BigPond adelaide film festival update
Seats are now on sale for the 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival!
NEW SCREENINGS ADDED
Samson & Delilah
Friday 27th February @ 9:00am
My Year Without Sex
Sunday 1 March @ 4.15pm
sold out
THE FOLLOWING SESSIONS HAVE SOLD OUT - JOIN THE STANDBY QUEUE.
Immediately prior to SOLD OUT sessions you can join the STANDBY QUEUE at the BAFF box office, adjacent to Palace Cinema. If seats become available, last minute tickets will be sold commencing at the advertised screening time. Cash sales only - no passes. No guarantees.
12 Canoes
Thursday 26th February @ 6:00pm
The Best of Domefest
Saturday 28th February @ 6:00pm
Examined Life
Saturday 28th February @ 7:00pm
Gomorrah
Sunday 1st March @ 4:00pm
A Good Man
Tonight @ 8:00pm
Last Ride
Friday 27th February @ 9:00pm
The Love Market and Fairytale of Kathmandu
Tonight @ 5:00pm
Midnight @ the Mini Regent Cinema
Tonight & tomorrow night @ 6:30pm (Still 4 tix for 8:30pm sessions)
My Tehran for Sale
Sunday 1st March @ 12:00pm (still 4 tix Saturday 28th February @ 6:00pm)
My Year Without Sex
Thursday 26th February @ 7:00pm
Offside
Tonight @ 7:00pm
Van Diemen's Land
Thursday 26 February @ 9:15pm
Competitive Picnicking
Saturday 28 February
This is a FREE EVENT Please note there is no STANDBY Q.
And these sesions are selling FAST so be quick!
Breaking Away
Sunday 1 March @ 5:45pm
Che (parts 1 & 2)
Thursday 26th February @ 12:00noon
Closed for Winter
Friday 27th February @ 6:30pm & Sunday 1 March @ 5:15pm
The Best of Domefest
Tonight @ 6:00pm, Saturday 28th February @ 7:30pm & Sunday 1 March @ 6:00pm & 7:30pm
Easy Virtue
Sunday 1st March @ 7:00pm ** CLOSING NIGHT GALA **
JCVD
Friday 27th February @ 7:40pm
Kabuli Kid
Friday 27 February @ 5:50pm
Last Ride
Sunday 1 March @ 2:20pm
Lucky Country
Saturday 28th February @ 8:30pm
Made in SA
Thursday 26 February @ 1:00pm
Midnight @ the Mini Regent Cinema
All remaining 8.30pm sessions, tonight and tomorrow night (only 4 tix left)
My Tehran for Sale
Saturday 28th February @ 6:00pm (only 4 tix left)
Road to Roubaix
Tonight @ 5:30pm
Van Diemen's Land
Friday 27th February @ 9:50pm
DON'T BE LEFT BEHIND - PURCHASE TICKETS AND PASSES NOW ONLINE
OR BY PHONE AT 1300 727 432.
don't miss
Snow
There is a Bosnian proverb that snow does not fall to cover the hill, but for every beast to leave its trail. By 1997 the war in Bosnia has ended but the men are gone. All that remains of them are blunt razors, old shirts, faded photographs. They will return only in the dreams of their women and children. Aida Begić’s debut feature was an award-winner at Critics Week in Cannes for its powerful and moving study of the costs of war on those who survive—primarily the women who are left to grieve, to remember, and to carry on with the business of life. The female community of this small Bosnian village go about their lives in the only way they know. They tend the children, make chutney, weave, but they must also face decisions about whether to reinvent their lives elsewhere or cling to their roots in the soil of their village. “This is a
story about people who decided to dream their own dreams, knowing their dreams were about to turn into a nightmare.” (Aida Begić)
SCREENS WITH Picture of a Good Woman
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
For the forty children who call it home, Mulberry Bush is their last chance. Excluded from school for extreme behaviour, and often having suffered severe emotional trauma, they are given three years at the Oxford boarding school to try to turn their lives around. This latest work from Kim Longinotto, one of Britain’s leading observational documentarists, is reminiscent of Frederick Wiseman’s direct cinema analyses of social institutions. There is no voiceover and no interviews to give you a superior position of knowledge. The fragile young boys at the heart of her film lash out in shockingly extreme ways -- hitting, swearing and spitting their way through the misery of their blighted childhoods. Determined staff members verbally reason with the boys, whilst often having to restrain them physically. Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go is ultimately a heartbreaking,
engrossing study of dysfunction – of what happens when families break down. It also pays witness to the tremendous influence that adults hold -- for bad and for good -- upon growing children.
At The Edge of the World
Each whale season in the Southern Ocean sees an increasing level of confrontation between environmental activists and Japanese whalers who claim to be doing research on the animals they slaughter. In the 1970s Canadian activist Paul Watson founded the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society with a view to taking whatever physical action was necessary to protect endangered species. This documentary tracks the expedition of two Sea Shepherd vessels, the Robert Hunter and the Farley Mowat. The ships are unflagged and hence literally pirates, a reputation their young crews cheerfully embrace. They hope to engage the Japanese, armed only with propeller-fouling ropes, stink bombs to spoil the decks of the processing ships, and a relish for the task ahead. As the sun rises on the 38th day of their expedition, the Robert Hunter finds and engages the Japanese flagship. They hoist
their skull and crossbones and throw themselves into a
cat-and-mouse game that is more thrilling than any mere Hollywood fiction.
The BigPond Adelaide Film Festival has six double pass to be won to see At The Edge of the World tomorrow at 3:00pm.
Simply email info@adelaidefilmfestival.org with 'Sea Shepherd' in the subject line.
Only winners will be notified.
NATUZZI OFFER FOR BAFF SUBSCRIBERS
As a valued Adelaide Film Festival subscriber, Natuzzi stores bring you a special BigPond Adelaide Film Festival promotional offer on selected items, designed and made in Italy. Visit us at 254 -256 The Parade Norwood and 257 Rundle Street, Adelaide for details and don't forget to mention AFF Newsletter. Offer ends March 1st, 2009.
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