ByROn BAy IntERnAtIOnAl FIlM FEstIvAl 2013
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De Qué Se Rien Las Hienas? Spain | 0:24:00 | Dir/Prod: Javier Veiga | Short | 2011 | Australian Premiere This could be the typical story of Boy meets Girl. But instead, they ask an existential question: what do the hyenas laugh about?
Tough Bond Kenya | 1:23:00 | Dir: Austin Peck, Anneliese Vandenberg | Documentary | 2012 | Australian Premiere Fresh from the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival Tough Bond is about our irrepressible need as humans for family. We follow four kids who find family and a new identity as Survivors, living together on the streets of Kenya, huffing glue to endure the hell of street life. Recorded over three years, Tough Bond illustrates the alarming trajectory of the new generation of Kenya’s indigenous tribes that has abandoned its broken villages in search of a new life in the nearby towns and exploding city slums. Calling themselves Survivors, our characters take us deep into the parallel world they’ve created for themselves on the streets – a brutal playground held together by a code of responsibility to no-one but each other, born from rejection by their community and cold neglect by their government. Filmmakers in attendance.
Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Denmark | 0:07:48 | Dir: Johan Oettinger | Prod: Ellen Riis | Animation | 2012 | Australian Premiere
UK | 1:30:00 | Dir: Laurent Bouzereau | Prod: Andrew Braunsberg | Documentary | 2012 | Byron Premiere
Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. Samek, a lively eight-year-old boy, tries to pull in a carrot from the other side of the ghetto wall, unaware that two SS men are posted nearby and following his every move.
Co Sie Dzieje, Gdy Dzieci Nie Chca Jesc Zupy
tuesday 5th – 7.30pm – $15
(What Happens When Children Don’t Eat Soup) Poland | 0:08:00 | Dir/Prod: Pawel Prewencki | Animation | 2012 | NSW Premiere | Best Animation Nominee
One of the most gifted and controversial directors of our age, Roman Polanski has lived a life of extremes – from a childhood in the Krakow ghetto and the many accolades of his film career, to the murder of his wife and the personal scandals that would see him forever exiled from America. In Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, long-time friend Andrew Braunsberg and documentarian Laurent Bouzereau team up to provide one of the most in-depth portrayals of the director ever committed to film. Shot while Polanski was under house arrest in 2009, Roman Polanski is a humane, unflinching depiction of a filmmaker whose style has captivated the world, but whose personal life ensured he would forever remain apart from it.
Two mischievous children find themselves in a completely different reality, learning the consequences of their real-world actions.
Co Raz Zostalo Zapisane (Written in Ink) Poland | 0:12:00 | Dir: Martin Rath | Prod: Marcin Malatynski | Short Doc | 2011 | Australian Premiere The compelling story of a man trying to get back in touch with his sister after they haven’t had any contact for 14 years. But can one change what has already been written in ink?
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