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Friday 1 to Sunday 17 March
BORDERLINES
FILM FESTIVAL
2019 borderlinesfilmfestival.org
@borderlines
#borderlines2019
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FILM PROGRAMMER JONNY COURTNEY PUTS
A DOZEN FILMS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
BIRDS OF PASSAGE p19 BORDER p20 BURNING p21 CAPERNAUM p22
Wealth and power corrupt indigenous traditions A contemporary Swedish folk tale that fuses A chance encounter entangles a wannabe Impoverished 12-year-old Zain sets out to sue
during the 1970s Colombian marijuana boom. comedy, fantasy, romance, thrills and horror. young writer in a cat and mouse triangle in this his parents in this emotionally explosive drama
intriguing, obsessive thriller from South Korea. from Lebanese director Nadine Labaki.
COLETTE p25 EIGHTH GRADE p27 EVERYBODY KNOWS p29 THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER p43
Keira Knightley is the unconventional French “the best movie about adolescence Destructive suspicions are unleashed when Maggie Gyllenhaal is terrific as a woman whose
novelist who stands up to be recognised in I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe ever” Laura (Penélope Cruz) returns to Spain from decision to nurture a young pupil’s genius sets
male-dominated Belle Époque Paris. ’80s teen star Molly Ringwald via Twitter Argentina for her sister’s wedding. her on a perilous course.
THE LOST HONOUR OF KATHARINA BLUM p44 MONSTERS & MEN p46 RAY & LIZ p54 SHOPLIFTERS p57
A biting commentary on how easily individual An African-American is wrongfully shot by Shocking, gritty and unsettlingly funny, what Festival favourite Kore-eda won the 2018
freedom can be compromised, as relevant today police. Three bystanders must decide how far it was like to grow up in a Black Country flat Palme D’Or in Cannes for this delicate and
as in 1975. to get involved. during Thatcher’s Britain. compassionate insight into family.
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Borderlines is built on partnerships with A-Z FILM LISTINGS 13
our venues; The Courtyard Hereford,
FUNDERS
Malvern Theatres, Flicks in the Sticks, DIARY 72
Richard Booth’s Bookshop Cinema in Hay, VENUE INFO 78
Kinokulture in Oswestry and independent
market town and village venues. None of it
would be possible without the support of
venue staff, volunteers and our funders, HOW TO BOOK
PARTNERS
the BFI awarding funds from the National In person
Lottery, The Elmley Foundation and
The Courtyard Hereford
Richard Booth’s Hereford City Council. We warmly thank
Bookshop Cinema
www.boothbooks.co.uk our new and returning sponsors and ask Call
you to support them where you can. 01432 340555
online
Don’t miss our Opening Gala and borderlinesfilmfestival.org
screenings at All Saints Church,
Or call individual
Hereford too!
venues (see p.78)
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Naomi Vera-Sanso
Festival Director Tickets booked via The Central Box Office at The
Courtyard can be collected before the screening
at the appropriate venue.
All listings correct at time of going to print, but may
be subject to change.
Festival Team: BOARD MEMBERS: FESTIVAL PATRONS:
Please note that some titles had not been certificated
Naomi Vera-Sanso (Festival Director) John Banks, Mo Burns, Chris Menges, Francine Stock
at time of going to press. Discretionary certificates
Jonny Courtney (Film Programmer) Anne Cottringer, Rick Goldsmith,
David Sin (Film Programmer) Richard Heatly (Chair), A big thank you to the volunteer have been put in place.
Jo Comino (Marketing Manager/Press) Joanna Henshaw, Jane Jackson, promoters and stewards working
Alison Chapman (Press Assistant) Rachel Lambert, Paul Murray, with our partner venues for their
Carole-Anna Quinto Marsha O’Mahony, Adrian Rhead, invaluable contribution.
(Festival Co-ordinator) Simon Scott
Suzy Burston (Festival Assistant) Design: elfen.co.uk
Cover: Burning
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OUR STRANDS
VON
TROTTA
ROEG
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Walkabout
THE PERSONAL
Eighth Grade
NICOLAS ROEG The More You Ignore Me IS POLITICAL:
GROWING UP
One of Britain’s greatest and most provocative
BREAKING THE TABOO MARGARETHE
directors, Nicolas Roeg (1928-2018) died in late
November. With no taste for narrative-driven Featured in this year’s festival is a small strand
VON TROTTA
Across the world, film directors are exploring the
realism, Roeg was often disregarded within of films, two documentaries and a feature, that
challenges and joys that face children and young The first female director to win the Golden
the film industry and this short retrospective investigate areas in mental health that are
people, navigating their lives in a rapidly changing Lion at Venice Film Festival, Margarethe von
is a tribute to his dazzling vision. We are frequently off-limits or hard-to-face: suicide,
time as they come of age. From the profound Trotta (1942-) has made trailblazing films
privileged that Eureka will be introduced by death, irreconcilable grief, irrational and anti-
Cannes Jury prize winner Capernaum charting the over the past five decades. Often overlooked,
the film’s esteemed editor Tony Lawson. social behaviour that can characterise psychosis.
life of an impoverished Beirut boy to the Kenyan she is one of the most gifted directors from
Rafiki, a lesbian love story largely banned in its Eureka tells the story of Jack McCann, a gold the New German Cinema movement, alongside
Evelyn was diagnosed schizophrenic before
home country, and Dominga Sotomayor Castillo’s prospector who finds the mother lode only to RW Fassbinder and Werner Herzog.
he took his own life. Ten years after his
1990s inspired tale of growing up in a Chilean realise that in the process he has lost something death, his family use walking and talking as A leading feminist filmmaker, the power of mass
commune, Too Late to Die Young, the Growing of himself. As the character says, “Once I a way of coming to terms with their grief. media, historical events, radicalisation and
Up strand presents a fine and diverse selection, had it all, now I just have everything.”
women’s rights pre-#MeToo have been elements in
unafraid to tackle the complexities of life for Irene’s Ghost follows a son’s search to
I met the director Nic Roeg in 1973 while working von Trotta’s films since the politically turbulent
children and young people in today’s world. find out more about the mother he never
as an assistant editor on Don’t Look Now. Up 1970s. Her wonderfully complex and outspoken
knew and the secrecy surrounding her
Beautiful Boy until that time, my experience had been of female characters are precursors of those in
death following post-partum psychosis.
Capernaum films following a fairly conventional structure. the work of contemporary directors like Jane
Eighth Grade He changed all that. Gone was the deference to The More You Ignore Me tackles post-partum Campion, Andrea Arnold and Desiree Akhavan.
Girl rigid storytelling: all ideas were now welcome. psychosis in a very different way, through
Jellyfish We are showing four films that represent von
He built his story from fragments, pieces of a story based on a novel by comedian and
Mid90s Trotta’s exceptional talent in portraying how
a puzzle that challenged and questioned the ex-psychiatric nurse Jo Brand. We are
The Miseducation of Cameron Post the personal is political. Selina Robertson,
viewer’s perceptions, creating a sensory experience delighted to welcome Jo back to Borderlines
Old Boys feminist film programmer, writer and
with sound and image. Nic encouraged the to introduce the screening on Wednesday 13
Polina researcher at Club de Femmes and ICO, will
audience to see beyond surface meaning. March and answer questions afterwards.
Pond Life introduce the screening of Rosa Luxemburg.
Rafiki Tony Lawson
The Third Wife The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
Performance (1970) 35mm print
Too Late to Die Young The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978)
Walkabout (1971)
Walkabout The German Sisters (1981)
Eureka (1983) 35mm print
The White Crow Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
The Witches (1990)
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Girl Everybody Knows Jo Brand / Paul Conroy
BALLET OPENING GALA FESTIVAL GUESTS
Two films about young dancers coping with the Our Opening Gala offers an exclusive Our line-up of guests this year includes
rigours of the ballet world (Girl and Polina) opportunity to preview Borderlines’ favourite comedian and author Jo Brand (The More
are complemented by The White Crow, Ralph Asghar Farhadi’s Everybody Knows, starring You Ignore Me); directors Carol Morley (Out
Fiennes’ dramatisation of the early career of Spain’s most formidable acting talent, of Blue), Richard Billingham (Ray & Liz),
Birds of Passage Rudolf Nureyev, and Yuli, a new biopic about Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem. Join us Iain Cunningham (Irene’s Ghost), Hikaru
F-RATING: Cuban ballet super-star Carlos Acosta. Plus for a reception prior to the screening as we Toda (Of Love & Law, via Skype), James
CHAMPIONING for children, the classic story of Tortoise
& the Hare, one of the Northern Bite-Size
get the Festival off to a flying start. Gardner (Jellyfish); war photographer Paul
Conroy (A Private War); editor Tony Lawson
WOMEN IN FILM Ballets, designed specially for the cinema. Friday 1 March The Courtyard Hereford 7.30pm (Nicolas Roeg, Eureka); film programmer
Gala reception in the Mezzanine 7.00pm Selina Robertson (Margaret von Trotta, Rosa
While gender imbalance within the film industry Ticket price £10.00 Luxemburg); silent film pianists Meg Morley
persists, Borderlines will continue to use the
(Oliver Twist), Lillian Henley and critics Pamela
F-Rated badge that highlights films directed
Hutchinson and Tara Judah (Silent Women
or written by women. The 2019 programme
Film Pioneers). Details in A-Z films and Diary.
features the output of many prominent female
writer-directors, notably Nadine Labaki
(Caramel) whose emotionally explosive
Capernaum won the Jury Award at this year’s
Cannes Film Festival, and Carol Morley (The
Falling) who will introduce her new offbeat
noir thriller Out of Blue at the Festival. FAMILY FILMS SUPPER AND FILM AT
The F-Rating scheme, adopted by an increasing
number of cinemas and film festivals, is
Saturday mornings bring treats for families and ALL SAINTS CHURCH
children to The Courtyard from the brand new
designed to support and promote women and The Kid Who Would Be King to Nicolas Roeg’s Enjoy a pre-screening one course supper
redress the imbalance in the film industry. adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic The Witches. featuring the best Herefordshire produce at Bill
Sewell’s renowned All Saints Café in Hereford,
The F-Rating is awarded to films
Saturday 2 March 11am with full bar and delicious deserts available.
1. directed by a woman
Tortoise & the Hare
2. and/or written by a woman Supper (meat and vegetarian options) £12.00
(simultaneously screening at Malvern Theatres)
Saturday 9 March 11am and public bar 6.30pm, Film £6.00 7.30pm
If the film also features significant
women on screen it is TRIPLE F-Rated The Kid Who Would Be King
Friday 15 March I Confess
Saturday 16 March 11am
Look out for the F-Rating stamp Saturday 16 March
The Witches
in the A-Z film listings Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy
Part of Courtyard Family Saturdays with
a free pre-activity from 10.30am
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Previews PREVIEW PROGRAMMER JONNY COURTNEY
ROUNDS UP THE 2019 FESTIVAL
Be the first to discover forthcoming cinematic gems by Third Wife, Too Late to Die Young, Styx and many
coming to see some of the 29 titles we’re screening prior more led by women and girls in complex and
to their UK release. Our thanks to the distributors of dynamic roles. Whilst it is taking time for true
these films and to our programmers at the Independent equality of representation to occur behind the
Cinema Office for making this possible. 3 FACES camera, these films suggest that writers and
directors are waking up to the wide variety of
women’s stories that urgently need to be told.
‘Growing Up’ is a key theme at this year’s
Festival, and we’ve included an eclectic selection
ÁGA ASH IS PUREST WHITE BEING FRANK BEL CANTO
of films – Capernaum, Beautiful Boy, Polina,
Jellyfish, Benjamin and Mid90s to name a
We are privileged to be opening this few – depicting the challenges faced by young
year’s Festival with a Gala screening of people all over the world, whether universal
Everybody Knows, the latest film from or specific. There is some crossover here with
BIRDS OF PASSAGE EIGHTH GRADE EVERYBODY KNOWS GIRL
another important strand, ‘Breaking the Taboo’,
Asghar Farhadi (two-time Academy
exploring the portrayal of mental health on
Award winner for Best Foreign screen via titles such as the beautiful, moving
Language Film for A Separation and documentaries Evelyn and Irene’s Ghost.
The Salesman). Starring Penelope
GIRLS OF THE SUN HAPPY AS LAZZARO IN FABRIC IRENE’S GHOST Cruz and Javier Bardem, it is another Looking back, we highlight the work of
overwhelmingly powerful drama from Margarethe von Trotta, one of the most gifted –
this most sophisticated of storytellers. but often overlooked – directors to come from the
New German Cinema movement at the same time
Once more, we have a fantastic array of world as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog.
THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER Maria By Callas MID90S OUT OF BLUE cinema titles in the programme, including those We also pay tribute to Nicolas Roeg, one of the
made by courageous filmmakers battling the most influential and original British directors,
forces of repression. With 3 Faces, Jafar Panahi has with screenings of four of his films, including a
again found a way to create and bring his work rare chance to see two, Eureka and Performance,
to audiences, despite being banned from making on 35mm. Eureka will be introduced by film editor
POND LIFE RAFIKI RAY AND LIZ STYX films in Iran. Wanuri Kahui-directed ground- Tony Lawson, Roeg’s collaborator for 20 years.
breaking romance Rafiki is a love story between
two young women in Nairobi, despite the illegality As always, it’s the appetite of the Borderlines
of homosexuality in Kenya. Both films played to audience for great cinema, both past
great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, and new, that makes it such an exciting
and we are delighted to be giving a platform to festival to programme, and we hope you
THE THIRD WIFE THUNDER ROAD TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG TRANSIT
these important voices here at Borderlines too. find much to enjoy. See you there!
Over 30% of the films in this year’s programme Jonny Courtney
meet the F-Rated standard, and we are also Senior Film Programmer
showcasing a great many female-fronted films: Independent Cinema Office
THE WHITE CROW WILD ROSE WOMAN AT WAR YULI
with Out of Blue, Ash is Purest White, Wild Rose,
Girls of the Sun, Eighth Grade, In Fabric, The
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SPONSORSHIP PREVIEW
Borderlines Film Festival would like to offer heartfelt
thanks to all our Sponsors: individuals and local
businesses (listed throughout the programme) for
their wonderful contributions and support.
We would especially like to take the opportunity on this page to give thanks to our
small but essential band of Co-Sponsors, who form the backbone of our funding:
PREMIUM PLUS SPONSOR
CO-SPONSORS
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3 FACES (12A)
Director: Jafar Panahi
But in order to maintain our edge as the Sponsorship is critical to Borderlines’ success, Starring: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei
foremost rural film festival in the country, so please come and join our distinguished Iran, 2018, 1 hour 40 minutes
we need more of you! list above and raise your company or Monday 11 March 7.45pm The Courtyard Hereford
organisation’s profile with our fantastic – and
growing – audience across four counties! Seven years into house arrest and a filmmaking ban imposed by “by shifting his focus away
the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi follows up Taxi Tehran with from his own lack of freedom and
a drama that flirts with documentary. Popular actor Behnaz Jafari onto that of a whole underclass
(playing herself) receives a frantic video call from a young provincial of Iranian womanhood, Panahi
girl whose conservative parents are blocking her from attending has made what feels like his
drama school in Tehran. Abandoning her shoot, and with her director freest film since the ban was
(Panahi) in tow, Jafari heads to the rural northwest on a quest to imposed” Jessica Kiang, Variety
find her. On this most enigmatic of road-trips, the pair’s encounters
with locals, gently but often bitingly humorous, reveal a land riven Joint Best Screenplay,
with ancient and debilitating customs, superstitions and beliefs. Cannes Film Festival 2018
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ÁGA (PG)
Director: Milko Lazarov
Starring: Mikhail Aprosimov,
Feodosia Ivanova, Sergei Egorov
Bulgaria/Germany/France, 2018,
1 hour 36 minutes
Sunday 3 March 2.45pm
The Courtyard Hereford
THE AFTERMATH (15) Living in a yurt in the frozen
Director: James Kent
Starring: Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke
UK/ US/Germany, 2019, 1 hour 49 minutes
expanses of Siberia, an elderly
Yakut couple, Sedna and ALL IS TRUE (12A)
Nanook, seem to be the last Director: Kenneth Branagh
people living the traditional Starring: Judy Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Ian McKellen
Friday 8 March 2.00pm, Saturday 9 2.00pm, Sunday 10 8.00pm UK, 2018, 1 hour 41 minutes
Monday 11 2.00pm, Tuesday 12 5.00pm, Wednesday 13 8.00pm way. As they observe the
Thursday 14 2.00pm Malvern Theatres flight of the ravens and the Friday 1 March 5.00pm, Saturday 2 2.00pm, Sunday 3 2.00pm, Monday 4 2.00pm,
occasional ghostly reindeer, Tuesday 5 8.00pm, Wednesday 6 5.00pm, Thursday 7 2.00pm* Malvern Theatres
This adaptation of the novel by Welsh writer Rhidian Brook Friday 8 March 11.15am, Saturday 9 11.15am, Sunday 10 5.15pm, Monday 11 12.00pm*,
both signs that climate change
is set in 1946 postwar Germany. Rachael Morgan (Knightley) Tuesday 12 8.00pm, Wednesday 13 11.00am, Thursday 14 2.00pm The Courtyard Hereford
arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be is making their difficult lives
reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged even more precarious, their Kenneth Branagh’s latest film, a passion project about a neglected “It dodges the pitfalls of
with rebuilding the shattered city. As they set off for their biggest sorrow is that their period in the final years of William Shakespeare, comes with luvviedom and period camp to
requisitioned home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis daughter Ága has left to work an original screenplay by Ben Elton. In 1613 Shakespeare is produce a fiercely intelligent and
has made an unexpected decision: they will be sharing the in the diamond mine. Best seen acknowledged as the greatest writer of his age. But when his poignant drama about family,
grand house with its previous owners, a German widower on the big screen to appreciate renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground, devastated, grief and the tyranny of genius”
(Skarsgård) and his troubled daughter. In this charged the majestic cinematography Shakespeare returns to Stratford where he must face a troubled Kevin Maher, The Times
atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal. of a dying way of life, this past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only
moving tale is full of memorable * subtitled screenings
son Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationships
images, with moments of great with his wife and daughters. His very personal search for the
beauty, charm and dry humour. truth uncovers secrets and lies within a family at war.
Preview courtesy of Beta Cinema
In partnership with
Wales One Film Festival The screening on Sunday The screening on Tuesday
10 is sponsored by 12 is sponsored by
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ASH IS PUREST WHITE (15) BEAUTIFUL BOY (15)
Director: Zhangke Jia Director: Felix Van Groeningen
Starring: Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Yi’nan Diao Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Steve Carell, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan
China/France/Japan, 2018, 2 hours 17 minutes US, 2018, 2 hours
Tuesday 5 March 5.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Monday 4 March 5.30pm, Tuesday 5 8.00pm, Wednesday 6 11.30am*
Thursday 7 5.15pm The Courtyard Hereford
Against the background of the Jianghu criminal underworld, “From the always surprising, Friday 8 March, Saturday 9 & Monday 11 7.30pm Oswestry kinokulture
Sunday 10 March 7.15pm, Monday 11 3.00pm, Tuesday 12 4.30pm, Wednesday 13 3.00pm,
sharp-witted Qiao (a breathtaking performance by Zhao) is fiercely habitually envelope-pushing Thursday 14 7.15pm Malvern Theatres
in love with mobster Bin. During a fight between rival gangs, she film-maker Jia Zhang-ke…
fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets 5 years in prison for this It feels like a gripping parable Steve Carell is David Sheff, a successful journalist and proud father. “a triumph of performance
act of loyalty. On her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up for the vanity of human wishes, A relaxed, affectionate and communicative dad, he is not alarmed and emotional nuance.”
where they left off. This is a tremendous, sprawling story of love, and another impassioned portrait when teenage son Nic, played by Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Hanna Woodhead,
betrayal and dedication, a time capsule for early 21st century China, of national malaise.” Name), begins experimenting with marijuana, less so when this leads Little White Lies
from the director of A Touch of Sin and Mountains May Depart. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian to a consuming addiction to crystal meth. As Nic transforms from
his father’s ‘beautiful boy’ into an unhappy and chaotic addict, their * subtitled screening
Preview courtesy of
New Wave Films relationship is challenged to its core. Adapted from two separate
memoirs by David and Nic Sheff, the dual viewpoint enriches our
sense of the film’s authenticity while Carell and Chalamet generate
painful vulnerability and an entirely believable father-son chemistry.
The screening on Tuesday
5 is sponsored by
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BEING FRANK: BENJAMIN (15)
THE CHRIS SIEVEY Director: Simon Amstell
STORY (15) Starring: Colin Morgan, Anna Chancellor,
Phénix Brossard, Jessica Raines
subtitles UK, 2018, 1 hour 25 minutes
Director: Steve Sullivan
UK, 2018, 1 hour 40 minutes
BEL CANTO (15) Friday 15 March 2.30pm,
subtitles
Wednesday 6 March 7.30pm Director: Paul Weitz
Saturday 16 1.15pm,
Hay, Booth’s Bookshop Cinema Sunday 17 5.30pm
Sunday 10 March 5.45pm
Starring: Julianne Moore, Christopher Lambert, Ken Watanabe, Sebastian Koch
US, 2018, 1 hour 40 minutes The Courtyard Hereford
BIRDS OF PASSAGE (15)
The Courtyard Hereford Directors: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra
Sunday 10 March 5.00pm Hay, Booth’s Bookshop Cinema It is no coincidence that Starring: Natalia Reyes, Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta
Manchester’s Chris Sievey was Thursday 14 March 7.45pm The Courtyard Hereford Colombia/Denmark/Mexico, 2018, 2 hours 5 minutes
Benjamin (Colin Morgan), the
Sunday 17 March 8.00pm Malvern Theatres
a songwriter, artist, comedian protagonist of comedian and TV Sunday 10 March 5.00pm Malvern Theatres
and wayward genius. In 1984, presenter Simon Amstell’s sequel Thursday 14 March 8.00pm The Courtyard Hereford
In this adaptation of Ann Patchett’s best-selling novel, Julianne
after more than a decade of to Carnage, is a rising star
Moore plays famous American diva Roxane Coss who travels
trying to make it in the record director, about to premiere his From the team behind Embrace of the Serpent comes a Mafia story,
to South America to give a private concert at the birthday
business, he turned his life not unlike the thread of The Sopranos, but with a crucial difference
party of rich Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa. As problematic second film No Self
into a fantastic, subversive in context. In the late 1960s, the Wayúu tribe of northern Colombia
the great and good convene at the Vice-President’s mansion, at the BFI London Film Festival.
piece of performance art: a observe a strict code of ancestral tradition and sacred ritual.
they are surrounded by a band of guerrillas, demanding the His insecurities are compounded
fake-headed and phenomenally Outsider Rapayet wants to marry Zaida, the daughter of the clan’s
release of their imprisoned comrades. Over a month-long siege, when Billie, his hard drinking
popular pop-star alter ego. formidable matriarch, Ursula. Unable to afford the extravagant
Steve Sullivan’s inventive hostages and captors must overcome their differences and find publicist, introduces him
to dreamy French musician dowry set by Ursula (50 goats, 20 cows and numerous necklaces),
documentary debut investigates shared humanity in the face of impending disaster, and it is
Noah, and romance beckons Rapayet upgrades from selling coffee to dealing marijuana to
the life of the mystery man music that provides the key towards hope and resilience.
if Benjamin doesn’t screw it American hippies to cover the cost. With this new criminal outlet,
beneath the papier-mâché head
Preview courtesy of Vertigo Releasing up – he can’t ‘not talk’. Firmly Ursula gets involved and, over the course of the ensuing decade,
of cult British comedy figure
rooted within the angst-ridden the once humble tribe builds a ruthless empire in the desert. It’s a
Frank Sidebottom and shows
London creative world, Amstell sprawling, spiritual exploration of family conflict and tribal warfare,
how the truth is often arguably
stranger – and definitely succeeds in drawing out a laced with heady and vivid symbolism and surrealist flashes.
more twisted – than fiction. touching, bittersweet comedy
“A visually stunning and often surprising true
from autobiographical material.
Preview courtesy of story... practically erupts with colour”
Altitude Film Distribution
Jessica Raines who appears in
Peter Debruge, Variety
the film is from Herefordshire.
The screening on Thursday is sponsored by Preview courtesy of Curzon Artificial Eye20 / 21 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2019 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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BLACK ’47 (15)
Director: Lance Daly
Starring: Hugo Weaving, Barry Keoghan,
James Frecheville, Stephen Rea,
Jim Broadbent subtitles
Ireland/Luxembourg, 2018,
1 hour 40 minutes BORDER (15)
Saturday 9 March 7.00pm Director: Ali Abbasi
Starring: Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Viktor Åkerblom
Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall Sweden, 2018, 1 hour 50 minutes
Sunday 17 March 7.30pm subtitles
Leominster Playhouse Cinema
BURNING (15)
Friday 15 March 5.30pm, Saturday 16 3.30pm,
Sunday 17 2.30pm The Courtyard Hereford
1847, and Ireland is in the
grip of the Great Famine. Irish Unlike anything you will have seen before, this audacious Director: Lee Chang-dong
Starring: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo
Ranger Feeney deserts from the Scandinavian fantasy is based on a novel by the writer of Let South Korea, 2018, 2 hours 28 minutes
British Army and returns to the the Right One In. Tina (played by a prosthetics-adorned Eva
West of Ireland to reunite with Friday 1 March 7.00pm, Sunday 3 5.00pm, Monday 4 7.45pm The Courtyard Hereford
Melander) is a Swedish customs officer with a nose for trouble.
his family. Shocked at how his Tuesday 5 March 4.30pm, Wednesday 6 7.45pm, Thursday 7 4.30pm Malvern Theatres
When equally striking Vore comes through customs, hiding Wednesday 13 March & Thursday 14 7.30pm Oswestry kinokulture
country and people have been something Tina is unable to identify, the two are drawn to one
brutalised by both famine and Lee Chang-dong’s follow-up to Poetry is a sublime mystery thriller FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes
another, with earth-shattering consequences. Borders – gender,
the British, he embarks on a Film Festival 2018
identity, beauty, sexuality – are certainly probed in this daring of obsessive love, adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story
revenge mission against the
contemporary folk tale with a moral core. Designed to provoke Barn Burning. An isolated young man, Jong-soo has a menial job
landlords and their minions. The screening on Sunday 3
viewers with the push-pull of desire and disgust, it is funny, in Seoul and dreams of becoming a writer, when he is accosted will be followed by an informal
Shot on location in Connemara,
thrilling, and perplexing and will glue your eyes to the big screen. by Hae-mi, who claims to remember him from their shared village discussion in the auditorium
and with a fine cast, this is one
of the few films to dramatise childhood. They begin a relationship, but when she returns from a
Winner, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2018 trip accompanied by the wealthy, urbane Ben, Jong-soo is puzzled
events during the Irish struggle
for independence, a hard-hitting and confused. Chang-dong fleshes out Murakami’s slender short
‘Celtic’ Western on an epic scale. story to create a mysterious world of immense power that this epic,
slow-burning film hooks us into, alongside its main character.
The screening on Friday The screening on Sunday The screening on Monday
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CAPERNAUM (15) CAROUSEL (U)
Director: Nadine Labaki
Starring: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shireraw, Kawthar Al Haddad
A Herefordshire Life Through a Lens film
Lebanon/US, 2018, 2 hours 1 minute
UK, 2019, 1 hour 30 minutes
Friday 8 March 5.00pm, Saturday 9 2.00pm, Sunday 10 12.00pm, Monday 11 5.00pm,
Monday 11 March 7.30pm, Tuesday 12 12.00pm The Courtyard Hereford
Tuesday 12 11.30am, Wednesday 13 11.30am, Thursday 14 2.30pm The Courtyard Hereford
Wednesday 13 March 7.15pm, Thursday 14 5.00pm Malvern Theatres
Friday 15 March 5.00pm, Saturday 16 2.00pm, Sunday 17 5.00pm Malvern Theatres
Following Stories from the Hop Yards and Chewing the Cud, “Derek was clearly passionate
Writer-director Nadine Labaki (Caramel) returns with this stunningly “a film that already feels
this new Catcher Media film delves deep into the Derek Evans about Hereford and the
realised drama about the lives of children on the edges of society. like a landmark”
photographic archive from the 1950s-1970s to bring you the region. His image repertoire
Zain is a young boy living with his family in an impoverished Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
stories behind his photographs of the county, from the May is affectionate, humanist,
Beirut neighbourhood. Wise and street-smart beyond his years,
Jury Award, Cannes Film Festival Fair to Hereford United, from the Fownhope Heart of Oak Walk liberal and well crafted.”
Zain’s resentment towards his parents builds and, following a
2018 to jazz clubs, from childhood to politics, and much more. Dr Russell Roberts,
series of tragic events, he is compelled to sue them for bringing
University of South Wales
children into such a world. Visceral and true, with a breathtaking The screening on Sunday 9 The Herefordshire Life Through a Lens project explores the huge
debut by young actor Al Rafeea, this is a story that will not fail to will be followed by an informal collection of photographs (790 exhibition images and hundreds
move you and that offers hope in the face of apparent despair. discussion in the auditorium
of prints) and 200,000+ negatives of Herefordshire photographer
Derek Evans, digitising the archive and creating an oral history
from Herefordshire people about the memories they evoke.
The screening on Monday
is sponsored by
The screening on Sunday The screening on Monday
in Hereford is sponsored by is sponsored by
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COLD WAR (15) COLETTE (15)
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski Director: Wash Westmoreland
Starring: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kulesza Starring: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, Denise Gough
UK/Poland/France, 2018, 1 hour 28 minutes UK/US/Hungary, 2018, 1 hour 51 minutes
Friday 1 March 8.00pm Ledbury Market Theatre Friday 1 March 5.00pm, Saturday 2 11.30am*, Sunday 3 8.00pm, Monday 4 2.30pm, Tuesday 5 2.15pm,
Friday 1 March 8.00pm Presteigne Screen Wednesday 6 8.00pm, Thursday 7 2.30pm The Courtyard Hereford
Tuesday 5 March 7.30pm Garway Community Hall Friday 1 March & Saturday 2 7.30pm, Monday 4 1.30pm Oswestry kinokulture
Thursday 7 March 7.30pm Leominster Playhouse Cinema Monday 11 March 5.00pm, Wednesday 13 5.00pm Malvern Theatres
Saturday 9 March 7.30pm Brilley Village Hall
Friday 15 March 7.30pm Knighton Community Centre Keira Knightley gives a career-best performance in this exhilarating “Anchoring it all is Keira
biopic of ground-breaking French novelist Colette. Plunged from Knightley’s fiery performance as
It is against an oppressive Cold War backdrop that singer Zula and “It’s up to the audience to the country into the Paris demi-monde, Colette’s first novels the restless, joyful, exasperated
pianist Wiktor meet and fall obsessively in love. As they tour across fill in the episodic gaps in the are published under her Svengali-like husband’s name, and he and sometimes exasperating
Eastern Europe, it becomes increasingly pressing for them to find a narrative, and to divine the true basks in the misappropriated glory of her wildly popular stories. Colette.“ Helen O’ Hara,
way to slip though the Iron Curtain. With its vibrant black and white feelings that so often remain The complexities of their marriage are depicted with intelligence Empire Magazine
cinematography, the film is both evocative and searching, with unspoken. Appropriately, it left and subtlety, as are her relationships with women – including
subject-matter that personally resonates for director Pawlikowski me speechless.” * subtitled screening
cross-dressing noblewoman Mathilde, with whom Colette shared
(Ida). An exquisite and tumultuous love story that encapsulates Mark Kermode, The Observer Paris’ first documented same-sex kiss on stage. Whip-smart,
and reflects the upheavals of twentieth century Polish history. precocious and unapologetic, Colette is depicted as a talented
Best Director, Cannes Film
author, actor and journalist but also as a feminist trailblazer,
Festival 2018
fighting for the right to her voice in a male-dominated world.
The screening on Friday 1 The screening on Sunday 3 The screening on Wednesday 6
in Hereford is sponsored by in Hereford is sponsored by in Hereford is sponsored by26 / 27 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2019 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
PREVIEW
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DOGMAN (15)
Director: Matteo Garrone
Starring: Marcello Fonte,
Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano
Italy/France, 2018, 1 hour 43 minutes
Friday 1 March 7.30pm
Garway Community Hall
Thursday 7 March 7.30pm
Pudleston Village Hall
DESTROYER (15)
Marcello is an expert dog-
trainer and groomer in a run- EIGHTH GRADE (15)
down seaside town somewhere Director: Bo Burnham
Director: Karyn Kusama Starring: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, Daniel Zolghadri
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Toby Kebbell, Tatiana Maslany
on the outskirts of Rome.
US, 2018, 1 hour 33 minutes
US, 2018, 2 hours But the shady sideline which
supplements his income and Thursday 7 March 8.00pm The Courtyard Hereford
Saturday 2 March 8.00pm, Sunday 3 5.00pm Malvern Theatres
Friday 8 March 2.00pm, Saturday 9 8.30pm, Sunday 10 8.00pm
enables him to indulge his
The Courtyard Hereford daughter’s hobby leads him to Thirteen-year-old Kayla (played by the actress Elsie Fisher “[Burnham] understands that
dark and perilous situations with a spooky realism) endures the tidal wave of contemporary victories are small, changes are
Seventeen years previously, LAPD detective Erin Bell and her partner that call for drastic remedies. suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last slow and the future is uncertain
went undercover in the desert to infiltrate a notorious criminal gang, Unbearable tension and a week of middle school – the end of her thus far disastrous and his defiance of expectation
led by the terrifying Silas. Wrecked by the trauma of her experience, tugging pathos fuse in this eighth grade year before high school. Not so much humiliated leads to a far more satisfying
Erin is forced to confront her demons when signs indicate that Silas moral fable in which animals or bullied as simply invisible – her only award is for ‘Most experience….it’s a film that
has re-emerged. Forcing herself to delve back into the painful facts and humans are sometimes Quiet’ – any attempts to connect with her more confident peers should be a rite of passage for all,
of the investigation, she goes in search of the remaining members humorously, sometimes fall flat. The excruciating and elaborate detail of Kayla’s week no matter the age.”
of his posse, determined to track down Silas and finally close the tragically interchangeable, and, of hell, refracted in that twilight world of online vlogging and Benjamin Lee, The Guardian
case that almost destroyed her. With Nicole Kidman physically as you would expect from the social media-fuelled self-improvement, will resonate with anyone
Preview courtesy of
and emotionally transformed as the unlikeable, tough and grungy director of Gomorrah, violence who has been through the peculiar torment of adolescence. Sony Pictures
Erin, this is a downbeat detective story, sweltering with Californian bubbles to the surface.
heat and aridity, that is not afraid to put a woman at its centre.
Best Actor (Marcello Fonte),
“It’s undeniably fascinating to see a woman play the Palm Dog (canine cast),
kind of embittered, grizzled detective we’re used to seeing Cannes Film Festival 2018
a man take on...” Benjamin Lee, The Guardian28 / 29 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2019 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
ROEG PREVIEW
OPENING
GALA
EVELYN (12A)
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
UK, 2018, 1 hour 40 minutes
Wednesday 6 March 2.30pm
The Courtyard Hereford
Monday 11 March 7.15pm
Malvern Theatres
EUREKA (18) Oscar-winning documentary- subtitles
maker von Einsiedel (The White
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer
Helmets) turns his camera on EVERYBODY KNOWS (15)
UK/US, 1983, 2 hours 10 minutes his own family to come to terms
Director: Asghar Farhadi
with a devastating, buried loss. Starring: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín
Saturday 9 March 5.30pm Spain/France/Italy, 2018, 2 hours 12 minutes
When his brother, diagnosed
The Courtyard Hereford
as schizophrenic and suffering Friday 1 March 7.30pm The Courtyard Hereford
Jack McCann (Gene Hackman) is a Klondike gold prospector from intense depression, took
in the 1920s, driven by his avarice to the brink of death in his own life at 22, Orlando and For our Opening Gala, we are fortunate to be showing the latest film “…the performances themselves
the frozen wastes of the Arctic before he strikes lucky. Twenty his two siblings were unable from two-time Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language are so intelligent, mature and yet
years later, phenomenally rich, he is basking in the Caribbean, to talk about it. Over a decade Film Asghar Farhadi (A Separation and The Salesman) as a preview uninhibited. Farhadi’s storytelling
surrounded by squawking parrots, but utterly abject. His beloved later, they, their parents and screening. Laura (Penélope Cruz), a Spanish woman living in Buenos has overpowering force.”
daughter is infatuated with a scheming playboy but banishing close friends embark on walks Aires, returns with her two children to her hometown outside Madrid Peter Bradshaw,
him does not ease matters; the heartache that sucks at his soul previously enjoyed with Evelyn, to attend her sister’s wedding. However, when Laura’s teenage wild The Guardian
is elsewhere. Underrated on its release, at a time when Roeg to reflect on his life and death. child daughter Irene goes missing, old secrets and bitter grudges
An intensely moving and Preview courtesy of Universal
was rebuffed by the film industry, this is a dark, ambitious and emerge that turn the trip into a psychological nightmare. As you
magnificently intense tale of greed, obsession and paranoia. penetrating take on the impact would expect from Farhadi, there is a complex puzzle at the heart of
of suicide, it is also powerful the script involving past entanglements with local vineyard-owner
The film will be introduced by Roeg’s longstanding editor Tony Lawson testimony to the benefits of Paco (Javier Bardem). Supremely watchable, much of the pleasure
Screening on a 35mm print walking-talking as a safe space in following how this taut thriller unravels is to observe what it
for emotional communication. reveals about the motivation of the characters in their own lives.
Best Documentary, British
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FACES PLACES (12A)
Directors: Agnès Varda, JR
France, 2017, 1 hour 29 minutes
Tuesday 12 March 7.30pm
Bromyard Conquest Theatre
Maestro of French cinema
Agnès Varda (The Gleaners and FAHRENHEIT 11/9 (15)
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I, The Beaches of Agnès) joins Director: Michael Moore
forces with street artist and
FOXTROT (15)
Starring: Michael Moore, Donald J. Trump, David Hogg
US, 2018, 2 hours 8 minutes
self-styled photograffeur JR
in this magnificently moving Sunday 3 March 3.00pm Bromyard Conquest Theatre Director: Samuel Maoz
and funny Oscar-nominated Starring: Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray
Israel/France/Switzerland/Germany, 2017, 1 hour 53 minutes
documentary. Together, this odd Neatly taking its title from the date that Trump’s presidential
couple explores France, using election win was announced in 2016, Michael Moore’s new Friday 15 March 12.00pm, Saturday 16 5.45pm, Sunday 17 3.00pm
JR’s camera van (which spits documentary is a typically incisive dissection of contemporary US The Courtyard Hereford
out huge Polaroid-like posters) politics. Starting from his immediate reaction to Trump’s election
to create photographs of the – ‘How the **** did that happen?’ – Moore searches for answers Urgent, unflinching, at times heart-warming and witty, the follow- “A savage satire of Israeli military
people they meet – factory by taking a deeper look at the workings of political machinery; not up to Lebanon charts the story of a troubled Israeli family who grief and grind.”
least the voting system within the Democratic Party which prevented are forced to confront difficult truths. It is laid out in three acts, Sight & Sound
workers, farmers, waitresses
and dockworkers in locations Bernie Sanders from becoming the Party’s candidate. Combining a triptych of loss, waste and grief. The first act follows a pair of
parents who receive devastating news from army officials; the Grand Jury Prize, Venice
both rural and industrial – and populist politics with journalistic stunts, it’s an absurdly funny
second is set in a very remote desert checkpoint, where their son Film Festival 2017
honour them on a vast visual and unapologetically partisan investigation into serious matters.
scale. Varda’s first co-directed Jonathan ekes out his time with three other soldiers, dreaming
film is a triumph, a multimedia of their furlough. The third and last act lands us back in the city,
celebration of creativity and showing in detail how collective hurt and anger can be passed down
the quiet heroism of her fellow the bloodline. Both a fierce nightmare and an emotional knockout,
citizens’ everyday lives. its visionary boldness dares its audience not to look away.
“[Varda’s] past surges forth
into her films with a sense
of equilibrium, attachment,
and gratitude.”
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VON
TROTTA
FUTURE
FILMMAKERS (12)
A Celebration of
Breakthrough Talent
Film + discussion 1 hour 30 minutes
Wednesday 13 March 5.30pm
The Courtyard Hereford FREE
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Rural Media invites you to
FREE SOLO (12A) celebrate the remarkable
young filmmaking talent
THE GERMAN SISTERS (15)
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Starring: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler
US, 2018, 1 hour 40 minutes emerging locally and across West Germany, 1981, 1 hour 47 minutes
the Midlands. Join us as we
Friday 1 March 11.30am, Saturday 2 2.15pm, Sunday 3 12.00pm The Courtyard Hereford screen a selection of creative Sunday 17 March 12.00pm The Courtyard Hereford
Sunday 3 March 8.00pm, Tuesday 5 10.30am, Wednesday 6 2.00pm Malvern Theatres
short films including the
Justly considered one of the classics of the New German Cinema
premiere of Rural Media’s BFI
This heart-racing film is a portrait of climber Alex Honnold as “a visually staggering movement, this is based on the real-life story of the Enslein
Academy films and a collection
he prepares to achieve the unprecedented – climbing the face documentary” sisters. Two sisters take diverging paths to emancipation: Juliane
of shorts from Hereford
of the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian is a feminist journalist, arguing for abortion rights, Marianne
College of Art’s Film Course.
a rope. One of the greatest and most terrifying athletic feats (von Trotta’s muse Barbara Sukowa) a terrorist revolutionary in a
“This is daring, dangerous and PLUS find out about Rural
imaginable, the climb’s exacting standard is perfection or death; Baader-Meinhof style group. When Marianne is imprisoned, Juliane
dizzying stuff, the story of a Media’s new opportunity
and while Honnold is training, he falls in love, threatening is forced to abandon compromise and confront the realities and
one man simultaneously in to gain your very own
his focus and immeasurably raising the stakes. Capturing harsh power of the state. Exploring the after-effects of Nazism
competition and cooperation short film commission.
Honnold’s death-defying climbing with masterful, vertigo- in contemporary German society, the film is as searching on an
inducing camerawork– alongside deeply human and intimate with nature. Meet Tom Cruise’s intimate, personal level as it is on the political costs of revolution.
moments – this is a stunning and unforgettable documentary. hero, probably.”
Helen O’ Hara, Empire Magazine
Nominated for Best
Documentary BAFTA34 / 35 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2019 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
PREVIEW PREVIEW
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GIRL (15) GIRLS OF THE SUN (15)
Director: Lukas Dhont Director: Eva Husson
Starring: Victor Polster, Arieh Worthalter, Oliver Bodart Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Bercot, Zübeyde Bulut
Belgium/Netherlands, 2018, 1 hour 49 minutes France/Belgium/Georgia/Switzerland, 2018, 1 hour 55 minutes
Monday 4 March 5.00pm The Courtyard Hereford Friday 8 March 8.00pm Malvern Theatres
Thursday 14 March 5.30pm The Courtyard Hereford
Determined 15-year-old Lara is committed to becoming a professional Camera d’Or for Best First
In her second feature, French writer-director Eva Husson shifts “a feminist war movie:
ballerina. With equal conviction, she has always known that she was Feature, Queer Palm, Cannes
Film Festival 2018 the experience of war on the front line to a female perspective. impassioned, suspenseful,
born in the wrong body. She has taken on the mandatory counselling
Committed war correspondent Mathilde travels into the Daesh angry… For me it is heartfelt,
sessions and puberty inhibitors and impatiently waits for the surgery
First Feature Competition battleground of Iraqi Kurdistan, where she is embedded with a forthright and muscular.”
she so desperately wants. Her support system at home – a progressive
Winner, London Film unit of female peshmerga fighters. Led by ex-lawyer Bahar, the Peter Bradshaw,
single father and loving younger brother – is strong. But it is at her
Festival 2018 unit is made up of women whose children were abducted and The Guardian
prestigious ballet school that the increasing physical and emotional
husbands massacred by ISIS, who held them captive as sex slaves.
pressures slowly take their toll: her body does not bend so easily The screening on Monday 4 Preview courtesy of
will be followed by an informal Weaving between their harrowing pasts and a perilous present, Altitude Film Distribution
to the strict discipline because she was born a boy. With a truly
discussion in the auditorium Husson highlights the shared suffering that strengthens their
remarkable central performance from cisgender actor Victor Polster
bond, and their will to fight to get their village and their families
in his first screen role, Dhont’s empathetic and beautifully realised Preview courtesy of
back. She consistently chooses to highlight the camaraderie
film explores Lara’s complex inner emotions sensitively, expressing Curzon Artificial Eye
shared by the female fighters over the violence they inflict; her
so much even when she herself cannot quite find the words.
characters are soldiers, but they are women, and people, first.36 / 37 A – Z Film Index Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2019 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org
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THE GUILTY (15)
Director: Gustav Möller
Starring: Jakob Cedergren,
Jessica Dinnage, Johan Olsen
Denmark, 2018, 1 hour 25 minutes
Wednesday 6 March 7.30pm
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Leominster Playhouse Cinema
THE GUARDIANS (15) A treat for fans of Nordic noir,
Director: Xavier Beauvois this high-concept, low budget
GREEN BOOK (12A)
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry, Cyril Descours, Gilbert Bonneau
France, 2017, 2 hours 15 minutes debut is a deft, taut, nail-biting
crime story shot in real time.
Director: Peter Farrelly Friday 8 March 7.30pm Ewyas Harold Memorial Hall & In a police station somewhere
Starring: Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen, Linda Cardellini 8.00pm Presteigne Screen
US, 2018, 2 hours 10 minutes in Denmark, officer Asger
Xavier Beauvois (Of Gods and Men) returns with a fiercely has been consigned to phone
Friday 1 March 2.00pm, Saturday 2 8.00pm, Sunday 3 2.30pm, Monday 4 11.30am, duties – reluctantly so until he
Wednesday 6 5.15pm, Thursday 7 11.15am The Courtyard Hereford compassionate WW1 story, set not in the trenches but in rural
Friday 8 March 5.00pm, Saturday 9 5.00pm, Sunday 10 2.00pm, Monday 11 8.00pm, Western France. On the Paridier farm Madame Hortense and her takes a shivery, cryptic call from
Tuesday 12 10.30am, Wednesday 13 2.00pm, Thursday 14 5.00pm* Malvern Theatres daughter Solange must take over the cultivation of the land when Iben. She’s been kidnapped,
Friday 15 March & Saturday 16 7.30pm Oswestry kinokulture their men leave for the front. With their hired help Francine, Asger ascertains before the call
they work tirelessly through the seasons, never ceasing to worry is abruptly disconnected. But
Green Book brings together Mahershala Ali (Oscar winner, “’Green Book’ can’t heal racism, confined to the station, what
about the soldiers who are rarely home on leave. Fragile ties are
Moonlight) and Viggo Mortensen in an upbeat true story of an but it’s a reminder that spending can he do? Unrelenting and
formed, threatened by the devastating consequences of conflict,
unlikely friendship. In 1962, Italian-American Tony Lip is hired time with people different from brilliantly performed, Möller’s
but quiet resilience prevails in this beautifully composed drama.
as chauffeur and bodyguard to African-American pianist, Dr Don ourselves, even if only in the dark effective thriller generates
Shirley on a concert tour through the Deep South. Despite Tony’s on a movie screen, can be the “rewarding and rich… a delicately considered and often troubling maximum suspense from the
own problematic racial views, the pair embark on a road trip with key to combating prejudice.” insight into the lives of those left behind by history” elements at his disposal.
the potential to change both of their lives. There is smart comedy Peter Debruge, Variety Pamela Hutchinson, Sight & Sound
as you’d expect from the co-director of Dumb and Dumber and
* subtitled screening
There’s Something About Mary but, eminently watchable though it
is, the film does not sugar coat the racial tensions of the ‘60s and
serves as a reminder of the persistent bigotry of our own times.
The screening on Saturday The screening on Sunday The screening on Wednesday
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PREVIEW
I CONFESS (PG)
Director: Alfred Hitchock
Starring: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter,
Karl Malden, Brian Aherne
US, 1953, 1 hour 34 minutes
Friday 15 March 7.30pm
Hereford All Saints
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Working late, Catholic
HAPPY AS LAZZARO (15) priest Father Michael Logan
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Starring: Adriano Tardiolo, Sergi Lopez, Alba Rohrwacher
(Montgomery Clift) takes a
hurried, desperate confession
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (15)
Italy, 2018, 2 hours 5 minutes
from one of his parishioners, Director: Barry Jenkins
Starring: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Teyonah Parris
Tuesday 5 March 7.45pm The Courtyard Hereford Otto, a gardener. Bound by US, 2018, 1 hour 59 minutes
Tuesday 12 March 7.30pm Oswestry kinokulture the vow of silence, he cannot
reveal what he heard in the Friday 15 March 8.00pm, Saturday 16 8.00pm, Sunday 17 11.30am* The Courtyard Hereford
Writer-director Rohrwacher’s follow-up to The Wonders is surprising
confessional even though it puts
and enchanting, a film that leads you in one direction and Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to his ground-breaking, Oscar-winning “Given the film’s unabashed
his own life in jeopardy. Set
transports you into another. Lazzaro is a beautiful peasant whose Moonlight is this exquisite romantic drama based on James Baldwin’s belief in love, it’s satisfying to
and filmed in French-speaking
sweet nature makes people mistake him for simple-minded. He novel. Moving back and forth through time, we meet Tish and feelso much while watching it.
Québec City, this is perhaps
lives in an isolated village, mysteriously timeless, and feudally Fonny, lovers in ‘70s Manhattan, whose bond is tested when Fonny Sensorily and emotionally, it’s an
Hitchcock’s most European
ruled over by the Cruella de Vil-esque Marchesa. Lazzaro finds is falsely accused of a crime. As he awaits trial, Tish tries desperately almost overwhelming experience.”
film, serious and stylish and
an unlikely friend in the Marchesa’s petulant, bleach-blonde son to get him released while her mother must decide how far she will Benjamin Lee,
with a subtly understated
Tancredi, who embroils him in a cunning plot that is a trigger go to secure her daughter’s future. Like Moonlight, it’s emotionally The Guardian
performance from Clift that
for a dramatic shift in time and place. Mixing folk tales with devastating, focused not just on the characters’ relationships
transfixes Logan’s inner turmoil. The screening on Sunday 17
social critique, biblical allegories and pop culture references, with each other but also with their haunting interior lives and will be followed by an informal
this kaleidoscopic film with its exquisite imagery is a myth “In the work of someone so the spaces in between. Jenkins adds to the pantheon of black discussion in the auditorium
for a modern Italy consumed by corruption and decline. exhaustively appreciated as cinema with something celebratory – a lyrical story of community
and love – even as he depicts tremendous pain. Unmissable. * subtitled screening
Hitchcock, you wouldn’t expect
Joint Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival 2018
to find forgotten masterpieces
Preview courtesy of Modern Films but I Confess is one.”
Philip Oltermann, The Guardian
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