www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Friday 26 February to Sunday 14 March www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Festival Director David Gillam puts Director’s a dozen films in the spotlight Dozen DEPARTURES (12A) p.13 AN EDUCATION (12A) p.14 FISH TANK (15) p.15 KATAlIN VARGA (15) p.19 Fascinating, surprisingly funny, and wise The giddy hopes and fears of adolescence at Pitch-perfect performances all round make This haunting debut plays out like winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign the dawn of the swinging sixties this the best British film of 2009! a cross between a revenge thriller and Language Film 2009 some half-forgotten folk tale ME & ORSON WEllES p.22 A PROPHET (18) p.24 THE ROAD (15) p.25 SERAPHINE (PG) p.27 A wonderful, warm portrait of Welles at the Utterly gripping winner of the Best Film Prize at A brilliant adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s A wonderful performance by the imposing peak of his powers London Film Festival grabs you from the start great novel about the lengths a father will Yolande Moreau as the maid who was also and never lets go go to protect his son an inspired outsider artist STIll WAlKING (U) p.30 UP IN THE AIR (15) p.33 THE WIND JOURNEYS (15) p.35 WOMAN OF THE DUNES (15) p.36 Precisely observed, profoundly moving Clooney at his glorious comic best in this A real discovery – fantastically beautiful, Stark, haunting, brilliantly cinematic, masterpiece that distills the ebb and flow of thoughtful satire on the American way of extraordinary music – quite unlike anything a true one-of-a-kind that has to be seen family life to its essence life from the director of Juno you’ll ever have seen before on the big screen 4 / 54 AWelcome – Z Film to Index Borderlines 2010 www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Naomi Vera-Sanso Borderlines Film Festival Producer Welcome to the eighth Borderlines is always looking at ways Mavericks Mavericks Borderlines Film to reduce the Festival’s impact on the Festival! This year we environment and this year we have gone are travelling further to great lengths to improve the sustainability afield than ever – of this publication – from the paper we use from our new North to how our printer protects the environment. Shropshire venue, When you have finished with this brochure Wem Town Hall to please pass it to a friend or recycle it. Broken Embraces p.10 FEAR Eats THE SOUl p.15 THE Limits OF ME & ORSON WEllES p.22 Ross-on-Wye in the south with a staggering Control p.19 38 venues in between, justifying our claim to Finally it has to be said that none of this be the largest rural film festival in Britain! would be possible without the continued Comic support of our funders: Screen WM and Comic Release Release David Gillam, our Festival Director, has once the National Lottery through the UK Film again pulled together a fantastic selection of Council, Herefordshire Council, The Elmley prize-winning cinema from across the world. Foundation, Hereford City Council and Don’t miss out on the special Borderlines Shropshire Council. We are also very grateful events either, with debate and industry- for the businesses that sponsor the Festival focused events, hands-on workshops and and the regional and national organisations directors and producers coming to discuss who partner us. IN THE lOOP p.18 lOUISE-MICHEl p.20 RUMBA p.26 UP IN THE AIR p.33 their work. Hot Hot Docs Docs The Courtyard 2010 Festival Ticket Offer £1 off each ticket when booking for 5 or more events in a single transaction. Call 01432 340555 or book in person (does not apply to online purchases) All tickets for films starting before 3pm (including weekend screenings) – £3 Friends of the Courtyard – 10% discount Wem Town Hall ROUGH AUNTIES p.26 STARSUCKERS p.29 WE lIVE IN PUBlIC p.34 THE YES MEN FIX THE Student Damage Card Holders – £3 all screenings WORlD p.37 All 4 films for £12 (£6 saving!) when bought at the same time World Call 01939 237075 World Cinema courtesy of WOW Wales One World Film Festival Cinema Kids! Take a trip to the wilds of Southern Africa with Film Club! Special introductory screening FREE plus popcorn and refreshments Duma (U) MACHAN p.20 TREElESS MOUNTAIN p31 TUlPAN p.32 THE WIND JOURNEYS p.35 an orphaned cheetah and a young boy become best friends A – Z Film listings p6 – p37 / Venue Information p42 / Festival Diary p43 – p47 Tuesday 2nd March 4pm, The Hereford Academy Classics For further info contact [email protected] / Additional strand: Classics www.filmclub.org/filmclub-on-road 6 / 7 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org Classics Hot Docs All About Eve (U) Astro Boy (PG) Bhutan: The Height Director: Joseph Mankiewicz Director: David Bowers of Happiness? (U) Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, With the voices of: Nicolas Cage, Samuel George Sanders, Marilyn Monroe L Jackson, Bill Nighy, Donald Sutherland Director: Brian Becker USA, 1950, 2 hours 18 minutes USA/Hong Kong/Japan, 2009 UK, 2008, 52 minutes 44 Inch Chest (18) 9 (12A) 1 hour 34 minutes Wednesday 10 March 2.15pm Saturday 6 March 2.15pm Director: Malcolm Venville Director: Shane Acker The Courtyard Hereford Saturday 13 March 11.30am, The Courtyard Hereford Starring: Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Ian McShane With the voices of: Elijah Wood, Sunday 14 11.30am UK, 2009, 1 hour 34 minutes Christopher Plummer, John C Reilly Bette Davis at her most world- The Courtyard Hereford Sandwiched between China and USA, 2009, 1 hour 19 minutes weary as ageing actress Margot India deep in the Himalayas, Sunday 28 February 2.00pm, Tuesday 2 March 6.15pm, In Metro City, scientist Dr Tenma Wednesday 3 8.45pm Friday 5 March 2.15pm, Channing, fighting back as Bhutan has remained one of the creates a robot with the most The Courtyard Hereford Monday 8 March 4.15pm a conniving (and youthful) few spots in the world untainted The Courtyard Hereford incredible abilities ever imagined protégée moves in to upstage by commercialism. Until the Col’s wife has announced she’s in love with a younger man. to replace his dead son. His both her career and her love life. late ‘90s, that is, when satellite The revenge scenario that this triggers off – in East End gangland In a post-apocalyptic future, creation Astro Boy is born with Back-stabbing is rife in the close communications arrived. In a territory and from a first-time director – doesn’t deliver glossy, sackcloth doll 9 wakes up to X-ray vision, super speed and theatrical circle, not least from country that retained its own gratuitous violence. Instead it delves with dark humour beneath the find others of his kind eking out strength, along with the power George Sanders as the sardonic customs, traditions and costume surface bravado into an exploration of pain, love, suffering and the a meagre existence and hiding to fly. A long journey lies ahead theatre critic, Addison DeWitt, and measured its output in terms nature of masculinity. With all the intensity of a carefully scripted from The Beast, a mechanical of him; Astro must face up to and sparks fly. In Margot’s of ‘Gross National Happiness’ chamber piece (from the writers of Sexy Beast) it makes fantastic use terror in the shape of a stalking being different from the other immortal and much quoted it’s the young who have of its talented troupe of actors who, with Ray Winstone at their cat. Produced by Tim Burton, children he meets and, like many words, “Fasten your seat bells, proved particularly vulnerable centre, wield bad language with pleasurable poetic precision. there’s more than a touch of a comic-book outcast, he must it’s going to be a bumpy night!” to the evils of globalisation: The Nightmare Before Christmas discover his true destiny. This consumerism, TV, gaming “…at its best, an acute, unblinking portrait of misogyny to the look of the film, but nifty piece of animated fun, full “Put simply, one of the greatest addiction and fast food. This in practice” Variety Acker has taken his impressive, of vigorous madcap action and movies ever made.” Anthony colourful and sympathetic photo-surreal animation in a sweet humour, makes for solid, Quinn, Independent documentary gives a balanced refreshing direction. Visually kid-friendly entertainment. view of a sheltered nation reeling extraordinary, with desolate Winner of 6 Oscars including landscapes washed in grey, green Best Picture, Best Director & from fast-forward exposure to and brown, 9 is a grim fairy tale Best Script 1951 the larger world. for these troubled times. Director Brian Becker will introduce the screening “Striking and ambitious” Total Film 8 / 9 A – Z Film Index www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org World Cinema Big Pictures, Birdwatchers (15) Bigger Ideas Director: Marco Bechis Starring: Abrisio da Silva Pedro, Alicelia Batista Cabreira, Ambrosio Vilhava Short films by foundation Italy/Brazil, 2008, 1 hour 44 minutes, subtitles degree Film and Video students Saturday 13 March 7.00pm at Hereford College of Arts Ross St Mary’s Church Hall Tuesday 2 March 11.00am Bright Star (PG) The Courtyard Hereford Forced off their land, a group of Guarani Indians are paid to pose as FREE savages for passing tourists. Although they reclaim their territory and Director: Jane Campion Starring: Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox one boy, a trainee shaman, starts a relationship with the rancher’s UK/Australia/France, 2009, 2 hours Hereford College of Arts’ daughter, prejudice abounds. Through the story of two young boys film degree students will be caught between their father’s desire to continue to live the traditional Friday 26 February 8.00pm, Clungunford Parish Hall showcasing their most recently way and their own desire for Nike trainers this sensitively explores Saturday 27 February 7.30pm produced projects.