy Edmonds Supported by Pukka Herbs Supported by Pukka Herbs Sponsored by Aaron Evans Architects Supported by Pukka Herbs filmbath.org.uk Box Office 012235 463 362 @FilmBathUK filmbath.org.uk 46 | FIND YOUR FILM

Sun 11 Nov Preview The Old Man & the Gun

Redford’s swansong: a gentleman Sun 11 Nov Special Event crook on the run Director: David Lowery Shorts Extra Cast: , Sissy Spacek, , Tom Waits Indulgent evening for film lovers everywhere USA, 2018, 93m, 12A tbc Widcombe Social Club, 20:00, £9 / £7 Odeon, 18:30, £13 / £11.25 (£14.50 / Each year, from several hundred short film £12.25 premier) submissions we select around 25 to accompany Earlier this year - just shy of his 82nd birthday feature screenings. That done, we realised this - Robert Redford, golden boy of the big year just how many outstanding films among the screen since the ’60s, confirmed that he is remaining submissions deserved to be seen by an retiring from acting. David Lowery’s charming appreciative audience. Shorts Showcase presents movie about a lifelong criminal who never 12 terrific and varied films that brilliantly nail the did anyone any harm is ‘a love letter to a essence of the short form in one way or another. cinematic legend, serving as a perfect final Join us at Widcombe Social Club to enjoy the film for someone who long ago surpassed work of tonight’s talented filmmakers, to mark mere actor status to become an icon’ - the end of this year’s festival with a drink, to relive RogerEbert.com. Redford plays real-life crook the highlights of 2018 and to anticipate the 29th Forrest Tucker - serial bank robber and just as FilmBath Festival in 2019! Full details of the Shorts serial absconder from custody. Sissy Spacek Showcase programme on our website. is the perfect foil as love interest Jewel, while Casey Affleck plays the cop determined to catch Tucker’s gang.

Preview screening courtesy of Fox Searchlight Plus: Shut Up & Dig, Scott Piggott, UK, 6m Sponsored by Aaron Evans Architects In partnership with Oska Bright Film Festival filmbath.org.uk Box Office 012235 463 362