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See another side of film Book now 2—19 August Festival Program
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Introduction Contents
Michelle Carey
Artistic Director Galas 5
In 2018 we beckon you to see another side of film. This year’s festival is nothing if not Special Events 6
a feast for all the senses!
Taste Japanese culinary delights with the restoration of Juzo Itami’s Tampopo. Bathe Headliners 8
your ears in the pulsating analogue synths of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive – presented
in live concert by Hear My Eyes. Slip into some slinky couture with the Fashion x Australian Films 10
Cinema program, including new documentaries on Vivienne Westwood and Alexander
McQueen. As part of this year’s feast, we are delighted to offer a careful selection of International 14
accessible screenings that revel in the visual for our patrons who are Deaf or hard of
hearing as well as screenings that provide accompanying audio description tracks. African Film Rediscovered 19
In an era over-saturated with images and sounds, it’s vital to not take for granted what
we experience. With so much passive screen exposure in our lives, MIFF reminds us Experimentations 21
why cinema matters. It’s the intensity of the big screen and absorbing the creative
vision of a filmmaker with hundreds of fellow cinephiles by your side. It can be solitary Fashion X Cinema 22
and reflective, it can be social and entertaining. It can be all of these things at once.
How to start? Come immerse yourself in the program, starting right here. Documentaries 24
Think you know Nicolas Cage? Well, get up close and personal with this singular
American actor in a manner that you will never experience again with our 12+ hour History Uncovered 26
Cage-a-Thon. Also intense and epic are the penetrating, intimate filmed diaries of the
late Anne Charlotte Robertson, in their Australian Premiere and curated for MIFF by Sport Docs 27
the Harvard Film Archive, as part of our Experimentations program. And, for the first
time in Melbourne, prepare yourselves for the sensual onslaught of the psychedelic, Night Shift 28
cine-loving films of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani.
MIFF 2018 offers a particularly international Headliners section – the place to
Cattet / Forzani Retrospective 29
start if you want to see the big films of the year, including 11 direct from Cannes.
Our Australian selection is wonderfully diverse – from blockbuster TV to incredible Italo-Crime 29
documentaries to the freshest low-budget indies from a new generation of
filmmakers, as well as our Premiere Fund films, the latter all in world premiere. There Animation 30
are Sports Docs, the latest and most sensational in VR, documentaries that recast
the past in History Uncovered, and a selection of exciting New Voices from China. MIFF Schools 31
We also have some new Australian Restorations, a program of newly restored
classics in African Film Rediscovered and the cool poliziotteschi thrillers of the 60s
Music on Film 32
and 70s in the Italo-Crime retrospective. All this in addition to our regular offerings
of the best features, Shorts, Documentaries, Talks and guests from Australia and VR 33
around the world.
MIFF Shorts 34
The Hon Daniel Andrews MP MIFF Talks 36
Premier of Victoria
Industry Public Events 37
It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the 2018 Melbourne International Film Festival.
Our state has a long and proud history of film. One of the world’s first full-length Venues & Tickets 38
narrative features, The Story of the Kelly Gang, was filmed in and around the
city of Melbourne. And since 1952, MIFF has brought the world of cinema to Screening Schedule 40
every Victorian. Today, it is the world’s largest annual showcase of Australian
films, attracting the world’s best filmmakers and creating new jobs in our Film Index 46
creative economy.
We are proud to support MIFF – yet another example of how Victoria is the Credits 47
cultural capital of Australia. I hope you enjoy this year’s festival.
MIFF screenings are strictly 18+ except where indicated.
Screenings that are Unclassified 15+ require an adult to
attend with anyone under 15 years of age. See MIFF Kids Gala
(page 7) and MIFF Schools (page 31) for children’s programming.
Martin Foley
Minister for Creative Industries How to use this guide
Browse MIFF’s program by section or use the Index on p46 to find specific films. At the
It may be the reason you have a soft spot for Korean action films, Outback thrillers,
bottom of each film description you’ll find the session dates, times and venues along with
Polish horror, or French New Wave – Melbourne International Film Festival’s
the session code you can use to make your booking:
trademark is its broad slate, and 2018 offers a new bounty for you to discover.
But more than an opportunity to enjoy a diverse cinematic offering from around the
world, the festival works hard to grow our local screen industry. From the Premiere Fri 3 Aug 6.30pm Comedy 2061
Sun 5 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1181
Fund to the 37º South Market and the Accelerator Lab, MIFF plays an important role
in developing our local talent and bringing Australian films to the screen, locally and
around the globe. Use the Screening Schedule (p40–44) to see days at a glance and a visual overview
This year’s program includes the world premieres of Victorian productions Acute of session length. For more information about Tickets and Passes, MIFF Membership,
Misfortune, The Coming Back Out Ball Movie and Undertow, all supported through the Venues and Access, see p38–39.
MIFF Premiere Fund. I encourage you to check them out. Download the MIFF app to view the program, get venue information, book tickets and
Congratulations to the whole MIFF team on creating another epic program. Enjoy this manage your bookings.
year’s journey of discovery.
Explore More Online
This guide is designed to complement the online MIFF experience. For full details,
Sally Capp extended film descriptions, multiple ways to search, filter and view the 2018 program,
Lord Mayor and to book tickets or buy passes, go to miff.com.au. Look for the handy toolbar
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class program of cinema as well as workshops, tributes and retrospectives. This is an
iconic Melbourne event. Calendar
Annually, thousands of Melburnians head to one of the many venues across the city Recommendations
to beat the winter blues and revel in the magic of film. This year promises a premier Special Events
program showcasing the best Australian and international cinema, along with cutting-
edge filmmaking and virtual reality. Festival Info
MIFF is a celebration of our love of the arts and we are proud to support this Access
entertaining and inspiring event. Don’t know where to start? Try Recommendations and discover something just
right for you!
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themes, and more.
Use the Calendar to view the daily screening schedule, with the added bonus of being
able to add films to your wishlist , see a quick view and get a visual overview of
your own personal festival schedule.
We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Land, the Woiwurrung, Boonwurrung, Taungurong, Dja Dja Wurrung
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Galas
Opening Wildlife
USA
An intelligent,
104 mins
Night Gala
empathetic
adaptation of
Richard Ford’s novel
about a teen dealing with his family falling
apart in 1960s Montana.
Joe is 14 years old, a quiet, observant teen.
With his parents drifting apart, when his
Presented by dad leaves to fight a nearby wildfire it’s the
last straw. A major coming-of-age offscreen
as well as on for Oxenbould, an actor who
broke out in the Premiere Fund film Paper
Planes (MIFF 14), Wildlife is a bittersweet
and elegant film.
"Sensationally fine work by the young
Australian actor. More than anyone, he carries
the film.” – Hollywood Reporter
MIFF 2018 begins with the Australian Premiere of Paul
Dano’s directorial debut Wildlife, starring Carey Mulligan, Jake Thu 2 Aug 7pm Regent Theatre 0009
Gyllenhaal and Australia’s Ed Oxenbould. Official Afterparty: The Plaza Ballroom
“A tender, gorgeous, and exquisitely understated drama … Dress: Cocktail
a thing of beauty.” – INDIEWIRE
Film & Gala Afterparty:
Full $150* | Concession $140*
Gala & Exclusive Afterparty MIFF Members $130*
Film & Pre-Show Drinks:
Guests will be welcomed onto the Grey Goose blue carpet for Full $52* | Concession $47*
an unforgettable evening of cinema, glamour and celebration. MIFF Members $42*
Following the film, afterparty ticket holders are Invited to join MIFF passes not valid
VIP festival personalities and screen industry pioneers in the OTHER SESSIONS
historic Plaza Ballroom, to enjoy signature Grey Goose cocktails Sat 4 Aug 11am Regent 0091
and canapés. Sat 4 Aug 6.45pm ACMI 3121
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Centrepiece
The Merger
Australia 99 mins
WORLD PREMIERE
Gala An offbeat and uproarious Aussie comedy
about footy, life in the country and the
power of communities to overcome
small-mindedness.
Always a hot ticket, MIFF’s Centrepiece Gala is a cinematic
Based on Damian Callinan’s acclaimed stage
celebration of both Australian filmmaking and of the festival’s show of the same name, The Merger is a feel-
halfway point. good new Australian comedy about a former
In 2018 enjoy the World Premiere gala screening of Mark Aussie Rules star, Troy Carrington, who’s
Grentell's The Merger with our filmmaking guests, then kick returned to the small country town he grew up
your heels up and let your hair down with the stars at in and never wants to think about footy again.
But when approached to save the town’s
the exclusive afterparty, with complimentary wines from beloved team, Troy realises he has just the
Scotchmans Hill, craft beer from Mornington Peninsula thing – the town's recently arrived refugees.
Brewery and canapés for all ticketholders.
Sat 11 Aug 7pm Comedy 2499
Afterparty: The MIFF Festival Lounge,
miff.com.au/centrepiece2018 Forum Melbourne
Film & Gala Afterparty:
Full $77*
Concession $72*
MIFF Members $67*
MIFF passes not valid
OTHER SESSIONS
Sun 12 Aug 6.15pm ACMI 3561
Closing
The Coming Back
Out Ball Movie
Australia 86 mins
Night Gala WORLD PREMIERE
In the middle of Australia’s divisive marriage
equality vote, Melbourne hosted a gala
event to honour its LGBTQIA+ elders. These
Hosted to honour Australia’s LGBTQIA+ pioneers and their are their stories.
achievements, and to combat invisibility for senior members Held in October 2017, the Coming Back
within the ‘alphabet’ community, The Coming Back Out Ball Out Ball was a glittering red-carpet evening
was held in Melbourne last year. MIFF 2018’s Closing Night hosted by cabaret legend Robyn Archer, with
Gala features the World Premiere of The Coming Back Out Ball performances by Carlotta, Deborah Cheetham
Movie and, whether you were at the Ball or not, it's the perfect and Gerry Connolly for a who’s who of
opportunity to enjoy (or relive) this fabulous celebration. Melbourne’s senior LGBTQIA+ community.
After the film, get your dancing shoes on for MIFF’s famous Director Sue Thomson captures the stories
Closing Night festivities, with DJs, dancing and drinks ‘til late, of the Ball and those it honoured in this MIFF
Premiere Fund-supported, life-affirming love
and some very special guest apprearances. letter to Australia’s original fighters for queer
equality – along with a whole lot of dancing!
miff.com.au/closingnight2018 Sat 18 Aug 7pm Comedy 2879
Afterparty: The MIFF Festival Lounge,
Forum Melbourne
Film & Gala Afterparty:
Full $95*
Concession $90*
MIFF Members $85*
MIFF passes not valid
See page 11 for additional festival screenings.
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Special Events
MIFF at The Astor Co-presented by Hear My Eyes: Drive
USA (MA15+) 100 mins
Cage-a-Thon Co-presented by
USA 737 mins
After its success in 2017, MIFF’s overnight marathon at The Astor returns and
this year we’re going full Nicolas Cage!!
Mandy (USA, 121 minutes), the blood-splattered hit of the Sundance and Cannes
film festivals featuring Nicolas Cage at his most Nicolas Cage as a man out for
revenge against a satanic cult.
Raising Arizona (USA, 94 minutes, M), Joel and Ethan Coen’s madcap
masterpiece, starring Cage alongside Holly Hunter, John Goodman, William
Forsythe and Frances McDormand.
Red Rock West (USA, 98 minutes, M), John Dahl’s over-the-top neo-noir Western
about a drifter mistaken for a small-town hit man. Cage dials it up a notch as the
drifter in question.
Vampire’s Kiss (USA, 103 minutes, M), featuring an outrageously unbridled
performance from Nic as a sleazy literary agent who revels in yuppie excess as
his mind unravels. 35mm
The Wicker Man (USA/Germany/Canada, 102 minutes, M), Cage’s most notorious
performance serves up slice after slice of honey-glazed ham. Not the bees!
Not the beeees!
Drive Angry (USA, 104 minutes, R18+), in which Cage is out for revenge (again),
but this time even the fact that he’s dead won’t stop him!
Con Air (USA, 115 minutes, MA15+), one of the biggest action films of the 1990s,
finally back where it belongs: up on the big screen, where every monumental
action beat, every strained quip and every over-the-top explosion can be enjoyed
the way it was intended. 35mm
Fri 10 Aug 9.30pm Astor Theatre 0445
Full $35* | MIFF Members $30*
MIFF PASSES NOT VALID
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Tampopo Sign O’ The Times
Japan (M) 114 mins USA 84 mins
“The greatest of all food films – that would be Tampopo.” – FANDOR Prince’s rare 1987 concert film returns to the big screen for this special event Following last year’s sold-out event, Hear My Eyes returns to MIFF with a live
Simmering in newly restored 4K digital splendour, Juzo Itami’s cult classic at The Astor. Don your purplest paisley threads and join Fee B-Squared for a soundtrack event scored to Nicolas Winding Refn’s cult classic Drive.
Western about a band of ronin on the quest to find the perfect ramen noodle Prince dance party in the foyer afterwards. For this exclusive event, Hear My Eyes have recruited an all-star supergroup
recipe returns for a special festival engagement. An extraordinary document of a true musical master, Sign O’ The Times captures from some of Melbourne’s most unique bands, who will perform hit tracks from
Ticket price includes a bowl of one-of-a-kind ramen by Tokyo Tina. the virtuosic genius of the Purple One. Accompanied on stage by Sheena Easton, the film’s original soundtrack – including Nightcall, Under Your Spell and A Real
queen of percussion Sheila E and The Lovesexy Band, Prince is at the height of Hero – as well as performing a new atmospheric soundscape of dry-pulsing
DIRECTOR: JUZO ITAMI
his powers here. beats, gritty industrial tracks and deeply romantic ambient synth, all written
Sun 5 Aug 1.30pm Astor Theatre 0165 DIRECTOR: TIM POPE specifically for this performance.
Full $35* | MIFF Members $30* DIRECTOR: NICOLAS WINDING REFN
MIFF PASSES NOT VALID
Fri 17 Aug 9.30pm Astor Theatre 0825
miff.com.au/tampopo Full $35* | MIFF Members $30* Sat 4 Aug 9.30pm Regent Theatre 0135
MIFF PASSES NOT VALID Full $45* / Concession $42* / MIFF Members $40*
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Premiere Fund Premium Events
Acute Misfortune Undermined: Tales from The Kimberley The Eulogy
Australia 90 mins Australia 90 mins Australia 103 mins
Daniel Henshall (Snowtown) stars as infamous Archibald Prize-winning artist Mega-mining and pastoral developments in the world-famous Kimberley threaten Inspired by former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s searing eulogy for Geoffrey
Adam Cullen in Acute Misfortune, a lyrical adaptation of The Saturday Paper both the pristine environment and 200 Indigenous communities and their sacred Tozer, The Eulogy explores the remarkable and tragic story of Australia’s greatest
editor Erik Jensen’s acclaimed biography, which also stars Toby Wallace, links to Country in Undermined: Tales from the Kimberley. Traditional Owners, ever, and perhaps most overlooked, pianist. It includes Keating restaging his
Max Cullen and Genevieve Lemon. In his directorial feature debut, Top of the including activist-musician Albert Wiggan and academic Dr Anne Poelina, ask famous funeral oration as music educator and conductor Richard Gill AO
Lake actor Thomas M Wright deftly weaves a striking tale of the bright young if the Kimberley’s custodians, lands and cultures will survive these pressures in embarks on a journey to restore Tozer’s legacy.
wunderkind writer and the brilliant yet deeply troubled artist. this urgent film that tells a sadly universal story of the David-and-Goliath battles Be a part of a unique world premiere of this MIFF Premiere Fund-supported
A memorable evening is in store for the world premiere of this MIFF Premiere Indigenous peoples face with the human costs of doing business. feature documentary at MIFF, including a welcome to country, Q&A with the
Fund-supported film, in the presence of the filmmakers and some of the The world premiere of this MIFF Premiere Fund-supported feature documentary film’s director, a live piano performance, and special guest appearances.
late artist’s family, including a welcome to country and an extended Q+A/In will be a truly special event, including a welcome to country, Q&A with the film’s
Conversation with Erik Jensen and performers. director, producer and subjects, including Albert Wiggan. World Premiere: Sun 12 Aug 3.45pm Comedy 2551
Full $29* / Concessions $27* / MIFF Members $25* (MAY BE BOOKED ON A PASS)
World Premiere: Sat 4 Aug 6.30pm Comedy 2121 World Premiere: Wed 8 Aug 6pm Forum 1331
Full $29* / Concessions $27* / MIFF Members $25* (MAY BE BOOKED ON A PASS) Full $29* / Concessions $27* / MIFF Members $25* (MAY BE BOOKED ON A PASS)
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Planetarium Fulldome MIFF Kids’Gala Presented by
Showcases miff.com.au/fulldome
MIFF’s popular annual program of fulldome screenings at the
Melbourne Planetarium
Fulldome Showcase 1
Carriberrie
Australia 45 mins
An exhilarating film about Carriberrie: Indigenous Australian song and dance.
Actors Jack Charles and David Gulpilil welcome us on a concentric, snake-
like journey through time and space. Carriberrie is an affecting journey rich in
cultural significance, every bit as soaring as the fulldome experience itself.
The 4 and 5 August sessions will feature a live dance performance.
See page 33 for Carriberrie the VR experience.
DIRECTOR: DOMINIC ALLEN
Sat 4 Aug 7pm Planetarium 0125
Sun 5 Aug 7pm Planetarium 0185 Full $29* / Concession $24*
Sat 11 Aug 7pm Planetarium 0495 MIFF PASSES NOT VALID
Fulldome Showcase 2
Biosphere Walk the red carpet and join the pre-screening party hosted by Cobs Popcorn with fun activities and goodie bags.
Czech Republic/Norway 45 mins
Set to the music of legendary ambient musician Biosphere, visual artists Dan The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
Gregor and Dalibor Cée take you into imaginary worlds where music and visual France 83 mins
components merge into an immersive experience.
From the Oscar-nominated director of MIFF 2012 hit Ernest & Celestine comes a delightful new animated film for the young and young at heart.
DIRECTOR: INITI (DAN GREGOR, DALIBOR CÉE)
A funny and charming collection of misfit animals and their misadventures: The Big Bad Fox of the title isn’t all that big and he’s really not very bad. In fact, he’s
Dimensions – Once Upon Our Reality quite good – just not at being a fox! In ‘A Baby to Deliver’, Duck, Rabbit and Pig are tasked with an important errand by Stork. Duck, Rabbit and Pig return in ‘Saving
Germany 50 mins Christmas’, and this time it’s Santa Claus who needs their help … or is it?
A rollercoaster ride of visuals and music, Dimensions transports you to DIRECTORS: BENJAMIN RENNER, PATRICK IMBERT
awe-inspiring worlds where you’ll find the time and space to think and feel Unclassified, no age restrictions. MIFF recommends this film as suitable for ages 3+
about the big questions of our time. Sat 18 Aug ACMI 3859 4859
DIRECTOR: ROCCO HELMCHEN, JOHANNES KRAAS Celebrations in the ACMI Lightwell (entry from Flinders St) from 12.30pm; screening from 1.45pm
Sat 4 Aug 9pm Planetarium 0145 Full $29* / Concession $24* Full $20* / Concession $17.50* / MIFF Members $16* / Family of four $50* / Under 18s $13*
Sat 11 Aug 9pm Planetarium 0515 MIFF PASSES NOT VALID MIFF PASSES NOT VALID
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Capharnaüm 3 Faces Climax
Lebanon/USA 120 mins Iran 100 mins France 95 mins
Receiving a 15-minute Jafar Panahi helms Gaspar Noé delivers an
standing ovation as and features in this ecstatic and nightmarish
well as the Jury Prize at Cannes award-winning orgy of sex, drugs and
Cannes, this neorealist fable centres on a exploration of oppression – his fourth movie 90s club music in the top prize winner from
child attempting to divorce his parents. since being banned from filmmaking. Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
Twelve-year-old Zain wants to sue his parents Branded an “empty-headed brat” by her close- Twenty young dancers rehearse in an empty
“for giving [him] life”. As Labaki’s film traces knit community, a rural teenager contacts hall. Beneath strobing lights and pounding
through Zain’s experiences, his grievances her idol, actress Behnaz Jafari, in desperation music, their bodies contort and writhe. Then
against the world and those who brought him – but when the girl’s message ends abruptly, it’s over and the party proper begins, a
into it reverberate with righteous fury. Panahi and Jafari are concerned for her humming declaration of youth, beauty and
Drawing astonishing performances from a wellbeing. What starts as a road trip to save a charged eroticism. But this is Noé, and soon
cast of non-professional actors, this dark but struggling young woman becomes a revealing they’ll discover the true savagery hiding
deeply humane Kafka-esque tale of empathy journey through Iranian village life, with behind their façades.
is “strewn with diamond-shards of beauty, wit Panahi’s camera capturing its daily reality. Contains material that may offend
and hope” (The Telegraph). Contains suicide themes DIRECTOR: GASPAR NOÉ
DIRECTOR: NADINE LABAKI DIRECTOR: JAFAR PANAHI Sat 4 Aug 9.30pm Comedy 2131
Sat 4 Aug 1.45pm Hoyts 9101 Fri 3 Aug 3pm Regent 0050 Sat 11 Aug 9.30pm Comedy 2511
Thu 9 Aug 6.15pm Forum 1381 Sun 5 Aug 4pm Forum 1171 Sat 18 Aug 9.30pm Comedy 2881
Sat 18 Aug 4pm Forum 1861 Mon 13 Aug 6.30pm Comedy 2611
Dogman Everybody Knows Happy as Lazzaro
Italy/France 102 mins Spain/France/Italy 132 mins Italy 125 mins
The director of Gomorrah Penélope Cruz and Javier Winner of the Best
returns with an incisive Bardem star in the tense Screenplay award at
tale of a dog-loving psychological thriller Cannes, this is a time-
reluctant criminal, featuring a Cannes Best that opened this year’s Cannes competition, bending magic-realist fable of modern Italy.
Actor-winning performance in the title role. from the two-time Oscar-winning director Following her 2014 Cannes Grand Prix-
In a desolate part of Southern Italy, Marcello Asghar Farhadi. winning The Wonders, Alice Rohrwacher’s new
runs a dog grooming business and raises Farhadi (The Salesman, MIFF 16; A Separation, film begins in Italy’s past, where the young
his young daughter, Sofia. But his gentle MIFF 11) returns to MIFF with this riveting peasant Lazzaro meets cursed nobleman
nature is taken advantage of by his friend, the Spanish-language thriller, in which Laura Tancredi in a village ruled by his mother, the
hulking brute Simone, and Marcello soon finds arrives at her family’s estate in Spain for a fearsome ‘queen of cigarettes’. Lazzaro
himself swept up in a criminal plan he wants wedding, only for her rebellious teenage eventually travels in time as the film pivots to
nothing to do with. daughter to be kidnapped in the dead of night. the present, and Rohrwacher – shooting in the
Inspired by a true story, Dogman is a bravura, Desperate, Laura turns to old flame and family warm glow of super 16mm – casts a magical
noir-ish examination of the destructive force of vineyard keeper Paco, and a tightly wound spell while crafting an origin story for the
toxic masculinity, which won Marcello Fonte game of whodunit plays out on the estate. corruption of modern-day Italy.
Cannes’ Best Actor award. DIRECTOR: ASGHAR FARHADI DIRECTOR: ALICE ROHRWACHER
DIRECTOR: MATTEO GARRONE Sat 4 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1121 Sun 5 Aug 4pm Comedy 2171
Sun 5 Aug 6pm Regent 0181 Tue 14 Aug 6.15pm Comedy 2661 Sat 11 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1491
Cold War Thu 9 Aug 6.30pm Comedy 2381 Wed 15 Aug 3.45pm Forum 1700 Wed 15 Aug 6.30pm Comedy 2711
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Burning Shoplifters Cold War Birds of Passage Leave No Trace
South Korea 148 mins Japan 121 mins Poland/UK/France 84 mins Colombia/Denmark/Mexico 125 mins USA 108 mins
South Korean auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda took Cannes’ Best Director From the director of Oscar-nominated Debra
Lee Chang-dong adapts out the Palme d’Or with winner and the follow-up Embrace of the Serpent Granik returns to feature
Haruki Murakami’s short Shoplifters, exploring to his Oscar-winner Ida, comes this origin story of filmmaking with Leave
story for this Cannes FIPRESCI Prize-winning the heartbreak and secrets of a family of Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest is a love story the Colombian drug trade, told through the No Trace, a humane depiction of the bond
thriller starring Korean heart-throb Yoo Ah-in small-time thieves. wending through a partitioned Europe. perspective of an indigenous family. between father and daughter, and the
and The Walking Dead ’s Steven Yeun. For the Shibatas, every day brings new While putting together a folk-music troupe in It’s the 1970s, and a Wayúu family led by universal desire to live by your own rules.
Lee’s new work follows Jongu and old friend troubles, particularly of the monetary kind. post-WWII Poland, pianist Wiktor embarks on matriarch Ursula benefits from America’s Iraq War veteran Will and his 13-year-old
Haemi, who disappears to Africa only to return Father Osamu and son Shota shoplift what a torrid affair with the younger Zula. When a obsession with marijuana. But soon the daughter Tom (a star-making performance
with Ben, a rich playboy with a strange hobby. they can, but one light-fingered session performance in Berlin offers them an escape, trappings of wealth and power start a war that from New Zealand’s Thomasin McKenzie)
Burning set a record for the highest-ever sees them bring home something different: a last-minute decision causes them to be threatens to tear their ancient traditions apart. live an idyllic, off-the-grid life in the forests
score in Screen International’s Cannes critics’ abandoned, abused five-year-old Juri. stranded on either side of the Iron Curtain. Birds of Passage combines eye-popping of Oregon, where the quietness of the
poll. It goes from romantic character piece In true Kore-eda fashion, the writer/director/ Lyrical and emotional, replete with virtuosic traditional costumes and culture, immersive woods stills his tormented memories. But
to exquisite thriller, taking on contemporary editor’s 13th feature is both a humanistic black-and-white visuals and a keen sense imagery, vivid sound design and glorious when their home is discovered, the pair
political fears, class imbalances and portrait and an indictment of a society so of music, Cold War is a big-screen must-see, widescreen cinematography that demands to are forced to return to mainstream society,
existential despair with masterful control. willing to cast struggling people aside. already being touted as an Oscar contender. be seen on the biggest screen possible. where they’ll have to learn to rely on the
kindness of strangers.
DIRECTOR: LEE CHANG-DONG DIRECTOR: HIROKAZU KORE-EDA DIRECTOR: PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI DIRECTORS: CIRO GUERRA, CRISTINA GALLEGO
DIRECTOR: DEBRA GRANIK
Sun 5 Aug 11am Regent 0151 Sat 4 Aug 2.30pm Regent 0111 Fri 3 Aug 6pm Regent 0061 Sat 4 Aug 3.30pm Comedy 2111
Wed 8 Aug 6pm Comedy 2331 Tue 7 Aug 6.30pm Comedy 2281 Sun 12 Aug 7pm Comedy 2561 Sat 11 Aug 3pm Comedy 2481 Fri 3 Aug 6.30pm Comedy 2061
Sun 19 Aug 4.15pm ACMI 4911 Fri 10 Aug 6.30pm Comedy 2431 Tue 14 Aug 4pm Forum 1650 Fri 17 Aug 9pm Forum 1821 Sun 5 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1181
The Man Who Killed Don’t Worry, He Won’t The Miseducation of
Don Quixote Get Far on Foot You Were Never Really Here Cameron Post
Spain/France/Belgium/Portugal 132 mins USA 113 mins USA 89 mins USA 91 mins
Decades in the making, “One of [Gus Van Sant’s] best, a life- Lynne Ramsay returns with an intense, Winner of the Sundance Grand Jury
Terry Gilliam’s near- affirming sweet-and-sour concoction that exploration of trauma and vengeance, Prize (US Dramatic), Desiree Akhavan’s
mythical riff on Cervantes’ recalls such crowd-pleasers as Good Will anchored by a masterful performance from sophomore feature sees Chloë Grace Moretz
fantastic tale finally makes its debut, with Hunting.” – VARIETY Cannes 2017 Best Actor Joaquin Phoenix. in a career-best performance as a teen sent
Adam Driver as a cynical adman trapped Alcoholic and in a wheelchair, John Callahan Joe is a war vet and ex-FBI agent whose to a conversion therapy camp.
in the delusions of an old shoemaker who was one of the 20th century’s most vital new job includes rescuing children from Akhavan brings the same fierce intellect she
believes himself to be Don Quixote. and taboo-busting cartoonists. Based on paedophile rings. The confronting task takes a displayed in Appropriate Behavior (MIFF 14) to
Gilliam had tried and failed to film his version Callahan’s autobiography of the same name, considerable psychological toll, but that’s just Emily M Danforth’s acclaimed story. But where
of the classic tale several times over multiple Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot is one of his worries after he’s hired to save a the director’s debut was brash and irreverent,
decades, most famously with Johnny Depp in the dynamic new film from Gus Van Sant. senator’s daughter. The Miseducation of Cameron Post is equal
the lead. But miraculously, his The Man Who Boasting a brilliant, left-of-centre ensemble Also winning Cannes’ best screenplay prize parts humble, heartbreaking, compassionate
Killed Don Quixote has arrived. Adam Driver cast – including Joaquin Phoenix, Jack Black, last year, Ramsay’s fourth feature takes a and wry. On record lamenting the lack of queer
stars alongside Gilliam stalwart Jonathan Rooney Mara, Beth Ditto, Kim Gordon, Udo hammer to the revenge genre, approaching John Hughes films when she was growing up,
Pryce, and their comedic adventures are a Kier and an unrecognisable Jonah Hill – it’s a its brutally resonant tale with astonishing Akhaven has crafted a sophomore feature that
fitting analogy for the film’s very existence. blissfully irreverent love letter to the strength economy – and with a pitch-perfect Jonny could fill that role for a new generation.
DIRECTOR: TERRY GILLIAM of the human spirit. Greenwood score to match. DIRECTOR: DESIREE AKHAVAN
Sun 5 Aug 9pm Regent 0191 DIRECTOR: GUS VAN SANT DIRECTOR: LYNNE RAMSAY Sat 4 Aug 6pm Regent 0121
Tue 7 Aug 9.15pm Comedy 2291 Sun 5 Aug 3pm Regent 0171 Fri 3 Aug 9pm Regent 0071 Mon 6 Aug 6.30pm Comedy 2231
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Mr Inbetween Strange Colours Ghosthunter 1%
Australia 142 mins Australia 85 mins Australia 96 mins Australia 89 mins
Nash Edgerton brings The Magician’s A story of family and estrangement set amid Long-hidden family secrets converge with An international hit from Toronto to
charismatic killer Ray Shoesmith back to the alien landscape of Australia’s opal mines. a true crime investigation in this story of a Fantastic Fest to London, Australia’s answer
our screens in his TV series directorial debut. A compelling and unique drama, where most part-time ghosthunter and his two-decade to Sons of Anarchy sends Ryan Corr, Abbey
MIFF presents all six episodes. of the characters are played by actual opal search for answers in western Sydney. Lee and Aaron Pedersen into a brutal
Ray Shoesmith began life in Scott Ryan’s miners, Strange Colours is the assured, visually Jason King is a security guard who conducts bikie turf war.
blackly comic mockumentary The Magician gorgeous feature debut from writer/director paranormal investigations. Jason, the survivor Director Stephen McCallum serves up this
(MIFF 05), about a deadpan hitman being Alena Lodkina. of trauma, is driven to discover the truth gritty exploration of brotherhood and betrayal
trailed by an aspiring documentarian. It’s the story of Melina, who makes the 18-hour behind his father’s longtime absence. This that takes its cues from Shakespeare: for
Edgerton was a producer and editor on that bus journey to be with her ailing father, one of search for the truth, however, brings him up three years, Paddo has led the charge at the
film, but for this new series he’s stepped the lost, lonely men who hunt for black opals close and personal with a dark legacy. Copperheads Motorcycle Club while gang
behind the camera to delve into Ray’s life as in the Australian outback. As Melina is drawn Navigating otherworldly mysteries alongside president Knuck serves time, but the just-
he juggles his bloody profession with his love into the community, she discovers there’s very real trauma and abuse, Ghosthunter is the released leader isn’t keen on Paddo’s changes.
life, parenting and friendship. Ryan returns as more to these men than she first assumed – compelling, unique documentary feature debut When Paddo’s brother begins stirring up
scriptwriter and star, alongside Justin Rosniak, and perhaps even more to herself. for award-winning photographer and short- trouble with a rival club head, it jeopardises
Brooke Satchwell and Damon Herriman. film director Ben Lawrence. everyone’s future.
DIRECTOR: ALENA LODKINA
DIRECTOR: NASH EDGERTON Contains mature themes DIRECTOR: STEPHEN MCCALLUM
Wed 15 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 7711
Presented in association with Blue-Tongue Fri 17 Aug 6.30pm ACMI 4811 DIRECTOR: BEN LAWRENCE Mon 13 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8611
Films, Jungle Entertainment and Foxtel Tue 14 Aug 4pm Kino 6650
Tue 7 Aug 6.30pm ACMI 4281
Sat 11 Aug 1pm Forum 1471 Wed 15 Aug 9.15pm ACMI 4721
Thu 9 Aug 9.15pm Kino 5391
Jirga West of Sunshine Dying to Live Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Australia 78 mins Australia 78 mins Australia 91 mins Germany/UK/Australia 94 mins
From director Benjamin Gilmour and actor Pawno’s Damian Hill stars in this Venice- The controversial crusader behind Frackman Christmas Island’s migrating crabs, lost
Sam Smith comes an important and almost premiering exploration of fatherhood, trauma returns with a powerful display of activism souls in limbo and political detainees
unbelievable new Australian film, shot in the and second chances, shot in Melbourne by about another complex issue: the campaign intersect in lyrical, cinematic fashion
dangerous borderlands between Pakistan first-time local filmmaker Jason Raftopoulos. for stronger organ donor awareness. in the Tribeca Film Festival Best
and Afghanistan. Jim is a courier doing his best in difficult Nine strangers connected by organ and tissue Documentary award winner.
The result of months spent trekking through circumstances: his loan shark wants $15,000 transplants share a journey through Australia’s Christmas Island has been a centre for
Pakistan and Afghanistan, Jirga cuts through by close of business; his boss wants him complicated medical system: Allan and Kim, migrating populations for millennia – first, the
the propaganda as it tells the story of retired to stick to his normal deliveries; and, being whose daughter became the only child in distinctive red crabs; then phosphate miners
Australian soldier Mike, who’s haunted by school holidays, he’s supposed to be looking Victoria under the age of 16 that year to have from Malaya; most recently, people seeking
memories of the unarmed man he accidentally after his adolescent son. her organs and tissues donated; Holly, who asylum. It’s here, at the nexus of the three, that
shot in Afghanistan. Determined to make Shot with clear-eyed affection, it’s a warm- has lived with cystic fibrosis and is waiting first-time feature documentarian Gabrielle
things right, he sets off on a treacherous hearted look at life’s ups and downs that for a double lung transplant; and Woody, Kitty, Brady locates her extraordinary essay, in
journey through Taliban and ISIS-controlled benefits from the intimate rapport between its Henry, Tony, Alice and Levi, whose tenuous which trauma therapist Poh Lin coaxes
territory to find the victim’s family and two stars, with Kat Stewart (Sucker, MIFF 15) places on the donor list bring with them a detainees to tell their stories while residents
place himself at the mercy of the Jirga – also among the cast. whole host of new issues. perform rituals for wandering spirits and the
Afghanistan’s village justice. DIRECTOR: RICHARD TODD crabs continue their endless march to sea.
DIRECTOR: JASON RAFTOPOULOS
DIRECTOR: BENJAMIN GILMOUR Tue 14 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 7661 DIRECTOR: GABRIELLE BRADY
Fri 10 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 8431
Sat 11 Aug 4.15pm ACMI 4481 Fri 17 Aug 9pm Kino 6821 Thu 16 Aug 6.45pm Kino 5761 Fri 3 Aug 6.45pm ACMI 4061
Mon 13 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 7611 Tue 7 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8281
AUSTRALIAN RESTORATIONS
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins NSFA Restores: Witches and
Backtrack Boys of the Clouds NSFA Restores: The Cheaters Faggots, Dykes and Poofters
Australia 100 mins Australia, 1989 (M) 93 mins Australia, 1929 83 mins Australia, 1980 (M) 45 mins
Bernie Shakeshaft is the rule-breaking Alex Proyas’ rarely screened debut feature A landmark of Australian cinema, An iconic yet rarely seen
jackaroo who takes a chance on three boys is part Luis Buñuel and part Sergio The Cheaters is not just one of our Australian documentary about
on a direct path to juvie when he brings them Leone meets Mad Max. earliest feature films – it’s one the gay civil rights movement is
aboard his legendary dog-jumping team. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, siblings of the first by a team of women restored to commemorate the
Run out of Bernie Shakeshaft’s shed on Felix and Betty live on a diet of baked beans. filmmakers. This NFSA restoration 40th anniversary of the inaugural
the outskirts of Armidale, Backtrack is a Felix’s obsession with flying has put him in a offers a rare big-screen treat. Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
place for troubled kids to safely continue wheelchair while Betty believes a demon is to Inspired by popular US crime capers, the story More than just a provocative title, this
their education when everyone else has blame for their woes. Into their world walks follows a thief who decides to go legit when acclaimed activist documentary returns,
forgotten them. Norm, shattering their family bond. she falls in love with the son of a wealthy digitally restored by the NFSA. Capturing the
When Shakeshaft recruits Zach, Alfie and This distinctly one-of-a-kind film was the businessman; but the businessman is one of violence of the Mardi Gras’ first historic night
Rusty to join him on a cross-country journey feature deubt of Proyas, who went on to direct her victims, and her crime boss father wants on the streets of Sydney and the aftermath
with his famed dog-jumping team, it’s the The Crow and Dark City (MIFF 17). her to pull one more heist. of discrimination, this is a highly charged
last chance for the boys to prove to the world experience that shows how far the LGBTQIA+
Full of madcap inventions and colourful flights DIRECTOR: PAULETTE MCDONAGH
that they are more than just delinquents community has come. And how far there
of fancy that are now enhanced by its digital Screens with Those Who Love (1926, 3 mins),
with no future. is still to go.
restoration, this is a chance to discover one of the remaining fragments of Paulette
DIRECTOR: CATHERINE SCOTT the hidden gems of the 1980s. McDonagh and her sisters' first feature. PRODUCER: DIGBY DUNCAN
Thu 9 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8381 DIRECTOR: ALEX PROYAS DIRECTOR: PAULETTE MCDONAGH Presented by the National Film and Sound
Sat 11 Aug 1.30pm Hoyts 7471 Archive’s digital restoration program: NFSA
Fri 10 Aug 6.30pm ACMI 4431 Presented by the National Film and Sound Restores – reviving our cinema icons
Archive’s digital restoration program: NFSA
Fri 17 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1811
Restores – reviving our cinema icons
Sun 12 Aug 1pm Comedy 2541
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The Coming Back Undermined: Tales
Acute Misfortune Out Ball Movie The Eulogy from The Kimberley Undertow
Australia 90 mins Australia 86 mins Australia 103 mins Australia 90 mins Australia 96 mins
WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE
Daniel Henshall stars as Archibald Prize- In the middle of Australia’s divisive marriage Inspired by former Prime Minister Paul Mega-mining and pastoral developments in MIFF Accelerator Lab alumna Miranda Nation
winning artist Adam Cullen in this adaptation equality vote, Melbourne hosted a gala event Keating’s eulogy for Geoffrey Tozer, music the Kimberley threaten the environment and makes her feature directorial debut with this
of Erik Jensen’s acclaimed biography. to honour its LGBTQIA+ elders. educator Richard Gill AO explores the tragic more than 200 Indigenous communities. Geelong-shot psychological thriller about grief
When 19-year-old Erik Jensen was invited by Held in October 2017, the Coming Back story of Australia’s greatest ever, Traditional Owners, including activist/musician and obsession, set against the backdrop of
bad-boy Australian painter Adam Cullen to Out Ball was a glittering red-carpet evening and perhaps most overlooked, pianist. Albert Wiggan and academic Dr Anne Poelina, local footy culture.
write his biography, Jensen (Toby Wallace) hosted by cabaret legend Robyn Archer, with Geoffrey Tozer was a child prodigy and ask for whose benefit is development of this Struggling after a miscarriage, Claire becomes
jumped at the chance. Despite a turbulent performances by Carlotta, Deborah Cheetham virtuoso pianist whose career saw him lauded scale. Will the Kimberley’s custodians, lands obsessed with a pregnant woman she suspects of
relationship, the two formed a unique bond and Gerry Connolly for a who’s who of around the world. But in Australia he struggled and cultures survive these pressures, and having an affair with her husband. Her obsession
that lasted until Cullen’s premature death. Melbourne’s senior LGBTQIA+ community. to achieve recognition, despite the patronage what is social justice for first peoples in 2018? puts both women in danger and the deeper Claire
With remarkable deftness, this MIFF Premiere Director Sue Thomson captures the stories of then-Treasurer Paul Keating. Supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund, digs, the more unsettled she becomes.
Fund supported feature turns Jensen’s of the Ball and those it honoured in this MIFF Supported by the MIFF Premiere Fund, The director Nicholas Wrathall (Gore Vidal: The With a starkly topical underbelly and deeply
book into a subtle, striking tale of two wildly Premiere Fund-supported, life-affirming love Eulogy sees Keating restage his famous United States of Amnesia, MIFF 13) delivers evocative cinematography, the MIFF Premiere
different men: a portrait of the writer and of letter to Australia’s original fighters for queer funeral oration as composer Richard Gill AO a powerful film that, while Australian, tells a Fund-supported Undertow will linger with
the artist as a troubled and troubling man. equality – along with a whole lot of dancing! embarks on a journey to restore Tozer’s legacy. sadly universal story. audiences long after the final credits roll.
DIRECTOR: THOMAS M WRIGHT DIRECTOR: SUE THOMSON DIRECTOR: JANINE HOSKING DIRECTOR: NICHOLAS WRATHALL DIRECTOR: MIRANDA NATION
Sat 4 Aug 6.30pm Comedy 2121 Sat 18 Aug 7pm Comedy 2879 Sun 12 Aug 3.45pm Comedy 2551 Wed 8 Aug 6pm Forum 1331 Thu 9 Aug 9.15pm Forum 1391
Fri 10 Aug 4.15pm Kino 6420 Sun 19 Aug 1.30pm ACMI 3901 Tue 14 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8661 Sat 11 Aug 11am Kino 6461 Sun 12 Aug 7pm Hoyts 8561
Sat 18 Aug 1.45pm Hoyts 8851 Sun 19 Aug 7.15 ACMI 4921 Wed 15 Aug 6.30pm Kino 6711 Sun 12 Aug 11.15am Kino 5531 Sat 18 Aug 4pm Kino 5861
Karrabing Film Collective:
Under the Cover of Cloud Celeste Book Week Happy Sad Man New Works
Australia 88 mins Australia 105 mins Australia 98 mins Australia 89 mins Australia 86 mins
WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE After winning the Best Fiction Short
MIFF Accelerator Lab alumnus Ted Wilson Radha Mitchell gives a stunning Filmed in the Blue Mountains, Book Week is With humour and understanding, Genevieve Award at MIFF 2015 with their film When
delivers the engrossing, delicately poised performance in this intoxicating tale of love, a shaggy dark comedy about a disgraced Bailey’s I Am Eleven (MIFF 11) showed us the Dogs Talked, the Northern Territory’s
feature debut Under the Cover of Cloud, an betrayal and Schubert set in the remote novelist turned English teacher trying to the interior lives of 11-year-olds from all over Karrabing Film Collective return with three
improvisatory, feel-good film of family, rainforests of far north Queensland and find redemption. the world. Now her Happy Sad Man does the exciting new films.
cricket and one man’s hunt for David Boon. chosen as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s For generations, dressing up for Book Week same for the men in our midst living with In The Jealous One (29 mins), an Indigenous
Ted is an embittered journalist, fired from Atelier incubator. has been an Aussie school tradition. But for mental illness. man and a jealous spirit grapple with
his Melbourne magazine job and returning A sumptuously shot psychological study of high-school English teacher Nicholas, it’s the Bringing together the vibrant personalities external forces.
home to Hobart, where he lands on the idea of loss and power, Celeste is set ten years after week from hell as he struggles to instil a love and perspectives of five very different men The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland (26
writing a book about Tasmanian upper-order the tragic death of the title character’s lover. of reading in teens who’d rather toy with their – taking in their hopes, anxieties, joy and mins) is set at the end of the world, when
batsmen, which includes tracking down the Once Australia’s most beloved opera singer, phones and dress up as movie superheroes. darkness – the heartwarming, stigma-busting only Indigenous people can survive the
great man himself: David Boon. But soon Ted’s Celeste is ready to make one final return to Writer/director Heath Davis based this Happy Sad Man gives unforgettable voice to toxic landscape.
discovering there’s a lot more to his homeland the stage. But when she asks her estranged film on his own experiences as a teacher, the complex emotional landscapes of modern Night Time Go (31 mins) tells an alternate
than he once thought, and that everything stepson Jack for an impossible favour, the creating wry new comedy with a genial masculinity and acts as a crucial clarion call history in which the Karrabing rebel during
he’s been searching for could be closer secrets that drove them apart will explode fondness for community – the kind you don’t for the misunderstood world of mental illness. WWII and drive the colonists from the Top End.
than he imagined. back into rhapsodic life. always find in books. DIRECTOR: GENEVIEVE BAILEY DIRECTOR: ELIZABETH A POVINELLI
DIRECTOR: TED WILSON DIRECTOR: BEN HACKWORTH DIRECTOR: HEATH DAVIS Sun 12 Aug 1.15pm ACMI 4541 Thu 9 Aug 6.45pm Kino 5381
Sat 4 Aug 4pm ACMI 4111 Fri 3 Aug 6.30pm Forum 1061 Wed 15 Aug 6.15pm Kino 5711 Tue 14 Aug 6.30pm ACMI 4661 Fri 10 Aug 6.30pm Kino 6431
Wed 8 Aug 6.45pm Kino 5331 Sun 5 Aug 6.15pm ACMI 4181 Sat 18 Aug 1.45pm Kino 6851
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Arctic At War Girl One Day
Iceland 97 mins France 113 mins Belgium/Netherlands 106 mins Hungary 99 mins
Mads Mikkelsen turns In their fourth A multiple award winner Winning the FIPRESCI
in a remarkably intense collaboration, director at Cannes – including Prize at Cannes Critics’
performance as a man Stéphane Brizé and the Camera d’Or, the Week, first-time filmmaker
trying to escape the Arctic wilderness in viral star Vincent Lindon examine the politics, Queer Palm, the Un Certain Regard Best Zsófia Szilágyi examines a physically and
YouTube filmmaker Joe Penna’s critically passions and broken promises of one of Actor award and the FIPRESCI Prize – Lukas emotionally exhausting day in the life of an
acclaimed debut feature. today’s biggest battles: profits versus people. Dhont’s debut feature is an empathetic overworked mother.
The result of a gruelling 19-day shoot, Arctic is After sacrificing extra benefits for the chronicle of a young transgender girl’s quest With three children to raise, a part-time job
a masterpiece of brute realism and sustained promise of job security, the 1100 workers to become a ballerina. and the family’s money worries weighing
tension, and one of the most impressive of an automotive parts manufacturing firm Lara (professional dancer Victor Polster) has on her mind, Anna’s existence is dictated by
debuts at this year’s Cannes. Mikkelsen plays are stunned to learn their factory is closing. two dreams: to become a professional ballet the needs of others. Then, amidst her hectic
stranded explorer Overgård, who’s been The financially successful plant is the only dancer, and to complete her gender transition. routine, she discovers that her husband has
waiting for help since crashing in the ice. But employer in the region, but its German owners Girl is elegant and resolute in championing been unfaithful – not that the endless cycle
when the helicopter sent to rescue him also remain unsympathetic. the perspective of its soaring heroine, making of feeding, ferrying, classes and chores leaves
crashes, Overgård realises that if he’s going This spirited social realist drama takes to its for a deeply affecting film anchored in Anna with any time to process the revelation.
to save the lone survivor he’ll have to carry topic like it’s stepping onto a battlefield, with compassion, nuance and an astonishingly “A truly brilliant and original perspective on
her out himself. the irrepressible Lindon leading the charge. assured debut performance from Polster. motherhood.” – ANOTHER GAZE
DIRECTOR: JOE PENNA DIRECTOR: STÉPHANE BRIZÉ DIRECTOR: LUKAS DHONT DIRECTOR: ZSÓFIA SZILÁGYI
Sat 11 Aug 6.45pm Hoyts 8491 Fri 3 Aug 11am Forum 1030 Tue 14 Aug 9pm Forum 1671 Tue 14 Aug 1.30pm Forum 1640
Tue 14 Aug 9pm Hoyts 9671 Sun 12 Aug 9pm Comedy 2571 Sun 19 Aug 6.30pm Hoyts 8921 Sun 19 Aug 11am Hoyts 7891
Sorry Angel Diamantino The Wild Pear Tree The World is Yours
France 132 mins Portugal 92 mins Turkey 188 mins France 102 mins
“The most emotional and Winner of the Cannes “Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Romain Gavras’ brilliant
understated work from Critics’ Week Grand Prize, latest follows a would-be caper comedy is the anti-
Christophe Honoré is a this wild satire follows a writer’s reluctant return Scarface … Sexy Beast,
touching tribute to the art and culture of disgraced soccer superstar on a fantastical to his small-town fold … a typically rich, wry, Spring Breakers and Little Miss Sunshine all
early ‘90s France.” – INDIEWIRE adventure that skewers celebrity culture by melancholic mood-piece.” – SIGHT & SOUND blended together and served with a lad-rock
It’s 1993, and in the city of Rennes, Jacques way of queer sci-fi thriller, political comedy… Ceylan’s first feature since taking home the swagger; it’s the best movie that Guy Ritchie
meets the handsome, much younger Arthur. and everything in between. Palme d’Or with 2014’s Winter Sleep follows never made.” – INDIEWIRE
As these two lives intersect – one bursting Giant fluffy puppies, lesbian double agents, Sinan as he returns home to raise the money Gentle and optimistic, François is a bafflement
into his true identity while the other is surreal celebrity culture – there’s something to realise his artistic ambition, only to reckon to his mother, the vindictive and cut-throat
heartbreakingly coming to a close – their for everyone in this head-spinning genre with the shadow of family when his father’s gangster Danny. All François wants is to start
conflicting ideas of love set the stage for mélange about a Cristiano Ronaldo-esque past – and debt – catches up with him. It a business, buy a house and get the hell out of
a life-changing relationship. Bristling with football superstar who finds himself the explores in Ceylan’s visually expressive Paris. But when he finds out that Danny has
eroticism and imagination, Sorry Angel unwitting pawn in an anti-EU campaign run style both the familial bonds that define us gambled away his nest egg, François realises
“beautifully renders a poignant moment in gay by his evil sisters – all while sinister genetic and larger philosophical themes around he’s going to have to do one last job before
history” (Vanity Fair). experiments are having a strange effect on his art, literature, creativity, belief and he can escape.
DIRECTOR: CHRISTOPHE HONORÉ body and far-right elements cause unrest. intergenerational conflict. DIRECTOR: ROMAIN GAVRAS
Fri 3 Aug 4pm Kino 6050 DIRECTORS: GABRIEL ABRANTES, DANIEL SCHMIDT DIRECTOR: NURI BILGE CEYLAN Sat 4 Aug 9.15pm ACMI 4131
Sun 12 Aug 1.45pm Hoyts 9541 Sun 5 Aug 1.30pm Hoyts 7161 Sat 4 Aug 11.30am Comedy 2101 Tue 7 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 8291
Tue 14 Aug 6.15pm Forum 1661 Sun 12 Aug 6.30pm ACMI 4561 Sun 19 Aug 10.30am Comedy 2891
Woman at War The Guilty Holiday Transit
Iceland 100 mins Denmark 75 mins Denmark/Netherlands/Sweden 90 mins Germany/France 101 mins
The Cannes award- “Every bit as pulse-pounding and involving A young woman’s beach holiday turns From revered auteur Christian Petzold
winning follow-up to as its action-oriented, adrenaline-soaked unthinkably dark in this immaculately comes Transit, a slow-burn thriller and
Benedikt Erlingsson’s counterparts … forces viewers to dust crafted, legitimately shocking depiction discomfiting fable of trans-European
wildly popular festival hit Of Horses and Men off their imaginations and put them to of male violence and power. displacement that channels both Hitchcock
(MIFF 14) tells a thrilling, musical tale of a work with chillingly effective results.” Sascha is young, beautiful and living it up at and Casablanca.
woman on a personal environmental crusade. – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Danish mobster Michael’s luxury villa on the In seemingly modern-day Paris, a man named
Highlighted by a glorious chorus that breaks Taking place entirely within the confines Aegean Sea. But Michael is a man of ever- Georg is fleeing some faceless, fascistic force.
the fourth wall, Erlingsson’s second feature of an emergency services bunker, where present violence and Sascha finds herself Heading south to Marseille, the last place one
is another truly unique work, this one about a cop Asger Holm is on the phone with a turning towards the comparative kindness of can find a boat to the safety of Allied America,
beloved choir leader who is also secretly an terrified woman who’s been abducted by Dutch yacht owner, Thomas. Georg is thrown into a sun-drenched purgatory
eco-activist focused on bringing down the her ex-husband, The Guilty is a masterwork With the confronting, morally ambiguous of hope and disappointment.
heavy industry that threatens Iceland’s natural of dramatic tension from first-time director Holiday, Swedish first-time filmmaker Isabella Based on Anna Seghers’ WWII novel of the
beauty. But her one-woman campaign has a Gustav Möller. Winner of audience awards Eklöf firmly establishes herself as a bold new same name, Transit blurs the boundaries
bump placed in its path when she receives at Sundance and Rotterdam, it’s an edge-of- voice in world cinema. between history and allegory, present and past,
confirmation that her application to adopt a your-seat psychological thriller told entirely offering a powerful critique of contemporary
in real time, and bound to leave you guessing Contains high-impact sexual violence
child has been approved. European nationalism alongside white-
DIRECTOR: BENEDIKT ERLINGSSON until the very end. DIRECTOR: ISABELLA EKLÖF
knuckle thrills.
DIRECTOR: GUSTAV MÖLLER Fri 10 Aug 9pm ACMI 4441
Sat 4 Aug 4pm Hoyts 8111 DIRECTOR: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD
Wed 8 Aug 9.15pm Hoyts 9341 Sat 11 Aug 9.15pm Kino 5511
Mon 13 Aug 6.30pm ACMI 4611 Sun 5 Aug 6.45pm Comedy 2181
Sat 11 Aug 9.15pm Forum 1511 Fri 10 Aug 9.15pm Comedy 2441
Wed 15 Aug 9pm ACMI 3721
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