Launceston Airport, which connects the city to the world, has made it possible for BOFA to bring the world to you by screening the best documentary films from around the globe at this year’s Festival.
Many of us will remember the 1997 album “Buena Vista Social Club” and the subsequent film, which made international stars out of several Cuban musicians who had thought that time and the world had passed them by. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB ADIOS is a wonderful sequel which chronicles the late-life careers of the “Buena Vista” stars, many of whom have since died, to a great soundtrack of their unique Cuban music.
Friday, May 18, 5.00pm Village Cinema 3
Generally regarded as one of the best documentaries of the past year, JANE is a captivating and inspiring look back at the extraordinary life of Jane Goodall, made possible by the discovery of 140 hours of rare 16mm footage in the National Geographic archives. We follow her career since she began her research on chimpanzees in Tanzania in the 1960s and find her just as poised, articulate and engaging in her 80s as she was in her fearless 20s.
Sunday, May 20, 2.30pm, Village Cinema 4
Nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar this year, FACES, PLACES is the story of an unlikely collaboration between legendary New Wave film director Agnès Varda, 89, and the French street artist JR, 60 years her junior. This very odd but engaging couple embark on a road trip of France inviting ordinary people into their project, and pasting their enormous portraits onto houses, trains and town squares suggesting that farmers and factory workers are just as worthy of admiration as princes and politicians.