Miff2011 Guide

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MIFF screenings are strictly 18+ except where indicated
Introduction & Contents

Michelle Carey Artistic Director
Even as the paths into lm-viewing diversify, we remain eternally social creatures. Our urge to experience collectively the weird and the brilliant, the shocking and the stunning, the crushing and the inspirational, will never abate. Film festivals oer an unparalleled platform for such heightened intensity, for people to come together to share the transformative experience of cinema. Celebrating its 60th edition in 2011, MIFF is one of the oldest lm festivals in the world, yet its cultural vitality and ability to cause a stir have not diminished. So what better way to mark this dignied milestone than to look back through our history through discussions and debates, a retrospective lm program and a specially curated exhibition. But above all we wish to intervene into the world of today whether it be by exploring the inuence of technology and the internet on our lives, or by casting light onto the dayto-day political and social struggles which continue to shake the world. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. As lms do not exist in a vacuum we are delighted to present Talking Pictures, a suite of discussion panels and masterclasses. And for those not quite obsessive enough to get two weeks o work (and even for those who are!), come down to our celebrated Festival Lounge each weekday from 5.30pm, enjoy a glass of wine or a coee and sink yourself into Talking Pictures Express, a free program of group discussions to get you in the mood for the evenings viewing. Whether your thing is sports or samurai, or maybe even Russian ghosts traversing a reindeer-populated Catalan landscape, MIFF 60 has something to surprise you.
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Ticketing Info Venue Locations Opening & Closing Night Special Screenings Talking Pictures Industry Events International Panorama TeleScope: New Talent from the EU
ballet company and school. Victoria is also home to one of the top three comedy festivals in the world, strong independent theatre and contemporary music scenes and a creative underbelly of artist-run spaces and initiatives. The Victorian Government is a long and proud supporter of MIFF as a great contributor to a vibrant local screen industry and to Australian screen culture more broadly. Our lmmakers play a key role in Victorias success in the arts, and the creative industries will continue to be a fundamental part of our strong economy, rich culture and vibrant community. Sixty years since its inception, this years festival promises to be enjoyable for all and I wish audiences, lmmakers and actors all the very best.
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The Hon Ted Baillieu MLA Premier of Victoria

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the State of Victoria and home of the Melbourne International Film Festival. MIFF is one of the many fantastic events that makes Melbourne the cultural hub of Australia linking our strong arts culture and vibrant screen industry and this year the festival celebrates its 60th birthday. The arts play a critical role in Victoria culturally, socially and economically. The arts maintain our vibrant culture, make our communities stronger, celebrate our diversity and enhance our competitive advantage, nationally and internationally. Our strong arts culture means we are home to the oldest orchestra in the country, the longest-running professional theatre company and the national
Australian Showcase Accent on Asia Crime Stories Networked Screening Schedule Festival Lounge This Sporting Life Documentaries Our Space Backbeat Prime Time MIFF 60th Retrospective Next Gen
The Hon Robert Doyle Lord Mayor City of Melbourne

In a city renowned for its vibrant artistic and cultural life, the Melbourne International Film Festival is an outstanding event in Melbournes calendar. This year marks MIFFs 60th birthday. The festivals longevity is a testament not only to the consistent quality of its programming, but also its creativity in seeking out fresh and exciting movements on the margin of cinema. Through the window of lm, local audiences are exposed to a vast and diverse world. In the past 60 years, the city of Melbourne has changed in remarkable ways the inuence of new cultures permeates our lm culture, as people from around the globe make our city their home. Since its inception, MIFF has been a vital part of this history, sharing stories across cultural boundaries. The City of Melbourne is proud to support MIFF. We look forward to another 60 years of ne lms to spark the imagination.
The Hon Louise Asher MP
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recognises its important and enduring role in promoting the local and international screen industries. MIFFs industry programs set it apart from other festivals. The MIFF Premiere Film Fund highlights the importance of local screen businesses to Victoria, while the MIFF 37South Market will again provide fantastic networking and business opportunities for local lmmakers. MIFF remains one of the most exhilarating and revered lm festivals in the world. I congratulate the Festival Board and Sta on 60 years of support for emerging and established local talent, and for lmmaking around the world. I encourage you to embrace all the wonderful experiences that Australias oldest and largest lm festival has to oer.
Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business

This year the Melbourne International Film Festival celebrates its 60th anniversary. The 2011 program is sure to delight audiences and showcase the latest from emerging directors and established favourites. MIFF is now rmly established as a key highlight on Melbournes cultural and events calendar, drawing people to Melbourne and further enhancing our reputation as a dynamic tourism destination. The Festival provides an opportunity for both Victorians and visitors to our vibrant city to experience cinema from across the globe. Importantly, the festival promotes debate, exposes us to new ideas, stimulates discussion and encourages people to think about dierent cultures and approaches to lmmaking. The Victorian Government through Film Victoria supports the festival, and
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Geoffrey Rush MIFF Patron

Late last year in an interview with Rotten Tomatoes, while pushing sound bites and pithy anecdotes for Pirates 4 and The Kings Speech, I was ambushed into that most daunting game to name, High Fidelity-style, my Five All-Time Favourite Films. I umd and aahd and gave it my best spontaneous shot: well, Chaplins City Lights, er Fellinis Amarcord have to include Bergmans Persona; oh yeah, denitely Woody Allens Zelig and for sure, Sergei Bondarchuks Russian masterpiece War and Peace. Each one a visceral transcendent rst-viewing, and yes, all in my formative teens and younger days. But most signicantly I realised I had seen them not in any commercial arena but at a lm club, or a Cinmathque and at lm festivals, which inspired me to always then seek out comparable highpoints. Hopefully MIFF 2011 will provide you with experiences that also cut deep into your psyche. I welcome the sharp cinephile mind of Michelle Carey, and her team, who are determined that only the best lms make the cut.
MIFF screenings are strictly 18+ except for the Next Gen program (pages 50 & 51) and lms that have been classied (indicated next to lm titles)
How to Use the Guide

Which lm?
Look through this guide and select the lm of your choice. The Contents table on this page or the Film & Screening index on page 62 may be useful places to begin your search.
When and where is it screening?

At the bottom on each lm description you will nd where and when the lm is screening, and the session code you can use to make your booking.
Whats screening today?

The Screening Schedule on pages 30 34 lets you see exactly what is screening in each venue on any given day. Use the page number provided to nd the lms descriptions in the guide.
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Veteran director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Not One Less) brings the us a story of youthful passion amid turmoil of the Cultural Revolution of 1970s China
Three young African refugees in is Melbournes inner-west nd that love all never simple especially when they have eyes for the same girl. Beniam Ramsy and MJ are best friends.
A story of joy, laughter, hope and generosity. And football. When Fabrice, a young Rwandan with dreams of being a football star, is given the chance to audition for the 2010 World ramshackle journey h
New Zealand audiences have embrac this charming, oddball comedy abou the challenges of cross-cultural love. When Chinese-New Zealand lm student Emily meets the daggy-but-adorable Jam they fall for each other almost instantly.
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Ticketing Information
Ticket Options
All tickets prices include GST
How to Buy Tickets

Online at miff.com.au
Avoid the queues buy online and print your tickets at home! $18 $15 $14 $13 Please see the How to Book Tickets section on the MIFF website for information on how to buy tickets and how to use a pass to book sessions. IMAX, PLANETARIUM AND AFTRS ACCEPT CASH ONLY ALL OTHER MIFF VENUES ACCEPT CASH OR CREDIT CARD NO EFTPOS
Entry
A valid barcoded pass, iPhone or ticket must be presented for entry to all sessions. Patrons making use of the priority membership queue must also present a valid membership pass.
Single Tickets
Full Concession MIFF Members Group (per person) (10 people or more to a single session) Monday Friday Special: sessions before 5pm Full Concession MIFF Members $15 $14 $13
Latecomers
For the comfort of prompt patrons, latecomers may only be admitted at the discretion of the usher. Ushers enforce MIFF policy please respect their directions.
In Person at the Forum Theatre Box Oce, 154 Flinders St

Opening Hours Note that early ticketing is available to MIFF members only.
Wed 6 July Thu 7 July: 11am 6pm MEMBERS ONLY Fri 8 July Thu 21 July: 11am 7pm Fri 22 July Sun 7 August: 10am start of the last session Single-session tickets can be purchased from the Forum Theatre Box Oce for any session, at any participating venue. At other venues, only single-session tickets can be purchased for screenings being shown at that venue on that day, from one hour before the days rst screening.
Ticket and Pass Information

The Festival Box Oces accept cash or credit card (Visa or MasterCard). We do not accept EFTPOS. AFTRS, IMAX and the Planetarium accept cash only. Phone and online bookings require a valid credit card (Visa or MasterCard only) or a pass serial number for pass holders. Please quote session codes. Phone and online bookings incur a transaction booking fee between $1.90 $7 based on the amount spent. Ticket exchanges made online incur a $1 fee per ticket exchanged. Ticket exchanges at the box oce incur a $2.50 fee per ticket exchanged. No paper tickets are issued to passport holders. Your passport will be scanned at the venue door. To guarantee entry, pre-book all sessions. Lost passports can be replaced for $8 on presentation of the pass serial number and identication, subject to passport availability. Pre-booked tickets can be collected from the screening venue on the day, or at the Forum Theatre at all other times, by the credit card holder on presentation of a booking number, credit card and membership card (when required). Valid concession or membership ID must be presented when buying or collecting tickets, and, if requested, on entry to the cinema. Passports can only be collected from the Forum Theatre Box Oce. Passes and tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Other conditions apply see mi.com.au for more details. General Concessions MIFF members, full-time students, pensioners, unwaged, Victorian carer card holders and seniors Industry Concessions MEAA, AFI, SPAA, ACS, ADG, AWG, MQFF, The Age sta, ABC sta and City of Melbourne sta
Next Gen Tickets

Full, Concession, Member single tickets prices as above Under 18 (Next Gen only) $11 Family (Next Gen only, 2 adults/2 children) $45
Festival Passport
Available to MIFF members only. The Festival Passport is valid for all sessions (excluding Opening and Closing Nights, Special Screenings and Events, Talking Pictures and Industry events). Entry is valid for the pass holder only, for any one session at any one screening time. Festival Passport (MIFF members only) $350
Phone 03 9662 3722

Note that early ticketing is available to MIFF members only. Wed 6 July Thu 7 July: 11am 6pm MEMBERS ONLY Fri 8 July Thu 21 July: 11am 7pm Fri 22 July Sat 6 August: 10am 9pm Sun 6 Aug: 11am 6.30pm
eMini Pass
The eMini Pass is valid for any 10 Festival sessions (excluding Opening and Closing Nights, Special Screenings and Events, Talking Pictures and Industry events) and includes three bonus sessions that can be used Monday Friday before 5pm. Entry is valid for the pass holder only, for any one session at any one screening time. Full Concession MIFF Member $150 $135 $125
(see page 8 for details)
iPhone App
Download the ocial MIFF2011 app free from the iTunes online store, and you can purchase tickets with a credit card or book sessions on your eMini pass or passport directly from your iPhone. Booking a ticket or a session with a credit card or on your eMini pass with this app gives you access to a barcode on your phone that can be scanned for entry to that session no paper ticket needed! Proudly supported by
Opening Night
Full lm and party Concession lm and party MIFF Member lm and party
$120 $110 $100
Standby Queues
MIFF will endeavour to operate standby queues for all sold out sessions. Please look for the designated standby queue area and ask sta for venue specic details. Standby queues will be processed up to 15 minutes after the session start time. Admission to sessions is not guaranteed, and if admitted you may miss part of the lm. Excludes Special Events and Opening and Closing Night.
Closing Night
Full lm and party Concession lm and party MIFF Member lm and party
$100 $90 $85
Access
Special Events
See the descriptions on pages 9,10 and 11 for pricing details of individual Special Events.
Admission Conditions
Classication of Films
The Classication Board has granted MIFF special customs and censorship clearances. Except where indicated, it is forbidden to allow anyone under 18 (including infants) to attend sessions.
Open Captions
Auslan interpreter
Assistive Wheelchair Listening Access
MIFF is committed to improving access for everyone. Look for these symbols in this program as a guide. The Melbourne International Film Festival supports and accepts the Companion Card. For wheelchair and Companion Card tickets please call 03 9662 3722. Note that these tickets cannot be purchased via the website. For more detailed access information, please go to mi.com.au/access If you need further information, please call 03 8660 4888 or contact venues@mi.com.au
PLEASE NOTE: Details in this Festival Guide are as accurate as possible at the time of printing. MIFF accepts no responsibility for any late changes after this Festival Guide has gone to press. Any opinions stated in the Festival Guide do not necessarily reect those of MIFF, or its sta or aliates. For late scheduling and program changes please check The Age daily newspaper listings, mi.com.au or subscribe to MIFF's ocial e-newsletter Widescreen.
Next Gen
All lms featured as part of the Next Gen program are approved for screening by the Classication Board. No person under the age of 15 years shall be admitted to Next Gen screenings unless in the company of an adult guardian.
Festival Venues
Festival Venues
1. Forum Theatre, MIFF Box Ofce & Stella Artois Festival Lounge 154 Flinders St 2. Kino Cinemas 45 Collins St 3. Greater Union Russell Street & Mandala Festival Wine Bar STREET 131 Russell St (Cinema 3 wheelchair accesible) Lt. BOURKE 4. ACMI Cinemas, Australian Centre for the Moving Image Federation Square 5. Hoyts Melbourne Central Level 3, Corner of Swanston St and Latrobe St
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Off-map Venues
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Cinema Nova 380 Lygon St, Carlton IMAX Melbourne Museum Melbourne Museum complex Rathdowne St Melbourne Planetarium Scienceworks 2 Booker St Spotswood
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How to get to MIFF

Parking
Secure Parking at Flinders Gate, 172 Flinders St (opposite Federation Square), is oering discounted parking for MIFF patrons during the Festival, at the following rates: Monday Friday day tickets (after 10am) $16 Monday Friday evening tickets (after 3pm) $8 Saturday & Sunday day $8 The parking discount is available by collecting a Parking Ticket at the MIFF Box Oce or key screening venues prior to exiting the car park. For more information visit mi.com.au/parking or secureparking.com.au
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Public Transport
A tram, train or bus is the easiest, cheapest and most environmentally friendly way to get to the Festival. For timetable information and service details visit metlinkmelbourne.com.au or call 131 638.
8. Village Roadshow Theatrette State Library of Victoria 238 Swanston St (Entry from La Trobe St)
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Get swept up in 60th Festivities

The Stella Artois Festival Lounge is MIFFs vibrant hub. In the decadent, glamorous surroundings of the Forum Theatre, enjoy a reinvigorating meal, a fortifying coffee or a beautiful glass of Stella Artois. Its the perfect place to meet your friends in between sessions to pour over your lm schedules, share an opinion or two, or simply enjoy the old world ambiance. On weekdays at 5:30pm you can enjoy MIFFs free Talking Pictures Express series, which nish in time for you to make your 6.30pm screening. On Friday and Saturday nights, continue your evening post-lms with tunes provided by special guest DJs.
Weekdays 4pm late Weekends 12pm late
Opening & Closing Night
Opening Night
The Fairy
Belgium/France (93 mins) Belgium-based masters of the absurd Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy and Australian-born Fiona Gordon create slapstick mayhem in The Fairy, a light, charming vaudeville-style romp that recalls the physical comedies of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Jacques Tati. For a lonely manager in a dull Le Havre hotel, things take an interesting turn when a barefooted woman arrives and grants him three wishes. He eagerly takes her up on her oer, but neglects to ask for the one thing he really wants:the fairys love. So begins a twisted and anarchic adventure, as he strives to win her heart. Following on the heels of Iceberg and Rumba (MIFF 2009), The Fairy sees Abel, Gordon and Romy unleashing their considerable comic and acrobatic talents in new and ingenious ways. From its spontaneous dance scenes to its astounding xed-camera chase sequence, The Fairy is a fresh and original modern classic.
D/S Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy, P Charles Gillibert, Marin Karmitz, Nathanal Karmitz, Marina Festr WS MK2 L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Full lm and party Concession lm and party MIFF Member lm and party MIFF passes are not valid
$120 $110 $100
Come join us on the red carpet for the glitz and glamour of the Opening Night of the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival. With special guests such as The Hon Ted Baillieu MP. and MIFF Patron Georey Rush, this will be a night of cinema, celebrity and celebration. After the lm, raise a glass of bubbly at the Melbourne Town Hall, where the celebrations will kick into full gear aided by an open bar, delicious canapes and MIFFs famous music maestro Andy McClelland. Thursday 21 July at 7.30pm
Thursday 21 July Please arrive by 7.30pm Dress: Black Tie Red Carpet and Screening: Greater Union Cinemas 131 Russell Street Ocial After Party: 10pm 1am at Melbourne Town Hall 90 120 Swanston Street Proudly Supported by
Closing Night
Drive
USA (95 mins) A magnicent homage to US crime lms from the late 1970s and 80s. Screen Daily Driver (Ryan Gosling) is good at what he does. A stunt driver by day, a getaway driver by night, hes aloof, unappable and professional, with no other ties to this world. But when Driver falls for next-door neighbour Irene (Carey Mulligan; An Education, MIFF 2009) he nds himself reluctantly pulled into a job with her ex-con ex-husband (Oscar Isaac; Balibo, MIFF 2009), a doomed nal heist he hopes will free them all. A neo-noir heist lm turned high-octane chase, Drive is Danish director Nicolas Winding Refns (Bronson, MIFF 2009) exhilarating ode to the hyper-stylised action-exploitation lms of the 1970s. Kinetic, violent, dripping with cool and boasting a killer cast that includes Ron Perlman, Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston and Albert Brooks, Drive is part nihilistic thriller, part guilty pleasure and all utter mayhem. Winner of the Best Director award at this years Cannes Film Festival. Combing a memorably gritty Ryan Gosling performance with the breakneck tempo of the getaway cars his character handles for hire, Refn churns out a hyperactive love letter to road rage with unapologetic glee. Its a total blast. indieWIRE
Join us for Closing Night, which kicks o with a screening of Nicolas Winding Refns adrenalinefuelled Drive, before heading on to the exuberance of MIFFs Closing Night party. Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, where it snagged the Best Director award, Drive has been hailed as a masterful, propulsive thriller. Staring Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Albert Brooks and Ryan Gosling, this high-octane tale of a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver in the criminal underworld is white-knuckle viewing from beginning to end. As always, our Closing Night celebrations take place a night shy of the Festivals close, on Saturday 6 August, so that we can all enjoy the night without remorse! Saturday 6 August 7.30pm
D Nicholas Wending Refn P Marc Platt, Adam Siegel, Gigi Pritzker, Michael Litvak, John Palermo S Hossein Amini Dist Pinnacle Films TD 35mm/2011
Full lm and party $100 Concession lm and party $90 MIFF Member lm and party $85 MIFF passes are not valid Saturday 6 August Please arrive by 7.30pm Red Carpet and Screening: Greater Union Cinemas 131 Russell Street Ocial After Party: 10pm late at The Atrium Federation Square
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Special Screenings & Events

Dark Rooms and Dreamscapes: The Films of Peter Tscherkassky and Eve Heller
Presented in association with ACMI, this program showcases and celebrates the unique works of two distinctive, internationally renowned lmmaking artists.
IMAX Feature Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battutah (PG)
Planetarium Fulldome Showcase

Once again MIFF features a special series of fulldome projection screenings at the Melbourne Planetarium, curated by Warik Lawrence.
The Natural World This trio of lms take you on an astounding journey through the minutiae of the natural world.
Fri 5 Aug 9pm Planetarium 9660
Peter Tscherkassky
A leading gure in contemporary avant-garde cinema, Peter Tscherkassky creates lms that feature a potent blend of visuals. Over three decades, he has experimented with the technical formalities of lm, from found-footage work to his dark room lms. Peter Tscherkassky will be in attendance at both screenings of his lms. Peter Tscherkassky Program 1 Austria, 72 mins Freeze Frame (1983, 9 mins) kelimba (1986, 10 mins) tabula rasa (1987/1989, 17 mins) Shot-Countershot (1987, 22 sec) Happy-End (1996, 11 mins) Nachtstck (Mozart Minute 09) (2006, 1 min) LArrive (1997/1998, 2 mins) Outer Space (1999, 10 mins) Dream Work (2001, 11 mins)
Wed 27 July 7pm ACMI 9320 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF passes are not valid
The Light Kinetic Timelapse photography and 3D uid simulations create an utterly unique view of reality.
Join an epic pilgrimage to Mecca with this glorious IMAX cinema extravaganza. In 1325, a 21-year-old student set out alone from Tangiers and became one of the greatest human travellers the world has ever seen. His journey to Mecca was a pilgrimage that would span 30 years, endanger his life and bring him closer to God. His name was Ibn Battutah. Seven hundred years later, lmmaker Bruce Neibauer brings Battutahs story to life in all its splendour for the glory of the IMAX screen, observing in stunning detail the contemporary Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca that draws three million Muslims from around the world. With swooping aerial shots of the largest camel train ever assembled and a majestic overhead view of thousands making pilgrimage across the desert, Journey to Mecca is a phenomenal feast for the eyes.
Wed 27 July 8pm IMAX 9340 Sun 31 July 11am IMAX 9460 $18 full / $15 concession / $14 MIFF members MIFF passes are not valid
Sat 6 Aug 7pm Planetarium 9720
See Your Music Take a trip into an immersive audio-visual world, and then chill out to a selection of tunes from Pink Floyds The Wall set to mind-blowing visuals.
Sat 6 Aug 9.30pm Planetarium 9740
$26 full / $21 concession MIFF passes are not valid
Blog-a-thon: 60 Films in 17 Days

This year, MIFF has enlisted a cadre of committed bloggers to undertake a special challenge: to watch at least 60 lms over MIFFs 17 days, and to write about their experience daily for the edication and entertainment of the rest of us. Follow MIFF on Twitter and Facebook to get regular updates on the progress of these intrepid lm fanatics, as they push at the bounds of their endurance and their bladders to bring us a daily dose of MIFF-focused delirium.
Peter Tscherkassky Program 2 Austria, 73 mins Urlaubslm (Holiday Film) (1983, 9 mins) Manufraktur (1985, 3 mins) Parallel Space: Inter-View (1992, 18 mins) Get Ready (1999, 1 min) Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005, 17 mins) Coming Attractions (2010, 25 mins)
Fri 29 July 7pm ACMI 9380 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF passes are not valid
La Dolce Vita (M)
Giorgio Mangiamele Celebrating the Man and his Films

Giorgia Mangiemeles post-war films express a unique cinematic perspective, and four of his most important films have now been fully restored and re-mastered by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA). Arguably one of the greatest directors to have ever lived, Fellini forever changed the way we watched, understood and made lm. This year MIFF is holding a special, one-o screening of his revolutionary 1960 opus, La Dolce Vita, featuring a fully restored print courtesy of Gucci and The Film Foundation. A poignant and enigmatic exploration of a decaying Italy lost in decadence, La Dolce Vita was one of the rst lms to abandon traditional narrative in favour of a freeform episodic structure. Banned in Italy but instantly recognised as a masterpiece by critics, it has gone on to become one of the most revered lms in the history of cinema.
Wed 27 July 8pm Forum 1047 Standard MIFF ticketing applies
This print was restored by Cineteca di Bologna at LImmagine Ritrovata Laboratory in association with The Film Foundation, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematograa-Cineteca Nazionale, Path, Fondation Jrme Seydoux-Path, Mediaset - Medusa, Paramount Pictures and Cinecitt Luce. Restoration funding provided by Gucci and The Film Foundation. Image appears courtesy of (c) Cineteca di Bologna / Reporters Associati
MIFF and the NFSA present the launch of a new DVD Box Set, coproduced by NFSA and Ronin Films: The Giorgio Mangiamele Collection Five Provocative Works From An Italian Filmmaker in Post-War Australia. This special launch event will include a panel discussion led by those who knew and worked with Mangiamele.
Sat 6 Aug, 3pm 4.15pm The Cube, ACMI Free public event
Peter Tscherkassky Masterclass Award-winning lm artist Peter Tscherkassky analyses and explains the process behind his masterful dark room lmmaking. Includes a screening of Tscherkasskys Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine.
Sun 31 July 4pm ACMI 9520 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF passes are not valid
The newly restored Mangiamele lms have their world premiere screenings at this years MIFF within the Our Space program (page 42).
Eve Heller
Eve Hellers lms are lyrical wanderings, oering dreamlike glimpses into the everyday through the reworking of found footage. Eve Heller will be in attendance at this screening of her lms. Eve Heller Film Program USA, 53 mins Last Lost (1996, 14 mins) Her Glacial Speed (2001, 5 mins) Ruby Skin (2005, 5 mins) Behind This Soft Eclipse (2004, 10 mins) Astor Place (1997, 10 mins) One (1978/2009, 2 mins) Self-Examination Remote Control (1981/2009, 5 mins)
Thu 28 July 7pm ACMI 9360 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF passes are not valid
MIFF 60: The Graphic Art of the Melbourne International Film Festival
This exhibition showcases 60 years of MIFFs graphic style from the at geometric designs of the Saul Bass inspired 60s, through the psychedelic excursions of the 70s and the neo-pop surrealism of the 80s. Proudly presented by MIFF with ACMI and The Narrows, this exhibition was curated by Kate Callingham and Ulanda Blair in consultation with Warren Taylor.
July 1 August 8
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MIFF @ GPAC
Sunday 31st July MIFF hits the road again this year to visit Geelongs Performing Arts Centre for a one-day special event held alongside the main Festival. Info and bookings: 03 5225 1200 or www.gpac.org.au Geelong Performing Arts Centre 50 Little Malop Street, Geelong Tickets sold separately to the main Festival MIFF passes are not valid
ACMI Forum and Publication Launch: In Conversation with Ray Fisher, Max Robinson and Winston Thomas Tue 26 July, 5.30pm 6.15pm Stella Artois Festival Lounge, Forum Theatre FREE public event
Reframing the Image: Found Footage Filmmaking Eve Heller explores techniques for working with found footage and investigates the innite possibilities for redening the image.
Sat 30 July 4.30pm ACMI 9440 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF passes are not valid
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Talking Pictures
No one likes a talker in the theatre. But out of the theatre, thats another matter MIFFs Talking Pictures program is designed to have you discussing, questioning and arguing all things cinematic with the festivals lmmakers and personalities, opening the box on the issues and ideas behind this years program.
Note that MIFF passes are not valid for ticketed special events on this page.
Presented By
Australias National Screen Arts and Broadcast School
In Conversations
MIFFs international guests and local lmmakers take to the stage to talk in-depth about their work.
Mike Mills: in Conversation

The multitalented Mike Mills talks about making lm, music and art, and discusses his new lm Beginners, starring Ewan McGregor and Mlanie Laurent. Sat 30 July, 4pm 5.15pm Stella Artois Festival Lounge, Forum Theatre Booking Code: 9420 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF Passes are not valid
Morgan Spurlock
Khoa Do: in Conversation

Prolic local lmmaker Khoa Do joins human rights advocate Julian Burnside, QC, to discuss his lm Falling for Sahara and the process of translating the immigrant experience to screen. Sun 31 July, 12pm 1pm Australian Film Television and Radio School Booking Code: 9480 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF passes are not valid
Morgan Spurlock: in Conversation

The Oscar nominated director of Super Size Me talks with The Chasers Andrew Hansen about his latest satirical hit, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. Sun 31 July, 4.15pm 5.15pm Stella Artois Festival Lounge, Forum Theatre Booking Code: 9540 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF Passes are not valid
Forums
MIFF presents a series of spotlight panels for 2011, examining the big productions in the festival, along with the big issue of censorship.
Fred Schepisi: In the Eye of the Storm

Forum and Discussion Legendary Australian lmmaker Fred Schepisi joins Oscar winner Georey Rush, screenwriter Judy Morris and Barbara Mobbs, Patrick Whites former literary agent, to discuss the lm adaptation of White's The Eye Of The Storm with Virginia Trioli. Sun 24 July, 2.30pm 4pm Stella Artois Festival Lounge, Forum Theatre Booking Code: 9300 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF Passes are not valid
Fred Schepisi
The Slap: Story & Screen

Forum and Discussion Jennifer Byrne (First Tuesday Book Club) talks about making The Slap work for the small screen with Christos Tsiolkas, Tony Ayres, Jessica Hobbs, Kris Mrksa, Helen Bowden, Carole Sklan and Kim Dalton. Sat 6 August, 4pm 5.30pm Stella Artois Festival Lounge, Forum Theatre Booking Code: 9700 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF Passes are not valid
In the Realm of the Censors

Forum and Discussion Join David Stratton (ABCs At the Movies), Donald McDonald (Director of the Classication Board), David Haines (former member, Film Censorship Board) and Mark Spratt (Potential Films) for a discussion of the role of censorship in Australia, and the issues that are driving it. Sun 7 August, 2.30pm 4pm Stella Artois Festival Lounge, Forum Theatre Booking Code: 9780 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF Passes are not valid
Masterclasses
Learn from the best in the business MIFFs Masterclasses talk to the creative process behind the lmmaking.
Alex Gibney: Directing Documentary Masterclass

Renowned documentary lmmaker Alex Gibney, Oscar nominee for Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and Oscar recipient for Taxi to the Dark Side, discusses his approach to non-ction lmmaking with Rachel Landers, AFTRS documentary lecturer. Gibney will take us behind the scenes of his recent documentaries both screening at MIFF this year Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer and Magic Trip: Ken Keseys Search for a Kool Place.
Mary Stephen: Editing Masterclass

Mary Stephen, accomplished lm editor, is best known as Eric Rohmers long time collaborator. Initially an assistant to Cecile Decugis (editor on Godards Breathless), Stephen became Rohmers chief editor in the early 90s with Winters Tale. Mary Stephen talks with former MIFF Director Geo Gardner about making the cut as an editor. Stephens latest project, Seren Yces Majority, screens in this years program. Sat 30 July, 12pm 1.30pm Australian Film Television and Radio School Booking Code: 9400 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF Passes are not valid
Lisa Gerrard: Composing Masterclass

Internationally renowned musician and lm composer Lisa Gerrard rst rose to prominence in music duo Dead Can Dance. As a lm composer, she has created acclaimed scores, including Michael Manns The Insider, Ridley Scotts Gladiator, and Niki Caros Whale Rider. Join Lisa as she gives a rare insight into the creative process of composing for lm and discusses her latest projects, including Vibeke Lkkerbergs Tears of Gaza, screening in this years MIFF program. Sun 31 July, 2.30pm 4pm Australian Film Television and Radio School Booking Code: 9500 $15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members MIFF Passes are not valid
Sun 24 July, 12pm 1pm

Australian Film Television and Radio School
Booking Code: 9280

$15 full / $12 concession / $11 MIFF members
Lisa Gerrard
MIFF Passes are not valid
Talking Pictures Express

FREE public events
Time for a quick chat? Were hosting a program of free public panels at the Stella Artois Festival Lounge throughout the festival. Featuring Australian and international guests from the worlds of lm, music and digital culture, this series of talks provide plenty of food for thought in between lm viewings. Stella Artois Festival Lounge, Forum Theatre All Talking Pictures Express events are FREE
1954, 1958 and 1961) and Winston Thomas (graphic artist and cinephile). The MIFF60 exhibition runs at ACMI, 1 July 8 August. See page 9 of the guide for further details. Tue 26 July, 5.30pm 6.15pm
Sound to Screen: Australian Music in Film

Co-presented with RRR Presented as part of RRRs live broadcast, this panel discussion hosted by Tim Shiel (Faux Pas) features leading soundtrack artists including composers Franc Ttaz and Ollie Olsen. Wed 27 July, 5.30pm 6.15pm
our screens? Multi-award winning actor Adam Zwar (Wilfred) joins Tim Ferguson (The Big Gig) in a debate with producers Neil Peplow (producer, Waking Ned Devine) and Ross Grayson-Bell (producer, Fight Club; AFTRS Head of Screenwriting) and writer/directors Clayton Jacobson (Kenny) and Stuart Macdonald (Summer Heights High) on the pitfalls and rewards of making comedies for the big screen. Friday 29th July, 5.30pm 6.15pm
Coming Attractions: Film Festivals for the Future

Co-presented with Film Critics Circle of Australia A discussion of how the changing nature of lm and audiences will aect the lm festivals of the future, moderated by Paul Harris, featuring MIFF Artistic Director Michelle Carey and Tina Kaufman. Wed 3 August, 5.30pm 6.15pm
The New, New Media: Taking Film from the Web to the World
What are the consequences when technology means everyone can be a lmmaker? Join Deb Verhoeven, Simon Goodrich, Simon Britton, Ahmed Salama, Emily Sexton, Dr Christy Dena and Amy Gebhardt in discussion. Mon 1 August, 5.30pm 6.15pm
This Sporting Life: From Matches to Movies

This panel looks at the master lmmakers who excel at portraying sport on screen. Moderated by Gerard Whateley (Broadcaster, ABC Grandstand). Thu 4 August, 5.30pm 6.15pm
Afraid of Everything: Has Horror Gone Too Far?

Join Festival guest Ti West (The Innkeepers), Rachael Cotra (founder of Hello Darkness Film Festival), Emma Westwood (author of Monster Movies), Neil Foley (Monster Pictures), Lee Gambin (Fangoria) and moderator Guy Davis as they talk about the limits of horror. Mon 25 July, 5.30pm 6.15pm
MIFF 2011: Meet the Writers

Co-presented with the Australian Writers Guild Join Peter Moon in conversation with some of the Australian writers behind the Festivals lms, including Jon Hewitt and Belinda McClory (X), Michael Rymer (Face to Face), Dani Valent (HERE) and Philip Dalkin (33 Postcards). Thu 28 July, 5.30pm 6.15pm
MIFF 2011: Meet the Documentary Filmmakers

Co-presented with doco3000 Meet some of MIFF 2011s Australian documentary lmmakers as they discuss the art of non-ction. Include Amiel Courtin-Wilson (Ben Lee: Catch My Disease) and Genevieve Bailey (I Am Eleven) in conversation with acclaimed documentary lmmaker John Hughes. Tue 2 August, 5.30pm 6.15pm
Ti West
MIFF60: The Graphic Design of the Melbourne International Film Festival

In conversation with Ray Fisher, Max Robinson and Winston Thomas Warren Taylor (The Narrows) discusses 60 years of MIFF graphic design with guests Ray Fisher (former MIFF Chairman), Max Robinson (MIFF graphic designer for
The Future of Australian Comedy: Whos Laughing?

Co-presented with AFTRS With 7 of the top 10 grossing Australian lms of all time being comedies, why have they all but disappeared from
MIFF 37South & Accelerator Industry & Public Events

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37Souths Books at MIFF MIFF 37South: PostScript&Direct State of Play: Premiere Parade State of Play: Spare a dollar, join the crowd MIFF 37South: Bridging the Gap MIFF 37South: Bridging the Gap State of Play: Creative Enterprise: the early verdict State of Play: Sliding Doors: Audiences & Digital Windows State of Play: Co-production treasure or torment? State of Play: Special Address MIFF 37South: Bridging the Gap State of Play: Crowning Glory: Recent Oz movie success stories State of Play: Low budgets, High Hopes World Premiere: THE CURSE OF THE GOTHIC SYMPHONY MIFF Premiere Fund co-nanced Adrian Wootton: Chandleresque: Raymond Chandler on Screen Adrian Wootton: Celluloid Sinatra World Premiere: SWERVE MIFF Premiere Fund co-nanced Adrian Wootton: King on Screen: Elvis in the Movies Adrian Wootton Movie Tie-In: VIVA LAS VEGAS (1964) (G) Adrian Wootton: Graham Greeneon Screen Adrian Wootton Movie Tie-In: THE THIRD MAN (1949) (PG) World Premiere: THE TRIANGLE WARS. MIFF Premiere Fund co-nanced MIFF Accelerator Workshop Adrian Wootton: Howard Hawks: An Introduction Adrian Wootton Movie Tie-In: THE BIG SLEEP (1946) MIFF Accelerator Workshop
Australias only lm co-nancing market at a lm festival, MIFF 37South Market (www.mi37degreesSouth.com) brings the global lm industry to Melbourne in the opening days of MIFF, with 100 Australia/NZ producers seeking nance for their scripts pitching to international lm nancers in Bridging the Gap, publishers pitching their books for screen adaptations to producers in Books at MIFF, and screenwriters/directors pitching their wares in PostScript&Direct. The exclusive Australia/NZ partner of Londons Production Finance Market (PFM), MIFF 37South Market also features the Breakthru Screenings for lms seeking international sales representation. The MIFF industry unit also operates MIFF Accelerator (www.mi.com.au/accelerator), Australias only screen director development program at a lm festival, which prepares the hottest short lmmaking talent for a career in feature lmmaking, and the MIFF Premiere Fund (www.mipremierefund.com), which oers minority co-nancing to new local lms that will premiere at MIFF. Celebrating its fth edition this year, in addition to the opportunities it oers to lm industry professionals, MIFF 37South Market has ticketed partner events open to the general public. Whether you are a lm student, an aspiring or existing screenwriter, editor, director or producer, a lm acionado or just curious to learn more, with an event on every day of MIFF there will be something for you!
Thu 21 July
3.25pm 4.30pm 4.35pm-5.45pm 5.50pm 6.20pm Sun 24 July 9am 1.30pm 2.15pm 3.25pm 3.30pm 4.45pm
Adrian Wootton Illustrated Film Talks

Film culture tsar and program adviser to the London Film Festival, Adrian Wootton brings a series of lm talks exclusively to Melbourne, thanks to MIFF 37South Market & Accelerator with The Wheeler Centre. For full lecture details, go to www.mi37degreesSouth.com.
ACMI 1 Talks: Full $20 / Concession $12 Book talks at www.wheeler centre.com Movie Tie-Ins: Standard MIFF ticketing (see page 7) MIFF passes are not valid for Adrian Wootton Talks
Mastering Comedy: Francis Veber and Steve Kaplan

Presented by Screen Australia, in association with MIFF 37South Market & Accelerator and Sue Maslin/Film Art Media in a Melbourne exclusive, this series on lm comedy directing is led by master of modern French farce Fracis Veber (The Dinner Game, The Valet, La Cage Aux Folles).
Presented by Screen Australia, in association with MIFF 37South Market & Accelerator, comedy guru Steve Kaplan oers an all-day comedy intensive and workshops
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Chandleresque: Raymond Chandler on Screen

Mon 25 July, 10.45am 12.15pm
See www.mi37degreesSouth.com for more information on the public lectures, and www.screenaustralia.gov.au for application details for the masterclasses. Francis Veber Lecture (English)
Tue 2 Aug, 10.30 12pm (Session code: 9580) Village Roadshow Theatrette All tickets $17
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King on Screen: Elvis in the Movies

Tue 26 July, 2.15pm 3.45pm
Mastering Comedy: Francis Veber Masterclass

Wed 3 Aug, 9am 4pm, ACMI 1 Thu 4 Aug, 9am 4pm, ACMI 1 Selected pre-registered industry participants only
Wootton Talk Movie Tie-In for King on Screen

VIVA LAS VEGAS (1964) (G) session code: 7038 Tue 26 July, 4pm 5.45pm
Francis Veber en Francais

Fri 5 Aug, 10.30am 12pm (Session code: 9640) Village Roadshow Theatre, State Library All tickets $17
Graham Greene on Screen

Wed 27 July, 10am 11.40am
World Premiere: FALLING FOR SAHARA ACMI 2 MIFF Premiere Fund co-nanced MIFF Accelerator Workshop World Premiere: ACCELERATOR SHORTS 1 World Premiere: AUTOLUMINESCENT: ROWLAND S. HOWARD. MIFF Premiere Fund co-nanced MIFF Accelerator Workshop World Premiere: ACCELERATOR SHORTS 2 MIFF SHORT AWARDS Wendall Thomas: Making a Scene: The Magic & Mechanics of Scene Structure Mastering Comedy: Francis Veber Lecture (English) Wendall Thomas: Wake-Up, Time to Die! Dialogue & Genre Mastering Comedy: Francis Veber Masterclass (day 1) Mastering Comedy: Francis Veber Masterclass (day 2) Mastering Comedy: Francis Veber en Francais Wendall Thomas: Transformation: Constructing a Character Arc World Premiere: CATCH MY DISEASE MIFF Premiere Fund co-nanced AFTRS GU 6 ACMI 2
Wootton Talk Movie Tie-In for Graham Greene on Screen

THE THIRD MAN (1949) (PG) session code: 7043 Wed 27 July, 12pm 1.45pm MIFF passes are valid for this session
Francis Veber in Conversation with Steve Kaplan

Sat 6 Aug, 10.30am 12pm (Session code: 9680) Stella Artois Festival Lounge, Forum Theatre All tickets $25
Sat 30 July
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Steve Kaplan: Comedy Intensive

Sun 7 Aug, 10.30am (Session code: 9760) The Wheeler Centre All tickets $45
Howard Hawks: An Introduction

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Wootton Talk Movie Tie-In for Howard Hawks and Raymond Chandler
THE BIG SLEEP (1946) session code: 7050 Thu 28 July, 11.45am 1.40pm MIFF passes are valid for this session
The Comic Premise: Screenwriting Workshop with Steve Kaplan

Mon 8 Aug Wed 10 Aug The Wheeler Centre Selected pre-registered industry participants only
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State of Play: 22 24 July

MIFF 37South Market presents a series a public forms about the present development and production nance issues in the Australian lm industry. Although industry-focused, these panels are all free and open to the public. However, priority will be given to MIFF 37South Market badge holders. For more details on this free series of panels, see www.mi37degreesSouth.com AFTRS
Wendall Thomas Talks Scripts

Presented by MIFF 37South Market & Accelerator in association with the Australian Film TV & Radio School (AFTRS), celebrated script and dialogue writing expert Wendall Thomas presents a series of workshops on specic aspects of screenwriting. For full details of each workshop, go to www.mi37degreesSouth.com AFTRS All tickets $75 per lecture, MIFF passes are not valid
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Making a Scene: The Magic and Mechanics of Scene Structure

Mon 1 Aug, 10am 5pm (Session code: 9560)
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Wake-Up, Time to Die! Dialogue and Genre

Tue 2 Aug, 12.30m 7pm (Session code: 9600)
Mastering Comedy: Francis Veber in conversation with Steve Kaplan Mastering Comedy: The Comic Premise with Steve Kaplan Kaplan Screen Writing Workshops
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International Panorama
Every year, International Panorama oers up a curated selection of the most curious and outstanding cinema that the world has to oer. Featuring a breathtaking diversity of lm, handpicked from the worlds top festivals and beyond, these are the denitive voices of cinema today.
Presented By
The Turin Horse
Living on Love Alone

France 89 mins
The Giants
Belgium/France 84 mins
Post Mortem
Chile 98 mins
Old Cats
Chile/USA 88 mins
The Silence of Joan

France 92 mins
Drama, outlaw romance and social critique make this a compelling statement from one of French cinemas vital new voices. London Film Festival Julie (Anas Demoustier) is a young, disillusioned arts graduate. Living in a tiny Parisian apartment, shes not really coping with either the realities of the job market or the absurdities of the corporate world. When she meets Ben, an attractive and mysterious actor, he seems to oer her a chance to break free from the cycle of dead-end work and empty sexual encounters. One of the true emerging talents of the French cinema scene, writer-director Isabelle Czajkas sophomore outing Living on Love Alone is an incisive account of reaching adulthood in a modern, fragmented Europe. Both cynical and hopeful, Czajkas lm is a sweetly played satire doubling as a thoughtful romance.
D/S Isabelle Czajka P Patrick Sobelman WS Bac Films L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
A joyous heartwarmer with an endearing Mark Twain meets Ken Loach vibe. Screen Daily Two teenage brothers and their tag-along friend navigate a summer by themselves in an abandoned country cottage. As they scavenge for food, hunt for pot and pursue harebrained schemes to make money, they nd their bravado repeatedly punctured by the rigours of an adult world they cannot comprehend. The American coming of age story nds itself transplanted to the countryside of Western Europe in The Giants, the latest lm from actor-turned-director Bouli Lanners. Shot with a painters eye for the lushly wooded Belgian landscape, and lled with Lanners bittersweet humour and feel for the rhythms of working class life, The Giants is a funny yet melancholic ode to the idleness, adventures and fears of adolescence.
D Bouli Lanners P Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Olivier Bronckart, Jani Thiltges, Carole Scotta, Simon Arnal S Bouli Lanners, Elisa Ancion Dist Palace Films L French, Russian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
A radioactive atmosphere of pure, nauseous evil. Guardian Fans of lmmaker Pablo Larrans Tony Manero (MIFF 2009) will appreciate his even more unnerving follow-up, set against the backdrop of Chiles murderous 1973 military coup. In an oppressive national atmosphere where people appear indierent to atrocities, Alfredo Castro plays the blank-faced mortician Mario, whose obsession with the washed-up showgirl next door eclipses Pinochets uprising. Given added historical authenticity through the use of 16mm lm, Post Mortem vividly depicts Chiles descent into martial law, as it builds toward a climactic scene of shocking intensity. Larran uses space in an extraordinary way, forcing the viewer to think about whats beyond the screen almost constantly. Variety
D Pablo Larran P Juan de Dios Larran S Pablo Larran, Mateo Iribarren WS Funny Balloons L Spanish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Sebastin Silva has emerged as one of cinemas greatest young talents. indieWIRE The follow-up to Silvas Sundance prize winner The Maid (MIFF 2009), Old Cats cracks open the toxic dynamics of a mother/daughter relationship to both comic and tragic eect. Isadora (92-year-old Blgica Castro) is descending into senility, her husband Enrique (Alejandro Sieveking) watching on helplessly. On a day when a broken elevator leaves Isadora apartment-bound, her cokedup daughter Rosario (Claudia Celedn) shows up with her female lover, a store of emotional baggage and a plan to eece her parents of their at. Filmed with a theatrical sensibility and meticulous eye for details it is set almost entirely in the apartment of Castro and Sieveking, married in real life Old Cats captures the absurdities of family life with an ultimately redemptive ethos.
D/S Sebastin Silva, Pedro Peirano P Kim Jose, David Robinson WS Elephant Eye L Spanish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
A very 21st-century Jeanne dArc: a manic-depressive victim of history whose story is only one strand in a crisscrossing skein. Variety Filmmaker Philippe Ramos takes a fresh approach to the Joan of Arc narrative, as he conjures a hitherto untold story of her ransoming by the British to the French. With the voices that have guided her falling silent, Joan (Clmence Poesy) nds herself captured, suicidal and on her way to being burnt at the stake. But after escaping her French captors, she falls in with many of those wrapped up in the battle, including a compassionate healer (Thierry Frmont), a crazed preacher (Mathieu Amalric) and a deceitful British ocer (Liam Cunningham). A Joan of Arc told through the stories of others, The Silence of Joan oers a bold and atmospheric insight into the troubled mind of the heroic teen.
D/S Philippe Ramos P Sophie Dulac WS Films Distribution L French w/English subtitles TD DCP/2011
Sat 23 July 4pm GU 5015 Thu 28 July 11am Forum 1050
Fri 29 July 6.30pm Forum 1060 Mon 25 July 4pm Forum 1031 Thu 28 July 6.30pm GU 5053
Sat 23 July 1.30pm Forum 1014 Mon 1 Aug 11am Forum 1080
Fri 22 July 4pm ACMI 6007 Mon 25 July 6.30pm ACMI 6032
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Surviving Life
Czech Republic 105 mins
Black Venus
France 159 mins
Jean Gentil
Dominican Republic/ Mexico/Germany 85 mins
Outside Satan
France 109 mins
Melancholia
Denmark/Sweden France/Germany 130 mins
Dazzling visual invention from a master animator an unmissable pleasure. Hollywood Reporter After a ve-year absence following the death of his wife, Eva, surrealist Jan vankmajer (Lunacy, MIFF 2006) ventures into biographical territory with this so-called psychoanalytical comedy. Eugene falls in love with a woman from his dreams, whose name starting with E eludes him upon waking. He approaches a therapist for help and together their investigations begin to unpick what it is thats locked deep in Eugenes subconscious. Combining live-action backdrops with photo cut-outs of the actors, Surviving Life delves into a world where reality is as obscure as the dreams it presents. Reminiscent of Terry Gilliams animations for Monty Pythons Flying Circus, Surviving Life is a whimsical, o beat homage to the intractable confusions of our inner selves.
D/S Jan vankmajer P Jaromr Kallista WS Athanor L Czech w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
An unforgettable telling of the short, horric life of Saartjie Baartman, the so-called Hottentot Venus. Taken to Europe from South Africa in the early 19th century, the Hottentot Venus became a freak-show attraction in London and Paris and an object of deep prurient curiosity. Fascinating to scientists and lechers alike due to her supposedly enormous genitalia, Baartman lived a tormented existence, forced by her owners to strip and perform for the gawking crowds. An impassioned work by director Abdellatif Kechiche (The Secret of the Grain) built around an uninching lead performance from Yahima Torres, Black Venus is a harrowing but worthy account of a shameful moment in colonial history. Yahima Torress remarkably complex portrayal of the title character reveals not just a mute symbol of victimhood but also a woman capable of erce deance. MUBI
D/S Abdellatif Kechiche P Marin Karmitz, Nathanal Karmitz, Charles Gillibert WS MK2 L English, French, Afrikaans, Dutch w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Documentary-like in its attention to detail and shot in impeccably composed images traces the slow voyage into oblivion of a talented immigrant looking for his place in a world that thinks it doesnt need him. Variety Filmmakers Laura Amelia Guzmn and Israel Crdenas follow up their award-winning debut Cochochi (2007) with this quasidocumentary about Jean a dignied, well-educated Haitian man reduced to a shadow of his former self after relocating to neighbouring Dominican Republic. Focusing on the minutiae of Jeans everyday existence and observed with respectful detachment, the lmmakers take us on Jeans pilgrimage from city to countryside as he seeks to regain both his faith and purpose. This quietly desperate and deeply sympathetic portrait speaks volumes about the trials of humanity. San Francisco Film Festival
D/S Laura Amelia Guzmn, Israel Crdenas P Laura Amelia Guzmn, Israel Cardenas, Pablo Cruz, Brbel Mauch WS Aurora Dominicana L Spanish, Haitian Creole w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Maddening, pretentious, hypnotic and transcendent in roughly equal measure Variety On Frances windswept Cte dOpale, The Guy, toting a rie, roams the desolate landscape. He is accompanied by a Gothstyled waif, The Girl. Together, these strange travelling companions lurch between shocking violence and lifesaving miracles. In Outside Satan, French provocateur and Cannes xture Bruno Dumont (Flanders, MIFF 2006; The Life of Jesus, MIFF 1998) has made a stark, tripped out spiritual allegory that recalls the work of Robert Bresson. The origins of The Guy are ambiguous. The Girl is captivated by his dangerous mystique. Murder, resurrection and lurid sex spill from the screen and we are left uncertain whether the frightening Guy is an evil psychic manifestation or a twisted messiah. Theres an immediate sense each step takes them closer to a dark moral abyss. Slant Magazine
D/S Bruno Dumont P Jean Brehat, Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin WS Pyramide International L French w/ English subtitles TD DCP/2011
A mesmerizing, visually gorgeous and often-moving alloy of family drama. Telegraph From Danish agitator Lars von Trier (Antichrist, MIFF 2009) comes a compelling family drama, set against the backdrop of imminent apocalypse. Melancholia explores the relationship between two sisters, the depressed Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and the seemingly more balanced Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), as a planet named Melancholia hurtles toward Earth, promising extinction for the entire planet. Boasting an all-star cast that includes Stellan Skarsgrd, Charlotte Rampling and Keifer Sutherland, and claiming Best Actress at Cannes for Dunsts impressive performance, Melancholia is yet another stunning work from a singular, intriguing lmmaker. Von Trier once again demonstrates a mastery of classical technique, extracting incredibly strong performances from his cast.Variety
D/S Lars von Trier P Meta Louise Foldager, Louise Vesth Dist Madman Entertainment TD 35mm/2011
Sun 24 July 11am Forum 1022 Sun 31 July 9pm GU 5078
Mon 25 July 9pm GU 3033 Thu 4 Aug 3.30pm Forum 1103
Sat 23 July 6.30pm GU 5016 Thu 28 July 1.30pm Forum 1051
Sun 24 July 1.30pm ACMI 6023 Wed 3 Aug 4pm ACMI 6096
Fri 22 July 9pm Forum 1009 Fri 5 Aug 6.30pm GU 2111
Three
Germany 120 mins
Wasted Youth
Greece 99 mins
At Ellens Age
Germany 95 mins
Tomboy
France 82 mins
Le Havre
France/Finland/Germany 93 mins
Good-looking, inventively plotted, littered with post-modern themes, perfectly cast and in tune with the times. Screen International From his fast and furious debut, Run Lola Run, to the haunting Perfume and the big budget The International, director Tom Tykwer now turns his talents to this stylish, comedic exploration of the complexities of modern relationships. Forty-something couple Hanna and Simone are at a crossroad. The increasingly mundane state of their relationship has seen then both secretly turning to aairs but unwittingly they have both fallen for the same man, Adam, who oers an escape full of secrecy, lust and complication. Tykwer seems at his most free here, leading his story in surprising directions Its a delight to watch such smart eyes look at modern desire. Toronto International Film Festival
D/S Tom Tykwer P Stefan Arndt WS The Match Factory L German w/English subtitles TD DCP/2010
Energetic and exciting a fascinating portrait of wasted youth of all ages. Screen International In a modern Athens ravaged by the exploding nancial crisis, teenager Haris is just happy that his school is closed. He spends his time skateboarding around the capital in search of girls, booze and trouble. Meanwhile, middle-aged policeman Vasilis, struggling to provide for his family, prepares for a night shift that will see him tragically collide with the blindly deant Haris. From lmmakers Argyris Papadimitropoulos and Jan Vogel, Wasted Youth is a vigorous indictment of the mess of simmering tensions and futile anger that Athens has become in the wake of Greeces economic collapse. Evocatively shot using hand-held cameras and young Athenian nonprofessional actors, it is a raw account of a once-proud city lost in freefall.
D/S Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Jan Vogel P George Karnavas, Frederico Pietra, Dionisis Bougas S WS Elephant Eye L Greek w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Eat, pray, whatever. Idling through her forties, Ellens life is about to hit the brakes. Losing her job, partner and mind all in the same week, she embarks on a bizarre anti-journey of self-discovery that nds her wandering through endless hotel-room corridors, living in squalor with self-righteous animal activists and, later, performing nude street theatre. Pia Marais follow-up to her 2007 debut, The Unpolished (MIFF 2006), is a warm but biting coming-of-middle-age drama. Featuring a magnetic performance by Jeanne Balibar as Ellen, At Ellens Age is a frank, insightful portrait of a life that might, quite pleasantly, be heading toward nowhere. Pia Marais is a guest of the Festival. Tough, dispassionate but also amusing and honest, its only when the nal credits roll that you realise this is a lm dealing in ideas and provocations. Time Out London
D Pia Marais P Claudia Steen, Christoph Friedel S Horst Markgraf, Pia Marais WS The Match Factory L German w/ English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Winner of Best Queer Film at this years Berlin International Film Festival. After relocating to a new neighbourhood, ten-year-old Laure decides to trade on her androgynous looks to pose as a boy. While initially revelling in her new identity, things get complicated when a local girl named Lisa becomes desperately infatuated with the boy she thinks is Michael. A gentle, humorously played lm about the exploration of gender identity in ones tweens, Tomboy once again proves the singular talent writer-director Cline Sciamma (Water Lilies) has for coaxing impressive performances out of young, inexperienced actors. Quietly subversive yet never preachy, Tomboy is a sweet and assured movie about growing up, the glimmerings of adolescence and how exactly a girl should ll out a pair of Speedos.
D/S Cline Sciamma P Benedicte Couvreur Dist Rialto L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
A continual pleasure, seamlessly blending morose and merry notes with a deftness thats up there with Kaurismkis best comic work. Variety In his second French-language lm, Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismki (Lights in the Dusk, MIFF 2007) once again taps into a vein of tender, optimistic comedy. A bohemian writer-turned-shoe-shiner in the French port town of Le Havre takes an illegal immigrant boy from North Africa under his wing, hiding him from the police with the help of the locals. Kaurismki constructs a light-hearted take on the problem of illegal immigration, infused with hope, kindness and gentle good humour. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes.
D/P/S Aki Kaurismki Dist Sharmill Films L French w/ English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
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Good Bye
123 mins Iran 100 mins
The Turin Horse

Hungary 146 mins
A Separation
Iran/France
The Guard
Ireland 96 mins
Footnote
Israel 103 mins
Its a shame to think of this heroically uncompromising director shutting up shop, but if he does,The Turin Horseis a magnicent farewell. Screen International On 3 January 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse in the Italian city of Turin. Moved to pity, the philosopher famously threw his arms around the animals neck, refusing to move. Nietzsches subsequent story has been told by history; this is the equines tale. Six days in the life of a horse and its owner are recounted in this visually extraordinary feature from Bla Tarr. Elegantly shot in monochrome, and consisting of just 30 long takes, this depiction of peasant life is accompanied by the striking score by Tarrs regular collaborator Mihly Vig. Winner of the Silver Bear at this years Berlin lm festival, The Turin Horse has been announced to be the directors nal lm.
D/S Bla Tarr P Gabor Teni, Marie-Pierre Macia, Juliette Lepoutre, Ruth Waldburger, Martin Hagemann WS Films Boutique L Hungarian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Sweeping the Berlin lm festival awards with wins for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Actress, A Separation is one of most engrossing lms of the year. A middle-class Iranian couple, alreadyin the midst of an unpleasant separation, nd themselves drawn into a web of half-truths and manipulation after the husband hires a lower-class caretaker for his Alzheimersstricken, elderly father. Writer-director Asghar Farhadi (About Elly, MIFF 2009) has created a gripping and complex drama, one that teases out the intricacies and contradictions of modern Iranian society. Shades of grey abound in Farhadis taut script, spinning a deceptively simple tale that examines just how subjective notions of justice and truth can be. Morally, psychologically and socially complex, it succeeds in bringing Iranian society into focus in a way few other lms have done. Hollywood Reporter
D/S Asghar Farhadi P Negar Eskandarfar, Asghar Farhadi Dist Hopscotch L Persian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
A suspenseful and moving portrait of modern censorship. indieWIRE Arrested just before completion and nished in clandestine circumstances, Good Bye is Mohammad Rasoulofs searing indictment of the plight of women in contemporary Iran. In a decaying Tehran permanently on edge, Nooras world is beginning to constrict. Prevented from working by the local authorities and alone after her journalist husband ed the regime, she embarks on a desperate quest to illegally leave the country. A masterwork of sustained tension, Good Bye portrays with vividness and suspense the unrelenting daily grind of repression in a rigidly authoritarian society. Winner of Best Director in Cannes Un Certain Regard section.
D/P/S Mohamad Rasoulof WS Fortissimo Films L Farsi w/ English subtitles TD DCP/2011
Scabrous, profane, violent, verbally adroit and often hilarious. Hollywood Reporter The buddy cop genre gets an Irish reworking in The Guard, the gleefully chaotic debut feature from writer-director John Michael McDonagh. A sleepy Galway is shaken out of its slumber by a violent crime, leaving the laconic police force to tackle a crime syndicate thats way out of their league. The rotund, sweary, beer-swilling police sergeant Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is reluctantly teamed with the shout-of-water FBI agent Everett, a straightlaced Don Cheadle, as they try to solve a murder and undo an international criminal conspiracy without killing one another.
D/S John Michael McDonagh P Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez-Marengo, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe Dist Transmission Films L English, Gaelic w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
A smart, well written and deftly executed confrontation between a father and son who may be more alike than they would choose to believe. Screen International Comedy meets bitter family drama in Joseph Cedars (Beaufort, MIFF 2007) Footnote, a high-spirited skewering of academic pomposity, Jewish neuroses and the enduring rivalry between father and son. Eliezer and Uriel share more than just blood. Both have dedicated their lives to esoteric branches of Talmudic research, and their relationship is run through with a strain of bitter competitiveness. When Eliezer is presented with a prestigious academic award, the fractures that lie between generations are thrown into chaotic relief. Winner of Best Script at this years Cannes Film Festival. Brilliance a lm that has been meticulously thought through on every level. Time Out London
D/S Joseph Cedar P Michal Graidy, Leon Edery, David Mandil Dist Rialto L Hebrew w/English subtitles TD DCP/2011
Screens with The Accordion (Iran, 9 mins).

D/S Jafar Panahi P Adelina von Frstenberg, ART for The World WS ART for The World L Farsi w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2010
Screens with Bunce (UK, 12 mins), a short written by Stephen Fry.

D Peter Cattaneo S Stephen Fry P Mike Elliot WS BBC Worldwide TD 35mm/2010
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Intimate Grammar
Israel 110 mins
The Salt of Life

Italy 90 mins
Essential Killing (MA15+)

Poland/Norway /Ireland/Hungary 85mins
Tomorrow Will Be Better

Poland 118 mins
Tuesday, After Christmas

Romania 99 mins
Israel, 1965. As his country grows up without him, an uncertain boy teeters on the edge of manhood and tragedy. At 13 years old, Aharon (Roee Elsberg) doesnt want to grow up. Small for his age, berated at home and lost in an Israel itself only just beginning to nd its feet, the prospect of his approaching bar mitzvah lls him with an abiding existential dread. With his family collapsing around him and the girl he loves gradually being drawn to his more adult best friend, Gideon, the endless infractions of this stiing existence drive Aharon toward a nal, irrevocable act. Intimate Grammar is the latest oering from acclaimed Israeli writer/director Nir Bergman (Broken Wings, MIFF 2003), a carefully wrought and ultimately tragic study of loneliness held aloft by a startlingly nuanced performance from the young Elsberg. Winner of the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
D/S Nir Bergman P Assaf Amir WS Films Boutique L Hebrew w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Getting under the skin of a certain Mediterranean male psyche in a way that is both funny, poignant, lifeenhancing, and much cheaper than a return ticket to Italy. Screen International Retired Gianni lives a quiet life in a comfortable Roman apartment, running errands for his wife and elding incessant calls from his mother. All is calm until his friend Alphonso points out that Gianni is the only man without a mistress even the decrepit old guy at the local bar has a lover! Appalled, Gianni decides he must do something, and so begins his bittersweet search for a paramour. Set amidst the verdant beauty of spring-time Rome, actor-writer-director Gianni Di Gregorio (Mid-August Lunch) plays his alter ego with a wistful self-mockery in this tale of the often vast gap between fantasy and reality.
D Gianni Di Gregorio P Angelo Barbagallo S Valerio Attanasio, Gianni Di Gregorio Dist Rialto L Italian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Intriguing and disturbing, made with tremendous condenceand conviction. Guardian Vincent Gallo stars as an unnamed Taliban soldier, captured and own to a mysterious eastern European country for interrogation. A quirk of fate sees him escape, but he grows increasingly desperate as his former captors pursue him through vast, snowbound forests, and cold and hunger push him ever closer to delirium and inhuman acts. A hypnotic and silent manhunt thriller throughout which Gallo does not utter a single line of dialogue staged against a spectacular landscape, Essential Killing is veteran director Jerzy Skolimowskis hallucinatory exploration of one mans reversion to an almost animalistic state. Winner of the Special Jury award and Best Actor at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. A near-abstract rumination on war and survival. Telegraph
D Jerzy Skolimowski P Ewa Piaskowska S Jerzy Skolimowski, Ewa Piaskowska WS Hanway Films L English, Polish, Arabic w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Acclaimed Polish writer-director Dorota Kdzierzawska (Time to Die, MIFF 2008) presents a quiet, humble lm about the indignities of childhood and the persistence of hope. Petya, Vasya and Lyapa are alone in the world. Homeless and orphaned, they drift across the wintry Russian landscape like wraiths, listlessly scavenging their way from city to city. Dreaming of a better life, they head toward the border with Poland, convinced that on the other side theyll nally nd something to call home. Carried on the back of three remarkably assured performances from the child leads, Tomorrow Will Be Better is a miracle of cinematic restraint, a beautifully shot, unsentimental ode to the indomitable nature of innocence. Winner of a Generation Kplus award at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.
D/S Dorota Kdzierzawska P Arthur Reinhart WS Kid Film L Russian, Polish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
A further example of Romanian virtuosity. Village Voice After ten years of marriage, Paul juggles the easy familiarity of his wife and child with the playful passions of his mistress. But a meeting in a waiting room brings the three parties together and pushes Paul to make the uncomfortable decision he has been avoiding. Rarely have the corners of a love triangle been so sharply drawn as in this domestic melodrama by writer-director Radu Muntean (Boogie, MIFF 2008), whose screenwriting team of Alexandru Baciu and Rzvan Rdulescu are between them responsible for the greatest of the Romanian new wave lms. Tautly naturalistic and played out with theatrical intensity, Tuesday, After Christmas is an eerily recognisable account of the often conicting demands of desire and love. Of this lm, Ingmar Bergman, patron saint of disintegrating relationships, would undoubtedly approve. Filmmaker Magazine
D Radu Muntean P Drago Vlcu S Alexandru Baciu, Rzvan Rdulescu, Radu Muntean WS Films Boutique L Romanian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
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Silent Souls
Russia 75 mins
Elena
Russia 109 mins
Innocent Saturday
Russia/Ukraine/Germany 99 mins
Tilva Rosh
Serbia 99 mins
Beauty
South Africa/France 99 mins
Lyrical and mysterioustakes the viewer on a voyage into the human soul. Hollywood Reporter Silent Souls follows Aist, a professional photographer and writer, and his boss Miron, as they travel through Russia on a mission to cremate Mirons beloved wife. As two descendants of the Merja people, an old tribe which has long been assimilated, their trip is a nal pilgrimage to send the woman into the afterlife in accordance with the traditions of their people. In Silent Souls, lmmaker Aleksei Fedorchenko wrestles with tradition, life and mortality against a backdrop of stunning imagery and wintry landscapes that pay homage to the two gods of Merjan belief: love and water. An elliptical enigma conveying an odd exhilaration. Slant
D Aleksei Fedorchenko P Igor Mishin, Mary Nazari S Denis Osokin Dist Icon L Russian w/English subtitles TD DCP/2010
A wise and impeccably controlled drama that nds Russian helmer Andrey Zvyagintsev in outstanding form. Variety Elena dotes on her selsh, wealthy husband Vladimir and lives a lonely life surrounded by luxury in a sterile, ultra-modern penthouse. But when the aging Vladimir informs Elena that he is altering his will to leave his money to his spoiled, boozy daughter from a previous marriage, she makes a decision to speed Vladimirs journey to the grave before the will can be changed. Award-winning director Andrey Zvyagintsev conjures an uncompromising vision of a Russia in moral disarray in this tautly restrained domestic drama. A literate and chilling take on contemporary class warfare, Elena paints a riveting portrait of decadence and the emptying of the Russian soul. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize at Cannes.
D Andrey Zvyagintsev P Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov S Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev Dist Palace Films L Russian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
(An) often mesmerising tableau of a dance of death. Screen International Saturday April 26th, 1986. In the 36 hours following the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, Communist party member and white-collar worker Valery Kabysh has seen the panic of his superiors, and has learnt the fate of his town before anyone else. He knows that every second counts, but every attempt to leave is undone, and as the disaster is revealed to everyone around him, he is sucked back into the comforts and delusions of his everyday life. Shot by Oleg Mutu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, MIFF 2007), Innocent Saturday is no conventional disaster movie; instead it is a relentless, claustrophobic account of Chernobyl, a visceral exploration of a cultures ability for self-delusion and a questioning of how a community could continue everyday life knowingly in the face of nuclear catastrophe.
D/S Alexander Mindadze P Dmitri Efremov, Matthias Esche WS Bavaria Films L Russian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
[A] desolate portrait of misguided youth on the brink of maturity, desperately trying to nd a sense and purpose in life. Screen International A few years back, rst-time lmmaker Nikola Leai stumbled across a home-made documentary consisting of Jackass-inspired stunts made by Stefan, Toda and their skate team. He started hanging out with the guys and wrote a script based on the clips he saw in their lm, stories they told him and his own memories of being a teen then turned it into a feature lm with Stefan, Toda and co. playing themselves. Thats Tilva Rosh: a pseudo-real, fresh, astutely rendered observation of slacker youth set against the desperate socioeconomic backdrop of Bor in eastern Serbia.
D/S Nikola Leai P Uro Tomi, Mina uki, Nikola Leai WS Visit Films L Serbian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Winner of the Queer Palm award at Cannes. The rst Afrikaans-language lm to ever be screened at Cannes, Beauty tells the story of Franois, a middle-aged man whose wellordered existence comes unravelled. A chance encounter with Christian, the son of a longlost friend, ignites infatuation and lust within the unhappily married Franois, plunging him into a confusion of self-loathing, tinged with a desperation for happiness. For his sophomore outing, 27 year-old South African wunderkind Oliver Hermanus has delivered a taut, seething character study, pulsing with pent up energy. Phrased in half-glimpsed gestures and led by the compelling Deon Lotz as the desperate Franois, Beauty is a forceful, measured portrayal of one mans tragic self-hatred and tormented masculinity.
D Oliver Hermanus P Didier Costet S Oliver Hermanus, Didier Costet Dist Palace Films L English, Afrikaans w/ English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
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Play
Sweden/France/Denmark 118 mins
The Mill and the Cross

Sweden/Poland 96 mins
Majority
Turkey 102 mins
Jane Eyre (M)

UK 120 mins
Submarine
UK 97 mins
A behavioural and psychological drama, based on true accounts of a racially charged street scam in Sweden. Over the course of a tense afternoon, ve kids of African descent playfully toy with three well-heeled white teens. Using complex intimidation, racial preconceptions, vague threats and menacing head games, they lure the white boys to an isolated nomans-land where they propose a perverse competition that will relieve their victims of everything they value. This confrontational drama from writerdirector Ruben stlund (Incident by a Bank, MIFF 2010) calls upon a non-professional cast and unsettlingly long takes to delve beneath the unacknowledged codes of human behaviour. Thoughtful and occasionally harrowing a fascinating exercise in psychology. Screen International
D/S Ruben stlund P Erik Hemmendor Dist Madman Entertainment L Swedish w/English subtitles TD DCP/2011
An extraordinary lm project that takes us inside the story of a remarkable painting. Flemish painter Pieter Brueghels 1564 masterpiece The Procession to Calvary is an immense work of art that draws together the events of Christs crucixion with that of Flanders sacking by Spanish forces. Controversial and bold, it made a grand, brutally realistic statement about a worldchanging event. The ambitious passion project of lmmaker Lech Majewski, The Mill and the Cross combines stunning digital eects with live actors and horses to venture into the world of the painting itself. Stars Rutger Hauer as Breughel, along with Michael York and Charlotte Rampling as Mary. Director Lech Majewski is a guest of the Festival. An extraordinary imaginative leap. Variety
D/P Lech Majewski S Michael Francis, Lech Majewski Dist Criss Cross Film Distribution TD 35mm/2010
Winner of Best First Feature at the Venice Film Festival. Twenty-one years old and still living under the brutish dominion of his father, perpetual screw-up Mertkan makes decisions or, more generally, doesnt, based on the path of least resistance. When Mertkan meets a Kurdish waitress, hes oered relief from his soul-sucking routine, but complacency and the racist suspicions of his father threaten to destroy his newfound happiness. Seren Yces debut feature is a scathing broadside at the patriarchal family politics and gender dynamics still so evident in contemporary Istanbul. Expertly edited by Mary Stephen (The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, MIFF 2008; The Last Train Home), and sparkling with wry humour, Majority is a compelling and simply told portrait of a Turkey still wrestling with the conditions of its own modernity. Majority editor Mary Stephen is a guest of the Festival.
D/S Seren Yce P Sevil Demirci, nder akar WS The Match Factory L Turkish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010 v
Charlotte Bronts famous tale gets a fresh makeover, with a winning performance from Australias Mia Wasikowska (The Kids Are All Right, MIFF 2010) as the tenacious Jane. Having been adapted for lm and TV almost 30 times over the last century, Jane Eyre now nds a new voice with this astute retelling of the Bront classic from lmmaker Cary Joji Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) and screenwriter Moira Buni (Tamara Drewe). Starring Michael Fassbender as the hypnotically reptilian Rochester and Dame Judi Dench as Mrs Fairfax, Fukunagas adaptation breathes fresh life into a well-known story; one that explores the dark corners of Bronts novel, playing up the gothic aspects of the tale to oer an uninching take on the much-loved heroine. Cary Joji Fukunaga has reanimated a classic for a new generation, letting Jane Eyre resonate with terror and tenderness. Rolling Stone
D Cary Joji Fukunaga P Mairi Bett, Faye Ward S Moira Buni Dist Universal Pictures TD 35mm/2010
A delightfully o beat coming-of-age tale, ecked with shades of Rushmore, Submarine is a charming debut from UK comedy stalwart Richard Ayoade (The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd ). Fifteen-year-old Oliver is a tortured literary genius or so he believes. With his father (Noah Taylor) depressed, and his mother (Sally Hawkins) reigniting an aair with a past lover (Paddy Considine), Oliver takes it upon himself to reunite his fractured family and to impress his true love, an eczema-suering pyromaniac, along the way. Featuring original songs from Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys), Submarine is an impressive, assured debut from a major comic talent. Joe Dunthornes delightfully idiosyncratic novel Submarine is the kind of book that almost never is made into a lm of matching quality. Richard Ayoades movie is a sublime exception. Hollywood Reporter
D/S Richard Ayoade P Mark Herbert, Andy Stebbing, Mary Burke Dist Madman Entertainment TD 35mm/2010
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Route Irish
UK/France/Italy/ 124 mins Belgium/Spain 109 mins
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Tyrannosaur
UK 91 mins
Neds
UK/France/Italy
A Useful Life
Uruguay 67 mins
Jess + Moss
USA 82 mins
An intense exploration of the corrosive eects of human violence. Hollywood Reporter A drunk and washed-up excuse for a man, Joseph (Peter Mullan, director of Neds, MIFF 2011) vents his anger on whoever or whatever is unlucky enough to get in his way: a group of friends at the pub, the window of a post-oce, even his longsuering and ever-loyal dog. But when he unleashes his frustrations on Christian charity store worker Hannah, he nds an unlikely friend in someone accustomed to abuse and thick-skinned enough to look past it. The directorial debut feature from acclaimed actor-turned-lmmaker Paddy Considine, a long-time collaborator of Shane Meadows (This is England, MIFF 2006), Tyrannosaur is an uninching, sometimes brutal account of the grittier side of human nature. A powerful and intense debut driven by quite outstanding performances. Screen International
D/S Paddy Considine P Diarmid Scrimshaw Dist Madman Entertainment 35mm/2011
Some people need to be taught a lesson. In the urban wastelands of 1970s Glasgow, 12-year-old John McGill is an outlier. Quiet, studious and uncommonly intelligent, he exists in contrast to his alcoholic, abusive father, gang leader brother and repressed, ineectual mother. But as he enters high school and the unwanted adolescence that comes with it, the grim realities of his working class background begin to press ever more violently against his childhood ambition. Eight years on fromThe Magdalene Sisters,writerdirector Peter Mullanssearing portrait of Irish Catholic cruelty,Neds(NonEducated DelinquentS) presents another uncompromising yet humane vision of the forgotten poor. Personally inected and tragic in tone yet still sparked with moments of remarkable humour Neds sets Mullan up alongside Ken Loach as one of the premier voices of the UK working class.
D/S Peter Mullan P Olivier Delbosc, Alain de la Mata, Marc Missonnier Dist Transmission Films TD 35mm/2010
Insightful and explosive, so torn from todays headlines it leaves newsprint on your hands. Empire Former soldiers and lifelong friends, Fergus and Frankie, have been growing rich doing private security work in the simmering quagmire of post-war Iraq. But when Frankie is killed in mysterious circumstances, Fergus nds himself investigating a vast web of corruption, where the blood of the Iraqi people is making some people very, very rich. Ken Loach (Its a Free World, MIFF 2008) returns to the screen, quite literally with all guns blazing, in Route Irish, a bold, angry political thriller set in the murky world of the Iraq wars private contractors. Typically gritty and charged with tension, this is Loach at his rebrand best.
D Ken Loach P Rebecca OBrien S Paul Laverty Dist Transmission Films TD HD Cam/2010
Wholly succeeds as an infectious look at one soldier of cinema losing his battle, but living to ght another day. indieWIRE A Useful Life chronicles the demise of a small independent cinema in Montevideo, Uruguay, through the mournful eyes of middle-aged lm programmer Jorge. Facing the imminent closure of his beloved cinmathque, Jorge emerges from his bewildered, hermit-like existence to pursue a romantic vision. Assuming the role of protagonist in the lm of his own life set to lavish musical accompaniment Jorge undertakes a wholesale transformation staged through his love of the cinema. A gentle, contemplative second feature from director Federico Veiroj, this wistful, delicate black-and-white oering is a humble ode to art cinema and its true believers.
D/S Federico Veiroj P Mediapro, Verstil Cinema WS FiGa Films L Spanish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
The preciousness of youth and all of its disasters. Jess, 18, and Moss, 12, spend a lazy summer together on a derelict farm in rural Kentucky. With their families strangely absent, the pair occupy their time exploring, playing, bickering, sharing secrets and trying to understand how theyve come to be alone. Lovingly shot on thirty varieties of lm stock and drenched in adolescent anomie, Jess + Moss is writer-director Clay Jeters lyrical, impressionistic study of the idleness and atrophy of youth. Nostalgic and dreamlike, but with an almost menacing otherworldly edge, this is a surprising and hypnotic debut from an emergent auteur. [A] sustained dream, as if the theatrical conceits of Jean Genet were married to a childrens story retold via William Faulkers Southern brand of stream of consciousness. Variety
D Clay Jeter P Clay Jeter, Brian Harstine, Will Basanta, Isaac Hagy S Clay Jeter, Debra Jeter, Will Basanta, Isaac Hagy WS Visit Films TD HD Cam/2011
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Screens with The Little Tailor (France, 44 mins).

D/S Louis Garrel P Mathieu Bompoint WS MK2 L French w/ English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
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Martha Marcy May Marlene
109 mins USA 101 mins
LiTTLEROCK
USA 83 mins
Terri
USA 105 mins
The Forgiveness of Blood

USA/Albania/Denmark/Italy 109 mins
Win Win (M)

USA
A small gem of miscommunication and hopefulness. Filmmaker Magazine Brother and sister Rintaro and Atsuko have travelled from Japan to America, and their broken-down rental car has stranded them in the archetypal small town of Littlerock, California. They fall in with the instantly smitten Cory, whose straightforward life revolves around smoking, drinking and hanging out with a group of similarlyminded mists. With an improvised, vrit style, LiTTLEROCK is a clever sh-out-of-water indie lm with a wit to match its gentle spirit. An audience hit at festivals around the world, the lm won its co-writer and director Mike Ott the Someone To Watch award at the prestigious Independent Spirit Awards earlier this year. Tender, aecting, and unexpectedly funny. indieWIRE
D/S Mike Ott P Fred Thornton, Sierra Leoni, Laura Ragsdale WS Small Form Films L English, Japanese w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2010
With a sensitive eye and an even more perceptive heart, Azazel Jacobs brings new life to the outsiders ordeal. New York Times The perfect embodiment of teenage loserdom, Terri drifts through life alone, mercilessly teased by his peers and ignored by his jaded teachers. It is not until the vice principal, Mr Fitzgerald (John C. Reilly) sees something of himself in Terri and befriends him that things start to look up for the awkward, overweight teenager. Director Azazel Jacobs (Mommas Man, MIFF 2008) nds the poetry in Terris cluttered and constrictive world. Propelled by an exemplary performance from rst-timer Jacob Wysocki, Terri is a funny, slow building and delicate ode to the diculties of growing up. A beautifully subtle and wholly original take on the high-school-set-coming-of-age lm. Screen International
D Azazel Jacobs P Alison Dickey, Hunter Grey, Lynette Howell, Alex Orlovsky S Patrick Dewitt Dist Madman Entertainment TD 35mm/2011
Winner of the Silver Bear at this years Berlin lm festival. Having debuted with Colombia-based cocaine drama Maria Full of Grace (MIFF 2004), American lmmaker Joshua Marston turns his attention to the sometimes bloody battle between tradition and progress in contemporary Albania. In The Forgiveness of Blood, an Albanian teenager nds himself wedged in the middle of a blood feud between his father and another local man based on a six-centuriesold law, which means stepping foot from his house could literally end in his sanctioned death. With the help of local Andamion Murataj, Marston has crafted a menacing and culturally faithful portrait of an Albania caught between the old ways and the new. Impressively performed by non-professional actors speaking in their native tongue, The Forgiveness of Blood oers a striking glimpse into an little-known world.
D Joshua Marston P Paul Mezey S Joshua Marston, Andamion Murataj Dist Madman Entertainment L Albanian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Possesses a sharp wit and a generous spirit a master class in o beat comic brilliance. New York Times Paul Giamatti plays Mike Flaherty, a middleaged lawyer-cum-high school wrestling coach struggling to succeed at either task, whose fraught existence is provided some relief when he manipulates a senile client into giving him control of his nances. When the mans teenage grandson shows up and proves to be an exceptional wrestler, it seems as if all Mikes problems are fading away but it isnt long before the fallout from his transgressions begin to catch up with him. A sharply observed comedy, Win Win once again shows o writer-director Tom McCarthys (The Visitor, MIFF 2009) exceeding talent for warmhearted quirk. Led by the superbly downtrodden Giamatti, Win Win is sincere without being cloying, and lled with humane wit.
D/S Tom McCarthy P Mary Jane Skalski, Michael London, Lisa Marie Falcone, Tom McCarthy Dist Twentieth Century Fox TD 35mm/2011
Olsen gives a magnicently ambiguous performance and Durkin knows precisely how much information to reveal and how much to leave frighteningly implicit. The A.V. Club A beautiful, emotionally shattered young woman named Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) makes a dawn escape from a cult compound in the Catskill mountains, eeing to the luxurious home of her married sister and attempts to put her life back together. But with her past spilling into the present, escape from Patrick (John Hawkes), the demented cult leader, might not be so easy. In Martha Marcy May Marlene, rst-time director Sean Durkin has crafted an insidious, slow-burn psychological thriller where the gap between reality, dream and memory becomes desperately menacing. Hallucinatory and unsettling, this is a remarkably condent debut from a bright new talent. Winner of Best Director at Sundance.
D/S Sean Durkin P Josh Mond, Antonio Camos, Chris Maybach, Patrick Cunningham Dist Twentieth Century Fox TD DCP/2011
Tue 26 July 4pm ACMI 6038 Sun 31 July 11am GU 4074
Wed 27 July 6.30pm GU 5046 Sun 31 July 1.30pm Forum 1075
Mon 25 July 1.30pm Forum 1030 Sat 30 July 1.30pm Forum 1066
Mon 25 July 9pm Forum 1033 Sat 30 July 6.30pm Forum 1068
Sun 24 July 6.30pm ACMI 6025 Sun 31 July 9pm ACMI 6078
Tiny Furniture
USA 98 mins
Take Shelter
USA 120 mins
Natural Selection
USA 90 mins
Beginners
USA 105 mins
You Are Here

Canada 78 mins
A twenty-something graduate returns home to New York to face the toughest question of all: what now? Living out of her mothers New York apartment, 22-year-old Aura has a useless lm theory degree, a mind-numbing job as a restaurant hostess and no real idea of what to do with her life. Bouncing between parties, art shows and romantic prospects, Aura isnt sure what shes waiting for but shes knows its not this. The second feature from 25-year-old Lena Dunham (who here writes, directs and stars), Tiny Furniture conrms her as a talent at the beginning of a long career. With its dryly witty take on romantic misadventure among Manhattanite hipsters, Tiny Furniture makes its multi-hyphenate creator Lena Dunham seem like the Woody Allen of Generation Y. Screen International
D/S Lena Dunham P Kyle Martin, Alicia Van Couvering WS Indomina Releasing TD HD Cam/2010
A masterfully controlled piece of work on every level impeccable craftsmanship and breathtaking imagery. Hollywood Reporter A psychological thriller and a disturbing portrait of paranoia and madness, Take Shelter is the devastating sophomore eort from writer-director Je Nichols (Shotgun Stories, MIFF 2007). As storm clouds gather on the horizon, family man Curtis (Michael Shannon) nds himself haunted by inescapable dreams of an onrushing apocalypse. As they grow in potency, Curtis begins to see the dreams as a prophetic sign of danger to his beloved family. Immune to the entreaties of his wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life), Curtis drifts towards a madness that will stretch the family to breaking point. Winner of International Critics Week at Cannes this year.
D/S Je Nichols P Tyler Davidson, Sophia Lin Dist Sony TD 35mm/2010
It is hard not to love this lm. A pitchperfect satire of marriage and morality, a perversely satisfying romance and, above all, the best sort of comedy. New York Magazine When childless, devout Christian Abe suers a stroke while making a donation at a sperm bank, his long-suering wife Linda (Rachael Harris) discovers that Abe has been a weekly sperm bank regular for more than 20 years. Distraught, Linda tracks down Abes previously unknown son Raymond, a drug-addled, foul-mouthed Florida prison escapee, who agrees to travel with Linda back to Texas although unbeknownst to her he has the police hot on his tail. Winner of seven awards at SXSW, including the Grand Jury and Audience Awards. What happens in their hatchback over the next three days is a brilliantly realised bit of scripting and playing A moving and often extremely funny road trip. Guardian
D/S Robbie Pickering P Brion Hambel, Paul Jensen, Nicole Ettinger TD HD Cam/2011
A tender, funny-sad journey into the messiness that is love. Hollywood Reporter At 75 years old, Hal (Christopher Plummer) is only recently out of the closet, dying of cancer, and determined to nally be faithful to himself. Sad-eyed Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is his son, confused by but encouraging of his fathers decision. As his father embraces the contours of a new life, Oliver confronts the legacy of his emotionally stied childhood. Inspired by director Mike Millss own fathers decision to come out before his death, Beginners is a sincere and moving lm about the diculties of surrendering to love. Mike Mills is a guest of the Festival. Deeply poignant and disarmingly personal. Variety
D/S Mike Mills P Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech, Miranda de Pencier, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy Dist Hopscotch TD 35mm/2010
[You Are Here] oers a series of episodes that slide over one another like a palimpsest That tingle in your frontal lobe means that its working. Cinema Scope When a reclusive woman (the late Tracy Wright) discovers a mysterious recording, she begins unpicking an impossibly complex mystery. After discovering a man who cannot inhabit the same body for more than a few seconds, a crowd of people called Allan being forced to move around the city by oce drones, and an experimenter who has constructed a working model of the human mind, she begins to realise that the physical evidence she has gathered may itself be trying to outsmart her. An ambitious meta-detective story, this debut feature from Daniel Cockburn is a labyrinthine brain teaser and philosophical puzzle that will turn your mind completely inside out.
D/S Daniel Cockburn P Daniel Bekerman, Daniel Cockburn WS Insomnia WS HD Cam/2010
Thu 28 July 6.30pm GU 3053 Fri 5 Aug 9pm GU 2112
Sat 23 July 9pm GU 2017 Sat 6 Aug 4pm Forum 1118
Fri 29 July 9pm Forum 1061 Sun 31 July 6.30pm Forum 1077
Mon 25 July 6.30pm GU 2032 Tue 2 Aug 4pm ACMI 6089
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HERE
USA/Armenia 126 mins
The Future
USA/Germany 91 mins
Circumstance
USA/Iran 105 mins
Another Earth
USA 92 mins
Our Idiot Brother

USA 95 mins
Packs an unexpectedly powerful emotional punch. Its the road-trip romance reinvented, remapped. Village Voice Will Shepard (Ben Foster, The Messenger, MIFF 2010) is a cartographer travelling through Armenia, investigating the accuracy, or truth, of the ground as mapped by satellites above. Meeting Gadarine (Lubna Azabel, Paradise Now, MIFF 2005), a photographer returning to her country of birth to explore her attachment to it, he falls in love and the two begin their own journey into dierent kinds of unexplored terrain. Co-scripted with Melbourne writer Dani Valent and expanded from a multimedia work shown at both Sundance and MoMA, Kings lm exists to blur boundaries; it is at once a travelogue drama that diverts into periods of lush experimentation, a eeting romance, and an exploration of our ability to be lost and found. Branden King is a guest of the Festival.
D Braden King P Braden King, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy S Braden King, Dani Valent Dist Madman Entertainment L English, Armenian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Brandishes poetic insights and imaginative ights. Hollywood Reporter Miranda Julys highly anticipated new lm occupies the same playful and o beat universe as her acclaimed debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know (MIFF 2005). Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) live in a tiny apartment, nurse chronic internet addictions and spend their thirty-something existence avoiding responsibility. But when they decide to adopt the terminally ill cat (and the lms narrator) Paw Paw, they realise their they are sacricing their freedom, to become set and predictable. With 30 days until the cat arrives, they decide to take drastic action: to throw caution to the wind and to see what the universe has in store for them. An inspired exercise in magic realism, The Future is a bittersweet lm about the unnerving possibilities of life and the relentless passage of time.
D/S Miranda July P Gina Kwon, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul Dist Madman Entertainment TD HD Cam/2011
An amazingly accomplished and complex rst feature from IranianAmerican writer-director Maryam Keshavarz. Hollywood Reporter Two 16-year-old best friends, Atafeh and Shireen, coming of age under the repressive theocracy of Iran, are struggling to deal with their burgeoning desire for one another. In the wake of the growing fanaticism of Atafehs older brother, Mehran, their edgling relationship will come to threaten the bonds of their family, and their lives. A daring and deeply aecting family drama set in modern Tehran, Circumstance oers a fascinating glimpse into the unseen backwaters of Iranian society. Fuelled by a propulsive soundtrack and a striking cinematographic verve, Circumstance is a boundary pushing debut from a bold new voice for both Iranian and American cinema. Winner of the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival.
D/S Maryam Keshavarz P Maryam Keshavarz, Karin Chien, Melissa M. Lee, Brian Ringey Hubbard Dist Vendetta Films L Farsi w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011v
Sundance can boast of another discovery science ction at its best. Hollywood Reporter On the night that a duplicate Earth is discovered in our solar system, astrophysics student Rhoda drives into an oncoming car, killing a mother and child and leaving the father in a coma. When shes released from prison, Rhoda goes to nd the father, determined to do penance and, perhaps, to escape her past in the parallel world oating above. A tale of love and redemption set against the philosophical quandary of a world that appears to be an exact mirror of our own, Another Earth is the remarkable feature lm debut from director Mike Cahill. Powerful and deftly told, it is existential romance cast as science ction exploration, an assured work of narrative ingenuity.
D Mike Cahill P Hunter Gray, Paul Mezey, Tyler Brodie, Nicholas Shumaker S Brit Marling, Mike Cahill Dist Twentieth Century Fox TD 35mm/2010
Every family has an idiot. An endearing performance from Paul Rudd supercharges this comedy about wellmeaning man-child Ned Rochlin, whose blundering optimism sets him on a collision course with his family. Jailed for selling pot, Ned nds upon his release from prison he that hes been deserted by his girlfriend, who wont let him back on their organic farm. Jobless and homeless, Ned embarks on a couchhopping tour through the homes of his three self-absorbed sisters played with quiet exasperation by Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks and Zooey Deschanel. Unwittingly causing havoc in their personal and professional lives, Ned ultimately brings a little perspective too. [Paul Rudd] has the agility to handle the nuances of the well-meaning boob, but conveys genuine good, as well, as he plays for laughs. Screen International
D Jesse Peretz P Peter Saraf, Marc Turtlelaub, Anthony Bregman S Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall Dist Village Roadshow Entertainment TD HD Cam/2011
Sun 7 Aug 4pm GU 2127
Wed 3 Aug 6.30pm ACMI 6097 Sat 6 Aug 4pm GU 4118
Wed 27 July 9pm GU 2047 Mon 1 Aug 6.30pm GU 2083
Tue 2 Aug 9pm Forum 1091 Wed 3 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1097
Tue 2 Aug 9pm GU 2091
Grey Matter
Rwanda/Australia 100 mins
The Kid with a Bike

Belgium/France/Italy 87 mins
Artavazd Pelechian Program

Armenia 104 mins
Familiar Ground
Canada 88 mins
Curling
Canada 92 mins
The rst full-length feature lm made in Rwanda by a Rwandan lmmaker. With this groundbreaking debut feature, writer-director Kivu Ruhorahoza presents a multi-layered lm within a lm, where art mimics reality and, more disturbingly, reality begins to mimic art. Grey Matter revolves around Balthazar, a young lmmaker frustrated by his inability to secure nance for his rst feature lm a treatise on genocide and madness called The Cycle of the Cockroach. Angry at an industry that only wants to see African movies about AIDS, he starts preparing the lm anyway, only to nd the barriers between his cinema and his everyday life starting to break down. Shot by Australian cinematographer Ari Wegner, with MIFF Accelerator alumni Dominic Allen producing, Grey Matter is bold and creative cinema.
D/S Kivu Ruhorahoza P Dominic Allen, Kivu Ruhorahoza WS Scarab Studio Films L Kirywandan, French w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2011
The celebrated Dardenne brothers (Lornas Silence, MIFF 2010) took the Grand Prix at Cannes this year with this gripping cinematic tale of youthful innocence betrayed. Critically acclaimed Belgian lmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, winners of two previous Palmes dOr for Rosetta and The Child, are known for writing and directing uncompromising, socially aware dramas: spare, haunting stories about working-class lives in industrial Belgium. In their latest work, the titular kid is 11-yearold Cyril (Thomas Doret), who is determined to reestablish contact with his absentee father and recover his bicycle, stubbornly ignoring the signs that he has been deliberately abandoned. With this tremendously moving drama the Dardennes once again display their directorial air.
D/S Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne P Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd Dist Madman Entertainment L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
With Jean-Luc Godard and Aleksandr Sokurov citing him as a major inuence, the work of Artavazd Pelechian is becoming recognised as being of central importance to the history of lmmaking. This screening showcases his conceptual montage approach that redened the boundaries of cinema. We (1969) traces the resonances of the 1915 Armenian genocide in late 1960s Soviet society.
D Artavazd Pelechian P Studio Erevan WS Films Sans Frontires L no dialogue TD 35mm/1969
Bleak, wry and darkly comic an impressive command of tone keeps things grounded right until a delicious nale. Variety Filmmaker Stphane Laeur (Continental, a Film Without Guns) mixes gentle humour with absurd circumstance and traces of sci- in Familiar Ground, a dark trip into the extraordinary everyday. Forever stuck in adolescence, Benoit lives with his widowed father in a chilly, snowbound patch of Canada. Meanwhile, his introverted sister, Maryse, is unhappily married to the distant Alain. Neither sibling has been entirely content since the death of their mother, but when a strange man travels from the not-too-distant future to warn Benoit of a grave accident that will befall his sister, he and Maryse set out on a surreal, life-changing road-trip. Winner of the Ecumenical Jury prize at the 2011 Berlin lm festival.
D/S Stphane Laeur P Luc Dry, Kim McCraw WS eOne Entertainment L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Denis Ct has long since staked out his territory as Canadas most adventurous auteur. Eye Weekly Winning the Best Director prize at Locarno, Curling is an o beat and eccentric comedy with distinctly morbid leanings. Friendless Jean-Franois scrapes by doing odd jobs at a bowling alley. With his wife is in prison for an unnamed but horric crime, he is obsessively protective of Julyvonne, his 12-year-old daughter. While Jean-Franois life seems mundane, bizarre occurrences begin to mount up. His daughter stumbles across a caged tiger and a pile of frozen corpses hidden in the woods. What is real and what is tormented fantasy brought on by their frozen isolation?
D/S Denis Ct P Denis Ct, Stphanie Morissette WS Doc & Film L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
The Seasons (1972), overlaying shots of the tireless work of Armenian mountain shepherds with strains of Vivaldi, opts for a universal perspective on the human condition.
Our Century (1982) leans towards political satire in its mesmerising, cosmic look at the Cold War-era space race.
Tue 26 July 11am Forum 1036 Fri 29 July 4.45pm Kino 8059
Screens with Blue (New Zealand, 14 mins).

D Stephen Kang P Tara Riddell S Stephen Kang WS New Zealand Film Commission TD 35mm/2011
Thu 28 July 9pm Forum 1054 Sat 30 July 9pm Forum 1069
Fri 22 July 9pm ACMI 7009
Thu 4 Aug 6.30pm GU 4104
Thu 4 Aug 11am Forum 1101 Sun 7 Aug 4pm Forum 1127
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TeleScope: New Talent from the EU
In partnership with Festival Scope, the online portal for lm professionals to view new works screening at festivals, MIFF has put together a program of acclaimed new lmmaking out of the European Union. With 12 lms from 12 countries from Greece to Germany, Slovenia to Spain TeleScope will sketch a cinematic map of contemporary European lm.
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The Fairy
Sleeping Sickness
Germany/France/Netherlands 91 mins
Belgium-based masters of the absurd Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy and Australian-born Fiona Gordon create slapstick mayhem in The Fairy, a charming vaudeville-style romp that recalls the physical comedies of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Jacques Tati. For a lonely manager in a dull Le Havre hotel, things take an interesting turn when a barefooted woman arrives and grants him three wishes. He eagerly takes her up on her oer, but neglects to ask for the one thing he really wants:the fairys love. So begins a twisted and anarchic adventure, as he strives to win her heart. Following on the heels of Iceberg and Rumba (MIFF 2009), The Fairy sees Abel, Gordon and Romy unleashing their considerable comic and acrobatic talents in new and ingenious ways.
D/S Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy, Dominique Abel P Charles Gillibert, Marin Karmitz, Nathanael Karmitz, Marina Festr WS MK2 L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Two doctors face the unknown of a defamiliarised home in this smart and enigmatic feature from Ulrich Khler (Bungalow, Windows on Monday). Smitten by the land and its people, a German doctor faces the prospect of leaving Cameroon and returning home to a country he hasnt seen in years. Tasked with replacing him is a French-born man who is apprehensive about Africa, the land of his ancestors but a place he has never before visited. When they meet, ideas of home, culture and identity are thrown into brutal relief by the connection of these two very dierent men in one intoxicating, dangerous place. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.
D/S Ulrich Khler P Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Katrin Schlsser WS The Match Factory L German, French, Dutch, Basse w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Finisterrae
Opening Night Thu 21 July GU
Fri 5 Aug 4pm Forum 1110 Sun 7 Aug 1.30pm GU 5126
Matchmaking Mayor
Czech Republic/Slovakia 72 mins
ATTENBERG
Greece 95 mins
Top Floor Left Wing

France/Luxembourg 93 mins
Finisterrae
Spain 80 mins
The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Italy 118 mins
On July 25, well be hosting a social gathering for single men and women Maybe we can wake up your hormones. Mayor Josef Gajdos After bringing better roads, jobs and cable television to the eastern Slovak hamlet of Zemplinske Hamre, Burgomaster Jozef Gajdos, a retired general, turns his attention to marrying o the towns 70-odd bachelors and bachelorettes. Having so far failed in his initiatives (which include encouraging childbearing via announcements over the local PA system) the mayor has resolved to organise a get-together where Slovak folk performers, among other things, will help sow the seeds of love. Hnkov has unearthed a goldmine of colourful characters for this endearing and comical documentary portrait of a town ruled by an overbearing but well-meaning general whos about to learn one lesson: the heart cant be commanded.
D/S Erika Hnkov P Ji Konen WS OutCome L Slovak, Czech w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Sex, death and nature documentaries. Marina, a 23-year-old sexual innocent and general misanthrope, is both intrigued and repelled by the idea of physical intimacy. While helping her father prepare for his imminent death, she nds herself awkwardly beginning her rst sexual relationship. Deriving its name from a deliberate mispronunciation of Sir David Attenboroughs surname, this striking sophomore feature from writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari is presented with the detached observational curiosity of a scientic study. Stylistically and thematically sharing much in common with Dogtooth (MIFF 2009), which Tsangari co-produced, ATTENBERG is an o beat exploration of sex and death, shot through with inquisitiveness, wry humour and a provocative sense of the absurd. Captivating and vaguely disturbing a wacky, decidedly arthouse coming-of-age narrative. Variety
D/S Athina Rachel Tsangari P Maria Hatzakou WS The Match Factory L Greek w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Five kilos of cocaine, an Algerian father with a shadowy past and an Islamophobic baili collide on 11 September 2011. When foul-tempered civil servant Franois (the charismatic Hippolyte Giradot) arrives at a rundown Parisian apartment to serve an eviction notice on Mohand (French-Algerian comedian Mohamed Felagg), things go quickly awry: Mohands delinquent, dopedealing son Salem thinking hes about to be nabbed for the cocaine hes hidden in the at panics and pulls a gun. Top Floor Left Wing follows the ensuing day-long siege as it disintegrates into riotous farce, replete with tabloid media circus, trigger-happy cops and uncomfortable political confrontations. A whirlwind of secrets, stupidity and snipers, Top Floor Left Wing is a piercing satire of the contradictions that abound in a racially unsettled Paris. Grippingly clever combines nail-biting ambience with stabs of humour and crosscultural bonding. Variety
D/S Angelo Cianci P Edgar Tenenbaum WS Memento Films L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Theres something undeniably compelling about so much bizarreness. Variety Two Russian ghosts take a spiritual journey through the north of Spain, hunting a great oracle who will oer them the chance to be reborn. Through snow-covered elds, forests of plastic ears and ocks of reindeer, the ghosts one carrying a windsock, the other on horseback (or wheelchair) trek ever closer to their goal. First-time lmmaker Sergio Caballero (codirector of the beloved Barcelona music and art festival, Sonar) blends high art and low comedy in this quirky modern-day fable inspired by Philippe Garrels La Cicatrice intrieure. Featuring the seismic talents of cinematographer Eduard Grau (Tom Fords A Single Man, Rodrigo Cortess Buried ), and winner of a coveted Tiger award at this years Rotterdam lm festival, Finisterrae is an unorthodox, unexplainable and utterly indenable cinema experience.
D/S Sergio Caballero P Luis Minarro, Ventura Barba WS Film Sharks L Russian, Catalan w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2010
Like prime numbers, Alice and Mattia are each divisible only by one and themselves: uniquely connected, and forever apart. Adapted from the bestselling novel of the same name, The Solitude of Prime Numbers traces two decades in the lives of the emotionally scarred Mattia (Luca Marinelli) and Alice (up and comer Alba Rohrwacher, I Am Love) from the formative traumas of their childhood to the shared loneliness of their adult existence. Essentially isolated, and knowing the other is likewise estranged, Alice and Mattia are ill-suited for romance, yet inexorably attracted to each other. A simple tale of thwarted love told in a stunningly conceived sequence of ashbacks and jumps forward, The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a powerful and hopeful testament to the slender moments that can forever shape a life. Also stars Isabella Rossellini as Mattias mother, and features a score by Mike Patton.
D Saverio Costanzo P Mario Gianini, Philipp Kreuzer S Paolo Giordano, Saverio Costanzo Dist Aztec International L Italian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Fri 29 July 11am Forum 1057 Sun 31 July 11am GU 5074
Fri 5 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1111 Sun 7 Aug 1.30pm Forum 1126
Mon 25 July 6.30pm GU 5032 Fri 29 July 1.30pm Forum 1058
Sat 23 July 9pm GU 4017 Fri 29 July 6.30pm GU 4060
Sun 24 July 6.30pm Forum 1025 Thu 28 July 6.45pm Kino 8053
TeleScope: New Talent from the EU
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Day Is Done
Switzerland 111 mins
Principles of Life
Romania 97 mins
Silent Sonata
Slovenia 75 mins
Michael
Austria 96 mins
She Monkeys
Sweden 82 mins
For fteen years lmmaker Thomas Imbach has lmed the world that lies outside his Zurich window. As the landscape changes, so does his life: his father dies, a baby is born and hundreds of messages are left on his answering machine. Through the shifts in season, through personal disasters and through the daily life of the people below, Imbach remains the one, all-seeing constant. Hypnotising, beautiful and life-arming, Day is Done is a meditative study of a city and one persons place in it. Under Imbachs stately gaze, the sprawl of Zurich becomes a microcosm of something universal, human and true. A poetic but also wryly humorous study of the selsh artist trying to play the indierent God, but ending up revealing himself as all too human. Screen International
D Thomas Imbach P Andrea taka, Thomas Imbach S Thomas Imbach, Patrizia Stotz WS Okolm Production L Swiss-German w/English subtitles TD DCP/2011
How hard can it possibly be to organise a family holiday? In Principles of Life, rising star of the Romanian lm scene Vlad Ivanov (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, MIFF 2007) plays a self-pitying, middle-aged, middle class suburban man trying his best to arrange a simple family holiday. Beset on all sides by minor setbacks and petty frustrations, his capacity to cope with the rigours of the modern world is severely tested. A shining example of the understated wit of Romanian New Wave cinema, Principles of Life provides an endearingly droll account of a harassed, stubborn man going through a very, very bad 24 hours. Bracingly familiar but uniquely Romanian in execution, writerdirector Constantin Popescu has constructed an exceedingly dry comedy of errors with an unexpectedly shattering conclusion.
D Constantin Popescu P Ada Solomon S Rzvan Rdulescu, Alex Baciu WS Coach 14 L Romanian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Now all my teachers are dead except silence. W.S. Merwin A man lives with his children in a halfdemolished house in the middle of a warzone. His wife has been killed by a grenade and he fears for the lives of his children. But instead of an approaching army, a wandering circus stops by and a little magic materialises in their devastated world. People dont speak in Silent Sonata, but this is far from a silent lm. An impressionistic suite of sound, atmosphere, sensibility and surrealism, Silent Sonata is a gorgeously rendered tribute to the immensity of things that cannot be expressed in words. Featuring members of Cirque du Soleil, and showing a ravishing eye for spectacle, this is a unique meditation on the horrors of war and the persistence of beauty. A beautifully shot musing on life amidst conict. Screen International
D/S Janez Burger P Joko Rutar, Petra Bain, Morgan Bushe WS Fortissimo Films L no dialogue TD 35mm/2010
A triumph of uneasy cinema: Not since Todd Solondzs Happiness has a movie portrayed pedophilia in such uncomfortable detail. indieWIRE A hard-working employee in an insurance rm, Michael leads an ordinary life, with an average car, a nice house and a nice normal girlfriend who lives abroad. Except she doesnt exist, and neither does his ordinary life. Instead, Michael has a ten-year-old boy named Wolfgang locked in his basement. Michael is the chilling and ambitious debut feature from lmmaker Markus Schleinzer. With a story ripped straight from the headlines, the lm follows ve months in the life of a paedophile and his prisoner, exploring the unsettling normalcy of a man who is secretly a monster. Michael deeply divided audiences at its Cannes screening, and is certain to do the same here. Contains scenes that may disturb
D/S Markus Schleinzer P Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer WS Les Films du Losange L German w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Winner of best lm at the Tribeca Film Festival this year, She Monkeys is a nuanced and provocative study of young female desire. In the height of the Swedish summer, 15-year-old Emma joins a local riding club and becomes embroiled in an intense friendship with the older Cassandra. Meanwhile, Emmas 8-year-old sister, Sara, vies for the sexual aections of her babysitter. Lost in the hypersexualised churn of contemporary culture, the two girls nd themselves immersed in dynamics that neither fully understands but to which both are irrevocably attracted. From rst-time director Lisa Aschan comes a claustrophobic, deeply unsettling exploration of the jumbled parameters of teen sexuality.
D Lisa Aschan P Helene Lindhom S Josene Adolfsson, Lisa Aschan WS The Yellow A air L Swedish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Screens with Wannes Destoops short lm, Swimsuit 46 (Belgium, 15 mins).

D/S Wannes Destoop P Katleen Goossens L Flemish w/ English subtitles TD HD Cam/2010
Sat 30 July 6.30pm ACMI 7068 Fri 5 Aug 9pm ACMI 7112
Wed 27 July 6.30pm GU 4046 Mon 1 Aug 4pm Forum 1082
Sat 30 July 4pm GU 5067 Wed 3 Aug 2pm Forum 1095
Tue 26 July 9pm Forum 1040 Mon 1 Aug 9pm GU 5084
Sat 30 July 6.30pm GU 5068 Tue 2 Aug 6.30pm GU 2090
Silent Sonata
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Australian Showcase
Each year MIFF takes great pride in presenting a selection of the latest and nest lms to come out of Australia. Running the gamut from wry and distinctive to haunting and aective, Australian Showcase is a stirring testament to the enduring strength and creativity of our local lm scene.
I Am Eleven
Australia 93 mins
33 Postcards (M)
Australia/China 97 mins
On Borrowed Time
Australia 57 mins
A global glimpse into the tumultuous, evolving experience of being 11 years old. Filmmaker Genevieve Bailey spent four years travelling the world talking to 11-year-olds to compose this gentle, funny and often aecting documentary portrait of crosscultural childhood. From an orphanage in India to a single-parent household in innercity Melbourne, I Am Elevenexplores the lives and thoughts of children from 15 countries, speaking in 12 languages. Encompassing rich and poor, privileged and outcast, Baileys lm oers a unique insight into both what unites us, and what sets us apart. Genevieve Bailey is a guest of the Festival. [Eleven is]a crucial age no longer children, not quite adults, preparing to inherit a world changing as quickly and dramatically as they are. lmmaker Genevieve Bailey
D Genevieve Bailey P Genevieve Bailey, Henrik Nordstrom L English, Swedish, Japanese, Hindi, German, Berber, Thai, Dutch, French, Bulgarian, Malayalam, Mandarin w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
An inter-continental journey with a little girl lost and an adult looking to be found. For Mei Mei (Zhu Lin), escaping her orphan upbringing and becoming part of a real family is a dream that has forever seemed impossibly out of reach. When her orphanage travels to Australia to take part in the Australian Choir Festival, Mei Meis one chance at happiness lies in the hands of her sponsor Dean (Guy Pearce), but the man she nds is not what she expected. Filmmaker Pauline Chan (Traps, Little White Lies) explores identity, belonging and redemption in 33 Postcards, a tale of two mismatched people from across the world swept into each other's lives, to nd that their paths are very much the same. Also stars Claudia Karvan, Lincoln Lewis and Rhys Muldoon. Pauline Chan is a guest of the Festival.
D Pauline Chan P Pauline Chan, Penny Carl-Nelson, Lesley Stevens, Zhijiang Liu S Martin Edmond, Pauline Chan, Philip Dalkin Dist Titan View L English, Mandarin w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Documentarian David Bradbury brings us an aectionate portrait of the life of venerated Australian director Paul Cox. Arguably one of the most important lmmakers to come out of this country, and certainly one of the most prolic, director Paul Cox (Salvation, MIFF 2008; Human Touch, MIFF 2004; Innocence, MIFF 2000) occupies a unique place in the Australian lm landscape. A Dutch native who relocated to Melbourne as a teenager in the 60s, Cox went on to make more than 25 feature lms over the next four decades, all highly personal and artistically ambitious. Featuring a whos who of Australian lm and intellectual life of the past 30 years including David Stratton, Phillip Adams, Chris Haywood and Gosia Dobrowski Bradburys tribute to the great director delves into Coxs outlook on lmmaking and life, particularly in the wake of his remarkable recent brush with cancer. David Bradbury is a guest of the Festival.
D/P David Bradbury S Mike Rubbo TD digibeta/2011
Life in Movement
Sat 23 July 4pm ACMI 6015 Tue 2 Aug 9pm GU 3091
Mon 25 July 6.30pm GU 3032
Sat 6 Aug 4pm ACMI 6118
The Curse of the Gothic Symphony

Australia 80 mins
Face to Face
Australia 85 mins
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

Australia 85 mins
Swerve
Australia 87 mins
Red Dog (PG)

Australia 92 mins
Its the musical equivalent of climbing Everest, trekking through the South Pole, sending a man to the moon. Requiring two orchestras, four brass bands, ve choirs and six-hundred people, the Gothic Symphony by English composer Havergal Brian is recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest, longest and most complex symphony ever composed. Never performed in entirety,despite repeated attempts, now a team of orchestral obsessives in Brisbane are hell-bent on bringing the symphony to the stage. Can they overcome an 80-year-old curse that has prevented the behemoth from seeing the light of day? Randall Wood is a guest of the Festival.
D Randall Wood P Veronica Fury S Randall Wood, Sue McGregor WS Films Transit TD digibeta/2011
A bristling little Australian indie that lands its many punches with pungent power. Hollywood Reporter After Greg (Vince Colosimo) is attacked by a young employee outside his home, he nds his life and his relationship with wife Claire (Sigrid Thornton) turned upside down, as a face-to-face intervention chaired by Jack (Matthew Newton) exposes secrets, lies and ever-increasing layers of complexity to a seemingly straight-forward story. Also starring Luke Ford, Laura Gordon and Chris Connelly, this bristling ensemble piece from David Williamson (Gallipoli; Balibo, MIFF 2009) and lmmaker Michael Rymer (Angel Baby) takes a scalpel to Australian society, exposing the deep-seated prejudices that still exist under the surface. Michael Rymer is a guest of the Festival.
If you wanna talk to me then SHUT YOUR F**KEN MOUTH! Raymond Human In 1987, Eddie and Mitch found themselves living next door to Peter and Raymond a amboyant gay man and a raging homophobe who red abuse at each other during nightly liquor-fuelled stoushes. The guys recorded these colourful exchanges through the paper-thin walls and inadvertently created one of the worlds rst viral sensations one which inspired a cult following on the cassette-zine circuit, spawned a stage play and multiple lm projects, and made its way into the work of comic artist Dan Clowes (Ghost World ) and the music of Devo. Spanning issues of voyeurism, art, privacy and exploitation, this riveting documentary charts the unconventional story of an underground phenomenon. Matthew Bate is a guest of the Festival.
D/S Matthew Bate P Sophie Hyde, Matthew Bate Dist Madman Entertainment TD HD Cam/2011
A woman, two men and a suitcase of money a lot can happen in the middle of nowhere. Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin (David Lyons) opts for a shortcut and happens across a fatal car accident. One of the drivers (Emma Booth) is shaken but not hurt, while the other lies dead leaving a briefcase full of money without an owner. Despite his best intentions, Colin quickly nds himself drawn into a deadly game of survival, where no one is quite what they seem. An accomplished Australian thriller that features a cast packed with top-tier local talent, including Jason Clarke, Travis McMahon and Vince Colosimo. Craig Lahi is a guest of the Festival.
D/S Craig Lahi P Helen Leake WS Moviehouse Entertainment UK TD 35mm/2011
From one of Australias greatest lmmakers, Kriv Stenders (Boxing Day, MIFF 2007; Blacktown, MIFF 2005), comes the heartwarming tale of an Australian country town and the dog it loved. In Dampier, an isolated town deep in the Pilbara, a free-wheeling kelpie known as Red Dog lies close to death. As the townsfolk keep vigil by his bedside, they tell newcomer Tom (Luke Ford) tales of the dogs many exploits. This is the unadorned premise of Red Dog, a charming, nostalgic and comical waltz through a forgotten Australia where men were men, beer was beer, shorts were short, and a single atulent dog had the capacity to unite an entire community. Recounting the lives, loves and general mishaps of the Dampier townfolk, Red Dog is a lm that revels in its simplicity, an utterly endearing exercise in humour without guile and sentiment without excess. Kriv Stenders is a guest of the Festival.
D Kriv Stenders P Nelson Woss S Daniel Taplitz Dist Village Roadshow Entertainment TD 35mm/2010
Sun 24 July 9pm ACMI 6026 Wed 27 July 9pm GU 4047 Fri 5 Aug 4.45pm Kino 8110
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
D/S Michael Rymer P Leanne Hanley, Gabrielle Christopher, Michael Rymer, David Williamson WS Astral Pictures TD HD Cam/2011
Premiere Fund
Fri 22 July 9pm ACMI 6009 Tue 26 July 9pm GU 3040
Mon 25 July 9pm GU 5033 Tue 2 Aug 9pm Kino 8091 Fri 5 Aug 4pm Nova 9110* * Open Caption screening
Fri 29 July 9pm ACMI 6061 Wed 3 Aug 9pm GU 3098
30 July 6.30pm GU 2068
Premiere Fund
Australian Showcase
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The Eye of the Storm

(MA15+) Australia 114 mins
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Toomelah
Australia 101 mins
Life in Movement
Australia 79 mins
The Hungry Tide

Australia 94 mins
X
Australia 85 mins
Fred Schepisi returns with an engaging take on the acclaimed 1973 novel by Australian Nobel laureate Patrick White. As the wealthy and powerful Mrs Hunter (Charlotte Rampling) approaches death, her unscrupulous children, Basil (Georey Rush) and Dorothy (Judy Davis) return to the family estate. Long alienated from a mother they barely knew, and themselves having fallen upon hard times, they scheme of ways to win her vast inheritance. But united again in the family home, all three begin to awkwardly stumble toward a state of grace. Boasting an all-star Australian cast, and marking Schepisis rst local feature since 1988s Evil Angels, The Eye of the Storm is an eccentric and wryly observed study of the way children understand themselves through their parents, and the always surprising return of compassion. Fred Schepisi is a guest of the Festival.
D Fred Schepisi P Antony Waddington, Gregory Read, Fred Schepisi S Judy Morris Dist Transmission Films TD 35mm/2011
In the desolate reaches of an Aboriginal community, is the life of a ten year old already spent? Amidst the physically, emotionally and spiritually empty spaces of Toomelah, one of Australias most impoverished Aboriginal communities, ten-year-old Daniels life is sliding toward oblivion. All but abandoned by an uncaring mother and ruinously alcoholic father, Daniel falls in with a local drug dealer and his crew, only to nd his new world of petty crime holds its own dangers. Fresh from a rapturous reception at Cannes, this beautifully photographed feature from director Ivan Sen (Dreamland, MIFF 2010) shares the same meditative pace and impeccable eye for the Australian landscape as his earlier acclaimed work Beneath Clouds. A heartbreaking portrait of life in the forgotten margins of the Australian outback.
D/S Ivan Sen P David Jowsey Dist Curious Film TD HD Cam/2011
A talent as astounding as Tanja Liedtkes deserves to be examined and applauded and this lm is a tting tribute to her brief but brilliant career. ABC Life in Movement, the biography of the extraordinarily talented dancer and choreographer Tanja Liedtke, was already underway when Liedtke was struck and killed by a truck on the streets of Sydney. Her life, already a series of brilliant triumphs, had just reached a new high with Liedtke being appointed the new artistic director of the Sydney Dance Company at the age of 29. Inspiring and aecting, Life in Movement is a celebration of the artistic process and a paean to the work of a gifted young talent cut down in the prime of her career. Bryan Mason and Sophie Hyde are guests of the Festival.
D/P/S Bryan Mason, Sophie Hyde WS Closer Productions TD HD Cam/2011
Seasoned lmmaker Tom Zubrycki (Molly & Mobarak, MIFF 2003; The Diplomat, MIFF 2000) shows the very human face of climate change with this urgent documentary. In his latest work, Zubrycki grapples with the human toll of climate change: specically, the hungry tide slowly drowning the Pacic nation of Kiribati, the lowest-lying nation on earth. For Maria Tiimon, a Kiribati woman living in Australia, climate change is less an environmental issue and more an issue of global justice. Her desperate campaign to raise awareness about the fate of her nation forms the core of a documentary that is an urgent call to action against the consequences of climate change already happening on our countrys doorstep. Tom Zubrycki is a guest of the Festival.
D/P Tom Zubrycki WS JOTZ L English, Kiribati w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
A jaded call-girl. A edgling hooker. The night from hell. The seedy underbelly of Sydneys red-light district becomes a violently dangerous place in lmmaker Jon Hewitts X, the muchawaited follow-up to his dark 2008 serial killer romp, Acolytes. When high-class call-girl Holly (Viva Bianca) decides to call it quits, she ropes in young, beautiful runaway Shay (Hanna ManganLawrence) for her last job. When they nd themselves in the wrong room at the wrong time, the night takes a deadly turn and the two women nd themselves on the run from a maniac out for blood. Explicit, raw and relentless, X is a dark thriller set close to home among the thugs, drug addicts and sex workers of Sydneys criminal underworld. Jon Hewitt is a guest of the Festival.
D Jon Hewitt P Lizzette Atkins S Belinda McClory, Jon Hewitt Dist Potential Films TD 35mm/2011
Sat 30 July 4pm ACMI 6067 Sun 31 July 1.30pm GU 4075
Sun 31 July 6.30pm ACMI 6077 Sun 7 Aug 1.30pm GU 3126
Mon 1 Aug 6.30pm ACMI 6083 Sun 7 Aug 4pm GU 4127
Thu 4 Aug 9pm Forum 1105
Sat 23 July 6.30pm Forum 1016
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Accent on Asia
Japans studied extravagance. South Koreas surreal genre explosions. Thailands piercing character studies. Vietnams sultry family dramas. The scale, breadth and uniqueness of Asian cinema is one of global cinemas true wonders. Accent on Asia brings together the very best of the lms being made right on our doorstep.
The Piano in a Factory

China 105 mins
Outrage
Japan 109 mins
Simple in its measured and assured direction, The Piano in a Factory establishes Zhang Meng as one of the most vibrant voices in Chinese cinema today. Toronto International Film Festival Chen, an unemployed ex-steelworker and amateur accordionist, loves music nearly as much as he loves his young daughter Xiao Yuan. When his estranged wife shows up demanding a divorce and custody of Xiao, Chen resolves to do whatever it takes to keep his ramshackle family together. A charming, whimsical comedy, The Piano in a Factory nonetheless highlights the plight of those left behind by Chinas rst wave of post-industrialisation in the 90s. Stylish and endearing, this sophomore feature from Zhang Meng (Lucky Dog) heralds a bright cinematic career.
D/S Zhang Meng P Jessica Kam, Gwang-suk Choi WS Golden Network Asia L Mandarin w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
As violent, amoral and misanthropic as a Jacobean play arguably [Kitanos] best lm in a decade. Hollywood Reporter Legendary director Takeshi Kitano (Hana-Bi, MIFF 1998) returns to the Yakuza genre he has made his own, starring as Otomo, a Yakuza subordinate ordered to bring a rival crime gang into line. But as Otomos intervention triggers a vicious cycle of retribution, hidden agendas and questionable motives pull all sides into a downward spiral of doublecrosses and reprisals. A blackly comic miracle of confronting violence that distills the Yakuza genre down to its essence greed, fear and power the stylish and gruesome Outrage is a tremendous return to form for the hallowed Kitano.
D/S Takeshi Kitano P Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida Dist Madman Entertainment L Japanese w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2010
Sat 23 July 11am GU 5013 Tue 26 July 1.30pm Forum 1037

Norwegian Wood
Fri 29 July 9pm GU 4061 Mon 1 Aug 9pm GU 2084
13 Assassins
Japan 126 mins
Winter Vacation
China 75 mins
Eternity
Thailand 105 mins
Norwegian Wood (MA15+)

Japan 133 mins
Hanezu
Japan 91 mins
[Director] Takashi Miike is in top, slashtastic form. Variety Kinetic Japanese director Takashi Miike (Audition, MIFF 2000, Sukiyaki Western Django, MIFF 2007) returns with an homage to his legendary compatriot Akira Kurosawa. In 19th century Japan, a time of peace is threatened by the rise of a sadistic, murderous young lord. Brother to the Shogun, the lord is politically protected so a team of samurai is secretly assembled to eliminate him. A slow-burn period epic that builds to a visceral tumble of intense samurai action, 13 Assassins is Miike at the top of his game. 13 Assassins is pure pleasure: it culminates in a magnicent 45-minute showdown that has to be the best nal battle sequence in cinema since Kill Bill. Screen International
D Takashi Miike P Toshiaki Nakazawa, Jeremy Thomas, Takashi Hirajo S Daisuke Tengan Dist Icon L Japanese w/ English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Already a poet and novelist, Li Hongqi is also a talented lmmaker, here managing to dot an ultra-minimalist slice of life with speckles of wry deadpan humour. Time Out London The monotony of life gets the absurdist comedy treatment in Winter Vacation, a stark presentation of life in a rural town at the end of the winter break. For four idle, aimless teenagers, stuck here over the holidays, the snowbound wasteland of a town oers nothing to do but to while away the hours. A comically deadpan study of boredom, featuring beautiful composition and innovative sound design, this third feature from Li Hongqi (Routine Holiday) was the recipient of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.
D/S Li Hongqi P Ego Sum Art&Design (Alex Chung) WS Capricci Films L Mandarin w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2010
Winner of a Tiger award for Best Picture at the 2011 International Film Festival Rotterdam. Sivaroj Kongsakul makes a startling feature lm debut with Eternity, a patient, consuming, all-encompassing metaphysical love story. Eternity tells the tale of a wandering spirit named Wit as he traces the happiest moments from his mortal life. A journey through Wits courtship of his beloved wife, Koi, and his years spent with her subsequently, he travels along the span of a tender romance that seems to echo through the ages in its glorious, beautiful ordinariness. A life told in unassuming moments and fragments of shared joy, Eternity is an elegiac love story, a meditation on loss and death, a lushly rendered character study and a remarkable entry from a bright new voice in world cinema.
D/S Sivaroj Kongsakul P Aditya Assarat, Soros Sukhum, Umpornpol Yugala WS Ramonda Inc L Thai w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
With this adaptation of the best-selling novel by Haruki Murakami, acclaimed Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo) has created a dark and strikingly haunting lm about love and loss. A young college student is pulled towards two very dierent women in this tragic love story and coming-of-age saga, set against the backdrop of social unrest of late 1960s Japan. Featuring several young Japanese stars on the rise (including Rinko Kikuchi from Babel ), Norwegian Wood also boasts original music from Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood (There Will Be Blood ) and sensuous cinematography by Mark Lee Ping Bin (In the Mood for Love). The lms lyricism is unshakeable One moment we are watching these characters, the next without quite noticing we are inside them, walking about in their emotional landscapes. Financial Times
D/S Tran Anh Hung P Shinji Ogawa Dist Curious Film L Japanese w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
A beautifully made, quietist and contemplative work a delicately romantic and even subtly erotic love story. Guardian In rural Japan, three lovers face the consequences of indelity and the complications of motherhood, along with other larger questions, in this lm about humanity and nature. Kayo and Tetsuos seemingly idyllic existence is threatened by the revelation that Kayo has been having an aair with a Takumi, a local wood carver. When she falls pregnant, each of the trio nd themselves reconsidering their relationships as they contemplate their place in the generational weave of Japans history. Japanese lmmaker Naomi Kawase (The Mourning Forest, MIFF 2007) presents a hymn to nature through this mythic love triangle, shot through with Japanese folklore. Lusciously lmed, Hanezu is a poetic journey into human passion.
D/P/S Naomi Kawase WS Memento Films L Japanese w/ English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Sun 24 July 9pm GU 5026 Tue 26 July 9pm GU 2040
Fri 22 July 9pm GU 4009 Tue 2 Aug 6.30pm GU 4090
Fri 5 Aug 6.30pm Kino 8111 Sat 6 Aug 6.30pm ACMI 7119
Sun 24 July 11am GU 5022 Tue 26 July 6.30pm Forum 1039
Sat 30 July 1.30pm GU 3066 Sat 6 Aug 4pm GU 2118
Accent on Asia
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Guilty of Romance
Japan 112 mins
Cold Fish
Japan 144 mins
Tatsumi
Singapore/Indonesia 98 mins
The Unjust
South Korea 120 mins
Okis Movie
South Korea 80 mins
Japans prince of transgressive cinema, Sion Sono brings us an erotic, psychosexual tale of sex, money and murder. With this risque, noir-esque lm, director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, MIFF 2009; Cold Fish, MIFF 2011) presents a story based on a true-life crime, oering his trademark view on the darker side of society. Unsatised housewife Izumi, professor of literature Mitsuko and police detective Kazuko oset the banality of their everyday lives with secret and not-so-secret sexual misadventures. Empowerment and misanthropy go handin-hand as the explicit details of their aairs are brought to the surface, and a gruesome murder will link their fates.
D/S Sion Sono P Yoshinori Chiba, Nobuhiro Iizuka Dist Monster Pictures L Japanese w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Cult Japanese director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, MIFF 2009; Guilty of Romance, MIFF 2011) brings us a gore-drenched, pitch black comedy about a man drawn into the clutches of a deranged couple. Shamoto, a quiet, bullied owner of a small tropical sh shop, lives an existence of unhappy mediocrity until he meets Murata, a charismatic, rich man with a much larger tropical sh shop. When Shamoto enters into a shady business deal with Murata and his wife, he discovers that beneath the gleaming facade there is something very wrong with his new friends. Inventively gory, visually extreme and blackly comedic, Cold Fish is quite denitely the creation of controversialist Sion Sono. An unrelenting and revelrous romp through the darker aspects of the human psyche in true Sono style Cold Fish is quite a ride. Dont say you werent warned.
D Sion Sono P Yoshinori Chiba, Toshiki Kimura S Sion Sono, Yoshiki Takahashi WS Nikkatsu L Japanese w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
A fascinating and ultimately moving tribute to a seminal comic artists dark, disquieting but powerful works. Hollywood Reporter Filmmaker Eric Khoo (My Magic, MIFF 2009; Be With Me) adapts for the screen the spellbinding work of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, father of the gekiga comic-art movement of the late 50s. Tatsumis dark tales of a postwar Japan are presented for the rst time on lm, still as radical and haunting as the day they were written. Five animated stories Hell, Beloved Monkey, Just A Man, Occupied and Good-bye are presented, intercut with scenes from Tatsumis autobiography, narrated by the artist himself. Tatsumi oers works that were revolutionary in their time, changing the mediums reach throughout Japan with their adult content and themes of alienation.
D/S Eric Khoo P Tan Fong Cheng, Phil Mitchell, Freddie Yeo, Eric Khoo WS The Match Factory L Japanese w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Achieves a happy marriage between commercial savvy and artistic integrity in its hard-hitting depiction of Seoul as a city of corruption. Hollywood Reporter A massive critical and commercial success in South Korea, The Unjust is a complex crime thriller, set against the background of police and corporate corruption in contemporary Seoul. A spate of unsolved serial killings has the Seoul public outraged. Facing mounting public pressure, the police initiate a plan to set someone up to take the fall for the crime unleashing a chain of events that nds the citys powerful and corrupt interests pitted against one another. Directed by popular genre director Ryoo Seung-wan (Die Bad, MIFF 2001; Crying Fist, MIFF 2005), The Unjust blends cynical social observations with dark humour, tragedy and distinctly Korean action.
D Ryoo Seung-wan P Kim Yoon-ho, Koo Bonhan S Park Hoon-jung WS CJ Entertainment L Korean w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Sex, lies and lmmaking. In Okis Movie, Hong Sang-soo (Hahaha, MIFF 2010; Night and Day, MIFF 2009) presents a love triangle told in four chapters. The woman at the centre of the aair is Oki, a university student majoring in lm and simultaneously wrestling with the romantic expectations of two very dierent men: an older professor and a former lmmaking student. As one of the prime custodians of new Korean cinema, Hong does what he does best in this time-shifting sequence of dizzyingly self-reexive stories about lmmaking, awkward romantic entanglements and alcohol-soaked escapades. Strange but compelling, Okis Movie is a darkly comic, complex testament to the idea of lm as art. The work of a self-assured artist unafraid to expose the inner worlds of his characters to reveal their awed humanity. Toronto International Film Festival
D/S Hong Sang-soo P Kim Kyounghee WS Finecut L Korean w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Sat 30 July 11.30pm GU 3070 Thu 4 Aug 9pm GU 2105
Sun 31 July 11am Forum 1074 Tue 2 Aug 9pm GU 5091
Fri 22 July 9pm GU 5009 Thu 28 July 9pm GU 5054
Mon 25 July 9pm GU 2033 Tue 2 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1090
Thu 28 July 4.45pm Forum 1052 Mon 1 Aug 6.30pm Kino 8083
Journals of Musan
The Fourth Portrait

Taiwan 105 mins
The Yellow Sea

End of Animal
The Day He Arrives

South Korea 79 mins
For a North Korean in South Korea, the grass isnt always greener. Having escaped the oppressiveness of North Korea, Jeon Seung-chul is determined to build a better life for himself amidst the freedoms of the South. However, introverted and ill suited to Seoul society, Jeon begins to nd his new home to be a cruel and unfeeling place. An assured and much-awarded feature lm debut by writer, director and lead actor Park Jung-Bum (former assistant to revered Korean director Lee Chang-dong), Journals of Musan was inspired by the experiences of one of Parks close friends as he struggled with the harsh realities of acclimatising to South Korean society. An acutely observed character study of a man forgotten by the world, Journals of Musan is a confronting indictment of humanitys capacity for indierence.
D/S Park Jung-bum P Lee Jinuk WS Finecut L Korean w/ English subtitles TD HD Cam/2010
A haunting depiction of loss and loneliness, channelled through the eyes of a child. When his father dies, with his mother long absent, ten year-old Xiang is alone. Caught stealing from other peoples lunchboxes by the school janitor, social services track down Xiangs long estranged mother and send him to live with her, her malcontented husband and their new baby. Scorned and resented at home and lost in the world at large, Xiang retreats to portraiture as a way of understanding the life unfurling around him. A sterling follow-up to his debut, Parking, Chung Mong-Hong has crafted a delicate and pointed portrait of Taiwanese life that startles in its frankness. Reecting a painters eye for composition and colour, The Fourth Portrait is a visually striking yet quietly told hymn to the bonds of family and society.
D Chung Mong-Hong P Tseng Shao-Chien S Chung Mong-Hong, Tu Hsiang-Wen WS Good Films Workshop L Mandarin w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Rising star of the South Korean lm scene Na Hong-jin returns with an ambitious follow up to The Chaser (MIFF 2009) that was a box oce hit domestically. In a lawless Chinese border town, where the boundaries of North Korea, China and Russia intersect, Gu-nam lives one day at a time. Faced with mounting mahjong gambling debts, he reluctantly accepts a proposal to assassinate a business man in South Korea. But when things dont go as planned he nds he must ee for his lifewith the cops, a rival hitman and an army of underworld thugs hot on his tail. Turbulent, relentless and technically assured, The Yellow Sea is a hot-blooded action spectacular that balances breathtaking set pieces and visceral violence with a desperate, driving narrative.
D/S Na Hong-jin P Han Sung-goo Dist Monster Pictures L Korean, Chinese w/English subtitles TD DCP/2010
A remarkable debut, a post-apocalyptic, existential quasi-monster movie on a shoestring budget, it recalls the darker works of Cormac McCarthy with an added supernatural tinge. Cinephile After picking up a man in a baseball cap, heavily pregnant Soon-young and her taxi driver realise theyve invited something more frightening into the cab when the stranger starts reeling o their most intimate secrets and counting down to an unknown event. Cue a blinding ash of light and Soonyoung wakes up alone with only the howls of a distant creature to accompany her. Filmmaker Jo Sung-hees End of Animal is a downtempo supernatural thriller of high intellectual ambition. A quietly menacing and original debut from one of South Koreas rising stars.
D/S Jo Sung-hee P Park Joo-young WS CJ Entertainment L Korean w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2010
Sungjoon, a lm director who no longer makes lms, goes to Seoul to meet a friend who doesnt show. Lonely, he wanders among old haunts and bars. Amid the random circumstance of days spent in hard drinking and encountering strangers, acquaintances, and ex-lovers, Sungjoon confronts the unseen patterns shaping the contours of his own life. MIFF regular Hong Sang-soo (Okis Movie, MIFF 2011; Hahaha, MIFF 2010) returns with a droll existential work about a lmmaker facing a cycle of aimless days and nights. Or is it the same day, over and over? Hong renes his ever more rened miniatures with a consistency, delicacy and philosophical wit that make him comparable to the late Eric Rohmer. Screen International
D/S Hong Sang-soo P Kim Kyounghee WS Finecut L Korean w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Wed 27 July 11am ACMI 6043 Sat 6 Aug 11am GU 4116
Sun 31 July 6.30pm GU 5077 Wed 3 Aug 4pm Forum 1096
Sat 23 July 9pm ACMI 6017 Tue 2 Aug 9pm ACMI 6091
Mon 25 July 6.30pm GU 4032 Sun 31 July 9pm GU 4078
Wed 3 Aug 6.30pm GU 5097 Fri 5 Aug 11am Forum 1108
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Hi-So
Thailand
Accent on Asia
Bi, Dont be Afraid
102 mins Vietnam 92 mins
Things change quickly, so this lm should be a snapshot of the way things are now. Like a polaroid, as soon as you take it, its already fading into the past. Aditya Assarat With his second feature Thai director Aditya Assarat returns to the themes of his acclaimed debut, Wonderful Town (MIFF 2008), with a visually elegant take on alienation and the universal search for identity and love. Having completed his studies in the US, Ananda (played by Australian-Laotian pop star Ananda Everingham) returns to Bangkok, seeking to nd a sense of belonging in his old home town. As his relationship with his American girlfriend starts to falter, Ananda struggles to reconnect with a city that is no longer the place he remembers from his childhood.
D/S Aditya Assarat P Napassarin Prompila, Ananda Everingham WS Memento Films L English, Thai w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
A heat-soaked panorama of human desires. Screen International It is a stiing Hanoi summer and the unexpected return of six year-old Bis dying grandfather has an unsettling inuence on an already fragmented family. While his father nds solace in booze and the aections of his masseuse, and his single aunt grapples with her deeply suppressed sexual desires, Bi struggles to make sense of his fragmenting world. A sultry portrait of Vietnamese urban alienation told through the eyes of a confused child, Bi, Dont Be Afraid is writerdirector Phan ng Dis intriguing and unsettling debut feature. An erotically and symbolically charged aair that will, at the very least, have you never look at ice cubes the same way again. Winner of two Critics Week prizes at last years Cannes Film Festival.
D/S Phan ng Di P Acrobates Films, Claire Lajoumard WS Acrobates Films L Vietnamese w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Thu 28 July 6.30pm GU 4053 Sat 30 July 11am Forum 1065
Wed 27 July 6.30pm Kino 8046 Fri 5 Aug 1.30pm Forum 1109
Cold Fish
Our Place is Your Place

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Crime Scene
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Crime Scene brings together six brand new lms exploring the gritty underbelly of human society. This is a cinematic world of spectacular heists, unsolved murders and daring kidnappings, of crimes of passion and crimes of hate, jet black comedies and slow burning dramas.
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

Brazil 116 mins
Explosive, political and unforgiving, The Enemy Within breaks new ground and box oce records in Brazilian cinema. On the heels of his award-winning Elite Squad, lmmaker Jos Padilha (Bus 174, Garapa) follows up with what proved to be the most successful lm in Brazilian history Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (co-written with City of God s Braulio Mantovani), an incendiary thriller that packs a punch even for audiences new to the franchise. After a crack squad of ocers from the shoot-rst-ask-questions-later school of policing cause a stand-o with prisoner rioters to go horribly wrong, Captain Nascimento (Wagner Moura) nds himself put in charge of a wiretapping operation that is on the verge of exposing a criminal outt operating within the force itself.
D Jos Padilha P Jos Padilha, Marcos Prado S Jos Padilha, Brulio Mantovani Dist Madman Entertainment L Portuguese w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Fri 29 July 9pm GU 2061 Wed 3 Aug 9pm Kino 8098

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Polisse
France 129 mins
A Stoker
Russia 83 mins
Viva Riva!
Congo/France/Belgium 96 mins
Bullhead
Belgium
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

129 mins Turkey/Bosnia Herzegovina 157 mins
Filmmaker-star Mawenns sociallyminded lm is packed with raw, visceral performances from an accomplished cast. Hollywood Reporter Compelling and occasionally a little disturbing, Polisse follows the trials of Pariss Juvenile Protection Unit, as they are faced on a daily basis with the best and worst of human behaviour, taking the knocks as they come, whatever the cost to their personal lives. This gripping feature from actor-lmmaker Mawenn (All About Actresses, MIFF 2009; Forgive Me) cements her talent as a director, conveying the raw emotional strain of the units work with tragic realism. As the cases, confessions and interrogations pile up, the close-knit team face breakdown, with only each other as support as they face an uphill battle against both criminals and bureaucracy. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
D Mawenn P Alain Attal S Mawenn, Emmanuelle Bercot WS Wild Bunch L French w/English subtitles TD DCP/2011
A bracingly fast-paced, broad-brush allegorical satire of 1990s Russia as a near-lawless dystopia of greedy immorality. Hollywood Reporter Once a Soviet war hero, The Major now spends his days quietly in a St. Petersburg boiler room, shovelling coal and working on his novel. But coal isnt the only thing stoking the ames of his furnace a local hitman stops by regularly to drop o the grisly byproduct of his trade: human bodies. Having mined the corruption of 1980s USSR for Cargo 200 (MIFF 2008) and the rise of the Bolshevik revolution for Morphia (MIFF 2009), Alexei Balabanov now turns his uncompromising eye on the Russia of the mid-90s, with this blackly humorous look at a society plunged into chaos, brutality and despair following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
D/S Alexey Balabanov P Sergey Selyanov WS Intercinema L Russian w/English subtitles TD DCP/2010
Violent, kinetic and sexy, crime thriller Viva Riva! stares down the barrel of Kinshasas savage criminal underworld, shattering staid preconceptions of African lmmaking. Cocky small-time gangster Riva steals a priceless truckload of petrol; ush with illicit cash, he embarks on a hedonistic spree, even as he ees from his Angolan ex-boss through a seamy underworld of teeming streets and steamy nightclubs, rampant greed and corrupt authorities. The debut feature from Congolese lmmaker Djo Munga, Viva Riva! is a bold crime action lm set in the contemporary Democratic Republic of the Congo. Full of intrigue, violence, music and explicit sex, this polished and provocative crime ick has been a shock hit on the festival circuit. On the basis of this expertly engineered crime thriller Djo Munga is a director going places. Empire
D/S Djo Munga P Michael Goldberg Dist Rialto L French, Lingala w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
A box oce hit in Belgium, the crime drama Bullhead takes us on a disturbing journey into the darkened soul of a broken man. In the expanses of the farmlands of Flanders, the hulking Jacky tries to live a quiet existence on his familys cattle ranch. Haunted by a horric childhood tragedy, Jackys previous life is brought back into violent relief when the family becomes embroiled in the growth hormone black market. Bullhead is an ambitious feature lm debut from writer-director Michal R. Roskam. Powered by an intimidating turn from Matthias Schoenaerts as the damaged, dangerous Jacky, Bullhead is neo-noir at its most intense. Matthias Schoenaerts raging bull [is] a standout performance the actor literally takes the metaphors of his bull-headed character to the limits and is never less than mesmerizing. Hollywood Reporter
D/S Michal R. Roskam P Bart Van Langendonck WS Celluloid Dreams L Dutch, French w/English subtitles TD DCP/2011
A deep and haunting work that lingers in the memory. Hollywood Reporter As they drive through the Anatolian countryside looking for the body of a dead man, a policeman, a prosecutor and the two men who have confessed to the killing talk and joke with each other, gradually revealing the strands of a much greater mystery. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia conrms Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Three Monkeys, MIFF 2008) as the reigning master of Turkish cinema. A tour de force of pacing, character and artful cinematography, it is a profound and oblique journey into heart of Anatolian identity. This complex, beautifully crafted lm has it all laced with black humour, its a character piece, a landscape study, a police procedural thriller and a philosophical contemplation. Independent
D Nuri Bilge Ceylan P Zeynep zbatur Atakan S Ercan Kesal, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan Dist Madman Entertainment L Turkish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Sat 23 July 6.30pm ACMI 6016 Mon 1 Aug 4pm ACMI 6082
Tue 26 July 1.30pm ACMI 6037 Fri 5 Aug 6.30pm ACMI 6111
Tue 26 July 9pm GU 5040 Thu 4 Aug 9pm Kino 8105
Wed 3 Aug 11am Forum 1094 Sat 6 Aug 9pm Forum 1121
Sat 30 July 9pm ACMI 7069 Wed 3 Aug 9pm ACMI 6098
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Networked
We stand on the precipice of a new age. The internet, just over two decades old, is reshaping human society more than any technology since the advent of electricity. Networked provides a suite of timely cinematic explorations into the almost incomprehensible changes being wrought by the ever more omnipresent binds of the digital network.
Life 2.0
Medianeras
Argentina/Germany/Spain 95 mins
Fleurs du Mal
France 98 mins
Life in a Day (PG)

USA 95 mins
PressPausePlay
Sweden 80 mins
Life 2.0
USA 100 mins
[A] sweet, hip homage to Buenos Aires and love in the visual, virtual age. Hollywood Reporter With all the big-city bustle and romantic neuroses of a Woody Allen lm, Medianeras is a portrait of two star-crossed thirty-somethings, isolated in their tiny apartments, insulated by an online world of virtual relations. Mariana and Martin are practically neighbours, with all those little things in common that should make for a perfect match, but crossing paths amid the urban confusion is a battle in itself. As they traverse bad relationships and lonely nights they nd that sometimes you need to knock down a wall to see whats right in front of you.
D/S Gustavo Taretto P Natacha Cervi, Hernn Musaluppi Dist Aztec International L Spanish w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
@Marjane_lime Dont know when Ill have internet they took 1 of us, theyll torture, get names, must move fast. Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia and YouTube dominate this modern love story about two youthful spirits in Paris whose blossoming romance is clouded by the events of Irans Green Revolution, during the rigged elections of June 2009. In this timely feature debut, lmmaker David Dusa introduces us to the apolitical Gecko, a talented dancer promoting himself online, and Anahita, an exiled Iranian girl who is so obsessed with staying on top of the protests in her homeland via the web that it threatens her edgling relationship. Ambitious, energetic and intimate, Fleurs du Mal explores the political and personal power of social media,as viewed through the prism of a decidedly 21st century love story. Innovative and powerfully visceral. Variety
D David Dusa P Emilie Blzat S David Dusa, Louise Moliere, Raphaelle Maes, Mike Sens WS Sciapode L French, Farsi w/ English subtitles TD digibeta/2010
A historic cinematic experiment shot by thousands of people in 192 countries, Life in a Day is the true story of a single day on Earth. Last year, YouTube asked its users to upload a lm capturing something about their lives on 24 July 2010 an attempt to create a unique snapshot of a day on Earth, over 24 hours, from all corners of the world. Assembled from more than 80,000 clips and 4,500 hours of footage by Oscar winning director Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September), Life in a Day is a striking blend of every kind of lived experience, from lifechanging events, romance and tragedy, to the simple beauty of a full moon shared from dierent sides of the world.
D Kevin Macdonald P Liza Marshall S various Dist Transmission Films L Various w/English subtitles TD DCP/2011
This changes everything. The industry is dead. There has never been a better time to be an artist. Seth Godin, author of Unleashing the Ideavirus The digital revolution has created a new democratised culture. Technology now allows art, lm, music and literature to be created, distributed, critiqued and consumed by anybody with access to a computer and an internet connection. But does this herald a new era of creativity and self-expression, or will the proliferation of user-generated content drown us in a tidal wave of mediocrity? Through interviews with a byte-load of artists, digital creators and online journalists including musicians Hot Chip and Moby, and ex-Facebook president Sean Parker PressPausePlay examines the possible futures that we may nd in the wake of the new digital paradigm.
D David Dworsky, Victor Khler P Einar Bodstrm, Philip Marthinsen, Adam Svanell Dist Madman Entertainment TD HD Cam/2011
A disturbing vision of escape, a cautious portrait of liberation, and an exploration of authenticity and articiality. Village Voice Life 2.0 sets out to discover the psychologies behind the new spaces of the world wide web, plugging into netizens who have taken refuge from their daily lives to instead full themselves in the fantastical virtual world of Second Life. While a couple attempt to play out their net-aair in the real world, a man risks his relationship to nd happiness as an 11-year-old-girl avatar and a virtual entrepreneur nds herself immersed in a lawsuit that blurs borders between real and unreal worlds. A fascinating documentary insight into the world of online role-playing and self discovery, Life 2.0 examines the distances between who we are and who wed rather be.
D Jason Spingarn-Ko P Jason Spingarn-Ko, Andrew Lauren, Stephan Paternot WS Roco Films TD digibeta/2010
Screens with the short Random Strangers (UK/Netherlands, 25 mins) by Alexis Dos Santos (Unmade Beds, MIFF 2009).
D Alexis Dos Santos P Valentina Brazzini, Sol Gatti-Pascual S Laurence Coriat, Alexis Dos Santos WS The Bureau L English, German, Spanish w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2011
The Sunday 24 July session screens with We Were Here (Australia, 25 mins).
D Amy Gebhardt P Allison Lockwood S Various TD HD Cam/2011
Tue 26 July 6.30pm GU 2039
Sun 24 July 1.30pm GU 4023 Thu 28 July 4.45pm Kino 8052
Sun 24 July 4pm ACMI 6024 Thu 4 Aug 4pm ACMI 6103
Sun 24 July 9pm GU 2026 Mon 1 Aug 9pm GU 3084
Sat 23 July 6.30pm GU 4016 Fri 29 July 6.30pm Kino 8060
RISING WATER
Award-winning writer Tim Winton brings to the MTC stage all the humanity and larrikin humour for which his novels are so well-loved.
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Louis Corbett, Stuart Halusz, John Howard, Geoff Kelso, Claire Lovering and Alison Whyte Director Kate Cherry Set & Costume Designer Christina Smith Lighting Designer Matt Scott Sound Designer/Composer Iain Grandage Assistant Director Stuart Halusz
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TIM WINTONS
WITH JOHN HOWARD
Maggie Gerrand presents...
Legendary lmmaker, writer and shock auteur supreme in his glorious one man show
A deviously funny monologue on true crime, exploitation lms, fashion lunacy and the extremes of the contemporary art world.
A joyful and witty celebration of life Sun Herald
Saturday 29 October 8.30pm, Melbourne Recital Centre

Bookings: 9699 3333 or www.melbournerecital.com.au
mgpresents.com.au
Weekdays 4pm late Weekends 12pm late
For the duration of the MIFF, the Forums main theatre is transformed into the Stella Artois Festival Lounge a vibrant Festival hub where you can enjoy reinvigorating meals, a fortifying coffee or something a little stronger. The Lounge also features a plethora of events, including MIFFs Talking Pictures program of forums, talks and masterclasses (see page 10). Most of the events are completely free to attend exceptions are shown on the schedule below. Every night the Lounge features tunes from guest DJs including some of MIFFs guest directors!
Special opening times apply on Fri 22 July, Sat 23 July and Sun 24 July The lounge closes 30 minutes prior to ticketed events
Fri 22 July
9pm Directors on the Decks
Sat 23 July
Sun 24 July
Doors open 8.00pm Doors open 2.30pm Doors open 2.30pm

8pm 2.30pm Ticketed The Wilderness Collective Talking Pictures: Fred Schepisi: In the Eye 11pm of the Storm Smoking Gun presents (see page 10 for details) Long Shot Music from the darker side of cinema
Mon 25 July
4.00pm Trailer Mania 5.30pm Talking Pictures Express: Afraid of Everything: Has Horror Gone to Far?
Tue 26 July
4.00pm Trailer Mania 5.30pm Talking Pictures Express: MIFF60: The Graphic Design of MIFF
Wed 27 July
4.00pm RRR Live Broadcast
Thu 28 July
Fri 29 July
4.00pm Trailer Mania 5.30pm Talking Pictures Express: The Future of Australian Comedy Whos Laughing?
Sat 30 July
4pm Ticketed Talking Pictures: Mike Mills: In Conversation
Sun 31 July
4.15pm Ticketed Talking Pictures: Morgan Spurlock: In Conversation
4.00pm Trailer Mania Presented by Tim Shiel during 5.30pm drive show Incoming Talking Pictures Express: MIFF 2011: Meet the 5.30pm Talking Pictures Express: Writers (see page 10 for details) From Sound to Screen: 9pm Australian Music in Film Music Video Mash Up (see page 10 for details) presented by Gus Berger
8pm The Wilderness Collective
9pm Directors on the Decks
Mon 1 Aug
4.00pm Trailer Mania 5.30pm Talking Pictures Express: The New, New Media: Taking Film from the Web to the World (see page
10 for details)
Tue 2 Aug
4.00pm Trailer Mania 5.30pm Talking Pictures Express: MIFF 2011: Meet the Documentary Filmmakers
Wed 3 Aug
4.00pm Trailer Mania 5.30pm Talking Pictures Express: Coming Attractions: Film Festivals for the Future
Thu 4 Aug
4.00pm Trailer Mania 5.30pm Talking Pictures Express: This Sporting Life: From Matches to Movies
Fri 5 Aug
4.00pm Trailer Mania 9pm Directors on the Decks
Sat 6 Aug
10.30am Ticketed Mastering Comedy: Francis Veber in Conversation with Steve Kaplan (see page 11 for details) 4pm Ticketed Talking Pictures: The Slap: Story & Screen
Sun 7 Aug
2.30pm Ticketed Talking Pictures: In the Realm of the Censors
9pm Music Video Mash Up presented by Gus Berger
9pm End of the Fest DJ People
8pm The Wilderness Collective
Directors on the Decks

A dazzling local and international line up of Festival guest DJs including Mike Mills, Ti West, Matt Bate and MIFFs Artistic Director Michelle Carey playing tunes Friday evenings in the lounge.
For updates on the DJ line-up, see miff.com.au/lounge
Music Video Mash Up with Gus Berger

Gus Berger (Red Hot Shorts, Blow Up Cinema) has curated an eclectic and inspiring mix of cutting-edge music videos, sourced locally and globally.
RRR Live Broadcast from MIFF

Join us for Triple Rs live Festival broadcast! Presented by Tim Shiel during Triple Rs Australian music drive show Incoming, the broadcast is set to feature a lineup of festival guests and live music. Wed 27 July, 4pm 7pm Free Public Event
Outside broadcast presented by
The Wilderness Collective Smoking Gun presents Long Shot Music from the darker side of cinema
Journey through the dark streets of cinematic suspense and across the long shadows of lm noir with this smouldering jazz outt. Marcus Skinner and Jim Walter of The Wilderness Collective present musical collages drawing from the diverse history of cinema, manipulating music, dialogue and sound design to create a cinematic audio clash.
Trailer Mania
Head down to the Lounge weekdays 4pm 5pm (except for Wednesday 27 July) to see a selection of trailers, including lms from this years Festival along with selections from previous MIFF programs.
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D I S C O V E R A W O R L D O F C U LT U R E I N T H E G O L D F I E L D S .
THE WHITE WEDDING DRESS 200 YEARS OF WEDDING FASHIONS

1 August 6 November Visit the world premiere, featuring gowns by famous couturiers, designers and celebrities. Organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Phone: (03) 5434 6100 www.bendigotourism.com
*Needle lace bridal veil, Brussels (detail) c1890, V&A Images.
VICTOR MAJZNER: LOCATION WATERCOLOURS

18 June - 24 July A stunning exhibition of local and international works from various series. Dating back 25 years many works are on display for the first time. Phone: (03) 5472 2292 www.castlemainegallery.com
*Victor Majzner, Mt Tabor from Golan 2006, Watercolour
BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL FOTO BIENNALE

20 August - 18 September A dynamic core program of 21 Australian and International photographers, along with a further 200 artists in the Fringe program. Phone: (03) 5331 4833 www.ballaratfoto.org
*[detail] Judith Crispin Fast Art 134538_v18
This Sporting Life
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Presented By
This new documentary program presents ve lms focusing on people who have driven themselves to the brink of human capacity, to the limits of physical endurance and to the very edge of madness itself in the pursuit of excellence.
Fire in Babylon
Fire in Babylon (PG)

UK 87 mins
KNUCKLE
Ireland 93 mins
Senna (M)
UK 108 mins
Boxing Gym
USA 91 mins
Bobby Fischer Against the World

USA 90 mins
My bat was my sword. Vivian Richards The West Indian cricket team of the early 70s was a joke to the rest of the world. Dubbed calypso cricketers, they were goaded by racist abuse and suered a string of humiliating losses, until a new captain and a erce determination saw them rise up to dominate the cricketing world for almost two decades. Featuring a Bob Marley-infused soundtrack, gripping archival footage of the games (plenty of which feature the Australian teams of the 70s and 80s) and interviews with the key players, Fire in Babylon tells a story that transcends the realm of sport describing events that would galvanise a new sense of pride and nationhood among the peoples of the Caribbean. Fire in Babylon reveals how the most powerful force in team sports is not physical ability, but a burning, almost religious faith in a common cause. Telegraph
D/S Stevan Riley P Charles Steel, John Battsek Dist Madman Entertainment TD HD Cam/2010
Brilliantly brutal and intriguingly insightful superbly records a subculture where violence and honour come knuckle-to-knuckle. Screen International James Quinn McDonagh is a champion of sorts. Stuck in the middle of a generationspanning blood feud between Irish Traveller clans, James is the defender of his family name in a rivalry where scores are settled and reignited through an endless cycle of bare-knuckle boxing matches. The vendetta spawned from a bar brawl that ended in manslaughter sees the Quinn McDonaghs and the Joyces constantly seeking to one-up each other, taunting each other with trash-talking videotapes and challenges to combat. Shot over 12 years, KNUCKLE takes in a previously unseen tribal world lled with larger-than-life characters, moments of brutalising machismo and a darkly Irish sense of humour.
D Ian Palmer P Ian Palmer, Teddy Leifer Dist Hopscotch Entertainment TD digibeta/2011
A high-octane bio of one of auto racings greatest gures. Variety Brazilian motor racing champion Ayrton Senna is widely regarded as the greatest driver ever to get behind the wheel. The winner of three Formula One championships, he was just 34 when a tragic racing accident claimed his life. Starting with Sennas early days as a teen go-cart racer, this tightly paced documentary charts Sennas meteoric rise to F1 competition, rst as a driver for McLaren alongside his soon-to-be arch-rival Alain Prost and later for Williams Renault. Filmmaker Asif Kapadia eschews the talking head interviews that normally dominate biopics, opting instead to tell Sennas story purely through archival lm including heartthumping footage captured by car-mounted cameras awlessly edited to recreate the kinetic momentum of Formula One.
D Asif Kapadia P James Gay Rees, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner S Manish Pandey Dist Universal Pictures L English, Portuguese w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Iconic documentarian Frederick Wiseman (La Danse, MIFF 2010; Titicut Follies) returns with a fascinating look at the tight-knit world of a suburban boxing gym. Battered equipment is held together with tape; posters peel from the walls. Muscled, youthful wannabes spar alongside doughy, middle-aged has-beens. This former warehouse garage in a rundown suburb of Austin, Texas, is a melting pot of ethnicities, genders and ages, all obsessed with the sweet science. Wisemans 38th documentary takes us inside the two-sted community of R. Lords Boxing Gym, where camaraderie often wins out over competition. But there are no punches pulled when opponents step into the ring for ght-night bouts. Theres no disputing the inuence that [Wisemans] epic observational style has had on ction lmmakers as far-ung as Jia Zhangke (Platform), David Simon (The Wire), and even Scorsese himself. Village Voice
D/P Frederick Wiseman WS Doc & Film TD digibeta/2010
Chess and me its hard to take them apart. Bobby Fischer A Grandmaster by the age of 16, Bobby Fischer was to many the greatest chess player who ever lived. A prodigal superstar to adoring fans, and an enigmatic presence whose madness overtook his genius, his trajectory saw him reduced to a reclusive conspiracy theorist and eventually a fugitive from the US government, paranoid and on the verge of mental breakdown. Liz Garbuss gripping lm is the rst documentary portrait of Fischer, centered around the 1972 Match of the Century showdown with Russian master Boris Spassky, where Fischers amazing mind remained the hope of a nation needing to prove itself against a political foe. A complex and fascinating portrait of genius wasted. Hollywood Reporter.
D Liz Garbus P Liz Garbus, Stanley Buchthal, Rory Kennedy, Matthew Justus Dist Madman Entertainment L English, Russian w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2011
Sun 31 July 11am ACMI 6074 Sat 6 Aug 4pm GU 3118
Fri 22 July 6.30pm GU 3008 Mon 25 July 9pm Kino 8033
Fri 22 July 6.30pm GU 2008 Sat 30 July 4pm Forum 1067
Tue 26 July 6.30pm Kino 8039 Fri 5 Aug 4pm ACMI 6110
Sat 23 July 1.45pm GU 3014 Mon 1 Aug 11am ACMI 6080
GIORGIO MANGIAMELE
CELEBRATING THE MAN AND HIS FILMS
Giorgio Mangiameles post-war lms express a unique cinematic perspective and they have now been revived by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA). The NFSA is delighted to support the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) in the presentation of two world premieres of these Mangiamele mint prints. To coincide with the celebration of this remarkable Italian/Australian lmmaker, NFSA and Ronin Films will launch a Mangiamele DVD box set which features: Il Contratto, Ninety Nine Per Cent, Clay, and two radically different versions of The Spag, accompanied by a compelling range of extras. Ronin Films is pleased to offer all MIFF subscribers the special price of $35.00 inclusive of GST and postage (normally $49.50). For more information or to order, email orders@roninlms.com.au or call Craig McConnell on 02 6248 0851.
*Photo courtesy of Rosemary Mangiamele
SCREENING AT THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

SATURDAY 6 AUGUST 4.30PM | ACMI 1 THE SPAG AND NINETY NINE PER CENT (classication TBC) SUNDAY 7 AUGUST 4.30PM | ACMI 1 CLAY (classication TBC)
Australias Living Archive

www.nfsa.gov.au
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Documentaries
Presented By
There is a place for all things, and all things have a story to tell. Once again, MIFFs Documentaries program is on hand to deliver the most enlightening, obeat, frustrating and deeply human stories plucked from the immense, awe-inspiring complexity of our world.
Sodankyl Forever - The Century of Cinema

Finland 89 mins
Khodorkovsky
Germany 111 mins
Peter von Bagh carves a forceful, fastmoving, often melancholic but frequently funny essay about cinema as the essence of the 20th century. Film Comment Peter von Bagh is a lmmaker, lm historian and director of the Midnight Sun Film Festival. Sodankyl Forever is von Baghs tribute to the force and legacy of cinema, which see him assemble over 20 years of interviews with luminaries such as Milos Forman, Jacques Demy, Samuel Fuller, Michael Powell, Abbas Kiarostami and Monte Hellman. These legends of cinema talk about their inuences, censorship and, of course, their love for lm.
D/S Peter von Bagh P Ilkka Mertsola, Mark Lwo WS Nosferatu Oy L English, Finnish, Russian w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2010
For me, as for anybody, it is hard to live in prison, and I do not want to die here. But if I have to, I will have no hesitation. What I believe in is worth dying for. Mikhail Khodorkovsky Once one of the richest men in the world, Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky suered a fall of Shakespearean proportions when he took on Vladimir Putin and lost. Now serving a jail term of 14 years, his is the story of a post-Soviet Russia that all too often seems trapped in the orthodoxies of its Communist forebears. In unpicking the vexed and controversial story of Mikhail Khodorkovskys life, lmmaker Cyril Tuschi draws a gripping portrait of not only Khodorkovsky himself, but also the corruptions and complications that mark a deeply uncertain modern Russia.
D/S Cyril Tuschi P Cyril Tuschi, Lala Films WS Rzo L English, Russian, German w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Screens with The First Interview (Australia, 15 mins). Dennis Tupico is a guest of the Festival.
D/S Dennis Tupico P Fiona Cochrane, Dennis Tupico L English, French w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2011
Sun 24 July 11am GU 4022 Sat 30 July 4pm GU 4067

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Thu 28 July 6.30pm GU 2053 Mon 1 Aug 6.30pm GU 5083
El Velador
Mexico/USA 72 mins
The Bengali Detective

UK/India/USA 90 mins
Think Global, Act Rural

France 113 mins
Jeonju Digital Project 2011

France/South Korea/Spain 110 mins
Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Canada/USA/France/ Germany/UK 90 mins
An exquisite study of a rapidly expanding cemetery at the center of Mexicos drug wars. Variety In Mexico, the war on drugs has become a literal war, resulting in the bloodiest conict since the Mexican Revolution. Nearly 35,000 people have been killed since 2007, and the narco-cemetery at the heart of it all has grown to obscene dimensions a mighty necropolis peppered with extravagant mausoleums belonging to the cartel bosses, standing next to the simple graves of the crime-lords victims. Almost completely dialogue-free, El Velador follows one of the cemeterys nightwatchmen as he makes his rounds. A story told in visual asides, overheard fragments of the unfolding war and the echoing sounds of construction workers and the bereaved, El Velador is a tranquil meditation on violence and death in a place where the power struggles and brutality all end in dust.
D Natalia Almada P Natalia Almada, Laurence Ansquer, Charlotte Uzu WS Doc & Film L Spanish w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
In the mega-city of Kolkata, India, where police corruption is rife and 70% of murders go unsolved, a new breed of crime ghter has emerged. When justice is required, the only authority wronged Kolkata citizens can rely upon are men like Rajesh Ji. A freelance private detective, Ji stands ready to pursue anyone from adulterers and petty thieves to murderers and corporate criminals. A documentary that mixes the seriousness of criminal investigation with events of utter absurdity Rajeshs preparation for a TV dance contest is particularly memorable The Bengali Detective is an o-kilter insight into an India wrestling with a modernity fast careering out of control. This portrait of a working cop with dreams is an absolute delight, and a vivid look at crime-ghting in a big city. Screen International
D Phil Cox P Giovanna Stopponi, Himesh Kar, Annie Sundberg WS eOne Entertainment L English, Hindi, Bengali w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Films full of warnings and disasters have been made and have served their purpose, but now it is time to show that solutions do exist. lmmaker Coline Serreau Focusing her lens on the catastrophic state of the worldwide agriculture industry, lmmaker Coline Serreau exposes the trail of destroyed livelihoods theyve left in their wake. An entire countryside in France is left abandoned, hundreds of thousands of farmers have ended their own lives throughout India, and in many areas whole generations are left jobless. Looking beyond the disastrous eects of agricultures mass commodication, Think Global, Act Rural investigates the way forward, proling organic farming techniques that may oer hope for the future. Picking up where Food, Inc. left o, Think Global, Act Rural examines the horrors of industrialized agriculture on a planet-wide scale. Variety
D/S Coline Serreau P Matthieu Warter, Guillaume Parent Dist Hopscotch L English, French, Spanish, Ukrainian, Arabic w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2010
Each year, the Jeonju International Film Festival commissions three lmmakers to create lowbudget digital shorts to premiere for its annual highlight the Jeonju Digital Project. With An Heir, Jean-Marie Straub interprets texts by Alsatian writer Maurice Barrs to investigate his conicted relationship with the region, the place of his birth.
D/S Jean-Marie Straub P Barbara Ullrich, Sandrine Pillon, Lucie Portehaut, Florence Hugues WS Jeonju International Film Festival L French w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Cinematic legend Werner Herzog presents an astonishing glimpse of our prehistoric forebears. Kudos to Herzog (Encounters at the End of the World, MIFF 2008; Grizzly Man) for achieving the impossible gaining access to the French Chauvet-Pont-dArc Cave, a place that only a handful of scientists had previously set eyes on.An astounding discovery, the cave contains 32,000-year-old artwork so fragile it could disintegrate from accumulated human breath. Under limiting circumstances, Herzog and his small crew have lmed what he calls one of the great discoveries in the history of human culture. Using 3D lm technology to amazing eect, they give depth to every contour of the prehistoric canvases. Combining his own enthusiastic narration with thought-provoking insights from scientists, Herzog delves into a fascinating exploration of art, spirituality and the very nature of humanity.
D Werner Herzog P Erik Nelson, Adrienne Ciuo Dist Rialto L English, German w/English subtitles TD DCP/2010
Claire Denis To the Devil is an anthropological sketch of the borderland of French Guyana and Surinam, where the descendants of escaped African slaves have formed their own community in the wilderness.
D/S Claire Denis P Pierre Senelas WS Jeonju International Film Festival L English, French w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Jos Luis Guerns Memories of a Morning is a poignant prole of a man who jumped to his death, as told through the communitys reaction in the aftermath of the event.
D/S Jos Luis Guern P Nuria Esquerra WS Jeonju International Film Festival L Catalan, Spanish w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
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El Bulli: Cooking in Progress

Germany 108 mins
Jiro Dreams of Sushi

USA 81 mins
Operation 8
New Zealand 110 mins
Pink Saris
UK/India 96 mins
Tears of Gaza
Norway 83 mins
A mouthwatering taste of the preparation that went into one of the most imaginative menus in the world. Each year over two million people tried to book a table at El Bulli only a select few ever got one. The coastal Spanish restaurant was a Mecca to food bus;one which closed every year for seven months while chef Ferran Adri and his team worked diligently to create an entirely new menu. Gereon Wetzels documentary proles a year in the life of this exquisite Spanish eatery, capturing the devotion of Adri and his sta, from the months of exhaustive experimentation and research to the intense preparations for the new season opening.
D Gereon Wetzel P Ingo Fliess S Anna Ginest Rosell, Gereon Wetzel Dist Madman Entertainment L Spanish, Catalan, French w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2010
A paean to perfectionism and a crafty bit of food porn. Hollywood Reporter Jiro Ono is the oldest chef in the world to be awarded three Michelin stars, and at 85 remains monomaniacally devoted to his craft. With his tiny 10-seater Tokyo sushi restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro, receiving notice from culinary connoisseurs around the world, his unyielding dedication to quality, consistency and perfection continues to produce some of the worlds most exquisite (and expensive!) sushi. Mostly lmed within the routine connes of his kitchen, and littered with lingering shots of to-die-for sushi, Onos claustrophobic world is far from perfect. His two sons Yoshikazu and Takashi struggle with the long shadow cast by their fathers fame. A compelling hymn to craftsmanship and taste in every sense. Variety
D David Gelb P Kevin Iwashina, Tom Pellegrini Dist Curious Film L Japanese w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
How did the search for Osama bin Laden become a global witch-hunt for political dissenters reaching even to the South Pacic? In 2007, the excesses of the post-9/11 War on Terror hit home in New Zealand, when the government staged a coordinated series of raids on activists across the country. In addition to environmental activists and peaceful anarchists, the indigenous Tuhoe independence movement made a particular target, with a massive raid carried out against what was alleged to be a terrorist training camp deep within the Urewera ranges. Operation 8 investigates the Tuhoe raids and their aftermath, and questions how a global witch-hunt allowed a government to suppress the legitimate political dissent of a group of independence and peace activists. Errol Wright and Abi King-Jones are guests of the Festival.
D Errol Wright, Abi King-Jones P Errol Wright TD digibeta/2011
I am the messiah of women! I am more powerful than the police! Sampat Pal Meet the Gulabi Gang, a group of women dressed in deantly pink saris, railing against Indias patriarchal caste system. They are led by Sampat Pal, a former child bride who now ghts the subjugation and institutionalised beating of women. A divisive gure, she is at once a saviour for the mistreated, as well as a shameless self-promoter acutely aware of her own celebrity. Veteran UK lmmaker Kim Longinotto (Rough Aunties, MIFF 2008) refuses to deify Pal for her good deeds or condemn her for her faults, opting instead for an objective and complex portrayal. Social injustices collide with largerthan-life characters as Longinotto reveals a side of India too often ignored.
D Kim Longinotto P Amber Lati, Girjashanker Vohra WS Vixen Films L Hindi w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2010
Few antiwar lms register with the disturbing immediacy and visceral terror of Tears of Gaza. Variety Documenting the human impact of the 2008 2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military, director Vibeke Lkkeberg has made use of local Palestinian crews to provide footage of a conict largely unseen by the Western media. Told through the stories of three children surviving in Gaza's impoverished infrastructure, Lkkebergs lm tracks the everyday existence of a people living in a city ill-prepared to cope with a tragedy of such scale. Winner of the Audience Award at theThessaloniki Documentary Festival and the Audience Prize for Best Film at the Gteborg International Film Festival. Lisa Gerrard (composer) is a guest of the Festival.
D Vibeke Lkkeberg P Terje Kristiansen WS Norwegian Film Institute L English, Arabic w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Screens with Zergt (USA, 6 mins). The lmmakers are guests of the Festival.
D/P Natasha Subramaniam, Alisa Lapidus L no dialogue TD digibeta/2011
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Armadillo
Denmark 101 mins
Give Up Tomorrow
USA 95 mins
Position Among the Stars

Netherlands/Indonesia 109 mins
It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve Masao Adachi

France 73 mins
Brother Number One

New Zealand 97 mins
Moving, complex and brutal an outstanding lm about men at war. Empire In forward operating base Armadillo, a posting of young Danish soldiers are on campaign against the Taliban. Gaining incredible access, director Janus Metz chronicles six months of their everyday lives in Afghanistan, creating a confronting, uncompromised and close-up view of modern warfare. Metzs lm shows the knife edge of terror and tedium that these men live on from some of the most terrifyingly visceral real life combat seen on lm, to the downtime spent forging friendships and indulging in porn and video games. A controversial box oce hit in its native Denmark, Armadillo is an intensely intimate view of soldiers in Afghanistan a telling look at the vast distance between the politics and the frontlines of a conict. Winner of the Critics Week Grand Prix at Cannes 2010.
D/S Janus Metz P Ronnie Fridthjof, Sara Stockman WS R TV International Sales L English, Danish, Pashtu w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
A perfect storm of cronyism, tabloid journalism, public prejudice and corruption. Variety A murder mystery, a courtroom drama and an expos of endemic corruption in the Philippines, Give Up Tomorrow takes in Cebus Trial of the Century the case of Paco Larranaga, who was sentenced to death for the kidnap, rape and murder of two sisters, despite being able to provide photographic evidence, ocial records and nearly 40 eyewitness testimonies that he was on the other side of the country at the time of the crime. Six years in the making, Give Up Tomorrow combines a compelling, sinuous murder mystery with a searing indictment of political corruption in the Philippines, charting the excesses of media manipulation and trial-by-press in a case that ended a nations use of the death sentence. Winner of the Audience Award and Special Jury Prize at Tribeca Film Festival.
D Michael Collins P Marty Syjuco WS Roco Films L English, Spanish, Filipino w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
A rich mosaic of Indonesia today... poignant, breathtaking, and a singularly stellar vrit triumph. Sundance Film Festival Dutch lmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich rounds o his award-winning documentary trilogy about the desperately poor Sjamsuddin family with this aectionate and powerful conclusion to the series. Helmrich has followed the Sjamsuddins, a ChristianMuslim family living in the slums of Jakarta, for more than a dozen years, constructing this quiet epic of life on the periphery. Broadly revolving around the familys hopes for Tari, the teenage daughter who might be the rst in the clan to attend college, Position Among the Stars grows to become an expansive portrait of an Indonesia in tumult. Shot through with a deep aection for the people he chronicles, Helmrichs is documentary lmmaking at its most genuine and aecting. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Sundance.
D Leonard Retel Helmrich P Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich Dist Antidote Films L Bahasa w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2010
This tribute to radical Japanese writerdirector Masao Adachi is the rst in a series of retrospectives from lmmaker Philippe Grandrieux (A Lake, MIFF 2009). Grandrieuxs incendiary series is dedicated to lmmakers informed by a sense of deep political agitationa criteria that far-left cinematic insurrectionist Masao Adachi (Gushing Prayer, MIFF 2009) qualies for handily. After producing a number of crucial lms in a 1960s Japan blanketed by a paranoia of Communism and the left, Adachi gave up lmmaking in 1971 to join the Japanese Red Army, a militant left-wing organisation operating out of Lebanon. Thirty-ve years later, he has made his return to the world of lm, still as subversive and confronting as ever. Grandrieux delves into the complex history of this fascinating gure of political cinema, crafting a reverential tribute to a man whose actions spoke as loudly as his images.
D/S Philippe Grandrieux P Annick Lemonnier WS Epileptic L French, Japanese w/English subtitles TD betacam sp/2011
In 1978, New Zealander Kerry Hamill and two friends aboard the yacht Foxy Lady took shelter from a storm, accidentally straying into Cambodian waters. One man was shot dead when the boat was boarded by the Khmer Rouge. Hamill was held for months at the notorious S-21 Prison, and then executed after being tortured into signing confessions claiming CIA aliations. The story of the genocidal reign of Pol Pot Brother Number One is given a heart-wrenching personal twist in this documentary from Annie Goldson (Punitive Damage, MIFF 1999; Georgie Girl, MIFF 2002). Following Hamills younger brother Rob as he tries to unravel the story surrounding the murders, Brother Number One traces a harrowing tale that culminates in an electrifying courtroom confrontation with Comrade Duch, the man who gave the order to kill Kerry Hamill. Annie Goldson is a guest of the Festival.
D Annie Goldson P Annie Goldson, Rob Hamill, James Bellamy Dist Antidote Films L English, Khmer w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Screens with A History of Mutual Respect (Portugal, 23 mins).

D/S Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt P Gabriel Abrantes, Nataxo Checa TD 35mm/2010
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Documentaries
How to Die in Oregon

USA 107 mins
The Hollywood Complex

USA 86 mins
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

USA 115 mins
A beautifully intimate look at terminally ill patients who choose to end their lives painlessly and legally. Variety How to Die in Oregon is a remarkable and deeply moving documentary that examines the fraught issue of physician-assisted suicide. Starting with the realities of euthanasia in Oregon, one of the few US states that has decriminalised the procedure, Richardson embarks on a poignant but uninching survey of assisted suicide in America, from the ght for legalisation in Washington to the devastating and courageous reasons people have for actively choosing to die. Always honest and ultimately life arming, How to Die in Oregon is a clear-eyed, sensitive and powerfully human exploration of one of societys most desperately fraught issues. Winner of the US Documentary Prize at Sundance.
D/P Peter D. Richardson WS Clearcut Productions TD digibeta/2010
The average response to a Hollywood casting call: 3000. The number of people who get the part: just one. Every spring, pilot season brings thousands of aspiring child actors and their families to Hollywood. Setting up camp at Oakwood, a temporary housing complex that caters to the wannabe showbiz families, they each attend hundreds of auditions with armies of agents and TV producers. The Hollywood Complex follows a handful of child hopefuls as they negotiate sky-high expectations, devastating disappointments and tremendous nancial pressure in search of fame and fortune. By turns amusing and horrifying, The Hollywood Complex examines the line between dream and delusion, taking a revealing look at the parasitic bubble of industries that surround the Hollywood machine. A disarmingly funny lm. Sight on Sound
D Dan Sturman, Dylan Nelson P Dylan Nelson, Dan Sturman, Julie Janata WS PBS International TD HD Cam/2011
Sex, power, high ideals and cut-throat enemies collide in this engaging untangling of a very American scandal. As New York State Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer prosecuted the crimes of Americas largest and wealthiest nancial institutions. He swiftly ascended the rungs of power, and waselected to governor of New York in 2007 but just over a year later, revelations that he frequented prostitutes saw him swiftly fall from grace. Or was he pushed? Unfolding like the plot of a le Carr novel, Client 9 sees director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) tease out the intrigue behind theman-formerly-most-likely-to-be-president. Alex Gibney is a guest of the Festival. Greed, corruption, sex, power, overweening ambition and jaw-dropping hubris. Hollywood Reporter
D/S Alex Gibney P Alex Gibney, Todd Wider, Jedd Wider, Maiken Baird Dist Madman Entertainment TD digibeta/2010
Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
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Buck (PG)
USA 90 mins
Tabloid
USA 84 mins
Exporting Raymond
USA 86 mins
Being Elmo
USA 75 mins
Project Nim
UK 93 mins
Your horse is a mirror to your soul. Sometimes you might not like what you see. Buck Brannaman Fresh from a rapturous reception at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received the 2011 Audience Award, Buck is the story of colt breaker Buck Brannaman. The inspiration for The Horse Whisperer, Brannaman is a new breed of horse trainer whose ability to communicate with horses would seem supernatural if it werent for his cogent explanations of horse psychology. In this engaging documentary rst-time director Cindy Meehl follows Brannaman over a nine-month period, as he travels across America teaching riders how to become one with their horses. Buck Brannaman could transform your troubled horse. Buck the lm may transform your troubled soul. indieWIRE
D Cindy Meehl P Julie Goldman Dist Madman Entertainment TD 35mm/2011
Sex, crime, religion and avoured lube the interview subject of Errol Morriss new documentary possesses a personality as outrageous as the story she tells. Joyce McKinney was just an ordinary, everyday former beauty queen turned bondage call girl. That is, until she kidnapped, bound and molested a Mormon gentleman. Tabloid nds Errol Morris returning to the style of his First Person (MIFF 2001) interviews though in kinkier form than usual as with humour and candour, he draws out a jawdropping story of love and obsession from his most eccentric interview subject yet. Errol Morris Tabloid is bonkers in all the best possible ways a welcome return to perverse portraiture after a lengthy sojourn in the realm of more serious-minded subjects. Variety
D Errol Morris P Julie Ahlberg, Mark Lipson Dist Antidote Films TD 35mm/2010
An attempt to export the hit US TV show Everybody Loves Raymond to Russia makes for a front row seat to a comedic culture-clash. Everybody loves Raymond, but can the love extend to far Eastern Europe? Writer-directornarrator Phil Rosenthal, who created the hugely successful American sitcom, explores the hazards of translation as he tries to get the Russian version of the show o the ground. The birth of Everybody Loves Kostya is beset with peculiarly Russian problems a costume designer with a white cashmere agenda, and actors intent on nding the physical slapstick in every scene leading to questions about the very notion of universal humour. Rosenthals wry wit guides the lm through a series of Moscow misadventures, with the help of a possibly-ex-KGB chaueur and a family who take him in for a slice of real Russian domestic harmony, which may not be so foreign after all.
D Phil Rosenthal P John Woldenberg L English, Russian w/ English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
There are Piggy people in the world, and Kermit people, and Grover people, but Elmo people are everywhere. Variety Red, furry and with an infectious laugh that teaches children to hug, Elmo is one of Sesame Street s smallest and most loved puppets. But behind the cuddly monster is Kevin Clash, a gentle giant of a man who brought Elmo to life. Charting Clashs lifelong interest in puppeteering, from his youth spent entertaining the neighborhood children with homemade creations through to nally getting to work with his idol and inspiration Jim Henson on Labyrinth and Sesame Street, Constance Marks engaging documentary follows the career of the humble puppeteer who reinvented Elmo as the iconic character beloved around the world.
D Constance Marks P Constance Marks, James Miller, Corinne LaPook S Philip Shane, Justin Weinstein Dist Madman Entertainment TD HD Cam/2011
Reminds us that while our close genetic relatives are as intelligent as they come, we can be the biggest chumps. Guardian The follow-up to James Marshs Oscar winning Man on Wire (MIFF 2008), Project Nim takes us into a 1970s social experiment to bridge the gulf between human and animal: teaching a chimp to communicate with sign language by raising it with a human family. Reared from infancy in a hippy household, Nim Chimpsky was subsequently shunted around numerous foster homes. From the hilarity of primate pot-smoking to the horrors of animal testing facilities, Project Nim follows 27 years in the life of the chimp and his carers, as Nim makes a disturbing journey from adorable infant to menacing adult. Blending archival footage, candid interviews and re-enactments, Marshs engrossing and unsettling documentary reveals as much about scientic ethics and human foibles as it does about primate intelligence.
D James Marsh P Simon Chin Dist Icon TD 35mm/2011
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Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (M)

USA 88 mins
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

USA 90 mins
Magic Trip: Ken Keseys Search For A Kool Place

USA 90 mins
Page One: Inside the New York Times

USA 88 mins
The Redemption of General Butt Naked

USA/Georgia/Liberia 83 mins
A lm about product placement funded entirely by product placement. Morgan Spurlock, the provocateur behind Super Size Me and Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (MIFF 2008), wanted to make a documentary about product placement. In fact, given its prevalence, he decided he could probably raise the $1.5 million himself via product placement. The result is a madcap journey through the increasingly parodic halls of Americas marketing departments. Aable and shameless with a hint of pathos Spurlocks journey from ethical lmmaker to ultimate sell-out makes for a comic and unsettling picture of a world where everything is for sale. Like watching a beloved pet devour itself tail-rst, deliberately and with alarming grace. Village Voice Morgan Spurlock is a guest of the Festival.
D Morgan Spurlock P Jeremy Chilnick, Abbie Hurewitz, Morgan Spurlock, Keith Calder, Jessica Wu S Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock Dist Madman Entertainment L English, Portuguese w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Toynbee Idea / In Kubricks 2001 / Resurrect Dead / On Planet Jupiter Something strange is on the streets. Cryptically proclaiming the above four lines (and weirder), the Toynbee Tile phenomenon has seen hundreds of street tiles discovered in major cities across the US and South America for over 20 years. Is it a street-art conspiracy, or the public ravings of a deranged individual? Director Jon Foy chronicles artist Justin Duerr as he becomes xated on solving the mystery, and the clues start to pile up: a Jupiter colonisation group, a David Mamet play and pirate shortwave radio broadcasts but what do they add up to? An epic urban mystery, and a story of the obsession that lies on both sides of it, Resurrect Dead was winner of the Directing Award for US Documentary at Sundance 2011.
D Jon Foy P/S Jon Foy, Colin Smith Dist Madman Entertainment TD HD Cam/2011
Youre either on the bus or o the bus. Ken Kesey In 1964, author Ken Kesey hired a bus, bought an insane amount of LSD, collected a bunch of likeminded individuals whom he dubbed the 'Merry Pranksters', and proceeded to drive across the United States while lming the entire thing a bus trip (pun intended) that became one of the most culturally signicant journeys in Americas history. Forty-seven years on and Oscar-winning lmmaker Alex Gibney has nally edited the resulting footage into a comprehensible whole. Narrated by Stanley Tucci and lled with commentary by those who were actually on board, Magic Trip is a unique insight into the adventure that kickstarted an entire psychedelic movement. You know the drill: tune in, turn on and drop out. Alex Gibney is a guest of the Festival.
D/S Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood P Will Clarke, Alex Gibney, Alexandra Johnes Dist Madman Entertainment TD HD Cam/2011
A fascinating look at the inner-workings of one of the worlds most respected newspapers. At a time when the print industry is suering a massive decline, lmmaker Andrew Rossi was granted unprecedented access to the nerve-centre of the New York Times operations over a 12-month period, during which he captures vibrant cross-cubicle debates and collaborations, tenacious jockeying for on-record quotes and skillful page-one pitching. With the acerbic former-crack-addictturned-senior-writer David Carr assuming centrestage, Rossi shows a media landscape fraught with peril and opportunity, even covering the emergence of Wikileaks and its implications as a journalistic source. Potent and provocative. Rolling Stone
D Andrew Rossi P Kate Novack, Andrew Rossi, Josh Braun, David Hand, Alan Oxman, Adam Schlesinger S Kate Novack, Andrew Rossi Dist Madman Entertainment TD HD Cam/2011
Utterly fascinating, with a charismatic central gure love him or loathe him who is made for the big screen. Hollywood Reporter A naked, gun-toting murderer who led an army that massacred thousands during the Liberian Civil War, Joshua Milton Blahyi (known to his victims as General Butt Naked) has now repented. Reinvented as a rebrand evangelist, he now preaches love, forgiveness and tolerance to those he himself once brutalised. But what are the limits of forgiveness for a mass murderer? Is his quest to make amends real, or a way to evade justice? A recent award winner at Sundance Film Festival, Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasions compelling documentary examines both an individuals capacity for redemption and the struggle of a wounded nation to reinvent itself.
D/P Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion WS The Film Sales Company TD HD Cam/2010
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Our Space
With Our Space, MIFF presents a series of lms investigating the immense achievement, structural beauty and the devastation that we create in our urban environment. Includes, in tribute to MIFFs 60th edition, a look back at our very own city.
Into Eternity
Denmark 75 mins
Jaw dropping one of the most extraordinary factual lms to be shown this year. Guardian Around 150 km northwest of Helsinki, the Finnish government is building a solution to the worlds nuclear waste problem: an underground repository called Onkalo (or hiding place), intended to safeguard the country over the 100,000 years that nuclear material remains harmful. But the problem remains will the people who stumble upon Onkalo in an unknowable future recognise the danger that waits for them underground? Going beyond the question of nuclear waste to consider how we conceive of our own future, Michael Madsens mesmerising lm asks a mind-bending central question: how do we communicate with someone 100,000 years from now? It is meant to boggle the mind and inspire awe and it does. Village Voice
D Michael Madsen P Lise Lense-Mller WS Autlook Film Sales L English, Finnish w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2010
Ruhr
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I Wish I Knew
China 138 mins
Foreign Parts
USA 80 mins
Ruhr
Germany 120 mins
Pool Party
USA 75 mins
The Triangle Wars

Australia 90 mins
Jia Zhang-ke, Chinas most acclaimed contemporary lmmaker, turns his gaze toward the ultimate mega-city: Shanghai. Commissioned for last years Shanghai World Fair but overcoming its roots as an ocial lm this documentary from Jia Zhang-ke (Filmmaker-in-Focus, MIFF 2005; Still Life, MIFF 2007) collates the memories of 18 people including lmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien, singer Rebecca Pan and Jias muse Zhao Tao to construct a melancholic history of Shanghai, from the brutalities of 1930s Japanese occupation through to its current place as one of the most powerful cities in the world. Tied together by the elegant cinematography of Jia favourite Yu Lik-wai, I Wish I Knew is a restrained, thoughtful tour of a city evolving so fast that it risks forgetting everything it once was.
D/S Jia Zhang-ke P Wang Tianyun, Yu Lik-wai, Meg Jin, Lin Ye, Xiong Yong WS MK2 L Mandarin w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Gentrication, economic inequality, class conict, and the rusty reality of the American Dream. Village Voice Willets Point is an almost forgotten industrial corner of Queens, tucked behind the New York Mets shiny and commercialised Citi Field Stadium. Here a multicultural array of workers and scavengers live o the wreckage of Americas cars, under the shadow of a $3 billion urban redevelopment plan which threatens their way of life. Filmmakers Vrna Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki oer up an aecting prole of the unconventional community living in and living o the wreckage-strewn landscape, nding surprising beauty in the vista of junkyards and auto repair shops. Winner of the Best First Feature award at the Locarno Film Festival, this poignant ethnological documentary takes us into a fascinating, vanishing subculture.
D/P Vrna Paravel, J. P. Sniadecki L English, Hebrew, Spanish w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2010
The artist is someone who pays attention and reports back. James Benning Experimental lmmaker James Benning moves from 16mm to high-denition video in his rst lm shot outside of the USA an unhurried, meticulously composed meditation on the industrial landscapes of the Ruhr Valley. In what was once the epicentre of Germanys heavy industry, Benning creates an immersive world of images and soundscape using seven long, unedited takes. Focusing on details as small as the passing of a car or the colours of a windowsill, Ruhr captures both the sensuality and ux of everyday life. More than a series of specic images, Ruhr is best considered a lm about image-making itself. Cinema Scope
D/S James Benning P Zorana Musikic L no dialogue TD HD Cam/2009
An abandoned swimming pool becomes one of New Yorks most signicant music venues since CBGB's. When the McCarren Pool opened in Williamsburg in 1936, it was the size of a football eld with the capacity to hold 6,800 bathers. When it closed abruptly in 1983, it became a hang out for gangs, junkies, grati artists and the homeless. Fast-forward nearly 25 years and this neighbourhood boasts a vibrant international music scene the result of a canny choreographer identifying the potential of the empty pool as a performance space. Since its redevelopment in 2005, bands like The Beastie Boys, Black Lips, The Breeders and Yo La Tengo have all performed at the wildly successful Pool Party concerts. Beth Aalas debut documentary is an inspiring and enjoyable tale of an urban renewal success story, charting an inevitable journey from decay to gentrication to commercialisation.
D Beth Aala P Beth Aala, Morgan Spurlock, Jeremy Chilnick WS Pinay Pictures TD HD Cam/2010
A celebrity photographer. An eccentric politician. A high-powered property developer. An epic battle to decide the fate of a St Kilda parking lot. In May 2007 the Port Phillip City Council unveiled plans for a large-scale commercial development on the St Kilda foreshore a $400 million mega mall that would comprise 180 shops, a hotel, a supermarket, eight cinemas, a gallery and ve bars. Local residents were outraged, and with developers preparing to push the project through council, the community galvanised to stop it going ahead. Filmed over three years, The Triangle Wars captures the fascinating battle between an outraged community, an intractable local government apparatus and a powerful development consortium, as heads roll and careers are destroyed.
D Rosie Jones P Lizzette Atkins, Peter George S David Tiley WS Melimedias TD digibeta/2011
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Premiere Fund
Our Space
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Melbourne on Film
Detroit Wild City
France 80 mins
Clay (M)
Presented By Ninety-Nine Percent (M) + The Spag (M) Melbourne on Film Shorts 1 Melbourne on Film Shorts 2
Australia
80 mins
Australia
80 mins
Australia
69 mins
Australia
100 mins
What would the apocalypse look like? Home to the US automobile industry, Detroit was once the gleaming hub of Americas industrial engine. But as the economy disintegrates, Detroit has become the symbol of the collapse of the American Dream. The city lies in ruins. Empty factories and abandoned neighbourhoods are being reclaimed by vegetation and wildlife. French lmmaker Florent Tillon looks beyond the haunted landscape of this decaying city to discover the emergence of a pioneering spirit among those left behind. Amid the wasteland, new urban explorers nd opportunities in Detroits reversion to a natural state.
D/S Florent Tillon P Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin WS Ego Production TD HD Cam/2010
A sculptress living in a remote artists compound provides refuge to a wounded stranger, setting the scene for a dangerous love triangle. When Margot provides the exhausted Nick with shelter, little does she know that shes inviting into her home a murderer on the run from police. Soon the two have fallen in love, triggering a furious burst of jealousy from her infatuated fellow artist Chris. Filmed on the grounds of the Montsalvat artist colony, the visually striking and dreamlike Clay, from groundbreaking Melbourne lmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele, was the recipient of the Silver Award, the Silver Medallion and the Kodak Silver Trophy at the 1965 AFI Awards. This brand new, painstakingly restored print is part of an ambitious program by the National Film and Sound Archive to reclaim the work of this Carlton-based lmmaker.
D/P Giorgio Mangiamele Dist NFSA TD 35mm/1965
A fully remastered double-header from Melbourne lmmaker Giorgio Mangiamele, restored by the National Film and Sound Archive. A portrait of growing up as a newly arrived migrant in 1950s Melbourne, The Spag revolves around Giovannino, a young Italian paperboy. When his father dies, his mother wants to return to Italy, but Giovannino wants to stay, despite always being the dago and spag.
See Melbourne through the decades with these shorts focusing on the environs of our fair city. Spanning the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s, these lms capture the streets and architecture of Melbourne in all their glory. Life in Australia: Melbourne* (1966, 19 mins) Dir. Douglas White The American (1959, 10 mins) Dir. Darrel Wardle Melbourne Wedding Belle* (1956, 10 mins) Dir. Colin Dean The Cleaners (1969, 16 mins) Dir. Malcolm Wallhead Sunday in Melbourne (1958, 22 mins) Dir. Gil Brealey The Melbourne Concert Hall (1982, 19 mins) Dir. David Greig Fri 22 July 6.30pm ACMI 7008 *Films courtesy of Screen Australia Planning for Melbournes Future (1954, 19 mins) Dir. Georey Thompson Loop (1973, 14 mins) Produced for the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority The City Speaks (1965, 21 mins) Produced by Crawford Productions/ HousingCommissionof Victoria Late Winter to Early Spring (1954, 12 mins) Dir. Gil Brealey Your House and Mine (1958, 23 mins) Dir. Peter McIntyre Flinders Street** (1979, 11 mins) Dir. John Dunkley-Smith Fri 5 Aug 6.30pm ACMI 7111 **Film courtesy of The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Screens with The Future Will Not Be Capitalist (Austria, 20 mins), a short about the striking Parisian building designed by Oscar Niemeyer to be the headquarters of the French Communist Party.
D/P/S Sasha Pirker WS SixPackFilm TD 35mm/2010
In Ninety-Nine Percent, Mangiameles only comedy, Italian widower Joseph Pino and his young son Peter live a chaotic and deeply opposed life. However their relationship begins to heal as they embark on a quest to nd Joseph a wife.
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Backbeat
A rhythmically charged program of lm to satisfy the music fanatics among us, Backbeat spans rock, hip-hop, country, jazz and soul. Prepare to be sonically transported.
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard

Australia 100 mins
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

Australia 83 mins
Better than Something Jay Reatard

USA 90 mins
Rowland was Australias most unique, gifted and uncompromising guitarist. Nick Cave Guitarist, songwriter and artist Rowland S. Howard was an instrumental gure in the Australian rock scene, particularly renowned for his role in seminal post-punk outt The Birthday Party. In a career spanning 30 years Howard worked with the best artists of his generation, including Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch and Ollie Olsen. His was a singular talent, cut short by an untimely death in 2009. Directed by Richard Lowenstein (Dogs in Space) and featuring interviews with Nick Cave, Henry Rollins, Thurston Moore, Barry Adamson and many more. Richard Lowenstein is a guest of the Festival.
D Lynn-Maree Milburn, Richard Lowenstein P Richard Lowenstein, Andrew De Groot, Lynn-Maree Milburn, Rowland S. Howard, Genevieve McGuckin S Lynn-Maree Milburn WS Media Luna TD HD Cam/2011
A playful yet profoundly intimate portrait of singer-songwriter Ben Lee, and a fascinating portrayal of celebrity. Destined for stardom, Ben Lee cemented his place in the annals of Australian pop with his catchy tunes and his extraordinary selfcondence. Despite a remarkable musical career that has taken him from the suburbs of Sydney to the boroughs of New York, Lees private life has largely remained an enigma until now. Eight years in the making, Ben Lee: Catch My Disease sees lmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson (Bastardy, MIFF 2008) and producer Richard Lowenstein both guests of the Festival open the doors on the private world of this musical wunderkind. Amiel Courtin-Wilson is a guest of the Festival.
D/S Amiel Courtin-Wilson P Richard Lowenstein, Andrew De Groot, Amiel Courtin-Wilson Dist Madman Entertainment TD digibeta/2011
Some people think you have a certain amount of songs before you dry up. I tend to think its like an amount of time, so Im racing against time constantly. Jay Reatard In 2010, at the age of 29, garage rock legend Jay Reatard was found dead in his Memphis home, a lethal cocktail of booze and cocaine in his system. His death cut short a much remarked upon career that redened American punk. Featuring never before seen live footage and in depth interviews with the man himself, Better than Something is a tting tribute to Reatards prodigious talent and volatile, all too brief life. A compelling, compassionate portrait of an artist who will always be an enigma. Live From Memphis
D Alex Hammond, Ian Markiewicz P Alex Hammond, Joseph Berger TD digibeta/2011
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LennonNYC
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Premiere Fund
Persecution Blues: The Battle for The Tote
Australia 57 mins
Premiere Fund
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
112 mins USA 98 mins
The Black Power Mixtape 19671975

Sweden 100 mins
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

USA 72 mins
LennoNYC
USA
The Tote is as important to the history of Australian rocknroll as New Yorks CBGBs was to punk. Mess + Noise Persecution Blues is Natalie van den Dungens love letter to The Totes cherished place within the Melbourne music community. From the little Collingwood pubs riotous 21st birthday through to the epic battle for The Totes survival in 2010 as 20,000 people took to the streets to protest the venues closure this is a passionate doco about a pub with poor lighting and sticky carpet that could lay claim to being one of the most beloved and infamous live music venues in Australia. Featuring interviews with and performances by the bands and personalities that have frequented The Tote over the years including The Drones, Spiderbait and The Meanies, Persecution Blues is a scorching, impassioned tribute to a piece of Melbourne musical history. Natalie van den Dungen is a guest of the Festival.
D Natalie van den Dungen P Nicole Rogers, Natalie van den Dungen Dist Madman Entertainment TD HD Cam/2011
A fascinating, musically driven nine-year journey through a period of major social upheaval in the US. A treasure trove of archived lm reels, rescued from the vaults of Swedish television, form the basis for this hard-hitting documentary from Gran Hugo Olsson, a tour de force that illuminates the heyday of the USs Black Power movement and the political hysteria that surrounded it. The striking archival footage captured by Swedish journalists covering the turmoil in the US depicts the front lines of this radical militant activism, with fresh commentary provided by those who survived. A 21stcentury reassessment is also oered by the likes of Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte and Talib Kweli. This riveting cultural cut-up is enriched by an authentic anthology of music from the era, along with contemporary grooves supplied by Questlove and The Roots.
D/S Gran Hugo Olsson P Annika Rogell Dist Curious Film L English, Swedish w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2011
A touching portrait of two kooky, kinky lovebirds who sought to become one pandrogynous being. Variety Theres no doubt that Genesis P-Orridge outlandish performance artist, industrialrock pioneer and founder of proto-punk band Throbbing Gristle is a singular individual, a man pushing at the bounds of art, society and taste in all aspects of his life. When he met dominatrix Lady Jaye in the early 90s, he was swept up in a romance with an extraordinary culmination: they decided to use plastic surgery to become identical. This debut feature from Marie Losier (Manuelle Labour, MIFF 2007) is a candid chronicle of a great love, one that peels away the outlandish news headlines to paint an aecting portrait of conjoined artistic souls. Winner of several awards, including Best Documentary Film at this years Berlin International Film Festival.
D Marie Losier P Marie Losier, Steve Holmgren WS Cat&Docs TD digibeta/2011
New York became a part of who John and I were. We couldnt have existed the same way anywhere else. Yoko Ono Just when you thought nothing new could be said or seen of John Lennon, Michael Epstein comes along with a fresh, eyeopening look at the nal decade of Lennons life following his move with Yoko Ono to New York City in 1971. Made with the full cooperation of Ono, LennoNYC draws from new interviews, candid reminiscences from Lennon himself and never-before-heard studio recordings of the Double Happiness sessions, and also includes elusive home movies and out-takes of Lennon in concert. Presented chronologically, Epsteins documentary is an unpretentious, storydriven rendering of Lennons nal years, with the intersection between the artist and the Big Apple at its core.
D/S Michael Epstein P Michael Epstein, Susan Lacy, Jessica Levin Dist Transmission Films TD HD Cam/2011
Hollywood actor Michael Rapaport brings the story of hip-hops nest to the screen with a fans devotion. Prior to their breakup in 1998, the legendary A Tribe Called Quest were pioneers of alternative hip-hop, fusing jazz sounds with a creative lyrical approach that resonated with fans against the gangsta-heavy posturing of early 90s rap. Rapaports assured directorial debut is a compelling chronicle of the groups history and inner-workings across their ve-album career, as well as an emotional front row seat to the spiralling egos and tensions that would eventually tear Quest apart. Also featuring a whos-who of the rap world (De La Soul, Common, Pharrell Williams, Mos Def, Beastie Boys and members of The Roots), Beats, Rhymes & Life is a true goldmine of 90s new school. Gives the seminal early 90s hip-hop group as stylish and intimate a treatment as fans could hope for. Variety
D Michael Rapaport P Edward Parks, Frank Mele, Eric Matthies TD HD Cam/2011
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The Swell Season

USA 90 mins
Im Not Dead Yet

Australia 95 mins
Sing Your Song

USA 98 mins
Troubadours (PG)
USA 91 mins
Michel Petrucciani
France/Germany/Italy 102 mins
Tenderly dismantles the romantic mythology surrounding indie smash Once. Hollywood Reporter Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglov shot to fame after they won the 2008 Best Song Oscar and two Grammys for 'Falling Slowly', a song from the music lm Once (MIFF 2007), in which they played a couple falling in love while making music. With life imitating art, the two gradually fell into a romance while touring together. This aecting documentary tracks the fortunes of the two musicians in the wake of their sudden fame. With poignancy it charts the gradual disintegration of their relationship in the face of the bitter realities of life on the road. Features concert performances by Iron and Wine, Bill Callahan and The Swell Season.
D Chris Dapkins, Nick August-Perna, Carlo Mirabella-Davis P Carlo Mirabella-Davis WS Elephant Eye TD HD Cam/2011
Meet Chad Morgan, the dentally challenged king of Australian country music. For almost 60 years, Chad Morgan has been one of country Australias quintessential and most beloved troubadours. A man who has come to represent the comic voice of the Australian outback, Morgan, now 78, still tours constantly, his charm and boisterous tales speaking to a vision of Australia many assume to be gone. Half biopic, half tour lm, Im Not Dead Yet is lmmaker Janine Hoskings deeply aectionate ode to one of Australias true characters, the self-proclaimed Sheik of Scrubby Creek. Narrated by Tex Perkins and lled with Morgans classic songs and endless good humour, Im Not Dead Yet is the denitive portrait of a larrikin who just wants to remind everyone that he is still very, very much alive.
D/S Janine Hosking P Janine Hosking, Stephen Hopes WS iKandy Films TD HD Cam/2011
To call [this] an epic might seem overblown, but it isnt just the story of man, but the story of a country and a century. Variety Chosen to open the Sundance Film Festival, Sing Your Song blazes through the life of American singer and icon Harry Belafonte. Tracking not simply the arc of his music career, but also the impassioned political and social activism that is his true legacy, lmmaker Susanne Rostock weaves a complex, sweeping tale of a man whose life has symbolised so much of the American century. From McCarthyism to the civil rights movement, from the ush of musical success to the failure of his marriages, Sing Your Song is an intimate, frank story of a remarkable life, and a stirring call-to-action for others to follow in its wake.
D Susanne Rostock P Michael Cohl, Gina Belafonte, Jim Brown, William Eigen, Julius R. Nasso Dist Madman Entertainment TD HD Cam/2011
A documentary love letter to the LA singer-songwriter scene of the early 70s that took the world by storm. As the heady days of 60s political folk started to decline, LA found itself home to the rise of a new singer-songwriter movement one that, by the time the 70s had rolled around, had arrived at the forefront of popular music. Morgan Neville (Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, MIFF 2008) proles the epicentre of this musical movement the Troubadour, an old beatnik folk club in West Hollywood that became as legendary as the line up of musicians who started their careers there: Elton John, David Crosby, Jackson Browne, Kris Kristoerson, and comedians Steve Martin and Cheech & Chong. Anchored by the stories of Carole King and James Taylor, Troubadours takes in the generation-spanning inuence of these iconic musicians and their enduring musical legacy.
D Morgan Neville P Eddie Schmidt Dist Universal Music TD HD Cam/2010
A soulful portrait of an artist who allowed nothing to stand in the way of his embrace of life and his huge talent. Hollywood Reporter Short in stature but big in talent, Michel Petrucciani was a virtuoso jazz musician whose brief life blazed brightly with ability, charisma and hedonism. Born with brittle bone disease, Petrucciani only grew to three feet in height, but towered over his contemporaries with his astoundingly rapid and inventive playing that saw him become the rst-ever French artist signed to the legendary Blue Note label. With time against him, Petrucciani lived life to the fullest, indulging his hedonistic tendencies at every juncture. Filled with interviews and archival footage, this tribute from lmmaker Michael Radford (Il Postino, Van Morrison in Ireland ) tells the extraordinary tale of an extraordinary talent.
D/S Michael Radford P Serge Lalou, Annick Coloms, Bruce Marks, Gunnar Dedio, Martina Haubrich, Andrea Stucovitz WS Wild Bunch L English, French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
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This winter, the city bursts into life with a dazzling array of light installations, events and exhibitions. And while youre in town, why not catch up on a little world-class shopping, or grab a cosy spot at any one of the many bars or restaurants just around the corner? To nd out whats lighting up the city this winter, visit www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/whatson
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Celebrating Australian Filmmaking

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In the last few years the small screen has garnered some big ideas. Prime Time explores television as an evolving creative space for some amazing lmmakers, including the highly anticipated world premiere of the rst two episodes of The Slap.
Presented By
The Slap
Australia 110 mins
Mysteries of Lisbon
Portugal/France 272 mins
The slap seemed to echo. It cracked the twilight. The little boy looked up at the man in shock. There was a long silence. This years MIFF will host a special world premiere screening of the rst two episodes of the long-awaited TV adaptation of The Slap, the controversial, highly praised and Premiers Award winning novel by Melbourne-based Christos Tsiolkas. When a backyard cricket match turns into an out-of-control tantrum for an irritable boy, one mans attempt to punish a child that is not his own explodes into a world of litigation and resentment. A biting portrait of the seething underbelly of middle-class Australian life seen through the eyes of eight aected characters, The Slap is a bleakly comic demolition of our cosy assumptions about community, family and the way we raise our children. Stars Jonathan LaPaglia, Essie Davis, Sophie Okanada, Sophie Lowe and Melissa George. Cast and crew will be present for the screening.
D Jessica Hobbs P Tony Ayres, Helen Bowden, Michael McMahon S Kris Mrksa, Emily Ballou Dist ABC TD HD Cam/2011
Ral Ruizs head-spinning Mysteries of Lisbon is a period drama of contemporary import and of the highest order. Variety The fate of a dozen characters intertwine over three decades, as one mans journey to nd his parents takes him on a continentspanning odyssey in Mysteries of Lisbon, a 19th-century tale of desire, indiscretions and hidden identity. Acclaimed France-based Chilean lmmaker Ral Ruiz (Klimt; The Golden Boat, MIFF 1991) delves into a complex literary world with this adaptation of Camilo Castelo Brancos saga of the same name. Originally created as a six-part television mini-series, for theatrical release it has been concentrated into an engaging four-and-a-half-hour epic. Winner of Best Director at the San Sebastin International Film Festival and the Critics Award at the So Paulo International Film Festival.
D Ral Ruiz P Paolo Branco S Carlos Saboga Dist Rialto L English, Portuguese, French w/English subtitles TD DCP/2010
Mysteries of Lisbon
Thu 4 Aug 6.30pm GU 2104
Tue 26 July 6.30pm ACMI 6039 Sat 6 Aug 11am ACMI 6116
Dreileben Beats Being Dead

Germany 88 mins
Dreileben Dont Follow Me Around

Germany 88 mins
Dreileben One Minute of Darkness

Germany 90 mins
The Screen Illusion

France 77 mins
This is England 86
UK 208 mins
The rst of the Dreileben television series,a collection of three stand-alone lmscreated by three prominent German lmmakersabout a ctional small town plagued by an escaped criminal. Working in a clinic as an intern, teenager Johannes nds love a struggle when he falls for Bosnian refugee Ana. As their romance ares, the lives of the entire town are turned upside down by the actions of a fugitive hiding in the local forest. This contribution to the Dreileben project from lmmaker Christian Petzold (Yella, MIFF 2007; Jerichow) is an uneasy study of young romance, and a Hitchcockian exploration of a relationship that is not all it seems. With Petzolds cinema, theres always a sense of the mystical and uncanny, operating just beneath the surface of things hes easily the most fascinating German director of his generation. indieWIRE
D/S Christian Petzold P Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber WS Bavaria Films L German w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Unexpected connections between strangers and friends, and the past and present, are the motor of Dreileben: Dont Follow Me Around. Variety Police psychologist Jo is brought to the town of Dreileben to help hunt down a dangerous sex oender hiding in a nearby forest, but when she unexpectedly nds herself staying with a friend from her university days old secrets and new perspectives on the past come to light. The second stand-alone feature in the Dreileben series, Dont Follow Me Around is Dominik Grafs (A Map of the Heart, The Red Cockatoo) probing look at how closely our personal histories can intertwine with each other without our knowledge. Even visually, it surprised us Michael Wieswegs cinematography looked degraded and fuzzed-out, with soft colors and light aring in the frame like a set of 70s Polaroid photographs.indieWIRE
D Dominik Graf P Gloria Burkert, Andreas Bareiss, Sven Burgemeister S Markus Busch, Dominik Graf WS Bavaria Films L German w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Beautiful, chilling and tragically ironic. Hollywood Reporter Hunted by police after escaping captivity, sex oender and killer Molesch is on the run in the woods on the outskirts of Dreileben, as police inspector Marcus Kreil closes in on him. Finding safety in the forest, Moleschs chance encounters with the people of the town shed new light on the crimes he was convicted of. A slow-burn thriller, this conclusion to the Dreileben project from lmmaker Christoph Hochhusler (The City Below, Low Prole) is a riveting inversion of perspective, as the lurking criminal presence in the previous two lms becomes a compelling, disturbed protagonist. 38-year-old Hochhusler has quickly emerged as one of his nations most promising younger directors. One Minute of Darkness amply conrms and consolidates that reputation. Hollywood Reporter
D Christoph Hochhusler P Bettina Brokemper S Christoph Hochhusler, Peer Klehmet WS Bavaria Films L German w/ English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
A startlingly modern take on the classic 17th century French play Lillusion Comique by ascendant French director Mathieu Amalric. A rollicking and tightly woven tale of romantic miscommunication, betrayal and familial intrigue, The Screen Illusion follows hotel concierge and private detective Alacandre, in modern-day Paris, as he attempts to help a man nd his missing son. The third in a series of unique, rule-bound commissions by French cultural institution La Comdie Franaise, The Screen Illusion was lmed in 12 days, using only actors who had played their roles on stage, and without varying from the dialogue as originally written;that is, 17th-century alexandrine couplets. The result is novel, cohesive, visually lush and utterly contemporary a tribute to the creative vision of the always compelling actor-director Mathieu Amalric, and the abilities of his exceptional cast. A quiet marvel of theatrical lmmaking.
D Mathieu Amalric P Les Films de Pierre, Maa Cinema S Pierre Corneille WS Le Pacte L French w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Artistically captivating, funny, melancholic and aecting. Telegraph Shane Meadows follows up the acclaimed This Is England (MIFF 2007) with a return to the world of Shaun, Woody, Combo and Lol three years on. Its 1986, and as Shaun prepares to nish school and Woody and Lol head toward an uncertain marriage, the gang nd themselves torn by the return of a threatening gure from their collective past. One of the most singular lmmakers working in the UK today, Meadows has concocted a more than worthy sequel to his incendiary coming-of-age lm. Based on Meadows own upbringing in the British council house estates of the Thatcher-era, This is England 86 is a grittily honed, warm-hearted and often hilarious account of growing up in the scorned, ignored margins of society.
D Shane Meadows, Tom Harper P Mark Herbert, Shane Meadows, Derrin Schlesinger S Shane Meadows, Jack Thorne Dist Madman Entertainment TD digibeta/2010
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MIFF 60th Retrospective
The MIFF 60th Retrospective presents a selection of 10 signicant and magnicent lms from the past six decades of MIFFs life. Featuring early and remarkable works from some of the Festivals most beloved lmmakers, these movies paint a portrait of 60 incredible years of Festival life, as we look forward to another 60 more.
Class Relations
The Devils Playground (M)

Australia 107 mins
Happy Together (M)

Hong Kong 96 mins
Fruit of Paradise
Czechoslovakia 99 mins
An Autumn Afternoon (G)

Japan 112 mins
Class Relations
West Germany/France 127 mins
The people in Fred Schepisis The Devils Playground are like sculpted gures that glow with their own light. New Yorker The Devils Playground revolves around Tom Allen, a 13-year-old boy growing up in the rigorous connes of a 1950s Catholic seminary and torn between the demands of the priesthood and his own burgeoning sexuality. A winner of multiple AFI awards, including Best Screenplay and Best Director, The Devils Playground (MIFF 1976) was writer-director Fred Schepisis semi-autobiographical feature lm debut. A stark yet sensual study of the imminence of desire, even amidst the most austere of surrounds, Schepisis lm was at the time a deeply controversial portrait of religious sexual repression. Fred Schepisi, whose new lm The Eye of the Storm also screens in this years program, is a guest of the Festival. Print courtesy of The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
D/P/S Fred Schepisi WS Fred Schepisi TD 35mm/1976
Garnering high praise and multiple festival awards upon its release in 1997, Happy Together (MIFF 1997) instantly became a cult classic for lmmaker Wong Kar-wai. After his melancholic epic Ashes of Time and the upbeat and frenetic Chungking Express, Wong emerged into an altogether dierent style of lm that oers less focus on the gay element of its two protagonists than it does on the pains of love found and lost. Following two lovers (Hong Kong lm icons Tony Leung and the late Leslie Cheung) as they travel, adrift, through Argentina, falling in and out with each other, Happy Together tracks their love/hate relationship and the ever-present pull that brings them oating back into each others lives. Features a stunning soundtrack and sumptuous cinematography by Christopher Doyle.
D/S Wong Kar-wai P Ye-cheng Chan, Wong Kar-wai Dist Potential Films L Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/1997
An entrancing hippie-dippie oratorio on gender combat that doesnt retell Genesis so much as slip it a microdot. Village Voice There have been few lmmakers as willing to completely carve apart the conventions of cinema as Czech pioneer of the feminist avant-garde Vera Chytilov (Daisies), and of all her lms, perhaps the most inventive was Fruit of Paradise (MIFF 1971), her explosive 1970 re-imagining of the Eden myth. Eve and Joseph are staying at a holiday house with a number of other couples. Eve suspects that Joseph is cheating on her and tries to feed him the Apple of Knowledge to conrm her fears. But is total knowledge truly worth it? A vast symbolist head-trip masquerading as relationship drama, Fruit of Paradise is an utterly unexplainable, totally intoxicating rush of surrealist imagery, psychedelic mayhem and experimental soundscapes (by the great Czech composer Zdenek Liska).
D Vera Chytilov P Pavel Jurcek, Jaroslav Kucera, Bronka Ricquier S Vera Chytilov, Ester Krumbachov WS Bonton L Czech w/English subtitles TD 35mm/1970
In its exquisite renement of Ozus style and themes, and its general air of nostalgia and loss, An Autumn Afternoon does in fact feel like a summation of his career. Criterion Hirayama (Ozu regular Chishi Ryu), an aging widower living with his two grown children, is forced to consider marrying o his daughter before she falls into a life of spinsterhood in Yasujiro Ozus 1962 classic, An Autumn Afternoon. With a family bond that edges toward a deep co-dependence, the notion of separation strikes Hirayama as simply another death in the family. Japanese master Ozus nal lm before his death the following year, An Autumn Afternoon tells an intimate domestic story reminiscent of his earlier masterpiece Late Spring. An elliptically and delicately told tale of transition and loss, this is a magisterial work of controlled beauty.
D Yasujiro Ozu P Shizuo Yamanouchi S Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu WS Shochiku L Japanese w/English subtitles TD 35mm/1962
The existential dilemma of Kafkas Amerika re-imagined as an insight into class struggle. The dark and poetic visions of Czech writer and unlikely national hero Franz Kafka have often lent themselves to screen adaptations, but lmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danile Huillets take on Amerika remains one of the most faithful to Kafkas frustrating existential battle. Moving away from the turmoil of an individual oppressed by a faceless authority, Class Relations (MIFF 1986) seamlessly shifts the paranoia and overbearing bureaucracy to the realm of class struggle, where capitalism quashes all that come up against it. Perfectly capturing the sense of hopelessness and lack of freedom that Kafkas works ooze, Class Relations won multiple awards upon its release in the early 80s. Straub's An Heir also screens as part of the Jeonju Digital Project 2011 (p38).
D Jean-Marie Straub, Danile Huillet P Klaus Hellwig S Franz Kafka WS New Yorker Films L German w/English subtitles TD 35mm/1984
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MIFF 60th Retrospective

Barking Dogs Never Bite
106 mins
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Beauty and the Beast

France 96 mins
The Apple
Iran 85 mins
The King of Comedy (PG)

USA 109 mins
(M) South Korea
Gummo
USA 89 mins
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Jean Cocteau Screening at the very rst MIFF in 1952, Beauty and the Beast comes from one of the nest exponents of the avant-garde that France has ever seen, the prodigiously talented Jean Cocteau. It is a marvel of lmmaking, a surrealist masterwork that revels in the possibilities opened up by the moving image. A childrens fairytale transformed into haunting post-World War II allegory, Cocteaus vision of Beauty and the Beast is readily familiar yet deeply strange. Woven through with Dali-esque imagery, Freudian undercurrents and a lingering obsession with death, Cocteau painted a world both beautiful and perverse, a glittering phantasm of fevered love and the everpresent hope of redemption.
D Jean Cocteau P Andr Paulv S Jean Cocteau, JeanneMarie Leprince de Beaumont WS SND L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/1946
Potent symbolism linked to a bizarre story rooted in fact, set in Iran and laden with political, social and generational overtones. New York Times A truly remarkable achievement, The Apple (MIFF 1999) was directed by Samira Makhmalbaf at the age of 17 using leftover lm stock from her fathers (lmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf) previous production. Upon its release in 1998 it won multiple festival awards and helped shine a light on a remarkable true story, acted out by the actual family at the centre of the controversy. With a paranoid blind mother and a disturbed father, the 12-year-old Naderi twins, Massoumeh and Zahra, have been locked away behind bars for their whole lives. When a social worker discovers the situation their father promises to free them and when he goes back on his word he in turn is locked in the house, while the girls set out to discover the world for the rst time.
D Samira Makhmalbaf P Iraj Sarbaz S Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf WS MK2 L Farsi w/English subtitles TD 35mm/1998
Creepiest movie of the year in every sense, and one of the best. Time Out London The fth collaboration between Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese, The King of Comedy (MIFF 1983) was underappreciated upon its release, but stands up as a forgotten classic, featuring virtuoso performances not only from De Niro, but also a disturbed Sandra Bernhard and an enraged Jerry Lewis at the top of his game. The delusional Rupert Pupkin (De Niro) is Travis Bickle with a poor sense of humour a stand-up comedian wannabe who idolises talk-show host Jerry Langford (Lewis) with an obsession that will see him go to any lengths for the chance to do a routine on Jerrys show. Here Scorsese makes a bold statement about celebrity, slamming the tabloid culture that at the time blamed Taxi Driver for causing Ronald Reagans botched assassination attempt.
D Martin Scorsese P Arnon Milchan S Paul D. Zimmerman Dist Twentieth Century Fox 35mm/1983
Beautifully directed, unsentimental and darkly funny. Time Out London Bong Joon-ho (Mother, MIFF 2009; The Host, MIFF 2006), a true creative and commercial giant of South Korean cinema, made his feature debut with the bloody-slapstickmeets-romantic-comedy Barking Dogs Never Bite (MIFF 2001). Yun-ju is at his wits end. Jobless at the end of his studies, trapped in a tiny at with his pregnant wife and driven to madness by the constant yapping of the dogs in his apartment block, he begins to resort to extreme measures. Similarly disaected with life, bored clerk Hyeon-nam takes on the task of searching for the increasingly large number of canines that have mysteriously gone missing. Blackly comedic, Bong Joon-hos acerbic social satire is a delightfully eccentric romp.
D Bong Joon-ho P Min-hwan Cho S Bong Joon-ho, Song Ji-ho, Derek Son Tae-woong Dist Madman Entertainment L Korean w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2000
No conceivable competition will match the sourness, cynicism and pretension of Mr. Korines debut feature. New York Times From the controversy and brutal honesty of Kids to the freak-show delinquency of Trash Humpers (MIFF 2010), writer and lmmaker Harmony Korine has never been one to toe the creative line, forever pushing the envelope of whats acceptable in cinema. This has never been so perfectly realised as it was in his 1997 small-town suburban nightmare Gummo (MIFF 1998), his directorial debut. Passing time in the town of Xenia, a place that never recovered from a tornado in the 70s, the residents sni glue, kill cats and tinker with life-support machines, all out of mind-numbing boredom. Each hiding or wearing proudly their own brand of perversion, nothing seems normal and no one seems to care. Its a nice place to visit but you wouldnt want to live there.
D/S Harmony Korine P Cary Woods WS Hollywood Classics TD 35mm/1997
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Featuring lms from across the globe, this years Next Gen program is a fresh and vibrant treat for the young, and the young at heart. Packed with mature, intelligent and challenging stories, these are lms that give insight into cultures around the world and open young minds to the possibilities of cinema.
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All lms featured as part of the Next Gen program are approved for screening by the Attorney Generals Department, Classication Branch. Next Gen screenings are open to all ages. People under the age of 15 must attend in the company of an adult guardian. In order to assist parents, guardians and teachers in making informed decisions about childrens viewing, when lms have not yet been classied MIFF has provided suitability recommendations according to age. Under MIFF Recommends you will nd the age range we believe to be best suited to the lm, according to the ocial guidelines of the Attorney Generals Department, Classication Branch (www.classication.gov.au). This content advice is designed as a guide only. If you would like more information about individual lms, please dont hesitate to contact the Festival oce on 03 8660 4888.
Tales of the Night
Tales of the Night

France 85 mins
Under the Hawthorn Tree

China/Hong Kong 115 mins
Falling for Sahara

Australia 81 mins
Africa United (M)

UK/South Africa 88 mins
My Wedding and Other Secrets

New Zealand 88 mins
French master of animation Michel Ocelot (Azur et Asmar, MIFF ) presents a fantastical and entrancing series of six fairytales, lovingly animated in silhouetted 3D. Every night a young actor and actress meet at a local theatre and, with the aid of an elderly projectionist, craft magical tales of love and redemption. From this basic premise lmmaker Ocelot weaves a series of simple but stunningly imaginative stories, rendered by the characters as shadow plays against magnicently coloured backdrops. From the plains of West Africa to the mountains of Tibet, from princesses and werewolves to the Aztec City of Gold, these six tales move eortlessly through time and place, constructing worlds of dazzling complexity and easy charm. The themes are eternal and the design unquestionably astonishing, but, above all, Tales of the Nightsimply stands as a stirring tribute to the many joys and endless potential of our imaginations.
D Michel Ocelot P Philippe Boe ard, Christophe Rossignon S Michel Ocelot WS Tamasa Distribution L French w/English subtitles TD DCP/2011
Veteran director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Not One Less) brings us a story of youthful passion amid the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution of 1970s China. With her father a political prisoner, trainee teacher Jing is sent to a provincial village as part of her re-education. There she meets Sun,a smart, handsome geology student the attraction between them is immediate and unmistakable. But their budding romance is dangerously at odds with the social mores and political paranoia of the world around them, and Jing is faced with an impossible choice between love and duty. Based on a best-selling novel by Chinese author Aimi, who adapted the tale from a true story, Under the Hawthorn Tree is a moving tale of star-crossed romance against a backdrop of social upheaval and political turmoil.
D Zhang Yimou P Zhang Weiping, Hugo Shong, Cao Huayi, Bill Kong S Yin Lichuan, Gu Xiaobai, A Mei WS Edko Films L Mandarin w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Three young African refugees in Melbournes inner-west nd that love is never simple especially when they all have eyes for the same girl. Beniam, Ramsy and MJ are best friends. Hanging out at the Flemington housing commission ats they call home, the three Africans share a tight bond and a love of footy. But with the arrival of Sahara smart, beautiful and AFL-mad the three friends suddenly nd themselves competing for the same girl. Director Khoa Do co-wrote Falling for Sahara with his cast of African-Australian actors, refugees recently arrived from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia. A tireless advocate for refugees and at-risk youth in Australia, Do was awarded Young Australian of the Year in 2005. Falling for Sahara is the second lm in his refugee trilogy.
D/P Khoa Do S Khoa Do, Teklay Gebreslassie, Nathanael Kebede, Daniel Haile Michael, Solomon Salew, Maki Issa L English, Amharic, Arabic w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
A story of joy, laughter, hope and generosity. And football. When Fabrice, a young Rwandan with dreams of being a football star, is given the chance to audition for the 2010 World Cup, he sets o on a ramshackle journey across Africa, his self-appointed manager Dudu and his sister Beatrice in tow. Their haphazard expedition sees them encounter former child soldiers, slave owners and others determined to help them on their way to Johannesburg. The realities of modern day Africa are neither ignored nor sugarcoated in this uplifting road movie about the uncrushable spirit and determination of three friends on the journey of a lifetime. When did you last watch a kids lm about Africa that left you laughing, punching the air and weeping discreetly into your popcorn? This is the eect of Africa United, a mad, ebullient movie. Times
D Debs Gardner-Paterson P Mark Blaney, Jackie Sheppard, Eric Kabera S Rhidian Brook Dist Hopscotch TD 35mm/2010
New Zealand audiences have embraced this charming, oddball comedy about the challenges of cross-cultural love. When Chinese-New Zealand lm student Emily meets the daggy-but-adorable James, they fall for each other almost instantly. Everything seems perfect, but theres just one little problem:Emilys traditional parents will never accept her dating much less marrying a non-Chinese. Still, what they dont know wont hurt them, right? Director Roseanne Liang drew on her own cross-cultural relationship experience (chronicled in her 2005 documentary Banana in a Nutshell ) to co-write an unaected romantic comedy about family, cultural collisions and charming, geeky love. A charming romantic comedy based on emotionally wrenching real life events. OnFilm Roseanne Liang is a guest of the Festival
D Roseanne Liang P Paul Davis, John Barnett S Roseanne Liang, Angeline Loo WS Highpoint Media TD 35mm/2010
MIFF recommends: Age 14+ Some adult themes and sensitive content Fri 29 July 1.30pm ACMI 6058 Tue 2 Aug 1.30pm ACMI 6088
MIFF recommends: Age 14+ Some adult themes, mild violence and coarse language Fri 29 July 6.30pm ACMI 6060 Tue 2 Aug 11am ACMI 6087 Thu 4 Aug 1.30pm ACMI 6102
Sat 30 July 11am ACMI 6065 Wed 3 Aug 1.30pm ACMI 6095
MIFF recommends: Age 14+ Some adult themes, mild sexual references, mid coarse language Sat 23 July 1.30pm GU 2014 Fri 5 Aug 1.30pm ACMI 6109
MIFF recommends: Age 8+ Sun 31 July 1pm Hoyts 9075 Sat 6 Aug 1pm Hoyts 9117
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Next Gen screenings are open to all ages
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Falling for Sahara
On the Sly
Winters Daughter
Germany/Poland 92 mins
The Matchmaker
Israel 112 mins
The Liverpool Goalie

Norway 85 mins
The Ugly Duckling

Russia 75 mins
In a not-so far away land, not-so long ago, lived an ordinary little girl called Cathy Suspecting she is invisible to her parents, sixyear-old Cathy decides to test the theory by disappearing into the forest. And so begins an extraordinary adventure with a little help from Cathys overactive imagination. Director and cinematographer Olivier Ringer brings a wonderful naturalistic visual aesthetic to this contemporary fable, capturing the magical nature of the forest journey without the need for animation or computer eects. Narrated entirely by Cathys creative inner dialogue, On the Sly is a girls own Robinson Crusoe escapade a fairytale without the make-believe. Winner of the Childrens Jury Award at the Montreal International Childrens Film Festival.
D Olivier Ringer P Yves Ringer, Antoine Simkine S Yves Ringer, Olivier Ringer WS Delphis Films L French w/English subtitles TD DCP/2011
A touching story about a girl determined to track down her biological father. Eleven-year-old Kattaka is celebrating Christmas with her parents when an unexpected phone call turns her world upside down. The shocking news: her dad isnt really her dad. Her biological father is a stranger, a Russian sailor named Alexi. Fighting through her initial anger and disappointment, she resolves to track down her real father and so begins an epic journey. Accompanied by her elderly neighbour and her best friend, Kattaka leaves Berlin to travel east, toward the Polish seaport where Alexis ship is docked. By turns inspiring and moving, Winters Daughter takes us on an eccentric road trip into Eastern Europe, as a girl faces her fears to nd out where she belongs.
D Johannes Schmid P Philipp Budweg, Mikolaj Pokromski, Thomas Blieninger S Michaela Hinnenthal, Thomas Schmid L German, Polish, Russian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
A lively coming-of-age story set in 1968, when the Wests summer of love nally spilled into conservative Israel. An avid reader of crime ction, 16-year-old Arik cant believe his luck when he lands a summer job doing detective work for Yankele, a Holocaust survivor who makes his living as a matchmaker. Brushing shoulders with the strange residents of the seedy port district of Haifa, Arik quickly realises he has a lot to learn about love especially when he meets Tamara, his rebellious cousin visiting from America. Veteran director Avi Nesher takes us back to an Israel on the cusp of change, giving us a coming-of-age story with a dierence one that touches on the personal struggles privately endured by a generation of Holocaust survivors.
D/S Avi Nesher P David Silber, Chilick Michaeli, Avi Nesher, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, Avraham Pirchi, Tamar Leon, Natan Caspi WS 6 Sales L Hebrew w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
A Scandinavian coming-of-age comedy about the hardest lesson of high school learning to take a risk. Twelve-year-old Jo is terried of all the usual stu: bullies, soccer practice, girls, crossing the street... Some might call him a little anxious, but hes just doing his best to survive the perils of high school life. Having a neurotic single mum and a lunatic football coach doesnt make things any easier, but worst of all is Tom, the bully who keeps making Jo do his homework for him. Jo is doing his best to play it safe hed rather just keep his head down and expand his soccer card collection.But the arrival of a new girl at school is about to change everything. Winner of the Crystal Bear Award at this years Berlin International Film Festival.
D Arild Andresen P Hkon vers, Karin Julsrud S Lars Gudmestad WS NonStop Sales L Norwegian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
The classic Hans Christian Andersen tale gets a glorious stop-motion makeover at the hands of legendary Russian animator Garri Bardin. In a farmyard populated with roosters, hens, ducks and geese, a strange-looking duckling is born. Shunned by the others for looking dierent, our plucky avian protagonist must persevere until he can nd a place where he belongs. The feature debut from 69-year-old Bardin, who made his name with four decades worth of satirical animated shorts, The Ugly Duckling took six painstaking years to complete. The results speak for themselves: Bardins handmade animation has infused this timeless story of non-conformity with poignancy, charm and humour.
D/P/S Garri Bardin WS Films Boutique L Russian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
MIFF recommends: Age 8+ Fri 29 July 11am ACMI 6057 Sun 7 Aug 1.30pm ACMI 6126
MIFF recommends: Age 10+ Some adult themes Thu 28 July 2.30pm ACMI 6051 Wed 3 Aug 11am ACMI 6094
MIFF recommends: Age 14+ Some adult themes, mild coarse language and sexual references Wed 27 July 1.30pm ACMI 6044 Thu 4 Aug 11am ACMI 6101
MIFF recommends: Age 10+ Some adult themes, mild sexual references Sat 30 July 1.30pm GU 5066 Sat 6 Aug 11am GU 5116
MIFF recommends: Age 10+ Some adult themes and sensitive content Thu 28 July 11am ACMI 6050 Fri 5 Aug 11am ACMI 6108
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MIFF Food & Film Guide
Check out these great venues and more in the MIFF 2011 Food & Film Guide.
Full of special offers, a location map and Festival Planner, the guide is your perfect pocket companion. Distributed throughout Melbourne for your complete Festival Experience.
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ARINTJI
Federation Square Cnr Flinders & Swanston St T. 03 9663 9900 arintji.com.au
BRUNETTI
Carlton City Square Camberwell Fitzroy T. 03 9347 2801 brunetticae.com
CABINET
11 Rainbow Alley T. 03 9654 0915 cabinetbar.com.au
BAR & BALCONY
CAMPARI
2325 Hardware Lane T. 03 9600 1574 camparihouse.com.au
THE CARLTON HOTEL

193 Bourke Street T. 03 9663 3216 thecarlton.com.au
CECCONIS CANTINA
Basement, 61 Flinders Lane T. 03 9663 0222 cecconiscantina.com sales@cecconiscantina.com
COOKIE
11 Rainbow Alley T. 03 9654 0915 cabinetbar.com.au
CUMULUS INC.
CAFE BAR & RESTAURANT 45 Flinders Lane T. 03 9659 1445 cumulusinc.com.au
FEDDISH
CAFE BAR & RESTAURANT
THE FRENCH BRASSERIE

2 Malthouse Lane T. 03 9662 1632 thefrenchbrasserie.com.au
HELLS KITCHEN
Upstairs, 20 Centre Place T. 03 9654 5755 hellskitchenmelbourne.com
IL POMODORO
Federation Square Cnr Flinders & Swanston St T. 03 9662 2282 ilpomodoro.com.au
ITALIAN
River Terrace Yarra Building Federation Square T. 03 9654 5855 feddish.com.au
THE ITALIAN
16/101 Collins Street T. 03 9654 9499 theitalian.com.au
LILY BLACKS
12 Meyers Place T. 03 9654 4887 lilyblacks.com.au
THE LONGROOM
162168 Collins Street T. 03 9663 7226 thelongroom.com.au
LONGRAIN
44 Little Bourke St T. 03 96713151 longrain.com
BAR AMPERE
10 Russell Place T. 03 9654 0533
COLLINS QUARTER
86a Collins Street T. 9650 8500 collinsquarter.com
GIN PALACE
10 Russell Place T. 03 9654 0533 ginpalace.com.au
MADAME BRUSSELS
Level 3, 59 63 Bourke St T. 03 9662 2775 madamebrussels.com
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LOOP
23 Meyers Place T. 03 9654 0500 looponline.com.au
THE MELBOURNE SUPPER CLUB

1st/161 Spring St T. 03 9654 6300
MEYERS PLACE
20 Meyers Place T. 03 9650 8609 meyersplace.com.au
NEW GUERNICA
2/318322 Little Collins Street T. 03 9650 4494 newguernica.com.au
PAPA GOOSE
91 93 Flinders Lane T. 03 9663 2800 papagoose.com.au
PUNCH LANE
43 Little Bourke Street T. 03 96394944 punchlane.com.au
RED SPICE ROAD

27 McKillop Street T. 03 9603 1601 redspiceroad.com
ROOFTOP BAR
Level 7, 252 Swanston Street T. 03 9654 5394 rooftopcinema.com.au
THE TOFF IN TOWN

Level 2, 252 Swanston Street T. 9639 8770 choochoos.com.au
TRUNK
275 Exhibition St T. 03 9663 7994 trunktown.com.au
TUSCAN BAR
LOUNGE & ROOFTOP Level 1 and Rooftop, 79 Bourke Street T. 03 9671 3322 tuscanbar.com.au
TWO FINGERS
27 Russell Street T. 03 9663 0202
CHERRY BAR
103 Flinders Lane T. 03 9639 8122
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169 Exhibition St T. 03 9663 7722 1806.com.au
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Night Shift
Encompassing grindhouse exploitation cinema, genre-defying marvels and a compulsory dose of weirdness from Japan, Night Shift brings you an unconventional cohort of lms to satisfy your cult cravings. Not for the faint of heart.
Troll Hunter
Norway 103 mins
(R18+) Canada/USA
Hobo With a Shotgun

86 mins
Embellishes the candid, caughton-video format to thrilling eect. Variety Forget Sasquatch or Area 51, for years the Norweigan government has been involved in the biggest cover-up the world has ever known or rather, not known. Not just made-up stories to keep Scandinavian children awake at night, the mythical troll exists, and Norway has its own program to keep troll numbers down, for the safety of everyone. Now, a trio of documentary lmmakers have stumbled upon a man whose job it is to keep the Godzilla-sized trouble-makers at bayand theyre in for a bumpy ride. Like The Blair Witch Project and Clovereld, this through-the-lens mockumentary packs plenty of frantic fun and humour into a gripping expos of a creature once believed to be the stu of fairy tales.
D/S Andr vredal P John M. Jacobsen, Sveinung Golimo Dist Madman Entertainment L Norwegian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
You and me are goin on a car-ride to hell and youre riding shotgun! At the end of the line in a crime-ridden city, a hobo is looking for a fresh start. What he nds is an urban hell run by a murderous crime lord and his psychopathic sons. Theres only one way to clean up the city: with a gun in his hand and two shells in the chamber. Expanded from a trailer made for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguezs Grindhouse, Hobo with a Shotgun brings schlock cinema to its natural zenith: Rutger Hauer armed with a pump-action shotgun, blowing away crooked cops and paedophile Santas. Whats not to like? Rolling Stone
D Jason Eisener P Rob Cotterill, Niv Fichman, Paul Gross, Frank Siracusa S John Davies, Jason Eisener Dist Transmission Films TD HD Cam/2011
Fri 22 July 11.30pm GU 3010 Sun 31 July 9pm GU 3078
Wed 3 Aug 9pm GU 5098 Sat 6 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1119

Zebraman 2
The Innkeepers
USA 102 mins
Super
USA 96 mins
Kill List
UK 90 mins
The Woman
USA 108 mins
Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City

Japan 106 mins
Clerks meets The Shining in this slacker ghost story from indie trailblazer Ti West. West delivered a shot in the arm to horror fans everywhere with his much-acclaimed The House of the Devil in 2009. This highly anticipated follow-up is a character-driven take on the classic gothic ghost lm. Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy), two bored, restless night shift sta in the Yankee Pedlar Inn, while away the hours investigating rumours that the hotel is haunted Luke has even half-built a website devoted to the history of supernatural manifestations. When an aging spiritualist (Kelly McGillis) checks in, Claire and Luke start to make some headway on their ghost huntand suddenly their game takes on a decidedly more sinister aspect. A classic ghost story with a twist, West bucks contemporary genre trends to bring us an old-school horror treat. Ti West is a guest of the Festival.
D/S Ti West P Derek Curl, Larry Fessenden, Peter Phok, Ti West WS MPI Media TD HD Cam/2010
The Crimson Bolt is here to ght crime, the only way he knows how with a pipe wrench. After Franks wife (Liv Tyler) is lured into drug addiction by her sleazy ex-boyfriend (Kevin Bacon), Frank (Rainn Wilson) decides enough is enough. With the aid of a helpful if somewhat sadistic comic store clerk named Libby (Ellen Page), Frank becomes the Crimson Bolt, embarking on a wrench-wielding, spectacularly violent quest to save his wife. Styled as superhero lm meets grindhouse cinema, and directed by former Troma writer James Gunn (Tromeo and Juliet), this is a thoroughly enjoyable, extremely gory and oddly heartfelt lm about two mists trying to nd their costumed place in the world. Mixing bloody slapstick with aectionate genre homage, Super is the last word in the dark amateur superhero genre.
D/S James Gunn P Miranda Bailey, Ted Hope Dist Village Roadshow Entertainment TD 35mm/2010
Ben Wheatley follows up his deft debut Down Terrace (MIFF 2010) with a cross-genre gem that starts as a sedate suburban drama before driving o the rails completely. Jay is having a tough time his marriage is on the verge of breakdown, and he hasnt worked for months. So when his old friend Gal suggests they both return to their old profession of hired killers, Jay readily agrees. But as they start to work down their list of targets, signs begin to point to a deeper conspiracy. Shifting genres eortlesslyfrom suburban kitchen sink drama to hitman thriller to something much darker Wheatleys Kill List grabs hold and pulls you down towards an unexpected climax. Kill List is a polished and impressive British genre lm, with Ben Wheatley a talent to watch. Screen International
D Ben Wheatley P Claire Jones, Andrew Starke S Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump Dist Madman Entertainment TD HD Cam/2011
Bizarre, crazy, oensive and incredibly well made! Aint It Cool News Chris Cleek (Sean Bridgers, Deadwood ) is a small town court ocer living a quiet, seemingly normal life in the heart of Maine with his beloved family. That is, until Chris discovers a feral woman roaming the woods and makes it the familys project to civilise her. But as the familys methods of forcing civility upon the woman become ever more extreme, the perverse bonds uniting them will be cast into violent relief. A household name for horror fans, Lucky McKee (May) returns to controversy with a brutally unsettling, darkly humorous take on the seething undercurrents of the American nuclear family. The Woman has been hailed by some as a subversive masterpiece, by others as simply stomach-turning. Whatever you decide, The Woman will assuredly be one of the most talked about lms at this years Festival. Contains scenes that may disturb
D Lucky McKee P Andrew Van Den Houten, William M. Miller, Robert Tonino S Lucky McKee, Jack Ketchum Dist Monster Pictures TD HD Cam/2010 t
A serious dash of Miike weirdness One of the most memorable closing shots ever. Twitch Film In 2004, MIFF favourite Takashi Miike (see 13 Assassins, also in this years program) directed a deranged superhero parody about a geeky teacher who dons striped tights to crush crime as Zebraman. Unconscious for many years, Zebraman awakens in 2025 to nd Tokyo in the grip of a totalitarian Mayor and his egomaniacal pop star daughter. Police death-squads conduct random shootings and alien invaders are on the loose. When a mysterious mute girl reignites the re of justice in Zebraman, the superhero is reborn, ready to spark a revolution. Ghoulish eects and a crazed cast combine with an outlandish plot to create an unforgettable piece of J-weirdness. As usual with Miike, the genre lines get blurred or obliterated. Japan Times
D Takashi Miike P Takashi Hirano S Kankuro Kudo WS Toei Company L Japanese w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Fri 29 July 11.30pm GU 4062 Thu 4 Aug 9pm GU 5105
Sat 23 July 11pm GU 3018 Mon 25 July 9pm ACMI 6033
Sat 23 July 9pm GU 3017 Fri 29 July 11.30pm GU 3062 Fri 5 Aug 9pm GU 5112
Sat 30 July 11.30pm GU 4070 Fri 5 Aug 11.30pm GU 3113
Fri 22 July 11.30pm GU 4010 Wed 3 Aug 9pm GU 2098
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Shorts
Accelerator
As always, theres nothing small about MIFFs Shorts this year we feature 10 programs of short lm, in addition to three special collections focusing on the works of Peter Tscherkassky and Eve Heller (see page 9). In addition to the regular Shorts weekend program of ction, animation, documentary and experimental short lm, and the constantly excellent Accelerator screenings, this year MIFF also features O Canada!, a selection of shorts from far-north America, and Mists, an obeat collection of eccentric tales.
The Palace If I Dance Will It Keep Me Warm?
Shorts Weekend Schedule

Kaleidoscope Documentary Shorts Experimental Shorts 1 Mists Accelerator 1 O Canada! Australian Shorts Animation Shorts Experimental Shorts 2 Accelerator 2 MIFF Shorts Awards Best MIFF Shorts Screening Thu 28 July 6.30pm
Thu 28 July 9pm Fri 29 July 4pm Fri 29 July 9pm Sat 30 July 1.30pm Sat 30 July 11am Sat 30 July 4pm Sat 30 July 6.30pm Sun 31 July 1.30pm Sun 31 July 4.15pm Sun 31 July 7pm Sun 7 July 4pm ACMI 6053 ACMI 6054 ACMI 6059 GU 3061 GU 2066 GU 3065 GU 2067 GU 3068 ACMI 6075 GU 2076 GU 2077 GU 3127
MIFF 50th Shorts Awards

Celebrating 50 years of competition Returning once again is the annual MIFF Shorts Awards, where the best shorts of the Festival will be announced and screened. Also screening is the winner of the MIFF TAKE/60 lm competition, The Disarray of Our Youth by Marwan Khneisser. Sun 31 July 7pm GU 2077 MIFF features one of the most highly regarded short lm competitions in the Southern Hemisphere. Those that are eligible are competing for a total cash prize pool of $42,000. Entrants are competing for the following prizes: City of Melbourne Grand Prix for Best Short Film $10,000 Film Victoria Erwin Radio Award for Best Australian Short Film $7000 Transmission Films Award for Emerging Australian Filmmaker $5000
Two compelling sessions of shorts created by talented emerging lmmakers from Australia, New Zealand and Canada. All Accelerator lmmakers are guests of the Festival.
Accelerator 1
92 mins The Stranger Australia Attach Boat to Motor Australia The Palace Australia The Father Australia At the Formal Australia Go the Dogs New Zealand Ebony Society New Zealand Sat 30 July 1.30pm GU 2066 The Stranger Australia 10 mins A peculiar young man, seemingly without any awareness of social conventions, crashes a party. Is he looking for trouble, or just lonely?
D/S Rodd Rathjen P Rodd Rathjen, Nicolette Freeman WS VCA School of Film & Television L TD HD Cam/2010
Accelerator 2
90 mins Eli the Invisible Australia Collision Australia A Fine Young Man Canada Nullarbor Australia Toy Soldier Australia If I Dance Will It Keep Me Warm? Australia Meathead New Zealand Sun 31 July 4.15pm GU 2076 Eli the Invincible Australia 14 mins Eli is a young wrestling fan trying to make sense of the racial violence surrounding him. When the time comes, he must play his part.
D/S Miranda Nation P Dominic Allen, Miranda Nation TD HD Cam/2011
Accelerator Workshop
Accelerator is an annual initiative run by MIFF 37South, designed to be a unique professional development opportunity for the selected lmmakers. Through participation in a four-day intensive program of workshops, meeting and functions with international and Australian industry heavyweights, lmmakers gain a greater understanding of the dynamics and possibilities of cinema. Accelerator could not happen without the support of our partners:
ACCELERATOR SCREENING & WORKSHOP PARTNERS
Cinema Nova Award for Best Fiction Short Film $5000 Holmesglen Award for Best Animation Short Film $5000 Swinburne Award for Best Documentary Short Film $5000 Melbourne International Film Festival Award for Best Experimental Short Film $5000 The MIFF Shorts Awards is a BAFTA and Academy accredited competition. The winners of the Best MIFF short, best ction, best animation categories will be eligible to submit their lm for the 2011 Academy Awards.
Attach Boat to Motor Australia 15 mins The events of a day in the country lead a young man to follow his own path.
D/S Nathan Lewis P Colin John Elphick L no dialogue TD digibeta/2010
Collision Australia 14 mins Memory and mortality collide as a man reects on a former relationship during a brief moment in time before a life-changing event.
D Nick Matthews P David Ngo S David Ngo, Nick Matthews WS Projector Films TD HD Cam/2011
The Palace Australia 15 mins During the 1974 Cyprus invasion, a Turkish platoon searches an abandoned palace where a Greek family have taken refugee.
D/S Anthony Maras P Anthony Maras, Kate Croser, Andros Achilleos WS AntHouse Films L Turkish, Greek w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
A Fine Young Man Canada 13 mins Its the Cold War and they need good and patriotic men like Pete. Someone honest, upstanding and true. Someone they can put their faith in.
D/S Kevan Funk P Onno Blase, Wesley Salter, Paul McGillion, Benjamin Loeb, Kevan Funk TD HD Cam/2009
The Father Australia 16 mins Recently out of prison, Walter discovers that redemption may come at a terrible price. Starring John Brumpton (The Loved Ones, MIFF 2009).
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Nullarbor Australia 11 mins Road rage, nicotine withdrawal and generational conict feature in this animated journey along Australias longest and straightest stretch of desert road.
D/S Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell P Daryl Munton, Katrina Mathers, Merrin Jensen, Patrick Sarell WS The Lampshade Collective TD HD Cam/2011
D/S David Easteal P Polly Staniford, Frank Bruzzese TD HD Cam/2011
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At the Formal Australia 8 mins Slow motion and an extended long take are used to make the ritualised dynamics of a high school formal increasingly sinister and disturbing.
D/S Andrew Kavanagh P Ramona Telecican WS VCA School of Film & Television L no dialogue TD HD Cam/2010
Tait Brady A consultant to independent producers, distributors and lm agencies and a lecturer on industry matters at AFTRS. Former Feature Film Evaluation Manager at the FFC, General Manager of Palace Films and MIFF Director (1988 1996). Robert Connolly The writer-director of the feature lms The Bank (2001), Three Dollars (2005) and Balibo (MIFF 2009). He also coproduced the award-winning lms The Boys (1998) and Romulus, My Father (2007). Julie Ebbinghaus Head of marketing and of Australian operations for MUBI, a global cinema platform for online lm discussion and viewing.
Toy Soldier Australia 15 mins Tensions and resentments come to the surface as two old friends who served in the army together catch up after a long absence.
D/S Jeremy Bliss P Jeremy Bliss, Robin Robles, Gal Greenspan, Roi Kurland, Colette Crespin L English, French w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Go the Dogs New Zealand 15 mins A 12-year-old autistic girl and Western Bulldogs fan crosses paths with a runaway teenage boy and a kind policewoman while nding her way home.
D/SJackie van Beek P Aaron Watson, Jackie van Beek WS NZ Film Commission TD 35mm/2011
If I Dance Will It Keep Me Warm? Australia 12 mins The life of a cake shop worker might seem dull and routine, but her imagination turns the world into a strange and dangerous place.
D/S Daniel Koerner P Virginia Kay WS Plot Media TD digibeta/2011
Shorts Competition Eligibility All lms completed after January 11, 2010, less than 30 minutes long (including credits), not available in their entirety for download or viewing online, having their Victorian Premiere at MIFF, including DVD release, theatrically exhibited (excluding graduation and cast and crew screenings) and broadcasted on Australian television (cable or free-to-air) are eligible for competition.
Ebony Society New Zealand 13 mins Two young thieves unexpectedly discover their Christmas spirit and re-evaluate their lives during a break-in, in the directorial debut by Outrageous Fortune actor Tammy Davis.
D/S Tammy Davis P Ainsley Gardiner, Chelsea Winstanley WS NZ Film Commission TD 35mm/2011
Meathead New Zealand 11 mins A 17-year-old gets a job at the local meat works, and nds the biggest challenge of his rst day will be getting out in one peice. In competition at Cannes 2011.
D Sam Holst P Desray Armstrong, Chelsea Winstanley WS NZ Film Commission TD 35mm/2010
Best MIFF Shorts screening

A repeat screening of the best shorts of the Festival, as chosen by the MIFF Shorts Awards Jury. Sun 7 Aug 4pm GU 3127
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International Shorts
Australian Shorts
Love Birds
Scenes From the Suburbs
Las Palmas
Its Him Terry Lim!
Kaleidoscope
91 mins A diverse assortment of shorts from around the globe. The Strange Ones France/USA Little Brother UK Love Birds Czech Republic Cross-Country France/Ukraine Tremblay en France France The Cable Cars Argentina Casus Belli Greece Thu 28 July 6.30pm ACMI 6053 The Strange Ones France/USA 15 mins A tense and unsettling mystery about a man and a boy who end up at a motel staed by a young woman but nothing is as it seems.
D/S Christopher Radcli, Lauren Wolkstein P Sbastien Aubert TD digibeta/2011
O Canada!
84 mins A sundry selection of short lms from our distant Canadian cousins. It Is Nothing Canada How to Rid Your Lover of Negative Emotion Cause by You Canada Green Crayons Canada Sophie Lavoie Canada Cold Blood Canada Scenes from the Suburbs Canada/USA Sat 30 July 11am GU 3065 It Is Nothing Canada 15 mins Michael lives with his daughter Marie. Today, their monotonous life takes a dramatic turn. In competition at Cannes 2011.
D/S Nicolas Roy P Menac Raoul, Gabrielle Tougas-Frchette WS Travelling Distribution L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Mists
92 mins Eerie, uncanny and downright creepy, this is a selection of shorts for those looking for something a little stranger. Ghost South Korea All Flowers in Time Canada In Sweden Las Palmas Sweden The Unliving Sweden Fri 29 July 9pm GU 3061 Ghost South Korea 10 mins A starving fugitive, on the run from the police, is confronted with his crimes by his own subconscious.
D/S Dahci Ma P Jay Jeong WS Premium Films L Korean w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Australian Shorts
94 mins A healthy crop of homegrown shorts, featuring all lmmakers as guests of the Festival. Peekaboo Australia Air Australia/USA Mooncake and Crab Australia Its Him Terry Lim! Australia The Missing Key Australia Sat 30 July 4pm GU 2067 Peekaboo Australia 10 mins A mother fears the worst when her daughter goes missing after playing with a strange man. Starring Justine Clarke (Tangle, Look Both Ways).
D/S Damien Power P Joe Weatherstone WS Hypergiant Films TD digibeta/2011
All Flowers in Time Canada 13 mins Tarnation director Jonathan Caouette delivers an eerie and surreal fusion of video art, suburban gothic and monster movie. Featuring Chlo Sevigny.
D/S Jonathan Caouette P Tarnation Films/Phi Films WS Danny Lennon TD digibeta/2010
Little Brother UK 7 mins A teenager uses his hearing impairment to escape his reality and the responsibility of looking after his wheelchair-bound brother. Callum Cooper is a guest of the Festival.
D/P Callum Cooper S Callum Cooper in collaboration with the Oni family L English, sign language w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
How to Rid Your Lover of Negative Emotion Caused by You Canada 15 mins This could be a perfect love story as long as no one bleeds to death.
D Nadia Litz P Daniel Bekerman, Heather K Dahlstrom S Ryan Cavan WS Canadian Film Centre TD 35mm/2010
Air Australia/USA 21 mins A traveller and a strange young boy meet on a Texas road. A lm by Candy author Luke Davies, starring Andrew Gareld (The Social Network).
D/S Luke Davies P Sara Cline TD betacam sp/2010
In Sweden 28 mins A search for a dropped toy uncovers a mysterious tunnel in this uncanny debut lm from award winning music video and commercial director Adam Berg.
D Adam Berg P Magdalena Jangard, Kristina Wibom S Jens Jonsson WSSwedish Film Institute L Swedish w/English TD 35mm/2011
Mooncake and Crab Australia 20 mins Chinese-born Crystal prepares a traditional meal of mooncake and crab for her new Anglo-Australian family, while secretly mourning the departure of her lover. By director Heng Tang (The Last Chip, MIFF 2006).
D Heng Tang P Lauren Edwards S Isabelle Li L English, Mandarin w/ English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Love Birds Czech Republic 7 mins The mating and nesting rituals of birds as performed by naked adults. A comedic and sinister challenge to the way we perceive our feathered friends.
D/S Brian Lye P Tomas Hruby, Yana Rits, David Havas, FAMU WS Ouat Media L Czech w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2010
Green Crayons Canada 10 mins Boys will be boys, as the saying goes. At least until the teacher arrives. From Accelerator alumni Kazik Radwanski.
D/S Kazik Radwanski P Daniel Montgomery WS Medium Density Fibreboard Films TD 35mm/2010
Cross-Country France/Ukraine 15 mins First a boy is forced to run. Then he runs on his own. Then he watches someone else run. Winner of the Palme dOr for Best Short at Cannes 2011.
D/S Maryna Vroda P Les 3 Lignes, Maryna Vroda WS Les 3 Lignes L Russian w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Sophie Lavoie Canada 9 mins A young woman, interviewed by her doctor, gradually exposes her past and a vulnerable emotional core.
D/P/S Anne mond WS Vidographe Distribution L French w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2009
Las Palmas Sweden 13 mins A resort populated and staed by marionettes endures one very disruptive baby, in this new lm from MIFF regular Johannes Nyholm.
D/P/S Johannes Nyholm WS Swedish Film Institute L no dialogue TD 35mm/2011
Its Him Terry Lim! Australia 14 mins Industrial chemist. Martial artist. Film extra. Father. Teacher. Poet. Pensioner. Warrior. One man. One life. Its him Terry Lim!
D Angus Sampson P Jo de Fina TD HD Cam/2011
Cold Blood Canada 5 mins A mother brings her reluctant son to the hospital for an ambiguous procedure.
D/P/S Martin Thibaudeau L French w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
The Unliving Sweden 28 mins A violent and darkly funny thriller set thirty years after a zombie epidemic, where the undead are being tamed and used as cheap labour.
D/S Hugo Lilja P Bonnie Skoog Feeney WS Swedish Film Institute L Swedish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
The Missing Key Australia 29 mins Venice in the 1920s is re-created as a world populated by people with gramophones for heads, in this animation by award-winning Jonathan Nix.
D/S Jonathan Nix P Garth Nix, Anna McFarlane, Jonathan Nix WS Cartwheel Partners TD digibeta/2011
Tremblay en France France 22 mins A stubborn Scotsman with limited French sets o on a mission in Paris. Stars Jamie Sives from Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (MIFF 2003) and televisions Game of Thrones.
D Vincent Vizioz P Marie Darel S Vincent Vizioz, Marianne Tardieu WS 4A4 Productions L English, French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Scenes from the Suburbs Canada/USA 30 mins The highly anticipated lm from Spike Jonze, co-written with members of indie band Arcade Fire, is a coming-ofage story set against a dystopian backdrop.
D Spike Jonze P Vincent Landay S Spike Jonze, Will Butler, Win Butler TD HD Cam/2011
The Cable Cars Argentina 14 mins A droll comedy and understated drama about a lonely young real estate agent discovering perfect balance while attempting to repair his grandfathers car.
D/S Federico Actis P Maria Elia Rodrguez L Spanish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Casus Belli Greece 11 mins A continuous tracking shot reveals the dynamics of people waiting in seven dierent types of queues, providing a wry commentary on social divisions.
D/S Yorgos Zois P Maria Drandaki WS Pan Entertainment SA L no dialogue TD 35mm/2010
Mooncake and Crab
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Susya
Trypps #7 (badlands)
Slave Ship
Documentary Shorts
97 mins These documentary lms may be short on running time, but they still tackle the big issues. Leonids Story Russia A Tall Man Finland No One Is Illegal Malaysia/Netherlands Less and Less France Susya Israel/Palestine Thu 28 July 9pm ACMI 6054 Leonids Story Russia 19 mins The tragedy of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, as told by a family who were directly aected, is rendered both real and surreal through animation.
D/S Rainer Ludwigs P Tetyana Chernyavska L Russian w/English subtitles TD HD Cam/2011
Experimental Shorts 1
81 mins A mind-bending, lyrical and surreal program of experimental shorts. Trypps #7 (badlands) USA Pastourelle USA Tasmanian Splintering Australia Slow Action UK Fri 29 July 4pm ACMI 6059 Trypps #7 (badlands) USA 10 mins A young womans psychedelic experience in Badlands National Park forms the basis of Ben Russells (MIFF 2008, 2010) exploration of cinema and transcendence.
D/P Ben Russell L no dialogue TD HD CAM/2010
Experimental Shorts 2
86 mins A experimental program of abstract journeys through time, space and the everyday. Slave Ship USA Another Occupation USA Carpet Burn Australia Disquiet New Zealand Endeavour Austria Tokyo - Ebisu Japan These Blazing Starrs! USA Stardust Belgium Sun 31 July 1.30pm ACMI 6075 Slave Ship USA 6 mins JMW Turners provocative 1840 painting The Slave Ship is re-imagined in this abstrac pixel painting-lm.
D/P T. Marie TD HD Cam/2010
A Tall Man Finland 19 mins Famous for being 2 metres tall, Vin Myllyrinne toured the world. Now represented as a life-sized puppet, his fame and travels continue.
D/S Jani Peltonen P Sami Jahnukainen WS Mouka Filmi L Finnish, Italian w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2010
Pastourelle USA 16 mins Silent, mesmerising and beautiful, this short was inspired by the pastourelle lyric form, which originated with the troubadour poets of the 12th century.
D/P Nathaniel Dorsky WS Canyon Cinema L no dialogue TD 16mm/2010
Another Occupation USA 14 mins Underground lmmaker Ken Jacobs (Capitalism: Slavery, MIFF 2008) explores colonialism and industrialisation via an imagined train journey through a militarised Southeast Asian country.
D/P Ken Jacobs TD digibeta/2011
Tasmanian Splintering Australia 15 mins MIFF regular Richard Tuohy continues his exploration of textures found in the Australian bush through a series of overlapping images of tree branches. Richard Tuohy is a guest of the Festival.
D/P/S Richard Tuohy L no dialogue TD 16mm/2010
No One Is Illegal Malaysia/Netherlands 30 mins Ho Yuhang sets out to interview a group of Indonesians who want to invade his home country of Malaysia.
D Ho Yuhang P Mandy Marahimin, Lorna Tee S Prima Rusdi, Ho Yuhang L Indonesian w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2011
Carpet Burn Australia 3 mins David Short (Kitchen Horror, 2010) nds horror the everyday. This time carpet bres generate a nightmarish experience. David Short is a guest of the Festival.
D/P David Short L no dialogue TD digibeta/2011
Less and Less France 14 mins A droll lamentation about the automation of modern life, by French New Wave lmmaker Luc Moullet. A follow-up to his 1994 short More and More.
D Luc Moullet P Les Films dIci WS Le Fresnoy L French w/English subtitles TD digibeta/2010
Slow Action UK 40 mins A combination of documentary, ethnographic study, travelogue and science ction, Slow Action is a study of an imagined post-apocalyptic society. By Ben Rivers (MIFF 2008).
D Ben Rivers WS LUX TD HD Cam/2011
Disquiet New Zealand 8 mins The passage of an anonymous gure through a remote and desolate geographical environment becomes a metaphysical journey through landscapes of the mind. S.J. Ramir is a guest of the Festival.
D/P/S S.J. Ramir WS Light Cone L no dialogue TD digibeta/2011
Susya Israel/Palestine 15 mins A Palestinian man and his son visit their village for the rst time since they were forced to leave twenty-ve years ago for an archaeological dig.
D/P Dani Rosenberg, Yoav Gross L Arabic, Hebrew w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2011
Endeavour Austria 16 mins A rhythmic sound and image montage of a space shuttle launch, giving the audience the sensation of ight. New lm from MIFF regular Johann Lurf .
D/P/S Johann Lurf WS SixPackFilm L No dialogue TD digibeta/2010
Tokyo-Ebisu Japan 5 mins In-camera visual eects create a series of composite images to represent the view from ten platforms along the busy Yamanote train line in Japan.
D/P Tomonari Nishikawa L no dialogue TD 16mm/2010
...These Blazeing Starrs! USA 14 mins Sketches and illustrations of comet sightings throughout the ages are presented alongside NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory footage.
D/P Deborah Stratman WS Pythagoras Films TD 16mm/2011
Meathead
Stardust Belgium 20 mins

Cross Country
Tourists and celebrities are unknowingly part of a Las Vegas crime thriller by Nicholas Provost (Long Live The New Flesh, MIFF 2010 Best Experimental Short Film).
D/P/S Nicolas Provost WS Argos Centre for Art & Media TD 35mm/2010
Shorts
Animation Shorts
90 mins A selection of innovative shorts, animated with techniques ranging from stop-motion to clay painting. Plug, the New World Japan Kubla Khan USA The Mechanism of Spring Japan Winter Poem UK Aww Jeez Australia Self Service UK Seven Days in the Woods Sweden Specky Four Eyes France Heavy Heads Denmark Miss Remarkable & Her Career Sweden Sat 30 July 6.30 GU 3068 Plug, the New World Japan 13 mins A futuristic utopian world populated with creatures made out of electrical plugs. By Tsuneo Goda, the creator of the popular Domo mascot for Japanese television.
D/S Tsuneo Goda P Noriko Matsumoto WS Dwarf Inc L no dialogue TD digibeta/2010
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The Mechanism of Spring Japan 4 mins A comedic and surreal portrait of human and animal behaviour in the springtime. By In A Pigs Eye (MIFF 2010) animator Atsushi Wada.
D/P/S Atsushi Wada L no dialogue TD digibeta/2010
Specky Four Eyes France 9 mins It turns out Arnaud needs glasses though he prefers instead to live in the fantastical world created by his nearsightedness.
D/S Jean-Claude Rozec P Mathieu Courtois, Jean-Claude Rozec WS Vivement Lundi! L French w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Winter Poem UK 7 mins A mischievous spirit torments a soldier lost in the woods, in this visual poem lled with mythology, folklore and magic.
D/S Rok Predin P Richard Barnett WS Trunk Animation L no dialogue TD digibeta/2011
Heavy Heads Denmark 8 mins A minimalist black comedy about a woman whose only respite from her loneliness and despair is eliciting sexual favours from a housey.
D/S Helena Frank P Elisabeth Victoria Poulsen WS The National Film School of Denmark L Danish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Heavy Heads
Aww Jeez Australia 6 mins A stop-motion animated sitcom about a slacker named Jesus, his father God and his babysitter Satan, a recovering alcoholic. Special cameo by Richard Dawkins. Michael Greaney is a guest of the Festival.
D/P/S Michael Greaney TD digibeta/2010
Miss Remarkable & Her Career Sweden 30 mins A humorous animated lm about inner demons, crushing parental expectations and a career meltdown. Its tough to be a modern woman.
D/S Joanna Rubin Dranger P Lisbet Gabrielsson, Jeremy Purcell, Michael Lennon, Vibeke Vogel, Elise Lund Larsen WS Swedish Film Institute L Swedish w/English subtitles TD 35mm/2010
Self Service UK 3 mins Everyday household items ash before our eyes in extreme close-up, with increasing intensity to create the sensation of a panic attack in a supermarket.
D/S Silas Money P Animation Sta, Royal College of Art WS Future Shorts TD digibeta/2010
Aww Jeez
Kubla Khan USA 4 mins Academy Award winning animator Joan C. Gratz (Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase) brings Samuel Taylor Coleridges famous poem to life with her distinctive clay painting technique.
D/P Joan C. Gratz WS Gratz Film TD digibeta/2011
Seven Days in the Woods Sweden 6 mins The forest is a strange, dark and frightening place. Is this what a stop-motion lm by Lars von Trier would look like?
D/P/S Peter Larsson WS Swedish Film Institute L no dialogue TD 35mm/2010
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Page Last Lost Manufraktur MICHAEL Nachtstck (Mozart Minute 09) One Outer Space Parallel Space: Inter-View PETER TSCHERKASSKY PROGRAM ONE PETER TSCHERKASSKY PROGRAM TWO Ruby Skin Self-Examination Remote Control Shot-Countershot tabula rasa Urlaubslm (Holiday Film) 9 9 21 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 BI, DONT BE AFRAID BLACK VENUS CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS CLASS RELATIONS Cross-Country DETROIT WILD CITY FAIRY, THE FLEURS DU MAL GIANTS, THE HAVRE, LE IT MAY BE THAT BEAUTY HAS STRENGTHENED OUR RESOLVE MASAO ADACHI JEONJU DIGITAL PROJECT 2011 KID WITH A BIKE, THE Less and Less LITTLE TAILOR, THE LIVING ON LOVE ALONE MELANCHOLIA MICHEL PETRUCCIANI NEDS ON THE SLY OUTSIDE SATAN PLAY POLISSE ROUTE IRISH SCREEN ILLUSION, THE SILENCE OF JOAN, THE SLEEPING SICKNESS Specky Four Eyes Strange Ones, The TALES OF THE NIGHT THINK GLOBAL ACT RURAL TOMBOY TOP FLOOR LEFT WING Toy Soldier Tremblay en France VIVA RIVA! The Disarray of Our Youth 26 13 38 48 57 43 8 28 12 13 KNUCKLE Miss Remarkable & Her Career 37 59
Albania
FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD, THE 18
Serbia
TILVA ROS 16
Argentina
Cable Cars, The MEDIANERAS 57 28
Israel
FOOTNOTE INTIMATE GRAMMAR MATCHMAKER, THE Susya Toy Soldier 14 14 51 58 56
Singapore
TATSUMI 25
Armenia
ARTAVAZD PELECHIAN PROGRAM HERE OUR CENTURY Seasons We 19 19 19 19 19
Slovakia
MATCHMAKING MAYOR 20
Italy
FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD, THE KID WITH A BIKE, THE LA DOLCE VITA MICHEL PETRUCCIANI NEDS ROUTE IRISH SALT OF LIFE, THE SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS, THE 18 19 9 45 17 17 14 20
Slovenia
SILENT SONATA 21
Australia
33 POSTCARDS Air American, The At The Formal Attach Boat to Motor AUTOLUMINESCENT: ROWLAND S. HOWARD Aww Jeez BEN LEE: CATCH MY DISEASE Carpet Burn City Speaks, The CLAY Cleaners, The Collision CURSE OF THE GOTHIC SYMPHONY, THE DEVILS PLAYGROUND, THE Eli the Invincible EYE OF THE STORM, THE FACE TO FACE FALLING FOR SAHARA Father, The First Interview, The Flinders Street GREY MATTER HUNGRY TIDE, THE I AM ELEVEN IM NOT DEAD YET If I Dance Will It Keep Me Warm? It's Him... Terry Lim! Late Winter to Early Spring Life in Australia: Melbourne LIFE IN MOVEMENT Loop Melbourne Concert Hall, The Melbourne Wedding Belle Missing Key, The Mooncake and Crab NINETY-NINE PERCENT Nullarbor ON BORROWED TIME Palace, The Peekaboo PERSECUTION BLUES: THE BATTLE FOR THE TOTE Planning For Melbournes Future RED DOG SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE SLAP, THE SPAG, THE Sunday in Melbourne SWERVE Tasmanian Splintering The Stranger TOOMELAH Toy Soldier TRIANGLE WARS, THE We Were Here X Your House and Mine 22 57 43 56 56 44 59 44 58 43 43 43 56 22 48 56 22 22 50 56 38 43 19 23 22 45 56 57 43 43 23 43 43 43 57 57 43 56 22 56 57 44 43 22 22 47 43 43 22 58 56 23 56 42 28 23 43
Belgium
BULLHEAD FAIRY, THE GIANTS, THE KID WITH A BIKE, THE ON THE SLY ROUTE IRISH Stardust Swimsuit 46 VIVA RIVA! 27 8 12 19 51 17 58 21 27
Bosnia Herzegovina
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA 27
Brazil
ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN 27
Canada
All Flowers in Time CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS Cold Blood CURLING FAMILIAR GROUND Fine Young Man, A Green Crayons HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN How to Rid Your Lover of a Negative Emotion Caused by You! It is Nothing Love Birds Scenes from the Suburbs Sophie Lavoie YOU ARE HERE 57 38 57 19 19 56 57 54 57 57 57 57 57 18
39 38 19 58 17 12 13 45 17 51 13 16 27 17 47 12 20 59 57 50 38 13 20 56 57 27 56
South Africa
AFRICA UNITED BEAUTY 50 16
South Korea
BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE DAY HE ARRIVES, THE END OF ANIMAL Ghost JEONJU DIGITAL PROJECT 2011 JOURNALS OF MUSAN, THE OKIS MOVIE UNJUST, THE YELLOW SEA, THE 49 25 25 57 38 25 25 25 25
Japan
13 ASSASSINS AUTUMN AFTERNOON, AN COLD FISH GUILTY OF ROMANCE HANEZU JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI Mechanism of Spring, The NORWEGIAN WOOD OUTRAGE Plug, the New World Tokyo-Ebisu TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY 24 48 25 25 24 39 59 24 24 59 58 14 54
Spain
FINISTERRAE JEONJU DIGITAL PROJECT 2011 MEDIANERAS ROUTE IRISH 20 38 28 17
Sweden
BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975, THE In Las Palmas MELANCHOLIA MILL AND THE CROSS, THE Miss Remarkable & Her Career PLAY PRESSPAUSEPLAY Seven Days in the Woods SHE MONKEYS Unliving, The 44 57 57 13 16 59 16 28 59 21 57
Luxembourg
GIANTS, THE TOP FLOOR LEFT WING 12 20
Malaysia
No One is Illegal 58
Germany
AT ELLENS AGE BI, DONT BE AFRAID CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS DREILEBEN BEATS BEING DEAD DREILEBEN DONT FOLLOW ME AROUND DREILEBEN ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS FUTURE, THE HAVRE, LE INNOCENT SATURDAY JEAN GENTIL KHODORKOVSKY Leonids Story MEDIANERAS MELANCHOLIA MICHEL PETRUCCIANI RUHR SLEEPING SICKNESS THREE WINTERS DAUGHTER 13 26 38 47 47 47 39 19 13 16 13 38 58 28 13 45 42 20 13 51
Mexico
JEAN GENTIL VELADOR, EL 13 38
Netherlands
No One is Illegal POSITION AMONG THE STARS Random Strangers SLEEPING SICKNESS 58 39 28 20
Switzerland
DAY IS DONE 21
Taiwan
FOURTH PORTRAIT, THE 25
Chile
OLD CATS POST MORTEM SURVIVING LIFE 12 12 13
New Zealand
Blue BROTHER NUMBER ONE Disquiet Ebony Society Go the Dogs Meathead MY WEDDING AND OTHER SECRETS OPERATION 8 19 39 58 56 56 56 50 39
Thailand
ETERNITY HI-SO 24 26
China
33 POSTCARDS I WISH I KNEW PIANO IN A FACTORY, THE UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE WINTER VACATION 22 42 24 50 24
Turkey
MAJORITY ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA 16 27
UK
AFRICA UNITED BENGALI DETECTIVE, THE Bunce CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS FIRE IN BABYLON GIVE UP TOMORROW JANE EYRE KILL LIST Little Brother NEDS PINK SARIS PROJECT NIM Random Strangers ROUTE IRISH Self Service SENNA Slow Action SUBMARINE THIRD MAN, THE THIS IS ENGLAND 86 TYRANNOSAUR Winter Poem 50 38 14 38 37 39 16 54 57 17 39 40 28 17 59 37 58 16 11 47 17 59
Czech Republic
Love Birds MATCHMAKING MAYOR 57 20
Norway
ESSENTIAL KILLING LIVERPOOL GOALIE, THE TEARS OF GAZA TROLL HUNTER 14 51 39 54
Greece
ATTENBERG Casus Belli WASTED YOUTH 20 57 13
Czechoslovakia
FRUIT OF PARADISE, THE 48
Palestine
Susya 58
Democratic Republic of Congo

VIVA RIVA! 27
Hong Kong
HAPPY TOGETHER 48
Poland
ESSENTIAL KILLING MILL AND THE CROSS, THE TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER WINTERS DAUGHTER 14 16 14 51
Denmark
ARMADILLO FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD, THE Heavy Heads INTO ETERNITY MELANCHOLIA Miss Remarkable & Her Career PLAY 39 18 59 42 13 59 16
Hungary
ESSENTIAL KILLING TURIN HORSE, THE 14 14
India
BENGALI DETECTIVE, THE PINK SARIS 38 39
Portugal
History of Mutual Respect, A MYSTERIES OF LISBON 39 47
Austria
Astor Place Behind This Soft Eclipse Coming Attractions Dream Work Endeavour Freeze Frame Future Will Not Be Capitalist, The Get Ready Happy-End Her Glacial Speed Instructions for Light and Sound Machine Kelimba LArrive 9 9 9 9 58 9 43 9 9 9 9 9 9
All Flowers in Time ANOTHER EARTH Another Occupation BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE, THE BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST BEGINNERS BEING ELMO BENGALI DETECTIVE, THE BETTER THAN SOMETHING JAY REATARD BIG SLEEP, THE BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD BOXING GYM BUCK CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS CIRCUMSTANCE CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER DRIVE EVE HELLER FILM PROGRAM EXPORTING RAYMOND FOREIGN PARTS FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD, THE FUTURE, THE GIVE UP TOMORROW HERE HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN HOLLYWOOD COMPLEX, THE HOW TO DIE IN OREGON INNKEEPERS, THE JESS + MOSS JOURNEY TO MECCA: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF IBN BATTUTA KING OF COMEDY, THE Kubla Khan LennoNYC LIFE 2.0 LIFE IN A DAY LITTLEROCK MAGIC TRIP: KEN KESEYS SEARCH FOR A KOOL PLACE MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE NATURAL SELECTION OLD CATS OUR IDIOT BROTHER PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES Pastourelle POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD POOL PARTY REDEMPTION OF GENERAL BUTT NAKED, THE RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES Scenes from the Suburbs SING YOUR SONG Slave Ship Strange Ones, The SUPER SWELL SEASON, THE TABLOID TAKE SHELTER TERRI These Blazeing Starrs! TINY FURNITURE TROUBADOURS Trypps #7 (Badlands) VELADOR, EL VIVA LAS VEGAS WIN WIN WOMAN, THE Zergt HOW TO DIE IN OREGON GUMMO
57 19 58 44 44 18 40 38 44 11 37 37 40 38 19 40 8 9 40 42 18 19 39 19 54 40 40 54 17 9 49 59 44 28 28 18 41 18 18 12 19 41 58 41 42 41 41 57 45 58 57 54 45 40 18 18 58 18 45 58 38 11 18 54 39 40 49
Indonesia
POSITION AMONG THE STARS TATSUMI 39 25
Romania
PRINCIPLES OF LIFE, THE TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS 21 14
Vietnam
BI, DONT BE AFRAID 26
Dominican Republic
JEAN GENTIL 13
Finland
HAVRE, LE SODANKYL FOREVER THE CENTURY OF CINEMA Tall Man, A 13 38 58
Iran
Accordion, The APPLE, THE CIRCUMSTANCE GOOD BYE SEPARATION, A 14 49 19 14 14
Russia
ELENA EXPORTING RAYMOND INNOCENT SATURDAY SILENT SOULS STOKER, A UGLY DUCKLING, THE 16 40 16 16 27 51
Ukraine
Cross-Country INNOCENT SATURDAY Leonids Story 57 16 58
West Germany
CLASS RELATIONS 48
Uruguay
USEFUL LIFE, A 17
France
BEAUTY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE 16 49
Ireland
ESSENTIAL KILLING GUARD, THE 14 14
Rwanda
GREY MATTER 19
USA
Air 57
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13 ASSASSINS 33 POSTCARDS Accordion, The AFRICA UNITED Air All Flowers in Time American, The ANIMATION SHORTS ANOTHER EARTH Another Occupation APPLE, THE ARMADILLO ARTAVAZD PELECHIAN SHORTS Astor Place AT ELLENS AGE At The Formal Attach Boat to Motor ATTENBERG AUSTRALIAN SHORTS AUTOLUMINESCENT: ROWLAND S. HOWARD AUTUMN AFTERNOON, AN Aww Jeez BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE, THE BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST BEAUTY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST BEGINNERS Behind This Soft Eclipse BEING ELMO BEN LEE: CATCH MY DISEASE BENGALI DETECTIVE, THE BEST MIFF SHORTS BETTER THAN SOMETHING JAY REATARD BI, DONT BE AFRAID BIG SLEEP, THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975, THE BLACK VENUS Blue BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD BOXING GYM BROTHER NUMBER ONE BUCK BULLHEAD Bunce Cable Cars, The Carpet Burn Casus Belli CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS CIRCUMSTANCE City Speaks, The CLASS RELATIONS CLAY Cleaners, The CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER Cold Blood COLD FISH Collision Coming Attractions Cross-Country CURLING CURSE OF THE GOTHIC SYMPHONY, THE DAY HE ARRIVES, THE DAY IS DONE DETROIT WILD CITY DEVILS PLAYGROUND, THE Disquiet DOCUMENTARY SHORTS Dream Work DREILEBEN BEATS BEING DEAD DREILEBEN DONT FOLLOW ME AROUND DREILEBEN ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS DRIVE Ebony Society EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS ELENA Eli the Invincible ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN EL VELADOR, EL END OF ANIMAL Endeavour ESSENTIAL KILLING ETERNITY EVE HELLER FILM PROGRAM EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS 1 EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS 2 24, 26 25 23, 31 30, 3 30 29 22 30 7 31 29 23, 25 22 28 3, 5 30 30 5, 7 30 30, 7 26 30 27, 1, 5 6 30, 5 3, 7 23, 28 29, 31 28 3, 4 5, 7 24, 5 7 30, 6 27, 5 28 26, 29 25, 4 4 26, 5 23, 1 29, 6 24, 1 30, 3 23, 27 28 31 28 23, 6 2, 3 5 23 7 22 22, 24, 4 30 22, 28 31 29 28 26, 29 24, 27, 5 3, 5 30, 5 25, 31 25 31 28 27 24, 27 24, 30 24, 31 6 30 24, 1 5 31 29, 3 23, 30 25, 31 31 3, 6 5, 6 28 29 31
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24 22 14 50 57 57 43 59 19 58 49 39 19 9 13 56 56 20 57 44 48 59 44 49 44 16 49 18 9 40 44 38 56 44 26 11 44 13 19 37 37 39 40 27 14 57 58 57 38 19 43 48 43 43 40 57 25 56 9 57 19 22 25 21 43 48 58 58 9 47 47 47 8 56 39 16 56 27 38 25 58 14 24 9 58 58 EXPORTING RAYMOND EYE OF THE STORM, THE FACE TO FACE FAIRY, THE FALLING FOR SAHARA FAMILIAR GROUND Father, The Fine Young Man, A FINISTERRAE FIRE IN BABYLON First Interview, The FLEURS DU MAL Flinders Street FOOTNOTE FOREIGN PARTS FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD, THE FOURTH PORTRAIT, THE Freeze Frame FRUIT OF PARADISE FULLDOME SHOWCASE: SEE YOUR MUSIC FULLDOME SHOWCASE: THE LIGHT KINETIC FULLDOME SHOWCASE: THE NATURAL WORLD Future Will Not Be Capitalist, The FUTURE, THE Get Ready Ghost GIANTS, THE GIVE UP TOMORROW Go the Dogs GOOD BYE Green Crayons GREY MATTER GUARD, THE GUILTY OF ROMANCE GUMMO HANEZU HAPPY TOGETHER Happy-End Heavy Heads Her Glacial Speed HERE HI-SO History of Mutual Respect, A HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN HOLLYWOOD COMPLEX, THE HOW TO DIE IN OREGON How to Rid Your Lover of a Negative Emotion Caused by You! HUNGRY TIDE, THE I AM ELEVEN I WISH I KNEW IM NOT DEAD YET If I Dance Will It Keep Me Warm? In INNKEEPERS, THE INNOCENT SATURDAY Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine INTERNATIONAL SHORTS MISFITS INTERNATIONAL SHORTS KALEIDOSCOPE INTERNATIONAL SHORTS O CANADA! INTIMATE GRAMMAR INTO ETERNITY It is Nothing IT MAY BE THAT BEAUTY HAS STRENGTHENED OUR RESOLVE MASAO ADACHI It's Him... Terry Lim! JANE EYRE JEAN GENTIL JEONJU DIGITAL PROJECT 2011 JESS + MOSS JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI JOURNALS OF MUSAN JOURNEY TO MECCA: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF IBN BATTUTA Kelimba KHODORKOVSKY KID WITH A BIKE, THE KILL LIST KING OF COMEDY, THE KNUCKLE Kubla Khan LArrive LA DOLCE VITA Las Palmas Last Lost Late Winter to Early Spring LE HAVRE LENNONYC
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24, 7 23 22, 26 21 29, 2, 4 4, 7 30 31 23, 29 31, 6 24, 30 24, 28 5 22, 4 25, 7 25, 30 31, 3 27 24 6 6 5 25, 31 27, 1 29 29 29 26, 30 30 23, 31 30 4 23, 27 30, 4 31 30, 6 24 27 30 28 3, 6 28, 30 29, 31 22, 31 23, 6 27, 1 30 1, 7 23, 2 22, 27 31 31 29 23, 25 4, 6 29 29 28 30 24, 31 27, 6 30 29, 31 30 24, 29 23, 28 7 22, 28 30, 7 27, 6 27, 31 27 28, 1 28, 30 23, 29, 5 22, 26 22, 25 30 27 27 29 28 5 22, 4 25, 31
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40 23 22 8 50 19 56 56 20 37 38 28 43 14 42 18 25 9 48 9 9 9 43 19 9 57 12 39 56 14 57 19 14 25 49 24 48 9 59 9 19 26 39 54 40 40 57 23 22 42 45 56 57 54 16 9 57 57 57 14 42 57 29 57 16 13 38 17 39 25 9 9 38 19 54 49 37 59 9 9 57 9 43 13 44 Leonids Story Less and Less LIFE 2.0 LIFE IN A DAY Life in Australia: Melbourne LIFE IN MOVEMENT Little Brother Little Tailor, The LITTLEROCK LIVERPOOL GOALIE, THE LIVING ON LOVE ALONE Loop Love Birds MAGIC TRIP: KEN KESEYS SEARCH FOR A KOOL PLACE MAJORITY Manufraktur MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE MATCHMAKER, THE MATCHMAKING MAYOR Meathead Mechanism of Spring, The MEDIANERAS MELANCHOLIA Melbourne Concert Hall, The Melbourne Wedding Belle MICHAEL MICHEL PETRUCCIANI MIFF SHORTS AWARDS MILL AND THE CROSS, THE Miss Remarkable & Her Career Missing Key, The Mooncake and Crab MY WEDDING AND OTHER SECRETS MYSTERIES OF LISBON Nachtstck (Mozart Minute 09) NATURAL SELECTION NEDS NINETY-NINE PERCENT No One is Illegal NORWEGIAN WOOD Nullarbor OKIS MOVIE OLD CATS ON BORROWED TIME ON THE SLY ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA One OPERATION 8 Our Century OUR IDIOT BROTHER Outer Space OUTRAGE OUTSIDE SATAN PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES Palace, The Parallel Space: Inter-View Pastourelle Peekaboo PERSECUTION BLUES: THE BATTLE FOR THE TOTE PETER TSCHERKASSKY PROGRAM ONE PETER TSCHERKASSKY PROGRAM TWO PIANO IN A FACTORY, THE PINK SARIS Planning For Melbournes Future PLAY Plug, the New World POLISSE POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD POOL PARTY POSITION AMONG THE STARS POST MORTEM PRESSPAUSEPLAY PRINCIPLES OF LIFE PROJECT NIM Random Strangers RED DOG REDEMPTION OF GENERAL BUTT NAKED, THE RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES ROUTE IRISH Ruby Skin RUHR SALT OF LIFE, THE Scenes from the Suburbs SCREEN ILLUSION, THE
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28 28 23, 29 24, 4 22 31, 7 28 3, 6 26, 31 30, 6 23, 28 5 28 23, 26 28, 31 29 24, 31 27, 4 29, 31 31 30 26 22, 5 22 22 26, 1 22, 2 31 4, 6 30 30 30 23, 5 26, 6 27 25, 2 1, 5 6 28 24, 26 31 28, 1 23, 1 6 29, 7 3, 6 28 23, 27 22 2 27 29, 1 24, 3 31, 6 30 29 29 30 28 27 29 23, 26 22, 25 5 30, 1 30 23, 1 30, 2 22, 30 31, 5 25, 28 24, 1 27, 1 27, 31 26 30 28, 2 25, 2 26, 29 28 30 23, 2 30 23, 7
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58 58 28 28 43 23 57 17 18 51 12 43 57 41 16 9 18 51 20 56 59 28 13 43 43 21 45 56 16 59 57 57 50 47 9 18 17 43 58 24 56 25 12 22 51 27 9 39 19 19 9 24 13 41 56 9 58 57 44 9 9 24 39 43 16 59 27 41 42 39 12 28 21 40 28 22 41 41 17 9 42 14 57 47 Seasons Self Service Self-Examination Remote Control SENNA SEPARATION, A Seven Days in the Woods SHE MONKEYS Shot-Countershot SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! AN AUDIO MISADVENTURE SILENCE OF JOAN, THE SILENT SONATA SILENT SOULS SING YOUR SONG SLAP, THE Slave Ship SLEEPING SICKNESS Slow Action SODANKYL FOREVER THE CENTURY OF CINEMA SOLITUDE OF PRIME NUMBERS, THE Sophie Lavoie SPAG, THE Specky Four Eyes Stardust STOKER, A Strange Ones, The Stranger, The SUBMARINE Sunday in Melbourne SUPER SURVIVING LIFE Susya SWELL SEASON, THE SWERVE Swimsuit 46 TABLOID tabula rasa TAKE SHELTER TALES OF THE NIGHT Tall Man, A Tasmanian Splintering TATSUMI TEARS OF GAZA TERRI These Blazeing Starrs! THINK GLOBAL, ACT RURAL THIRD MAN, THE THIS IS ENGLAND 86 THREE TILVA ROSH TINY FURNITURE Tokyo - Ebisu TOMBOY TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER TOOMELAH TOP FLOOR LEFT WING Toy Soldier Tremblay en France TRIANGLE WARS, THE TROLL HUNTER TROUBADOURS Trypps #7 (badlands) TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS TURIN HORSE, THE TYRANNOSAUR UGLY DUCKLING, THE UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE UNJUST, THE Unliving, The Urlaubslm (Holiday Film) USEFUL LIFE, A VIVA LAS VEGAS VIVA RIVA! WASTED YOUTH We We Were Here WIN WIN Winter Poem WINTER VACATION WINTERS DAUGHTER WOMAN, THE X YELLOW SEA, THE YOU ARE HERE Your House and Mine ZEBRAMAN 2: ATTACK ON ZEBRA CITY Zergt
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22 30 28 22, 30 24, 31 30 30, 2 27 29, 3 22, 25 30, 3 24, 4 24, 31 4 31 5, 7 29 24, 30 24, 28 30 6 30 31 26, 5 28 30 23, 28 22 29, 4 24, 31 28 2 25, 2, 5 2 27, 30 27 23, 6 31, 6 28 29 31, 2 22, 29 27, 31 31 24, 5 27 23, 4 22, 6 24, 1 28, 5 31 23, 27 23, 1 30, 31 25, 29 31 28 27, 4 3, 6 23, 26 29 24, 2 31, 3 30, 40 28, 5 29, 2 25, 2 29 29 3, 6 26 26, 4 2, 6 22 24 25, 30 30 22, 2 28, 3 30, 5 4 23, 2 24, 1 5 22, 3 24, 1
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Credits
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Board of Directors
Claire Dobbin (Chair) Andrew Myer (Deputy Chair) David Vodicka (Secretary) Rob Bazzani (Treasurer) Kim McGrath Joel Pearlman Greg Sitch Paul Wiegard
Publications
Wordplay Copywriting Publications Manager Senior Writers Rani Kellock Luke Ryan Stephen Scoglio Emma Westwood Additional Writers Thomas Caldwell Lee Zachariah Brett Woodward Patrick OShea Brita Frost Miriam Sved Proof Readers General Manager Jenny Sabine Maria Amato Graphic Designer Website Film Notes Coordinator Hannah Robertson Paul Bugeja Gerard McMahon Nick Meadows Maggie Scott
Technical
ACMI Cinema Technical Manager ACMI Projectionists Andre Bernard Tim McGrath Philip Grace Alana Schults Dale Putting Greater Union Projection Supervisor Greater Union Projectionists Darren Brown Eliza Beck Zac Chatterton Walter Hernandes Kate Eccarius Carl Liou Daniel Knight Scott Welsh Kino Projectionist Forum Projectionists John Koutsoumis
Database Management Distribution Guide & Web Content Festival Image & Trailer Credits Clemenger BBDO Melbourne
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Production Company: The Sweet Shop Director: Steve Ayson Oine Editor: The Butchery Online Editor: The Renery Colourist: MRPPP Music/Sound design: Cornel Wilczek, Biddy Conner, Byron Scullin Electric Dreams Chameleon Casting Cast: Ferdinand Hoang, Zohar Hoang Jacek Koman, Tomek Koman, Georey Rush Sponsorship Credit Reel Phil Comey Mark Walker Darkroom & Dreamscapes Curator Kristy Matherson (ACMI) XYZ Studios/Crayon
Festival Patron
Georey Rush
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Artistic Director Michelle Carey Chief Financial Ocer
Programming
Programmer Program Coordinator Shorts and Next Gen Coordinator Al Cossar Jess Langley Chlo Brugal
MIFF Premiere Fund, 37South Market & Accelerator

Director/Executive Producer Industry Chief Coordinator Mark Woods Gina Sakic Catriona Mitchell Selena Tan Matthew Atkins
Premium Members
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Short Film Panellists

ANIMATION Jim Knox, Kat Mew, Simon Norton, Neil Salmon DOCUMENTARY Kim Anning, Christina Heristanidis, Tim OFarrell, Rachel Wilson EXPERIMENTAL Asha Holmes Louise Heseltine Katie Rose-Price FICTION Matt Atkins, Beatrix Coles, Andrea Distefano, Ken Knight, Irina Goundortseva, John Lycette, Nick Moore, Eloise Ross, Stephen Scoglio, Polly Staniford, Selena Tan Adrian Danks, Sue K, Clare Needham
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Introduction & Contents

The Hon Ted Baillieu MLA Premier of Victoria

The Hon Robert Doyle Lord Mayor City of Melbourne

The Hon Louise Asher MP

Night Shift Shorts

Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business

Country Index Film Index Credits

Geoffrey Rush MIFF Patron

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Television Production Video Game and Interactive Media Development

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Ticket and Pass Information

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Opening & Closing Night

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Special Screenings & Events

IMAX Feature Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battutah (PG)

Planetarium Fulldome Showcase

Sat 6 Aug 7pm Planetarium 9720

Blog-a-thon: 60 Films in 17 Days

La Dolce Vita (M)

Giorgio Mangiamele Celebrating the Man and his Films

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Australias National Screen Arts and Broadcast School

Mike Mills: in Conversation

Khoa Do: in Conversation

Morgan Spurlock: in Conversation

Fred Schepisi: In the Eye of the Storm

The Slap: Story & Screen

In the Realm of the Censors

Alex Gibney: Directing Documentary Masterclass

Mary Stephen: Editing Masterclass

Lisa Gerrard: Composing Masterclass

Sun 24 July, 12pm 1pm

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Talking Pictures Express

Sound to Screen: Australian Music in Film