Adelaide Film Festival 2005 | A Biennial Film Festival held in Adelaide, Australia | Calendar | Thursday 3 March

Calendar | Thursday 3 March 2005

12:00 PM | Thursday 3 March

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Look Both Ways

World Premiere

Sarah Watt
Australia 2005

Look Both Ways, a mix of animation and live action, is set over a hot weekend...More

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12:00 PM | Thursday 3 March

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Calling Hedy Lamarr

Australian Premiere

Georg Misch
Austria 2004

In Calling Hedy Lamarr, director Georg Misch is interested in how truth and myth intertwine...More

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12:30 PM | Thursday 3 March

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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

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1:30 PM | Thursday 3 March

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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

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1:30 PM | Thursday 3 March

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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

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2:00 PM | Thursday 3 March

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Los Angeles Plays Itself

Thom Andersen
USA 2003

An essay on how the movies have depicted Los Angeles a "city symphony in reverse" - a symphony with many directions and speeds...More

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3:00 PM | Thursday 3 March

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Aaltra

Australian Premiere

Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
Belgium 2004

This politically incorrect comedy follows the misadventures of two wheelchair–bound warring neighbours...More

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3:30 PM | Thursday 3 March

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Primer

Australian Premiere

Shane Carruth
USA 2004

Behind a garage door, four competitive young entrepreneurial tech-wiz guys in white shirts and ties spend their every spare minute working on the "box"...More

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5:00 PM | Thursday 3 March

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Shouf Shouf Habibi!

Albert ter Heerdt
Netherlands 2004

High-spirited Abdullah is a 20 year-old Arab Muslim living in Holland with his Moroccan parents...More

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5:30 PM | Thursday 3 March

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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

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6:00 PM | Thursday 3 March

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Mirrorball: McLaren 05


 

The newest in animated music videos and promos...More

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8:00 PM | Thursday 3 March

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2046

Australian Premiere

Wong Kar-wai
Hong Kong/China/France/Germany 2004

2046 is our Closing Night feature and will be followed by drinks at the home of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Hindley St, to toast the end of the 2005 Adelaide Fiml Festival...More

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