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WELCOME

2019 brings a year of significant change to NZIFF. After 40 years of dedicated service, Director Resene Resene Bill Gosden handed in his keys and retired at the end of March. His legacy is monumental. Pukeko Koru Under his leadership, NZIFF has developed from its humble beginnings to the prominent cinema event it is today. In this period of transition, we have endeavoured to uphold the curatorial mission established during Bill’s tenure: to celebrate, with New Zealanders, the best that world and homegrown cinema has to offer, and to ensure that our audience’s appetite continues to be surprised, delighted, rewarded and challenged.

Our role is to be a conduit between filmmakers – through the stories their films recount – and the community NZIFF serves. This year some of these tales take us from the jungles of Vietnam to the gritty streets of a Parisian banlieue, from a small farm in far north New Zealand to the high seas of the Atlantic Ocean – and, ecstatically, to the concert stages of musical greats.

We cannot emphasise enough how NZIFF, being a non-profit enterprise, depends on you, the audience. Though the Christchurch event calendar is much more crowded in 2019 than it was in Resene Resene Gorse Pavlova 1977 your enthusiastic support ensures our spot as the major cultural event of the New Zealand winter. The Isaac Theatre Royal once again takes pride of place as our flagship Canterbury venue, alongside the all-new Lumière Cinemas in the central city's Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, and Movie Max Digital in Timaru.

We would also like to acknowledge the generous support of our partners. The longstanding major sponsorship we receive from the New Zealand Film Commission is invaluable in allowing us to select, deliver and promote our choice of New Zealand work. Resene joins us for their sixth year as sponsors of another stellar selection of films from Aotearoa. Our media partners Flicks.co.nz, The Breeze, NZ Herald and Metro magazine ensure that our audience engage with, and delve into, the diverse films in our programme. Creative New Zealand joins us for the second year as our Artistic Development Bringing colour to kiwi life since 1946 Partner. And this year we are delighted to welcome Green & Black’s on board as our World strand partner. Thank you also to Christchurch City Council and the Rata Foundation for their support, and Resene’s big screen story began back in 1946 when Ted Nightingale started making paint from his Wellington garage. Over 70 to our Gala sponsor Buddle Findlay for hosting our Opening Night festivities. years later and the Resene name lives on as a truly homegrown success story, known for its quality paint, colour and innovation. Bill bowed out in style last year with Christchurch enjoying another stellar line-up of festival films. Our paints are designed and made in New Zealand for our harsh weather conditions and our colours are inspired by everyday kiwi life. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work alongside him. The team at NZIFF would like to dedicate So you can be sure they will look great in your home, while also looking after it. this year’s festival to Bill, in recognition of his inestimable contribution to film culture in New Zealand. Proud supporters of the NZ fi lms in the International Film Festival. The NZIFF team

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La Belle Époque Opening Night

The perfect film to open NZIFF 2019 is also perfect for first dates, 40th anniversaries and solo filmgoers alike. Director/Screenplay: Nicolas Bedos La Belle Époque is that rarest of treats: France 2019 | 115 mins Producers: François Kraus, Denis Pineau-Valencienne a certified crowd-pleaser that cinephiles Photography: Nicolas Bolduc can shamelessly enjoy. Editors: Anny Danché, Florent Vassault A 21st century riff on second Music: Nicolas Bedos, Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen With: Daniel Auteuil, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, chances at first love, La Belle Époque Fanny Ardant takes a giant conceit – an agency can Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition) 2019 In French with English subtitles grant you the chance to play the lead M sex scenes, violence, drug use & offensive role in any point in history, with full language cast and costume on an authentic set – and focuses on a sad, aging cartoonist (Daniel Auteuil, in a late career peak) who’s feuding with his VR-obsessed wife (Fanny Ardant, equally terrific). Instead of drinking with Hemingway or fighting Nazis, he chooses to return to the happiest day of his life: 40 years prior, when a beautiful woman walked into a cafe... and assuredly across timelines with La Belle Époque premiered out tight scripting and clever editing while “The very up-to-the-minute of competition at Cannes this year. coaxing winning performances from its script pivots on a Perhaps that designation led the press cast (also featuring Non-Fiction’s [p18] to overlook what seemed at a glance Guillaume Canet, and Doria Tillier). Westworld-like dramatic to be a forgettable crowd-pleasing In a year where three other French conceit... Everything clicks comedy. They got ‘crowd-pleasing’ films took home prizes from Cannes, here, all the time.” right, but in the stunningly assured the omission of La Belle Époque from — Todd McCarthy, Variety A Isaac Theatre Thu 8 Aug, 7.00 pm hands of director Nicolas Bedos, competition feels less like a slight and B Isaac Theatre Tue 13 Aug, 11.00 am this charming mix of The Game, more like Gallic hospitality: it would The Truman Show and After Life have been rude to add such a sure-fire A MM Timaru Thu 15 Aug, 5.45 pm commands respect, jumping effortlessly hit into the mix. — Doug Dillaman B MM Timaru Wed 21 Aug, 1.30 pm

Portrait of a Lady on Fire Portrait de la jeune fille en feu Centrepiece

Between Water Lillies, Tomboy and Girlhood, outstanding French director Céline Sciamma has explored notions Director/Screenplay: Céline Sciamma of gender and identity, especially for France 2019 | 120 mins Producer: Bénédicte Couvreur adolescent or younger girls, through a Photography: Claire Mathon distinctively female prism. As diverse as Editor: Julien Lacheray her films have been, all of which have Music: Jean-Baptiste de Laubier, Arthur Simonini With: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, screened at NZIFF, none prefigured her Luana Bajrami, Valeria Golino ravishing and bewitching Portrait of a Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2019 Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2019 Lady on Fire, considered by many as In French with English subtitles the best film in competition at Cannes. M nudity In a radical departure from her earlier work, Sciamma ventures back to the late 1700s and to majestic coastal Brittany to recount the tale of Marianne and Héloïse, and of the portrait that engenders their encounter. Marianne, an artist, has been commissioned by Héloïse’s mother, a countess, to paint her daughter’s portrait. Fresh out of the convent, Héloïse is already betrothed While alert to period detail and to a Milanese aristocrat, whom she’s historical social mores, the film is no “An exquisitely executed never met, and the portrait is destined fusty academic reconstruction. It even love story, formally for her future husband as testament allows for slight anachronism – the to her charms. None too pleased with intermingling of classes seems from a adventurous and this custom or her situation, Héloïse more modern era. But this intricately emotionally devastating.” has already refused to sit for another composed work anchors its truth in — Leslie Felperin, Hollywood portraitist. The countess therefore poetic realms. Gazes intersect and Reporter A Isaac Theatre Sun 18 Aug, 5.15 pm demands subterfuge: Marianne must behold, passions ignite, and desire B Isaac Theatre Wed 21 Aug, 11.15 am pose as a companion to Héloise by day etches the bodies, hearts and souls and capture her likeness on canvas of lovers whom society’s dictates will A MM Timaru Sun 18 Aug, 5.00 pm from memory at night… irrevocably force apart. — SR B MM Timaru Tue 20 Aug, 3.15 pm

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The Whistlers Closing Night (Christchurch)

“Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu makes playful movies with a lot to say. From the chatty historical inquiries of… Director/Screenplay: 12:08 East of Bucharest to the deadpan Corneliu Porumboiu Romania/France/Germany 2019 musings on the language of justice 98 mins in Police, Adjective… Porumboiu has Producers: Marcela Mindru Ursu, Patricia Poienaru, managed to mine compelling ideas Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon, Janine Jackowski, out of slow-burn narrative techniques Jonas Dornbach, Maren Ade Photography: Tudor Mircea loaded with unpredictability… With Editor: Roxana Szel his entertaining noir The Whistlers, a With: Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Rodica Lazar, Antonio Buil, Agustí Villaronga, Sabin Tambrea polished mashup of genre motifs that Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2019 suggests what might happen if the In Romanian, English and Spanish, with English subtitles Ocean’s 11 gang assembled on the Censors rating tbc Canary Islands… [Porumboiu] has made a bonafide commercial movie. Middle-aged police inspector Cristi PROUDLY SPONSORED BY (Vlad Ivanov…) arrives on the island of La Gomera, where he intends to get a corrupt businessman out of prison. In order to do that, however, he must first master the whistling language of into a plan to steal some hidden loot the island, which criminals have used while keeping her full agenda a secret. “[Porumboiu] amps up the to communicate for generations… The Whistlers could be ripe for an entertainment, concocting There’s the potential for a big score, the English-language remake… but that threat of police officers closing in, and possibility carries a touch of irony, something genuinely fresh even a love story… Before long, Cristi since [the film] is already a covert from the familiar has been sat down by femme fatale remake… It revisits the energy and wit ingredients of the crime Gilda (Catrinel Marlon, [a] dynamic of heist movies before it, as well as the screen presence…) for a lesson on the filmmaker’s own… sophistication of thriller. The Whistlers is B Isaac Theatre Tue 20 Aug, 4.00 pm whistling language… Gilda… wields his previous works, and revitalizes both just enormous fun.” A Isaac Theatre Sun 25 Aug, 7.45 pm her sex appeal and shooting skills with traditions in the process.” — Eric Kohn, — Phil de Semlyen, Time Out equal determination as she draws Cristi Indiewire A MM Timaru Fri 16 Aug, 6.00 pm

Amazing Grace Special Presentation

In 1972, 29-year-old Aretha Franklin, Directors: Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack ‘Queen of Soul’, wishing to return to USA 2018 | 88 mins her gospel roots, chose to record an Producers: Alan Elliott, Joe Boyd, Rob Johnson, Chiemi Karasawa, Sabrina V. Owens, album live at the New Temple Missionary Angie Seegers, Tirrell D. Whittley, Joseph Woolf Baptist Church, a disused movie theatre, Editor: Jeff Buchanan Music: Aretha Franklin, the Southern California in Watts, Los Angeles. She was ably Community Choir accompanied by the accomplished With: Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland, the Southern California Community Choir, C.L Franklin musicians of her regular touring band; Festivals: Berlin, SXSW 2019 the heavenly Southern California G cert Community Choir, conducted by a rocking Alexander Hamilton; mighty Reverend James Cleveland, himself a gospel singer, songwriter and arranger, who taught Franklin piano; and her own father, the great preacher C.L. Franklin. Warner Bros. brought in Sydney Pollack to shoot the recording, which took place over two nights and resulted in a double album that went on to become the highest-selling live gospel music album of all time. Technical there-in-wonderment to be shared hitches relating to the syncing of sound communally: Aretha, at the peak of her “As a document of an and image, later resolved by more powers, is a spellbinding, incandescent iconic musician’s skills, modern technology, and Franklin’s presence. In a film crammed with high subsequent repudiation of the film – points, her extraordinary interpretation the film is essential… she claimed that the filmmakers didn’t of the album’s titular song soars for it is a transcendent, have the right to use her image – led a soul-scorching eleven minutes: her spine-tingling, uplifting, to its shelving and mythical status for voice transcends, taking the choir and utterly joyous experience.” A Isaac Theatre Fri 16 Aug, 6.15 pm nearly half a century. congregation, both in the church and in B Isaac Theatre Tue 20 Aug, 11.15 am Neither concert film nor music the cinema, with it, making you want — Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR documentary, Amazing Grace is an to rise to your feet, dance, holler and A MM Timaru Sat 17 Aug, 6.00 pm electrifying experience of being- weep. Sublime. — SR B MM Timaru Thu 22 Aug, 2.00 pm

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Come to Daddy Special Presentation

For one hell of a night out, don’t miss Director: Ant Timpson the New Zealand premiere screenings New Zealand/Canada/Ireland 2019 of this blackly comic, gleefully unhinged 94 mins thriller by one of our biggest film Producers: Mette-Marie Kongsved, Laura Tunstall, Daniel Bekerman, Katie Holly, culture champions. Emma Slade, Toby Harvard Elijah Wood stars as Norval, a Screenplay: Toby Harvard Photography: Daniel Katz thirtysomething wannabe-DJ who Editor: Dan Kircher receives a letter from his estranged Music: Karl Steven With: Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, father, inviting him to reunite at his Martin Donovan, Michael Smiley, Madeleine Sami, remote home on the Oregon coast. As Simon Chin, Garfield Wilson, Ona Grauer, Ryan Beil, Oliver Wilson soon as Norval arrives, however, things Festivals: Tribeca, Sydney, Melbourne 2019 feel off; his dad (played with noxious R16 violence, sexual references & offensive language relish by Stephen McHattie) seems surprised to see him, drinks constantly Declaration of interest: and frequently trades in menacing The staff and trustees of NZIFF congratulate Incredibly Strange programmer Ant Timpson on his directorial remarks. After some cringeworthy debut feature. attempts at father-son bonding, Norval guns for a confrontation, and suddenly, things take an unexpected turn... And then from there, the turns just don’t stop coming. sweat. If you like your thrillers loose, Already recognised as producer, violent and frequently hysterical, this is “Timpson’s directorial programmer and film festival founder, one evening you won’t want to miss. debut is a sentimental Kiwi genre-giant Ant Timpson can now — JF add ‘feature director’ to his credentials “[A] funny exploration of the fraught story about death and with this genre-bending mystery train familial relationship, defying genre and rediscovery that explodes tailored to surprise even the savviest expectation at every hairpin turn… into violent mayhem... [A] of seasoned movie-goers. A film that Provocative and ballsy… those who stay switches gears when you least expect on its wavelength are in for something wild, unpredictable [film].” it, the final 15 minutes alone credibly insanely entertaining.” — Kimber — Eric Kohn, Indiewire veer from guffaws to grimaces to Myers, The Playlist genuine emotion without breaking a A Isaac Theatre Sat 17 Aug, 8.45 pm

Maiden Special Presentation

After discovering a love of sailing in Director/Screenplay: Alex Holmes her teens, Tracy Edwards dreamed of UK 2018 | 97 mins circumnavigating the globe in yachting’s Producers: Victoria Gregory, Alex Holmes Photography: Chris Openshaw most prestigious competition: the Editor: Katie Bryer Whitbread Round the World Race Music: Rob Manning, Samuel Sim With: Tracy Edwards (now the Ocean Race), a gruelling Festivals: Toronto, Amsterdam Documentary 2018; four-month journey of 32,018 nautical Sundance, Tribeca 2019 miles. Infuriated by the inherent sexism M offensive language in the sport, Edwards was determined to enter the race on her own terms. Team Maiden Great Britain was born, and Edwards was to helm the first all- female crew to compete in the event in 1989–90. No easy feat: they had to first find a seaworthy boat. The road to the Whitbread was an arduous trek, and as soon as Maiden crossed the starting line in Southampton, the press began taking bets on when the boat full of incompetent girls would drop out of the race. Unbeknownst to weaves a story of hope, perseverance their critics, the crew were on course to and lifelong friendships that were “They just wanted to do become icons and inspire young sailors forged at sea. This stirring tale is sure what the men did, and it around the world, including those in to inspire every audience member – New Zealand. and to be greeted with the same sure as hell didn’t hurt A testament to female strength, rousing cheers that welcomed Maiden that they did it better.” commitment and endurance, Maiden when she sailed into Auckland’s — Kate Erbland, Indiewire harbour on a balmy night in January is this year’s power ballad for feminism B Isaac Theatre Fri 9 Aug, 1.45 pm and being fearless, no matter the odds. 1990. — Kailey Carruthers A Isaac Theatre Fri 23 Aug, 6.15 pm Utilising exhilarating race footage alongside new interviews with the B MM Timaru Fri 16 Aug, 1.45 pm original crew, director Alex Holmes A MM Timaru Fri 23 Aug, 6.00 pm

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Sorry We Missed You Closing Night (Timaru)

Though conspicuously absent from the Cannes winners’ podium, Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty Director: Ken Loach left no stone unturned with their UK/France/Belgium 2019 | 101 mins Producer: Rebecca O’Brien latest impassioned portrait of Britain’s Screenplay: Paul Laverty working class. This firecracker of a Photography: Robbie Ryan film – which many are calling better Editor: Jonathan Morris Music: George Fenton than 2016 Palme d’Or triumph I, With: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Daniel Blake – tackles the ground level Stone, Katie Proctor, Ross Brewster Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2019 struggle of raising a family of four Censors rating tbc against the wall of zero-hour contracts and zero-benefits employment. “Sorry We Missed You finds Loach at his most insightful and clear-eyed… Kris Hitchen plays Ricky Turner, a Newcastle father of two who turns to delivery driving in an attempt to scrape together a mortgage deposit. He and his wife Abby (Debbie Honeywood) were ready to buy a decade ago, but Northern © JOSS BARRATT Rock’s collapse put paid to that, and her zig-zagging from dawn to dusk they have been renting ever since… between… patients… while parenting “Loach has… done it again. Ricky’s supervisor at the depot, by mobile phone. Parcel by parcel, client Sorry We Missed You is Maloney (Ross Brewster), talks a lot by client, the film reveals the regime to about choices and self-employment… be a cup-and-ball con trick.” — Robbie another intimate and But when work begins, everything looks Collin, The Telegraph powerful drama… A suspiciously like old-fashioned factory- “Fierce, open and angry, unironised fraught, touching, and floor graft… The perks of employment and unadorned, about a vital B Isaac Theatre Thu 22 Aug, 11.15 am – stability, comradeship, sane hours… contemporary issue whose implications galvanizing movie.” A Isaac Theatre Sat 24 Aug, 5.45 pm time off in an emergency – are nowhere you somehow don’t hear on the news… — Owen Gleiberman, Variety to be seen. Even Abby’s work as a carer This brilliant film will focus minds.” B MM Timaru Wed 21 Aug, 3.45 pm is on a zero-hours basis, which leaves — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian A MM Timaru Sun 25 Aug, 5.15 pm

Andrei Rublev Retro

With only his second film, Russian Director: Andrei Tarkovsky director Andrei Tarkovsky created USSR 1966 | 183 mins what by even his lofty standards must Producer: Tamara Ogorodnikova Screenplay: Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrei Tarkosvky be considered a masterpiece. While Photography: Vadim Yusov ostensibly a biopic of a 15th-century Editors: Tatyana Egorycheva, Lyudmila Feyginova, Olga Shevkunenko painter of religious icons, such a Music: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov description is misleading. Andrei Rublev With: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Irina Raush Tarkovskaya contains volumes: it’s a meditation on Festivals: Cannes 1969 faith, a study of human cruelty, an In Russian with English subtitles intimate portrait of creative crisis and B&W and Colour | PG cert a screen epic of extraordinary scale. Few directors show equal acuity with PRESENTED IN the landscape of a human face and ASSOCIATION WITH lavishly mounted war scenes with hundreds of extras, or could render both the tactile – the mud, the flames, the wind! – and the spiritual with such aplomb. While more approachable than Tarkovsky’s later works, his artistic signatures, including long patient takes, rigorously beautiful photography and presented in a new 4K restoration, in uncompromisingly serious worldview, Tarkovsky’s preferred 183-minute cut. “Perfection lingers in are all on display. — Doug Dillaman each frame as Tarkovsky Suppressed for several years after “[Tarkovsky’s] admirers verge on the completion, championed by filmmakers worshipful, with good cause, and to be crafts one of the finest from Ingmar Bergman to Martin deluged by his movies – this one in films ever made, an Scorsese (who once smuggled a print particular – is to be initiated into sacred ecstatic story about… out of Russia), and a fixture on any mysteries for which no rational serious list of the world’s greatest films, explanation will suffice... You may dread the power of art.” Andrei Rublev is an essential big screen being ground down by this extraordinary — Jamie Russell, BBC.com experience (although those sensitive to film, but fear not. It will bear you aloft.” B Lumiére Tue 20 Aug, 2.45 pm animal cruelty are forewarned). Proudly — Anthony Lane, New Yorker A Isaac Theatre Sat 24 Aug, 11.30 am

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Apocalypse Now: Final Cut Retro

Forty years after it almost killed him, Director/Producer: Francis Ford Coppola returns to the Francis Ford Coppola jungle one last time. Both a complete USA 1979–2019 | 183 mins restoration and a new cut, Apocalypse Screenplay: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola Photography: Vittorio Storaro Now: Final Cut represents his fully Editor: Richard Marks realised vision, trimming back some Music: Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola With: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, of the restored scenes from 2001’s Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Apocalypse Now Redux and returning Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford, Scott Glenn to the original negatives and sound Festivals: Tribeca 2019 masters. Even if you’ve seen his CinemaScope | R16 violence, offensive language & drug use legendary, phantasmagoric journey into the heart of darkness, you’ve never seen it like this. — Doug Dillaman PRESENTED IN “The troubled production of ASSOCIATION WITH Coppola’s psychedelic Vietnam war epic has already calcified into the stuff of industry myth: leading man Martin Sheen was nearly felled by a heart attack, second lead Marlon Brando showed up to set too overweight to believably portray a Green Beret, a monsoon gradually vindicated everyone crazy seemingly sent by God destroyed enough to have believed in it.” “Apocalypse Now is the thousands of dollars in equipment... The — Charles Bramesco, The Guardian best Vietnam film, one of just-right Final Cut splits the difference “Final Cut… demands to be seen between the creative concessions of the [in the cinema], both by longtime the greatest of all films, original and the unwieldy sprawl of the admirers and by young viewers lucky because it pushes beyond Redux, a massive feat of film craft enough to have their first viewing be the others, into the dark reined in to the general neighborhood in a theater. This is an overwhelming places of the soul.” of perfection… Coppola has at last sensory experience, with deep colors A Isaac Theatre Sat 10 Aug, 8.15 pm gotten everything right where he wants and nuanced sound amplifying the — Roger Ebert B Lumiére Fri 16 Aug, 3.15 pm it, which testifies to the real evolution of film’s hypnotic effect.” — John DeFore, this project, as an insane risk that Hollywood Reporter A MM Timaru Sun 25 Aug, 7.15 pm

Kind Hearts and Coronets Retro

Celebrating its 70th birthday in a Director: Robert Hamer pristine digital restoration, director UK 1949 | 106 mins Robert Hamer’s Kind Hearts and Producers: Michael Balcon, Michael Relph Screenplay: Robert Hamer, John Dighton. Coronets upholds its position as one Based on the novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of the funniest, most perfectly pitched of a Criminal by Roy Horniman Photography: Douglas Slocombe black comedies ever made. Dennis Editor: Peter Tanner Price is the living embodiment of Music: Ernest Irving With: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, wronged entitlement as Louis Mazzini, Joan Greenwood a young draper’s assistant determined Festivals: Venice 1949 to avenge his mother’s disinheritance B&W | PG cert by ascending to dukedom. Eight other scions of the D’Ascoyne family are all that stand in his way. The incomparable Alec Guinness plays each dotty one of them, young and old, male and female. Joan Greenwood savours every syllable as the taunting Sibella, who may or may not have a role in Louis’ murderous project, while Valerie Hobson is surprisingly touching as the one pure heart abiding in Hamer’s British comedy, yet it’s several cuts smouldering bonfire of vanities. — BG better than practically anything else “Kind Hearts and Coronets “Secure in the knowledge that in the genre… Hamer’s direction is is, for me, the greatest of Guinness will return in another form, bracingly cool and clipped, yet he’s able the audience suffers no regret as to draw something from his performers all screen comedies. Not each abominable D’Ascoyne is coolly (Price has never been deeper, Guinness even Some Like It Hot can dispatched. And as the murderer takes never more proficient, and Joan touch it!” — Terence Davies Greenwood never more softly, purringly us further into his confidence with each B Lumiére Thu 15 Aug, 12.00 pm foul deed, we positively look forward to cruel) that transcends the facile comedy A Isaac Theatre Sat 17 Aug, 12.30 pm his next success.” — Pauline Kael of murder; there’s lyricism, passion, B Lumiére Mon 19 Aug, 12.00 pm “Robert Hamer’s 1949 film is often and protest in it too.” — Dave Kehr, cited as the definitive black, eccentric Chicago Reader A MM Timaru Sat 17 Aug, 3.45 pm

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By the Balls AOTEAROA Directors: Charlotte Purdy, Simon Coldrick New Zealand 2019 87 mins Producer: Charlotte Purdy Photography: David Paul Editor: Simon Coldrick Courtesy TVNZ. Made with the help of NZ On Air With: David Kirk, Wayne ‘Buck’ Shelford, John Kirwan, Grant Fox, Keith Quinn

It may seem like the All Blacks have of spice to upcoming matches against always been world beaters, but the French national team. Charlotte Purdy and Simon Coldrick’s By the Balls follows these turbulent stirring new documentary looks back events through the eyes of the players at one of the darkest chapters of our themselves, featuring revealing and rugby history – one that ironically led to frank interviews with Kirk and Kirwan, one of the All Blacks’ greatest triumphs. as well as rebel tourists Buck Shelford In the lead up to the first Rugby and Grant Fox. An extensive selection World Cup in 1987, the All Blacks were of archival material and seamlessly in disarray. A rebel tour to South Africa integrated re-enactments all serve to led to deep divisions within the team take us back to a time when sport and and the nation as a whole. Only two politics most definitely did mix. — MM players, David Kirk and John Kirwan, refused the lucrative payments on offer to what were then amateur players to tour the Republic. Meanwhile, the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior and the protests against nuclear testing in A Isaac Theatre Wed 21 Aug, 8.45 pm the Pacific added a significant amount B Lumiére Thu 22 Aug, 1.30 pm

NEW ZEALAND FILMS AT NZIFF ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY For My Father’s Kingdom

Directors: Vea Mafile’o, Jeremiah Tauamiti New Zealand 2019 97 mins Producers: Sandra Kailahi, Vea Mafile’o Photography: Jeremiah Tauamiti Editor: Margot Francis Music: David Long, Briar Prastiti Festivals: Berlin 2019 In English and Tongan, NZIFF is proud to provide big screen premieres with English subtitles for striking work made within our own shores. Documentary filmmakers celebrate and remember remarkable Kiwis this year. We also welcome Aotearoa isn’t always the land of reunion which sees tradition, faith and milk and honey it promises to be. feasting come into full view. the New Zealand premiere screenings of Hamish Throughout the life of Saia Mafile’o – a For My Father’s Kingdom is a loving Bennett’s charming Northland drama Bellbird. dad, a grandfather, a husband and a portrait of a father told from the son – Aotearoa has given many fortunes perspective of his four kids. In trying See also our two regular short film programmes, and taken them away. But nothing has to understand her father, director Vea changed Saia’s resounding faith in the Mafile’o and Jeremiah Tauamiti capture New Zealand’s Best and Ngā Whanaunga, and church and his absolute love for his this moving story about generational Incredibly Strange programmer Ant Timpson's country – Tonga. Through creative ways difference, sacrifice, resilience and to make money for the church, Saia is unconditional love. — Lana Lopesi directorial debut, Come to Daddy (p7), which is content knowing that what he gives amongst our Special Presentations. reserves his place in heaven. Having grown up straddling two worlds, Saia’s adult children struggle A Lumiére Tue 13 Aug, 6.30 pm to understand their father’s unmovable B Lumiére Thu 15 Aug, 2.15 pm Tongan ways of life – that is, until a trip A Lumiére Wed 21 Aug, 8.30 pm to Tonga. A proud ex-head prefect of A Lumiére Sat 24 Aug, 4.30 pm the prestigious Tupou College, Toloa, Saia takes them with him to a school A MM Timaru Wed 21 Aug, 8.00 pm

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Bellbird

Hamish Bennett’s tender, often funny Hamish Bennett* picture of life on a Northland farm delights and moves in equal measure, Director/Screenplay: Hamish Bennett underplaying fundamental life dramas New Zealand 2019 | 96 mins Producers: Orlando Stewart, Catherine Fitzgerald with a refreshing, truthful lightness Photography: Grant McKinnon of touch. Ross (Marshall Napier) is the Editor: Jason Pengelly third generation on the small family Music: Karl Steven With: Marshall Napier, Annie Whittle, dairy farm and he’s determined that son Cohen Holloway, Rachel House, Bruce (Cohen Holloway) will follow suit. Stephen Tamarapa, Kahukura Retimana Festivals: Sydney 2019 Bruce, however, makes for a squeamish CinemaScope | M offensive language farmer and would be perfectly content to stick with his job reinventing abandoned treasures at the town dump. These are men of few words. “Mum used to do the talking for both of us,” Bruce explains to his friend and boss, Connie (a wryly observant Rachel House). The loss of that wife and mother infuses the men’s dogged continuation of farm routine with poignance – and a dawning sense of the men’s performances is a joy to her legacy gently pushing the two of behold, the perfect corrective to any of “[A] quietly powerful them forward. us who mistake the undemonstrative feature debut, told with The sweet comic wisdom of the film for the unfeeling. lies in showing how father and son, Ross & Beth, Bennett’s prequel warm humour… [an] apparently at cross purposes, respond to Bellbird, scooped the prizes at exquisite, gentle film.” to each other’s unspoken needs – NZIFF’s New Zealand’s Best short film — Sydney Film Festival and in seeing how the community, competition in 2014. Check it out if starting with Marley, the cocky Māori you need any further persuasion to kid next door (newcomer Kahukura catch our premiere screenings of the Retimana), watches out for them. year’s most deeply charming debut A Isaac Theatre Sun 18 Aug, 2.15 pm* The shared emotional intelligence in feature. — BG B Lumiére Tue 20 Aug, 12.45 pm

Capital in the 21st Century

A 700-page tome on the long-run Justin Pemberton* effects of wealth inequality, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century Director: Justin Pemberton was an unlikely bestseller in 2014. New Zealand 2019 | 103 mins Producer: Matthew Metcalfe Its account of how concentrated Co-producers: Yann Le Prado, Catherine Madigan wealth shapes the world was so Screenplay: Matthew Metcalfe, Justin Pemberton, Thomas Piketty. Based on the book by compelling that it went on to sell Thomas Piketty 1.5 million copies. Photography: Darryl Ward Brought to the big screen by New Editor: Sandie Bompar Music: Jean-Benoît Dunckel Zealand director Justin Pemberton, With: Faiza Shaheen, Gillian Tett, Joseph Stiglitz Piketty’s thesis is crisply and engagingly Festivals: Sydney 2019 presented in a documentary purposefully light on graphs and numbers, and heavy on top-notch talking heads (Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the FT’s Gillian Tett, et al.), visuals of the rich and famous, and stylised historical recreations. There is nothing inevitable about the march towards greater equality, argues Piketty. The normal order of The film carries a warning too: things has been a world in which the that we could be rapidly reverting to “An eye-opening journey wealthiest 1% owns around 70% of Victorian-style levels of wealth inequality. through wealth and power.” all assets. The ‘golden age’ of greater But it also softens this prediction with a equality between 1950 and 1980 was few key policy ideas. Piketty, whose — Sydney Film Festival an aberration. Pemberton relays this classically Gallic charm and intensity story in saturated, pop art-style colours. make him the film’s centrepiece, argues He also blends archival footage with for greater taxation of wealth and wider film sequences, both old and new, into ownership of it, too, so that we all an almost hallucinatory cocktail, as if enjoy its returns. That way, he suggests, the bizarre excesses of wealth defied we might avoid a ‘pauperised’ future. A Isaac Theatre Sun 11 Aug, 2.30 pm* realistic description. — Max Rashbrooke B Isaac Theatre Wed 14 Aug, 1.30 pm

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Herbs: Songs of Freedom

NZIFF is thrilled to present the premiere Tearepa Kahi screenings of the latest film by Tearepa Kahi (Poi E: The Story of Our Song, Director: Tearepa Kahi NZIFF16), a timely and affectionate New Zealand 2019 | 90 mins Producers: Reikura Kahi, Cliff Curtis tribute to iconic Aotearoa band Herbs. Photography: Fred Renata, Chris Mauger Almost 40 years after their first gig Editors: Tearepa Kahi, Francis Glenday as the support act to Stevie Wonder, Sound: Dick Reade With: Dilworth Karaka, Toni Fonoti, Tama Renata, Kahi connects with core Herbs members Willie Hona, Carl Perkins, Charlie Tumahai, as they reunite in preparation for an Thom Nepia, Hugh Lynn, Will ‘Ilolahia, Tama Lundon, Joe Hawke, Annie Crummer anniversary concert. Set against a

soundtrack rich with the band’s popular Declaration of interest: songs, the documentary traces Herbs’ The staff and trustees of NZIFF congratulate fellow trustee Tearepa Kahi on his terrific film. backstory and brings it up to date. Kahi gives founder Toni Fonoti, guitarist Dilworth Karaka and producer Hugh Lynn (among others) ample room to recall Herbs’ creation and formation. With its unique mix of Māori, Pākehā and Pasifika musicians, Herbs had shifting iterations, at one point growing to 23 members. rhythms. Their power and appeal Interviews, past and present, loop remain undiminished. “Herbs wasn’t just a band. us back to social and political flashpoints, We, and the ‘next generation’ of Herbs is a movement.” including the occupation of Bastion such concern to Toni ‘the originator’ Point, the 1981 Springbok tour and Dilworth ‘the cornerstone’, are — Toni Fonoti demonstrations, and the dawn raids grateful that Kahi had the foresight to targeting the Polynesian community. make this rousing film when he did, Reminiscences interweave with rehearsals thereby capturing later band members and the concert itself, celebrating Thom Nepia, Carl Perkins and Tama songs which harbour strong political Renata (who all died in 2018) in action messages within superb harmonies and rocking the house. — SR and distinctive South Pacific-infused A Isaac Theatre Sat 10 Aug, 5.15 pm PAY AS YOU KNOW. GET THE BEST OF NEW ZEALAND AND THE WORLD. JUST $5 A WEEK.

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Helen Kelly – Together

Brilliant, funny and indefatigable, Tony Sutorius* Helen Kelly was a giant of social justice movements in New Zealand. When she Director/Photography: Tony Sutorius was diagnosed with terminal cancer New Zealand 2019 | 92 mins Producers: Catherine Fitzgerald, Tony Sutorius in 2015, she stood down as president Editors: Paul Sutorius of the Council of Trade Unions, but Music: David Long with David Donaldson, ploughed on in pursuing the causes and Riki Gooch, Steve Roche Sound: John McKay people she fought for: families of Pike With: Helen Kelly, Maryanne Finlay, Anna Osbourne, River miners, families of forestry workers Sonya Rockhouse, Selina Eruera, Donna McMurtrie killed on the job, factory workers – pretty much anyone who could use her help. For the last year of her life, filmmaker Tony Sutorius was granted extraordinary access to Kelly: as she underwent hospital treatment, at home, butting heads with the bureaucracy in Wellington, and on the road. On the West Coast she rallies the Pike River families – with whose help Sutorius has secured extraordinary footage from within the mine – who played a substantial role in leading to refuse to be palmed off. In Tokoroa, she next year’s referendum. “I want people just to helps Maryanne Butler-Finlay win justice Through it all, Sutorius – whose be kind. It would make for her husband, whose death on the back-catalogue includes the sublime job had been written off as accidental. political documentary Campaign a hell of a difference.” Along the way, Kelly finds herself (NZIFF99) – captures the essence of — Helen Kelly an accidental flag-bearer for a change Kelly: a commitment to listening to A Isaac Theatre Tue 13 Aug, 6.15 pm* the most vulnerable and standing up in the law around medical cannabis, B Isaac Theatre Fri 16 Aug, 2.00 pm something which became a palliative to those in power. Combine that with B Lumiére Wed 21 Aug, 4.15 pm necessity as she underwent round after staggering generosity, and you’re left round of battering treatment. Kelly’s with a legacy that will long embolden A MM Timaru Sun 18 Aug, 3.00 pm lucid, experience-supported argument people to fight back. — Toby Manhire B MM Timaru Mon 19 Aug, 4.00 pm

A Seat at the Table

“Are we deserving of a seat at the David Nash table of the world’s finest yet?” Simon Mark-Brown* Filmmakers David Nash and Simon Directors/Producers/Screenplay: Mark-Brown pose the question in David Nash, Simon Mark-Brown New Zealand 2019 | 101 mins this vine-saturated visual feast of a Photography/Editor: Bertrand Remaut documentary highlighting pivotal Music: Greg Johnson moments in our winescape, starting With: Stephen Browett, Jancis Robinson, Michael Brajkovich, Bob Campbell with a landmark blind tasting by the most influential wine writers in the UK. We see sauvignon blanc first arriving in Marlborough and watch the Cloudy Bay colossus open doors worldwide. We learn why Alan Brady (Gibbston Valley) planted pinot noir in the desert, how Clive Paton (Ata Rangi) based his vineyard on a mysterious clone taken from smuggled Burgundian cuttings destined for destruction, and how biodynamics has taken a firm hold downunder. The warp-speed ascent of Kiwi wines A Seat at the Table entertainingly to international recognition has hardly explores Franco-Kiwi discussions The definitive New been a smooth road, but a series of comparing our key wine styles, the Zealand wine story sleekly shot (and sometimes snort- screwcap versus cork chestnut, New inducingly funny) interviews showcasing Zealand’s growing wine identity and benchmarked against a smorgasbord of local wine pioneers questions around whether we’re really some of the greatest and their French confrères pops the deserving of top-table status. With producers in the world. so much prime vino being tasted and cork on how faith and fortune favour A Isaac Theatre Sat 17 Aug, 5.30 pm* our brave fermenters. As Baroness celebrated, it also demands you have a B Isaac Theatre Thu 22 Aug, 1.30 pm Philippine de Rothschild offers, “Wine glass or two at the ready to quench your making is really quite a simple business. thirst. Enter the cinema empty-handed B MM Timaru Thu 22 Aug, 3.45 pm Only the first 200 years are difficult.” at your own peril. — Yvonne Lorkin A MM Timaru Sat 24 Aug, 6.00 pm

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Peter Peryer: The Art of Seeing

Continuing her rich tradition of Director/Producer: Shirley Horrocks documenting New Zealand artists, New Zealand 2019 | 82 mins Shirley Horrocks presents a Photography: Craig Wright Additional photography: David Paul, Adam Luxton, comprehensive biopic of Peter Peryer, Adrian Greshoff one of our most important Editor: Steven Mountjoy Sound: Craig Wright, Tony Parkinson photographers. Sound mix: Chris Burt What begins as a gentle, engaging Research: Roger Horrocks, Shirley Horrocks look at the artist’s life becomes a photography masterclass in style, technique and his broad career subjects of nature, people and place. Always looking for the next shot, Peryer is a photographer who dedicated his life to seeing. He is generous with self-analysis, and a singularity of vision that often played with scale, negative space and reality vs artifice. Peryer’s famous (and infamous) prints are richly illustrated on screen, including Dead Steer, the Erika portraits, and the Mars Hotel series. Expert commentary amongst his vibrant gallery of work from industry figures Luit Bieringa that beautifully frames the man and “Peryer is a supreme and John McCormack, among others, the artist. His home is alive with work example of a photographer accesses the importance of his work in past and future, with curiosities on New Zealand’s art history. every shelf and nature ready to inspire who is highly selective, The access to Peryer at his home in in every corner. Anyone unfamiliar looking always for Taranaki before his death in November with Peryer’s work will become a ready the rare, powerful image 2018 make this the most definitive convert through the course of the film. documentary that will ever be produced It is an essential homage to the great that is free of cliché.” A Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 3.00 pm on the artist. Clips from a 1994 TV photographer’s life-long dedication to — Shirley Horrocks A Lumiére Sun 18 Aug, 11.00 am doco add further depth, but it is seeing and creating works of art out of A Lumiére Mon 19 Aug, 6.30 pm Horrocks’ one-on-one time with Peryer the everyday. — Rebecca McMillan B Lumiére Tue 20 Aug, 2.15 pm

MO TE IWI – Carving for the People Spring Interlude

Robin Greenberg* Martin Sagadin Director: Robin Greenberg Director/Producer/ New Zealand 2019 Screenplay: 133 mins Martin Sagadin Producers: Lillian Hetet Owen, New Zealand 2019 Robin Greenberg 80 mins Photography: Waka Attewell Executive producer: Joshua Jones Editors: Neil Mayo, Jeff Hurrell, Owen Ferrier-Kerr Post-producer: Bonnie Gosnell Music: Elena, Nopera Pikari, Photography: Kirk Pflaum Tyaan Singh, James Kimo West, Editor: Adam-Luka Turjak Noel Woods, Grove Roots Band Music: Ben Woods With: Rangi Hetet With: Alayne Dick, Hannah In English and Māori, Herchenbach, Luke Agnew with English subtitles Censors rating tbc

Nearly 20 years after her documentary Hone Taiapa and went on to carve Christchurch-based writer-director from her café job, crosses paths with TU TANGATA: Weaving for the People many remarkable wharenui and waka Martin Sagadin follows his experimental a backpacker searching for lodgings (NZIFF00) examined the life and art taua throughout the country. reverie Oko na Roki (NZIFF18) by that no longer exist. Alex offers him of the late master weaver Erenora Rangi and Erenora were key veering into narrative filmmaking a makeshift bed for the night, only to Puketapu-Hetet, Robin Greenberg participants in the groundbreaking with his new feature Spring Interlude. then feel uneasy about this perfect has again collaborated with the Hetet T e M a¯ o r i exhibition which toured the While very different in style and tone, stranger who immediately falls asleep whānau to produce this portrait of USA in 1984, before coming home this understated film shows the same on her bedroom floor. Rangi Hetet. At 82, Rangi is one of the to change the way Toi Māori (Māori attention to cinema craft of his earlier Was her gesture foolhardy? The last traditional Māori carvers alive today art) was viewed in New Zealand. work, artfully circling the apparently audience, caught up in the immediacy who learned their craft in an era that Greenberg’s documentary also follows mundane and haphazard to explore of the film’s action, shares her anxiety. straddled the ways of the old tohunga Rangi’s children as they prepare for a subtext and emotional bonds, and The easy flow and naturalism of the whakairo (master carver) and those of new major exhibition of their parents’ tensions that remain unexpressed. film mask the skilfully choreographed the modern world. artworks held at the Dowse Art Made entirely independently and unfolding of scenes, which lead to a Greenberg’s film offers a rare in- Museum in 2016, making it a fitting locally in Christchurch, the film revolves perfectly judged final moment. depth view into the world of whakairo tribute to a life devoted to keeping the around the connection between Lily (Māori carving). At just 17 years old, wonderful traditions of Toi Māori alive. and Alex, two young women who Rangi was taken out of school to help walk and talk, skirting their burgeoning A Lumiére Sun 18 Aug, 5.45 pm carve the Tāpeka meeting house at A Lumiére Sun 11 Aug, 2.30 pm* attraction to each other. Later that A Lumiére Tue 20 Aug, 8.00 pm Waihī marae under the tutelage of B Lumiére Mon 12 Aug, 12.45 pm night Alex, on her way home alone B Lumiére Wed 21 Aug, 4.00 pm

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MADMAN CREATIVE AUCKLAND LIVE New Zealand’s Best 2019 ENTERTAINMENT NEW ZEALAND SPIRIT OF THE CIVIC AWARD 95 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc JURY PRIZE EMERGING TALENT AWARD

A total of 91 films were submitted for Nancy From Now On Egg Cup Requiem Our Father this year’s New Zealand’s Best short NZ 2019 | Director/Screenplay: Keely Meechan NZ 2019 | Directors/Producers: Prisca Bouchet, NZ 2019 | Director/Screenplay: Esther Mauga film competition. NZIFF programmers Producer: Alesha Adhar | Photography: Titus Nick Mayow | Photography: Prisca Bouchet Producer: Shani McLeod Bennett | Photography: Sandra Reid and Michael McDonnell Sutherland | Editor: Peter Anderson | With: Bailey Editor: Nick Mayow | 12 mins Finn Bowman | Editor: River Ivatt | With: Samara Alofa, Poching, Wilson Downes, Taungaroa Emile | 20 mins Leiataua ‘Ma’ Afega Si’ulepa, Foua Moimoi Kearns and communications manager A collector reveals the story behind 19 mins A young man has a burning desire to his lifelong obsession. This clever film Rebecca McMillan viewed them all Two sisters are confronted by a dark be a drag queen. I liked this film for its builds a powerful and unexpected to draw up a shortlist of 12, from history when their estranged father light-handed yet authentic expression emotion, the likes of which felt new to which director Jane Campion selected returns. I appreciated the subtlety of alt-sexuality and the unforgettable me. There is not a wrong move in this these six finalists. A jury of three of this family drama, especially the charm of the lead, Bailey Poching. exquisitely told portrait. It’s a bold, will select the winner of the $5,000 standout performance of the elder true and quietly brilliant achievement. Madman Entertainment Best Short Krystal sister played by Samara Alofa. Film Award, the $4,000 Creative NZ 2018 | Director: Briar Grace-Smith | Producers: Golden Boy New Zealand Emerging Talent Award, Jaimee Poipoi, Rosie Jones | Screenplay: Josephine Hinekura | NZ 2019 | Director/Screenplay/Editor: Alex and the $4,000 Auckland Live Spirit Stewart-Te Whiu Photography: Ginny Loane NZ 2019 | Director/Screenplay: Becs Arahanga | Plumb Producers: Alex Plumb, Gorjan Markovski Editor: Cushla Dillon With: Darneen Christian, Producers: Sharlene George, Kathryn Akuhata-Brown of The Civic Award. The winner of | Photography: Eoin O’Liddigh | With: Jarred Blakiston Kawakawa Fox-Reo 14 mins Photography: Simon Temple | Editor: Luke Evans 12 mins the audience vote takes away the A young woman is released from With: Amy Kahumako Rameka, Te Ohorere Reneti, A day in the life of a young man with Mere Boynton | 18 mins Audience Choice Award, consisting of jail and goes straight to a party. a desire to be noticed. I liked very 25 percent of the box office from the Distinguishes itself through Briar Grace- In 1600s Aotearoa a young woman much that Alex Plumb drew us into main centre NZIFF screenings. Jane’s Smith’s tenderly emotional eye on a prepares for her destiny. An irresistible mysterious, existential territory, that comments on each film appear in young girl in fright. The world of her tale of female empowerment told in he trusted the psyche over sense. italics. brother’s ‘cool’ friends feels credible, an enchanted Maˉ ori world. A super- fun and alive, but not wise, not kind. heroine story, alive and unforgettable. Makes me proud to be a woman.

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EGG CUP REQUIEM OUR FATHER HINEKURA

PRESENTED IN Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori Pasifika Shorts 2019 ASSOCIATION WITH 90 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc | In English, Maˉ ori, Samoan and Pukapukan, with English subtitles

A collection of Māori and Pasifika Our Atoll Speaks: Liliu R u¯ short films curated by Leo Koziol NZ 2018 | Director/Screenplay: Jeremiah Tauamiti NZ 2019 | Director/Screenplay: Awanui Simich-Pene (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka), Ko Talatala Mai To¯ (Samoan) | Producer: Ngaire Fuata (Rotuman) | 17 (Nga¯puhi, Nga¯ti Haua¯, Nga¯ti Tuwharetoa, Nga¯ti director of the Wairoa Māori Film M a¯ t o u W e n u a mins Apakura) | Producer: Lindsay Gough | Screenplay: Awanui Simich-Pene, Sebastian Hurrell | 16 mins Festival, with guest co-curator Craig USA 2019 | Director/Producer: Gemma Cubero del A court interpreter in colonial Samoa Barrio | Screenplay: Amelia Rachel Hokule’a Borofsky, Fasi (Niue), director of the Pollywood risks everything to help a wrongfully A pregnant woman must fight for her Gemma Cubero del Barrio, Florence Ngatokorua ‘Johnny’ life when she inadvertently becomes Film Festival. Curators’ comments on Tiane Frisbie | 14 mins convicted chief. In the time of the victim of a violent initiation. A each film appear in italics. A meditation on sustainability from King George VI, it was a time for routine whaˉ nau errand turns dark in the remote Pukapuka atoll in the Cook guardianship of indigenous history as this unexpected native noir. — LK Islands. A serenade of narrative and truth. — LK captivating imagery – a political cry for Ways to See Yellow Roses help. — CF | NZ 2018 | Director/Screenplay: Jessica Sanderson NZ 2019 Director/Screenplay: Paula Whetu Jones | (Nga¯ ti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga & Te A¯ ti Awa) (Whakato¯hea, Te Aitanga a¯ Ma¯haki, Nga¯ti Porou) Ani Producer: Desray Armstrong (Te Aitanga-a¯ -Hauiti Producers: Paula Whetu Jones, Anahera Parata (Nga¯ti Toa Rangatira) | 16 mins NZ 2018 | Director/Screenplay: Josephine Stewart-Te & Nga¯ ti Porou) | 15 mins Whiu (Nga¯puhi, Te Rarawa) | Producer: Sarah Cook A young Māori girl attempts to use An elderly Māori woman who pines | 12 mins mystical powers to reconnect with her for the company of her husband enlists A young Māori girl drifts into a world absent father. A mysterious woman, the services of a male escort. Vicky of make-believe when her mother beautiful and otherworldly, comes for Haughton shines in a story of lost love leaves her – and her father – to fend a visit. — CF reawakened. — LK for themselves. A tribute to the realities of solo parenting – touching and insightful. — CF

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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan WORLD Director: Kriv Stenders Australia 2019 | 118 mins Producers: Martin Walsh, John Schwarz, Michael Schwarz Screenplay: Stuart Beattie Photography: Ben Nott Editor: Veronika Jenet Music: Caitlin Yeo With: Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey, Alexander England, Daniel Webber, Richard Roxburgh Festivals: Sydney 2019 CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc

Honouring the unheralded bravery lives against 2,500 seasoned Viet of the Australian and New Zealand Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers. soldiers who fought in the ‘Battle of With their ammunition running out, Long Tan’, one of the most savage casualties mounting, and the enemy and decisive engagements in ANZAC massing for a final assault, each man history, director Kriv Stenders’ film is searches for the strength to go forward a war story of uncommon emotional with honour, decency and courage. intensity. Daunting combat scenes A tremendous cast… bring the battle recall the against-the-odds bravado of and each soldiers’ heroism vividly to Lone Survivor and Black Hawk Down, life. Danger Close: The Battle of Long but it is the internal fight of the men Tan is the important story of men outnumbered – and how they chose to caught up in a politically unpopular war, define heroism in the moment – that whose courage has long been under- resonates loudest of all. acknowledged.” — Sydney Film Festival “On 18 August 1966, for three and a half hours in a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his inexperienced company, of A Isaac Theatre Wed 14 Aug, 8.30 pm mainly conscripts, fought for their B Isaac Theatre Thu 15 Aug, 1.30 pm WORLD FILMS ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Florianópolis Dream Sueño Florianópolis

Director: Ana Katz Argentina/Brazil/France 2018 | 107 mins Screenplay: Daniel Katz, Ana Katz Photography: Gustavo Biazzi Editor: Andrés Tambornino Music: Maximiliano Silveira, Érico Theobaldo, Beto Villares, Arthur de Faría With: Mercedes Morán, Gustavo Garzón, Andréa Beltrão, Marco Ricca Festivals: Toronto, London 2018 In Spanish and Portuguese, with English subtitles Censors rating tbc

© JULIAN DABIEN Help yourself to our pick of the features we have Set in the 1990s in Florianópolis, a for a sense of independence. They famed holiday destination in southern talk it out, joyfully chase each other encountered in a year of intense engagement with Brazil, Ana Katz’s film is awash with with flapping fish, and ride on a giant international cinema. We do what we can to cover glorious summer light, subtropical inflatable sausage-like raft. Featuring greens and white gold sand. Enter a romantic dalliances and excellent many bases, not least the Cannes Film Festival, chaotic Argentinian family of four in beach wear, Florianópolis Dream is a yielding some of our most exciting choices in the a clapped-out car that immediately gentle exploration of the way families runs out of petrol. The disorganisation, come together and push apart, with frantic fortnight before we close our schedule. much of it stemming from skinflintery, deceptively simple observations that continues. The family finds a beach illuminate the female experience – bungalow thanks to Marco, a friendly experiences that actor-turned-director local guy-on-the-make who spends Katz has a sharp, unerring sense for. much of the film in Speedos. While relaxation and quality time are ostensibly the name of the game, rivers of tension run deep. Lucretia A Lumiére Tue 13 Aug, 6.15 pm and Pedro are recently separated, A Lumiére Sun 18 Aug, 3.45 pm nostalgic psychoanalysts with restless A Lumiére Tue 20 Aug, 6.30 pm B Lumiére Wed 21 Aug, 12.30 pm GREEN & BLACK’S IS A TRADE MARK USED UNDER LICENCE. teenage kids. Everyone is searching

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The Wild Goose Lake Nan fang che zhan de ju hui

Director of the terrific, Berlinale- winning police procedural Black Coal, Thin Ice (NZIFF14), China’s Diao Yinan Director/Screenplay: Diao Yinan wowed Cannes with this superlative China 2019 | 110 mins Producer: Li Li film noir. Stacked with some of the Photography: Dong Jinsong most uniquely thrilling sequences you’ll Editors: Kong Jinlei, Matthieu Laclau see in a cinema this year, his lauded Music: B6 With: Hu Ge, Gwei Lun Mei, Liao Fan, follow-up centres on a rogue gangster Wan Qian, Qi Dao (Hu Ge) who’s wanted by the cops Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2019 In Mandarin with English subtitles and the mob – and the opportunistic R16 violence, cruelty & content that may disturb prostitute (Gwei Lun Mei) who may or may not give him up for the sizable bounty on his head. “Diao… cements his status as a master filmmaker with another ingenious crime epic… The Wild Goose Lake is [an] assured, exhilarating tale of criminality and the havoc it wreaks on interpersonal connection, with everything impressive about its predecessor – attentive procedural concealed booby-traps) start flying, detail, curious experiments with colour this film’s greatness transforms from “Diao Yinan’s twisting and and shadow, action set pieces that’d the kind that sneaks up on you to the turning nocturnal noir is make Michael Mann envious – raised to kind that blows you away.” — Charles the Nth degree. Bramesco, Little White Lies full of moody attitude and There’s not a single false step in “Diao… delivers a definitive Chinese glorious cinematography… its two hours; every edit, every shot crime noir, in which the ravishing a film of tense atmosphere setup, every movement of the camera style and inventive staging form the maximises the raw cinematic effect. substance… [it] may just end up being and endless eye-grabbing -A Lumiére Tue 13 Aug, 8.15 pm There’s power in Diao’s more subdued the last word in Chinese crime noir, moments.” — Dave Calhoun, B Lumiére Wed 14 Aug, 4.00 pm passages, but when he really lets loose because it does not want (or need) to be B Lumiére Fri 16 Aug, 4.00 pm Time Out A Lumiére Sat 24 Aug, 8.30 pm and the fists (or bullets, or strategically anything else.” — Jessica Kiang, Variety

By the Grace of God Grâce à Dieu

Based on a true, still-developing story, François Ozon’s By the Grace of God is a deeply humane dramatisation of Director/Screenplay: François Ozon a victim-led campaign to seek justice France 2019 | 138 mins Producers: Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer against a paedophile priest and the Photography: Manu Dacosse church structures that enabled his With: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, destructive behaviour. Adjacent to Swann Arlaud Festivals: Berlin 2019 Spotlight (the 2015 Best Picture Oscar Grand Jury Prize, Berlin Film Festival 2019 winner is sneakily referenced via a In French with English subtitles M sexual abuse themes, sexual references poster on a wall in one scene), the & offensive language veteran French director’s film focuses on the lives of three very different men facing down a powerful institution and decades of trauma, in an effort to find peace and effect societal change. — Jacob Powell “It’s an admirably sober account of the often painful process for abuse victims of coming forward with testimony after living for 30 years or more with their painful secrets. Their with purposeful conviction and a quiet, stories echo those of countless other never strident, sense of indignation. “François Ozon delivers countries around the world, where It’s persuasively acted, elegantly shot, a film that is both exposure of pedophilia scandals has subtly scored and briskly edited to keep shaken the public’s trust in the Catholic the dense, procedural action moving strong and modest, Church, finally prompting the Vatican forward as the narrative baton is passed implacable and sensitive, under Pope Francis to issue zero- among three adult men who take the incisive and respectful.” tolerance statements. The gap between difficult step of speaking out about — Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa such statements and concrete action their boyhood experiences.” — David A Isaac Theatre Sun 11 Aug, 7.45 pm to remove the offenders is the gray Rooney, Hollywood Reporter B Isaac Theatre Tue 20 Aug, 1.15 pm zone into which Ozon digs. This is a social justice film made A MM Timaru Sat 17 Aug, 8.00 pm

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Les Misérables

About as far from being a rousing stage musical as is possible, Les Misérables’ exhilarating, engrossing portrait of war Director: Ladj Ly on the streets between a swaggering France 2019 | 104 mins Producers: Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral Anti-Crime Squad and the myriad Screenplay: Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini, gangs they are trying to police shared Alexis Manenti the Jury Prize at Cannes. Photography: Julien Poupard Editor: Flora Volpelière In sharp contrast to the opening Music: Pink Noise scenes of a unified France celebrating With: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga, Issa Perica, Al-Hassan Ly, its 2018 World Cup win on the Jeanne Balibar Champs-Élysées, the film takes place in Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2019 Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2019 a troubled Paris suburb over the course In French with English subtitles of a tightly-wrought couple of days, CinemaScope | R13 violence, offensive language & sexual references recalling Training Day with its portrayal of compromised cops, the crossing of ethical lines and the conscience of a newcomer. But director Ladj Ly’s rendition of the drug- and poverty-stricken banlieues of working-class France is less Hollywood and more naturalistic à la The Wire, with astonishing performances are all over it, notably in a key plot by everyone from his three lead thugs point which remarkably derives “[Les Misérables] simmers to the indignant crooks, beleaguered from autobiographical experience. with urgent anger… A immigrant families and children caught Complex in its morality, lacking in the crossfire. judgement of its characters, Les buzzing, sunstruck street Ly’s 15-year career in documentary, Misérables is a high-energy, thriller.” — Guy Lodge, Variety focusing on sociopolitical issues arising contemporary musing on the problems from events such as the 2005 Paris explored by Victor Hugo over 150 years riots, clearly informs his approach to ago. — Sarah Watt A Isaac Theatre Fri 9 Aug, 8.45 pm this fictional, but all-too-relevant, tale. B Isaac Theatre Thu 15 Aug, 4.00 pm Les Misérables is his first dramatic feature, but his realist fingerprints A MM Timaru Sat 24 Aug, 8.00 pm

Non-Fiction Doubles vies

Long-time festival favourite Olivier Director/Screenplay: Olivier Assayas Assayas (Cold Water, Summer France 2018 | 107 mins Hours) takes on the contemporary Producer: Charles Gillibert Photography: Yorick Le Saux publishing industry in this free-flowing Editor: Simon Jacquet and quintessential French comedy, With: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne, Nora Hamzawi, Christa Théret, which puts a new spin on an age-old Pascal Greggory question: where is the line between Festivals: Venice, Toronto, New York, London 2018 In French with English subtitles truth and fiction? M offensive language & nudity In this affectionate and knowing portrait of the Parisian intellectual class, publishers and authors debate the literary merits of the tweet, consider the future of the e-book, and – naturally – sleep with people they shouldn’t. The latter is particularly ripe material for struggling mid-career writer Léonard (a gloriously unkempt Vincent Macaigne), but his publisher Alain (Guillaume Canet) is tired of Léonard’s auto-fiction. Meanwhile, Léonard’s unwilling subjects begin to depths, simultaneously cinematic assert their own autonomy. and literary in the richness of their “With its breakneck The French title, which translates pleasures... Only actors of the caliber verbosity, Non-Fiction is to ‘double lives’, is particularly fitting and intelligence of Canet and Binoche for Alain’s actress wife Selena (Juliette can toss off their sparring lines with a directly philosophical Binoche, reuniting with Assayas after the ease and conviction of stimulating work... smartly offset her powerhouse turn in Clouds of Sils dinner-party conversations, conveying by its own sense of Maria). Fed up with being a TV cop – warmth, brains and fallibility in equal excuse us, ‘crisis management expert’ – measure: you want to join in the lightness and comedy.” she provides Non-Fiction with both its discussion around the table, hoping — Alex Leininger, PopMatters biggest laughs and its rawest emotion. you can keep up.” — Jay Weissberg, B Isaac Theatre Mon 19 Aug, 11.15 am “Assayas crafts films of marvelous Variety A Isaac Theatre Tue 20 Aug, 6.15 pm

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Sibyl

Writer-director Justine Triet explores psychotherapy, boundaries and obsession in Sibyl, one of the four films Director: Justine Triet in competition at Cannes this year France/Belgium 2019 | 100 mins Producers: David Thion, Philippe Martin directed by a woman. Screenplay: Justine Triet, Arthur Harari “Sibyl (a jittery Virginie Efira) is a Photography: Simon Beaufils psychotherapist so driven to write a Editor: Laurent Sénéchal With: Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, novel that she drops her clients to Gaspard Ulliel, Sandra Hüller, Laure Calamy, buy herself some extra time. She’s Niels Schneider, Paul Hamy, Arthur Harari Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2019 barely started to contend with writers’ In French with English subtitles block… when a new client finds her CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc way to her… Madeleine (an energized Adèle Exarchopoulos) calls Sibyl in tears over an accidental pregnancy; the father is Igor (Gaspard Ulliel), the dashing lead with whom she’s set to star in a new romance directed by revered German auteur Mika (Toni Erdmann star Sandra Hüller). And if that wasn’t thorny enough, Mika and Igor used to be an item as well… Sibyl, “Triet manages to build a complex… however, sees opportunity: hitting a portrait of a talented woman under the “Triet’s chic, blackly comic covert record button as Madeleine spills influence… who wants to have it all – psychodrama piles up bad her woes… Sibyl begins the sneaky career, family, creative inspiration and process of transforming her patient’s a good sex life – and winds up falling decisions like so many story into the material for a novel… victim to her own ambition... It’s about profiteroles in a Sibyl becomes a brighter, sillier, as French as you can get… Triet handles croquembouche, admiring film-within-a-film spoof of the Woody the material gracefully and altogether Allen variety, and sends Sibyl careening skilfully, directing star Virginie Efira the teetering spectacle of further into a black hole of drunken to one of her most impressive all- its chaos as it goes.” resentment and self-destruction.” encompassing performances to date.” B Isaac Theatre Mon 12 Aug, 10.45 am — Guy Lodge, Variety — Eric Kohn, IndieWire — Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter A Isaac Theatre Thu 22 Aug, 6.15 pm

Who You Think I Am Celle que vous croyez

Juliette Binoche delivers a sultry, Director: Safy Nebbou complicated turn as a woman hiding France 2019 | 102 mins behind a virtual alter ego in this Producer: Michel Saint-Jean Screenplay: Safy Nebbou, Julie Peyr. haunting French psychodrama. Director Based on the novel by Camille Laurens and co-writer Safy Nebbou’s tale, based Photography: Gilles Porte Editor: Stéphane Pereira on Camille Laurens’ 2016 novel, opens Music: Ibrahim Maalouf with 50-something French literature With: Juliette Binoche, François Civil, Nicole Garcia, Marie-Ange Casta, Guillaume Gouix, Jules Houplain, lecturer Claire Millaud (Binoche) Jules Gauzelin, Charles Berling, Claude Perron introducing herself to new psychologist Festivals: Berlin 2019 Catherine (Nicole Garcia). Although In French with English subtitles Censors rating tbc initially reticent in her company, it doesn’t take long for the divorced mother-of-two to launch into her sordid backstory. After a messy breakup with her much younger boyfriend Ludo, and upset at his sudden disappearance, Claire decides to create a new, younger persona online, with the aim of reconnecting via Ludo’s best friend Alex (François Civil). Posing as 24-year-old a timeless aspect to what unfolds, fashion intern Clara Antunes, Claire’s mirrored in Claire’s choice of reading “For anyone who’s ever online banter and photogenic looks material for her latest batch of been catfished… [this] soon have Alex hooked and desperate students – Les Liaisons dangereuses. to meet her in real life. But something Binoche, superb as ever, grounds the evocation of exhilarated about Claire’s story – and where she film’s riveting, sometimes surprising human connection and got Clara’s image from – doesn’t quite narrative turns with a performance terrified self-sabotage ring true. to rival Isabelle Huppert’s icy music is uncomfortably easy While very much a reflection of conservatory professor in The Piano A Isaac Theatre Wed 14 Aug, 6.15 pm modern-day mores (Claire describes Teacher and Charlotte Rampling’s to empathize with.” B Isaac Theatre Fri 23 Aug, 11.15 am social media as both “a shipwreck repressed crime novelist in Swimming — Guy Lodge, Variety and a life raft” for her), there’s also Pool. — James Croot A MM Timaru Mon 19 Aug, 6.00 pm

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A White, White Day Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur

This gritty Icelandic drama captures the growing obsession of a widowed ex-cop (Ingvar Sigurðsson, in an award- Director/Screenplay: Hlynur Pálmason winning performance recognised at Iceland/Denmark/Sweden 2019 109 mins Cannes Critics’ Week). Haunted by the Producer: Anton Máni Svansson tragedy of his wife’s death, Ingimundur Photography: Maria von Hausswolff seeks solace in the simplicity of DIY Editor: Julius Krebs Damsbo Music: Edmund Finnis renovations, but his grief fuels a With: Ingvar Sigurðsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, suspicious sense of betrayal when Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir, Björn Ingi Hilmarsson he stumbles across evidence of his Festivals: Cannes (Critics' Week) 2019 deceased spouse’s infidelity. As his In Icelandic with English subtitles instincts to investigate and seek M violence, offensive language & nudity revenge take hold, the lawman begins to unravel. “A taciturn former policeman in a small Icelandic enclave grows more complex before our eyes in the visually arresting and emotionally rewarding A White, White Day. Crusty widower Ingimundur… channels his grief into renovating a house whose isolated startling method to his madness. location shows off nature posing in a Writer-director Hlynur Pálmason “Brings to mind a cycling-through-the-seasons medley (Locarno prize-winner Winter Brothers) cinematic version of of changing climate conditions in delivers a leisurely but never boring ever-exquisite light. Ingimundur loved tale of hidden feelings percolating in Edvard Munch’s famous his late wife unconditionally and has a splendidly varied landscape. From painting The Scream… little patience for the grief counselor sharp straight cuts to uncomfortably [It’s] grimly hypnotic… he is obliged to see once a week. But long awkward moments, a perfectly while going through a box of his wife’s controlled sense of place permeates powerful and freshly - things, his cop instincts kick in and the every frame.” — Lisa Nesselson, thought out.” — Todd A Isaac Theatre Mon 12 Aug, 8.45 pm already cranky man starts behaving Screendaily A Lumiére Wed 21 Aug, 6.15 pm McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter erratically – although there’s definitely a B Isaac Theatre Fri 23 Aug, 3.45 pm

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Photograph

Ritesh Batra returns to the Mumbai Director/Screenplay: Ritesh Batra streets of his festival favourite The India/Germany/USA 2019 | 110 mins Lunchbox with this delightful romance Producers: Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani, Ritesh Batra, Michael Weber, that doubles as a sensuous love letter to Viola Fügen, Michel Merkt that bustling metropolis. The plot, in Photography: Ben Kutchins, Timothy Gillis Editor: John F. Lyons which a poor street photographer Rafi Music: Peter Raeburn convinces a shy middle-class student With: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, Farrukh Jaffar Miloni to pose as his fiancée to fool his Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2019 meddling grandmother Dadi, may In Hindi, Gujarati and English, with English subtitles sound like the stuff of Bollywood M cert fantasy but Batra plays it with a graceful touch that proves deeply felt. “The film, which deftly touches upon such big-picture themes as class, religion, tradition, family and happiness, features a wealth of delicately captivating moments and observations… Miloni’s sensitive relationship with her family’s humble maid, Rafi’s interplay with his buoyant © JOE D’SOUZA friends and roommates (as well as their film.” — Gary Goldstein, LA Times kindness and respect toward Dadi) and “Nawazuddin Siddiqui is subtle yet “Photograph entrances Rafi’s heartfelt pursuit of the defunct dynamic as Rafi. Throughout, his eyes when it’s swimming brand of cola Miloni loved as a child… reveal the intense feelings he’s sorting Batra… captures the bustling, through: the longing for Miloni, the through the city with its workaday sides of Mumbai life with vigor love for his grandmother and his sense star-crossed lovers.” and passion while also treating us to of how limited his own future might be. — Fionnuala Halligan, Screendaily Siddiqui, who played the trainee who several leafier, more urbane views of the B Isaac Theatre Wed 14 Aug, 11.00 am city. Kudos to cinematographers ingratiates himself with Irrfan Khan’s A Isaac Theatre Sat 24 Aug, 3.15 pm Timothy Gillis and Ben Kutchins for the character in The Lunchbox, is a major film’s many burnished, strikingly screen presence.” — Caryn James, B MM Timaru Thu 15 Aug, 1.30 pm composed shots. It’s a beautiful, resonant Hollywood Reporter A MM Timaru Thu 22 Aug, 5.45 pm

Adam

Hardened hearts find kinship in writer- director’s Maryam Touzani’s quietly enthralling debut, a tale of female Director: Maryam Touzani solidarity that never goes quite where Morocco/France/Belgium 2019 98 mins seasoned filmgoers might expect. Producer: Nabil Ayouch Keeping her condition hidden from Screenplay: Maryam Touzani, Nabil Ayouch her village family, Samia (Nisrin Erradi), Photography: Virginie Surdej Editor: Julie Naas unmarried and heavily pregnant, seeks With: Lubna Azabal, Nisrin Erradi, Douae work and refuge in Casablanca. Abla Belkhaouda, Aziz Hattab, Hasnaa Tamtaoui Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2019 (Lubna Azabal) seems like the last In Arabic with English subtitles person who might take her in. PG cert Bringing up a daughter alone and running a one-woman bakery business from her kitchen, Abla has more work than she can handle, and she intends to keep it that way. The evident happiness and security of Abla’s daughter may be the only clue Samia needs that the older woman’s bark is more severe than her bite, but the mutual accommodation they reach develops incrementally, in “[A] beautiful story of two women sideways shifts. who transform each other’s lives… “Maternity, friendship Though their backstories are divulged With great delicacy, [Touzani] shows and the position of sparingly, the performances suggest how Moroccan society censures depths of experience, with Samia, in a woman who gives birth outside women in Moroccan particular, registering as a young woman marriage – not a terribly original theme, society all feature in of substantial character, bravely but here it is made heartrending by Maryam Touzani’s negotiating a manifestly unfair social the superb performances of Lubna system. When the baby (the boy for Azabal and Nisrin Erradi in the lead exquisite debut film.” whom this female-centric film is named) roles.” — Deborah Young, Hollywood — Kaleem Aftab, Cineuropa A Isaac Theatre Sat 10 Aug, 1.00 pm is born, the joy and pain of maternal Reporter B Lumiére Tue 13 Aug, 12.00 pm connection blaze from the screen. — BG A Lumiére Mon 19 Aug, 6.15 pm

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Loro

Queasy and compelling in equal Director: Paolo Sorrentino measure, Paolo Sorrentino’s sprawling Italy/France 2018 | 151 mins portrait of former Italian Prime Minister Producers: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Carlotta Calori, Viola Prestieri Silvio Berlusconi – played with oily Screenplay: Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello charisma by the director’s regular Photography: Luca Bigazzi Editor: Cristiano Travaglioli leading man, Toni Servillo (The Great Music: Lele Marchitelli Beauty) – is presented in its feature- With: Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, length international version. Euridice Axen, Fabrizio Bentivoglio It’s 2006. Berlusconi’s third Festivals: Toronto 2018; San Francisco 2019 government has fallen, and his marriage In Italian with English subtitles CinemaScope | R16 sex scenes, nudity, drug use is also about to collapse. Before meeting & offensive language the man himself, we’re introduced to Sergio (a magnetic and suave Riccardo Scamarcio) and his unscrupulous partner Tamara. From southern Italy, the pair want to become part of Berlusconi’s closest circle in Rome, and they are ready to do whatever it takes. Enter Kira, a high-class hooker who encourages Sergio to rent a villa in Sardinia overlooking the former PM’s crooner, an emperor bestowing gifts to and fill it with scantily clad models prostitutes and politicians alike and, in “A compelling mixture fuelled by mountains of drugs and one of the film’s best scenes, a salesman of the whimsical and alcohol. It doesn’t take long before trying to close the deal on a non- Berlusconi notices. existent apartment with a housewife the sleazy, the hedonistic Until now his name has barely been fooled by his magic. The chameleonic and the sad. The Trumpian spoken, and even his face has not yet Servillo is perfect as the orange, parallels are also A Lumiére Sat 10 Aug, 6.15 pm been revealed. When he does at last plastic surgery-addicted Berlusconi, his impossible to ignore.” B Lumiére Thu 15 Aug, 1.00 pm appear, Berlusconi is in full make up, voice and mannerisms extraordinarily A Isaac Theatre Sun 18 Aug, 8.00 pm dressed as an odalisque attempting matching those of the Italian politician. — Ian Freer, Empire B Lumiére Thu 22 Aug, 3.15 pm to impress his bored wife. Always It’s impossible to take your eyes off that in performance mode, he acts the smiling, creepy face. — Sibilla Paparatti A MM Timaru Sun 18 Aug, 7.30 pm

The Realm El reino

“Good lord, how many ways can you Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen tell the same story?”, says one crooked Spain/France 2018 | 131 mins politician to another midway through Producers: Gerardo Herrero, Mikel Lejarza, Mercedes Gamero The Realm, a blistering new political Screenplay: Isabel Peña, Rodrigo Sorogoyen thriller from Spanish director Rodrigo Photography: Álex de Pablo Editor: Alberto del Campo Sorogoyen. If that line is intended Music: Olivier Arson to anticipate any scorn from viewers With: Antonio de la Torre, Mónica López, José María Pou, Nacho Fresneda, Ana Wagener fatigued with House of Cards-style Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, London 2018 chicanery, Sorogoyen’s tense, twisty In Spanish with English subtitles nail-biter offers ample assurance that CinemaScope | M violence, nudity, offensive language & content that may disturb there’s still plenty of meat on the bone. The reliable Antonio de la Torre leads an ensemble of dirty politicians as Manuel Lopez Vidal, a fast-talking Spanish vice-secretary who enjoys a cushy lifestyle of extravagant expenses, courtesy of the kickbacks and embezzlement schemes he orchestrates with his colleagues. But when some of these dirty deeds come to light with the © JULIO VERGNE media, Manuel finds himself the party car chase and a riveting head-to- scapegoat. Rather than dutifully taking head debate on live television. By the “[An] example of one for the team, Manuel converts to end, Sorogoyen has fired shots at his concerned… cinema that whistle-blower instead, scrambling for country’s entire broken system, ending enough evidence to barter his way out. on a closing note of implication that also happens to be a lot of Whatever familiarity this premise has a damning universal sting. The fun to watch; [The Realm] contains, the pace and pulse of the same old story indeed. — JF deserves to be seen by as film never allow for a stale second, “The sort of film that could easily be especially in its action-packed second scooped up for a Hollywood remake many people as possible.” A Lumiére Sun 11 Aug, 7.15 pm half. The final 30 minutes offer three – but don’t wait for that, vote for the — Jonathan Holland, Hollywood B Lumiére Wed 14 Aug, 1.45 pm outstanding sequences: a squirmy heist original.” — Amber Wilkinson, Eye A Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 1.45 pm Reporter during a teen party, a high-octane For Film A Lumiére Thu 22 Aug, 8.30 pm

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High Life

Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche Director: Claire Denis are on a suicide mission to the stars UK/France/Germany/USA/Poland in this startlingly original space thriller 2018 | 113 mins from French master Claire Denis. In the Producers: Andrew Lauren, D.J. Gugenheim, Claudia Steffen, Christoph Friedel, deepest reaches of the cosmos, a crying Laurence Clerc, Olivier Théry Lapiney, baby distracts lone astronaut Monte Oliver Dungey, Klaudia Smieja Screenplay: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, (Pattinson) as he tends to life-support with the collaboration of Geoff Cox systems on board a derelict vessel. Photography: Yorick Le Saux Editor: Guy Lecorne Through unsettling recollections of the Music: Stuart A. Staples voyage from Earth, we learn where With: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, Mia Goth, Agata Buzek, the child came from, what became Lars Eidinger, Claire Tran of the crew and their role as convicts Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, New York, Busan 2018; Rotterdam 2019 piloting a spacecraft towards a distant R16 violence, rape, sex scenes & offensive language black hole. And then there’s the ship’s doctor – played by an astonishingly uninhibited Binoche – whose bizarre PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH sex experiments unearth both latent desires and violent compulsions amongst the unstable prisoners. Directing not only her first science- © CLAIRE DENIS fiction movie – a badge of honour unapologetic terms. — Tim Wong for every great auteur – but also her “A space odyssey of nightmarish “Denis reorients the sci-fi English-language debut, Denis distorts resonance… [High Life] asks down- genre around bodies, the genre in sharp and shocking and-dirty questions about what really ways by mining the exquisite tension resides beneath thousands of years of babies, and black holes in between intimacy and horror that has human progress, a savage and haunting her masterfully mystifying distinguished her best films. Dark, antidote to the high-minded idealism event-horizon nightmare.” unconventional and slippery with of movies like… Interstellar and… The — Jessica Kiang, Variety A Isaac Theatre Tue 13 Aug, 8.45 pm psychosexual energy, High Life’s vision Martian. It ends on a single sustained A Lumiére Wed 14 Aug, 8.30 pm of humanity lost in the void is also chord as intimate and sweeping as B Isaac Theatre Mon 19 Aug, 3.45 pm unmistakably Denis’s, delivered, true anything Denis has ever done.” — Steve to form, on her own unique, Macfarlane, Slant A MM Timaru Tue 20 Aug, 8.00 pm

In Fabric

A malevolent scarlet dress wreaks havoc Director/Screenplay: Peter Strickland in this mischievously entertaining and UK 2018 | 119 mins sophisticated genre-twister. Melding Producer: Andrew Starke Photography: Ari Wegner retro chills, anti-consumerist treatise and Editor: Matyas Fekete bonkers social satire, with a good dollop Music: Cavern of Anti-Matter With: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hayley Squires, of sensual witchery woven in, director Leo Bill, Julian Barratt, Steve Oram, Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Gwendoline Christie, Barry Adamson, Jaygann Ayeh, Richard Bremmer, Terry Bird, Studio, The Duke of Burgundy) once Fatma Mohamed again nails the quality of strangeness Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, London 2018; Tribeca 2019 inherent in giallo and Euro-horror. R13 horror & sexual references Dentley & Sopers Trusted Department Store offers ladies all they could desire, and it is here that Sheila (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a beleaguered bank employee and mother of an obnoxious teenage son, comes looking for something nice to wear on her first date with Adonis, encountered over the internet. She is beguiled into purchasing a vibrant dress – Demonic Red would describe dark intentions unrelated to sartorial it well – by the head salesclerk, who splendour; she won’t be the garment’s “[Peter Strickland’s] most like the rest of the exceedingly strange only victim… audacious and bizarre staff, wears a voluminous black In the outlandish world depicted, gown, accompanied by a bulbous, rippling with erotic undertones and film to date… a raucous, lacquered hairdo and razor-red lipstick entrancing colours and textures, the full-tilt descent into and nail polish. The fetishist look is monotonous description of washing bishop-sleeved madness.” matched by convoluted enticements machine parts sends bank managers veering between loopy sales pitch, into raptures and customer garment- — Hannah Woodhead, philosophical riddles and vaguely lust leads to a full-blown store riot. Little White Lies menacing flirtation. Unbeknownst Mordantly funny and stylish. — SR A Isaac Theatre Mon 19 Aug, 8.30 pm to Sheila, her purchase possesses B Isaac Theatre Wed 21 Aug, 3.45 pm

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Mrs Lowry & Son

Having already played J.M.W. Turner Director: Adrian Noble to great acclaim, Timothy Spall takes UK 2019 | 91 mins on another English painter with equally Producer: Debbie Gray Screenplay: Martyn Hesford compelling results. Laurence Stephen Photography: Josep M. Civit (L.S.) Lowry was a Lancashire artist Editor: Chris Gill Music: Craig Armstrong whose depictions of industrial life only With: Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall found an audience and admiration PG nudity once he reached middle age. Focusing on the mid-1930s, the period just before Lowry was discovered, theatre director Adrian Noble’s film looks at the relationship between the then Pendlebury rent collector and his bed-ridden, domineering mother Elisabeth (Vanessa Redgrave). Struggling to pay off debts his father left behind, ‘Laurie’ also bears the brunt of his mum’s fragile physical and emotional state. “I’m never cheerful, not since 1868,” she opines, while grumbling about their working-class neighbours, Son is a terrific, slow-burning showcase her son’s apparent lack of ambition and for the acting skills of Redgrave and “I paint what I see, I paint his ‘hobby’. Seemingly taking delight Spall. Their scenes together crackle how I feel. I’m a man in reading aloud a scathing review of with tension and barely repressed one of his works in the local paper, anger, as Laurie finds his attempts to who paints, nothing more, she also casts doubt on the authenticity evolve stymied by his almost maniacal nothing less.” of a letter from London proposing an mum. The svelte Spall is particularly — L.S. Lowry in Mrs Lowry & Son B Isaac Theatre Fri 9 Aug, 11.30 am impressive, whether with brush in hand, exhibition of his works. “Why can’t A Isaac Theatre Sun 11 Aug, 12.15 pm you paint something picturesque, or using the canvas of his face to B Lumiére Tue 20 Aug, 12.15 pm tasteful? What about a bowl of fruit?”, portray the flickers of an artist’s Elizabeth chides. pent-up emotions. — James Croot A MM Timaru Sun 18 Aug, 1.00 pm Essentially a two-hander, Mrs Lowry & B MM Timaru Tue 20 Aug, 1.15 pm

Peterloo

The latest from Mike Leigh is an epic Director/Screenplay: Mike Leigh portrayal of the events surrounding UK 2018 | 155 mins the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre Producer: Georgina Lowe Photography: Dick Pope when British government forces Editor: Jon Gregory attacked the crowd at a peaceful pro- Music: Gary Yershon With: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell, democracy rally in St Peter’s Field in Philip Jackson, Pearce Quigley, Vincent Franklin, Manchester. Taking a wide scope that Karl Johnson, Tim McInnerny Festivals: Venice, Toronto, London 2018 encompasses both the common citizens M violence and their desire for fairer representation and the governmental players who are determined to block concessions by any means, Leigh delivers a multifaceted historical drama with unmistakable resonance for our current age. “Leigh’s achievement is to have made a period film with the same immediacy and sense of anger that runs through contemporary dramas like Hillsborough or Bloody Sunday. He has a huge ensemble cast but that exhaustive attention to detail and “Against the backdrop of fascination with the eccentricities of cinematographer Dick Pope’s beautiful “With this richly intelligent, human behaviour which has always Manchester/Lancashire canvas, the film passionate movie, characterised his work is still there… weaves multiple stories of everyday At 75, the British director is still clearly people into a socialist tapestry and Mike Leigh has fought at the peak of his powers. Whatever depicts an act of police brutality with a brilliant rearguard else, his latest film will ensure that the huge contemporary relevance. Warm, action on history’s B Isaac Theatre Mon 12 Aug, 3.00 pm funny and incendiary, this is a major bloody events in St Peter’s Field nearly B Lumiére Fri 16 Aug, 12.15 pm political battlefield.” - 200 years ago are put back on the radar work of cinema.” — Kate Taylor, A Isaac Theatre Sun 18 Aug, 11.00 am of politicians, historians and cultural London Film Festival — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian A Lumiére Sat 24 Aug, 1.30 pm commentatorsalike.” — Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent A MM Timaru Sat 24 Aug, 3.00 pm

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Brittany Runs a Marathon

This charming debut feature from playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo features a winning performance from Director/Screenplay: Jillian Bell as Brittany, a sharp-tongued, Paul Downs Colaizzo USA 2019 | 104 mins hard-partying twentysomething whose Producers: Matthew Plouffe, Tobey Maguire, lifestyle choices are catching up with Margot Hand her. When a visit to a doctor to score Photography: Seamus Tierney Editors: Casey Brooks, Peter Teschner drugs turns sour, she decides to take Music: Duncan Thum up running and pursue a wild dream of With: Jillian Bell, Michaela Watkins, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Lil Rel Howery, Micah Stock, Alice Lee running the New York Marathon. Festivals: Sundance, Seattle, Sydney 2019 “An endearing and earnest comedy Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival 2019 M sex scenes, sexual references, drug references & about self-acceptance and body offensive language positivity that sidesteps cheesy pitfalls, Brittany Runs a Marathon is based on the journey of a real-life friend of PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH Colaizzo, whom Bell plays with a deft blend of sincerity and slapstick. Tired of being invisible and unable to afford a gym, Brittany decides to take it to the streets, running one city block at a time to build up her stamina… Along the Colaizzo successfully walks a fine way, she befriends Catherine (Michaela line between inspiration and caution, “The best kind of Watkins), a jogging obsessive, as well never presenting Brittany as a crowdpleaser… a whip- as fellow rookie Seth (Micah Stock), patronizing role model for weight loss, eventually persuading both to train nor a clichéd case of inner beauty… smart comedy with some with her for the annual 26-mile city His film delivers where other admirable real emotional depth.” marathon. Meanwhile, her new efforts on body image like I Feel Pretty — Dennis Harvey, Variety house-sitting gig introduces her to fall short, gifting a rare amount of Jern (Utkarsh Ambudkar), a lovable empathy to anyone in an abusive troublemaker who convinces Brittany relationship with their bathroom scale.” to move into the fancy digs they’re — Tomris Laffly, Time Out B Isaac Theatre Tue 13 Aug, 4.00 pm supposed to be taking care of in shifts. A Isaac Theatre Thu 15 Aug, 6.15 pm

American Woman The Art of Self-Defense

Director: Jake Scott Director/Screenplay: USA 2018 | 111 mins Riley Stearns Producers: Brad Feinstein, USA 2019 | 105 mins Ridley Scott, Kevin J. Walsh, Producers: Andrew Kortschak, Michael A. Pruss Walter Kortschak, Cody Ryder, Screenplay: Brad Ingelsby Stephanie Whonsetler Photography: John Mathieson Photography: Michael Ragen Editor: Joi McMillon Editor: Sarah Beth Shapiro Music: Adam Wiltzie Music: Heather McIntosh With: Sienna Miller, Christina With: Jesse Eisenberg, Hendricks, Aaron Paul, Amy Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots, Madigan, Pat Healy, Will Sasso David Zellner Festivals: Toronto 2018; Sydney Festivals: SXSW 2019 2019 R16 violence, cruelty & offensive Censors rating tbc language

Sienna Miller is superb as a mother (Hendricks) join the entire community Imagine a Jared Hess movie penned could sound familiar on paper, but struggling to move on – and move in a thorough search, but to no avail. by Paul Schrader and you’re halfway Stearns keeps things thrillingly off-kilter through life – in this decade-spanning Time passes… But just when her towards anticipating the dark, droll on screen, consistently throwing us story of a missing teenager in working- devastating loss seems far behind her, laughs of Riley Stearns’ latest. Led by a nasty surprises. The result is one of the class Pennsylvania. Focusing on both new truths come to light that change never better Jesse Eisenberg, The Art most memorable American comedies of small and significant happenings in the everything… Miller has never given of Self-Defense is a serious character recent times. — JF Rust Belt, director Jake Scott lets the a performance quite this lived-in and study on the toxic tribalism of modern “The film has a lot to say but says desperation of his characters speak emotionally layered. Her character’s masculinity that also happens to be it all in the weirdest, most surprising through everyday drama – and provides pain is soul-piercing, but so are her seriously funny. way possible… It’s just so damn funny Miller with a platform for one of the resilience and survival skills.” — Jane After being brutally beaten in the – every line, every delivery, every bizarre best performances of her career. Schoettle, Toronto International Film street by a group of bikers, mild- plot point.” — Meredith Borders, “Deb (Miller) was never shy about Festival mannered accountant Casey (Eisenberg) SlashFilm being the bad girl in her family. She enrols in a local karate class to learn how had her daughter Bridget young, to stick up for himself. But as he quickly Bridget had her son Jesse young, and subscribes to the pervasive machismo A Isaac Theatre Fri 9 Aug, 6.15 pm the three of them live a… happy life. B Isaac Theatre Wed 14 Aug, 3.45 pm of his teacher ‘Sensei’ (a wickedly Then one night Bridget goes out with deadpan Alessandro Nivola), he starts to her old boyfriend… and never returns. A MM Timaru Thu 15 Aug, 8.00 pm transform into precisely the kind of bully B Lumiére Fri 9 Aug, 4.15 pm Deb’s mother (Madigan) and sister B MM Timaru Fri 23 Aug, 3.45 pm he sought to overcome. That trajectory A Isaac Theatre Fri 16 Aug, 8.30 pm

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Under the Silver Lake

Fast becoming a cult favourite since Director/Screenplay: its less than rapturous reception at David Robert Mitchell Cannes last year, David Robert Mitchell’s USA 2018 | 139 mins deliriously shaggy noir takes us down Producers: Michael De Luca, Chris Bender, Jake Weiner, Adele Romanski, David Robert Mitchell a sprawling So Cal rabbit hole of pop Photography: Michael Gioulakis culture references and conspiracy Editor: Julio C. Perez IV Music: Disasterpeace theories. If you can get on its wacked- With: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, out wavelength – which owes a big debt Callie Hernandez, Zosia Mamet, Jimmi Simpson, Grace Van Patten to The Long Goodbye and Mulholland Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2018 Drive, as well as Hitchcock and Thomas CinemaScope | R16 violence, nudity, sex scenes, offensive language & content that may disturb Pynchon – you’re in for a treat. And even if not, strap in for a wild ride. Full-time slacker Sam (Andrew Garfield) is content with wiling away his days smoking weed and spying on his neighbours. When a new girl (Riley Keough) catches his roving eye and then disappears overnight, his obsession with finding out what happened to her leads him into an increasingly surreal mystery, involving amateur-sleuth-movie references, everything from a supposed dog serial Mitchell’s deeply personal follow-up to “A tasty neo-noir that killer and a mysterious songwriting his relentless meta-horror film It Follows wilfully melds tones and svengali to homeless royalty and a vaults him into Big Lebowski territory, bizarre death cult. The clues are hidden by way of several Lynchian side streets. sensibilities with a playful in plain sight, but only decipherable by It’s the kind of raggedy-ass thriller that seductiveness… [and] a those in the know. — MM only happens when a young filmmaker, surreal, stoned portrait “Percolating with hazy menace, emboldened by success, throws away Mitchell’s inspired neo-noir joins the discipline, hoping to summon the of LA that doubles as an A Lumiére Sun 11 Aug, 7.30 pm ranks of filmdom’s lovably loopy LA full, meandering spell of a paranoid oddball mystery.” A Lumiére Fri 16 Aug, 8.15 pm stories… Hypnotic, spiraling and nightmare. Don’t hold it against him.” A Lumiére Thu 22 Aug, 8.00 pm — Tim Grierson, Screendaily B Lumiére Fri 23 Aug, 3.30 pm deliriously high on its own supply of — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY

PRESENTED WITH Animation NOW! 2019 SUPPORT FROM 84 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc

Our longstanding animation Per tutta la vita The Juggler Caterpillarplasty programmer Malcolm Turner, also head France 2018 | Director: Roberto Catani | 5 mins France 2018 | Director: Skirmanta Jakaité | 11 mins Canada 2018 | Director: David Barlow-Krelina | 5 mins honcho at the Melbourne International Quite simply, one of the most A delicately jagged reminder that each A glossy and scabrous takedown of the Animation Festival, offers a selection of beautifully crafted films we have of our individual little worlds are strung cosmetic surgery industry. the best and brightest from this year’s ever seen. A journey to the origins together by an invisible, infinite thread. Animation NOW! Festival. of memory. Egg Highlights include Per Tutta La Vita Winter’s Blight France 2018 | Director: Martina Scarpelli | 12 mins and I’m OK, virtuoso examples of just I’m OK New Zealand 2019 | Director: Claire Campbell | 14 mins Have you considered food as a choice how stunning hand-drawn animation UK 2018 | Director: Elizabeth Hobbs | 6 mins A reclusive old man living alone in a rather than a requirement? One of the can look; the Jacques Tati turned-up- Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka forest is saved by the very cycle of life most awarded animated films on the to-11 Caterpillarplasty; Egg, one of enlists in WWI after the end of a love he nurtured as a young boy. circuit this year. the most talked about and awarded affair. films on the circuit at the moment; Herman Brown is Feeling Finity Calling and two outstanding – and completely Fest Down The Netherlands 2018 | Director: Jasper Kuipers different – Kiwi films, Winter’s Blight | | 15 mins Germany 2018 Director: Nikita Diakur 3 mins UK 2018 | Director: Dan Castro | 6 mins and Trumpet-Trompette. An audacious stop-motion animation. The latest from the master of ‘glitch’ Herman Brown has every reason to If you’re looking to sample the When the fragile equilibrium of animation revels in the fearless sub- be happy. Herman Brown has every international animation ecosystem the group is broken, the results are culture of extreme urban exploration. reason to be unhappy. How to decide? in all its multi-coloured, variously explosive. shaped glories, there’s no better place Where’s the Butter, Betty Trumpet-Trompette to begin. | | UK 2018 Director: Will Anderson 3 mins New Zealand 2018 | Director: Max Woodward | 2 mins The bloody butter is around here A smooth, stylish meditation on somewhere, Betty, it has to be. preparing to do something you love.

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Aniara FRESH Directors: Hugo Lilja, Pella Kågerman Sweden 2018 | 106 mins Screenplay: Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja. Based on the novel by Harry Martinson Photography: Sophie Winqvist Loggins Editors: Björn Kessler, Pella Kågerman, Michal Leszczylowski With: Emelie Jonsson, Arvin Kananian, Bianca Cruzeiro, Festivals: Toronto 2018, San Francisco 2019 In Swedish with English subtitles Censors rating tbc

Based on Harry Martinson’s scarily images of Earth before fires turned prescient epic poem on intergalactic the blue marble brown. But once it doom, Aniara imagines the existential becomes evident that the ship ejected crisis of a human race without a its fuel… it is impossible to dream away planet to call home. The alternative? brutal reality: Without fuel, the Aniara A shopping mall in space. With stark and its passengers are doomed to drift similarities to Claire Denis’ sensual and in the infinite emptiness of space.” nightmarish High Life (p24), this eerie — Teo Bugbee, NY Times Swedish sci-fi odyssey is a stunningly “A masterful example of smart, realised vision of cosmic despair. relevant sci-fi cinema” — Mark “[In] Aniara, a spacecraft designed Hughes, Forbes to make the voyage from a ruined Earth to a colony on Mars hits both debris and disaster. The turbulence from the impact soon passes, allowing the ship… to stabilize. The film’s plucky A Lumiére Fri 16 Aug, 8.45 pm protagonist, MR (Emelie Jonsson), A Lumiére Tue 20 Aug, 8.30 pm returns to her job with the crew – B Lumiére Thu 22 Aug, 2.15 pm A Lumiére Sat 24 Aug, 8.45 pm placating anxious passengers with

Deerskin Le daim

Director/Screenplay/ Photography/Editor: Quentin Dupieux France 2019 | 76 mins With: Jean Dujardin, Adèle We line up the films that held our attention Haenel, Albert Delpy, Pierre Gommé, Laurent Nicolas, Coralie with their energy and originality – in terms Russier, Marie Bunel Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2019 of subject, technique and sensibility. In French with English subtitles R16 strong violence & offensive Not every film that feels like a harbinger language of the future is the work of a young France’s enigmatic Quentin Dupieux, auteur theory. And when he meets filmmaker – though an encouraging number aka Mr Oizo, whose breakout hit Rubber Denise (Adèle Haenel), whose hobby on the pages that follow are. was about a homicidal car tyre, makes is re-editing the likes of Pulp Fiction, films unlike anyone else in the world. he convinces her to help him produce Deerskin, channelling cinema’s rich history his magnum opus. of obsessive loners, is no exception. Dupieux is a director with a French megastar Jean Dujardin plays laser-focused vision and an ungodly Georges, a handsome greying man who commitment to the conceit, no matter purchases a long-fringed deerskin jacket how batshit cuckoo it may be. – and quickly becomes obsessed with Crafting a first-person hallucinatory the ‘killer style’ it projects. Not your run- vortex of madness and masculinity of-the-mill existential midlife crisis flick, with the skill of a surgeon, his latest, all bets are off when Georges decides all at a blistering 76 minutes, is one hell other jackets must be destroyed – and of a ride. — AT his intimate conversations with the deerskin only fuel his rage and paranoia. It gets weirder: Georges uses a A Lumiére Fri 9 Aug, 8.30 pm camera to film himself, transforming A Lumiére Sat 10 Aug, 9.15 pm his obsession into a meta-take on B Lumiére Thu 22 Aug, 4.30 pm

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Animals

Australian director Sophie Hyde (52 Director: Sophie Hyde Tuesdays, NZIFF14) explores friendship Australia/Ireland 2019 dynamics in an Irish setting in this 109 mins refreshing look at what being female Producers: Sarah Brocklehurst, Rebecca Summerton, Cormac Fox, Sophie Hyde and thirtysomething feels like. Screenplay: Emma Jane Unsworth. Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development) Based on her novel Photography/Editor: Bryan Mason shines as wild child BFF to Holliday Music: Jed Palmer, Zoë Barry Grainger’s more cautious yet still With: Holliday Grainger, Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee, Dermot Murphy hedonistically inclined Laura, the Festivals: Sundance 2019 struggling writer who’s now 32 and may R16 sex scenes, nudity, drug use & offensive language be on the cusp of ‘growing up’. Dublin is their playground, but it could be any Antipodean city where happy hours are the beginning of a great night and those nights always run late. Laura’s younger sister, once a fellow party animal, is pregnant and settling down. And Laura’s just met a handsome pianist who’s focused on his craft. Maybe she wants that too? With echoes of Bridesmaids and to ignore. — Rebecca McMillan Girls, it is in the empowered female “Hyde’s [film]… deserves all the “Filled with remarkable sexuality, with the male roles playing praise it can get… Refreshingly frank insight and wit… a second fiddle, that Animals truly and non-autocratic about sex, drugs shines. Hyde allows her characters to and the uniquely female desire to be wonderful, utterly make mistakes with levity and without free of judgment, Animals dares to lived-in film about two moral judgement. In this modern love the pair of imperfect friends that women at a crossroads.” look at the complexity of friendships, lead the way into their messy and heterosexuality is an option not a undeniably fun world of consequence- — Benjamin Lee, The Guardian B Lumiére Fri 9 Aug, 1.45 pm given, alcohol and drugs are a free hard-partying, where men can be A Lumiére Wed 14 Aug, 8.15 pm necessary part of the fun, and the disposable and things will just work A Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 8.30 pm A Lumiére Fri 23 Aug, 6.30 pm reality of getting older is getting harder out.” — Tomris Laffly, RogerEbert.com

PRESENTED IN Beats ASSOCIATION WITH God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija

Director: Brian Welsh Director: UK/France 2019 Teona Strugar Mitevska 101 mins North Macedonia 2019 Screenplay: Kieran Hurley, 101 mins Brian Welsh. Based on a play Screenplay: Elma Tataragić, by Kieran Hurley Teona Strugar Mitevska Photography: Ben Kracun Photography: Virginie Saint Martin Editor: Robin Hill Editor: Marie-Hélène Dozo Music: Stephen Hindman, With: Zorica Nusheva, Labina Penelope Trappes, JD Twitch Mitevska, Simeon Moni Damevski With: Cristian Ortega, Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2019 Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser In Macedonian with English Festivals: Rotterdam 2019 subtitles Colour and B&W | R16 violence, CinemaScope | M violence, offensive language & drug use offensive language, sexual references & nudity

Dour reality meets its nemesis in 90s it’s drugs. But it’s the sensory impact 32-year-old Petrunya (newcomer Zorica by a real-life incident, director Teona rave culture in this exuberant memoir too – Beats bottles a very similar brand Nusheva) is not having a good day. On Strugar Mitevska’s award-winning of teenage bonding from Scotland. of lightning to Danny Boyle’s film, her way back home from a failed job drama combines feminism, fury and Cowed by his mother’s allegiance to consistently exploding with energy and interview and humiliated by a sleazy biting social commentary to often her super-straight new boyfriend, emotion… manager, she suddenly finds herself hilarious effect. 15-year-old Johnno (Cristian Ortega) While never deviating from its surrounded by a group of half-naked “This isn’t just an engaging tale of is persuaded to abscond by his brilliant young stars, Beats is a tribute men. Readying themselves to compete one woman challenging the male- genially unhinged mate Spanner (Lorn to the rave revolution, communicating for a crucifix thrown into the river by dominated church and state, but a Macdonald). Their destination? An via its emotion, sounds and a hefty a priest – a male-only Macedonian movie making a smart, impassioned outdoor all-night rave newly rendered whack of psychedelic visuals exactly religious custom – Petrunya on a whim statement against widely accepted illegal by Britain’s Criminal Justice Act, what it felt like… Its humanity is dives in and beats them to the prize. subjugation in many forms.” — Sarah which authorised police to break up ageless, serving up an irresistible Chaos ensues and she is whisked off Ward, Screendaily events where music was “wholly or amount of thrills, spills and jaw- to the police station where cops, predominantly characterised by the aches.” — Alex Godfrey, Time Out church authorities and men ‘robbed’ emission of a succession of repetitive of their cross argue over this so-called A Lumiére Mon 12 Aug, 6.15 pm beats.” Truly. B Lumiére Thu 15 Aug, 4.00 pm crime. But Petrunya refuses to be B Lumiére Wed 14 Aug, 2.00 pm “It feels superficial to compare A Isaac Theatre Fri 23 Aug, 8.30 pm bullied into submission and to give Beats to Trainspotting: it’s Scottish, the cross up – which tradition says will B Lumiére Mon 19 Aug, 2.00 pm it’s the mid-90s, it’s young tearaways, A MM Timaru Fri 16 Aug, 8.00 pm bring her a year of good luck. Inspired A Lumiére Sun 25 Aug, 7.45 pm

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Judy & Punch

Actor-turned-filmmaker Mirrah Foulkes Director/Screenplay: Mirrah Foulkes directs this highly original, endlessly Australia 2019 | 105 mins inventive feminist spin on the classic Producers: Michele Bennett, Nash Edgerton, Danny Gabai puppet show. Mia Wasikowska and Photography: Stefan Duscio Damon Herriman represent the titular Editor: Dany Cooper Music: François Tétaz duo, reimagined as a puppeteering With: Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman couple whose artistic quarrels – and Festivals: Sundance 2019 R16 violence, domestic violence, cruelty Punch’s mishandling of their baby – lead & content that may disturb to an epic revenge fable awash with bloody satire and pitch-black comedy. “It’s the mid-17th century in the anarchic town Seaside… and The Enlightenment feels very far away indeed. Seaside has spiralled into violence, mob rule and God-fearing hysteria. Amongst the chaos, one glimmer of artistry remains: Punch and Judy’s puppet theatre. Once a master puppeteer, the charismatic Punch (Herriman) has fallen too much under the sway of whiskey, but his wife Judy (Wasikowska) is a puppeteering “There’s a savage, sometimes surreal genius and ensures that their shows are wit to this anarchic tale… The lurid “Utterly bonkers but a hit with the baying crowds. When a extremes of the traditional Punch also sort of brilliant.” Punch bender goes disastrously and and Judy plot are faithfully replicated violently wrong, Judy decides to wreak here – expect dog-based sausage — Leslie Felperin, Hollywood vengeance on those who have wronged shenanigans and crocodiles.… and Reporter her and, as she discovers, many spousal abuse. And it’s a testament to others… Taking cues from everything Foulkes’ confidence as a director and from Monty Python to The Crucible to to the world she has created that this A Isaac Theatre Thu 15 Aug, 8.30 pm Kill Bill, Judy & Punch is an ambitious outlandish story sits as comfortably B Isaac Theatre Fri 16 Aug, 4.00 pm film that finds its own singular path.” as it does in film.” — Wendy Ide, — Sydney Film Festival Screendaily A MM Timaru Thu 22 Aug, 8.00 pm

Midsommar

“You can’t be afraid of the dark in Director/Screenplay: Ari Aster Midsommar, because darkness never USA 2019 | 147 mins comes. Everything that happens in Producers: Patrik Andersson, Lars Knudsen Photography: Pawel Pogorzelski [Hereditary] writer-director Ari Aster’s Editor: Lucian Johnston cornea-searing, fantastically unnerving Music: The Haxan Cloak With: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, folk-horror reverie unfolds in the William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, dazzling glare of June-bright sunlight Will Poulter, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, Liv Mjönes, Anna Åström – a waking nightmare nestled cozily Censors rating tbc within the clapboard barns and verdant valleys of the Swedish countryside… Emotionally fragile Dani (Florence Pugh) is still lost in the fugue of a recent family tragedy when she gloms onto a guys’ trip her increasingly distant boyfriend, Christian (Jack Reynor), and several of his friends have planned: two pastoral weeks in the hometown of their fellow grad student, Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren). Though it’s not really a town at all, more a small communal settlement “Aster, it can’t be denied, possesses – and its beatific residents, with their an almost supernatural command of “A virtuoso, bone-shaking, Maypoles, muslin gowns, and flower dread. He knows how to hold a shot head-spinning experience… crowns, seem to be toeing some hazy just long enough to create pinpricks of Scandinavian line between weekend discomfort, to disorient with an abrupt that demands to be seen at Coachella and Wicker Man. The cutaway, to drop stomachs with the on the big screen, group’s arcane rituals – the psychedelic godlike perch and glare of his camera… Midsommar is the horror teas and hand-carved runes, a lone Midsommar [is]… frankly stunning in bear in a cage that nobody offers to where it’s willing to go – and where its movie to beat in 2019.” explain – seem charmingly quirky at characters are willing to go – in search — Nick De Semlyen, Empire first, and then more sinister.” — Leah of catharsis.” — A.A. Dowd, AV Club Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly A Isaac Theatre Sat 24 Aug, 8.15 pm

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Monos

The Guardian called Monos “Apocalypse Now on shrooms” – a fitting description even if there isn’t an Director: Alejandro Landes actual scene in the movie depicting our Colombia/Argentina/The Netherlands/Germany/Sweden/ young soldier protags being ambushed Uruguay 2019 | 102 mins in the middle of a mushroom- Producers: Alejandro Landes, Fernando Epstein, induced, ball-tripping stupor. Such Santiago Zapata, Cristina Landes hypnotic detours are frequent in Screenplay: Alejandro Landes, Alexis Dos Santos Photography: Jasper Wolf the hallucinatory new thriller from Editors: Yorgos Mavropsaridis, Ted Guard, Colombian director Alejandro Landes, Santiago Otheguy Music: Mica Levi which owes a significant debt to With: Julianne Nicholson, Moises Arías, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in Wilson Salazar, Sofía Buenaventura, Deiby Rueda, Laura Castrillón its cutting portrayal of power warping Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, New Directors/ young minds. New Films, San Francisco 2019 Special Jury Award (World Cinema Dramatic), In this vision, our feral ensemble Sundance Film Festival 2019 are not castaways but teenage troops, In English and Spanish, with English subtitles CinemaScope | R13 violence, offensive language posted on a remote mountaintop to & content that may disturb safeguard both an American POW (Julianne Nicholson) and a milk cow named Shakira. In classic war movie tradition, everyone has swaggering plot, instead peppering the narrative monikers like Rambo, Wolf and Boom with unexpected relocations and role “Nothing short of Boom. But, initially, there's not an reversals. As a result, the film holds a an aesthete’s dream, awful lot for these restless youths to clammy fever-dream quality, aided by channel their bravado into. In the place DOP Jasper Wolf’s sensory visuals and a film crammed of warfare are bizarre rituals, horny composer Mica Levi’s superb score. This with visual bravado hook-ups and campfire raves – at is one of the festival’s most thrilling that echoes Kubrick, least until a tragic accident triggers a discoveries – a tense, off-kilter deep dive sudden, steep descent into chaos. into corrupted innocence that never Malick, and Coppola’s Landes offers us very little context quite goes where you think it will. — JF Apocalypse Now.” about the surrounding conflict and B Lumiére Tue 13 Aug, 4.00 pm — Rory O’Connor, Cinevue largely avoids an overarching drive of A Isaac Theatre Thu 22 Aug, 8.45 pm

PRESENTED IN Litigante mid90s ASSOCIATION WITH

Director/Screenplay: Jonah Hill Director: Franco Lolli USA 2018 | 85 mins Colombia/France 2019 Photography: Christopher Blauvelt 95 mins Editor: Nick Houy Music: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross Screenplay: Franco Lolli, Marie With: Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges, Amachoukeli, Virginie Legeay Katherine Waterston, Na-kel Photography: Luis Armando Smith, Olan Prenatt, Gio Galicia, Arteaga Ryder McLaughlin, Alexa Demie, With: Carolina Sanín, Leticia Fig Camila Abner Gómez, Antonio Martínez, Festivals: Toronto, New York Vladimir Durán, Alejandra Sarria 2018; Berlin 2019 Festivals: Cannes (Critics’ Week) R16 violence, sexual references, 2019 offensive language & drug use In Spanish with English subtitles Censors rating tbc © TOBIN YELLAND This fiercely lived-in maternal drama of juggling act for Silvia and her family At once hard-edged and heartfelt, Jonah largely absent single mother Dabney a woman juggling extreme professional will be even harder. On top of that, Hill’s directorial debut draws knowingly (Katherine Waterston), the characters’ and familial pressures draws its she’s been swept up in a simmering on the banter behind his dudebro backstories are fleshed out to poignant compelling naturalism from Colombian corruption charge… comedy persona, the seriousness of effect, all to a catchy era-specific director Franco Lolli’s real-life mother The movie often nails the his acting work with heavyweight soundtrack curated by Hill… and cousin, who star in the lead roles. fractiousness, fear and pain of caring filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Gus Shot on 16mm film… this is an “Coping with a mother dying of for a dying loved one, driven home by Van Sant, and the battle scars of his authentic evocation of a specific time cancer, a young son she’s raising immaculate performances from Sanin, own knockabout youth as a skater boy and place, a charmingly scuzzy coming- without a partner and a scandal at work Gomez and Sarria as two generations in ’90s Los Angeles. of-age drama that isn’t preoccupied leaves public-sector lawyer Silvia (an of women with more in common than “mid90s is the story of 13-year-old with dispensing hard-won life lessons immensely watchable Carolina Sanin) they might like to admit.” — Leslie Stevie (Sunny Suljic), who takes up to its target demographic... [and] has a woman on the verge of despair… Felperin, Hollywood Reporter skateboarding as a way to make friends an energy and spirit all of its own.” Silvia lives with her five-year-old son with the cooler, older boys who run a — Adam Woodward, Little White Lies Antonio… but has childcare help from local skate shop… As Stevie ingratiates her gay best friend… Sergio… as well himself with the group through his as her sister, Maria-Jose (Alejandra A Lumiére Sat 10 Aug, 1.00 pm good nature and fearless attitude, A Lumiére Sat 10 Aug, 8.45 pm Sarria), and mother, Leticia (Leticia B Lumiére Tue 13 Aug, 2.15 pm finding sanctuary and a sense of A Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 4.45 pm Gomez). But the fast-metastasizing B Lumiére Thu 22 Aug, 12.15 pm identity away from hostile older brother A Lumiére Sun 18 Aug, 6.30 pm A Lumiére Sun 25 Aug, 8.00 pm return of Leticia’s cancer... means the Ian (Lucas Hedges) and loving but B Lumiére Fri 23 Aug, 2.45 pm

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Ruben Brandt, Collector Ruben Brandt, a gyu˝jtu˝

Art heist thriller, brooding neo-noir, Director: Milorad Krstic´ bombastic action blockbuster and Hungary 2018 | 94 mins hallucinatory freak-out all at once, Animation directors: Milorad Krstić, Marcell László Producers: Péter Miskolczi, János Kurdy-Fehér, Milorad Krstic’s dazzling, dizzying Milorad Krstić, Hermina Roczkov, Radmila Roczkov curiosity Ruben Brandt, Collector marks Screenplay: Milorad Krstić, Radmila Roczkov Music: Tibor Cári a welcome escalation for modern With: Iván Kamarás, Csaba ‘Kor’ Márton, animation. After suffering repeat Gabriella Hámori Festivals: Locarno 2018 nightmares in which paintings by In Hungarian and English, with English subtitles Warhol, Botticelli, Manet and Hopper M violence & offensive language (to name just a few) transform into malignant apparitions that attack him, renowned psychotherapist Ruben Brandt decides to undergo a unique method of self-treatment: stealing every painting that is afflicting him. The wild ride that follows is about as innovative, hypnotic and flat-out entertaining as animation for adults will get. — JF “There are no unintentional strokes on Milorad Krstić’s moving canvas Ruben Brandt, Collector, a 2D animated [It’s] a glorious cinephile’s playlist and feature so densely ornate with auteur- a graphic syllabus on art history encased “A voluptuously adoring references and eye-popping in a thriller. As such, it merits being trippy, wildly original design, a single viewing would only counted as one of the decade’s best and serve as an insufficient introduction to most wildly original animated triumphs art-theft romp... Defies its bona fide one-of-a-kind panache… and one of this awards season’s most easy categorization Unbounded from all conventions of unforgivable snubs. Time, the most save inclusion on any A Lumiére Mon 12 Aug, 8.15 pm reality, shapes and colors roam free to reliable judge when it comes to art, adult animation fan’s B Lumiére Wed 14 Aug, 4.15 pm form characters with a varying number will give Milorad Krstić his due praise.” A Lumiére Fri 16 Aug, 6.15 pm of eyes, flat bodies, sharp-edged faces, — Carlos Aguilar, The Playlist must-see list.” A Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 8.15 pm and a potpourri of distorted features in — Robert Abele, LA Times unnatural shades… A MM Timaru Mon 19 Aug, 8.00 pm

The Nightingale The Third Wife

Director/Screenplay: Ash Mayfair Director/Screenplay: Vietnam 2018 | 96 mins Jennifer Kent Photography: Chananun Australia 2018 | 136 mins Chotrungroj Editor: Julie Beziau Photography: Radek Ladczuk Music: Ton That An With: Aisling Franciosi, Sam With: Tran Nu Yen Khe, Mai Thu Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr Huong ‘Maya’, Nguyen Phuong Festivals: Venice 2018; Sundance Tra My, Nguyen Nhu Quynh 2019 Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Busan 2018 Festival 2018 In Vietnamese with English In English, Gaelic and Palawa subtitles Kani, with English subtitles M violence, sex scenes & content R16 rape, violence, cruelty & that may disturb offensive language © KASIA LADCZUK For her follow-up to The Babadook What follows is a stark odyssey Arranged to be wed to a wealthy luscious landscape that holds them (NZIFF14), Aussie auteur Jennifer Kent through Australia’s heart of darkness, landowner in rural Vietnam, 14-year-old captive. The evocative soundtrack is pivots to an entirely different brand in which unspeakable crimes against May becomes the third wife to Hung minimal – there is no dialogue in the of horror. A bleak, bloody revenge the marginalised were perpetual. in a polygamous marriage struggling first nine minutes – but hits all the right Western, her sophomore effort The But beneath the non-stop barrage of to produce male heirs. Understanding notes, revealing the dichotomy of an Nightingale takes a cold, hard stare at atrocities is a timely cry for compassion, a successful pregnancy is her only way open yet oppressive environment. her country’s history of colonial violence a recognition that violence against out, May grows increasingly desperate Inspired by the life of her – and the results are genuinely chilling. individuals cannot unpick the to provide Hung with a baby boy. But grandmother and great-grandmother, Set in Tasmania 1825, the story oppression woven into the very fabric as time passes, illicit affairs, power Ash Mayfield’s directorial debut is a follows Clare (Aisling Franciosi), a of our civilisation. It contains no easy struggles and May’s sexual awakening sensitive and passionate exploration convicted felon whose freedom hinges answers for how to reckon with such threaten to tear her world apart. of the reality of young women in entirely on the whims of a sadistic evils, but its uncompromising vision is The influence of artistic advisor and situations beyond their control, past British lieutenant (Sam Claflin). After he truly difficult to shake. — JF mentor Tran Anh Hung (The Scent and present. — Kailey Carruthers instigates an act of sickening cruelty, of Green Papaya, Norwegian Wood) Clare pursues him into the wilderness, is felt throughout. The film quietly hellbent on revenge and aided only signals the passage of time – and A Lumiére Mon 12 Aug, 6.30 pm by a weary Aboriginal tracker (Baykali May’s growth – through the ongoing A Lumiére Sun 18 Aug, 1.45 pm Ganambarr), who has more in common B Lumiére Mon 12 Aug, 3.30 pm silk harvest. Assigned to their fate, the B Lumiére Mon 19 Aug, 2.15 pm A Lumiére Thu 22 Aug, 6.30 pm with Clare than she might think. A Isaac Theatre Tue 20 Aug, 8.30 pm women move like spirits through the

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Working Woman Isha Ovedet

Israeli director Michal Aviad turns Director: Michal Aviad her eye to a common issue facing Israel 2018 | 93 mins working women today: harassment in Producers: Amir Harel, Ayelet Kait Screenplay: Sharon Azulay Eyal, Michal Vinik, the workplace. At the centre of this Michal Aviad gripping film, Orna (Liron Ben Shlush) Photography: Daniel Miller Editor: Nili Feller is a mother of three whose husband is With: Liron Ben Shlush, Menashe Noy, Oshri Cohen struggling to support the family as his Festivals: Toronto 2018 In Hebrew with English subtitles restaurant gets off the ground. To her M sexual violence surprise, she is hired by her former IDF commanding officer, who remembers her from her mandatory military service. Now a real estate developer, Benny (Menashe Noy) offers Orna advice on how to dress ‘classy’ and wear her hair in the most attractive way. His guidance is generous and Orna proves to be a talented salesperson. Orna initially ignores his increasingly inappropriate behaviour. But a kiss is too far, and she firmly rebukes him. Doggedly choosing to believe there makes Working Woman exceptional. will be no more problems, Orna’s Benny may be a lecherous boss, but “A story that’s timely yet promotion to sales manager is soon he’s offering Orna the attention and timeless… under Michal overshadowed by the dread of working professional respect her husband with her boss. A trip to Paris triggers never has. Orna is an everywoman yet Aviad’s sympathetic lens, a Faustian battle of nerves. Can Orna she’s facing an ordeal every woman it’s one that stands out stay the course, make the money and is told they should never have to deal with a sense of urgency.” continue to provide for her children? Or with – though many watching will find will Benny’s harassment ruin her career, themselves saying #MeToo. — Monica Castillo, RogerEbert.com A Lumiére Sat 10 Aug, 4.15 pm reputation and family? Working Woman proves that there A Lumiére Sun 11 Aug, 5.15 pm Aviad’s ability to find the ambiguity is no such thing as the same old story. B Lumiére Fri 16 Aug, 12.00 pm in seemingly clear-cut situations is what — Sarah McMullan A Lumiére Wed 21 Aug, 6.30 pm

Vivarium

A gripping dystopian nightmare to surpass the very best Twilight Zone and Black Mirror episodes, Vivarium Director: Lorcan Finnegan centres on Gemma (Imogen Poots) and Ireland/Belgium 2019 | 98 mins Producers: Brendan McCarthy, John McDonnell Tom (Jesse Eisenberg), a young couple Screenplay: Garret Shanley who dream of purchasing a first home. Photography: MacGregor After meeting Martin, a rather odd Editor: Tony Cranstoun Music: Kristian Eidnes Andersen real estate agent, they agree to visit With: Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots, a surreal new housing development Jonathan Aris, Eanna Hardwicke, Senan Jennings Festivals: Cannes (Critics’ Week) 2019 called ‘Yonder’. With rows and rows of M violence, offensive language, sex scenes identical houses appearing to stretch & nudity on forever, it seems as vague and interminable as the name suggests. This ultimate version of suburbia takes a sinister turn when Gemma and Tom realise no matter how hard they try to leave Yonder, they keep returning to the same place. Soon, they discover they have no way of communicating with the outside world. All the other homes appear to be empty. Forced to act genre cinema. Smart and unexpected, like real-life Sims as their dream home Vivarium is the logical antidote to “A malevolent horror satire becomes more prison-like with each the overblown drivel that big-budget that suggests those passing day, they eventually welcome spandex studio tentpoles vomit on the someone – or something – else into apathetic public. — AT struggling with millennial their increasingly desperate situation. “In his second feature, Finnegan anxieties should be Lorcan Finnegan’s debut feature, twists suburban banality into careful what they wish Without Name, was an eye-catching something altogether horrifying and ecological spook fest that never veered unnerving… Unmistakably cinematic for.” — Tom Bond, One Room B Lumiére Thu 15 Aug, 4.15 pm off into predictable Hollywood formula, in scope… Vivarium impresses with With A View A Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 6.15 pm and this superb follow-up will only its clarity of vision and originality.” A Lumiére Wed 21 Aug, 8.45 pm A Lumiére Fri 23 Aug, 8.45 pm raise his stock as a director of superior — Bradley Warren, The Playlist

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Children of the Sea Kaijou no kodomo ALL AGES ALL FOR Director: Watanabe Ayumu Japan 2019 | 110 mins Producer: Tanaka Eiko Screenplay: Based on the manga by Igarashi Daisuke Animation director: Konishi Kenichi Music: Joe Hisaishi Voices: Ashida Mana, Ishibashi Hiro, Uragami Seishu, Morizaki Win, Inagaki Goro, Aoi Yu, Watanabe Toru, Tanaka Min, Fuji Sumiko Festivals: Sydney, Annecy 2019 In Japanese with English subtitles Censors rating tbc

Based on the exquisite manga of the Ruka begins spending time with... same name, Children of the Sea draws the brothers [and] discovers that she on the talents of Japan’s famed Studio shares an almost magical connection 4°C (Mind Game, Tekkonkinkreet) and to the ocean. Meanwhile, a mysterious the mighty Joe Hisaishi, whose magical gathering of aquatic life off the coast

scores are the lifeforce behind so many seems imminent… of Studio Ghibli’s animated classics. This is a film you experience on a “This is one of the most beautifully deeper level, one that washes over you animated films I’ve seen in years. like a wave… It’s hard to overstate what Children of the Sea revolves around an atmospheric triumph Studio 4°C has Ruka (Ashida Mana), a headstrong pulled off here.” — Matt Schley, The 14-year-old girl who lives in a coastal Japan Times town near Tokyo… While wandering the town, she visits the aquarium... and witnesses something incredible: a boy swimming among the whales. B Lumiére Fri 9 Aug, 12.00 pm This boy, she learns, is named A Lumiére Sat 10 Aug, 2.00 pm Umi… [and] he and his brother, Sora… A Lumiére Fri 23 Aug, 8.15 pm A Lumiére Sat 24 Aug, 2.15 pm were raised in the ocean by dugongs.

Modest Heroes: Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Volume 1

Directors/Screenplay: Yonebayashi Hiromasa, Momose Yoshiyuki, Yamashita Akihiko Japan 2018 | 54 mins Producer: Nishimura Yoshiaki Music: Muramatsu Takatsugu, Shimada Masanori, Nakata Yasutaka In Japanese with English subtitles PG some scenes may scare very young children Recommended for ages 9+

Brave young heroes and thinkers lead the way Two crab siblings must survive beloved and esteemed Studio Ghibli. underwater perils to reunite with Together, the three stories (Kanini in enchanting animations from Japan, a splendid their father; a little boy and his mother & Kanino, Life Ain’t Gonna Lose, new film from the master of French animation, learn to live with a life-changing Invisible) explore ideas of heroism in allergy; and a man struggles with everyday life. The infinite potential an inspiring documentary about scientists of his fading existence, in this action- of the short film format allows the future, and not one, but two animated short packed and beautifully animated celebrated directors Yonebayashi short film anthology, brought to life Hiromasa, Momose Yoshiyuki and film collections. by some of the greatest talents Yamashita Akihiko to experiment with working in Japanese animation today. breathtaking and dynamic visuals, Selected by Nic Marshall of Square Eyes Film Modest Heroes is an ambitious concise human drama and gorgeous Foundation, ardent promoters of international collection of three thrilling tales, fantasy worlds. — NM produced by acclaimed Studio Ponoc, cinema to our youngest audiences and their the animation studio founded by movie-going companions. two-time Academy Award-nominee Nishimura Yoshiaki (The Tale of B Lumiére Sun 11 Aug, 1.15 pm The Princess Kaguya, NZIFF14; B Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 10.30 am When Marnie Was There, NZIFF15) B Isaac Theatre Sat 24 Aug, 10.00 am B Lumiére Sun 25 Aug, 3.00 pm and featuring many artists from the

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Dilili in Paris Dilili à Paris

Director/Screenplay: Michel Ocelot Whip-smart and astute six-year-old Dilili France/Belgium/Germany 2018 finds herself caught up in an ominous 95 mins and nefarious underground plot, Producers: Christophe Rossignon, Philip Boëffard Editor: Patrick Ducruet through which she and her sidekick Music: Gabriel Yared Orel see the beauty of Paris during one Voices: Prunelle Charles-Ambron, Enzo Ratsito, Natalie Dessay of its finest times of artistic, literary Festivals: Annecy, London 2018 and musical enlightenment. Offering In French with English subtitles PG cert staunch defence of just causes and a Recommended for ages 9+ more than loveable determined and curious main character, Dilili in Paris pays homage to the brightest moments of modernist Paris, while also shining a light on the emancipation and advancement of women and how we view and respect difference. Be sure to savour this wonderful new film from animator extraordinaire Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Kirikou and the Wild Beasts, NZIFF06) on the biggest screen possible. — NM an unlikely but impressive rollcall of “It’s the turn of the century and Parisian luminaries, from Marcel Proust, “Michel Ocelot, creator of Paris is a city of diversity, architecture, Claude Monet and Marie Curie to Louis Kirikou, pushes the limits culture and home to Dilili, a Kanak girl Pasteur, Erik Satie and Sarah Bernhardt. who hails from a French territory in Although there’s an unsettling sting in of enchantment and the South Pacific. With her new friend the tale that could prove challenging wonder once again using Orel, a delivery boy, Dilili investigates for very young viewers, Ocelot’s film a breathtaking pictorial a mystery involving a dastardly plan employs his lovingly crafted trademark devised by a secret society called style, foregrounds the universal and chromatic creativity.” B Lumiére Fri 9 Aug, 4.00 pm The Master-Men. Their investigation, aspiration of good triumphing over evil, — Le Nouvel Observateur A Lumiére Sun 11 Aug, 3.15 pm that soon finds them being followed, and features immensely likeable lead A Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 4.15 pm finds Dilili and Orel encountering characters.” — Justin Johnson, BFI A Lumiére Sun 18 Aug, 11.45 am

Inventing Tomorrow

Join brilliant young minds from diverse Director: Laura Nix cultural and economic backgrounds USA 2018 | 89 mins as they work with resourcefulness Producers: Diane Becker, Melanie Miller, Laura Nix Photography: Martina Radwan and imagination to develop practical Editor: Helen Kearns solutions to their local eco challenges Music: Laura Karpman With: Jared Goodwin, Sahithi Pingali, Shofi Latifah – and prepare projects for the largest Nuha Anfaresi, Intan Utami Putri, Jesús Alfonso convening of high school scientists in Martínez Aranda, José Manuel Elizalde Esparza, Fernando Miguel Sánchez Villalobos the world. The future is brighter than Festivals: Sundance, Hot Docs, Sydney 2018 you think. — NM In English, Spanish and Indonesian, with English “The competition is beside the point subtitles in Laura Nix’s inspiring film because she’s interested in showcasing a specific type of high school entrant: those who see an environmental threat in their backyard and are driven to fix it with science. Sixteen-year-old activist Sahithi, who lives in a region of India beset by pollution-caused lake fires, develops an app to make water testing crowd- sourceable. Spirited Bangka Island, quality, develop a photocatalytic paint Indonesia, students Intan and Nuha that would halt the spread of pollutants “A wonderfully hopeful want to offset the corrosive effects the way trees curb global warming. profile of scientists who of legal and illegal tin mining in their Rooting for these appealing, thinking- city by creating a filter for dredgers to globally/acting-locally adolescents is are old enough to grasp use. Jared, a descendant of Hawaiians easy as they fret over and fine-tune their the… problems facing who survived tsunamis, works on how presentations. But by the end, as you their global community, to track the spread of arsenic into dry your eyes, it’s their futures you want cities from a pond where it had been them to win – as scientists, optimists and young enough to still A Lumiére Sat 10 Aug, 12.15 pm dumped for decades. Meanwhile, three and change agents – not just a science believe they can solve A Lumiére Sun 18 Aug, 4.45 pm Monterrey, Mexico, kids, disturbed fair prize.” — Robert Abele, LA Times B Lumiére Fri 23 Aug, 4.30 pm them.” — Scott Beggs, Nerdist A Lumiére Sun 25 Aug, 11.15 am by their industrialized city’s terrible air

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Animation for Kids 4+ 62 mins approx. | G cert

Animation is such an engaging art Tony the Tiny Pony Monsters Don’t Exist 6:1 | | form – perfect for inspiring the wide- NZ 2019 | Director: Ned Wenlock | 4 mins Denmark 2017 | Directors: Ilaria Angelini, Luca Russia 2018 Director: Sergei Ryabov 3 mins open imaginations of our youngest Barberis Organista, Nicola Bernardi | 3 mins Listen up cowboys, cowgirls and cow- Long journeys are loads more fun if NZIFF audience members. Not that the everybody else too: gather round to hear Trying to beat the boredom of you have a board game and a friend inspiration stops there – these eclectic the story of a tiny pony named Tony. detention, two frenemies engage in an to play it with. Except if your opponent and entertaining films are sure to epic battle for monster supremacy. has an annoying winning streak! appeal to both the young and young Saturday’s Apartment at heart. — NM South Korea 2018 | Director: Jeon Seungbae | 7 mins Mister Paper Goes Out The Man With Birds France 2017 | Director: Quentin Marcault | 5 mins Noisy antics make life quarrelsome for for a Walk a bunch of apartment dwellers – is Belgium 2018 | Directors: Ben Tesseur, Steven De On a lonely mountain, a changing of Beul 9 mins peaceful coexistence possible? the guard is getting underway. Flipped With trusty scissors in hand, Mister UK 2018 | Directors: Hend Esmat, Lamiaa Diab | 5 mins Sloth Paper crafts his ideal world. Big Finds A Trumpet | | Germany 2017 | Director: Julia Ocker | 4 mins UK 2017 Director: Dan Castro 4 mins Little ones are in charge and grown-ups Preschool Poets: Supergirl get to play in a flipped world where the This sleepy sloth really, really, really When Big finds a new toy to play with, USA 2018 | Directors: Nancy Kangas, Josh Kun | 1 min roles of kids and adults are switched. wants an ice-cream – but is he way Tiny isn’t very happy about it. A film too slow? Penny is a poet who shares the many about trumpets and people who you Kuap ways she wants to be super. like who are also annoying. Switzerland 2018 | Director: Nils Hedinger | 8 mins Doll’s Letters The Swimming Lesson It can be hard feeling like you’re Russia 2016 | Director: Natalia Gropfel | 7 mins Russia 2017 | Director: Tatyana Okruzhnova | 3 mins different from those around you. One When a little girl loses her doll, her little tadpole realises that growth and new pal comes up with an inventive Captivated by aquatic adventure transformation happen in their own way to help her navigate her loss. stories, a brave kid soon must put his good time. swimming skills to the test.

B Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 1.30 pm B Isaac Theatre Sun 25 Aug, 10.30 am

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Animation for Kids 8+ 72 mins approx. | PG some scenes may disturb

We again alternate big themes and Scrambled Vivat Musketeers! The Skellingtons of existential musings with essential The Netherlands 2017 | Director: Bastiaan Russia 2017 | Director: Anton Dyakov | 5 mins hilarity, showcasing 12 terrific short Schravendeel | 6 mins Wellington The world is about to perish, NZ 2019 | Director: Ruth Templer | 3 mins films from all corners of our big wide When Esra misses her train, a everything seems hopeless. But then world. Certain to stimulate and charm The Skellingtons ride – but if you look discarded classic cube tries to get her a real hero steps forward – a brave both sharp young minds and indie closely there is nobody there. attention. musketeer without fear! animation-loving grown-ups. — NM Link Workout Do Not Touch! UK 2018 | Director: Joe Wood | 2 mins | | Germany 2017 Director: Robert Löbel 7 mins Czech Republic 2017 | Director: Pavel Endrle | 1 min A successful gym session is all about Two characters are intrinsically linked One room. One button. A sign that maintaining excellent rhythm. 1 mètre/heure as they influence each other with every clearly says, ‘do not touch’. What to do? France 2018 | Director: Nicolas Deveaux | 9 mins move they make. Running Lights Lost & Found At an airport, on the wing of an Listen Papa! Lithuania/India/Finland 2017 | Director: Gediminas aeroplane, a troupe of snails perform Australia 2018 | Directors: Andrew Goldsmith, Siaulys | 11 mins Russia 2019 | Directors: Olga Poliektova, Tatiana Bradley Slabe | 7 mins a magnificent choreographed dance. Poliektova | 13 min A magical transfer of glowing energy A dinosaur must unravel itself to and life is set in motion when one A letter from a boy to his father shares maintain a tight-knit friendship. creature departs its earthly form. all that had once been kept unspoken. A Good Heart Best Laid Plans Russia 2018 | Director: Evgeniya Jirkova | 5 mins USA 2017 | Director: John Morena | 1 min The life of a prehistoric family is Follow the ups and downs of a Rube upset, little by little, by the arrival of Goldberg contraption. numerous uninvited friends.

B Isaac Theatre Sun 11 Aug, 10.15 am B Lumiére Sat 24 Aug, 12.00 pm

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The Amazing Johnathan Documentary REALITY FRAMING Director/Screenplay: Ben Berman USA 2019 | 91 mins Producers: Miranda Bailey, Ben Berman, Russell Wayne Groves, Amanda Marshall, Jacob Perlin Photography: Dan Adlerstein, Ben Berman Editors: Scott Evans, Ben Berman Music: Zack Wright With: Johnathan Szeles Festivals: Sundance 2019 M drug use, offensive language & content that may disturb

“It’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle wife, Anastasia. If the disease doesn’t inside an enigma.” The famous line kill him, the boredom and meth will. from JFK is the perfect way to describe With what little gas he has left in the meta-hijinks that unfold in this the tank, Szeles decides to stage the unbelievably strange documentary. greatest comeback tour of all time. John Szeles is a popular magician But the man who survived decades who rose through the ranks to book a of extreme living has a bombshell to headline spot in Vegas. You’ll know his drop. Things quickly turn surreal for the act if you’ve watched a lot of comedy filmmaker as The Amazing Johnathan, shows – he’s the prop guy whose the performer, and The Amazing lowbrow routines (involving spikes Johnathan Documentary spin out of through the tongue or eating doves) are control. When reality starts to blur, delivered with unlikely infectious energy. we’re left to wonder what final trick he Diagnosed with a rare heart has in store for us. — AT condition, the prognosis not good, Szeles is forced into retirement, and director Ben Berman gains unfettered A Lumiére Sun 18 Aug, 8.00 pm access to his days wandering his Las B Lumiére Mon 19 Aug, 4.00 pm Vegas mansion beside his ever-patient A Lumiére Sat 24 Aug, 6.45 pm

PRESENTED IN Ask Dr Ruth ASSOCIATION WITH

Director: Ryan White USA 2019 | 100 mins Producers: Rafael Marmor, Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Christopher Leggett Photography: David Paul Jacobson Editor: Helen Kearns Music: Blake Neely The profusion of excellent documentaries With: Dr Ruth Westheimer Festivals: Sundance, Hot Docs submitted to us is staggering. We try to steer 2019 a course that favours formal sophistication and complexity, while allowing ourselves on occasion to fall for the most forthright A mere four foot seven, but feeling Westheimer is perhaps best known advocacy or (other)worldly spectacle. six feet tall, Ruth Westheimer believes as a media personality who frankly she has “an obligation to live long and discussed sexual dynamics, AIDS, and You’ll find more fine examples filling the Big make a dent in this world.” There’s no women’s pleasure at the height of Nights and Aotearoa strands, and almost contesting that she has done both and the Reagan era. But producer-director continues to do so. She first came to Ryan White, who follows the busy and everywhere else in the programme. the American public’s attention in 1980 ebullient Westheimer as she nears her with a New York radio show, Sexually 90th birthday, provides ample space Speaking, a 15-minute programme for the luminary to tell her full story.” airing at midnight on Sundays. Within a — Leah Pickett, Chicago Reader few years, its popularity led to it being syndicated nationwide as the Dr Ruth Show and to Westheimer becoming a household name. As spirited as its A Isaac Theatre Sat 10 Aug, 10.30 am subject, this film allows us to encounter B Lumiére Mon 12 Aug, 12.15 pm the remarkable woman behind the A Lumiére Fri 16 Aug, 6.45 pm phenomenon known as Dr Ruth. — SR B Lumiére Fri 23 Aug, 1.30 pm “A feminist icon before the term crystallized in popular discourse, A MM Timaru Sat 17 Aug, 1.45 pm

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Aquarela

Victor Kossakovsky’s (¡Vivan las Director: Victor Kossakovsky Antipodas!, NZIFF12) latest mind- and UK/Germany/Denmark/USA 2018 documentary-bending opus captures 90 mins water in all its guises: from a frozen- Producers: Aimara Reques, Heino Deckert, Sigrid Dyekjær over lake to a flowing river; from Screenplay: Victor Kossakovsky, Aimara Reques breaching icebergs to cascading Photography: Victor Kossakovsky, Ben Bernhard Editors: Victor Kossakovsky, waterfalls; from a screen-filling, slow- Mally Malene Stensgaard, Ainara Vera breaking colossal wave to a beneath- Music: Eicca Toppinen Festivals: Venice, London, Amsterdam the-ice plunge; from individual raindrops Documentary, London 2018; Sundance 2019 to a massive flood. Majestic, menacing, In Russian, English and Spanish, with English subtitles dangerous, deceptive, murderous, Presented at 48fps

glorious, ferocious H2O shapeshifts from element to sensory event in this epic and spectacular meditation which travels across the globe. A visceral visual and aural poem, employing state-of-the-art digital technology which allows moving water to be shot without any loss of detail, Aquarela is an immersive experience likely to make your head and senses musician Eccia Toppinen. — SR spin. It eschews narrative, although “Any environmentalists and “[A] ravishing visual feast… an undertow of environmental alerts politicians arguing the need to combat filmed in Greenland, about the havoc of climate change climate change would do well to add can be sensed in its rushing flow. Victor Kossakovsky’s Aquarela to Venezuela, Siberia’s Lake Kossakovsky mainly lets the images their arsenal. The Russian filmmaker’s Baikal and the middle of and the equally incredible soundscape attempt to capture the raw power of the Atlantic.” provided by water – thundering, the Earth’s water using 96 frames- crunching, raging, trickling – tell his per-second cinematography and — Leslie Felperin, Hollywood tale, while occasionally overlaying it considerable daring is an experience of Reporter with a dense, heavy metal-infused shock and awe – as well as wonder.” B Isaac Theatre Wed 21 Aug, 1.45 pm score he commissioned from Finnish — Demetrios Matheou, Screendaily A Isaac Theatre Sun 25 Aug, 12.15 pm

Backtrack Boys For Sama

Director/Producer/ Directors: Waad al-Kateab, Screenplay/Photography: Edward Watts Catherine Scott Syria/UK 2019 | 95 mins Australia 2018 | 104 mins Producer/Photography: Editor: Andrea Lang Waad al-Kateab With: Bernie Shakeshaft Editors: Chloë Lambourne, Festivals: Sydney, Melbourne 2018 Simon McMahon Audience Award (Best Festivals: SXSW, Hot Docs, Documentary), Sydney Film Cannes (Special Screening) 2019 Festival & Melbourne Golden Eye (Best Documentary), International Film Festival 2018 Cannes Film Festival 2019 M offensive language In Arabic with English subtitles RP16 graphic content may disturb

In this moving documentary we follow intervention and imprisonment. Sama means sky in Arabic and Syrian last hospital in Aleppo; it becomes Bernie Shakeshaft’s mission to heal The ultimate endorsement of Bernie’s director Waad al-Kateab hopes the Sama’s creche too. The ashen faces the most damaged and marginalised positive impact on these boys lies in the skies above Aleppo might soon be free of dust-and-blood covered kids aren’t Australian boys through training dogs sharing of their experiences and their of Russian warplanes and their bombs. easily forgotten; they’re traumatised, for showjumping. Bernie’s goals are reflection on their pasts and potential Sama, al-Kateab’s baby, is named for grief-stricken. Some of them are dying simple: first, keep the boy alive; second, futures – all poignantly captured the sky her mother dreams of, one or dead. The camera doesn’t break keep him out of prison; and only then through a candid observational style simply populated by clouds and rain. its stare. As al-Kateab witnesses the encourage him to chase his hopes and and in deeply honest and heartfelt Taking the form of an address to her devastating cost of war on children she dreams. interviews. daughter, al-Kateab’s documentary is starts to question her own decisions. Centred on the daily lives of three A hit with Australian film festival an intimate and harrowing picture of Co-directed by Edward Watts, this boys at the residential programme in audiences. — Chris Kirk motherhood and war. humanist film is a vital addition to Wallah, rural New South Wales, over In 2012, al-Kateab met her husband, a growing canon documenting the the course of two years, Catherine a doctor, at protests against President ongoing war crimes in Syria. — Scott’s film inspires hope without Bashar al-Assad. They fall in love, Catherine Bisley shying away from the harsh reality that marry, have a child. But this nonlinear looms beyond Backtrack. A genuine A Lumiére Sun 11 Aug, 1.00 pm family video diary is scored with shells B Lumiére Tue 13 Aug, 2.00 pm tension hangs over the film as all A Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 11.30 am and bombs. Much footage comes A Lumiére Thu 15 Aug, 6.15 pm three boys face the possibility that B Lumiére Mon 19 Aug, 4.15 pm from the hospitals Sama’s dad sets A Lumiére Sun 18 Aug, 12.45 pm A Lumiére Sun 25 Aug, 6.00 pm their progress will be derailed by court up. Later, the family live onsite at the A Lumiére Mon 19 Aug, 8.15 pm

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The Biggest Little Farm

Who hasn’t fantasised about ditching Director/Photography: John Chester their city day job for a simpler life on USA 2018 | 91 mins the land? For John and Molly Chester, Producers: Sandra Keats, John Chester Screenplay: John Chester, Mark Monroe this journey begins with a barking dog, Editor: Amy Overbeck but you’ll soon wonder if they're the Music: Jeff Beal With: John Chester, Molly Chester, Todd the dog ones who are barking mad. Festivals: Toronto 2018; Sundance, Berlin 2019 Faced with eviction from their Los Angeles apartment block because their rescue dog's incessant yapping is PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH driving the neighbours to despair, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker John and his foodie wife Molly head for the foothills of California’s Ventura County, where they acquire an 80-hectare avocado and citrus orchard with a history of bank foreclosures. Undeterred by the barren landscape at Apricot Lane Farms, these wannabe farmers set out to regenerate the depleted soil using traditional farming methods. What follows is a fairy tale, of sorts, a feel-good tale of the triumph of complete with evil rogues (murderous eco-philosophy over agri-practicality. “[Will] revive your wonder coyotes, gobbling gophers and a With its gentle pace, captivating at the weird but squadron of fruit-filching starlings) and cinematography and an impossibly cute a fairy godfather in self-proclaimed supporting cast of snail-scoffing ducks, ultimately awe-inspiring soil guru Alan York, a man who is fluffy sheep dogs and a very fertile ways in which humans can B Lumiére Tue 13 Aug, 12.15 pm either a biodynamic gardening genius sow named Emma, The Biggest Little help nature do its work.” B Isaac Theatre Thu 15 Aug, 11.30 am or an idealistic crackpot with an Farm reminds us all that nature needs — Glenn Kenny, NY Times A Isaac Theatre Sat 17 Aug, 10.15 am evangelical belief in the powers of our nurture. A restorative pleasure, A Lumiére Sun 25 Aug, 2.00 pm worm poo. Spoiler alert: he’s smarter and one of the most delightful biggest than he looks. little documentaries you’ll see this B MM Timaru Mon 19 Aug, 2.00 pm Eight years in the making, this is year. — Lynda Hallinan A MM Timaru Sat 24 Aug, 1.00 pm

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Hail Satan?

You would think an organisation named Director: Penny Lane The Satanic Temple would be serious USA 2019 | 95 mins stuff, but these agitators are nothing Producer: Gabriel Sedgwick Photography: Naiti Gámez like the devil worshippers portrayed in Editors: Amy Foote, Aaron Wickenden the media. Demanding true democracy, Music: Brian McOmber, Angel Deradoorian, Jordan Dykstra TST serves as a community for those Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam 2019 willing to fight for the rights of M offensive language & nudity every citizen in America, even if their approach seems a tad left-field. Those familiar with Penny Lane’s Nuts! (NZIFF16) will know her penchant for stories that are stranger than fiction, and Hail Satan? is no exception. A story of an actor, a believer and a divided organisation, Lane’s dive into the inner workings of TST introduces us to its co-founder Lucien Greaves, who is embroiled in a lawsuit to allow the Temple to place a 2.6-metre- tall sculpture of Baphomet at the Oklahoma State Capitol to complement members who have found a family in the existing Ten Commandments their local Temple group. It’s no surprise “A devilishly fun monument. The crowdfunded creation that following production, Lane documentary… is only part of the story... and it’s not announced she felt “very aligned with/ even the strangest part. allied with TST’s mission.” provocative, hilarious, Recalling ‘satanic panic’, the Through a wealth of archival footage and latently enraging.” formation of Anton LeVay’s Church of and beautifully illustrated sequences, — David Ehrlich, Indiewire Satan and the American moral panic Hail Satan? explores the deep irony of the 50s, Greaves eloquently justifies of America’s religious zealots, while A Lumiére Fri 9 Aug, 8.15 pm the creation of the Temple as a place providing viewers with hope that TST A Lumiére Thu 15 Aug, 8.15 pm of sanity and social conscience. The will continue its good fight. — Kailey B Lumiére Wed 21 Aug, 2.00 pm A Lumiére Fri 23 Aug, 6.15 pm film features interviews with current Carruthers

One Child Nation

Taking home the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s One Directors: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang Child Nation is a powerful investigative USA 2019 | 85 mins Producers: Julie Goldman, Christoph Jörg, work. Taking a frank and occasionally Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn explicit look at the wide-reaching Photography: Nanfu Wang, Yuanchen Liu consequences of China’s one-child Editor: Nanfu Wang Music: Nathan Halpern, Chris Ruggiero policy, their documentary pulls back the Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco, Hot Docs 2019 curtain on the policy’s true cost. Grand Jury Prize (US Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2019 Introduced in 1979 to curb China’s In English and Mandarin, with English subtitles explosive population growth, the one- M offensive language & content that may disturb child policy promised prosperity for the nation. In stark contrast, Wang shares heartbreaking interviews with families in China who gave up or abandoned their children and are still mourning the senseless loss. Others put emotion aside to follow orders. Although the one-child policy ended in 2015, that the ramifications of those 35 years will be felt for decades to come. — Kailey encapsulate decades of underreported Carruthers events within a palatable narrative “Densely informative yet “Using a remarkable personal lens, accessible even to viewers with no prior always grounded in deep the film examines the reverberations of understanding of the policy’s history. propaganda on broken families across Lacing the edit with images of posters personal investment and multiple generations. The cumulative and music designed to reinforce the clear-eyed compassion, effect creates the sense that its country’s repressive standards for family this is a powerful destructive effects continue to be felt life, Wang reveals the intricate system well beyond China’s borders… that caused her and so many others to indictment of a traumatic As a brilliant combination of cultural accept these restrictions throughout social experiment.” — David reporting and interpersonal reckoning, their youth and into early adulthood.” A Isaac Theatre Sat 10 Aug, 3.15 pm Rooney, Hollywood Reporter One Child Nation manages to — Eric Kohn, Indiewire B Isaac Theatre Mon 12 Aug, 1.00 pm

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Varda by Agnès

Sitting centre stage, in her ubiquitous Director/Screenplay: Agnès Varda AGNES V. director’s chair, one of France 2019 | 115 mins cinema’s (too) few doyennes reflects Producer: Rosalie Varda Editors: Agnès Varda, Nicolas Longinotti on her life’s work. Like many of her With: Agnès Varda, Sandrine Bonnaire, films, Agnès Varda’s masterclass – she Nurith Aviv, Hervé Chandès Festivals: Berlin 2019 prefers to call it a ‘causerie’ (a chat) – is In French with English subtitles a kind of self-portrait, spanning six M nudity & content that may disturb decades. Strict chronology is not of the essence; instead, with her customary inventiveness, Varda skips from period to theme to subject to memory, liberally employing excerpts from her films as she takes us on a journey which began with stills photography, moved on to filmmaking and, most recently, led her to work as a visual artist, devising installation pieces for major museums and galleries. Three things drove her: inspiration, creativity, sharing. And the belief that “nothing is banal if we have empathy at various events, with clips and and love the people we film, if we playfully dramatised reconstructions… “[Agnès Varda’s] curious find people extraordinary.” Inspired looking back over the director’s spirit and merging of and inspirational, she was; endlessly remarkable life and career… Her energy creative, an early embracer of digital seems… channelled into a tone of calm radical politics with technology, and in this, her final film, and beguiling wisdom: witty, equable, personal life made her again generously sharing her vision and gentle. She is not grandmotherly, one of contemporary passions. For, “we don’t make films to but godmotherly, granting wishes and watch them alone.” Extraordinary, yes. making the business of film-making filmmaking’s most Vive Agnès! — SR seem as magically straightforward inspiring figures.” “Varda’s charming and approachable as writing words on a page.” — Peter A Isaac Theatre Mon 12 Aug, 6.15 pm — Artforum film… [uses] footage from her speaking Bradshaw, The Guardian B Isaac Theatre Fri 16 Aug, 11.30 am

PRESENTED IN Meeting Gorbachev ASSOCIATION WITH Where’s My Roy Cohn?

Directors/Screenplay: Director: Matt Tyrnauer Werner Herzog, USA 2019 | 97 mins André Singer Producers: Matt Tyrnauer, UK/USA/Germany 2018 Corey Reeser, Marie Brenner, Joyce Deep, Andrea Lewis 91 mins Editors: Andrea Lewis, Tom Photography: Yuri Burak, Richard Maroney Blanshard Music: Lorne Balfe Editor: Michael Ellis With: Roy M. Cohn, Roger Stone, Narrator: Werner Herzog Barbara Walters Festivals: Toronto, Amsterdam Festivals: Sundance 2019 Documentary 2018; Tribeca 2019 In English, Russian, German and Polish, with English subtitles Colour and B&W

The unifying global vision of Mikhail interview with the former Soviet This searing portrait of notorious lawyer are not too many lawyers that can S. Gorbachev, the last leader of the leader, Werner Herzog’s Meeting Roy Cohn, whose career spanned from make such a claim… Soviet Union, brought unprecedented Gorbachev speeds through a vast Senator McCarthy’s anti-communist Tyrnauer’s film… a collection openness to government, put nuclear stretch of the 20th century, explaining witch-hunt in the 1950s, through to of talking heads and news clips… disarmament on the international the decline of the Soviet Union and advising Donald Trump, delves into the [deals] in an avalanche of facts… This agenda and allowed Eastern Europe the Iron Curtain through the eyes of dark arts of American politics. film connects a direct line between to escape the stranglehold of Moscow the man whose reforms precipitated “Roy Cohn was a corrupt lawyer, Roy Cohn’s belligerent, boorish and without a fight. In late 1991, he was much of it… Meeting Gorbachev is political dirty trickster, mafia associate obstructionist ways and our current, ousted and the dismantling of the a hagiography, but it’s unafraid to and scumbag. He was a self-hating less eloquent nightmare. To answer the Join our newsletter or empire fell into less scrupulous hands. position itself as such; Herzog makes Jew who powered the engine of one question ‘where’s my Roy Cohn?’ he follow us on social media, to Interviewing a rueful and forthright his case proudly and passionately.” of the worst antisemitic moments in is, unfortunately, in the White House.” keep up with the centenary Gorbachev at 87, retracing his rise — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture American history, the demonization — Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian programme of events. and fall in vivid strokes, and seeking and execution of Julius and Ethel testimony from other key players, Rosenberg. He was a closeted man @mccahonhouse director Werner Herzog provides a who refused to publicly identify as gay moving portrait of his statesmanship, B Lumiére Fri 9 Aug, 2.15 pm even as he was dying of Aids. He was A Lumiére Wed 14 Aug, 6.15 pm mccahonhouse.org.nz his humanity and his profound A Lumiére Sat 10 Aug, 11.00 am so famous for being a mean bastard A Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 11.45 am mccahon100.org.nz historical impact. — BG A Lumiére Mon 12 Aug, 8.30 pm that there were not one but two jokes A Lumiére Sun 18 Aug, 8.15 pm A Lumiére Sun 25 Aug, 5.45 pm “Consisting primarily of a sit-down at his expense on The Simpsons. There B Lumiére Tue 20 Aug, 4.15 pm

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Carmine Street Guitars AN ARTIST AN OF PORTRAIT Director/Producer: Ron Mann Canada 2018 | 80 mins Screenplay: Len Blum Photography: John Minh Tran, Becky Parsons Editor: Robert Kennedy Music: The Sadies With: Rick Kelly, Cindy Hulej, Dorothy Kelly, Bill Frisell, Eleanor Friedberger, Marc Ribot, Nels Cline, Jim Jarmusch Festivals: Venice, Toronto, New York 2018

© SPHINX PRODUCTIONS A film for anyone who appreciates the while he is visited by a succession of art of guitar playing or the beauty of reverential customers – including Bill making things, or both, Carmine Street Frisell, Eleanor Friedberger, Marc Ribot, Guitars centres on Rick Kelly, who has Nels Cline and Jim Jarmusch – each of been building and selling guitars from a whom gives an impromptu performance Greenwich Village workshop for more on one of his instruments. We get than 40 years. Though he initially seems to know Kelly’s 93-year-old mother a man of few words, the documentary Dorothy and Gen X apprentice Cindy gradually reveals an artisan-philosopher, Hulej, and director Ron Mann’s camera whose relationship with wood is satisfies our nosiness as he pokes its practical as well as a little mystical. lens into every gloriously cluttered He’s a font of local knowledge, and corner of Kelly’s world. — Nick Bollinger in between discussions of pin routers and crystallised resins we hear about McGurk’s Suicide Hall, learn where Jackson Pollock lived, and discover the A Lumiére Sat 10 Aug, 5.00 pm origins of the expression ‘86’ed’. B Lumiére Wed 14 Aug, 12.00 pm Over an apparently typical week, A Lumiére Thu 15 Aug, 6.30 pm we watch the guitar maker at work A Lumiére Sun 25 Aug, 4.15 pm

Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent Célébration

Director: Olivier Meyrou France 2007 | 73 mins Producers: Bénédicte Couvreur, Christophe Girard Photography: Jean-Marc Bouzou, Florian Bouchet Editors: Cathie Dambel, Amrita David Music: François-Eudes Chanfrault With: Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Bergé Festivals: Berlin 2007 In French with English subtitles Colour and B&W

Shot over two years between 1998 and Although unmasking the erstwhile 2001, just before Yves Saint Laurent fashion icon and, thereby dismantling retired from the world of fashion, this the myth Bergé strived to create and poignant, intimate film, shaped from a protect (and for which he jealously See also: mere 18 hours of footage, captures the sought credit), the film isn’t a salacious great couturier in his twilight, creating exposé, but instead, a fascinating, Amazing Grace (p6) his last collection. The subsequent almost anthropological account of portrait of a physically diminished and a waning monarch and a label’s Andrei Rublev (p8) jittery figure whose reign was coming celebration of its storied status. — SR Peter Peryer: The Art of Seeing (p14) to an end dismayed Pierre Bergé, Yves “A priceless addition to our Saint Laurent’s partner in business understanding of how Yves Saint Mrs Lowry & Son (p25) and, for a period, in life. Bergé initially Laurent – the man, the myth, la marque Varda by Agnès (p43) prevented the film’s release, as the – operated.” — Peter Debruge, Variety behind-the-scenes observation of the apparently adrift, chain-smoking designer – and of puppet master Bergé A Lumiére Sun 11 Aug, 11.45 am lurking in the background orchestrating B Lumiére Wed 14 Aug, 12.30 pm affairs – was not the image that he A Lumiére Thu 22 Aug, 6.15 pm A Lumiére Sat 24 Aug, 11.00 am wanted the world to see.

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Halston

In the year’s most spectacular fashion Director/Screenplay: Frédéric Tcheng documentary, writer-director Frédéric USA 2019 | 105 mins Tcheng (Dior and I, Diana Vreeland: Producers: Roland Ballester, Frédéric Tcheng, Stephanie Levy, Paul Dallas The Eye Has to Travel) applies his Photography: Chris W. Johnson discriminating enthusiast’s eye to the Editors: Èlia Gasull Balada, Frédéric Tcheng Music: Stanley Clarke rise and fall of American fashion legend With: Liza Minnelli, Marisa Berenson, Roy Halston Frowick. Halston, who as Joel Schumacher, Gino Balsamo, Karen Bjornson, Pat Cleveland, Naeem Khan a milliner at Bergdorf Goodman gave Festivals: Sundance, Tribeca, Sydney 2019 Jackie Kennedy her signature pillbox CinemaScope hat, eschewed the countercultural look of the 1960s to establish a simpler, PRESENTED IN more dashing look that made New York ASSOCIATION WITH the epicentre of women’s fashion into the 1980s. His brand expansion into perfumes, then – arguably fatally – into a $1 billion licensing deal with J.C. Penney, was dizzying. Tcheng frames Halston’s fall from grace as both personal tragedy and as a tale of business malfeasance to be investigated. Brimming with his stratospheric ascent to become clips, music and testimony from those a business empire and the first bona “His clothes danced with close to the action, Halston doubles fide American celebrity designer, his you.” — Liza Minnelli as irresistible evocation of the glam rejection by the fashion establishment ethos he was instrumental in shaping, after a misjudged venture, his sad and a classic tale of creative brilliance decline and his indelible legacy. harnessed to a standstill by corporate Frédéric Tcheng delivers all that in the succinctly titled Halston, a roller coaster ambition. — BG B Isaac Theatre Mon 19 Aug, 1.30 pm “It’s mildly astonishing that of fabulousness and folly.” — David A Isaac Theatre Sun 25 Aug, 2.30 pm we’ve had to wait until now for a Rooney, Hollywood Reporter comprehensive assessment of the style B MM Timaru Fri 16 Aug, 3.45 pm revolution of Roy Halston Frowick – A MM Timaru Tue 20 Aug, 5.45 pm

Escher: Journey into Infinity Inna de Yard Escher: Het oneindige zoeken

Director/Producer/ Director/Screenplay: Photography: Robin Lutz Peter Webber The Netherlands 2018 France 2019 | 99 mins 80 mins Producers: Laurent Baudens, Screenplay: Marijnke de Jong, Laurent Flahault, Gaël Nouaille Robin Lutz Photography: Bernard Benant Editor: Moek de Groot Editor: Giles Gardner Voice: Stephen Fry With: Kiddus I, Ken Boothe, With: George Escher, Jan Escher, Cedric Myton, Winston McAnuff, Graham Nash, Liesbeth Judy Mowatt, Var, Jah9 Escher-Hogenhout Festivals: Tribeca 2019 Festivals: Amsterdam In English Documentary 2018 CinemaScope In Dutch and English, with English subtitles

© THE M.C. ESCHER COMPANY B.V.- BAARN – THE NETHERLANDS Although it’s highly probable that M.C. Contributions from two of Escher's Reggae legends including Cedric Myton, The project which anchors the picture Escher, the visionary graphic artist, elderly sons, among other people, Kiddus I and Ken Boothe reminiscence is the recording of an album, ‘unplugged needs no introduction, this enlightening further enrich the profile of this while jamming out their greatest and acoustic style… capturing the music portrait is sure to reward enthusiasts complex and driven man, at times hits in this vibrant celebration of in its virgin state.’ Sprinkled through this and those less familiar with his oeuvre. bemused by the vast appreciation Jamaica and its diverse cultural history. is a dusting of Jamaican history and a Escher’s artistic universe is explored his visions on paper engendered Sprinkled with festive scenes from a live fleeting but poignant commentary on as if we’re seeing it through his own and dismayed by the placemats or performance in Paris, the documentary the poverty and simmering violence eyes – he ‘narrates’ the film (voiced by garish, psychedelic posters they were does for reggae, ska, rock steady and which has marked the lives of most of Stephen Fry) via excerpts from his many turned into without his consent, little roots what Buena Vista Social Club did the musicians in one way or another… diaries, letters and notes – and across imagining the enduring influence of wholeheartedly for Afro-Cuban music. For a warm, engaging love letter to the a cornucopia of his works, many of his imaginings. — SR “There are several lifetimes of music veteran talents who shaped a sound, which have never been shown before. and memories shared between the the film has an infectious groove.” While Escher recounts his life and his subjects of Inna de Yard… The film, an — Wendy Ide, Screendaily constant search to turn his thoughts appealing blend of accessibly toe-tapping into visual form and to create the music and likeable characters, creates an immaculate woodcut prints he could A Lumiére Sat 10 Aug, 10.30 am atmosphere almost as heady as the fug A Lumiére Thu 15 Aug, 8.15 pm see in his mind’s eye, his works float on A Lumiére Tue 20 Aug, 6.15 pm of smoke which… shrouds the heads of A Lumiére Sat 17 Aug, 6.30 pm the screen, animation enhancing their B Lumiére Fri 23 Aug, 1.00 pm the dreadlocked old-timers who are A Lumiére Mon 19 Aug, 8.30 pm A Lumiére Sat 24 Aug, 4.45 pm innate movement. invited to revisit their most iconic tracks… B Lumiére Wed 21 Aug, 12.00 pm

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Maria by Callas

The legendary opera singer, once Director/Screenplay: Tom Volf described as “pure electricity” by France 2017 | 113 mins Leonard Bernstein, eloquently recounts Producers: Emmanuelle Lepers, Gaël Leiblang, Emmanuel Chain, Thierry Bizot, Tom Volf her life and career through interviews, Editor: Janice Jones unpublished letters, diaries and Narrator: Fanny Ardant Voice: Joyce DiDonato memoirs – and, especially, through With: Maria Callas her mesmerising performances – in a Festivals: New York 2018 In English, French and Italian, with English subtitles riveting self-portrait. PG coarse language “By sifting through these materials four decades after Callas’s death, the movie aims to correct a popular perception – spread by the news media and interpretive biographies (Terrence McNally’s play Master Class) – that Callas was a diva offstage as well as on. Whether the results qualify as a comprehensive portrayal is best debated by opera historians, but what is clear is that Maria by Callas provides an excellent introduction to Callas’s artistry. The director, Tom Volf, allows canceled after one act (Callas had several arias to play in full, so that bronchitis) and her eyebrow-raising “To me singing is not an it’s possible to hear the astonishing more-than-friendship with Aristotle act of pride, but rather sustained quality of her voice and Onassis, which began when both to see, in performances of Bizet and were married to others and ended, an attempt to reach Bellini, among others, what we are for a while anyway, after she learned, those heavens where repeatedly told – that she was also a apparently from news reports, that all is perfect harmony.” good actress. he was marrying Jackie Kennedy… — Maria Callas B Isaac Theatre Tue 13 Aug, 1.30 pm The documentary runs, A documentary that revitalizes A Isaac Theatre Wed 21 Aug, 6.15 pm chronologically, through career history through primary sources, to highlights, including a ridiculed 1958 illuminating, at times enthralling A MM Timaru Wed 21 Aug, 5.45 pm performance of Norma that was effect.” — Ben Kenigsberg, NY Times B MM Timaru Fri 23 Aug, 1.30 pm

The Miracle of Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool The Little Prince

Director/Photography: Director: Stanley Nelson Marjoleine Boonstra USA/UK 2019 | 115 mins The Netherlands/Norway Producers: Stanley Nelson, 2018 | 89 mins Nicole London Editor: Lewis Erskine Producer: Pieter van Huijstee With: Miles Davis, Quincy Jones Screenplay: Marjoleine Boonstra, Festivals: Sundance, Hot Docs Lies Janssen, Pieter van Huijstee 2019 Festivals: In English and French, Amsterdam Documentary 2018; with English subtitles Hot Docs 2019 In French, Sami, Tibetan, Tamazight and Nawat, with English subtitles

The Little Prince is the third most someone had cut my throat.” Tashi Kyi Miles Davis was without doubt one Davis experienced living in America, widely translated book in the world, and Noyontsang Lamokyab, Tibetan of the 20th century’s great creative his resultant anger, and the lovers and with versions in 300 languages. exiles living in Paris, are connected forces. The narrative of Stanley others who were often on the receiving Travelling from the Moroccan desert to their homeland through their Nelson’s Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool end of this rage. to Tibet, and the snow-laden region translation into written Tibetan. And is drawn from passages of Davis’s This is not the first film about Miles at the border between Norway and in El Salvador, Jorge Lemus labours 1989 autobiography, which actor Davis, nor is it likely to be the last. Don Finland to El Salvador, this film focuses to produce a version in Nahuat – an Carl Lumbly delivers in a convincing Cheadle’s 2015 biopic Miles Ahead was on several people whose encounter indigenous Aztec language now impersonation of the trumpeter’s more salacious; Murray Lerner’s 2004 with the tale had a profound effect. spoken by only about 300 people. signature rasp, and illustrated with Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue Their translations of it enabled them Nahuat-speakers used to be threatened montages of historical photos, live went deeper into the music. But for a to rediscover their native, often with death. The film eloquently argues footage and interviews with Davis’s primer on who Miles was, what he did endangered languages. Lahbib Fouad’s that “if we fail to protect… languages friends, family and fellow musicians. and why he matters, Stanley Nelson’s mother tongue was Tamazight, we directly damage the diversity of the Nelson guides us through the radical documentary will be hard to beat. Morocco’s second language, but one world.” — SR changes Davis made to jazz over nearly — Nick Bollinger barely written or read; as a child he half a century. We learn something of was forced to speak Arabic, “a foreign A Lumiére Sat 10 Aug, 6.45 pm his taste in clothes, cars and women; language.” Sami-speaking Kerttu A Lumiére Sun 11 Aug, 11.00 am of the rarefied sense of style that was Vuolab was made to speak Finnish; B Lumiére Mon 12 Aug, 2.15 pm another facet of his self-expression. B Isaac Theatre Thu 22 Aug, 3.45 pm the experience made her feel “like A Lumiére Sun 25 Aug, 12.00 pm But Nelson also explores the racism A Isaac Theatre Sun 25 Aug, 5.00 pm

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Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

Nick Broomfield’s evocative memoir Director: Nick Broomfield traces the enduring relationship USA 2019 | 102 mins between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Producers: Nick Broomfield, Marc Hoeferlin, Shani Hinton, Kyle Gibbon Ihlen, the inspiration behind such Photography: Barney Broomfield seminal songs in the folksinger’s oeuvre Editor: Marc Hoeferlin Music: Leonard Cohen, Nick Laird-Clowes as ‘So Long, Marianne’. Traversing With: Leonard Cohen, Marianne Ihlen time, from the early 1960s when the Festivals: Sundance 2019 In English and Norwegian, with English subtitles pair first met on Hydra, a sun- and Colour and B&W drug-drenched Greek island that attracted a coterie of expat artists, until their deaths three months apart in 2016, this documentary is rich with archival material and insider knowledge. Broomfield knew and was one of Ihlen’s lovers back in the day, and he charts “a love story that had fifty chapters without being together.” Essential viewing, whether you’re a Cohen fan or not. “There’s a lot of great Cohen footage, much of it taken from the that the musician wrote to her as she invaluable 1974 tour diary Bird on a lay on her deathbed, of how he was “As much poetry as Wire, and you get his journey from ‘right behind her’ in terms of time documentary – a gentle, early scribblings to late-tour comeback. running out. But to see that letter being What makes this film unmissable… is read to her, and the run of emotions rhapsodic film… and a the fact that we get Marianne’s story across her face as she processes her moving portrait of a love more or less in full as well. It’s a fleshing own ‘so long,’ is to feel that the that still resonates.” out of someone who was more than narrative has been given back to her. — Steve Pond, The Wrap B Isaac Theatre Fri 9 Aug, 4.00 pm just a muse, more than just an object Marianne is no longer just ‘Leonard’s A Isaac Theatre Sun 11 Aug, 5.30 pm of affection for a famous man (and an muse.’ She’s a woman who’s lived and infamous bastard)… loved and lost completely apart from B MM Timaru Thu 15 Aug, 3.45 pm We’ve heard the now-famous letter the songs.” — David Fear, Rolling Stone A MM Timaru Fri 23 Aug, 8.00 pm

Martha: A Picture Story

Meet Martha Cooper, the sprightly Director/Screenplay: Selina Miles 75-year-old photographer and unlikely USA 2019 | 84 mins darling of the international graffiti Producer: Daniel Joyce Photography: Michael Latham scene. Selina Miles’ charming doco will Editor: Simon Njoo open your eyes to a whole subculture Music: Adit Gauchan, Vincent Goodyer With: Martha Cooper inspired by the work of one woman Festivals: Tribeca, Sydney 2019 who documented an art form once considered a crime. Martha turned her lens on New York subway trains in the late 70s and early 80s, creating a permanent record with the publication of Subway Art, her 1984 photo essay co-authored with Henry Chalfant. While a small print run didn't generate a profit, unknown to the authors it became a hot commodity among street artists (and shoplifters). Known as `the bible', it influenced subcultures around the world. The film chronicles Martha’s early struggle as a female photographer with streets on the verge of gentrification dreams of being a photojournalist, yet that we see Martha's passion in action. “Eighty of the happiest her ideas weren’t taken seriously. It’s a Her love for people is infectious and minutes documentary- frustration that is echoed throughout the resulting body of work astounding. her career. Her break came as the first Not since Bill Cunningham New York has lovers are likely to spend female photographer at the New York a documentary about a photographer in a theater this year.” Post, where the briefs varied from so readily made you fall in love with — John DeFore, Hollywood paparazzi assignments to news events both the images and the person across the five boroughs of New York. behind the camera. She may be in her Reporter A Lumiére Fri 9 Aug, 6.30 pm We see glimpses of her international seventies but there’s no slowing down A Lumiére Sun 11 Aug, 5.45 pm portfolio, but it is through her work back for Martha, a living legend who’s ‘still B Lumiére Mon 19 Aug, 12.15 pm A Lumiére Sat 24 Aug, 12.30 pm home documenting South Baltimore’s snappin’. — Rebecca McMillan

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PJ Harvey: A Dog Called Money

Several years ago, curious members of Director/Screenplay/Photography: the public were afforded the chance to Seamus Murphy watch PJ Harvey record her follow-up to Ireland/UK 2019 | 90 mins the Mercury Prize-winning Let England Producers: Isabel Davis, Katie Holly, James Wilson, Seamus Murphy Shake in a specially constructed space Editor: Sebastian Gollek that was part studio, part art installation. Music: PJ Harvey With: PJ Harvey They looked on as Harvey pushed Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2019 herself and her musical collaborators to translate experiences gathered on her travels to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington DC into songs that make up The Hope Six Demolition Project. Director/photojournalist Seamus Murphy dispenses with the one-way glass separating Harvey from those peering in on her recording sessions, bringing the viewer one step closer to the artist at work and capturing the album’s emergence at close range. The curious, ever-observant Harvey is depicted in war correspondent take from origin to recorded destination mode, journal never far from reach, is remarkable, as is the degree to “A mongrel mix of music as she seeks out sights to document, which PJ Harvey alchemically combines documentary, war-zone experiences to share, and fragments of patience, curiosity, experimentation, melody to meld with her own. The ruins human connection, collaboration, and travelogue and of a bombed-out Afghanistan building, surprising joviality in bringing her deeply multimedia art project.” a chronicle of racial divide in the US and affecting work to fruition. Murphy — Stephen Dalton, Hollywood encounters with unfamiliar melodies illuminates the process without and instrumentation are just some of demystifying it, maintaining a sense of Reporter A Lumiére Fri 9 Aug, 6.15 pm the keenly observed moments that awe in Harvey’s work that’s commensurate B Lumiére Tue 13 Aug, 4.15 pm become song here. with her uncanny musical abilities. A Lumiére Wed 14 Aug, 6.30 pm The journey these creative fragments — Steve Newall A Lumiére Sat 24 Aug, 6.30 pm

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Walking on Water

Christo and his wife/creative partner Director: Andrey M. Paounov Jeanne-Claude have long stunned USA/Italy 2018 | 100 mins the world with their monumental Producers: Izabella Tzenkova, Valeria Giampietro Editors: Anastas Petkov, Andrey M. Paounov artworks – wrapping the Reichstag in Music: Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans fabric, dotting giant umbrellas across With: Christo, Vladimir Yavachev, Wolfgang Volz Festivals: Locarno, Toronto 2018 California, festooning Central Park In English and Italian, with English subtitles with gates. Now, with the passing of both Jeanne-Claude and his long-time documentarian Albert Maysles, Christo takes on his first major solo work, The Floating Piers, a giant orange fabric walkway across Italy’s Lake Iseo. Working from 700 hours of footage shot by Christo’s team, Bulgarian director Andrey Paounov focuses on Christo’s relationship with his assistant/ nephew/sparring partner Vladimir, and spirited shouting matches between the two provide many of the film’s laugh-out-loud moments (along with the 20th-century artist trying to come to testament to a life-long vision shared. terms with 21st-century technology and — Doug Dillaman “[Christo] does battle with selfie culture). As with any Christo “The rollicking documentary... takes technology, bureaucracy, project, the monumental construction us through the process of the execution feat is only half the battle. While the film of The Floating Piers, revealing the corruption and the stays relentlessly present tense, the fatal many obstacles in the way of Christo elements, resulting in accident during his Umbrellas installation and his team… [including] fights over a... documentary that will resonate in some viewers’ minds. construction materials, volatile weather, Throughout, Christo remains feisty as Brexit, and, in part due to local delights.” — Jay Weissberg, ever, and while Paounov refuses to mine corruption, an overwhelming onslaught Variety B Lumiére Fri 9 Aug, 11.45 am pathos, the artist’s constant evocations of visitors.” — Mark Peranson, Cinema A Lumiére Sun 18 Aug, 2.45 pm of his late partner provide a heartfelt Scope A Isaac Theatre Mon 19 Aug, 6.15 pm

Yuli

This adventurous depiction of the life Director: Icíar Bollaín and success of ballet superstar Carlos Spain/UK/Germany 2018 | 104 mins Acosta glides between childhood Producers: Andrea Calderwood, Juan Gordon Screenplay: Paul Laverty. Based on Carlos Acosta’s re-enactments and scenes of Acosta autobiography No way home directing fellow dancers in artistically Photography: Álex Catalán Editor: Nacho Ruiz Capillas interpreted moments from his life. Choreography: María Rovira Director Icíar Bollaín mixes crowd- Music: Alberto Iglesias With: Carlos Acosta, Santiago Alfonso, pleasing biopic conventions with a Keyvin Martínez, Edilson Manuel Olbera Nuñez, range of clever filmmaking techniques, Laura de la Uz affording the real Acosta the stage Festivals: San Sebastián 2018 In Spanish and English, with English subtitles to convey his own history, expressed CinemaScope | M offensive language indelibly through the language of movement. “This energetic, emotionally reflective movie follows the rise of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta from scrappy juvenile tearaway to ballet superstar… Acosta even makes an appearance, playing himself now, in Cuba to put on a show about his life – a clever move by [screenwriter Paul] Laverty to include Ballet is his ticket out of poverty, some electrifying performances… but his loneliness at being separated “A consistently colorful In a reverse of the Billy Elliot story, from his family is agonising, even as he hybrid: stirring when it’s his dad Pedro (Santiago Alfonso), notches up accolades… What’s perhaps who drags Carlos kicking and screaming surprising given the insider involvement it leans into sentimental to Havana’s state ballet school to get from Acosta is the film’s insight and traditionalism, actively him off the streets – and gives him the emotional generosity... This isn’t one of ravishing when it nickname Yuli, a legendary warrior. those biopics that rearranges a life to lets Acosta’s physical The teachers instantly recognise this hide the ugly awkward bits.” — Cath A Isaac Theatre Sat 17 Aug, 3.00 pm cocky kid’s natural talent. But Carlos is Clarke, The Guardian artistry take over.” B Isaac Theatre Fri 23 Aug, 1.30 pm not convinced – he’d rather be playing — Guy Lodge, Variety football than flouncing about in tights… A MM Timaru Sun 25 Aug, 3.00 pm

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CHRISTCHURCH TICKET PRICES

A CODED SESSIONS Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all weekend sessions. LUMIÈRE ITR HOT SAUCE CRANKS UP THE COOL WITH ASIAN » Full Price $18.00 $19.00 INSPIRED DISHES, BANGING COCKTAILS » Student/Nurses/Community Services Card * $15.00 $16.00 AND AN ELECTRIC VIBE. » Film Society/Film Industry Guilds * $15.00 $16.00 » Children (15 and under) $12.00 $13.00 » Seniors (65+) $11.50 $12.50 B CODED SESSIONS Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays and others as indicated. LUMIÈRE ITR » Full Price $14.50 $15.50 » Children (15 and under) $12.00 $13.00 » Seniors (65+) $11.50 $12.50 FIVE-TRIP PASS On sale at both venues. Valid for all sessions. » Five-Trip Pass $70.00**

The Five-Trip Pass can be purchased in advance and used to book tickets in advance or on the day at the venue box offices only for any NZIFF session that is not sold out. Passes can be shared and used at both venues. They cannot be used online. No refunds will be given for lost passes or passes not fully redeemed during NZIFF. **A $1.00 Redevelopment Levy is added to passes ($71.00 total) purchased at the Isaac Theatre Royal box office. No Levy is charged for passes purchased online or at Lumière Cinemas. ANY 4 ITEMS FROM OUR SKEWERS AND BAO CONCESSION DISCOUNTS (Canterbury Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/Student/ MENU FOR $44 FROM 4PM TO 7.30PM. Nurses/Community Services Card) QT WELLINGTON, 90 CABLE STREET, *Full-time students, Community Services Card holders, Nurses, and members of the Canterbury Film WELLINGTON Society and Film Industry Guilds are entitled to purchase one ticket per session at the discount rate. Student/Membership/Staff/CSC ID is required – please ensure you bring it with you to the venue to present to staff on request; failure to do so will result in the full price being charged for attendance. The concession price is not available to those holding Film Society three-film sampler cards. TICKETING AGENCY & REDEVELOPMENT SERVICE FEES A $1.00 booking fee and $1.00 Redevelopment Levy per ticket is included in the prices shown above for all Isaac Theatre Royal sessions. Prices are GST inclusive and in NZD.

BUYING TICKETS BOOKINGS OPEN FRIDAY 19 JULY FROM 10.00 AM Do I see five Advance bookings are available for all NZIFF sessions. Seats are allocated on the basis of best available films or make at the time of purchase. Book early to secure your favourite seats. four friends? ONLINE Lumière Cinemas: www.lumierecinemas.co.nz (Lumière Cinemas screenings only) Booking fee: $2.00 per ticket. Tickets must be collected from the venue. Isaac Theatre Royal: www.ticketek.co.nz (Isaac Theatre Royal screenings only) A booking fee is already included in the price of the ticket. You may print your ticket or present it on your mobile. A delivery transaction fee applies only when postal or courier delivery options are selected ($2.00 regular mail; $5.00 courier; $6.00 rural delivery courier). IN PERSON Advance tickets are available for all sessions and can be purchased from the venue where the film is screening. As these box offices are operated for NZIFF by the venues themselves, they are not equipped to sell tickets for the other NZIFF venue. NZIFF Lumière Cinemas: The box office will be open from 30 minutes prior to the first session until 30 minutes after the last session commences. Isaac Theatre Royal: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm Monday to Friday. From 8 August the box office will FIVE-TRIP be open from 1 hour prior to the first session of the day until 15 minutes after the last session commences. PASS Phone (Isaac Theatre Royal screenings only. No phone bookings at Lumière Cinemas): 0800 TICKETEK (842 538) On Sale Now A booking fee is already included in the price of the ticket. A delivery transaction fee applies only when postal or courier delivery options are selected ($2.00 regular mail; $5.00 courier; $6.00 rural See opposite (Christchurch) delivery courier). & p54 (Timaru) for details.

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METHODS OF PAYMENT VENUES Cash/EFTPOS: Accepted for box office and venue bookings. Visa/Mastercard/Amex: Accepted for all bookings. ISAAC THEATRE ROYAL 145 Gloucester Street, Ph (03) 366 6326 REFUNDS NZIFF steps out in grand style for the fifth year running at the Christchurch venue we’ve been aspiring Please note that NO REFUNDS will be given for tickets (either unused, uncollected or collected late) to for years. We are honoured and delighted to be amongst the cultural organisations crowding and Five-Trip Passes (either in part or in full). Bookings once made cannot be altered. Please choose eagerly into the Isaac Theatre Royal since its fabulous restoration was completed in 2014 – and we carefully as there are no seat swaps, exchanges or refunds, except as required by law. remain grateful to the numerous individuals and organisations who supported our campaign to raise the $262,000 required to install state-of-the-art digital cinema and sound at what is primarily a live performance venue. Visit www.isaactheatreroyal.co.nz for more information. GENERAL INFORMATION PROGRAMME CHANGES We reluctantly reserve the right to change the schedule by amending dates or replacing films. PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY There are no advertising films or trailers at NZIFF. We reserve the right to ask latecomers to wait until the conclusion of any introductions or short films before they are seated, or to seat latecomers in seats other than those originally purchased, to minimise disturbance to other patrons. Session starting times will not be delayed in deference to late arrivals. If collecting tickets prior to a screening please allow extra time in case there are queues. MOBILE PHONES Please ensure mobile phones and other electronic devices are switched off before entering the auditorium. CENSORSHIP CLASSIFICATION G – Suitable for general audiences PG – Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers M – Unrestricted. Recommended as more suitable for mature audiences 16 years and over RP13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian RP16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over, unless they are accompanied by a parent or guardian R13 – Restricted to persons 13 years and over R16 – Restricted to persons 16 years and over © THE HEATHER & DOUG RECORDS R18 – Restricted to persons 18 years and over LUMIÈRE CINEMAS Classifications will be published in NZIFF’s daily newspaper advertising and displayed at the 26 Rolleston Ave, Ph (03) 365 0066 venues’ box offices. Children’s tickets are available only for films classified G, PG and M. At the time NZIFF welcomes the brand new Lumière Cinemas as a Christchurch venue in 2019. Located in the of printing some films have not been rated. Until they receive a censor rating, they are considered Arts Centre’s West Lecture building, Lumière has two boutique theatres featuring state-of-the-art R18 (unless clearly aimed at children) and can only be purchased by and for people aged 18 and over. technology with vintage ambiance and luxurious seating. For more information please visit the ticketing and venue information page on our website. Visit lumierecinemas.co.nz for more information. Please note: ID may be requested for restricted films.

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CHRISTCHURCH SCHEDULE

THURSDAY 8 AUGUST B 12.15 pm Ask Dr Ruth (Lumière) 100 38 A 6.15 pm For Sama (Lumière) 95 39 A 7.00 pm La Belle Époque (Isaac Theatre) 115 5 B 12.45 pm MO TE IWI… (Lumière) 133 14 A 6.30 pm Carmine Street Guitars (Lumière) 80 44 B 1.00 pm One Child Nation (Isaac Theatre) 85 41 A 8.15 pm Hail Satan? (Lumière) 95 41 FRIDAY 9 AUGUST B 2.15 pm The Miracle of The… (Lumière) 89 46 A 8.15 pm Inna de Yard (Lumière) 99 45 B 11.30 am Mrs Lowry & Son (Isaac Theatre) 91 25 B 3.00 pm Peterloo (Isaac Theatre) 155 25 A 8.30 pm Judy & Punch (Isaac Theatre) 105 30 B 11.45 am Walking on Water (Lumière) 100 49 B 3.30 pm The Nightingale (Lumière) 136 32 B 12.00 pm Children of the Sea (Lumière) 110 34 FRIDAY 16 AUGUST B 4.15 pm New Zealand's Best 2019 (Lumière) 95 15 B 1.45 pm Maiden (Isaac Theatre) 97 7 B 11.30 am Varda by Agnès (Isaac Theatre) 115 43 A 6.15 pm Varda by Agnès (Isaac Theatre) 115 43 B 1.45 pm Animals (Lumière) 109 29 B 12.00 pm Working Woman (Lumière) 93 33 A 6.15 pm God Exists, Her Name Is… (Lumière) 101 29 B 2.15 pm Meeting Gorbachev (Lumière) 91 43 B 12.15 pm Peterloo (Lumière) 155 25 A 6.30 pm The Third Wife (Lumière) 96 32 B 4.00 pm Marianne & Leonard… (Isaac Theatre) 102 47 B 2.00 pm Helen Kelly – Together (Isaac Theatre) 92 13 A 8.15 pm Ruben Brandt, Collector (Lumière) 94 32 B 4.00 pm Dilili in Paris (Lumière) 95 35 B 2.00 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga… (Lumière) 90 15 A 8.30 pm Meeting Gorbachev (Lumière) 91 43 B 4.15 pm The Art of Self-Defense (Lumière) 105 26 B 3.15 pm Apocalypse Now… (Lumière) 183 9 A 8.45 pm A White, White Day (Isaac Theatre) 109 20 A 6.15 pm American Woman (Isaac Theatre) 111 26 B 4.00 pm Judy & Punch (Isaac Theatre) 105 30 A 6.15 pm PJ Harvey: A Dog… (Lumière) 90 48 TUESDAY 13 AUGUST B 4.00 pm The Wild Goose Lake (Lumière) 110 17 A 6.30 pm Martha: A Picture Story (Lumière) 84 47 B 11.00 am La Belle Époque (Isaac Theatre) 115 5 A 6.15 pm Amazing Grace (Isaac Theatre) 88 6 A 8.15 pm Hail Satan? (Lumière) 95 41 B 12.00 pm Adam (Lumière) 98 21 A 6.15 pm Ruben Brandt, Collector (Lumière) 94 32 A 8.30 pm Deerskin (Lumière) 76 28 B 12.15 pm The Biggest Little Farm (Lumière) 91 40 A 6.45 pm Ask Dr Ruth (Lumière) 100 38 A 8.45 pm Les Misérables (Isaac Theatre) 104 18 B 1.30 pm Maria by Callas (Isaac Theatre) 113 46 A 8.15 pm Under the Silver Lake (Lumière) 139 27 B 2.00 pm For Sama (Lumière) 95 39 A 8.30 pm The Art of Self-Defense (Isaac Theatre) 105 26 SATURDAY 10 AUGUST B 2.15 pm Litigante (Lumière) 95 31 A 8.45 pm Aniara (Lumière) 106 28 A 10.30 am Ask Dr Ruth (Isaac Theatre) 100 38 B 4.00 pm Brittany Runs… (Isaac Theatre) 104 26 SATURDAY 17 AUGUST A 10.30 am Escher: Journey… (Lumière) 80 45 B 4.00 pm Monos (Lumière) 102 31 A 10.15 am The Biggest Little Farm (Isaac Theatre) 91 40 A 11.00 am Meeting Gorbachev (Lumière) 91 43 B 4.15 pm PJ Harvey: A Dog… (Lumière) 90 48 B 10.30 am Modest Heroes… (Lumière) 54 34 A 12.15 pm Inventing Tomorrow (Lumière) 89 35 A 6.15 pm Helen Kelly – Together (Isaac Theatre) 92 13 A 11.30 am Backtrack Boys (Lumière) 104 39 A 1.00 pm Adam (Isaac Theatre) 98 21 A 6.15 pm Florianópolis Dream (Lumière) 107 16 A 11.45 am Where's My Roy Cohn? (Lumière) 97 43 A 1.00 pm Litigante (Lumière) 95 31 A 6.30 pm For My Father’s Kingdom (Lumière) 97 10 A 12.30 pm Kind Hearts… (Isaac Theatre) 106 9 A 2.00 pm Children of the Sea (Lumière) 110 34 A 8.15 pm The Wild Goose Lake (Lumière) 110 17 B 1.30 pm Animation for Kids 4+ (Lumière) 62 37 A 3.00 pm New Zealand's Best 2019 (Lumière) 95 15 A 8.30 pm Animation NOW! 2019 (Lumière) 84 27 A 1.45 pm The Realm (Lumière) 131 23 A 3.15 pm One Child Nation (Isaac Theatre) 85 41 A 8.45 pm High Life (Isaac Theatre) 113 24 A 3.00 pm Yuli (Isaac Theatre) 104 49 A 4.15 pm Working Woman (Lumière) 93 33 WEDNESDAY 14 AUGUST A 3.00 pm Peter Peryer… (Lumière) 82 14 A 5.00 pm Carmine Street Guitars (Lumière) 80 44 B 11.00 am Photograph (Isaac Theatre) 110 21 ✽ 4.00 pm CFS Film Quiz (ITR, Gloucester Room) 90 55 A 5.15 pm Herbs: Songs of… (Isaac Theatre) 90 12 B 12.00 pm Carmine Street Guitars (Lumière) 80 44 A 4.15 pm Dilili in Paris (Lumière) 95 35 A 6.15 pm Loro (Lumière) 151 23 B 12.30 pm Celebration: YSL (Lumière) 73 44 A 4.45 pm mid90s (Lumière) 85 31 A 6.45 pm The Miracle of The… (Lumière) 89 46 B 1.30 pm Capital in the 21st… (Isaac Theatre) 103 11 A 5.30 pm A Seat at the Table (Isaac Theatre) 101 13 A 8.15 pm Apocalypse Now… (Isaac Theatre) 183 9 B 1.45 pm The Realm (Lumière) 131 23 A 6.15 pm Vivarium (Lumière) 98 33 A 8.45 pm mid90s (Lumière) 85 31 B 2.00 pm God Exists, Her Name Is… (Lumière) 101 29 A 6.30 pm Inna de Yard (Lumière) 99 45 A 9.15 pm Deerskin (Lumière) 76 28 B 3.45 pm American Woman (Isaac Theatre) 111 26 A 8.15 pm Ruben Brandt, Collector (Lumière) 94 32 SUNDAY 11 AUGUST B 4.00 pm The Wild Goose Lake (Lumière) 110 17 A 8.30 pm Animals (Lumière) 109 29 B 10.15 am Animation for Kids 8+ (Isaac Theatre) 72 37 B 4.15 pm Ruben Brandt, Collector (Lumière) 94 32 A 8.45 pm Come to Daddy (Isaac Theatre) 94 7 A 11.00 am The Miracle of The… (Lumière) 89 46 A 6.15 pm Who You Think I Am (Isaac Theatre) 102 19 SUNDAY 18 AUGUST A 11.45 am Celebration: YSL (Lumière) 73 44 A 6.15 pm Where's My Roy Cohn? (Lumière) 97 43 A 11.00 am Peterloo (Isaac Theatre) 155 25 A 12.15 pm Mrs Lowry & Son (Isaac Theatre) 91 25 A 6.30 pm PJ Harvey: A Dog… (Lumière) 90 48 A 11.00 am Peter Peryer… (Lumière) 82 14 A 1.00 pm Backtrack Boys (Lumière) 104 39 A 8.15 pm Animals (Lumière) 109 29 A 11.45 am Dilili in Paris (Lumière) 95 35 B 1.15 pm Modest Heroes… (Lumière) 54 34 A 8.30 pm Danger Close… (Isaac Theatre) 118 16 A 12.45 pm For Sama (Lumière) 95 39 A 2.30 pm Capital in the 21st… (Isaac Theatre) 103 11 A 8.30 pm High Life (Lumière) 113 24 A 1.45 pm The Third Wife (Lumière) 96 32 A 2.30 pm MO TE IWI… (Lumière) 133 14 THURSDAY 15 AUGUST A 2.15 pm Bellbird (Isaac Theatre) 96 11 A 3.15 pm Dilili in Paris (Lumière) 95 35 B 11.30 am The Biggest Little Farm (Isaac Theatre) 91 40 A 2.45 pm Walking on Water (Lumière) 100 49 A 5.15 pm Working Woman (Lumière) 93 33 B 12.00 pm Kind Hearts… (Lumière) 106 9 A 3.45 pm Florianópolis Dream (Lumière) 107 16 A 5.30 pm Marianne & Leonard… (Isaac Theatre) 102 47 B 1.00 pm Loro (Lumière) 151 23 A 4.45 pm Inventing Tomorrow (Lumière) 89 35 A 5.45 pm Martha: A Picture Story (Lumière) 84 47 B 1.30 pm Danger Close… (Isaac Theatre) 118 16 A 5.15 pm Portrait of a Lady… (Isaac Theatre) 120 5 A 7.15 pm The Realm (Lumière) 131 23 B 2.15 pm For My Father’s Kingdom (Lumière) 97 10 A 5.45 pm Spring Interlude (Lumière) 80 14 A 7.30 pm Under the Silver Lake (Lumière) 139 27 B 4.00 pm Les Misérables (Isaac Theatre) 104 18 A 6.30 pm mid90s (Lumière) 85 31 A 7.45 pm By the Grace of God (Isaac Theatre) 138 17 B 4.00 pm Beats (Lumière) 101 29 A 8.00 pm Loro (Isaac Theatre) 151 23 MONDAY 12 AUGUST B 4.15 pm Vivarium (Lumière) 98 33 A 8.00 pm The Amazing Johnathan… (Lumière) 91 38 B 10.45 am Sibyl (Isaac Theatre) 100 19 A 6.15 pm Brittany Runs… (Isaac Theatre) 104 26 A 8.15 pm Where's My Roy Cohn? 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MONDAY 19 AUGUST B 4.30 pm Deerskin (Lumière) 76 28 B 11.15 am Non-Fiction (Isaac Theatre) 107 18 A 6.15 pm Sibyl (Isaac Theatre) 100 19 B 12.00 pm Kind Hearts… (Lumière) 106 9 A 6.15 pm Celebration: YSL (Lumière) 73 44 B 12.15 pm Martha: A Picture Story (Lumière) 84 47 A 6.30 pm The Third Wife (Lumière) 96 32 B 1.30 pm Halston (Isaac Theatre) 105 45 A 8.00 pm Under the Silver Lake (Lumière) 139 27 B 2.00 pm God Exists, Her Name Is… (Lumière) 101 29 A 8.30 pm The Realm (Lumière) 131 23 B 2.15 pm The Third Wife (Lumière) 96 32 A 8.45 pm Monos (Isaac Theatre) 102 31 B 3.45 pm High Life (Isaac Theatre) 113 24 FRIDAY 23 AUGUST B 4.00 pm The Amazing Johnathan… (Lumière) 91 38 B 11.15 am Who You Think I Am (Isaac Theatre) 102 19 Canterbury Film Society B 4.15 pm Backtrack Boys (Lumière) 104 39 B 1.00 pm Escher: Journey… (Lumière) 80 45 A 6.15 pm Walking on Water (Isaac Theatre) 100 49 B 1.30 pm Yuli (Isaac Theatre) 104 49 FILM QUIZ A 6.15 pm Adam (Lumière) 98 21 B 1.30 pm Ask Dr Ruth (Lumière) 100 38 A 6.30 pm Peter Peryer… (Lumière) 82 14 B 2.45 pm mid90s (Lumière) 85 31 “Film knowledge will carry A 8.15 pm For Sama (Lumière) 95 39 B 3.30 pm Under the Silver Lake (Lumière) 139 27 you toward the heavens A 8.30 pm In Fabric (Isaac Theatre) 119 24 B 3.45 pm A White, White Day (Isaac Theatre) 109 20 – and to victory!” A 8.30 pm Inna de Yard (Lumière) 99 45 B 4.30 pm Inventing Tomorrow (Lumière) 89 35 TUESDAY 20 AUGUST A 6.15 pm Maiden (Isaac Theatre) 97 7 Don’t pass up the chance to B 11.15 am Amazing Grace (Isaac Theatre) 88 6 A 6.15 pm Hail Satan? (Lumière) 95 41 fly high in our second Film Quiz. B 12.15 pm Mrs Lowry & Son (Lumière) 91 25 A 6.30 pm Animals (Lumière) 109 29 Grab some other wily spirits A 8.15 pm Children of the Sea (Lumière) 110 34 B 12.45 pm Bellbird (Lumière) 96 11 to register a team. A 8.30 pm Beats (Isaac Theatre) 101 29 B 1.15 pm By the Grace of God (Isaac Theatre) 138 17 A 8.45 pm Vivarium (Lumière) 98 33 B 2.15 pm Peter Peryer… (Lumière) 82 14 THE QUIZ IS A CELEBRATION OF CINEMA. B 2.45 pm Andrei Rublev (Lumière) 183 8 SATURDAY 24 AUGUST Questions will include general film knowledge, B 4.00 pm The Whistlers (Isaac Theatre) 98 6 B 10.00 am Modest Heroes… (Isaac Theatre) 54 34 plus women in film, Cannes, documentaries, B 4.15 pm Where's My Roy Cohn? (Lumière) 97 43 A 11.00 am Celebration: YSL (Lumière) 73 44 cult classics and ‘Name the Frame’. Duration A 6.15 pm Non-Fiction (Isaac Theatre) 107 18 A 11.30 am Andrei Rublev (Isaac Theatre) 183 8 is 90 minutes – timed to fit between NZIFF A 6.15 pm Escher: Journey… (Lumière) 80 45 B 12.00 pm Animation for Kids 8+ (Lumière) 72 37 screenings. Prizes for the three top teams, plus spot prizes. $10 ticket includes a free drink. A 6.30 pm Florianópolis Dream (Lumière) 107 16 A 12.30 pm Martha: A Picture Story (Lumière) 84 47 A 8.00 pm Spring Interlude (Lumière) 80 14 A 1.30 pm Peterloo (Lumière) 155 25 Tables of four may register together; smaller A 8.30 pm The Nightingale (Isaac Theatre) 136 32 A 2.15 pm Children of the Sea (Lumière) 110 34 numbers will be allocated a group. Sign up at A 8.30 pm Aniara (Lumière) 106 28 A 3.15 pm Photograph (Isaac Theatre) 110 21 canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz A 4.30 pm For My Father’s Kingdom (Lumière) 97 10 WEDNESDAY 21 AUGUST Gloucester Room, Level 1 A 4.45 pm Escher: Journey… (Lumière) 80 45 B 11.15 am Portrait of a Lady… (Isaac Theatre) 120 5 Isaac Theatre Royal A 5.45 pm Sorry We Missed You (Isaac Theatre) 101 8 B 12.00 pm Inna de Yard (Lumière) 99 45 Saturday 17 August A 6.30 pm PJ Harvey: A Dog… (Lumière) 90 48 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm B 12.30 pm Florianópolis Dream (Lumière) 107 16 A 6.45 pm The Amazing Johnathan… (Lumière) 91 38 B 1.45 pm Aquarela (Isaac Theatre) 90 39 A 8.15 pm Midsommar (Isaac Theatre) 147 30 B 2.00 pm Hail Satan? (Lumière) 95 41 A 8.30 pm The Wild Goose Lake (Lumière) 110 17 B 2.30 pm Animation NOW! 2019 (Lumière) 84 27 A 8.45 pm Aniara (Lumière) 106 28 B 3.45 pm In Fabric (Isaac Theatre) 119 24 B 4.00 pm Spring Interlude (Lumière) 80 14 SUNDAY 25 AUGUST canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz B 4.15 pm Helen Kelly – Together (Lumière) 92 13 B 10.30 am Animation for Kids 4+ (Isaac Theatre) 62 37 A 6.15 pm Maria by Callas (Isaac Theatre) 113 46 A 11.15 am Inventing Tomorrow (Lumière) 89 35 A 6.15 pm A White, White Day (Lumière) 109 20 A 12.00 pm The Miracle of The… (Lumière) 89 46 A 6.30 pm Working Woman (Lumière) 93 33 A 12.15 pm Aquarela (Isaac Theatre) 90 39 A 1.00 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga… (Lumière) 90 15 A 8.30 pm For My Father’s Kingdom (Lumière) 97 10 A 2.00 pm The Biggest Little Farm (Lumière) 91 40 A 8.45 pm By the Balls (Isaac Theatre) 87 10 A 2.30 pm Halston (Isaac Theatre) 105 45 A 8.45 pm Vivarium (Lumière) 98 33 B 3.00 pm Modest Heroes… (Lumière) 54 34 THURSDAY 22 AUGUST A 4.00 pm Animation NOW! 2019 (Lumière) 84 27 B 11.15 am Sorry We Missed You (Isaac Theatre) 101 8 A 4.15 pm Carmine Street Guitars (Lumière) 80 44 B 12.15 pm Litigante (Lumière) 95 31 A 5.00 pm Miles Davis… (Isaac Theatre) 115 46 NZIFF.CO.NZ B 1.30 pm A Seat at the Table (Isaac Theatre) 101 13 A 5.45 pm Meeting Gorbachev (Lumière) 91 43 B 1.30 pm By the Balls (Lumière) 87 10 A 6.00 pm Backtrack Boys (Lumière) 104 39 B 2.15 pm Aniara (Lumière) 106 28 A 7.45 pm The Whistlers (Isaac Theatre) 98 6 B 3.15 pm Loro (Lumière) 151 23 A 7.45 pm God Exists, Her Name Is… (Lumière) 101 29 B 3.45 pm Miles Davis… (Isaac Theatre) 115 46 A 8.00 pm Litigante (Lumière) 95 31

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A CODED SESSIONS THURSDAY 15 AUGUST A 5.45 pm Halston (106) 45 Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all B 1.30 pm Photograph (110) 21 A 8.00 pm High Life (113) 24 weekend sessions. B 3.45 pm Marianne & Leonard (102) 47 WEDNESDAY 21 AUGUST » Full Price $16.00 A 5.45 pm La Belle Époque (115) 5 » Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/ $15.00 B 1.30 pm La Belle Époque (115) 5 A 8.00 pm American Woman (111) 26 Nurses/Community Services Card* B 3.45 pm Sorry We Missed You (101) 8 » Student (16 and over)* $14.00 FRIDAY 16 AUGUST A 5.45 pm Maria by Callas (113) 46 » Senior Citizens (60+) $12.00 B 1.45 pm Maiden (97) 7 A 8.00 pm For My Father’s Kingdom (97) 10 » Children (15 and under) $10.00 B 3.45 pm Halston (106) 45 THURSDAY 22 AUGUST CODED SESSIONS B A 6.00 pm The Whistlers (98) 6 B 2.00 pm Amazing Grace (88) 6 Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays and A 8.00 pm Beats (101) 29 B 3.45 pm A Seat at the Table (101) 13 others as indicated. SATURDAY 17 AUGUST A 5.45 pm Photograph (110) 21 » Full Price $13.00 A 8.00 pm Judy & Punch (105) 30 » Senior Citizens (60+) $12.00 A 1.45 pm Ask Dr Ruth (100) 38 » Children (15 and under) $10.00 A 3.45 pm Kind Hearts and Coronets (106) 9 FRIDAY 23 AUGUST FIVE-TRIP PASS A 6.00 pm Amazing Grace (88) 6 B 1.30 pm Maria by Callas (113) 46 Valid for all NZIFF sessions. A 8.00 pm By the Grace of God (138) 17 B 3.45 pm American Woman (111) 26 » Five-Trip Pass $65.00 SUNDAY 18 AUGUST A 6.00 pm Maiden (97) 7 The Five-Trip Pass can be purchased in advance or on the day. A 1.00 pm Mrs Lowry & Son (91) 25 A 8.00 pm Marianne & Leonard (102) 47 Passes can be shared. They cannot be used for online bookings. A 3.00 pm Helen Kelly – Together (92) 13 No refunds will be given for lost passes or passes not fully SATURDAY 24 AUGUST redeemed during NZIFF. Subject to seat availability. A 5.00 pm Portrait of a Lady on Fire (120) 5 A 1.00 pm The Biggest Little Farm (91) 40 A 7.30 pm Loro (151) 23 CONCESSION DISCOUNTS A 3.00 pm Peterloo (155) 25 (Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/Student/Nurses/ MONDAY 19 AUGUST A 6.00 pm A Seat at the Table (101) 13 Community Services Card) B 2.00 pm The Biggest Little Farm (91) 40 A 8.00 pm Les Misérables (104) 18 *Full-time students, Nurses, Community Services Card holders B 4.00 pm Helen Kelly – Together (92) 13 and members of Film Societies and Film Industry Guilds are SUNDAY 25 AUGUST entitled to purchase one ticket per session at the discount rate. A 6.00 pm Who You Think I Am (102) 19 A 1.00 pm New Zealand's Best 2019 (95) 15 Student/Membership/Staff/CSC ID is required – please ensure A 8.00 pm Ruben Brandt, Collector (94) 32 A 3.00 pm Yuli (104) 49 you bring it with you to the venue to present to staff on request; failure to do so will result in the full price being charged for TUESDAY 20 AUGUST A 5.15 pm Sorry We Missed You (101) 8 attendance. The concession price is not available to those holding B 1.15 pm Mrs Lowry & Son (91) 25 A 7.15 pm Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (183) 9 Film Society three-film sampler cards. Prices are GST inclusive B 3.15 pm Portrait of a Lady on Fire (120) 5 and in NZD.

BUYING TICKETS BOOKINGS OPEN FRIDAY 19 JULY FROM 9.00 AM MISSED IT Advance bookings are available for all NZIFF sessions. Seats are allocated on the basis of best available at the time of purchase. Book early to secure the best seats. AT NZIFF? ONLINE www.moviemaxdigital.co.nz Booking fee: $1.20 per ticket GET YOUR Tickets can be collected in person from 10.30 am. METHODS OF PAYMENT FIX ONLINE. Cash/EFTPOS: Accepted for box office bookings. Visa/Mastercard: Accepted for all bookings. NZIFF On Demand is a growing collection of premiere REFUNDS NZIFF-screened films available to rent now from $4.99 Please note that NO REFUNDS will be given for uncollected tickets or tickets collected late. Bookings once made cannot be altered. Please choose carefully as there are no exchanges or Recent additions to the collection include: refunds except as required by law. Philip Dadson: Sonics From Scratch VENUE INFORMATION Rumble & Bang For answers to frequently asked questions visit www.nziff.co.nz Sheen of Gold Movie Max Digital: cnr of Sophia & Canon Sts, Timaru Ph: (03) 684 6975 What Lies That Way WHEELCHAIR ACCESS/SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Please advise the ticket seller when purchasing your tickets if you have difficulty with stairs or have any special requirements.  ONDEMAND.NZIFF.CO.NZ

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TOUR GUIDE

Animals Comedy Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori 15 Les Misérables 18 Pasifika Shorts 2019 Backtrack Boys 39 The Amazing Johnathan Documentary 38 The Miracle of The Little Prince 46 The Biggest Little Farm 40 Animals 29 Music and Dance Thrillers Children of the Sea 34 The Art of Self-Defense 26 Amazing Grace 6 Brittany Runs a Marathon 26 American Woman 26 Carmine Street Guitars 44 Animation Come to Daddy 7 Come to Daddy 7 Beats 29 In Fabric 24 Animation for Kids 4+ 37 Florianopólis Dream 16 Herbs: Songs of Freedom 12 Les Misérables 18 Animation for Kids 8+ 37 Hail Satan? 41 Inna de Yard 45 Monos 31 Children of the Sea 34 Kind Hearts and Coronets 9 Maria by Callas The Nightingale 32 Dilili in Paris 35 La Belle Époque 5 Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 46 Ruben Brandt, Collector 32 Modest Heroes 34 Non-Fiction 18 Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love 47 Under the Silver Lake 27 Ruben Brandt, Collector 32 Creepy Clothes PJ Harvey: A Dog Called Money 48 The Whistlers 6 Yuli 49 Armchair Travel Deerskin 28 A White, White Day 20 In Fabric 24 The Wild Goose Lake 17 Aquarela 39 Photography Florianopólis Dream 16 Families Martha: A Picture Story 47 War Zones Inna de Yard 45 Bellbird 11 Peter Peryer: The Art of Seeing 14 Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut 9 Martha: A Picture Story 47 Come to Daddy 7 Photograph 21 Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan 16 Photograph 21 Florianópolis Dream 16 For Sama 39 Yuli 49 Religion For My Father’s Kingdom 10 Monos 31 Amazing Grace 6 Arts Litigante 31 Mrs Lowry and Son 25 Andrei Rublev 8 Women Make Movies The Amazing Johnathan Documentary 38 One Child Nation 41 By the Grace of God 17 Adam 21 Andrei Rublev 8 Sorry We Missed You 8 For My Father’s Kingdom 10 Aniara (co-director) 28 Escher: Journey into Infinity 45 God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya 29 Animals 29 Martha: A Picture Story 47 Fashion Hail Satan? 41 Backtrack Boys 39 The Miracle of The Little Prince 46 Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent 44 Midsommar 30 By the Balls (co-director) 10 MO TE IWI – Carving for the People 14 Halston 45 Florianópolis Dream 16 Mrs Lowry and Son 25 Sports & Fitness For My Father’s Kingdom (co-director) 10 Peter Peryer: The Art of Seeing 14 Feminism Brittany Runs a Marathon 26 For Sama 39 Varda by Agnès 43 Adam 21 By the Balls 10 God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya 29 Walking on Water 49 Ask Dr Ruth 38 Maiden 7 Hail Satan? 41 Yuli 49 God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya 29 High Life 24 Judy & Punch 30 Politics Inventing Tomorrow 35 Based on Books Maiden 7 By the Balls 10 Judy & Punch 30 Aniara 28 Martha: A Picture Story 47 Capital in the 21st Century 11 Martha: A Picture Story 47 Animals 29 The Nightingale 32 Hail Satan? 41 The Miracle of The Little Prince 46 Capital in the 21st Century 11 Varda by Agnès 43 Helen Kelly – Together 13 MO TE IWI – Carving for the People 14 Children of the Sea 34 Working Woman 33 Herbs: Songs of Freedom 12 The Nightingale 32 Kind Hearts and Coronets 9 Loro 23 One Child Nation 41 The Miracle of The Little Prince 46 Food and Beverage Meeting Gorbachev 43 Peter Peryer: The Art of Seeing 14 Who You Think I Am 19 The Biggest Little Farm 40 The Realm 23 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 5 Yuli 49 A Seat at the Table 13 Where’s My Roy Cohn? 43 Sibyl 19 Working Woman 33 Cannes 2019 LGBTQI+ Sci-fi Yuli 49 Adam 21 Aniara 28 Aniara 28 Deerskin 28 Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent 44 High Life 24 WTF? La Belle Époque 5 Halston 45 Vivarium 33 The Amazing Johnathan Documentary 38 Les Misérables 18 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 5 Come to Daddy 7 Litigante 31 Social Justice Deerskin 28 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 5 Ma¯ori/Pacific Backtrack Boys 39 Midsommar 30 Sibyl 19 Bellbird 11 By the Grace of God 17 Monos 31 Sorry We Missed You 8 By the Balls 10 Capital in the 21st Century 11 The Art of Self-Defense 26 The Whistlers 6 For My Father’s Kingdom 10 For Sama 39 Under the Silver Lake 27 A White, White Day 20 Herbs: Songs of Freedom 12 Hail Satan? 41 Vivarium 33 The Wild Goose Lake 17 MO TE IWI – Carving for the People 14 Helen Kelly – Together 13 Vivarium 33 New Zealand’s Best 2019 15 Herbs: Songs of Freedom 12

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A G The Nightingale 32 Adam 21 God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya 29 Non-Fiction 18 Amazing Grace 6 O The Amazing Johnathan Documentary 38 H American Woman 26 Hail Satan? 41 One Child Nation 41 Andrei Rublev 8 Halston 45 Aniara 28 Helen Kelly – Together 13 P Animals 29 Herbs: Songs of Freedom 12 Peterloo 25 Animation for Kids 4+ 37 High Life 24 Peter Peryer: The Art of Seeing 14 Animation for Kids 8+ 37 Photograph 21 Animation NOW! 2019 27 I PJ Harvey: A Dog Called Money 48 Portrait of a Lady on Fire 5 Apocalypse Now: Final Cut 9 In Fabric 24 Aquarela 39 Inna de Yard 45 R The Art of Self-Defense 26 Inventing Tomorrow 35 The Realm 23 Ask Dr Ruth 38 J Ruben Brandt, Collector 32 B Judy & Punch 30 S Backtrack Boys 39 A Seat at the Table 13 Beats 29 K Sibyl 19 Bellbird 11 Kind Hearts and Coronets 9 Sorry We Missed You 8 The Biggest Little Farm 40 Spring Interlude 14 Brittany Runs a Marathon 26 L By the Balls 10 La Belle Époque 5 T By the Grace of God 17 Les Misérables 18 Litigante 31 The Third Wife 32 C Loro 23 U Capital in the 21st Century 11 M Under the Silver Lake 27 Carmine Street Guitars 44 Maiden 7 Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent 44 Maria by Callas 46 V Children of the Sea 34 Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love 47 Varda by Agnès 43 Come to Daddy 7 Martha: A Picture Story 47 Vivarium 33 Meeting Gorbachev 43 D mid90s 31 W Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan 16 Midsommar 30 Walking on Water 49 Deerskin 28 Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool 46 Where’s My Roy Cohn? 43 Dilili in Paris 35 The Miracle of The Little Prince 46 The Whistlers 6 Modest Heroes 34 A White, White Day 20 E Monos 31 Who You Think I Am 19 Escher: Journey into Infinity 45 MO TE IWI – Carving for the People 14 The Wild Goose Lake 17 Mrs Lowry & Son 25 Working Woman 33 F Florianópolis Dream 16 N Y For My Father’s Kingdom 10 New Zealand’s Best 2019 15 Yuli 49 For Sama 39 Nga¯ Whanaunga 2019 15

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Guest Appearance Cannes Selection 2019 Notes in this brochure are written and compiled by the publications team Meet the makers. Films programmed with Direct from the Competition and Croisette in (unsigned), programmers Michael McDonnell (MM), Sandra Reid (SR), Ant Timpson (AT), Nic Marshall (NM), Malcolm Turner (MT), and former introductions and post-screening Q+As with the South of France, we bring you the movies director Bill Gosden (BG). Rebecca McMillan (RM), Judah Finnigan (JF), the artists in person. Correct at the time of printing. making waves at the most famous film festival Tim Wong, Kailey Carruthers, Sibilla Paparatti, Toby Manhire, Nick See website for latest updates. of them all. Bollinger, Chris Tse, Sarah Watt, Doug Dillaman, Jacob Powell, Catherine Bisley, Chris Kirk, Max Rashbrooke, Lana Lopesi, Sarah McMullan, James Croot, Lynda Hallinan, Yvonne Lorkin and Steve Newall also contributed World Premiere Major Festival Award notes. The brochure was edited and managed by Tim Wong with the Brand new features and documentaries – Films judged the best and brightest at A-list film assistance of a squadron of ace proofreaders who labour beyond the often homegrown – that we have the privilege festivals around the world, from Venice, to Berlin, call of duty.

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