the 5TH - Antenna Documentary Film Festival

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the 5TH
Ticketing
General Admission
Adult – $19
Concession – $16
Multi Passes
5 films – $85
10 films – $150
Festival Launch
Opening Night + Party
Adult – $35
Concession – $25
DocTalk
Adult – $85
Concession – $45
Festival Venues
Chauvel Cinema
249 Oxford Street, Paddington, NSW
(02) 9361 5398
Verona Cinema
17 Oxford Street, Paddington, NSW
(02) 9360 6099
Museum of Contemporary Art
140 George St, The Rocks, NSW
(02) 9245 2400
Welcome back to Antenna,
Australia’s Documentary Film Festival!
Hello and welcome to the fifth Antenna Documentary Film Festival, Australia’s premier festival
dedicated to the screening, appreciation and discussion of documentaries from around the world.
From Belgium to Brazil, from New Zealand to the Netherlands, we bring you an eclectic range
of powerful and personal stories. Twenty-one countries are represented across 33 feature length
films, including four from Australia, and we also have 14 Australian short films from emerging and
seasoned directors.
We are thrilled this year to be continuing our retrospective strand by hosting acclaimed US director
Alan Berliner. In partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antenna will screen four of his
award-winning films, and Berliner will present Q&As at each as well as a Directing Documentary
masterclass.
Building on the runaway success of last year’s DocTalk event, we will again be holding a one-day
seminar series of industry masterclasses and panels, covering everything you need to know to get
ahead in the contemporary documentary landscape. Antenna is pleased to be hosting a number of
high-profile international and Australian guests who operate at the centre of the industry and can
impart unrivalled knowledge to our audiences.
As always, we will be presenting three awards at Antenna this year: Best International Feature
Documentary (with a cash prize of $3000), Best Australian Feature Documentary and Best Australian
Short. Antenna would not be possible without the generous support of our range of sponsors, and
of course our valiant team of dedicated staff and volunteers – so an enormous thank you to all.
We are certain that within the following pages you will find films that surprise you, challenge you,
captivate you and even transform you, so what are you waiting for? Join us on this journey into the
cinema and across the world.
See you there!
Antenna Team
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From tragedy to triumph, challenges to
champions, these are your stories.
Opening Night
On the Bride's Side
Tuesday 13 Oct, 7pm for 8pm start, Chauvel Cinema 1
Sunday 18 Oct, 1pm, Verona Cinema
Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry, Gabriele Del Grande, Antonio Augugliaro | Italy | 2014 | 89min
Australian Premiere
It sounds like a romantic Euro-comedy as conceived by foreign policy reporters: Italian journalists disguise their
refugee friends from Syria as a wedding party and try to spirit them across various European borders to Sweden
(which is more likely to accept asylum claims). On The Bride’s Side succeeds as a portrait of the war and terror the
refugees have fled, of the increasingly harsh response of European states to a growing refugee crisis (which reveals
Australia’s own media-produced “crisis” as the joke that it is) and of the bravery and compassion of the journalists /
filmmakers, who risked prison sentences to make the journey. JM
Selected festivals and awards:
Venice Film Festival Fedic Award, IDFA, Hot Docs, Dubai International Film Festival, FIFDH Film Festival - Grand Prize
Director Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry is a guest of the festival and will introduce his film on Opening Night.
Supported by Italian Cultural Institute and University of Western Sydney
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Closing Night
Finders Keepers
Sunday 18 Oct, 7pm for 8pm start, Chauvel Cinema 1
Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel | USA | 2015 | 82min
Sydney Premiere
Who owns your extremities, if they’re no longer attached to your body? This bizarre question becomes an actual legal debate in the
incredible Finders Keepers. Shannon Whisnant, bargain hunter extraordinaire, buys an old grill at an auction and is astonished to
find a human calf and foot inside. With plans to create a tourist attraction, Whisnant looks to be stymied when the original owner
emerges – John Wood, a recovering addict who had his leg amputated after a plane crash. Of course, the media circus arrives en
masse and the debate becomes one of ridiculous proportions, in which the filmmakers manage to sensitively capture and encompass
class divide, addiction, greed, celebrity and small town family expectations. JSS
Sundance, True False Film Festival, SXSW
Join us for a complimentary drink to close the festival. Drinks from 7pm, with award ceremony and screening beginning at 8pm.
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International Competition Judges
Wieland Speck
Director of Panorama, Berlinale
After completing studies in German literature, theatre arts and ethnology at Berlin’s
Free University, Wieland moved to the world and industry of film, where he has worked
in many areas. In 1992, he was appointed Director of the Panorama programme at the
International Berlin Film Festival, and has remained there ever since.
Leah Giblin
Grants Associate, Cinereach
Leah manages the grants program at Cinereach, a film foundation and production
company that champions vital stories, artfully told. Her previous experience includes
work with the Tribeca Film Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Media Arts
Fellowships and the programming department of the Tribeca Film Festival.
Alejandra Canales
Filmmaker
Alejandra is an award winning filmmaker whose work has screened in major
international festivals. She has been a recipient of numerous scholarships and
international documentary residencies including IDFAcademy. She holds a Doctorate
of Creative Arts and currently is the Head of Documentary at Sydney Film School.
Jeremy Elphick
Writer / Film Critic
Jeremy Elphick is the co-founder and Managing Editor of the Australian film website
4:3 Film, bringing a collaborative and refreshing approach to film theory and
criticism. Jeremy has a particular interest in sociopolitical documentary and has run
a series of in-depth interviews on 4:3 Film with high-profile filmmakers.
Australian Competition Judges
Alan Berliner
Filmmaker
Alan Berliner is a documentary filmmaker, whose ability to combine the experimental
with popular appeal in compelling films has made him one of America's most
acclaimed documentary filmmakers. His films have been broadcast around the world
and been the subject of retrospectives at numerous international film festivals.
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Tracey Moffatt
Visual Artist / Filmmaker
Highly regarded for her formal and stylistic experimentation in film, photography
and video, Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. Her
work draws on the history of cinema, art and photography as well as childhood
memories and fantasies and explores issues of race, gender, sexuality and identity.
Susan MacKinnon
Filmmaker / Producer
Susan is an award winning filmmaker and a leading figure in the Australian
documentary industry. She was a founder and Co-Executive Director of the
Documentary Australia Foundation and a founding member of the Australian
International Documentary Conference.
Australian Shorts Competition Judges
Michael Cordell
Cordell Jigsaw
Michael Cordell is one of Australia’s most established producers and directors.
His projects straddle many genres and have won numerous awards. Most recently
Michael was EP and writer on the third series of award winning format Go Back to
Where You Came from on SBS.
Sandra Gross
Yoram Gross Films
Born in Israel, Sandra emigrated to Australia in 1968 with her husband,
celebrated filmmaker Yoram Gross. Together they founded Yoram Gross Film
Studio; Australia’s most successful animation production house.
Blue Lucine
Filmmaker
Blue Lucine is a writer and director and has screened her films at numerous
festivals including having two films launched in Federation Square, Melbourne.
Blue is currently working on her first feature documentary about the public
housing sale in Millers Point.
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International Competition
Approaching the elephant
Saturday 17 Oct, 3pm, Chauvel Cinema 1
Amanda Wilder | USA | 2014 | 89 mins
Australian Premiere
True False Film Festival, Doc Aviv - Best International Documentary
A school with no rules sounds like every kid’s dream.
The Teddy McArdle Free School in small town New
Jersey is experimenting with this very idea – populated
with children who don’t fit into more traditional
establishments, the school allows anyone to call a
meeting, rules are made by consensus and classes are
not compulsory. Filmmaker Amanda Wilder observes
the school in classic observational style over the
course of a year. As the year unfolds and the challenges
of attempting to establish a new educational ideology
become clear, the film forces us all to consider the
overarching hypothesis: exactly what should education
look like in the 21st Century? JSS
Co-presented with The Saturday Paper
Director Amanda Wilder is a guest of the festival and will take
part in a Q&A after the screening.
tHE bIRTH OF sAKE
Sunday 18 Oct, 3pm, Chauvel Cinema 1
Australian Premiere
Erik Shirai | USA | 2015 | 90 mins
Tribeca Film Festival, San Sebastian International Film Festival
Documenting the dying art of hand-crafted sake
making, The Birth of Sake unveils the meticulous
approach employed by the Yoshida Brewery, a
144-year-old family-owned small brewery in northern
Japan. The film tracks the dedicated team of men,
led by the veteran brewmaster, through the sixmonth sake-making season as they work to keep the
2,000-year-old tradition alive in a world of automated
production and commercial competition. Meanwhile,
under intense pressure, the brewery’s young heir must
take the product to market to maintain the brewery’s
existence. As highly crafted as the subject it follows,
this film is an exquisite viewing experience of a
remarkable artisanal world. RC
The Chimpanzee complex
Australian Premiere
Marc Schmidt | Switzerland, Netherlands | 2014 | 75 mins
CPH-DOX, Sheffield Doc/Fest
Supported by Consulate General of Switzerland
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Mojo’s favourite food is spaghetti, and he is partial to
washing it down with a glass of French red. So far so
ordinary, but Mojo is a chimpanzee. His 30 years in a
small Belgian village has ill-prepared him for life in
this Dutch rescue centre that teaches chimps to live
with their own kind. The resident, mostly traumatised,
chimps have been raised by humans as pets or circus
entertainers, and are watched over and gently guided
by a team of caretakers. Director Marc Schmidt
observes the keepers and their charges up close in this
touching and intimate film that explores the species’
divide. The temptation to see human behaviour in the
chimps is high, but how much can we really learn from
our distant cousins? JSS
The Closer We Get
Wednesday 14 Oct, 8:30pm, Verona Cinema
Karen Guthrie | UK | 2015 | 87 mins
Hot Docs - Winner of Best International Documentary,
Edinburgh Film Festival
Australian Premiere
Inter-generational secrets and lies are exposed
and dissected in this extraordinary and moving
portrait of a family’s survival told from within. When
filmmaker Karen Guthrie’s mother Ann has a stroke,
Karen returns home to care for her. Unexpectedly, so
does Ann’s estranged husband and Karen’s largely
absentee father, the inscrutable Ian. With camera
in hand, Karen seizes the opportunity to unpack her
unconventional family’s past and finally confront the
secret life of her father that they had all accepted,
but had never really talked about. The Closer We Get
is a powerful and bittersweet film traversing loyalty,
broken dreams and redemption; it is a story of a
family revealed in multiple senses. RC
Exotica, Erotica, Etc.
Saturday 17 October, 7:15pm, Chauvel Cinema 2
Sydney Premiere
Evangelia Kranioti | France | 2015 | 73min
Berlin Film Festival, Hot Docs
This mesmerising film joins the ocean-roaming
stories of sailors with the memories of Sandy,
a former sex-worker who reflects on her maritime
lovers. Photographer and director Evangelia Kranioti
travels to endless ports on Greek ships, exploring
the clichéd yet universal encounter between
sex-worker and sailor. These fleeting moments of
lonely and transactional physical connection are set
against a haunting visual backdrop of vast ports,
listing ships, oppressive drinking holes and waiting
women. A hypnotic soundtrack merges with the
soliloquies of Sandy and the sailors, creating a rich
symphony for the untethered world of ocean-going
workers and their land-dwelling counterparts. JSS
Leaving AFRICA
Saturday 17 Oct, 8pm, Verona Cinema
Iiris Härmä | Finland, Uganda | 2015 | 84 mins
Doc Point - Winner Audience Award, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hot Docs
Supported by Embassy of Finland
Australian Premiere
Riitta and Catherine are self confessed ‘old crows',
with a friendship that has spanned decades.
Filmmaker Iiris Harma observes the two strong,
independent women, capturing both hilarious and
intimate moments. Working for an NGO that promotes
sex education and female empowerment, both women
surprise, talking with unexpected candour on subjects
such as the sensitivity of a woman’s clitoris to a class
of embarrassed young men and delighted women. As
Riitta prepares to return to her homeland after 25
years, an anonymous accusation threatens to bring
about an ignominious end to everything they’ve worked
so hard to build. Leaving Africa is a tender, funny and
affectionate film about the power of friendship in the
face of adversity. JSS 11
ON THE BRIDE'S SIDE
Sunday 18 October, 1pm, Verona Cinema
Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry, Gabriele Del Grande, Antonio Augugliaro | Italy | 2014 | 98min
Venice Film Festival Fedic Award, IDFA, Hot Docs,
Dubai International Film Festival, FIFDH Film Festival - Grand Prize
Supported by Italian Cultural Institute & University of Western Sydney
Australian Premiere
It sounds like a romantic Euro-comedy as conceived
by foreign policy reporters: Italian journalists disguise
their refugee friends from Syria as a wedding party and
try to spirit them across various European borders to
Sweden (which is more likely to accept asylum claims).
On The Bride’s Side succeeds as a portrait of the war
and terror the refugees have fled, of the increasingly
harsh response of European states to a growing
refugee crisis (which reveals Australia’s own mediaproduced “crisis” as the joke that it is) and of the
bravery and compassion of the journalists/filmmakers,
who risked prison sentences to make the journey. JM
Director Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry is a guest of the festival and will
take part in a Q&A after the screening.
Oriented
Thursday 15 Oct, 8:30pm, Verona Cinema
Australian Premiere
Jake Witzenfeld | Israel, UK | 2015 | 86min
Sheffield Doc/Fest, LA Film Festival
Co-presented with Queer Screen
Spartacus & Cassandra
Friday 16 Oct, 8:30pm, Chauvel Cinema 2
Ioanis Nuguet | France | 2014 | 80 mins
Cannes, Hot Docs, True False Film Festival,
Dok Leipzig - Winner FIPRESCI Award
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‘I’m in love with the enemy.’ The personal has never
been more political than in Oriented, a snapshot of life
in conflict on all scales. Being Palestinian in Israel
offers certain challenges; navigating the dating game
is particularly fraught. Add being gay into the mix and
questions of identity hover continually over every action
and decision. Fadi, Khader and Naeem are three gay
Palestinian friends navigating this world; interactions
with family, friends, lovers and each other all take on
a broader significance as they struggle to find meaning
and certainty in their lives. Filmed in the lead-up to
the 2014 Israeli-Gaza conflict, director Jake Witzenfeld
captures three personal journeys of unavoidably
political significance. JSS
Sydney Premiere
'When I was one year old I was already walking. At two,
I was eating dirt. At three, my father was in prison.
At four, I begged with my sister. At seven, I came
to France.' Meet Spartacus, who, at 13, has already
accumulated the experiences of several lifetimes. He
and his sister Cassandra are two Roma children who
find themselves in the care of Camille, a young trapeze
artist and founder of a circus on the outskirts of Paris.
From a life on the streets with their parents, prospects
with Camille offer some stability. But when the circus
is pulled down, the children are forced to choose
between the family they love and the possibility of a
brighter future. Although they at times despair, director
Ioanis Nuguet offers a beautifully cinematic story with
moments of magical delight, humour and hope. RC
The Storm Makers
Saturday 17 October, 3:15pm, Chauvel Cinema 2
Guillaume Suon | Cambodia, France | 2014 | 66 mins
Busan IFF - Wide Angle Best Documentary, IDFA, Sheffield Doc/Fest
Twilight of a Life
Saturday 17 Oct, 5:15pm, Chauvel Cinema 2
Sylvain Biegeleisen | Israel, Belgium | 2015 | 70 mins
Vision Du Reel, Doc Aviv - Winner Best Documentary
The Visit
Friday 16 Oct, 9pm, Chauvel Cinema 1
Australian Premiere
'I target the poorest ones. These people are easy to
lure and recruit. Most can’t read, they have nothing to
lose.' These are the words spoken by one of the many
people traffickers known locally as 'Mey Kechol' 'Storm Makers'. With parents crippled by poverty
and unable to support themselves, the storm makers
seduce with tales of a better life for their children.
Yet the reality is that thousands of Cambodians,
mostly women, have been trafficked across South
East Asia. Filmmaker Guillaume Suon focuses on
Aya, who was traffficked and has recently returned
home with her young son. This patient, cinematic film
captures a country still haunted by its past, revealing
invisible scars that remain, long after the wounds
have healed. RW
Australian Premiere
'Not about death. Don’t people see enough of that on
TV? Are you crazy? We should talk about life!’ This
is the strong response filmmaker Sylvain Biegeleisen
receives from his 95 year old mother when he tells her
he plans to make a film about the two of them. A film
about life and death. Because although now bed-bound,
Biegeleisen’s mother still has life in her; drinking,
smoking, laughing and singing. This living elegy to the
filmmaker's mother is a joyous, sweet film about the
unspoken contract of life. In Biegeleisen’s mother's
own words: ‘It’ll touch everyone’. And she’s not wrong.
RW
Sydney Premiere
Michael Madsen | Denmark, Austria | 2015 | 85 mins
Sundance, SXSW, Visions du Réel, True/False, Sheffield Doc/Fest
Co-presented with 2SER
Aliens have not yet visited Earth, at least not officially.
Nonetheless there are numerous scientists, diplomats
and military experts, equipped with advanced degrees
and volumes of preparatory planning, ready to deal
with such an event – should it ever happen. Danish
director Michael Madsen trains his impeccably dry
humour on these people, who (mostly) aren’t crazy.
They recognise that an alien visit would have profound
consequences for everyone on the planet and that
having some kind of plan is better than having no plan
at all. They gamely describe their thinking, don airtight
suits to protect against hypothetical pathogens,
and test out the first sentences of greeting in this
fascinating, beautifully shot film. JM
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International Special Screenings
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin
Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck, Heiko Lange | Germany | 2015 | 92min
Berlin Film Festival, Doc Aviv
Co-presented with VICE
The Cult of JT Leroy Fri 17
Sydney Premiere
In the 80s Berlin was like a B-Movie, ugly and
poor, but wild, creative, and incredibly sexy. To the
thousands of people that flocked to 1980s Berlin,
anything was possible. Mancunian writer-musician
Mark Reeder was there, armed with a Super 8
camera to document it all. B-MOVIE revisits the
vibrant music and art scene of West Berlin during
the divided city’s punky, druggy, trashy 1980s
heyday, blending never seen before footage starting
with punk and ending with the Love Parade. It
shows everything from the creative deliberations
of a young Nick Cave to performances in industrial
spaces of legends such as Christiane F, Einstruzende
Neubauten and Westbam. An energetic and moving
collage of a wild decade. DR
Sydney Premiere
Marjorie Sturm | USA | 2014 | 90min
Hot Docs, Doc NYC, Outfest
He was the literary discovery of a lifetime – 19-yearold JT Leroy who had grown up on the streets and had
forwarded an astonishing, gritty memoir to a publisher.
His reclusiveness punctuated by occasional shy
appearances in dark glasses only served to intensify
public interest, and the announcement of his planned
gender transition fed the frenzy further. Celebrities
flocked to do readings and offer their support: Nancy
Sinatra, Lou Reed, Sandra Bernhard among others. But
who really was JT Leroy? His story ebbs and flows,
cuts back and forth, and soon snowballs into a literary
scandal on a grand scale. JSS
Co-presented with Queer Screen
Dominguinhos
Sunday 18 Oct, 5:30pm, Verona Cinema
Joaquim Castro, Eduardo Nazarian, Mariana Aydar | Brazil | 2014 | 86min
IDFA, SXSW, DOK Leipzig, It’s All True, Krakow Film Festival
Co-presented with Sydney Latin American Film Festival
Australian Premiere
Dominguinhos portrays the life and music of José
Domingos de Morais, or Dominguinhos, as he
was known. A prodigious accordionist, singer and
composer, Dominguinhos rose from his humble
beginnings in poor northeast Brazil to an acclaimed
and eclectic career that flirted with Jazz, Pop and
Bossa-Nova, transforming “Forró”, a traditional
Brazilian folk musical genre, forever. Beautifully
put together through old interviews and archival
footage, the real star of this biography is his music.
In this emotional, passionate and sensual film,
Dominguinhos speaks of his many loves, including
women and his beloved country. Sit back, relax and
let the melodies flow. KC
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Chauvel 1
Tues
7pm On the Bride's Side p5
WEDS
7pm Another Country with Q&A p22
THURS
7pm Pervert Park p19
FRI
Screens with Kirrendirri - Lost and Alone
7pm Shock Room with Q&A p23
9pm The Visit p13
SAT
Chauvel 2
8:30pm Spartacus & Cassandra p12
1pm The Ground We Won p18
3pm Approaching the Elephant p10
with Q&A
3:15pm The Storm Makers p13
5pm Racing Extinction p19
5:15pm Twilight of a Life p13
Screens with Wang Wen-Chih: Woven Sky
7pm The Cult of JT Leroy p15
Screens with Girls
7:15pm Exotica, Erotica, Etc. p11
Screens with At Midnight
9pm B-Movie: Lust and Sound in
West-Berlin p15
SUN
1pm The Infinite Happiness p18
1pm Indigenous Cinema Focus p27
3pm The Birth of Sake p10
3pm The Chimpanzee Complex p10
5pm Requiem for the American
Dream p19
5pm Nightfall on Gaia with Q&A p23
Screens with King of the Forest
Screens with L'Artigiano
7pm Finders Keepers p7
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vERONA
8:30pm The Closer We Get p11
Screens with Travelling Man
8:30pm Oriented p12
MCA
10:00-16:00 Antenna DocTalk p26-27
Alan Berliner Retrospective
6:30pm Wide Awake with Q&A p24-25
7pm No Land's Song p18
Screens with The Face of Ukraine
9pm Sandwich Nazi p21
Screens with Smut Hounds
Alan Berliner Retrospective - Double Feature
4pm Warriors from the North p21
Screens with Doing Time
2pm Nobody's Business
& The Sweetest Sound
with Q&A p24-25
6pm Heery's World with Q&A p22
Screens with Maratus
8pm Leaving Africa p11
Screens with The Drover's Boy
1pm On the Bride's Side with Q&A p12
12pm First Cousin Once Removed with Q&A p24-25
Screens with Bassam
3:30pm Thank You For Playing p21
Screens with I'm Coming Home
5:30pm Dominguinhos p15
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The Infinite Happiness
Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine | Denmark, France | 2015 | 85min
Doc Aviv
The Ground We Won
Christopher Pryor | New Zealand | 2015 | 91min
New Zealand Film Festival
No Land's Song
Friday 16 Oct, 7pm, Verona Cinema
Australian Premiere
The 8 House, from famed architect Bjarke Ingels, is
a bold, social experiment that mixes urban planning,
sustainability and high-density living with a sprinkle
of whimsy. Five hundred residents nestle alongside
each other in apartments that cascade down slanted,
twisting pathways – all floors are accessible by
bicycle. Sheep graze nearby, a green roof lifts the
ground towards the sky, and the central courtyard
contains hills that children at a birthday party
scamper over in their quest for a ghost. The residents
speak of the master planner in reverent tones, while
the postman gets lost as he navigates the tangle of
access hallways. The filmmakers spent 21 days in the
building, exploring its heart. Join them to uncover a
possible recipe for a harmonious existence. JSS
Sydney Premiere
Maleness, mateship and the rural experience are all
on raw display in The Ground We Won, a portrait of
a small Kiwi town’s rugby team and their attempts
to claw back a win amidst the quotidian grind of
farming and family life. Stunning landscapes that
are cinematically presented in black and white and
the lyrical, evocative score both serve to enrich the
portrayal of an eclectic group of men who are closely
bonded. The incredible access granted to the men’s
sacred spaces and rituals offers unprecedented
insight into male sporting culture and the hierarchies,
humour and debauchery that abounds. This visually
arresting and surprising film is about passions,
obligations and belonging, both on the pitch and off.
JSS
Australian Premiere
Ayat Najafi | Germany, France | 2014 | 93min
Dok Leipzig - Youth Jury Award, Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Co-presented with Persian Film Festival
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A female singer performing solo in public – sound
subversive? In Iran, this has been banned since the
Islamic Revolution in 1979. But one composer, Sara
Najafi, decides to test this ridiculous prohibition
and shine a spotlight on women’s voices with a
concert showcasing Iranian and French-Tunisian
female soloists. Her dogged determination in the
face of ongoing farcical responses from the Ministry
of Culture forms the spine of this powerful film,
as Najafi works with musicians in Tehran and Paris
to prepare for a concert that may not go ahead. No
Land’s Song is a revealing and exceptional film that
charts a vital battle between the political power of
music and the oppressive power of the state. JSS
PERVERT PARK
Thursday 15 Oct, 7pm, Chauvel Cinema 1
Sydney Premiere
Lasse Barkfors, Frida Barkfors | 2014 | Sweden, Denmark | 77min
Sundance - Special Jury Award, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs
Sexual crimes against children rank as some of the
most unspeakable acts of which a human is capable,
yet filmmakers Frida and Lasse Barkfors brave
this taboo and venture into Pervert Park. The local
nickname for a trailer park that serves as home for a
number of convicted offenders, it is a place in which
the residents can make some attempt at reintegration
into society. This searing, unflinching film does
not aim to judge or forgive, it simply highlights the
terrible difficulties faced when dealing with society’s
outcasts. The cyclical nature of abuse emerges,
and problems within the US justice system are also
revealed in this troubling, yet necessary exploration.
JSS
Racing extinction
Louie Psihoyos | USA | 2015 | 94min
Sundance Film Festival - Special Jury Award
Sydney Premiere
There have been perhaps five major extinction events
in history; we’re now facing a possible sixth, in
which we could lose potentially half of the world’s
species. Academy Award-winning director Louie
Psihoyos (The Cove, 2009) turns his laser focus to this
desperate issue, joining activists, scientists, nature
photographers and inventors to alert the world through
breathtaking images and covert investigations. Using
stealth and bravado, Psihoyos takes hidden cameras
into the illegal underground trade in endangered
aquatic species and shines light on horrifying
practices, meanwhile broadly demonstrating the extent
of devastation wrought by methane and carbon on the
ocean. Racing Extinction will fire you into action; it
has to, or the ocean is lost. JSS
Requiem for the american dream
Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott | USA | 2015 | 73min
Tribeca Film Festival
Australian Premiere
If you’ve been feeling uncomfortable about a global
capitalist system that seems to support the wealthiest
while screwing down on the disadvantaged, Noam
Chomsky has the words you're looking for. Featuring
one of the most eminent and insightful intellectuals
alive, this extended discussion filmed over four years
may be the last opportunity to capture Chomsky’s
wisdom on the global powerhouse that is the US, the
continuing corrosion of its democracy, the staggering
gaming of the system by the wealthiest over recent
decades and the world-beating levels of inequality.
Beautifully framed in cinematically craggy close up
and interspersed with archive and animation, Requiem
spells out in no uncertain terms how the neo-liberal
project has unfolded. JSS
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The Sandwich Nazi
Friday 16 Oct, 9pm, Verona Cinema
Lewis Bennett | Canada | 2015 | 72 mins
SXSW, Hot Docs
Co-presented with The Festivalists
Thank You For Playing S
Sunday 18 Oct, 3:30pm, Verona Cinema
Australian Premiere
“The Sandwich Nazi” is at best a very inaccurate
nickname for Saham Kahil, from whom it isn’t
especially difficult to get a sandwich. But as a title
for the occasionally surreal, often outrageous life
and spirit of the Lebanese-Canadian deli owner, well,
it’ll do. Beginning like a particularly depraved Louis
CK standup set, we see Kahil providing his customers
with sandwiches and an endless stream of extremely
candid riffs about his sexual history and everyone’s
genitalia. Gradually, though, other parts of his life
emerge – compassion, philanthropy, and a painful
secret that runs under his gregarious exterior like a
deep, hidden scar. This is likely the most captivating,
heartfelt documentary overflowing with dick jokes
you’ll ever see. JM
Sydney Premiere
Malika Zouhali-Worrall, David Osit | USA | 2015 | 77min
Tribeca Film Festival, Hot Docs
Warriors From the North
Saturday 17 Oct, 4pm, Verona Cinema
"I’m sorry, it’s not good news ... the chemotherapy has
failed. We’re very good at end-of-life care." These are
the words heard by Ryan and Amy Green, parents of
5-year-old Joel who is dying of a brain tumour. Ryan
is a video game designer, and he is dealing with his
grief by making a game about the experience: 'That
Dragon, Cancer'. Self-doubt and the misunderstanding
and criticism of others are just some of the hurdles he
faces, as he and his family strive to understand and
continue living under the watch of the dragon. This
heart-rending journey, seen through the articulate
and gently introspective eyes of a father, provides
an unforgettable portrait of love and humanity; bring
tissues. JSS
Australian Premiere
Søren Steen Jespersen, Nasib Farah | Denmark | 2014 | 62min
Hot Docs - Winner, Best Mid-Length Documentary Award, IDFA
Why do some young Western muslims head overseas
to fight jihad? This documentary, which won the midlength prize at Hot Docs, examines the case of SomaliScandinavians with an objectivity and nuance often
completely absent in the tabloid press and government
narratives. In the stories of a humble father desperate
to extract his son from Al-Shabab and bring him home,
and a young Somali-born Dane whose two close friends
killed themselves in suicide attacks in Mogadishu, a
complex web of causes emerges – and the subjects
talk openly and frankly about religion, family, social
isolation, and culture shock in an often-harrowing,
highly enlightening film. JM
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Australian cOMPETITION
Another country
Wednesday 14 Oct, 7pm, Chauvel Cinema 1
Sydney Premiere
Molly Reynolds | Australia | 2015 | 75min
Director Molly Reynolds will be in attendance to hold a Q&A
after the screening.
Heery's World
Satruday 17 Oct, 6pm, Verona Cinema
Forget everything you think you know
about Indigenous communities. In this
astounding film, David Gulpilil takes
viewers on an enlightening journey to his
hometown of Ramingining, NT. Gulpilil
offers an all-too-rare first-hand account
of what happened when his people’s way
of life was interrupted by white people. It
shows how the familiar problems – lack of
employment, isolation from services – are
in fact symptoms of the incompatibility
between the Indigenous way of life and the
lifestyle demanded of them by government
policy. Another Country is an attempt to
make sense of the contradictions of the
modern Indigenous experience. As Gulpilil
says, “We can’t go back, so we need proper
help to go forward.”JSS
Australian Premiere
Liz Jones | Australia | 2015 | 62mins
Director Liz Jones will be in attendance to hold a Q&A after
the screening.
Co-presented with Head On Photo Festival
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In a world where everything takes
a photograph, what is the value of
professional portraiture? Is it just an
antiquated art or a dynamic process
that can survive as a contemporary art
form? Heery’s World follows Gary Heery,
a celebrated Australian photographer.
His photographic quests take us to the
Bandidos clubhouse and a gay S&M
parlour amongst others. Driven by his
wild behaviour and uncensored approach
towards his subjects, the experience is
unique, entertaining and transformational.
In its essence, Heery’s World evokes a
deep sense of appreciation for the creative
journey and the marginalised characters of
our society where process and the creative
experience often eclipses the impact of the
image.
Australian cOMPETITION
Nightfall on Gaia
Australian Premiere
Juan Francisco Salazar | Australia | 2015 | 92mins
Director Juan Francisco Salazar will be in attendance to hold
a Q&A after the screening.
Shock rOOM
Friday 16 Oct, 7pm, Chauvel Cinema 1
With its fragile and otherworldly yet rugged
and unforgiving landscape, Antarctica
has captured the imagination of humanity
for generations. In Nightfall on Gaia,
director Juan Francisco Salazar frames an
exploration of this vast and wild continent
as a view into the past from a desolate
future. A fictional scientist, stranded alone
in an Antarctic research station 30 years
into the future, guides the audience on a
journey through archival footage of early
Antarctic exploration and live footage
captured in the Antarctic Peninsula in
recent years. Her poetic, contemplative
narration through diary entries introduces
us to a continent on the edge, and a
species at a tipping point. JSS
Australian Premiere
Kathryn Millard | Australia | 2015 | 70min
Director Kathryn Millard will be in attendance to hold a Q&A
after the screening.
Obedience in the face of authority – it’s
the popularly accepted wisdom that
explains everything from the Holocaust to
the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Harvard
psychologist Stanley Milgram’s experiments
in the 1960s are the standard bearer for
this view: under the pretext of conducting
research into memory and learning,
Milgram asked participants to administer
apparently lethal electric shocks to others.
But what if the full story hasn’t been
told? Filmmaker Kathryn Millard revisits
Milgram’s lesser-known results with
these fascinating and innovative creative
dramatisations, using actors, animation and
interviews with psychologists to explore
the reality and the drama behind our
supposed obedience. ‘I was only following
orders.’ Really? Ask yourself: what would
you do? JSS
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Supported by
Antenna Documentary Film Festival is proud to host, for the first time in Australia, a retrospective of Alan Berliner, one of the most
respected and celebrated documentary filmmakers of our time. Alan will attend the festival as our guest to present his films.
Berliner is known for a thoroughly cinematic, experimental and sensitively compelling essay style, which attracts the plaudits of high art
institutions and popular audiences alike. His films, including those screening at Antenna: First Cousin Once Removed (2013), Wide Awake
(2006), The Sweetest Sound (2001) and Nobody’s Business (1996), have been broadcast all over the world, received awards and been the
subject of retrospectives at many major international film festivals.
First Cousin Once Removed won the Grand Prize for Feature Length Documentary Film at the International Documentary Film Festival
Amsterdam in 2012, and the jury’s statement noted “Alan Berliner employs intelligence, inventiveness and a poetic sensibility to create a
film that uses the onset of Alzheimer's to make a beautiful, moving, and artistic statement about the intersection of personal history and
memory.”
Berliner’s entire film catalogue is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and in 2006 he was honoured by the
International Documentary Association with an International Trailblazer Award “for creativity, innovation, originality, and breakthrough
in the field of documentary cinema." Operating as he does at the forefront of innovation in filmmaking, Berliner’s work extends into
interactive multi-media, audio installations and photography, and he is the recipient of a multitude of fellowships and grants.
Alan Berliner will be presenting his films at Antenna, holding Q&A sessions after each screening and presenting a masterclass
on Directing Documentary.
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First Cousin Once Removed - With Q&A
Sunday 18 Oct, 12pm, MCA
USA, 2013, 79 min
An intimately crafted exploration of memory and mental decline, First Cousin Once
Removed is a loving portrait of Berliner’s distant cousin, friend and former mentor
Edwin Honig. Honig was a successful poet, translator, critic and lecturer, but over
the course of five years of filming, we observe the marked toll taken by Alzheimer’s
and the near total loss of connection to his former self. Flickers of Honig’s poetic
soul do emerge at times, though, and Berliner pieces together a raw, beautiful and
compassionate film connecting the fragility of memory with the celebration of a life.
Nobody's Business - wITH Q&A
Saturday 17 Oct, 2pm, MCA
USA, 1996, 60 min
In Nobody’s Business, Alan Berliner creates a touching and personal portrait of his
most reluctant subject, his father Oscar. A unique biography and also an anatomy of
a relationship between the two men, the film explores Berliner’s father’s history and
Jewish background. Humour and pathos emerge in Alan’s continued investigation in the
face of Oscar’s bewilderment at the project: “I am just an ordinary guy who has led an
ordinary life … That’s all, nothing to make a picture about.” The timbre of their familial
relationship becomes a representation of the connection of past and present, as it
emerges that no one is truly ordinary.
The Sweetest Sound - wITH Q&A
Saturday 17 Oct, 3pm, MCA
USA, 2001, 60 min
Will the real Alan Berliner please stand up? Is there, in fact, a real Alan Berliner? For
the film director, the sound of his name is the sweetest sound. But it is not solely his,
it belongs to others too. This realisation sends him on a journey to the centre of his
identity, via a multitude of Alan Berliners. A humorous exploration of the meaning of
names and the connections they provide ensues, as the filmmaker unpicks his own
name and holds Alan Berliner Day in order to meet his fellow title holders. Does a name
tell us who we are? And is President Kennedy really a doughnut?
Wide Awake - WITH Q&A
Thursday 15 Oct, 6:30pm, MCA
USA, 2006, 79 min
Wide Awake is Berliner’s filmic plea to the gods of the land of nod – ‘Why can’t I
sleep?!’ A lifelong insomniac, Berliner’s impending fatherhood has him scrambling for
solutions. Rhythmic sequences with innovative sound design weave together archival
footage, interviews, family explorations and dream visualisations, along with visits to
sleep specialists and an overnight stay in a sleep lab. Always maintaining a sense of
humour, Berliner also explores the soporific effect of his work on students, connections
between sleep and death, and famous early and late risers. With the clock ticking
towards the birth of his son, can he unearth the key to sleep without permanently
disrupting his creative routine?
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DOCtalk
Doctalk
Wednesday 14 Oct, 10:00-16:00, Veolia Theatre, MCA
Tickets are $90 / $45 for a full-day pass with complimentary morning tea / coffee
About DocTalk
You can’t afford to miss Antenna’s one-day industry seminar series, DocTalk. In partnership with the Museum
of Contemporary Art (MCA), Antenna will present four master classes and panels from a range of leading
international and Australian industry figures. DocTalk brings together filmmakers, producers, content creators,
commissioning editors, funders and other key stakeholders with a view to increasing understanding, participation
and effective collaboration in the documentary and non-fiction storytelling industries.
Supported by
Leah Giblin, Cinereach
International Funding Masterclass | 10:00-11:15
Leah Giblin is the grants associate at Cinereach, a
not-for-profit film foundation and production company.
Cinereach provides funding and creative support to a
number of films each year, championing vital stories
that are artfully told. Giblin will provide a map to the
international funding landscape, discussing Cinereach’s
aims and requirements, and give insight on dealing with
commercial pressures in the funding scene. Cinereach
has supported close to 200 films globally, including
Citizenfour, Point and Shoot, Cutie and the Boxer, It
Felt Like Love, and Pariah. Giblin has previously worked
with the Tribeca Film Institute and the Rockefeller
Foundation’s Media Arts Fellowships.
Alan Berliner
Directing Documentary Masterclass | 11:30 - 12:30
Supported by American Embassy
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Acclaimed US documentary filmmaker Alan Berliner
will deliver a 'Directing Documentary' masterclass,
in which he will reveal the inner workings of his
unique stylistic approach to filmmaking. Berliner is
considered a master in the documentary landscape
and is well known for his cinematic, experimental
and artistic approach to the form. His films have
been broadcast all over the world, received awards
and been the subject of retrospectives at many major
international film festivals. He has won three Emmy
Awards and received seven Emmy nominations from
the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
in the US.
DOCtalk
Supported by Goethe-Institut
Wieland Speck
Berlinale Masterclass | 13:30-14:30
Wieland Speck has been one of the most influential
people in the film industry for more than three
decades. As Director of the Panorama section at
the Berlinale since 1992, he has presided over the
selection of a series of international films remarkable
for their artistic vision. He has thus played a vital
role in shifting quality independent films beyond
a niche audience and into the spotlight of the
international market. Speck will provide unrivalled
insight into programming for one of the worlds leading
film festivals, and give his expert advice about the
European Film Market (the largest and most important
film market in the world).
Indigenous Cinema Panel Discussion
14:45-16:00
Maryanne Redpath is head of the Generation section of
the Berlin International Film Festival and head curator
of the Berlinale special series NATIVe – A Journey into
Indigenous Cinema, which launched in 2013. Maryanne
will join local Indigenous filmmakers to discuss
the distinct visual language of Indigenous cinema,
its uniqueness, its commonalities and its relevance
beyond regional, political and cultural boundaries.
Supported by Screen Australia Indigenous Department & NITV
Indigenous Cinema Focus | Sun 18 Oct, 1pm
Antenna will hold a special session in collaboration
with Berlinale NATIVe, presenting a selection of short
films from Indigenous Australian and international
filmmakers. The session will celebrate the richness
and diversity within Indigenous cinema.
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Australian SHORTS cOMPETITION
At Midnight Director: Amber McBride | 2015 | 4 mins
Maria escaped from Communist Hungary seeking creative freedom, but her husband
could not tear himself away from his successful film-making career to go. 57 years
later, this film tells her version of the story.
Screens with: Exotica, Erotica, Etc
Bassam Director: Ramy Daniel | 2015 | 7 mins
Bassam Jabbar is a refugee artist struggling through life, while sick with multiple
conditions and trying to keep up his great paint artworks.
Screens with: On the Bride's Side (Sunday 18 Oct screening)
Doing Time Director: Zanny Begg | 2015 | 9 mins
Doing Time was developed in collaboration with four teenage boys in Reiby Juvenile
Detention Centre. Presenting a series of discontinuous and dreamlike sequences, the film
seeks to highlight the subjective and relative nature of time.
Screens with: Warriors from the North
The Drover's Boy Director: Margaret McHugh | 2014 | 11 mins
This hybrid-documentary is based on a ballad by Australian bush legend Ted Egan. It
retells a story of forbidden love between a white drover and his Aboriginal wife, who
travelled with him disguised as a drover’s boy, in 1920s outback Australia.
Screens with: Leaving Africa
The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul
Director: Kitty Green | 2015 | 8 mins
Adorned in pink sequins, little girls from across a divided, war-torn Ukraine audition
to play the role of gold medal-winning figure skater Oksana Baiul, whose tears of joy
once united their troubled country. Screens with: No Land's Song
Girls Director: Kate Blackmore | 2015 | 19 mins
Girls is a portrait of four fourteen year old girls growing up in Claymore, a place
described as "the most disadvantaged community in Australia" due to its high rates
of crime, alcohol and drug abuse.
Screens with: Twilight of a Life
I’m Coming Home Director: Teresa Carante | 2015 | 7 mins
A poetic short documentary inspired by the sinking of the South Korean MV Sewol
ferry in April 2014. The director's family went through a similar ordeal, losing their
first child in a drowning accident.
Screens with: Thank You For Playing
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Australian SHORTS cOMPETITION
Kirrendirri (Lost and Alone) Director: Tom Hearn | 2015 | 15 mins
In the late 1800's murder and mayhem ruled in frontier Australia. On a property called
Bladensburg, several hundred locals were murdered. The place is now called Skull
Hole. Joslin and Pearl Eatts share their ancestors' story.
Screens with: Another Country
L'Artigiano Director: Sam Zubrycki | 2015 | 7 mins
Antonio Intili, a veteran tailor who is originally from Italy, shares his experiences on life, love
and work.
Screens with: The Birth of Sake
King of The Forest Director: Nicole Precel | 2015 | 8 mins
In an undisclosed location deep within an Australian forest, Noddy has been living off
the grid for 15 years. Now in his 70s, Noddy shares his unique life with us as he shows
us around his home affectionately called Placebo Park and discusses life, love and
loneliness. Screens with: The Infinite Happiness
Maratus Director: Simon Cunich | 2015 | 30mins
A garbage collector takes a photo of a tiny colourful spider and posts it online.
Scientists tell him it could be an unknown species. All he has to do is find it again.
There follows an epic three-year search that transforms his life.
Screens with: Heery's World
SMUT HOUNDS Director: Sari Braithwaite | 2015 | 8 mins
Film legend David Stratton recounts his battles with the prudish Australian censors to
screen the Swedish film I Love, You Love at the 1969 Sydney Film Festival.
Screens with: Sandwich Nazi
tRAVELLING MAN Director: Todd Miller | 2015 | 10 mins
What do we know about our parents' lives? A personal story about losing someone,
and getting to know them better through the things they left behind.
Screens with: The Closer We Get
Wang Wen-Chih:Woven Sky Director: Emma Hudson | 2014 |16 mins
After being told it was impossible to weave bamboo beyond the scale of a basket,
Taiwanese Artist Wang Wen-Chih has spent a lifetime perfecting his breathtaking
large-scale woven technique.
Screens with: Racing Extinction
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Festival Staff & Board
Festival & Artistic Director
David Rokach
Festival Co-Director
Rich Welch
Communications Manager
Julia Scott-Stevenson
Marketing Manager
Amy Black
Festival Programming
David Rokach, Rich Welch & Thalia Hoffman
Programming Pre-Selection
Ruth Cross, Julia Scott-Stevenson, John MacFarlane,
Paolo Polimeni & Avi Feldman
Event Manager
Nick De La Force
Antenna Board
Ruth Cross
Ruth Cullen
Tina Kaufman
Melissa Quinn
Paul Simpson
Kate Stewart
Julia Scott-Stevenson
Festival Ambassadors
Ian Darling
Sandra & Yoram Gross
Designer
Marianna Baldaia
Website
Pandora Nguyen
Government Partners
Principle Media Partner
Festival Partners
Festival Cultural Partners
Supporting Festival Partners
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