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Friday 1 to Sunday 17 March BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL 2019 borderlinesfilmfestival.org @borderlines #borderlines2019 2 / 3 Programmer’s Picks Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2019 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org FILM PROGRAMMER JONNY COURTNEY PUTS A DOZEN FILMS IN THE SPOTLIGHT BIRDS OF PASSAGE p19 BORDER p20 BURNING p21 CAPERNAUM p22 Wealth and power corrupt indigenous traditions A contemporary Swedish folk tale that fuses A chance encounter entangles a wannabe Impoverished 12-year-old Zain sets out to sue during the 1970s Colombian marijuana boom. comedy, fantasy, romance, thrills and horror. young writer in a cat and mouse triangle in this his parents in this emotionally explosive drama intriguing, obsessive thriller from South Korea. from Lebanese director Nadine Labaki. COLETTE p25 EIGHTH GRADE p27 EVERYBODY KNOWS p29 THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER p43 Keira Knightley is the unconventional French “the best movie about adolescence Destructive suspicions are unleashed when Maggie Gyllenhaal is terrific as a woman whose novelist who stands up to be recognised in I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe ever” Laura (Penélope Cruz) returns to Spain from decision to nurture a young pupil’s genius sets male-dominated Belle Époque Paris. ’80s teen star Molly Ringwald via Twitter Argentina for her sister’s wedding. her on a perilous course. THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM p44 MONSTERS & MEN p46 RAY & LIZ p54 SHOPLIFTERS p57 A biting commentary on how easily individual An African-American is wrongfully shot by Shocking, gritty and unsettlingly funny, what Festival favourite Kore-eda won the 2018 freedom can be compromised, as relevant today police. Three bystanders must decide how far it was like to grow up in a Black Country flat Palme D’Or in Cannes for this delicate and as in 1975. to get involved. during Thatcher’s Britain. compassionate insight into family. 4 / 5 Borderlines Film Festival 2019 Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2019 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org WELCOME TO THE 17TH THE COURTYARD FESTIVAL PASS BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL! “easily rural UK’s FEASTING ON FESTIVAL FILMS? Get more cinema for your money with no transaction most impressive charges on Borderlines films at The Courtyard We are thrilled to bring you another PROGRAMMERS’ Buy up to 2 tickets to any film at The Courtyard for just exciting programme brimming with film festival” £5 per ticket with The Courtyard Festival Pass previews, retrospectives, silent films PICKS 02 Festival Pass £20/ £15 Concs THE INDEPENDENT with live musical accompaniment and WELCOME 05 COURTYARD PRICES FOR 2019 special strands selected from the heart Tickets £7 / Concessions £6.5 of world and independent cinema for Strands 06 Under 16s £5 / Courtyard Card & Club (14-25) £3 0 audiences in Herefordshire, Shropshire, 2019 FILM Malvern and the Welsh Borders. PROGRAMME 11 Borderlines is built on partnerships with A-Z FILM LISTINGS 13 our venues; The Courtyard Hereford, FUNDERS Malvern Theatres, Flicks in the Sticks, DIARY 72 Richard Booth’s Bookshop Cinema in Hay, VENUE INFO 78 Kinokulture in Oswestry and independent market town and village venues. None of it would be possible without the support of venue staff, volunteers and our funders, HOW TO BOOK PARTNERS the BFI awarding funds from the National IN PERSON Lottery, The Elmley Foundation and THE Courtyard Hereford Richard Booth’s Hereford City Council. We warmly thank Bookshop Cinema CALL www.boothbooks.co.uk our new and returning sponsors and ask you to support them where you can. 01432 340555 ONLINE Don’t miss our Opening Gala and borderlinesfilmfestival.ORG screenings at All Saints Church, OR call INDIVIDUAL Hereford too! VENUES (SEE P.78) PREMIUM PLUS SPONSOR CO-SPONSORS Naomi Vera-Sanso Festival Director Tickets booked via The Central Box Office at The Courtyard can be collected before the screening at the appropriate venue. All listings correct at time of going to print, but may be subject to change. Festival TEAM: BOARD MEMBERS: FESTIVAL PATRONS: Please note that some titles had not been certificated Naomi Vera-Sanso (Festival Director) John Banks, Mo Burns, Chris Menges, Francine Stock at time of going to press. Discretionary certificates Jonny Courtney (Film Programmer) Anne Cottringer, Rick Goldsmith, David Sin (Film Programmer) Richard Heatly (Chair), A big thank you to the volunteer have been put in place. Jo Comino (Marketing Manager/Press) Joanna Henshaw, Jane Jackson, promoters and stewards working Alison Chapman (Press Assistant) Rachel Lambert, Paul Murray, with our partner venues for their Carole-Anna Quinto Marsha O’Mahony, Adrian Rhead, invaluable contribution. (Festival Co-ordinator) Simon Scott Suzy Burston (Festival Assistant) Design: elfen.co.uk Cover: Burning 6 / 7 Strands Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2019 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org OUR STRANDS VON TROTTA ROEG The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Walkabout THE PERSONAL NICOLAS ROEG Eighth Grade The More You Ignore Me IS POLITICAL: One of Britain’s greatest and most provocative BREAKING THE TABOO MARGARETHE GROWING UP directors, Nicolas Roeg (1928-2018) died in late November. With no taste for narrative-driven Featured in this year’s festival is a small strand VON TROTTA Across the world, film directors are exploring the realism, Roeg was often disregarded within of films, two documentaries and a feature, that challenges and joys that face children and young The first female director to win the Golden the film industry and this short retrospective investigate areas in mental health that are people, navigating their lives in a rapidly changing Lion at Venice Film Festival, Margarethe von is a tribute to his dazzling vision. We are frequently off-limits or hard-to-face: suicide, time as they come of age. From the profound Trotta (1942-) has made trailblazing films privileged that Eureka will be introduced by death, irreconcilable grief, irrational and anti- Cannes Jury prize winner Capernaum charting the over the past five decades. Often overlooked, the film’s esteemed editor Tony Lawson. social behaviour that can characterise psychosis. life of an impoverished Beirut boy to the Kenyan she is one of the most gifted directors from the New German Cinema movement, alongside Rafiki, a lesbian love story largely banned in its Eureka tells the story of Jack McCann, a gold Evelyn was diagnosed schizophrenic before RW Fassbinder and Werner Herzog. home country, and Dominga Sotomayor Castillo’s prospector who finds the mother lode only to he took his own life. Ten years after his 1990s inspired tale of growing up in a Chilean realise that in the process he has lost something death, his family use walking and talking as A leading feminist filmmaker, the power of mass commune, Too Late to Die Young, the Growing of himself. As the character says, “Once I a way of coming to terms with their grief. media, historical events, radicalisation and Up strand presents a fine and diverse selection, had it all, now I just have everything.” women’s rights pre-#MeToo have been elements in unafraid to tackle the complexities of life for Irene’s Ghost follows a son’s search to von Trotta’s films since the politically turbulent children and young people in today’s world. I met the director Nic Roeg in 1973 while working find out more about the mother he never 1970s. Her wonderfully complex and outspoken as an assistant editor on Don’t Look Now. Up knew and the secrecy surrounding her female characters are precursors of those in Beautiful Boy until that time, my experience had been of death following post-partum psychosis. Capernaum films following a fairly conventional structure. the work of contemporary directors like Jane Eighth Grade He changed all that. Gone was the deference to The More You Ignore Me tackles post-partum Campion, Andrea Arnold and Desiree Akhavan. Girl rigid storytelling: all ideas were now welcome. psychosis in a very different way, through We are showing four films that represent von Jellyfish He built his story from fragments, pieces of a story based on a novel by comedian and Mid90s Trotta’s exceptional talent in portraying how a puzzle that challenged and questioned the ex-psychiatric nurse Jo Brand. We are The Miseducation of Cameron Post the personal is political. Selina Robertson, viewer’s perceptions, creating a sensory experience delighted to welcome Jo back to Borderlines Old Boys feminist film programmer, writer and with sound and image. Nic encouraged the to introduce the screening on Wednesday 13 Polina researcher at Club de Femmes and ICO, will audience to see beyond surface meaning. March and answer questions afterwards. Pond Life introduce the screening of Rosa Luxemburg. Rafiki Tony Lawson The Third Wife The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975) Performance (1970) 35mm print Too Late to Die Young The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978) Walkabout (1971) Walkabout The German Sisters (1981) Eureka (1983) 35mm print The White Crow Rosa Luxemburg (1986) The Witches (1990) 8 / 9 Strands Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2019 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Girl Everybody Knows Jo Brand / Paul Conroy BALLET OPENING GALA FESTIVAL GUESTS Two films about young dancers coping with the Our Opening Gala offers an exclusive Our line-up of guests this year includes rigours of the ballet world (Girl and Polina) opportunity to preview Borderlines’ favourite comedian and author Jo Brand (The More are complemented by The White Crow, Ralph Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows, starring You Ignore Me); directors Carol Morley (Out Fiennes’ dramatisation of the early career of Spain’s most formidable acting talent, of Blue), Richard Billingham (Ray & Liz), Birds of Passage Rudolf Nureyev, and Yuli, a new biopic about Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem. Join us Iain Cunningham (Irene’s Ghost), Hikaru F-RATING: Cuban ballet super-star Carlos Acosta. Plus for a reception prior to the screening as we Toda (Of Love & Law, via Skype), James for children, the classic story of Tortoise get the Festival off to a flying start.