CHRISTCHURCH 3–20 AUGUST 2017

TIMARU 17–27 AUGUST 2017 NZIFF.CO.NZ

41st Christchurch International FILM FESTIVAL

Presented by New Zealand Film Festival Trust under the distinguished patronage of Her Excellency The Right Honourable Dame Patsy Reddy, Governor-General of New Zealand

ISAAC THEATRE ROYAL HOYTS NORTHLANDS MOVIE MAX TIMARU

Director: Bill Gosden General Manager: Sharon Byrne Communications Manager: Rebecca McMillan PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Publicists (Christchurch): Beck Eleven, Jo Scott Festival Host (Christchurch): Nick Paris Assistant to General Manager: Lisa Bomash Programmer: Sandra Reid Assistant Programmer: Michael McDonnell Animation NOW! Programmer: Malcolm Turner All Ages Programmer: Nic Marshall Incredibly Strange Programmer: Anthony Timpson Online Content Coordinator: Kailey Carruthers Content Manager: Ina Kinski Materials and Content Assistants: Ian Freer, Jule Hartung Technical Adviser: Ian Freer Publications Coordinator: Tim Wong Administration Coordinator: Estela Sangkop Audience Development Coordinator: Alice Vilardel Communications Assistant (Wellington): Abby Cattermole Guest Coordinator: Pamela Harvey-White Festival Accounts: Alan Collins Ticketing Supervisor: Tim Keats Festival Interns: Miles Chan (Auckland), Kezia Dwyer (Wellington) Publication Design: Ocean Design Group Publication Production: Greg Simpson Cover Design: Ponui Patuaka, Meri Gracia Cover Illustration: Tom Simpson Animated Title: Anthony Hore (designer), Aaron Hilton (animator), Tim Prebble (sound), Catherine Fitzgerald (producer)

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WELCOME

In a world fraught with changes you might not want to be reminded about, we bring you the 2017 NZIFF catalogue, cleverly contrived to look like business as usual. Yes, indeed, we have made our choice of the best the world had to offer us and the assortment is as rich and varied as it always has been. But the world’s best filmmakers often move as the world moves, and it is impossible to deny the darkness of the new films that dominated Cannes this year – or to ignore the fact that recently so many filmmakers have felt compelled to address the imperilled rights of the young.

It’s a subject brought very close to home in one of the three Christchurch-made feature length films, and it is our great pleasure to present NZIFF World Premiere screenings at the Isaac Theatre Royal. Creating a venue fit to celebrate local filmmakers was high on our agenda four years ago when we were raising the funds to equip the Isaac Theatre Royal for cinema. So was creating a venue where audiences might be treated to ‘silent-era’ classics with live orchestral accompaniment. The live acoustic at the Isaac Theatre Royal means Christchurch now has the best venue in the land for doing just that. We are delighted this year to show that off with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra and one of the all-time comedy greats, Buster Keaton’s Our Hospitality.

Of course our programme spills beyond our flagship venue, with an extremely enticing selection of films to be found at Hoyts Northlands, our longstanding Christchurch base, and at Movie Max Digital in Timaru. 2degrees Mobile returns as sponsor of a massive World cinema section for a second year. Resene join us for their fourth year as sponsors of another stunning bunch of New Zealand films. Flicks.co.nz, RadioLIVE and Metro magazine remain proactive media partners. We also welcome NZherald.co.nz as our digital news partner. Thanks to our Gala sponsors Buddle Findlay for their generous support of our Opening Night festivities.

Ultimately it’s the support of its audience that keeps our non-profit enterprise in action, and, it always bears saying, the perseverance of independent filmmakers who did whatever it took to get these films made. 25% of your ticket money goes their way. Ticket sales contributed 88% of our income in 2016. The major sponsorship we receive from the New Zealand Film Commission is a gratifying institutional contribution to that support system.

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20th Century Women Opening Night

Let your broadband A loving, funny and insightful memoir Director/Screenplay: Mike Mills of the mother who brought him up USA 2016 | 119 mins – and two younger women she might Producers: Megan Ellison, Anne Carey, Youree Henley have enlisted to assist – Mike Mills’ Photography: Sean Porter 20th Century Women swirls happily Editor: Leslie Jones Music: Roger Neill speed take off with around a richly shaded performance With: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, from Annette Bening. Set in sunny, Billy Crudup, Lucas Jade Zumann, Alia Shawkat Festivals: New York 2016; Rotterdam 2017 late-70s southern California on the Nominated, Best Screenplay, Academy Awards 2017 brink of the Reagan era, the film is CinemaScope | M offensive language, nudity, drug brimful with the music, artefacts and use & sexual references attitudes of its day, a lively time capsule 2degrees Fibre PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH inviting constant comparison with where we have landed now. Lucas Jade Zumann plays 15-year-old Jamie and it’s through his eyes that we Fasten your seatbelt see the bohemian household over which his mother, Dorothea, holds uncertain dominion. There are two boarders, Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a purple-haired punk photographer, and William (Billy Crudup), a hippie handyman – and “A captivating Annette Bening is pushover for any woman who fancies the beating heart of this gloriously “A funny, emotionally him. Dorothea is unaware of a third unclassifiable movie… Part comedy piercing story about house guest, Julia (Elle Fanning), the girl of manners, part mother–son love next door whose propensity for chaste story, it had me laughing and tearing a teenager and the women sleepovers is driving Jamie insane. up simultaneously… Although Bening who raise him.” A Isaac Theatre Thu 3 Aug, 7.00 pm The plot is wafer-thin, but the joy of reigns supreme, Mills zigzags through — Manohla Dargis, NY Times B Isaac Theatre Wed 9 Aug, 11.00 am 20th Century Women is in how these time and his characters’ lives with a A Northlands Sun 13 Aug, 5.15 pm beautifully realised individuals bounce messy amplitude that is downright B Northlands Thu 17 Aug, 11.30 am off each other and bring the joys, Renoiresque. Everyone has his reasons. frustrations and fashions of 40 years Everyone has her say.” — Molly A MM Timaru Thu 17 Aug, 6.15 pm ago wafting into the present. Haskell, Sight & Sound B MM Timaru Wed 23 Aug, 1.00 pm

The Square Closing Night

We close our 41st edition with a blast, Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner, a sprawling, jaw-dropping satire, centred Director/Screenplay: Ruben Östlund on a Swedish museum curator (Claes Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark 2017 | 147 mins Bang), an exhibit, a stolen phone and Producers: Erik Hemmendorff, Philippe Bober an American journalist (Elisabeth Moss). Photography: Fredrik Wenzel “The Square [is] a sardonic, darkly Editors: Ruben Östlund, Jacob Secher Schulsinger With: Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West, funny picture about a dashing Terry Notary, Christopher Laessø, Marina museum curator whose dysfunctional Schiptjenko, Elijandro Edouard, Daniel Hallberg, Martin Sööder institution is a microcosm of the Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 larger world. Can art, or the tools Palme d’Or (Best Film), Cannes Film Festival 2017 In English and Swedish, with English subtitles used to promote it, cross the bounds Censors rating tbc of moral responsibility? What does it take to jog the upper classes out PROUDLY SPONSORED BY of their comfortable insularity? The Square is both outlandishly funny and biting – and features a fascinating and sometimes disturbing performance by Terry Notary, the gifted actor and [Hobbit] movement choreographer.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Time organizing principle relating to the “The Square is set in the rarefied chasm between the social faces we “Östlund’s eye for the Find out more at reaches of Sweden’s art world, but wear and the self-interested creatures subtleties of human from that vantage point takes pot we really are. Snip by snip, in scenarios behavior, especially public 2degreesbroadband.co.nz shots at marketing, the media, the dripping with acidly observed Swedish culture of militant political discomfort, Östlund clips precisely behavior, never fails.” correctness as well as the pretension, through the barbed-wire barrier — Emily Yoshida, Vulture Proud sponsors of the World Strand self-deception, and pseudospeak of the fences of culture, sophistication and cultural elite… socialization that refined middle-class While the targets are many and modern humans erect between our Östlund, admirably, almost always public selves and our private, animal B Isaac Theatre Fri 18 Aug, 3.15 pm A Isaac Theatre Sun 20 Aug, 7.15 pm Fibre broadband not available everywhere. See 2degreesbroadband.co.nz for T&Cs punches up, there is a kind of natures.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist

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Faces Places Visages villages Centrepiece

88-year-old Agnès Varda, working in collaboration with the young photo- muralist JR, reminds us that big themes Directors/Screenplay: Agnès Varda, JR can live in small places – and that every France 2017 | 89 mins Photography: Claire Duguet, Nicolas Guicheteau, life yields something to celebrate. As Valentin Vignet, Romain Le Bonniec, the two travel across France, looking Raphael Minnesota, Roberto De Angelis, Julia Fabry Editors: Agnès Varda, Maxime Pozzi Garcia up old friends and creating artworks Music: M (Matthieu Chedid) from photographs of the people they With: Agnès Varda, JR meet, a friendship blossoms – and Festivals: Cannes (Out of Competition) 2017 In French with English subtitles with it a wonderful free flow of ideas Censors rating tbc and observations. “She is nearly 90; he is 34. She PROUDLY SPONSORED BY worked with Jean-Luc Godard; he looks like Jean-Luc Godard (and, much to Varda’s consternation, will similarly not take off his sunglasses). And yet, the movie is barely five minutes old before it’s clear that these two are a screen duo for the ages... Varda has always possessed a warm and compulsively watchable screen nearly 60-year career, this is one of presence, and the pint-sized iconoclast her most profoundly personal and “Serendipities fly as still has more pep in her step than exuberantly populist works. A tour cinema’s greatest most of us have ever had… JR is an de France that is both a romp and a absolute joy (and a mensch, to boot)… meditation on photography, cinema, gleaner goes rambling Teasing at times, quietly deferential and mortality, with brief appearances in the cine-van of magnum at others, he taps into his co-star’s by Mimi, the scene-stealing cat, it is muralist JR.” inherent sense of wonder and creates at once poetry and the naked truth, — Isabel Stevens, Sight & Sound A Isaac Theatre Sat 12 Aug, 6.30 pm a canvas big enough for her to fit all shape-shifting before one’s eyes, and B Isaac Theatre Tue 15 Aug, 10.30 am of the ideas that she’s still dying to promising ever more pleasure with project.” — David Ehrlich, Indiewire each viewing.” — Amy Taubin, Film A MM Timaru Thu 24 Aug, 6.15 pm “In her magnificent, groundbreaking, Comment B MM Timaru Fri 25 Aug, 1.00 pm

Human Traces World Premiere

After imbuing horror tropes with Nic Gorman* genuine feeling in his award-winning Nadia Maxwell** zombie short Here Be Monsters, Kiwi Director/Screenplay: Nic Gorman writer-director Nic Gorman brings New Zealand 2017 | 87 mins Producer: Nadia Maxwell a grounded human touch to his Photography: John Chrisstoffels feature debut. A knotty psychological Editor: Richard Shaw thriller set on an isolated subantarctic Music: Stephen Gallagher With: Sophie Henderson, Mark Mitchinson, island, Human Traces deftly pairs taut Vinnie Bennett, Sara Wiseman, Peter Daubè, suspense with slippery character study, Milo Cawthorne CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc refusing to let any of its players fall into simplistic archetypes. The drama takes place 750 kms south of New Zealand, where husband-and- wife scientist team Sarah (Sophie Henderson) and Glenn (Mark Mitchinson) have been posted to monitor the ecosystem of a remote island. When a mysterious stranger (Vinnie Bennett) arrives, paranoia and deception begin to disrupt the order. Splitting his film into three chapters, each told from a Bennett who shines most, lending his different character’s perspective, Gorman mysterious homme fatale a disarming “Human Traces tells a delights in disorienting his audience. naturalism. complex story on a big Each new act is designed to reassemble Beyond expertly deploying spilled the last: no sooner have you sided secrets, climactic confrontations and canvas… [It’s] about with one character than you find your washed-up corpses for dramatic humans and how they are allegiance complicated by the next effect, it’s Gorman’s understanding shaped by forces they can point of view. The tension builds from of the humanity within beneath the a trio of stellar performances, with each genre beats that grounds the film. be entirely oblivious to…” allowed equal time to thicken; national This gripping examination of human — Nic Gorman treasures Henderson and Mitchinson behaviour reminds us that everyone is A Isaac Theatre Fri 4 Aug, 8.30 pm* do impressive work, but it’s newcomer only the hero of their own story. — JF B Northlands Tue 15 Aug, 4.00 pm** BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 7

Loveless Nelyubov Special Presentation

Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) won the Cannes Jury Prize for his stark and gripping tale of a divorcing couple Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev caught in a missing-child procedural. Russia/France/Belgium/Germany 2017 128 mins “Andrey Zvyagintsev has produced Producers: Alexandre Rodnyansky, another masterpiece in this apocalyptic Serguey Melkumov study of a failed marriage and the Screenplay: Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev Photography: Mikhail Krichman subsequent disappearance of a child. Editor: Anna Mass Loveless is a stark, mysterious and Music: Evgeni Galperin With: Maryana Spivak, Alexey Rozin, terrifying story of spiritual catastrophe: Matvey Novikov, Marina Vasilyeva, a drama with the ostensible form of a Andris Keishs, Alexey Fateev Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 procedural crime thriller. It has a hypnotic Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2017 intensity and unbearable ambiguity In Russian with English subtitles which is maintained until the very end. 4K DCP | CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc This is a story of modern Russia whose people are at the mercy of implacable forces, a loveless world like a planet without the full means to support human life, a place where the ordinary need for survival has mutated or upgraded into an unending aspirational demand prepared for the crystalline perfection for status, money, freedom to find an of Russian genius Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Loveless is a tragic advantageous second marriage which style… There is no way to do the fairytale we can all brings a nice apartment, sex, luxury and film justice while also selling it as an the social media prerogative of selfies appealing way to spend two devastating believe in.” and self-affirmation. But all of it is hours. But Zvyaginstev’s skill as a — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice underpinned, or overseen, by intensely filmmaker is such that as discomfiting conservative social norms of Christianity, as it is, it’s deeply compelling and conformism and nationalism.” — Peter immersive.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist B Isaac Theatre Thu 10 Aug, 1.30 pm Bradshaw, The Guardian A Isaac Theatre Sun 13 Aug, 5.15 pm “After four films, including the brilliant Leviathan, we are almost A MM Timaru Sun 27 Aug, 7.30 pm

Mountain Special Presentation

Australian filmmaker Jennifer Peedom Director: Jennifer Peedom follows her extraordinary Sherpa with a Australia 2017 | 74 mins giant screen celebration of the allure of Producers: Jennifer Peedom, Jo-anne McGowan Screenplay: Robert Macfarlane, Jennifer Peedom the mountains, created in collaboration Photography: Renan Ozturk with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Editors: Christian Gazal, Scott Gray Music: Richard Tognetti, the Australian Chamber Spectacular images, shot in 21 Orchestra countries by legendary mountaineer/ Narrator: Willem Dafoe Festivals: Sydney 2017 cinematographer Renan Ozturk (Meru, CinemaScope Sherpa) and others, have been cut together thematically to an orchestral score drawing on Chopin, Grieg, Vivaldi, Beethoven and new works by Richard Tognetti. The orchestra will perform live when the film tours Australia in August, but we’re delighted to have secured NZIFF big-screen engagements for the soundtracked version. Drawing from Robert Macfarlane’s book Mountain, read on the soundtrack by Willem Dafoe, the film considers the changes in humanity’s relationship to capture the exultant top-of-the-world mountains over recent times. Not so imagery that makes this film such an “To those who are long ago they represented the divine exhilarating experience. As Peedom enthralled by the and mysterious; to many indigenous offers us a jaw-dropping montage communities living on their flanks they of people throwing themselves off mountains, their wonder always will. By the time Hillary and precipices for the sheer thrill of it, is beyond all dispute. To Tenzing ascended Everest, mountains her film revels both in the dramatic those who are not, their A Isaac Theatre Tue 8 Aug, 6.15 pm had been colonised by the west and grandeur of the mountains and in the A Isaac Theatre Mon 14 Aug, 8.45 pm filled our imaginations as personal glorious irrationality which may be the allure is a kind of madness.” A Northlands Wed 16 Aug, 8.45 pm challenges to be overcome. only sane human response. — Robert Mcfarlane, Mountain B Northlands Fri 18 Aug, 2.30 pm That spirit of conquest may be hard to separate from the risks taken to A MM Timaru Fri 25 Aug, 6.30 pm 8 BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

My Year with Helen Special Presentation

Gaylene Preston’s My Year with Gaylene Preston* Helen delivers a fascinating portrait of Helen Clark on a mission – and a Director/Producer: Gaylene Preston laconic account of the exasperating New Zealand 2017 | 93 mins Co-producer: Catherine Madigan circumstances wherein she hit the glass Executive producer: Alexander Behse ceiling at the United Nations. Photography: Sam Russell, Colin Sonner, Early in the film the former PM spells Gaylene Preston Editor: Paul Sutorius out her primary professional objective: Music: Jan Preston find herself a job where she can “do With: Helen Clark Festivals: Sydney 2017 a power of good.” Keen to discover what that might look like in 2015, Preston followed Clark to Botswana in her position heading up the UN Development Programme. She didn’t know that in the year that followed Clark would also be campaigning for the position of secretary general. The election of the UN’s top official had once been so secretive that not even the candidates knew they were in the official running. For 2016 the UN singles out a wealth of clued-up announced that the contest would be commentators and shrewdly observes “We do have a way much more transparent. Considering multiple angles to the story. Nothing of women taking charge the organisation’s remits around gender anyone has to say is intended to equality, the time felt ripe for the first convince you that this was a transparent that a lot of other female SG in its 80-year history. process, or even, in fact, a race. nationalities don't.” The media love a horse race, and Clark is dignified and resilient in the — Gaylene Preston politicians, diplomats and feminist face of loss. She can always congratulate organisations were immediately abuzz herself on having had Preston on hand A Isaac Theatre Sun 6 Aug, 1.15 pm* with speculation and opinion. Shuttling to mine her disappointing experience B Isaac Theatre Tue 8 Aug, 1.00 pm* between a forthright Clark and UN and discover in it the fuel for future fire. briefings which reveal nothing, Preston A MM Timaru Sun 20 Aug, 2.45 pm

The Other Side of Hope Toivon tuolla puolen Special Presentation

Aki Kaurismäki, Finland’s deadpan laureate of life at the bottom of the heap, responds to Europe’s refugee Director/Producer/Screenplay: crisis with a seriously funny film about Aki Kaurismäki Finland/Germany 2017 | 98 mins a young Syrian mechanic (soulful Photography: Timo Salminen Sherwan Haji) who finds his way into Editor: Samu Heikkilä Finland by stowing away on a container With: Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Ilkka Koivula, Janne Hyytiäinen, Nuppu Koivu, ship full of coal. “Show me to the Kaija Pakarinen, Niroz Haji, Simon Hussein police station,” he asks the first person Al-Bazoon Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2017 he meets, intending to take the legal Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival 2017 path to political asylum. “Are you In Finnish, English and Arabic, with English subtitles sure?” comes the reply. M violence The refugee is slowly drawn, by a newly flush (though hopelessly melancholic) entrepreneur, into life under the radar working and living in what is surely Finland’s dodgiest sushi restaurant. “It’s difficult to imagine anyone coming away from Aki Kaurismäki’s MALLA HUKKANEN gorgeous tragicomedy about the Not unlike the salted herring with refugee crisis in Europe, the challenges wasabi that gets served to a busload of “The warmest, most of the restaurant business and the unfortunate Japanese diners, this is a life-enhancing film I’ve rewards of self-reinvention without movie about foreign elements coming feeling gentle elation sparked by the together, whether it’s displaced Middle seen this year.” story’s evidence of human kindness Easterners fleeing atrocity in sleepy — Saskia Baron, The Arts Desk amid cruelty and indifference. This Scandinavia or two men from different is a world that reeks of cigarette worlds forging a mutually enriching smoke and cheap vodka, yet as always friendship that speaks of selfless A Isaac Theatre Sat 5 Aug, 6.00 pm in the work of Finland’s maestro of compassion without sentimentality.” B Isaac Theatre Wed 9 Aug, 1.30 pm droll melancholy, the perfume that — David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter lingers longest is empathy… A MM Timaru Fri 18 Aug, 8.00 pm BIG NIGHTS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 9

Our Hospitality Christchurch Symphony Orchestra Live Cinema

NZIFF and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra are proud to present another classic comedy event, guaranteed to entertain anyone from eight to 88. Don’t miss the unique chance to catch the prince of deadpan, Buster Keaton, in Our Hospitality as it was supposed to be experienced: on a giant screen, in a new restoration, with Carl Davis’ orchestral score performed live.

Our Hospitality was only Keaton’s second Directors: feature-length movie, but it touches Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone perfection in its integration of comedy USA 1923 | 74 mins and dramatic suspense. Its spectacular Producer: Joseph M. Schenck Screenplay: Clyde Bruckman, Jean C. Havez, waterfall sequence is as thrilling and Joseph A. Mitchell funny an acrobatic feat as you could Photography: Gordon Jennings, Elgin Lessley With: Buster Keaton (Willie McKay), Natalie hope to see, and it was performed, Talmadge (Virginia Canfield), Joe Roberts (Joseph exactly as you see it, by the star himself. Canfield), Joe Keaton (Lem Doolittle), Kitty Bradbury (Aunt Mary), Craig Ward (Lee Canfield), “Our Hospitality is generally considered Leonard Clapham (James Canfield), Buster Keaton Buster Keaton’s first true feature and one Jr (baby) B&W | G cert of his major accomplishments. To watch it today with a new score by Carl Davis, Music commissioned by Thames Television for Channel 4. is to be reminded of the tremendous Music performed by arrangement with sense of freedom that the great silent- Faber Music Ltd, London. era clowns had… This film is Keaton’s The restoration of Our Hospitality take on the Hatfield and McCoy feud. is part of the Keaton Project, launched He casts himself as a young man raised in 2015 by Cineteca di Bologna and The Cohen Film Collection to restore all on his aunt’s farm in Manhattan (at the films made by Buster Keaton between Broadway and 42nd Street!) who, after 1920 and 1928. coming of age, heads south to collect his inheritance. Keaton devotes the first part of his picture to all the mishaps that befall him as a passenger aboard a quaint and exceedingly delicate-looking 1830 train travelling through Appalachia. Once he arrives at his destination, he unwittingly heads right smack into his family’s ancient enemies – and falls for their fair maiden in the process. Keaton works the tradition of Southern hospitality for all it’s worth: as long as he is a guest in the white-columned mansion of those sworn to kill him, he is safe. How he escapes and how he survives leads to timelessly amusing and progressively dangerous escapades, one involving an attempt to “Buster Keaton’s first full-length masterpiece, a story navigate a waterfall. about the innocent inheritor of an old feud between There’s a poignant footnote to this lovely, airy comedy. Keaton cast his Southern families, who carelessly starts dating the pretty wife Natalie Talmadge (sister of girl from the other family.” — Tony Rayns, Time Out the more famous Constance and Norma) as his leading lady and even used their baby son in the film, as a way of holding together their troubled marriage. Like style and smaller scale of orchestral all of Keaton’s films, Our Hospitality is accompaniment that would have been suffused with wistfulness.” — Kevin standard fare at major city cinemas in the Thomas, LA Times 1920s. This authenticity notwithstanding, “Sheer joy… I love the old silent films the originality of Davis’ melodic lines (admittedly more the likes of Buster and the intricacy of synchronisation Keaton and Harry Langdon), but this refine the art of film accompaniment far was something pretty special and to beyond the capacities of the old cinema have the skills of the Christchurch pit bands. Symphony Orchestra accompanying Marc Taddei conducts Carl Davis’ them really showed them at their best, score. A popular guest conductor a genuine source of entertainment throughout Australasia, Marc is currently rather than a historical curio.” – Patrick Music Director of Orchestra Wellington Shepherd reviews our 2016 Live Cinema and the Vallejo Symphony in California. performance, Christchurch Press Marc conducted our two previous Carl Davis is the doyen of Christchurch Symphony Orchestra Live contemporary composers for silent film. Cinema engagements, Chaplin’s The Kid His score for Safety Last! was a hit at our in 2015, and Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! Live Cinema screening last year. His score in 2016. ✪ Isaac Theatre Sun 20 Aug, 2.00 pm for Our Hospitality reproduces the playful SPECIAL PRICES APPLY – see page 50 10

100 Men AOTEAROA

Paul Oremland Director: Paul Oremland New Zealand 2017 94 mins Producer: Vincent Burke Photography: Owen Scurfield, Guy Quartermain, Fred Burns Editor: Stuart Boone Music: Karl Steven With: James, Mr Raglan, Chris the journalist, Richard the sailor Censors rating tbc

100 Men fast-tracks through 40 life. Their on/off-again romance gets years of gay history via a countdown major screen time, with Paul unpicking of filmmaker Paul Oremland’s most their decision to eschew monogamy for memorable shags. The significance an open relationship. The polyamorous of the 100 men varies, but all have life is a major talking point of the film. lingered in Paul’s mind for some small In the days before gay marriage seemed or, ahem, big reason. Most of the men even remotely possible, the rejection of feature only as a descriptive nickname; monogamy was a defining feature of some appear on camera. Although the gay culture, and the film explores the film does ask whether gay men are too effects it had on men’s lives. fixated on sex, Paul is more interested This thoughtful film looks forward in these men’s lives, emphasising the as much as it does back, leaving us to collective experience of the isolation of ponder the intricacies of gay identity growing up gay. today. — Chris Tse Paul recounts how a religious upbringing in New Zealand fuelled an inner struggle and how his first heartbreak led to a move to the UK. It’s A Northlands Wed 16 Aug, 8.30 pm there that he met John, the love of his B Northlands Thu 17 Aug, 2.00 pm

NEW ZEALAND FILMS AT NZIFF ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY Bill Direen: A Memory of Others

Simon Ogston Bill Direen

Foraging Director/Producer/Editor: Simon Ogston New Zealand 2017 87 mins Photography: Jeff Smith, NZIFF is proud to provide big screen premieres for Simon Ogston Music: Bill Direen With: Bill Direen, The Bilders, striking work made within our own shores – and in Nick Bollinger, Steven Cogle, Marie Direen, David Eggleton, particular in Canterbury. We are honoured in 2017 Ferocious, Hamish Kilgour to host the World Premieres of Nic Gorman’s Human Simon Ogston, director of invaluable his written work. His stops include Traces at the fabulous Isaac Theatre Royal, and documentaries about Philip Dadson homages to Janet Frame in Oamaru, two documentaries, One Island of Good and Seven and the Skeptics, has crafted a lively James K. Baxter in Jerusalem and portrait of Bill Direen, one of New Michael Joseph Savage in Auckland. Rivers Walking – Haere Mārire. Zealand’s truly maverick voices. For over It’s a thoroughly engaging and 40 years, that voice has encompassed pleasurably cinematic trip through our NZIFF also provides the first New Zealand poetry, rock music, theatre and long- geographical and cultural landscape, screenings of Waru, an extraordinary and powerful form prose. A road movie following threaded with interviews and his first national tour in more than a material from Direen’s rich archive. collaboration by eight Ma¯ ori women filmmakers, decade, A Memory of Others follows As stimulating as the man it profiles, and Toa Fraser’s 6 Days, fresh from its UK World Direen from Dunedin, to Christchurch, A Memory of Others is an in-depth to Wellington, to Auckland. In each exploration of his music and writing, Premiere. Documentary filmmakers have brought city he reunites with old bandmates providing a glimpse of our social history us a record number of films about New Zealanders or works with new collaborators to and current milieu through his eyes. produce a succession of strikingly this year – and our two regular short film different performances. programmes shine as bright as ever. En route, Direen visits key locations from his past, telling stories and A Northlands Sat 19 Aug, 6.00 pm giving spoken-word performances of A Northlands Sun 20 Aug, 5.30 pm AOTEAROA 11

6 Days

Appearing the same year as his sports Kate Adie* doco The Free Man (see below), this latest thriller from New Zealand’s most Director: Toa Fraser versatile filmmaker, Toa Fraser, rounds New Zealand/UK 2017 | 95 mins out his status as a serious action Producer: Matthew Metcalfe Screenplay: Glenn Standring director. Compellingly shaped by Glenn Photography: Aaron Morton Standring’s excellent script, 6 Days tells Editor: Dan Kircher Music: Lachlan Anderson the true story of what happened when With: Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish, Mark Strong, six heavily armed gunmen invaded the Martin Shaw, Emun Elliot, Ben Turner, Aymen Hamdouchi, Tim Pigott-Smith, Iranian embassy in London in April Robert Portal, Colin Garlick, Andrew Grainger, 1980. With 26 people held hostage, Martin Hancock RP13 violence & offensive language the ordeal lasted for six nail-biting days as police, politicians and military wrestled over the best way to neutralise the threat. Policeman Max Vernon (a soulful Mark Strong) tries to reason with the terrorists through trust and negotiation, while Rusty Firmin (Jamie Bell) and a crack troop of SAS operatives prepare to handle the situation by these contrasting perspectives evenly, more aggressive means. As pressure Fraser etches out a refreshingly “There’s a very real to resolve the issue mounts, Fraser ambivalent position for the audience moral struggle… I don’t tautly builds toward the inevitable, the to observe from. film climaxing with a white-knuckle Especially in a year when the really think of the movie recreation of one of the most methods of our own special forces have in terms of heroes and audacious special forces raids in history. been put under scrutiny, Fraser’s film villains.” — Toa Fraser Amidst the action is BBC reporter comes as a timely examination of the Kate Adie (Abbie Cornish), the British moral fallout that comes with using journalist whose arresting live coverage force. — JF of the event broke new ground for A Isaac Theatre Thu 10 Aug, 8.30 pm* television news reporting. In balancing B Northlands Wed 16 Aug, 4.15 pm

The Free Man Free Theatre

Director: Toa Fraser Shirley Horrocks New Zealand 2017 84 mins Director/Producer/ Producer/Screenplay: Screenplay: Matthew Metcalfe Shirley Horrocks Photography: Andrew Stroud Editors: Chris Plummer, New Zealand 2017 Cushla Dillon, Bryn Evans 76 mins Music: Sean Donnelly Photography: Craig Wright With: Jossi Wells, The Flying Editor: Steven Mountjoy Frenchies Research: Roger Horrocks, Shirley Horrocks Music: Jonathan Besser, Emma Johnston Narrator: Jennifer Ward-Lealand

After his adrenalised te reo chase footage from the Flying Frenchies Founded by Peter Falkenberg in 1979, Filmmaker Shirley Horrocks, who thriller The Dead Lands, New Zealand back-catalogue: human catapulting, Christchurch’s Free Theatre has began shooting seven years ago when director Toa Fraser brings audiences a base-jumping from moving vehicles, provided a remarkably persistent she first encountered Free Theatre’s riveting examination of adrenaline itself and in one thrilling sequence, a slack- alternative to the city’s more vaunted touring production Distraction Camp, with his new sports documentary, The rope walk sans harness. Like a Red Bull legacy of traditional theatre. Favouring is especially attentive to the shift in Free Man. At once a white-knuckle sports movie by way of Werner Herzog, the event-based over the text-based, focus and a less combative – though no adventure film and ruminating spiritual Fraser’s film laces the action with Falkenberg has steeped a succession of less satiric – imaginative engagement inquiry, Fraser’s doco follows Kiwi rich existential contemplation: for his actors, writers and theatre technicians with community activation since the world-champion freestyle skier Jossi daredevil heroes, toying with the void is in the practice of an avant-garde earthquakes. Wells as he travels and trains with The not just recreation but a philosophical theatre that has strong roots in his At 37, Free Theatre has proven as Flying Frenchies, a troupe of extreme- position. Not since Man on Wire has native Germany, while being constantly definitive and resilient a Christchurch sport eccentrics who specialise in an the psyche of the adrenaline-junkie responsive to political and social change. institution as the one Falkenberg set array of breathtaking vertiginous stunts. been plumbed so grippingly. — JF Free Theatre has often courted out to oppose, and richly deserving of With no experience whatsoever, controversy and the film is studded Horrocks’ documentary salute. Wells learns to cross a rope suspended with remembered provocations: between two trees and works his way audiences at a production of 1984 up to traversing the perilous peaks of A Northlands Sun 6 Aug, 8.00 pm were separated from their friends and the French Alps. Supplying the rest of A Northlands Mon 7 Aug, 8.15 pm even forcibly evicted by costumed A Northlands Mon 14 Aug, 6.30 pm the thrills is a surfeit of heart-stopping B Northlands Mon 14 Aug, 4.15 pm security guards. B Northlands Tue 15 Aug, 1.45 pm 12

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Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web

Kim Dotcom has become such a Annie Goldson* familiar part of New Zealand’s media and cultural furniture that it is easy to Director: Annie Goldson forget the jaw-dropping astonishment New Zealand 2017 | 112 mins Producer: Alexander Behse of the dawn raid on 20 January 2012, Photography: Dominic Fryer, Adam Ruszkowski, when 76 officers swarmed upon the Simon Raby, Marcus Winterbauer, Laela Kilbourn German internet mogul’s mansion Editor: Simon Coldrick Music: David Donaldson, Steve Roche, north of Auckland, bounding from Janet Roddick helicopters, armed to the teeth. With: Kim Dotcom, Mona Dotcom, Glenn Greenwald, Lawrence Lessig, Gabriella Coleman, In the definitive filmed account Jimmy Wales, Jonathan Taplin, Greg Sandoval, of the saga to date, Annie Goldson Sean Gallagher, Mike Masnick, Moby Festivals: SXSW, Hot Docs 2017 (Brother Number One) delivers a jolting reminder of the legal, political and personal upheavals ignited by the US government’s attempt to extradite Dotcom and colleagues for copyright- related offences. It begins with the formative years: convicted hacker turns security consultant turns file-sharing entrepreneur. The flamboyant career NIGEL MARPLE trajectory ultimately attracts the founder Jimmy Wales, musician Moby attention of Hollywood bosses bent and Dotcom himself. “Whether you think he’s not just upon disabling Megaupload, a ‘This whole thing is like a a hero or a heel, you’re website awash with pirated content, but Hollywood movie,’ says Dotcom. But in sending a resounding message to those documenting the drama – court tussles, bound to leave the film who might seek to emulate his business, scraps with John Key, the Internet with your preconceptions wherever in the world they reside. Party, the ‘Moment of Truth’ – Goldson shattered.” A freshly compelling chronicle of resists any temptation to extol or the Dotcom years, Caught in the Web excoriate, while underscoring, beyond —David Fear, Rolling Stone corrals a range of voices, among them the political circus and braggadocio, B Northlands Wed 9 Aug, 1.45 pm Motion Picture Association of America just how pivotal this case is in the A Northlands Sun 13 Aug, 12.45 pm* counsel Steve Fabrizio, Wikipedia internet age. — Toby Manhire A Northlands Sun 13 Aug, 3.45 pm*

Kobi

In a modest workshop in a beautiful Andrea Bosshard Central Otago landscape, Swiss Shane Loader goldsmith Kobi Bosshard, approaching Directors/Producers/Photography: 80 and widely regarded as the Andrea Bosshard, Shane Loader New Zealand 2017 | 103 mins grandfather of contemporary New Editor: Shane Loader Zealand jewellery, continues to produce Music: Plan 9 works of classic simplicity and elegance. With: Kobi Bosshard, Patricia Bosshard-Browne, Trixie Woodill, Peter McKay Daughter Andrea Bosshard’s lucid In English and German, with English subtitles and loving film portrait of her father – and of her mother, Patricia, too – is one of the year’s loveliest films, a lyrical evocation of rich, unhurried life. Kobi moved to New Zealand in the early 60s, with goldsmithing in his blood. The ethos of the hippie era may have enabled his choice of profession, but there’s no mistaking the work ethic or quiet single-mindedness underlying his subsequent life of creativity. Super 8 home movies brim with flowers and sunny days and evince an An abundance of jewellery is idyllic view of a fresh landscape and a alluringly displayed for the camera. “The work we do comes out young family in the New World. Plentiful The beauty of a lifetime’s work is of the life we live, archival footage reminds us of the days proclaimed by a succession of true when TV broadcasters covered the arts, experts: women and a few men who so we have to have a while readings from family letters take speak eloquently about the pieces by life to start with.” us into the heart of the family. This Kobi they have worn and treasured. — Kobi Bosshard may be a very personal history, but it’s It seems unlikely that Bosshard set out perfectly pitched for an audience of to recruit new customers for her father, strangers: the filmmaker inscribes her but be warned, you may leave this own presence in the inspiring story of gentle tribute to the simple life with A Northlands Tue 15 Aug, 6.30 pm her parents’ lives with unusual grace. a hankering to shop. B Northlands Wed 16 Aug, 11.30 am 14 AOTEAROA

BEETHOVEN: The Inland Road No Ordinary Sheila THE PIANO & Hugh Macdonald Jackie van Beek VIOLIN SONATAS Christine Dann* Director/Screenplay: Director: Jackie van Beek Hugh Macdonald New Zealand 2017 New Zealand 2017 80 mins 98 mins Producer: Aaron Watson Producer/Screenplay: Photography: Giovanni C. Lorusso Christine Dann Editors: Luca Cappelli, Tom Eagles Photography: Richard Mekalick, With: Gloria Popata, David Elliot, Hugh Macdonald Chelsie Preston Crayford, Editor: Abi King-Jones Georgia Spillane, Jodie Hillock Narrator: Phil Darkins Festivals: Berlin 2017 With: Sheila Natusch, Kim Hill, CinemaScope | M drug use Susan Hamel, Dinah Priestley, & offensive language Shaun Barnett, Ken Scadden

New Zealand audiences will probably situation, is played with subtle depth If you haven’t already heard of Sheila Featuring beautiful historic footage know writer/director Jackie van Beek by newcomer Gloria Popata, alongside Natusch, prepare to be inspired. The of the lower south in the 30s and as Pauline from Funny Girls, rather local farmer Will (David Elliot), his life story of this nonagenarian natural 40s, this film also covers Natusch’s than as an internationally award- pregnant wife Donna (Chelsie Preston historian and writer is a beautiful, friendship with Janet Frame and their winning short filmmaker. Van Beek’s Crayford) and their six-year-old niece truly Antipodean journey, made with unsuccessful foray into teaching. writing has a more poetic and serious Lily (Georgia Spillane). love by her cousin and long-time kiwi Viewers will love this radiant, defiant bent, and in her first feature she turns The dramaturgy resists conventional filmmaker, Hugh Macdonald. and unconventional life story which her attention to home and family, narrative choices to reach gentler yet Born in 1926 on Rakiura (Stewart ranges from the southern wilds to the focussing on mothering, daughters, resonant conclusions. It’s particularly Island) to the Traill family, Sheila’s early rugged coast of Owhiro Bay, where and the after-effects of romantic enjoyable to see female characters childhood memories include a near- Sheila still lived until recently, without and sexual encounters. show such sensitivity, complexity and drowning at the hands of schoolmates, car, TV, lipstick or alcohol, planning to The cinematography by Giovanni empathy. An anticipated and enjoyable which she shrugs off casually. Growing “get the last bit of fun out of life that C. Lorusso boasts the rugged farm debut feature. — Jo Randerson up in the deep south led to an there is.” — Jo Randerson landscapes of Central Otago, strikingly adventurous resilience which saw her captured in natural light. These climb multiple mountains, cycle from spacious landscapes contrast with Picton to Bluff and write dozens of B Isaac Theatre Fri 11 Aug, 1.30 pm* hand-held close-ups of the superb groundbreaking natural history books, A Isaac Theatre Sat 12 Aug, 1.00 pm* naturalistic performances. Teenage B Northlands Fri 18 Aug, 2.15 pm including the first comprehensive guide Tia, on the run from a disrupted family A Northlands Sat 19 Aug, 8.30 pm to New Zealand animals. A MM Timaru Sat 26 Aug, 6.00 pm

Chamber Music New Zealand presents

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One Island of Good World Premiere

It is widely acknowledged that young Tim McInnes people who have rarely been shown Josie Ogden Schroeder generosity are unlikely to grow Director: Tim McInnes into adults who can exhibit it. This New Zealand 2017 | 85 mins Producers: Tim McInnes, Harley Williams documentary made by and about the Executive producer: Josie Ogden Schroeder YMCA Christchurch puts that principle Photography: Tim McInnes, Jason Hunt to the test as 22 young people (aged Editor: Harley Williams Censors rating tbc 13-16) who have been expelled from mainstream schools for bullying, selling weed and other misdemeanours, are accompanied by YMCA staff and volunteers on a trip to Nepal. YMCA Christchurch CE, Josie Ogden Schroeder, makes it clear from the get-go that the ultimate denier of generosity to at-risk youth in New Zealand is the government’s Alternative Education scheme. This heavily relies on philanthropy, limits the powers of providers and effectively funds the kids at a substantially lower rate than kids in judicious compassion and tolerance mainstream schools. The YMCA draws around their charges, but they are run “These kids would rather on its own resources to supplement ragged in Nepal and own up to the throw a chair at a teacher what support the scheme provides. strain. They struggle to temper the Funding the trip to Nepal calls on added wild reflexes of students described than reveal they cannot support from sympathetic businesses, as “part five-year old, part MI5,” yet read.” — Salatielu Tiatia duly acknowledged in the film. find the wherewithal to rouse the Director Tim McInnes keeps up with better instincts the trip was designed the kids, indulging their in-your-face to nurture. There are no feel-good camera awareness, and etching even turnarounds in this impressively frank sharper portraits when they forget film: hope endures in glimmerings of AA IsaacIsaac Theatr Theatree TTueue 8 8 Aug, Aug, 8.15 8.15 pm pm it’s there. The staff we meet show success. The call to action is clear. BB IsaacIsaac Theatr Theatree WWeded 16 16 Aug, Aug, 1.30 1.30 pm pm

Swagger of Thieves Spookers

Director: Florian Habicht Julian Boshier New Zealand/Australia Director/Producer/ 2017 | 82 mins Photography: Producers: Nick Batzias, Julian Boshier Lani-rain Feltham, Suzanne Walker, Virginia Whitwell New Zealand 2017 Screenplay: Florian Habicht, Peter 110 mins O’Donoghue, Veronica Gleeson Editor: Eddie Larsen Photography: Grant Adams With: Nigel ‘Booga’ Beazley, Editor: Peter O’Donoghue Nigel Regan, Andrew Durno, Music: Marc Chesterman Mark Hamill, Tom Watson, Festivals: Hot Docs, Sydney 2017 Mike Franklin-Browne, M adult themes Andrew Ashton, Tamzin Beazley spookers.com Colour and B&W | R16 drug use & offensive language

Any band as theatrically confrontational disgruntled, others with their gruntle Zombie brides, baby-killing banshees camaraderie or reinforcement as in as Head Like a Hole is going to have a still intact. and psycho-killer clowns are all family letting their demonic fantasies run riot. story worth telling. Swagger of Thieves Studded through the film are in Florian Habicht’s fanciful and funny Bringing in his own art department director Julian Boshier has worked for performances by the band in all documentary portrait of Spookers, the and some cute lo-fi effects, Habicht a decade on this film. He has earned their cock-wobbling, floor pounding, popular theme park occupying the casts their horror-show personae in the trust and respect of Nigel ‘Booga’ propulsive and preposterous glory. former Kingseat Psychiatric Hospital. florid dream scenarios. Former patients Beazley and Nigel Regan, the ever- Whether you come as a fan of Ex-sheep farmers Beth and Andy worry that Spookers promotes the collapsing binary stars who are the guts the music, as a fan of solid filmmaking, Watson along with daughter Julia unhelpful notion that psychiatric of any HLAH line up. or as a bystander wondering what are the down-to-earth proprietors illness is a terrifying thing, but there Boshier finds the two men staring all the noise is about, you’ll be seeing of the sprawling destination where seems little doubt for Habicht or the down the age with belligerence, one of the most intelligently assembled multifarious fiends lie in wait to scare current inhabitants: Kingseat under vulnerability, shamelessness and and truthfully told documentaries the bejeezus out of tens of thousands the Watsons’ watch is better for the honesty. There is no legacy polishing New Zealand has produced. — Graeme of screaming customers every year. nation’s mental health than it ever was here, and no one’s feelings are spared. Tuckett In Habicht’s enchanted view the before. Alongside the Nigels we meet Tamzin Watsons run a family business in Beazley, holding together a family in more senses than one. The actors he the face of Booga’s occasional flailing interviews have never had as much darkness. Band members emerge in A Northlands Fri 11 Aug, 8.00 pm entertainment in their lives as creating A Isaac Theatre Mon 7 Aug, 8.30 pm various iterations – some wounded and A Northlands Sat 12 Aug, 8.30 pm havoc as Spookers, nor found such B Isaac Theatre Fri 11 Aug, 4.15 pm 16 AOTEAROA

Waru

A sisterhood of Māori female directors Guests bravely share their insights into the complexity of child abuse, in a sequence Directors: Briar Grace-Smith, of eight short films that seamlessly Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, Chelsea Cohen, become one. At the centre of their Renae Maihi, Paula Jones, stories is Waru, a boy killed at the Awanui Simich-Pene hands of a caregiver. His tangi, set on New Zealand 2017 | 88 mins a small rural marae, is the centrepiece Producers: Kerry Warkia, Kiel McNaughton of the film, but there is an underlying Screenplay: Briar Grace-Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, disturbance of heavy themes touching Chelsea Cohen, Renae Maihi, Paula Jones, on culture, custom and shame. Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu Photography: Drew Sturge We see a single death through With: Tanea Heke, Roimata Fox, Ngapaki Moetara, the differing lenses of the extended Awhina-Rose Ashby, Maria Walker, Kararaina Rangihau, Acacia Hapi, family, community, and in one sharp Antonio Te Maioha, Miriama McDowell, sequence, national media too. Waru Amber Curreen, Merehake Maaka In English and Māori, with English subtitles weaves multiple reactions and offers Censors rating tbc a glimpse into the events that ensue upon the killing of a child and the conflict created among loved ones. As Waru’s grandmothers, Kararaina Rangihau and Merehake Maaka deliver powerful in challenging roles, which electrifying performances, demonstrating left me questioning if I would have the “When a child is killed their skill in the art of karanga. As same courage to intervene. every five weeks there their wailing and laments call on their The subject could hardly be heavier, ancestors to safely take their mokopuna, but this is a hugely important film. is no other way to tackle a challenge for his body unfolds. Unless we are willing to be tested, abuse other than Māori humour isn’t absent, and we have no chance of reducing our confronting it, head on.” neither are the subtexts within the shameful child abuse rate here in banter, leaving me to wonder if our Aotearoa. It’s a film everyone in the — Mihingarangi Forbes ability to laugh in times of sorrow is family should see and talk about. a cloak to mask our pain. Antonio Te — Mihingarangi Forbes, Māori Issues Maioha and Miriama McDowell are Correspondent, RNZ/The Hui A Isaac Theatre Sun 20 Aug, 4.15 pm

Seven Rivers Walking – Haere Ma¯rire TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home

World Premiere Robin Greenberg Gaylene Barnes Director/Producer: Kathleen Gallagher Robin Greenberg Directors: New Zealand 2017 Gaylene Barnes, 160 mins Kathleen Gallagher Photography: Waka Attewell, New Zealand 2017 Costa Botes, John Chrisstoffels, Ruth Korver, Chris Li, the Tibetan 84 mins Audio Visual Section Photography: Gaylene Barnes, Editor: Peter Metcalf James Ellis, Whare Mihinui, With: Thuten Kesang, Dave Perry, Mark Collins Tenzin Atisha, the Dalai Lama Editor: Gaylene Barnes In English and Tibetan, Yates-Smith, Aroha Yates-Smith, with English subtitles Bob Bickerton, Richard Nunns FAIRFAX MEDIA NZ / SUNDAY STAR-TIMES Who can deny that the city rivers of Barnes and Kathleen Gallagher have Filmed over a period of 22 years by recounting his own personal history Christchurch and the braided rivers taken their cues from the diverse Wellington filmmaker Robin Greenberg or outlining the environmental and of the Canterbury Plains have been collectives of Cantabrians who have (Huloo, The Free China Junk), TEAM political implications of China’s poisoned and depleted for the sake been walking and rafting the length TIBET provides a thorough and inspiring occupation of its ‘Western Treasure of agri-business? In one of the many of the rivers, from the mountains to account of Tibetan culture in exile House’. A vital point of contact for the personal anecdotes that drive this film, the sea, to educate themselves and through the experience and advocacy international exile community, as the a fisherman recalls how the mighty others, about the damage done and of the delightful Thuten Kesang, Dalai Lama himself is happy to testify, Rakaia once pushed its way a mile out the opportunities available for remedial New Zealand’s first Tibetan refugee. he’s been a tireless advocate too for to sea. Aerial footage shows us the action. Anglers, rafters, trampers, Ngāi Having run away from the monastery multicultural visibility in Auckland. river today as it slinks into the sea, Tahu, Fish and Game, Forest and Bird, as a child, he was sent by his father to Greenberg summons up a multitude obliterated by the first breaker that natural scientists, farming families, school in India in 1954, where he was of admirers, leaving us in no doubt crosses its path. old and new, all bear witness, some raised by Scottish Presbyterians. Unable at all that her film is a labour of love, In the polarised political environment as designated experts, all as sentient to return to Tibet after his parents richly deserved. of 2017, this film is a disarmingly inhabitants of the only planet we’ve were arrested in the wake of the 1959 peaceable one. It places the hope of got. uprising, he’s been a fully committed change in a shared love of Canterbury’s Kiwi since 1967, without ever losing his rivers and riparian environments A Isaac Theatre Sat 19 Aug, 5.45 pm defining Tibetan identity. and a profound appreciation of Charismatic and funny, he’s a B Northlands Fri 4 Aug, 1.15 pm their ecology. Filmmakers Gaylene A MM Timaru Sun 27 Aug, 12.30 pm marvellous storyteller, whether A Northlands Sat 5 Aug, 11.15 am AOTEAROA 17

MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT New Zealand’s Best 2017 JURY PRIZE 75 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc

Help give the year’s best New Do No Harm Thicket Waiting Zealand short films the homegrown NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Roseanne Liang NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Julian Vares NZ 2016 | Director: Amberley Jo Aumua recognition they deserve by voting for Producer: Hamish Mortland | Photography: Andrew Producer: Craig Gainsborough | Photography: Eoin Screenplay: Samuel Kamu | Photography: Greer your favourite at this screening. For McGeorge | Editor: Tom Eagles | With: Marsha Yuan, O’Liddigh | Editor: Richard Lord | With: Tim Hamilton, Lindsay | Editor: Huhana Ruri-Panapa Jacob Tomuri | Festivals: Sundance 2017 | 12 mins Peter Tait, Albertine Jonas | 16 mins With: Desmond Malakai, Casta-Troy Cocker-Lemailie this year’s New Zealand’s Best short 12 mins film competition, NZIFF programmers A doctor abides by her Hippocratic A farmboy is inspired to stand-up to oath even when violent gangsters his overbearing father. In the classic Two boys wait outside a dairy for a Bill Gosden and Michael McDonnell phone call. An outstanding student viewed 83 submissions to make a interrupt her surgery. Female power NZ rural tradition marked by excellent rendered extreme by a director performances. film set in a harsh world so rarely shortlist of 12 from which filmmaker presented with such charm married Gaylene Preston selected these six successfully stretching her muscles in every direction. Untitled Groping with a sharp aesthetic eye for raw finalists. A jury of three will select truth. the winner of the $5,000 Madman Revenge Fairytale Laundry NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Catherine Bisley Entertainment Jury Prize, while a NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Becs Arahanga Producer: William Bisley | Photography/Editor: Paul The Dregs $3,000 Wallace Friends of the Civic Producers: Julian Arahanga, Kath Akuhuata-Brown Wedel | With: Loren Taylor | 9 mins NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Matt Campbell Award will be awarded by donors, the Photography: Chris Mauger Editor: Luke Evans With: Producer: Annabel Carr | Photography: Clayton Aidee Walker, Jarod Rawiri | 11 mins A woman pitches a tent on the edge Carpinter | Editor: Jeremy Masters | With: Eamonn Tee, Wallace Foundation and Wallace Media of a forest and starts to collect men. A Shayla Crombie, Florence Noble | 15 mins A frustrated mum struggles to find Ltd, to the film or contributor to a film most satisfying piece of wry feminist intimacy while raising a young family. A teenage misfit starts a band only they deem to merit special recognition. myth making that makes me want to A real woman’s sexy adventure to lose control to the school bully. The winner of the audience vote takes see a lot more from this director. elevating domestic life and putting the I cannot believe this director was away the Audience Choice Award, not born in 1975! A tribute to high consisting of 25 percent of the box poems of Hone Tuwhare in a place not usually found! school bands, the Gordons and what office from the main-centre NZIFF elevation from dorkhood a guitar can screenings. Gaylene’s comments on accomplish. each film appear in italics.

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DO NO HARM LAUNDRY UNTITLED GROPING REVENGE FAIRYTALE

PRESENTED IN Nga¯ Whanaunga Ma¯ori Pasifika Shorts 2017 ASSOCIATION WITH 91 mins approx. | M violence & sex scenes | In English, Maˉori, New Zealand Sign Language and Tongan, with English subtitles

A collection of Māori and Pasifika Natalie Lady Eva Tree short films curated by Leo Koziol NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Qianna Titore Tonga/USA 2017 | Directors: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson NZ 2017 | Director/Screenplay: Lauren Jackson (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka), Producer: Eloise Veber | 9 mins Producer: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu | 11 mins Producers: Andrew Cochrane, Jeremy Macey | 16 mins Director of the Wairoa Māori Film A Māori girl receives a precious A young trans woman becomes her A young woman with a shameful Festival, with guest co-curator Craig waiata composed by her deceased true self. Being fakaleiti in Tonga is secret hides out from friends and Fasi (Niue), Director of the Pollywood grandfather. In this story from a challenge – but there’s a beauty family in a massive tree. A lonely tree Film Festival. Curators’ comments on Hokianga, tragedy strikes but there is pageant where your star can shine no in a crowded city becomes the symbol each film appear in italics. hope in a new beginning. — CF matter who you are. — LK for a young Tongan woman's personal journey, and a family that loves her no Tama Sunday Fun Day matter what. — LK Mannahatta NZ 2017 | Directors: Jared Flitcroft, Jack O’Donnell NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Dianna Fuemana NZ 2017 | Director/Producer/Screenplay: Renae Maihi Producer: Ashleigh Flynn | Screenplay: Jared Flitcroft, Producer: Jay Ryan | 15 mins Possum 15 mins Jack O’Donnell, David Hansen | 9 mins A teenager and a solo mum prepare to NZ 2016 | Director/Screenplay: Dave Whitehead An ancient spirit tries to send a A deaf Māori boy feels isolated from have their own fun on a Sunday. Tiger Producers: Sadie Wilson, Paul Murphy | 15 mins message to a recent immigrant in the his family but draws strength from knows exactly how the world looks at Two brothers hatch a plan to head into city that never sleeps. Stones are the performing the haka. Having reminders her, but still fights to be accepted by the woods and hunt for a notorious symbol of burden – a burden that of what is important is a necessity. her peers. Acceptance in this case is to possum named Scar. Step back to the needs an open heart to carry and put Forgetting what’s important may cost be left alone without question. — CF 70s in this fantastical Oˉ taki-filmed to rest. — CF you your life. — CF story of two Maˉori boys growing up in the wild world of Wairoa. — LK

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Director: Cate Shortland Australia 2017 | 117 mins Screenplay: Shaun Grant. Based on the novel by Melanie Joosten Photography: Germain McMicking Editor: Jack Hutchings Music: Bryony Marks With: Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt, Matthias Habich, Emma Bading, Elmira Bahrami, Christoph Franken Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2017 In English and German, with English subtitles CinemaScope | R16 violence, sexual violence, offensive language & sex scenes

Australian actress Teresa Palmer plays locked her in while he heads out to introverted Clare, a tourist seeking the teach. experience of a lifetime having arrived What follows is a taut thriller in Berlin with just her backpack and traversing themes of confinement, camera. When she meets Andi (Max control and submission. Director Cate Riemelt), she’s prepared to shake off her Shortland (Lore) places the story within loneliness and talk to a friendly stranger. Berlin although the city itself concedes He guides her around the city, to the ever-increasingly claustrophobic indulging her fascination for interiors. Clare quickly discovers the photographing GDR architecture, smallest of clues that magnify the before dropping her back to her seriousness of her situation. With accommodation for the night. The the doors bolted and windows sealed, mutual attraction is palpable and she how will she escape the binds of her seeks him out the next day at the captivity? — RM local bookstore. The sexual tension WORLD FILMS AT NZIFF ARE culminates back at Andi’s apartment, PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY hidden within an abandoned residential B Northlands Thu 17 Aug, 4.00 pm complex. In the harsh light of the A Northlands Thu 17 Aug, 8.30 pm morning, it appears that he’s mistakenly A Northlands Sun 20 Aug, 8.15 pm

Don’t Tell

Director: Tori Garrett Australia 2017 | 108 mins Screenplay: James Greville, Ursula Cleary, Anne Brooksbank. Based on the book by Stephen Roche Photography: Mark Wareham Editor: Peter Carrodus Music: Bryony Marks With: Jack Thompson, Aden Young, Sara West, Jacqueline McKenzie, Gyton Grantley, Susie Porter, Martin Sacks, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor M sex scenes & offensive language

Help yourself to our pick of the features This impressive debut feature honours who had been the Anglican archbishop the courage and tenacity of Lyndal, of Brisbane at the time of the abuse. we have encountered in a year of intense the young Queensland woman who in The film is a passion piece for its engagement with international cinema. 2001 blew the whistle on the Anglican director and for Lyndal’s attorney church’s decade-old cover-up of sexual Stephen Roche (played in the film We do what we can to cover many bases, assaults at the prestigious Toowoomba by Aden Young), who wrote a book while always insisting on that certain Preparatory School. Traumatised by about the case. The backing of a her abuse, Lyndal was further shaken stellar cast – including Rachel Griffiths, indefinable quality. We pay attention too, by the school’s dogged loyalty to Jack Thompson, Jacqueline McKenzie to the films lavished with praise or box the perpetrator, who had confessed and Susie Porter – was instrumental to other abuses. She sought relief in getting the film made. In a raw office success in their countries of origin. in public acknowledgement of her emotional performance as Lyndal, Sara suffering, but during the civil case in West stands tall in their company. which she testified she was subjected to relentless condescension and character assassination. This, however, led to a revolution in child protection A Northlands Sun 6 Aug, 3.45 pm in Australia and also brought down a B Northlands Thu 10 Aug, 4.30 pm governor-general, Peter Hollingworth, A Northlands Sat 12 Aug, 6.00 pm CANADA, CHILE, FRANCE WORLD 19

A Fantastic Woman Una mujer fantástica

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio follows his marvellous Gloria (2013) with another resoundingly affirmative Director: Sebastián Lelio portrait of a marginalised woman Chile/USA/Germany/Spain 2017 105 mins holding her ground. Santiago bar singer Producers: Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Marina Vidal, played by the sensational Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza trans actress Daniela Vega in her screen Screenplay: Sebastián Lelio, Gonzalo Maza Photography: Benjamín Echazarreta debut, is headstrong, vivacious and Editor: Soledad Salfate happily in love. When her lover dies, Music: Matthew Herbert With: Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Marina finds herself, a trans woman Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Saavedra, living with an older man, immediately Amparo Noguera, Néstor Cantillana, Alejandro Goic, Antonia Zegers, Sergio Hernandez suspected of foul play. Festivals: Berlin 2017 The labyrinth of transphobia Marina Best Screenplay, Berlin International Film Festival 2017 must navigate is galling to behold, In Spanish with English subtitles because every insidious blow seems so CinemaScope | M violence, offensive language familiar and credible. It’s in the way & sex scenes Marina registers the humiliations without allowing them to bring her down that Lelio’s film constantly surprises and Vega’s performance enthrals. “While it’s politically charged and hypnotic scene where Marina is forced very much of the moment in terms to pass as a man. Vega even does her “It may be a timely film, of its representation of trans-rights own singing, with impressive ability. No but it is its timelessness, as issues, what’s perhaps most remarkable less than Paulina García’s astonishing is that not a word of direct advocacy work in Gloria, this is acting at its most well as its depths is spoken. Any trace of the agenda fearless. The movie represents a huge of compassion, that qualify movie is deftly subsumed in pulsing leap in terms of trans narratives it as a great one.” human drama… onscreen, but by any standard, it’s a The movie’s stunning revelation, powerful drama of a woman whose — Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian however, is Vega…. It’s a transfixing suffering never dims her determination B Northlands Wed 9 Aug, 12.00 pm performance, restrained and moving, to keep moving forward.” — David A Northlands Thu 10 Aug, 8.15 pm with a gut-wrenching impact in one Rooney, Hollywood Reporter A Northlands Sat 12 Aug, 8.15 pm

Maudie Frantz

Director: Aisling Walsh Canada/Ireland 2016 115 mins Director: François Ozon Screenplay: Sherry White France/Germany 2016 Photography: Guy Godfree 114 mins Editor: Stephen O’Connell Music: Michael Timmins Screenplay: François Ozon, Philippe Piazzo. Loosely based on the film With: Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke, Broken Lullaby by Ernst Lubitsch Kari Matchett, Gabrielle Rose, Zachary Bennett, Billy MacLellan With: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer Festivals: Toronto, Vancouver Festivals: Venice, Toronto, San 2016; Berlin, San Francisco, Sebastián, Vancouver, London, Sydney 2017 Busan 2016; Sundance 2017 People’s Choice Award, Vancouver Best Young Actress (Paula Beer), International Film Festival 2016 Venice Film Festival 2016 | PG violence & sex scenes B&W and Colour CinemaScope PG violence

“The life of legendary Canadian folk Undaunted by his curmudgeonly In a small German town, in the shooting on 35mm and largely in artist Maud Lewis is painted in exquisite nature, she’s inspired by the natural aftermath of WWI, young Anna black and white, director François detail in this impeccably acted, incredibly splendour surrounding their hovel to mourns her fiancé Frantz who died in Ozon couches his elegiac tale in affecting biopic. At the beating heart take up a paint brush. Operating with the trenches. One day a French soldier, the formal poise of an earlier era’s of Aisling Walsh’s film is Sally Hawkins no preconceptions of what ‘art’ should Adrien (Pierre Niney, surely the leading ‘quality’ historical drama. There’s one (Happy-Go-Lucky) who not only be, her charmingly unsophisticated, French screen actor of his generation), distinctive difference: as always for captures the contorted physicality of uniquely one-dimensional paintings arrives and lays flowers at Frantz’s Ozon, the film’s title notwithstanding, this self-taught painter, who contended strike a chord with tastemakers… grave. In the war-battered community it is the complex journey of the female with rheumatoid arthritis, but also Her exuberance proves infectious.” passions run high at the effrontery of protagonist that most engages him. exudes the creative spirit raging within — Vancouver International Film Festival the Frenchman. Among those most Tracing Anna’s return to the world her despite her debilitated frame. affected is Anna, who decides to get of the living, actress Paula Beer is a The film’s backdrop is undeniably to know the sad young stranger. As revelation. B Isaac Theatre Thu 10 Aug, 11.00 am cinematic: the rugged beauty and she draws him out about his pre-war B Northlands Fri 11 Aug, 12.15 pm expansive vistas of 1930s Nova Scotia. friendship with Frantz in Paris, our B Northlands Fri 18 Aug, 12.00 pm Likewise, its primary setting is A Isaac Theatre Sat 19 Aug, 3.00 pm picture of their generation struggling unspeakably intimate: the comically to recover after the betrayals of war B Isaac Theatre Fri 11 Aug, 11.00 am tiny one-room house that Maud shares deepens and takes unexpected turns. A Isaac Theatre Mon 14 Aug, 6.15 pm with misanthropic fish peddler Everett B MM Timaru Thu 24 Aug, 1.00 pm Expanding on the plot of a little (Ethan Hawke)… A MM Timaru Sat 26 Aug, 3.30 pm remembered Lubitsch film from 1932, A MM Timaru Sat 19 Aug, 3.45 pm 20 WORLD FRANCE

BPM (Beats Per Minute) 120 battements par minute

The personal and the political are as vitally connected as the chicken and the egg in Robin Campillo’s moving and Director/Screenplay/Editor: inspiring Cannes Grand Prix winner. Robin Campillo France 2017 | 144 mins The writer/director draws on his own Producers: Hugues Charbonneau, experience as a member of AIDS activist Marie-Ange Luciani organisation ACT UP in 90s Paris, Photography: Jeanne Lapoirie Music: Arnaud Rebotini embedding an intimately observed love With: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, story within a vivid evocation of the Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud, Ariel Borenstein, Aloïse Sauvage, Simon Bourgade, dynamics of radical protest. Médhi Touré, Simon Guélat, Coralie Russier Hunky Arnaud Valois plays Nathan, Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival 2017 a wary, HIV-negative newcomer to the In French with English subtitles movement who falls for firecracker CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc Sean (incandescent Argentinean actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart), HIV-positive and irresistibly impatient with the group’s more pragmatic leadership. Campillo wrote Laurent Cantet’s The Class and this year’s The Workshop (p33). His skill for catching the currents of a CELINE NIESZAWER group discussion is as persuasive as ever. The film’s political and moral weight The issues that once exercised ACT UP should not overshadow the artistry of “A slice-of-life look at a take on clear and present life in 2017 as its design, nor the quiet profundity of time in history that feels the young activists brainstorm, strategise its unreserved and admirable approach dramatic interventions and storm the to gay intimacy. Campillo has given incredibly urgent in institutions that would let them die. his movie the breath of true life. It today’s torn-up world.” “It’s both devastating and heartening grieves and triumphs and haunts with — Nikola Grozdanovic, The Playlist to watch, these horrifyingly young abounding grace and understanding, people bravely confronting vast and its heartbeat thumping with genuine, seemingly unmovable systems… while undeniable resonance.” — Richard attending to their own fears, their own Lawson, Vanity Fair A Isaac Theatre Sun 6 Aug, 7.00 pm fragile mortality… B Isaac Theatre Mon 7 Aug, 3.00 pm

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Happy End

Happy End sees Michael Haneke, Austria’s micro-surgeon of European decadence, in black comic mode, Director/Screenplay: Michael Haneke applying his scalpel to a rich Calais France/Germany/Austria 2017 110 mins family, the Laurents, who own a Producers: Margaret Ménégoz, Stefan Arndt, construction company and cohabit Veit Heiduscka, Michael Katz uneasily in separate apartments housed Photography: Christian Berger Editor: Monika Willi within a luxurious estate. With: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, “A series of unfortunate events – an Mathieu Kassovitz, Fantine Harduin, Franz Rogowski, Laura Verlinden, Aurelia Petit, overdose (or was it?), a wall collapse Toby Jones, Hille Perl, Hassam Ghancy, on a job site, a suicide attempt – sends Nabiha Akkari, Joud Geistlich Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 the family spinning, and Haneke mines In French with English subtitles strange comedy out of the Laurents’ Censors rating tbc relatively emotionless, passive reactions. The various narrative threads don’t so much come together as they do flutter on the same sinister wind… Happy End is as amusingly inscrutable and coy about its themes as his masterful 2005 creeper Caché was. But Happy End is a wryer work, be the most dangerous one of all.” a grim satire that skewers the isolation — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair “Happy End is a satirical of modern technology and the moral “For a satire on bourgeois values nightmare of haute- failings of polite society with a grave that essentially sees privilege as a face. Haneke has assembled a stellar terminal disease whose symptoms bourgeois European cast to illustrate all this, including a include boredom, indolence, alienation, prosperity: as stark, typically laser-focused Isabelle Huppert lovelessness, pettiness and perhaps brilliant and unforgiving as the head of the family company, her even sociopathy, and to which Amour co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant the only honest response is suicide as a halogen light.” as the family’s senile, fatalist patriarch, or euthanasia, it’s very funny.” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian and a striking Fantine Harduin as Ève, — Jessica Kiang, Sight & Sound B Isaac Theatre Mon 14 Aug, 1.45 pm a young scion of the family who may A Isaac Theatre Tue 15 Aug, 8.30 pm

Heal the Living Réparer les vivants

One family’s tragedy offers the hope Director: Katell Quillévéré of renewed life for another in this France/Belgium 2016 | 103 mins exquisitely modulated drama pivoting Producers: David Thion, Justin Taurand, Philippe Martin on the delicate advocacy of a hospital’s Screenplay: Katell Quillévéré, Gilles Taurand. organ transplant team. Eschewing Based on the novel by Maylis de Kerangal Photography: Tom Harari melodrama and sentimentality, Katell Editor: Thomas Marchand Quillévéré evokes the momentous Music: Alexandre Desplat With: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, forces at play for each of the key Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners, Kool Shen, participants with emotional clarity Monia Chokri, Alice Taglioni, Karim Leklou, Alice de Lencquesaing and weighs the transference of life in Festivals: Venice, Toronto, London 2016; passages of sheer cinematic exaltation. Rotterdam, San Francisco 2017 In French with English subtitles “What sounds like fodder for a CinemaScope | M graphic medical procedures routinely gripping episode of ER is complicated with rare depths of personal and sensual detail in French director Katell Quillévéré’s sublimely compassionate, heart-crushing third feature Heal the Living. More polished but no less authentically humane than her previous works Suzanne and Love Like Poison, this spidering …Quillévéré’s filmmaking ensemble piece – adapted from Maylis never presses its emotional buttons “A quietly staggering, de Kerangal’s internationally acclaimed too hard, just as it never sweetens pristinely acted ensemble 2014 novel – boasts beautifully pitched the pill with manufactured poignancy… performances from a handpicked [Tom] Harari’s perfectly poised camera, piece about the cast that includes Tahar Rahim and Thomas Marchand’s fluid editing negotiation of loss and Emmanuelle Seigner. But it’s Quillévéré’s and Desplat’s aforementioned score tempering of hope.” soaring visual and sonic acumen (with are tuned into the film’s feelings at an assist from composer Alexandre every turn, as are Quillévéré’s —Robbie Colin, The Telegraph Desplat, here in matchless form) that frequently inventive soundtrack A Northlands Sun 6 Aug, 1.45 pm suffuses a potentially familiar hospital choices.” — Guy Lodge, Variety A Northlands Mon 7 Aug, 6.30 pm weeper with true grace. B Northlands Tue 8 Aug, 12.15 pm 22 WORLD FRANCE

Let the Sunshine In Un beau soleil interieur

A mercurial Juliette Binoche absorbs our attention through every moment of this unexpected foray into romantic dramedy Director: Claire Denis by the great French director Claire France 2017 | 94 mins Producer: Olivier Delbosc Denis. This is comedy in a specifically Screenplay: Claire Denis, Christine Angot French literary mode, written by Denis Photography: Agnès Godard in collaboration with the novelist and Editor: Guy Lecorne Music: Stuart A. Staples playwright Christine Angot. A leading With: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, light of the ‘autofiction’ movement, Philippe Katerine, Josiane Balasko, Sandrine Dumas, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Alex Descas, Laurent Angot is famous for the frankness Grévill, Bruno Podalydès, Paul Blain, Valeria with which she has placed her own Bruni-Tedeschi, Gérard Depardieu emotional life on the printed page. Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2017 Binoche plays the Angot surrogate, In French with English subtitles Censors rating tbc Isabelle, a Parisian artist, recently divorced from the father of her ten-year- old daughter. Alone and unleashed, she is undaunted in her yearning to connect sexually and romantically with a succession of men who, one way or another, come on to her. (Every actor in a Denis film leaves their mark, and “Binoche has gone from strength to each of Isabelle’s suitors carries his own strength in recent years; still, if she has “An exquisite romantic peculiar brand of self-importance.) ever been more radiant or effortlessly comedy whose laughs There’s wry comedy in Isabelle’s expressive on screen than she is here, impatience to cut to the unspoken the example is not immediately coming are sad and whose sadness intent in their blandishments, though to mind. And Denis, whose narratives is funny.” the delight of consummation – so can be daringly free-associative, has — Sam C. Mac, Slant empathetically evoked by Denis, one structured Let the Sunshine In elegantly of the cinema’s great sensualists – is and intuitively, as a series of richly likely to be followed by bemusement human encounters that flow, meander or dismay until she rallies for the next and pulse with life.” — Justin Chang, B Northlands Wed 16 Aug, 2.15 pm encounter. LA Times A Isaac Theatre Thu 17 Aug, 6.15 pm

NEW ZEALAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A Woman’s Life DANCE ALL OVER Une vie THE INSIDE Director: Stéphane Brizé France/Belgium 2016 119 mins Screenplay: Stéphane Brizé, Florence Vignon. Based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant With: Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud, Nina Meurisse Festivals: Venice, Toronto 2016 Critics’ Prize, Venice Film Festival 2016 In French with English subtitles M violence & sex scenes MICHAÂL CROTTO Director Stéphane Brizé (Mademoiselle fictional heroines – Emma Bovary, Jane Chambon, The Measure of a Man) Eyre, Anna Karenina – is evident. She applies his keen eye for social suffers, but she also reads, thinks and ANDREW JOYCE SECTION PRINCIPAL CELLO observation to costume drama with desires, and strives to find a zone of this striking adaptation of Guy de freedom within boundaries dictated by Maupassant’s first published novel. fate and society… A young aristocrat named Jeanne A Woman’s Life… moves calmly PIANOMANIA (Judith Chemla) raised and educated and deliberately, but it never feels by kind, progressive parents seems slow. Instead, its images and scenes poised on the brink of modern are suffused by an intensity that seems WITH FREDDY KEMPF womanhood, but finds herself almost to be a quality of the light and CHRISTCHURCH VISIT ill-prepared for a feckless husband air as they play across Ms Chemla’s AIR FORCE MUSEUM NZSO.CO.NZ 20 SEP 7.00PM FOR TICKET DETAILS and a pious, hypocritical society. watchful, sometimes inscrutable

FREDDY KEMP PIANO/CONDUCTOR “The pathos and wonder of features.” — A.O. Scott, NY Times HANDEL CONCERTO FOR KEYBOARD OP. 4 NO. 1 IN G MINOR MOZART PIANO CONCERTO NO. 21 IN C MAJOR (2ND MVT) CHOPIN ANDANTE SPINATO ET A Woman’s Life comes from its GRAND POLONAISE BRILLANTE MENDELSSOHN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN G MINOR (3RD MVT) RACHMANINOV PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN C MINOR recognition that Jeanne is at once a (2ND MVT) GERSHWIN RHAPSODY IN BLUE captive of cruel circumstances and B Northlands Fri 18 Aug, 12.15 pm a wilful, intelligent human being. A Northlands Fri 18 Aug, 6.15 pm IN ASSOCIATION PRINCIPAL WITH: PARTNERS: Her kinship with other 19th-century A Northlands Sat 19 Aug, 2.30 pm FRANCE WORLD 23

The Midwife Sage femme

Two of France’s most distinguished Director/Screenplay: Martin Provost stars, Catherine Deneuve and Catherine France/Belgium 2017 | 117 mins Frot share the screen in this touching Producer: Olivier Delbosc Photography: Yves Cape tale of the unlikely connection of Editor: Albertine Lastera opposites. Claire (Frot) is a dedicated Music: Grégoire Hetzel With: Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve, Olivier and tireless midwife whose sense of Gourmet, Quentin Dolmaire, Mylène Demongeot pride and responsibility clash with the Festivals: Berlin 2017 In French with English subtitles depersonalised efficiency of modern CinemaScope | PG coarse language hospitals. She’s raised her son solo and is well pleased that he’s made PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH it to medical school. One day she receives a strange phone call, a voice from the past. Béatrice (Deneuve), the extravagant and frivolous mistress of her late father, has pressing news and wants to see her again, over a drink, 30 years after having disappeared without a trace. Claire, habitually conscientious and sober, bridles at the prospect of having this foolish woman back MICHAÂL CROTTO in her life, but prepares to meet her again proves that French filmmakers regardless. know how to treat actresses of a “A bittersweet delight Writer/director Martin Provost certain age… As the reigning grande written to order for (Séraphine) has gifted two expert dame of French cinema, Deneuve actresses with marvellously individual could easily rest on her laurels, only two consummate roles for an entertaining and emotional taking roles that befit and reinforce her performers who inhabit A Isaac Theatre Sat 5 Aug, 3.15 pm pas de deux. As old resentments are stature. Which makes her vulnerable their diametrically A Northlands Sat 12 Aug, 1.45 pm faced down, they tacitly acknowledge turn here all the more special. Playing B Northlands Mon 14 Aug, 12.00 pm common fears, begin to enjoy each a heart-on-her-sleeve, still-crazy-after- opposed characters B Isaac Theatre Thu 17 Aug, 2.00 pm other’s shortcomings and build anew all-these-years free spirit, Deneuve with satisfying élan.” on their shared past. delivers her best performance in recent B MM Timaru Fri 18 Aug, 1.00 pm — Lisa Nesselson, Screendaily “Martin Provost’s The Midwife once memory.” — Ben Croll, Indiewire A MM Timaru Sun 20 Aug, 4.45 pm

The Workshop L’atelier

French writer-director Laurent Cantet, Palme d’Or winner in 2008 for The Class, returns with a suspenseful tale, Director: Laurent Cantet based on a true story, about a writer’s France 2017 | 114 mins Producer: Denis Freyd relationship with a right-wing student Screenplay: Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet who troubles and intrigues her. Photography: Pierre Milon “This story of a successful crime Editor: Mathilde Muyard Music: Bedis Tir, Édouard Pons novel author who is invited to a With: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, small town to take charge of a Warda Rammach, Issam Talbi, Florian Beaujean, Mamadou Doumbia, Julien Souve, writing project is part social survey, Mélissa Guilbert, Olivier Thouret, Lény Sellam part political documentary, with the Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2017 In French with English subtitles potential flicker of a love story and the CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc touch of a thriller. The Workshop conveys a stunningly authentic portrait of French youth today; their class, racial and occupational concerns. The seven young people in author Olivia’s (Marina Foïs) class represent a snapshot of France’s colorful young population, no intellectuals with writing experience “Cantet’s film combines the slow- among them (all are played by non- burn suspense of his Time Out (2000) “A film which demonstrates professional actors). Charged with with the boisterous class dynamics of… that debate, the exchange producing a book to promote the his 2008 Cannes top-prizewinner The image of La Ciotat, a small seaside Class. Ornery right-winger Antoine of ideas, can be as town located between Marseille and (Matthieu Lucci) fascinates his teacher, thrilling as any ramped Toulon, Olivia soon discovers that the Olivia, and bugs his classmates, but up action flick.” one subject which unites her students is rather than devolving into a drama murder – though they can’t quite agree about a troubled soul, the story only — Wendy Ide, The Guardian on what kind of murder they should deepens with the mystery of talent, A Northlands Tue 15 Aug, 6.15 pm write about, or how to treat it.” — Dan intentionality, and political fault lines.” B Northlands Wed 16 Aug, 11.45 am Fainaru, Screendaily — Nicolas Rapold, Film Comment A Northlands Sat 19 Aug, 8.15 pm

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer

This new movie by the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, Dogtooth) is a meticulously wrought Director: Yorgos Lanthimos chiller, visiting the retribution of Ireland/UK 2017 | 125 mins Producers: Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos classical tragedy on a fatally flawed Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou surgeon, played by Colin Farrell. Photography: Thimios Bakatakis “The rich vein of unsettling darkness Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis With: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, and psychological unease that ripples Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, like a treacherous underground stream Bill Camp Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 beneath the absurdist humour of Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2017 Yorgos Lanthimos' work becomes a Censors rating tbc brooding requiem of domestic horror in his masterfully realized fifth feature, The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Reaching back to classical Greek tragedy for inspiration, this hypnotic tale of guilt and retribution provides an even more riveting role for Colin Farrell after his collaboration on the director's English-language debut, The Lobster. He's flanked by a never- better Nicole Kidman and a performance who cares about bold filmmaking… of chilling effectiveness from emerging This is a movie that closes its grip “When absurdism feels Irish talent Barry Keoghan in a thriller on our fears by infinitesimal degrees, this wrong, you know it’s that frequently invites comparison to demonstrating that bone-deep, tightly vintage Polanski… clamped anxiety can be scarier than being done right.” The new film's grim scenario of screaming terror.” — David Rooney, — Robbie Colin, The Telegraph a family under dire threat will make Hollywood Reporter it hard for some to watch. But the “A film of clean hands, cold impressive rigor of its craft, the skilfully heart, and near-Satanic horror, it was subdued intensity of the acting and garlanded with boos at its Cannes press the startling originality of the story will screening and it is absolutely fucking A Isaac Theatre Sat 12 Aug, 8.45 pm make the film unmissable for anyone brilliant.” — Jessica Kiang, The Playlist B Isaac Theatre Tue 15 Aug, 3.30 pm

PRESENTED IN Newton A Date for Mad Mary ASSOCIATION WITH

Director: Amit V. Masurkar India 2017 | 106 mins Director: Darren Thornton Producer: Manish Mundra Ireland 2016 | 82 mins Screenplay: Mayank Tewari, Screenplay: Darren Thornton, Amit V. Masurkar Colin Thornton. Based on the play Photography: 10 Dates with Mad Mary by Swapnil S. Sonawane Yasmine Akram Editor: Shweta Venkat Mathew With: Seána Kerslake, Tara Lee, With: Rajkummar Rao, Charleigh Bailey, Denise Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil, McCormack, Siobhán Shanahan Raghubir Yadav Festivals: Galway, Karlovy Vary, Festivals: Berlin, Tribeca 2017 London 2016; San Francisco 2017 In Hindi and Gondi, with English Best Irish Feature Film, Galway subtitles Film Fleadh 2016 CinemaScope | M violence M offensive language

In this droll dark comedy from India, attempts in vain to open Newton’s Seána Kerslake is completely winning both hilarious and touching. Will it Newton, an earnest young office eyes to the realities of local life and the as the larrikin Mary out to prove she’s dawn on Mary, as it dawns on us, that worker volunteers as a poll supervisor, genuine threat of violence. not a loser in this funny, soulful Irish hiding in plain sight there’s a member carrying the banner of democracy into Director Amit V. Masurkar infuses his romcom. While Mary’s been doing time of the wedding offering much more the deepest jungle. Helicoptered into film with an uncannily lyrical sense of for a spontaneous gesture she’d rather than a chance to get back at the bride? remote central India to collect votes the landscape and mines both tension forget, her best girlfriend Charlene If the origins in a stage play by from 76 oppressed indigenous villagers, and deadpan comedy out of the has disappeared, heart and soul, into Yasmine Akram show in the adaptation he’s warned by the local military long stretches of waiting and mutual wedding planning land. Mary gets by writer/director brothers Darren and representative that none of them will irritation. As Newton, Rajkummar Rao out of jail in time for the big day, Colin Thornton, it’s simply because show, for fear they’ll be ambushed is a surreptitiously charismatic comic bridesmaid’s speech at the ready. But the dialogue, quick and salty, is such by communist guerrillas in the area. marvel: his insistence on democratic oops, Charlene is wavering on having a driving force. The Drogheda settings The young idealist soon comes to see principle may be woefully misplaced her wild and crazy old mate at the top hum with life and devilry. the pragmatic soldier, tasked with but it is also quite irresistibly touching. table and has cut her back to a single protecting the highly exposed polling invite. All Mary’s hurt and indignation A Northlands Sat 5 Aug, 7.00 pm station, as democracy’s nemesis. are channelled into a single mission: B Northlands Wed 9 Aug, 2.00 pm As the hours pass with little more showing up with a plus-one. B Isaac Theatre Thu 10 Aug, 4.15 pm than a rumour of a voter in the vicinity, B Northlands Tue 8 Aug, 2.15 pm As she assesses partner options, A Isaac Theatre Fri 18 Aug, 6.30 pm seasoned poll workers make light of A Northlands Thu 17 Aug, 6.30 pm Kerslake makes Mary’s mix of bluntness, the situation and the local liaison officer A Northlands Sat 19 Aug, 3.45 pm sarcasm and minimal self-awareness A MM Timaru Fri 25 Aug, 8.15 pm ITALY, RUSSIA, SINGAPORE WORLD 25

Call Me by Your Name

Luca Guadagnino, the Italian writer- Director: Luca Guadagnino director of I Am Love and A Bigger Italy/France 2017 | 132 mins Splash, winds back the flamboyance Producers: Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, to powerful effect in this languorous, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman sun-filled and wonderfully empathetic Screenplay: James Ivory, Luca Guadagnino, Walter Fasano. Based on the novel by André Aciman tale of first love. Timothée Chalamet Photography: Sayombhu Mukdeeprom is riveting as Elio, a smart, musically Editor: Walter Fasano Music: Sufjan Stevens gifted 17-year-old hanging out for With: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, the summer of 1983 with his parents Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois at their villa in northern Italy. Elio is Festivals: Sundance, Berlin 2017 obliged to move out of his bedroom In English, Italian and French, with English subtitles to make way for his father’s American RP13 sex scenes research assistant, 20-something Oliver (Armie Hammer). Brash and handsome, Oliver immediately sets local hearts aflutter and irritates the hell out of Elio. But the two increasingly find themselves together. A dance of attraction and retreat begins and gradually consumes them both. “Luca Guadagnino likes to show off Elio’s great leap into emotional risk his homeland as a place of sensual self- “A swirling wonder, a film touches everyone in his idyllic world: discovery… But he’s never mounted the about coming of age, the depth of understanding granted to total swirl of sultry weather, budding him in this film feels like a gift to every libidos and teenage confusion that about the secrets of youth, one of us. marks his new drama, Call Me by Your the magic of summer, the The film’s stock of sensual pleasures Name, a triumphant, heartbreaking beauty of Italy.” A Northlands Fri 4 Aug, 8.15 pm extends to its exquisite use of music, tale of coming out based on André B Isaac Theatre Tue 15 Aug, 12.45 pm — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair including the Psychedelic Furs, Elio’s Aciman’s acclaimed 2007 novel… Sweet A Isaac Theatre Sat 19 Aug, 8.30 pm amusingly bad-tempered renditions of and salty, his movie burns like a suntan.” Bach and three perfectly attuned songs — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY A MM Timaru Sat 19 Aug, 8.00 pm by Sufjan Stevens. B MM Timaru Mon 21 Aug, 1.00 pm

Stalker Pop Aye

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky USSR 1979 | 161 mins Director/Screenplay: Screenplay: Arkady Strugatsky, Kirsten Tan Boris Strugatsky. Based on their Singapore/Thailand 2017 novel Roadside Picnic Photography: 102 mins Aleksandr Knyazhinsky Festivals: Sundance, Rotterdam Editor: Ludmila Feyginova 2017 With: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Screenwriting Award (World Anatoly Solonitsyn, Cinema Dramatic), Sundance Film Nikolay Grinko, Alisa Freindlikh, Festival 2017 Natasha Abramova In Thai with English subtitles Festivals: Venice 2016 CinemaScope | M sex scenes, In Russian with English subtitles sexual references & offensive Colour and B&W | G cert language

The mysteries and revelations of special guides. One of them (Aleksandr An architect, feeling past his use-by uprooted characters, from a wild- Andrei Tarkovsky’s science fiction Kaidanovsky), the stalker of the title, date, and his long-lost elephant take haired vagabond who seems to foretell masterpiece are returned to the giant leads a writer and a professor through a road trip across Thailand to find the future to a ladyboy with karaoke screen in Mosfilm’s splendid new the grimiest industrial wasteland their childhood home in this rueful, aspirations. digital restoration. you’ve ever seen. What they find funny Sundance award winner. Once In her debut feature writer/director “With its emphasis on landscape, is pretty harsh and has none of the a cutting edge architect in Bangkok, Kirsten Tan takes full advantage of the texture and atmosphere, this usual satisfactions of sci-fi quests, but Thana is facing the imminent beautiful scenery, characterful actors brooding, dystopian science fiction… Tarkovsky regards their journey as a demolition of the mall that was once and a charismatic elephant to tell a is as much environment as movie.” contemporary spiritual quest. His mise his crowning glory. His wife’s flagrant story about our drift from fundamental — J. Hoberman, Village Voice en scène is mesmerizing, and the final lack of concern is doing nothing to human needs and values. Her tale of “Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 masterpiece, scene is breathtaking. Not an easy quiet his fear of obsolescence. man and pachyderm is unsentimental, like his earlier Solaris, is a free and film, but almost certainly a great one.” Wandering the streets of the city gently comic and thoughtful. allegorical adaptation of a sci-fi novel, — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago he is amazed to come across a fellow Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Reader throwback, Pop Aye, the elephant he B Northlands Mon 7 Aug, 12.15 pm Picnic. After a meteorite hits the earth, grew up with in his rural village. On a A Northlands Wed 9 Aug, 6.15 pm the region where it’s fallen is believed whim he buys Pop Aye and sets off on A Northlands Sat 12 Aug, 2.15 pm to grant the wishes of those who enter a road trip, walking and hitching back B Northlands Mon 14 Aug, 2.30 pm and, sealed off by the authorities, can A Northlands Sat 5 Aug, 3.15 pm to where they came from. On the way be penetrated only illegally and with A Northlands Thu 10 Aug, 8.00 pm they befriend a succession of equally A MM Timaru Thu 24 Aug, 8.15 pm

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The Teacher Kiki, Love to Love U cˇ i t e l k a Kiki, el amor se hace

Director: Jan Hrˇebejk Director: Paco Léon Slovakia/Czech Republic Spain 2016 | 102 mins 2016 | 102 mins Producers: Ghislain Barrois, Screenplay: Petr Jarchovský Álvaro Augustin, Andrés Martín Photography: Martin Žiaran Screenplay: Paco Léon, With: Zuzana Mauréry, Csongor Fernando Pérez Kassai, Peter Bebjak, Martin Photography: Kiko de la Rica Havelka, Ondřej Malý, Éva Bandor, Editor: Alberto de Toro Zuzana Konečná, Richard Labuda, With: Paco Léon, Ana Katz, Oliver Oswald, Tamara Fischer, Belén Cuesta, Álex García, Ina Gogálová, Monika Čertezni Natalia de Molina, Candela Peña, Festivals: Karlovy Vary, Busan 2016 Luis Callejo, Luis Bermejo In Slovak with English subtitles In Spanish with English subtitles M offensive language & nudity CinemaScope | R18 sexual violence, sex scenes & offensive language

A communist-era schoolroom is a suggested. What can the parents of the Born under the sign of Almódovar, Paco you to learn that in this film’s sunny microcosm of outrageous political successful students say in response to León’s homeland hit finds comedy and view of gratification, nobody ends up favouritism in this highly enjoyable such slanders? Their faked rectitude is a little pathos in the mismatched sexual feeling used. return to form from Czech director astutely caricatured in a nimbly scripted, kinks of a group of interconnected A remake of The Little Death, it Jan Hřebejk (Divided We Fall). The increasingly tense battle of wits. Spaniards. Paco (director León) and could hardly differ more in spirit, setting is Bratislava in 1983, drolly While the accusers fret and stew, Ana, for example, work on reigniting transposing the action to a sweltering evoked in an array of wacky wallpapers their hapless children suffer the their passion by visiting bondage Madrid and celebrating difference, its and goofy sweaters, where a parent– consequences, and we root against parties and furry nightclubs – and message never more sweetly displayed teacher meeting is hearing the case the odds for the bully’s comeuppance. find themselves igniting unexpected than when a hearing-impaired call against the eponymous Comrade In the title role Zuzana Mauréry is a passions in others. Natalia, meanwhile, centre worker (fetish: silk) helps a Drazděchová. Under her watch some sneaky, deplorable wonder, a richly discovers after getting mugged that she voiceless customer indulge his fantasies of the brightest pupils have been realised screen villain surpassed in 2017 has a case of harpaxophilia, helpfully through a phone sex line. receiving the poorest grades. only by her real-world equivalents. explained on-screen as “sexual arousal Their aggrieved parents claim that being produced by being robbed with A Northlands Sun 6 Aug, 6.00 pm she aids and abets other pupils in direct violence,” while José learns he has B Northlands Tue 8 Aug, 2.00 pm proportion to the goods and services B Northlands Tue 8 Aug, 12.00 pm somnophilia, sexual pleasure caused by B Northlands Wed 16 Aug, 4.30 pm she receives from their parents: a free A Northlands Wed 9 Aug, 8.15 pm watching someone sleep. If you caught A Northlands Sat 19 Aug, 6.15 pm haircut here, free electrical repairs there. B Northlands Mon 14 Aug, 2.15 pm a whiff of the non-consensual in any Even more intimate favours have been A Northlands Sun 20 Aug, 6.15 pm of this, it may or may not encourage A MM Timaru Thu 17 Aug, 8.30 pm

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Summer 1993 Estiu 1993

As enthralling a child’s-eye view as has graced the screen in many a year, Summer 1993 draws us into the new Director/Screenplay: Carla Simón world of six-year-old Frida, transplanted Spain 2017 | 97 mins Producer: Valérie Delpierre from Barcelona to live with her aunt, Photography: Santiago Racaj uncle and three-year-old cousin Anna Editors: Didac Palou, Ana Pfaff in the country. It’s summer and living Music: Ernest Pipo, Pau Boïgues With: Laia Artigas, Paula Robles, Bruna Cusí, around this bohemian couple is certainly David Verdaguer, Fermi Reixach easy, but adjustment for the little girl is Festivals: Berlin 2017 Best First Feature, Berlin International Film Festival not easy at all. While Anna fastens like 2017 glue onto her brand new older sister, In Catalan with English subtitles PG adult themes Frida’s not so sure she actually needs a sister, let alone a new pair of parents. It’s not long before we deduce that the real parents have died and Frida’s change of scene will be permanent. Catalan director Carla Simón’s feature debut is autobiographical. Her memory of childish schemes and dreams is acute and bracingly free of sentimentality. The performances Though programmed in the festival’s she’s drawn from the two children Young Adult section, Summer 1993 Carla Simón’s are miraculously unaffected, so when took the prize for Best First Feature at autobiographical jewel Frida leads her trusting little charge this year’s Berlinale. It’s a beautiful film. up the garden path you may want “A summer of troubled and troubling is one of the most to leap into the movie and sort experience is reshaped into a delicately evocative and affecting things out. What’s just as piercing is crafted, moving filmic memoir by Carla depictions of childhood the filmmaker’s appreciation of the Simón… That the film draws deeply B Isaac Theatre Fri 4 Aug, 11.45 am kindness, imagination and patience on personal recollection can be sensed seen in years. A Isaac Theatre Sat 12 Aug, 4.00 pm required of her aunt and uncle to in virtually every frame.” — Jonathan A Northlands Sat 19 Aug, 1.45 pm convince a defiant little orphan that Holland, Hollywood Reporter she was important and loved. A MM Timaru Wed 23 Aug, 6.15 pm

Ethel & Ernest God’s Own Country

Director: Director/Screenplay: Roger Mainwood Francis Lee UK 2016 | 94 mins UK 2017 | 105 mins Screenplay: Roger Mainwood. Producers: Manon Ardisson, Based on the graphic novel by Jack Tarling Raymond Briggs Photography: Editor: Richard Overall Joshua James Richards Animation director: Peter Dodd Editor: Chris Wyatt Music: Carl Davis, Paul McCartney With: Josh O’Connor, Voices: Jim Broadbent, Alec Secareanu, Ian Hart, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway Gemma Jones Festivals: London 2016 Festivals: Sundance, Berlin, San PG violence Francisco, Sydney 2017 R16 nudity, offensive language, sexual material & content that may disturb

This funny and poignant animated household in Wimbledon might be A hired hand offers new life to a failing antagonism compounded by his feature perfectly captures the tone and considered working class. farm in this affecting romantic drama attraction to the handsome interloper, visual style of Raymond Briggs’ tender The voice work of Jim Broadbent set on the spectacularly bleak Yorkshire can the hopelessly alienated Johnny graphic novel about his ‘very ordinary’ and Brenda Blethyn is a treat, with Dales. Johnny (Josh O’Connor) feels follow him there? Writer/director parents, from their first trip to the Luke Treadaway as the grown-up condemned to a life on the family farm. Francis Lee, raised on a Yorkshire farm pictures in 1928 (Hangman’s House Raymond who came of age in the 60s His father (Ian Hart) is dying a bitter himself, delineates their explosive with Victor McLagen!) to their deaths, and headed to art school – much to his man. His grandmother (Gemma Jones) courtship convincingly and poignantly. just months apart, in 1971. mother’s dismay. A soundtrack marking sits in constant judgement. Johnny Reimagining Brokeback Mountain There’s a canny social and political out the years in popular music also finds scant relief from constant labour for a less homophobic age, God’s history of Britain traced through their features original contributions from in binge drinking and alarming bouts of Own Country does double service in experiences and amusingly expressed Carl Davis and Paul McCartney. roughhouse sex with other men. a xenophobic age, finding renewal in through decades of gentle crossfire When his father hires itinerant the tenacity and vigour of immigrant between Labour Dad and Tory Mum. Romanian migrant worker Gheorghe aspiration. A lifelong milkman with few complaints, (Alec Secareanu) to help with lambing, B Northlands Fri 4 Aug, 12.30 pm Ernest keeps a close eye on world Johnny’s disdain is automatic. A A Northlands Sat 5 Aug, 3.00 pm events, while Ethel, a former lady’s B Northlands Fri 11 Aug, 12.30 pm dislodged farmer himself, Gheorghe maid, would rather sleep than watch A Northlands Sun 13 Aug, 1.00 pm is attuned to the tough rural existence the moon landing on TV and bristles and takes to the work like a man B Isaac Theatre Tue 8 Aug, 3.45 pm at any suggestion that their little B MM Timaru Tue 22 Aug, 1.00 pm returning to the well of life. His A Isaac Theatre Fri 11 Aug, 6.30 pm

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The Party

The dinner-party-from-hell genre Director/Screenplay: Sally Potter is delivered a short sharp shock by UK 2017 | 71 mins veteran British writer-director Sally Producers: Christopher Sheppard, Kurban Kassam Photography: Alexey Rodionov Potter in this gleaming black comedy. Editors: Anders Refn, Emilie Orsini Kristin Scott Thomas is hosting a With: Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, group of friends to celebrate her Emily Mortimer, Cillian Murphy promotion as shadow Minister of Festivals: Berlin 2017 B&W | M violence, offensive language Health, elegantly juggling dinner & drug use preparation, congratulatory calls and surreptitious messaging from a lover. Husband Timothy Spall plays aggressive DJ, otherwise upright but catatonic in the living room as the guests arrive. These include her best friend (Patricia Clarkson, wryly acidic), her life-coach boyfriend (Bruno Ganz, wondrously inane), a coked-up venture capitalist (Cillian Murphy) who arrives sans wife, and an earnest lesbian couple (Emily Mortimer and Cherry Jones) intent on sharing some good news. Silly them. One shouldn’t pull a muscle, “It’d poop The Party, so to speak, to however, in reaching for the subtext “A consummate drawing- reveal anything further – though this is of Potter’s witty shaggy-dog story: Its room divertissement, less a plot-based exercise than a tipsily giddy in-the-moment pleasures are conversational one. Potter’s eminently enough… Months after the US election played with relish by a quotable screenplay works up just campaign turned an intended jibe into dream ensemble.” enough narrative momentum to sustain a rallying cry, Sally Potter’s latest further — Guy Lodge, Variety a barrage of killer one-liners: With the proves that there’s pleasure, pride A Isaac Theatre Fri 4 Aug, 6.30 pm hors d’oeuvres increasingly unlikely to or both to be taken in being a nasty B Isaac Theatre Mon 7 Aug, 1.15 pm be served, decorum is swiftly shed and woman.” — Guy Lodge, Variety B Northlands Fri 11 Aug, 4.45 pm these privileged vultures instead feed ravenously on each other’s ideals… A MM Timaru Fri 18 Aug, 6.30 pm

A Monster Calls Brigsby Bear

Director: J.A. Bayona Director: Dave McCary UK/Spain/USA 2016 USA 2017 | 98 mins 109 mins Screenplay: Kevin Costello, Screenplay: Patrick Ness. Kyle Mooney Based on his novel With: Kyle Mooney, Greg Kinnear, Photography: Óscar Faura Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins, With: Lewis MacDougall, Mark Hamill, Ryan Simpkins, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Jorge Lendeborg Jr, Claire Danes, Liam Neeson, Toby Kebbell Jane Adams, Kate Lyn Sheil, Festivals: Toronto, London 2016 Alexa Demie, Andy Samberg Best Director, Cinematography & Festivals: Sundance, Cannes Editing, Goya Awards 2017 (Critics’ Week), Sydney 2017 CinemaScope | PG violence M sex scenes, offensive language & scary scenes & drug use

Twelve-year-old English boy Conor ravishing painterly animation for the In this inventive, Gondry-esque comedy, sweet fellowship in extreme fan O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall) is a monster’s enthralling tales, to impart Saturday Night Live’s earnest goofball culture, and the liberating power of lonely kid. His father lives in California; tough and fortifying wisdom about life, Kyle Mooney is a man obsessed by sheer silliness with the conviction his loving mother (Felicity Jones) is and about stories too. the only TV show he’s ever seen, a little- of the true believer. terminally ill, and his grandmother “Mixing horror movie imagery with known series about a magic bear saving “Brigsby Bear’s strongest asset (well, (Sigourney Weaver) makes a chilly honest, heart-wrenching human truths, the world. after the gobs of in-universe verbiage substitute. His sole companion appears Bayona has created a dark, coming- James (Mooney) has lived in a bunker that come spilling from James’ mouth) nightly in the intimidating form of a of-age masterpiece… Entertaining, for 25 years. His only contact is with is Kyle Mooney’s extraordinary gigantic tree creature (voiced by Liam tonally impeccable, and heartbreaking, his parents (Mark Hamill and Jane performance… To hang around James Neeson) who tells him fantastic tales this is a monster movie with a very Adams), and his only source of external and soak up some of his positivity of apothecaries and kings, handsome human heart.” — Marten Carlson, stimulation is the 80s-style ‘Brigsby (even if it is a little unclear if he knows princes and wicked stepmothers. The Consequence of Sound Bear Adventures’, delivered weekly what’s going on half the time) is a joy.” monster challenges Conor to discover on VHS cassettes. He’s probably the — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair the truth in the stories that might give world’s most intense student of the him the strength to make the best of Brigsby mythos. his sorry lot. When James has to leave his bunker J.A. Bayona’s adaptation of Patrick A Northlands Sat 5 Aug, 6.15 pm and meet other people, he loses access B Northlands Fri 4 Aug, 4.45 pm Ness’ young adult novel draws on a B Northlands Mon 7 Aug, 4.15 pm to new episodes. The slow-dawning A Northlands Sun 6 Aug, 6.15 pm spectacular arsenal of CGI, shifting into A Northlands Tue 8 Aug, 8.30 pm solution to this emergency celebrates A Northlands Fri 18 Aug, 6.30 pm USA WORLD 29

Beatriz at Dinner

This perfectly honed chamber drama Director: Miguel Arteta from director Miguel Arteta and USA 2017 | 83 mins writer Mike White begins as a squirmy Producers: Aaron L. Gilbert, Pamela Koffler, David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon dinner-party-gone-wrong comedy and Screenplay: Mike White expands into something much more Photography: Wyatt Garfield Editor: Jay Deuby soulful and timely. Music: Mark Mothersbaugh Salma Hayek plays Beatriz, a With: Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton, Jay Duplass, Amy Landecker, Chloë Sevigny, Mexican-American holistic healer invited David Warshofsky, John Early to stay on for dinner by her wealthy Festivals: Sundance 2017 client and avowed friend Cathy (Connie CinemaScope | M violence & offensive language Britton). She finds herself breaking bread with Cathy’s husband’s business partners and their wives. The alpha male at the party is billionaire developer Doug Strutt (John Lithgow, playing against the obvious Trump connotations with a chilling assurance). As the cocktails multiply and the one percent rejoice in world domination, the earnest Beatriz enunciates an alternative view. “Arteta deftly portrays the cocoon This might be the best performance of wealth and the shamelessness of Salma Hayek has ever given, her quiet, “Dark, hopelessly humane those who seek it at all costs: Doug observant reserve eventually giving Beatriz at Dinner is can say whatever he wants, because way to bewilderment and resolve. he’s surrounded by sycophants and And her inner turmoil is a powerfully the perfect film for the others who feed on his money and relevant one: How does a person Trump era… Salma power. Beatriz, we sense, has been committed to healing – to being Hayek is remarkable.” let in on a gathering that people like principled, empathetic, and good – her are not supposed to see. That’s a handle first contact with the devils — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair pretty simple set-up, but Arteta and who think nothing of destroying our A Isaac Theatre Thu 10 Aug, 6.15 pm screenwriter Mike White find nuance world?” — Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice A Northlands Sun 13 Aug, 6.45 pm in the conflict… B Isaac Theatre Mon 14 Aug, 4.15 pm

The Beguiled

Sofia Coppola was crowned Best Director at Cannes this year for arguably her best film to date: a crisp, Director: Sofia Coppola unsettling, absolutely essential remake USA 2017 | 94 mins Producers: Youree Henley, Sofia Coppola of Don Siegel’s 1971 oddity starring Screenplay: Sofia Coppola. Based on the novel Clint Eastwood. Everything about this by Thomas Cullinan and the screenplay by Albert Maltz, Grimes Grice new interpretation beguiles, from its Photography: Philippe Le Sourd exciting cast of fresh and familiar faces, Editor: Sarah Flack to its unexpected jabs of humour, to Music: Phoenix With: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, its almost shocking sense of brevity – Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice, though above all else, it is Coppola’s Addison Riecke, Emma Howard, Wayne Pére, Matt Story, Joel Albin gaze that enthrals, placing female Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 desire and self-preservation at the film’s Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2017 M violence, sex scenes & content that may disturb tipping point. — Tim Wong “In Sofia Coppola’s elegantly spare, psychosexual Civil War drama The Beguiled, a wounded Union soldier, Colonel John McBurney (Colin Farrell), is discovered in the surrounding woods of a Virginia all-girls seminary school, circa 1864… The girls and women of them all… Coppola deepens the the property, overseen by headmaster material’s implicit wellsprings of “Coppola’s new take Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman) loneliness and longing, mitigating the burnishes a vision of slowly begin to vie for the attention sexism by diverting the point of view of this enemy from the other side, away from McBurney to the women hard-won female conveniently laid up with a bum leg just he’s attempting to manipulate… autonomy… [and] brings a down the hall from their bedrooms… It’s a magnificently shot movie, dreaminess… and a B Isaac Theatre Fri 4 Aug, 4.15 pm The Eastwood version was a kinky and often a very funny one, as tense A Isaac Theatre Sat 5 Aug, 8.30 pm joke of a psychodrama: a retrograde dinners with the stranger from minimalism where before B Northlands Mon 7 Aug, 2.45 pm curiosity about a gaggle of repressed, the North transform into duels of nightmares had reigned.” A Northlands Tue 8 Aug, 6.15 pm sheltered Confederate belles being innuendo.” — A.A. Dowd, AV Club — Isabel Stevens, Sight & Sound seduced by the manliest Yankee of A MM Timaru Sat 19 Aug, 6.00 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.

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The Lost City of Z

In the early 20th century British explorer Director: James Gray Percy Fawcett made eight expeditions USA 2016 | 141 mins into the Amazonian jungle pursuing Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Anthony Katagas, James Gray, Dale Armin Johnson evidence of a lost, highly evolved Screenplay: James Gray. Based on the book by civilisation. James Gray’s spectacular David Grann Photography: Darius Khondji film collapses those expeditions into Editors: John Axelrad, Lee Haugen a tidier history, but the enquiring Music: Christopher Spelman With: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, spirit of the movie holds closely to the Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Edward Ashley, wanderlust of the incurable adventurer. Angus Macfadyen, Ian McDiarmid, Clive Francis, Pedro Coello, Matthew Sunderland, It’s hard to think of another film on Johann Myers, Franco Nero such epic scale that contains so careful Festivals: New York 2016; Berlin, San Francisco and nuanced a portrait of the explorer 2017 Wine and film. In English, Spanish, Portuguese and German, hero or his conflicted relationship with with English subtitles 4K DCP | CinemaScope | M violence & offensive the society that he, in name at least, language represents. Charlie Hunnam’s Fawcett Both start with a vision and then is a commanding slow burn from class resentment to mystic quest, with Robert Pattinson barely recognisable take years of skill and craft to as his companion in adventure. Sienna Miller makes a powerful impression as become a reality. A director draws the wife chafing to join him but forever protagonist that avoids the clichés of left behind. The cinematography, by the genre. It feels like a work of classic “Pictures with the grand Darius Khondji (Se7en, Delicatessen), Hollywood cinema, but without the sweep and dreamy energy the best performance from actors captures the seductive allure of jungle arch, mannered quality that can come and river in ravishing imagery fit only with a contemporary director trying to of The Lost City of Z don’t and crew, and a winemaker extracts for the giant screen. harken back to the past. Gray’s film is come along every year “The Lost City of Z is a miraculous beguiling and poetic, capable of gluing – they barely come along you to the screen for every second of its the potential from the land and the movie, at once moving, intimidating, A Northlands Sun 13 Aug, 7.30 pm and gorgeous to behold. It’s a tale languorous running time and lingering at all.” B Northlands Tue 15 Aug, 1.30 pm of colonial exploration that’s aware in the brain for weeks after.” — David — Stephanie Zacharek, Time A Isaac Theatre Wed 16 Aug, 8.00 pm grape. Dedication and the pursuit of the sins of the past, and a portrait Sims, The Atlantic of a driven, obsessive, flawed male A MM Timaru Sun 20 Aug, 7.00 pm for perfection define both crafts.

PRESENTED WITH It’s no wonder success for each Animation NOW! 2017 SUPPORT FROM 85 mins approx. | Censors rating tbc is defined by raising a glass. Our longstanding animation Double King À perdre haleine Waiting for the New Year programmer Malcolm Turner, also Australia 2017 | Director: Felix Colgrave | 9 mins France 2016 | Director: Lea Krowczyk | 4 mins Latvia 2016 | Director: Vladimir Leschiov | 8 mins head honcho at the Melbourne Ah, the quest for power in all its crazy, Sometimes you just have to let the The passage of seasons is the simplest International Animation Festival, offers twisted, warped and comically gory music take you over. of all things, but is lived differently by a selection of the brightest and best forms. different people. from this year’s Animation NOW! I Want Pluto to be a Festival – in 2017 supported Beer Planet Again Before Love by Victoria University Wellington, | | | | Italy 2016 Director: NERDO 2 mins France 2016 | Directors: Marie Amachoukeli, Vladimir Russia 2016 Director: Igor Kovalyov 19 mins School of Design. Charles Bukowski’s roiling, volcanic Mavounia-Kouka | 12 mins Love leads us down many false paths Rising stars, including New Zealand’s thoughts writ loud on one of his On the beautiful complexities of and this drama knows them all. own, jostle with longstanding masters; favourite subjects. rebuilding and the uncertain joys of the playful with the profound. Here admiring from afar. are flights of cinematic magic of an Satie’s “Parade” individuality that only animators can Japan 2016 | Director: Yamamura Koji | 14 mins Fire in Cardboard City bring to the screen – delivering a An animated re-creation of a realist New Zealand 2017 | Director: Phil Brough | 8 mins cornucopia of creative excitement to ballet, fuelled by extracts from Satie Fighting a fire in Cardboard City is reward any moviegoer. essays. always going to be challenging. If you’re looking to sample the international animation ecosystem Primal Flux Scratchy PARTNER in all of its multi-coloured, variously USA 2016 | Director: Joan C. Gratz | 3 mins Canada 2017 | Director: Marv Newland | 3 mins shaped glories, there’s no better place NZ International Film Gratz gently plunges us into a visceral Everywhere you go, everything you to begin. realm of constantly morphing three- do, everybody you meet – everything’s Festival 2010 – 2017 dimensional clay. scratchy.

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Born in China ALL AGES ALL FOR Director: Lu Chuan USA/China 2016 79 mins Producers: Phil Chapman, Roy Conli, Brian Leith Screenplay: David Fowler, Brian Leith, Phil Chapman, Lu Chuan Photography: Irmin Kerck, Justin Maguire, Shane Moore, Rolf Steinmann, Paul Stewart Editor: Matthew Meech Music: Barnaby Taylor Narrator: John Krasinski Festivals: San Francisco 2017

The visual splendour of the natural of the harshest and most unforgiving world and its extraordinary creatures is environments on the planet. captured on a grand scale in this true- The footage captured on this life adventure from Disneynature – ideal epic journey into the wilds of China for young animal lovers. is breathtaking for its access and In an epic tale of four seasons, we intimacy – presented as an opportunity follow some of the animal families that for young audiences to relate the populate various corners of China’s natural world to their own lives, and to expansive terrain. Meet Ya Ya, a panda contemplate the mysteries of the circle bear mother guiding her growing of life. — Nicola Marshall baby Mei Mei as she begins to explore Note: Animal survival depicted. Some and seek independence; Tao Tao, scenes may be upsetting for very young a mischievous two-year-old golden children. snub-nosed monkey nudged toward self-sufficiency after the arrival of his new baby sister; and Dawa, a mother A Isaac Theatre Sun 6 Aug, 11.15 am snow leopard – an elusive animal rarely A Northlands Sun 13 Aug, 11.00 am caught on camera – facing the very real drama of raising her two cubs in one A MM Timaru Sun 20 Aug, 1.00 pm

Swallows and Amazons

Director: Philippa Lowthorpe UK 2016 | 97 mins Producers: Nicholas Barton, Nick O’Hagan, Joe Oppenheimer Screenplay: Andrea Gibb. Based on the novel by Arthur Ransome Photography: Julian Court Editor: David Thrasher Music: Ilan Eshkeri With: Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Kelly Macdonald, Dane Hughes, Orla Hill, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Bobby McCulloch Recommended for ages 9+ PG low level violence

“The four Walker children have finally “Arthur Ransome’s classic pre-war Features selected by Nic Marshall of Square convinced their parents to let them tale of childhood adventure Swallows Eyes Film Foundation, ardent promoters of set off on their own for a sailing and Amazons still evokes a golden, adventure during summer vacation. prelapsarian age when kids were free international cinema to our youngest audiences Their summer of freedom quickly turns range and mucking about in boats and their movie-going companions. The into a fierce turf war when they learn was the acme of excitement… Director their island camp has been claimed Philippa Lowthorpe and screenwriter animated short film programmes are lovingly by the boisterous Amazons, and find Andrea Gibb have tweaked one or curated by Nic with a little assistance from our themselves caught in the midst of two details of Ransome’s original. some nefarious international intrigue And they’ve added an extra dash of Animation NOW! maestro Malcolm Turner. that’s landed in their sleepy byways. derring-do. But at heart their film is as Based on the beloved English novels cosily nostalgic as the cherished 1974 See also: My Life As a Courgette (p35). by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and version.” — Jason Best, Movie Talk Amazons is filled with dramas big and small… that come together to create a fluidly captivating story of bravery A Northlands Sun 6 Aug, 12.00 pm set against the languorous beauty of A Isaac Theatre Sat 19 Aug, 10.45 am the English countryside.” — New York International Children’s Film Festival A MM Timaru Sat 26 Aug, 1.30 pm FOR ALL AGES 33

Animation for Kids 4+ 61 mins approx. | G cert

We’ve searched all around the world Eagle Blue Awesome Beetle’s Fruit of Clouds and back again to shape this eclectic UK 2016 | Director: Will Rose | 4 mins Czech Republic 2017 | Director: Katerˇina Karhánková collection of imaginative and engaging Colours 11 mins Eagle Blue soars high above the Latvia 2016 | Director: Indra Sprog´e | 3 mins animated short films – terrific viewing mountaintop – but she must swoop A charming tuft makes a great for both the very youngest of filmgoers A nearly impossible story, supported down to the town below and provide discovery through overcoming its fear and animation admiring grown-ups. by a catchy melody, guides us through a proper meal for her hungry kids. of the unknown. There’s only space here to list some the alphabet. highlights. For the full programme Tiger Spider Web The Sled listing go to nziff.co.nz — NM | | Germany 2015 | Director: Kariem Saleh | 4 mins Russia 2016 Director: Natalia Chernysheva 4 mins Russia 2016 | Director: Olesya Shchukina | 4 mins A tiny tiger, happy but hungry, sneakily Anyone can get caught in a sticky In the middle of deepest, snowiest satisfies an endless appetite. situation, but sometimes working winter, a squirrel finds something he The Cage together can make things a whole has never seen before. Big Box Singsong: Bears France 2016 | Director: Loïc Bruyere | 6 mins load easier. Canada 2016 | Directors: Warren Brown, Adam Stone Soup Goddard | 2 mins When a bear and his bird pals find the The Pocket Man right rhythm, teamwork equals sweet France 2015 | Director: Clémentine Robach | 7 mins Let’s hear it for the Bears! Georgia/Switzerland/France 2016 | Director: Ana freedom. Chubinidze | 8 mins Times are tough in one little town: first no food, now no electricity. Mr Night Has A Day Off When he makes a new friend, the A Hole Eventually, the transformative power Lithuania 2016 | Director: Ignas Meilunas | 2 mins pocket man realises that acts of Mexico 2016 | Director: Maribel Suárez | 4 mins of community nourishes all in the best kindness come in all shapes and sizes. What will Mr Night do on his day off? A small girl befriends a hole in her ways possible. Wander through the daylight and garden, discovering that patience and a create mischief, of course. helping hand can make a big difference when you want something to grow.

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Animation for Kids 8+ 71 mins approx. | PG low level violence

Hold tight for a showcase of brilliant Welcome to My Life Nino & Felix Water Path For a Fish animated short films – curated for the USA 2015 | Director: Elizabeth Ito | 9 mins Italy 2015 | Directors: Marta Palazzo, Lorenzo Latrofa Spain 2016 | Director: Mercedes Marro | 8 mins curious. Whether you’re an inquisitive 8 mins A glimpse into a day in the life of Oscar rescues a goldfish from the kid or long-time animation fan, there’s Douglas, aka T-Kesh – just your Two boys, who are not particularly clutches of hungry cats but, with the most certainly something for you. average Monster-American teenager. thrilled at being brought together, clash drought, has trouble caring for it. When There’s only space here to list some out their differences to find the ways in the water returns, the trouble becomes highlights. For the full programme 1 Minute Nature: which they are more alike than not. keeping track of his new fishy friend. listing go to nziff.co.nz — NM Jellyfish Weather Little Mouse Netherlands 2016 | Directors: Stefanie Visjager, G-AAAH Hungary 2016 | Director: Ervin B. Nagy | 7 mins Katinka Baehr | 1 min UK 2016 | Director: Elizabeth Hobbs | 1 min Outdoor Cinema The sea is full of colour and ‘Little Mouse’ is a hugely talented Typographical flights of fancy tell the Russia/Australia 2014 | Director: Tatiana Poliektova, underwater mystery in one boy’s true swimmer who earned a spot at the true story of typist-turned-aviator Amy Filippo Rivetti | 3 mins story of a day at the beach. Bucharest Youth Championship. Will Johnson. A group of industrious creatures make she have what it takes to out-lap the an outdoor cinema to reflect the world Jonas and the Sea big kids? Fire in Cardboard City around them. Netherlands 2015 | Director: Marlies van der Wel New Zealand 2017 | Director: Phil Brough | 8 mins 12 mins Sweaty Armpits There’s action aplenty for the USA 2016 | Director: Tony Dusko | 1 min Cats & Dogs Jonas casts aside everything in pursuit Cardboard City Fire Department as Switzerland/Germany 2015 | Director: Gerd Gockell, of his dream to live in the sea. Does anyone have a mop? they try to curb their first real fire. Jesús Pérez | 6 mins One cat. One dog. You can probably anticipate how this might go.

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Gabriel and the Mountain Gabriel e a montanha FRESH

Director: Fellipe Barbosa Brazil/France 2017 127 mins Screenplay: Fellipe Barbosa, Lucas Paraizo, Kirill Mikhanovsky With: João Pedro Zappa Festivals: Cannes (Critics’ Week) 2017 In English, Portuguese, Swahili, Chichewa and French, with English subtitles CinemaScope | M sex scenes, offensive language, drug use & content that may disturb

Spectacular and thrumming with life, The director is alive to his friend’s this richly layered road movie shows us vanity and the ironies attendant on Africa through the eyes of an eager gap- his “total immersion in the heart of year backpacker. “I travel as I’ve always Africa.” Required by a waitress at a dreamed of doing in a nontouristic and beachside cafe to order a meal, Gabriel sustainable manner,” he emails back is outraged to be mistaken for a mere home to Brazil. “Spending $2 or $3 a tourist. But his appetite for the freedom day and giving 80% of my daily budget and friendship of the road gives this to the locals who feed and shelter me.” film irresistible exuberance and heart. Brazilian director Fellipe Barbosa’s There’s mystery too: his impatience to film recreates the journey of his friend knock off the achievements he’s set Gabriel Buchmann who died on the himself brings his brief and brilliant life slopes of Malawi’s Mount Mulanje to an end and sets this wonderfully in 2009. The African cast is made enlivening film in motion. up almost entirely of people whom the open-hearted young Brasileiro befriended along the way. They play B Northlands Thu 10 Aug, 2.00 pm themselves – and deliver personal A Northlands Tue 15 Aug, 8.30 pm tributes in voiceover. A Northlands Fri 18 Aug, 8.30 pm

I Am Not a Witch

Director/Screenplay: Rungano Nyoni UK/France/Zambia/ Germany 2017 | 95 mins Photography: David Gallego Music: Matthew James Kelly With: Margaret Mulubwa, Henry B.J. Phiri, Nancy Murilo Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2017 In English, Bemba, Nyanja and Tonga, with English subtitles Censors rating tbc

We line up the films that held our attention In Zambian-born, Welsh-raised director start believing you’re a witch… Rungano Nyoni’s truly surreal tale, a Rungano Nyoni has made the subject with their energy and originality – in terms nine-year-old village girl is accused the focus of her debut feature… a of subject, technique and sensibility. Not every of witchcraft and hauled off to do biting satire attacking the ignorance witches’ work. Soon she’s identifying which provides oxygen for this hokum… film that feels like a harbinger of the future the culprit in a police line-up, bringing Underneath the humor there’s is the work of a young filmmaker – though on the rain, or just posing for tourists. staunch determination from the Though accusing someone of witchcraft director. ‘It’s so important that we’re an encouraging number on the pages that is illegal in Zambia, Nyoni’s tale is based not precious about [witchcraft], follow are. on continuing practices she observed otherwise nothing gets done,’ she said.” herself living for a month in a witches’ — Thomas Page, CNN.com camp. The awfulness of her story is leavened by the merciless satirical eye she trains on superstition’s perpetrators – the men who put these ‘witches’ to work. “When you’ve been told you’re a B Northlands Mon 7 Aug, 2.15 pm witch, forced to live as a witch, forced A Northlands Sat 12 Aug, 6.15 pm to act as a witch, you might eventually A Northlands Mon 14 Aug, 8.45 pm FRESH 35

A Ghost Story

One of the wonders of this or any year, Director/Screenplay/Editor: David Lowery’s film takes the homeliest David Lowery of images for the supernatural – a sheet USA 2017 | 93 mins with two forlorn eyeholes – and places Producers: Toby Halbrooks, James M. Johnston, Adam Donaghey it at the centre of a layered and piercing Photography: Andrew Droz Palermo contemplation of existential mystery. Music: Daniel Hart With: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Will Oldham, Working in secret and on a micro-budget, McColm Cephas Jr., Kenneisha Thompson, the director of Pete’s Dragon has Grover Coulson, Liz Franke, Barlow Jacobs Festivals: Sundance 2017 evoked a profound eeriness from the M offensive language most minimal and intimate of means. As the ghost of a young husband (Casey Affleck) observes the grief of his partner (Rooney Mara) and then lingers through subsequent tenancies of the house they shared, the helpless ghost’s attachment to the place he loved becomes increasingly impersonal and unsettled. Lowery’s theme is realised in delicate, folkloric images of a distinctly American paradise lost, its hushed mood disrupted by abrupt bursts of anything-goes quality that’s endlessly activity – Will Oldham on a brilliant fascinating. Any movie that can turn “It’s a rare privilege to see jag as a drunken doom theorist – and a walking joke like The Ghost into a contemporary American radical bends in time. a figure of genuine pathos is a movie “A Ghost Story has the structure and that earns every long pause, and film as ambitious, rhythm of a musical suite, with Lowery every sudden leap.” — Noel Murray, emotionally honest, and working variations on the same The Playlist just-plain-breathtaking.” themes, the same characters, and the “A Ghost Story is filmmaking that same location. The result can be lyrical challenges and exhilarates, a potent — Dan Schoenbrun, Filmmaker and poetic, or more naturalistic and reminder of how many new places minimalist. In both cases, A Ghost Story film can still be taken.” — Dominik B Isaac Theatre Wed 16 Aug, 4.00 pm is absolutely mesmerizing, with an Suzanne-Mayer, Consequence of Sound A Isaac Theatre Thu 17 Aug, 8.30 pm

PRESENTED IN My Life As a Courgette ASSOCIATION WITH Patti Cake$ Ma vie de courgette

Director: Claude Barras Director/Screenplay: Switzerland/France 2016 Geremy Jasper 66 mins USA 2017 | 108 mins Screenplay: Céline Sciamma. Photography: Federico Cesca Based on the novel by Gilles Paris Editor: Brad Turner Animation director: Kim Keukeleire Music: Geremy Jasper, Voices: Erick Abbate, Ness Krell, Jason Binnick Romy Beckman, Nick Offerman With: Danielle Macdonald, Briget Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay, Fortnight), Melbourne, Toronto, Mamoudou Athie, Cathy London 2016; Sundance 2017 Moriarty, Sahr Ngaujah Nominated, Best Animated Festivals: Sundance, SXSW, Feature, Academy Awards 2017 New Directors/New Films, PG sexual references San Francisco, Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2017 Censors rating tbc

A bunch of kids from nightmare (Girlhood) from the hit 2002 young “Two stars are born in Patti Cake$, audience at the film’s world premiere backgrounds find refuge and adult novel by Gilles Paris, the film has one of those rare crowd-pleasers that gave an audible gasp when she companionship in this soulful and a keen eye and ear for the way children earn their love honestly. The first is answered her first question because subversive Oscar-nominated animated process the inconceivable (neglect, the sensational Danielle Macdonald, no one had a clue she was Australian feature. Painstakingly crafted over a abuse, deportation, murder)… The who plays the second: the movie’s let alone not American. In a movie decade, Courgette marks another feeling of melancholy is undercut by title character, also known as Patricia like this, filmmakers often have to triumph for animation director Kim the resilience of these children, their Dombrowski, a poor white New Jersey convince the audience an actor playing Keukeleire, who worked on Wes ability to forge relationships and create rapper who, with her tiny diverse posse a musician is as good as the story says Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox. life out of chaos… yearns to cross the bridge to fame there are. At no point in Patti Cake$ “My Life As a Courgette is a stop- My Life As a Courgette never and fortune. Written and directed by is there ever a hint that Macdonald is motion cartoon, blessed with both sacrifices what’s true for what’s trite Geremy Jasper, the movie treads familiar unable to legitimately rap. She’s simply a Swiss director (Claude Barras), and and easier to sell. This is animation as aspirational ground: Patricia has dreams, a revelation.” — Gregory Ellwood, an ambition not to do anything the an art form, inspiring and indelible.” pluck and obstacles (she’s routinely The Playlist conventional way… The animated — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone taunted because of her weight), but characters, most with elongated bodies her outsider status isn’t fetishized or and pasty ping-pong heads with huge romanticized, and she’s divinely real.” eyes, are beautifully realized, and the A Northlands Fri 4 Aug, 6.45 pm — Manohla Dargis, NY Times delicate touch of Barras works wonders. A Isaac Theatre Wed 16 Aug, 6.15 pm “It’s hard to equate what a star- B Isaac Theatre Wed 9 Aug, 3.45 pm Skillfully adapted by Céline Sciamma B Isaac Theatre Thu 17 Aug, 4.30 pm making turn this is for Macdonald. The A Isaac Theatre Fri 11 Aug, 9.00 pm

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Lady Macbeth

Victorian patriarchy meets its match in this juicy period drama. The title alerts us to murderous intent, but the source Director: William Oldroyd material here is one step removed UK 2016 | 89 mins Producer: Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly from Shakespeare: this striking debut Screenplay: Alice Birch. Based on the novella Lady is a stylised reinvention of the 1865 Macbeth of the Mtsensk District by Nikolai Leskov Russian novella Lady Macbeth of the Photography: Ari Wegner Editor: Nick Emerson Mtsensk District. Katherine (Florence Music: Dan Jones Pugh) is a young bride, a virtual With: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie, Christopher Fairbank captive in the draughty mansion of her Festivals: Toronto, San Sebastián, London 2016; dour mine owner husband. Her flinty Sundance, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco 2017 father-in-law pressures her for an heir, Critics’ Prize, San Sebastián International Film though the sadistic ritual unfolding Festival 2016 CinemaScope | R16 violence, offensive language nightly in the marital bedroom scarcely & sex scenes favours reproduction. The incredulous Katherine plots her liberation. If she’s prepared to contemplate murder to escape this disgusting prison, what won’t she do to guarantee her pleasure when she finds it in the arms of the taunting hunk (Cosmo Jarvis) who runs casting adds a frisson of racism to the the household stable? Her maid (Naomi routine abuse of the servant class while “A barbed feminist fable Ackie) stands by, rendered mute by the Katherine’s self-empowerment may feel of class, cruelty and trouble she sees. Pugh, in virtually every proto-feminist in intent. scene, is mesmerising – her insolence “Oldroyd coolly subverts the sexual power that feels smouldering as she’s corseted into fusty conventions of British costume absolutely true to its tight bodices and hooped skirts, her drama… [the film] deliberately incurs period and uncannily abandon as sumptuous as her flesh as many debts to Chandler and when she casts them off. Hammett as it does to Austen or Eliot.” attuned to the present Twenty-first century identity — Jonathan Murray, Cineaste moment.” politics flicker through this revisionist A Isaac Theatre Wed 9 Aug, 8.30 pm — A.O. Scott, NY Times masterpiece theatre. Colour-blind B Isaac Theatre Fri 18 Aug, 1.00 pm

Una The Untamed La región salvaje

Director: Benedict Andrews USA/UK/Canada 2016 Director: Amat Escalante 94 mins Mexico 2016 | 100 mins Screenplay: David Harrower. With: Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Based on his play Blackbird Jesús Meza, Eden Villavicencio Photography: Thimios Bakatakis Festivals: Venice, Toronto, Editor: Nick Fenton San Sebastián, London 2016; Music: Jed Kurzel Rotterdam, San Francisco 2017 With: Rooney Mara, Ben Best Director, Venice Film Festival Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed 2016 Festivals: Toronto, London 2016 In Spanish with English subtitles R16 sex scenes, offensive language R16 violence, nudity, sex scenes, & content that may disturb offensive language & content that may disturb

MANUEL CLARO, MARTÍN ESCALANTE Opened out by David Harrower from The film interrogates the psychology A mysterious visitor offers gratification and Alejandra and observes that maybe his 2005 stage two-hander Blackbird, of abuse with precision, intelligence to the sexually oppressed in this they should be getting some of what the first feature directed by the and restraint; taking on a disturbing arresting mix of hard-edged realism she’s been getting. She directs them Australian stage director-dramatist subject, Harrower and Andrews and bio-sci-fi from Mexican provocateur to a chalet in the countryside where Benedict Andrews is a crucible for expertly shift us through an enormous Amat Escalante (Heli). Alejandra and a scholarly elderly couple harbour the traumatic legacy of abuse – and range of intellectual and emotional her husband Angel live with their the mysterious guest. Not everyone the combustible nerviness of actors positions. This is filmmaking artistry young sons in Guanajuato, Mexico. granted access to the chalet comes Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn. of the highest order, from writing While the swaggering Angel lords it out exhilarated. As in the fierce Heli, “With deeply unresolved questions and performances to the unsettling, over his family, he’s also lining up Escalante’s indictment of posturing about her past, Una (Rooney Mara) moody score from Jed Kurzel (Macbeth, his next furtive hotel room hook-up machismo is graphic, incisive and travels to another city, turning Snowtown).” — Tricia Tuttle, London with Fabián, Alejandra’s brother. super-realistic. Envisaging its nemesis up unannounced at Ray’s (Ben Film Festival The gentle humanitarian in the film, as nature consumed by sexual ecstasy, Mendelsohn) work and dredging Fabián works in the local hospital. he’s created one memorably weird up a decade-old experience that he He too strains under the yoke of the mash-up of a movie. thought he’d left behind. Mendelsohn domineering Angel. and Mara are exceptional as the One day a young stranger arrives troubled and troubling Ray and Una, B Northlands Mon 14 Aug, 4.30 pm at the clinic, strung out but strangely A Northlands Sat 5 Aug, 8.30 pm and Riz Ahmed makes for a perfect A Northlands Tue 15 Aug, 9.00 pm exhilarated, with what appears to be B Northlands Tue 8 Aug, 4.30 pm foil as the innocent Scott. A Northlands Fri 18 Aug, 8.45 pm a dog bite. Soon she befriends Fabián A Northlands Sun 13 Aug, 8.30 pm 38

Blade of the Immortal Mugen no junin THRILL

Director: Miike Takashi Japan/UK 2017 141 mins Screenplay: Oishi Tetsuya. Based on the manga by Samura Hiroaki With: Kimura Takuya, Sugisaki Hana, Fukushi Sota, Ichihara Hayoto, Toda Erika, Kitamura Kazuki, Kuriyama Chiaki Festivals: Cannes (Midnight Screenings) 2017 In Japanese with English subtitles R16 violence & sexual violence

It beggars belief that this is Miike hunters. Years later he is hired as a Takashi’s 100th feature, but even more bodyguard for Rin, whose kendo-master impressive is how the man behind father and pupils were slaughtered by such classics as Audition and Ichi the the swordsmen of Itto-ryu. Killer is still on fire in the director’s Before the last drop of blood hits chair. So, rejoice fans – the maestro the dirt viewers will be immersed in a is back on form, katana in hand and complex web of political conspiracy and ready to party. supernatural shenanigans, as the expertly Based on a popular manga series staged battles between ever increasing about a vengeful swordsman with numbers of adversaries erupt in crimson an uncanny ability to self-heal, geysers of body parts. It all builds to a Blade of the Immortal is a gorgeous virtuoso display of kinetic action that fantasy romp. Raw and savage, with some are saying even tops 13 Assassins’ just the right amount of levity, it’s climax to end all climaxes. — AT also a welcome return to the heroic bloodshed of Miike’s great samurai epic, 13 Assassins. A Northlands Fri 4 Aug, 8.30 pm Mega idol Kimura Takuya stars as B Northlands Wed 9 Aug, 3.45 pm Manji, whose sister is killed by bounty A Isaac Theatre Sun 13 Aug, 8.15 pm

It Comes at Night

Director/Screenplay: Trey Edward Shults USA 2017 | 92 mins Photography: Drew Daniels Editors: Trey Edward Shults, Matthew Hannam Music: Brian McOmber With: Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Griffin Robert Faulkner, David Pendleton, Mikey CinemaScope | R16 violence, offensive language & content that may disturb

In a time that might be now, after a domestic thriller joins the rarified plague has emptied the cities, a family company of Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 of three have boarded themselves up novel The Road and the small handful in an abandoned backwoods lodge of intimate post-apocalyptic scenarios and dedicated every waking moment that puncture through to our deepest to mastering the art of survival. Joel fears… Edgerton is the family’s patriarch, Don’t hold your breath hoping to Carmen Ejogo his wife and Kelvin learn what the plague is. That’s part Harrison Jr their precious, watchful of what makes Shults’s spare, fablelike 17-year-old son. When a stranger story transcend any number of Walking (Christopher Abbott) breaks into the Dead episodes… It Comes at Night is house seeking food and refuge for his a film of tense gradations, a chamber own wife and infant son, the survivalist piece set at the twilight of humanity.” nightmare of scarce resources, — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY invisible disease and creeping paranoia escalates. “A major statement on the subject A Northlands Sun 6 Aug, 8.15 pm of civilization in freefall, writer-director A Northlands Wed 9 Aug, 8.30 pm Trey Edward Shults’s nerve-shredding B Northlands Thu 10 Aug, 4.15 pm THRILL 39

Good Time

“This eyes-open-to-the-world NYC crime thriller from filmmaking brothers Benny and Josh Safdie is cocky, grubby Directors: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie and electric. It features Robert Pattinson USA 2017 | 100 mins Producers: Oscar Boyson, Sebastian Bear-McClard on top form as Connie, a quick-thinking Screenplay: Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstein chancer who we first meet extracting Photography: Sean Price Williams his mentally challenged brother Nick Editors: Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein Music: Oneohtrix Point Never (Benny Safdie) from a therapy session With: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, so they can spend the morning Jennifer Jason Leigh, Buddy Duress, Barkhad Abdi, Taliah Webster robbing a bank. Connie is violent and Festivals: Cannes (In Competition) 2017 dangerous, but he’s also quick-witted CinemaScope | R16 violence, offensive language, drug use & sex scenes and charismatic, so he’s teasingly fun and rewarding company – for us at PROUDLY SPONSORED BY least; not for those he meets… Once the Brooklyn bank job goes south the film stays on the move, running, punching, tumbling, stumbling over 24 hours as the fallout drags us through streets, vehicles, homes, jail, a hospital, a theme park and more. Racing through the gutter of the city, he’s quick and coarse yet he also lends it’s all shot in a scuzzy, real-world style, the character a glint in the eye and a “A riveting race-against- , although the photography by Sean spark in the brain – he’s always more time thriller with Price Williams also runs with a theme of than just bad. The Safdies are show-off neon and scarlet - and bathing some filmmakers, for sure – this is a directing a pounding heart.” scenes in brothel-red isn't the only tour de force. But what makes the — David Rooney, Hollywood thing here that nods to early Martin film more than just a hugely enjoyable Reporter Scorsese… It also boasts a terrific, thriller is that it so clearly has its eyes B Northlands Thu 17 Aug, 4.30 pm throbbing electronic score by Daniel on the world around it.” — Dave A Isaac Theatre Fri 18 Aug, 8.45 pm Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never. Calhoun, Time Out A Northlands Sun 20 Aug, 8.00 pm Pattinson is great in this, surely his best post-Twilight performance to date: A MM Timaru Sat 26 Aug, 8.00 pm

Wind River

Following up his energetic scripting for Sicario and Hell or High Water, actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Director/Screenplay: Taylor Sheridan Sheridan takes the director’s chair for USA 2017 | 111 mins Producers: Basil Iwanyk, Peter Berg, Matthew this chilly backwoods thriller set in the George, Wayne Rogers, Elizabeth A. Bell remote Wind River Indian reservation, Photography: Ben Richardson Wyoming. Jeremy Renner stars as Editor: Gary Roach Music: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis Cory Lambert, an expert marksman With: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, employed by the US Fish and Wildlife Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal, Julia Jones, Kelsey Asbille, James Jordan, Teo Briones, Service to cull dangerous animals. While Apesanahkwat, Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, out on a job he discovers the body of a Eric Lange, Althea Sam Festivals: Sundance, Cannes (Un Certain Regard), young Native American woman. The FBI Sydney 2017 hold jurisdiction and they send rookie Best Director (Un Certain Regard), Cannes Film Festival 2017 agent Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) CinemaScope | Censors rating tbc to investigate. She soon realises she’s in over her head, so looks to Lambert to help her hunt down a predator of a different kind. — MM “Wind River is a modern western, and one of very few forays into the © 2016 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE genre that’s set in snow country… “Sheridan’s beady, inquisitive script Sheridan and cinematographer Ben scrutinises all its characters’ credentials “Delivers shrewd insights Richardson use that landscape in turn… But when it comes down to into troubling American beautifully in a story that reaches it – and during some blistering, Sam out in several directions – it’s about, Peckinpah-like set-pieces, in which social issues in a punchy, among other things, communities the bullets strike with the force of action-and-violence-filled of forgotten people, the intricacies thunderbolts, it most emphatically does package.” — Todd McCarthy, of gender dynamics and the ways in – they’re just people with guns in the which violence against women can be middle of nowhere, each ready to fight Hollywood Reporter B Northlands Fri 4 Aug, 4.15 pm insidiously veiled. The story comes to their corner to the bitterest of ends.” A Northlands Sat 5 Aug, 8.45 pm rest in a way that’s both somber and — Robbie Collin, The Telegraph A Northlands Tue 8 Aug, 8.15 pm B Northlands Fri 11 Aug, 4.15 pm gratifying.” — Stephanie Zacharek, Time 40

Blue REALITY FRAMING Director/Screenplay: Karina Holden Australia 2017 | 76 mins Photography: Jody Muston Underwater photography: Jon Shaw Editor: Vanessa Milton With: Lucas Handley, Madison Stewart, Mark Dia, Phillip Mango, Jennifer Lavers, Tim Silverwood, Valerie Taylor Festivals: Sydney 2017 PG cert

With a background in natural history patiently extracting some of that waste TV, director Karina Holden has made from the bellies of endangered sea birds. an empowering conservationist On Cape York Peninsula the Nanum documentary showcasing the work Wunghtim rangers clear the coastal and advocacy of six `ocean guardians'. waters of the vast ghost nets abandoned Madison Stewart, who grew up on by fishing boats and trapping sea life. the Great Barrier Reef, has become Proving that conservation is not the an underwater filmmaker, using her sole preserve of the young, pioneering camera and social media to increase diver, shark advocate, artist and public awareness of the plight of sharks. Australian heroine Valerie Taylor is Mark Dia, regional oceans campaigner cautiously upbeat at 82. The ocean will for Greenpeace South Asia, uncovers recover, she says, “if we leave it alone.” illegal fishing practices, corruption and labour abuses in the seafood industry. B Northlands Fri 4 Aug, 11.30 am Following the surf was what led Tim A Northlands Thu 10 Aug, 6.15 pm Silverwood to combat the appalling A Isaac Theatre Sun 13 Aug, 1.00 pm ubiquity of plastic waste in sea and on B Isaac Theatre Thu 17 Aug, 12.00 pm shoreline, Dr Jennifer Lavers is a marine eco-toxicologist, seen in the film A MM Timaru Mon 21 Aug, 6.15 pm

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

Director: Matt Tyrnauer USA 2016 | 92 mins Producer: Robert Hammond, Corey Reeser, Jessica Van Garsse, Matt Tyrnauer Photography: Chris Dapkins Editors: Daniel Morfesis, Andrea Lewis Music: Jane Antonia Cornish With: Jane Jacobs, Robert Moses Festivals: Toronto, Amsterdam Documentary 2016; Sydney 2017 Colour and B&W

At his most powerful in the years has fashioned a lively documentary The profusion of excellent documentaries after World War II, powerbroker about the enduring issues enunciated submitted to us is staggering. We try to steer and developer Robert Moses was so clearly in their clash. determined to modernise New York “Tyrnauer transforms what could a course that favours formal sophistication and speed up the traffic. He demolished be a staid profile film into an urgent and complexity, while allowing ourselves on great swathes of housing to build story about the dangers of ‘urban high-rise accommodation and construct renewal,’ something Jacobs herself occasion to fall for the most forthright advocacy superhighways the length of Manhattan. would admire… How do we retain and appeals to the heartstrings. David to his Goliath, Jane Jacobs led a neighborhood diversity amid rapid grass-roots campaign to thwart his plan gentrification? Can a metropolis retain You will find more fine examples filling the to plough an expressway across town, its humanity when everyone’s living in right through Lower Manhattan. Author high-rises?” — April Wolfe, Village Voice Aotearoa section of the programme and in of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs had a vision of urban life the sections that follow. Also in our Big Nights B Northlands Thu 10 Aug, 12.00 pm that involved people, neighbourhoods, A Northlands Fri 11 Aug, 6.30 pm and For All Ages sections. In other words, heritage and habitation on a human A Isaac Theatre Tue 15 Aug, 6.15 pm documentaries are everywhere at NZIFF. scale, qualities Lower Manhattan B Isaac Theatre Wed 16 Aug, 11.15 am enjoyed in abundance. Director Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor) A MM Timaru Mon 21 Aug, 8.00 pm FRAMING REALITY 41

The Farthest

More than 12 billion miles away a Director/Screenplay: Emer Reynolds spaceship the size of a bus has left our Ireland 2017 | 121 mins Solar System and is entering deep space. Producers: John Murray, Clare Stronge Photography: Kate McCullough Slowly dying within its heart is a nuclear Editor: Tony Cranstoun generator that will beat for perhaps Music: Ray Harman With: Fran Bagenal, Jim Bell, John Casani, another decade before the lights on Timothy Ferris, Suzanne Dodd, Amahl Drake, Voyager finally go out. But this little Frank Drake, Don Gurnett, Heidi Hammel, Candy Hansen-Koharcheck, Andrew Ingersoll, craft could travel on for millions of years, Charley Kohlhase, Lawrence Krauss carrying the ‘Golden Record’ bearing Festivals: Tribeca, Sydney 2017 recordings and images of life on Earth. In this spectacular and immensely enjoyable documentary, some of the women and men who have worked on NASA’s Voyager mission look back in wonder and sheer joy at what they achieved and the extraordinary wealth of knowledge that the tiny spaceship has beamed back to earth. As many of them ruefully acknowledge, it’s the most inward- looking, least scientific aspect of the best science project of all time, their project – that famous Golden Record passion for exploring the great beyond “This 40-year retrospective with its Bach, Beethoven, Balinese is inspiring. of the ongoing Voyager gamelans and Chuck Berry – that’s “It’s the right film at the right time, dominated the public imagination a cathartic moment in which audiences missions brings the around Voyager. This film, in which will shed tears for a little machine made humor and humanity they retrace Voyager’s 40-year journey of silicon and aluminium, wrapped in to the science.” A Isaac Theatre Sun 6 Aug, 4.15 pm and successive revelations from Jupiter tin foil and running on less computing — Tasha Robinson, The Verge B Isaac Theatre Mon 14 Aug, 11.00 am (1979), Saturn (1981), Uranus (1986) power than our smartphones, yet B Northlands Wed 16 Aug, 2.00 pm and Neptune (1989), provides the which will outlive us all – perhaps A Northlands Sun 20 Aug, 3.45 pm best possible hope of changing that. by billions of years.” — Fionnuala When these enthusiasts talk about the Halligan, Screendaily A MM Timaru Sun 27 Aug, 5.00 pm

PRESENTED WITH SUPPORT FROM IN ASSOCIATION WITH Dealt To Stay Alive: A Method

Luke Korem Director: Erik Lieshout Russell Wayne Groves The Netherlands/ Director: Luke Korem Belgium 2016 | 70 mins USA 2017 | 85 mins Producer: Marc Thelosen Producer: Russell Wayne Groves Photography/Editor: Screenplay: Bradley Jackson, Reinier van Brummelen Luke Korem Music: Iggy Pop Photography: Jacob Hamilton With: Michel Houellebecq, With: Richard Turner, Kim Turner, Iggy Pop, Anne Claire Bourdin, Asa Spades Turner, Simon Carmel, Jerome Tessier Lori Dragt, Michaela Vail Festivals: Amsterdam Festivals: SXSW 2017 Documentary 2016; Sydney 2017 Audience Award (Documentary), In English and French, with SXSW Film Festival 2017 English subtitles

Richard Turner is one of the world’s Turner’s proud refusal to be A Michel Houellebecq/Iggy Pop combo rewards of suffering. greatest card magicians. With four defined by his disability is not without may initially seem incongruous. Houellebecq’s “advice to young decades of experience, his amazing its drawbacks, as the film savvily However, these two enfants terribles, poets” combines reflections on artistic sleight of hand and deft card control demonstrates by contrasting his veteran disrupters of the worlds of existence and the experiences of people are astonishing to see, even before you situation with his sister’s. She too is literature and rock music on opposite in his own life, whom we also have find out he is completely blind. As one blind, but has no compunction about sides of the Atlantic, share many the privilege of meeting. Far from the audience member exclaims after seeing using a seeing eye dog to get around. affinities, not the least of which is the misérabilisme for which Houellebecq his show, “Is there a deeper magic When not performing, Turner is wholly shared belief that the role of the artist is renowned, this superbly crafted that’s happening?” reliant on his wife, Kim, and his is to “put your finger on the wound film mines the value in difference and Director Luke Korem’s portrait of delightfully named son, Asa Spades. of society and press down real hard.” otherness, often with deadpan and card artistry and stubborn dedication But when Asa leaves for college, Turner Iggy’s first encounter with impish wit – something else the two introduces us to the man behind the has to learn a few new tricks and Houellebecq’s writing was like delving men share. — SR magic. Inspired by the theme song to finally come to terms with his visual into his own autobiography, so much Maverick, Turner committed his life impairment. — MM did it seem to describe his early to “livin’ on jacks and queens” and the experience as a geeky outsider. His gradual loss of his eyesight that began inimitable voice, gravel-rough and when he was nine did little to deter poised, wonderfully recites excerpts B Northlands Mon 7 Aug, 4.45 pm him. Indeed, if it were up to him, he’d from To Stay Alive: A Method, the A Northlands Sun 13 Aug, 11.30 am rather no one even knew he was blind. A Northlands Fri 11 Aug, 8.30 pm French writer’s manifesto about the A Northlands Sat 19 Aug, 4.45 pm COMING TO CINEMAS AUGUST 24

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I Am Not Your Negro

“Whatever you think about the past and future of what used to be called ‘race relations’ – white supremacy and Director: Raoul Peck the resistance to it, in plainer English – USA/France 2016 | 93 mins Producers: Rémi Grellety, Raoul Peck, Hébert Peck this movie will make you think again, Screenplay: Raoul Peck, James Baldwin and may even change your mind. Photography: Henry Adebonojo, Bill Ross, Though its principal figure, the novelist, Turner Ross Editor: Alexandra Strauss playwright and essayist James Baldwin, Music: Alexei Aigui is a man who has been dead for nearly Narrator: Samuel L. Jackson With: James Baldwin, Malcolm X, 30 years, you would be hard-pressed to Martin Luther King Jr, Medgar Evers, find a movie that speaks to the present Lorraine Hansberry Festivals: Toronto, New York 2016; Berlin 2017 moment with greater clarity and force, People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film insisting on uncomfortable truths Festival 2016 Nominated, Best Documentary, Academy Awards and drawing stark lessons from the 2017 shadows of history… Panorama Audience Award, Berlin Film Festival 2017 B&W and Colour To call I Am Not Your Negro a movie about James Baldwin would be to understate [director Raoul] Peck’s achievement. It’s more of a posthumous collaboration, an uncanny and thrilling communion between words – some of the most powerful the filmmaker… and his subject. The and penetrating ever assembled on the “Masterfully addressing the voice-over narration (read by Samuel tortured subject of American identity – American racial divide, L. Jackson) is entirely drawn from accompany images from old talk shows Baldwin’s work. Much of it comes from and news reports, from classic movies past and present… a notes and letters written in the mid- and from our own decidedly non-post- galvanizing, ominous film, 1970s, when Baldwin was somewhat racial present… thrumming with a sense of B Isaac Theatre Fri 4 Aug, 2.00 pm reluctantly sketching out a book, never I Am Not Your Negro is a thrilling history repeating itself.” A Isaac Theatre Mon 7 Aug, 6.15 pm to be completed, about the lives and introduction to his work, a remedial B Northlands Fri 11 Aug, 2.45 pm deaths of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X course in American history, and an — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY A Northlands Sat 12 Aug, 4.15 pm and Martin Luther King Jr… advanced seminar in racial politics.” His published and unpublished — A.O. Scott, NY Times A MM Timaru Wed 23 Aug, 8.15 pm

Kedi COMING TO CINEMAS AUGUST 24 “It’s hard to say whether Ceyda Torun’s delightful and visually splendid Kedi is a documentary about Istanbul, with Director: Ceyda Torun cats, or a documentary about cats Turkey/USA 2016 | 79 mins Producers: Ceyda Torun, Charlie Wuppermann that happens to be set in Istanbul… Photography: Charlie Wuppermann If Kedi is any sort of anthropological Editor: Mo Stoebe examination of the life of a city, it Music: Kira Fontana With: Sari, Bengü, Aslan Parçasi, Psikopat, works because its vision is filtered Deniz, Gamsiz, Duman, Bülent Ustun, through the lazy-looking but in Mine Sogut, Elif Nursad Festivals: Melbourne, Vancouver 2016 fact hyper-aware eyes of our feline In Turkish with English subtitles compatriots. They always see things we can’t. In turning our gaze toward them, we learn deep truths about ourselves. Meanwhile, their lives go on, their brains whirring with thoughts like ‘What is that guy doing on my turf?’ ‘I’d like a nice piece of fish right now,’ and ‘Where’s a good spot to have kittens?’ We see cats thinking all of those things, and more, in Kedi – which while explaining how much his means cat, in Turkish. The picture’s store cat enriches his life and the “Impossible to resist… Kedi FEATURE PRECEDED BY pleasures are bountiful, particularly for neighborhood. The cat recently needed is almost shamelessly Stay cat lovers… There are cats sleeping medical care. ‘We all have a running Craig Gainsborough, Luke Thornborough | New Zealand obliviously on unnervingly high-up tab at the vet,’ he says with a shrug. satisfying: a documentary 2017 | 7 mins ledges; cats padding across corrugated In all great cities, the magnificent about the thousands A Isaac Theatre Sat 5 Aug, 1.00 pm rusty-red roofs; cats just hanging out in intersects with the mundane – that’s of scrappy wild cats that B Isaac Theatre Tue 8 Aug, 11.00 am doorways, their ears barely twitching what makes them not only livable B Northlands Tue 15 Aug, 12.00 pm as nearby humans extol their virtues… but vital. The cats of Kedi tell that story, prowl Istanbul with A Northlands Sun 20 Aug, 1.30 pm A baker goes about his daily business, in between naps. They know a good insouciance.” creating homey-looking pastries that place when they’ve found it.” B MM Timaru Thu 17 Aug, 1.00 pm — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out NY COMING TO CINEMAS SEPTEMBER 14 you’ll wish you could eat immediately, — Stephanie Zacharek, Time A MM Timaru Sat 19 Aug, 2.00 pm 44 FRAMING REALITY

Risk

Julian Assange loathes Risk. Or he Director: Laura Poitras loathes, at least, what Risk has become. Germany/USA 2016 | 93 mins When it premiered at Cannes in 2016, Producers: Laura Poitras, Brenda Coughlin Photography: Kirsten Johnson Laura Poitras’ film presented a mostly Editors: Melody London, Laura Poitras admiring portrait of the WikiLeaks Music: Jeremy Flower With: Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison, founder. It has since been updated, and Jacob Appelbaum, Renata Avila, Joseph Farrell, updated again. WikiLeaks’ controversial Jennifer Robinson Festivals: Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight) 2016; role in the US presidential election Sydney 2017 is part of that evolution, but Poitras’ In English, Arabic and Spanish, with English revisions are more profoundly spurred by subtitles a deepening suspicion about Assange’s character, particularly around his response to sexual assault allegations. Seven years in the making, Risk is a thematic sibling to Citizenfour, the Edward Snowden feature that won Poitras the 2015 Oscar for Best Documentary. The access is extraordinary. We see Assange marshalling his cohorts as if they were PRAXIS FILMS an intelligence agency. Telephoning brilliance risks becoming subsumed the US State Department, demanding by narcissism, with a startling attitude “A messier, weirder, to speak to Hillary Clinton. Taking on to those who challenge him – and and more interesting an elaborate disguise for the dash to a filmmaker unwilling to remain a the Ecuadorian embassy in pursuit of bystander. The most conspicuous documentary than political asylum. change in the re-cut Risk is a voiceover Citizenfour, about a Spellbinding and at times disquieting, from the director herself. “The lines messier, weirder, and Risk explores the moral and ethical have become blurred,” she says, debate sparked by WikiLeaks, the impact drawing on notes from her production more persistently relevant of which has been felt throughout journal. “I thought I could ignore the man.” — Josephine Livingstone, A Northlands Thu 17 Aug, 8.45 pm journalism and politics. But at its core contradictions... I was wrong. They are B Northlands Fri 18 Aug, 4.30 pm The New Republic it is a study of an individual whose becoming the story.” — Toby Manhire A Northlands Sun 20 Aug, 3.30 pm FRAMING REALITY 45

Step

If you come to NZIFF in search of real-life heroines, the ‘Lethal Ladies’ of Baltimore Leadership School for Young Director: Amanda Lipitz Women are here to steal your hearts USA 2017 | 83 mins Producers: Steven Cantor, Amanda Lipitz – before they dazzle you in a blaze of Photography: Casey Regan step dance fury. Editor: Penelope Falk Opened in 2009 with a mandate to Music: Laura Karpman, Raphael Saadiq With: Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger, Tayla Solomon, send every student to university, the Gari McIntyre, Paula Dofat school is well attuned to the fractured Festivals: Sundance, San Francisco 2017 Special Jury Prize (Documentary), Sundance Film home lives and poverty facing many Festival 2017 of its brightest charges. The film trails three very differently positioned seniors as each is guided through a nerve- wracking college application process. Where they find unity, relief and exhilaration is on the step dance team. Under the new step mistress, that’s no walk in the park either: she’s pushing them to kill at the state dance-off. Director Amanda Lipitz gets close to her subjects and into their relationships “Step is so much fun, it could cause with the women who champion and some doc purists to gripe at the glossy “Inspirational… Step tells a challenge them: their mothers, a touches… but that’s where the film story that highlights heroically persistent college counsellor, may ultimately prove most powerful. and the no-bullshit step coach. With By offering some of society’s most the intertwining values so much effort concentrated on marginalized members – young black of hope and education.” getting into college, the outcome of women – their time in the spotlight — Steve Greene, Indiewire the step competition assumes a lesser without any inkling of condescension significance than in the standard ‘Best or exploitation, Lipitz does more than in Show’ documentary, which only just entertain or enlighten. She’s B Northlands Wed 9 Aug, 11.45 am makes it more loaded when the big breaking down barriers in nonfiction A Northlands Fri 11 Aug, 6.15 pm moment suddenly arrives. cinema.” — Geoff Berkshire, Variety A Isaac Theatre Sat 19 Aug, 1.00 pm

Unrest Winnie

Director: Jennifer Brea Director/Screenplay: USA 2017 | 97 mins Pascale Lamche Screenplay: Jennifer Brea, France/South Africa/ Kim Roberts The Netherlands 2017 Photography: Sam Heesen, Christian Laursen 98 mins With: Jennifer Brea, Omar Wasow, Photography: Olivier Raffet, Jessica Taylor, Lee Ray Denton, Felix Meyburgh Randy Denton, Casie Jackson With: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Festivals: Sundance, SXSW 2017 Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane Special Jury Prize (Documentary), Festivals: Sundance 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017 Directing Award (World Cinema In English and Danish, with Documentary), Sundance Film English subtitles Festival 2017

A largely mysterious condition that Unrest tells the story of Jen and her French director Pascale Lamche’s Zindzi, biographers, journalists and reportedly afflicts as many as 17 husband, Omar, facing the unexpected, Sundance award winner outlines the lawyers make it abundantly clear how million people worldwide, chronic and four of the community of ME life and work of legendary activist she became such a formidable fighter, fatigue syndrome or myalgic patients whom Jen brings together on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – and still going strong at 80. encephalomyelitis (ME) still perplexes the internet, in the United States, UK allows her to deliver her side of a “It might be apparent where the most doctors and is often dismissed and Denmark. Together they explore disputed history. Nelson Mandela film’s sympathies reside, but Winnie is as a psychosomatic illness. how to make a meaningful life when was often perceived as a saint, even by no means a simple or straightforward Director Jennifer Brea was a everything changes. The film is a feat by the regime he opposed. Winnie, missive of support. Lamche’s efforts to journalist and academic studying for of disability filmmaking, made with an who was married to him for 38 years unravel not only the tale at hand but a PhD at Harvard. Months before her international team and using innovative and furthered his agenda in a violent also the reasoning behind the many wedding she became progressively technologies to allow the bedbound outside world during his 27 years of conflicting views surrounding her ill, losing the ability even to sit in a director to cover the world and film as incarceration, was almost as readily subject – and the ripples both leave in wheelchair. When told by her doctor if she’s in the room. demonised. Lamche’s film makes telling the country today – are deftly it was ‘all in her head’, her response use of archival clips, not least Winnie handled.” — Sarah Ward, Screendaily was to start filming from her bed, Mandela’s fractious engagement gradually deploying crews globally with the Truth and Reconciliation to document the world inhabited by B Northlands Mon 7 Aug, 12.45 pm Commission and her breathtaking A Northlands Sat 5 Aug, 11.00 am millions of patients whom medicine A Northlands Sat 12 Aug, 11.45 am denunciation by Bishop Desmond Tutu. A Northlands Sat 5 Aug, 5.00 pm forgot. A Northlands Sun 20 Aug, 1.45 pm Interviews with diplomat daughter B Northlands Tue 15 Aug, 11.30 am 46

BANG! The Bert Berns Story AN ARTIST AN OF PORTRAIT Directors: Brett Berns, Bob Sarles USA 2016 | 96 mins Directors: Brett Berns, Bob Sarles Screenplay: Joel Selvin Photography: Aaron Medick, Gil Gilbert Narrator: Steven Van Zandt With: Paul McCartney, Van Morrison, Solomon Burke, Keith Richards, Ben E. King, Wilson Pickett, Ronald Isley, Cissy Houston, Brenda Reid, Betty Harris, Mike Stoller, Doug Morris, Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich Festivals: SXSW, Vancouver 2016

Bert Berns created some of the most nightclub go-go dancer), and a record gloriously soulful pop records of the industry hustler and standover man 1960s. This Bronx-born son of Russian known as ‘Wassel’. Jewish immigrants wrote such immortal Berns had friendships and songs as ‘Twist and Shout’ and ‘Piece of partnerships with colourfully unsavoury My Heart’, brought Cuban rhythms into characters, and vicious showdowns R&B and produced the hits that kick- with colleagues and rivals. And yet started Van Morrison’s career. He also the word that keeps recurring in this “walked with gangsters – and exalted documentary is ‘soul’. Everyone attests them,” according to his biographer Joel that Berns had it, from Morrison to Selvin. black soul giants like Ben E. King and Berns, who died in 1967, age 38, Cissy Houston. This movie helps us lived as though he was on borrowed understand that soul, its origins and its time. The movie parallels the punchy torments. — Nick Bollinger pace of his brief but dramatic life. Steven Van Zandt (from Springsteen’s E Street Band) narrates. Interviewees are A Northlands Sat 12 Aug, 4.00 pm mostly straight-shooting New Yorkers, B Northlands Tue 15 Aug, 4.15 pm including Berns’ widow Ilene (a former A Northlands Wed 16 Aug, 6.30 pm

Beuys: Art As a Weapon

Director/Screeplay: Andres Veiel Germany 2017 107 mins Photography: Jörg Jeshel Editors: Stephan Krumbiegel, Olaf Voigtländer With: Joseph Beuys, Caroline Tisdall, Rhea Thönges-Stringaris, Franz Joseph van der Grinten, Johannes Stüttgen, Klaus Staeck Festivals: Berlin, Sydney 2017 In German and English, with English subtitles Colour and B&W

“Most Germans, regardless of their level Beuys shows you the man, his See also: of education or their interest in art have interactions with the press, his inner Bill Direen: A Memory of Others (p10), heard of Joseph Beuys [1921– 1986]. family life and the dilemmas he faced in Born in Kleve, he walked the earth like his career: from youthful depression to Faces Places (p6), Kobi (p12), Maudie (p19). a shaman, dressed in a hat and a khaki starting a counter-cultural revolution.” fishing vest, offered healing thoughts, — Rene J. Meyer-Grimberg, Berlin aktionen (happenings) and confusing Film Journal installation pieces suggesting ways to “Veiel’s film strives to not only heal a wounded post-war Germany. invite viewers to reminisce over the His personal legend includes being a importance of Beuys’ work, but also member of Hitler youth, a gunner with provide us with an insight into the the Luftwaffe and getting shot down workings of a true anti-conformist’s over the Caucasus. His pilot died but mind.” — Josef Proimarkis, Cineuropa he survived and, according to his story (which is gently questioned in the film), the Tartars rolled him in fat and wool until he could be brought to a hospital. B Northlands Tue 8 Aug, 4.00 pm Consequently, fat and wool figure A Northlands Thu 17 Aug, 6.15 pm prominently in his work. A Northlands Sat 19 Aug, 12.15 pm PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST 47

House of Z

“As good looking and stylish as its Director: Sandy Chronopoulos subject, House of Z is a portrait of the USA 2017 | 90 mins artist as a young man. Famously well Producers: Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen, Sandy Chronopoulos connected, Zac Posen rode a rocket Photography: Konrad Czystowski, Nadia Hallgren, ship to fame and success at the age of Mark Klassen Editors: Hollie Singer, Madeleine Gavin 21. But his is a cautionary tale of what Music: Eric Stamile happens to those whose PR machines With: Zac Posen, Susan Posen, Alexandra Posen, Stephen Posen, Naomi Campbell, are steps ahead of reality. As quickly Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, André Leon Talley, as the handsome Zac made a name Paz de la Huerta, Claire Danes for himself, he found himself on the Festivals: Tribeca 2017 receiving end of damaging gossip, PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH bad reviews and dropping sales. Told with the help of a star-studded cast, including Puff Daddy, Naomi Campbell and Claire Danes, this all-access story charts the rise and fall – and rise again – of a fashion world wunderkind.” — Aisha Jamal, Hot Docs “‘Fashion has a dark side. Not all runways and lipstick and fishtail gowns,’ Posen says about his chosen In Posen’s continued dedication to milieu, and while House of Z is making dresses in his atelier – and by “An enjoyable doc aesthetically quite straightforward, personally draping gowns over female overflowing with stunning it receives a jolt of unique energy bodies, as the foundation of his process from Posen’s own front-and-center – House of Z captures the way in which pieces of clothing, both participation in this portrait… He direct hands-on engagement is vital on models and on its star.” comes across as a young man to an artist’s continued relevance, and — John DeFore, Hollywood B Northlands Fri 4 Aug, 2.30 pm humbled by failure and appreciative vitality.” — Nick Schager, Variety A Northlands Sun 6 Aug, 2.00 pm Reporter of the opportunities he still has, not to A Isaac Theatre Sun 13 Aug, 3.00 pm mention now capable of viewing his B Isaac Theatre Fri 18 Aug, 11.00 am past through a more mature, objective lens… A MM Timaru Sun 27 Aug, 3.00 pm

BIG Time Bill Frisell: A Portrait

Director/Photography: Director/Producer/ Kaspar Astrup Schröder Screenplay/Photography/ Denmark 2017 | 93 mins Editor: Emma Franz Producer: Sara Stockmann Australia 2017 | 114 mins Editors: Bobbie Esra G. Pertan, Music: Bill Frisell Cathrine Ambus, Kaspar Astrup With: Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, Schröder Jim Hall, Mike Gibbs, Jason Music: Ali Helnwein Moran, Jim Woodring, Joey With: Bjarke Ingels Baron, Tony Scherr, Kenny In Danish and English, with Wollesen, English subtitles John Zorn Festivals: SXSW 2017

As a kid, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels there’s a world of difference between I can’t think of another music film love for the guitar and its expressive considered the flat roof on his parents’ fielding such paltry objections on home that puts as many smiles on screen as possibilities, combined with a genuine house to be a waste of space – with ground and opening a New York office this gently revealing portrait of jazz self-effacement. Though articulate, potential. In 2016, his plans for a to embark on mammoth projects that guitarist Bill Frisell. Fellow artists smile he clearly finds words inadequate to smoke ring-blowing power plant with will join the most famous architectural as they describe what it’s like to make describe what he does and why he a ski slope on its roof in Copenhagen skyline of them all. music with him, and we catch the silent does it. Likewise, he is reluctant to attracted attention outside the usual Schröder documents the architect’s smiles that pass between players during speculate on why other musicians find architectural press. Time magazine struggle to balance ambition, ill health performances. such delight in working with him. named him, at the age of 42, one of and relationships with remarkable Frisell, now in his mid-60s, has been But drummer Joey Baron has no the world’s 100 most influential people intimacy, but his film never feels closer a unique source of joy ever since he trouble explaining what makes Frisell of the year. to the heart of its subject than when it emerged from the New York downtown such a musical magnet. “It’s integrity,” Filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schröder lets him talk about buildings, marker at jazz scene of the late 70s. His repertoire he says, with a smile. “And who filmed Ingels on and off over several hand, dashing off lightning illustrations is unusually democratic and in the wouldn’t want to find out more about years, and the portrait of a driven of everything he says. generous live performance sequences that?” — Nick Bollinger man stretched increasingly thin is both we see him in a wide range of settings, compelling and alarming. Early in the from duos to symphony orchestras, film there’s wry coverage of the fallout A Northlands Sun 6 Aug, 11.45 am playing anything from Coltrane tunes A Northlands Sun 13 Aug, 3.00 pm that occurs when the power company A Northlands Sat 12 Aug, 12.15 pm to old folk songs. A Northlands Mon 14 Aug, 8.00 pm asks who’s paying for the ski slope, but B Northlands Mon 14 Aug, 12.30 pm There is a near-innocence about his B Northlands Fri 18 Aug, 4.00 pm Roll out the digital red carpet. Official Sponsors of NZIFF 2017 Innovative Festivals choose forward thinking technology partners. www.shift72.com VOD Solutions for the entertainment industry PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST 49

Dries La Chana

Director/Producer/ Director: Lucija Stojevic Screenplay: Spain/Iceland 2016 Reiner Holzemer 83 mins Germany/Belgium 2017 Producers: Lucija Stojevic, 90 mins Deirdre Towers Photography: Samuel Navarrete Photography: Reiner Holzemer, Editor: Domi Parra Toon Illegems, Erwin Van Der Music: Ernesto Briceño Stappen With: La Chana Editors: Helmar Jungmann, Festivals: Amsterdam Stephan Krumbiegel Documentary 2016 Music: Colin Greenwood, Matthew Audience Award, International Herbert, Sam Petts-Davies Documentary Festival Amsterdam With: Dries Van Noten, Iris Apfel, 2016 Pamela Golbin, Geert Brulot In Spanish with English subtitles In English and Dutch, with English subtitles

Belgian designer Dries Van Noten gets unique counterpoint to an industry ‘La Chana’, the living legend of Spanish her brutally possessive [first] husband… the fashion documentary treatment in driven by trends. Although the new flamenco dancing, surveys the emotional The shadowy husband turned down this intimate and understated portrait. collections are the film’s focus, Dries rollercoaster of her tough life and Hollywood offers and effectively forced All the requisite fashion film fixtures are is also a chance to revisit Van Noten’s remarkable career in a documentary La Chana into an early retirement, from on show: gorgeous clothes, stunning past through archival footage of his that mixes highly personable interview which she emerged triumphantly via models and plenty of sartorial drama. previous shows. These are some of the footage with a lifetime’s worth of a 1977 TV special… In her late sixties For 30 years, Van Noten has carved film’s most insightful scenes, allowing flat-out amazing performance clips. at the time of filming, the dignified, a successful career as an independent Van Noten to chart the evolution of his Has anybody else anywhere ever dowager-like La Chana has mobility designer. His shows are must-see abilities and confidence as a designer. moved their feet with such speed, issues but is still very much a ‘force events and he can count Iris Apfel and Like its subject, Dries is a quietly expression and passionate intensity? of nature’. She retains just enough Kanye West as fans. Dries provides a modest film that allows the opulent “La Chana is an admiring, even ‘strength, speed and soul’ – the crucial peek at Van Noten’s creative process fashion to soar. — Chris Tse adoring portrait of a strong-willed elements of flamenco – to be coaxed as he and his team prepare four new female performer rising above the into one last show.” — Neil Young, collections. His clothes revel in clashing restrictions of the patriarchal society Hollywood Reporter prints and the incorporation of low and into which she was born. In the case B Isaac Theatre Mon 7 Aug, 11.00 am high culture, exhibiting an unrivalled A Isaac Theatre Wed 9 Aug, 6.15 pm of La Chana – also known as Antonia eye for detail. In a world where we’re B Northlands Thu 10 Aug, 1.00 pm Santiago Amador – this was the A Northlands Fri 4 Aug, 6.30 pm constantly told what’s hot or not, fiercely traditional gypsy society of B Northlands Fri 11 Aug, 2.30 pm Roll out A MM Timaru Tue 22 Aug, 6.15 pm A Isaac Theatre Sat 12 Aug, 11.00 am designers like Van Noten provide a Franco-era Spain, as personified by

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY RUMBLE: The Indians Whiteley Who Rocked the World the digital Director: James Bogle Australia 2017 | 94 mins Director: Producer: Sue Clothier Catherine Bainbridge Screenplay: James Bogle, Victor Gentile Canada 2017 | 102 mins Photography: Jim Frater Co-director: Alfonso Maiorana Editor: Lawrie Silvestrin With: Robbie Robertson, Buffy Music: Ash Gibson Greig Sainte-Marie, John Trudell, With: Brett Whiteley, Wendy Pat Vegas, Martin Scorsese, Whiteley, Frannie Hopkirk, Tony Bennett, Steven Tyler, Barry Pearce, Kathie Sutherland, red carpet. Iggy Pop, Taj Mahal, Adam Beach Phillip Adams, Andrew Olle Festivals: Sundance 2017 Special Jury Prize (World Cinema Official Sponsors of NZIFF 2017 Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2017 Innovative Festivals choose forward This revealing tribute to Native thunder of drummer Randy Castillo to Blending archival footage, interviews genius at work deeply affected by his thinking technology partners. American musicians celebrates their the glides and slides in the singing of and personal correspondence, Whiteley surroundings and fractured psyche. little credited contributions to popular early jazz queen Mildred Bailey. is a bold portrait of Australian artist “I am trying to become a great contemporary music from blues to jazz, In the end, though, the point is not Brett Whiteley that charts his chaotic man. Believe in me.” Whiteley says from Hendrix to Metallica. to untie the tangled blood knot of life in his own words. Despite early this with a determination in his voice “A Native American singer of the American music so much as celebrate success, Whiteley’s public struggles that acknowledges the forces in his Tuscarora tribe, Pura Fe Crescioni sits the greatest Native American music with addiction soon overshadowed life that both fuelled his talent and beside a turntable as it plays a 1929 stars, many of whom kept their origins his artistic talents, pulling him ever sealed his untimely death. Although he recording of the bluesman Charley concealed. As Robbie Robertson of The deeper into a state of personal and may have always questioned himself, Patton. ‘When I hear this, it’s Indian Band was warned when he was young, creative turmoil. there’s no denying the legacy he left music to me,’ she says. ‘That rhythm. ‘Be proud you’re an Indian, but be One of the constants of Whiteley’s behind. Whiteley ensures that we Do you hear it?’ After the field careful who you tell.’” — Nick Bollinger life was his wife and muse Wendy, who continue to recognise this iconic artist’s recordings of Mississippi Chocktaws features as the film’s other prominent achievements. — Chris Tse performing their ‘Drunk Dance’ just voice, recounting decades of passion moments earlier, I hear it. and drama with him. The film breathes Once this idea has been sown, it’s new life into many of Whiteley’s works hard not to hear Native American A Northlands Sun 6 Aug, 4.00 pm – from his erotically charged landscapes A Northlands Sat 5 Aug, 1.00 pm

www.shift72.com elements throughout the music profiled A Northlands Mon 7 Aug, 8.30 pm to his political New York output – A Northlands Mon 7 Aug, 6.15 pm VOD Solutions for the entertainment industry in this film, from the heavy metal B Northlands Wed 9 Aug, 4.00 pm giving us an impressionistic view of a B Northlands Thu 17 Aug, 1.45 pm

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CHRISTCHURCH SCHEDULE

Thursday 3 August B 1.15 pm The Party (Isaac Theatre) 71 28 B 4.30 pm Don’t Tell (Northlands) 108 18 A 7.00 pm 20th Century Women (Isaac Theatre) 119 5 B 2.15 pm I Am Not a Witch (Northlands) 95 34 A 6.15 pm Beatriz at Dinner (Isaac Theatre) 83 29 Friday 4 August B 2.45 pm The Beguiled (Northlands) 94 29 A 6.15 pm Blue (Northlands) 76 40 B 11.30 am Blue (Northlands) 76 40 B 3.00 pm BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Isaac Theatre) 144 20 A 8.00 pm Stalker (Northlands) 161 25 B 11.45 am Summer 1993 (Isaac Theatre) 97 27 B 4.15 pm A Monster Calls (Northlands) 109 28 A 8.15 pm A Fantastic Woman (Northlands) 105 19 B 12.30 pm Ethel & Ernest (Northlands) 94 27 B 4.45 pm To Stay Alive: A Method (Northlands) 70 41 A 8.30 pm 6 Days (Isaac Theatre) 95 11 B 1.15 pm TEAM TIBET... (Northlands) 160 16 A 6.15 pm I Am Not Your Negro (Isaac Theatre) 93 43 Friday 11 August A 6.15 pm Whiteley (Northlands) 94 49 B 2.00 pm I Am Not Your Negro (Isaac Theatre) 93 43 B 11.00 am Frantz (Isaac Theatre) 114 19 A 6.30 pm Heal the Living (Northlands) 103 21 B 2.30 pm House of Z (Northlands) 90 47 B 12.15 pm Maudie (Northlands) 115 19 A 8.15 pm The Free Man (Northlands) 84 11 B 4.15 pm The Beguiled (Isaac Theatre) 94 29 B 12.30 pm Ethel & Ernest (Northlands) 94 27 A 8.30 pm RUMBLE... (Northlands) 102 49 B 4.15 pm Wind River (Northlands) 111 39 B 1.30 pm No Ordinary Sheila (Isaac Theatre) 98 14 A 8.30 pm Spookers (Isaac Theatre) 83 15 B 4.45 pm Brigsby Bear (Northlands) 98 28 B 2.30 pm La Chana (Northlands) 83 49 A 6.30 pm La Chana (Northlands) 83 49 Tuesday 8 August B 2.45 pm I Am Not Your Negro (Northlands) 93 43 A 6.30 pm The Party (Isaac Theatre) 71 28 B 11.00 am Kedi (Isaac Theatre) 79 + 7 43 B 4.15 pm Spookers (Isaac Theatre) 83 15 A 6.45 pm My Life As a Courgette (Northlands) 66 35 B 12.00 pm The Teacher (Northlands) 102 26 B 4.15 pm Wind River (Northlands) 111 39 A 8.15 pm Call Me by Your Name (Northlands) 132 25 B 12.15 pm Heal the Living (Northlands) 103 21 B 4.45 pm The Party (Northlands) 71 28 A 8.30 pm Blade of the Immortal (Northlands) 141 38 B 1.00 pm My Year with Helen (Isaac Theatre) 93 8 A 6.15 pm Step (Northlands) 83 45 A 8.30 pm Human Traces (Isaac Theatre) 87 6 B 2.00 pm Kiki, Love to Love (Northlands) 102 26 A 6.30 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for… (Northlands) 92 40 Saturday 5 August B 2.15 pm Newton (Northlands) 106 24 A 6.30 pm God’s Own Country (Isaac Theatre) 105 27 A 11.00 am Winnie (Northlands) 98 45 B 3.45 pm God’s Own Country (Isaac Theatre) 105 27 A 8.00 pm Swagger of Thieves (Northlands) 110 15 A 11.15 am Animation for Kids 4+ (Isaac Theatre) 61 33 B 4.00 pm Beuys: Art As a Weapon (Northlands) 107 46 A 8.30 pm Dealt (Northlands) 85 41 A 11.15 am TEAM TIBET... (Northlands) 160 16 B 4.30 pm The Untamed (Northlands) 100 37 A 9.00 pm Patti Cake$ (Isaac Theatre) 108 35 A 1.00 pm Kedi (Isaac Theatre) 79 + 7 43 A 6.15 pm Mountain (Isaac Theatre) 74 7 Saturday 12 August A 6.15 pm The Beguiled (Northlands) 94 29 A 1.00 pm Whiteley (Northlands) 94 49 A 11.00 am La Chana (Isaac Theatre) 83 49 A 6.30 pm New Zealand’s Best 2017 (Northlands) 75 17 A 3.00 pm Ethel & Ernest (Northlands) 94 27 A 11.45 am Unrest (Northlands) 97 45 A 8.15 pm One Island of Good (Isaac Theatre) 85 15 A 3.15 pm Stalker (Northlands) 161 25 A 12.15 pm BIG Time (Northlands) 93 47 A 8.15 pm Wind River (Northlands) 111 39 A 3.15 pm The Midwife (Isaac Theatre) 117 23 A 1.00 pm No Ordinary Sheila (Isaac Theatre) 98 14 A 8.30 pm A Monster Calls (Northlands) 109 28 A 5.00 pm Winnie (Northlands) 98 45 A 1.45 pm The Midwife (Northlands) 117 23 A 6.00 pm The Other Side of Hope (Isaac Theatre) 98 8 Wednesday 9 August A 2.15 pm Pop Aye (Northlands) 102 25 A 6.15 pm A Monster Calls (Northlands) 109 28 B 11.00 am 20th Century Women (Isaac Theatre) 119 5 A 4.00 pm BANG! The Bert Berns Story (Northlands) 96 46 A 7.00 pm A Date for Mad Mary (Northlands) 82 24 B 11.45 am Step (Northlands) 83 45 A 4.00 pm Summer 1993 (Isaac Theatre) 97 27 A 8.30 pm The Beguiled (Isaac Theatre) 94 29 B 12.00 pm A Fantastic Woman (Northlands) 105 19 A 4.15 pm I Am Not Your Negro (Northlands) 93 43 A 8.30 pm The Untamed (Northlands) 100 37 B 1.30 pm The Other Side of Hope (Isaac Theatre) 98 8 A 6.00 pm Don’t Tell (Northlands) 108 18 A 8.45 pm Wind River (Northlands) 111 39 B 1.45 pm Kim Dotcom: Caught…(Northlands) 112 13 A 6.15 pm I Am Not a Witch (Northlands) 95 34 Sunday 6 August B 2.00 pm A Date for Mad Mary (Northlands) 82 24 A 6.30 pm Faces Places (Isaac Theatre) 89 6 A 11.15 am Born in China (Isaac Theatre) 79 32 B 3.45 pm Blade of the Immortal (Northlands) 141 38 A 8.15 pm A Fantastic Woman (Northlands) 105 19 A 11.45 am BIG Time (Northlands) 93 47 B 3.45 pm Patti Cake$ (Isaac Theatre) 108 35 A 8.30 pm Swagger of Thieves (Northlands) 110 15 A 12.00 pm Swallows and Amazons (Northlands) 97 32 B 4.00 pm RUMBLE... (Northlands) 102 49 A 8.45 pm The Killing of a Sacred…(Isaac Theatre) 125 24 A 1.15 pm My Year with Helen (Isaac Theatre) 93 8 A 6.15 pm Dries (Isaac Theatre) 90 49 Sunday 13 August A 6.15 pm Pop Aye (Northlands) 102 25 A 1.45 pm Heal the Living (Northlands) 103 21 A 11.00 am Animation for Kids 8+ (Isaac Theatre) 71 33 A 6.30 pm Animation NOW! 2017 (Northlands) 85 31 A 2.00 pm House of Z (Northlands) 90 47 A 11.00 am Born in China (Northlands) 79 32 A 8.15 pm The Teacher (Northlands) 102 26 A 3.45 pm Don’t Tell (Northlands) 108 18 A 11.30 am To Stay Alive: A Method (Northlands) 70 41 A 8.30 pm It Comes at Night (Northlands) 92 38 A 4.00 pm RUMBLE... (Northlands) 102 49 A 12.45 pm Kim Dotcom: Caught… (Northlands) 112 13 A 8.30 pm Lady Macbeth (Isaac Theatre) 89 37 A 4.15 pm The Farthest (Isaac Theatre) 121 41 A 1.00 pm Blue (Isaac Theatre) 76 40 A 6.00 pm Kiki, Love to Love (Northlands) 102 26 Thursday 10 August A 1.00 pm Ethel & Ernest (Northlands) 94 27 A 6.15 pm Brigsby Bear (Northlands) 98 28 B 11.00 am Maudie (Isaac Theatre) 115 19 A 3.00 pm Bill Frisell: A Portrait (Northlands) 114 47 A 7.00 pm BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Isaac Theatre) 144 20 B 12.00 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for… (Northlands) 92 40 A 3.00 pm House of Z (Isaac Theatre) 90 47 A 8.00 pm The Free Man (Northlands) 84 11 B 1.00 pm Dries (Northlands) 90 49 A 3.45 pm Kim Dotcom: Caught… (Northlands) 112 13 A 8.15 pm It Comes at Night (Northlands) 92 38 B 1.30 pm Loveless (Isaac Theatre) 128 7 A 5.15 pm 20th Century Women (Northlands) 119 5 Monday 7 August B 2.00 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (Northlands) 127 34 A 5.15 pm Loveless (Isaac Theatre) 128 7 B 11.00 am Dries (Isaac Theatre) 90 49 B 2.45 pm New Zealand’s Best 2017 (Northlands) 75 17 A 6.45 pm Beatriz at Dinner (Northlands) 83 29 B 12.15 pm Pop Aye (Northlands) 102 25 B 4.15 pm A Date for Mad Mary (Isaac Theatre) 82 24 A 7.30 pm The Lost City of Z (Northlands) 141 31 B 12.45 pm Unrest (Northlands) 97 45 B 4.15 pm It Comes at Night (Northlands) 92 38 A 8.15 pm Blade of the Immortal (Isaac Theatre) 141 38 52

Christchurch schedule continued B 2.00 pm 100 Men (Northlands) 94 10 TIMARU TICKET PRICES A 8.30 pm The Untamed (Northlands) 100 37 B 2.00 pm The Midwife (Isaac Theatre) 117 23 A CODED SESSIONS Monday 14 August B 4.00 pm Berlin Syndrome (Northlands) 117 18 Sessions starting after 5.00 pm weekdays and all B 4.30 pm Good Time (Northlands) 100 39 B 11.00 am The Farthest (Isaac Theatre) 121 41 weekend sessions. B 4.30 pm My Life As a Courgette (Isaac Theatre) 66 35 B 12.00 pm The Midwife (Northlands) 117 23 » Full Price $16.00 A 6.15 pm Beuys: Art As a Weapon (Northlands) 107 46 B 12.30 pm BIG Time (Northlands) 93 47 » Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/ $13.00 A 6.15 pm Let the Sunshine In (Isaac Theatre) 94 22 Student/Community Services Card * B 1.45 pm Happy End (Isaac Theatre) 110 21 A 6.30 pm Newton (Northlands) 106 24 » Senior Citizens (60+) $12.00 B 2.15 pm The Teacher (Northlands) 102 26 A 8.30 pm A Ghost Story (Isaac Theatre) 93 35 » Children (15 and under) $10.00 B 2.30 pm Pop Aye (Northlands) 102 25 A 8.30 pm Berlin Syndrome (Northlands) 117 18 B CODED SESSIONS B 4.15 pm Beatriz at Dinner (Isaac Theatre) 83 29 Sessions starting before 5.00 pm weekdays and A 8.45 pm Risk (Northlands) 93 44 B 4.15 pm The Free Man (Northlands) 84 11 others as indicated. B 4.30 pm Una (Northlands) 94 37 Friday 18 August » Full Price $13.00 A 6.15 pm Animation NOW! 2017 (Northlands) 85 31 B 11.00 am House of Z (Isaac Theatre) 90 47 » Senior Citizens (60+) $12.00 A 6.15 pm Frantz (Isaac Theatre) 114 19 B 12.00 pm Maudie (Northlands) 115 19 » Children (15 and under) $10.00 FIVE-TRIP PASS A 6.30 pm Free Theatre (Northlands) 76 11 B 12.15 pm A Woman’s Life (Northlands) 119 22 Valid for all NZIFF sessions. A 8.00 pm Bill Frisell: A Portrait (Northlands) 114 47 B 1.00 pm Lady Macbeth (Isaac Theatre) 89 37 » Five-Trip Pass $65.00 A 8.45 pm I Am Not a Witch (Northlands) 95 34 B 2.15 pm The Inland Road (Northlands) 80 14 The Five-Trip Pass can be purchased in advance or on B 2.30 pm Mountain (Northlands) 74 7 A 8.45 pm Mountain (Isaac Theatre) 74 7 the day. Passes can be shared. They cannot be used B 3.15 pm The Square (Isaac Theatre) 147 5 Tuesday 15 August for online bookings. No refunds will be given for lost B 4.00 pm Bill Frisell: A Portrait (Northlands) 114 47 passes or passes not fully redeemed during NZIFF. B 10.30 am Faces Places (Isaac Theatre) 89 6 B 4.30 pm Risk (Northlands) 93 44 Subject to seat availability. B 11.30 am Winnie (Northlands) 98 45 A 6.15 pm A Woman’s Life (Northlands) 119 22 CONCESSION DISCOUNTS B 12.00 pm Kedi (Northlands) 79 + 7 43 A 6.30 pm A Date for Mad Mary (Isaac Theatre) 82 24 (Film Society/Film Industry Guilds/Student/Community B 12.45 pm Call Me by Your Name (Isaac Theatre) 132 25 Services Card) A 6.30 pm Brigsby Bear (Northlands) 98 28 B 1.30 pm The Lost City of Z (Northlands) 141 31 *Full-time students, Community Services Card holders A 8.30 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (Northlands) 127 34 and members of Film Societies and Film Industry Guilds B 1.45 pm Free Theatre (Northlands) 76 11 A 8.45 pm Good Time (Isaac Theatre) 100 39 are entitled to purchase one ticket per session at the B 3.30 pm The Killing of a Sacred… (Isaac Theatre) 125 24 discount rate. Student/Membership/CSC ID is required A 8.45 pm Una (Northlands) 94 37 B 4.00 pm Human Traces (Northlands) 87 6 – please ensure you bring it with you to the venue Saturday 19 August to present to staff on request; failure to do so will B 4.15 pm BANG! The Bert Berns Story (Northlands) 96 46 result in the full price being charged for attendance. A 10.45 am Swallows and Amazons (Isaac Theatre) 97 32 A 6.15 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for… (Isaac Theatre) 92 40 The concession price is not available to those holding A 12.00 pm Animation for Kids 4+ (Northlands) 61 33 A 6.15 pm The Workshop (Northlands) 114 23 Film Society three-film sampler cards.Prices are GST A 12.15 pm Beuys: Art As a Weapon (Northlands) 107 46 inclusive and in NZD. A 6.30 pm Kobi (Northlands) 103 13 A 1.00 pm Step (Isaac Theatre) 83 45 A 8.30 pm Gabriel and the Mountain (Northlands) 127 34 A 1.45 pm Summer 1993 (Northlands) 97 27 A 8.30 pm Happy End (Isaac Theatre) 110 21 BUYING TICKETS A 2.30 pm A Woman’s Life (Northlands) 119 22 A 9.00 pm Una (Northlands) 94 37 BOOKINGS OPEN FRIDAY 14 JULY FROM 9.00 AM A 3.00 pm Maudie (Isaac Theatre) 115 19 Advance bookings are available for all NZIFF sessions. Wednesday 16 August A 3.45 pm Newton (Northlands) 106 24 Seats are allocated on the basis of best available at the time of purchase. Book early to secure the best seats. B 11.15 am Citizen Jane: Battle for… (Isaac Theatre) 92 40 A 4.45 pm To Stay Alive: A Method (Northlands) 70 41 B 11.30 am Kobi (Northlands) 103 13 A 5.45 pm Seven Rivers Walking (Isaac Theatre) 84 16 ONLINE www.moviemaxdigital.co.nz Booking fee: $1.20 per ticket B 11.45 am The Workshop (Northlands) 114 23 A 6.00 pm Bill Direen: A Memory of …Northlands) 87 10 Tickets can be collected in person from 12.00 pm. B 1.30 pm One Island of Good (Isaac Theatre) 85 15 A 6.15 pm Kiki, Love to Love (Northlands) 102 26 IN PERSON Open from 11.00 am daily. B 2.00 pm The Farthest (Northlands) 121 41 A 8.15 pm The Workshop (Northlands) 114 23 METHODS OF PAYMENT B 2.15 pm Let the Sunshine In (Northlands) 94 22 A 8.30 pm Call Me by Your Name (Isaac Theatre) 132 25 Cash/EFTPOS: Accepted for box office bookings. Visa/Mastercard: Accepted for all bookings. B 4.00 pm A Ghost Story (Isaac Theatre) 93 35 A 8.30 pm The Inland Road (Northlands) 80 14 B 4.15 pm 6 Days (Northlands) 95 11 REFUNDS Sunday 20 August Please note that NO REFUNDS will be given for B 4.30 pm Kiki, Love to Love (Northlands) 102 26 A 12.00 pm Animation for Kids 8+ (Northlands) 71 33 uncollected tickets or tickets collected late. Bookings A 6.15 pm My Life As a Courgette (Isaac Theatre) 66 35 A 1.30 pm Kedi (Northlands) 79 + 7 43 once made cannot be altered. Please choose carefully A 6.15 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga... (Northlands) 91 17 as there are no exchanges or refunds except as A 1.45 pm Unrest (Northlands) 97 45 required by law. A 6.30 pm BANG! The Bert Berns Story (Northlands) 96 46 ✪ 2.00 pm Our Hospitality (Isaac Theatre) 74 9 A 8.00 pm The Lost City of Z (Isaac Theatre) 141 31 A 3.30 pm Risk (Northlands) 93 44 A 8.30 pm 100 Men (Northlands) 94 10 A 3.45 pm The Farthest (Northlands) 121 41 VENUE INFORMATION A 8.45 pm Mountain (Northlands) 74 7 For answers to frequently asked questions visit A 4.15 pm Waru (Isaac Theatre) 88 16 www.nziff.co.nz Thursday 17 August A 5.30 pm Bill Direen: A Memory of… (Northlands) 87 10 Movie Max Digital: cnr of Sophia & Canon Sts, Timaru B 11.30 am 20th Century Women (Northlands) 119 5 A 6.15 pm The Teacher (Northlands) 102 26 Ph: (03) 684 6975 B 12.00 pm Blue (Isaac Theatre) 76 40 A 7.15 pm The Square (Isaac Theatre) 147 5 WHEELCHAIR ACCESS/SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Please advise the ticket seller when purchasing your B 12.00 pm Nga¯ Whanaunga... (Northlands) 91 17 A 8.00 pm Good Time (Northlands) 100 39 tickets if you have difficulty with stairs or have any B 1.45 pm Whiteley (Northlands) 94 49 A 8.15 pm Berlin Syndrome (Northlands) 117 18 special requirements. 53

TIMARU SCHEDULE INDEX Thursday 17 August 6 Days 11 The Inland Road 14 U B 1.00 pm Kedi (79 + 7) 43 20th Century Women 5 It Comes at Night 38 Una 37 100 Men 10 Unrest 45 A 6.15 pm 20th Century Women (119) 5 K A 8.30 pm Kiki, Love to Love (102) 26 The Untamed 37 A Kedi 43 Friday 18 August Animation for Kids 4+ 33 Kiki, Love to Love 26 W B 1.00 pm The Midwife (117) 23 Animation for Kids 8+ 33 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 24 Waru 16 A 6.30 pm The Party (71) 28 Animation NOW! 2017 31 Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web 13 Whiteley 49 A 8.00 pm The Other Side of Hope (98) 8 Wind River 39 B Kobi 13 Winnie 45 Saturday 19 August BANG! The Bert Berns Story 46 L A 2.00 pm Kedi (79 + 7) 43 A Woman’s Life 22 Beatriz at Dinner 29 La Chana 49 A 3.45 pm Frantz (114) 19 The Workshop 23 The Beguiled 29 Lady Macbeth 37 A 6.00 pm The Beguiled (94) 29 Berlin Syndrome 18 Let the Sunshine In 22 A 8.00 pm Call Me by Your Name (132) 25 Beuys: Art As a Weapon 46 The Lost City of Z 31 Sunday 20 August BIG Time 47 Loveless 7 A 1.00 pm Born in China (79) 32 Bill Direen: A Memory of Others 10 M A 2.45 pm My Year with Helen (93) 8 Bill Frisell: A Portrait 47 Maudie 19 A 4.45 pm The Midwife (117) 23 Blade of the Immortal 38 The Midwife 23 A 7.00 pm The Lost City of Z (141) 31 Blue 40 A Monster Calls 28 Monday 21 August Born in China 32 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 20 Mountain 7 B 1.00 pm Call Me by Your Name (132) 25 Brigsby Bear 28 My Life As a Courgette 35 A 6.15 pm Blue (76) 40 My Year with Helen 8 A 8.00 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (92) 40 C Tuesday 22 August Call Me by Your Name 25 N Newton 24 B 1.00 pm Ethel & Ernest (94) 27 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 40 New Zealand’s Best 2017 17 A 6.15 pm Dries (90) 49 D Nga¯ Whanaunga… 2017 17 A 8.15 pm New Zealand's Best 2017 (75) 17 A Date for Mad Mary 24 No Ordinary Sheila 14 Wednesday 23 August Dealt 41 B 1.00 pm 20th Century Women (119) 5 Don’t Tell 18 O A 6.15 pm Summer 1993 (97) 27 Dries 49 One Island of Good 15 A 8.15 pm I Am Not Your Negro (93) 43 The Other Side of Hope 8 E Our Hospitality 9 Thursday 24 August Ethel & Ernest 27 B 1.00 pm Maudie (115) 19 P F A 6.15 pm Faces Places (89) 6 The Party 28 Faces Places 6 A 8.15 pm Pop Aye (102) 25 Patti Cake$ 35 A Fantastic Woman 19 KEY TO ICONS Friday 25 August Pop Aye 25 The Farthest 41 Guest Appearance B 1.00 pm Faces Places (89) 6 Frantz 19 R A 6.30 pm Mountain (74) 7 Short Preceding Feature The Free Man 11 Risk 44 A 8.15 pm A Date for Mad Mary (82) 24 Cannes Selection 2017 Free Theatre 11 RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked… 49 Saturday 26 August Major Festival Award G A 1.30 pm Swallows and Amazons (97) 32 S Gabriel and the Mountain 34 A 3.30 pm Maudie (115) 19 Seven Rivers Walking 16 A Ghost Story 35 A 6.00 pm No Ordinary Sheila (98) 14 Spookers 15 God’s Own Country 27 Notes in this brochure are written and A 8.00 pm Good Time (100) 39 The Square 5 compiled by the programmers, Bill Gosden, Good Time 39 Michael McDonnell, Ant Timpson, Sandra Stalker 25 Sunday 27 August Reid and Malcolm Turner. Tim Wong, Toby Manhire, Nick Bollinger, Judah Finnigan, H Step 45 A 12.30 pm Seven Rivers Walking (84) 16 Jo Randerson, Andrew Langridge, Chris Tse, Happy End 21 Summer 1993 27 Rebecca McMillan, Graeme Tuckett and Nic A 3.00 pm House of Z (90) 47 Marshall also contributed notes. The Heal the Living 21 Swagger of Thieves 15 brochure was edited, drawing on a wide A 5.00 pm The Farthest (121) 41 array of writers we like, by Bill Gosden, who Swallows and Amazons 32 A 7.30 pm Loveless (128) 7 House of Z 47 also wrote the unsigned notes, cribbing the occasional perfect adjective from said Human Traces 6 T writers. It was managed by Tim Wong with the assistance of a squadron of ace I The Teacher 26 proofreaders who labour beyond the call of duty. Views expressed in the brochure do I Am Not a Witch 34 TEAM TIBET: Home away… 16 not necessarily represent the views of the staff or trustees of the New Zealand Film I Am Not Your Negro 43 To Stay Alive: A Method 41 Festival Trust. RomeoTHE RYMAN HEALTHCARE SEASON OF Juliet

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