Calendar | Saturday 26 February 2005
10:45 AM | Saturday 26 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
10:45 AM | Saturday 26 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
10:45 AM | Saturday 26 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
10:45 AM | Saturday 26 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
10:45 AM | Saturday 26 February
Frames
Mat King
Australia 2004
Day after day Eva searches for a man named Frank...More
10:45 AM | Saturday 26 February
Moustache
Vicki Sugars
Australia 2004
Things are not always as they seem...More
11:45 AM | Saturday 26 February
Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder
USA 1959
Marilyn Monroe was never more ravishing than in this classic farce which manages to combine the St...More
12:00 PM | Saturday 26 February
Salvador Allende
Australian Premiere
Patricio Guzman
Chile 2003
September 11, 1973, is a deeply symbolic date for Chile...More
12:30 PM | Saturday 26 February
Pin the Tail on the Scapegoat – Australian Cinema Now
It's a never ending discussion...More
1:00 PM | Saturday 26 February
miniSeries - Open Workshop
Australia
Come and take the infamous 7min challenge! Give the-phone-book Ltd seven minutes of your time and leave with something you made, on your phone...More
1:45 PM | Saturday 26 February
miniSeries - Open Workshop
Australia
Come and take the infamous 7min challenge! Give the-phone-book Ltd seven minutes of your time and leave with something you made, on your phone...More
2:00 PM | Saturday 26 February
Whisky
Australian Premiere
Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll
Uruguay 2004
Jacobo's life is his gloomy little stocking factory in Uruguay where he spends time grumbling orders to his loyal assistant, Marta...More
2:00 PM | Saturday 26 February
Control
(Kontrol)
Australian Premiere
Nimród Antal
Hungary 2003
Deep below the cobbled streets of Budapest two rival groups of ticket inspectors rule the metro system and its passengers whilst trying to track down an anonymous killer...More
2:00 PM | Saturday 26 February
Haunting Douglas
Leanne Pooley
New Zealand 2004
Of the multiple hauntings in Leanne Pooley's film, the most fascinating is New Zealand born choreographer and dancer Douglas Wright's cruel possession of his own body...More
2:15 PM | Saturday 26 February
Incident at Loch Ness
Australian Premiere
Zak Penn
USA 2003
Incident at Loch Ness chronicles two films in one...More
2:30 PM | Saturday 26 February
Escobar's Own Goal
Australian Premiere
Michael Hewitt
UK 1998
Ten days after scoring an own goal against the USA in the 1994 World Cup finals, Columbian footballer Andres Escobar was brutally murdered outside a nightclub in his hometown of Medellin...More
2:30 PM | Saturday 26 February
Maradona: Kicking the Habit
Michael Hewitt
UK 2000
Maradona is possibly the greatest footballer of all time and a sporting icon to millions of worshipping fans...More
2:30 PM | Saturday 26 February
miniSeries - Open Workshop
Australia
Come and take the infamous 7min challenge! Give the-phone-book Ltd seven minutes of your time and leave with something you made, on your phone...More
3:30 PM | Saturday 26 February
miniSeries - Open Workshop
Australia
Come and take the infamous 7min challenge! Give the-phone-book Ltd seven minutes of your time and leave with something you made, on your phone...More
4:00 PM | Saturday 26 February
The World
(Shijie)
Australian Premiere
Jia Zhangke
China 2004
The dazzling new film from acclaimed director Jia Zhangke focuses on a young dancer, her security-guard boyfriend and others who work at World Park, a bizarre theme park where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the Beijing suburbs...More
4:00 PM | Saturday 26 February
Beyond Sorry
Australian Premiere
David Vadiveloo
Australia 2003
This moving documentary reveals the complex pressures that come to bear when an urban Aboriginal woman named Zita tries to return to the family she was taken from as a child 56 years earlier...More
4:15 PM | Saturday 26 February
miniSeries - Open Workshop
Australia
Come and take the infamous 7min challenge! Give the-phone-book Ltd seven minutes of your time and leave with something you made, on your phone...More
4:45 PM | Saturday 26 February
B-Happy
Australian Premiere
Gonzalo Justiniano
Chile 2003
Set in a Chilean coastal town, teenager Kathy (Machuca's Manuela Marteli), who lives with her mother and brother, opens the film chanting "I'm not afraid of anything", which becomes her mantra throughout the film...More
5:00 PM | Saturday 26 February
miniSeries - Open Workshop
Australia
Come and take the infamous 7min challenge! Give the-phone-book Ltd seven minutes of your time and leave with something you made, on your phone...More
5:45 PM | Saturday 26 February
miniSeries - Open Workshop
Australia
Come and take the infamous 7min challenge! Give the-phone-book Ltd seven minutes of your time and leave with something you made, on your phone...More
6:30 PM | Saturday 26 February
Shynola – Live and On Screen
UK
Shynola specialise in creating animated music videos divorced from the usual MTV sheen of fade-out edits and slow-motion slop...More
7:00 PM | Saturday 26 February
Enduring Love
Australian Premiere
Roger Michell
UK 2003
Based on the acclaimed novel by Ian McEwan, Enduring Love is a psychological suspense thriller about how fate shapes our relationships, how accidents can change our lives and how meaning is unravelled from sheer chaos...More
7:15 PM | Saturday 26 February
Ong Bak
Prachya Pinkaew
Thailand 2003
There is nothing more satisfying than watching Tony Jaa (Jaa Phanom) apply a justly dished out flying elbow to the evil thugs in the hit Thai film Ong Bak...More
8:00 PM | Saturday 26 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
8:45 PM | Saturday 26 February
The Take
Australian Premiere
Avi Lewis
Canada 2004
In the wake of Argentina's spectacular economic collapse in 2001, a group of unemployed auto-parts workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave: all they want is to re-start their silent machines...More
9:15 PM | Saturday 26 February
Peaches
Australian Premiere
Craig Monahan
Australia 2003
Set in two time frames in South Australia's Riverland, Peaches tells the story of Stephanie (Emma Lung)...More
9:30 PM | Saturday 26 February
DIG!
Ondi Timoner
USA 2004
Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor narrates this riveting rockumentary following his own band's rise to stardom and the parallel journey taken through drugs and self-destructive behaviour by self-proclaimed rivals (and sometimes friends) The Brian Jonestown Massacre and their eccentric prophet-like egomaniacal leader Anton Newcombe...More
11:00 PM | Saturday 26 February
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Peter Wintonick, Mark Achbar
Canada 1992
Noam Chomsky, teacher, linguist, political analyst and intellectual warrior, is responsible for some of the most provocative works of political and cultural commentary of the last fifty years...More