Calendar | Tuesday 22 February 2005
11:00 AM | Tuesday 22 February
The Art of TV – The Forum
Dennis Potter was an aberration – a ground breaking writer/auteur who worked exclusively in television and created his own art form at a time when the BBC would not only take risks but, as with theatre, placed the writer at the centre of the creative process...More
12:30 PM | Tuesday 22 February
Piccadilly
E.A. Dupont
UK 1929
Although she first appeared on screen in 1919, we might only now be ready for Anna May Wong...More
12:30 PM | Tuesday 22 February
Final Solution
Australian Premiere
Rakesh Sharma
India 2003
This rigorous and at times distressing documentary is a study in both the politics of hate and the sort of terrorism that doesn't get enough attention in Western media...More
12:45 PM | Tuesday 22 February
The Last Train
(Posledniy Poezd)
Australian Premiere
Aleksei German Jr.
Russia 2003
Aleksei German, the 26 year-old son of the distinguished Russian filmmaker Aleksai German, turns to his own family history for inspiration in his debut feature...More
2:45 PM | Tuesday 22 February
Checkpoint
(Machssomim)
Australian Premiere
Yoav Shamir
Israel 2003
The West Bank and Gaza Strip, home to over three million Palestinians, have been under Israeli military authority since 1967...More
3:00 PM | Tuesday 22 February
Midwinter Night's Dream
Australian Premiere
Goran Paskaljevic
Serbia and Montenegro 2004
This is a gentle fable about love, hope and acceptance in a world that has gone mad...More
3:30 PM | Tuesday 22 February
The Ladies'
Australian Premiere
Mahnaz Afzali
Iran 2003
Directed by the acclaimed Iranian actress Mahnaz Afzali and filmed entirely inside a ladies' washroom in a public park in Tehran, this absorbing documentary shatters Western preconceptions of Iranian women...More
3:30 PM | Tuesday 22 February
Maybe God Himself is Old Too
Katarzyna Sliwinska
Poland 2004
In a magical village near the Polish border, the youngest citizen is 68 years-old...More
5:00 PM | Tuesday 22 February
Cremaster 4 + 5
Matthew Barney
USA 1994
CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model...More
5:15 PM | Tuesday 22 February
Shape of the Moon
(Stand van de maan)
Australian Premiere
Leonard Retel Helmrich
Netherlands 2004
In this follow up to The Eye of the Day (AFF 03), Leonard Retel Helmrich again visits Indonesia through three generations in one family...More
5:30 PM | Tuesday 22 February
For A Place Under the Heavens
Australian Premiere
Sabiha Sumar
France 2003
From Sabiha Sumar (Silent Waters), comes an insightful documentary perspective on Pakistan - tracing the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and how women raised in a more secular era are coping with increasing religiosity of life in their country...More
5:30 PM | Tuesday 22 February
My Land Zion
Australian Premiere
Yulie Cohen Gerstel
Israel 2004
My Land Zion is a courageous personal essay in which the filmmaker, a sixth generation Israeli and director of the controversial My Terrorist, questions her own decision to raise her family in war-torn Israel, while challenging the myths of Zionism...More
7:00 PM | Tuesday 22 February
The White Diamond
Australian Premiere
Werner Herzog
Germany 2004
In 1992, legendary nature documentary filmmaker Dieter Plage was tragically killed when he fell from the prototype airship made by his friend, the British scientist Dr Graham Dorrington, while attempting to film wildlife in the canopy of the Amazon...More
7:15 PM | Tuesday 22 February
Aaltra
Australian Premiere
Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
Belgium 2004
This politically incorrect comedy follows the misadventures of two wheelchair–bound warring neighbours...More
7:45 PM | Tuesday 22 February
knot at home :Stories of Dreams (Episode 4)
BIG HART
Australia 2004
Young people who often go unheard tell their stories...More
7:45 PM | Tuesday 22 February
OK, Let's Talk About Me!
World Premiere
Sophie Hyde
Australia 2005
Meet Eddie...More
9:00 PM | Tuesday 22 February
I told you I was ill: Spike milligan
Cathy Henkel
Australia 2005
Funded by the AFFIF, I told you I was ill: Spike Milligan is an intimate and deeply personal portrait of Spike Milligan through the eyes of his brother Desmond, his daughters Jane, Sile and Laura, and his third wife Shelagh...More
9:15 PM | Tuesday 22 February
The Green Hat
(Lu mao tze)
Australian Premiere
Liu Fendou
China 2003
After scripting international successes such as Spicy Love Soup and Shower, Liu Fendou's assured debut feature is a bold narrative experiment dealing with the infinite variety of male sexual anxiety in contemporary China...More
