Saturday 6 February Saturday 19 March Evening: 7.15pm (doors open 6pm) Evening: 7.15pm (doors open 6pm) Youth La Famille Belier Italy (Eng. language) - comedy/drama - MA15+ - 118 mins France/Belgium (sub-titles) - comedy/drama - M - 106 mins Michael Caine as Fred, a retired composer, and Harvey Keitel as Mick, In the Beliere family, everyone is deaf except for dutiful sixteen year old are two old friends on vacation in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they Paula. She acts as the indispensable interpreter for her parents and ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career younger brother, especially in the running of the family dairy farm. despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena (Rachel Weisz), Mick is Comedy combines with genuine sincerity in this deeply moving film. intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film Paula’s father decides to run for Mayor encouraged by her over-involved for his muse Brenda (Jane Fonda). And where will inspiration lead their mother, at the same time Paula’s attentions are being diverted elsewhere. younger friend Jimmy (Paul Dano), an actor struggling to make sense of She meets a boy who can sing, and to get to know him better she must his next performance? Set against a sprawling landscape of unforgettable join the choir where her stunning singing talent is discovered and sights and intoxicating music, Youth asks if our most important and life- encouraged by her music teacher. Her family is perplexed about singing changing experiences can come at any time – even late – in life. and at odds with her desire to pursue her dreams in Paris. A stunning conclusion will appeal to music lovers and film goers alike. Nominated: Saturday 5 March Best European Comedy. Matinee: 3pm (doors open 2.30pm) Evening: 7.15pm (doors open 6pm) Suffragette UK - bio/drama/history - M - 106 mins An important historical topic is brought to a new vibrant, raw life, pitching us into street and secret dramas taking place in England in 1912. The story of laundry worker Maud (Carey Mulligan) represents the stirring curiosity, then inspiration, passion and tragedy of a multitude of women who dared to stand up for their rights at that time. The history has been depicted in many different ways, but this latest from a strong all-female production team captures a repressive community on the cusp of tumultuous change. Energy pulses from desperate hearts under the pounding hooves of police horses. Meryl Streep inspires as the indomitable Emily Pankhurst, with Helen Bonham Carter as a redoubtable leader of women demanding their franchise, and Maud’s personal mentor. Saturday 20 February Evening: 7.15pm (doors open 6pm) Saturday 2 April Phoenix Evening: 7.15pm (doors open 6pm) Germany/Poland (Eng & sub-titles) - drama - M - 98 mins The Lost Aviator Critically acclaimed, Phoenix tells the story of badly injured, Auschwitz UK/USA/France/Australia - documentary - M - 91 mins survivor Nelly who returns to Berlin and her old job at the Phoenix English pilot Bill Lancaster and Australian aviatrix, Jessie Miller were nightclub. Barely recovered from facial surgery, Nelly sets out to find her making headlines in the 1930s for their aviation feats, their sensational husband - the love of her life and possible betrayer who is convinced that love triangle that ended in murder, and then the mystery of Bill’s last flight his wife is dead. When Nelly finally tracks him down, he recognises when he disappeared over the Sahara. This riveting true story becomes a nothing but an unnerving resemblance to his wife. Hoping to secure her personal quest for the film’s director, Andrew Lancaster, Bill’s great family's inheritance, Johnny suggests to Nelly that she take on the identity nephew. Andrew travels across the world interviewing family members as of his late wife. Christian Petzold (Barbara) delivers a tense psychological well as aviation and judicial experts to find out the truth of what happened thriller which explores some big questions: How do we process to his great uncle and whether he is innocent or guilty of murder. Woven unimaginable betrayal? How do we overcome the kind of events that through are voice-overs of the lovers telling their story from diaries and forever alter the trajectory of a life we so desperately want back? letters, plus old film clips that bring this glamorous jazz age to life. Saturday 16 April Saturday 23 April Matinee: 3pm (doors open 2.30pm) Evening: 7.15pm (doors open 6pm) Tanna Mia Madre Australia/Vanuatu - drama/romance - M - 100 mins Italy/France (Eng & sub-titles) - drama - M - 107 mins A classic tale of forbidden love, where the young lovers must choose Lights. Camera. Trauma. Margherita, a film director in the middle of an between their hearts and the future of their tribe. Wawa (Marie Wawa) existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable loss of her mother while and Dain (Mungau Dain) belong to the same tribe but Wawa’s marriage dealing with a pompous American star on set. At the heart of Mia Madre is has been arranged in order to reconcile a violent ongoing tribal a trio of women: teenage Livia, her grandmother Ada, and Margherita, war. Based on a true story on the volcanic island of Tanna in Vanuatu in overwhelmed by personal and professional pressures. There are belly February to May 2016 1987, details of traditional tribal life in the lush forests and beaches of laughs to be had thanks to a temperamental American-Italian actor played Tanna are woven into a universally accessible and emotionally affecting by John Turturro. A clown, unable to remember his lines, ill-versed in Program romantic drama. Performed by the locals, it was directed by two Italian pronunciation, and incapable of driving and acting at the same time Australians: Bentley Dean and Martin Butler, who spent seven months or even separately, he adds balance to a deeply moving film about life, Bringing the best in World Cinema to Maleny living with the Yakel, a tribe whose customs have changed little for death and film making. An award winner at Cannes, and nominated for centuries. Winner of Best Cinematography and Audience Awards at the Palme d’Or, it is an elegant exploration of the human journey. Venice International critics’ week. Saturday 16 April Saturday 7 May Maleny Community Centre Evening: 7.15pm (doors open 6pm) Evening: 7.15pm (doors open 6pm) 23 Maple St Looking For Grace Carol Australia - drama - M - 100 mins USA - drama - M - 120 mins Tickets available at the door Looking For Grace, centres on a husband (Richard Roxburgh) and wife Cate Blanchett plays Carol, an unhappy woman who falls in love with store assistant Therese (Rooney Mara). She’s forced to choose, due to MFS members can pre-purchase tickets at the (Radha Mitchell) searching for their missing daughter and her friend who Visitor Information Centre and online have run away to see their favourite band. The parents are joined by a the moral taboo of homosexuality in the fifties, between custody of her retired detective played by veteran Australian actor Terry Norris and while child and the person she wants to be with. Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy has MFS Members $8 looking for Grace, they juggle their own secrets and stories between superbly adapted Patricia Highsmith’s original 1952 novel The Price of them. The film, shot in the WA wheat belt, looks at events taken from Salt with nuanced direction by Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven). Carol is Temporary Members $13 a subtle, moving and focused character study of two women who cross each of these characters' perspective. Essentially a family drama, there Join us for dinner and bar service from 6 - 7pm are some very interesting twists and turns along the way, also boundaries and recent winner of four NY Film Critics awards including for all evening screenings. Delicious meals are providing wry comic touches as well as pathos. Sue Brooks who also Best Film, Direction, Cinematography (filmed in richly textured Super directed Japanese Story, was "gobsmacked" when Looking for Grace was 16mm photography) and Screenplay. This isn't the typical Highsmith provided by local caterers, Wild Rocket @ Misty’s selected for its world premiere at the prestigious Venice Film Festival. adaptation but rather an intelligent socio-political reflection on the 1950s. and Spaghetti Junction & Lumbini. Tea, coffee and homemade slices are also available. Ph: Tamara Taylor (manager) 07 5429 6951 Email: [email protected] www.malenyfilmsociety.info Our Supporters.