Calendar | Sunday 27 February 2005
10:00 AM | Sunday 27 February
Carol's Journey
(El Viaje de Carol)
Australian Premiere
Imanol Uribe
Spain 2002
Carol, a 12 year-old Spanish-American girl brought up in New York, travels to Spain, during the 1938 Civil War, with her sick mother...More
10:00 AM | Sunday 27 February
The Corridor
(Il Corridoio)
Vittorio Badini Confalonieri
Italy 2003
Nicola is a six year-old boy...More
10:30 AM | Sunday 27 February
Wild Soccer Bunch
(Die Wilden Kerle)
Australian Premiere
Joachim Masannek
Germany 2003
Devil's Pot is the "Wild Guys" training ground...More
10:45 AM | Sunday 27 February
Breath Control
Joey Garfield
USA 2002
A sold out hit of AFF 03, Breath Control charts the history of beatboxing – the art of making music with nothing other than the human voice – from the 1980s pioneers (Doug E...More
12:45 PM | Sunday 27 February
McLuhan's Wake
Australian Premiere
Kevin McMahon
Canada 2002
Fascinated by the impact of technology and media on our day-to-day lives and responsible for phrases like "the global village" and "the medium is the message", Marshall McLuhan spent a lifetime encouraging people to increase their awareness of what is so often take for granted...More
1:45 PM | Sunday 27 February
Daniel and the Superdogs
Australian Premiere
André Mélancon
Canada 2004
Eleven year-old Daniel often struggles with a feeling of abandonment...More
2:00 PM | Sunday 27 February
Cinematic Space: Sustainability, Transformation & Identity
Global modernity, accelerated urbanism, and information-mediated human existence raise questions concerning our relationship to our histories and our environments - and to ourselves...More
2:00 PM | Sunday 27 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
2:00 PM | Sunday 27 February
Peace One Day
Australian Premiere
Jeremy Gilley
UK 2004
Is the idea of lasting world peace one day an impossible dream? In war-torn 1998 one long-haired young Londoner, former sci-fi actor and filmmaker Jeremy Gilley, decided that it would be a step in the right direction to get national leaders to commit to a cessation of hostilities for one designated day each year at least...More
2:00 PM | Sunday 27 February
Moolaadé
Australian Premiere
Ousmane Sembene
Senegal 2004
Despite his 82 years, Ousmane Sembene remains the most impassioned voice of African cinema...More
2:45 PM | Sunday 27 February
The Wooden Camera
Ntshavheni Wa Luruli
UK 2003
South Africa shortly after the end of the apartheid...More
2:45 PM | Sunday 27 February
Butterflies
(Schmetterlinge)
Australian Premiere
Julia Schwarz
Germany 2003
Summer...More
2:45 PM | Sunday 27 February
Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi
(Ha'kochavim shel Shlomi)
Shemi Zarhin
Israel 2003
Shlomi takes care of everyone...More
2:45 PM | Sunday 27 February
Stealing Innocence
Nancy Stein
USA 2003
Two girls – one Israeli and one Palestinian - share a special friendship despite their cultural differences and the war raging around them...More
4:15 PM | Sunday 27 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
5:15 PM | Sunday 27 February
The Women
George Cukor
USA 1939
Not a man in sight, but the ladies obsess unabated and feed on gossip to devastating effect...More
5:30 PM | Sunday 27 February
Delamu
Australian Premiere
Tian Zhuangzhuang
China 2004
With films such as The Horse Thief, The Blue Kite and Springtime in a Small Town, Tian Zhuangzhuang established himself as a major filmmaker in the Fifth Generation...More
6:15 PM | Sunday 27 February
Tarnation
Australian Premiere
Jonathan Caouette
USA 2004
Talk of the town at Sundance 2004 for reportedly costing a mere US$187 to make, Tarnation is Jonathan Caouette's inspiring and intimately personal documentary self-portrait chronicling his chaotic upbringing in a dysfunctional Texas family, his coming out experience and the unexpected relationship that develops with his mentally-ill mother Renee...More
7:45 PM | Sunday 27 February
The Hidden History of Homosexual Australia
World Premiere
Con Anemogiannis
Australia 2004
This revelatory film dispels any myths that homosexuality is somehow a "new thing"...More
8:00 PM | Sunday 27 February
I Like Killing Flies
Australian Premiere
Matt Mahurin
USA 2004
With over 900 items on the menu, all conjured up in a Rube Goldberg kitchen the size of a walk-in closet, Kenny Shopsin, a self-taught chef in his tiny family-owned New York City restaurant, spends his days feeding his neighbours...More
8:30 PM | Sunday 27 February
The Syrian Bride
(Hacala hasurit)
Australian Premiere
Eran Riklis
France 2004
"The Syrian Bride is an emotional, authentic and often humorous drama defying all borders, whether physical or mental...More
9:45 PM | Sunday 27 February
Code 46
Australian Premiere
Michael Winterbottom
UK 2003
This chilling and beautifully imagined futuristic film takes the present to its logical conclusion...More
9:45 PM | Sunday 27 February
Mirrorball: Short Docs 05
A must for writers or anyone interested in the culture of Graffiti, Peter Gerard and Aaron Davis' amazing documentary on the element of hip-hop that preceded it all, Just to Get a Rep ...More
11:30 PM | Sunday 27 February
Mirrorball and Shynola Party
Join the boys from Mirrorball and Shynola as they play some of their favourite vinyl, at The Garage, 163 Waymouth Street , Sunday 27 February...More