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FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY TO SUNDAY 15 MARCH
#borderlines2020
@borderlines
borderlinesfilmfestival.org
VENUES ACROSS HEREFORDSHIRE,
SHROPSHIRE, MALVERN AND
THE MARCHES
2 PROGRAMMER’S PICKS Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2020 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org 3
FILM PROGRAMMER JONNY COURTNEY PUTS
A DOZEN FILMS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
AND THEN WE DANCED p18 BAIT p20 THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI p25 FOR SAMA p34
Spirited and sensitive, Georgian dancer Merab Shot and hand-developed on 16mm film, The first true horror film and the pinnacle “such a towering achievement…one of the
breaks loose from tradition-locked Tbilisi to this British indie smash hit pits a traditional of German Expressionist cinema, this has most profoundly intimate depictions of the
pursue his own desires and ambitions. Cornish fisherman against the ravages influenced filmmakers for decades to come. Syrian war ever put to film.”
of commercialism. With live accompaniment by Stephen Horne. The Independent
THE LIGHTHOUSE p42 LITTLE WOMEN p43 LOVES OF A BLONDE p45 PARASITE p53
Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as two Greta Gerwig rejuvenates Louisa May Alcott’s A stingingly funny black and white romance Winner of the 2019 Palme d’Or, this
19th century lighthouse keepers driven to cherished novel about the March sisters in of the ’60s Czech New Wave that remains superlative black comedy thriller from
unquiet madness by isolation, cabin fever this warm, lively adaptation. startlingly youthful and fresh. Korea wickedly subverts the dynamics
and each other. of ‘upstairs downstairs’.
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE p57 SAINT MAUD p60 SO LONG MY SON p61 SYSTEM CRASHER p64
Céline Sciamma delivers an out-of-the- A mysterious nurse becomes dangerously This epic family drama brings to living, An amazingly raw performance by Helena
ordinary period piece, a stunning, subtle obsessed with saving the soul of her dying breathing life the impact of the one-child Zengel as a small, raging 9-year-old whom
cameo of female intimacy and attraction. patient in this gothic psychological thriller, policy and the Cultural Revolution on the system cannot control. Unforgettable.
full of twists. Chinese society.
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directors. With so much on
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offer, there’s even more for
audiences in Herefordshire,
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FESTIVAL TEAM: BOARD MEMBERS: FESTIVAL PATRONS:
us to deliver the Festival and we ask at the appropriate venue.
you to support them where you can. All listings correct at time of going to print, but may
Naomi Vera-Sanso (Festival Director) John Banks, Mo Burns, Chris Menges, Francine Stock
Jonny Courtney (Film Programmer) Anne Cottringer, Rick Goldsmith, be subject to change.
David Sin (Film Programmer) Richard Heatly (Chair), A big thank you to the volunteer Enjoy the Festival and don’t
promoters and stewards working Please note that some titles had not been
Jo Comino (Marketing Manager/Press) Joanna Henshaw, Jane Jackson,
with our partner venues for their
miss our Opening Gala! certificated at time of going to press. Discretionary
Alison Chapman (Press Assistant) Rachel Lambert, Paul Murray,
invaluable contribution. certificates have been put in place.
Carole-Anna Quinto Marsha O’Mahony, Adrian Rhead,
(Festival Co-ordinator) Simon Scott
Naomi Vera-Sanso
Suzy Burston (Festival Assistant) Festival Director
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For Sama Loves of a Blonde
F-RATING: MILOS̆ FORMAN
CHAMPIONING
WOMEN IN FILM Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Milos̆ Forman, who died in 2018, had a
remarkable 45-year career in cinema, first in his
With controversy raging over the lack of native Czechoslovakia where his early features
The Judge diversity in this year’s BAFTA nominations, CÉLINE SCIAMMA (Loves of a Blonde, The Firemen’s Ball) helped
jump-start the fabled Czech New Wave in the
Borderlines continues to use the F-Rated badge
French director and screenwriter Céline mid-1960s. Driven into exile in the US in 1967,
WOMEN IN that highlights films directed or written by
women. The 2020 programme features the output Sciamma’s fourth film Portrait of a Lady on he achieved huge international, commercial and
CONFLICT ZONES of award-worthy female writer-directors: Céline Fire is released in February and is the core critical success with runaway hits like One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus. His work
Sciamma (see opposite), Greta Gerwig (Little for a retrospective of this talented feminist
The past year has been remarkable for the Women) and Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir). We filmmaker. Portrait-painting provides a key is characterised by energy and passion, a strong
number of documentaries set in the conflict are also proud to present new films by women to ‘knowing’ a subject, a knowledge that gives anti-authoritarian impetus, an uncanny ability
zones of the Middle East, notably Syria and directors from non-English speaking countries rise to love, and then the memory of that love. to identify iconic, contemporary trends, and,
Palestine, that are either made by women such as Waad Al-Kateab (For Sama), Mounia Sciamma’s earlier feature film trilogy shows a above all, plenty of black humour. He was also a
filmmakers or have women as their primary Meddour (Papicha), Haifaa Al-Mansour (The fascination with female identity and sexual great collaborator, developing a distinctive style
subjects. In both cases, they demonstrate Perfect Candidate), Nora Fingscheidt (System fluidity during adolescence: the sequel to alongside longtime cinematographer, Miroslav
extraordinary courage in the face of adversity Crasher) and Alice Winocour (Proxima). her 2007 debut Water Lilies, Tomboy (2011) Ondrícek, and the seamless performances from
that we can barely imagine: whether it be the follows a 10-year-old transgender child through professionals and non-actors working together
horror of living under constant bombardment in The F-Rating scheme, adopted by an increasing in his early films testify to his directing skills.
a summer of self-discovery; Girlhood (2014)
a war zone, not knowing whether you or your number of cinemas and film festivals, is
designed to support and promote women and was workshopped (like Sarah Gavron’s Rocks) Peter Hames, critic, historian, programmer,
loved ones will survive the day (For Sama); redress the imbalance in the film industry. with a group of girls in the projects of Paris. expert in Czech and Eastern European
facing the uncertainty and hardship of life on cinema, will introduce the retrospective
The F-Rating is awarded to films In between directing her own films, Sciamma is at the screening of Loves of a Blonde.
the road as a refugee (Midnight Traveller), or
1. directed by a woman a talented screenwriter, winning the César Award
standing up against the grain of centuries of 2. and/or written by a woman
oppression (The Judge), (The Perfect Candidate). for Best Writing for her adaptation of Gilles Paris’ “Forman was a fascinating and triumphant
If the film also features significant women 2002 novel My Life as a Courgette, screening 20th century artist — his career was a
For Sama on screen it is TRIPLE F-Rated as part of the B2 Film Festival (p.12-13). carnival subversion of tyrannies.” Obituary,
The Judge Look out for the F-Rating stamp Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Midnight Traveller in the A-Z film listings Tomboy (2011)
Girlhood (2014) Loves of a Blonde (1965)
The Perfect Candidate
My Life as a Courgette (2016) screenplay The Firemen’s Ball (1967)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Amadeus (1984)
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OPENING GALA
Our Opening Gala offers an exclusive opportunity
to preview Blackbird, the new film by one
of Britain’s most accomplished directors
Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Enduring Love,
The Deathless Woman Le Weekend) who we hope will be with us for
the screening. Premiered at the London Film
ROMANI CINEMA Festival it has an all-star cast including Susan
Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska and
Continuing our commitment to Gypsy, Roma Sam Neill. Join us for a reception before the
and Traveller cinema, we present two very show to get the Festival off to a flying start.
Long Day’s Journey into Night contrasting screenings this year. The Deathless
Friday 28 February
Woman, directed by Roz Mortimer, is a captivating
Aquarela The Courtyard Hereford 8.00pm
CHINA
and poetic experimental feature, as a woman
Gala reception in the Foyer 7.30pm
explores the hidden history of the WW2 Roma
Ticket price £10.00
Wonderful films have been coming out of
genocide and its contemporary resurgence. And
GRT on Film, brought to us by Midlands Romani
THE SEA
Chinese cinema in recent years, witness the
filmmakers, Charles Newland and Lisa Smith, is a Our programme includes three stylistically
huge critical acclaim for recent releases: epic
unique glimpse into the world of young Gypsies awe-inspiring movies that demonstrate the
melodrama So Long, My Son and the trance-
and Travellers in England today, as they explore elemental power of the sea. The Lighthouse,
like technical wizardry of Bi Gan’s Long Day’s
their own history and grapple with the legacy of a film that is a force of nature in itself, was shot
Journey into Night. These films go onto very
widespread social exclusion that still persists. on black-and-white 35mm film using a tight,
limited theatrical release so it is a privilege to
be able to include them in the Borderlines 2020 boxy aspect ratio that replicates 19th century
The Deathless Woman
programme, alongside a preview of Tibetan photography. Atmospheric sound design (eerie
GRT on Film
auteur Psema Tseden’s dazzling Balloon. foghorns and piercing gulls) from Damian
Documentary One Child Nation picks up the Volpe heightens mythological associations with
SUPPER AND FILM AT
theme of the one-child policy, embedded in
the narrative of So Long, My Son, and gives
FESTIVAL GUESTS the sea. British film Bait, set on the Cornish
coast, was also shot on film, 16mm home- ALL SAINTS CHURCH
historical context from the very personal Our line-up of guests this year includes directors processed by filmmaker Mark Jenkin, grain,
Enjoy a pre-screening one course supper
perspective of filmmaker Nanfu Wang. And Roger Michell (Blackbird), Ehsan Khoshbakht scratches and blemishes giving it a hand-
featuring the best Herefordshire produce at Bill
there’s a different insight from the US too in (Filmfarsi), Roz Mortimer (The Deathless crafted, authentic feel. By contrast Aquarela,
Sewell’s renowned All Saints Café in Hereford,
Lulu Wang’s tragi-comic Chinese-language family Woman); Charles Newland & Lisa Smith Victor Kossakovsky’s deeply cinematic climate
with full bar and delicious desserts available.
drama The Farewell, featuring an outstanding (GRT on Film), composer Jered Sorkin (The change documentary features footage captured
performance by the rising comic star Awkwafina. Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain); at a rare 96 frames-per-second that reveals the Supper (meat and vegetarian options) £12.00
silent film accompanist Stephen Horne (The transformative beauty and raw power of water. and public bar 6.30pm, Film £7.00 7.30pm
So Long, My Son Golem, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari); Peter
Long Day’s Journey into Night Aquarela Saturday 14 March Black Narcissus
Hames, expert in Czech and Eastern European
Balloon Bait
cinema (Milos̆ Forman retrospective, Loves of
One Child Nation The Lighthouse
a Blonde). Details in A-Z films and Diary.
The Farewell
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INVISIBLE ARTS NETWORK presents
VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY
In 2016, as an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation,
Rural Media established the Invisible Arts Network (IAN), a collective
of inspiring artists, arts organisations and technologists with the aim
of stimulating Digital Arts in the Marches. Supporting talent from the
region, Rural Media has commissioned network members through
residencies and bursaries to produce new technology-based artwork.
Herefordshire Life
Through A Lens:
The PHOTOS
February–April 2020
City Art Gallery & Museum:
Following on from the runaway success of Catcher
Feb 8 – March 21 2020 Tues–Thurs 10am–4pm,
Media films Stories from the Hop Yards and
Sat 10am–12.30pm / Original prints + screenings
Carousel, which premiered to sold-out audiences
at Borderlines Film Festival 2018 and 2019, Hereford Cathedral: ACTUALITY: MIXING UP REALITY AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
the Herefordshire Life Through A Lens project Feb 8 – March 5 9.15am until Evensong 6 to 8 March at the Courtyard Hereford
now culminates in a multi-venue exhibition of Premiering at Borderlines, this state-of-the-art
Religious life
photographs from the Derek Evans Studio archive work by artist Emma Posey draws on Augmented Young Herefordshire artists Maddie McVeigh, Belle
1940-70s. You may have seen the images portrayed Hereford College of Arts, College Road campus: Reality (AR) technology to produce a virtual film Batkin and Ollie Lansdell present their 360 VR
in these films or loved them in the local press and Feb 10 – March 19 Mon-Fri 10am–4pm installation that layers digital creations on a real exploration of the river Wye. The piece includes 360
social media: now enjoy a rare chance to get up Childhood + Symposium Feb 20th environment. Participants use an app downloaded drone footage that descends into the river itself
close and personal with this visual treasure trove onto their own mobile phone to ‘discover’ a virtual to provide a hypnotic glimpse of a part of ‘unseen’
of Herefordshire life. The Buttermarket: drive-in sized cinema screen in Hereford City Herefordshire, the bubbling, broiling energy of the
Feb 18 – 20 Tues–Thurs 10am–4pm Centre, then watch a looped film ‘projected’ within Wye itself.
Includes: Derek’s original exhibition prints and his Pop-up dark room the real city centre backdrop.
cameras, contemporary images, talks and a pop-up Borderlines audiences can try out the experience
dark room, where you can develop your own print. Herefordshire Archive & Records Centre: Actuality challenges a time-old convention – the in three ways: 1) Casual exploration using an
Feb 20 – April 17 Mon – Fri & 2nd Sat ‘fourth wall’ - an invisible barrier that separates iPad connected to a monitor; 2) Using their own
“Derek was clearly passionate of the month 9am–5pm / Press cuttings & prints an audience from a film’s action. In breaking that phone placed into a Google Cardboard “mask” for
‘wall’, it questions how we process what is real a vivid VR viewing; 3) Putting on the state-of-
about Hereford and the region. His The Courtyard Centre for the Arts: in a digitally saturated world. the-art Oculus Quest VR headset for an immersive,
image repertoire was affectionate, Feb 20 – March 22 Mon-Sat 10am–8pm transformative journey along and through the Wye.
Archive & contemporary images How to engage with Actuality
humanist, liberal and well crafted.” More info
Libraries:
Based in Hereford, Derek Evans worked for national Ledbury & Ross-on-Wye March 25 – April 6,
press and TV in the heyday of news photography Kington & Leominster April 9–18
working for The Times, Telegraph and National
Geographic among others. His work ranged from herefordshirelifethroughalens.org.uk
the everyday coverage of football matches and fetes Read more about current IAN showcase
for local papers, to exhibiting his award-winning work GIF by Antoine Mouquod and Ian
prints across Europe. Abbott and Embody by Jaime Jackson
and Mairead McVeigh
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B2 at Shrewsbury at THE HIVE B2 at Hereford at THE LOFT
Monday 2 March, The Hive, 5 Belmont, Shrewsbury SY1 1TE Saturday 7 March, The Loft Cinema, 18a West St, Hereford HR4 0BX
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LIVE CINEMA GIG Curated by the
Is there a single Christopher Nolan’s Cultural Co-
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MY LIFE AS A international award Love Music? Love
current pop culture remains, over a Alive (Henry Barnett,
winning animators Dr Film? Try something
COURGETTE (PG) Samantha Moore and new with an evening more than Shia decade on, one of Polly Beck, Jo Davis
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this award-winning and live action/ filmmakers. tasked with digging struggling on the
stop-motion film animation hybrid holes in the desert fringes of society
heartwarming drama Facing It (Sam An informal evening
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poignance. Empathy Gainsborough). reason. His most is more than one way
and comedy abound, My short film and
mash-up screenings, recent, The Peanut to approach playing
Life as a Courgette With additional
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PREVIEWS P PROGRAMMER JONNY COURTNEY
ROUNDS UP THE 2020 FESTIVAL
Be the first to discover the latest cinematic gems by
coming to see these titles showing at Borderlines
prior to their UK release. We thank the distributors The opening scene Blackbird, starring Kate Winslet, Sam Neil, Susan
of Bong Joon-Ho’s Sarandon and Mia Wasikovska; plus several
and our programmers at the Independent Cinema superb feature debuts from emerging British
remarkable Palme
Office for enabling us to screen these films. filmmakers, including Rose Glass (Saint Maud),
d’Or winner, Parasite,
sees the camera drop Nick Rowland (Calm with Horses), Roz Mortimer
(The Deathless Woman) and Mark Jenkin (Bait),
down from street level
whilst established filmmaker Sarah Gavron
to reveal a family in follows the success of Suffragette with her
their cramped apartment, confined by BFI London Film Festival standout Rocks.
their social standing to a world below the
AND THEN WE DANCED BACURAU BLACKBIRD CALM WITH HORSES surface. Their elaborate plan to escape Women in conflict zones is a theme that runs
their life is a theme that runs through across several films, including the brilliant,
a number of films in this year’s festival harrowing Aleppo-based documentary For
and presents itself in so many ways. Sama; the thrilling refugee documentary
Midnight Traveller, (a portrait of a migrant
Little Women, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, family fleeing Afghanistan) and The Judge,
And Then We Danced, Papicha, The Personal which follows the first female Shari’a judge
THE CORDILLERA OF DREAMS THE COUNTY CUNNINGHAM THE DEATHLESS WOMAN
History of David Copperfield, Run and Calm in the Middle East. These are important,
with Horses all deal with young characters urgent films, giving us glimpses into lives
who long to break free from the restrictions and stories we seldom see on screen.
of society and truly express themselves.
As always, we like to look back and celebrate
It’s an exciting time for Chinese cinema at the work of great filmmakers, and this year we
the moment, with many Sixth Generation are highlighting a pioneer of the Czech New
EMA FILMFARSI FIRE WILL COME THE GOLD-LADEN SHEEP & THE
SACRED MOUNTAIN directors making independent films Wave in Milos̆ Forman, from the classic Loves
reflecting on the social and cultural of a Blonde though to the multi award-winning
complexity of the past decades, whilst Amadeus. We also offer the rare chance to see
showcasing their numerous talents. some of Céline Sciamma’s early films, Tomboy
and Girlhood, following the critical acclaim of
Three of the films in this strand explore the her magnificent Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
far-reaching effects of the country’s ‘one-child’
HOPE GAP IT MUST BE HEAVEN PAPICHA THE PERFECT CANDIDATE
population-planning programme introduced in With our commitment to the F-rating, world
the 1980s. Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Long, My Son cinema, festival winners, award nominees and
chronicles the lives of two families adjusting local filmmakers, we have tried to create a
to the vast social and economic changes programme with a true diversity of voices and
taking place in China over three decades; views, speaking to the Borderlines regions
acclaimed documentary One Child Nation as well as to the wider world and offering
PROXIMA RADIOACTIVE ROCKS RUN
follows a new mother uncovering the untold a multitude of perspectives and stories.
history of the one-child policy; while Balloon
is a more humorous but equally poignant Jonny Courtney
tale following a shepherd family in Tibet Senior Film Programmer
caught between tradition and modernity.
Independent Cinema Office
Closer to home, we feature a number of
SAINT MAUD SYSTEM CRASHER THE TRUTH THE WHISTLERS British previews including our opening Gala
screening of Roger Michell’s ensemble drama
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SUSTAINABILITY
The staff and Board of Trustees travelling on foot or by cycle. The Festival runs
have decided that, for the launch a virtual office with staff working from home.
of the 2020 Borderlines Film • Use environmentally-friendly materials –
Festival, we will join the CULTURE • our brochures are printed on PEFC certified
DECLARES EMERGENCY campaign paper (Norcote Walsum). Our designers Elfen
(culturedeclares.org) alongside other hold a PEFC chain of custody certification
arts and cultural organisations. and operate an environmental management
system certified to ISO 14001 standards.
WHY? • our flyers are printed on FSC stock, paper
Leading climate scientists warned in October 2018
sourced from sustainably managed forests, 2040 (PG)
using vegetable based (linseed) inks. Director: Damon Gameau
that we have as little as 12 years to make the Australia, 2019, 1 hour 32 minutes
necessary changes to avoid the worst impacts of • Recycle wherever possible – our brochures are
climate change: extreme heat, drought, floods delivered in the boxes we reuse for voting.
and their impact on poverty and well-being.
Friday 6 March 7.30pm
It is an emergency that requires an urgent WHAT YOU CAN DO Bromyard Conquest Theatre
response from everyone at all levels of our Saturday 14 March 7.30pm
society as we face the combined catastrophes • Lift-share or use public transport Leominster Playhouse Cinema* subtitles
of climate change, mass extinction of vital (where available), walk or cycle AMADEUS (Director’s Cut) (PG)
biodiversity, and the degradation of ecosystems. to attend Festival events What would the future look Director: Miloš Forman
• Bring recyclable cups to venues like by the year 2040 if we Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow
USA/France/Czechoslovakia/Italy, 1984, 3 hours
WHY CULTURE? simply embraced the best
solutions already available
Culture brings people together, providing space Thursday 5 March 1.00pm
to us? We could improve
to talk, discuss and articulate complex subjects. The Courtyard Hereford
our planet by shifting these
Culture can renew and transform; ideas into the mainstream. From a script by Peter Schaffer, Forman’s grand gesture
disrupting the status quo. Composing a letter to his 4-year- of a movie chronicles the peaks and troughs of the life
Plant here... ...Protect there old daughter, award-winning
Culture builds the capacity for action. of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by his rival Antonio
director Gameau combines Salieri. A fellow composer, Salieri was insanely jealous of
Culture provides the opportunity Sponsor a tree this winter. traditional documentary footage Mozart’s upstart talent – the recognition of which tormented
to inform and learn.
This winter, the Size of Herefordshire Rainforest Project is with dramatised sequences him – and claimed to have murdered him. The film swept
planting a 2.5-acre woodland in Herefordshire.
and high-end visual effects the board at the Oscars and was phenomenally popular,
WHAT WE PLEDGE TO DO For just £20 you can sponsor a tree. Your money will be used to to create a vision board for
plant and maintain the tree and protect 30 hectares of probably because Forman (who had previously directed Hair)
• Screen films that promote awareness of the rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon. her and the future. It is an portrays him not as a revered classical composer but as a wild,
climate change emergency and provoke upbeat, can-do approach, scatological proto-hippy or rock star, thumbing his nose at
All sponsors will receive a limited edition, named certificate
discussion around these subjects. In the 2020 designed by a local artist. with a mission to convince convention. The film is a feast of extravagance: wigs, costumes,
programme, there’s 2040, Aquarela, Dark Visit the website or contact Sue Bugler for
people that they can make a palaces, champagne and consumption, and is huge fun.
Waters, Honeyland and Weathering With You. more information: suebugler@gmail.com www.sizeofherefordshire.org
difference to climate change.
• Invite partner organisations, other arts and Magnify your impact. For each £20 donation... “Amadeus skewers the period finery – stunning costumes,
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culture practitioners attending the Festival £5 pays for production design, sublime music – with piercing
planting &
to register Culture Declares Emergency. maintaining your intelligence and thematic gravitas.” Empire
tree here in
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Winner of 8 Oscars including Best Picture,
£15 helps protect
car journeys that are necessary, encouraging 30 hectares of Best Director, Best Actor, 1985
rainforest in
lift-sharing, using public transport and Peru. Each tree planted in Herefordshire
protects over 15,000 in Peru.
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ANIMALS (15) BACURAU (18)
Director: Sophie Hyde Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho,
Starring: Holliday Grainger, Juliano Dornelles
Alia Shawkat, Fra Fee, Dermot Murphy Starring: Bárbara Colen, Sônia Braga,
Australia/Ireland/UK, 2019, Udo Kier, Thomás Aquino
1 hour 49 minutes Brazil/France, 2019, 2 hours 10 minutes
Friday 28 February 8.00pm Friday 6 March 7.45pm
Presteigne Screen The Courtyard Hereford
Saturday 14 March 7.30pm
subtitles Tarrington, Lady Emily Hall* This crazy, inventive, witty
AND THEN WE DANCED (15) Brazilian science fiction/
Two young women share a
Director: Levan Akin Western hybrid is unlike
Starring: Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili, Ana Javakishvili flat in Dublin and live to
Sweden/Georgia/France, 2019, 1 hour 46 minutes anything you will have seen.
party in this vibrant and
Teresa travels home for the
unconventional study of subtitles
funeral of her grandmother
Sunday 1 March 7.30, Monday 2 2.00pm The Courtyard Hereford female friendship. Based on AQUARELA (12A) in Bacurau, a fictional village
Wednesday 4 March 7.30pm Malvern Theatres Emma Jane Unsworth’s 2014 Director: Victor Kossakovsky
UK/Germany/Denmark/US, 2019, 1 hour 29 minutes in the sertão (North Brazilian
novel, Laura, an aspiring but
A teenager in a traditional Georgian dance troupe discovers his outback) that celebrates its
blocked writer and her anarchic
own identity within a deeply conservative society. The National misfit inhabitants. But on her
best friend Tyler have a close
Georgian Ensemble upholds a form of dance whose punishing and Friday 28 February 11.15am, Sunday 1 March 3.00pm arrival, she finds it beset by
bond, fuelled by drink, drugs The Courtyard Hereford
staccato military moves hark back to the Middle Ages. Sensitive strange new happenings. The
and debauchery. Their careers Monday 2 March 1.15pm, Wednesday 4 4.15pm
and impulsive, Merab is struggling to maintain his lead role within film’s wild-hearted fury and
and personal lives remain on Malvern Theatres
the ensemble. When a newcomer arrives to challenge his position, extreme violence is clearly also
hold until Laura falls in love,
their rivalry translates into something else. Less a coming-out Water is the main protagonist, seen in all its great and a retort to the election of far-
throwing their relationship into
narrative, and more than a coming-of-age film, this sets the terrible beauty in Aquarela. Mountains of ice move and right president Jair Bolsonaro;
imbalance and forcing them
beauty and stifling social values of Tbilisi alongside the energy break apart as if they had a life of their own as director Victor as well as a cinematic riff on the
to re-consider their futures.
and engaging physicality of dancer Levan Gelbakhian as Merab. Kossakovsky’s film travels the world, from the precarious frozen work of directors like Alejandro
The sparky chemistry between
waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal, Miami in the throes of Hurricane Jodorowsky and Sergio Leone.
leads Grainger and Shawkat
“a sensual exploration of identity that Irma, to Venezuela’s mighty Angel Falls, in order to paint a Hallucinatory and formally
and a sharp, witty script
pulsates with desire…” The Mirror portrait of this fluid life force in all its glorious forms. It’s a thrilling, Bacurau is an utterly
make for an unruly and rich
commentary on climate change that eschews words, relying on distinctive experience.
Preview courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures portrayal of misspent youth.
the considerable power of moving images to immerse and sway.
Jury Prize, Cannes
* denotes screening with interval
“In this vision, water feels like a very old god: a pagan one Film Festival 2019
that is volatile, wrathful, impassive to the perils of man and Preview courtesy of MUBI
yet majestic and serene.” Ben Nicholson, Sight & Sound20 A – Z FILM INDEX Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2020 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org 21
BAIT (15)
Director: Mark Jenkin
Starring: Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine,
Giles King, Simon Shepherd
UK, 2019, 1 hour 29 minutes
Sunday 1 March 7.00pm, subtitles
Ledbury Market Theatre BALLOON (12A)
Friday 6 March 7.30pm,
Director: Pema Tseden
Bedstone and Hopton Castle Starring: Sonam Wangmo, Jinpa, Yangshik Tso
Village Hall* China, 2019, 1 hour 42 minutest
Saturday 14 March 7.00pm,
Ross, St Mary’s Church Hall
Saturday 14 March 7.30pm Monday 9 March 7.30pm, Thursday 12 1.30pm
Ludlow Assembly Rooms Oswestry kinokulture
Friday 13 March 4.15pm Malvern Theatres
A British indie smash hit, Mark Saturday 14 March 5.00pm, Sunday 15 8.00pm
Jenkin’s first full-length feature The Courtyard Hereford
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE
Director: Marielle Heller
is set in a Cornish fishing village
The tranquil family life of a sheep farmer in the Tibetan Starring: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys,
in changing times. Fisherman Chris Cooper
grasslands is overshadowed by China’s rigid birth control
NEIGHBOURHOOD (PG)
China/US, 2019, 1 hour 49 minutes
Martin is struggling to buy
policy. In the early 1980s, Dargye and his wife Drolkar lead a
a boat against the influx of
serene but ordinary life with their three sons and Dargye’s elderly
London money, Airbnb and stag
father. The balloon of the title, actually a condom inflated by the Monday 9 March 7.45pm, Tuesday 10 11.00am*, Wednesday 11 2.30pm, Thursday 12 2.00pm
parties to his harbour village. The Courtyard Hereford
couple’s mischievous sons, triggers a whole series of predicaments
The summer brings simmering
that bring life and death, spirituality and hard facts, politics
tensions to boiling point. Shot Tom Hanks as US TV personality Mister Rogers is the ideal * Subtitled Screening
and free will into question. From leading Tibetan director Pema
on grainy black and white personification of kindness triumphing over cynicism. Following
Tseden (Tharlo), gorgeous to look at and full of surprises, this “…there’s a warm hug
16mm film, hand processed, this director Marielle Heller’s recent hit Can You Ever Forgive Me?,
delicately humorous and tragic family drama intimately captures waiting for you in A Beautiful
atmospheric and stylistically this narrative, also set in the 1990s, hangs loosely on a real-life
a rural way of life, rooted in a sense of place and context. Day in the Neighborhood, and
bold drama of confrontation friendship between Fred Rogers, whose children’s TV show Mister
feels original, contemporary, Preview courtesy of Day for Night Rogers’ Neighborhood ran on PBS from 1968 to 2001, and Esquire one that arrives with far less
experimental and yet mythical. journalist Tom Junod. Magazine-writer Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) sentimentality than expected.”
P is assigned to profile Rogers, a task he undertakes with a great Benjamin Lee,
Nominated for 2 BAFTAS deal of scepticism. Far from exposing the calm, boundlessly good The Guardian
The screening on Sunday is sponsored by natured Rogers as a phoney, Vogel experiences the value of Fred’s
* denotes screening with interval
The Shed Book Club support directly as his own messy, private life implodes into crisis.22 A – Z FILM INDEX Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2020 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org 23
BE NATURAL: THE
UNTOLD STORY OF
ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ
(PG)
Director: Pamela Green
Starring: Jodie Foster, Alice Guy-Blaché,
Julie Delpy, Kevin MacDonald,
Kevin Brownlow
US, 2018, 1 hour 43 minutes.
OPENING
GALA
Saturday 7 March 1.00pm,
Monday 9 1.30pm
Malvern Theatres
BLACK NARCISSUS (U)
BLACKBIRD (15)
Early film pioneer Alice Guy- Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jean Simmons Starring: Susan Sarandon,
Blaché is the subject of this UK, 1947, 1 hour 41 minutes Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska,
Sam Neill, Lindsay Duncan
energetic documentary, both US, 2019, 1 hour 37 minutes
a tribute and a detective
Saturday 14 March 7.30pm Hereford, All Saints
story. Paris-born Guy-Blaché
Friday 28 February 8.00pm The Courtyard Hereford
entered the movie business at Cinema at its exquisite Technicolor peak as the visionary Monday 2 March 7.30pm Oswestry kinokulture
the very beginning—in 1894, team of Powell and Pressburger tell the story of a group of Sunday 8 March 7.30pm Malvern Theatres
aged 21. Two years later, head nuns on a doomed mission to the Himalayas. Led by Sister Sunday 15 March 8.15pm Hay Booths Bookshop Cinema
of production at Gaumont, she Clodagh (Deborah Kerr), the nuns are sent to establish a convent
started directing; she brought Susan Sarandon shines as a mother spending her last days Preview courtesy of Lionsgate
and school in the mountains, where isolation, extreme weather,
stories into a medium that with her family in Roger Michell’s skilful recrafting of 2014
altitude, culture clashes, and temptations of the flesh affect We hope that Director Roger
had previously just captured Danish drama Silent Heart. Taking place at a seaside retreat over
them internally as much as physically. Madness beckons. Shot, Michell will introduce the film
actualities. By 1919 she had a single weekend, Lily has made it clear to her husband and adult with a Q&A to follow
incredibly, mainly at Pinewood and in Sussex, its lasting potency
written and produced more than daughters (Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska) that she plans to
owes much to collective achievement, winning Oscars for Alfred Ticket price £10. Join us for
1,000 films. “A film maker of take her own life in the face of a debilitating terminal illness.
Junge’s art direction and Jack Cardiff’s cinematography. a drink at the Opening Gala
rare sensitivity and a remarkably The characters cope with this emotional and ethical dilemma in Reception in The Courtyard Foyer
poetic eye” (Martin Scorsese), Book your All Saints pre-screening supper of fantastic Herefordshire conflicting ways that uncover hidden secrets. One of the UK’s most from 7.30pm
clips and material uncovered produce online, or via the Courtyard Box Office. versatile directors, Michell (Notting Hill, Enduring Love, Le Week-
by Green’s persistent research Vegetarian and meat options available. End) has assembled an outstanding cast to unravel this moving and P
bear testimony to her talent. complex human drama. Much more than a dramatised debate about
euthanasia, Blackbird is a film about death that is full of life.24 A – Z FILM INDEX Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2020 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org 25
CALM WITH
HORSES (15)
Director: Nick Rowland
Starring: Barry Keoghan,
Cosmo Jarvis, Niamh Algar
UK, 2019, 1 hour 35 minutes
Tuesday 10 March 7.45pm,
Wednesday 11 5.30pm
The Courtyard Hereford
Two of the UK and Ireland’s
THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI (U) rising stars, Cosmo Jarvis
Director: Robert Wiene
(Lady Macbeth) and Barry
Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover Keoghan (The Killing of a
Germany, 1920, 1 hour 17 minutes SILENT with live musical accompaniment
Sacred Deer, Dunkirk), star in
this gripping feature debut.
Thursday 12 March 8.00pm Malvern Theatres Based on the novella Young
subtitles Skins by writer Colin Barratt,
One of the key films of German Expressionist cinema, this
BOMBSHELL (15)
Director: Jay Roach the setting is rural Ireland. Torn
Starring: Charlize Theron, diabolical tale has been incalculably influential on horror, film between the drug-dealing Devers
Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie
US/Canada, 2019, 1 hour 48 minutes noir and gothic cinema. At a local carnival in a small German family and his autistic five-year-
town, hypnotist Dr. Caligari presents the somnambulist named old son, ex-boxer Arm’s loyalties
Cesare who can purportedly predict the future. But at night, the are tested when he is asked to
Tuesday 3 March 5.00pm, Thursday 5 8.00pm doctor wakes Cesare from his sleep to enact his evil bidding… kill for the first time. Taut and
The Courtyard Hereford one which would change the lives of many in the town forever. tense, the film owes much to
The film’s nightmarishly jagged sets, sinister atmosphere and its two key performers, Jarvis as
Chiming with the #MeToo campaign, Bombshell slices into the heart Nominated for 3 BAFTAS psychological weight remain as mesmerising as ever. As part of Arm, lumbering, muscle-bound,
of Fox News, the world’s most powerful and controversial media including Leading and a new season celebrating 100 years since the beginning of the towards the gentle handling
empire. It centres on the women who worked for it and eventually Supporting Actress 1920s, the final decade of the silent era, South West Silents and his son needs, and Keoghan,
brought down the infamous man who built it. Fox boss Roger Ailes Borderlines are proud to present this unique screening of one of the
“speckled with powerful, devious, canny, manipulative
was fired in 2016 after anchor Gretchen Carlson (Kidman) sued him landmark titles in cinema history for the film’s 100th anniversary.
insightful moments” as his mate Dympna.
for sexual harassment, and her steely colleague Megyn Kelly (Theron)
made similar allegations too. Written by Charles Randolph (The Big Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian With live music by Stephen Horne, one of the Preview courtesy of
Short) and similar in feel to 2018’s Vice, this is a dissection that UK’s foremost silent film accompanists Altitude Film Distribution
“Theron, as Kelly, is a force
treads close to fact – the prosthetics are extraordinary – but selects of nature” The New Yorker
and fictionalises to underscore the bullying that shores up power. P26 A – Z FILM INDEX Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2020 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org 27
CAROUSEL (U)
A Herefordshire Life
Through a Lens film
UK, 2019, 1 hour 30 minutes
Saturday 14 March 7.30pm
Much Marcle Memorial Hall*
Sunday 15 March 7.30pm
Pembridge Film Nights* subtitles
THE CORDILLERA OF DREAMS (12A)
THE COUNTY (15)
Director: Grímur Hákonarson
Starring: Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir, Sveinn
Following on from the popular Director: Patricio Guzmán Ólafur Gunnarsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann
Stories from the Hop Yards, Chile/France, 2019, 1 hour 24 minutes Iceland/Denmark/Germany/France, 2019,
1 hour 32 minutes
this Catcher Media film delves
deep into the Derek Evans
photographic archive from Friday 28 February 5.15pm Wednesday 11 March 8.00pm, Thursday 12 11.00am
the 1950s-1970s to bring The Courtyard Hereford The Courtyard Hereford
Thursday 12 March 7.30pm Oswestry kinokulture
you the stories behind his Saturday 14 March 5.00pm Malvern Theatres
Veteran documentary maker Patricio Guzmán completes his
photographs of the county,
trilogy about Chile’s troubled past with a meditation on how
from the May Fair to Hereford Time to reach for the Icelandic knits for this earthy comedy from “full of feisty female energy
the Andes shaped the country’s sense of identity. Following
United, from the Fownhope the director of Rams about a widowed farmer who squares up to and imagery” Variety
on from the sublime Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button,
Heart of Oak Walk to jazz local corruption. Inga ekes out a bleak, careworn existence on an
Guzmán characteristically blends personal and political. Exiled since “...a drama that resonates
clubs, from childhood to remote farm with her husband Reynir. Mired in debt and exhausted
the 1973 coup, he returns to Santiago, city of his childhood, to as a blast of fresh country
politics, and much more. Read by harsh, physical labour, her isolation becomes absolute when she
explore what the timeless wall of the Andes Cordillera, the mountain air while conveying all the
more about the Herefordshire finds herself suddenly on her own. Uncovering shady dealings by
range which once protected and isolated Chile from the outside ways in which it can be
Life Through a Lens project and the neighbourhood co-operative that push her further into a corner,
world, signifies. Samuel Laho’s crystalline landscape images are suffocating.” Moveable Feast
the multi-venue exhibition of shunned by her own community, she channels her grief and anger into
stunning, and Guzmán’s approach is thoughtful, measured, rich
photographs from the Derek fighting against injustice. Inga’s methods of resistance are sparky and Preview courtesy of
and lyrical. The film pays tribute to cameraman Pablo Salas, who
Evans Studio archive taking ingenious and supply a strong injection of visual humour into this Curzon Artificial Eye
remained in Pinochet’s Chile to film protest and oppression.
place during the Festival on p10. stirring tale, rooted firmly in the stern landscape of rural Iceland.
Preview courtesy of New Wave Films P
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The screening on Wednesday is sponsored by
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DARK WATERS (12A) LA DOLCE VITA (12A)
Director: Todd Haynes Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Starring: Marcello Mastroianni,
Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee
US, 2019, 2 hours 6 minutes Italy, 1960, 2 hours 54 minutes
Friday 13 March 7.30pm,
Saturday 14 March 2.00pm
Thursday 12 March 3.45pm
Sunday 15 4.30pm
Malvern Theatres
Malvern Theatres
Celebrating the centenary
A tense one-man crusade
CUNNINGHAM (12A) of perhaps the most famous
against big business interests
Director: Alla Kovgan subtitles of Italian directors, Federico
is the latest film from the
THE DEATHLESS WOMAN (15)
Starring: Carolyn Brown, John Cage, Ashley Chen
Germany/France/US, 2019, 1 hour 33 minutes Fellini’s exquisite tale of
director of Carol. Robert Billott,
Director: Roz Mortimer celebrity casts an adoring yet
an Ohio lawyer works for a big Starring: Iveta Kokyová, Loren O’Dair, Oliver Malik critical eye towards ’60s Rome.
Tuesday 10 March 8.00pm The Courtyard Hereford company that represents the UK, 2019, 1 hour 29 minutes
The film marked the beginning
Wednesday 11 March 7.30pm Malvern Theatres interests of major corporations
of Fellini’s long association with
like DuPont, the global chemical Friday 13 March 8.00pm, Sunday 15 3.45pm
This dazzling portrait of great American choreographer actor Marcello Mastroianni, who
manufacturer. Against the The Courtyard Hereford
Merce Cunningham celebrates the centenary of his birth. plays a philandering journalist
advice of his firm, he takes on
One of the most important choreographers of the 20th century, The report of a Roma woman buried alive in a forest in Poland protagonist on a decadent
the cause of a West Virginian
Cunningham pushed the boundaries of dance to influence the during World War II is the starting point for this fluid, hybrid seven-day quest for happiness
cattle farmer who is convinced
visual arts, film and music across his seventy-year career. This documentary that has elements of the ghost story. With the that’s always just out of reach.
that his cows are dying because
exquisitely crafted documentary focuses on the period between resurgence of the far right in Europe, artist Roz Mortimer is Stylish and fantastical, the
of water supply contamination
1942 and 1972, his rise from struggling dancer to acclaimed haunted by the story of ‘the deathless woman’ (shot eight times scenes from the film like the
from the DuPont factories.
choreographer, and his collaborations with composer and life without dying) that stands for a whole history of atrocities splash of Anita Ekberg as
Mild-mannered and solid,
partner John Cage and visual artist Robert Rauschenberg. Archive against the Roma. She goes on to research, abandoning factual American superstar Sylvia into
Billott absorbs the cost of an
footage of shows, rehearsals, interviews, his diagraphs and documents for poetic reimagining of buried secrets within the Trevi Fountain have become
investigation that plays out over
drawings are juxtaposed with mesmerising new performances the ethereal forest landscape. Testimonies from survivors and iconic and the ravenous pack
a dozen years on his family life
from younger dancers who worked with him. It’s an immersive the woman’s own otherworldly narration forewarn against of celebrity photographers
and well-being. Ruffalo, who
and ambitious cinematic experience, a fitting match to future persecution but bear witness to resilience as well. coined the term ‘paparazzi’.
also co-produced, is a well-
the creative journey of this bold and visionary artist. known environmental activist, Director Roz Mortimer will introduce the
Preview courtesy of Dogwoof and this story, from a New film on Friday with a Q&A to follow
York Times magazine article,
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has real resonance. P30 A – Z FILM INDEX Central Box Office 01432 340555 / #borderlines2020 / www.borderlinesfilmfestival.org 31
THE ELEPHANT MAN
(PG)
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Anthony Hopkins,
John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
US, 1980, 2 hours 4 minutes
Friday 13 March 2.30pm
The Courtyard Hereford
John Hurt is outstanding in subtitles
EMMA (15)
David Lynch’s compassionate Director: Autumn de Wilde
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Bill Nighy,
plunge into the vicious subtitles Josh O’Connor, Johnny Flynn,
Miranda Hart
pillorying of ‘freaks’ in 19th EMA (18) UK, 2020, RT TBC
century London. A Victorian Director: Pablo Larraín
surgeon rescues a heavily Starring: Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael García Bernal, Paola Giannini, Santiago Cabrera,
Chile, 2019, 1 hour 42 minutes Friday 28 February 1.15pm, Saturday 29 10.30am, Sunday 1 March 1.00pm, Monday 2 4.30pm,
deformed man who is mistreated
Tuesday 3 10.30am, Wednesday 4 4.30pm, Thursday 5 March 4.30pm* Malvern Theatres
while scraping a living as a Friday 6 March 2.00pm, Saturday 7 8.00pm, Sunday 8 11.00am, Monday 9 2.15pm*, Tuesday 10 5.15pm,
side-show freak. Behind John Monday 2 March 8.00pm, Tuesday 3 2.30pm Thursday 12 5.00pm The Courtyard Hereford
The Courtyard Hereford
Merrick’s monstrous facade,
there is revealed a person of Searing imagery, an intoxicating soundtrack and tremendous The latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s much-loved novel * Subtitled Screening
intelligence and sensitivity. energy characterise this bravura piece of filmmaking from of miscalculation has a vibrant pastel colour palette and a
Made after Lynch’s Eraserhead, Chilean director Pablo Larraín (Jackie, Neruda). From its opening lightness of touch to match. Emma Woodhouse is famously
this is a more conventional shot, a traffic light engulfed in flames, the tone of the new film stubborn in her appraisal of people and their suitability for each
vision of horror, based on from Larraín (the subject of a retrospective at Borderlines 2013) other, and notoriously blind about their feelings and her own
fact, and the black-and-white is set: unsettling, anarchic, explosive. The Ema of the title is a desires. This perennial romantic favourite boasts a great cast
cinematography by Freddie contemporary street/reggaeton dancer with sleeked-back bleached who make the most of an effervescent and witty script by Eleanor
Francis vividly captures the blonde hair, married to her choreographer and collaborator Gaston Catton, winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize for her novel The
squalor and claustrophobia of (Bernal), and adoptive mother to Polo, a troubled small boy now Luminaries. Coincidentally, Clueless, the modern-day take on
Victorian London. A screening removed from their care. Ema will do anything, seduce anyone, to Emma from the 1990s is also due a remake in the coming year.
to mark the 40th anniversary get her own way. The film centres around her like a vortex, sucking
of the film’s release. in fragments of pulsating dance, sexual encounters and pyromania.
Preview courtesy of MUBI
The screening on Saturday The screening on Tuesday
in Hereford is sponsored by in Hereford is sponsored by
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Pudleston Makes
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subtitles
subtitles THE FIREMEN’S
FILMFARSI (15) BALL (PG)
Director: Ehsan Khoshbakht Director: Miloš Forman
Starring: Pouri Baneai, Reza Beyk Starring: Jan Vostrcil,
Imanverdi, Mohamad Ali Fardin Josef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha
Iran/UK, 2019, 1 hour 24 minutes Czechoslovakia/Italy, 1967
1 hour 13 minutes
Thursday 12 March 5.15pm
The Courtyard Hereford
Friday 6 March 2.30pm
The Courtyard Hereford
Filmfarsi stands for a species
of Iranian cinema, low budget subtitles Milos Forman’s third and
thrillers and melodramas, FIRE WILL COME (12A) final feature in his home
totally eradicated following Director: Oliver Laxe country, a satirical comedy
Starring: Amador Arias Mon, Benedicta Sánchez, Inazio Brao
subtitles
the 1979 Islamic revolution. Spain/Luxembourg/France, 2019, 1 hour 25 minutes about a botched firemen’s ball
From scratchy VHS copies and
THE FAREWELL (PG) in a provincial town, was
from memory Khoshbakht pieces acclaimed abroad but banned
Director: Lulu Wang Wednesday 4 March 5.30pm The Courtyard Hereford
Starring: Awkwafina, Shuzhen Zhou, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin together a body of films from in Czechoslovakia. A group
US, 2019, 1 hour 40 minutes Wednesday 11 March 7.30pm Hay Booths Bookshop Cinema
the 1960s and ‘70s that were of volunteer firemen plan a
hugely popular and reflect a Set deep within the spectacular Galician countryside, a man big send-off for their retired
Friday 28 February 7.30pm Garway Hall* society emerging from centuries returns home to his small mountain village after serving time chief and try to spice up the
Wednesday 11 March 7.30pm Leintwardine Centre of repression, struggling to proceedings with a raffle and a
for arson. Guarded and taciturn, Amador picks up an austere
Friday 13 March 8.00pm Ledbury Market Theatre reconcile religious traditions way of life alongside his elderly mother and their small herd of beauty contest. Everything that
with new influences from the cows. Wary of those around him, only with the change of season could possibly go wrong does…
Comic dynamo Awkwafina gives a fantastic dramatic
West. Mainly cheap, sleazy is there the merest hint of a thaw. And when catastrophe strikes, and then a real fire starts.
performance in Lulu Wang’s award-winning new film. Funny,
and derivative (there’s even a questions are raised about Amador’s true intent. As inscrutable Forman’s comic timing is superb,
melancholy, graceful, sophisticated and extraordinarily moving,
Persian Vertigo), full of male and as its main character, the film immerses you in the rhythms and performances from a cast of
the story has its origins in popular podcast This American Life.
female stereotypes, these films of rural life, seeming to explore the threats to communities predominantly non-actors are
Awkwafina plays New Yorker Billi, who returns to China when
are nevertheless fascinating like these – whether from modernity, the vagaries of human wonderfully fresh. With a Best
she’s told her beloved grandmother Nai Nai has been diagnosed
for what they reveal about the nature, or the unpredictability of nature and life itself. Foreign Film Oscar nomination
with terminal cancer. But their farewell is complicated by
Iranian psyche. Presaging the in 1968, and rehabilitated after
the fact that her family aren’t planning to tell Nai Nai she
revolution, Filmfarsi shockingly Winner, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2019 the 1989 Velvet Revolution, it is
is dying – and Billi is asked to take part in the ruse.
became one of its first victims. now regarded as a masterpiece
Preview courtesy of New Wave Films
Nominated for Film Not in the English Language BAFTA of the Czech New Wave.
Director Ehsan Khoshbakht
Awkwafina nominated for EE Rising Star Award will be present to introduce P © The Czech Film Fund
the film with a Q&A to follow
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