2017 Lotterywest Films: Season 1 | 2017 Perth International Arts Festival

SEASON ONE

LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS

Season One 28 Nov 2016–12 Feb 2017 Season Two 13 Feb–16 Apr 2017 perthfestival.com.au

LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS The best of today’s international films brought to your favourite outdoor cinemas.

DATE

UWA SOMERVILLE Mon–Sun, 8pm

ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue–Sun, 8pm

28 Nov–4 Dec

Little Men

The Teacher

5–11 Dec

The Teacher

Little Men

12–18 Dec

After the Storm

The Rehearsal

19–24 Dec

Julieta

After the Storm

26 Dec–1 Jan

The Red Turtle

Julieta

2–8 Jan

Paterson

The Red Turtle

9–15 Jan

The Dancer

Paterson

16–22 Jan

Neruda

The Dancer

23–29 Jan

Monsieur Chocolat*

Neruda

30 Jan–5 Feb

Toni Erdmann

Monsieur Chocolat

6–12 Feb

Like Crazy

Toni Erdmann

TICKETS There are three convenient ways to purchase tickets to UWA Somerville and ECU Joondalup Pines – online, by phone through our Info Centre or at the box office at the gate. You can also purchase 6 and 12-pack vouchers, which can be used for entry to any film, subject to available seating.

Spend less time in line, and more time picnicking, by pre-purchasing your ticket.

No screenings Christmas Day (Sun 25 Dec) or Good Friday (Fri 14 Apr). *On Australia Day at UWA Somerville screening starts at 8.30pm ECU Joondalup Pines closed Fri 3 Mar and Fri 7 Apr. Films will usually go ahead in the event of rain. Any cancellations will be announced at 4.30pm on the day of screening via the PIAF website and on Facebook/Twitter.

CTC: Check the classification.

Cover Image: Jason Eshraghian

Image: Tom Vincent cr. Natasha Pawlowski

Our 2016/2017 Lotterywest Festival Films In an exceptional year of cinema from around the world, PIAF brings you the first season of outstanding films that are all about friendship, family and wondrous creation.

Little Men, The Rehearsal and Like Crazy are three different takes on the joy and pain that comes with making new friends. After the Storm, The Teacher, Julieta, The Red Turtle and Toni Erdmann are all about family ties – yet as we know, no two families are alike! And Paterson, The Dancer, Neruda and Monsieur Chocolat show us artistic endeavour – watch them, then think of all the artists who are coming to PIAF 2017 this summer.

Alongside this distinctive and varied program we present two Australian short films, a retrospective dedicated to our special guests Rolf de Heer and Molly Reynolds at the State Library of Western Australia, and the ground-breaking virtual reality experience Collisions at PICA. Now I’m watching the final selections of films to bring to you in Season Two. Look out for a further nine films to be announced on Monday 16 January.

Until then, bring friends and family and enjoy this vintage year of cinema.

Tom Vincent Program Manager: Film Perth International Arts Festival acknowledges that our events take place on the lands of the Noongar people and we wish to pay our respects to the traditional custodians of this Country.

Selected films also available at PIAF Great Southern.

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USA

LITTLE MEN Cast: Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri, Greg Kinnear, Alfred Molina DIRECTOR IRA SACHS, 85mins, CTC Mon 28 Nov–Sun 4 Dec, 8pm | UWA Somerville Tue 6–Sun 11 Dec, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines A sweet slice of New York life in which two teenage friends try to be the best ‘little men’ they can be. When his family moves from Manhattan to Brooklyn, thoughtful art student Jake is happy to meet funny, outgoing new neighbour Tony. But Jake’s family has just become landlord to Tony’s mother, who is struggling to pay the bills. Jake and Tony just want to be friends, but their parents sure are making that hard. Another beautifully bittersweet drama by Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, PIAF 2015).

The performances are impeccable. Sachs is a master of expressive understatement. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

SLOVAKIA

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

THE TEACHER

Cast: Zuzana Mauréry, Csongor Kassai DIRECTOR JAN HREBEJK, 102mins, CTC Slovak with English subtitles.

Tue 29 Nov–Sun 4 Dec, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines Mon 5–Sun 11 Dec, 8pm | UWA Somerville This audience favourite casts a wickedly humorous eye over the recent European past. It’s 1983, the era of Communist control in central Europe. In a Bratislava classroom stern new teacher Mrs Drazdechova asks what each of the students’ parents does for a living. As those wary adults soon realise, this teacher likes to call in favours from them in exchange for good grades for their kids. The parents convene – should they deal with her corruption?

Featuring an enthralling performance from Zuzana Mauréry as the imposing instructor, this is wry, prize-winning entertainment.

A surefire crowd pleaser. SCREEN DAILY

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JAPAN

AFTER THE STORM Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Satomi Kobayashi DIRECTOR HIROKAZU KOREEDA, 117mins, CTC Japanese with English subtitles.

Mon 12–Sun 18 Dec, 8pm | UWA Somerville Tue 20–Sat 24 Dec, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines The joys and tensions of family are laid bare in the latest film

by Japan’s greatest director Hirokazu Koreeda (Our Little Sister, PIAF 2016). Forty-something Ryota is a wayward son and an absent dad. A once-promising novelist, he’s now a shabby private detective and hopeless gambler – whose ex-wife has moved on with a new relationship. Forced to shelter together at the house of Ryota’s mischievous mother during a typhoon, this complex family questions whether they can ever reconcile? And do they even want to?

NEW ZEALAND

THE REHEARSAL Cast: James Rolleston, Kerry Fox, Alice Englert DIRECTOR ALISON MACLEAN, 102mins, CTC

Tue 13–Sun 18 Dec, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines At a prestigious Auckland drama school, a class of nervous first-year students meet their intimidating new teacher, Hannah (Kerry Fox). Stanley (James Rolleston; The Dark Horse, PIAF 2016) is the least confident of the bunch, but comes to life when the class is told to devise an end-of-year play. He suggests they adapt a real-life scandal involving a tennis teacher and Victoria, a girl they all know.

Stanley’s classmates are energised, but what he doesn’t reveal is that he’s dating Victoria’s sister … Spiky, funny and with a gripping finale, The Rehearsal is a class act.

A drama that’s as piercing as it is potent. SCREEN DAILY

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SPAIN

JULIETA Cast: Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Rossy de Palma DIRECTOR PEDRO ALMODÓVAR, 99mins, CTC Spanish with English subtitles.

Mon 19–Sat 24 Dec, 8pm | UWA Somerville Tue 27 Dec–Sun 1 Jan, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines About to leave Madrid for a fresh start in Portugal, Julieta’s world is rocked when she hears news of her estranged daughter Antía.

Abandoning plans, and with her bemused lover in pursuit, she is consumed with reconciling her past and with reaching out to Antía.

As we flash back to the sexually liberated Spain of 1989, Julieta’s life seems evermore complex and mysterious. Exuding colour and gorgeous design, Julieta casts a sensuous spell that is part Alfred Hitchcock, part Alice Munro (it’s adapted from her stories) – and 100% Pedro Almodóvar (Volver, All About My Mother).

A slick, stylish melodrama with an involving story and a cracking cast. EMPIRE

JAPAN/FRANCE

THE RED TURTLE DIRECTOR MICHAËL DUDOK DE WIT, 80mins, PG

No dialogue.

Mon 26 Dec–Sun 1 Jan, 8pm | UWA Somerville Tue 3–Sun 8 Jan, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines A man washes up on a sun-kissed desert island that teems with colourful nature. He is preoccupied with leaving, yet finds that each time he tries, a large, powerful turtle urges him to remain on the island’s shores. What can this mysterious creature want from its human companion? This latest animated classic from Studio Ghibli (My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away) was ten years in the making with Oscar-winning director Michaël Dudok de Wit. A vivid and moving fable told through gorgeous imagery and a stirring score.

A fable so simple, so pure, it feels as if it has existed for hundreds of years. VARIETY

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USA

PATERSON

+ WELCOME HOME ALLEN, 11mins

Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Method Man DIRECTOR JIM JARMUSCH, 118mins, M Mon 2–Sun 8 Jan, 8pm | UWA Somerville Tue 10–Sun 15 Jan, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines Each day in a New Jersey town, Paterson gets up and writes a short, sweet poem before beginning work as a bus driver. In the evenings he returns to his loving wife and dog, all the while paying attention to the people who make up his richly patterned world. Adam Driver (Girls, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) plays our laconic hero, through whom we observe the quirks and joys of life. Directed by indie hero Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, PIAF 1986), this is a cool, droll stopover in everyday America.

A quiet delight … celebrates small-town life and dreams.

THE GUARDIAN

FRANCE

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

THE DANCER

Cast: Soko, Lily-Rose Depp DIRECTOR STÉPHANIE DI GIUSTO, 108mins, CTC

French with English subtitles.

Mon 9–Sun 15 Jan, 8pm | UWA Somerville Tue 17–Sun 22 Jan, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines From humble beginnings in the American Midwest to the toast of decadent Paris, dancer Loïe Fuller was driven by a singular passion for her art. Her ‘Serpentine Dance’ was a whirlwind of silk and coloured lights – a dazzling new style for modern, sensual times. Fuller’s fierce dedication makes her vulnerable to self-destruction and blind to rivalry; as her candle burns, a beautiful and talented protégé waits to steal the limelight. The Dancer brings early 1900s Parisian society vibrantly to life, with searing performances from Soko and Lily-Rose Depp lighting up this tale of creation and abandon.

An intelligent, thoughtful biopic. SCREEN DAILY

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CHILE

NERUDA Cast: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal DIRECTOR PABLO LARRAÍN, 107mins, MA Spanish with English subtitles.

Mon 16–Sun 22 Jan, 8pm | UWA Somerville Tue 24–Sun 29 Jan, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines ‘You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.’

This sexy, witty and highly entertaining film has the poise and energy of its subject’s own words. It is Santiago in 1948 and Pablo Neruda, Chile’s adored, charismatic poet, is sent into hiding when right-wing President Videla demands his arrest. Concealed by a network of sympathisers – and with a clueless but dogged cop in pursuit – Neruda flees toward the Argentine mountains whilst covertly publishing his rousing verse. Playfully brilliant cinema from director Pablo Larraín starring Gael García Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries, No, PIAF 2013).

A work of … cleverness and beauty. VARIETY

FRANCE

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

MONSIEUR CHOCOLAT + PRIMITIVE NOSTALGIA, 5mins Cast: Omar Sy, James Thiérrée DIRECTOR ROSCHDY ZEM, 110mins, CTC French with English subtitles Mon 23–Sun 29 Jan, 8pm (Thur 26 Jan, 8.30pm) | UWA Somerville Tue 31 Jan–Sun 5 Feb, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines In rural French circuses in 1897, Cuban Rafael Padilla startles audiences as the clown ‘Chocolat’. A wickedly skilled performer, he makes easy money as the butt of jokes, playing to the crowd as the stereotypical ‘wild savage’ of the colonies. But Padilla is so much more than a willing fall-guy. Seizing the chance to make it big in Paris as one half of ground-breaking duo ‘Foottit and Chocolat’, Padilla becomes a pioneering black star, but grows evermore conscious of the racism surrounding him. A vibrant film that enlightens as it entertains.

Superbly performed. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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GERMANY

TONI ERDMANN Cast: Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek DIRECTOR MAREN ADE, 162mins, M German and Romanian with English subtitles.

Mon 30 Jan–Sun 5 Feb, 8pm | UWA Somerville Tue 7–Sun 12 Feb, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines A joyous, laugh-out-loud film so continually surprising that it has become the talk of film festivals from Cannes to Melbourne. ‘Toni Erdmann’ is the embarrassingly tactless buck-toothed alter-ego of Winfried Conradi, a recently retired schoolteacher with a penchant for ridiculous stunts. At a loose end, and eager to reconnect with his serious and career-driven daughter Ines, Winfried decides to tag along on her important business trip in Bucharest and win her over with a relentless series of daft practical jokes. Full of rich detail and unexpected joy, Toni Erdmann is a constant, head-spinning delight.

One of the most stirring cinematic experiences to come around in a long time. THE FILM STAGE

ITALY

LIKE CRAZY Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti DIRECTOR PAOLO VIRZÌ, 118mins, M Italian with English subtitles.

Mon 6–Sun 12 Feb, 8pm | UWA Somerville Tue 14–Sun 19 Feb, 8pm | ECU Joondalup Pines Resident at a villa in secluded Tuscany, elegant Beatrice entertains her neighbours with lively tales of unlikely celebrity friends. She’s a charming fantasist and good company at this care home for the emotionally unwell. When new introverted guest Donatella arrives, Beatrice takes the younger woman under her wing and embarks on a freewheeling, big-spending escapade to a nearby town in the name of fun. After Human Capital (PIAF 2015), this is another delightful partnership between director Virzì and actress Tedeschi.

A marvellous balance of humour and pathos.

A terrific comedy-drama. VARIETY

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COLLISIONS Cast: Curtis Morgan, Nyarri Nyarri Morgan DIRECTOR LYNETTE WALLWORTH, 15mins

PICA, PERTH CULTURAL CENTRE Tue 21 Feb–Sun 5 Mar Tue and Wed, 10am–5pm Thur–Sun, 10am–8.30pm Sessions run every 30mins. Limited capacity.

A virtual journey to sacred land.

Martu elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan’s first contact with Western culture came in the 1950s when he witnessed a secret atomic bomb testing in the South Australian desert.

Now with the advance of virtual reality technology you will be transported back to this desert community with Morgan as your guide.

FREE Advance bookings for groups only, contact 08 6488 8616 Please note headsets are supplied and will need to be worn throughout this film.

Co-presented with Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

Virtual reality pioneer Lynette Wallworth tells this Indigenous story in explosive detail. THE GUARDIAN (UK)

AUSTRALIA

AUSTRALIA

TRACKING COUNTRY ROLF DE HEER & MOLLY REYNOLDS

Join us to celebrate the work of two of the most vital filmmakers in Australia in this world-first retrospective.

Discover or revisit these extraordinary films and hear the makers discuss their work.

STATE LIBRARY THEATRE, STATE LIBRARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Thur 23 Feb, 7.30pm Dingo Dir. Rolf de Heer, 1991, 109mins, M, 35mm

Fri 24 Feb, 7.30pm The Tracker Dir. Rolf de Heer, 2002, 94mins, M, 35mm

Sun 26 Feb, 4.30pm Another Country Dir. Molly Reynolds, 2015, 75mins, G

Sat 25 Feb, 4.30pm Ten Canoes Dir. Rolf de Heer, 2006, 91mins, M, 35mm 7.30pm Charlie’s Country Dir. Rolf de Heer, 2013, 108mins, M

7.30pm Rolf de Heer & Molly Reynolds in Conversation with Fenella Kernebone* 60mins 9pm Still Our Country – Reflections on a Culture Dir. Molly Reynolds, 2015, 88mins, unclassified 15+ *Free entry to In Conversation for film ticket holders More details at perthfestival.com.au Family and Education Program Partner Dingo, The Tracker and Ten Canoes courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

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SHORT FILMS Two of the best new Australian shorts precede selected features.

WELCOME HOME ALLEN DIRECTOR ANDREW KAVANAGH, 11mins Punchy, stylish filmmaking from one of Australia’s newest talents. Four warriors return home from battle to a world that may no longer recognise them. What does their return mean for those there to greet them?

PRIMITIVE NOSTALGIA DIRECTOR CAROLINE GARCIA, 5mins In this smart, sashaying short film, visual artist Caroline Garcia inserts herself into the dance scenes of classic films. This witty collage of ‘exotic’ dance is a sly satire on the way local cultures are sampled for the movie myth-machine.

LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS SEASON TWO LAUNCH Mon 16 Jan 8pm | UWA Somerville Regular ticket prices apply.

On Monday 16 January at UWA Somerville we will screen the playfully brilliant Neruda.

Join us before the screening (from 7.30pm) for an exclusive program preview for Season Two of Lotterywest Festival Films.

You can expect a further nine fantastic new films to see movie lovers through to 16 April.

Look out for your Season Two brochure from Monday 16 January for all the details of what’s coming to your favourite outdoor screens.

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Keep the debates going all season long with the PIAF Audience Award

LIKE IT? RATE IT! Cast your vote online or at the venues

Audience Award Lotterywest Festival Films Perth International Arts Festival

2017 GOLDEN DECKCHAIR

2016 Audience Award Winner Sherpa: Trouble on Everest

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