Bath Film Festival 3 - 13 November 2016 bathfilmfestival.org.uk Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 3 Welcome to #BFF2016 At Bath Film Festival we aim to bring you a truly eclectic and inspiring mix of film that you won’t find anywhere else. How? Our programming team scour the world for the most compelling, fresh and fascinating films for you to enjoy. Over the last three years, since our successful launch of the much-talked-about F-Rating (see page 8), our focus increasingly has been on films made by and about societies, cultures and people that we don’t often see on the big screen in Bath. This year look out for the many films receiving an F-Rating stamp of approval, as well as those included in two new strands: Pan-Asian and Queer Film. We think they all add up to our most vibrant and AD (Bath Theatre) diverse film festival yet – enjoy! Holly Tarquini, Executive Director Contents Festival Schedule 4 - 5 Festival Highlights 6 - 15 Map and Bookings 16 - 17 Our Sponsors 18 - 19 All the Films 20 - 41 Registered Office: 2nd Floor, Abbey Chambers, Kingston Parade, OME Bath BA1 1LY 01225 463 458 hello@bathfilmfestival.org.uk C Bath Box Office 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @bathfilm #FindYourFilm WEL Registered in the UK no. 3400371 Registered Charity no. 1080952 Details of all 5 Find Your Film Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm films on pages 20-41 EVENT VENUE START PAGE EVENT VENUE START PAGE EVENT VENUE START PAGE EVENT VENUE START PAGE Thursday 3 November Monday 7 November Wednesday 9 November Saturday 12 November The Odyssey (L’Odyssée) Odeon Screen 1 19.30 20 Hamlet Chapel Arts 18.00 26 The Salesman Odeon Screen 1 20.30 32 Swallows and Amazons Odeon Screen 1 18.00 38 The Red Turtle (La Tortue Rouge) Odeon Screen 1 18.00 26 The Music of Strangers Chapel Arts 20.40 33 Creepy Odeon Screen 2 20.40 39 Friday 4 November Sonita Odeon Screen 2 18.30 27 Miss Hokusai Rondo 105 21.00 33 A Strange Love Affair With Ego ICIA, Edge Arts 19.30 39 A Monster Calls Odeon Screen 6 18.30 21 Only The Dead Rondo 19.00 27 The Salt of the Earth BRLSI Elwin Rm 19.30 39 Tickled Mission Theatre 18.30 21 Harmonium Odeon Screen 1 20.10 28 Thursday 10 November The Birth of a Nation Odeon Screen 1 20.50 40 Tidal Tales Widcombe SC 19.00 21 Baden Baden Chapel Arts 20.30 28 The Duchess Assembly Rooms 18.00 34 Under The Shadow Odeon Screen 2 21.00 40 Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words Mission Theatre 20.40 22 Burn Burn Burn Odeon Screen 1 18.00 35 Tuesday 8 November Ethel and Ernest Odeon Screen 2 18.30 35 Sunday 13 November Saturday 5 November Certain Women Odeon Screen 1 18.00 29 Cameraperson Chapel 135 19.00 35 Paterson Odeon Screen 1 18.00 40 Railways On Film Mission Theatre 19.00 22 Seed: The Untold Story Chapel Arts 18.10 29 Neruda Odeon Screen 1 21.00 36 A United Kingdom Odeon Screen 6 20.40 41 Summertime (La Belle Saison) Mission Theatre 20.40 23 Closet Monster Rondo 18.30 30 Alone In Berlin Odeon Screen 1 20.40 30 Friday 11 November Sunday 6 November Girls Lost (Pojkarna) Chapel Arts 20.50 31 The Levelling Odeon Screen 1 18.00 36 Freaky Friday Little Theatre 1 12.00 23 Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? Odeon Screen 2 18.30 36 Long Way Noth Chapel Arts 16.00 23 Wednesday 9 November The Handmaiden Odeon Screen 1 20.30 37 Forever Pure Chapel Arts 18.00 24 The Pass Odeon Screen 1 18.00 31 Desierto Odeon Screen 2 18.30 38 The Olive Tree (El Olivo) Odeon Screen 1 18.00 25 Omo Child: The River And The Bush Chapel Arts 18.00 31 The Clan (El Clan) Chapel Arts 20.10 25 Sweet Bean Rondo 18.30 32 Lady Macbeth Odeon Screen 1 20.30 25 IMDb Awards Assembly Rooms 19.00 32 6 Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm bathfilmfestival.org.uk7 P A N -ASIAN As well as promoting queer voices and women’s stories, we are also delighted to focus on Asian films in 2016, and we have discovered some THE PASS THE HANDMAIDEN / AH-GA-SSI GIRLS LOST / POJKARNA absolute gems that we’re sure you’ll enjoy. Wed 9 Nov, 6pm, Odeon Fri 11 Nov, 8.30pm, Odeon Tue 8 Nov, 8.50pm, Even now, in 2016, no top flight This hits all the marks: adapted Chapel Arts footballer has come out openly from Sarah Walters’ Fingersmith After drinking from some as gay in their playing career. novel, directed by Park Chan-wook mysterious, magical plants, This superb film tells the story (of Old Boy fame), prioritising three bullied teenaged girls of a closeted soccer player, female sexuality and stunningly experience life as boys in this played by Russell Tovey who gorgeous, we cannot wait to see fairytale film about sexual gives a “knockout performance” this Korean gem: “clever, heady awakening: “deliciously – Variety. and sensually lavish” – Variety. dark and profoundly vital” – The Film Stage. SWEET BEAN / AN MISS HOKUSAI / SARUSUBERI: KURÎPÎ: ITSUWARI Wed 9 Nov, 6.30pm Rondo MISS HOKUSAI NO RINJIN / CREEPY, Each frame of this film is Wed 9 Nov, 9pm, Rondo Theatre Sat 12 Nov, 6pm, Odeon 2 beautiful; a feel good feature Katsushika Hokusai, the famous Helmed by cult horror director about the pleasure of exquisite 9th-century Japanese painter and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, this Japanese food. “If it is possible to printmaker had a daughter, who thriller is mesmerizingly tense Q UEER FILM be at once clear-eyed and was also an extremely talented from the outset and is terrifying LM sentimental, Kawase achieves painter. This stunning, award- because it deals with the everyday FI Our new Queer film strand is part of our commitment to that in this heartbreakingly winning film is an absolutely must and not with Freddie Kruger. As SIAN amplifying diverse voices in film and features six superb beautiful film” – Sydney see movie, “an art form, not a The Japan Times says: “it doesn’t A - movies, all of which you are going to want to see. Morning Herald. genre” – Variety. get much eerier than this”. AN QUEER QUEER P 8 Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 9 By championing their films, we can encourage critics to review them, inspire audiences to watch them and ultimately influence studios to F -R ATED GEMS fund more female filmmakers. The F-Rating stamp sits alongside a film’s standard age classification and can be awarded to any film that The F-Rating exists to shine a light on the answers “yes” to one or more of the following questions: amazing work that women are doing in film. 1. Does it have a female director? 2. Is it written by a woman? 3. Are there significant female characters on screen in their own right? We are thrilled that for the second year running, Pukka Herbs are supporting the F-Rating, and we look forward to once again greeting you at F-Rated screenings with a cup of FREE Pukka tea: in our opinion, the very best herbal tea around. THE LEVELLING BURN BURN BURN CERTAIN WOMEN BADEN BADEN Fri 11 Nov, 6pm, Odeon Thu 10 Nov, 6pm, Odeon Tue 8 Nov, 6pm, Odeon Mon 7 Nov, 8.30pm, Chapel Arts Set on the Somerset Levels, This film has been winning Directed by the brilliant Kelly “A laid-back feminist fable about this debut feature from Hope audience awards at festivals Reichardt (Meek’s Cutoff, Night a young woman pulling her life Dickenson Leach (who will around the world, with a great Moves etc) and featuring Kristen together over a complicated be joining us via Skype for a cast and a fascinating theme: Stewart, Michelle Williams and summer, Franco-Belgian Q&A), explores the effect of an dead friend Dan insist that Alex Laura Dern, this is deeply drama Baden Baden S unexpected suicide on a daughter- and Seph (Laura Carmichael moving slow-burner of Triple F-rated is a confident, father relationship. With a fantastic from Downton Abbey and Chloe a movie about three films answer “yes” to witty debut for all three questions and GEM lead performance from Game Of Pirrie from War & Peace) take women striving to French writer- are our gold standard. D Thrones star Ellie Kendrick who his ashes on a road trip. “A great forge their own paths director Rachel E Look out for the F-rating will be joining us in person, this is film about being alive” – Neel amidst the wide- Lang” – Screen and Triple F-rated logos AT “a small jewel of a film” – TIFF. Bhat. Followed by Q&A with open plains of the as you go through the Daily. R - director Chanya Button. American Northwest. brochure F Box Office: 01225 463 362 /BathFilmFestival @BathFilm 11 D OCUMENTARIES One of the very best mediums for giving us insight into lives, cultures and experiences beyond our own is of course documentary film. As always we have scoured the earth for the very best feature docs for the 2016 programme. INGRID BERGMAN IN HER OWN SONITA CAMERAPERSON, WORDS / JAG ÄR INGRID Mon 7 Nov, 6.30pm Odeon Thu 10 Nov, 7pm Fri 4 Nov, 8.40pm Mission Theatre This is a perfect example of the Chapel Arts Ingrid Bergman was the star unyielding power documentary.