FILMS BY THEMES 2020 PROGRAM
THE CHOICES WE MAKE
The Choices We Make is brought to you by McArthur Financial, a company whose expertise is in helping people make financial choices about their futures in an uncertain world. The Choices We Make is a new theme for BOFA 2020 and focuses on people who are between the proverbial “rock and a hard place” and the decisions they make. The consequences they face as a result can be both inspiring or challenging. You choose!
DOCUMENTARY
VEINS OF THE WORLD
LAUNCESTON | FRIDAY 1 MAY | 10.00AM
HOBART | FRIDAY 15 MAY | 10.00AM
Eleven-year-old Amra has grown up on the wild Mongolian steppes, the favourite son of his nomad herder father. His life revolves around two key things - watching YouTube movies of online singing sensations with his school friends, and helping his family herd their sheep and goats in the face of a cruel yet beautiful landscape.
DOCUMENTARY
FOR SAMA
LAUNCESTON | SUNDAY 3 MAY | 10.30AM
Sama is the name of the newborn daughter of Waad al-Khateab, a proud resident of Aleppo, in Syria. “Aleppo. My city,” explains al-Khateab. When the civil war explodes with insane ferocity around her, she decides not to escape, to become a refugee with her daughter and husband Hamza, but to stay and film the slow dismantling of a whole city society.
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LILI
HOBART | SATURDAY 16 MAY | 10.45AM
Following the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, more than 200,000 people fled the advancing Soviet troops, and one of those was Lili. “And I couldn’t take my child with me,” she says simply. Lili, now a grandmother in Australia, had a second daughter Edie.
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BAIT
LAUNCESTON | SUNDAY 3 MAY | 10.30AM
HOBART | SUNDAY 17 MAY | 11.00AM
It’s 2019 and the local Cornish fishing industry is dead in the water. Monied newcomers from big-city London are buying up seaside property. Some are even renting rooms out on AirBnB. Martin, a traditional Cornish fisher wants none of it. He cleaves to the traditional way of making a living and is appalled that his brother, Steven, is taking day trippers out on their family fishing boat in order to make ends meet.
