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2011
Auckland - 16th February - 6th March
Event Cinemas (Newmarket)
Academy Cinemas (CBD)
Victoria Picture Palace (Devonport)
Wellington - 10th March - 27th March
Angelika at Reading Cinemas Courtenay
City Gallery Wellington
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about the Festival or just let us know which films
you like best.
It is our pleasure to present you with the 6th
edition of Documentary Edge Festival programme.
The Festival is a treat to all documentary lovers
and we hope that the film selection this year will
attract new audiences too. 64 films from New
Zealand and around the world were carefully
curated for the 2011 Festival. The films are divided
into 8 categories: New Zealand, Best of Fest,
World Cinema, Culture Vultures, Heroes & Icons,
Shorts, a Spotlight ‘All in the Family’ and a new
category ‘On the Edge’.
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and ticketing information, at your finger tips, at
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Welcome
KIA ORA
A BIG Thank You to our sponsors and supporters
(pg 2) for sharing with us the passion for
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We are also proud to include a Special
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Presentation which is Spike Lee’s latest
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Rise.’ (pg 37) The Festival will open with Alexandre
It’s summer time in NZ and whether you are a
O. Philippe’s film, ‘The People vs. George Lucas’
visitor to our beautiful country or a local, we invite
(pg. 7), which examines the conflicted dynamics
you to travel around the world from the comfort
between George Lucas and his fans. It will close
of the cinema, watch the best documentaries
with Oliver Stone’s excitable journey throughout
the political reformers of South America, ‘South of from the past year, meet filmmakers, engage in
the Border’ (Pg. 8). All the films in the Festival are Question & Answer sessions, and most of all,
in competition and the winners will be announced enjoy the Festival!
at the Documentary Edge Gala on the 24th of
Ka kite
February 2011.
We are delighted to bring Documentary Edge
Festival to new venues in Auckland. For the
first time, the Festival will fully run at Event
Cinemas in Newmarket with satellite screenings
at Academy Cinemas (CBD) and the recently
reopened Victoria Picture Palace in Devonport.
In Wellington, we return to Angelika at Reading
Cinemas Courtenay and also lunch time
screenings at City Gallery. Please look out for us
and the Festival’s volunteers at these venues. We
can help you with any questions you may have
Alex Lee
Dan Shanan
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Opening Night Film ................7
Closing Night Film ..................8
Gold
New Zealand (Kiwi Made).......10
Best of Fest ..............................18
World Cinema............................28
Special Presentation.............37
Silver
Heroes & Icons...........................38
Culture Vultures.....................52
Shorts..........................................68
Spotlight: All in the Family.
A look at families and their complex
relationships...................................44
Bronze
Supporters
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On the Edge
Our new category curates the unusual,
the edgy and those films that will push
boundaries and provoke.................60
SCHEDULES - Centre Fold
INDEX.............................................72
Cinema Key
A - Academy Cinemas
E - Event Cinemas Newmarket
V - Victoria Picture Palace Devonport
R - Angelika at Reading Cinemas Courtenay
C - City Gallery Wellington
Q&A
For visiting filmmakers and Q&A sessions
check the website.
Contents
Sponsors 2011
GENERAL INFO
VENUE DETAILS
AUCKLAND
NEW THIS YEAR - iPHONE APP
Documentary Edge Festival now offers a free app
download for iPhone users to access full programme
- synopsis, schedules, cinemas and ticket info.
44 Lorne Street (behind the old St James)
www.academycinemas.co.nz
Ph: 09 373 2761
TICKET PRICING 2011
AUCKLAND/WELLINGTON PRICING:
Opening Night $20 (includes a drink and nibbles)
Monday - Thursday
(Anytime)
Friday - Sunday
(Anytime)
Adult
$15.50
$16.50
Student
$13.50
$14.50
Senior/
Child
$10.50
$12.50
Event Cinemas Newmarket
77 Broadway
Newmarket
www.eventcinemas.co.nz
Ph: 09 302 0002
Notes
-Film Industry members = Student pricing
-Child price = under 15
-Movie Money is not valid for films screening as part
of the Festival.
Group Discount (10+ tickets to the same film): $14.50
Multiple Film Discount (5+ tickets to 5 different
films): $14.50
Group Child Discount (15+ tickets for school groups
attending the same film): $10 .00
(Applies to Monday - Friday before 5pm only)
EARLYBIRD PRICING
Valid from 15th December 2010 to 9th January 2011.
All Tickets
Adult
$15.00
Student
$13.00
Senior/
Child
$10.00
ANGELIKA AT READING CINEMAS
GOLD LOUNGE PRICING
Earlybird (Anytime)
Victoria Picture Palace
(Devonport)
(WELLINGTON ONLY)
Screening from 25th Feb - 6th March only
Parking is ample and easy at the Academy with a
multitude of parking buildings within easy strolling
distance. The Civic is probably the closest. There is
also plenty of street parking in the streets around the
Cinema, which is free after 6pm.
Angelika at Reading Cinemas
Courtenay
Level 2, 100 Courtenay Place
www.readingcinemas.co.nz
Ph: 04 801 4600
Tickets will be available online at
Allocated seating will apply to all sessions.
On-site parking is conveniently located within the
Reading Courtenay complex. Entrance to both the
undercover and outdoor car park is on Wakefield
There are disabled parking spaces outside the
Street. Charges apply. Please phone Care Park on
Cinema in Lorne Street. During Library hours access 04 388 9681 for more information.
is available to the Cinema via the Library lift. Just ask
Disabled access and wheel chair spaces are available
at their reception for a security guard to bring you
down and you don't need an escort to leave after your in all cinemas. Should you require use of these
facilities please notify staff at the time of booking. We
film. Outside of Library hours we need 45 minutes
can then ensure you are provided with information on
notice to book a security guard to escort you via the
lift, so please call us on 09 373 2761 so we can book access and seating appropriate to your ability.
this service for you. Library hours are 9:30am-8pm
Mon-Fri, 10am-4pm Sat & 12pm-4pm Sun.
48 Victoria Road
Devonport
Ph: 09 446 0100
The Victoria is the oldest purpose built cinema in
the Southern Hemisphere and is a great cinema
to visit. But it was built a long time before modern
access codes were written and it should be noted
there is no disabled access to the cinemas showing
Documentary EdgeFestival programmes.
The Quadrant Hotel Auckland, the Documentary
Edge Festival exclusive hotel partner, offers
special rates for delegates and guests attending
the Documentary Edge Festival and Forum. You
can book your accommodation at
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[email protected] or call toll free
0800 666 611
Adam Auditorium, Civic Square
Screening at 12pm and 2pm Mon-Fri only.
$20.00
Monday - Thursday (Anytime)
$20.00
Friday - Sunday (Anytime)
$25.00
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WELLINGTON
Tickets available from www.dashtickets.co.nz or
Real Groovy
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Opening Night Film
The People vs George Lucas
USA, UK | 2010 | 93 mins | English | Alexandre O Phillipe
Your World is Our World
As media partners for the Documentary Edge Festival,
we are proud to oﬀer the opportunity to bring New
Zealand documentaries to the small screen.
Be part of the Stratos Documentary Film Festival to be
screened later this year and submit your documentary
now for consideration.
For further information, contact us on
09 376 5030
or email [email protected]
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The People vs. George Lucas
dissects the love/hate relationship
some Star Wars fans have
developed with its creator George
Lucas.
At a recent South by Southwest
screening Q&A session, director
Philippe, a self-professed "fanboy,"
describes his film as "sort of
a cultural examination of this
phenomenon." The film looks
at controversial decisions made
by Lucas, such as the digitally
re-mastered Special Editions
of Episodes IV-VI without the
re-mastering of the original
versions. Yet as much as the film
dissects Star Wars controversy,
it also examines the meaning
of participatory culture, asking
the question, "Once the public
embraces a film, to whom does it
belong--the fans or the creator?"
Lucas’s undeniable influence
on multiple generations is
examined through a participatory
documentary. Fans were invited
to submit their own footage, and
submit they did, from stop-motion
animation tributes to images of
costume-clad enthusiasts engaged
in reenactments and parodies.
Director Philippe carefully sorted
through and compiled highlights
from 634 hours of fan film footage.
Philippe crafts an interesting
meditation on art and marketing
and film itself. The result: a love
letter (or more accurately, a "love/
hate letter") to a filmmaker that
documentary contributor Richie
Menta aptly claims has "unlocked a
generation's imagination."
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Wed 16/2 8.00pm - E
Sun 20/2 12.30pm - E
Sun 6/3 12.00pm - E
WELLINGTON
Thur 10/3 8.30pm - R
Sun 27/3 12.00pm - R
It's a vast, heady mix which can sometimes
get dizzying, but – absolutely crucially
for a subject like this - it’s never dull, or
exclusive. Recommended.
Sam Toy, Empire Magazine
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Closing Night Film
South of the Border
USA | 2009 | 78 mins | English, Spanish, Portugese | Oliver Stone
There’s a revolution underway in
South America, but most of the
world doesn’t know it. Clearly
frustrated by the half-truths and
sensationalistic tone adopted by
the U.S. right-wing media (Fox
News, in particular) when reporting
on South America, Oliver Stone’s
documentary on the politics of the
region can be read as a rebuttal of
sorts.
Stone sets out on a road trip
across five countries from the
Caribbean down the spine of the
Andes in an attempt to explain
the "phenomenon" of Venezuelan
president Hugo Chávez, and
account for the continent's "pink
tide" leftward tilt. A key feature is
also Venezuela's recent Bolivarian
revolution and Latin America's
political progress in the 21st
century. He explores the social and
political movements as well as the
mainstream media’s misperception
of South America while interviewing
seven of its elected presidents.
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Stone gains unprecedented
access and sheds new light upon
the exciting transformations
in the region through casual
conversations with Presidents Hugo
Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales
(Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil),
Cristina Kirchner (Argentina),
as well as her husband and
ex-President Nestor Kirchner,
Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael
Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro
(Cuba).
Clearly not resting on his laurels
as an acclaimed feature drama
director. Stone turns his attention to
documentary making and the power
of documentaries to make social
comment and change.
"Feisty, entertaining..."
Time Out London
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Sun 20/2 6.45pm - E
Sat 26/2 6.45pm - E
Sun 6/3 8.00pm - E
WELLINGTON
Sun 13/3 4.45pm - R
Sat 19/3 6.45pm - R
Sun 27/3 8.00pm - R
Donated to Science
New Zealand | 2010 | 50 mins | English | Dan Salmon
New Zealand | 2009 | 52 mins | English | Paul Trotman
Dirty Bloody Hippies is a hippie trip
back to 1970s New Zealand.
The documentary explores a
colourful time in New Zealand’s
social history beginning in 1969,
a couple of years after San
Francisco’s infamous “summer
of love”. US Vice President Spiro
Agnew visited New Zealand to drum
up support for the unpopular US-led
war in Vietnam and his visit caused
an outpouring of youthful protest
and anger on the nation’s streets
shocking the country.
Anti-war protests soon spilled
over into a more general rejection
of the conservative values and
institutions of 1960s New Zealand.
Many young people set up their
own communities where they
could experiment with alternative
lifestyles.
Former radical and current
Invercargill mayor Tim Shadbolt
puts it, “We thought, right, let’s
go back to a primitive village
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lifestyle and see if we can evolve
a different country altogether,
where materialism isn’t the main
motivator for our communities”.
But youthful idealism soon
comes up against the realities of
making a living, getting along with
one another and the hostility of
conservative neighbours sceptical
about the new arrivals’ drug use
and sexual behaviour.
So what happened to the great
hippy experiment? Director
Salmon tracks down many of
the former hippies to find out in
this fascinating, funny and often
poignant trip back to 1970s New
Zealand.
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Sun 20/2 2.30pm - V
Mon 21/2 6.30pm - E
Fri 25/2 6.45pm - A
Mon 28/2 6.00pm - E
WELLINGTON
Fri 11/3 12.00pm - C
Mon 14/3 6.30pm - R
Mon 21/3 6.00pm - R
*This film was made
with the support of
TVNZ and NZ On Air.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Have you ever wondered what
happens to a body once it is donated
to medical school? Have you ever
wondered what it would be like
to take a body apart to see how it
works? Now is your chance to find
out.
Donated Science follows a
group of people who donate their
bodies to the University of Otago
Medical School. Director Trotman
interviewed them while they were
still alive and the donors and
students gave us permission to
follow their amazing journey. The
film picks up when the students
meet the body for the first time, to
when they make their first cut and
when they say their final goodbyes.
What the students learn is far
more than just anatomy. From
the dead they learn life, they
learn compassion and they learn
humanity. After their two years of
dissection is over, the students see
the interviews with the
people they have dissected. The
effect is profound and gives the
film an emotional climax you would
be hard pressed to match in any
feature film, a climax made even
more powerful by the fact that it is
real… for some there really is a life
after death.
The direction, the
editing, the style of the
documentary were all
of such a high standard
that minutes into the
programme, you knew you
were watching something
special, something
literally cutting
edge… extraordinarily
profound.
Jane Bowron, Dominion Post
New Zealand
New Zealand
Dirty Bloody Hippies
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Fri 18/2 7.30pm - E
Fri 25/2 7.00pm - E
Sat 26/2 1.30pm - A
WELLINGTON
Fri 11/3 2.00pm - C
Fri 11/3 7.30pm - R
Sat 19/3 12.30pm - R
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The river flows
From the mountains to the sea
I am the river
The river is me.
The tribes of Whanganui take
their name, their spirit and their
strength from the great river which
flows from the mountains of the
central North Island to the sea. For
centuries, people have travelled the
Whanganui River by canoe, caught
eels in it, built villages on its banks,
and fought over it. The people say,
‘Ko au te awa. Ko te awa ko au' (I
am the river. The river is me).
I Am the River traces the journey
of the Partington collection of 19th
century photographs of Whanganui
Maori. The 2001 chance discovery
of these previously unknown
photographs in a garage in the
Bay of Islands provides a rare
visual insight into 19th century NZ
history and forged a link between
Maori in the present with Tupuna
in the past. However, it provoked a
cultural clash that pitted Maori and
Pakeha views of ownership against
each other. Directors McNeill and
Cutore documented the events with
its surprising resolution.
New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand | 2010 | 52 mins | English | Luigi Cutore, Mark McNeill
E rere kau mai te awa nui nei
Mai i te kahui maunga ki Tangaroa
Ko au te awa
Ko te awa ko au.
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Is She or Isn't He?
I Am the River
New Zealand | 2010 | 71 mins | English | Justin Pemberton
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Wed 23/2 6.30pm - E
Sat 5/3 12.45pm - E
Sat 5/3 8.45pm - A
WELLINGTON
Wed 16/3 12.00pm - C
Wed 16/3 6.30pm - R
Sat 26/3 12.45pm - R
A guaranteed argument starter…an engaging
portrait of an academic whose work is both
fuelled and undermined by his vitriolic
personality.
J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Is She or Isn't He? is the longest
documentary project ever
commissioned by New Zealand
On Air. It will undoubtedly provoke
debate about how New Zealanders
define their sex and sexuality and
how they deal with people seeking
transgender surgery.
Is She or Isn’t He? is an intricate
coming-of-age tale about someone
on the run from his identity.
Graham is an outsider who wants
desperately to be seen as normal.
He decides that the best way to
do this is to become an attractive
heterosexual woman. As she goes
deeper into her transformation
Ashleigh starts to serve up some
contentious and surprising
thoughts.
penis” and a five-year search to find
love and acceptance.
Acclaimed director Pemberton's
sensitive but probing interactions
with Graham allow Pemberton to
delve deeply into Graham's psyche
and motivation this caused Graham
to reassess his view and decision.
Pemberton's film highlights the
importance of making sure that
transgender patients are given
proper counselling before the lifechanging surgery is undertaken.
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Mon 21/2 8.15pm - E
Fri 25/2 5.00pm - E
Fri 4/3 6.45pm - A
WELLINGTON
Mon 14/3 7.45pm - R
Fri 18/3 5.00pm - R
Tue 22/3 2.00pm - C
Ashleigh does not want to be known
as transgender, and insists she’s
“just a heterosexual woman.” This
is an intimate story of a selfproclaimed “fat, hairy woman with a
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'I can save lives but I can't do it
alone', is the tragic yet inspiring
story of one man's quest to get his
life back after overdosing from a
near-lethal injection of heroin and
cocaine.
Jade Bell is a mute, blind and
disabled man but his disability has
not held him back from facing the
demons of his past by travelling
to schools and prisons telling his
gritty and powerful story firsthand.
Bell also worked with musicians to
produce an album that promotes
creativity over drug use.
By saving lives, Jade believes that
one day he might get his own life
back.
Beautifully shot, Easterbrook and
Wong continue their quest to tell
human and compelling films of
transformation and social change.
A beautiful and
inspiring film about
one man’s quest for
redemption.
Documentary Edge
New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand | 2010 | 70 mins | English | Dean Easterbrook
Director Easterbrook and
partner producer, Quijing
Wong, have followed up their
previous independent feature "A
Grandmother’s Tribe" with The Jade
Bell Story.
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Stand Up
The Jade Bell Story
New Zealand | 2010 | 54mins | English | Luke Wheeler, Peter Simpson
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
*Tue 22/2 8.15pm - E
*Mon 28/2 7.30pm - E
*Sun 6/3 5.00pm - A
WELLINGTON
Mon 14/3 2.00pm - C
*Tue 15/3 8.15pm - R
*Mon 21/3 7.30pm - R
*Screening with
This Chair is Not
Me (pg. 70)
In the 1980s, New Zealand's comedy
scene was in its infancy. With no
dedicated comedy venues, live
comedy evolved from its roots in
theatre and improvisation routines
heavily influenced by the university
scene. From a few people in pubs
acting out scripts, a burgeoning
stand-up industry emerged and
slowly built momentum.
Stand Up interviews the main
players of that time who shaped
the comedy industry into a thriving
industry where a comedian can
make a living in a country, as well
as being a stop on the international
touring circuit.
deals with nerves, hecklers,
financial woes and competition from
other comedians. The risks are high
but the pay off for those that make it
can be equally as impressive in this
strange choice of a career.
Director Wheeler's "4 Geese in a
Flock" won the DOCNZ Best NZ
Medium Documentary Award in
2006.
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Thur 17/2 8.30pm - E
Sat 26/2 3.15pm - A
Thur 3/3 8.00pm - E
WELLINGTON
Sat 12/3 3.00pm - R
Tue 22/3 12.00pm - C
Thur 24/3 7.15pm - R
The film also examines what it is
like to become a comedian today.
What drives a person to stand
up exposed in front of a crowd,
sometimes a hostile one, in the
hope of making them laugh. Some
do it for fame, some do it for money,
some do it to get the love they
lacked as children. The comedian
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New Zealand
Lest We Forget - NZer's telling their Holocaust
stories
New Zealand | 2010 | 30 mins | English | Anna Cottrell
6 Kiwis with personal links to the Holocaust tell their
stories. Freda and Bob Narev lost their entire families
before escaping from concentration camp to a new life
in New Zealand. Steven Sedley remembers growing up
in the ghetto of Hungary while Dora Suuring was part
of the Dutch “resistance”. She personally knew Anne
Frank. Mieke van der Schaaf who helped to save the
lives of many Jewish children was honoured by the Israeli
government as a Righteous Gentile person. Joel Porus
wants to pass the message of the Holocaust horrors to
the future generations.
question
everything
*Screening with Landscapes at the World's Ends
Landscapes at the World's Ends
New Zealand | 2010 | 30 mins | English | Richard Sidey
A non-verbal stunning visual journey to our polar regions
portrayed through a triptych montage of photography
and video. The film is a multi-dimensional canvas of
imagery filmed during several artist residencies onboard
three expedition vessels, director Sidey documents light
and time so as to share his experiences and the beauty
exsisting over the frozen seas. Set to an ambient score by
musician, Boreal Taiga, this experimental documentary
transports us to the Landscapes at the World's Ends.
*Screening with Lest We Forget
AUCKLAND
Thur 24/2 6.00pm - E
Sat 26/2 7.00pm - A
Sun 6/3 3.30pm - E
WELLINGTON
Thur 17/3 6.15pm -R
Sun 27/3 3.30pm - R
Hiding Behind the Green Screen
New Zealand | 2010 | 48 mins | English | Paora Joseph
This innovative, experimental and creative documentary
seeks to bring awareness to the marijuana culture of
New Zealand's youth population. 4 indigenous youths are
given the opportunity to be mentored by two accomplished
Maori musicians. They embark on a journey to the
courthouse where the Judge, musicians and young men
meet for the first time. Parihaka, a Maori village famous
for passive resistance, provides a spiritual platform
to share the trauma of the past and transform painful
memories into music.
*Screening with The Mystery of Flying Kicks (pg. 69)
AUCKLAND
Sun 20/2 2.45pm -E
Fri 4/3 7.15pm - E
Sun 6/3 12.30pm - A
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WELLINGTON
Sun 13/3 2.30pm - R
Fri 25/3 7.15pm - R
Available on
natgeotv.com
Channel 72
When Holocaust survivor Hilde Back
sponsored a young, rural Kenyan
student, she thought nothing of it.
She certainly never expected to hear
from him, but years later she does.
Now Mburu decides to find the
stranger that changed his life.
Inspired by her generosity, he
starts a scholarship program of his
own and names it for his former
benefactor.
The top students in Mukubu primary
school are in the exact same
situation as Chris once was. They
are bright, but can’t afford to pay
school fees. With the creation of
Chris’s fund, these students have
new hope. But the program is
small; how many will qualify for a
scholarship?
Using a strong narrative, the film
interweaves seemingly separate
lives into a cohesive whole. With
clarity and grace, A Small Act bears
witness to the ripple effect a single
action can create.
USA | 2009 | 89 mins | English | David Ridgen, Nicolas Rossier
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Sat 19/2 12.30pm - E
Thur 24/2 8.00pm - E
Fri 4/3 8.45pm - E
WELLINGTON
Thur 17/3 8.00pm - R
Fri 25/3 8.45pm - R
A SMALL ACT IS A PRECIOUS AND INSPIRING
TALE...FILMMAKER JENNIFER ARNOLD
GRACEFULLY AND FLUIDLY TELLS THE
UPLIFITING STORY OF HILDE BACK AND CHRIS
MBURU.
Duane Byrge - The Hollywood Reporter
Jewish-American professor Norman
Finkelstein - the controversial
author of "The Holocaust Industry"
and a fierce critic of what he
considers grief exploitation - has for
many years been a staunch critic
of Israeli policy, describing it as
promoting the Holocaust industry.
A devoted son of Holocaust and
ghetto uprising survivors, he
has been called a lunatic and
Jew-hating Jew by some, while
others see him as an inspirational
revolutionary.
From 1997 to 2008, filmmakers
Ridgen and Rossier followed
Finkelstein on his various speaking
engagements around the world as
he attempts to negotiate a voice
among his impassioned critics
and supporters. Unrepentant at
the podium, he brings even mildmannered Canadians to tears with
his anti-Zionist screeds.
regardless of whether he is right or
wrong, has chosen to travel a long,
hard road.
American Radical is an insightful
and enraging documentary that
reveals a complex and supremely
lonely figure whose self-destructive
nature often undermines his
academic credibility. Other
voices add to the complexity: an
intellectual endorsement from
former mentor Noam Chomsky to
a harsh slam from Harvard’s Alan
Dershowitz, a sustained target of
Finkelstein’s critiques.
Best of Fest
Best of Fest
USA | 2009 | 88 mins | English, Kikuyu, Swedish | Jennifer Arnold
Chris Mburu feels fortunate to
have received an education at all.
Growing up in a mud house in
Kenya, it seemed unlikely that he
or his neighbours would escape a
cycle of poverty. Today, Mburu is a
Harvard Law School graduate and
works as a human rights advocate
for the United Nations.
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American Radical - The Trials of Norman Finkelstein
A Small Act
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(A) powerful film — brave, bold, incendiary. I
highly recommend it!
Michael Moore, Academy award-winning documentary
filmmaker.
He is a strident polemicist who
reflexively rises to the bait and
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Israel, Palestinian Territories, USA | 2009 | 73 mins | Arabic, Hebrew, English | Julia Bacha
"It takes a village to unite the most
divided people on Earth."
The village is Palestinian village,
Budrus. Budrus opens with
beautifully vast expanses of
Budrus countryside with residents
explaining the importance of the
olive tree, which is essentially their
lifeline. The locals characterize
themselves as "the politest people
on Earth" and they stress that
conflict, which will prove to be
nearly unavoidable, is one of the last
things they want.
However when Israel’s Separation
Wall threatens to destroy the olive
trees, an unlikely hero emerges humble family man turned activist
Ayed Morrar, who becomes the
catalyst who unites disparate
Palestinian factions and progressive
Israelis. He also draws women
into the heart of the struggle, in
an unarmed movement to save
the olive trees where even stone
throwing was prohibited.
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Director Bacha eloquently captures
the struggles and triumphs of the
inspiring movement and challenges
us to consider what is possible
when people come together for
a common cause and reveals
the power of ordinary people to
peaceably fight for extraordinary
change.
Morrar says softly by the end of the
film, "I used to tell them, this is not
our destiny. We have a choice. We
can decide to resist."
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Prayers for Peace
(pg. 69)
this year's must-see documentary…a
riveting window into what might be
possible if Palestinians adopted civil
disobedience on a huge scale.
Nicholas Kristof , The New York Times
Enemies of the People
Cambodia, UK | 2009 | 93 mins | English, Khmer | Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath
Nearly two million people were
killed by the Khmer Rouge in the
late 1970s. The reason remains
largely unexplained until now.
In one of the most harrowing
and compelling personal
documentaries of our time, multi
award winning and Academy
Award shortlisted film, Enemies
of the People,exposes for the first
time the truth behind Cambodia’s
genocide.
Journalist, Thet Sambath, has
spent a decade gaining the trust
of those who perpetrated the
massacres from the foot soldiers
to Pol Pot's right-hand man, the
notorious Brother Number Two.
Sambath patiently records shocking
testimony never before seen or
heard and at no time compromises
his mission on account of the loss of
his own family in the Killing Fields.
Co-directors Lemkin and Sambath
reveal the truth that has never been
heard and seen in an investigative
journalism of the higher order.
Enemies of the People is a
profound meditation on the nature
of good and evil, shedding light on
the capacity of some people to do
terrible things and for others to
forgive them.
This is a watershed account of
Cambodian history and a heartfelt
quest for closure on one of the
world’s darkest episodes.
Best of Fest
Best of Fest
Budrus
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(pg. 68)
Stunning...Amazing...One of the most
gripping and moving films I have ever seen.
Andrew Marr, BBC
An extraordinary historical testimonial
Andrew Schenker, Village Voice
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Denmark, Finland | 2010 | 75 mins | English | Michael Madsen
Danish filmmaker Michael
Madsen is the rare documentarian
interested in a complete cinematic
experience. This stunning work is
fashioned as a piece of ambient
science fiction, the camera drifting
through the tunnels of Onkalo,
a Finnish facility with miles of
underground space, to reveal the
horrors that lie within.
It is the first attempt ever at a
permanent storage for nuclear
waste, that must remain isolated
from all living organisms for at
least 100,000 years. Once full, the
facility will be sealed off, never to be
opened again.
The science is sound, but how does
one anticipate the human folly of
future civilizations? How do we
warn our descendants of the deadly
cargo we send into eternity? Can
we prevent them from thinking
they have found the pyramids of
our time, mystical burial grounds,
hidden treasures? Which languages
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My Kidnapper
and signs will they understand? And
if they understand, will they respect
our instructions?
Formally exacting (Madsen
harnessed the participation of
Scandinavia’s foremost energy
experts) and sonically immersive,
Madsen’s approach is so hypnotic
that you emerge as if roused from a
troubling dream.
Best of Fest
Best of Fest
Into Eternity
UK | 2010 | 83 mins | English | Mark Henderson, Kate Horne
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Captivating and extremely
frightening, Into Eternity is a
documentary time-capsule, into the
underworld and into the future.
This jaw-dropping documentary tackles a
subject almost beyond comprehension…
every government, every philosopher,
every theologian, everywhere in the
world …should see this film.
Peter Bradshaw, the Guardian
In 2003, Mark Henderson was one
of eight backpackers taken hostage
while trekking in the Colombian
jungle. What had started as an
innocent tourist adventure ended
up as 101 terrifying days of captivity
and uncertainty about his future.
Eleven months after his release
Mark received an email from
Antonio, one of his kidnappers,
while one of the other hostages
received a friend request
on Facebook from Antonio’s
girlfriend, another of their captors.
What followed was a five year
correspondence and the start of
a complicated relationship that
eventually drew Mark back to the
one part of the world he thought
he’d never see again.
deeper into the jungle they discover
the truth behind what happened to
them, understand more about how
they all dealt with the ordeal and
eventually come face to face with
their kidnappers.
Co-directed by Henderson and
Horne, the film was produced by
Renegade Pictures (The Yes Men Fix
the World, Boys from Baghdad and
The Shock Doctrine).
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a fascinating doco about the search for
closure...as a chronicle of different
reactions to the trauma of abduction...
where nothing registers as morally
straightfoward. my kidnapper succeeds
brilliantly.
Variety
My Kidnapper follows Mark and
three of his fellow hostages as
they return to the Sierra Nevada
mountains in northern Colombia,
the place where they lived out their
worst nightmares. As they travel
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Borya and his wife teach in Borya’s
old school where their son now
attends. Olga is an unmarried
mom and a billiards table service
technician, while Ruslan is a
musician with no steady job but
works on the sly for cash only jobs.
Andrei is a businessman who owns
a western style clothing store.
Raised on communist ideals as
children, the classmates must
adjust to a post-Soviet reality as
adults. Director Hessman follows
these five children from their Soviet
childhood, to the collapse of the
Soviet Union during their teenage
years, to the constantly shifting
political landscape of post-Soviet
Russia.
Masterfully blending contemporary
interviews with rare home movie
footage from the ’70s and ’80s with
official Soviet propaganda films
that surrounded them at the time,
the film paints a poignant and
complex portrait of the challenges,
dreams and disillusionments of
this cross-over generation.
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…profoundly insightful and overall
stupendous …. My Perestroika must
be considered one of the year’s best
documentaries.
Stewart Nusbaumer - The Huffington Post
This is the incredible story of Pablo
Escobar, the infamous boss of
Colombia's Medellin drug cartel,
told by his son, Sebastián, and his
widow Maria Isabel Santos.
Sebastián was 16 when his father
was killed. Forced to relocate to
Argentina under a new identity,
he struggled to reconcile the
complex and conflicting images
he carries of Escobar—devoted
father, modern-day Robin Hood and
ruthless murderer. He tells of an
extraordinary childhood, at times
living in extraordinary luxury and
extravagance and at other times
being on the run.
journey is both a genuine attempt to
reconcile and a symbolic gesture to
inspire a new generation.
This riveting documentary combines
a moving contemporary drama
with the extraordinary private
archives of the Escobars. The
result is a humane and complex
narrative, both a universal story
of a generation burdened by its
forebears, and a compelling new
portrait of one of the world’s most
iconic criminals.
Best of Fest
Best of Fest
Argentina, Columbia, USA, UK | 2009 | 94 mins | Spanish | Nicolas Entel
USA, UK | 2010 | 88 mins | Russian | Robin Hessman
My Perestroika is an intimate
and heartfelt portrait of the last
generation of Soviet children
behind the Iron Curtain, their hopes
and achievements. Borya, Lyuba,
Andrei, Olga and Ruslan were
childhood classmates just coming
of age when the USSR collapsed.
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Sins of My Father
My Perestroika
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Crisply paced and powerful, Sins of
My Father is a sobering and richly
humane document.
Hollywood Reporter
Sins of My Father follows Sebastián
on an epic journey back to Colombia
as he tries to break the cycle of
revenge and assassination by
seeking reconciliation with the
sons of two of Escobar's most
prominent victims, the Minister of
Justice and a politician about to be
elected President of Colombia. His
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Steam of Life
Finland | 2010 | 81 mins | Finnish | Mika Hotakainen, Joonas Berghäll
2010
Process
Winner
'Sweaty Naked Finnish Men Crying"
That tagline should catch your
attention but Steam of Life will take
your breath away.
From the rusted interior of an
old camper, the hiss and crackle
of a wood-fired stove serves as
background noise while two men sit
naked in the steam, sharing their
innermost thoughts and feelings
over a bottle of akvavit. Steam of
Life reveals that men are most likely
to expose their innermost emotions,
not when they’re drunk at a bar, but
when they’re naked in a sauna. In
the almost dreamlike environment
of a steam-filled sauna, Finnish
men make uncensored and
unguarded revelations about love,
death, heartbreak and life as if the
steam and conversation will cleanse
their souls.
In all its simplicity the camera
records the raw and rare beauty
of landscapes, saunas and men
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in almost magical pictures. Their
revealing confessions argue that
when we are at our most natural
and vulnerable, we are also at
our most human. Punctuated
by surprising and light-hearted
interludes and cinematic shots
of nature reflecting the men’s
newfound serenity and balance,
Steam of Life is an exceptionally
intimate, poetic and reflective film
about the healing catharsis of
conversation.
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"So how many Santas can fit
comfortably into a sauna?"
Steam of Life reveals the men’s naked
souls in an exceptionally intimate and
poetic way.
European Film Academy
2010
Gold
Award
Winner
2010
Category
Winner
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USA, Switzerland | 2010 | 89 mins | English, Twi | Jarreth Merz, Kevin Merz
The 2008 presidential elections
in Ghana, serve as the backdrop
for this Sundance 2011 Award
Nominated feature documentary
that looks behind the scenes at the
complex, political machinery of a
third world democracy struggling
to legitimize itself to its first world
contemporaries. At stake are the
fates of two political parties that will
do almost anything to win.
Director Merz follows the key
players for almost three months to
provide an unprecedented insider’s
view of the political, economic and
social forces at work in Ghana.
An African Election exposes the
never-before-seen, nitty-gritty of
political electioneering in Africa
and captures the intrigues of
political campaigns in the almost
carnival like atmosphere that is
laced with fear of the unknown and
the danger that lurks behind the
scene. Merz builds suspense going
down the back roads of the nation
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to capture each unexpected twist
and turn in a contest that is always
exciting and never predictable. He
immerses himself in the electrified
atmosphere of the long awaited
election and for the first time ever,
a filmmaker may have succeeded
in penetrating the so-called Strong
Room, where all election results are
being gathered.
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The film depicts the pride and
humanity of the larger-than-life
politicians, party operatives and
citizens who battle for the soul of
their country.
A brave, revealing and disturbing eyeopener about african-style elections.
Documentary Edge
Dancing with the Devil
World Cinema
World Cinema
An African Election
UK | 2009 | 105 mins | English, Portugese | Jon Blair
With unprecedented access to some
of Rio de Janeiro's most wanted
men, Oscar/Emmy/BAFTA awardwinning director Jon Blair takes us
into the favelas of Rio de Janeiro for
a close look at one of the bloodiest
urban conflicts on earth. Frequent
deadly police raids have done little
to stem the ﬂow of drugs through
these neighbourhoods or to diminish
the daily threat of violence from the
traffickers.
In Dancing with the Devil,
directorBlair gains remarkable
access to drug traffickers who talk
openly about the business they are
engaged in and who view the police
as exploitative and corrupt predators
of the favelas. They cast themselves
as the providers and protectors of
their impoverished neighbourhoods.
the gangsters to put down their
guns and embrace a religious life of
service. One is Juarez “Spiderman”
Mendes da Silva, a powerful and
feared drug lord who has vowed to
quit the gang life to serve God. But
Spiderman hasn’t put down his guns
yet, and as Pastor Jonny moves
through the favelas preaching
peace, one begins to wonder if
Spiderman ever will.
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An astonishing documentary filled
with harrowing, unforgettable
images.
Ali Caterall, The Guardian
Pastor Dione “Jonny” dos Santos
is a former drug trafficker turned
minister, working to broker peace
agreements between and within the
drug gangs. He unceasingly exhorts
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Switzerland | 2011 | 86 mins | English | Nick Brandestini
Darwin is an isolated community
at the end of a weathered road
in Death Valley, California. The
near-ghost town's survival depends
on a fragile, gravity-fed waterline
that descends from the mountains
where top secret weapons are being
tested.
One "accidental" drop of a bomb,
could wipe out the entire town.
The people of Darwin (population
35) comprise of drop-outs and
misfits who together must find
ways to coexist in a place without
a government, a church, jobs, or
children.
Monty is a salty old miner
mysteriously bound to Darwin
since the 1950s. Together with
his firecracker wife, Nancy, he
emerges from a violent history to
find the artist within. Susan is the
postmaster whose hippie idealism
and fierce humour are shaken
by a tragic estrangement that
unexpectedly bonds her with other
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Eichmann's End - Love, Treachery, Death
residents. Ryal is a 20-something
female to male transgender, for
whom "nothing out here for us" is
both the attraction and the curse for
him and his partner, Penny. Hank
and Connie turned their backs on
troubled pasts and found religion.
Director Brandestini frames the
residents together in this poignant
documentary and allows them to
tell a story of a uniquely American
place that is unique even within
America. They tell the story of a
uniquely American place that is
unique even within America.
Germany | 2010 | 90 mins | Spanish, German | Raymond Lay
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A lyrical observational documentary
of a place that exists somewhere and
everywhere in our world.
Documentary Edge
In 1950, Nazi Adolf Eichmann
disappears. Years later, former
Dutch SS member and journalist
Willem Sassen finds Eichmann,
alias Ricardo Klement, in Argentina.
He persuades Eichmann to talk
about his past, meeting many times
in the presence of other Nazis
hiding in Argentina. They banter
about the “murderer Eichmann”
who maintains his “innocence” and
about the deportations which he
“only ordered” or which he – a “cog
in the wheel” - simply helped to
organize.
Jewish Holocaust survivor Lothar
Hermann also immigrated to
Argentina. In an incredible twist of
fate, his 15 year old daughter Sylvia
falls in love in 1956 with Eichmann's
son Nick. Sylvia brings Nick to
her parents' apartment. There,
the nearly-blind Lothar Hermann
“discerns” Nick’s anti-Semitic views
and hears him talk about a book
that Eichmann is writing.
Hermann contacts German State
Attorney General Fritz Bauer, who in
turn informs his Israeli colleagues.
The Israeli secret service Mossad
remain unconvinced that a blind
man could have tracked down the
elusive Eichmann. Finally in Buenos
Aires, Sylvia joins her father’s
research and bravely, rings the bell
at Eichmann’s house and discovers
the truth about the man who is the
father of her beloved.
World Cinema
World Cinema
Darwin
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Director Lay‘s film is a pulsating
and cinematic recreation of an
investigation into a dark chapter in
our history.
beautifully recreated and gripping
narative about the events leading to the
capture of a notorious wwII criminal.
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USA | 2010 | 100 mins | Spanish, English | Pamela Yates, Peter Kinoy, Paco de Onís
World Cinema
World Cinema
Living Skin
Granito
Egypt | 2010 | 48 mins | Arabic | Fawzi Saleh
Photograph - Daniel Lixenberg
Granito is a story of destinies joined
by Guatemala’s past, and how a
documentary film intertwined with a
nation’s turbulent history emerges
as an active player in the present.
In Granito, our characters sift for
clues buried in archives of mind
and place and historical memory,
seeking to uncover a narrative
that could unlock the past and
settle matters of life and death in
the present. Each of the five main
characters whose destinies collide
in the film are connected by the
Guatemala of 1982, then engulfed in
a war where a genocidal “scorched
earth” campaign by the military
exterminated nearly 200,000 Maya
people.
Now, as if a watchful Maya god was
weaving back together threads of
a story unraveled by the passage
of time forgotten by most, our
characters become integral to the
overarching narrative of wrongs
done and justice sought that they
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have pieced together, each adding
their granito; their tiny grain of
sand, to the epic tale.
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a story of destinies joined by guatemala's
past and how a documentary film
intertwined with a nation's turbulent
history emerges as an active player in the
present.
More than half of the 80,000-strong
labour force in Magra el-‘Uyun, a
neighborhood in the heart of the old
Cairo, is unregistered with a large
proportion of children under 15
years of age.
Director Saleh’s film is an
unflinching investigation into the
dire living and working conditions
of child workers in the manufacture
of natural leather products. She
profiles two such children, who live
and work in the tanneries. Through
their stories, we witness their lives.
Poverty, homelessness and the
threat of starvation are some of
the reasons that have driven these
children to leave school, giving up
their ambitions and their dreams
of living with even a modicum
of security and dignity. Quickly
absorbed into the ravenously
labour-hungry, ruthlessly
unsupervised manufacturing
sectors, they are living their
childhood on the physically draining
production line, handling dangerous
chemicals like sodium sulfate,
sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide
without appropriate protection.
Living Skin is Saleh’s debut feature,
and a poignant reference to these
workers, who process the skin of
livestock that have been processed
in slaughterhouses – and whose
own living skin is exposed to the
same chemical regimen as the skin
of dead livestock.
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Run with Abdul (pg. 69)
Saleh’s foray into socially engaged
documentary cinema is uninhibited. It
commands our undivided attention.
Rasha Salti, Abu Dhabi International Film Festival
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In the film’s most engrossing
scene, in a casual conversation,
she shocks Eldar by saying that
she will raise her son to believe
it is acceptable to grow up to be a
suicide bomber killing Israelis. ”Do
you not believe life is precious?”
asks Eldar. Her view aggravates
Eldar and their relationship
becomes more complex.
Raida herself is accused by her
people of having fallen under the
sway of the Israelis. Like Eldar and
the audience, she has to balance
the nature of life with the power
of belief and the demands of one’s
community.
In confronting these thorny
situations and delving far beneath
the surface, this film has been
short listed as 1 of the 15 finalists
for the Academy Awards 2011 goes
from being good to become a truly
great documentary.
World Cinema
World Cinema
Netherlands | 2010 | 73 mins | Mandarin | Floris-Jan van Luyn
Israel | 2010 | 88 mins | English, Hebrew, Arabic | Shlomi Eldar
Palestinian woman, Raida Abu
Mustaffa, has lost two daughters
to a rare genetic disease. Her baby
son with the same defect needs
treatment at an Israeli hospital.
There, she meets Dr Somech who
helps her raise the money for the
treatment. He brings onboard
director Eldar, a journalist who airs
a piece on Israeli TV and raises the
full amount within hours. Raida is
grateful but bemused by the help of
the Israeli community. She enters
a dialogue with the ever-present
Eldar as to why they would help her
family.
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Rainmakers
Precious Life
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One of the more thought-provoking
documentaries in recent years about the
Israel-Palestine stalemate.
Mike Goodrigde, Screendaily.com
Rainmakers is an investigative
documentary about the decline
of China's environment told from
the perspective of four ordinary
people who have become unlikely
environmental activists for their
communities.
Wei Dongying spends her days
sampling water and petitioning
local authorities in a southern
village where the fish smell
like paint. In Beijing, Zhao Lei
attempts to organize protests and
demonstrations against the city’s
deteriorating air quality. Chen
Lifang rallies the inhabitants of her
village in Hunan Province against a
chlorophyll factory that is destroying
their village. In Inner Mongolia,
herdsman Nasen, struggles with
advancing desert.
and aggressive local authorities,
against all odds. These are not
professional lobbyists or activists,
but ordinary folk who have risen
to fight to save their homes and
livelihoods.
Director van Luyn uses the
natural cycle of water as its visual
framework. The polluted air of
Beijing and Changsha, the filthy
water of the Qiantang river, and
the advancing sand of the Tengger
desert, serve as symbols for an
environmental battle with many
losers and occasionally some
winners.
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Rainmakers offers a new
window on the East.
Race Capet, The Concordian
Straddling the border between
heroism and stubbornness, these
four diverse and remarkable
Chinese civilians explain why they
have the courage to fight the petty
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Thieves by Law
AUCKLAND SCHEDULE
Germany, Israel, Spain | 2010 | 90 mins | Russian, Hebrew | Alexander Gentelev
AUCKLAND - 16th February - 6th March
Event Cinemas (Newmarket)
Victoria Picture Palace (Devonport)
For visiting filmmakers and Q&A sessions check the website.
Auckland - Event Cinemas Newmarket
Wednesday 16/02
The People vs George Lucas........8.00pm
Thursday 17/02
The Long Goodbye/The Space
You Leave......................................6.30pm
South of the Border......................6.45pm
Saturday 26/02
An African Election.......................12.00pm
Out of the Darkness.....................12.15pm
Thieves by Law..............................8.00pm
American Radical - The Trials of Norman
Jane's Journey.............................2.00pm
Finkelstein....................................6.00pm Erasing David................................8.30pm
Beyond This Place........................2.00pm
Sins of My Father..........................6.00pm
Monday 21/02
Sins of My Father..........................4.15pm
Stand up........................................8.30pm Living Skin/On the Run
with Abdul.....................................6.15pm Darwin...........................................4.30pm
Dancing with the Devil..................8.30pm
Dirty Bloody Hippies.....................6.30pm Steam of Life.................................6.15pm
Friday 18/02
David Wants to Fly........................8.00pm South of the Border......................6.45pm
The Sound of Mumbai - A Musical
......................................................5.30pm Is She or Isn't He?........................8.15pm Leave Them Laughing..................8.30pm
Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov is a
successful Russian millionaire who
got rich after 1987, when Gorbachev
introduced perestroika. "How?" you
may ask?
He is one of three Russian Mafiosos,
who allowed director Gentelev a
look-see into their world. Thieves
By Law paints a fascinating tableau
of men that would make Tony
Soprano a wimp in comparison.
The film steers the viewer through
the complex intrigues with archive
footage, interviews, a lively
soundtrack and information in
voice-over. Personal histories are
interwoven with the evolution of
the Russian Mafia itself beginning
in Stalin's gulags and slowly
transforming into an international
organization. The Mafia and Code
of Thieves have always directly
correlated to the political struggles
of the Soviet Union—reflecting
society back to the government like
a funhouse mirror. Throughout, the
guiding principle is honor.
These men persevered with the
ammunition of street smarts,
savvy, and loyalty to their code,
eventually transforming themselves
to shrewd businessmen. Through
unprecedented access, director
Gentelev shows us what happens
when a dark underbelly is flipped
on its back: It slaps on some
sunscreen, orders a Molotov
cocktail, and soaks up those French
Riviera rays….
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Sun 20/2 8.00pm - E
Mon 28/2 6.15pm - E
Sat 5/3 8.45pm - V
WELLINGTON
Sun 13/3 8.30pm - R
Mon 21/3 6.15pm - R
“Is there anything the Russian Mafia
can’t do?” After this film, you will
probably say, “Nyet”.
In a world ridden with hypocrisy,
Gentelev's film refreshingly exposes the
respect-worthy honesty of Russia's statesanctioned thieves.
Lauren Wissot, slantmagazine.com
Wo Ai Ni Mommy/Mrs Birk's
Sunday Roast................................5.30pm
Beyond This Place........................7.00pm
Tuesday 22/02
Dancing with the Devil..................8.30pm
Erasing David................................6.00pm
Sunday 27/02
Eichmann's End - Love,
Rainmakers..................................12.00pm
Donated to Science.......................7.30pm Treachery, Death...........................6.15pm
Orchids - My Intersex Adventure
My Kidnappers..............................9.00pm Precious Life.................................8.00pm Mind..............................................12.00pm
Machete Maidens Unleashed!.....9.30pm The Jade Bell Story/This Chair
is Not Me.......................................8.15pm
Saturday 19/02
Wednesday 23/02
A Small Act...................................12.30pm
I Shot My Love...............................6.15pm
Hey, Boo - Harper Lee and To
Kill A Mockingbird........................1.15pm I Am the River...............................6.30pm
Wo Ai Ni Mommy/Mrs Birks'
Sunday Roast................................1.45pm
Enemies of the People/Found......2.45pm Orchids - My Intersex
Adventure/Mind............................8.00pm
I.M. Pei - Building China Modern.3.15pm
My Perestroika..............................8.15pm
MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS.........4.45pm
Thursday 24/02
Into Eternity..................................5.00pm
talhotblond....................................6.15pm
El Bulli - Cooking in Progress.....6.45pm
Budrus/Prayers for Peace...........7.00pm Lest We Forget..............................6.00pm
Finkelstein....................................6.15pm
Everyday Sunshine Jane's Journey.............................8.15pm
The Story of Fishbone..................9.00pm
A Small Act...................................8.00pm
talhotblande..................................9.15pm
Friday 25/02
Sunday 20/02
Is She of Isn't He?.........................5.00pm
The People vs George Lucas........12.30pm
Living Skin/On the Run
Make Believe.................................12.45pm with Abdul.....................................5.15pm
Life 2.0..........................................2.30pm Life 2.0..........................................6.45pm
Hiding Behind the Green Screen/The
Mystery of Flying Kicks.................2.45pm
I Shot My Love...............................2.15pm
All My Fathers...............................3.45pm
MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS.........3.45pm
Sixty and the City/The Poodle Trainer
......................................................6.15pm
Precious Life.................................8.00pm
......................................................8.15pm
Monday 28/02
Dirty Bloody Hippies.....................6.00pm
Thieves by Law..............................6.15pm
The Jade Bell Story/This Chair
is Not Me.......................................7.30pm
Found/Enemies of the People......8.15pm
Tuesday 01/03
Donated to Science.......................7.00pm Kill A Mockingbird........................6.00pm
Granito..........................................8.45pm Steam of Life.................................6.15pm
CHANDANI - The Daughter of the
Elephant Whisperer......................4.30pm Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya.......9.00pm Machete Maidens Unleashed!.....8.00pm
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Sixty and the City/The Poodle
Trainer...........................................4.45pm
Budrus/Prayers for Peace...........8.15pm
Wednesday 02/03
My Kidnapper............................... 6.00pm
CHANDANI - The Daughter of
the Elephant Whisperer.............. 2.30pm
Sixty and the City/The
Poodle Trainer............................. 6.15pm
David Wants to Fly....................... 4.30pm
Everyday Sunshine The Story of Fishbone................. 8.00pm
Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya...... 8.15pm
Thursday 03/03
Leave Them Laughing................. 6.00pm
An African Election...................... 6.15pm
Stand Up...................................... 8.00pm
Darwin.......................................... 8.15pm
Friday 04/03
All My Fathers.............................. 5.30pm
Out of the Darkness.................... 5.30pm
Hiding Behind the Green Screen
The Mystery of Flying Kicks......... 7.15pm
Rainmakers................................. 7.30pm
A Small Act.................................. 8.45pm
Make Believe................................ 9.15pm
Saturday 05/03
I Am the River.............................. 12.45pm
Steam of Life................................ 8.45pm
Sunday 20/02
Academy Cinemas
25th Feb -6th March
Dirty Bloody Hippies.................... 6.45pm
Sunday Roast............................... 4.15pm
Machete Maidens Unleashed!.... 8.30pm
Donated to Science...................... 1.30pm
Monday 21/02
Tuesday 22/02
You Leave..................................... 8.45pm
Wednesday 23/02
Thursday 24/02
Treachery, Death.......................... 8.45pm
Friday 25/02
Beyond This Place....................... 8.45pm
Saturday 26/02
Saturday 26/02
Stand Up...................................... 3.15pm
My Perestroika............................. 5.00pm
Landscapes at the World's Ends/
Lest We Forget............................. 7.00pm
talhotblond................................... 8.30pm
Sunday 27/02
If God is Willing and Da Creek
Don't Rise.................................... 1.30pm
Into Eternity................................. 7.30pm
Monday 28/02
I Shot My Love.............................. 7.00pm
I Shot My Love.............................. 8.30pm
Tuesday 01/03
Don't Rise.................................... 1.30pm
The Sound of Mumbai A Musical..................................... 2.30pm
Precious Life................................ 6.45pm
I.M. Pei - Building China Modern
..................................................... 2.30pm
Make Believe................................ 4.00pm
Precious Life................................ 8.45pm
El Bulli - Cooking in Progress.... 4.00pm
Mrs Careys Concert..................... 6.15pm
Into Eternity................................. 6.30pm
Sunday 06/03
The People vs George Lucas....... 12.00pm
Mrs Careys Concert..................... 2.00pm
Lest We Forget . .......................... 3.30pm
You Leave..................................... 4.30pm
Granito......................................... 5.00pm
Treachery, Death.......................... 6.00pm
South of the Border..................... 8.00pm
talhotblond................................... 8.45pm
Sunday 27/02
All My Fathers.............................. 8.45pm
Tuesday 01/03
Rainmakers................................. 8.45pm
Wednesday 02/03
Sins of My Father......................... 8.45pm
Thursday 03/03
My Kidnapper............................... 8.45pm
Friday 04/03
Poodle Trainer............................. 8.45pm
Saturday 05/03
Victoria Picture Palace Devonport Mrs Carey's Concert.................... 2.30pm
17th Feb - 6th March
Thursday 17/02
Into Eternity................................. 8.45pm
Friday 18/02
Saturday 19/02
Wednesday 02/03
American Radical - The Trials of
Norman Finkelstein..................... 6.45pm
I.M. Pei - Building China Modern 2.30pm American Radical - The Trials of
Hey, Boo - Harper Lee and
To Kill A Mockingbird................... 4.00pm
Thursday 03/03
Erasing David............................... 6.45pm
Monday 28/02
Enemies of the People/Found..... 8.30pm
Friday 04/03
Is She or Isn't He?....................... 6.45pm
Saturday 05/03
Jane's Journey............................ 12.15pm
I Am the River.............................. 8.45pm
Sunday 06/03
Darwin.......................................... 4.30pm
Hiding Behind the Green Screen/
Mystery Behind the Flying Kicks.12.30pm
Thieves by Law............................. 8.45pm
Life 2.0......................................... 2.30pm
Sunday 06/03
Dancing With The Devil............... 2.15pm
MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS........ 4.30pm
WELLINGTON - 10th March - 27th March
Angelika at Reading Cinemas Courtenay
Wellington City Gallery
Friday 25/02
Erasing David............................... 8.45pm
WELLINGTON SCHEDULE
is Not Me...................................... 5.00pm
For visiting filmmakers and Q&A sessions check the website.
Wellington - Angelika at Reading Cinemas Courtenay
Thursday 10/03
Dancing With the Devil................ 6.00pm
The People vs George Lucas....... 8.30pm
Friday 11/03
..................................................... 5.30pm
Sunday Roast............................... 5.30pm
Erasing David............................... 6.30pm
with Abdul.................................... 5.15pm
You Leave..................................... 6.30pm
Life 2.0......................................... 6.45pm
Thieves by Law............................. 8.30pm
Monday 14/03
with Abdul.................................... 6.15pm
My Kidnapper............................... 9.15pm
Machete Maidens Unleashed!.... 9.30pm
Saturday 12/03
Tuesday 15/03
I.M. Pei - Bulding China Modern.1.30pm
Precious Life................................ 8.00pm
Enemies of the People/Found..... 2.45pm
is Not Me...................................... 8.15pm
Into Eternity................................. 5.00pm
Budrus/Prayers for Peace.......... 7.00pm
talhotblond................................... 9.15pm
Sunday 13/03
Make Believe................................ 12.30pm
Life 2.0......................................... 12.45pm
The Mystery of Flying Kicks......... 2.30pm
Sixty and the City/The Poodle
Trainer.......................................... 3.00pm
Granito......................................... 9.00pm
Saturday 19/03
Out of the Darkness.................... 12.15pm
Jane's Journey............................ 2.00pm
Beyond This Place....................... 12.30pm Darwin.......................................... 4.30pm
Erasing David............................... 6.00pm
Kill A Mockingbird....................... 12.00pm
David Wants to Fly....................... 12.30pm Treachery, Death.......................... 6.15pm
Stand Up...................................... 3.00pm
Friday 18/03
Wednesday 16/03
Steam of Life................................ 6.15pm
Dancing with the Devil................. 8.30pm
Sunday 20/03
Rainmakers................................. 12.00pm
An African Election...................... 12.30pm Orchids - My Intersex Adventure/
Mind............................................. 12.00pm
I Shot My Love.............................. 6.15pm
I Am the River.............................. 6.30pm Sunday Roast............................... 1.45pm
Orchids - My Intersex Adventure/
Mind............................................. 8.00pm
Thursday 17/03
I Shot My Love.............................. 2.15pm
All My Fathers.............................. 3.45pm
Steam of Life................................ 12.30pm Norman Finkelstein..................... 6.15pm
talhotblond................................... 6.15pm
Lest We Forget............................. 6.00pm
Jane's Journey............................ 8.15pm
A Small Act.................................. 8.00pm
Sixty and the City/The Poodle Trainer
..................................................... 6.15pm
Precious Life................................ 8.00pm
The Sound of Mumbai A Musical.....................................8.15pm
Thieves by Law............................6.15pm
The Jade Bell Story/
This Chair is Not Me...................7.30pm
Enemies of the People/Found....8.15pm
Tuesday 22/03
Elephant Whisperer....................12.30pm
Kill A Mockingbird......................6.00pm
Steam of Life...............................6.15pm
Machete Maidens Unleashed!...8.00pm
Budrus/Prayers for Peace.........8.15pm
Wednesday 23/03
Jane's Journey...........................12.30pm
Mrs Carey's Concert...................2.00pm
Lest We Forget............................3.30pm
The Long Goodbye/
The Space You Leave..................4.00pm
Granito........................................5.00pm
Treachery, Death.........................5.45pm
South of the Border....................8.00pm
Out of the Darkness...................2.00pm
Friday 11/03
Sixty and the City/
The Poodle Trainer.....................6.15pm
Donated to Science.....................2.00pm
Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya.....8.15pm
The Jade Bell Story....................2.00pm
Tuesday 15/03
Leave Them Laughing................6.00pm
Leave Them Laughing................12.00pm
An African Election.....................6.15pm
Elephant Whisperer....................2.00pm
Friday 25/03
All My Fathers.............................5.30pm
Out of the Darkness...................5.30pm
The Mystery of Flying Kicks........7.15pm
Rainmakers................................7.30pm
A Small Act.................................8.45pm
Make Believe...............................9.15pm
Saturday 26/03
I Am the River.............................12.45pm
Wo Ai Ni Mommy........................2.00pm
Thursday 17/03
The Long Goodbye......................12.00pm
Treachery, Death.........................2.00pm
Friday 18/03
Hey, Boo - Harper Lee and
To Kill A Mockingbird..................12.00pm
Monday 21/03
Make Believe...............................2.00pm
David Wants to Fly......................8.30pm
My Perestroika............................8.30pm
Sunday 27/03
The People vs George Lucas......12.00pm
talhotblond..................................1.30pm
77 Broadway, Newmarket
www.eventcinemas.co.nz
Ph: 09 302 0002
Victoria Picture Palace
(Devonport)
48 Victoria Road, Devonport
Ph: 09 446 0100
In 2006, director Spike Lee created
an astonishing record of the
cataclysmic effects of Hurricane
Katrina on the city of New Orleans
with his epic award-winning
documentary, When the Levees
Broke. Five years later, Lee returns
to New Orleans, to see how the
ambitious plans to reinvent the
Crescent City were playing out.
He finds a patchwork of hope and
heartache just as a new disaster
unfolds.
Don’t Rise is a 4 hour continuation
of the story of the rebirth of the Big
Easy, begun in Lee’s previous epic.
The city’s ability to celebrate life
with unmatchable ebullience is
documented by Lee alongside
the successes and failures in the
ongoing efforts to restore a battered
but unbowed community. More
than 300 people directly affected by
the spill share their stories. As a
documentarian, Lee is unparalleled
in his capacity to coach his subjects
into letting their guards down and
he effectively accuses all concerned
- the media, the government and
BP - of lying about the magnitude
and long-term impact of the
damage.
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Sun 27/2 1.30pm - A
Sat 5/3 1.30pm - E
WELLINGTON
Sat 26/3 1.30pm - R
*This film screens
in 2 parts with a
30 min interval.
Ticket price is $33
(2 Sessions). No
Concessions.
the follow up to "when the levees broke"
shown at documentary edge festival in 2007.
44 Lorne Street
(behind the old St James)
Ph: 09 373 2761
Angelika at Reading
Cinemas Courtenay
Erasing David..............................2.00pm
2.30pm
Into Eternity................................6.30pm
Event Cinemas
Newmarket
USA | 2010 | 240 mins | English | Spike Lee
Wednesday 16/03
Norman Finkelstein....................12.00pm
VENUE DETAILS
If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise
I Am the River.............................12.00pm
If God is Willing and Da
Creek Don't Rise.........................1.30pm
El Bulli - Cooking in Progress...4.00pm
My Perestroika............................2.00pm
Monday 14/03
Everyday Sunshine - The Story of
Fishbone.....................................8.00pm
Darwin.........................................8.15pm
Darwin.........................................12.00pm
Thursday 10/03
....................................................12.00pm
Dirty Bloody Hippies...................12.00pm
Stand up......................................7.15pm
Friday 25/03
Wellington City Gallery
10th Feb - 25th March
My Kidnapper..............................6.00pm
Thursday 24/03
Poodle Trainer............................2.00pm
Special Presentation
Monday 21/03
Dirty Bloody Hippies...................6.00pm
Tuesday 22/03
Level 2, 100 Courtenay Place
Ph: 04 801 4600
Stand Up.....................................12.00pm
Is She or Isn't he?.......................2.00pm
Wednesday 23/03
MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS.......12.00pm
I Shot My Love.............................2.00pm
Thursday 24/03
Into Eternity................................12.00pm
Adam Auditorium, Civic Square
Screening at 12pm
and 2pm Mon-Fri only.
Tickets available from Dash Tickets.
www.dashtickets.co.nz or Real Groovy
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Germany | 2010 | 108 mins | Spanish | Gereon Wetzel
Michelin-starred Spanish restaurant
El Bulli has turned cooking into
an art form. The chefs are worldrenowned, the food exceptional. The
restaurant is only open to the public
for six months of the year. The rest
of the time sees a team of experts
hard at work creating a new avantgarde 30-course menu.
Director Wetzel takes us in to
watch experiments with structure,
sound, colour and flavour. Cooking
with liquid nitrogen, something
the restaurant is particularly
famous for, is but one of the
many unconventional preparation
methods used here. Owner Ferran
Adrià is always on hand, tasting
everything created and comes
across like a softened-down version
of Gordon Ramsey.
We discover experimental dishes
such as Parmesan Crystal and
Vanishing Ravioli came about
largely by chance. When one of the
chefs fished out an ice cube from
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his glass of Coke and accidentally
dropped it in the gravy on his plate,
he thought, why not make a dish
from ice cubes? And why not mix
oil with water, for a cocktail that
leaves a deliciously soft coating on
the lips?
At El Bulli, it's all about feeling
something, experiencing
something. In the words of top chef
Adrià, "The more bewilderment, the
better."
Heroes and Icons
Heroes and Icons
El Bulli - Cooking in Progress
China, USA | 2010 | 59 mins | English | Anne Makepeace
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Sat 19/2 6.45pm - E
Sun 27/2 8.00pm - V
Sat 5/3 4.00pm - E
WELLINGTON
Sat 12/3 6.45pm - R
Sat 26/3 4.00pm - R
Ferran Adrià is known as the best, most
innovative and craziest cook in the world.
This isn't your run-of-the-mill
biopic. Instead, the film follows
world-renowned architect Pei as
he travels to his ancestral home in
China after seven decades of living
in the West and tries to introduce
modernist ideas while preserving
the country's heritage. For an
architect in his twilight years, it's
a challenge that leads to selfreflection and personal discoveries
- and inevitably, he enters a crucible
of conflict.
‘It is my biggest challenge,' says the
93 year-old architect who is best
known for redesigning the Louvre
in Paris. 'It is probably also my last
challenge.'
The result is a lesson
in leadership and
stubbornness, not to
mention a kick-butt
building.
Star-Tribune
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Sat 19/2 3.15pm - E
Sun 27/2 2.30pm- V
Sat 5/3 2.30pm - E
WELLINGTON
Thur 10/3 12.00pm - C
Sat 12/3 1.30pm - R
Sat 26/3 2.30pm - R
The film took 8 years to make as
it follows Pei on his mission to
internally integrate his Chinese
heritage with his modern vision.
He makes this manifest as a
stunning museum that has at
its heart a uniquely reconceived
Chinese garden that symbolizes the
surprising twists and turns that his
own life has taken.
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Canada, USA | 2010 | 89 mins | English | John Zaritsky
Germany | 2010 | 107 mins | English | Lorenz Knauer
76 year old Dr. Jane Goodall is world
famous for her research about the
chimpanzees of Gombe Stream
National Park in Tanzania. She
spends 300 days per year travelling
around the world inspiring future
generations by giving lectures,
writing books and through her youth
organization “Roots & Shoots”,
active in more than 100 countries
worldwide.
Featuring cameos by Angelina Jolie,
Pierce Brosnan and Kofi Annan,
comments by friends and family
and private 8mm film, this is a
portrait of the private person and
an exceptional woman, possibly
the most fascinating woman of our
time. Beautifully shot, with great
humour and such amazing sound
recording, you almost feel the
animals sitting right next to you.
In Jane's Journey, German director
Knauer chronicles Dr. Goodall's
personal evolution from young
woman sent to Africa 50 years
ago to animal conservationist to
environmental activist to global
humanitarian of today. From her
childhood home in Bournemouth,
England, we travel with her to the
Gombe, her second home, where
she began her groundbreaking
research nearly half a century
ago, and where she returns every
year to enjoy the company of
the chimpanzees that made her
famous.
To be with Jane Goodall
is like walking with
Mahatma Gandhi.
Boston Globe
Heroes and Icons
Heroes and Icons
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Leave Them Laughing
Jane’s Journey
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Thur 24/2 8.15pm - E
Sat 26/2 2.00pm - E
Sat 5/3 12.15pm - A
WELLINGTON
Thur 17/3 8.15pm - R
Sat 19/3 2.00pm - R
Wed 23/3 12.30pm - R
Carla Zilbersmith, an accomplished
singer/comedian and mom to a
disarmingly smart 16 year old son
received the ultimate bad news
that she has Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis (ALS) with less than 4
years to live. An eternal optimist,
she refused to despair but chose
to live her life to the fullest. She
continued to perform up to the end
keeping her vow to exit the stage
with songs about life, quips about
death, and a smile on her face.
After coming across some of
Carla’s skits and reading her blog
(carlamuses.blogspot.com) Oscarwinning documentarian Zaritsky
called her up to suggest that they
create a “funny, entertaining, yet
still enlightening film about dying.”
Leave Them Laughing is structured
as a series of recitals of her blog
entries while Carla recreates
her life before and during the
diagnosis. Footage of her musical
performances are especially
poignant in light of her unbelievably
heart-wrenching account of what
it felt like to realise that she would
soon be unable to sing, as the
disease progressed.
Zilbersmith and Zaritsky have
done the unthinkable by making
an incredibly touching, funny and
intelligent film about death. The
film will make you laugh and cry
and when you leave the cinema,
inspired and passionate about life.
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Wed 23/2 8.45pm - V
Sat 26/2 8.30pm - E
Thur 3/3 6.00pm - E
Sat 5/3 6.45pm - A
WELLINGTON
Tue 15/3 12.00pm - C
Sat 19/3 8.30pm - R
Thur 24/3 6.00pm - R
I have Lou Gehrig’s
disease, which is also
known as ALS…it’s a fatal
and incurable illness,
which means that global
warming is your problem,
bitches.
Carla Zilbersmith
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Heroes and Icons
Out of the Darkness
Germany | 2010 | 73 mins | English, Nepali | Stefano Levi
More than half of the world’s
preventable blindness is caused by
cataract disease, a clouding of the
clear lens of the eye. In developing
countries like Nepal, it is not only a
personal tragedy, but can devastate
the economy of entire communities.
Fortunately it is also easy to cure.
Cataract surgery is one of the most
effective medical interventions
on earth, but until recently was
considered too expensive to provide
to the rural poor.
Most of the world’s blind people
live in remote, impoverished areas.
The majority of doctors able to cure
them work in cities. Dr. Sanduk
Ruit from Nepal, and his American
partner, Dr. Geoff Tabin, have set
their life's work at perfecting a
portable low cost surgical procedure
to restore sight .
They trek to Nepal’s remote
Northeast, carrying an entire
hospital on porters‘ backs. Their
mission is to bring the needlessly
blind out of the darkness.
Director Levi follows the men as
they humbly go about bringing
hope and light to those who don't
have any in the most difficult of
conditions.
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Sat 26/2 12.15pm - E
Fri 4/3 5.30pm - E
WELLINGTON
Thur 10/3 2.00pm - C
Sat 19/3 12.15pm - R
Fri 25/3 5.30pm - R
An inspiring and illuminating look at
the work of two dedicated medical
humanitarians.
Documentary Edge
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And what if you are a filmmaker
too?
Well, that is Jan Raiber’s world. He
figured that given the hand that he
had just been dealt, he might as
well make his documentary thesis
about the search for and reunion
with his biological father, a man he
was told was named Uwe Henning.
Raiber tracks Uwe down and has a
pleasant but somewhat ill-at-ease
reunion.
But long after the reunion, a
sheepish Mum confronts Raiber
with a further piece of unexpected
information from the family closet
of secrets. All of a sudden, the
landscape changes and there's
a truly unexpected denouement
to deal with. Initially meant to be
the end goal, the film suddenly
becomes the means to the end.
In spite of the twists in his life,
Raiber confidently and without
embarrassment, pastes the
fragments of his quest together into
a warm and appealing film about
his family and its genetic chaos.
Spotlight: Family
Spotlight: Family
Germany | 2010 | 89 mins | German, English | Jan Raiber
What would you do if you discovered
the father you grew up with is not
your biological father? And that he
and your mother kept it a secret for
all your life? And that your younger
siblings had figured that out before
you did?
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Beyond This Place
All My Fathers
Switzerland | 2010 | 92 mins | English | Kaleo La Belle
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A self-assured and funny debut film
from a filmmaker who is unafraid of
turfing out the skeletons in his family
closet while dodging curve balls from his
mother on his search for the truth about
his origins.
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He has a deep and soft voice;
an inviting smile, fine lines at
the corner of his bright eyes. To
anyone Cloud Rock La Belle, a
quintessential hippie who has still
not returned from his stoned and
carefree lifestyle forty years after
the Sixties ended. By most, he is
considered to be a charming old
hipster but to his son, whom he
nicknamed Ganja at birth (after his
favourite substance), he has been a
stranger for the last 30 years.
In Beyond This Place, director/
writer Kaleo La Belle, attempts
to re-connect with his absentee
father the son invites the father
on a 500 mile cycling trip from
Portland to Spirit Lake. From behind
the camera, Kaleo struggles to
understand a man so different from
himself while Cloud Rock works to
form a functional relationship with
the son he has never truly known.
Poignant and often funny, Beyond
This Place examines the sometimes
unconventional bonds of family.
Director Kaleo dives head first
into his personal life to better
understand his role within this
strange relationship and the
resulting adventure that follows is
intimate and inspired.
A poignant and touching
documentary about
discovering and
reconciliation in an
unconventional fatherson relationship.
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Germany | 2010 | 88 mins | Sinhala, English | Arne Birkenstock
Chandani wants to become a
Mahout like her father. Her father
decides to give her a chance and
gives her responsibility for an
elephant calf.
Chandani is a girl in a male
profession. Everyone doubts her
abilities. The ranger Mohammed
becomes her only supporter and
shows her the world of elephants
in the jungle. Here they save an
elephant baby from its death.
Strengthened by this, she makes
progress in the work with her
little elephant Kandula. But when
Kandula is taken away from her,
her path also changes.
Director Birkenstock follows one
young girl's decision to challenge
gender expectations in this real life
story that parallels "Whale Rider".
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The resulting film has garnered
much praise from the toughest
critics of all - a judging panel made
up of children aged 10 - 12 years
who awarded it top honours in a
recent children's film festival.
Sri Lanka's very own real
life "Whale Rider" story.
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I Shot My Love
Germany, Israel | 2010 | 56 mins | Hebrew, German, English | Tomer Heymann
Award winning Israeli documentary
director Heymann tells a personal
but universal love story that follows
the triangular relationship between
him, his German boyfriend, Andreas,
and his intensely Israeli mother.
Seventy years after his grandfather
escaped from Nazi Germany,
Heymann returns to his ancestral
home to present his film "Paper
Dolls" at the Berlin International
Film Festival and there meets a
man who will change his life.
A 48-hour holiday love affair
develops into a significant
relationship between the two men.
When Andreas decides to move to
Tel-Aviv, he not only has to cope with
a new partner who insists on filming
his every move, but also to manage
the complex realities of life in Israel
and his personal connection to it as
a German citizen.
Meanwhile, Heymann’s mother,
Noa, who has lived all her life in a
small Israeli village, is battling a
crippling illness. She watches her
children leave the country and a
life she and her family helped to
build and now cannot help but try to
influence the life of Heymann, the
one son who remains.
I Shot My Love is an intimate
portrait of two lovers confronting
the challenges posed by their
families, their national histories,
and their own emotions.
Spotlight: Family
Spotlight: Family
CHANDANI - The Daughter of the Elephant Whisperer
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Deceptively simple, beautifully realized…a
contemporary love story, almost shocking in its
sweetness.
Ayelet Dekel, midnighteast.com
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Australia | 2010 | 60 mins | English | Phoebe Hart
Documentary filmmaker, Phoebe,
has a partner, James, and a
happy family. But her life is not
as straightforward as it appears.
Phoebe is a hermaphrodite.
She wants to come clean and
embarks on a journey of selfdiscovery to embrace her future
and reconcile the past shame and
family secrecy surrounding her
intersex condition. She hopes this
film will enable her to confront
the pain and trauma surrounding
the treatment of her condition,
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
(AIS).
From the outset, her mother Marie,
is adamant she wants to leave what
has happened in the past. Dad,
questions Phoebe’s motivations for
her quest. Phoebe feels she needs
to push on with her quest to resolve
her story and connect with other
intersex people so as to allow her
to revisit and consider her past.
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At the same time, Phoebe and
James want to start a family but
dealing with infertility and the
stress of the adoption process puts
pressure on their marriage. She
begins to understand the difficult
decisions her parents faced and is
excited but apprehensive when they
eventually agree to be interviewed.
Will talking openly with her mother
give Phoebe the answers she has
been looking for?
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It's an extraordinary piece of filmmaking,
filled with family revelations and a
beautiful twist ending that could rival
Frank Capra for emotional
pull.
Trent Dalton, Q Weekend
The Long Goodbye
Spotlight: Family
Spotlight: Family
Orchids - My Intersex Adventure
Australia | 2010 | 55 mins | English | Kaye Harrison
In "Grey's Anatomy", Dr Meredith
Grey loses her mother to dementia.
Both her character and that of her
husband, McDreamy, live with the
fear that Meredith may one day
succumb to it also.
This TV storyline is one which many
of us face in our lives. We wonder
what it means when someone close
to you can’t remember facts or
when a closed loved one has patchy
memory? Charlton Heston and
Ronald Reagan are two well-known
celebrities who had Alzheimer’s.
Our brain makes us who we are, it
gives us our memories, our ability
to think, to understand the world
around us and it gives us our sense
of self. All this is slowly stripped
away for a person living with
dementia.
explores what thousands of Baby
Boomers are living in fear of what
lies ahead.
The Long Goodbye follows the
journeys of three families living
with dementia as they struggle to
maintain the identity and dignity of
those they love. Filmed over a 3 year
period, the documentary celebrates
the capacity of the human spirit to
search for meaning and hope when
the end is known and inescapable.
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These stories reveal how love and
humour can balance despair for
those living with this cruelest of
diseases.
I often hear people say that a person suffering
from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I
wonder to myself - Who are they then?
Bob DeMarco, Alzheimer’s Reading Room
Acclaimed writer and director Kaye
Harrison's brave documentary
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Spotlight: Family
Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You Mommy)
USA | 2010 | 76 mins | English, Chinese | Stephanie Wang-Breal
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International trans-racial adoption
is becoming more common as
families seek to adopt abandoned
children overseas. In the USA,
American families have adopted
more than 70,000 Chinese children
in the past 15 years.
In 2007, New Yorkers Donna and
Jeff Sadowsky applied to adopt
eight-year old Fang Sui Yong from
Guangzhou, China. From the very
first moment Sui Yong meets her
adoptive mother, Donna, her life
changes forever. We’re plunged
into the emotional confusion and
loss that Sui Yong experiences, as
adoption workers translate their
first words of communication.
Language, habits, food - everything
she knows will never be the same.
Her new life in America is a struggle
between happiness and confusion
as she leaves behind her identity
as Sui Yong, a Chinese girl, and
transforms into Faith, a lively,
outspoken American.
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Wo Ai Ni Mommy explores this new
subculture of American families
by following the Sadowsky family.
Through Faith's bright eyes we
witness what it feels like to say
goodbye to your birth culture and
native country to embark upon a
new life and family in America.
Director Wang-Breal gives us an
honest look into the emotions and
complications inherent in this very
complex and human issue.
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Hey, Boo - Harper Lee and To Kill A Mockingbird
Everyday Sunshine: The Story
of Fishbone is about Fishbone,
musical pioneers on the margins of
pop culture for the past 25 years.
From the streets of South CentralLos Angeles and the competitive
Hollywood music scene of the
1980's, the band rose to prominence
but fell apart on the verge of
"making it."
Reading "To Kill a Mockingbird"
is something millions of us have
in common. Harper Lee's story
of racism and rebirth in a small
Southern town was published
to great acclaim in the summer
of 1960 and still sells nearly 1
million copies every year. In Hey,
Boo - Harper Lee and To Kill A
Mockingbird, director Murphy
explores the novel’s power, influence
and popularity.
United States | 2010 | 103 mins | English | Christopher Metzler, Lev Anderson
Laurence Fishburne narrates this
entertaining cinematic journey into
the personal lives of this unique
Black rock band, an untold story
of fiercely individual artists in their
quest to reclaim their musical
legacy while debunking the myths
of young Black men from urban
America. Highlighting the parallel
journeys of a band and their city,
the film explores the personal and
cultural forces that gave rise to
California's legendary black punk
sons that defy categories and
expectations.
At the heart of the story is lead
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singer Angelo Moore and bassist
Norwood Fisher who keep the band
rolling out of pride, desperation
and love for their art. To overcome
money woes, family strife, and
the strain of being aging punk
rockers on the road, Norwood
and Angelo are challenged to
re-invent themselves in the face
of dysfunction and ghosts from a
painful past.
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Featuring Flea, Gwen Stefani, Ice-T,
Perry Farreli, Branford Marsalis,
George Clinton, Tim Robbins,
Gogol Bordello director Metzler's
is a fascinating story of defying
race, class, and pigeonholing in
an industry that prefers its black
musicians playing ‘black’ songs .
Everyday Sunshine pours in beams from the
screen in what should be a fun experience
for both fans and non-fans.
Mark Fulton, filmthreat.com
USA | 2010 | 78 mins | English | Mary Murphy
The movie explores many facets of
the literary phenomenon, from the
author herself to the civil rights
movement entwined in the book’s
DNA. With reflections from Anna
Quindlen, Tom Brokaw, James
McBride, James Patterson, Wally
Lamb, Oprah Winfrey and more, the
documentary and its accompanying
book chronicle the many ways the
novel has shaped lives and careers.
interviews with the author’s
sister 98-year-old Alice Lee,
still practicing law in the Lees'
hometown of Monroeville, Alabama
as well as friends, add new details
and photos to the remarkable story
of an astonishing phenomenon.
Kill A Mockingbird goes beyond
the famed novel into the soul of its
mysterious Alabama author.
Culture Vultures
Culture Vultures
Everyday Sunshine - The Story of Fishbone
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To Kill A Mockingbird is the greatest social
network of our time…Communities form around
it because it means something to people.
Mary Murphy, Director
Harper Lee has not given an
interview since 1964. Murphy’s
reporting, research and rare
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They are remarkably assured and
dedicated entertainers but face the
diverse obstacles of adolescence,
loneliness, high parental
expectations, the pressures of
impending stardom, abject poverty,
and the deep desire to fit in.
As the competition heats up,
director Tweel deftly parallels the
transition from magic to reality
with the journey of adolescence
to adulthood. Drawn to magic
as a way to express their offbeat
personalities, these gifted outsiders
come into their own as they face
the nerve-wracking challenges of
the competition. Watching these
junior masters of illusion is dazzling
and they rekindle in us the childlike
wonder that only magic can conjure.
Culture Vultures
Culture Vultures
USA | 2009 | 88 mins | English | J. Clay Tweel
Each year, young magicians from
all around the globe compete for
the title of Teen World Champion
at the Las Vegas World Magic
Seminar. Make Believe follows
six exceptional magicians - an
ambitious teen from Chicago
fashioning his own props, a quirky
kid in Colorado practicing his split
card tricks, a vibrant South African
acrobatic duo polishing their comic
timing, an overachiever from Malibu
perfecting her magic hoops and
a Japanese boy who dreams of
performing at the famous Magic
Castle.
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MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS
Make Believe
USA | 2010 | 95 mins | English | Matthew D. Kallis
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Make Believe reveals an enduring
world that audiences know little
about while it also explores a time
of life no one ever forgets.
Magic Revealed remains both mysterious
and interesting…… it’s enchanting.
Tim Gomez, Cinemablend
Fans of TV3 Show "Glee" will
find the warm-hearted musical
documentary, MOST VALUABLE
PLAYERS, equally infectious.
Across the USA, high school sports
are regularly lavished with funding,
publicity and scholarships, while
theatre departments struggle to
put on the school musical hoping
for some attention of their own.
It's no different in the sports crazy
Lehigh Valley, except for the Freddy
Awards, a live television event that
recognizes excellence in local high
school musical theatre.
Illustrating that arts education
encourages the same teamwork,
camaraderie and confidence as
sports, MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS
follows three theatre troupes
on their creative journey to the
elaborate award ceremony - the
Super Bowl of high school musical
theatre.
feature conveys his personal
passion for school-based art
programs demonstrating arts
education in action. The filmmaker
laments, that “when school budgets
shrink, the first thing that gets cut
is the arts.” In the face of shrinking
budgets, schools and communities
must band together to preserve and
nurture arts education.
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The film reminds us why the
performing arts must remain vital
in the lives of young people.
This uplifting documentary shares the joyous
experiences of high school musical theatre
students, while singing the praises of a
performance arts education.
Denise Castillon, Suite 101.com
Director Kallis’s first documentary
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UK | 2010 | 65 mins | English | Sarah McCarthy
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At a Sydney girls’ school, music
director Karen Carey prepares
her young students for a concert
at the Opera House. Believing
in the transformative power of
great music, Carey insists upon
a classical repertoire and sets
a dauntingly high performance
standard. She requires the
participation of every girl in the
school and inspires many of her
girls. Some do not share her
passion and they are not afraid to
say so.
career. That is, if only Carey can
keep the girl from going off the
rails, and get inside the workings
of her head. This is no easy task,
because Emily has her own
distinctive take on everything.
Her greatest challenge is firing
up the unwilling. Her antagonist,
charismatic 16 year old Iris, is
waging open warfare against
authority and is the focal point of
student resistance to Carey’s Opera
House ambitions.
Mrs Carey's Concert is a triumph. Riveting, as
superbly observed as ever.
Lynden Barber, Film Reviewer
Mrs Carey’s Concert is a coming of
age story explored through music,
and how those prepared to open
their minds and hearts to what the
world has to offer can discover their
potential within.
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The Sound of Mumbai - The
Musical captures you immediately
with its contrast of the sprawling,
cramped Mumbai slums with the
cheerful voice of Julie Andrews.
Director McCarthy follows a group
of slum children rehearsing for a
performance of the world’s favourite
musical at the prestigious and
affluent National Centre of the
Performing Arts.
Ashish dreams of a wealthy patron
and perhaps even a beautiful
upper-class girlfriend after he
wins the glory of a few solo lines.
His family hopes that Ashish, with
his command of English and new
exposure can be the one to take
them out of the slums. However,
India’s rigid social structure isn’t
going to be overthrown overnight by
a musical but for those few involved
it represents a precious opportunity
to just maybe better their lives.
overflows with emotion. For Ashish,
songs like “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”
or “I Have Confidence” speak
directly to his experience.
Director McCarthy is careful not to
let the film become swept away in
optimism. The film is always aware
of the distance between dreams
and reality. Put to a timeless Rogers
& Hammerstein score, this film
celebrates the very human attempts
to bridge that gap.
Culture Vultures
Culture Vultures
Australia | 2011 | 95 mins | English | Bob Connolly, Sophie Raymond
On the other hand, Carey’s star
musician Emily brings a different
sort of headache. Gifted but
troubled, the teenager is on the
threshold of a brilliant musical
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Mrs Carey's Concert
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The slums are alive with the sound of music.
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Austria, Germany, Switzerland | 2010 | 96 mins | German,English,Hindi | David Sieveking
"You should never meet your
heroes".
This is the film that David Lynch and
Maharishi Mahesh Yoga’s followers
tried to prevent its release.
Aspiring filmmaker David Sieveking
dreams of one day being as
successful as his idol, David Lynch.
In Spring 2006, Siveking gets the
chance to attend a seminar given
by Lynch, in which the more famous
David expounds on his sources of
creativity, including transcendental
meditation™ and levitation.
Could TM be the mystery behind
Lynch’s dark, inscrutable films? The
"flying monk" phenomenon belongs
to a religious movement led by the
Maharishi, who inspired the Beatles
as well.
Lynch persuades Sieveking to
meditate, opening up an entirely
new chapter in his life. He visits
adherents in India, Switzerland
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and the Netherlands and joins a
pilgrimage to the source of the
Ganges high in the Himalayas.
But the more research the
young filmmaker does, the more
discrepancies surface.
In true Michael Moore style, David
discovers the power struggle
between Maharishi's followers
following his death for control
over the organization and its
huge fortune. Siveking’s amusing
documentary blends a personal
focus with journalistic detective
work. Lynch and the Maharishi's
followers have recently announced
that they will release their own film
in response.
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Frequently beautiful to watch, always
absorbing, sometimes hilarious, it deftly
weaves Sievking’s various quests -- for
love, spiritual enlightenment, meaning,
the truth -- into a compelling whole.
James Adams, The Globe and Mail
Erasing David
On the Edge
On the Edge
David Wants to Fly
UK | 2009 | 80 mins | English | David Bond, Melinda McDougall
How much information is there in
the public domain on you and how
easy it is to get that information?
With such open communication
and data mining going on in today’s
digital world, don’t you just wonder?
To test the reach of the informationgathering systems, director Bond
leaves his pregnant wife Katie and
young child behind and drops off
the grid. He challenges Britain's
top private investigators to track
him using whatever information
they can find in the public domain.
But disappearing in Britain is not
easy where the average British
adult is registered on more than 700
databases and caught daily on one
of the four million CCTV cameras.
due to data-collection errors.
It's also frightening to see the
massive quantity of information
kept in storage by businesses and
government agencies. Bond's
adventure eventually leads him
to a freaky cabin in Wales, where
he feels paranoid and ironically
exposed when his wife suddenly
goes into labour.
Erasing David is a gripping film
that makes us re-examine what
information we put out into the
public digital sphere.
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Erasing David is one of the best films I’ve seen so
far this year, and you should definitely check it
out.
Documentaryblog.com
During Bond's journey, he's
chased across Europe. Bond's
inquisitive curiosity is infectious.
The most chilling sequences
feature people who have found
themselves with criminal records
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Your avatar goes about the normal
things that people do in life. You
can buy things, homes, clothes,
cars, anything you can imagine. You
can bowl, swim, dance and even
have sex. It’s a way to escape, to
start again, to have a life in a world
without responsibility or outside
pressure. It’s like a glossy, digital
clean slate.
Director Spingarn-Koff’s filmmaker
avatar straps on a digital camera
and immerses himself in Second
Life where he meets residents,
many of whom have real lives
drastically transformed by their
new virtual lives.
Woven into the Second Life
computer footage is verité footage
that shows us the stories behind
the avatars. The couple falling
in love? Two people whose torrid
affair will rip their lives apart. The
entrepreneur? A woman whose
online success has freed her from
her offline job. That little girl? Well,
she’s a he, a man struggling to
bridge the gap between his first life
relationship with his fiancé and his
Second Life obsession.
On the Edge
On the Edge
USA | 2010 | 100 mins | English | Jason Springarn-Koff
Every day, across all corners of
the globe, hundreds of thousands
of users log onto Second Life and
enter a virtual world. There are
no goals or quests and is literally
a world where you can establish a
Second Life.
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Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Life 2.0
Australia | 2010 | 84 mins | English | Mark Hartley
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Sun 20/2 2.30pm - E
Fri 25/2 6.45pm - E
Sun 6/3 2.30pm - A
WELLINGTON
Sun 13/3 12.45pm - R
Fri 18/3 6.45pm - R
A peerless study... every thread here
raises a provocative question about
the ethics of online interactivity,
and serves to demonstrate the Web's
ability to both facilitate and destroy
human relationships.
Variety
Karate-kickin' midgets! Papermâché monsters! Busty babes with
blades! Filipino genre films of the
'70s and '80s had it all.
Boasting cheap labour, exotic
scenery and non-existent health and
safety regulations, the Philippines
was a dreamland for American
exploitation filmmakers whose
renegade productions were soon
engulfing drive-in screens around
the globe like a tidal schlock-wave!
At last, the all-too-often overlooked
world of drive-in filler from Manila
gets the Mark Hartley "Not Quite
Hollywood" treatment. Machete
Maidens Unleashed! is the ultimate
insiders' account of a faraway backlot where stunt men came cheap,
plot was obsolete and the make-up
guy was packing heat!
bare breasts galore as Hartley lets
loose a lurid cavalcade of clips from
the schlocky fringes of American
moviemaking, interspersed
with funny behind-the-scenes
anecdotes.
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
features interviews with cult movie
icons Roger Corman, Joe Dante,
John Landis, Sid Haig, Eddie
Romero and a large assembly of
cast, crew and critics, each with
a jaw-dropping story to tell about
filmmaking with no budget, no
scruples, no boundaries and - more
often than not - no clothes.
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Fri 18/2 9.30pm - E
Fri 25/2 8.30pm - A
Tue 1/3 8.00pm - E
WELLINGTON
Fri 11/3 9.30pm - R
Tue 22/3 8.00pm - R
**Warning: Contains
nudity and violence.
-Ratings TBA
Mark Hartley again turns trash into treasure
with his new documentary.
The Hollywood Reporter
It is a rowdy celebration of the
exploitation-movie industry in the
Philippines during the 1970s and
'80s. There's blood and gore and
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In his free love and jargon-heavy
world, Dez claims it’s fabulous to
love more than one woman at a time
– after all, he has slept with more
than a thousand. But now his main
squeeze, Maya is rocking his world
so much that he’s rethinking his
polyamorous ways. However, before
he gets his head straight, Maya
departs, not as okay with being
one of a thousand as Dez initially
thought.
So Dez embarks on using Sex
Magic, a ritual of channelling
thought, emotions and physical
energy during love making as a
prayer to manifest Maya, the object
of his desire. And he does this
by doing the exact thing that had
driven her away in the first place;
“manifesting” with lots of other
women.
Schell’s documentary is a raucous
gut-splitting foray into America’s
Sacred Sexuality practitioner
movement. You can’t afford to miss
this. Just don’t bring your mum.
Provocative…
controversial…raucous.
Indiewire
This is the land of Oz…
and Dez is the wizard.
Visitor to Resort
On the Edge
On the Edge
USA | 2010 | 78 mins | English | Jonathan Schell, Eric Leibman
Baba Dez is living the life many men
dream of. He’s a sexual shaman,
exorcising his clients’ personal
demons in his resort at Sedona
Arizona, by introducing them to
fabulous Dez-style sex.
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Sixty and the City
Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya
Israel | 2010 | 70 mins | English, Hebrew | Nili Tal
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Fri 18/2 8.45pm - V
Fri 25/2 9.00pm - E
Wed 2/3 8.15pm - E
Fri 4/3 8.45pm - A
WELLINGTON
Fri 18/3 9.00pm - R
Wed 23/3 8.15pm - R
**Warning: Contains
nudity and “sacred,
healing, spiritual” sex.
-Ratings TBA
60 year old Israeli director Nili Tal
is divorced with two children, five
grandchildren, a dog and a cat.
Vital, attractive and intelligent, Tal
decides that she does not want the
rest of her life without a partner and
sets out to find one.
However, there are few options
for older singles to meet and
socialise with prospective partners.
She decides to join various
internet dating sites but her initial
submission does not draw any
responses. This might be due to her
photograph, so Tal replaces it with
a provocative and sexy pose and
Voila! - 1,342 responses from men
between the ages of 20 to 80. She
also decides to take a singles cruise
to the Mexican Riviera.
Director Tal decides to meet the
various potential suitors and to
recording all her encounters on
camera. All in all, she meets over 50
men in Israel and abroad. Will she
find the right man? Is there hope
for those of us who are single and
older?
Tal takes a hard look at old age and
love. The result is a witty and funny
film which appeals across different
age groups, and brings a greater
understanding of the challenges
which older single people face. This
film gives a voice and a face to older
single people who are still vital,
attractive and intelligent and whose
lives are far from over.
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
*Sun 20/2 4.45pm - E
*Sun 27/2 6.15pm - E
*Wed 2/3 6.15pm - E
*Fri 4/3 8.45pm - V
WELLINGTON
*Sun 13/3 3.00pm - R
*Sun 20/3 6.15pm - R
*Wed 23/3 6.15pm - R
Thur 24/3 2.00pm - C
*Screening with The
Poodle Trainer (pg. 70)
How lucky Tal is. Not only she has a sense of
humor and personal voice, but also a cinematic
talent, which helps her through a year and a
half of dating...
Pnay-Plus Magazine
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On the Edge
talhotblond
USA | 2009 | 83 mins | English | Barbara Schroeder
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A middle-aged man in a loveless
marriage meets a lonely teenager
on the internet. Yes, it’s potential
cliché material, but this film
transforms the subject matter into
the extraordinary. This is a tale of
love, lust and violence, while turning
on its head the notion of who the
online predators are.
talhotblond is the true story
(and screen name) of a beautiful
teenage vixen who uses Internet
game rooms to lure men into her
cyberspace web. They’re imagining
an innocent young girl. What they
get is far more than they ever
bargained for.
Drawing from exclusive access to
Internet messages, secret notes
and letters, as well as police
evidence files and prison interviews,
talhotblond details the horrific
results of what can happen when
people weave an online web of lies.
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Director Schroder has crafted a film
that hooks you and then ricochets
in unexpected directions. Don’t be
surprised if the Hollywood fictional
version gets churned out next
blockbuster season – go see the
real life story now.
SCREENING TIMES
AUCKLAND
Sat 19/2 9.15pm - E
Thur 24/2 6.15pm - E
Sat 26/2 8.30pm - A
Sat 26/2 8.45pm - V
WELLINGTON
Sat 12/3 9.15pm - R
Its the kind of
Thur 17/3 6.15pm - R
documentary that will…
Sun 27/3 1.30pm - R
leave you with no less
then three holy crap
moments…. moving,
tragic and emotional
Talhotblond is a fantastic
documentary that… you
will definitely want to
see.
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Canada | 2009 | 6 mins | English | Paramita Nath
A lyrical and beautifully constructed narrative film
based on the second book of poems by Toronto poet
Souvankham Thammavongsa. Using biographical text,
animation, old photos, home videos, and narrated poetry,
the film meditates on the theme of reconnecting to one's
past and trying to decipher its impact on the present.
In 1978, Souvankham’s parents lived in a Lao refugee
camp in Nong Khai, Thailand, where she was born. Her
father kept a scrapbook filled with doodles, addresses,
postage stamps, maps and measurements. He threw
his scrapbook out one day but unbeknownst to him, she
retrieved it and based her film on the contents.
*Screening with Enemies of the People (pg. 21)
Mind
Australia | 2010 | 27 mins | Emma Crimmings
Mind is the captivating story of Australian-Chinese writer,
Tom Cho. From an early age, Tom knew he didn’t match
his Chinese mother’s expectations of a good daughter.
From the innocently playful gestures of a tomboy to the
irrevocable impact of transitioning from one gender to
another. Using writing as a way to escape the trauma
of his transition and to explore the nature of identity,
Tom’s wild imaginings resulted in an award-winning
book of short stories. "Look Who’s Morphing". With
dramatizations from Tom’s book, Mind is an intimate
portrait exploring ideas around gender, identity, race and
the transformative power of self-expression.
*Screening with Orchids - My Intersex Adventure (pg. 48)
Mrs Birks’ Sunday Roast
UK | 2009 | 6 mins | Kiyoko Miyake
The Mystery of Flying Kicks
Australia | 2010 | 14 mins | English | Matthew Bate
Sneakers hanging on telephone lines are common place
around the world but few people are aware of its urban
symbolism. They tell of murder, sex, drugs - messages
of art and politics that inspire theories both hilarious
and sinister. In an effort to get to the truth once and for
all, the filmmakers asked the people of earth to help
solve the mystery. This participatory and crowd sourced
documentary used an on-line call out and a phone
message bank to collect donated photographs, phonedin theories, video, v-logs, and animation. This film is the
result of this unique digital collaboration between the
filmmakers and the international public.
Shorts
Shorts
Found
*Screening with Hiding Behind the Green Screen (pg. 16)
On the Run with Abdul
UK | 2009 | 24 mins | English, Afghan | David Lalé, James Newton
Abdul is a symbol for a problem that Europe does not
want to deal with. A young refugee stuck in Calais
alongside dozens of others, trying to catch a boat to
England. Broke, Abdul is stuck in limbo on the coast of
France, living from day to day without any rights. Home is
a distant memory and a geographical impossibility.
Abdul’s involvement with the film puts him at risk,
requiring the filmmakers to make a decision to try to
protect him. On the Run with Abdul explores the delicate
balance documentarians face when getting close to their
subjects.
*Screening with Living Skin (pg. 33)
Prayers for Peace
USA | 2009 | 8 mins | English | Dustin Grella
Like all other British housewives, Mrs Birks wants her
Sunday roast to be the best it can be. For a Japanese
woman living in England with her British husband, there
are challenges in embracing the new life and culture
she’s adopted. Energetic and slightly eccentric, she
is a perfect example of a Japanese woman who has
blossomed with the freedom away from home. As she
prepares a delectable English Sunday dinner, Mrs. Birks
shares her thoughts on cooking, home, culture and family.
This film is a colourful portrait of a Japanese woman
who has found her place in Britain and pays a tribute to a
great tradition that is not always treated with due respect.
Blending her passion for British food with the memories
that accompany each dish, she creates a labour of love
with all the trimmings.
Prayers for Peace is a narrative stop-motion animation
confronting the memory of the artist's younger brother
killed in the current conflict in Iraq. Drawn entirely
with pastels on a slate chalkboard, the materials used
to create the animation become a metaphor for the
impermanence of life.
*Screening with Budrus (pg. 20)
*Screening with Wo Ai Ni Mommy (pg. 50)
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69
USA | 2010 | 8 mins | Russian | Vance Malone
In this intimate portrait of destiny, passion, and loss, Irina
Markova, a solitary Russian poodle trainer, has dedicated
her life to training her 20 colourfully costumed poodles
to perform clever acrobatic tricks. Fuelled by a childhood
tragedy that sparked a fierce desire to alienate herself
from people, Markova welcomes the solace of her animals
and the isolation she finds behind the red velvet curtain of
the circus.
*Screening with Sixty and the City (pg. 65)
This Chair is Not Me
UK | 2010 | 10 mins | English | Andy Taylor Smith
Born with a severe form of cerebral palsy, Alan Martin
has been in a wheelchair since birth with very restricted
mobility and limited means of communication. At 31
the community pitched together to buy him his first
communication aid. Before then, communication was a
series of arm movements, facial expressions and grunting
as Alan struggled to make his feelings and wishes
heard. The film focuses on the point in Alan’s life when
people around him realised something was seriously
wrong. From this moment on, Alan’s life changed forever.
Director Smith has crafted a remarkably stylized short
around Alan’s story narrated by Alan himself, using his
computerized voicebox.
*Screening with The Jade Bell Story (pg. 14)
The Space You Leave
UK | 2009 | 10 mins | English | James Newton
Each year, an estimated 200,000 people are reported
missing in the UK alone. But when a loved one goes
missing, the space left behind in their families can mean
a future trapped in a tortured present, one obsessed by
the past.
*Screening with The Long Goodbye (pg. 49)
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Ambassador: Kate Rodger
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Dave Booth, David Bigio (Leagal), Ewa
Bigio, Jonathan Smith, Geraldene Peters.
International - Chris McDonald (HotDocs
Canada), Hans Robert Eisenhauer (ZDF/Arte
Germany), Julia Overton (Screen Australia),
Marc Booth (B3 Media United Kingdom), Pat
Frens (Ferns Productions Canada), Simon
Ho (GZDOC China), Wendy Levy (Producers
Institute USA)
Team: Axel Pasquier, Cecile Huet, Edward
Morato, Sam Thomson, Tavia Merritt, Lena
Esser
Web Design/Master: Motive - Andy Kirkwood,
Justine Flanagan
Sponsorship/Partnership Consultant:
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Brand: BRR Ltd – Brian Richards and team
Book-keeper: Alison Peirse
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Directors/Programmers: Alex Lee, Dan
Shanan
Preview Committee: Catherine Madigan,
Leanne Pooley, Geraldene Peters, Quinta
Wilson, Scott Optican, John Lau, Go-eun Yoon,
Jessica Munna, Kirsty MacDonald, Paula Jones,
Sumner Burstyn, Tom Burstyn
International Scouts: Anne Vierhout, Deb
Filler, Diana Kluge, Michelle Lau, Xavier Rashid
Programme Writer: Alex Lee
Proofing: Lindy Roberts, Angelique Kasmara
Programme Design: Sean Kumar
Advertising and Sales Executive: Dennis
Gedye
Wellington Team: Katja Struder, Harry Silver
Events Organizer: Eventimento NZ Ltd,
Jonathan Smith
Publicity: Elephant Publicity – Michelle
Lafferty, Joanna Lee Kelly, Benjii Jackson
Photography: High-Light Photographics Deane Cohen
Distribution: Phantom - Dan Collins
iPhone Applet: Lookout Mobile, Daniel Kagan
Virals/Trailers: Tavia, Merritt, Sam Thomson
TVC Production/Graphics: Afterglow Limited
- Andy McGrath (DOP/Sound Mix/Design), Gary
Stalker (EP), Craig Parkes (Creative/Editor/
Actor)
TVC Actors: Anne Marie Lockett, Daniel Hart,
David Tetter, Gabrielle Lee-Tetter, Zachary
White
TV Crew: Rajneel Singh (Director), Courtney
Sanft, Celeste Strewe, Gary Leano, Kathryn
Hart (Costume Magic)
Thank You
Shorts
The Poodle Trainer
THANK YOU
To our participating and supporting
distributors, sales agents and filmmakers.
Amanda Hogan, Andrew Miller, Bettina Senff,
Carolyn Adams, Catherine George, Charmaine
Ngarimu, David Hindley, Dawn Hutchesson,
Deb Faith, Emma Freeman, Erik Stevens,
Geoff Budd , Grace Boyle, Hadyn Bell-Norris,
James Crowe, James Smith, Janette Howe,
John Davies, Joost den Hartog, Kate Locke,
Kathryn Akuhata-Brown, Katrina Sedgwick,
Kelly Lucas, Keith Barclay, Kirsty Glengarry,
Mark Chamberlain, Nicola Fox, Nicky Bushnell,
Nick Grant, Nick Schembri, Nigel Grant, Olivier
Wardecki, Patricia Deen, Paul Lake, Paul
Scantlebury, Quentin Reade, Richard Driver,
Ronald Gardebroek, Sandra J Ruch, Stephen
Bolter, Stephanie Butler, Steve Hart, Steven
Cavanagh, Teddy Poplinger, Tina Seeto, Tony
Makin, Toni Powell.
Academy Cinemas, Adelaide IFF, Angelika at
Reading Cinemas Courtenay, ART Venture, AUT,
City Gallery Wellington, Dash Tickets, Event
Cinemas Newmarket, FedEx, Flicks, Fringe
Festival, Fulbright NZ, Goethe Institut, HotDocs,
Intern NZ, Next Technology, Nice Block, On
Film, Outgames, Panavision New Zealand,
Redbull, South Seas Film & TV School, TAG
Creatives, TAKE, The Big Idea, TNT, Victoria
Magic Palace, Viewfinder, Wellington City
Council, Withoutabox.
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Film Index
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Title
Page
A
A Small Act..................................................... 18
All My Fathers................................................. 44
Finkelstein...................................................... 19
An African Election......................................... 28
B
Beyond This Place.......................................... 45
Budrus............................................................ 20
C
CHANDANI -The Daughter of the
Elephant Whisperer........................................ 46
D
Dancing with the Devil.................................... 29
Darwin............................................................. 30
David Wants to Fly.......................................... 60
Dirty Bloody Hippies....................................... 10
Donated to Science......................................... 11
E
Eichmann's End Love, Treachery, Death................................... 31
El Bulli - Cooking in Progress....................... 38
Enemies of the People................................... 21
Erasing David.................................................. 61
Everyday Sunshine The Story of Fishbone.................................... 52
F
Found.............................................................. 68
G
Granito............................................................ 32
H
Kill A Mockingbird.......................................... 53
Hiding Behind the Green Screen................... 16
I
I Am the River................................................. 12
I Shot My Love................................................. 47
I.M. Pei - Bulding China Modern................... 39
If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise..... 37
Into Eternity.................................................... 22
Is She or Isn't He?.......................................... 13
J
The Jade Bell Story........................................ 14
Jane's Journey............................................... 40
L
Landscapes at the World's Ends .................. 16
Leave Them Laughing.................................... 41
Lest We Forget - NZer's telling their
Holocaust stories........................................... 16
Life 2.0............................................................ 62
Living Skin...................................................... 33
The Long Goodbye.......................................... 49
M
Machete Maidens Unleashed!....................... 63
Make Believe................................................... 54
Mind................................................................ 68
MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS........................... 55
Mrs Birks' Sunday Roast................................ 68
Mrs Carey's Concert....................................... 56
My Kidnapper.................................................. 23
My Perestroika................................................ 24
The Mystery of Flying Kicks............................ 69
O
On the Run with Abdul................................... 69
Orchids - My Intersex Adventure................... 48
Out of the Darkness....................................... 42
P
The People vs. George Lucas......................... 7
The Poodle Trainer......................................... 70
Prayers for Peace........................................... 69
Precious Life................................................... 34
R
Rainmakers.................................................... 35
S
Sex Magic, Manifesting Maya......................... 64
Sins of My Father............................................ 25
Sixty and the City............................................ 65
The Sound of Mumbai - A Musical................. 57
South of the Border........................................ 8
The Space You Leave...................................... 70
Stand Up......................................................... 15
Steam of Life................................................... 26
Proud sponsor of the Documentary Edge Festival 2011
T
talhotblond...................................................... 66
Thieves by Law . ............................................. 36
This Chair is Not Me....................................... 70
W
Wo Ai Ni Mommy (I Love You Mommy).......... 50
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