Calendar | Thursday 24 February 2005
11:00 AM | Thursday 24 February
In The Compound: The Last Days of Yasser Arafat: A Work In Progress
Sherine Salama
Australia
In an extraordinary feat of timing, multi award-winning documentary filmmaker Sherine Salama (A Wedding In Ramallah) was in Yasser Arafat's Ramallah headquarters during the months leading up to his death...More
12:15 PM | Thursday 24 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
12:30 PM | Thursday 24 February
Heaven's Gate - Director's Cut
Michael Cimino
USA 1980
Much discussed but little seen, this is the most controversial film of the late twentieth century...More
12:45 PM | Thursday 24 February
Landmines - A Love Story
World Premiere
Dennis O'Rourke
Australia 2005
In the ruined city of Kabul, Shah, a former Mujaheddin soldier, noticed a pretty Tajik girl who had only one leg, and began to court her...More
2:30 PM | Thursday 24 February
Spider Forest
(Geomisoop)
Australian Premiere
Song Il-gon
South Korea 2004
After awakening in a dark, mysterious forest, TV producer Min finds the mutilated bodies of a woman and man in a cabin...More
3:00 PM | Thursday 24 February
Poverty of Abundance: A Work In Progress Screening
David Bradbury
Australia
Raul Castells is on a mission, even if it takes him to his death...More
5:00 PM | Thursday 24 February
A Decent Factory
Australian Premiere
Thomas Balmès
UK 2004
"Is it possible to simultaneously make a profit and conduct business ethically? Nokia, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, hires an 'ethical and environmental specialist' as it tackles the problem of sustainable enterprise within its company...More
5:15 PM | Thursday 24 February
One Nite in Mongkok
(Wong gok hak yau)
Derek Yee
Hong Kong 2004
Some trendy westerner called Jesus is having a birthday, but in Mongkok the cops are desperately trying to head off a war...More
5:30 PM | Thursday 24 February
Chain
Australian Premiere
Jem Cohen
USA 2004
Experimental filmmaker Jem Cohen blurs the lines between fact and fiction in this pointed observation of the homogenising effect global corporate strategies have on local lives, cultures and especially the built environment all over the world...More
6:00 PM | Thursday 24 February
J P McGowan
On 125th anniversary of the birth in Terowie, SA, of John Paterson McGowan, Hollywood's first Australian, there will be a launch of his biography, written by Adelaide producer John J...More
7:30 PM | Thursday 24 February
Brothers
(Brødre)
Australian Premiere
Susanne Bier
Denmark 2004
This second collaboration between director Susanne Bier and scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen (their first, Open Hearts, was a hit at AFF 03) is about people's lives being turned upside down by events outside their control...More
7:45 PM | Thursday 24 February
Father to Son
(Isä pojalle)
Australian Premiere
Visa Koiso-Kanttila
Finland 2004
Father to Son is a personal exploration of the relationship between fathers and sons through four generations of the filmmaker's family, and the conflict that inevitably arises when subjective memories differ from "reality"...More
8:30 PM | Thursday 24 February
Woman of Breakwater
(Babae sa Breakwater)
Australian Premiere
Mario O'Hara
Philippines 2003
A community of fringe dwellers tries to eke out a living along the length of the Manila Bay sea wall, a place awash with the deitrus of the city...More
9:30 PM | Thursday 24 February
10 on Ten
Abbas Kiarostami
Iran 2004
Distinguished Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami has generously decided to reveal his current ideas on the creative processes of his filmmaking by taking us on a road trip to Tehran and eloquently proffering wisdom from the wheel of his car (shot on his preferred mini DV camera)...More
9:45 PM | Thursday 24 February
Rhinoceros Eyes
Australian Premiere
Aaron Woodley
Canada 2004
When the movie-prop store that young and exquisitely androgenous Chep works in is to be sold, his world will change...More
11:00 PM | Thursday 24 February
Triumph of the Will
(Triumph des willens: Das Dokument vom Reichsparteitag 1934)
Leni Riefenstahl
Germany 1934
Triumph of the Will is undoubtedly one of the most debated films in the history of cinema...More