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The historical Che has become like the historical Jesus, with many gospels.

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The historical Che has become like the historical Jesus, with many gospels.

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CINE SPARKS SCHOOLS PROGRAM Brendan is hard at work with his fellow monks fortifying the Abbey walls against invasion. Brendan fights Vikings, a serpent god, and his greatest fears in order to find a magic crystal and complete

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Nutty inventor Caractacus Potts, his two children, and the beautiful Truly Scrumptious enjoy magical rides in a car that can float and fly. When the evil Baron Bomburst kidnaps Grandpa, Potts and

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Coraline Jones (voiced by Dakota Fanning) is an energetic young girl who has just moved with her parents into an isolated country house.

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Sometimes the dead won't die, and in the most recent film by Norwegian filmmaker Tommy Wirkola, frozen Nazi zombies are the latest demographic to suffer from this affliction. Wirkola weaves a humorous

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Dreamland is the second feature film by award-winning director Ivan Sen (Beneath Clouds). The film is reminiscent of Sen's early short-film work, using an arresting visual style that tells as much of

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The story of Bluebeard originated as a fairy-tale in Charles Perrault’s Mother Goose Tales of 1679, with lots of possible real-life models for the serial wife-killer.

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Gentle-natured Elias, an illegal alien from an unidentified country, survives a swim to shore from a human-cargo carrier to wake on a nudist beach of a Mediterranean resort catering to the privileged.

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Beneath the summery surface radiance of Marin Ade’s Berlinale Grand Jury Prize winner is a nuanced and superbly crafted examination of one couple’s transition from romantic freedom to relationship conformity.

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The third in a series of masterly found-footage films by Gustav Deutsch (both previous films have screened at BIFF) reflecting on what 'film is' takes as its theme early cinema's relationship with sex

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Rani, an ageing movie star, still bears the financial responsibility for most of her family, reflecting her former affluence.

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Dutch filmmaker Coco Schrijber constructs a poignant examination of time in her latest feature documentary, Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies. Narrated by John Malkovich, this imaginative and at times

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These four nights with Anna have been variously described as 'an offbeat love story', 'a deeply gothic tale', a film that 'hints (of) really being far, far from what it seems', and a sign that

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Gandhi's children are several hundred boys -orphans, runaways or abandoned; about half of them are held on court orders. The 'real slumdogs' they are accommodated, fed and educated in the Prayas

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Director Adrián Biniez weaves an endearing, albeit minimalist, love story centred around the voyeuristic obsession a late-night security guard has with a fellow employee.

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Solo is a compassionate Senegalese taxi driver who is enthusiastically chasing his future. William is an ageing gent from the American South who feels as if his time has passed.

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Every day, Gulabi takes a boat from her island to the nearby town to watch the movies.

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Blessed (Ana Kokkinos, The Book of Revelation [BIFF 2006]) portrays the vast but complicated love that exists between seven young people and their mothers.

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The enchantment of long, lustrous hair is at the heart of Hair India. This beautifully photographed observational documentary takes us deep into the international craze for human-hair extensions. We

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Chair: Julie Rigg

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Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia

In 1946, celebrated Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens defied his government and released a radical film supporting Indonesian independence. This feature documentary revisits Australia's early

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Director Davis Guggenheim leads the audience on a candid journey into the riff-filled world of three of rock's most iconic electric guitarists: Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), the Edge (U2), and Jack White

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Get ready to get down with this tongue–in-cheek, action-packed blaxploitation film featuring split screens, whip pans, and zooms galore.

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Paris; the Belle Époque; two young Bohemians, one French, the other an Austrian writer; and a beautiful older woman-the ingredients for what is probably cinema's most famous and enjoyable ménage à

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Named after the legendary Indonesian rock group who take centre stage in the film, Kantata Takwa, a semi-documentary protest against the Suharto regime, is a collaborative effort from Iwan Fals, 'the

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Originally released in 1982, Koyaanisqatsi is part one of the 'Qatsi'-or 'Life'-trilogy produced by Godfrey Reggio. The title, Koyaanisqatsi, is Hopi for 'life out of balance', the central theme of

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Director Rashid Masharawi continues his idiosyncratic exploration of Palestinian life with his latest feature, Laila’s Birthday.

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Before moving to Milan, writer-director Marco Bechis, of Swiss-French and Italian origins, grew up in São Paolo and Buenos Aires; Birdwatchers is based loosely on the life of Marcos Veron, a former

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A Danish soldier returns home early from her tour in the Middle East to discover her assimilation into civilian life mired by combative forces similar to those she encountered abroad.

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Director Ken Loach fills the screen with laughter, romance, and suspense in his latest film, Looking for Eric.

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A work of pure cinema, a return in some ways to the visual artistry of the silent era in which the real story unfolds as a stream of potent images.-MovieMorlocks.com

The well-known novelist

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As the eponymous mourners assemble at the funeral of a young man, we realise that they may in fact be one family: father, mother, and daughter.

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Veteran Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko uses his iconic visual style to bring to life the legend of Erzsébet Báthory . . . considered one of the most prolific murderesses in history.

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A deeply personal tribute to the plight of the Vietnamese refugees who travelled to Australia in junks and trawlers in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Set in the not-so-distant future, Mock Up on Mu is the latest work by eccentric artist and hailed culture jammer Craig Baldwin. Keeping on par with his previous films, Baldwin uses found imagery to

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Wrapping up a three-year assignment on the moon, Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is looking forward to returning to Earth to be with his wife and young daughter.

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A young doctor sent to provincial Russia during the Revolution in 1917 becomes a favourite with both nurses and patients . . . but there is a side effect: morphine.

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When Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, five young newsmen working for Australian television were caught in the crossfire. Well, that’s the official line.

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Danny and Li Wei are two boys from Salzburg who spend their holiday in a fishing village in China. Travelling with Danny is Mozart, a marionette puppet, who comes alive at night. As the two boys

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My Asian Heart is the most engaging film from a filmmaker noted for his committed politics and matching filmmaking practice. The extra dimension here comes, one feels, from David Bradbury's (Chauvel

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What begins as a grandiose publicity stunt for the upcoming 1936 Berlin Games gives rise to an amazing tale of heroism and humanity.

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When their mother goes missing, two sisters and their brother must return from Istanbul to their hometown in the country.

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Thirtysomethings Burt and Verona discover they are going to have a child. Expecting support from Burt’s parents, who instead leave for a two-year overseas holiday, they turn their initial dismay into an opportunity to embark on their own literal journey of discovery.

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This beautifully made, measured, and quiet film from first-time director Enrique Rivero lasts with the viewer long after it ends.

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Produced by Jia Zhangke, China’s foremost modern filmmaker, Emily Tang’s wonderful second feature focuses on the lives of two women trying to make their way in modern Chinese society.

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Set in the trucking recesses of Dubbo, Prime Mover is a masterful blend of action and drama.

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Queensland Films 1930 - 1960: From the Talkies to Television

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Described as a 'cultural document' by filmmaker Father Joseph Pulinthanath of Kerala, India, Roots tells of the people displaced by the construction of the Dumbur Dam, which in 1979 submerged huge

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Carey Mulligan shines in a captivating performance.—Todd McCarthy, Variety

Romance, drama, intrigue—An Education is an entertaining portrayal of the growing pains that accompany early adulthood.

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Secret Museums feels a little like an annotation to The Ninth Gate. It begins with private collectors of erotica, most of whom are for good reason quite secretive about their collections-as one notes

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Focusing on forty-two different buildings and lasting just under three hours, Sense of Architecture provides ample entertainment for those interested in viewing structures in their natural settings.

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The prolific Brillante Mendoza’s Service is a dazzling, hyper-sexy, and subversively droll portrait of Filipino life.

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Shirin observes 112 Iranian actresses and one French ring-in (Juliette Binoche!) as they watch a performance of Khosrow and Shirin, a famous Iranian myth perhaps comparable to Tristan and Isolde. The

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When Amitabh Bachchan recently asked readers of his blog to name their favourite scene from any of his movies, many mentioned the mirror scene in Amar Akbar Anthony. This delightful film, for which

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The story of two neighbours and best friends—Ivan, a Russian, and Assan, a Kazakh. When blonde Ivan’s blonde wife gives birth to a dark-haired baby, her husband can’t help but have doubts.

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Still Walking, a departure into the tradition of Japanese home dramas, focuses on everyday domestic trials. Its exemplar is, of course, Ozu.

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After his father is brutally killed in front of him, Jimmy (Matthew Scully) is taken in by his uncle Leonard (Damien Garvey) and given a job working in his underground storage facility. As Jimmy works

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When southern developers move in on local Hervey Bay builder Digger Kelly, who does everything the old-fashioned way, he finds that quality is apparently irrelevant to them and that he cannot compete.

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Thai filmmaker Uruphong Raksasad knows the challenges of farming. The son of a rice farmer, Raksasad portrays the hardships of working the land in his docudrama Agrarian Utopia.

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Agnès Varda's most recent autobiographical documentary opens with a shot of her walking backwards on a beach and into her past. Given the spirit of humility that imbues the film, anyone unfamiliar

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The largest supplier of dolphins in the world is located in the picturesque town of Taiji, Japan. But the town has a dark, horrifying secret that it doesn't want the rest of the world to know. There

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Among the best, most realistic and harrowing fight scenes captured on film anywhere.-Andrew Urban, Urban Cinefile

Adapted from the 2006 QNFA-winning short film of the same title, this

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At seventeen, Eugenio Polgovsky won the 1995 UNESCO/ACCU World Photo Contest, 'Living Together'. His skill as a cinematographer is clearly demonstrated in The Inheritors, which he also wrote,

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A robustly entertaining adaptation of a Norman Lindsay novel (with significant modification), set mainly on picturesque Dunk Island in the Great Barrier Reef.

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(Free Event) The doorman of a leading hotel in the city centre is in love with the prestige his position and his uniform bring him. His world falls apart when he is unexpectedly demoted to lavatory attendant.

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Veteran stage actor Harish Mishra (Bachchan) has been wooed out of retirement and onto a film set by a chance to play Lear.

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The beautiful Jeanne (Jeanne Moreau) punctuates her unhappy marriage to a wealthy provincial newspaper owner with frequent visits to Paris, her best friend and her lover, polo matches, and cocktail

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Fausta suffers from what her people know as ‘the frightened breast’ (the literal translation of the film’s original Spanish title), and she expresses this trauma through the tragic but compelling songs she improvises.

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The best, and my favorite film I’ve seen so far this year.—David Bordwell

When Ahmad, recently divorced from his German wife, returns for a few days to Tehran from Germany, his university friends organise a weekend excursion to the Caspian Sea.

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John Rosow (Michael Shannon) is a down-and-out private detective living in Chicago hired under mysterious circumstances to follow Harold Fullmer on a train to Los Angeles.

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Legendary Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is often called the devil or the fashion pope, and the magazine’s September issue is the veritable glam bible of the fashion world.

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Award-winning Nga Puhi and Ngati Wai iwi writer Briar Grace-Smith's first feature, The Strength of Water, is a careful collaboration with acclaimed New Zealand director Armagan Ballantyne, and it

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Director Kim So-yong’s second feature seeks to convey the experience of childhood by focusing almost entirely on, or giving the viewpoint of, its two child leads, Bin and Jin.

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Writer-director Claire Denis returns again to the continuing French colonial legacy in this gentle Parisian tale of the loving relationship between a train-driving father and his student daughter.

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Unmade Beds has a lively, romantic spirit that recalls the playfulness and spontaneity of the French New Wave.—Justine Chang, Variety

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Exposure, desperation, hunger—three motivations that drive the central characters of Van Diemen’s Land to perform acts of despicable horror.

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Moreau's third collaboration with Louis Malle saw her team up with Brigitte Bardot in a lavish, bawdy period comedy when both women were at the height of their international careers. Maria Fitzgerald

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Trouble has always followed Jesco White (Edward Hogg). From the age of six, a young Jesco is bounced from his West Virginian shack to reform schools, work camps, and mental institutions, where he

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Kiran Bedi, the first woman to join the Indian Police Service, is a controversial and inspiring figure. Bedi's career has been marked by moments of physical courage, institutional innovation, and

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Che: Part One

Che: Part Two

Brendan and the Secret of Kells

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Coraline

Dead Snow

Dreamland

Bluebeard

Eden Is West

Everyone Else

FILM IST. a girl & a gun

Flowers of the Sky

Bloody Mondays & Strawberry Pies

Four Nights with Anna

Gandhi's Children

Gigante

Goodbye Solo

Gulabi Talkies

Blessed

Hair India

Indonesia Calling

Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia

It Might Get Loud

Black Dynamite

Jules and Jim

Kantata Takwa

Koyaanisqatsi

Laila's Birthday

Birdwatchers

Little Soldier

Looking for Eric

Mademoiselle

Members of the Funeral

Bathory

Missing Water

Mock Up on Mu

Moon

Morphia

Balibo

Mozart in China (Cine Sparks)

My Asian Heart

North Face

Pandora's Box

Away We Go

Parque Vía

Perfect Life

Prime Mover

Queensland Films 1930 - 1960: From the Talkies to Television

Roots

An Education

Secret Museums

Sense of Architecture

Service

Shirin

Amar Akbar Anthony

Songs from the Southern Seas

Still Walking

Storage

Subdivision

Agrarian Utopia

The Beaches of Agnès

The Cove

The Horseman

The Inheritors

Age of Consent

The Last Laugh

The Last Lear

The Lovers

The Milk of Sorrow

About Elly

The Missing Person

The September Issue

The Strength of Water

Treeless Mountain

35 Shots of Rum

18th St.George Bank
Brisbane International Film Festival