Calendar | Saturday 19 February 2005
12:15 PM | Saturday 19 February
Amelia
Australian Premiere
Édouard Lock
Canada 2003
Performed by The La La La Human Steps...More
1:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
The Ister
David Barison & Daniel Ross
Australia 2004
At the height of World War II, influential German philosopher Martin Heidegger delivered a series of lectures on Friedrich Hölderlin's poem about the Danube river – addressing questions of home and place, culture and memory, technology and ecology, and politics and war...More
2:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
The Hybrid Film
Peter Wintonick
Canada
A lecture by Adelaide Thinker in Residence, Peter Wintonick...More
2:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
Bullitt
Peter Yates
USA 1968
As a tough, shot-on-location action film, Bullitt remains as compelling today as it was in 1968...More
2:15 PM | Saturday 19 February
Innocence
Australian Premiere
Lucile Hadzihalilovic
France 2004
Innocence is the debut feature of Gaspar Noé (Irreversible) collaborator, Lucile Hadzihalilovic and is based on the Frank Wedekind novella Mine-Haha, or the Corporal Education of Young Girls...More
4:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
Azadi
Anthony Maras
Australia 2005
An Afghani family find that their struggle to escape from oppression and persecution in their homeland does not prevent further harsh and unjust treatment under the regime of incarceration and detention in a so-called liberal society...More
4:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
Fritz Gets Rich
Eddie White, James Calvert
Australia 2005
A production of the People's Republic of Animation, Fritz Gets Rich is a darkly comic animated fable warning of the dangers of spiralling entrepreneurial greed...More
4:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
Man Janson
Hugh Sullivan
Australia 2005
Man Janson doesn't know what he wants in life, but one thing is certain - he's not paying for it...More
4:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
Carcass
Amy Gebhardt
Australia 2003
In a capitalist world driven to nihilistic demise, latex clad loan sharks roam the streets for money and ecosystems have nowhere to grow but in the back seats of cars...More
4:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
Frames
Mat King
Australia 2004
Day after day Eva searches for a man named Frank...More
4:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
Moustache
Vicki Sugars
Australia 2004
Things are not always as they seem...More
4:45 PM | Saturday 19 February
Cremaster 1 + 2
Matthew Barney
USA 1995
CREMASTER 1 (1995) is a musical revue performed on the blue Astroturf playing field of Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho - Barney's hometown...More
5:15 PM | Saturday 19 February
Repatriation
(Songhwan)
Kim Dong-won
South Korea 2003
Of the thousands of spies sent between North and South Korea since their separation at the end of the Korean War in 1953, many of those captured in the South remained long term "unconverted" prisoners...More
6:30 PM | Saturday 19 February
Hell on Wheels
(Höllentour)
Australian Premiere
Pepe Danquart
Germany 2004
Le Tour de France, the toughest bicycle race of all, celebrated its 100th birthday in 2003...More
7:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
Duck Season
(Temporada de Patos)
Australian Premiere
Fernando Eimbcke
Mexico 2004
Every Sunday 14 year-old Flama's mother heads off to work and he spends all day hanging out in the 11th floor apartment with his best friend Moko...More
7:15 PM | Saturday 19 February
The Sleeping Child
(L'Enfant Endormi)
Australian Premiere
Yasmine Kassari
Belgium 2004
In contemporary Morocco, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding...More
8:45 PM | Saturday 19 February
Jewboy
World Premiere
Tony Krawitz
Australia 2005
After the death of his father, Yuri returns from Israel to the strict Chassidic community of Sydney...More
9:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Andrew Douglas
USA 2003
Courtesy of the BBC, we hit the road with American singer/ songwriter Jim White at the wheel of a beat-up Chevy, and embark on a meandering odyssey into the deep south of the USA...More
9:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
Kino Kabaret
Over eight intensive days, teams of roving filmmakers write/shoot/edit/screen short films every TWO days...More
9:15 PM | Saturday 19 February
Day and Night
(Ri ri ye ye)
Australian Premiere
Wang Chao
China 2004
This delicate study integrates a Sixth Generation critique of China's new industrial miracle with a calculated celebration of the beauty of a ruined world...More
11:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
A Tale of Two Sisters
(Janghwa, Hongryeon)
Kim Jee-woon
South Korea 2003
In the tradition of leading films such as Whispering Corridors and Memento Mori, Korean horror often centres on young women, suspicious that they might have within them the power to pull down the world...More
11:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
New Blood
(Re xie qing nian)
Cheang Pou-soi
Hong Kong 2002
The Asian horror movie has carried all before it recently, reinventing the genre in the most unsettling ways and providing a model for imitation by those dullards in Hollywood...More
11:00 PM | Saturday 19 February
High Tension
(Haute tension)
Alexandre Aja
France 2003
It's relentless, blood-pumping action for every minute of this horror-slasher film that is reminiscent of the '80s classic horrors...More