TICKETS have been selling fast for the 10th International Film Festival to be held 2-4 August at the Belgrave Twin Cinema.
Festival passes and opening night are now sold out, but tickets to individual films are still available. Enjoy a selection of acclaimed foreign language films at the Belgrave Twin Cinema!
There are a number of films that were shortlisted for the Oscar – Best Foreign Language Film in 2012 including In Darkness (W ciemnoĊci) from Poland.
This dramatisation of a factual rescue of a dozen Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a harrowing, nail-biting thriller, highlighting personal courage, endurance and self-sacrifice. Honest and unsentimental, yet ultimately inspirational.
The Romanian film Beyond The Hills (Dupa dealuri) won Best Screenplay and Best Actress at Cannes last year.
Drawing on real events said to have taken place in a Romanian convent, this outstanding film is a powerful and sombre meditation on faith and friendship and confirms Mungiu as a film-maker of the first rank. He shows us, all too painfully, how religion in the wrong hands can not only be ridiculous but lethal.
Barbara won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. Set in Communist East Germany in the 1980s, the film focuses on Barbara, a young paediatrician, who is being closely watched by the Stasi, while her lover in West Germany is preparing her escape. But things do not go according to plan… The director accurately catches the spirit and atmosphere of a divided Germany in this powerful drama.
Tickets are selling fast – take this opportunity to visit countries around the world without the inconvenience of a 24-hour uncomfortable plane trip. This is your window on the world.
The Armidale International Film Festival is proudly associated with Services UNE, the Belgrave Twin Cinema, media partner ABC New England North West, Armidale Ex-Services Club and the School of Arts at the University of New England. Tickets are available now at the Belgrave (02) 6772 2856. This year, Saturday and Sunday films has numbered seating (not opening night). Come into the Belgrave to choose your special seat.
For more information concerning the film festival go to http://blog.une.edu.au/aiff/
