German Film Festival on April 19 – 25th – “Das System” looks like it’s worth watching – watch 4 film trailers
The German Film Festival is on in Brisbane from Thursday the 19th to Wednesday the 25th of April. I’ve had a look through the program and picked out some of the films I’d like to see – but there’s plenty more, so make sure you check out the entire program.
Hell
Hell is set in the future where society has collapsed, there’s almost no water and people will do anything to survive. Click the “CC” button on the video above for English subtitles.
Sleeping Sickness
Sleeping Sickness is about a German doctor treating disease in Cameroon – but it’s not really certain how much good he’s doing.
The Fräulein and the Sandman
The Fräulein and the Sandman is a comic fantasy about a man who is slowly turning into sand.
The System
The System is about a young, petty and not-very-competent thief who botches a job and stumbles into a new world. Just because the East German dictatorship fell over twenty years ago, that doesn’t mean the men who worked for its secret police have gone away – they are still around, still evil and still running as much of Germany as they can get away with. I couldn’t find a trailer with English subtitles but this film looks interesting enough that I wanted to post the German version. (The film will have subtitles at the Festival).
Tickets for all films are $18 for adults, and $14.50 concession, or you can get a five-film pass for $75. There are more details about prices and booking tickets here at the Festival website. Most films are for people 18 years and older only, except for a few family films.
All films will be on at the Palace Centro cinema in James St, New Farm – see below for a map and public transport details. Click on the map for a much bigger version.
The best way to get to the Palace Centro by public transport is to either catch a CityGlider bus to Stop 229 on Wickham St in Fortitude Valley, (just after the corner of Brunswick St), or to catch a train to Fortitude Valley railway station, and walk to the cinema.
“Who Took The Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour” showing at Brisbane Underground Film Festival, 7pm Thu Oct 13, Powerhouse
When feminist electroclash musicians Le Tigre toured the world in 2004-2005, documentary maker Kerthy Fix followed them and made “Who Took The Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour“.
The film will be screening at the Brisbane Underground Film Festival at the Brisbane Powerhouse at 7pm on Thursday October 13, 2011. Tickets are $16 for adults and $13 for concession, but you have to be over 18 to go. And let’s pause for a quick tip of the hat to the Brisbane or Death blog, where I found out about BUFF.
Click here for a map showing the best ways to get to the Brisbane Powerhouse by public transport.
“Shut Up Little Man!” – A Film About Neighbourly Abuse, at the Brisbane Underground Film Festival This Saturday
“Shut Up, Little Man!” sounds pretty weird, although after some of the places I’ve lived in, fairly run-of-the-mill, too. It’s a documentary about the success of the “Shut Up, Little Man!” audio recordings. The recordings got made when two young guys moved into an apartment in San Francisco and got forced to listen to constant arguments between two of their neighbours.
This YouTube video was made using recordings of one of the conversations
And this video is the trailer for the film that’s on at BUFF
The film screens at the Brisbane Underground Film Festival at the Brisbane Powerhouse at 7pm on Saturday October 15, 2011. Tickets are $16 for adults and $13 for concession, but you have to be over 18 to go. And thanks to the Brisbane or Death blog, where I found out about BUFF.
Click here for a map showing the best ways to get to the Brisbane Powerhouse by public transport.
Brisbane Film Making: West End Film Festival is looking for movies
You can download the entry form here (pdf file). I had a quick look at the terms and conditions and they seem OK (of course, I’m not a lawyer) – you don’t give up your rights to your film, the festival just gets the right to use your film to promote the festival. You can also follow the West End Film Festival on Twitter, or become a fan of the Festival on Facebook.
Brisbane Film Festivals – Palestinian Days
The Justice for Palestine group is presenting the Palestinian Days film festival from this Friday, October 16, to Sunday, October 18, at the Schonell Theatre at the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus – click here for a Google Map.
There are seven sessions over the weekend. The opening session at 6.30pm on Friday October 16 costs $20 or $12 concession, and includes food and will be opened by Ambassador Izzat Abdul Hadi, head of the Palestinian delegation to Australia. All other sessions are $10, or $8 concession. Tickets for the entire festival are $50, or a day pass is $15 or $15 concession. If you can’t afford a session, please book and let the organisers know and they’ll be able to arrange a discount or free entry for you.
The features at each session are:
Friday October 16, 6.30pm
Lemonade – Palestinian brothers try to transcend their predicament as refugees by selling lemonade in their school break.
Arna’s Children: a film about a children’s theatre group in Jenin run by Arna Mer-Khamis.
Saturday October 17, 11am
Letter from Sarah – a 12-year old Palestinian girl writes a script about her life.
Palestine Blues – looks at how the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and the building of the Wall, has affected the Palestinian people. By Nida Sinnokrot.
Saturday October 17, 2pm
Frontiers of Dreams and Fears: looks at the life of Palestinian children living in refugee camps.
Jerusalem – the East Side Story: about the Israeli efforts to drive Palestinians out of East Jerusalem.
Saturday October 17, 7.30pm
Palestine, Summer 06: Captures the mood of Palestine as Israel attacked Gaza and Lebanon.
Arus el Jaleel (Bride of Galillee): Story of Fatma HAwari, bombed by Israeli forces in 1948 and left in a wheelchair.
Sunday October 18, 11am
Sunday October 18, 2pm
Jenin Jenin: The Palestinian side of 2002′s Battle of Jenin.
Since You Left: Mohammed Bakri visits the graveside of his mentor, Emile Habibi and reflects on what has happened since Habibi’s death.
Sunday, October 18 6pm
My Beloved Homeland: Features music from Palestinians, including warsinger Rim Banna, Jawaher Shofan, the El-Funoun Popular Palestinian Dance Troupe, Mustafa al-Kurd, and the Sarayett Rammallah Troupe for Performance and Dance.