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WELCOME

Welcome to 2016 and to the 40th iteration of the International Film Festival in Christchurch. We’ve covered a lot of ground since the first one. Festival films had illuminated numerous city screens already long extinguished before the cinema landscape was so radically altered along with everything else in 2011.

Our arrival at the grand and fabulous Isaac Theatre Royal a year ago inaugurated a bright new era for NZIFF in Christchurch and the city responded with best-ever attendances. In an era when Sean Parker’s Screening Room project has cinema-owners (once again) predicting the last gasp, there could be no more resounding vindication of what we do than those lively NZIFF crowds. All the more encouraging that Hoyts Northlands, who nursed us through the toughest of years, enjoyed a busy NZIFF too.

Where NZIFF lives, at the margins of that threatened mainstream, cinema-going in 2016 feels increasingly specialised, independent and personal. NZIFF maintains a curatorial tradition that happily seems more attuned than ever to this rapidly evolving environment. The experiences we offer here vary enormously in their need to be popular, or not so much; from expertly crafted crowd ticklers or gripping dramas to deeply felt eccentricities and passionate exposés. Every one of them stands to become that much richer for being experienced in the company of appreciative strangers.

The major sponsorship we receive from the New Zealand Film Commission is a gratifying institutional endorsement of the popular support that drives us. Buddle Findlay’s sponsorship of our Opening Night enables us to thank many valued supporters in style.

We welcome 2degrees’ sponsorship of our action-packed World cinema section. Resene join us for their third year as sponsors of a stunning bunch of New Zealand films. Flicks.co.nz and RadioLIVE remain lively, proactive media partners. Thanks too to Movie Max Timaru for keeping the flag aloft in South Canterbury.

Ultimately, it’s the support of its audience that keeps our non-profit enterprise in action. Ticket sales contributed 88% of our income in 2015. But we never forget that filmmakers gave whatever it took to get these pictures into the world in the first place: we set aside 25% of our box office to go their way. We hope that filmmakers and filmgoers alike, like the characters gracing our poster art, you will find what you are looking for at NZIFF in 2016.

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Bringing you the world Poi E: The Story of Our Song Opening Night

We open NZIFF 2016 with a joyful Tearepa Kahi* rendition of our national anthem – the Director/Screenplay: Tearepa Kahi on the big screen... one you can dance to. As irresistible New Zealand 2016 | 96 mins as the song it celebrates, Tearepa Producers: Alexander Behse, Reikura Kahi, Tearepa Kahi Kahi’s documentary explores the many Co-producer: Tuteri Dal Rangihaeata tributaries that flowed into the mash- Photography: Fred Renata, Jos Wheeler up of pop music, traditional waiata Editors: Tearepa Kahi, Francis Glenday (and small screen) With: Dalvanius Prime, Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi, and bop that first took New Zealand by Pātea Māori Club, Barletta Prime, Taika Waititi, Stan Walker, the Topp Twins, storm in 1984. Maaka Pōhatu Dalvanius Prime, the man who made it happen, enjoyed an international R&B career in the 70s. He returned from Declaration of interest: Sydney to Taranaki to nurse his dying The staff and trustees of NZIFF congratulate fellow trustee mother and stayed to embrace his Tearepa Kahi on his awesome film. culture and Te Reo Māori. Collaboration with singer Prince Tui Teka led him to Māori language composer Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi. Together they composed ‘Poi E’: in this film you will hear the first ever recording, made soon after. The film, told largely in Dalvanius’ Adding embellishments that did not own words, is brimful of music and We are proud to open please his co-composer but impressed frank and funny testimony from NZIFF 2016 with Tearepa her mokopuna, he persuaded his numerous participants in the song’s Taranaki whānau, the Patea Māori Club, richly peopled history. Taking a lesson Kahi’s irresistible Poi E. to perform it. A man on a mission, from the man himself, Kahi draws the chihuahuas under each arm, he pulled next generation into the story, ably together a diverse and talented bunch assisted by Taika Waititi, who provides of collaborators to record the song Stan Walker, aged 25, with essential and crowdfund a brilliant music video information about what life was like that, amongst other things, captured before ‘Poi E’. A Isaac Theatre Thu 28 Jul, 7.15 pm* the vitality and pride of his hometown A Northlands Sat 30 Jul, 6.30 pm facing hard times.

Elle Closing Night

Isabelle Huppert delivers a standout performance in this electrifying comeback from master genre disrupter Director: Paul Verhoeven Paul Verhoeven. France/Germany 2016 | 130 mins Producers: Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt “Paul Verhoeven’s Elle saw Cannes Screenplay: David Birke. Competition 69 out on a high note. Based on the novel Oh… by Philippe Djian This beautifully judged drama/thriller Photography: Stéphane Fontaine Editor: Job ter Burg is all about a provocatively powerful Music: Anne Dudley woman, much like Verhoeven’s last With: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Virginie Efria, Competition entry – Basic Instinct, Christian Berkel, Judith Magre, Jonas Bloquet, which played back in 1992. Elle is that Alice Isaaz, Vimala Pons Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016 picture’s equal, and, in a similar way, In French with English subtitles captures a new moment for film’s CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc femme fatale. Closing Night begins with a brief address Elle, starring the unrivalled Isabelle from NZIFF Director Bill Gosden. Huppert, threads sexual intrigue with knife-edged danger, punctuated by the occasional relief of unexpected, PROUDLY SPONSORED BY uneasy humour. It’s a film which could only have come from the hands of the GUY FRERANDIS / SBS PRODUCTIONS, COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES CLASSICS Dutch master, back after a 10-year- “If our modern age is partially defined absence since Black Book – and how by outrage culture, trigger warnings, “Suspenseful and unsettling we have missed him. and sensitivity training seminars (all of from first frame to last… Huppert has rarely been better as which have their function) the glee with the head of a videogame company which Verhoeven and Huppert openly, This audacious, irony-laced, who is attacked and raped in her home even playfully, defy any concession to convention-jumbling tale is by a masked intruder. This plays out, cultural correctness is breathtaking. The just plain fun to watch.” however, at the onset and is just a cinema of the #problematic may have launchpad for Verhoeven to examine just found its Citizen Kane.” — Jessica — Lisa Nesselson, Screendaily his career-long themes of power and Kiang, The Playlist domination afresh.” — Fionnuala B Isaac Theatre Thu 11 Aug, 3.30 pm Halligan, Screendaily A Isaac Theatre Sun 14 Aug, 8.15 pm

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A Quiet Passion Centrepiece

Terence Davies’ portrait of 19th-century Director/Screenplay: Terence Davies American poet Emily Dickinson, played UK/Belgium 2016 | 124 mins acutely well by Cynthia Nixon, may Producers: Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos Photography: Florian Hoffmeister be the perfect match of filmmaker Editor: Pia Di Ciaula and subject. Even audiences unfamiliar With: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Keith Carradine, Emma Bell, Duncan Duff, with Davies’ autobiographical classics Jodhi May, Catherine Bailey, Joanna Bacon, (Distant Voices, Still Lives; The Long Annette Badland, Eric Loren Festivals: Berlin 2016 Day Closes) will surely feel the sway CinemaScope | PG adult themes of an intense identification. “From the very opening scene, in which a stern, shrew-faced schoolmistress addresses her matriculating pupils – including the young Emily Dickinson – on the importance of faith and the perils of nonconformity, it’s clear we’re in safe hands… Only the first 20 minutes or so depict Emily’s youth, and they may surprise with their light-hearted, quasi-Wildean repartee as the fiercely intelligent young The film is not only a compelling woman exchanges opinions on life and and finally very affecting portrait of the “An exceptional film art – and, more particularly, on the place poet as an ageing woman, but another with a searing central of women in a patriarchal society – with entirely fresh variation on the themes her outspoken friend Vryling Buffam. that have preoccupied Davies since his performance from But an ellipsis… speeds us forward earliest work. To put it simply, there Cynthia Nixon.” into Emily’s later years, where her lack are moments here that are utterly and — Geoffrey Macnab, of recognition as a poet, her growing gloriously Davies: no other filmmaker A Isaac Theatre Sat 6 Aug, 5.45 pm loneliness and her frustrations regarding would have dreamed them up, let The Independent B Isaac Theatre Fri 12 Aug, 10.45 am gender inequality and creative integrity alone have executed them with such make for an increasing reclusiveness and exquisite delicacy.” — Geoff Andrew, B MM Timaru Fri 12 Aug, 1.00 pm an ever more loudly voiced bitterness… Sight & Sound A MM Timaru Sat 13 Aug, 3.00 pm

The Rehearsal Special Presentation

NZIFF is thrilled to present the World Alison Maclean, Bridget Ikin* Premiere screenings of Alison Maclean’s hotly anticipated adaptation of Eleanor Director: Alison Maclean Catton’s debut novel. New Zealand 2016 | 98 mins Producers: Bridget Ikin, Trevor Haysom Unpacking the dramas that energise Screenplay: Alison Maclean, Emily Perkins. a class of budding young actors, The Based on the novel by Eleanor Catton Photography: Andrew Commis Rehearsal stars James Rolleston in the Editor: Jonno Woodford-Robinson role of Stanley, a naive newcomer Music: Connan Mockasin drawn to the city by his passion to With: Kerry Fox, James Rolleston, Alice Englert, Ella Edward, Kieran Charnock, Michelle Ny, make it on stage. While his new best Scotty Cotter, Marlon Williams friends indulge in wilder games, gentle Censors rating tbc rehearsalfilm.com Stanley tentatively romances 15-year- old Isolde (Ella Edward). His sweet dreams may have found their nemesis in Hannah (Kerry Fox), the school’s grandstanding senior tutor. Students must deconstruct themselves, she contends, before they can play at being anybody else. Stanley gradually bends to her taunting style, until, in one of the dazzling turns that stud The Rehearsal carries a potent extra- the film, he earns her applause with textual charge: there’s enough talent “I wanted it to be an a hilarious, treacherously accurate in this fictional drama school to intimate, authentic impersonation of his salesman father. constitute a real-world new wave. Even murkier waters await when Like the novel, the film (co-scripted experience of what it’s his class decides that a sex scandal with Emily Perkins) is as attentive to like to be a young person involving Isolde’s older sister should the misleading effect youthful nerve can in New Zealand now.” be intensively researched for their have on the ‘mature’ as it is to the crises end-of-year show. the teachers so blithely incite in the — Alison Maclean With Michelle Ny, Marlon Williams taught. It’s also its own sharp, original and Kieran Charnock providing vivid thing, a film by Alison Maclean, alive A Isaac Theatre Sun 31 Jul, 5.45 pm* B Isaac Theatre Tue 2 Aug, 1.30 pm support to the young principals, with ambiguity and cinematic verve. BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 7

Aquarius Special Presentation

In a year worth noting for the number of strong women behind and in front of the camera, the most winning for Director/Screenplay: many in the NZIFF audience is bound Kleber Mendonça Filho Brazil/France 2016 | 140 mins to be Dona Clara, the indomitable Producers: Émilie Lesclaux, Saïd Ben Saïd, protagonist of Aquarius. She is played Michel Merkt with great authenticity and flair by Photography: Pedro Sotero, Fabricio Tadeu Editor: Eduardo Serrano Sonia Braga, the star of such landmark With: Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Brazilian films as Kiss of the Spider Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrão, Zoraide Coleto, Fernando Teixeira, Buda Lira, Woman and Dona Flor and Her Two Paula De Renor, Bárbara Colen, Daniel Porpino Husbands. A music critic in her mid-60s, Festivals: Cannes (In Competition), Sydney 2016 In Portuguese with English subtitles Clara is the last woman standing when Official Competition Winner, Sydney Film Festival developers propose to demolish the 2016 | lovely old beachside apartment building CinemaScope Censors rating tbc in which she’s spent the better part of a very full life. “Kleber Mendonça Filho’s stunning feature debut Neighbouring Sounds [NZIFF12] boldly announced a major new voice in Brazilian cinema… His much-anticipated follow-up is a more has presented this gift to her (and subtle film but no less mature, a calmer to the viewer) on a silver platter. A “Vibrant and bursting film but no less angry. Starring the breathtakingly intuitive actress, she’s with life… an engrossing, incomparable Sonia Braga as a well-off beautifully aged into an aristocratically widow holding on to her apartment sensual physicality and makes Clara’s intimate character against developer pressures, Aquarius firmness mingle with tenderness. The study that manages is a character study as well as a shrewd camera rarely leaves her, and we as to encompass plenty meditation on the needless transience audience value every moment we’re B Northlands Mon 1 Aug, 1.30 pm of place and the way physical space in her presence.” — Jay Weissberg, of universal truths.” B Isaac Theatre Tue 9 Aug, 12.45 pm elides with our identity… Variety — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair A Isaac Theatre Sun 14 Aug, 3.00 pm If the film feels as much Braga’s A MM Timaru Sun 14 Aug, 7.00 pm as Filho’s, it’s because the director

I, Daniel Blake Special Presentation

British cinema’s veteran social realist enters his eighties with a second Palme d’Or to his name after the Director: Ken Loach Cannes Jury this year awarded his feisty UK/France/Belgium 2016 | 100 mins Producer: Rebecca O’Brien new film the festival’s highest prize. Screenplay: Paul Laverty “Fifty years since Ken Loach raged Photography: Robbie Ryan against homelessness in his television Editor: Jonathan Morris Music: George Fenton play Cathy Come Home, the British With: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, filmmaker has made a film infused with Dylan McKiernan, Briana Shann Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016 the same quiet but righteous anger Palme d’Or (Best Film), Cannes Film Festival 2016 about the failings of the society around Censors rating tbc him. I, Daniel Blake is the story of an unlikely but tender friendship between Katie (Hayley Squires), a single mother from London with two kids, and Dan (Dave Johns), a Geordie carpenter in his late fifties who’s out of work and recovering from a heart attack. Both Katie and Dan are feeling the sharp end of the shrinking welfare state: Katie has been forced to move he takes a stand. Dan, and people like her children north to Newcastle to find him everywhere, need a Katie watching “This is Loach – the a flat; Dan is stuck in a nightmarish their back; they need a community, a humorist, the dramatist, bureacratic limbo between work, illness benevolent government, us.” — Dave and benefits… Forces beyond both are Calhoun, Time Out the activist – firing on turning them into different people. Dan “The quiet beauty of I, Daniel Blake all cylinders.” is community-minded, gentle, a laugh. – the reason it’s the rare political drama — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice At first, he’s able to criticise, even laugh that touches the soul – is that we B Isaac Theatre Fri 29 Jul, 11.00 am at, the system that’s crushing him. believe, completely, in these people.” A Isaac Theatre Sun 31 Jul, 3.15 pm The tragedy of the film – and its — Owen Gleiberman, Variety rousing point – is that in the end it’s all A MM Timaru Fri 12 Aug, 6.15 pm B MM Timaru Fri 19 Aug, 1.00 pm too much for one man, however much 8 BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Neruda Special Presentation

In this dense and scintillating mix of fact and fantasy, Gael García Bernal reteams with No director Pablo Larraín Director: Pablo Larraín to play an obsessive (fictional) detective Chile/Argentina/France/Spain 2016 107 mins on the trail of the famed Chilean Producer: Juan de Dios Larraín poet-politician forced into exile in 1948. Screenplay: Guillermo Calderón “A work of such cleverness and Photography: Sergio Armstrong Editor: Hervé Schneid beauty, alongside such power, Music: Federico Jusid that it’s hard to know how to parcel With: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán, Diego Muñoz, Pablo Derqui, out praise… Neruda is not a biopic Michael Silva, Jaime Vadell, Alfredo Castro, but an invention informed by Marcelo Alonso, Francisco Reyes Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2016 biography, conjuring a richly detailed In Spanish and French with English subtitles investigator with notions of self- CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc grandeur who’s hunting the famed leftist writer-politician… [Larraín] deftly mixes fiction with a form of truth, presenting Neruda not as the passionate romantic of his verse but a champagne communist very much tied to passing pleasures. Yet © 2016 – FABULA – AZ FILMS – FUNNY BALLOONS – SETEMBRO CINE. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED what Larraín makes clear by the finale slips to reveal the character’s idealism is that who the artist is (any artist) is and solidarity… But perhaps it’s “Neruda works most less important than what they inspire… García Bernal who makes the greatest thrillingly as an effusive Every bit the film’s protagonist as much impression… Humorous, straight-faced as the poet, Peluchonneau [García and channeling any number of noir love letter to the Bernal]… serves as both Neruda’s detectives with a post-modern twist very concept of fiction nemesis and his creation, an ineffective that finally gives that misused concept and all the ways it can plainclothesman assisting in the legend a good name, the actor quite simply of the great man’s persecution. shines, once again proving himself one set you free.” All the performances are outstanding: of the smartest performers around.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist Luis Gnecco plays Neruda with a sense — Jay Weissberg, Variety B Isaac Theatre Thu 4 Aug, 4.00 pm of entitled vanity, which occasionally A Isaac Theatre Sat 6 Aug, 8.30 pm

Paterson Special Presentation

“Writer-director Jim Jarmusch often explores existential themes, but they’ve perhaps never been so beautifully Director/Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch unadorned as they are in Paterson, USA 2016 | 113 mins Producers: Joshua Astrachan, Carter Logan a deceptively modest character piece Photography: Frederick Elmes that’s profound and moving while Editor: Affonso Gonçalves remaining grounded in the everyday. Music: Sqürl With: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Observing a bus driver (played with Chasten Harmon, Barry Shabaka Henley, incredible grace by Adam Driver) over William Jackson Harper, Rizwan Manji Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016 eight days, the movie turns the tiny Censors rating tbc details of its protagonist’s life into a deeply felt consideration of marriage, love, compromise and the casual oddities inherent in being alive... Living with his wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), a cupcake chef who dreams of becoming a country music star, Paterson (who just so happens to live in Paterson, New Jersey) goes through his daily routine, which © 2016 MARY CYBULSKI includes jotting down some lines for loneliness of couplehood, the way his latest poem and stopping by his the things we do in our spare time “What a pleasure... that favorite bar every night... can come to define who we are. Jarmusch’s film is as wise, Neither romanticizing Paterson’s It’s about love and poetry and ordinary life nor patronisingly lamenting dreams, and about the chance winning, and surprisingly it, Jarmusch crafts a wonderfully encounter that can close a wound moving as it is.” precise portrait that’s both specific and with the magic efficiency of a tiny — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair universal.” — Tim Grierson, Screendaily butterfly bandage. How you pour all “It’s about so many things: The of that into one movie is something B Isaac Theatre Tue 9 Aug, 3.45 pm energy that keeps even an economically of a mystery – but then, a good poem A Isaac Theatre Sat 13 Aug, 8.45 pm depressed city’s lifeblood thrumming, is always something of a mystery too.” A MM Timaru Sun 21 Aug, 8.00 pm the closeness but also the inherent — Stephanie Zacharek, Time BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 9

The Red Turtle Special Presentation

Studio Ghibli’s first international co-production is a ravishing castaway fable that combines beauty, mystery, Director: Michael Dudok de Wit drama and heartbreak – with not France/Japan/Belgium 2016 | 80 mins a word spoken. It’s a triumph for Producer: Takahata Isao animator Michael Dudok de Wit. Screenplay: Michael Dudok de Wit, Pascale Ferran “‘If one day Studio Ghibli decides to Editor: Céline Kélépikis Animation: Jean-Christophe Lie produce an animator from outside the Music: Laurent Perez del Mar studio, it will be him’, was Miyazaki’s Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2016 Special Jury Prize (Un Certain Regard), pronouncement after watching Dudok Cannes Film Festival 2016 de Wit’s Oscar-winning animated short Censors rating tbc Father and Daughter… Sixteen years after Father and Daughter, Studio Ghibli and Dudok de Wit’s collaboration has come into being. It begins in the middle of a storm. Grey waves and raindrops engulf the screen. In the corner, a tiny head surfaces and then sinks. The nameless man is washed up on a beach with bits of his broken boat. A crab crawls I’ll leave it there with the plot, up his leg. When he goes to explore, because you don’t really want to know “Dudok de Wit’s the view pulls right back so all we see much more about a mythical fantasy hypnotizing, entirely is a remote island while his cries ring like this one before you see it… out. His only company is a cast of Pictures are the film’s currency dialogue-free The Red crabs (such an apt collective noun!). and they are, without exaggeration, Turtle is a fable so Several times he tries to escape with a sublime… The depth and texture on simple, so pure, it feels makeshift bamboo raft, but each time show here – conjured from a surge a mysterious force in the water breaks of pencil marks and watercolour as if it has existed for B Isaac Theatre Wed 10 Aug, 12.00 pm up his boat. Eventually he discovers washes – is remarkable. The film is hundreds of years.” A Isaac Theatre Sun 14 Aug, 1.00 pm his secretive aggressor: the titular red a must for the big screen.” — Isabel — Peter Debruge, Variety A MM Timaru Mon 15 Aug, 6.15 pm turtle. Stevens, Sight & Sound

Toni Erdmann Special Presentation

Writer/director Maren Ade’s epic comedy about a prankster dad’s campaign to connect with his mortified workaholic Director/Screenplay: Maren Ade daughter was the hands-down audience Germany/Austria 2016 | 162 mins Producer: Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, favourite at Cannes, and universally Jonas Dornbach tipped to win. Assuming the persona of Photography: Patrick Orth a clownish ‘life coach’, the eponymous Editor: Heike Parplies With: Peter Sinonischek, Sandra Hüller, anti-hero lays siege to the corporate Michael Wittenborn, Thomas Loibl, lifestyle. Trystan Pütter, Hadewych Minis, Lucy Russell, Ingrid Bisu, Vlad Ivanov, Victoria Corciaş “Trust in the creative impulse informs Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016 every aspect of the film, from Ade’s In German and English, with English subtitles Censors rating tbc dazzling script which has just enough of a classical comedic structure to PROUDLY SPONSORED BY support two hours and 42 minutes of surprises big and small, to her direction, which is designed to liberate the actors as much as possible while the camera rolls, to the performances (Simonischek and Hüller seem to be as amazed as we are by the things their KOMPLIZEN FILM characters lead them to do)… like treacle, but here is thoroughly The last 45 minutes contains four earned and provokes the tears that “Get ready to retract every set pieces that take a film that is lay beneath the laughter all along.” cliché joke you’ve ever already great to a higher (say, The — Amy Taubin, Film Comment Rules of the Game) level, and the less “Long after this year’s juries have made about Germans and you know about them in advance the disbanded and the world has forgotten their sense of humour.” better. Let’s just say they involve a who won this year’s awards, the 2016 — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist karaoke performance, nudity, a very edition will best be remembered as hairy embrace, and finally, a from-the- the year Ms Ade gave us Toni Erdmann, heart statement about how we could a work of great beauty, great feeling B Northlands Fri 29 Jul, 1.00 pm and should live our lives, which in and great cinema.” — Manohla Dargis, B Isaac Theatre Wed 3 Aug, 3.00 pm almost any other film would seem NY Times A Isaac Theatre Sun 7 Aug, 4.15 pm 10 BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Chimes at Midnight Retro

The consensus choice for Orson Welles’ Director: Orson Welles late-career masterpiece, Chimes at Spain 1966 | 117 mins Midnight has been almost impossible Screenplay: Orson Welles. Based on the plays Henry IV, Part I and Part II; Richard II; Henry V; and to see in decent quality for many The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare decades. We are delighted to present Photography: Edmond Richard Editors: Elena Jaumandreu, Fritz Muller this new restoration. Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino Welles had long been fascinated With: Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud, Norman Rodway, Alan Webb, Tony Beckley, with Shakespeare’s English history plays. Margaret Rutherford, Jeanne Moreau, He produced a stage compendium of Marina Vlady, Fernando Rey B&W | PG cert nine of them as far back as 1939, and by 1960 this had evolved into a stage production entitled Chimes at Midnight, which was compiled from the second tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV Parts I & II, Henry V) and The Merry Wives of Windsor and focused on the character of Sir John Falstaff – the role Welles was born to play. Welles then dedicated half a decade to securing financing for a film version. The project eventually came together focus black-and-white photography – barely and with more than a little and Welles’ punchy editing make this “If I wanted to get into contractual sleight of hand – and filmed Shakespeare of uncommon heaven on the basis of Welles somehow managed to create vitality. Perhaps most remarkably, an earthy, intimate epic on the smell given the economy of the production, one movie, that’s the of an oily rag, calling in a lifetime Chimes at Midnight sports one of one I would offer up.” of accrued favours from an amazing cinema’s greatest battle sequences: — Orson Welles cast of actor friends (John Gielgud, inspired by Eisenstein, Welles turns Jeanne Moreau, Fernando Rey, the Battle of Shrewsbury into a barrage Margaret Rutherford). It’s one of the of sense impressions, an overwhelming greatest adaptations of Shakespeare. mixture of mist, mud and chaotic B Isaac Theatre Fri 12 Aug, 1.30 pm A Isaac Theatre Sat 13 Aug, 3.30 pm The spectacular high contrast, deep brutality. — AL

McCabe & Mrs Miller Tokyo Story Tokyo monogatari

Director: Robert Altman Director: Ozu Yasujiro USA 1971 | 120 mins Japan 1953 | 136 mins Screenplay: Robert Altman, Screenplay: Noda Kogo, Brian McKay. Based on the novel Ozu Yasujiro McCabe by Edmund Naughton Photography: Atsuta Yuharu Photography: Vilmos Zsigmond With: Ryu Chishu, Higashiyama Music: Leonard Cohen Cheiko, Hara Setsuko, Sugimura With: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Haruko, Nakamura Nobuo, René Auberjonois, William Yamamura So, Miyake Kuniko, Devane, John Schuck, Kagawa Kyoko, Tono Eijiro, Corey Fischer, Bert Remsen, Osaka Shiro, Murase Zen, Shelley Duvall, Keith Carradine, Mori Mitsuhiro Michael Murphy In Japanese with English subtitles CinemaScope | M violence, B&W | PG low level offensive offensive language language

As vivid and haunting as the songs of by David Milch.) On its release critic Voted in Sight & Sound’s authoritative to grow apart; casual thoughtlessness Leonard Cohen that found an audience Andrew Sarris hailed it a ‘half-baked 2012 poll the third greatest film of can still cut like a knife; and regrets on its soundtrack, Robert Altman’s masterpiece’. Forty-five years later, the all time (and topping the list among remain infinite. indelible vision of two of the Wild apparent offhandedness of Altman’s directors), Ozu Yasujiro’s sublime family Ozu nails every interaction with West’s most beautiful losers is restored attention to story and dialogue feels drama is as relevant today as it has ever a rich emotional diversity, including to the giant screen. Warren Beatty integral to his evocation of elusive been, in a sparkling new restoration. moments of gentle humour. The and Julie Christie play an enterprising dreams and frail individual enterprises. When elderly parents travel from zen-like simplicity of Ozu’s mature gambler and a cynical bordello madam, The town, rising so randomly amongst their sleepy coastal town to visit style rejected the norms of Hollywood separate newcomers whose reputations the conifers, is said to have been their eldest children in Tokyo, life filmmaking and invented its own have preceded them to the raw Pacific built by a crew of US draft dodgers in in the big city doesn’t leave much sophisticated, flexible and extraordinarily Northwest mining town of Presbyterian British Columbia and the film was shot, time for hosting the old folks. Mild expressive film grammar that was Church. Channelling attraction into unforgettably, in rain and snow by the disappointments gradually turn into completely absorbing and startlingly a business proposition, they join late, great Vilmos Zsigmond. stealth tragedy when the mother falls ill emotionally direct. — AL forces to provide the miners with a on the way home. superior whorehouse experience. The Perhaps the most shocking thing arrival of representatives of a mining about Tokyo Story is how completely company with interests of its own A Northlands Sun 31 Jul, 6.00 pm recognisable the behaviours and B Northlands Fri 12 Aug, 1.15 pm threatens their plans. (Deadwood fans B Northlands Wed 3 Aug, 3.45 pm attitudes are 60 years later, in an alien A Northlands Sat 13 Aug, 1.00 pm will recognise the debt acknowledged A Northlands Tue 9 Aug, 8.30 pm culture. Children and parents continue A Northlands Sun 14 Aug, 3.15 pm BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 11

Safety Last! Christchurch Symphony Orchestra Live Cinema

The Christurch Symphony Orchestra puts the music back into two great classics of silent comedy. Marc Taddei conducts Carl Davis’ original score for Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! and Timothy Brock’s arrangement of Neil Brand’s 2012 score for the classic Charlie Chaplin short, Easy Street.

“The most famous image of silent Safety Last! comedy – Harold Lloyd hanging from the Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, hands of a clock, 12 stories above the Sam Taylor streets of Los Angeles – represents only USA 1923 | 67 mins one of the great moments in what could Screenplay: Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan, Harold Lloyd be the most brilliantly sustained comic Photography: Walter Lundin climax in film history. A marvel, and Editor: T.J. Crizer With: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, there’s more in the fine character work Noah Young, Westcott B. Clarke that leads Lloyd up to the big moment. B&W | G cert The other great silent comics defined their own worlds; Lloyd lives dangerously Easy Street in ours.” — Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader Director/Editor: Charles Chaplin Harold Lloyd was silent comedy’s USA 1917 | 19 mins daredevil, cannily disguised as an Producers: Charles Chaplin, Henry P. Caulfield Screenplay: Charles Chaplin, Vincent Bryan, average guy. In the 20s he was more Maverick Terrell popular than Buster Keaton and in more Photography: Roland Totheroh With: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, films than Charlie Chaplin. Though he Eric Campbell made a pair of horn-rimmed glasses Restored in 2012 by Cineteca di Bologna, Lobster Films and David Shepard and a nerdy squint his trademark, he at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory was as physically agile and as daring a B&W | G cert movie actor as ever lived. In this most famous of his films he’s a country boy determined to get ahead in the big smoke. Sending letters to his girl back home overstating his progress, to put it mildly, he’s cornered into daredevil mode when she pays a surprise visit, and must scale a 12-storey building. Safety Last!, with its department store setting and skyscraper-climbing antics, is as up-to-date a dispatch from 1923 as you will ever find, its zeitgeist jazzily accentuated by Carl Davis’ score. The great care that Lloyd, and now his granddaughter Suzanne, have always taken with his film legacy help accentuate that freshness even further: in its recently created digital form, the SAFETY LAST! film looks as good as new. In Easy Street, Chaplin‘s tramp Laugh-out-loud funny and jaw-dropping in equal happily steals from the mission – until measure, Safety Last! is a movie experience par love strikes. “Easy Street is an exquisite short excellence, anchored by a genuine legend. comedy, humour encapsulated in the regular rhythms of light verse.” — Walter Kerr, The Silent Clowns more than 50 scores for this medium, Marc Taddei conducts the scores including Flesh and the Devil, Ben-Hur, for both films. A popular guest The Thief of Baghdad, Greed, Intolerance conductor throughout Australasia, and The General, has brought him Marc is currently Music Director of international acclaim. Orchestra Wellington and the Vallejo Composer Neil Brand has been Symphony in California. His many accompanying silent films for over Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra Live 20 years. He has written scores for TV Cinema engagements have included documentaries and radio dramas; music an exhilarating The Wind in 2006, for theatre; two musicals and four radio an eerily romantic Nosferatu in 2011, plays; and is considered one of the and Carl Davis’ orchestration of finest exponents of improvised silent Chaplin’s score for The Kid last year. film accompaniment in the world. Music for silent films has been an He has dazzled New Zealand audiences enduring strand of the prolific Carl several times as a guest of NZIFF. Neil’s Davis’ activities. His 1980 score for score for Easy Street has been arranged Abel Gance’s Napoleon triggered for orchestra by another NZIFF Live ✪ Isaac Theatre Sun 7 Aug, 2.00 pm an extraordinary revival of interest Cinema regular, composer and conductor SPECIAL PRICES APPLY in silent film, and Davis’ oeuvre of Timothy Brock. See p50 EASY STREET 12

Apple Pie AOTEAROA

Sam Hamilton Director: Sam Hamilton New Zealand 2016 80 mins Producer: Lani Felthan Photography: Ian Powell Narrators: Christopher Francis Schiel, Muagututia Kelemete Fu’a With: Ioane Papali’i, Lauren Waudé, Dean Roberts, Kasina Campbell, Oscar Dowling, Jon Bywater, Louise Menzies, Andy Hamilton, Metusela Toso, Mosiana Webster PG nudity

Shot on 16mm celluloid across existence into focus, while Hamilton’s parts of New Zealand and Samoa, visual tableaux, as an extension interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s of his multifaceted practice, veer ten-part experimental magnum imaginatively between psychedelic opus makes thought-provoking imagery and performance art. connections between life on Earth and The centrepiece of the film is a the cosmos, and, ultimately, art and striking sequence involving dancer science. Structured around the ten Ioane Papali’i, whose limbs are tied most significant celestial bodies of the by long strands of rope to a tree. His Milky Way, Apple Pie’s inquiry begins struggle, perhaps, is one of trying to with the furthest point in our solar deviate from the blueprints of reality, system, Pluto, as a lens back towards a fundamental aspect of our species’ our home planet and the ‘mechanisms most constructive faculties, says by which certain aspects of scientific Hamilton. — Tim Wong knowledge are digested, appropriated and subsequently manifest within the general human complex’. Christopher Francis Schiel’s dry, functional narration B Northlands Thu 4 Aug, 3.45 pm brings a network of ideas about our A Northlands Thu 4 Aug, 6.15 pm

The heART of the Matter NEW ZEALAND FILMS AT NZIFF ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY

Luit Bieringa* Director: Luit Bieringa New Zealand 2016 88 mins Producer: Jan Bieringa Photography: John Chrisstoffels, Davorin Fahn, Greg Jennings, John Irwin, Tony Hiles Editors: Annie Collins, Angela Boyd Research: Renee Gerlich Sound: Dick Reade Music: Warren Maxwell

NZIFF is proud to provide big screen premieres for striking work made within our own horizons. Under the leadership of a legendary Para Matchitt and Ralph Hotere. director general of education, Clarence Critically, they ensured that aspects In fact, it’s one of our key objectives. In 2016 we Beeby, the years immediately after of Māori art such as kōwhaiwhai, platform four very different documentaries, two World War II saw the most remarkable kapa haka and waiata had a central shifts in educational philosophy New place in our mainstream classrooms mighty programmes of shorts and some dazzling Zealand had ever experienced. through in-depth consultation with experimental work. Luit Bieringa’s documentary traces Ngāti Porou kaumātua Pine Taiapa. those changes and the army of men Replete with archival interviews and If this section seems a little tighter than in and women who worked to establish little-seen footage, this film is likely to a thoroughly bicultural and arts- transport any Kiwi-educated boomer previous years, that’s because New Zealand films centred education system. Gordon back to school, but its richly storied take pride of place as our Opening Night and Tovey, national supervisor of arts and excavation of the past is as clearly crafts, and his team of artists and pointed towards the future as once Centrepiece choices. See also Pietra Brettkelly’s art specialists fostered the lively and were its public-servant heroes. extraordinary foray into the film archives of colourful classrooms that New Zealand is familiar with today, in stark contrast Afghanistan (p36) in Framing Reality. to the rote-learning environments A Northlands Sun 7 Aug, 4.00 pm* preceding them. Contributing art A Northlands Mon 8 Aug, 6.15 pm* specialists included Cliff Whiting, B Northlands Fri 12 Aug, 11.15 am AOTEAROA 13

Le Ride

Phil Keoghan, television personality, Phil Keoghan* adventurer and bike enthusiast, pays tribute to a little-known Kiwi sports Director: Phil Keoghan hero by duplicating one of his most New Zealand/Australia/USA/France 2016 | 90 mins remarkable feats in this documentary. Producer: Louise Keoghan In 1928, New Zealander Harry Screenplay: Phil Keoghan, Louise Keoghan Watson and three Australian cyclists Photography: Scott Shelley Editor: Jess Bushyhead teamed up to compete in the Tour Narrator: Hewitt Humphrey de France. Racing as an untested With: Phil Keoghan, John Keoghan, team of four, the Australasians were Ben Cornell, Greg Peart conspicuously raw amongst the elite ten-man European teams, but they were tenacious and learned fast. The race was designed to eliminate as many riders as possible – and so, one might think, were the bikes. Most of the roads were unpaved and the heavy steel bikes weighed twice as much as a modern racing bike. More riders failed to finish the 1928 Tour de SALMINI SPORTFILM LLC France than any other Tour in history: vintage bikes with no gearshifts, they 168 riders began the arduous 3,500- keep pace with the daily progress (if NZIFF proudly presents mile race; only 41 finished. not the number of blow-outs) related the world premiere of Following the 1928 route around the by Watson in his vivid journals. perimeter of France 85 years later isn’t Handsomely shot, and rich in Phil Keoghan’s tribute always exactly possible, thanks to vastly fascinating detail and photographic to a kiwi hero. increased traffic and motorway systems, evidence of Watson and his teammates’ but Keoghan and mate Ben Cornell are epic achievement, Keoghan’s film feels determined – some might say recklessly their pain so that you don’t have to. A Isaac Theatre Fri 29 Jul, 8.15 pm* so – to get as close to it as possible. It’s a stirring salute. We’re delighted to A Isaac Theatre Mon 8 Aug, 8.30 pm Travelling the 3,500 miles (5,600 km), present the World Premiere screening in 22 stages over 26 days on restored in Harry’s hometown, and Phil’s too. A MM Timaru Thu 11 Aug, 8.30 pm

The 5th Eye On an Unknown Beach

Errol Wrigt, Adam Luxton Abi King-Jones* Directors: Errol Wright, Directors/Photography: Abi King-Jones Adam Luxton, New Zealand 2016 Summer Agnew 112 mins New Zealand 2016 Producer/Photography: Errol Wright 90 mins Editor: Abi King-Jones Producers: Gayle Hogan, Sound: Matt Stutter Adam Luxton, Summer Agnew Music: David Long With: Bruce Russell, Di Tracey, With: Adrian Leason, Peter David Hornblow Murnane, Sam Land, Nicky Hager, CinemaScope Murray Horton, Michael Knowles, Paul Buchanan, Thomas Beagle, Robert Patman, Richard Jackson

If our PM or the relevant public servants thread an unlikely tale of protest through Longtime collaborators Adam Luxton navigating a fraught interior landscape, feel truly comfortable about New this scenario, following the actions of and Summer Agnew, creators of the poet and actor David Hornblow uses Zealand’s participation in the Five Eyes the three earnest bumblers who, singular Minginui (NZIFF05), return Regression Hypnotherapy to traverse intelligence alliance, it doesn’t show against all odds, successfully damaged to their experimental roots with his past experiences with addiction. when they are seen explaining it, the Waihopai spy station in 2008. this ‘speculative documentary’ on For Luxton and Agnew, their unique defending it, or downright refusing to When the GCSB has been so often landscapes of ruin, and the three subjects’ journeys into the unknown talk about it in this doco. Filmmakers in the news, there’s likely to be an explorers who dive deep into the abyss. have galvanised their own approach Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones embed audience, less heroic perhaps, that’s Aboard the state-of-the-art research to the aesthetic of this adventurous those TV interviews, parliamentary simply grateful to this film for providing vessel Tangaroa, coral scientist Di Tracey film, earthy in tone and form and declamations and media ops in a a salutary, blow-by-blow account of the surveys the Chatham Rise seabed to sublimely realised as a visual poem – its concise history of New Zealand’s post GCSB’s misadventures – and their document the impact of deep ocean images some of the most striking you’ll war dependency on the United States. expanding powers to make suspects of trawl fishing. Wandering through encounter at this festival. — Tim Wong For lucid, more confidently-held all of us. Christchurch’s eerie post-quake CBD, commentary, the filmmakers turn to Bruce Russell, a sound artist and inveterate watchdogs such as Nicky A Northlands Sat 6 Aug, 6.00 pm* founding member of seminal noise Hager and Jane Kelsey, but evolve a A Northlands Sun 7 Aug, 1.15 pm* band The Dead C, philosophises on position of their own through the B Northlands Wed 10 Aug, 3.45 pm urbanisation and regeneration through accumulation and agile juxtaposition of improvised soundscapes and his own B Northlands Tue 9 Aug, 3.45 pm some very telling material. They also A MM Timaru Sat 20 Aug, 1.00 pm highly evolved thought patterns. And A Northlands Tue 9 Aug, 6.30 pm 14 AOTEAROA

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COMING SOON BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (USA) | THE TRIP (UK) | AMAL (HINDI) TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (FRENCH) | A ROYAL AFFAIR (DANISH) SHORT TERM 12 (USA) | LOCKE (UK) | THE TRIP TO ITALY (UK) LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (UK) | FRANK (USA) CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER (CHINESE)

Every Sunday | Rātapu at 8.30pm AOTEAROA 15

MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT New Zealand’s Best 2016 JURY PRIZE 75 mins approx. | M horror scenes

For this year’s New Zealand’s Best short Spring Jam Wait Judgment Tavern film competition, NZIFF programmers NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Ned Wenlock NZ 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Yamin Tun Producers: NZ 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Dean Hewison Bill Gosden and Michael McDonnell Producer: Georgiana Plaister | 6 mins Vicky Pope, Daniel Higgins | Photography: Ryan Producer: Ruth Korver | Photography: Chris Matthews viewed 81 submissions to make a Alexander Lloyd | Editor: Simon Price | In Mandarin and | Editor: Jeff Hurrell | 11 mins A young buck suffers a major case of English, with English subtitles | 14 mins shortlist of 12, from which filmmaker antler-envy in this charming and witty A young girl and her disembodied A young girl helps her immigrant Lee Tamahori selected these six animated short. Great commentary on father search for his missing body in mother overcome both cultural and finalists. A jury of three will select New Zealand. Funny, irreverent, with this fantasy short filled with swords emotional barriers. Tense and absorbing the winner of the $5,000 Madman excellent use of music and imagery. and sorcery. Succinct narrative, Entertainment Jury Prize, while a narrative with an intentionally enigmatic excellent production and technical $3,000 Wallace Friends of the Civic Cradle finale. Good tech credits and finely skills. A concise piece of storytelling tuned performances. Award will be awarded by donors NZ 2016 | Director: Damon Duncan | Producer: Luke in such a short format. Good the Wallace Foundation and Wallace Robinson | Screenplay: Hugh Calveley Photography: performances help to sustain tension. Ian McCarroll | Editor: Alex O’Shaughnessy | 15 mins Shmeat Media Ltd to the film or contributor In this accomplished outer-space NZ 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Matasila Freshwater they deem to merit special recognition. Producer: Thomas Coppell | Animator/Editor: Chris The King drama, a stranded astronaut must | (The King, supported by Wallace Callus | 6 mins NZ 2016 Director/Screenplay/Producer: Ursula wrestle control of her spaceship from Grace Williams | Photography: Tim Flower | Editor: Media, is not eligible for this prize.) In an animated dystopia, where Gareth Moon | 23 mins its errant computer. A good story, well The winner of the audience vote in food and resources are scarce, a told. Great set design, sharp editing Meet Andy Stankovich, scrap- Auckland and Wellington takes away mad scientist ventures into the and generally excellent tech credits. metal merchant by day and sweet- the Audience Choice Award, consisting night to procure an icky new food A gripping sci-fi film. voiced performer by night. Likeable of 25 percent of the box office from source… Excellent production values documentary with a warm heart. the main-centre NZIFF screenings. encompassing a timely global story. A classic New Zealand character, with Lee’s comments on each film appear Very Tim Burton-esque, but thoroughly a touching bunch of associates. in italics. entertaining and humorous.

A Northlands Tue 2 Aug, 6.45 pm B Northlands Wed 3 Aug, 12.45 pm

WAIT SHMEAT JUDGMENT TAVERN

PRESENTED IN Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori Pasifika Shorts 2016 ASSOCIATION WITH 89 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc | In English, Maˉori and Solomon Islands Pijin, with English subtitles

A collection of Māori and Pasifika The Chief’s Speech Smiths Ave Blackbird short films curated by Leo Koziol NZ 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Robert George Australia 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Amie Batalibasi (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka), (to the United Nations) (NZ Maˉori/Cook Island Maˉori) | 10 min (Solomon Islander) | 13 mins USA 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Vilsoni Hereniko director of the Wairoa Māori Film (Rotuman) | 6 mins An unexpected call from his estranged A story inspired by the untold history Festival, with guest co-curator Craig Chief Telematua’s impassioned speech father leads a young man to ponder of Australia’s ‘Sugar Slaves’. Fasi (Niue), director of the Pollywood may well change your understanding events from his childhood. Film Festival. Stevo of climate change. This year’s expression of ‘ngā The Lost Pearl NZ 2015 | Director: Heather Hayward | 15 mins whanaunga’ – which means The Spectacular NZ/Tahiti 2015 | Director: Temuera Morrison (Maˉori) A Wellington security guard brings relatedness and connectedness Producer: Tiairani Drollet-Le Caill (Tahitian Maohi) Imagination of the 20 mins traditional Māori ways of trade and between peoples – is realised with barter to his life in the city. A life-changing event sends a young films from Aotearoa, Hawaii, Tahiti Poˉhara Brothers man back to Tahiti where he discovers and Australia. The name was NZ 2015 | Director/Screenplay: Todd Karehana Uˉ kaipoˉ Whenua (Maˉori) | 8 mins a family he never knew. suggested by Leo’s mother, the late NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Kararaina Rangihau Two brothers try to help their (Maˉori) | Producer: Hineani Melbourne (Maˉori) Huia Kaporangi Koziol, who was 17 mins fluent in Te Reo Māori as a speaker, mother pay her power bill before it is In the misty mountains surrounding reader and writer. For curators’ disconnected in 24 hours. Lake Waikaremoana, another comments, go to nziff.co.nz generation is poised to inherit the land.

B Northlands Tue 9 Aug, 1.30 pm A Northlands Sun 14 Aug, 3.00 pm

THE SPECTACULAR IMAGINATION OF THE PŌHARA BROTHERS SMITHS AVE BLACKBIRD 16 ARGENTINA, BELGIUM

The Clan El Clan WORLD

Director/Screenplay: Pablo Trapero Argentina/Spain 2015 110 mins With: Guillermo Francella, Peter Lanzani, Lili Popovich, Gastón Cocchiarale, Giselle Motta Festivals: Venice, Toronto 2015 Best Director, Venice Film Festival 2015 In Spanish with English subtitles CinemaScope | R13 violence, offensive language, sex scenes

In Argentina everybody knows about (The Secret of Their Eyes) Francella’s the Puccio Clan case. In 1985 it was icy composure in the paternal role discovered that a spate of kidnappings dominates Pablo Trapero’s fearsomely and murders had been the work of the compulsive film. Puccios, a well-established Catholic “There’s such an irresistible, black- family with five children from San hearted swagger to [Pablo Trapero’s] Isidro, a high-class suburb of Buenos latest that Martin Scorsese would Aires. They had held the hostages immediately recognise a kindred spirit.” in their basement, then, after the — Robbie Collin, The Telegraph ransoms had been paid, murdered them. Mama Puccio and the daughters were allegedly oblivious, but the sons were up to their necks, none more so than golden-haired national rugby star Alejandro (Peter Lanzini), used as bait WORLD FILMS AT NZIFF ARE to attract victims by the controlling A Isaac Theatre Fri 5 Aug, 9.15 pm paterfamilias. It is largely through the B Northlands Thu 11 Aug, 3.45 pm PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY conflicted eyes of young Alejandro that the story unravels, but Guillermo A MM Timaru Fri 12 Aug, 8.15 pm

The First, the Last Les premiers, les derniers

Director/Screenplay: Bouli Lanners Belgium/France 2016 98 mins Photography: Jean-Paul De Zaeytijd Editor: Ewin Ryckaert With: Albert Dupontel, Bouli Lanners, Suzanne Clément, Michael Lonsdale, David Murgia, Aurore Broutin, Philippe Rebbot, Serge Riaboukine, Max von Sydow Festivals: Berlin 2016 In French with English subtitles CinemaScope | R13 violence, offensive language

Our pick of the features we have Bouli Lanners’ poker-faced crime hunters and hunted fall foul of a local drama favours black humour and criminal gang. encountered in a year of close engagement existentialism over genre heroics, A terrific supporting cast amplify the with international cinema. We do what almost like a gothic, Belgian riff on deadpan hijinks, including Canadian the Coens’ No Country for Old Men. actress Suzanne Clément (Mommy) as we can to cover many bases, while insisting In a god-forsaken no man’s land a lonely single mother who befriends on that certain indefinable quantity called somewhere in rural Western Europe, Cochise; French veteran Michael which could just as easily be the Lonsdale as the world’s most decrepit quality. We pay attention at the same time American West, two world-weary but hotelier; and Bergman regular Max to the films lavished with praise or box good-hearted bounty hunters, Cochise von Sydow as a grave undertaker. Oh, (Albert Dupontel) and Gilou (Lanners), and there’s also a homeless drifter office success in their countries of origin. have been hired to track down a stolen called Jésus (French character actor Films in this section are arranged by principal cellphone. They have a device that Philippe Rebbot), who bears a striking can track the phone but only when it’s resemblance to the real deal. — MM country of origin. switched on. Trouble is the thieves, two young lovers on the run, are convinced that the end of the world is nigh and B Northlands Fri 29 Jul, 4.00 pm don’t seem to have much use for A Northlands Sat 6 Aug, 8.30 pm the phone. It’s not long before both A Northlands Mon 8 Aug, 8.30 pm AUSTRALIA, CHILE, DENMARK WORLD 17

The Daughter

Drawing together a dream ensemble Director: Simon Stone that includes Geoffrey Rush, Sam Australia 2015 | 95 mins Neill, Miranda Otto and incendiary Producers: Jan Chapman, Nicole O’Donohue Screenplay: Simon Stone. Inspired by the play teenage newcomer Odessa Young, The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen The Daughter is the feature debut of Photography: Andrew Commis Editor: Veronika Jenet acclaimed Australian stage director Production designer: Steven Jones-Evans Simon Stone. Building on his theatrical Costume designer: Margot Wilson Music: Mark Bradshaw modus operandi of modernising 19th- With: Geoffrey Rush, Ewen Leslie, century Russian texts, he reimagines Paul Schneider, Miranda Otto, Anna Torv, for the screen his hugely successful Odessa Young, Sam Neill Festivals: Sydney, Melbourne, Venice, Toronto, stage adaptation of Ibsen’s The Wild Vancouver, London 2015; Rotterdam 2016 Duck, updated to 21st-century small CinemaScope | M sex scenes, offensive language town Australia. Paul Schneider is Christian, a prodigal son returning after many years to his rural hometown, for his father’s wedding. He finds the world he knew pushed into a deepening decline hastened by his father’s recent closure of the local saw-mill. His return brings with it the unravelling of a deep rooted family fashioned its most atmospherically secret that threatens to break apart the striking bloodline squabble yet. “Australian director lives of the few remaining townspeople, There are note-perfect performances Simon Stone, along and those once closest to him. The film from the pedigreed cast and Stone mines Ibsen’s themes of class and sexual spreads the love so that nobody and with big names Geoffrey division to suggest they are still painfully everybody steals the show… While Rush, Sam Neill and real in the contemporary world. — TW The Daughter is no lark, however, it Miranda Otto, take “Australian cinema is known to also exists on a level that distinguishes engage with long-standing familial it from most other dramas: it is a Ibsen’s The Wild Duck feuds… but debut feature filmmaker mood piece told with a lyrical energy to dark new places.” Simon Stone, writer, director and enfant both lush and dangerous.” — Luke B Isaac Theatre Wed 10 Aug, 1.45 pm — Tara Brady, Irish Times terrible of Australian theatre, may have Buckmaster, The Guardian A Isaac Theatre Thu 11 Aug, 6.15 pm

Endless Poetry The Idealist Poesía sin fin Idealisten

Director: Christina Rosendahl Director/Screenplay: Denmark 2015 Alejandro Jodorowsky 114 mins Chile/France/Japan 2016 Screenplay: Lars K. Andersen, 128 mins Simon Pasternak, Birgitte Stærmose, Christina Rosendahl. Photography: Christopher Doyle Based on the book Thulesagen, With: Adan Jodorowsky, løgnens univers by Poul Brink Pamela Flores, Brontis Jodorowsky, Photography: Laust Trier Mørk Leandro Taub, Jeremias Herskovits With: Peter Plaugborg, Søren Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Malling, Arly Jover, Thomas Bo Fortnight) 2016 Larsen, Jens Albinus In Spanish with English subtitles In Danish, English, Spanish and Censors rating tbc Greenlandic, with English subtitles M offensive language CHRISTIAN GEISNÆS A young man dives into the artistic life who meshes with the bohemian enclave In the vein of a classic investigative cars appearing in the rear-view mirror) of 40s Santiago and pursues a dream of of Santiago in the 40s and 50s and journalism thriller, Christina Rosendahl’s with real television footage from becoming a poet in this carnivalesque wanders through this nightworld of gripping drama The Idealist unravels Danish archives, grounding the events memoir from the perennially youthful sex and art and passion and destruction the compromised relationship between in a contextual immediacy that makes great-grandfather of cult cinema, 87-year- with a fervour of discovery… her home country of Denmark and its revelations all the more powerful. old Alejandro (El Topo) Jodorowsky. Endless Poetry is still very much the United States during the fraught In an age of rapid globalisation and “A work of transporting charm and a Jodorowsky film, dotted with his tensions of the Cold War. The titular international agreements around feeling. It’s the most accessible movie trademark phantasmagorical conceits, idealist is Poul Brink, a real-life Danish security and trade, The Idealist feels the director has ever made, and it may which are like candified bursts of radio journalist who started working like a particularly resonant reminder also be the best. Jodorowsky is on record comic-book magic realism. Yet more a story on plutonium poisoning in of the concessions that arise when as saying that his favorite filmmaker is than any previous Jodorowsky opus, it’s the late 80s, and ended up exposing a little nation aligns itself with the Federico Fellini, and indeed, the ghost also a work of disciplined and touching an international cover-up involving a powers of a major one. — JF of Fellini hovers over Endless Poetry in emotional resonance.” — Owen military plane crash, missing nuclear more ways than one can count… But Glieberman, Variety weapons, secret documents and more than that, it has an ingratiatingly sprawling governmental deceit. wide-eyed and adventurous As Brink’s investigation plunges him autobiographical hero, Alejandro deep into the shadowy corridors of B Northlands Mon 8 Aug, 1.00 pm Jodorowsky (played by the filmmaker’s A Isaac Theatre Sun 31 Jul, 8.30 pm power, Rosendahl combines the classic A Northlands Thu 11 Aug, 8.15 pm youngest son, Adan Jodorowsky), B Northlands Fri 5 Aug, 3.45 pm beats of the genre (i.e. ominous black A Northlands Sat 13 Aug, 3.45 pm 18 WORLD DENMARK

Land of Mine Under sandet

Former enemies struggle to recognise Director/Screenplay: Martin Zandvliet their shared humanity in this moving Denmark/Germany 2015 | 101 mins and tension-filled drama that draws on Producers: Mikael Chr. Rieks, Malte Grunert Photography: Camilla Hjelm Knudsen a seldom discussed episode from the Editors: Per Sandholt, Molly Malene Stensgaard end of World War II. Winner of awards Music: Sune Martin With: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, and audience prizes at several festivals Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Laura Bro, already, Land of Mine acknowledges Zoé Zandvliet, Mads Riisom, Oskar Bökelmann, Emil Belton, Oskar Belton, Leon Seidel Denmark’s punitive treatment of young Festivals: Toronto, London 2015; Sundance, German POWs held in Denmark after Rotterdam 2016 In German and Danish, with English subtitles the Nazi surrender. CinemaScope | R13 violence, content that may The film’s protagonists are put to disturb work to search out and disarm mines that had been buried on Danish beaches by the Nazis in anticipation of an Allied invasion. At first, the Danish sergeant Rasmussen (Roland Møller) supervises his youthful charges with vengeful severity. A solitary individual but for the company of his faithful dog, he shows no hesitation in visiting the sins of the Third Reich on its youngest War II story that hasn’t been told, but sons, mere boys conscripted as German Danish director Martin Zandvliet has “Land of Mine shows us manpower dwindled. come up with a fresh and compelling what happens after a war, Gradually, though, the taskmaster approach… [Land of Mine] rediscovers finds himself at odds with those the past and brings it to life with it’s a story of survival whose orders it is his duty to enforce. remarkable assurance… This kind of and of forgiveness and The tension is absolute, but never plea for compassion will never lose its redemption, of needlessly ramped up in Martin relevance… Land of Mine serves up Zandvliet’s direction: humane concerns another vivid rendition of this always rediscovered humanity.” A Isaac Theatre Wed 3 Aug, 8.15 pm are very much at the centre of his timely theme.” — Stephen Farber, — Vittoria Scarpa, Cineuropa B Isaac Theatre Fri 5 Aug, 2.00 pm surprisingly poignant film. Hollywood Reporter A MM Timaru Wed 17 Aug, 8.15 pm “It might seem hard to find a World

A War Krigen

Director/Screenplay: Tobias Lindholm Denmark 2015 | 116 mins Photography: Magnus Nordenhof Jønck With: Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, Søren Malling, Dar Salim, Dulfi Al-Jabouri Festivals: Venice 2015 Nominated, Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards 2016 In Danish with English subtitles M violence, offensive language, content that may disturb MAGNOLIA PICTURES A tense, measured investigation of screenplays for Borgen and Thomas the moral ambiguity of combat, Tobias Vinterberg’s The Hunt (NZIFF12), Lindholm’s rattling new military drama Lindholm proves himself again a master has already proven its international in presenting thorny moral arguments resonance, securing an Oscar with a remarkable pulse for even- nomination in the Foreign Language handedness and authenticity. — JF slate earlier in the year. A War follows “[A] rigorous, engrossing anatomy Art the trials of a compassionate military of a suspected war crime: In its nerve- commander (Danish player Pilou shattering first half, it conveys the Asbæk), who, in the chaos of a firefight, on-the-ground maelstrom of combat History makes a decision to save his men that as vividly as any film on the subject.” has disastrous consequences. As the — Guy Lodge, Variety drama shifts from war zone to war trial, Luxury Lindholm proves as skilled in evoking the madness of the battlefield as he is in exploring the ethical ramifications that unspool from it. A Northlands Mon 1 Aug, 8.15 pm Museum Art Hotel MuseumHotel.co.nz From his gripping ocean-set thriller B Northlands Tue 2 Aug, 1.30 pm 90 Cable Street, Wellington, New Zealand | +64 4 802 8900 A Hijacking (NZIFF13) to his wrenching A Northlands Thu 4 Aug, 8.45 pm FRANCE WORLD 19

The Country Doctor Médecin de campagne

This gentle, good-humoured film Director: Thomas Lilti about a doctor (François Cluzet) facing France 2016 | 102 mins illness himself and reluctantly inducting Producers: Agnès Vallée, Emmanuel Barraux Screenplay: Thomas Lilti, Baya Kasmi a younger city doctor (Marianne Photography: Nicolas Gaurin Denicourt) into his country practice has Editor: Christel Dewynter Music: Alexandre Lier, Sylvain Ohrel, Nicolas Weil been a great hit in France. Upholding With: François Cluzet, Marianne Denicourt, the humane values embodied by the old Isabelle Sadoyan, Félix Moati, Christophe Odent, Patrick Descamps, Guy Faucher, Margaux Fabre, style GP, it has clearly touched a vein of Julien Lucas nostalgia which may run just as deep In French with English subtitles in New Zealand. Co-writer and director CinemaScope | PG offensive language Thomas Lilti is himself a qualified medical practitioner, and not one given to sentimentality. (Anyone who saw his film Hippocrates at this year’s French Film Festival can vouch for the refreshing sense of experience that lifted it apart from standard hospital dramas.) Cluzet (Intouchables) is fascinating as an immensely recognisable character, single (with an adult son in Paris), JAIR SFEZ wedded to his work, seriously empathetic “The Country Doctor finally plays out beneath the brusque, brooking-no-fools as a strongly observational character “This perfectly formed demeanour. Denicourt as Natalie is an drama that suggests something about and gently amusing excellent foil, the doctor’s match in so who these people are and how they many ways, but shrewdly respectful of deal with what’s thrown at them while drama from doctor- his self-defining conviction that he is also painting a convincing picture turned-director Thomas irreplaceable. It’s a view clearly shared of everyday life in rural France in the Lilti is a real pleasure.” A Isaac Theatre Sat 30 Jul, 3.30 pm by a lively array of farming folk who 21st-century and medical care… The B Isaac Theatre Wed 3 Aug, 10.45 am parade through his surgery, or, in some film bristles with humor, mostly drawn — Edinburgh International B Northlands Thu 11 Aug, 11.30 am of the film’s most touching and from life, and illuminating moments of Film Festival memorable scenes, usher him, doctor’s irony.” — Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood A MM Timaru Tue 16 Aug, 6.15 pm bag in hand, into their houses. Reporter B MM Timaru Thu 18 Aug, 12.00 pm

The Innocents Les innocentes

Anne Fontaine’s (Coco avant Chanel) Director: Anne Fontaine compelling and affecting drama The France/Poland 2016 | 116 mins Innocents illuminates events that Producers: Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer Screenplay: Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial, occurred in Poland in the aftermath Anne Fontaine, Pascal Bonitzer, Philippe Maynial of World War II, placing women’s Photography: Caroline Champetier Editor: Annette Dutertre experiences of war very much at its Music: Grégoire Hetzel centre. Mathilde (Lou de Laâge), a With: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig, Eliza Rycembel, young doctor with the French Red Anna Prochniak, Katarzyna Dabrowska, Cross, is entreated by a desperate Helena Sujecka, Dorota Kuduk Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco 2016 young nun to make a secret visit to In French, Polish and Russian, with English subtitles a nearby abbey. She arrives to find Censors rating tbc a young sister in labour. Mathilde is soon drawn into the intensely private world of the nuns as they confide the nightmare of the ‘liberating’ army that led to their predicament. Severely traumatised, some have refused to admit even to themselves that they are pregnant. Concealing her involvement from the Red Cross, Mathilde seeks allies in uphold the common humanity of the convent where many remain cowed those who foster renewal in its wake. “Anne Fontaine’s finest by a grim hierarchy determined to “The Innocents is a lovely ode to film in years observes suppress all evidence of their ‘shame’. healing through solidarity… Kudos She also enlists the support of a are due to Anne Fontaine for not the crises of faith that colleague, a Jewish doctor whose hopes only finding a tale not often seen, but emerge in a war-ravaged of impressing her must outweigh his imbuing it with a feminine perspective Polish convent.” B Isaac Theatre Fri 29 Jul, 1.15 pm bitter scepticism about Polish Catholic so often erased from wartime narratives… A Isaac Theatre Tue 2 Aug, 6.15 pm piety. Elegantly shot and superbly We’ve held up many wartime heroes — Justin Chang, Variety B Northlands Wed 10 Aug, 11.30 am performed in Polish and French, from this era, and this unsung heroine Fontaine’s war film eschews graphic deserves to be celebrated among them.” A MM Timaru Sun 14 Aug, 4.45 pm B MM Timaru Wed 17 Aug, 12.00 pm depictions of violence to delineate and — Monica Castillo, RogerEbert.com 20 WORLD FRANCE

Things to Come L’avenir

Isabelle Huppert is in mesmerising Director/Screenplay: Mia Hansen-Løve form as Nathalie, a philosophy teacher France 2016 | 101 mins in her 60s withstanding a succession Producer: Charles Gillibert Photography: Denis Lenoir of hurtful losses and tempering a Editor: Marion Monnier lifetime’s self-assurance with admirable With: Isabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolinka, Edith Scob, Sarah Le Picard, composure. Solal Forte, Elise Lhomeau, Lionel Dray, “A wondrously assured look at a Grégoire Montana-Haroche, Lina Benzerti Festivals: Berlin 2016 philosophy teacher going through In French and German, with English subtitles what might be described as a mid- M drug use, offensive language life crisis… were it not for the stoic PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH fortitude and keen appetite for life with which she responds to whatever befalls her… Mia Hansen-Løve creates and sustains a light, delicate tone while never downplaying the difficulties of an unexpected, unwanted life- change. She’s helped enormously by a supremely witty, touching, utterly truthful performance by Isabelle Huppert as the protagonist – though the rest of the cast lend more than Parisian upper-middle-class life with its sterling support.” — Geoff Andrew, stamp of authenticity – and humor… “Mia Hansen-Løve’s Sight & Sound Due in no small part to the strength of Things to Come provides “The film oozes with such effortless Huppert’s subtly emotive performance, alchemy between director and actor the manner in which Nathalie simply an enrapturing platform that it’s hard to believe Mia Hansen-Løve, carries on without carrying on (i.e.: for Isabelle Huppert at who also wrote the script, is not more without suffering a total breakdown) her finest.” advanced in years (the writer-director is is so refreshingly… female… Ultimately still only 35). She does, however, draw she finds solace and security in her — Annabel Brady-Brown, 4:3 directly from her experience of growing books and her ideas – in short, in up with philosophy teachers as parents herself.” — Emma Myers, Brooklyn B Isaac Theatre Mon 8 Aug, 1.30 pm to provide this book-laden corner of A Isaac Theatre Fri 12 Aug, 6.30 pm

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Francofonia Personal Shopper

Director/Screenplay: Aleksandr Sokurov France/Germany/ Director: Olivier Assayas The Netherlands 2015 France 2016 | 105 mins 87 mins Screenplay: Olivier Assayas, With: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Christelle Meaux Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Photography: Yorick Le Saux Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes With: Kristen Stewart, Lars Festivals: Venice, Toronto, Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders San Sebastián, Vancouver 2015 Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Hammou In French, Russian and German, Graïa, Nora Von Waldstätten with English subtitles Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) M adult themes 2016 Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2016 CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc MUSIC BOX FILMS Aleksandr Sokurov, best known for occupation. Mixing re-enactment and Olivier Assayas shared Best Director And are they following her, or are the Russian Ark, his historical fantasia archive footage, the film focuses on Award at Cannes this year for his open- insidiously instructive, anonymous texts shot in the galleries of the Hermitage, Jacques Jaujard, staunch Deputy Director ended hybrid of ghost story, thriller and that start invading her phone from moves his cameras now to the Louvre. of the French National Museums, one high-end sociological observation. another amorphous entity? Produced with the full cooperation of the few public servants not to flee “Amid all the shifting mirrored … For the preservation of enjoyment, of the museum, Francofonia evokes his post, and the rapport he cultivated surfaces and hazy ambiguities of no more should be revealed about the the history of the great Paris art with Count Wolff-Metternich, appointed Olivier Assayas’s bewitching, brazenly film’s gliding, glassy sashay through museum and its vast collections, from by Hitler to commandeer France’s prized unconventional ghost story, this much multiple, splintered genres and levels the Renaissance to the present day. art collection. “It’s a truly bracing, can be said with certainty: Kristen of consciousness – except to say that Mythic and historic figures wander provocative movie, and of course, as Stewart has become one hell of an Assayas, working in the high-concept, the halls, not least Napoleon, whose is always true with Sokurov, it’s a visual actress... game-playing vein of his Irma Vep and plundering of the Middle East ironically feast.” — Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com An haute couture clothes buyer and demonlover, is in shivery control of it preserved many great works of art general dogsbody to an insufferable all.” — Guy Lodge, Time Out from destruction in subsequent wars. A-list celebrity, practising medium Alert to the vexed role of Western Maureen is haunted, in all senses, by museums in the ebb and flow of A Northlands Mon 1 Aug, 6.15 pm the recent death of her twin brother. conquest and civilisation, Sokurov pays B Northlands Thu 4 Aug, 11.45 am Stalking his former abode at night close attention to the remarkable A Northlands Sun 7 Aug, 11.15 am seeking a final communication, she A Isaac Theatre Thu 11 Aug, 8.30 pm B Northlands Mon 8 Aug, 11.00 am events at the Louvre during the Nazi encounters a spirit or two – but whose? B Isaac Theatre Fri 12 Aug, 4.00 pm

Thithi The Salesman Forushande

Director: Raam Reddy Director/Screenplay: India/USA 2015 Asghar Farhadi 123 mins Iran/France 2016 Screenplay: Eregowda, 125 mins Raam Reddy With: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh With: Thammegowda S., Alidoosti, Babak Karimi, Channegowda, Abhishek H.N. Farid Sajjadihosseini, Mina Sadati Festivals: Locarno 2015; Festivals: Cannes New Directors/New Films, (In Competition) 2016 Filmmakers of the Present Award Best Actor and Best Screenplay, and Best First Feature, Locarno Cannes Film Festival 2016 International Film Festival 2015 In Farsi with English subtitles In Kannada with English subtitles M adult themes Censors rating tbc HABIB MAJIDI This uproarious village comedy young shepherdess from a nomadic The director of A Separation returns to principals… Farhadi’s movie is a from southern India follows three family. Schemes are concocted, with his native Tehran for a domestic drama grave inquiry into the many varieties generations of misfits after the death everything coming to a head as the bearing his unmistakable signature. of male aggression and the moral cost of a family’s cantankerous 101-year-old entire village gathers to pay their final The Salesman reaches NZIFF direct from of punishing our enemies… Its title is a patriarch, Century Gowda. While the respects to old Century. — MM winning Best Actor and Screenplay deliberate nod to Arthur Miller’s Death villagers reverently plan the funeral “[In] a film that is funny, humane, awards at Cannes. of a Salesman, a local production of celebrations (the ‘thithi’), Century’s and seemingly effortless, this young “The film is another of Farhadi’s which the husband and his wife are grandson, Thamanna, is only interested director has coaxed from a massive characteristically thoughtful both performing in… in making a quick buck by selling off cast and a specific setting a great deal morality plays stemming from a The new film’s wrenching final a block of land that Century owned. of character, an evocation of a locality series of dangerous, all-too-human moments ably confirm Farhadi’s Trouble is, technically it has now been and its society, and wrapped it all in misunderstandings: a woman in standing as a dramatist of the first passed down to his gadabout of a a Renoirian understanding of human Tehran lets a man into her apartment, rank, an artist whose far-flung domestic father, Gadappa, who has no interest in behavior. The film is a real pleasure.” mistaking him for her husband; the dramas can make us feel painfully at material matters if they can’t be drunk — Daniel Kasman, Mubi accidental encounter leaves deep home.” — Justin Chang, LA Times or smoked, but nevertheless proves physical and psychological scars, uncooperative. Meanwhile, Thamanna’s awakening in her husband a wholly teenage son, Abhi, should be helping understandable yet all-consuming A Northlands Tue 2 Aug, 8.15 pm with the celebrations but is more A Northlands Sun 31 Jul, 1.00 pm desire for revenge. B Northlands Thu 4 Aug, 1.45 pm interested in romantically pursuing a A Northlands Wed 3 Aug, 6.15 pm Beautifully acted by its three A Northlands Fri 5 Aug, 8.15 pm 22 WORLD ITALY

Like Crazy La pazza gioia

Two institutionalised women help themselves to a break from psychiatric care in this disarming blend of Director: Paolo Virzì comedy, social observation and tender Italy/France 2016 | 116 mins Producer: Marco Belardi psychological drama. The latest film Screenplay: Francesca Archibugi, Paolo Virzì from Italy’s Paolo Virzì (Human Capital, Photography: Vladan Radovic NZIFF14), Like Crazy was one of the Editor: Cecilia Zanuso Music: Carlo Virzì brightest surprises at Cannes this year. With: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti, At Villa Biondi, a congenial Tuscan Valentina Carnelutti, Tommaso Ragno, Bob Messini, Sergio Albelli, Anna Galiena, retreat for women in recovery, the Marisa Borini, Marco Messeri aristocratic Beatrice (Valeria Bruni Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2016 In Italian with English subtitles Tedeschi) queens it over staff and CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc fellow patients alike. A voracious snoop and fantasist of the first order, she’s the most outrageously quick- witted liar any of them have ever met. When newcomer Donatella (Micaela Ramazzotti) is admitted to the Villa, she’s in a pitiful state. Beatrice makes the wretched Donatella her project. PAOLO CIRELLI She love-bombs the younger woman, and our laughter in equal measure. dragging her out on a rather classy “A terrific comedy-drama about “The film’s freewheeling crime spree, assuming perhaps that two women in a mental institution energy is as appealing her own fabulous self-entitlement that avoids the pitfalls such a scenario will prove inspiring. Over the course could encounter… boasting a as its developments are of several crazy days they pay calls on deliriously loquacious script together unpredictable.” some of the key contributors to their with a rare understanding of how — Lisa Nesselson, Screendaily current plights. What we learn along to balance certain Italian caricatures B Isaac Theatre Mon 1 Aug, 1.30 pm the way fleshes out movingly realistic with a grounding sense of realism… A Isaac Theatre Thu 4 Aug, 6.15 pm pictures of them both. A great script, Neither Valeria Bruni Tedeschi nor two bewitching performances and a Micaela Ramazzotti have been better.” A MM Timaru Thu 11 Aug, 6.15 pm B MM Timaru Tue 16 Aug, 12.00 pm superb supporting cast earn our tears — Jay Weissberg, Variety

God Willing Perfect Strangers Se Dio vuole Perfetti sconosciuti

Director: Edoardo Falcone Director: Paolo Genovese Italy 2015 | 88 mins Italy 2016 | 96 mins Screenplay: Edoardo Falcone, Screenplay: Filippo Bologna, Marco Martani Paolo Costella, Paolo Genovese, Photography: Tommaso Borgstrom Paola Mammini, Rolando Ravello With: Marco Giallini, Alessandro Photography: Fabrizio Lucci Gassmann, Laura Morante, With: Giuseppe Battiston, Ilaria Spada, Edoardo Pesce, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini Enrico Oetiker, Carlo De Ruggieri Festivals: Tribeca 2016 Best New Director, David di Best Film, David di Donatello Donatello Awards 2015 Awards 2016 In Italian with English subtitles In Italian with English subtitles PG coarse language, sexual M offensive language, sexual references themes

In this Italian hit comedy, an atheist the streetwise priest Don Pietro, Named Best Film at the Donatellos, projects, extra-marital liaisons and cardiac surgeon, Tommaso, has his anchors the film soundly while farcical ‘the Italian Oscars’, Perfect Strangers uncool online hook-ups hit the table. staunch lack of faith pushed to the complications drive the narrative to its offers a fiendish take on mobile-device Complicating matters most adroitly – limit: his teenaged only son gets God, rather wistful conclusion. decorum. Fairly bristling with talking and lending a measure of credibility after falling under the influence of a “It’s an endearing homage to points, it became a national sensation to their recklessness – is some furtive charismatic young priest. Tommaso Italian comedy that is, in its own way, and box office hit. Three 30-something phone-swapping intended to protect is further horrified when his wife and delightfully retro… the pace is gentle couples and their bachelor friend who the guilty. A stellar cast, including Alba daughter also undergo a renaissance. and the acting is engaging, with have all known each other for years Rohrwacher, Marco Giallini, and other With a sharp script, agile direction and Giallini’s interaction with Gassman a meet for a dinner party. They agree Italian favourites skilfully manoeuvre spot-on performances all round, God particular delight.” — Fernando Gros, that no private calling or messaging the transitions from tender comedy Willing performs a shrewd balancing The Society for Film will disrupt their evening. Instead, in a through painful comeuppance to the act in a famously Catholic country. communal fit of ‘We have nothing to restoration of sanity. It is as dubious about the dogmatism hide’ bravado, they’ll place their devices of the hardcore atheist (hello, Richard on the table. Every incoming text, email Dawkins) as it is about the longevity of A Northlands Sat 30 Jul, 2.00 pm or call will be shared with the whole youthful religious zeal. The bantering A Northlands Tue 2 Aug, 6.15 pm party. (Letting a caller know they’re B Isaac Theatre Fri 5 Aug, 4.15 pm bromance that grows between Marco B Northlands Wed 3 Aug, 12.00 pm on speaker is considered a cheat.) You A Isaac Theatre Wed 10 Aug, 8.30 pm Giallini, in the prize role of Tommaso, may soon be asking why they didn’t A MM Timaru Wed 17 Aug, 6.15 pm and studly Alessandro Gassman, as just play Russian roulette, as the secret A MM Timaru Sat 20 Aug, 8.00 pm JAPAN, ITALY, ISRAEL WORLD 23

After the Storm Umi yori mo mada fukaku

This characteristically worldly, affectionate and wryly amusing family drama was this year’s Cannes Director/Screenplay/Editor: entry from NZIFF’s favourite Japanese Kore-eda Hirokazu Japan 2016 | 117 mins director, Kore-eda Hirokazu. It centers Producers: Matsuzaki Kaoru, Yose Akihiko, on handsome, charming Ryoto (Abe Taguchi Hijiri Hiroshi), a formerly successful novelist Photography: Yamazaki Yutaka, Oshita Eiji Music: Hanaregumi who pines for his ex-wife, the pretty With: Abe Hiroshi, Maki Yoko, Yoshizawa Taiyo, Kyoko (Maki Yoko) and his 12-year- Kiki Kirin Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2016 old son Shingo (TV actor Yoshizawa In Japanese with English subtitles Taiyo). Working as a private detective Censors rating tbc to support a serious gambling habit, he seems an unlikely prospect for re- marriage, but when they are stranded together at his mother’s home during a typhoon, he sees a chance to reunite. “A young divorced dad tries to get back into the good graces of his ex-wife and son in After the Storm, a classic Japanese family drama of gentle © 2016 FUJI TELEVISION NETWORK, BANDAI VISUAL, AOI PRO. INC., GAGA CORPORATION persuasion and staggering simplicity “Kore-eda’s love for his characters, from Kore-eda Hirokazu. As sweet as his ability to imbue an exchange or “Even long-standing fans a ripe cherry at first glance, it has a glance with warmth and humor, keeps of the Japanese filmmaker rocky pit, as viewers who bite deeply us watching. You can lose yourself will find out… This bittersweet peek in his films – wondering what’s around might be taken aback by into the human comedy has a more every corner, and what’s going on in the supreme subtlety of subtle charm than flashier films like the mind of even the most minor of his latest, achingly the director’s child-swapping fable characters… He remains one of the Like Father, Like Son [NZIFF13] but best filmmakers the world has.” beautiful ode to the quiet A Isaac Theatre Sat 30 Jul, 1.00 pm the filmmaking is so exquisite and the — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice complexities of family life.” B Isaac Theatre Tue 9 Aug, 10.15 am acting so calibrated it sticks with you.” — Robbie Colin, The Telegraph A MM Timaru Sat 20 Aug, 5.30 pm — Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter

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Director: Stefano Sollima Italy/France 2015 135 mins Director/Screenplay: Screenplay: Sandro Petraglia, Elite Zexer Stefano Rulli, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Israel/France 2016 Carlo Bonini Photography: Paolo Carnera 87 mins Music: Pasquale Catalano, M83 Photography: Shai Peleg With: Pierfrancesco Favino, With: Lamis Ammar, Elio Germano, Claudio Amendola, Ruba Blal-Asfour, Haitham Omari, Alessandro Borghi, Greta Scarano, Khadija Alakel, Jalal Masarwa Giulia Elettra Gorietti, Antonello Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2016 Fassari, Jean-Hughes Anglade Grand Jury Prize (World Dramatic), Festivals: Rotterdam 2016 Sundance Film Festival 2016 In Italian with English subtitles In Arabic with English subtitles Censors rating tbc CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc

VERED ADIR A rush of fresh blood to a fine Italian rain and it’s the everymen struggling The traditional ties that bind together wife, and move her into the smart tradition, it doesn’t take long for beneath that get drenched. It seems a Bedouin family are being loosened by new house he’s built next door. Stefano Sollima’s enthralling crime the real-life resonances were felt too; modernity and patriarchal authority is Layla’s mother, Jalila, is expected to saga Suburra to transcend its familiar Suburra proved enough of a sensation looking frightfully strained, but it still organise the wedding. parts. As we begin, a crime lord starts in its home country that Netflix takes gumption for a young woman It will be the tense but intimate actioning plans to amass beachfront immediately commissioned a follow-up to pull free in this richly nuanced film. bond between the spirited Layla and properties for an Atlantic City-style television series for 2017. — JF Israeli filmmaker Elite Zexer has long the proud, scorned Jalilia that most gambling paradise. But as Sollima’s “Suburra is an atmospheric, fast- been acquainted with Bedouin village involves us. All women marry beneath web of desperate players quickly paced thriller… a vision of Rome as life and her film displays easy familiarity themselves in Jalila’s world, but when spreads, it seems nobody is above a decadent succubus, a sink of along with an intricate appreciation of she finds messages from a boyfriend on getting their hands dirty for a piece corruption where everything – sex, culturally ingrained male self-interest Layla’s phone it becomes clear that she of the action. Implicating a cast of votes, even the priesthood – can be and canny female retaliation. still sees marriageability as the central politicians, prostitutes, crooks and bought for a price” — Lee Marshall, Her portrayal of young Layla’s issue of a young woman’s life. clergymen, Suburra relishes playing Screendaily fledgling independence upends our its multiple threads against each other expectations from the start: the film in unpredictable ways. While the opens as Layla receives a secret driving bullets fly, Sollima paints a damning B Northlands Mon 8 Aug, 3.30 pm lesson from her father, but in short B Northlands Fri 29 Jul, 4.15 pm portrait of Rome’s upper echelon, A Northlands Fri 12 Aug, 8.00 pm time we discover that this apparently A Northlands Fri 5 Aug, 6.15 pm where corruption is as relentless as the A Northlands Sat 13 Aug, 8.30 pm cool dad is about to take a second A Northlands Sun 7 Aug, 6.30 pm 24 WORLD JORDAN, KOREA

Theeb The Handmaiden Agassi

Director: Naji Abu Nowar Jordan/UK/UAE/Qatar 2014 | 101 mins Director: Park Chan-wook Screenplay: Naji Abu Nowar, South Korea 2016 Bassel Ghandour 145 mins Photography: Wolfgang Thaler With: Jacir Eid, Hassan Mutlag, Screenplay: Chung Seo-kyung, Hussein Salameh, Marji Audeh, Park Chan-wook. Based on the Jack Fox novel Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Festivals: Venice, Toronto, Music: Cho Young-wuk London 2014 With: Kim Min-hee, Kim Tae-ri, Nominated, Best Foreign Language Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong Film, Academy Awards 2016 Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2016 In Arabic and English, with English subtitles In Korean and Japanese, with English subtitles CinemaScope | M violence CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc

“Eye-searing landscapes and a of Arabia territory, with Arab tribes “Park [Oldboy] Chan-wook’s new movie, house sex, there’s some familiar Park fascinating historical setting turn this caught between the Brits and the a brazen lesbian twist-fest based Chan-wook arty gore, and there’s a lot tale of innocence lost into a classic Ottoman empire), but it does give the on Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, of old-timey porn. Amid all that, Park adventure film. First-time director, mounting peril even more heart-in- doesn’t lose its duty to entertain doesn’t get distracted, keeping a tight Oxford-born, Jordan-based Naji Abu mouth intensity. amid all its style. Set in 1930s Korea, focus on the winding story and coaxing Nowar, calls it a ‘Bedouin western’, The largely non-professional cast are during the Japanese occupation, The great performances out of all four leads. and the honour and hospitality which as authentic as the craggy, unforgiving Handmaiden follows Sookee (Kim Tae- Kim Min-hee is especially entrancing, his nomadic tribespeople value above surroundings, and the way the film ri), a born thief who is recruited to robustly playing a nutty, devious rich all else informs Theeb first to last. It’s balances the simplicity of its central rite help a con man (Ha Jung-woo) with girl with a soul. An intelligent, funny the story of a British army officer of passage with a broader outlook on his plan to seduce a lonely, addled erotic thriller, The Handmaiden seems at a desert encampment during WWI a people caught in the shifting sands heiress (Kim Min-hee), who lives in a destined for some kind of American who orders young Bedouin boy Theeb of time is a tribute to the filmmakers’ creepy manor house with her even remake that isn’t likely to live up to (Jacir Eid) and his older brother Hussein clarity of vision.” — Trevor Johnston, creepier uncle (Cho Jin-woong). Park’s invention, wit, and daring.” (Hussein Salameh) to escort him on a Time Out I don’t want to tell you much of — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair perilous journey to the nearest anything about how things play out, waterhole. The events are seen from because there are plenty of nifty, nasty the child’s perspective, which might A Northlands Sat 30 Jul, 8.45 pm surprises to be enjoyed here, but you leave some viewers struggling to fill in A Northlands Sun 31 Jul, 4.00 pm should know that there’s some rather A Northlands Fri 29 Jul, 8.15 pm the historical gaps (we’re in Lawrence B Northlands Mon 1 Aug, 12.00 pm explicit handmaiden-on-lady-of-the- A Isaac Theatre Sun 7 Aug, 7.45 pm

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Graduation Julieta Bacalaureat

Director: Pedro Almodóvar Director/Producer/ Spain 2016 | 96 mins Screenplay: Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar. Cristian Mungiu Based on the short stories ‘Chance’, ‘Soon’ and ‘Silence’ Romania/France/Belgium by Alice Munro 2016 | 127 mins With: Emma Suàrez, With: Adrian Titieni, Maria Drăguş, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Lia Bugnar, Mălina Manovici Darío Grandinetti, Inma Cuesta, Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) Rossy de Palma 2016 Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2016 2016 In Spanish with English subtitles In Romanian with English subtitles Censors rating tbc CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc © MOBRA FILMS 2007 Palme d’Or winner Cristian possibly even more eviscerating and Straight from its Cannes Competition the one woman transformed into the Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 critical of Romanian society, because it berth, Pedro Almodóvar’s new film other and learned to accept the hurt of Days) shared the Cannes Prize for offers its critique across such a broad elegantly elides three short stories by the world.” — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice Direction this year for this tense, canvas. Tracing the labyrinthine messes Alice Munro. Moving between past “This deceptively tamped-down intricately plotted and utterly plausible we get ourselves into the millisecond and present, he explores the emotional film may not have the audacity and tale of a middle-aged doctor’s slide we decide the end justifies the means, journey of his heroine as she embarks emotional force of an Almodóvar into a world of bribery and favouritism. pragmatism trumps integrity, and on a long and revealing letter to her masterpiece, but it reveals his mastery His daughter needs to score qualifying moral relativism is preferable to moral estranged daughter – a letter filled with nonetheless. His manipulation of time marks to take up a scholarship on offer absolutism, Graduation is intimate, epic regret, guilt and love. frames, his sly infusions of comedy from a British university. When she’s and crisply intelligent: Haneke with a “When we first see the middle-aged and his flawless direction of his actors subjected to a traumatic attack on the human touch and no desire to judge.” Julieta, played by Emma Suárez, she’s – all merge together with the dexterity eve of her exams, he figures that she’s — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist dressed head to toe in bright red, and of an artist who doesn’t need to wow handicapped by her injury and deserves in Almodóvar’s impeccably designed, us to earn our love.” — Justin Chang, whatever help he can provide. colour-coordinated world, that means LA Times “An excoriating, gripping, intricately something. When we first see her plotted morality play, Mungiu’s film younger self, played by Adriana Ugarte, is less linear, more circular or spiral- A Northlands Sat 30 Jul, 8.15 pm she’s decked out all in bright blue, and shaped than his previous Cannes B Northlands Tue 2 Aug, 11.00 am the film is a steady cataloguing of how A Isaac Theatre Wed 10 Aug, 6.15 pm titles… but it is no less rigorous and A Northlands Sat 6 Aug, 3.15 pm blue became red, of the ways in which B Isaac Theatre Thu 11 Aug, 10.30 am

A Perfect Day Truman

Director: Fernando León de Aranoa Spain 2015 | 105 mins Director: Cesc Gay Screenplay: Fernando León de Spain/Argentina 2015 Aranoa, Diego Farias. 109 mins Based on the novel Dejarse llover by Paula Farias With: Ricardo Darín, Javier Cámara, With: Benicio Del Toro, Dolores Fonzi, Troilo, Eduard Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko, Fernández, Álex Brendemühl Mélanie Thierry, Fedja Stukan Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ London 2015 Fortnight), Melbourne, Best Film, Director, Screenplay, Vancouver, London 2015 Actor, Supporting Actor, Goya In English, Bosnian, Spanish Awards 2016 and French, with English subtitles In Spanish with English subtitles M offensive language R16 drug use, sex scenes, offensive language

Commanded by an impressive roster Aided by a rambunctious soundtrack Since the success of the Argentinian Cámara is Tomás, a teacher who left of talent, including Benicio Del Toro of punk and rock ‘n’ roll hits, he thriller The Secret in Their Eyes, actor years ago to start a new life in Toronto. and Tim Robbins, this ensemble evokes the shambling, nonchalant Ricardo Darín has gone from national He returns to Madrid, unsure how he tragicomedy strikes just the right energy of a Richard Linklater film, all hero to international star. This February can best serve his old friend. The two balance of bracing levity and sobering while admitting the uneasy suspense he won Spain’s Oscar-equivalent, the men wander old haunts, recall the truths. An ode to the efforts of aid underscoring every moment. — JF Goya, for Best Actor for his beautifully past, try putting right a few old wrongs, workers during the Bosnian conflict “This wonderful little film, set layered performance in the Spanish notably with Julián’s son, and most of the 90s, A Perfect Day follows five ‘somewhere in the Balkans’ in 1996, drama Truman. The film itself, a warm, important of all, seek a new owner for of them as they attempt to hoist a is extremely witty and light on its feet, understated and frequently humorous his beloved bullmastiff, Truman. Their sizable corpse out of a village water yet it manages to be thoughtful, even tale of male friendship in the face of rapport brings out the best in both well before it poisons the local supply. philosophical, in an absurdist way, imminent mortality, in fact scooped the actors and finds ample gentle laughter Finding some rope for the job is just about the roots of human conflict.” awards: Best Film, Director (Cesc Gay), in a very moving story. one of the many challenges that ensue. — Joe Morgenstern, Wall St Journal Original Screenplay and Supporting As the team navigate villages of rabid Actor (Almodóvar favourite, Javier dogs, trigger-happy children and Cámara). landmines, the film’s title quickly finds Darín plays Julián, a stage actor B Isaac Theatre Mon 1 Aug, 11.00 am its irony. diagnosed with terminal cancer, A Isaac Theatre Tue 9 Aug, 6.15 pm But director Fernando León de A Isaac Theatre Tue 2 Aug, 8.45 pm making the very most, as stylishly Aranoa plays against expectations. B Northlands Wed 10 Aug, 4.15 pm as possible, of the time left to him. A MM Timaru Sat 13 Aug, 8.00 pm 26

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Sunset Song

A long-cherished project for director Director: Terence Davies Terence Davies, Sunset Song tells the UK/Luxembourg 2015 | 135 mins story of a young woman coming of Producers: Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos, Nicolas Steil age on a farm in northern Scotland Screenplay: Terence Davies. on the cusp of World War I. Like Lewis Based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon Photography: Michael McDonough Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel on which Editor: David Charap it is based, the film is closely attuned Music: Gast Waltzing With: Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie to the moods of landscape and sky. If Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, London 2015 its lush visual poetry strikes a chord CinemaScope | M sexual violence, sex scenes, with Canterbury audiences it may be, nudity at least in part, because some scenes were shot in Selwyn. “Agyness Deyn’s soulful face tells the story of Sunset Song in an instant, as her expression tilts between vulnerability and determination… the film is set just before the First World War, and Deyn plays Chris Guthrie, a schoolgirl with a deep love of learning, a key to another life beyond her family’s farmhouse in SUNSET SONG LTD. IRIS PRODUCTIONS. THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE 2015 Aberdeenshire. The phrase ‘model- unostentatious tenderness and eliciting turned-actress’ often has negative uniformly lovely performances from the “The most English of connotations, but not so for Agyness rest of his cast. As a study in hardship, directors has done a Deyn.” — Kate Muir, The Times brutalizing family life, and romantic “It features an exceptionally strong loss, Sunset Song is a deeply felt return Scottish classic proud.” central performance by Agyness Deyn as to territory with which the director is — Ian Freer, Empire Chris, the bright daughter of a brutish intimately familiar… Nothing short of farmer (Peter Mullan in top form)… sublime, Sunset Song ranks with The A Isaac Theatre Sat 30 Jul, 6.00 pm With great exactitude, Davies traces House of Mirth and The Long Day Closes B Isaac Theatre Tue 2 Aug, 10.30 am how Chris’s bleak future as her father’s among Davies’s finest achievements.” B Northlands Tue 9 Aug, 11.15 am housekeeper is averted and where life — Gavin Smith, Film Comment takes her, imbuing the action with an A MM Timaru Sun 21 Aug, 3.15 pm

Captain Fantastic

In this energetic and touching dramedy, Viggo Mortensen kids his own image, playing an anarcho-survivalist solo Director/Screenplay: Matt Ross dad. In a remote Washington state USA 2016 | 119 mins Producers: Lynette Howell Taylor, forest, he’s raising his six children to be Jamie Patricof, Shivani Rawat, super-fit in body and mind. These mini Monica Levinson Photography: Stéphane Fontaine philosopher kings are equally confident Editor: Joseph Krings stalking a deer, skinning it, critiquing Music: Alex Somers With: Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, Lolita, Middlemarch and The Brothers George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Karamazov, or improvising a musical Annalise Basso, Nicholas Hamilton, Shree Crooks, Charlie Shotwell, jamboree around the campfire. Santa Ann Dowd, Erin Moriarty Claus is a joke, but they do get festive Festivals: Sundance, for Noam Chomsky’s birthday. Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2016 Best Director (Un Certain Regard), This idyll of off-the-grid existence is Cannes Film Festival 2016 challenged when their mother dies in CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc a New Mexico hospital. The long road trip to rescue her from the Christian funeral planned by her conservative parents may well remind you of Little Miss Sunshine. The kids are confronted for the first time with ‘normal’ American if the film doesn’t live up to it, the life. They’ve never seen fat people snarky review headlines just sort of “Viggo Mortensen… in a before. But nor have they seen their write themselves. Sadly for copy editors role that feels designed father subjected to the onslaught of the world over, Captain Fantastic criticism coming from his in-laws. The won’t have that problem. Not only is by the movie gods.” FEATURE PRECEDED BY it wonderful – it is heartfelt, comedic, fantastic dad is obliged to defend his — Dan Mecca, The Film Stage The Dragon’s Scale rigorous regime – and the film’s register gorgeous and just the right amount of James Cunningham | New Zealand 2016 | 10 mins moves from affectionate satire to a sad.” — Brian Moylan, The Guardian more heart-tugging evocation of the A Isaac Theatre Fri 5 Aug, 6.30 pm joys and pitfalls of education. B Isaac Theatre Thu 11 Aug, 12.45 pm “It’s always tricky using a modifier like A MM Timaru Sat 13 Aug, 5.30 pm ‘fantastic’ in a movie’s title, because 28 WORLD USA

Equity Everybody Wants Some!!

Director: Meera Menon Director/Screenplay: USA 2016 | 100 mins Richard Linklater Producers: Alysia Reiner, USA 2016 | 117 mins Sarah Megan Thomas Photography: Shane F. Kelly Screenplay: Amy Fox Editor: Sandra Adair Photography: Eric Lin With: Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, With: Anna Gunn, James Purefoy, Ryan Guzman, Glen Powell, Sarah Megan Thomas, J. Quinton Johnson, Wyatt Russell, Alysia Reiner, Samuel Roukin, Austin Amelio, Temple Baker, Craig Bierko, Nate Corddry, Will Brittain, Tyler Hoechlin, Nick Gehlfuss, Carrie Preston Tanner Kalina, Juston Street, Festivals: Sundance, Tribeca 2016 Forrest Vickery Censors rating tbc Festivals: SXSW 2016 equitymovie.com R16 drug use, sexual references, offensive language everybodywantssomemovie.com

“Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad) dons power plays more like an old-school noir with “Can there be any doubt by now But amid the squad’s constant game suits to star in a female-centric thriller the sexes casually reversed, featuring that Richard Linklater is America’s playing (and knuckle flicking and disco set on Wall Street… Equity is a smart a deeply flawed protagonist (Gunn), most relaxed and quietly ambitious dancing and co-ed hunting), Linklater thriller set in the corporate world that a seductive but duplicitous homme filmmaker? After all but reinventing the embarks on yet another subtle narrative disguises its modest budget with an fatale (James Purefoy) and others coming-of-age movie with his 12-years- experiment… After incorporating so intelligent script and a good set of navigating their way through a miasma in-the-making Boyhood… the director much bro-centric bickering, [he] widens hooks. Promoting itself as ‘the first of an ethically shady urban world.” now serves up a deceptively simple out to include the drama students female-driven Wall Street movie’, the — Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter comedy. Everybody Wants Some!! is and one special thespian (Zoey Deutch) film’s plot revolves mostly around female “I don’t know squat about IPOs, but about nothing more (or less) than the who, on her lonesome, sends the characters, while it’s also been directed I do know a juicy morality play when weekend shenanigans that transpire movie into Boyhood’s euphoric zone (by Meera Menon), written (by Amy Fox) I see it, and Equity takes us inside on a Texas college campus in August of incipient adulthood. It’s Linklater and produced (by co-stars Alysia Reiner modern Wall Street in a unique and 1980. The school’s rowdy baseball team in a nostalgic mood – but also his and Sarah Megan Thomas) by women. gripping manner.’ — Jordan Hoffman, returns, welcoming freshman pitcher most deeply felt piece of growing up.” And yet, perhaps the most winning The Guardian Jake (Blake Jenner, a clear-eyed find) — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out thing about Equity is that it’s not some with the kind of genial hazing – ‘fuck- kind of worthy empowerment drama with-ery’, the newbie calls it – that B Isaac Theatre Fri 29 Jul, 3.45 pm about sisters doing it for themselves. A Northlands Sat 30 Jul, 6.00 pm brings to mind Linklater’s Dazed and A Isaac Theatre Thu 4 Aug, 8.45 pm Instead, although sexism in the A Northlands Sun 31 Jul, 3.45 pm Confused (NZIFF94). Bongs will be lit. workplace is definitely addressed, it B Northlands Tue 2 Aug, 4.00 pm Pink Floyd will be discussed. A MM Timaru Thu 18 Aug, 8.00 pm

Indignation Little Men

Director: James Schamus Director: Ira Sachs USA 2016 | 111 mins USA 2016 | 86 mins Screenplay: James Schamus. Screenplay: Ira Sachs, Based on the novel by Philip Roth Mauricio Zacharias Photography: Christopher Blauvelt Photography: Óscar Durán Editor: Andrew Marcus Editors: Mollie Goldstein, Music: Jay Wadley Affonso Gonçalves With: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Music: Dickon Hinchliffe Tracy Letts, Linda Edmond, With: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Danny Burstein, Ben Rosenfield, Paulina García, Michael Barbieri, Pico Alexander, Philip Ettinger, Theo Taplitz Noah Robbins Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, San Francisco 2016 San Francisco 2016 Censors rating tbc M violence, offensive language, sex scenes

ERIC MCNATT Acclaimed screenwriter (The Ice Christian college (especially those of a Two 13-year-old boys pit their downstairs, Tony’s mother digs in. Storm) and producer of some of the devout dean, played with stern certitude friendship against the growing tension Sachs details boyish friendship with best American films of the last two by Tracy Letts), and with his own sense between their families in this touching affection and amusement, as the boys decades (Lost in Translation, Brokeback of propriety, after he meets a beautiful, tale of love and real estate from Ira feed each other’s enthusiasms and feel Mountain), James Schamus makes his troubled fellow student, Olivia (Sarah Sachs, director of the like-minded Love the world expand accordingly. The less directorial debut with this insightful Gadon…). Indignation is essentially Is Strange (NZIFF14). Jake (Theo Taplitz), enchanted world of legacies, leases and and beautifully acted adaptation of about the rigidity of institutions – a brainy, thoughtful kid, has moved law suits is conveyed without hostility: Philip Roth’s 2008 novel. academic, religious, philosophical – into the Brooklyn house inherited by there’s misbehaviour for sure, but no “Indignation casts Logan Lerman as restricting and thwarting, but also his father Brian (Greg Kinnear), an actor villainy. The contrast of innocence and college freshman Marcus Messner, the shaping, youthful idealism… Indignation of no great note. Wife Kathy (Jennifer experience feels all the more poignant son of a Jewish Newark butcher, who’s is a dedicated, unadorned drama of Ehle), a therapist, is the breadwinner. as a result. been sent to small Winesburg College ideas, but Schamus has filled the picture The shy Jake is befriended, to in Ohio to pursue his ambitions of with subtle artistry.” — Richard Lawson, everyone’s delight, by the outgoing becoming a lawyer, and to avoid the Vanity Fair kid downstairs, Tony (Michael Barbieri), Korean War, which has begun killing whose Chilean mother (Paulina García boys from his close-knit community. of Gloria) rents the shop on the ground Smart and principled (perhaps to a B Northlands Fri 29 Jul, 1.45 pm floor for her dressmaking business. A Northlands Fri 29 Jul, 6.15 pm fault, the movie argues), avowed atheist A Northlands Sat 6 Aug, 6.15 pm All are under pressure financially, B Northlands Mon 1 Aug, 11.30 am Marcus clashes with the morals of his A Northlands Sun 7 Aug, 3.15 pm but when Jake’s parents up the rent A Northlands Sat 6 Aug, 1.15 pm USA WORLD 29

Midnight Special

“Jeff Nichols [Mud, Take Shelter] is a Director/Screenplay: Jeff Nichols distinctively Texas filmmaker; his work USA 2016 | 112 mins is giant yet personal, tackling huge Producers: Sarah Green, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones Photography: Adam Stone ideas on an intimate scale. His latest is Editor: Julie Monroe a masterful blend of road adventure, Music: David Wingo With: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, family drama, and science fiction, in Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, which two estranged parents, the Sam Shepard Festivals: Berlin, SXSW 2016 goons of a Jeffs-like cult leader, and CinemaScope | M science fiction themes, violence the federal government are all after midnightspecialmovie.com a remarkable child with inexplicable powers. As with his earlier Take Shelter, Nichols is using his large canvas to ask pressing questions about faith and belief, all the while acknowledging his story’s loudly ticking clock and relentless momentum. The matter-of- fact effects and bluntly efficient action beats are marvels, but the real power here is in the connections between parents and child, and the tenderness of their interactions. Nichols does so first part unfolding mainly in the many things so well, and all at once, secrecy of night, and the second in “Darkly addictive and that it sort of takes your breath away.” the glaring vulnerability of daylight… super-mysterious… — Jason Bailey, Flavorwire In all departments, from script to “Built around a performance of performances to technical execution, Jeff Nichols’s sci-fi formidable gravitas from Michael Nichols’ film is a rare throwback to chase movie mixes super- Shannon… Midnight Special confirms mesmerizing sci-fi for grownups.” powers, religion and an Nichols’ uncommon knack for — David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter breathing dramatic integrity and “A rivetingly smart and level-headed offbeat cast to dazzling, B Isaac Theatre Mon 8 Aug, 3.45 pm emotional depth into genre material. piece of adventure storytelling, Spielbergian effect.” A Isaac Theatre Fri 12 Aug, 9.00 pm The film also benefits from the formal executed with expert tautness.” — Tim Robey, The Telegraph elegance of its two-act structure, the — Jonathan Romney, Film Comment A MM Timaru Fri 19 Aug, 8.30 pm

Animation Now 2016 78 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc

Our longstanding animation Jazz Orgie A Coat Made Dark Fish programmer Malcolm Turner, now Germany 2015 | Director: Irina Rubina | 1 min Ireland 2015 | Director: Jack O’Shea | 10 mins China 2014 | Director: Lin Zhang. | 5 mins head honcho at the Melbourne International Animation Festival and This glorious blast of animated geometry Navigating a feral film noir world, a Somewhere on a still ocean, a lone guest curator at festivals beyond, offers could be Kandinsky in motion. man follows the orders of a cosmically fisherperson snags an airborne grand ordained dog to wear a woman’s coat piano. Lin Zhang’s CGI has the glossy a miscellany of the brightest and best Spring Jam from a year’s worth of exploration. for protection. Creepy. finish of surrealist painting. New Zealand 2016. | Director: Ned Wenlock | 6 mins Rising stars, including New Zealand’s Go to City ELE Velodrool own, jostle with longstanding masters; A fun, perspective-bending runaway China 2015 | Director: Li Wenyu | 9 mins Estonia 2015 | Director: Sander Joon | 6 mins the playful with the profound. Here tale of a deer, a record player and an are flights of cinematic magic of an impromptu orchestra of native birds. A little piggy ventures into a gorgeously A nicotine-addicted racing cyclist finds rendered world of ELE(phants). Being the path to the finish line littered with individuality that only animators can Black Seed bring to the screen – delivering a trunkless can be lonely in such a world, peculiar distractions and hazards. Estonia 2014 | Director: Francesco Rosso | 7 mins but tides turn and all things change. cornucopia of creative excitement to The Sparrow’s Flight reward any moviegoer. An old man and a hungry raven are Corpses in the Drawer USA 2016 | Director: Tom Schroeder | 14 mins If you’re looking to sample the surrounded by loneliness in a secluded South Korea 2015 | Director: Kwon Byeok | 5 mins international animation ecosystem cabin. A scene of quivering dread Animator Tom Schroeder’s intensely in all of its multi-coloured, variously captured in animated sketches. Hand A rolling, gleeful carnival of underworld personal tribute to his late collaborator shaped glories, there’s no better place painted. murder, mayhem and inspired Dave Herr, and the many animated to begin. dismemberment. worlds they travelled together. There’s not room for a full listing here. Go to nziff.co.nz to inspect the complete programme.

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Certain Women FRESH Director/Editor: Kelly Reichardt USA 2016 | 107 mins Screenplay: Kelly Reichardt. Based on the short stories ‘Tome’, ‘Native Sandstone’ and ‘Travis B’ by Maile Meloy Photography: Christopher Blauvelt With: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone, James Le Gros, Jared Harris, René Auberjonois, Sara Rodier Festivals: Sundance 2016 M offensive language, nudity

“Kelly Reichardt [Wendy and Lucy, features Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, NZIFF09; Meek’s Cutoff, NZIFF11] and Kristen Stewart, it’s hardly the film artfully merges her two obsessions, you’d expect would attract Hollywood the mid-western American landscape talent of that pedigree. But they’re (here, Livingston, Montana) and in it for Reichardt’s vision, and what women’s psychology, by reworking a delicate and poetic vision it is, of and intertwining three short stories, the everyday lives of normal women with an uncanny gift for drawing navigating the everyday. Master forceful, yet intimate performances cinematographer Christopher Blauvelt from actors (especially actresses).” creates some of the most memorable — Bérénice Reynaud, Senses of Cinema and painterly images you’re likely to “The great writer-director responsible see in a film this year.” — Adam Cook, for some of the best American films Vancouver International Film Festival of the last decade… has made what may be her most beautiful work of art yet. Certain Women… is a film so quiet and understated, that the emotional B Northlands Tue 9 Aug, 4.00 pm wallop it packs may seem unlikely at A Northlands Wed 10 Aug, 8.15 pm first glance. With an incredible cast that A Northlands Sat 13 Aug, 6.15 pm

Chevalier

Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari Greece 2015 | 105 mins Screenplay: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Efthimis Filippou Photography: Christos Karamanis With: Yorgos Kendros, Panos Koronis, Vangelis Mourikis, Makis Papadimitriou, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Sakis Rouvas Festivals: Locarno, Toronto, New York, London 2015 Best Film, London Film Festival 2015 In Greek with English subtitles CinemaScope | R16 nudity, offensive language, sexual content

We line up the films that grabbed our “Chevalier, from Greek Weird Wave manners devolves, it also evolves filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari into a thought-provoking critique on attention and held it with their sustained (Attenberg), is an inspired, gorgeously how the personal affects the political, energy and originality – in terms of subject, photographed work of deadpan lunacy and the utter ridiculousness of all that asserts itself as a spit-take on human subjectivity.” — Aaron Hillis, technique and sensibility. masculine rivalries. Six sort-of buddies, Village Voice for some reason on a yacht in the “Ostensibly a gender send-up Aegean Sea, spontaneously create a spoofing those of the male persuasion, competition with fluid rules over which the film can also be read as political of them is ‘The Best in General’. Each commentary (see: Greece, economy) has surface strengths and flaws, but or critique of vain, self-involved, selfie- that doesn’t matter in this absurdist prone humanity writ large.” game of one-upmanship: Who has the — Livia Bloom, Filmmaker best posture? Who has the best cellular ringtone? Who can assemble Ikea furniture the fastest? Yes, it’ll eventually become a dick-measuring contest of A Northlands Sun 31 Jul, 8.15 pm vain insecurities – all the better scripted B Northlands Mon 1 Aug, 4.30 pm by a woman – but as the comedy of A Northlands Thu 4 Aug, 8.30 pm FRESH 31

Les Démons

The moment you see him amongst Director/Screenplay: Philippe Lesage the school children at the start of Les Canada 2015 | 118 mins Démons, skirting the fringes of a free- Producers: Galilé Marion-Gauvin, Philippe Lesage Photography: Nicolas Canniccioni expression dance class, the piercing Editor: Mathieu Bouchard-Malo gaze and wary physique of child actor Music: Pye Corner Audio With: Edouard Tremblay-Grenier, Pier-Luc Funk, Edouard Tremblay-Grenier mark him Yannick Gobeil-Dugas, Vassili Schneider, instantly as uncannily watchable. Sarah Mottet, Mathis Thomas, Victoria Diamond, Laurent Lucas In this rather wondrous film, drawn Festivals: San Sebastián 2015; San Francisco 2016 from his own childhood by masterful In French with English subtitles CinemaScope | M offensive language, sexual young writer/director Philippe Lesage, themes, disturbing behaviour the fears and unruly impulses that fill the head of ten-year-old Félix are keenly observed in those all-suspecting eyes. So, thankfully, is the sheer joy of refuge provided to a small boy by a pair of adoring older siblings. (Every French- language film about growing up has to have a bedroom dancing scene, and these three are granted an all-time best.) Félix frets about his parents’ rows, or a shot of a missing kid on a TV news Lesage lays grand symphonic scores bulletin. He misconstrues overheard – Bach, Sibelius – onto the drama of “A daring, exquisite study adult conversations or believes the childhood with remarkable aplomb, but of agitated child trash other kids talk about homos, AIDS his boldest move is to introduce us to (it’s the 80s) and the preference of a genuine threat hiding in plain sight in psychology that marks serial killers for victims exactly his size. the film’s world of swimming pools and Québécois filmmaker Lesage’s recollection of the power plays leafy suburbia. Parents of young children Philippe Lesage as a name and inter-group dynamics amongst may wish to look away. For others, kids is right-on and often funny: Félix this anatomy of innocence, at once to watch.” is watching closely too, and it will be visceral and highly evolved, may prove — Guy Lodge, Variety B Northlands Tue 2 Aug, 4.15 pm his own experiments with power that a remarkably clarifying evocation of A Northlands Fri 5 Aug, 6.30 pm eventually unsettle him the most. childhood apprehensions long forgotten. A Northlands Sun 7 Aug, 5.30 pm

Heart of a Dog Lovesong

Director/Screenplay/ Director: So Yong Kim Music: Laurie Anderson USA 2016 | 84 mins USA/France 2015 | 75 mins Screenplay: So Yong Kim, Photography: Bradley Rust Gray Laurie Anderson, Toshiaki Ozawa, Photography: Kat Westergaard, Joshua Zucker Pluda Guy Godfree With: Archie, Gatto, Lolabelle, With: Jena Malone, Little Will, Nitro, Etta Riley Keough, Brooklyn Decker, Festivals: Venice, Toronto, Amy Seimetz, Marshall Chapman, New York, San Sebastián 2015 Ryan Eggold, Rosanna Arquette, Colour and B&W Cary Joji Fukunaga Festivals: Sundance 2016 CinemaScope | M offensive language, sexual references

This riveting cinematic essay from Visually, it’s a mixed-media collage Jena Malone and rising star Riley unformed, emotional truths. Summoning legendary avant-garde performance of her own animations and drawings, Keough shine in this exploration of beautiful performances from her artist Laurie Anderson is a punk home movies, CCTV footage and static an ambiguous bond between a lonely actresses, she has crafted a bittersweet, meditation on love and death. The images. The imagery is as diverse as soft-spoken young mother and her elliptical love story about muted desire 68-year-old’s philosophical interrogation Anderson’s wide-ranging associative free-spirited friend. and the grey areas that can make the leads us through an intensely moving thought. Exquisitely compiled, the film Neglected by her husband, Sarah definition of a friendship so elusive. (yet not sentimental) journey beginning is accompanied by a powerful, dense (Keough) embarks on an impromptu “The wonder of this new film from with the death of her piano-playing soundscape (composed by Anderson) road trip with her livewire college friend So Yong Kim is how deftly it digs dog Lolabelle. Pondering safety and and self-narrated in her measured, Mindy (Malone). After an alcohol-infused beneath the clichés and formulas of freedom, Anderson deftly glances off unique style. — JR heart-to-heart, a long-unspoken intimacy familiar sub-genres (female friendship the terror of the American post-9/11 emerges between the old friends. Some movie, road movie, lesbian romance) state and then, two unprocessed years later, Sarah accepts an invitation to come up with something specific, childhood traumas later, lands us at the to Mindy’s wedding, guessing that her nuanced and insightful.” — Jon Frosch, Buddhist concept of Bardo (the 49-day sense of unfinished business is not Hollywood Reporter post-death period). Anderson’s mother shared by the bride. is another spectre in this story, while The naturalistic style of American not mentioned but felt viscerally is the A Northlands Mon 1 Aug, 6.45 pm filmmaker So Yong Kim (Treeless loss of her husband Lou Reed, who B Northlands Fri 5 Aug, 2.00 pm Mountain, NZIFF08) perfectly captures A Isaac Theatre Wed 3 Aug, 6.15 pm passed in 2013. A Northlands Sat 6 Aug, 4.30 pm intimacy and latent, sometimes B Northlands Fri 12 Aug, 4.30 pm Wine and film.

Both start with a vision and then take years of skill and craft to become a reality. A director draws the best performance from actors and crew, and a winemaker extracts the potential from the land and the grape. Dedication and the pursuit for perfection define both crafts. It’s no wonder success for each is defined by raising a glass.

PARTNER NZ International Film Festival 2010 – 2016 FRESH 33

Tanna

Filmed pre-Cyclone Pam on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu, this stunningly photographed film tells the star-crossed Directors: Bentley Dean, Martin Butler story of Wawa, a young woman Australia/Vanuatu 2015 | 104 mins Cultural director: Jimmy Joseph Nako who has fallen in love with her chief’s Producers: Martin Butler, Bentley Dean, dashing grandson, Dain. When an Carolyn Johnson Screenplay: Bentley Dean, Martin Butler, John inter-tribal war breaks out with a Collee in collaboration with the people of Yakel neighbouring community, the young Photography: Bentley Dean lovers are forced to choose between Editor: Tania Michel Nehme Music: Antony Partos their own happiness and the common With: Mungau Dain, Marie Wawa, Marceline Rofit, good. Mythic in its simplicity, the film is Chief Charlie Kahla, Albi Nangia, Lingai Kowia, Dadwa Mungau, Linette Yowayin, Kapan Cook, based on a true story that took place in Chief Mungau Yokay, Chief Mikum Tainakou 1985 and carried significant ramifications Festivals: Venice, London 2015; Rotterdam 2016 Critics’ Week Award, Venice Film Festival 2015 for the evolution of tribal society. In Nauvhal with English subtitles Working closely with the indigenous M violence facebook.com/TannaMovie community, acclaimed Australian filmmakers Martin Butler and Bentley PROUDLY SPONSORED BY Dean have expanded on their previous documentary work to produce a ravishing cinematic expression of traditional culture. and rites of passage in a society whose “Dean and Butler spent seven foundations are shifting, the picture “With its magnetic cast months living with the Yakel, a tribe surrounds [its heroine] Wawa’s daring and Venice award-winning whose customs and lifestyle have actions with enriching observations changed little for centuries. During by her mother and grandmother… cinematography, this film this time the filmmakers were told of Performed with conviction by actors treads the familiar theme a great love story from the recent past. who’d never seen a film or a movie of star-crossed lovers with The result was a screenplay written camera before, the picture is a stirring B Northlands Thu 4 Aug, 11.30 am in close collaboration with the Yakel tribute to the power of love and will shimmering vitality.” A Northlands Sat 6 Aug, 12.30 pm and performed predominantly by its likely prompt many viewers to shed — Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian A Northlands Sat 13 Aug, 7.15 pm members… tears of sadness and tears of joy.” Very much about female experiences — Richard Kuipers, Variety A Timaru Tue 16 Aug, 8.15 pm

Much Ado About Nothing Neon Bull Aquí no ha pasado nada Boi neon

Director: Alejandro Director/Screenplay: Fernández Almendras Gabriel Mascaro Chile/France 2016 Brazil/Uruguay/ 96 mins The Netherlands Screenplay: Alejandro Fernández 2015 | 101 mins Almendras, Jerónimo Rodríguez With: Juliano Cazarré, Photography: Inti Briones Aline Santana, Carlos Pessoa With: Agustín Silva, Paulina García, Festivals: Venice, Toronto 2015; Alejandro Goic, Luis Gnecco, New Directors/New Films 2016 Daniel Alcaíno, Samuel Landea, Horizons Special Jury Prize, Venice Augusto Schuster Film Festival 2015 Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2016 In Portuguese with English subtitles In Spanish and English, CinemaScope | R16 nudity, explicit with English subtitles sexual material, offensive language R13 drug use, sex scenes, offensive language MATEUS SA Basing his story on a notorious case car when the car stops and there’s The sinuous physicality of the central a tetchily functional makeshift family. in Chile where a middle-class kid took an incident of some kind that barely characters in this Brazilian slice of life The intriguing Iremar holds himself a manslaughter rap for the son of a penetrates his consciousness. The next is rendered all the more tantalising apart from the earthier pursuits on offer one-percenter, writer/director Alejandro morning Vicente is visited by his new by the unpredictability of their – a botched raid on a prize stallion’s Fernández Almendras embeds his taut friends and told exactly what he’s going desires. The erotic tension in Neon precious bodily fluids notwithstanding. anatomy of affluenza in a seductive to say to the cops. Bull is remarkable, and, as you may His aspirations lie away from the pens: evocation of high-flier hedonism (with Silva contributes handsomely have already heard, finds release in Galega, we discover, moonlights as a great soundtrack). to Almendras’ schema as the a prolonged and tender sex scene, an exotic dancer and it is Iremar who Lacking funds after a year studying coolly disaffected millennial barely at once monumentally strange and designs and sews her costumes. If you in LA, Vicente (charismatic Agustín Silva) acknowledging that the system he sublimely simple. Centred on a cowboy think you see where this is heading, heads back to his parents’ beach house holds in such disdain thinks even working the pens on a backcountry you are bound to be wrong, but don’t on the Chilean coast without a plan. less of him. The Spanish title is more rodeo circuit, the film draws us into a be surprised if you feel elated beyond Two girls who come on to him at the accurately translated as ‘nothing to see tough, macho world in which gender reason when Iremar scores his fleeting beach invite him to a lavish house party. here move along’. roles are much less prescribed than taste of heaven. More than a few shots are consumed you might assume. Broad-chested, while he tries to figure out whether it’s handsome Iremar (Juliano Cazarré), his him they are into or each other. Later peroxide blonde boss, Galega, and B Northlands Tue 2 Aug, 2.00 pm that night the three of them are still B Northlands Mon 8 Aug, 2.15 pm the streetwise young daughter, Cacá, A Northlands Sun 7 Aug, 8.00 pm working on it in the back of someone’s A Northlands Fri 12 Aug, 8.30 pm whom she treats like a sister, constitute A Northlands Tue 9 Aug, 9.00 pm 34 FOR ALL AGES

Animation for Kids 4+ ALL AGES ALL FOR

Directors: Yulia Aronova, Ru Kuwahata, Dmitry Vysotskiy, Veronika Zacharová, Elena Walf, Chaïtane Conversat, Alexey Minchenok, Clémentine Robach, Mizue Mirai, Nakauchi Yukie, Nathan Jurevicius, Susann Hoffmann, Marjolaine Perreten, Peter Baynton, Dan Abdo, Jason Patterson, Julia Ocker 64 mins approx. | G cert

BEAR AND BIRD Each year our For All Ages animation Banjo, a musical tale of how a special collections provide a brilliant object can inspire anyone, big or opportunity to introduce our youngest small, to create. We even have enough friends to the pleasures of international animals to open a zoo: gorillas in cinema and the NZIFF experience. Veronika Zacharová’s Zoo Story; a little You name it, we’ve got it: from bat looking for friends to play with Yulia Aronova’s One, Two, Tree, about in Elena Walf’s Bat Time; a grey lynx a boot-wearing tree who invites all who doesn’t quite fit into a world of it meets to follow in its clomping colourful animals in Susann Hoffmann’s footsteps, to Dmitry Vysotskiy’s Pik Pik Looks; and unlikely videogaming Pik, in which a cheeky woodpecker bedfellows in Dan Abdo and Jason who peck-peck-pecks away at columns Patterson’s Bear and Bird. There’s of ants marching to a symphony of much more: go to nziff.co.nz for full syncopated rhythms. Everyday magic programme details. — NM is at work in Chaïtane Conversat’s The Little Seed, the story of a girl who catches floral patterns with a cloth and uses them to make her own dresses, B Isaac Theatre Sun 31 Jul, 11.00 am and in Peter Baynton’s Cookie-Tin B Northlands Sun 14 Aug, 11.00 am

Animation for Kids 8+

Directors: Ned Wenlock, Éric Montchaud, Seth Boyden, Natalia Chernysheva, Elena Walf, Dina Velikovskaya, Olga Poliektova, Tatiana Poliektova, Antje Heyn, William Garratt, Kim Claeys, Karim Rhellam 68 mins approx. PG violence, scary scenes

SPRING JAM This section has been lovingly curated NZIFF 2016 presents not one but two for frogs and caterpillars to remain Animation for Kids collections – with lifelong friends in Natalia Chernysheva’s by our programmer Nic Marshall. Nic each film guaranteed to amuse, Two Friends, a bittersweet story of heads up Square Eyes Film Foundation, entertain and inspire curious young inter-species friendship and the tricky minds and indie-animation-loving side of metamorphosis. In Pawo, from ardent promoters of international cinema grown-ups alike. Antje Heyn, a toy figure finds herself in to our youngest audiences and their We’ve searched high and low, and a curious world with some wonderfully near and far, to present a selective strange companions. And in Dina movie-going companions. slate of the best animation for all Velikovskaya’s compelling About a ages from all corners of the world. Mother, we witness a mother raising These animated gems from eight her three boys and the power of countries offer a terrific range of sacrifice and familial love. For the full diverse adventures, and a whole load programme listing, go to nziff.co.nz of opportunity to fuel imagination and — NM make greater sense of our world. From New Zealand, Ned Wedlock’s Spring Jam brings together a runaway deer, a record player and an impromptu B Northlands Sun 31 Jul, 10.30 am orchestra of native birds. It’s super hard B Isaac Theatre Sun 14 Aug, 11.00 am FOR ALL AGES 35

The Eagle Huntress

Thirteen-year-old falconry prodigy Director: Otto Bell Aisholpan is ready to train her very USA 2016 | 87 mins own eagle to catch foxes in The Eagle Producers: Stacey Reiss, Sharon Chang Executive producers: Morgan Spurlock, Huntress – ending two millennia of Daisy Ridley Kazakh-Mongolian tradition that Photography: Simon Niblett Editor: Pierre Takal dictates this practice as the exclusive Music: Sia rite of men. Executive produced by With: Aisholpan Nurgaiv, Nurgaiv Rys, Alma Dalaykhan documentary filmmaker Morgan Festivals: Sundance 2016 Spurlock and Star Wars heroine Daisy Recommended for ages 12+ Ridley, the film, set in the glorious In English and Kazakh, with English subtitles theeaglehuntress.com remote Altai Mountains, follows Aisholpan as she bravely undertakes all aspects of ancient eagle hunting tradition. — NM “Step aside, Katniss! Make room for Aisholpan, the 13-year-old eagle huntress from Mongolia. For 2,000 years, the Kazakh people of the Altai region in western Mongolia have practiced a tradition of hunting with ASHER SVIDENSKY golden eagles… though this practice compete against 70 eagle hunters on has traditionally been the domain her quest to gain acceptance. “Capturing breathtaking of men, Aisholpan decides that she Featuring breathtaking cinema- views of snowy Mongolian wants to become an apprentice hunter tography and intimate footage, this film after spending her childhood helping not only explores the life of a young girl landscapes, this her father, a renowned eagle hunter, striving to pursue her passion and break documentary offers a care for his birds. Under the tutelage down gender barriers in a very bird’s eye view into the and support of her father and her traditional culture but also provides an grandfather… Aisholpan learns all engaging glimpse into the lives of this life of a true heroine.” A Northlands Sat 30 Jul, 12.30 pm aspects of falconry, from taming her remote community, as they balance — Dustin Jansick, WayTooIndie A Isaac Theatre Sat 13 Aug, 1.30 pm very own eagle to training for an their traditional lifestyle with the modern annual competition, where she will world.” — Sundance Film Festival A MM Timaru Sun 21 Aug, 1.15 pm

PRESENTED IN Girls’ POV: ASSOCIATION WITH Long Way North NYICFF Retrospective Tout en haut du monde

Directors: Sarah Saidan, Martina Amati, Britta Wandaogo, Sumo Science, Marie-Christine Courtès, Susan Koenen Director: Rémi Chayé 70 mins approx. | PG adult themes France/Denmark 2015 Recommended For Ages 12+ 82 mins Voices: Chloé Dunn, Vivienne Vermes, Peter Hudson, Antony Hickling, Tom Perkins Recommended for ages 9+ Festivals: Annecy, Toronto 2015 Audience Award, Annecy International Animation Festival 2015 CinemaScope | PG violence longwaynorththemovie.com

CROCODILES WITHOUT SADDLES These six international short films come “With gender inequality in the film Long Way North is a beautifully told, Le Tableau (NZIFF12), has made a direct from the acclaimed New York industry as rampant and problematic visually stunning action-adventure powerful impression with his daringly International Children’s Film Festival as it is, it’s important to point out all featuring teenager Sasha, a young stylised, hand-drawn debut feature – (NYICFF) landmark programme, Girls’ the things that Hollywood could be aristocrat growing up in Russia at Long Way North received the Audience POV – aimed at providing intelligent, doing better when it comes to women the end of the 19th century. Sasha Award for Feature Film at the Annecy diverse and compelling films that speak – yet it’s equally essential to highlight dreams of the Great North and International Animation Festival in to the unique experience of girls. Each all the ways that the film industry is anguishes over the fate of her 2015. — NM of the films presented feature a strong doing feminism right… the New York grandfather, a renowned scientist “This French-Danish work offers all female lead, female director, or an International Children’s Film Festival is and Arctic explorer who has yet to you’d want in a young adventure – issue faced by girls around the world. featuring an entire program, the Girls’ return from his latest expedition to action, danger, a journey, a coming-of- Their narratives, themes and genres POV Retrospective, solely dedicated to the North Pole. In order to find her age, heartwarming and heartbreaking vary, but all shine much-needed light featuring movies starring women and/ grandfather’s ship and save her family’s moments, handsome animation and a on perspectives and experiences of or about women’s issues.” — Rachel honour, 15-year-old Sasha defies her strong statement of girl power.” young women. Now in its 20th year, Simon, Bustle parents’ expectations of her to act like — Mike Hale, NY Times NYICFF stands at the forefront of a a proper young woman of nobility, movement to define new, provocative and embarks on a treacherous voyage. A Isaac Theatre Sat 6 Aug, 11.15 am and compelling films for young people. Director Rémi Chayé, who previously A Northlands Sun 7 Aug, 11.00 am Go to nziff.co.nz for full programme A Northlands Sat 6 Aug, 10.45 am worked on acclaimed animated films details. — NM A Northlands Sat 6 Aug, 2.45 pm The Secret of Kells (NZIFF09) and A MM Timaru Sun 14 Aug, 1.00 pm 36

Embrace REALITY FRAMING

Taryn Brumfitt* Director/Screenplay: Taryn Brumfitt Australia 2016 | 90 mins Producers: Anna Vincent, Taryn Brumfitt Photography: Hugh Fenton Editors: Bryan Mason, Lindi Harrison Festivals: Sydney 2016

This rousing documentary by Australian international approval and media body image activist Taryn Brumfitt attention. Following on, she set about should prove a most effective tool in crowdfunding this documentary, in her popular campaign to counteract the which she travels the world to interview gazillion pressures on Western women diverse women about body image. and girls to fixate on appearance. We’re These include Mia Freedman, the delighted to welcome Taryn to present youngest ever editor of Australian NZIFF’s premiere screenings ahead Cosmopolitan; talk-show hosts Ricki of the film’s New Zealand release. Lake and Amanda de Cadenet; body She traces her project back to the image blogger Jes Baker (aka The epiphany she experienced while Militant Baker); and motivational contemplating cosmetic surgery for speaker Turia Pitt. All ages, shapes her post-baby body. She subsequently and sizes are included in the film’s posted an unconventional before-and- empowering embrace. after photo spread: Taryn in her earlier, competitive body-builder role alongside A Isaac Theatre Mon 1 Aug, 6.15 pm* her ‘after’ photo, a plump, delighted B Isaac Theatre Thu 4 Aug, 11.45 am mother of three. This was seen by more than 100 million worldwide and sparked A MM Timaru Sun 14 Aug, 2.45 pm

A Flickering Truth

Director/Producer/ Screenplay: Pietra Brettkelly New Zealand 2015 91 mins Photography: Jacob Bryant Music: Benjamin Wallfisch With: Ibrahim Arify, Isaaq Yousif, Mahmoud Ghafouri The profusion of excellent documentaries Festivals: Venice, Toronto, Vancouver, Amsterdam Documentary 2015 submitted to us is staggering. We try to steer In Dari with English subtitles a course that favours formal sophistication and complexity, while allowing ourselves on occasion to fall for the most forthright The fourth feature-length offering a collection of newly restored films from New Zealand documentary is toured around the country, and advocacy and appeals to the heartstrings. filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly (Maˉori Boy rows and rows of spellbound faces Documentaries have always shared the Genius, NZIFF12) follows filmmaker experience their country’s rich artistic Ibrahim Arify as he returns from culture and history. spotlight with dramatic features at NZIFF. exile to his native Afghanistan with Brettkelly’s crystal-clear images draw You will find more fine examples filling the the intention of restoring thousands the viewer into the world of the film, of hours of Afghan films – banned forcing us to be part of the action. The Aotearoa section of the programme and in the under the Taliban government – for very real physical threat of the world sections that follow. Also in our Big Nights, the nation. depicted thereby becomes all too Arify’s task is not easy and his apparent, heightening the importance Fresh, For All Ages and Incredibly Strange frustration is immediately felt as he and urgency of the work Arify is sections. In other words, documentaries are struggles to unearth reels of film – undertaking. Film preservation has some found hidden in ceilings and never looked so important. — TW everywhere at NZIFF. discovered by pure chance – as well as deal with a workforce too scared to act after so many years of oppression. As the project slowly comes to fruition, B Northlands Wed 10 Aug, 12.15 pm the importance of his work hits home: A Northlands Sat 13 Aug, 5.15 pm FRAMING REALITY 37

Another Country

A companion piece to her partner Rolf Director: Molly Reynolds de Heer’s Charlie’s Country (NZIFF14), Australia 2015 | 75 mins Molly Reynolds’ trenchant, wryly Producers: Peter Djigirr, Rolf de Heer, Molly Reynolds measured documentary is addressed Screenplay: David Gulpilil, Rolf de Heer, explicitly to non-Aboriginal Australia. Molly Reynolds Photography: Matt Nettheim The concept is simple and delivered Editor: Tania Nehme with devastating clarity: David Gulpilil, Narrator: David Gulpilil Festivals: Melbourne 2015; Hot Docs 2016 Charlie’s Country’s (and Australia’s In English and Yolngu, with English subtitles only) internationally renowned CinemaScope indigenous star, tells us the history of the community of Ramingining in the Northern Territory that he calls home. He provides laconic commentary on successive government projects to control the lands of the Yolngu people, to put the people to work, eliminate their ancient cultures and corral random groups into fixed communities where no towns stood before. Even if the general history is painfully familiar, there’s such vitality in his anecdote and place, Gulpilil and his co-writers see such mettle and gallows humour in his Ramingining as something of a “We can’t get there if you delivery that you’re likely to experience microcosm. It’s a location with a history think you know more this movie bolt upright in your seat. – starting with its construction in an “The richness of the film arises illogical place – and is symptomatic of about us than we do.” from the earthy elegance of Gulpilil’s countless other communities. Also, it — David Gulpilil narration matched with the uncluttered acts as a case study to springboard beauty of Reynolds’ photography. Her discussion of wide-reaching ignorance cameras, which explore the rural town, towards issues around compatibility feel nothing if not embraced by the of Indigenous and non-Indigenous community… communities.” — Luke Buckmaster, A Northlands Sat 30 Jul, 2.30 pm Anchored by an acute sense of The Guardian B Northlands Wed 3 Aug, 11.00 am

Doglegs Fire at Sea Fuocoammare

Heath Cozens Director/Producer/ Director/Photography: Photography: Gianfranco Rosi Heath Cozens Italy/France 2016 Japan/USA 2015 108 mins 89 mins Producers: Donatella Palermo, With: ‘Sambo’ Shintaro, Gianfranco Rosi, Serge Lalou, ‘Antithesis’ Kitajima, Nakajima Camille Laemle, Roberto Ciccutto Yuki, L’Amant, Mrs L’Amant With: Samuele Pucillo, Pietro Bartolo Festivals: Hot Docs, 2015 Festivals: Berlin 2016 In Japanese with English subtitles Best Film, Berlin International Film M violence, offensive language, Festival 2016 sex scenes, nudity In Italian and English, with English doglegsmovie.com subtitles

“In a renegade Tokyo pro-wrestling matter and re-frames it, empowering A tiny island of around 6,000 people, rescues. Late in the film, sustained league, the disabled battle the able- the kick-ass characters to speak for Lampedusa lies 205 kilometres from coverage of the evacuation of African bodied in the name of smashing themselves. They brawl – literally Sicily and 113 from Tunisia. Superbly refugees from an appallingly crowded stereotypes. A paraplegic husband and figuratively – in an active, self- shot by filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, boat confronts grim reality with fights his wife. The handicapped determined way that would never this documentary provides an indelible unforgettable clarity. The most explicit champ pummels his mentor. But this fly in society, and beat the living and compassionate double portrait link between these worlds is Samuele’s is no freak show. In Doglegs, we prejudice out of all challengers.” of the island’s traditional community doctor, who tends with equal kindness witness a radical reclamation of labels — Angie Driscoll, Hot Docs and the humanitarian crisis thronging to locals and stricken refugees. Rosi’s and identities taking place in the ring. Expat New Zealand filmmaker its shores. Disarmingly, Rosi puts a film demonstrates how that principle The wrestlers don’t define themselves Heath Cozens lived in Japan for 12-year-old local boy at the centre must be enacted on a dauntingly large according to their disabilities, instead 18 years. He attends NZIFF screenings of his picture. Like boys since time scale, while keeping a tender eye on one identifies as a ‘drunk cross-dresser’ with funding assistance from the immemorial, Samuele roves the a 12-year-old boy preparing to grow while another lays claim to ‘loser’. Japan Foundation. island waging war on flora and fauna within the horizons he knows. Some want to be seen as with his slingshot. He’s a touchingly invulnerable and vicious, while others earnest kid, determined to overcome look for the opposite reaction. Doglegs the handicaps of wobbly sea legs is a confrontational, complex and and a lazy eye. Rosi cuts constantly B Northlands Fri 5 Aug, 12.00 pm provocative film that takes potentially between Samuele’s homely world A Northlands Sat 6 Aug, 11.00 am offensive and outrageous subject A Northlands Tue 2 Aug, 8.30 pm and the high-tech Lampedusa of sea A Northlands Tue 9 Aug, 6.15 pm 38

Life, Animated

Director Roger Ross Williams received a Sundance directing prize for this dynamic documentary about Owen Director: Roger Ross Williams Suskind and his equally extraordinary USA 2016 | 91 mins parents. Owen, now aged 23, is Producers: Roger Ross Williams, Julie Goldman Inspired by the book Life, Animated: A Story of graduating from a special needs Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism by Ron Suskind educational institute and into his first Photography: Tom Bergmann Editor: David Teague solo living situation, something his Music: Dylan Stark, T. Griffin parents never expected possible. With: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind, Cornelia Suskind, Walter Suskind Twenty years ago, they watched Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco, their three-year-old son stop talking Hot Docs 2016 Directing Award (US Documentary), and retreat into an unknowable autistic Sundance Film Festival 2016 reality. Watching Walt Disney movies lifeanimateddoc.com was one of the few family activities he PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH enjoyed. Years later, almost deemed unreachable, Owen suddenly speaks, describing his older brother in relation to The Jungle Book and Peter Pan. From there the story is remarkable. The playful Disney sidekick characters TOM BERGMANN in particular engaged his sympathy, With intimate family footage, while their uncomplicated, vividly close personal interviews and Disney “A powerful story of the conveyed feelings showed a way for clips, the film is beautifully enhanced profound and surprising Owen to process his own. Later, with original animations by French following bullying at his high school, company Mac Guff. It’s a moving and effects art can have on he obsessively drew an imagined league powerful story of an ongoing search those who embrace it.” of Disney sidekicks where ‘no sidekick for connection and expression. With — Gabor Pertic, Hot Docs would get left behind’. He set up his own the support of a loving family and a ‘Disney Club’ where he and his friends bunch of brightly coloured cartoon still discuss the emotional nuances of characters, Owen finds a way to B Northlands Tue 9 Aug, 2.00 pm Disney movies while singing along to the triumph, negotiating the tough realities A Northlands Wed 10 Aug, 6.15 pm musical numbers. He finds a girlfriend. of his life and heart. — JR A Northlands Sat 13 Aug, 11.00 am FRAMING REALITY 39

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

For his latest trick, the tirelessly curious Director/Screenplay: Werner Herzog Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Cave of USA 2016 | 98 mins Forgotten Dreams) turns his camera Producers: Rupert Maconick, Werner Herzog Photography: Peter Zeitlinger on the internet. The German maestro Editor: Marco Capalbo is no digital native – he eschews even Music: Mark De Gli Antoni, Sebastian Steinberg With: Robert Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, a smartphone – but this proves a boon, Kevin Mitnick, Elon Musk, liberating Herzog to explore the digital Theodor Holm Nelson, Sebastian Thrun, Adrien Treuille, Lucianne Walkowicz future as if a tourist. Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco, Hot Docs 2016 Starting at the UCLA site where the first internet message was typed – a ‘holy place’ – Herzog leads us on a whistle-stop tour, encountering online evangelists and prophets of doom, organised under ten chapter headings. He travels to the town of Green Bank, where locals have settled because proximity to a telescope prohibits radio waves and cellular signals; to a laboratory where robot footballers are being constructed; to the home of a family tormented online following his interviewees, many of whom the death of a daughter; a self-driving may be more accustomed to speaking “Toeing the line between car developer; internet rehab clinics. in Ted Talk slogans. His abiding technophobia and awe… Elon Musk, a high-priest of digital fascination: whether ‘the internet entrepreneurship, preaches the can dream of itself’. — Toby Manhire [is] a kind of speculative importance of humans colonising “The virtual future may be now, science-fiction film that Mars. ‘A one-way ticket?’ chirrups but Lo and Behold, with its stimulating just happens to unfold in Herzog. ‘I would come along’. volley of insights and ideas, always Veering from impish exuberance feels persistently, defiantly human.” the present.” to almost apocalyptic scepticism, the — Justin Chang, Variety — Eric Kohn, Indiewire A Isaac Theatre Mon 1 Aug, 9.00 pm inimitable Herzog manages to extract B Northlands Fri 12 Aug, 4.00 pm frank and unorthodox responses from A Northlands Sun 14 Aug, 11.30 am

Free to Run Obit

Director: Pierre Morath Director: Vanessa Gould Switzerland/France/ USA 2016 | 94 mins Belgium 2016 | 99 mins Producers: Caitlin Mae Burke, Producers: Jean-Marc Fröhle, Vanessa Gould Fabrice Estève, Marie Besson Photography: Ben Wolf Photography/Editor: Editor: Kristin Bye Thomas Queille With: Bruce Weber, William Music: Kevin Queille, Polar McDonald, Margalit Fox, With: Bobbi Gibb, Kathrine William Grimes, Jack Kadden, Switzer, Noël Tamini, Fred Lebow, Douglas Martin, Jeff Roth, Steve Prefontaine, Franck Shorter Daniel Slotnik, Paul Vitello In French and English, Festivals: Tribeca 2016 with English subtitles

SALMINI SPORTFILM LLC This illuminating, clip-laden account of to professionalise the sport. Swiss The richest stories in the best obituaries it is disarmingly upbeat and the history of running over the last 50 documentarian Pierre Morath provides newspapers are often buried away life-affirming – but the film nonetheless years begins by detailing the long fight a telling exemplar for the sport’s on the obituaries pages. In Obit, feels in part a eulogy. It may not dwell against antiquated athletic authorities popularisation in his fascinating Vanessa Gould meets the people who on the digital upheaval in newspapers, to open up participation in competitive account of the chequered fortunes write them for the New York Times but it doesn’t need to: it is all there in events, and to allow women to compete of the New York City Marathon, – practitioners of a form which has the paper’s vault of yellowing clippings at all. After a single finish-line collapse at suggesting that commercial pressure ‘nothing to do with the death and and photographs. Known as ‘the the 1928 Olympics, the sport had been may be turning long-distance running almost everything to do with the life’. morgue’, the archive is presided over by deemed unsafe for women, who were into an exclusive pursuit once again. A thoughtful, entertaining and at the star of Obit, the wise and eccentric banned until 1960 from events over Switzer and her husband, one-time times eccentric bunch, the journalists Jeff Roth, the last man left in charge of 800 metres. In 1976, Kathrine Switzer NZ representative Roger Robinson, explain how they choose their subjects, these vast and unwieldy catalogues. was physically assaulted by officials head up a lustrous line-up of from Stalin’s daughter to the inventor Absorbing and affectionate, Obit is as she challenged the gender barrier commentators and interviewees. of the Slinky, the morbid calculus that a tonic for writers and lovers of good by competing gender-incognito in the determines who gets an ‘advance’ – an writing. — Toby Manhire Boston Marathon. obit prepared while its subject is still Inspirational figures, like Bobbi alive – and how they deal with questions Gibb, Fred Lebow and the charismatic A Northlands Thu 4 Aug, 6.30 pm about their jobs at dinner parties. A Northlands Sun 31 Jul, 11.00 am Steve Prefontaine, also defied the B Northlands Fri 5 Aug, 2.15 pm There is nothing funereal about A Isaac Theatre Sat 6 Aug, 1.15 pm establishment’s closely guarded rules A Northlands Sun 14 Aug, 6.00 pm Obit – like many of the best Times B Northlands Thu 11 Aug, 1.45 pm 40 FRAMING REALITY

IN ASSOCIATION WITH Notes on Blindness

Directors/Screenplay: Peter Middleton, James Spinney UK 2016 | 90 mins Photography: Gerry Floyd Sound: Joakim Sundström Festivals: Sundance, Tribeca, San Francisco 2016 Special Jury Prize (Documentary), San Francisco International Film Festival 2016 CinemaScope notesonblindness.co.uk

“In 1983, after years of failing sight, family – performed by actors and woven EDO DE WAART’S WEDNESDAY MASTERWORKS John Hull, a professor of theology into a sensitive sound design by the in Birmingham, England, became accomplished sound editor Joakim completely blind. Soon after, he Sundström – with images that represent 27 July began keeping an audio diary… The his experiences, memories and dreams CHRISTCHURCH HORNCASTLE ARENA 7.00PM understanding he reached, through through reenactment and metaphor. years of quiet and sometimes painful Tracing Hull’s struggle ‘to retain the probing, was profound: Oliver Sacks fullness of my humanity’, Notes on NEW ZEALAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA called the published version of Hull’s Blindness conjures both the loveliness diaries ‘the most extraordinary, precise, of a visual world tragically lost to him Edo de Waart CONDUCTOR deep and beautiful account of blindness and the value of what remains. For Samuel Jacobs FRENCH HORN I have ever read’. Hull, out of sight was never out of In this penetrating and eloquent mind.” — Juliet Clark, San Francisco documentary, filmmakers Peter International Film Festival Middleton and James Spinney have mined Hull’s original tapes as well FOR TICKET DETAILS VISIT as interviews with Hull and his wife A Northlands Sat 30 Jul, 10.30 am nzso.co.nz to evoke Hull’s inner world. The film A Northlands Sun 31 Jul, 2.00 pm combines the voices of Hull and his A Northlands Sat 13 Aug, 11.15 am

24-28 AUGUST Nuts!

Director: Penny Lane USA 2016 | 79 mins Screenplay: Thom Stylinski Animation: Drew Christie, Krystal Downs, Dane Herforth, Michael Pisano, Hazel Lee Santino, Rose Stark, Julia Veldman C, Ace & Son Moving Picture Co., Llc Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Hot Docs 2016 Editing Award (Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2016 Colour and B&W | Blu-ray nutsthefilm.com

For anyone who has found themselves heads, and stock footage, director morbidly fascinated by the rise of Penny Lane crafts a historical Donald Trump in the last year, this adaptation that is both an incredibly continually surprising portrait of funny story and an incredibly insightful American entrepreneur J.R. Brinkley reflection on storytelling itself. — JF should work like catnip. A country “As illuminating as it is immensely doctor who discovered a miracle cure entertaining, Penny Lane’s doco uses for impotence by transplanting goat charming hand-crafted animation to testicles into human scrotums, Brinkley trace how Brinkley ballooned a wacko suddenly went from local medicine- epiphany into a vast media empire… man to millionaire mogul. Contrasting The fact that it’s all true didn’t stop the support of the hundreds for Lane’s film from ending with the best YOUR whom the treatment allegedly worked twist of this year’s Sundance.” — David CONVERSATION with the contempt of the medical Ehrlich, Rolling Stone STARTER PROGRAMME establishment, the story sets itself up WORDCHRISTCHURCH.CO.NZ OUT NOW as a classic David and Goliath feud, only to grow stranger and more B Northlands Wed 10 Aug, 2.00 pm involving as it moves along. Using a A Northlands Fri 12 Aug, 6.15 pm canny hybrid of animation, talking A Northlands Sun 14 Aug, 1.30 pm FRAMING REALITY 41

Weiner

American politics is replete with bizarreness, but the story of Anthony Weiner takes some beating. The Directors/Producers: Josh Kriegman, Democratic congressman hit global Elyse Steinberg USA 2016 | 95 mins headlines in 2011 when a photograph of Screenplay: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, his genitals appeared on Twitter. Denials Eli Despres that he had posted the image quickly Photography: Josh Kriegman Editor: Eli Despres fell apart, along with his reputation, as Music: Jeff Beal numerous earlier dick-pic peccadilloes With: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Barbara Morgan, Amit Bagga, Sydney Leathers were splashed across the media. Festivals: Sundance, New Directors/New Films, In this engrossing, highly entertaining San Francisco, Hot Docs 2016 Grand Jury Prize (US Documentary), fly-on-the-wall film we meet Weiner Sundance Film Festival 2016 two years after his resignation, in the early stages of a redemptive bid to PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH become the mayor of New York City. He has rebuilt his relationship with wife, Huma Abedin, the top aide to Hillary Clinton. He is politically reinvigorated. Early polls put him at the top of the Democratic pack. But then the wheels fall off: more pics emerge, sent – crucially to leverage some publicity. The – well after Weiner’s public apology. The reality for Weiner is less The West “With its ringside seat tabloid circus returns. Weiner insists he’ll Wing, more Curb Your Enthusiasm. to a Shakespearean plough on, as members of his team For all his cringe-making hubris, revolt. Abedin stares, disbelieving. however, the film depicts a more fall from grace, Weiner Somehow, the camera is allowed to go complex Weiner than the media easily stands out as the on rolling too – even as the campaign caricature. Abedin, meanwhile, is paragon of its genre.” culminates in unimaginable ignominy, enthralling: a picture of stillness, the with Weiner scurrying through a antithesis of a man who, by his own — Eric Kohn, Indiewire McDonald’s to evade ‘Pineapple’, the admission, possesses a ‘virtually A Northlands Fri 29 Jul, 6.30 pm code name for an aspiring porn star unlimited ability to fuck up things’. A Northlands Sun 31 Jul, 6.15 pm who received Weiner-pics and is keen — Toby Manhire B Northlands Wed 3 Aug, 2.30 pm

The Road Tomorrow Demain

Director/Photography/ Directors: Cyril Dion, Sound: Zhang Zanbo Mélanie Laurent China/Denmark 2015 France 2015 | 119 mins 95 mins Producer: Bruno Levy Producer: Richard Liang Screenplay: Cyril Dion Editors: Zhang Zanbo, Photography: Alexandre Leglise Steen Johannessen, Jean Tsien With: Anthony Barnosky, Festivals: Emmanuel Druon, Jan Gehl, Amsterdam Documentary 2015 Elizabeth Hadly, Charles & Perrine In Mandarin with English subtitles Hervé-Gruyer, Rob Hopkins, theroad2015.com Bernard Lietaer, Michelle Long, Kari Louhivuori In French and English, with English subtitles demain-lefilm.com/en

For almost four years, Chinese with local Party officials, police and Think globally, act locally: you’ve heard it effective. In Copenhagen, nearly 70% filmmaker Zhang Zanbo documented gangsters. Through it all, a gargantuan before, but this stimulating documentary of energy is drawn from non-fossil fuels. the construction of a massive highway new symbol of Chinese industrial makes it news, showing some great In an Indian village, a progressive mayor through a rural district in Hunan power takes shape to cut a swathe ideas for doing just that, translated into instigates participative democracy that Province. Organising his often startling across mountain and valley. Whether action. Refusing to be overwhelmed by brings different castes to work together. up-close footage into chapters, he it will pass safety requirements or even the prospect of global meltdown, In Bristol, an alternative currency allows reveals a project rife with corruption, conform to legal construction standards actress-filmmaker Mélanie Laurent and monies spent locally to stay in Bristol. violence and cynicism. His success in is anybody’s guess when government ecological rights advocate Cyril Dion The film’s been a runaway hit showing events from the conflicting building inspectors arrive. Or are they resolved to make a film that would in France. No mere poster girl for perspectives of three constantly too persuadable? Director Zhang has energise people who they reasonably environmental action, Laurent shared skirmishing sectors makes this a himself suggested that the title might assumed already knew the worst. top documentary honours at this year’s singularly comprehensive indictment. not refer just to the Xu-Huai Highway, Upbeat, without ever denying the César Awards with Dion. Dislocated peasants see their homes but also to the road taken by China. scale of the challenges, Tomorrow travels literally dynamited, and clamour for the world to meet an array of resourceful compensation. Migrant workers activists and organisers working to regularly risk their lives for paydays that make the world a more sustainable B Northlands Tue 2 Aug, 11.30 am never seem to arrive. Fending off their A Northlands Sat 30 Jul, 12.00 pm place. In Detroit, farming programs A Isaac Theatre Sat 13 Aug, 11.00 am demands, the embattled construction B Northlands Wed 3 Aug, 1.45 pm have flourished in vacant urban spaces. company also juggles dubious alliances A Northlands Thu 11 Aug, 6.15 pm Recycling in San Francisco is actually A MM Timaru Mon 15 Aug, 8.00 pm 42

Chasing Asylum RISK Director/Producer: Eva Orner Australia 2016 | 96 mins Photography: Tim Deagle, Martin Johnson, Michael Downey, Khadim Dai, Corey Baudinette Editor: Annabelle Johnson Music: Cornel Wilczek In English, Dari, Farsi and Arabic, with English subtitles M content may disturb chasingasylum.com.au

Drawing on an abundance of whistle- degradation of the detainees, Orner’s blower testimony and stealthily shot film surely reinforces the deterrent footage, Australian filmmaker Eva effect, while exposing forever the Orner (producer of Alex Gibney’s Taxi grotesquerie of the conscience-salving to the Dark Side) exposes the squalid humanitarian argument. Flouting a cruelty of the notorious detention widespread disclosure ban that carries centres established by the Australian draconian penalties, former aid workers government to house asylum-seekers and security staff provide us, through on Nauru and Manus Island. Claiming, their bravery, with some small hope not inaccurately, that they carry the that their compatriots may recoil just mandate of the Australian people, as decisively from the horrors being a succession of Australian prime committed to keep Australia Fair. ministers stonily insist that the net effect of the centres is humanitarian: by making it clear that asylum seekers are unwelcome, they have saved thousands from the clutches of B Northlands Thu 11 Aug, 2.15 pm ruthless people smugglers. Attesting in A Northlands Fri 12 Aug, 6.30 pm heartbreaking detail to the relentless A Northlands Sat 13 Aug, 1.15 pm

Jim: The James Foley Story

Director: Brian Oakes USA 2016 | 111 mins Screenplay: Chris Chuang, Heather MacDonald, Brian Oakes Photography: Clair Popkin Editor: Aleks Gezentsvey With: Diane Foley, John Foley, John Foley Jr, Michael Foley Festivals: Sundance 2016 Audience Award (US Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2016 In English and Arabic, with English subtitles DOGWOOF DOCUMENTARY Whistle-blower testimony sits at the You probably already know the story he was an embedded journalist in Iraq of the death of James Foley, the in 2009, and decided to commit his life heart of two of the films in this section American journalist kidnapped in Syria, to journalism through stints in Libya honouring those who risk it all to shed imprisoned then beheaded by ISIS and Syria. The second half homes in in 2014. The video of his execution on Foley’s imprisonment in Syria, with light in the darkest corners. released by the killers became as many of his fellow prisoners offering ubiquitous an announcement in anecdotes about his actions, behaviour, Western media as they had intended. and overall humane and optimistic “Brian Oakes’ film is an attempt to spirit… It’s a deeply moving testament highlight the human being behind to a man who dared to face the worst the appalling news story: the ardent, of humanity and somehow managed to energetic, and above all compassionate maintain his sense of empathy in spite journalist and person he was. Jim is of it all.” — Kenji Fujishima, AV Club divided roughly into two parts. The first is a fairly breezy chronicle of Foley’s upbringing, including his time as an increasingly dissatisfied Teach For America instructor. He was bitten by A Northlands Sat 30 Jul, 4.15 pm the foreign-correspondent bug when B Northlands Mon 1 Aug, 2.15 pm RISK 43

Zero Days

Investigative journalism meets Director/Screenplay: Alex Gibney conspiracy thriller as Alex Gibney USA 2016 | 113 mins (Going Clear, NZIFF15) goes on the Producers: Marc Shmuger, Alex Gibney Photography: Antonio Rossi, Brett Wiley trail of Stuxnet, the extraordinary Editor: Andy Grieve computer virus that metastasised Music: Will Bates With: Eric Chien, Richard A. Clarke, around the world before it arrived Michael Hayden, Vitaly Kamluk, at its target, Iranian nuclear facilities, Eugene Kaspersky, Ralph Langner, Liam O’Murchu, David Sanger, Sergey Ulasen and perform its mission: exploding Festivals: Berlin 2016 uranium-enrichment centrifuges. Undeterred by muzzled officials, the indomitable Gibney shows how Stuxnet – or ‘Olympic Games’, as its architects called it – was cooked up covertly by the US and Israel, creating a new level of virus complexity and a new class of weapon. One of Gibney’s sources, dramatised as a composite individual and played by a digitally reconstituted actor (one of many striking visual effects), says the worm may never have come to warning about the Pandora’s box it public attention had it not been for opens. Echoing ideas explored in his “[A] white-knuckle a unilateral Israeli move to recalibrate WikiLeaks film We Steal Secrets, nonfiction thriller... Stuxnet’s code and accelerate its Gibney argues that in the face of an impact. A wider operation had to be emerging cyber-conflict threat, which Clear, urgent and abandoned, and Tehran retaliated is analogous to that of nuclear weapons positively terrifying in kind, attacking US institutions many decades ago, international at times.” with malware and parading its own norms and rules of engagement must burgeoning ‘cyber army’. be developed outside the shadows — Peter Debruge, Variety Gibney manages not only to of denial. — Toby Manhire B Northlands Fri 5 Aug, 11.30 am illuminate in plain terms how Stuxnet A Isaac Theatre Tue 9 Aug, 8.30 pm A Northlands Wed 10 Aug, 8.45 pm worked, but to also issue a powerful

A Syrian Love Story When Two Worlds Collide

Director/Photography: Sean McAllister UK 2015 | 76 mins Directors/Photography: Producers: Elhum Shakerifar, Heidi Brandenburg Sean McAllister Sierralta, Mathew Orzel Editor: Matt Scholes With: Amer Daoud, Peru 2016 | 103 mins Raghda Hassan, Sean McAllister, Festivals: Sundance 2016 Kaka Daoud, Bon Daoud Special Jury Award (World Festivals: Vancouver, Amsterdam Documentary), Sundance Film Documentary 2015 Festival 2016 In English, Arabic and French, In Spanish with English subtitles with English subtitles whentwoworldscollidemovie.com asyrianlovestory.com

“As refugees flee from the Syrian ruthless Al-Assad regime, then the With up-close access to indigenous Garcia’s government spun into a public conflict in their thousands, this intimate fresh challenges of a fractious, painful Peruvian activist Alberto Pizango, relations coup against the protesters. doc captures the experiences of a exile where damaged minds take and a damning assemblage of news Police who died were granted massive single family battered by truly daunting time to heal, before we finally see the reports, this documentary provides a state funerals, while Pizango was circumstances. Before the outbreak of household become distant observers gripping account of years of struggle. demonised as a murderer, conspiring to the civil war, filmmaker Sean McAllister to the destruction of their homeland Filmmakers Heidi Brandenburg hold the nation to ransom. Public anger encountered husband Amer and infant and the deaths of many friends. That Sierralta and Mathew Orzel lay out pulled back the government from son Bob, hoping that wife and mother a loving family can carry something the overwhelming imbalance in power some of the flagrant constitutional Raghda – a pro-democracy activist positive from this harrowing trajectory between those acting to conserve abuses Pizango had protested, but – would return from a brutal prison is a tribute to their courage and their natural environment and those he remained a wanted man, forced term. International pressure prompted forbearance, but also to McAllister’s determined to monetise it. They also into exile. In the film’s present we see her release, but that proves to be just compassionate resilience in standing by draw on interviews with several of him return stoically to Peru to face the start of an odyssey which sees them.” — Trevor Johnston, Time Out Pizango’s antagonists, notably a former the music, and hopefully resume the McAllister himself briefly jailed, and the Lima police officer who has come struggle. family fleeing via Lebanon to a new round to Pizango’s side. start in the West. Third-party footage of a bloody Filmed over a five-year period, A skirmish between police and protesters Syrian Love Story presents us first with A Northlands Sun 31 Jul, 12.15 pm provides pivotal evidence, as it records B Northlands Fri 29 Jul, 11.30 am the gnawing anxiety of life under the B Northlands Thu 4 Aug, 2.00 pm an incident that then-president Alan A Northlands Wed 3 Aug, 6.30 pm 44

Ants on a Shrimp: Noma in Tokyo AN ARTIST AN OF PORTRAIT Director/Screenplay: Maurice Dekkers The Netherlands 2016 88 mins Producers: Dan Blazer, Nelsje Musch-Elzinga Photography: Hans Bouma Editor: Pelle Asselbergs Music: Nicolas Jaar, Halfdan E, Nielsen, Umebayashi Shigeru With: René Redzepi, Lars Williams, Rosio Sanchez, Thomas Frebel, Dan Giusti, Kim Mikkola Festivals: Berlin, Hot Docs 2016

NOMA IN TOKYO The worship of food has reached water and yes, live ants, may or may an elevated plain at Copenhagen’s not make the final cut when Redzepi Noma, repeatedly voted ‘World’s Best himself arrives to apply his hilariously Restaurant’ in Restaurant magazine. cryptic vocabulary of evaluation: “This Celebrity chef René Redzepi and a tight tastes good but it’s not working” vs circle of acolytes continually explore “This is totally amazing.” The film is new refinements to the arrangement designed, of course, to make you want of nature’s flavours. Filmmaker Maurice to taste and judge for yourself, while Dekkers provides vicarious access to the also making it perfectly clear why a circle as Redzepi’s team descend upon spoonful of ants at Noma might cost Tokyo to prepare for a five-week pop- way more than your movie ticket. up restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Putting Japanese cuisine and their own established repertoire to one side, they explore fields, forests and markets to identify distinctive flavours which they will combine to create a B Isaac Theatre Mon 1 Aug, 4.00 pm A Isaac Theatre Mon 8 Aug, 6.15 pm wholly new menu for a 15-course meal. B Northlands Wed 10 Aug, 2.15 pm Snapping turtles, fish sperm, mushroom

Argentina Zonda: folclore argentino

Director/Screenplay: Carlos Saura Argentina/France/Spain 2015 | 88 mins Photography: Félix Monti Music: Lito Vitale With: El Chaqueño Palavecino, Soledad Pastorutti, Jairo, Liliana Herrero, Luis Salinas, Jaime Torres, Metabombo, Ballet Nuevo Arte Nativo de Koki & Pajarin Saavedra Festivals: Venice 2015 In Spanish with English subtitles

See also Poi E (p5), A Quiet Passion (p6), Carlos Saura, a veteran chronicler testimony to the vitality of the country’s of Latin music and dance, turns his rich cultural history. Neruda (p8), Heart of a Dog (p31). attention to Argentina to record an “We want to show, through music all-star cavalcade of contemporary and dance, Argentina’s traditional folklore performers. Largely filmed in cultures and the country as a whole. a warehouse turned soundstage in The visual action centres around the La Boca, Buenos Aires, Saura’s film is various regions that make up Argentina simply intent on displaying exceptional and that, in turn, form a map of dancers and musicians in action. Using musical variants such as carnavalito, a complex series of mirrors to capture zamba, chacarera, the couplet, the artists without impeding them, chamamé, the tonada and many other Saura creates some impressive visual expressions rooted in the geography choreography of his own. Performances and soul of the various communities.” of traditional Argentine folk songs — Carlos Saura from revered vocalists such as Soledad Pastorutti and El Chaqueño Palavecino, not to mention archival tributes to A Northlands Mon 8 Aug, 6.30 pm Atahualpa Yupanqui and the great B Northlands Fri 12 Aug, 11.00 am Mercedes Sosa, provide spine-tingling A Northlands Sat 13 Aug, 3.15 pm PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST 45

The Dancer La Danseuse

This gorgeously mounted Belle Epoque drama presents a fictionalised account of the rise and fall of Loïe Fuller, the Director: Stéphanie Di Giusto American-born pioneer of modern France/Belgium/Czech Republic 2016 | 108 mins dance (and theatrical lighting design) Producer: Alain Attal whose ‘serpentine dance’ took Screenplay: Stéphanie Di Giusto, Sarah Thibau, Paris and then the world by storm. Thomas Bidegain. Based on the book Loïe Fuller, danseuse de la Belle Epoque by Giovanni Lista French singer-songwriter Soko plays Photography: Benoît Debie the dancer, opposite Gaspard Ulliel, Editor: Géraldine Mangenot Music: Max Richter with Lily-Rose Depp, the daughter of With: Soko, Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry, Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp, as Lily-Rose Depp, François Damiens, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Amanda Plummer, her friend and rival Isadora Duncan. Denis Ménochet “Combining furious movement, Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2016 In French and English, with English subtitles billowing costume, and theatrical CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc lighting, it’s not hard to imagine how the shows would have astounded PROUDLY SPONSORED BY audiences more than a century ago. The film doesn’t disappoint with its rendition of Fuller’s iconic pieces, either. Both on stage – where an incredibly © SHANNA BESSON agile human form whirls and twirls until Playing Louis, Ulliel is his usual it disappears into a storm of shifting charismatic self, exuding an effortless, “In her debut feature shapes – and out in nature – as a group pansexual allure that enriches a rather film, Stéphanie Di Giusto of female dancers becomes one with underwritten character infinitely. the misty forest under her guidance And though she only appears later in brings us an eye-opening – first-time director Stéphanie Di the film, Depp positively dazzles as experience with striking Giusto turns these sequences into feats Isadora. With her elfin litheness and an skill.” of electrifying elegance aided by artful almost contemptuous self-assuredness, B Isaac Theatre Fri 5 Aug, 11.45 am production design, textured costuming, she owns the screen during every — Bénédicte Prot, Cineuropa A Isaac Theatre Sat 13 Aug, 6.15 pm and fluent cinematography… appearance.” — Zhuo-Ning Su, Soko has both the willful masculinity The Film Stage B MM Timaru Mon 15 Aug, 12.00 pm and a feminine vulnerability down. A MM Timaru Fri 19 Aug, 6.15 pm

Cameraperson Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Director/Photography: Director: Kirsten Johnson Thorsten Schütte USA 2016 | 102 mins France/Germany 2016 Producers: Kirsten Johnson, 90 mins Marilyn Ness Producer: Estelle Fialon Editor: Nels Bangerter Co-producer: Jochen Laube Festivals: Sundance, SXSW, Editor: Willibald Wonneberger New Directors/New Films, Music: Frank Zappa San Francisco, Hot Docs 2016 Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2016 In English, Bosnian, Arabic, Dari, In English, French, Swedish and Hausa and Fur, Czech, with English subtitles with English subtitles Colour and B&W camerapersonfilm.com

Kirsten Johnson is a cinematographer movie footage makes us intensely Eat That Question draws together as a composer of serious orchestral who’s worked on some of the most aware that the eye that watches as interview, concert and behind- music… His flamboyant appearance notable documentaries of the past ostensibly untended children in Bosnia the-scenes footage to provide a was a double-edged sword. It gave him 20 years: Fahrenheit 9/11, The Two play with an axe is the same eye that comprehensive introduction to Frank great visibility… but it attracted press Towns of Jasper, Very Semi-Serious, falls on her own darling twins. By the Zappa (1940–93), one of the rock era’s headlines calling him a pervert. His Citizenfour and many more. Drawing time we see several scenarios fully most idiosyncratic musicians. lyrics aided in that corner as well, but on footage she’s shot for countless played out, the invisible cameraperson “As a solo act or with his band the for those willing to listen to his music other directors, she’s assembled in feels like someone we’re beginning to Mothers (originally called the Mothers (to open oneself up to excellence, Frank Cameraperson a unique memoir of the know. It may not be possible to watch of Invention), he has released roughly might say) there was a lot to offer… images she says have most marked her. this fascinating, beautifully layered film 70 albums, three feature films, multiple Eat That Question does a good job of Her selection of personal encounters without thinking hard about the power home video releases, and has written giving us just a taste of nearly every era in some of the world’s most sorely and the limitations of the camera – or a musical and an autobiography. A in Zappa’s multifaceted career.” troubled locations may initially seem the documentary medium itself – as an 90-minute film is, for a true fan, just — Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian random – until the absence of narrative instrument of compassion. going to scratch the surface… but you purpose draws us into another aren’t going to catch me complaining… level of enquiry about what we are Zappa’s first albums in the late 1960s witnessing and how it is marked by the mixed doo-wop, guitars, snorting and A Northlands Sat 30 Jul, 4.00 pm cameraperson. B Northlands Mon 8 Aug, 12.00 pm grunting and cheeseball lyrics, but B Northlands Mon 1 Aug, 4.15 pm Johnson’s inclusion of her own home A Northlands Thu 11 Aug, 6.30 pm from the get-go he pitched himself A Northlands Sun 7 Aug, 8.30 pm 46 PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST

Miss Sharon Jones!

“The incendiary soul singer Sharon Director: Barbara Kopple Jones already had a few fans in USA 2015 | 95 mins the room when Barbara Kopple’s Producers: Barbara Kopple, David Cassidy Photography: Gary Griffin, Tony Hardmon, documentary Miss Sharon Jones! made Kyle Kibbe its world premiere during the Toronto Editors: Anne Fratto, Jean Tsien Music: Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings International Film Festival. By the end With: Sharon Jones, Megan Holken, of the movie everybody in the place Austen Holman, Gabe Roth Festivals: Toronto, Amsterdam Documentary 2015; had a jones for Jones. The narrative arc SXSW, San Francisco 2016 of the film is the diminutive (‘four foot 11 and a quarter’) singer’s more than year-long battle with cancer – and her return to performing. But by lavishing huge helpings of Jones’ music and explosive performances on what is a very intimate portrait, the two-time Oscar-winning Kopple keeps the doco from ever becoming maudlin, or predictable, or from even slowing down.” — John Anderson, Indiewire “Jones has a deep and forceful voice, and her stage presence and As much as Kopple objectively energy are equally electric, which portrays Jones’s experience kicking “Jones’ music will leads fans and critics to liken her to cancer ‘in the ass’ (to use the singer’s always be her legacy, James Brown. Forging a professional sassy terminology), she never defines career as a musician isn’t easy for Miss this soulful performer by her illness. but thanks to Kopple’s Sharon Jones, though, as the singer Sharon Jones is a fighter and a survivor, portrait we got a recalls how an executive at a major Kopple shows, whether she’s breaking chance to see her soul.” label told her she was ‘too black, too through barriers in the music business fat, too short, and too old’ to make it or beating cancer. Both are ruthless — Peter Debruge, Variety B Isaac Theatre Wed 10 Aug, 4.00 pm in the business… There’s no denying beasts and she trumps them.” A Isaac Theatre Sun 14 Aug, 6.00 pm that Miss Sharon Jones paid her dues — Patrick Mullen, POV Magazine a-plenty… A MM Timaru Sun 21 Aug, 6.00 pm

PROUDLY Gimme Danger SPONSORED BY Our Last Tango Un tango más

Director/Screenplay: German Kral Director: Jim Jarmusch Argentina 2015 | 85 mins USA 2016 | 108 mins Photography: Jo Heim, Félix Monti Photography: Tom Krueger Music: Luis Borda, Sexteto Mayor, Editors: Affonso Gonçalves, Gerd Baumann Adam Kurnitz With: María Nieves Rego, Music: The Stooges Juan Carlos Copes, Pablo Verón, With: Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Alejandra Gutty, Juan Malizia, Scott Asheton, James Williamson, Ayelen Álvarez Miño, Pancho Steve Mackay, Mike Watt, Martínez Pey, Johana Copes Kathy Asheton, Danny Fields Festivals: Toronto 2015; Festivals: Cannes Berlin 2016 (Out of Competition) 2016 In Spanish with English subtitles Colour and B&W Censors rating tbc

“Jim Jarmusch’s contention that the it extends to all the significant Stooges Our Last Tango documents a love “German Kral’s documentary Our Stooges were the best rock‘n’roll members, surviving and fallen; the film story involving perhaps the most Last Tango is a combination of things, band ever is the starting point for a is dedicated to four of the latter… But famous couple in tango history and all fascinating: a portrait of María wonderfully eloquent documentary; the real takeaway… is the enduring their shared passion for the partnered Nieves and Juan Carlos Copes, a world- not only does Iggy Pop contribute charge of signature songs like ‘I Wanna dance. Now in their 80s, María Nieves renowned pair of tango dancers, and (verbally and facially) articulate Be Your Dog’, ‘No Fun’, ‘TV Eye’ and ‘I Rego and Juan Carlos Copes met their professional partnership of almost reminiscences about the rise and fall Got a Right’. Nobody can dispute Pop’s when they were 14 and 17 respectively, 50 years; a stylized staging of their of the band, but there’s a lovely mix description of the latter as a track that’s and have danced together for nearly romantic and artistic history, performed of archive footage, interviews, photos ‘fast as lightning and kicks like a mule’… 50 years. Off the dance floor, they by young dancers; and a celebration and even animation to accompany the [Gimme Danger] will be devoured loved and hated each other in equal of the tango itself, which continues music. The director’s enthusiasm and by nostalgic Stooges fans but also measure, broke up and reunited, but to bewitch with its writhing, gently erudition combine with his cinematic should send the uninitiated scrambling always generated sparks as performing jagged grace and torrid suggestiveness.” expertise to create one of the great for downloads.” — David Rooney, partners. Now toward the end of their — Andy Webster, NY Times rock documentaries of recent times.” Hollywood Reporter lives, the pair share their tempestuous — Geoff Andrew, Sight & Sound personal history with a group of young “What makes this witty, wildly tango dancers and choreographers A Isaac Theatre Fri 29 Jul, 6.15 pm affectionate tribute to the proto-punk A Northlands Wed 3 Aug, 8.45 pm in Buenos Aires who transform the B Isaac Theatre Wed 3 Aug, 1.00 pm band out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, so B Northlands Mon 8 Aug, 4.15 pm couple’s personal drama into sizzling inclusive… is the even-handed embrace A Northlands Sun 14 Aug, 5.15 pm dance numbers. A MM Timaru Thu 18 Aug, 6.15 pm PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST 47

Mr Gaga The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble

Director: Morgan Neville USA 2015 | 96 mins Director: Tomer Heymann Producers: Morgan Neville, Israel/Sweden/Germany/ Caitrin Rogers Photography: Graham Willoughby Netherlands 2015 Editors: Jason Zeldes, Helen Kearns 100 mins Music: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Music: Ishai Adar Road Ensemble With: Ohad Naharin, Tzofia With: Yo-Yo Ma, Wu Man, Naharin, Eliav Naharin, Judith Brin Kinan Azmeh, Kayhan Kalhor, Ingber, Gina Buntz, Natalie Portman Cristina Pato Festivals: London 2015; SXSW, Festivals: Toronto 2015; Berlin, San Francisco 2016 San Francisco 2016 In English and Hebrew, with English subtitles mrgagathefilm.com

GADI DAGON THE SILK ROAD PROJECT, INC If you’ve not heard of Israeli dancers… offer insights in terms both “An infectious street concert opens between cultures where harmony choreographer Ohad Naharin, you’ll admiring and blunt. Naharin is similarly this buoyant musical journey, the story connects disparity… wonder how that could have been once expressive – about his development as of renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and This discerning and joyous you’ve seen this spectacular film. For a dancer and a choreographer, the joys his Silk Road Ensemble, a collective of documentary includes many of the dance aficionados, this is surely the most of physical expression, his struggles to the world’s greatest musicians. Initially backstories of the fascinating ensemble anticipated artist portrait since Wim convey his vision to those tasked with drawn from the Central Asian ‘Silk members: Damascus-born clarinetist Wenders’ Pina. Veteran documentary embodying it and the dance-world Road’ countries and regions of China, Kinan Azmeh; Iranian exile and filmmaker Tomer Heymann’s eight- backdrop against which he developed India, Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, acclaimed kamancheh player, Kayhan year labour of love is most unlikely his singular choreographic style and the composition of the group eventually Kalhor; Wu Man, master of the Chinese to disappoint. “Thoughtfully and movement language, known as Gaga.” broadened to include talents from all stringed instrument, the pipa; and the painstakingly researched, the film is — Lynn Rapoport, San Francisco over the globe. exuberant Spanish bagpiper Cristina packed with visually arresting archival International Film Festival As Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Pato, known as ‘the Jimi Hendrix of footage from every stage of Naharin’s Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom, Galicia’.” — Leah LoSchiavo, professional (and personal) life, as well FEATURE PRECEDED BY NZIFF13; Best of Enemies, NZIFF15) San Francisco International Film Festival as scenes from rehearsals and some 20 Nurse Me frames it, the Silk Road Ensemble performances that movingly illustrate his Kezia Barnett | New Zealand 2016 | 11 mins arose out of Yo-Yo Ma’s quest to B IsaacTP Theatre ThuMonday 4 Aug, 25 1.45 July, pm2.00 pm particular genius. Choreographed pieces uncover Leonard Bernstein’s theoretical A IsaacTP Theatre SatWednesday 6 Aug, 3.30 27 July, pm 8.15 pm move in kinetic bursts from the rehearsal A Northlands Sun 7 Aug, 12.45 pm ‘universal language of music’, and to A NT Wednesday 3 August, 8.15 A Northlands Wed 10 Aug, 6.30 pm studio to the stage and, in interviews, identify and cultivate the intersections Apm MM Timaru Sat 20 Aug, 3.30 pm

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt Wide Open Sky

Director/Screenplay: Ada Ushpiz Israel/Canada 2015 Director: Lisa Nicol 124 mins Australia 2015 | 87 mins Producers: Ina Fichman, Ada Ushpiz Photography: Carolyn Constantine Photography: Itai Neeman, German Editor: Anna Craney Gutierrez, Philippe Lavalette With: Michelle Leonard, Khynan, Editor: Hadas Ayalon Opal, Mack, Taylah, Ella, Katelyn, Music: John Wilson Alice Chance, Dot, Justin Festivals: Jerusalem, Amsterdam Festivals: Sydney 2015 Documentary 2015 Audience Award (Documentary), In German, English and Hebrew, Sydney Film Festival 2015 with English subtitles wideopenskymovie.com Colour and B&W

The German-Jewish philosopher elimination of European Jews. There “Defined by images of children caught Punctuated by moments of unadorned Hannah Arendt left her indelible imprint are interviews with old friends and up in the joyous rigour of creative performance – a boy dances on a on 20th-century thought by coining the academic experts and extensive use of expression, Lisa Nicol’s Wide Open Sky tin roof in one – the documentary concept of the ‘banality of evil’ when filmed interviews Arendt herself gave, follows conductor and choirmaster focuses on individual personalities reporting on the 1963 trial of Nazi war as well as effective readings of excerpts Michelle Leonard across outback New and not socioeconomic factors, but criminal Adolph Eichmann. Directed by from her essays and letters by actress South Wales as she auditions thousands it makes it clear that there are Israeli documentarian Ada Ushpiz, who Alison Darcy. of primary school students to find numerous children whose creative has degrees in philosophy and history, “There are moments in Vita Activa, an the 130 annual participants for her instincts just need a little nurturing. this smart, spirited documentary urgent and often startling documentary Moorambilla Voices choir. Both Leonard and Wide Open Sky illuminates that often abused idea. from Israeli director Ada Ushpiz, where A formidable motivator who refuse to accept stereotypes, and the Ushpiz also draws a larger picture of I could feel her trying to reach across inclusively pushes her charges for reward for that is illuminating and Arendt’s often conflicted engagement the decades and talk to us.” — Andrew excellence, Leonard opens up the joyous.” — Craig Mathieson, The Age with the defining phenomena of her O’Hehir, Salon possibility of creative betterment era. Richly illustrated with rarely-seen and self-expression in children who historical footage, Vita Activa offers often come from disadvantaged A Isaac Theatre Sat 30 Jul, 11.00 am an intimate portrait of Arendt’s life backgrounds. As the film unfolds the B Isaac Theatre Mon 8 Aug, 11.30 am and work – both deeply informed by A Isaac Theatre Sun 31 Jul, 12.30 pm swell of their voices gradually builds as the aftermath of World War I, the rise B Northlands Tue 9 Aug, 11.00 am the story moves towards a headlining B MM Timaru Thu 11 Aug, 12.00 pm of Nazi Germany and its systematic A Northlands Sun 14 Aug, 12.30 pm appearance at a music festival. A MM Timaru Sat 13 Aug, 1.00 pm 48

PROUDLY High-Rise SPONSORED BY STRANGE INCREDIBLY Director: Ben Wheatley UK 2015 | 119 mins Producer: Jeremy Thomas Screenplay: Amy Jump. Based on the novel by J.G. Ballard Photography: Laurie Rose Music: Clint Mansell With: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, Keeley Hawes, Peter Ferdinando Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, Fantastic Fest, London 2015; Tribeca, San Francisco 2016 CinemaScope | R16 violence, drug use, sexual material, offensive language, content that may disturb MAGNOLIA PICTURES “A savage and utterly brilliant satire always comes back to Royal (Jeremy of both 60s social idealism and the Irons in a pitch perfect performance Thatcherite values that undermined that screams ‘empire in decline’), the it, High-Rise opens with a dishevelled enigmatic architect who designed the man (the ever-sublime Tom Hiddleston) building. However, as power outages eating barbecued dog on the balcony become more frequent and building of his trashed apartment, some 25 flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors up. Director Ben Wheatley floors, the regimented social strata begin (Sightseers, Kill List) and regular to crumble. Nihilism, drugs and alcohol collaborator and screenwriter Amy feed into wanton sex and destruction, Jump tear into J.G. Ballard’s classic all underscored by Clint Mansell’s source novel with brutal gusto. wicked music and Mark Tildesley’s Hiddleston’s character, Dr Robert designs – revelling in decadent 70s chic.” Laing, has just taken ownership of his — Tricia Tuttle, London Film Festival luxurious apartment whose lofty location places him amongst the upper echelons. He is immediately drawn into and seduced by the louche culture of nightly A Isaac Theatre Sat 30 Jul, 9.00 pm cocktail parties, where conversation B Isaac Theatre Tue 2 Aug, 3.45 pm

Operation Avalanche

Director: Matt Johnson USA 2016 | 95 mins Producers: Matthew Miller, Lee Kim, Matt Johnson Screenplay: Matt Johnson, Josh Boles Photography: Andy Appelle, Jared Raab Editor: Curt Lobb With: Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Andy Appelle, Jared Raab, Josh Boles, Ray James, Sharon Belle, Kirsta Madison Festivals: Sundance, SXSW, Hot Docs 2016 Censors rating tbc

Let’s be honest: we’re all a bit over the this high-concept paranoid thriller. Films selected to keep you wide awake and faux documentary sub-genre. So let’s The major achievement in this at rescue NZIFF from respectability by Ant hear it for Canadian Matt Johnson with times very funny quasi-fictional-doco his devilishly clever cinephile meta-take is the technically impressive and Timpson, founder of the legendary Incredibly on the Apollo Moon landing. It’s 1967, seamless integration of all the kinds Strange Film Festival. the height of the cold war, and the of footage used, and the ballsy fact CIA suspects a Russian mole is inside that Johnson and co actually fooled NASA sabotaging the programme. NASA in a cunning meta-squared Two chipper young agents, disguised move. They got into the real NASA as filmmakers capturing NASA’s race to by saying they were filming for a the moon, are sent to uncover the mole. student film about the making of a They uncover something more shocking making of a making… okay my head than any Russian spy. Suddenly the hurts now… just come and see this agents are in way over their heads very smart film. — AT as they scramble to help save the USA’s credibility. Before too long guns start blazing alongside incredible one-shot A Northlands Sun 31 Jul, 8.30 pm car chases, as the influence of Stanley B Northlands Fri 5 Aug, 4.15 pm Kubrick may or may not come into A Northlands Mon 8 Aug, 8.45 pm INCREDIBLY STRANGE 49

Green Room

In an alternate universe, Captain Jean- Director/Screenplay: Jeremy Saulnier Luc Picard is transformed into a ruthless USA 2015 | 96 mins neo-Nazi who operates a criminal Producers: Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, Victor Moyers Photography: Sean Porter empire in the backwoods of Oregon. Editor: Julia Bloch The problem is, this is no episode of Music: Brooke Blair, Will Blair With: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Star Trek: TNG; it is director Saulnier’s Joe Cole, Callum Turner, Mark Webber, punks-vs-skins follow-up to his Eric Edelstein, Macon Blair, Kai Lennox, Patrick Stewart acclaimed indie thriller Blue Ruin Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight), (NZIFF13). Much like a nastier version Toronto, Vancouver, London 2015; Sundance, Rotterdam 2016 of John Carpenter’s seminal Assault R18 graphic violence, drug use, offensive language on Precinct 13, this is a classic wrong place, wrong time set-piece that takes well-worn tropes, amps them up to 11 and then stomps on their faces. An earnestly broke but resourceful four-person Arlington punk band, The Ain’t Rights, reluctantly accept a one-off gig after a long and fiscally sour tour. After polarising the jaded crowd by opening with Dead Kennedys anthem ‘Nazi Punks Fuck who makes a real meal of playing Off’, the band members eventually find against type. The tension escalates as “It’s a delightfully cruel themselves heading back to the titular both sides slowly realise that the only work of high tension, green room to collect their hard-earned way to end the impasse is for violence. $300. Unfortunately, they walk in on Even with notable performances from perfect in just how something they shouldn’t be seeing, all the cast, this is Saulnier’s set and quickly and easily it gets which ignites into a full-blown he loads up and delivers the cinematic under your skin.” stand-off between the terrified punks equivalent of a great punk song: and the disordered neo-Nazis. numerous short sharp jabs to the solar — Barry Hertz, Globe & Mail Entering the claustrophobic plexus that leave you wobbly and A Northlands Wed 3 Aug, 9.00 pm labyrinth is the calming presence of winded. — AT B Northlands Thu 4 Aug, 4.30 pm A Northlands Sat 6 Aug, 9.00 pm Shakespearian-trained Patrick Stewart,

Swiss Army Man Under the Shadow

Director/Screenplay: Babak Anvari Directors/Screenplay: UK/Jordan/Qatar 2016 Daniel Scheinert, 85 mins Daniel Kwan Photography: Kit Fraser USA 2016 | 95 mins With: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Photography: Larkin Seiple Ray Haratian, Hamidreza Djavdan Editor: Matthew Hannam Festivals: Sundance, With: Daniel Radcliffe, Paul Dano, New Directors/New Films, Mary Elizabeth Winstead San Francisco 2016 Festivals: Sundance 2016 In Farsi with English subtitles Directing Award (Dramatic), CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc Sundance Film Festival 2016 M offensive language, sexual references

Gonzo directors Daniel Scheinert and extreme flatulence transforms him into “Infused with autobiographical Shideh slowly realizes that her home is Daniel Kwan describe Swiss Army Man a human jet-ski, sending the pair off elements, Babak Anvari’s debut feature haunted and gets sucked into a web as a film about a suicidal man who to uncharted areas. Daniel Radcliffe is a terrifying allegory of the 1980-88 of paranoia wherein malevolent djinn has to convince a dead body that life’s plays Manny, the dead body that Iran-Iraq War, a now often overlooked mess with her mind. Like any insightful worth living. Others have said it’s a becomes Dano’s multi-purpose tool in conflict that shaped much of this work of horror, Anvari’s film leaves fusion of Cast Away and Weekend at discovering the joys of life; together London-based Iranian filmmaker’s it to the viewer to decide whether Bernies as directed by Michel Gondry. they provide viewers with the most early childhood. the supernatural threat is a shared The fact the duo, collectively known bonkers buddy movie of all time. A constantly shifting expressionistic reality or no more than a psychosomatic as Daniels, have managed to turn that Many art-lobsters who attended its nightmare, Under the Shadow centers symptom – a harrowing projection morbid premise into something so Sundance premiere walked out after upon Shideh (Narges Rashidi), a of the protagonist’s deranged psyche.” outrageously fun and deeply affecting is some hilarious, puerile moments, only frustrated mother unable to fulfill — Yonca Talu, Film Comment a testament to their wild inventiveness. to miss out on an endearing man-love her career aspirations because of her Paul Dano (Love & Mercy) plays tale that blossoms in some very strange former political activism. When her Hank, a man stranded alone on a and funny ways. — AT doctor husband is drafted, Shideh is deserted island. When he’s about left alone with her daughter Dorsa and to top himself from sheer boredom, must protect her from supernatural the corpse of Harry Potter himself A Northlands Fri 5 Aug, 9.00 pm phenomena brought upon their Tehran A Northlands Fri 29 Jul, 8.30 pm washes up ashore. It’s not too long B Northlands Thu 11 Aug, 4.15 pm apartment by a missile attack. A Northlands Mon 1 Aug, 8.30 pm before Hank realises that the corpse’s A Northlands Sat 13 Aug, 9.30 pm At first skeptical of ghost stories, B Northlands Wed 3 Aug, 4.30 pm 50

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Thursday 28 July B 12.00 pm Theeb (Northlands) 101 p24 B 4.00 pm Neruda (Isaac Theatre) 107 p8 A 7.15 pm Poi E (Isaac Theatre) 96 p5 B 1.30 pm Aquarius (Northlands) 140 p7 B 4.30 pm Green Room (Northlands) 96 p49 Friday 29 July B 1.30 pm Like Crazy (Isaac Theatre) 116 p22 A 6.15 pm Apple Pie (Northlands) 80 p12 B 11.00 am I, Daniel Blake (Isaac Theatre) 100 p7 B 2.15 pm Jim: The James Foley Story (Northlands) 111 p42 A 6.15 pm Like Crazy (Isaac Theatre) 116 p22 B 11.30 am When Two Worlds Collide (Northlands) 103 p43 B 4.00 pm Ants on a Shrimp… (Isaac Theatre) 88 p44 A 6.30 pm Free to Run (Northlands) 99 p39 B 1.00 pm Toni Erdmann (Northlands) 162 p9 B 4.15 pm Eat That Question… (Northlands) 90 p45 A 8.45 pm A War (Northlands) 116 p18 B 1.15 pm The Innocents (Isaac Theatre) 116 p19 B 4.30 pm Chevalier (Northlands) 105 p30 A 8.30 pm Chevalier (Northlands) 105 p30 B 1.45 pm Indignation (Northlands) 111 p28 A 6.15 pm Embrace (Isaac Theatre) 90 p36 A 8.45 pm Everybody Wants Some!! (Isaac Theatre) 117 p28 B 3.45 pm Everybody Wants Some!! (Isaac Theatre) 117 p28 A 6.15 pm Francofonia (Northlands) 87 p21 Friday 5 August B 4.15 pm Sand Storm (Northlands) 87 p23 A 6.45 pm Heart of a Dog (Northlands) 75 p31 B 11.30 am Zero Days (Northlands) 113 p43 B 4.00 pm The First, the Last (Northlands) 98 p16 A 8.15 pm A War (Northlands) 116 p18 B 11.45 am The Dancer (Isaac Theatre) 108 p45 A 6.15 pm Little Men (Northlands) 86 p28 A 8.30 pm Under the Shadow (Northlands) 85 p49 B 12.00 pm Fire at Sea (Northlands) 108 p37 A 6.15 pm Our Last Tango (Isaac Theatre) 85 p46 A 9.00 pm Lo and Behold… (Isaac Theatre) 98 p39 B 2.00 pm Heart of a Dog (Northlands) 75 p31 A 6.30 pm Weiner (Northlands) 95 p41 Tuesday 2 August B 2.00 pm Land of Mine (Isaac Theatre) 101 p18 A 8.15 pm Le Ride (Isaac Theatre) 90 p13 B 10.30 am Sunset Song (Isaac Theatre) 135 p27 B 2.15 pm Free to Run (Northlands) 99 p39 A 8.15 pm The Handmaiden (Northlands) 145 p24 B 11.00 am Graduation (Northlands) 127 p25 B 3.45 pm Endless Poetry (Northlands) 128 p17 A 8.30 pm Under the Shadow (Northlands) 85 p49 B 11.30 am Tomorrow (Northlands) 119 p41 B 4.15 pm Operation Avalanche (Northlands) 95 p48 Saturday 30 July B 1.30 pm A War (Northlands) 116 p18 B 4.15 pm Perfect Strangers (Isaac Theatre) 96 p22 A 10.30 am Notes on Blindness (Northlands) 90 p40 B 1.30 pm The Rehearsal (Isaac Theatre) 98 p6 A 6.15 pm Sand Storm (Northlands) 87 p23 A 11.00 am Wide Open Sky (Isaac Theatre) 87 p47 B 2.00 pm Neon Bull (Northlands) 101 p33 A 6.30 pm Captain Fantastic (Isaac Theatre) 119 + 10 p27 A 12.00 pm The Road (Northlands) 95 p41 B 3.45 pm High-Rise (Isaac Theatre) 119 p48 A 6.30 pm Les Démons (Northlands) 118 p31 A 12.30 pm The Eagle Huntress (Northlands) 87 p35 B 4.00 pm Equity (Northlands) 100 p28 A 8.15 pm The Salesman (Northlands) 125 p21 A 1.00 pm After the Storm (Isaac Theatre) 117 p23 B 4.15 pm Les Démons (Northlands) 118 p31 A 9.00 pm Swiss Army Man (Northlands) 95 p49 A 2.00 pm God Willing (Northlands) 88 p22 A 6.15 pm God Willing (Northlands) 88 p22 A 9.15 pm The Clan (Isaac Theatre) 110 p16 A 2.30 pm Another Country (Northlands) 75 p37 A 6.15 pm The Innocents (Isaac Theatre) 116 p19 Saturday 6 August A 3.30 pm The Country Doctor (Isaac Theatre) 102 p19 A 6.45 pm New Zealand’s Best 2016 (Northlands) 75 p15 A 10.45 am Girls’ POV… (Northlands) 70 p35 A 4.00 pm Eat That Question… (Northlands) 90 p45 A 8.15 pm The Salesman (Northlands) 125 p21 A 11.00 am Fire at Sea (Northlands) 108 p37 A 4.15 pm Jim: The James Foley Story (Northlands) 111 p42 A 8.30 pm Doglegs (Northlands) 89 p37 A 11.15 am Long Way North (Isaac Theatre) 82 p35 A 6.00 pm Equity (Northlands) 100 p28 A 8.45 pm A Perfect Day (Isaac Theatre) 105 p25 A 12.30 pm Tanna (Northlands) 104 p33 A 6.00 pm Sunset Song (Isaac Theatre) 135 p27 Wednesday 3 August A 1.15 pm Little Men (Northlands) 86 p28 A 6.30 pm Poi E (Northlands) 96 p5 B 10.45 am The Country Doctor (Isaac Theatre) 102 p19 A 1.15 pm Obit (Isaac Theatre) 94 p39 A 8.15 pm Graduation (Northlands) 127 p25 B 11.00 am Another Country (Northlands) 75 p37 A 2.45 pm Girls’ POV… (Northlands) 70 p35 A 8.45 pm Theeb (Northlands) 101 p24 B 12.00 pm God Willing (Northlands) 88 p22 A 3.15 pm Graduation (Northlands) 127 p25 A 9.00 pm High-Rise (Isaac Theatre) 119 p48 B 12.45 pm New Zealand’s Best 2016 (Northlands) 75 p15 A 3.30 pm The Music of Strangers… (Isaac Theatre) 96 p47 Sunday 31 July B 1.00 pm Our Last Tango (Isaac Theatre) 85 p46 A 4.30 pm Heart of a Dog (Northlands) 75 p31 B 10.30 am Animation for Kids 8+ (Northlands) 68 p34 B 1.45 pm The Road (Northlands) 95 p41 A 5.45 pm A Quiet Passion (Isaac Theatre) 124 p6 B 11.00 am Animation for Kids 4+ (Isaac Theatre) 64 p34 B 2.30 pm Weiner (Northlands) 95 p41 A 6.00 pm The 5th Eye (Northlands) 112 p13 A 11.00 am Obit (Northlands) 94 p39 B 3.00 pm Toni Erdmann (Isaac Theatre) 162 p9 A 6.15 pm Indignation (Northlands) 111 p28 A 12.15 pm A Syrian Love Story (Northlands) 76 p43 B 3.45 pm McCabe & Mrs Miller (Northlands) 120 p10 A 8.30 pm Neruda (Isaac Theatre) 107 p8 A 12.30 pm Vita Activa… (Isaac Theatre) 124 p47 B 4.30 pm Under the Shadow (Northlands) 85 p49 A 8.30 pm The First, the Last (Northlands) 98 p16 A 1.00 pm Thithi (Northlands) 123 p21 A 6.15 pm Lovesong (Isaac Theatre) 84 p31 A 9.00 pm Green Room (Northlands) 96 p49 A 2.00 pm Notes on Blindness (Northlands) 90 p40 A 6.15 pm Thithi (Northlands) 123 p21 Sunday 7 August A 3.15 pm I, Daniel Blake (Isaac Theatre) 100 p7 A 6.30 pm When Two Worlds Collide (Northlands) 103 p43 A 11.00 am Long Way North (Northlands) 82 p35 A 3.45 pm Equity (Northlands) 100 p28 A 8.15 pm Land of Mine (Isaac Theatre) 101 p18 A 11.15 am Francofonia (Northlands) 87 p21 A 4.00 pm Theeb (Northlands) 101 p24 A 8.45 pm Gimme Danger (Northlands) 108 p46 A 12.45 pm Mr Gaga (Northlands) 100 + 11 p47 A 5.45 pm The Rehearsal (Isaac Theatre) 98 p6 A 9.00 pm Green Room (Northlands) 96 p49 A 1.15 pm The 5th Eye (Northlands) 112 p13 A 6.00 pm McCabe & Mrs Miller (Northlands) 120 p10 Thursday 4 August ✪ 2.00 pm Safety Last! (Isaac Theatre) 67 + 19 p11 A 6.15 pm Weiner (Northlands) 95 p41 B 11.30 am Tanna (Northlands) 104 p33 A 3.15 pm Indignation (Northlands) 111 p28 A 8.15 pm Chevalier (Northlands) 105 p30 B 11.45 am Embrace (Isaac Theatre) 90 p36 A 4.00 pm The heART of the Matter (Northlands) 88 p12 A 8.30 pm Endless Poetry (Isaac Theatre) 128 p17 B 11.45 am Francofonia (Northlands) 87 p21 A 4.15 pm Toni Erdmann (Isaac Theatre) 162 p9 A 8.30 pm Operation Avalanche (Northlands) 95 p48 B 1.45 pm The Music of Strangers… (Isaac Theatre) 96 p47 A 5.30 pm Les Démons (Northlands) 118 p31 Monday 1 August B 1.45 pm The Salesman (Northlands) 125 p21 A 6.30 pm Sand Storm (Northlands) 87 p23 B 11.00 am Truman (Isaac Theatre) 109 p25 B 2.00 pm A Syrian Love Story (Northlands) 76 p43 A 7.45 pm The Handmaiden (Isaac Theatre) 145 p24

B 11.30 am Little Men (Northlands) 86 p28 B 3.45 pm Apple Pie (Northlands) 80 p12 Continued over » 52

Christchurch schedule continued B 2.15 pm Chasing Asylum (Northlands) 96 p42 TIMARU TICKET PRICES A 8.00 pm Neon Bull (Northlands) 101 p33 B 3.30 pm Elle (Isaac Theatre) 130 p5 A 8.30 pm Eat That Question… (Northlands) 90 p45 B 3.45 pm The Clan (Northlands) 110 p16 A CODED SESSIONS Monday 8 August B 4.15 pm Swiss Army Man (Northlands) 95 p49 Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all weekend sessions. A 6.15 pm The Daughter (Isaac Theatre) 95 p17 B 11.00 am Francofonia (Northlands) 87 p21 A 6.15 pm The Road (Northlands) 95 p41 » Full Price $16.00 B 11.30 am Wide Open Sky (Isaac Theatre) 87 p47 A 6.30 pm Cameraperson (Northlands) 102 p45 » Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/ B 12.00 pm Cameraperson (Northlands) 102 p45 Student/Unwaged * $13.00 A 8.15 pm The Idealist (Northlands) 114 p17 B 1.00 pm The Idealist (Northlands) 114 p17 A 8.30 pm Personal Shopper (Isaac Theatre) 105 p21 » Senior Citizens (60+) $12.00 B 1.30 pm Things to Come (Isaac Theatre) 101 p20 A 8.45 pm Animation Now 2016 (Northlands) 78 p29 » Children (15 and under) $10.00 B 2.15 pm Much Ado About Nothing (Northlands) 96 p33 B 3.30 pm Suburra (Northlands) 135 p23 Friday 12 August B CODED SESSIONS B 3.45 pm Midnight Special (Isaac Theatre) 112 p29 B 10.45 am A Quiet Passion (Isaac Theatre) 124 p6 Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays and others as indicated. B 4.15 pm Gimme Danger (Northlands) 108 p46 B 11.00 am Argentina (Northlands) 88 p44 » Full Price $13.00 A 6.15 pm Ants on a Shrimp… (Isaac Theatre) 88 p44 B 11.15 am The heART of the Matter (Northlands) 88 p12 A 6.15 pm The heART of the Matter (Northlands) 88 p12 B 1.15 pm Tokyo Story (Northlands) 136 p10 » Senior Citizens (60+) $12.00 A 6.30 pm Argentina (Northlands) 88 p44 B 1.30 pm Chimes at Midnight (Isaac Theatre) 117 p10 » Children (15 and under) $10.00 A 8.30 pm Le Ride (Isaac Theatre) 90 p13 B 2.45 pm Animation Now 2016 (Northlands) 78 p29 FIVE-TRIP PASS A 8.30 pm The First, the Last (Northlands) 98 p16 B 4.00 pm Lo and Behold… (Northlands) 98 p39 Valid for all NZIFF sessions. B 4.00 pm Personal Shopper (Isaac Theatre) 105 p21 A 8.45 pm Operation Avalanche (Northlands) 95 p48 » Five-Trip Pass $65.00 B 4.30 pm Lovesong (Northlands) 84 p31 Tuesday 9 August The Five-Trip Pass can be purchased in advance or on A 6.15 pm Nuts! (Northlands) 79 p40 B 10.15 am After the Storm (Isaac Theatre) 117 p23 the day. Passes can be shared. They cannot be used A 6.30 pm Chasing Asylum (Northlands) 96 p42 for online bookings. No refunds will be given for lost B 11.00 am Vita Activa… (Northlands) 124 p47 A 6.30 pm Things to Come (Isaac Theatre) 101 p20 passes or passes not fully redeemed during NZIFF. B 11.15 am Sunset Song (Northlands) 135 p27 A 8.00 pm Suburra (Northlands) 135 p23 Subject to seat availability. B 12.45 pm Aquarius (Isaac Theatre) 140 p7 A 8.30 pm Much Ado About Nothing (Northlands) 96 p33 * CONCESSION DISCOUNTS B 1.30 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga… (Northlands) 89 p15 A 9.00 pm Midnight Special (Isaac Theatre) 112 p29 (Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/Student/Unwaged) B 2.00 pm Life, Animated (Northlands) 91 p38 Full-time students, unwaged people and members of Saturday 13 Aug B 3.45 pm On an Unknown Beach (Northlands) 90 p13 Film Societies and Film Industry Guilds are entitled to A 11.00 am Life, Animated (Northlands) 91 p38 B 3.45 pm Paterson (Isaac Theatre) 113 p8 purchase one ticket per session at the discount rate. A 11.00 am Tomorrow (Isaac Theatre) 119 p41 Current ID is required. Those holding Film Society three- B 4.00 pm Certain Women (Northlands) 107 p30 film sampler cards are not entitled to this concession. A 11.15 am Notes on Blindness (Northlands) 90 p40 A 6.15 pm Fire at Sea (Northlands) 108 p37 A 1.00 pm Tokyo Story (Northlands) 136 p10 A 6.15 pm Truman (Isaac Theatre) 109 p25 A 1.15 pm Chasing Asylum (Northlands) 96 p42 A 6.30 pm On an Unknown Beach (Northlands) 90 p13 BUYING TICKETS A 1.30 pm The Eagle Huntress (Isaac Theatre) 87 p35 A 8.30 pm McCabe & Mrs Miller (Northlands) 120 p10 BOOKINGS OPEN FRIDAY 8 JULY FROM 9.00 AM A 3.15 pm Argentina (Northlands) 88 p44 Advance bookings are available for all NZIFF sessions. A 8.30 pm Zero Days (Isaac Theatre) 113 p43 A 3.30 pm Chimes at Midnight (Isaac Theatre) 117 p10 Seats are allocated on the basis of best available at the A 9.00 pm Neon Bull (Northlands) 101 p33 time of purchase. Book early to secure the best seats. A 3.45 pm The Idealist (Northlands) 114 p17 Wednesday 10 August A 5.15 pm A Flickering Truth (Northlands) 91 p36 ONLINE www.moviemaxdigital.co.nz B 11.30 am The Innocents (Northlands) 116 p19 A 6.15 pm Certain Women (Northlands) 107 p30 Booking fee: $1.00 per ticket Tickets must be collected from the venue. B 12.00 pm The Red Turtle (Isaac Theatre) 80 p9 A 6.15 pm The Dancer (Isaac Theatre) 108 p45 IN PERSON Open from 11.00 am daily. B 12.15 pm A Flickering Truth (Northlands) 91 p36 A 7.15 pm Tanna (Northlands) 104 p33 METHODS OF PAYMENT B 1.45 pm The Daughter (Isaac Theatre) 95 p17 A 8.30 pm Suburra (Northlands) 135 p23 Cash/EFTPOS: Accepted for box office bookings. B 2.00 pm Nuts! (Northlands) 79 p40 A 8.45 pm Paterson (Isaac Theatre) 113 p8 Visa/Mastercard/AMEX: Accepted for all bookings. B 2.15 pm Ants on a Shrimp… (Northlands) 88 p44 A 9.30 pm Swiss Army Man (Northlands) 95 p49 REFUNDS B 3.45 pm The 5th Eye (Northlands) 112 p13 Sunday 14 Aug Please note that NO REFUNDS will be given for B 4.00 pm Miss Sharon Jones! (Isaac Theatre) 95 p46 uncollected tickets or tickets collected late. Bookings B 11.00 am Animation for Kids 4+ (Northlands) 64 p34 B 4.15 pm A Perfect Day (Northlands) 105 p25 once made cannot be altered. Please choose carefully B 11.00 am Animation for Kids 8+ (Isaac Theatre) 68 p34 as there are no exchanges or refunds except as A 6.15 pm Julieta (Isaac Theatre) 96 p25 A 11.30 am Lo and Behold… (Northlands) 98 p39 required by law. A 6.15 pm Life, Animated (Northlands) 91 p38 A 12.30 pm Vita Activa… (Northlands) 124 p47 A 6.30 pm Mr Gaga (Northlands) 100 + 11 p47 A 1.00 pm The Red Turtle (Isaac Theatre) 80 p9 A 8.15 pm Certain Women (Northlands) 107 p30 VENUE INFORMATION A 1.30 pm Nuts! (Northlands) 79 p40 For answers to frequently asked questions visit A 8.30 pm Perfect Strangers (Isaac Theatre) 96 p22 A 3.00 pm Aquarius (Isaac Theatre) 140 p7 www.nziff.co.nz A 8.45 pm Zero Days (Northlands) 113 p43 A 3.00 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga… (Northlands) 89 p15 Movie Max Digital: cnr of Sophia & Canon Sts, Timaru Ph: (03) 684 6975 Thursday 11 August A 3.15 pm Tokyo Story (Northlands) 136 p10 WHEELCHAIR ACCESS/SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS B 10.30 am Julieta (Isaac Theatre) 96 p25 A 5.15 pm Gimme Danger (Northlands) 108 p46 Please advise the ticket seller when purchasing your B 11.30 am The Country Doctor (Northlands) 102 p19 A 6.00 pm Free to Run (Northlands) 99 p39 tickets if you have difficulty with stairs or have any B 12.45 pm Captain Fantastic (Isaac Theatre) 119 + 10 p27 A 6.00 pm Miss Sharon Jones! (Isaac Theatre) 95 p46 special requirements. B 1.45 pm Obit (Northlands) 94 p39 A 8.15 pm Elle (Isaac Theatre) 130 p5 53

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Thursday 11 August The 5th Eye 13 The Innocents 19 Swiss Army Man 49 A Syrian Love Story 43 B 12.00 pm Wide Open Sky (87) p47 A J A 6.15 pm Like Crazy (116) p22 After the Storm 23 Jim: The James Foley Story 42 T A 8.30 pm Le Ride (90) p13 Animation for Kids 4+ 34 Julieta 25 Tanna 33 Friday 12 August Animation for Kids 8+ 34 Theeb 24 L B 1.00 pm A Quiet Passion (124) p6 Animation Now! 2016 29 Things to Come 20 Land of Mine 18 A 6.15 pm I, Daniel Blake (100) p7 Another Country 37 Thithi 21 Le Ride 13 A 8.15 pm The Clan (110) p16 Ants on a Shrimp: Noma in Tokyo 44 Tokyo Story 10 Les Démons 31 Apple Pie 12 Tomorrow 41 Saturday 13 August Life, Animated 38 Aquarius 7 Toni Erdmann 9 A 1.00 pm Wide Open Sky (87) p47 Like Crazy 22 Argentina 44 Truman 25 A 3.00 pm A Quiet Passion (124) p6 Little Men 28 A 5.30 pm Captain Fantastic (119 + 10) p27 C Lo and Behold: U A 8.00 pm Truman 109 p25 Cameraperson 45 Reveries of the Connected World 39 Under the Shadow 49 Captain Fantastic 27 Long Way North 35 Sunday 14 August V Certain Women 30 Lovesong 31 A 1.00 pm Long Way North (82) p35 Vita Activa: Chasing Asylum 42 A 2.45 pm Embrace (90) p36 M The Spirit of Hannah Arendt 47 Chevalier 30 A 4.45 pm The Innocents (116) p19 McCabe & Mrs Miller 10 Chimes at Midnight 10 W A 7.00 pm Aquarius (140) p7 Midnight Special 29 A War 18 The Clan 16 Miss Sharon Jones! 46 Monday 15 August Weiner 41 The Country Doctor 19 Mr Gaga 47 B 12.00 pm The Dancer (108) p45 When Two Worlds Collide 43 Much Ado About Nothing 33 A 6.15 pm The Red Turtle (80) p9 D Wide Open Sky 47 The Dancer 45 The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma A 8.00 pm Tomorrow (119) p41 and the Silk Road Ensemble 47 The Daughter 17 Z Tuesday 16 August Doglegs 37 N Zero Days 43 B 12.00 pm Like Crazy (116) p22 Neon Bull 33 A 6.15 pm The Country Doctor (102) p19 E Neruda 8 A 8.15 pm Tanna (104) p33 The Eagle Huntress 35 New Zealand’s Best 2015 15 Eat That Question: Wednesday 17 August Frank Zappa in His Own Words 45 Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori B 12.00 pm The Innocents (116) p19 Pasifika Shorts 2015 15 Elle 5 A 6.15 pm God Willing (88) p22 Notes on Blindness 40 Embrace 36 Nuts! 40 A 8.15 pm Land of Mine (101) p18 Endless Poetry 17 Thursday 18 August Equity 28 O B 12.00 pm The Country Doctor (102) p19 Everybody Wants Some!! 28 Obit 39 A 6.15 pm Our Last Tango (85) p46 On an Unknown Beach 13 F A 8.00 pm Everybody Wants Some!! (117) p28 Operation Avalanche 49 Fire at Sea 37 Our Last Tango 46 Friday 19 August The First, the Last 16 KEY TO ICONS B 1.00 pm I, Daniel Blake (100) p7 A Flickering Truth 36 P Guest Appearance A 6.15 pm The Dancer (108) p45 Francofonia 21 Paterson 8 A 8.30 pm Midnight Special (112) p29 Free to Run 39 A Perfect Day 25 Short Preceding Feature Saturday 20 August Perfect Strangers 22 G Cannes Selection 2016 Personal Shopper 21 A 1.00 pm The 5th Eye (112) p13 Gimme Danger 46 Poi E: The Story of Our Song 5 Major Festival Award A 3.30 pm The Music of Strangers… (96) p47 Girls’ POV: NYICFF Retrospective 35 A 5.30 pm After the Storm (117) p23 God Willing 22 Q A 8.00 pm Perfect Strangers (96) p22 Graduation 25 A Quiet Passion 6 Notes in this brochure are written and compiled by the programmers, Bill Sunday 21 August Green Room 49 R Gosden, Michael McDonnell, Ant Timpson A 1.15 pm The Eagle Huntress (87) p35 and Malcolm Turner. Tim Wong, Toby H The Red Turtle 9 Manhire, Jo Randerson, Judah Finnigan, A 3.15 pm Sunset Song (135) p27 The Handmaiden 24 The Rehearsal 6 Andrew Langridge, Nic Marshall and Tom A 6.00 pm Miss Sharon Jones! (95) p46 Webb also contributed notes. The Heart of a Dog 31 The Road 41 brochure was edited, drawing on a wide A 8.00 pm Paterson (113) p8 The heART of the Matter 12 array of writers we like, by Bill Gosden, S who also wrote the unsigned notes, High-Rise 48 cribbing the occasional perfect adjective Safety Last! 11 from said writers. It was managed by Tim I The Salesman 21 Wong with the assistance of a squadron of ace proofreaders who labour beyond the I, Daniel Blake 7 Sand Storm 23 call of duty. Views expressed in the The Idealist 17 Suburra 23 brochure do not necessarily represent the views of the staff or trustees of the New Indignation 28 Sunset Song 27 Zealand Film Festival Trust. 23—24 August Isaac Theatre Royal

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