FILMS BY DAYS
FEATURE
THAT’S NOT ME
SATURDAY 10:00AM
Polly’s dreams of making it as an actor are shattered when her identical twin sister Amy lands the lead role in a huge TV show.
DOCUMENTARY
MOUNTAIN
SATURDAY 10:15AM
Only three centuries ago, setting out to climb a mountain would have been considered close to lunacy. Mountains were places of peril, not beauty, a world to be shunned, not sought out.
FEATURE
EDIE
SATURDAY 12:00PM
Sheila Hancock delivers an acting master class in Edie, an inspiring tale of strength, courage and refusing to bow down to expectations.
DOCUMENTARY
FOOD FIGHTER
SATURDAY 12:15PM
Ronni Kahn, founder of OzHarvest, is taking on politicians and big business to expose an inconvenient truth: that four million tonnes of edible food is discarded in landfill in Australia every year.
FEATURE
GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN
SATURDAY 2:30PM
Fellipe Barbosa’s follow-up to his much-acclaimed debut “Casa Grande” is based on school friend Gabriel Buchmann, who traveled to Africa and died on the slopes of Malawi’s Mount Mulanje in 2009.
FEATURE
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE
SATURDAY 2:30PM
Generous Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen), wins a poker game and buys a decrepit restaurant (the delightfully rubbish Golden Pint, a single painting of Jimi Hendrix adorning its otherwise bare walls) with his prize money.
FEATURE
LEAN ON PETE
SATURDAY 4:45PM
Adapted from the novel by Willy Vautin, Lean On Pete tells the story of 15 year old Charley Thompson (Charlie Plummer) and his adopted racehorse, Lean On Pete.
DOCUMENTARY
NAMATJIRA PROJECT
SATURDAY 5:15PM
An extraordinary first-hand account of the international battle to reclaim the artwork and heritage of one of Australia’s most important Indigenous figures: Albert Namatjira.
FEATURE
THE SQUARE
SATURDAY 7:15PM
One of the International festival hits of the year, from Director Ruben Ostlund (Force Majeur at BOFA 2014), and starring Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men, The Handmaid’s Tale) and Claes Bang (The Bridge, Borgen). Meet Christian, the respected curator of a prestigious contemporary art gallery who is on the verge of opening his new show The Square
FEATURE
THE TALE OF RUBY ROSE
SATURDAY 7:30PM
The winner of several international Festival Awards, The Tale of Ruby Rose is just as powerful today as when it was first screened in 1988. The year is 1933. Ruby Rose is an Australian woman living, isolated in her tiny house, with her husband Henry in the Tasmanian highlands.
