Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival 2016 program by Brisbane Marketing

More than 80 films and thousands of amazing characters — what part will you play?

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The script is written, the set is Brisbane, the cameras are about to roll, all we need is for you to play a part. BAPFF is your film festival, check the program, find something you like...

Griffith Film School @ BAPFF

The Colours of Asia Pacific

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A Matter of Form

Festival Schedule

A Critical Eye

FOUNDATION PARTNER

Opening Night

Welcome

Closing Night

Tickets and Bookings

Pre-Festival Screening

From the Programmers

Outdoor Screening

Galas

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Community Screening

Panels and Talks

In Good Faith

Documentaries

Animated Insights

Australian Showcase

Transcending the Inevitable: Japanese Screen Legends and Their Works with Masters

No Boundaries: International Perspectives

Asia Pacific and Australian Short Films

Index of Films

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PARCHED INDIA, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

WRITTEN, DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY LEENA YADAV

"'Parched' is vibrantly alive, full of color and light and movement and music. There is sex in this movie, and there is dancing, and there are vibrant fabrics and foods and fire. It’s a dry place, but one ringed with beauty.” – SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

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QUEENSLAND PREMIERE 116 MINS I UNCLASSIFIED 15+

From its world premiere in Toronto 2015, where it received its first standing ovation, Parched has gone on to extended domestic releases following popular demand in both France and Spain, has won 18 international awards, toured 24 film festivals and now she comes home where it was just a glint in Leena Yadav’s eye. With Academy Award® winning Titanic cinematographer Russell Carpenter, whose sumptuous lensing is imbued with incredible ochres, and Academy Award® nominated editor Kevin Tent (Nebraska) assembling an energetic and dynamically paced scenario by Yadav that has been invited in to the Academy Awards® library, Parched draws attention to sexual politics that resonates globally.

An unflinching examination of patriarchal oppression as well as an emotionally and visually vibrant testament to the solace that springs from sharing a tough plight with others, Parched may take place in a fictional village; however Yadav draws her stirring stories from reality. As we celebrate a BAPFF with a distinctly feminine theme, Parched brings something special to our party — and we're glad she came. Our special guest Writer/Director/Producer Leena Yadav will be in attendance. P ASEEM BAJAJ, AJAY DEVGN, GULAB SINGH TANWAR, ROHAN JAGDALE WS SEVILLE INTERNATIONAL TD DCP Y 2015 L HINDI W/SUBTITLES

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WELCOME

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Brisbane's film season has arrived and this year we are celebrating the third Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival (BAPFF).

Welcome to your film festival. Now in its third year, Brisbane Asia Paciﬁc Film Festival (BAPFF) is an opportunity for Brisbane residents and visitors to celebrate outstanding cinema from our region.

BAPFF launched three years ago with ambition to become a cultural platform for screen content from our region reflecting our city’s changing identity and diversity.

LORD MAYOR OF BRISBANE

From 23 November to 4 December, BAPFF screens more than 80 award-winning films, including Australian and Queensland premieres, complemented by retrospectives, panel discussions and Q&As with leading filmmakers. This year, I’m delighted the festival has found a new home in Palace Cinemas, the perfect destination for locals and cinephiles who want a premium movie experience. BAPFF also offers a rare chance to view many of the films nominated for the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA). Held on 24 November, the APSA ceremony is the region’s highest film accolade and attracts filmmakers from across Asia Pacific. With more than 500 film practitioners expected in Brisbane for the awards, APSA will be the largest international film gathering Australia has ever seen. This is a hugely exciting time to see cinema in Brisbane and an affirmation of our city’s reputation as an Asia Pacific cultural hub. Driven by Brisbane City Council and delivered by Brisbane Marketing, BAPFF is your opportunity to see our region’s best cinema and the lives and landscapes that shape these special stories. I encourage you to take advantage of this year’s truly inspiring program. It's your film festival — be part of it.

CHAIR, ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS AND BRISBANE ASIA PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL

This year we’re excited to be screening the best feature films, documentaries, animations and shorts from 46 countries and areas; and, once again, we have even gone beyond our borders to show 10 titles from Europe and America. The program also features incredible films from Australia and stories from filmmakers who live right here in Brisbane. Asia Pacific cinema is known for its ability to push boundaries and its willingness to explore all facets of the human condition. This year is no exception. We’ve seen a great selection of films that challenge discrimination and inspire change. We also have a number of women’s stories told by female filmmakers. Our opening night film, Parched, follows the powerful story of four spirited rural Indian women who dare to break century-old traditions; while our special Japanese retrospective honours three iconic Japanese actresses and their creative relationships with masters of post-war cinema. BAPFF is our city’s celebration of cinema. I’m confident this year’s program will enchant, mesmerise and amaze. Please join us for our best year yet.

CHAIR, SCREEN QUEENSLAND

As the state government’s screen agency, we understand the important role we play in ensuring voices are heard. Through our Screen Culture Program, we support festivals that allow greater accessibility for Queenslanders to discover a world without borders. Through BAPFF, we delve into Asia Pacific cultures that co-exist in our city and which we would otherwise not see. The relationship between the screen and social, economic and political influence and change, can often be dramatic and profound. Filmmakers have the power through stories to give a voice to many that are often unheard. These stories capture who we are, where we came from and where we are headed. They open doors to understanding, to enlightenment and challenge our thinking. Screen Queensland is proud to embrace diversity and gender parity. We seek to increase women’s participation in key creative roles and through our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Strategy aim for greater representation of Indigenous filmmakers and stories. Such changes on how we fund productions and what is on screen can lead to a paradigm shift in audiences and affect real change in narrative. In an era of fast paced change and globilisation, BAPFF will bring together filmmakers from different regions to tell stories and we look forward to our industry sessions which are a part of the official BAPFF program. We hope you enjoy BAPFF.

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EL CLÁSICO IRAQ, NORWAY, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE 97 MINS I UNCLASSIFIED 15+

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY HALKAWT MUSTAFA

“When love and football collide, the result is an adventure of epic proportions… a fantastical tale with a seriousness at its centre.” When his marriage proposal is thwarted by the father of his beloved, the big-hearted little person Alan turns to larger than life, Cristiano Ronaldo. Convinced that delivering the superstar a pair of handmade Kurdish soccer boots will change his luck, he enlists his brother Shirwan's assistance. They set off for Spain, on a brother-road-movie, in the name of romance. Getting out of Iraq however will not be easy. Receiving the cinematography award and a special mention from the Jury at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, El Clásico, Iraq’s official submission to Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards®, not only finds laughs and love in its upbeat adventure, but offers

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a thought-provoking contrast of its two locations. With the film's title stemming from a fiercely contested football match, KurdishNorwegian writer/director Halkawt Mustafa infuses his feature with vibrancy and passion — plus a spirited performance from debutant Wrya Ahmed who dares to think big in the name of love.

El Clásico continues the BAPFF tradition of bringing the stories of Kurdish people to Brisbane. P HALKAWT MUSTAFA WS LEVELK TD DCP Y 2015 L ARABIC W/SUBTITLES

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LOCATIONS PALACE BARRACKS CINEMAS 61 PETRIE TCE, BRISBANE VENUE ENQUIRIES: 07 3367 1954

The Barracks is well serviced by public transport and is close to the Brisbane Transit Centre, with alternative access to the cinema via the Roma St pedestrian bridge. Visit translink.com.au for details. Undercover parking is available at The Barracks, with access off Petrie Tce. Parking for cinema patrons is $8 (2 – 4 hours) on exit, with validation of your parking ticket at the Palace Barracks Box Office. We encourage patrons to be mindful that parking in The Barracks can approach capacity when major events are scheduled at nearby Suncorp Stadium. Information on upcoming events is available at suncorpstadium.com.au.

Tickets and passes are non-refundable. Single tickets, including pass redemptions and excluding special events, can be exchanged for equal or lesser dollar value tickets for a fee of $2. Exchanges can be made online, in person or over the phone. Any cost difference between the tickets will not be refunded. Advertised prices include all fees and charges (except exchange fees).

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CLASSIFICATION All film classifications are indicated with each film. The majority of BAPFF films are unclassified. Unless otherwise indicated, the age recommendation for these unclassified films are 15+ or 18+. In accordance with Australian Classification Regulations, films listed as “unclassified 15+” are restricted to persons aged 15 and over unless accompanied by an adult; films listed as “unclassified 18+” are restricted to persons aged 18 or over. Please check individual film classification details before purchasing your tickets. Proof of age must be shown upon request at time of booking and/or upon entry to the cinema. PROGRAM CHANGES Program details are correct at the time of printing but are subject to change without notice. Please check the website for updates or alterations to the published program guide.

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HIWAGANG HAPIS) PHILIPPINES DIRECTED BY LAV DIAZ

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“An ambitious statement by one of contemporary cinema’s authentic radicals… [a] mesmerising weave of narratives, and of history and myth.”

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Legendary pioneer of slow cinema Lav Diaz (whose Venice Golden Lion winner, The Woman Who Left also screens in this festival) returns with another audacious epic that won the Alfred Bauer award at the 2016 Berlinale — an ambitious opus set against the Philippine Revolution of 1896, an uprising that put an end to 300 years of Spanish colonial rule. Tracing the tangle of lives that crisscross the revolutionary landscape, Diaz

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QUEENSLAND PREMIERE 480 MINS I UNCLASSIFIED 18+

composes a poetic, expressionistic portrait of the blood-soaked birth of the modern Filipino nation. Mesmerising and serpentine, Diaz’s work breaks free from history, delving into folklore, philosophy and magic realism, as he teases out the deep, abiding ancestral guilt we all inherit from our forebears. P BIANCA BALBUENA, PAUL SONARIO WS FILMS BOUTIQUE TD DCP Y 2016 L MANDARIN, ENGLISH, FILIPINO, SPANISH W/SUBTITLES

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39 JAMES ST, FORTITUDE VALLEY VENUE ENQUIRIES: 07 3852 4488 Centro is a 10 minute walk from Brunswick St Station or there are a number of different bus routes stopping nearby. Visit translink. com.au for details.

CORPORATE PACKAGES Your business or organisation can be part of BAPFF and the 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards with our corporate packages, an opportunity for your staff and clients to participate in a multicultural cinematic experience that showcases Asia Pacific’s best talent — right here in Brisbane. Visit bapff.com.au for more information.

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ANN ST, BRISBANE VENUE ENQUIRIES: 07 3403 8888 Please visit translink.com.au for public transport options to CBD. King George Square Car Park is located underground between Ann and Adelaide Streets. Vehicle access is via entry and exit in Roma St and entry only from Adelaide St. The current price coinciding with the Mercedes-Benz Brisbane Outdoor Screening is $5 after 4.30pm. Please visit brisbane.qld.gov.au/traffic-transport/parking for up to date pricing prior to your visit.

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Sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Brisbane, BAPFF is taking over King George Square for a special pre-festival outdoor screening of the 1953 CinemaScope marvel Love is a Many-Splendored Thing. Pull up a deck chair among the latest Mercedes-Benz Brisbane collection and enjoy the drama, passion and fashion of one of cinema’s all-time greatest romances. Gates open from 6pm with bar and food available for purchase. Screening commences at 7pm. Seating is limited — get in quick for this once in a lifetime experience!

LOVE IS A MANYSPLENDORED THING UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DIRECTED BY HENRY KING, OTTO LANG

A steamy cross-cultural romance set against the majesty of 1950s Hong Kong, this is a true Hollywood classic with a decidedly Asian edge – inspired by a real-life love affair.

Hong Kong, 1950s, American reporter Elliot (William Holden) crosses paths with Suyin, a widowed Eurasian doctor. Despite hailing from very different worlds, the two begin a slow, simmering romance, though one that’s clandestine and tinged with tragedy – for Suyin is forever sensitive about her identity, and Elliot’s freedom is hindered by his failing marriage elsewhere. Alive with brilliant cinematography, sumptuous fashion and emotional depths,

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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 3rd BAPFF, Brisbane's premier film festival. It's yours, dip your toe in, embrace it, own it, turn these pages and read on, I am certain you will find something to your liking within this festival programmed especially for you.

“From the heart of the sweet peony, A drunken bee.”

Much has been said this year about cultural diversity, gender and race equality. In this multicultural city where one in four households speak a foreign language, BAPFF and its sister signature international award event APSA (Asia Pacific Screen Awards celebrating its 10th birthday) promote films and filmmakers from the rich and vast outreach of Asia Pacific. A region that includes Australia and 69 other countries and areas and touted as the fastest growing region in the world. A plethora of talented storytellers abound, each cinematically enchanting us with their unique voices through the medium of film — the most democratic, accessible and popular art form of the 21st century.

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FILM DIRECTOR, BRISBANE ASIA PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL AND ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS

Over 30 APSA films nominated for their cinematic excellence and reflections of cultural origin are on show in this program. APSA is the highest accolade in film for Asia Pacific and you have the chance to learn from these artists during intimate BAPFF in-conversation opportunities. At BAPFF, we have discussed 2016 as 'the year of the feminine', so many female stories (written and directed by both men and women), so many central female characters driving the stories, many debut or sophomore female writers and directors. Cinematic equality, it would seem, is alive and well within Asia Pacific. Opening night film Parched is a perfect example of feminine breakthrough. A festival, audience and box office hit this film celebrates and champions female strength and wisdom. Mountain (Israel) explores a devout mother’s frustrations and awakenings in a Jewish cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives, Daughter (Iran) reflects a young woman’s torments as she attempts to break free from her father’s control. We also continue our Kurdish tradition with three films: the inspirational closing night film El Clásico (Iraq), the romance drama The Dark Wind (Iraq) and the beautiful coming of age tale Rauf, set in a snowy isolated corner of Anatolia (Turkey). We have rare cinematic experiences in the Punjabi tale The Fourth Direction, The Bonfire from the Republic Sakha (Yakutia) far North-East of Russia and from the mountains of Ningxia’s province in the northwest part of China, a Muslim community is explored in Knife in the Clear Water.

Love is a Many-Splendored Thing was legendary director Henry King’s glittering testament to Hollywood romance and glamour, with a decidedly Asian edge. Recipient of a Golden Globe for Best Film Promoting International Understanding, Love is a Many-Splendored Thing remains a sheer delight from cinema’s golden age. P BUDDY ADLER DIST ROADSHOW FILMS, 20TH CENTURY FOX AUSTRALIA TD DIGITAL Y 1955 L ENGLISH

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Doesn’t this haiku in a most simplistic and yet satisfying way reflect the beauty of cinematic language? And are we not the blessed drunken bees in the realm of memorable cinema? In its third year, BAPFF continues to be a great journey of discovery. And resonance. For what do we seek in cinema, if not resonance, either intellectually, artistically or emotionally — all shed new lights on the way we see ourselves and the world? We hope our selection will connect with you, and enrich your experience. A few things struck a chord: the honesty of some filmmakers who lay bare their deepest feelings or vulnerability on screen, directly or subtly; the capacity of some other to transcend history, personal experience or the everyday into something larger than life. And then there are always the ones who dare to be different and break new grounds; as well as those who actively use this medium to confront reality. Grand epics are surely engrossing, while ordinary, precious stories become extraordinary through the lenses of sensitive artists. I’m excited to welcome films from many of the region’s most respected auteurs, and looking forward to introducing many remarkable debut features, whose quality attests to the promising future of Asia Pacific cinema. Immerse yourself in BAPFF like the drunken bee!

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Galas Help us celebrate two highly anticipated films at BAPFF by grabbing a glass of wine and indulging in Ants on a Shrimp and The Salesman, the latest award winner from one of cinema’s great modern filmmakers. With the mouth-watering morsels of the famed head-chef of Noma or the nod from Iranian maestro to Arthur Miller’s famous play The Death of the Salesman there will be plenty in these films to get you talking as you mingle with your film lovers at our special presentations that turn cinema into an event and show off the Asia Pacific in all its complex and eye-catching beauty.

ANTS ON A SHRIMP: NOMA IN TOKYO NETHERLANDS DIRECTED BY MAURICE DEKKERS

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A feast for the eyes as René Redzepi — owner and head-chef of Noma, rated the world’s best restaurant — moves halfway across the world from Denmark to Japan to open a pop-up restaurant in this mouthwatering documentary.

Featuring culinary delights like deepfried whale sperm, green strawberries, raw squid, rose broth and salted cherry blossoms — and of course ants on a shrimp — the camera follows Redzepi as he ventures deep into Japanese culture to find authentic local flavours and ingredients. It is a race to service that will leave them — and audiences — breathless. P DAN BLAZER, NELSJE MUSCH-ELZINGA DIST MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT WS FORTISSIMO FILMS TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH

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ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, FRANCE DIRECTED BY ASGHAR FARHADI

“Another intriguing collection of scenes from a marriage in which happiness is threatened… A film that keeps getting better.”

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Following in the footsteps of his Academy Award® winning A Separation, three-time APSA winner auteur Asghar Farhadi continues to probe emotional intricacies and moral subtleties. When Emad and Rana move from their crumbling Tehran apartment, instability follows, sparked by their varying reactions to an intruder. With the couple also staging a revival of Death of a Salesman, the acclaimed filmmaker conjures

QUEENSLAND PREMIERE 125 MINS I UNCLASSIFIED 18+

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another masterful combination of domestic turmoil and social commentary. Selected as Iran's foreign-language submission for the Academy Awards® and earning Cannes' Best Screenplay and Best Actor prizes, Farhadi's latest once again observes the complexities of his country with an astute eye. P ALEXANDRE MALLET-GUY, ASGHAR FARHADI DIST HI GLOSS ENTERTAINMENT WS MEMENTO FILM DISTRIBUTION TD DCP Y 2016 L FARSI W/SUBTITLES

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Recently restored by the National Film and Sound Archive, the wild and beautiful Storm Boy still tugs at the heartstrings.

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STORM BOY (RESTORED) AUSTRALIA DIRECTED BY HENRI SAFRAN

“...one of the most cherished of Australian classic films. It has a deep emotional clarity that appeals to children and adults alike, making it timeless.” - AUSTRALIAN SCREEN

Australians of a certain age have a special place in their heart for this film. In some ways, it felt like your Aussie childhood wasn't quite complete until you'd seen Storm Boy. But while a national classic, it carries a universal message that still resonates today. Ten-year-old Mick lives with his freewheeling father in a lonely shack among the dunes and lagoons of South Australia’s Coorong, where the Murray meets the sea. When Mick befriends Fingerbone Bill

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(David Gulpilil), he gets a new name and a new purpose: nursing three rescued pelican chicks back to health. One, Mr Percival, becomes his faithful pet – and a classic story takes flight. Winner of Best Film at the 1977 AFI Awards, Storm Boy is based on one of Australia’s best children's novels by exceptional author Colin Thiele. P MATT CARROLL DIST SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FILM CORPORATION TD DCP Y 1976 L ENGLISH

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What a richer world we live in when we focus on the female storytellers. Enjoy an afternoon embracing not just the female experience in film but also the female gaze in film and what women are talking about. Asia Pacific is abundant with strident, emboldened female filmmakers each with a clear voice singing their thoughtful, moving, probing, evocative and brave stories. The cinema reflected in this incredible region is awash with female protagonists making us laugh, cry and think. A veritable collective of the feminine spirit is on show in this BAPFF programme so what better than to come together over lunch and talk. The luncheon will open with a Q&A with Veronica Fury, Queensland producer of Ella (See page 32), the groundbreaking story of the first Indigenous dancer at the prestigious Australian Ballet. Followed by a panel discussion with VIP guests of the festival including confirmed panellist Leena Yadav, the writer, director, producer of the break-out feminine girl-power film of the year, Parched, BAPFF’s Opening Night and APSA nominated film.

It's a game changer and it has become big business in parts of Asia Pacific. As the worlds of gaming and cinema blend, how do we ensure that story is still king? While the platforms and distribution models transform, how will the timeless techniques of cinema engage new audiences? Join the panel as they discuss the nature of games, the characters who inhabit them and how this story is playing out on everchanging screens. It's game on if you want to know what's happening with the gaming industry worldwide and here in Queensland. Join the panelists for a networking session after the two panel discussions to learn more

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Free Setsuko Hara, Hideko Takamine and Kinuyo Tanaka all played a pivotal role in defining classical Japanese cinema; the films of Ozu, Naruse or Mizoguchi’s would not be the same without their presence. How did these actresses each contribute to the visions of their directors, and how are the three collaborations different from each other? Join Kiki Fung, BAPFF Head Programmer and Chris Fujiwara, renowned international film critic/programmer and Chairman of APSA’s Youth, Animation and Documentary International Jury, for an in-depth discussion on the actressdirector duos in this program, and on how they transformed the everyday into cinematic poetry. See page 34 for details of Transcending the Inevitable: Japanese Screen Legends and Their Works with Masters

A wonderful agender has been set. Q&A: Veronica Fury (Producer of Ella) and Jo Dillon (SVP, Development and Production, Screen Queensland)

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GRIFFITH FILM SCHOOL It begins with a face, the face that tells who we are. Or does it? In Kan Lume’s Study of a Singaporean Face, a stack of paper sheaves in the opening frame is the only reference to the country’s Population White Paper (2013) that posited a population of 6.9 million by 2030. This would demand an increase of 100,000 more people each year hence the film’s overlapping images and increasing sense of claustrophobia.

Firstly, Pieter-Jan de Pue brings The Land of the Enlightened, a first long form docu-fiction hybrid that won a World Cinema Special Jury Award for best cinematography at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Gorgeous to look at, a hybrid documentary combining narrative and non-fiction techniques, it tells the story of young Afghans who dig up old Soviet mines to sell the explosives to other children, as Americans occupy their country.

Griffith Film School is committed to the development of emerging voices in this region, and we are extremely proud to support these outstanding filmmakers working in the region as we share with the BAPFF team the aims for fostering and developing talent.

SINGAPORE DIRECTED BY KAN LUME, MEGAN WONOWIDJOYO

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Director/Writer/Cinematographer Pieter Jan de Pue in attendance. Pieter Jan de Pue is in Brisbane as a guest of the annual CAPA Congress; CILECT Asia-Pacific Association (CAPA) is the regional association of the CILECT (The International Association of Film and Television Schools) member schools in the Asia-Pacific Region.

This year Griffith Film School is delighted to renew its engagement with the young and vibrant BAPFF with a focus on young talent and short films alike. We have curated not one but two programs, and both have a guest attached.

Secondly, Philip Cheah, the eminence grise of talent scouting in the Asia Pacific, has selected a wonderful collection of short films from this vibrant region: It's got EVERYTHING from animation, experimental to narrative and covers big to small countries and unknowns to big names. Vilsoni Hereniko from Fiji brings a re-cut short he co-directed with Garin Nugroho, in a world premiere for Brisbane: Mirage and is our guest.

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The issue of identity spreads across this selection, from the struggle of Syrian refugees stuck in Lebanon in Jocelyn Saab’s One Dollar A Day to the American veteran who identifies so closely with his Laotian friend’s family after the war, in Xaisongkham Induangchanthy’s Those Below. In Cheng Thim Kian’s Men Without Women Looking for Bananafish/Girl Without Cat Telling Her Story, identity is lost when love ends, just as identity is found in faith in Jet Leyco’s Two Way Jesus. In Vikkrant Nigam’s Khajaou, an artist losing his inspiration, is akin to losing his identity and his sense of colour. Then in Ying Liang’s A Sunny Day, the film begs the question: “Where do we live and what is citizenship?” Finally in Vilsoni Hereniko’s Mirage, a dance drama drawn from an Indonesian text but transposed into a Pacific Island tale. It’s the mirage of national identities that are furiously collapsing as we speak. Curated by Philip Chech Philip Chech, director Vilsoni Hereniko and producer Jeannette Paulson Hereniko (Mirage) in attendance.

THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED BELGIUM, GERMANY, IRELAND, NETHERLANDS DIRECTED BY PIETER-JAN DE PUE

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“Hypnotic, playful and chillingly austere, the hybrid documentary blends romance and raw realism”

On the desolate high plains of Afghanistan, gangs of marauding children are the law. One band raids supply caravans on horseback from their base in an abandoned Soviet outpost, holding them up for guns or opium. Other teenage tribes dig out old explosives to sell and pick over the wrecks of tanks from a forgotten war. These small scavengers long for the rowdy, gung-ho US soldiers occupying their country to leave – then, they can truly be kings. FRIDAY 18TH NOV I 7:30PM FREE (BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL)

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Shot over seven years and melding documentary footage with re-enactments, Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue has crafted a visually stunning snapshot of freedom and desperate survival in a wartorn wilderness. Director Pieter-Jan De Pue in attendance. P BART VAN LANGENDONCK DIST MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT WS FILMS BOUTIQUE TD DCP Y 2015 W/SUBTITLES

PHILIP CHEAH Philip Cheah is a film critic and is the editor of BigO, Singapore's only independent pop culture publication. He is Vice-President of NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema). He is programme consultant for the South-east Asian Film Festival, the AsiaPacificFilms. com website, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Shanghai InternationalFilm Festival, Hanoi InternationalFilm Festival, and the Dubai Int'l Film Festival. He is co-editor of the books: Garin Nugroho-And the Moon Dances, Noel Vera’s Critic After Dark and Ngo Phuong Lan’s Modernity and Nationality in Vietnamese Cinema. In 2004, he was awarded the Korean Cinema Award at the 9th Pusan International Film Festival, for his contribution to Korean film. In 2006, he was awarded the Asian Cinema Prize at the 8th Cinemanila International Film Festival, for his contribution to Asian film. He is the patron of the South-east Asian Screen Academy in Makassar, Indonesia.

ONE DOLLAR A DAY

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FIJI, INDONESIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DIRECTED BY VILSONI HERENIKO, GARIN NUGROHO

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HERMAN VAN EYKEN Professor Herman Van Eyken has a background in scriptwriting, producing and directing. He directed more than 190 films. Herman’s research interests lie in the area of incubator programs for emerging talent and cross-cultural collaboration. He is a co-director of the Asia Pacific Screen Lab for NETPAC. Herman originally crafted his film and education career in Brussels. In 2005, he founded and headed Singapore’s first film degree at LASALLE College of the Arts.

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For CILECT – The International Association of Film and TV schools - he was Project Chair and curator of the 10 DVD Box Lessons in Film, a pilot with in depth interviews with foremost filmmakers in Europe and the Asia Pacific Region. He currently heads the Griffith Film School, Brisbane — Australia’s largest film school and chairs CAPA, representing the Asia Pacific Region in the CILECT Executive Council.

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The Colours of Asia Pacific The Asia Pacific region is one of the most eclectic filmmaking scenes in the world today — defined by untamed imagination, vivid visual styles and an irrepressible sense of adventure. From heart-warming drama, wicked black comedy and inspiring true stories to genre mayhem and unnerving surrealism, The Colours of Asia Pacific is a wide-ranging look at the latest batch of outstanding cinema from our closest neighbours.

COLD OF KALANDAR

DESTRUCTION BABIES (DISUTORAKUSHON BEIBÎZU)

THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED

TURKEY, HUNGARY DIRECTED BY MUSTAFA KARA

JAPAN DIRECTED BY TETSUYA MARIKO

BELGIUM, GERMANY, IRELAND, NETHERLANDS DIRECTED BY PIETER-JAN DE PUE

(KALANDAR SOĞUĞU)

“(A) powerful, slow-burning and beautifully -hewn rural drama...”

– THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

A DRAGON ARRIVES!

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“Mani Haghighi’s bold, bewildering mélange of noir, mockumentary and outright fantasy bends itself into one very sexy pretzel.”

Iran, 1965. The Prime Minister has been shot dead and a suave Chevy driving Detective Hafizi (Amir Jadidi) is being interrogated. A geologist and a hippie sound recordist are soon part of the investigation. This colourful hardboiled detective story meets mockumentary comes with a labyrinthine of twists and counter culture-references. Iranian cinema has hardly ever been so surreal.

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A rising star of Iranian cinema, Mani Haghighi is experimental in his work yet his captivating characters don't lose us for a second, even among all the earthquakes. Apply a frenetic soundtrack, splashes of vivid citrus and A Dragon Arrives! is a refreshingly unexpected cinema experience. This is filmmaking at its most immediate and bold. P MANI HAGHIGHI DIST DARICHEH CINEMA WS THE MATCH FACTORY TD DCP Y 2015 L FARSI W/SUBTITLES

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It’s a vanished golden age that won’t come again. High in the mountains of the Black Sea region, Mehmet and his family once built a life with money earned from discovering gold. But it’s all gone now, and the quixotic prospector roams the mountains for days on end, away from his wife and sons, wrapped up in the enduring fantasy of finding his next big score. As the winter snows roll in and the debts pile up, he puts aside his quest and takes up another: he will train the family’s bull, and come spring, take it to town to fight. Turkey’s official submission to the foreign-language category for the Academy Awards®, Cold of Kalandar, sumptuously lensed across three seasons, celebrates the irrepressibility of the human spirit in the face of hardship.

"frenetic, brutal and weirdly cathartic—and you can bet that Mariko wants us to feel uncomfortable – FILM COMMENT at letting ourselves get caught up in it.”

“Hypnotic, playful and chillingly austere, the hybrid documentary blends romance and raw realism” – SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

Orphaned brothers Taira and Shouta live by a shipyard in the small seaside town of Mitsuhama, their days characterised by beatings and boredom. When Taira leaves after his latest altercation, he heads to the nearby city of Matsuyama picking up random fights. Unconcerned about leaving Shouta behind, he turns his festering adolescent angst into a game of destruction.

Earning the Best Emerging Director prize at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival, Destruction Babies has drawn comparisons to Fight Club and Harmony Korine’s idiosyncratic efforts. Rising talent Tetsuya Mariko crafts a thought-provoking dissection of teenage torment, violent impulses and the moral complexities inherent in a society where the former gives rise to the latter. P EISEI SHU WS SHOCHIKU CO., LTD. TD DIGITAL Y 2016 L JAPANESE W/SUBTITLES

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Shot over seven years and melding documentary footage with re-enactments, Belgian filmmaker Pieter-Jan De Pue has crafted a visually stunning snapshot of freedom and desperate survival in a war-torn wilderness. Director Pieter-Jan De Pue in attendance. P BART VAN LANGENDONCK DIST MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT WS FILMS BOUTIQUE TD DCP Y 2015 W/SUBTITLES

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NAGASAKI: MEMORIES OF MY SON (HAHA TO KURASEBA)

PSYCHO RAMAN

QUEEN OF KATWE

JAPAN DIRECTED BY YOJI YAMADA

INDIA DIRECTED BY ANURAG KASHYAP

UGANDA, SOUTH AFRICA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DIRECTED BY MIRA NAIR

(RAMAN RAGHAV 2.0)

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“Beautifully acted… old-fashioned in the very best sense, evoking the past masters of Japanese cinema”

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“A tour de force from the grand dame of Korean cinema.”

With her clients advancing in age, elderly sex worker So-young (Youn Yuh-Jung) doesn’t simply attend to their physical needs, but assists with their emotional issues. Then, just as she starts caring for a young boy, one customer asks her to help end his struggles. In her third collaboration with talented writer/director E J-yong ( Actresses), veteran actress Youn (also a Hong Sang-soo regular) delivers one of her

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finest performances to date as a woman forced to confront past regrets and future inevitabilities. Exploring the tough plight facing Korean seniors today, this 2016 Berlinale official selection doesn't shy away from harsh realities, yet always approaches its narrative with exceptional dead-pan humour and empathy. P SUH DONG-HYUN WS M-LINE DISTRIBUTION TD DCP Y 2016 L KOREAN W/SUBTITLES

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Set three years after the bombing of Nagasaki, the intimate family portrait focuses on the ties that bind midwife Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) to her son Koji, even after his passing. Crafting a moving and endearing feature, veteran master Yoji Yamada ( Twilight Samurai) notches up his 83rd directorial credit with a tender, ghostly exploration of one of the most tragic chapters in his nation's history. Nominated for 11 Japanese Academy Awards® (winning Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress), and selected as the country's foreign-language submission for the Academy Awards®, Nagasaki: Memories of My Son recounts a haunting story of love, loss and the struggle to simultaneously remember the past and move forward. P NOZOMU ENOKI WS SHOCHIKU CO., LTD. TD DIGITAL Y 2015 L JAPANESE W/SUBTITLES

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“(A riff) on a grisly episode of Mumbai history in this luridly absorbing serial-killer thriller”

India’s most infamous murderer, Raman Raghav, brutally slaughtered more than 40 people in the 1960s. This film is not about him. It’s about someone worse. In the present day, madman Ramanna hero-worships this legendary criminal, stalking the same fetid Mumbai slums, dragging a bloody tire iron, similarly driven to kill by the voices in his head. The only thing standing in the way of his killing spree is Raghavan, a coke-addled cop struggling with his own inner demons. The stage is set for a pulse-pounding, grim and gritty crime melodrama from celebrated Indian director and APSA Jury Grand Prize winner Anurag Kashyap (Gangs of Wasseypur ). P VIKRAMADITYA MOTWANE, VIKAS BAHL, MADHU MANTENA WS STRAY DOGS TD DCP Y 2016 L HINDI W/SUBTITLES

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“[Intimate] character observation, elegant compositions accentuating the serenity of nature, bustling street scenes, – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER and stylized jolts of subjectivity.”

Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding) is one of India’s most internationally acclaimed awardwinning filmmakers, now working abroad. Her latest film brings to the screen the inspirational, true life story of Phiona Mutesi. Adapted from Tim Crothers’ book of the same name, Queen of Katwe follows the remarkable arcing hero’s journey of a young ghetto-dweller come chess prodigy from the slums of Uganda, who finds the confidence in herself to take on the world. In bringing Mutesi’s remarkable story to life with acclaimed stars Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo plus a naturalistic performance by newcomer Madina Nalwanga as Phiona, Nair’s film will raise the spirits of anybody who sees it. P LYDIA PILCHER, JOHN CARLS DIST WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES WS WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH

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THE TRAP (OTTAAL)

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TURKEY DIRECTED BY BARIŞ KAYA, SONER CANER

“The futile hunt for pink fabric in a Turkish-Kurdish conflict zone is a mission of love that will symbolize - VARIETY a young boy's passage out of innocence.”

“A heartbreakingly beautiful tale of childhood and innocence”

– THE NEW INDIANEXPRESS

Nine-year-old carpenter’s apprentice Rauf spends his days making coffins for dead soldiers, and his nights listening to the constant rattle of gunfire and distant explosions. In a snowy border village on the frontline of a self-determination war between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish state, his only scrap of joy is his first crush — Zana, twice his age and his master’s daughter.

Orphaned Kuttappayi lives with his kindly, weather worn grandfather among the spectacular Kerala backwaters where they raise flocks of ducks. Fishing, playing, reading, laughing — it’s an idyllic life full to the brim of learnings, discoveries and a deep respect for nature and the environment. An adaption of Chekhov’s timeless work Vanka, this modernised tale also looks at the plight of the poor and powerless.

Clinging on to hope, Rauf sets himself the task of getting a floral pink scarf to prove his affections for his sweetheart — but for a boy who’s never registered even seeing the colour pink, the search starts to seem impossible.

Winner of five awards including Best Film at the Kerala International Film Festival and winner of the Crystal Bear, Berlinale Generation Kplus competition, critically acclaimed auteur Jayaraj has made over 40 films in four languages across a 23-year career. The Trap is in the Malayalam dialect, exquisitely lensed, and gifted performances abound.

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A Ma tt e r m r o F f o Bringing together bold new talents and acclaimed veteran filmmakers, A Matter of Form is a celebration of cinema’s experimental power and limitless possibility. Discover films that break convention, upend genre and toy with the very nature of how film is presented, with this artful collection from some of the freshest, most innovative voices in cinema.

AFTERNOON (NA RI XIA WU)

TAIWAN DIRECTED BY TSAI MING-LIANG

“Hypnotic… a rare and lovely cinematic expression of gratitude.”

– CINEMA SCOPE

For celebrated Taiwanese auteur Tsai Ming-liang (Stray Dogs, Vive L'Amour) — one of the most awarded filmmakers working today — the creation of cinema is indivisible from one thing: Lee Kang-sheng, his friend, muse and housemate, and the star of every film he’s made for the last 25 years. Conducted as an improvised, single-shot conversation between the two men, Afternoon is Tsai’s glowing, rambling testament to the work of the great actor. Less a traditional film than it is a chance to witness the rapport between one of modern cinema’s most enduring partnerships, Afternoon is career retrospective meets My Dinner with Andre — an indulgent, fascinating treat for cinephiles that shows Tsai at his most giddily philosophical.

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(UMI YORI MO MADA FUKAKU) JAPAN DIRECTED BY HIROKAZU KORE-EDA

“[An] achingly beautiful ode to the quiet complexities of family … no filmmaker today is watching ordinary human life more closely”

Once Ryota was a promising young novelist. Now he’s a middle-aged divorcee working for a private detective agency in Tokyo’s outer suburbs. But when a monster typhoon rolls into the city, Ryota is forced to shelter at his estranged mother’s house along with his ex-wife and son, and a window to rekindle creaks gently open.

Screens with Lav Diaz’s short film The Day Before the End.

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Japanese arthouse legend and APSA Academy member Hirokazu Kore-eda (Like Father, Like Son) returns to the domestic landscapes that have defined his career with After the Storm: a gently comedic slice of ordinary life, rendered in all its failings, disappointments and hope. P HIJIRI TAGUCHI, YOSE AKIHIKO, MATSUZAKI KAORU DIST RIALTO DISTRIBUTION WS WILD BUNCH TD DCP Y 2016 L JAPANESE W/SUBTITLES

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BANGKOK NITES

BEHEMOTH

CROSSCURRENT

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RUSSIAN FEDERATION, FRANCE, GERMANY DIRECTED BY IVAN I. TVERDOVSKY

“Kafka meets Cronenberg, with a side order of gloomy Russian humour.” – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Cementing writer/director Ivan Tverdovsky as a talent to watch after his 2014 APSAnominated Corrections Class, and clearly coloured by the politics of modern-day Russia, Zoology provides an absurdist but empathetic look at issues of acceptance, isolation, identity and individuality. In a tour de force performance, Natalia Pavlenkova plays mild-mannered zoo administrator Natasha, who strives to fit in with her bullying, gossipy co-workers

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— until the sudden appearance of a tail makes her stand out even more. Her radiologist, Pyotr, is not only fascinated but romantically interested, while her religious mother is horrified and fearful. For Natasha, however, her new appendage proves to be both a liberating and a learning experience. P MILA ROZANOVA, NATALIA MOKRITSKAYA, GUILLAUME DE SEILLE, ULIANA SAVELIEVA, ESTHER FRIEDRICH, ALEX WEIMER WS NEW EUROPE FILM SALES TD DCP Y 2016 L RUSSIAN W/SUBTITLES

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“Bangkok Nites moves between classical and experimental, and the end credits’ special thanks to Abel Ferrara, should – THE FILM STAGE tip you off to this picture’s freeness.”

For Luck, working as a high-class prostitute in Bangkok’s red light district is the only way she has of supporting her family. When she runs into a former client, a retired Japanese soldier, the two begin a languid affair; but a trip together to Luck’s rural hometown, on the border of Laos, draws them into a landscape still raw from the scars of colonialism. A dreamlike tour through sex, money and cross-cultural collapse, Bangkok Nites, premiering at this year’s Locarno, is the sprawling sophomore effort from filmmaker Katsuya Tomita. Brimming with inventiveness and stylistic bravado, Bangkok Nites is a most unconventional love story — a romance played out against the pale shades of history, where the after-images of colonialism still burn bright and dangerous. P PHILIPPE AVRIL, ATSUKO OHNO, RYOHEI TSUTSUI, APICHA SARANCHOL, MATTIE DO, DOUANGMANY SOLIPHANH WS KUZOKU INC. TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH, FRENCH, JAPANESE, LAO, TAGALOG, THAI W/SUBTITLES

“A documentary whose stunning images speak louder than words… masterly.”

– THE GUARDIAN

On the verdant steppes of Mongolia, miners tear apart a fragile landscape to feed a voracious demand for steel. Beneath the earth, workers slave away in unimaginable conditions, forgotten pawns in a system of short-sightedness, greed and inhumanity. Welcome to Behemoth. A breathtakingly beautiful testament to human and environmental catastrophe, Behemoth — winning the SIGNIS and Green Drop Awards at Venice, 2015 — is the fearless new film from documentarian Zhao Liang. A work of audio-visual mastery, as well as a remarkable piece of guerrilla journalism — the footage was shot without the approval of the mine owners — Behemoth represents a new high point in ecocinema, transporting and terrifying in equal measure. Screens with Pimpaka Towira’s short film Prelude to the General.

“Rich and sensual… looks like half a dream of the future and half a step back in time.”

– MUBI

In director Yang Chao's mesmerising film, poetry guides the path of a cargo boat captain venturing along the Yangtze River. Onboard, a book of verse is his companion, with each piece of prose mysteriously linked to his many stopovers. On the shore, he seeks sensual rather than literary solace in repeated trysts with an elusive woman. Partially improvised and shot on 35mm with breathtaking spectacles of the landscape along the Three Gorges, Crosscurrent proves an emotionally and visually lyrical odyssey, with master cinematographer, 2015 APSA winner Mark Lee Ping-Bing (The Assassin) receiving the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution in Cinematography at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival. P YU WANG, YANG JING, HA BO WS RAY PRODUKTION GMBH TD DCP Y 2016 L MANDARIN W/SUBTITLES

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EXILE (EXIL)

A LULLABY TO THE SORROWFUL MYSTERY (HELE SA HIWAGANG HAPIS)

THE WOMAN WHO LEFT

YOURSELF AND YOURS

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“Relentlessly mesmerising and thought-provoking… a poetic and pointed piece about state-organized mass murder in another age.” – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Acclaimed Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh ( The Missing Picture) turns his masterly cinematic eye inwards in Exile: a haunting, hypnotic elegy for Panh’s father, and a poetic rendering of his own memories of a childhood lived under Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. Unfolding in a dreamlike mix of performance, philosophical monologue; cultural text recital and archival footage, Exile flits between theatrical surrealism and clear-eyed condemnation as it burrows towards the core of Cambodia’s incomprehensible genocide. Powerful and impassioned, Panh’s film transcends the bounds of historical documentary to become something universal: a reflection on humanity’s capacity for cruelty, tempered by the ever-present flame of hope.

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This comic commentary of Chinese bureaucracy begins with provincial café owner Lian plotting to secure an apartment she wants by faking a divorce. She didn't, however, plan on broken promises, false accusations and government red tape. Once Lian is legally single, she discovers that her husband has moved in with another woman. Cue another plan: to reverse their decoupling, re-marry and then divorce him for real. In China, being likened to the titular figure is a damning insult, as the San Sebastiàn

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"As inspired by Kafka as it is by Flaubert"

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Film Festival top prize winning film astutely skewers. Boldly experimenting with aspect ratios within his otherwise painterly frames, superstar APSA Best Film winning director Feng Xiaogang ( Aftershock) fashions a socially scathing farce that’s equally caustic, comedic and revelatory. Screens with Jia Zhangke's short film The Hedonists. P HU XIAOFENG DIST CHINA LION FILM DISTRIBUTION WS GOLDEN NETWORK ASIA LIMITED TD DCP Y 2016 L MANDARIN W/SUBTITLES

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IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY (AKHER AYAM EL MADINA)

KAILI BLUES

THE ROAD TO MANDALAY

EGYPT, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY DIRECTED BY TAMER EL SAID

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA DIRECTED BY BI GAN

REPUBLICOFTHEUNIONOFMYANMAR,TAIWAN,FRANCE,GERMANY DIRECTED BY MIDI Z

“A city requiem ... a plangent, multi-layered dirge to the sensory overload of Cairo and the way it has irrevocably changed.”

- VARIETY

Assembled from 250 hours of footage, documentary turned narrative filmmaker Tamer, has made a love-film of a city facing an uncertain future. Khalid is creatively blocked labouring within a years’ long film project. As he watches Hosni Mubarak’s regime falter and his father’s life slip away, the city he knows crumbles around him. Life begins falling to pieces in a series of aching goodbyes. As he searches for lost meaning in his footage of beatings, protests and demolitions, he calls on filmmaker friends who share a common grief and loss for home. From Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin they converge to debate and dissect against a backdrop of memories and a city slipping away. P TAMER EL SAID, KHALID ABDALLA WS STILL MOVING TD DCP Y 2016 L ARABIC W/SUBTITLES

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Guo and Lianqing fall in love in the back of the truck that’s illegally smuggling them from Myanmar to Thailand. They’re trying to build better lives, but in Bangkok life is cheap and corruption rife, and it will take everything they have just to stay alive.

P WANG ZIJIAN, SHAN ZUOLONG, LI ZHAOYU WS CHINA FILM INTERNATIONAL TD DCP Y 2015 L MANDARIN W/SUBTITLES

P MIDI Z, PATRICK MAO HUANG WS URBAN DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL (UDI) TD DCP Y 2016 L BURMESE, THAI W/SUBTITLES

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Legendary pioneer of slow cinema Lav Diaz (whose Venice Golden Lion winner, The Woman Who Left also screens in this festival) returns with another audacious epic that won the Alfred Bauer award at the 2016 Berlinale – an ambitious opus set against the Philippine Revolution of 1896, an uprising that put an end to 300 years of Spanish colonial rule.

After spending 30 years in prison for a crime she didn’t commit, Horacia is unexpectedly released when her best friend confesses to framing her. Cast out into a world she doesn’t understand – her family fragmented, her prospects gone – Horacia is left with nothing, except for the tantalising idea of revenge.

Tracing the tangle of lives that crisscross the revolutionary landscape, Diaz composes a poetic, expressionistic portrait of the blood-soaked birth of the modern Filipino nation. Mesmerising and serpentine, Diaz’s work breaks free from history, delving into folklore, philosophy and magic realism, as he teases out the deep, abiding ancestral guilt we all inherit from our forebears. Screens with an interval, see page 5.

Winning the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, maestro of slow cinema Lav Diaz (whose A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery also screens in this year’s program) forged a brooding, powerful work inspired by Tolstoy’s short story God Sees the Truth, but Waits. Filmed in Diaz’s trademark lustrous black-and-white, this is a twisting parable on revenge, redemption and the possibility of forgiveness. P RONALD ARGUELLES WS FILMS BOUTIQUE TD DCP Y 2016 L TAGALOG W/SUBTITLES

P BIANCA BALBUENA, PAUL SONARIO WS FILMS BOUTIQUE TD DCP Y 2016 L MANDARIN, ENGLISH, FILIPINO, SPANISH W/SUBTITLES

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“A wise and gently absurdist allegory… graced by a swooning romantic spirit.”

– VARIETY

Young-soo has two things on his mind: the health of his ailing mother, and whether he should marry his girlfriend Minjung, who seems to be too indulgent in alcohol consumption. But first he needs to find her — and in a city where doppelgangers of his girlfriend seem to be cropping up everywhere he looks, that’s easier said than done. Winner of Best Director at the 2016 San Sebastián Film Festival, from APSA Academy member Hong Sang-soo comes another decidedly wry offering. A tongue-in-cheek look at modern relationship mores, shot through with Hong’s trademark sense of the strange, Yourself and Yours is another delightful watch from one of Asia’s most perennially intriguing filmmakers. Screens with Australian short film Homebodies.

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– SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

Taking over the screen like a feverish waking dream, the debut feature from Chinese poet turned filmmaker Bi Gan heralds the arrival of a distinctive new cinematic talent — winning Best Emerging Director at the 2015 Locarno Film Festival, and earning comparisons to Apichatpong Weerasethakul, David Lynch and Luis Buñuel in the process.

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“...powerful, thoughtful…pulls you into its world and delivers a number of – SCREEN INTERNATIONAL irresistible emotional coups.”

“Will consolidate Midi Z’s status as one of the rising stars of Asian cinema.”

From Myanmar-born, Taiwan-based phenomenon Midi Z (whose APSA nominated City of Jade also screens in this program) comes The Road to Mandalay, an intimate, wrenching and all-too-real tale of star-crossed love and unyielding hope. Masterful and engrossing, Midi Z’s 2016 Venice Days official selection shines a vital spotlight onto one of the world’s forgotten humanitarian crises, and recently received 6 nominations at the Golden Horse Awards.

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– THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Trying to locate his missing nephew, provincial doctor Chen Sheng embarks upon a haunting journey from the rural Kaili to the otherworldly town of Dang Mai. There, the past, present and future collide in a thematically and aesthetically vivid cycle of life and death, which the hallucinatory film not only explores with detail-oriented visual storytelling, but via a mesmerising, one-take, 40-minute standout shot.

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“An ambitious statement by one of contemporary cinema’s authentic radicals… [a] mesmerising weave of narratives, – SCREEN INTERNATIONAL and of history and myth.”

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The Death and Life of Otto Bloom (84)

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Sonita (90)

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (102)

6.30PM

Prelude to the General (11) + Behemoth (90)

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The Academy of Muses (92)

The Land of the Enlightened (87)

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Nagasaki: My Memories of my Son (130)

Gala: The Salesman (125)

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Queen of Katwe (124)

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Starless Dreams (76)

Manchester by the Sea (136)

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Daughter (103)

Personal Shopper (105)

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The Student (119)

Zoology (87)

6.30PM

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No Regrets for Our Youth (110)

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In the Last Days of the City (118)

1.00PM

The Crossing (11) + Manang Biring (87)

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Faces of the Other: Short Films from Across the Asia-Pacific (111)

The Bacchus Lady (110)

Seoul Station (92)

Late Spring (108)

4.00PM

Cold of Kalandar (134)

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Snow Monkey (97)

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Crosscurrent (116)

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Late Autumn (129)

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City of Jade (99)

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Knife in the Clear Water (93)

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The Unknown Girl (113)

Kaili Blues (110)

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Beast (94)

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Yearning (100)

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In a Cane Field (16) + Letters From War (105)

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Twenty-Four Eyes (156)

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Paterson (115)

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Imago (15) + Ma’ Rosa (110)

6.00PM

Homebodies (14) + Yourself and Yours (86)

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The Last Pinoy Action King (97)

9.00PM

Godless (99)

8.30PM

Bangkok Nites (183)

SATURDAY 3RD DEC

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Muhammad, the Messenger of God (178)

12.00PM - 3.00PM

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Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (105)

1.00PM

The Road to Mandalay (108)

1.00PM

No Home Movie (115)

4.00PM

Breath (110)

4.00PM

Raise Your Arms and Twist Documentary of NMB48 (121)

3.30PM

Parting (78)

3:30PM

Manchester by the Sea (136)

6.30PM

Destruction Babies (104)

6.00PM

Mountain (83)

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Allie (19) + Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me (94)

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11.00AM

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Under the Sun (106)

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Sound of the Mountain (95)

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Exile (77)

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Talk: Actresses and Masters: The Triumph of Japanese Cinema

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Ember (115)

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Rauf (94)

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Sprout (20) + The World of Us (95)

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Take Me Home (16) + 76 Minutes & 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami (76)

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Closing Film: El Clasico (97)

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The Quest (106)

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21 Nights With Pattie (115)

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A Cri tical Eye Cinema is powerful. For over a century it has been a potent means to probe and debate our deepest questions and controversies. A Critical Eye takes us to the heart of today’s most pressing and provocative issues with a collection of profoundly moving cinema. Approaching socio-political issues of gender, sexuality, social justice and the plight of refugees, these films leap fearlessly into the fray, tackling some of the most vital challenges of our times.

ALIGARH

BREATH

INDIA DIRECTED BY HANSAL MEHTA

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN DIRECTED BY NARGES ABYAR

(NAFAS)

“Aligarh stays with you much after you see it, especially for Bajpayee and his nuanced portrayal of a man brutally put to shame by an intrusive and insensitive society. It's subtlety, redefined.” – THE TIMES OF INDIA

Inspired by the real-life ordeal of 64-year-old Professor Siras who was suspended and persecuted by the Aligarh University for being homosexual, Aligarh endeavours to bring this shocking case to broader attention. Manoj Bajpayee (Gangs of Wasseypur ) in a transforming, gently fragile performance as the lonely Siras, and Rajkummar Rao fearlessly passionate and determined as the tireless explorative journalist, Aligarh offers a stirring and sensitive portrayal of a controversial case. Examining the persecution of homosexuality in India today, Aligarh is both timely and telling and proves as topical as it is powerfully moving. P HANSAL MEHTA, SHAILESH SINGH, SUNIL LULLA WS EROS INTERNATIONAL TD DCP Y 2015 L HINDI W/SUBTITLES

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One girl living through turbulent times in Iran searches for meaning amid the world-shattering events outside her window by delving into her own imagination.

Little Bahar lives a life spun from folklore and stories, always with her head in a book. But growing up in Yazd in the 1970s and ’80s, she’s at the centre of a country in turmoil: the Shah is overthrown, Ayatollah Khomeini rises to power, and the first shots are fired in a bitter and protracted war with Iraq. Over the span of several years, Bahar finds daydreaming in her own fantasy world is the only way she can make sense of the pain and suffering warring humans inflict on one another, in this moving work by Tehran-born novelist and filmmaker Narges Abyar. P MOHAMMAD HOSSEIN GHASEMI, ABOOZAR POOR MOHAMMADI WS IRANIAN INDEPENDENTS TD DCP Y 2016 L FARSI W/SUBTITLES

MA’ ROSA

PARTING

INDIA, FRANCE DIRECTED BY GURVINDER SINGH

PHILIPPINES DIRECTED BY BRILLANTE MENDOZA

AFGHANISTAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN DIRECTED BY NAVID MAHMOUDI

(CHAUTHI KOOT)

" You’ll watch this marvellous film with your heart in your mouth"

– THE INDIANEXPRESS

Punjab, 1984. The Indian paramilitary are fighting the Sikh separatists. Tensions are rising between Hindi’s and Sikh’s over Indira Gandhi’s hard-line approach to the militants. Within this climate of increasing tension, two Hindi’s try to board a train, and a Sikh farmer is told to shoot his barking dog. Weaving separate narratives into a loaded exploration of a fraught period in India’s history, and of the consequences of political turmoil on ordinary people caught in the middle. Singh has delivered a well-crafted potent portrait of unease and unrest, through arresting visuals and expressive performances from non-professional actors. This is a layered, profound film.

“Tough-as-nails, and leaves you with a heaviness and a pulsating sympathy that’s impossible to ignore.”

(RAFTAN)

– THE PLAYLIST

Struggling to support their family, convenience store owner Rosa and her husband add narcotics to their inventory. When the police swoop in, they're faced with raising enough cash to secure their freedom. Set in Manilla's shantytowns, Ma' Rosa is the latest politically potent social-realist effort from APSA-winning Thy Womb director Brillante Mendoza. Featuring a powerfully naturalistic performance by Cannes Best Actress winner Jaclyn Jose, the galvanising film proves as empathetic towards its characters as it is savage about institutionalised corruption, as bolstered by Mendoza’s trademark immersive long takes and urgent handheld camerawork.

Winner Best Punjabi Film at India’s National Awards, and the first Punjabi-language feature to break into Cannes.

Screens with Mendoza-produced short film Imago.

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"A moving tale about lives in stasis... provides another perspective on a humanitarian crisis showing no signs of abating." – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Young Afghan sweethearts Fereshteh and Nabi are pulled apart when Fereshteh’s family flee west to seek refuge in Iran. But the determined Nabi isn’t going to meekly accept this fate. He decides to illegally cross the border to find Fereshteh and spirit her away through Turkey to a better life in Europe. It will be difficult and dangerous, but there is no other way. Recent Special Mention winner in Busan and Afghanistan’s official submission for Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards®, Parting is a poignant portrayal of just two of the thousands of lives lost or ruined whilst migrating a difficult passage to seek a better life from the menace of ISIL and the Taliban. P NAVID MAHMOUDI, JAMSHID MAHMOUDI WS DREAMLAB FILMS TD DCP Y 2016 L PERSIAN, DARI W/SUBTITLES

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DAUGHTER

EMBER

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN DIRECTED BY REZA MIRKARIMI

TURKEY, GERMANY DIRECTED BY ZEKI DEMIRKUBUZ

(DOKHTAR)

THE FOURTH DIRECTION

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The immovable object of the Iranian patriarchy meets the unstoppable force of youthful rebellion.

Mr Azizi is a higher-up in an oil refinery, and at home his word is law. It becomes a shock when, just as one of his daughters is planning her engagement celebration, another defies him and flies 1000km away to see her best friend. The enraged father pursues her to bring her home. Masterfully directed, Daughter, Mirkarimi’s eighth film, explores the push-pull disconnect between a strict and traditional father who wants to protect his now grown-up daughter and the daughter’s fight for flexibility and independence. The traditional balance of power is challenged by a new generation of young women with keen aspirations. Winner Best Film, Best Actor for Farhad Aslani’s performance and an Audience Award at the Moscow International Film Festival. P REZA MIRKARIMI WS DREAMLAB FILMS TD DCP Y 2016 L FARSI W/SUBTITLES

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Set against a foggy Istanbul clouded by the clash between past traditions and present social conditions, Ember creeps through the quandaries of Emine, a woman left to cope with her husband Cemal's debts after he disappears. When she discovers that their son requires urgent surgery, Emine makes a life-altering decision — to accept financial help from her husband's former business partner, now enemy, who she discovers is in love with her. When Cemal returns, this slow burning psychological drama begins to sear. Straight from its premiere in Toronto, award-winning auteur Zeki Demirkubuz explores the themes of survival and faithfulness while developing characters with such credibility that by the end of the film we feel somehow implicated in their plight. P BASAK EMRE, AHMET BOYACIOGLU WS BASAK EMRE TD DCP Y 2016 L TURKISH W/SUBTITLES

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ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, FRANCE DIRECTED BY ASGHAR FARHADI

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“Another intriguing collection of scenes from a marriage in which happiness is threatened… A film that keeps getting better.” – SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

THE WILD

With the couple also staging a revival of Death of a Salesman, the acclaimed filmmaker conjures another masterful combination of domestic turmoil and social commentary.

DIRECTED BY NAGRAJ MANJULE

(SAIRAT) INDIA

Selected as Iran's foreign-language submission for the Academy Awards® and earning Cannes' Best Screenplay and Best Actor prizes, Farhadi's latest once again observes the complexities of his country with an astute eye.

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Blowing apart old Hindi cinema stereotypes, The Wild, a thrilling and brave Marathi romantic-drama has caused controversy and fierce debate along with packed cinemas in India, making overnight stars of its two young spectacular non-actor leads. Penniless boy meets high-class girl. It’s the old story — but this time, she’s making all the moves. When strong-willed and assertive landlord’s daughter Aarchi falls in love with ghetto cricket prodigy Parsha,

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“Caste is the foundation of our society, discrimination is in the air we breathe.”

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– NAGRAJ MANJULE, DIRECTOR

their families step in to snuff out the romance. Premiering in competition at the 2016 Berlinale, The Wild follows on from award-winning, critically acclaimed Fandry continuing Manjule’s focus on caste discrimination and honour killing. The film’s original title Sairat, meaning passion, zeal and ardour is currently the highest grossing Marathi film of all time. P NITTIN KENI, NIKHIL SANE WS ZEE STUDIO TD DCP Y 2016 L MARATHI W/SUBTITLES

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WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME (LAMA AZAVTANI) ISRAEL, FRANCE DIRECTED BY HADAR MORAG

In this confident and thoughtful debut, premiering at Venice last year, gestures and eyesight mean much more than words.

THE WORLD OF US (WOORIDEUL)

REPUBLIC OF KOREA DIRECTED BY YOON GA-EUN

"Rarely has the world of a young child been so vividly and delicately brought to life." – TIME OUT NEW YORK

Just as braided bracelets can cement new friendships, social hierarchies can tear them apart. When 10-year-old Sun bonds with neighbourhood newcomer Jia over the summer, they become firm, fast pals. Alas, the start of the new school year quickly highlights their differences. Mentor-produced by three-time APSA winner Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine, Poetry, A Brand New Life), The World of Us peers intently at its young

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protagonists, while ensuring audiences see the difficulties of childhood from their distinctive perspective. In her feature debut, accomplished short filmmaker Yoon Ga-eun unpacks a brutal tale of bullying, fading innocence and conformity.

Screens with director Yoon Ga-eun’s short film Sprout. P LEE CHANG-DONG, KIM SOON-MO WS FINECUT TD DCP Y 2015 L KOREAN W/SUBTITLES

As a rejected and mercilessly bullied Palestinian boy roaming the filthy dark back streets of Tel Aviv, Muhammad’s life seethes with contradictions. The sins of his collaborator father colour his struggling existence, he’s frequently torn between his faith and urges, and — when he befriends local knife-sharpener Gurevich — he’s faced with either submitting to a new, brutal kind of life or taking action to shape his own future. Winning Best First Feature at Haifa, writer/director Morag tells a fictitious tale infused with existential musings, conveyed through striking, symbolism-laden images and relayed with probing minimalism. Populated by non-professional leads and blending actual events into its blistering, almost dialogue-free narrative, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me feels ripped from reality. P ELIE MEIROVITZ, CASSIS FILMS WS EZ FILMS TD DCP Y 2015 L ARABIC, HEBREW W/SUBTITLES

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Ella Produced by Queensland-based Veronica Fury at WildBear Entertainment and directed by Douglas Watkin (pictured on left above). Supported by Screen Queensland.

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(QINGSHUI LI DE DAOZI) PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA DIRECTED BY WANG XUEBO

In Good Faith The Asia Pacific is the most religiously diverse region on Earth with faith and its varying states of devotion forming the backdrop to many films. Spanning films of liberation, exploration and oppression, this is cinema that includes the spiritual and surveys the powerful and sometimes dangerous links between faith, family and culture, and explores what it means to believe in a secular age.

“A somber elegy richly lensed like a rotating gallery of oil paintings”

THE STUDENT (UCHENIK)

RUSSIAN FEDERATION DIRECTED BY KIRILL SEREBRENNIKOV

"...is as aesthetically kinetic as it is intellectually rigorous. A stormy, swoon-inducingly short bout of Russian moral wrestling that hits as hard and as heavily as a nastoyka hangover"

Can girls go to swimming classes in bikinis? How should sex education be taught to teenagers? And is a natural science lesson the right place to explore the theory of evolution? These are the questions Veniamin asks his teachers when his religion fascination turns fanatical. Cannes awarded, The Student doesn’t hold back as it probes the reality of life in modern-day Russia. Bringing a

119 MINS I UNCLASSIFIED 18+

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– VARIETY

controversial play to the screen, writer/ director Kirill Serebrennikov crafts an ambitious, visually striking and intellectually provocative film that among other things has, Putin’s bill enforcing mandatory religious education in all state schools and the rise and power of Orthodox Christianity front and centre. P ILYA STEWART, DIANA SAFAROVA, YURY KOZYREV DIST BOUNTY FILMS WS WIDE MANAGEMENT TD DCP Y 2016 L RUSSIAN W/SUBTITLES

– VARIETY

In China's remote mountainous Ningxia region, farmer Ma Zishan and his adult son are in mourning. Ma’s wife has been dead for 40 days, and following the tenets of their Muslim faith, his son wants to sacrifice the family’s ageing bull as the centrepiece of a feast in her honour. Ma has his doubts — but he prays for guidance. Taking a rare glimpse into the tranquil, spiritual and honest depiction of the Islamic devotion of the Hui, an unknown Chinese Muslim community. The debut feature from young Chinese director Wang Xuebo, who decided to frame for a 4:3 aspect ratio to emulate Andrei Tarkovsky, is a quiet and tender gem infused with simplicity and the realistic details of life. Recent Co-winner, New Currents Section, Busan.

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“Majid Majidi’s origin tale of the prophet Muhammad chronicles the birth and rise of Islam, rich with gestural flair and images of bracing beauty.” – THE GUARDIAN

The prophet Muhammad’s life story unfolds in this sweeping historical epic. From his foretold birth in the wake of a titanic battle for Mecca, to his travels with his merchant uncle through the sixthcentury desert, intrigue swells around this miracle-worker who is destined for greatness. Lensed by three-time Academy Award® winner Vittorio Storaro (The Last Emperor, Apocalypse Now ), the making of this film

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is as spectacular a story as the subject matter. Despite consulting some 40 Koranic experts from many branches of Islam, this seven-year passion project and Iran’s most expensive blockbuster to date, has proved very controversial in parts of the Muslim world. P MAJID MAJIDI, MOHAMMADREZA SABERI WS NOORETABAN FILM COMPANY TD DCP Y 2015 L FARSI W/SUBTITLES

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"Sets up a crisis that is explored with brilliant clarity and rigorous ambiguity."

– THE NEW YORK TIMES

THE DARK WIND (REŞEBA)

IRAQ, QATAR, GERMANY DIRECTED BY HUSSEIN HASSAN

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Beginning in 2014, the Yazidis (an ethno-religious group practicing Yazdanism) were targeted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in its campaign to purify Iraq and neighbouring countries of non-Islamic influences.

It should be one of the happiest periods of their lives, but as Reko and Pero enjoy their engagement, radical militants attack their village. At work, Reko evades capture; however, Pero is taken and sold as a slave. What follows will tear apart their community, test their bond and threaten their future. Taking its title from the Yazidi Kurd expression used to describe Islamic State Fighters, featuring largely improvised SUNDAY 27TH NOV I 6.00PM

performances from real war victims, and lensed by APSA-winning cinematographer Touraj Aslani (Rhino Season), director Hussein Hassan exposes the dreadful reality of trying to live and love under the shadow of ISIS in the face of intolerance and ignorance. Selected as the prestigious Closing Film of the recent Busan International Film Festival. P MEHMET AKTAŞ WS MÎTOSFILM TD DCP Y 2016 L ARABIC, KURDISH W/SUBTITLES

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Tzvia (Shani Klein, in 2014 BAPFF’s Zero Motivation) lives a constrained life amidst the tombs that litter the vast cemetery on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. Against this striking backdrop she tends to her children and daily chores while her Yeshiva teacher husband works. Then, courtesy of a prostitute plying her trade in the cemetery, the Hasidic housewife spies another side of life on the Mount — thus awakening her own urges. Winning the Best Director award at the 2016 San Francisco Film Festival, writer/director Yaelle Kayam’s emotionally intricate, intriguing and visually arresting debut transforms a tale of loneliness-inducing frustration into an expectationdefying interrogation of the clash between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and spirituality and sexuality. P EILON RATZKOVSKY, YOCHANAN KREDO, YOSSI UZRAD, LISA UZRAD, GUY JACOEL DIST JIFF DISTRIBUTION WS FILMS DISTRIBUTION TD DCP Y 2015 W/SUBTITLES

The sun-baked farmland of Maharashtra is hard and dry, a suicidal, debt-ridden farmer visits holy town Pandharpur, the home to Vithal, his beloved deity, to pray for divine assistance to rid his debt and buy back his ancestral land.

A tender story of courage, second chances and a gentle look at the awe-inspiring simplicity of the spiritual faith of a poor, distraught farmer, paying tribute also, to the close bond between father and son. If it wasn’t for his son, distraught Arjun would have ended his miserable existence long ago. Winner of the Indian National Film Award for Best Marathi Film and screening in Cannes, The Quest, is a heartfelt, stirring tale of love between father and son set against the rise of suicides amongst poor Indian farmers — a problem not just felt in India. P MAKARAND MANE, VITTHAL PATIL, YOGESH NIKAM, GANESH PHUKE, MAHESH YEWALE WS MY ROLE MOTION PICTURES TD DCP Y 2015 L MARATHI W/SUBTITLES

In the harsh snowfields of Yakutia, a young man, under the influence of alcohol, accidentally kills his friend. Unable to live with this he takes his own life whilst in jail. Both grief-stricken fathers handle the pain as best they can. One works towards healing by praying in front of his worn icon, wood-working and assisting a young, neglected local boy whose mother is an alcoholic. The other finds solace at the bottom of a bottle until he sees the father of his son’s killer at peace and he turns to dark thoughts of revenge. World premiering in Flash Forward Competition at the Busan Film Festival, The Bonfire is a remarkable debut feature from Yakutian filmmaker Dmitrii Davydov. P SARDANA SAVVINA WS SARDANA SAVVINA TD DCP Y 2016 L SAKHA W/SUBTITLES

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In Russia’s far northeast, in a remote village where boredom and unemployment are met with heavy drinking, two fathers grapple with grief.

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s e i r a t n e m Docu “A documentary whose stunning images speak louder than words… masterly.”

Be transported to territories you never thought you’d go. Explore faroff lands, discover the unexpected and come face-to-face with unimaginable realities. Here, you’ll find exposés and explorations, marvels of storytelling that take astonishing twists and intriguing turns. Welcome to a great year of documentary – and to filmmaking at its most honest, brave and necessary.

76 MINUTES AND 15 SECONDS WITH ABBAS KIAROSTAMI (76 DAGHIGHEH VA 15 SANIEH BA ABBAS KIAROSTAMI) ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN DIRECTED BY SEIFOLLAH SAMADIAN QUEENSLAND PREMIERE 76 MINS I UNCLASSIFIED 15+

“Kiarostami springs to life… [a] man whose entire attention was focused on …the beauty of nature and the intense pleasure of artistic creation.”

– THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

When Iranian filmmaking legend Abbas Kiarostami recently passed away at the age of 76 years and 15 days, it robbed cinema of one of its most distinctive and incisive voices. But for Kiarostami’s longtime collaborator, photographer Seifollah Samadian, it also represented a moment of deep personal and artistic grief.

collection of footage of Kiarostami at work and play. A shimmering reflection of the late master’s style, lashed with verve and humour, Samadian presents an intimate and deeply affecting tribute to his remarkable friend — a tribute that no cinephile should miss.

His response was this aptly titled documentary that premiered at the recent 2016 Venice Film Festival, an exuberant

film Take Me Home.

Screens with Abbas Kiarostami's short P SEIFOLLAH SAMADIAN WS IRANIAN INDEPENDENTS TD DCP Y 2016 L FARSI W/SUBTITLES

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ANTS ON A SHRIMP: NOMA IN TOKYO

TAIWAN DIRECTED BY TSAI MING-LIANG

NETHERLANDS DIRECTED BY MAURICE DEKKERS

Gala

– THE GUARDIAN

“Midi Z’s thoughtful narration imparts a strong sense of curiosity and an undercurrent of trepidation as he – VARIETY travels further into a dangerous place”

In 2014, Myanmar-born Taiwan-based phenomenon, Midi Z (whose The Road to Mandalay also screens in this festival) returned to his homeland of Myanmar to track down his long-lost brother, Zhao De-chin. For twenty years, Zhao has been toiling in the abandoned jade mines of the country’s north, trapped in a delusional, opium-fuelled quest to find the gemstone that will solve all his problems. The result is City of Jade, Midi Z’s first-hand account of finding his brother and journeying with him to Kachin, Myanmar’s own El Dorado. Intensely personal and profoundly eye-opening for both director and viewer alike, City of Jade is a powerful addition to the canon of one of Asia’s most promising young filmmakers. P ISABELLA HO, MIDI Z, WANG SHIN-HONG, LIN SHENG-WEN WS SEASHORE IMAGE PRODUCTIONS TD DCP Y 2016 L BURMESE W/SUBTITLES

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“These beautifully filmed performances and the discussion around them are especially interesting viewing for local audiences.”

– JUNKEE

Ella Havelka’s name was etched into history in 2013 after becoming the first Indigenous dancer to be accepted into the Australian Ballet. Ella charts her dance career from its modest beginnings in rural Australia, through her time at the National Ballet School and the Bangarra Dance Theatre, until she rediscovered her true passion in ballet dancing.

Ella is supported by Screen Queensland and is a collaboration between two Brisbane-based filmmakers: producer Veronica Fury and director Douglas Watkin. Featuring exquisitely filmed dance sequences, Ella is a rousing work of inspiration as well as a document of an important chapter in Australian arts history. Producer Veronica Fury and Director Douglas Watkin in attendance. P VERONICA FURY DIST/WS RONIN FILMS TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH

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AUSTRALIA, PHILIPPINES DIRECTED BY ANDREW LEAVOLD, DANIEL PALISA

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“Hypnotic… a rare and lovely cinematic expression of gratitude.”

– CINEMA SCOPE

Screens with Lav Diaz’s short film The Day Before the End. P CLAUDE WANG WS HOMEGREEN FILMS TD DCP Y 2015 L MANDARIN W/SUBTITLE

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A feast for the eyes as René Redzepi — owner and headchef of Noma, rated the world’s best restaurant — moves halfway across the world from Denmark to Japan to open a pop-up restaurant in this mouthwatering documentary.

Deliciously entertaining, Redzepi and his intrepid staff put their reputations on the line, crafting a 14-course menu for 3,000 guests at $550 a head — in only two weeks. There is an extra piece to the puzzle. For all you non-foodies, NOMA famously forage ingredients by hand to create their incredible dishes. So he's in new territory, literally. Redzepi has set himself quite a challenge. Will he get burnt? Featuring culinary delights like deep-fried whale sperm, green strawberries, raw squid, rose broth and salted cherry blossoms — and of course ants on a shrimp — the camera follows Redzepi as he ventures deep into Japanese culture to find authentic local flavours and ingredients. It is a race to service that will leave them — and audiences — breathless. See Gala details on page 8. P DAN BLAZER, NELSJE MUSCH-ELZINGA DIST MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT WS FORTISSIMO FILMS TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH

“Relentlessly mesmerising and thought-provoking… a poetic and pointed piece about state-organized mass murder in another age.” – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

This compassionate documentary asks whether two cultures can ever live in harmony in the wake of mass migration.

200 years ago, the first Australians were invaded by white settlers — and many of the arising conflicts can still be seen in modern Australia. Forced to the margins of a society that is convinced they will never integrate, Aboriginal people are dwindling in number, the victims of racism and injustice, with communities suffering from unemployment, homelessness, and alcohol substance problems. Looking through the eyes of Aboriginal people of different social backgrounds and predominately filmed in Queensland, Imaginary Border, from Iranian filmmaker Alireza Ghanie, ponders the constant struggle to balance preserving their roots and connection to their home, and to be accepted by a society that has been thrust upon them, a difficult and sensitive clash of cultures not just limited to Australian society.

“This is the rare film which leaves you wanting more, you don't want it to end.”

– CINEMADROME

In this Australian premiere, Brisbane-based filmmaker and cult movie expert Andrew Leavold unveils the true story of late Filipino action superstar Rudy 'Daboy' Fernandez. From his first role at age 3, Fernandez has over 170 credits to his name and was labelled the Filipino James Dean. Picking up where his last film, The Search for Weng Weng (BAPFF 2013), left off, Leavold’s film is an impassioned examination of Fernandez’s life and the wild, untamed Filipino genre film scene of the 1980s. Recent winner of Best Documentary at the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival in San Diego, this is an entertaining and irreverent must-see for Asian cinema fans. P ANDREW LEAVOLD, DANIEL PALISA WS REFLECTION FILMS TD DCP Y 2015 L ENGLISH, TAGALOG W/SUBTITLES

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RAISE YOUR ARMS AND TWIST — DOCUMENTARY OF NMB48 (DOUTONBORIYO,

SNOW MONKEY

SONITA

JAPAN DIRECTED BY ATSUSHI FUNAHASHI

AUSTRALIA, NORWAY DIRECTED BY GEORGE GITTOES

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, SWITZERLAND, GERMANY DIRECTED BY ROKHSAREH GHAEM MAGHAMI

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An up-close observation of the myth and astonishing reality behind one of Japan’s most popular girl groups.

In the realm of Japanese girl groups, NMB48 sits at the top of the heap. Formed as a sibling act to Tokyo's hugely successful AKB48, the Osaka-based band rocketed up the charts with their debut single, then amassed a string of hits and sold-out performances — and a massive passionate fan base.

Raise Your Arms and Twist peeks behind the scenes at their daily antics, while probing the reasons for their popularity. With director Atsushi Funahashi best known for his Fukushima-focused documentaries and his study on Frederick Wiseman, this entertaining and thoughtful film, is an intelligent examination, providing an eye-opening, often jaw-dropping look into Japan's idol-making industry. P UENO YUHEI WS WIDEHOUSE TD DCP Y 2015 L JAPANESE W/SUBTITLES

Australian documentarian, artist and photojournalist Dr George Gittoes, winner of the Sydney Peace prize, plunges into the gangland world of the gutter kids of Afghanistan, run by a terrifying nine-year-old kingpin.

“Not so much ‘good girl gone bad’ as ‘good girl done good,’ Sonita tracks the eponymous Tehran teen in her indefatigable quest to – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER become the next Rihanna.”

The street children of Jalalabad band together in packs, hustling to survive. The 'Ghostbusters' earn a crust by wafting smoke into cars to exorcise demons; the 'Snow Monkeys' hawk icy-poles from handcarts; and then there’s Steel, with his entourage of thugs and robbers. A hard-eyed, razor-wielding, chain-smoking enforcer, Steel brags of his misdeeds, while quietly dreaming of a better future.

Sonita Alizadeh, an 18-year-old Afghan who worships Michael Jackson and idolises Rihanna, is a refugee living in a single room in Tehran. She is attempting to build a new life as a rap star to share her message with the world when her mother arrives to sell her into an arranged marriage.

When Gittoes offers these urchins the chance to shoot their own story on film, art becomes activism and the result is an immersive documentary that lays bare the underbelly of Afghanistan rarely seen in media, from the poverty and danger of the streets to brutal bombings and the political chokehold of the Taliban. BAPFF is premiering a brand new 97-minute cut of the film.

The winner of many awards including the Audience Award at Sundance and the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, Sonita is as rousing as it is controversial, shedding light on the plight of many young women in the modern age. P ROKHSAREH GHAEM MAGHAMI, KERSTIN KRIEG, ALINE SCHMID WS CAT & DOCS TD DCP Y 2015 L ENGLISH, FARSI W/SUBTITLES

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ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN DIRECTED BY MEHRDAD OSKOUEI

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BILAL: A NEW BREED OF HERO

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DIRECTED BY KHURRAM H. ALAVI, AYMAN JAMAL

Animated Insights Animation takes us to the places that everyday cinema can only dream of: larger-than-life characters, impossible worlds and unadorned wonder. From hand-drawn delights to the latest in computer-generated marvels, Animated Insights brings you four Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominated films: a selection of exciting storytelling from the thriving Asia Pacific animation scene.

“Dubai’s first animated feature puts top-class artwork to use in a story designed to preach about the inclusive, non-discriminatory aspects of the Muslim faith.” - VARIETY

An action-packed adventure full of swordplay and dynamic animation that sweeps viewers back over a thousand years to the story of Bilal ibn Rabah, one of the Islamic prophet Muhammad’s most trusted confidants taken as a child into a world of greed and injustice. Telling of heroic Bilal’s journey from slavery, Bilal: A New Breed of Hero features colourful recreations of the Middle East, and highlights the Muslim faith’s beginnings in thrilling ways that will excite audiences of all ages and promises to offer a different, more culturally diverse type of animated film. P AYMAN JAMAL WS AMBI DISTRIBUTION TD DCP Y 2015 L ENGLISH

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“Mesmerizing to pieces as it pierces, cuts deep, reflects into the reality its animated world has created”

– CINEMA BRAVO

Serious illness has an aging Filipino mother accepting that her time is coming to an end. But an out-of-the-blue letter from her estranged daughter makes her determined to prolong her life and celebrate Christmas with her child one last time. Made using the rotoscoping technique – animating on top of live action footage – Manang Biring was the first Filipino film to ever screen at the prestigious Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and took home Best Picture honours at the Cinema One Origins Film Festival. Poignant, yet surprisingly funny, this is a heartfelt animation for adults.

Screens with sand-animated short The Crossing.

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SHEEP AND WOLVES

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“…the perfect example of how powerful simplicity can be, when it’s underpinned by compassion for its subject” – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“An officially approved documentary about life inside North Korea finds some revealing cracks in the propaganda image of shiny happy people – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER living in paradise”

Locked up behind the monolithic concrete walls of an Iranian prison, they’re in for armed robbery, mugging, drug dealing or manslaughter — all these girls are under 18 years-of-age. But is the life they now know, harder than what they experienced on the outside?

In the socialist paradise of Pyongyang, in the world’s most secretive nation, lives eight-year-old schoolgirl Zin-Mi, the newest recruit to the Children’s Union youth group. Her patriotic parents labour in shining, world-class factories. Their apartment is a palace. Every meal is a feast.

Taking his cameras inside a snowbound juvenile correction centre on the fringes of Tehran, this multiple award-winning documentary offers a piercing look into the bleak existence of its teenage inmates and the social reality behind it. Punctuated by moments of sublime revelation as the girls bond, the heartbreaking and vulnerable childhood captured in Starless Dreams will leave no one unmoved.

But as relations break down between the Russian film crew and the ever-present state minders, cracks appear in the heavily scripted and impeccably staged fantasy. Clandestinely rolling his cameras through state-mandated 'rehearsals' and cleverly stowing the footage, what emerges from a year in Kim Jong-un's hermit kingdom is a stunning, unnerving and revealing documentary exposing the chilling truth behind the pomp and propaganda.

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“A perceptive, benevolent documentary about a contemporary and particularly high-stakes rite of passage from young adolescence to manhood” – VARIETY

Ten years in the making, this Australian documentary from director Aaron Petersen follows the path to adulthood of a young Aboriginal boy, Zach Doomadgee, in the lead-up to his initiation ceremony in far north Queensland.

Zach’s Ceremony may be about one boy’s rite of passage, but also the universal issues he confronts along the way simply by being a young Indigenous male in modern day Australia. Winner of the Foxtel Movies Audience Award for Best Documentary at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, Zach’s Ceremony is a moving cinematic experience that will contribute to Australia’s evolving cultural discourse. P SARAH LINTON, ALEC DOOMADGEE WS WANGALA FILMS TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH

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“Damning social commentary wrapped up in a tale of desperate survival.”

– BIRTH. MOVIES. DEATH.

APSA Academy member Yeon Sang-ho's popular Train to Busan rode the rails in a zombie-filled locomotive, becoming South Korea's highest-grossing movie of the year; however, that's not the writer/director's only dalliance with the cannibalistic undead. In Seoul Station, the filmmaker behind The King of Pigs and APSA nominated The Fake sticks with his animated roots to chart the beginning of the infectious outbreak. Three characters try to wade their way through the spreading zombie epidemic: runaway Hye-sun, her pimp boyfriend Ki-woong, and her searching father Suk-gyu. As their paths collide, Yeon blends horror thrills with a savvy dismemberment of class disparities, resulting in a film that unnerves with both visceral scares and scathing insights. P YEON SANG-HO, SUH YOUNG-JOO, LEE DONG-HA WS FINECUT TD DCP Y 2015 L KOREAN W/SUBTITLES

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Even in a faraway land where magic is real, sheep and wolves still don’t get along.

When Grey, a bumbling goof who wants to be the next leader of his pack, accidentally drinks a magic potion that turns him into a ram, he is taken in by a flock of sheep whose peaceful village has become the prime focus of Grey’s family. Full of bright and colourful computer-animation, Sheep and Wolves is a high-spirited adventure for audiences six and over from the studio behind last year’s APSA Best Animated Feature nominee The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King. The English-language cast includes Australian performer Ruby Rose, Harry Potter’s Tom Fenton and singer China Anne McClain.

Screens with Australian short film Spill. P SERGEY SELYANOV, YURI MOSKVIN, VLADIMIR NIKOLAEV WS WIZART ANIMATION TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH

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Australian Showcase The Australian Showcase profiles our nation’s unique cinematic voice, with a slate that includes a restored classic, Australian premieres and the latest offerings from our own state’s filmmaking scene. Bringing together the cream of the home-grown crop, this bold collection of film shows off Australia’s cinematic chops for a tasty sampler of the insight and artistry that takes us toe-to-toe with the rest of the world.

BEAST

THE DEATH AND LIFE OF OTTO BLOOM

HOUNDS OF LOVE

IMAGINARY BORDER

THE LAST PINOY ACTION KING

AUSTRALIA, PHILIPPINES DIRECTED BY TOM MCKEITH, SAM MCKEITH

AUSTRALIA DIRECTED BY CRIS JONES

AUSTRALIA DIRECTED BY BEN YOUNG

AUSTRALIA, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN, AUSTRIA DIRECTED BY ALIREZA GHANIE

AUSTRALIA, PHILIPPINES DIRECTED BY ANDREW LEAVOLD, DANIEL PALISA

“McKinney has a powerful physical presence that recalls both Vin Diesel and a young Marlon Brando.” – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

In this visually arresting Australian drama set in the Philippines, Jaime (Chad McKinney) and his trainer/father (Garret Dillahunt) participate in a rigged boxing match that ends in another fighter’s death. Seeking redemption from the man’s widow, Jaime soon finds himself in an exhaustive chase throughout the city as his father attempts to cover up their crime.

Beast is a raw and powerful film that utilises the neon-lit underbelly of the backstreets of Manila to striking effect. The film announces the arrival of not just directing brothers Sam and Tom McKeith, but also McKinney who gives a star-making performance that has been hailed at festivals around the world. P BIANCA BALBUENA, ROBERT COE, WILL JAYMES DIST MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT WS ARCLIGHT FILMS TD DCP Y 2015 L ENGLISH, TAGALOG W/SUBTITLES

“[A] bold new spin on the serial-killer genre.” – THE GUARDIAN

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Otto Bloom (Xavier Samuel) is an extraordinary anomaly: in a twist that calls to mind The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, he experiences time in reverse. He can recall memories before they happen; born with a lifetime of memories, he will die with none.

Set amid the sweltering heat of a Perth summer in 1987, a young girl is kidnapped by an amorous pair of killers. What follows is a chilling and grisly game as loyalties sway and real motivations are revealed.

This highly original faux-documentary is the first feature by Australian director Cris Jones, an exciting new talent who has won awards for his short films at SXSW, Rome, and Munich festivals.

World premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival, director Ben Young’s debut feature masterfully captures an unsettling atmosphere that prompted debate about its sexual and gender politics. Taking elements of true crime as well as sensationally visceral horror movies and featuring memorable performances by local talents Ashleigh Cummings, Susie Porter and comedian Stephen Curry, Hounds of Love is a disturbing vision of suburban horror you won’t soon forget.

With its world premiere as the prestigious opening film of the Melbourne International Film Festival and featuring the first big screen performance in over 20 years by Australian screen star Rachel Ward, this is a truly unique, one-of-a-kind exploration of love and loss. Produced by Academy Awards® and APSA Best Animation award-winner Melanie Coombs (Mary and Max). P MELANIE COOMBS, ALICIA BROWN, MISH ARMSTRONG DIST BONSAI FILMS WS GLOBAL SCREEN TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH

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“[R]efreshingly unpredictable.”

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This compassionate documentary asks whether two cultures can ever live in harmony in the wake of mass migration.

“This is the rare film which leaves you wanting more, you don't want it to end.”

– CINEMADROME

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“These beautifully filmed performances and the discussion around them are especially interesting viewing for local audiences.”

Ella is supported by Screen Queensland and is a collaboration between two Brisbanebased filmmakers: producer Veronica Fury SUNDAY 27TH NOV I 1.00PM

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and director Douglas Watkin. Featuring exquisitely filmed dance sequences, Ella is a rousing work of inspiration as well as a document of an important chapter in Australian arts history. Producer Veronica Fury and Director Douglas Watkin in attendance. Veronica Fury will participate in 'Two Sides to Every Story: The Female Perspective in Film' on Saturday 26th Nov — see page 11. P VERONICA FURY DIST/WS RONIN FILMS TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH

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The street children of Jalalabad band together in packs, hustling to survive. The “Ghostbusters” earn a crust by wafting smoke into cars to exorcise demons; the “Snow Monkeys” hawk icy-poles from handcarts; and then there’s Steel, with his entourage of thugs and robbers. A hard-eyed, razorwielding, chain-smoking enforcer, Steel brags of his misdeeds, while quietly dreaming of a better future. When Gittoes offers these urchins the chance to shoot their own story on film, art becomes activism and the result is an immersive documentary that lays bare the underbelly of Afghanistan rarely seen in media, from the poverty and danger of the streets to brutal bombings and the political chokehold of the Taliban. BAPFF is premiering a brand new 97-minute cut of the film. P GEORGE GITTOES, LIZZETTE ATKINS WS CINEPHIL TD DCP Y 2015 L ARABIC, ENGLISH, PASHTO W/SUBTITLES

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“...one of the most cherished of Australian classic films. It has a deep emotional clarity that appeals to children and adults alike, making it timeless.” - AUSTRALIAN SCREEN

“A perceptive, benevolent documentary about a contemporary and particularly high-stakes rite of passage from young adolescence to manhood” – VARIETY

Ten-year-old Mick lives with his freewheeling father in a lonely shack among the dunes and lagoons of South Australia’s Coorong, where the Murray meets the sea. When Mick befriends Fingerbone Bill (David Gulpilil), he gets a new name and a new purpose: nursing three rescued pelican chicks back to health. One, Mr Percival, becomes his faithful pet – and a classic story takes flight.

Winner of Best Film at the 1977 AFI Awards, Storm Boy is based on one of Australia’s best children's novels by author Colin Thiele.

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"Teaism...inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life." Kakuzo Okakura’s beautiful definition of Teaism at the beginning of The Book of Tea calls to mind the sensibilities of the actresses we honour in this program. These were actresses of subtlety, possessing delicate qualities, but also strength. More importantly, they were the muses who each inspired and collaborated with a reputable master; each actress-director duo inspired exceptional qualities in each other. This retrospective highlights Setsuko Hara’s (1920 – 2015) elegant collaborations with Yasujiro Ozu that defined her onscreen presence; Hideko Takamine (1924 -2010) in her most emotionally complex and conflicting roles with Mikio Naruse; and Kinuyo Tanaka (1909 – 1977) in her sexually subversive roles with Kenji Mizoguchi. In contrast, the retrospective also includes their collaborations with other directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Keisuke Kinoshita. Hailed as the 'Eternal Virgin' of Japanese cinema, Hara’s reserved and agreeable manner masked deeper, internalised feelings; for her, acceptance became a form of resistance. Alternately, Takamine — in her determined and somewhat nihilist characters — epitomised quiet defiance, always responding to life’s ridicule with an ambivalent shrug or sneer. Tanaka probably offered the most comprehensive of performances in a wide range of roles; committing blood and soul, she was the one who had the ability to absolve. Remarkably, all these masters of post-war Japanese cinema sympathised with and felt compassion towards women. While Ozu’s films were largely based around a Zen meditation of the inevitable, Naruse and Mizoguchi are more obvious in their preoccupation with feminine narratives, and in identifying with women’s plights.

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Hailed as the 'Eternal Virgin' of Japanese cinema, Hara’s reserved and agreeable manner masked deeper, internalised feelings; for her acceptance became a form of resistance.

Happiness is transient; life, with its struggles and compromises, endures. Cinema, as does any form of art, transcends memory and thought, transforming experience into something larger than life. Through cinema we can acknowledge and comprehend meaning in the everyday: good or bad, all experiences have a place in a collective memory that, however transient, is undeniably grand and irreplaceable. As reminded through these precious stories, we need not be undone by the imperfect or the inevitable. Rather, passing through life’s trials, we can find new revelations and transcend the everyday. Special thanks to The Japan Foundation, Shochiku, Toho, Kadokawa Corporation and the Hong Kong International Film Festival for making this program possible. 35mm prints courtesy of The Japan Foundation. DCPs courtesy of Shochiku and Hong Kong International Film Festival. Kiki Fung Head Programmer

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A rare treat screening on 35mm, No Regrets for Our Youth was the first film that the legendary Akira Kurosawa made with the transcendent Setsuko Hara. A searing indictment on wartime nationalism, the film marked a creative turning point for both actor and director as they came to define Japan’s post-war cinema. In early 1930s Japan, with the tide of fascism rising, a progressive university professor and his daughter, Yukie (Hara), find themselves at odds with an increasingly nationalistic state. As the storms of war gather, Yukie must find the strength to endure, and the courage to discover who she truly is. P TAKEI RYO, MATSUZAKI KEIJI WS TOHO CO LTD TD 35MM Y 1946 L JAPANESE W/SUBTITLES

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“Called ‘one of the most perfect, most complete, and most successful studies of character ever achieved in Japanese cinema,’ – DONALD RICHIE, OZU … one of Ozu's own favorites…”

Noriko (Setsuko Hara) is an unmarried 27 year old, living a serene existence with her loving, widowed father Shukichi. But when a meddling aunt starts pushing Noriko to find a husband, their world is upended, and each must confront life without the other. Named the 15th greatest film of all time by Sight and Sound, and winning Best Film in the reputed Kinema Junpo Award in 1950, Late Spring is considered by many to be the perfect synthesis of Ozu’s filmmaking ethos. Marking his first collaboration with Setsuko Hara, whose magnetic presence would come to define his later works, Late Spring is a film of profound mastery: a deft portrayal of the mannered social interactions that mask our deeper emotional turmoil. P TAKESHI YAMAMOTO WS SHOCHIKU CO LTD TD DCP Y 1949 L JAPANESE W/SUBTITLES

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“A masterpiece of tenderness and serio-comic charm… exerts an insistent power that works at the deepest emotional level.” – THE GUARDIAN

One of the final films that Yasujiro Ozu created with Setsuko Hara, his legendary muse, Late Autumn is a tour de force that showcases both director and actress at the pinnacle of their creative powers. At a memorial service for a friend, three middle-aged salarymen conjure an audacious plan to marry the widow Akiko (Setsuko Hara), by first marrying off her beloved daughter Ayako — Akiko’s only companion. Ayako doesn’t want to abandon her mother, but in post-war Japan social expectation runs deep. A piercing exploration of loneliness, motherhood and constrained femininity, Late Autumn is classic Ozu — impeccably composed and impossible to forget. P SHIZUO YAMAUCHI WS SHOCHIKU CO., LTD. TD DCP Y 1960 L JAPANESE W/SUBTITLES

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“Hara gives a brooding and commanding performance in tracing a woman’s transformation from a sheltered – ROGEREBERT.COM schoolgirl to political dissident”

More broadly, collectively these films comprise an Eastern, or more specifically Japanese, form of existentialism. While Ozu, Naruse and Mizoguchi did not deliberately set out to say something about existentialism in making these films, we can see their characters attempting to express their will and identity, throughout their journeys coming to accept what has been thrust upon them and ultimately attaining an enlightened understanding of life and self. Though all of these films feature women as central characters, these are not situations exclusive to women — most of their dilemmas are universally understood and felt. Mikio Naruse’s When a Woman Ascends the Stairs is perhaps the prime example: Takamine’s ascent each evening, simultaneously donning her bar hostess’s persona, represents the quintessentially modern rendition of Sisyphus. From Late Spring onwards, all of Hara’s roles in Ozu’s films portrayed a quiet resistance against social obligation and expectation; their last two films together, Late Autumn and The End of Summer, saw this resistance transcend into a content acceptance of an ever-changing world. In her most recognised work with Mizoguchi, The Life of Oharu, Tanaka endures a convoluted journey to find and define love and herself, culminating with a choice to include all in her generosity and compassion.

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“A work of immersive textures and perspectives… [a] love story of extreme psychological precision.”

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– SLANT MAGAZINE

Adapted from the novel by Nobel Prize–winner Yasunari Kawabata, Sound of the Mountain follows the tender relationship of Kikuko (Setsuko Hara) and her sympathetic father-in-law, Shingo, as her marriage to his unfaithful son slowly crumbles. Lyrical and impeccably crafted, Naruse’s masterwork is an emotional tour de force — forever lingering with its suggestions, allusions and poetic nuances. Among the 89 films that Mikio Naruse made across the course of his career, the director claimed Sound of the Mountain as one of his firm favourites. A subtle story of clandestine affection and unspoken yearning, the film gave Setsuko Hara one of her all-time great roles in the quietly enduring Kikuko. P FUJIMOTO SANEZUMI WS TOHO CO LTD TD DCP Y 1954 L JAPANESE W/SUBTITLES

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Hideko Takamine

WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS (ONNA GA KAIDAN WO AGARU TOKI)

YEARNING

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T he Triumph of Japanese Cinema

“The crisp black-and-white CinemaScope, xylophone-inflected jazz score, and modernist bar interiors give [the film] a glamorous, International Style sheen”

In her determined and somewhat nihilist characters, she epitomised quiet defiance, always responding to life’s ridicule with an ambivalent shrug or sneer.

– PHILLIP LOPATE FOR THE CRITERION COLLECTION

“The confusion of desire, yearning, and escape is sensuously inscribed.”

– CATHERINE RUSSELL, THE CINEMA OF NARUSE MIKIO

Among Mikio Naruse’s most modernist and stylised efforts, capturing the ambience of the busy nights in Ginza in the 60s, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs tells the story of the widow Keiko, a bar hostess struggling to escape her profession and open her own business, as she tactfully maneouvers among the gazes and advances of regulars, while keeping her affectionate bar manager at a distance.

After losing her husband in the war, Reiko (Hideko Takamine) sustains their corner store, a quiet labour of love and dedication. When a supermarket threatens to put her out of business, her husband’s family swoop in to seize control of the shop; but the true complication for Reiko comes in the form of her young, impulsive brother-in-law, who confesses a longburning love for the widow.

Played with endless grace by Hideko Takamine, Keiko’s battle for independence and dignity made her one of the most complex and unforgettable figures in Naruse’s pantheon of heroines. An unshakable character portrait, this is a revelatory study of a woman trying to forge her own path in a world dominated by the desires of men.

Yearning is the second last film Takamine made with Mikio Naruse, and her performance as the ambivalent Reiko ranks as one of her greatest, winning Best Actress at the 1964 Locarno Film Festival. A film of sublime subtlety and emotional complexity, Yearning finds its restrained female protagonist negotiating among obligation, devotion and passion.

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“One of the most awarded films in Japanese history… a meticulously detailed portrait of what are perceived as the best qualities – CRITERION COLLECTION in the Japanese character.”

An enduring classic, beating Seven Samurai to win Best Film in the reputed Kinema Junpo Award in 1954, and winning a Golden Globe in 1955, Twenty-four Eyes was director Keisuke Kinoshita’s attempt to make sense of the devastation wreaked on ordinary Japanese lives by World War II. Led by a remarkable performance from Hideko Takamine, Kinoshita’s film is a clarion call for peace and a testament to Japanese resilience. Takamine plays Hisako, a primary school teacher on an idyllic island, who, over two decades, watches the children grow, to be carried away by war and returned to her as adults — forever scarred, but still searching for hope. P RYOTARO KUWATA WS SHOCHIKU CO LTD TD DCP Y 1954 L JAPANESE W/SUBTITLES

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MISS OYU

Kinuyo Tanaka Among the three, she probably offered the most comprehensive of performances in a wide range of roles; committing blood and soul, she was the one who had the capacity to absolve.

THE LIFE OF OHARU

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“One of the finest examples of Mizoguchi’s dramatic continuity in the long take…”

– AUDIE BOCK, JAPANESE FILM DIRECTORS

When a young eligible bachelor is introduced to a prospective match, the beautiful Shizu, he finds himself instead falling for her older sister Oyu (Kinuyo Tanaka), a widow with a son, bound by convention not to remarry. In desperation as he interprets Oyu’s egnimatic signals, he marries Shizu to stay close to Oyu – but it’s not long before their fragile union begins to crumble.

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Adapted from Junichiro Tanizaki’s much-celebrated novel, The Reed Cutter, Miss Oyu is a twisting, hypnotic tale of honour and melancholy. Screening in 35mm, Miss Oyu is an undisputed accomplishment in the 15-film relationship between director Kenji Mizoguchi and Tanaka, charting a perilous path through traditional Japanese mores, revealing Tanaka at her ambiguous, sorrowful best.

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“...a palpable grace in every camera movement, a tangible respect in every composition. Persecuted yet steadfast, Oharu may most purely – SLANT MAGAZINE embody the Mizoguchi protagonist.”

When Oharu, the daughter of a feudal lord, is discovered having an affair with a page, her family is shamed and banished. At the mercy of her embittered father, Oharu is sold as a courtesan, and her life becomes one defined by betrayal and abandonment — and an unblinking refusal to give up. Spanning 30 years and anchored by a luminous performance from Mizoguchi’s muse, Kinuyo Tanaka, The Life of Oharu, with its masterful staging, mise-en-scene and lyrical camerawork, marked the high point of Mizoguchi’s profound artistry, winning the International Award in Venice in 1952. Screening in lustrous 35mm, The Life of Oharu is an ultimate statement on a woman’s capacity to endure, absolve and transcend. P KOI HIDEO WS TOHO CO LTD TD 35MM Y 1952 L JAPANESE W/SUBTITLES

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“A rare kind of cinema-of-character … an immensely moving portrait of anti-heroic endurance.”

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– NEW YORK TIMES

Endearing and seductive in her best times, the aging Otsuta (Isuzu Yamada) now oversees the last days of a once-proud Tokyo geisha house as she strives to preserve her dignity. However, her daughter’s (Hideko Takamine) desire for independence and the residing geishas' worldly concerns unsettle the house’s balance. Among them, the quietly observant new maid Rika (Kinuyo Tanaka) exhibits noble devotion as she witnesses the fated changes that are to come. Widely considered to be one of Mikio Naruse’s greatest and most emblematic works, A House of Geisha saw the master director unite five of Japan’s most acclaimed actresses for a performance masterclass that also serves as a deeply affecting portrait of a Japan barrelling headlong into modernity.

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Setsuko Hara, Hideko Takamine and Kinuyo Tanaka all played a pivotal role in defining classical Japanese cinema; the films of Ozu, Naruse or Mizoguchi’s would not be the same without their presence. How did these actresses each contribute to the visions of their directors, and how are the three collaborations different from each other? Join Kiki Fung, BAPFF Head Programmer and Chris Fujiwara, renowned international film critic/programmer and Chairman of APSA’s Youth, Animation and Documentary International Jury, for an in-depth discussion on the actress-director duos in this program, and on how they transformed the everyday into cinematic poetry.

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CHRIS FUJIWARA Chris Fujiwara is a film critic and programmer, born in New York. He has written several books on cinema, including Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall, The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, and Jerry Lewis. He also edited the book Defining Moments in Movies. He has contributed to numerous anthologies and journals and was the editor of Undercurrent, the film-criticism magazine of FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics). He has lectured on film aesthetics and film history at Tokyo University, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, and elsewhere. He was formerly Artistic Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival, and he has also developed film programs for Athénée Français Cultural Center (Tokyo), Jeonju International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Mar del Plata Film Festival, and other institutions. He is one of the founders of the Film Criticism Collective, in collaboration with the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and has organized or served as a mentor for film criticism workshops at the Berlinale, Melbourne International Film Festival, the International Film Festival of Kerala, and elsewhere.

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21 NIGHTS WITH PATTIE

THE ACADEMY OF MUSES

NO HOME MOVIE

PATERSON

PERSONAL SHOPPER

FRANCE DIRECTED BY ARNAUD LARRIEU, JEAN-MARIE LARRIEU

SPAIN DIRECTED BY JOSÉ LUIS GUERIN

BELGIUM, FRANCE DIRECTED BY CHANTAL AKERMAN

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DIRECTED BY JIM JARMUSCH

FRANCE DIRECTED BY OLIVIER ASSAYAS

(21 NUITS AVEC PATTIE)

(L’ACCADEMIA DELLE MUSE)

No Boundaries:

Internatiovneasl Perspecti Direct from the top film festivals across the globe, this is a sublime selection of international cinema’s most acclaimed, forward-thinking and exciting new works. Featuring a stellar line-up of award-winners and conversation starters, No Boundaries invites you to tantalise your senses and broaden your mind with some of the most personal, provocative, perceptive and playful films being made today.

“[An] appealingly wonky comedy of sex, death and fine wine in the French countryside… – VARIETY consistent comic gold.”

“One of global cinema culture’s secret weapons… [director José Luis Guerín] is a meta narrative, semi-doc mad scientist.” – VILLAGE VOICE

When uptight 40-something Caroline hears about the death of her long-absent mother, she heads to the remote village where she lived to wrap up her affairs. But when the embalmed corpse is stolen, Caroline finds herself drawn into a Dionysian sprawl of sex, secrets and Chardonnay, as the sleepy hamlet turns out to harbour more than its fair share of mysteries.

At the University of Barcelona, irrepressible classics professor Raffaele Pinto — playing himself — holds forth on the subject of poetry and muses. His entirely female class – also playing themselves – listen to, debate and live his words, discovering the bounds and possibilities of love as Pinto tries to seduce the muse in them all.

Equal parts playful, morbid and ribald, 21 Nights with Pattie is a black comedy from brothers Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu. Packed with twists, turns and unexpected pleasures, their film is a delightfully quirky romp that recalls the Gallic stylings of the likes of Rohmer, Rivette or Resnais. Winner of Best Screenplay at 2015 San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Philosophy, feminism, fiction and documentary collide headon in The Academy of Muses, José Luis Guerín’s (In the City of Sylvia) latest challenge to the bounds of fashionable thinking, premiered in the 2015 Locarno Film Festival. Delivered with a wry smile and boundless creativity, The Academy of Muses is a cinematic provocation; a spirited dialogue on the point where art and life intersect.

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“[Has] the spontaneity and ineffable fascination of real life… invites you in first with its – NEW YORK TIMES intimacy and then its deep feeling.”

As her beloved mother Natalia edges closer toward death, iconic feminist director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels) decides to begin documenting the final months of their relationship. Quiet, melancholic and almost unbearably intimate, the result is a love letter of profound and unflinching force that finds in the cosy rhythms of everyday life a poignant and often beautiful undertow of memory and history. Tragically, Chantal Akerman took her own life at the end of 2015, just months after No Home Movie premiered at Locarno Film Festival, making this a startling, thought-provoking and tragic swansong from one of cinema’s true radicals. P CHANTAL AKERMAN WS DOC & FILM INTERNATIONAL TD DCP Y 2015 L FRENCH W/SUBTITLES

"Like a great three-chord rock song that transcends through repetitions and minute variations."

New Jersey bus driver Paterson shares his name with his hometown — and his laidback temperament. As he traces his regular route, walks his English bulldog to the local bar each evening, and hears about his guitar-playing, cake-baking wife’s ever-increasing dreams, he composes prose that reflects his everyday existence. In competition at this year’s Cannes, Jim Jarmusch’s latest feature is perhaps his most poetic and meticulous film to date. Playing with symmetry and coincidence, he insightfully uncovers the beauty and artistry that dwells in ordinary lives, as assisted by Adam Driver at his understated best and APSA Academy member, Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani ( About Elly, My Sweet Pepper Land) at her most radiant.

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MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

TONI ERDMANN

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Re-teaming after Clouds of Sils Maria, internationallyacclaimed writer/director Olivier Assayas and star Kristen Stewart sashay into the haunting realm of Parisian haute couture. As a celebrity personal assistant, Maureen's days are filled with running fashion-related errands; by night, she attempts to make contact with her recently deceased twin brother. When the two combine, an enigmatic and beguiling thriller results, with Assayas co-winning the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and Stewart solidifying her status as one of her generation's most intriguing actresses. P CHARLES GILLIBERT DIST RIALTO DISTRIBUTION WS MK2 TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH

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“An uncanny mix of ghost story and personal drama that never feels, even for a moment, like it’s playing into any genre conventions whatsoever — – MOVIE MEZZANINE the film is entirely its own entity.”

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“[An] extraordinary non-narrative work… illustrates the ability of the imaginative spirit to find beauty and – SCREEN INTERNATIONAL hope even amid horror.”

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Stationed in Angola in the 70s, a young combat medic does his best to survive the brutality of Portugal’s colonial wars. Clinging to a life half a world away, he pours himself into letters to his pregnant wife, documenting his yearnings for home, and his wavering nationalism in the face of the war’s relentless savagery.

Championed by some as the best film from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and featuring an awards-tipped performance from Casey Affleck, as well as a standout turn from Michelle Williams, writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s third feature channels the inescapable weight and pain of life’s many hardships into, intricate and intimately-shot exploration of grief.

Based on the real-life letters and experiences of Antonio Lobo Antunes, who would become one of Portugal’s greatest novelists, Letters from War is a sumptuously beautiful reverie of terror, love and sensuality from writer-director Ivo M. Ferreira. Shot in lustrous black-and-white, this deeply poetic, cinematic fever dream showcases a filmmaker at the height of his powers.

Fixing apartment block faucets by day and moodily drinking his evenings away, Boston-based loner Lee Chandler (Affleck) lets his actions do the talking. Then his only brother (Kyle Chandler) dies, forcing Lee to return home to assume guardianship of his teenage nephew — and face devastating past traumas.

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“[an] extraordinary swirl of love, anger, tenderness and brittle humor…beautifully textured, richly enveloping drama.”

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“…risky, unpredictable, sometimes distinctly uncomfortable drama: this is a film where you literally have no idea what – SCREEN INTERNATIONAL is going to happen next.”

No one will forget Toni Erdmann in a hurry — though Bucharest-based business consultant Ines wishes otherwise. The larger-than-life figure is her father's alter ego, dreamed up during his impromptu visit to brighten her busy days. The more Toni appears, the more Ines' existence unravels. The undeniable hit of Cannes, topping Screen International’s critic’s rating grid amongst all competition titles, Maren Ade's third feature is simultaneously awkward, astonishing, hilarious and heart-warming. Expressing a profound understanding of the interplay between pain and levity, Ade naturalistically fashions a poignant family drama, condemning corporate dissection and finessed screwball comedy all at once, winning Cannes FIPRESCI prize in the process. P MAREN ADE, JANINE JACKOWSKI, JONAS DORNBACH, MICHEL MERKT DIST MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT WS THE MATCH FACTORY TD DCP Y 2016 L GERMAN, ENGLISH W/SUBTITLES

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“...entirely coherent with the filmmakers' thematic concerns of social engagement within working-class environments in which economic imbalance, unemployment and immigrant unease are an ever-present part of the social fabric.” – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

" …its stark quasi-thriller plot threaded with quiet moments of philosophy and visual poetry … feels like an Eastern European – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER cousin of Winter’s Bone."

When the doorbell to her medical practice rings after hours on a hectic day, young doctor Jenny (Adèle Haenel) lets it go unanswered. However, after the police discover the body of an unidentified African immigrant nearby the next morning, she's haunted by her actions and driven to scour her close-knit community for answers.

In an economically depressed Bulgarian mountain town, Gana (Irena Ivanova) is a physiotherapist who also traffics in identity cards stolen from her elderly dementia patients. When a retired choir director starts asking questions, she’s drawn to his spirited, tenacious nature, but discovers just how dangerous it is to adopt those traits herself.

Masters of examining the human condition within relatable scenarios, two-time Palme d'Or-winning siblings JeanPierre and Luc Dardenne ( Two Days, One Night) return with their latest social-realist drama, in official competition at 2016 Cannes. Screening at BAPFF in its newly-edited form, The Unknown Girl plunges into ethically and psychologically probing territory, as centred around a devastatingly naturalistic performance from Haenel.

Winning Best Film and Best Actress at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival, Godless takes an unflinching look at post-Soviet Bulgaria, with the country still struggling three decades after the collapse of communism. Confining viewers in a corrupt world courtesy of the film’s 4:3 framing and desaturated colouring, first-time feature director Ralitza Petrova makes a stunning debut.

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THE DAY BEFORE THE END

THE HEDONISTS

HOMEBODIES

IN A CANE FIELD

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PHILIPPINES DIRECTED BY LAV DIAZ

PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA DIRECTED BY JIA ZHANGKE

AUSTRALIA DIRECTED BY YIANNI WARNOCK

AUSTRALIA DIRECTED BY EMILY AVILA

AUSTRALIA DIRECTED BY AARON LESTER ELLIS

As part of an omnibus film, Fragment, commissioned by the Asian Film Archive to celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2015, long-form maestro Lav Diaz’s short film relates Shakespeare to the vibrant Filipino street life, sparking dialogue between the Bard and the revered Filipino poet José Rizal, also a key inspiration for Diaz’s epic A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery.

Master Chinese Independent filmmaker Jia Zhangke exhibits his marvellous talent in comedy in this satirical short: how far would one go in order to make a living in contemporary China, where capitalism appears to be the new norm? Co-written by Jia’s wife/muse Zhao Tao, The Hedonists continues on Jia’s exploration of the odd realities of a nation in transition.

This darkly comic tale charts two disaffected people’s desperate attempt to change the monotony of their suburban lives. At once devastating and humorous, Homebodies is the latest acclaimed film from Australian director Yianni Warnock.

Twin Peaks in a Queensland sugar town, this visually intoxicating murder mystery is a simmering take on burgeoning teenage sexuality. Shot on glorious 16mm and adapted from a short story by Brazilian author Frances de Pontes Peebles, this is a powerful first impression from Queensland director Emily Avila.

The politics of a schoolyard marble competition take centre stage in this charming Australian-made tale of wits between a bully and his victim. As this game of one-upmanship unfolds, so too does a young romance bloom and the dynamics of children at play take on an almost Shakespearean quality that will leave one grinning.

(ANG ARAW BAGO ANG WAKAS)

Features scenes without subtitles Screens with Afternoon, see page 17

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Screens with I am Not Madame Bovary, see page 18

Screens with Yourself and Yours, see page 19 P YIANNI WARNOCK, CHARLES WILLIAMS WS PREMIUM FILMS TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH

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Screens with Letters from War, see page 38

Screens with Sheep and Wolves, see page 31

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SPROUT

Index

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THAILAND DIRECTED BY PIMPAKA TOWIRA

REPUBLIC OF KOREA DIRECTED BY YOON GA-EUN

21 Nights with Pattie 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami

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A Academy of Muses, The After the Storm Afternoon Aligarh Allie Ants on a Shrimp: Noma in Tokyo

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B Toronto’s Best Short Film prize winner and produced by celebrated Filipino and APSA winning filmmaker Brillante Mendoza ( Thy Womb), this uncompromising debut from Raymund Ribay Gutierrez reveals the disturbing social reality in the underbelly of The Philippines.

A deep sense of foreboding hangs over Pimpaka Towira’s otherworldly Prelude to the General . Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2016 Hong Kong International Film Festival, it is charged with mystery and ambiguity as two women share an unspoken danger amid the haunting hum of the Thai jungle.

Screens with Ma’ Rosa, see page 23

Screens with Behemoth, see page 17

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The World of Us director Yoon Ga-eun’s award-winning short film delights by embracing the joys and fears of a seven-yearold child embarking upon her first solo adventure through the streets and back alleys of her Korean town. With an infectiously spirited performance by Kim Soo-an ( Train to Busan), Sprout proves irresistibly entertaining.

Bacchus Lady, The 14 Bangkok Nites 17 Beast 32 Behemoth 17, 29 Bilal: A New Breed of Hero 31 Bonfire, The 27 Breath 22

Screens with The World of Us, see page 24

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TAKE ME HOME

ALLIE

THE CROSSING

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN DIRECTED BY ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

AUSTRALIA DIRECTED BY JEREMY NICHOLAS

AUSTRALIA DIRECTED BY MARIEKA WALSH

Premiering recently at Venice, shot in black and white in the south of Italy, Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami’s short film masks a carefully constructed narrative that highlights the deceptive nature of his filmmaking and his deft manipulation of time and space. Screens with 76 Minutes and 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami, see page 28

A co-winner of Best Director at South Australian Screen Awards, Jeremy Nicholas’s Allie is a daring and uncompromising film that evokes minimal 1980s suburban milieu. Filmed on 35mm, Nicholas’s controlled effort explores alienation and desperation in a deeply poetic and cinematic manner. Screens with Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me, see page 24

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The Crossing is a breathtaking stop-motion animation made entirely out of sand and salt. Initially the adventure of an aging captain on the high seas, this hand-crafted film soon becomes an emotionally affecting experience about the pain of regret. Screens with Manang Biring, see page 31 P DONNA CHANG WS DONNA CHANG TD DCP Y 2016 L ENGLISH

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Acknowledgements

Alison Groves, Andrew Mackie, Anne Démy-Geroe, Antonio Zeccola, Ayusa Koshi, Benjamin Zeccola, Cathy Gallagher, Charley Greaves, Chris Fujiwara, Don Zandro .G. Rapadas, Geoff Gardner, Georgina Stegman, Hae-Yeon Kim, Herman Van Eyken, Hong-Joon Kim, Igor Gouskov, Jennifer Jung, Jenny Neighbour, Jillian Heggie, Jocelynne Saab, Leena Yadav, Mary Stephen, Matt Soulos, Michelle Vecchio, Nicola Warman-Flood, Payton Harkonen, Peter Moyes, Philip Cheah, Richard Payton, Shannen Tunnicliffe, Tracey Mair, Wendy Calder, Yuka Sakano, Zandro G Rapadas, Griffith Film School, National Film and Sound Archive, Palace Cinemas AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTORS 20th Century Fox Australia, Bonsai Films, Bounty Films, China Lion Film Distribution, Daricheh Cinema, Hi Gloss Entertainment, JIFF Distribution, Label Distribution, Madman Entertainment, Rialto Distribution, Roadshow Films, Ronin Films, South Australian Film

Dark Wind, The Daughter Day Before the End, The Death and Life of Otto Bloom, The Destruction Babies Dragon Arrives!, A

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E El Clásico Ella Ember Exile

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F Fourth Direction, The

G Godless

H Hedonists, The Homebodies Hounds of Love House of Geisha (aka Flowing), A

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I Am Not Madame Bovary 18 Imaginary Border 29, 33 Imago 40 In a Cane Field 41 In the Last Days of the City 18

K Kaili Blues Khajaou Knife in the Clear Water

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L Land of the Enlightened, The 12, 15 Last Pinoy Action King, The 29, 33 Late Autumn (Restored) 35 Late Spring (Restored) 35 Letters from War 38 Life of Oharu, The 37 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing 7 Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, A 5,19

M Ma’ Rosa Manang Biring

APSA AND BAPFF FILM TEAM Maxine Williamson Film Director, APSA and BAPFF

Nagasaki: Memories of My Son No Home Movie No Regrets for Our Youth

Salesman, The 8, 24 Seoul Station 31 Sheep and Wolves 31 Snow Monkey 30, 33 Sonita 30 Sound of the Mountain 35 Spill 41 Sprout 40 Starless Dreams 30 Storm Boy (Restored) 10, 33 Student, The 26 Study of a Singaporean Face 13 Sunny Day, A 13

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O One Dollar A Day

P Parched Parting Paterson Personal Shopper Prelude to the General Psycho Raman

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Queen Of Katwe Quest, The

Kiki Fung Head Programmer Eddy Garcia-Grant Screen Manager Tamara Hembury Academy and Industry Engagement Executive Laura Bonde Pedersen Programming Coordinator, BAPFF Brock Taffe Screen Coordinator Narelle Robson-Petch Prints Controller Paul Clarke Film Fund Coordinator Glenn Dunks Event Content Coordinator BRISBANE MARKETING John Aitken Chief Executive Officer Anne-Maree Moon General Manager, Leisure Tourism & Events Richard Boland General Manager, Marketing & Communications

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R Raise Your Arms and Twist — Documentary of NMB48 30 Rauf 16 Road to Mandalay, The 18

Take Me Home 40 Those Below 13 Toni Erdmann 39 Trap, The 16 Twenty-four Eyes (Restored) 37 Two Way Jesus 13

U Under the Sun Unknown Girl, The

Melissa Kite Head of Produced Events Jennifer Ralph Senior Manager, Produced Events Jaclyn McLendon Event Integration Manager Nikki Reid Event Manager, Produced Events Ruth Griffin Community Engagement Manager, APSA BAPFF Jacqueline Bawtree Event Operations Manager Charis Holt Event Operations Coordinator Tracey Mathers Ticketing Manager Sonal Patel Travel & Transport Coordinator Nikki Johnston Volunteer Coordinator Jacob Neuhauser Venue Coordinator Sheree Ramage Talent & Red Carpet Manager Steve Guise Head of Commercial

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W When a Woman Ascends the Stairs 36 Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me 24 Wild, The 24 Woman Who Left, The 19 World of Us, The 24

Y Yearning Yourself and Yours

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Z Zach’s Ceremony Zoology

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New Europe Film Sales, Noor-eTaban Film Company, Pathé International, Peri Istanbul, Perspective Films, Premium Films, Ray Produktion GmbH, Reflection Films, Sardana Savvina, Seashore Image Productions, Seville International, Shochiku Co Ltd, Showbox Entertainment, Sierra / Affinity, Still Moving, Stray Dogs, The Match Factory, Toho Co Ltd, Urban Distribution International (UDI), Wangala Films, Wide Management, Widehouse, Wild Bunch, Wizart Animation, Xaisongkham Induangchanthy, Ying Liang, Zee Studio ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS ADVISORY BOARD Michael Hawkins, Chairman Des Power AM Geoff Rodgers OAM Harvey Lister John Kirby AM

Manchester by the Sea 38 Men Without Women Looking for Bananafish/Girl Without Cat Telling Her Story 13 Mirage 13 Miss Oyu 36 Mountain 27 Muhammad, The Messenger of God 27

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and Corporate Partnerships Vicki Ciocca Partnerships Services Manager Amber Gilmore Communication Manager Daniel Anderson Media & Communications Advisor

BAPFF PROGRAM WordPlay Copywriting Copywriter Sarah Ward Copywriter Baz McAlister Copywriter Glenn Dunks Copywriter CREATIVE TEAM Nick Pty Ltd PROJECTIONISTS AND CINEMA TECHNICIANS Michael Brooks Jordan Bastian Cameron Yang

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