Courtesy of FAM, a subsidiary of CQUniversity Mackay Library Society.

Films for 2013

All films are shown at the Conservatorium Theatre, Building 21, CQUniversity - Mackay campus, Boundary Rd, Mackay @ 7.30pm on the first Friday of the month.

Venue:

CQUniversity Mackay Campus
Conservatorium Theatre

Admission:

Members: $8.00
Non Members: $12.00

Enquiries: 4940 7536

Email: CQUniversity Library Mackay

Film Suggestions:

We value suggestions for new films from our members. Our policy is that we aim to screen only arthouse/non-commercial films which aren't to be screened at local theatres. For any suggestions, please email the Library.

  Tomboy

Language: French (English subtitles)
Genre: Drama

Starring:  Zoe Heran, Malonn Levana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy
Writer/Director: Celine Sciamma

Ten year old Laure moves to a new neighbourhood with her family, including her 6 year old sister Jeanne.  Laure is mistaken for a boy, and she goes along with this, calling herself Mikael.  She even convinces Jeanne to go along with the deception, but it can't go on forever.

"This exquisite film is as pure as you can get, it's observational, it's minimalist ... beautifully and compassionately presented by writer/director Celine Sciamma ... and the performances are a knockout"
Margaret Pomerantz - At the Movies

I Wish

Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama

Starring: Koki Maeda, Ohshiro Maeda
Writer/Director: Hirokazu Koreeda

Koichi and his younger brother Ryu have been inseparable but when their parents separate they end up in different parts of Japan, Koichi living with his mother at the home of her parents, and Ryu with his musician father. When they hear that if you are at the spot where two bullet trains pass one another, your wish might be granted, they set about getting there.

  Amour

Language: French
Genre: Drama

Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Writer/Director: Michael Haneke

Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2013 and nominated in four other categories, including best actress for Emmanuelle Riva, and winner of two BAFTA awards; Amour is five star film from both Margaret and David.  The story focuses on Georges and Anne, a couple in their eighties whose relationship is challenged by Anne's deteriorating health.  A compassionate film about the true meaning of 'love'.

   No

Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama

Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Antonia Zegers, Alfredo Castro
Director: Pablo Larrain

 In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote YES or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the NO hire a young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra (Gael Garcia Bernal), to spearhead their campaign. Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2013.

  Beasts of the Southern Wild

Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy

Starring: Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry
Director: Benh Zeitlin

 In a bayou community, off the East coast of America, Hushpuppy, a six-year-old girl, almost an orphan, except for a junkie father lives in a caravan. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Quvenzhane Wallis who stars as Hushpuppy, was nominated for a Best Actress award at the 2013 Academy awards.

  Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Language: Turkish
Genre: Drama

Starring: Muhammet Uzuner,  Yılmaz Erdoğan, Taner Birsel
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's exact location. As the group continues looking, its members can't help but chat among themselves about both trivia and their deepest concerns in an investigation that is proving more trying than any of them expected.

  Love Story

Language: English
Genre: Documentary, Romance

Starring: Florian Habicht, Masha Yakovenko, Shauna Goodgold
Director: Florian Habicht

A beautiful stranger on the Coney Island train becomes both lead actress and real life object of desire in this choose your own adventure documentary about writing a fictional love story on the streets of New York. Director Florian Habicht casts himself as the leading man and asks New Yorkers how he should proceed in this romantic film within the documentary. Love Story will surprise and delight in its idiosyncratic style