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Last Ride, Friday 27th February
The Love Market, Sunday 22nd & Wednesday 25th February
Midnight @ the Mini Regent Cinema, 6.30pm
sessions on Tuesday 24th & Wednesday 25th February
My Tehran For Sale, Saturday 28th February & Sunday 1st March
Salt, Friday 20th February
Van Diemen's Land, Thursday 26th February
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Let the Right One In, Friday 20th February
Beautiful, Saturday 21st February
Blind Loves, Sunday 22nd February
Breaking Away, Sunday 1st March
Daughter of Chorolque, Saturday 21st February
A Good Man, Saturday 21st & Wednesday 25th February
Made In SA, Monday 23rd February
Maziar Bahari Presents, Saturday 21st February
Sparrow, Friday 20th February
don't miss
Beautiful
Beautiful
marks the feature production debut of Adelaide-based Kojo Pictures. It is a drama about Australian suburbia as you have never seen it—as a territory which is sexual, funny, sensuous, strange and terrifying, a place which might have been imagined by David Lynch or Pedro Almodovar. Daniel is an introverted 14 year old whose two main obsessions are photography and Suzy, a sixteen year old femme fatale in training, a dangerous combination of youth and sexuality. Their suburb of Sunshine Hills is haunted by the urban myths of missing teenage girls. Using his crush to her advantage, Suzy demands of Daniel that, in exchange for her friendship, he has to get her secrets and photographs of the neighbours and houses that surround them. Thus begins a journey into the underbelly of suburbia, taking them on the trail of a killer. It is a journey into forbidden knowledge
that can only end in murder.
SCREENS WITH Schadenfreude (short film)
An existential fable about a man who wakes to find himself broke, homeless, and missing one shoe - featuring Barry and Miranda Otto.
Based on Philip Roth’s novel, The Dying Animal, this is the story of a charismatic professor (Ben Kingsley) who glories in the pursuit of his female students but never lets any woman get too close. However when Consuela (Penélope Cruz) enters his classroom, his protective veneer dissolves. Her beauty both captivates and unsettles him. Consuela refuses to be seen as just an object of desire. She has a strong sense of herself and an emotional intensity that challenges the older man’s preconceptions. The scene is set for a drama of jealousy, frustration and obsession. As their intimate connection transforms the pair—more than either could imagine—a charged sexual contest evolves into an unlikely love story. Spanish director Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me ) directs a great cast with humanistic warmth, wry wit and erotic intensity. Elegy explores the power of beauty to blind, to reveal and to transform.
Changing the World Through Film forum
6:00pm Tuesday 24 February
Bradley Forum, Hawke Building, University of South Australia
For information and registration visit www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au or call (08) 8302 0215
Jointly presented by the BigPond Adelaide Film Festival, the Australian International Documentary Conference and The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre at UniSA.
Some filmmakers pick up cameras in an effort to lift the lid on injustice, or to suggest new ways of responding to the social and political issues of our day. In short, they want to change the world. This social activist filmmaking has become a vital strand in international documentary, and it includes some of the most memorable films in this year’s program. This forum brings together three festival guests to share their personal experiences of socially committed documentary. Pamela Yates is the Director of the Sundance Award-winning When the Mountains Tremble, and Emmy and Academy Award winner on the documentaries Loss of Innocence, and Witness to War. She is presenting her latest film The Reckoning about the International Criminal Court. Kiran Bedi is the subject of Megan Doneman’s Yes, Madam, Sir. (See below). Bedi is India’s first woman to become a senior police officer. She brought in radical reforms against all odds, and is now one of India’s most remarkable, beloved and controversial women. For Megan Doneman, telling Bedi’s story has become a long term project.
Speakers: Pamela Yates, Megan Doneman and Kiran Bedi
Chair: Peter Wintonick (filmmaker)
Kiran Bedi is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable and controversial women in India. After winning the Asian tennis championships in 1972, she became the first woman to join the elite Indian Police Service. During separatist riots in 1978 she faced down a mob which was armed with swords. She was armed only with her determination, a quality that she possesses in some abundance. She gained national prominence after having Indira Gandhi’s illegally parked car towed. Her attempts to reorganise Delhi’s notorious Tihar Jail, using methods including meditation, won her the Asian equivalent of a Nobel Prize, but her clashes with the bureaucracies of government and the police force have always made her a difficult woman for those whose main aim is not to rock the boat. Australian documentarist Megan Doneman has followed Bedi for a number of years to produce
this detailed portrait of a mightily tenacious woman bent on making a difference. Narrated by Helen Mirren.
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