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

Films for 2012

All films are shown at the Cook Theatre, Building 1, CQUniversity - Mackay campus, Boundary Rd, Mackay @ 7.30pm on the first Friday of the month.

*** Please note there is no film in April as the first Friday is Good Friday, instead there will be two films in March - see below ***

Some of the films later in the year are proposed only and may change according to availability and other factors.

**MACKAY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL** 10 & 11TH AUGUST 2012 @ MACKAY CITY CINEMAS

presented by FILM & ARTS MACKAY

Venue:

CQUniversity Mackay Campus
Cook Lecture Theatre

Admission:

Members: $8.00
Non Members: $12.00
KUCOM Members: $10.00

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.

The First Grader

Language: English
Genre: Biography, Drama

Starring: Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo, Sam Feuer
Director: Justin Chadwick

The story of an 84 year old Kenyan man Maruge (Oliver Litondo) who insisted on his right, as offered by the government, to a free education, is the subject of the film THE FIRST GRADER. When Maruge turns up at the village school he's initially turned away by the principal Mrs. Obinchu, (Naomie Harris) but his persistence eventually wins her over. In the 1950's Maruge had taken the Mau Mau oath to free Kenya from Biritish colonial rule. He had been captured, tortured, his family destroyed. Memories of those times haunt him still. In the present however his attendance at the school causes problems.
(Review by Margaret Pomeranz)

Le Havre

Language: French
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Marcel Marx, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel, Andre)
Director: Aki Kaurismaki

Aki Kaurismaki, the Finnish filmaker with a distinctive style. He makes simply lovely films, always with great heart. His latest, Le Havre, is set in the port city in Normandy where shoe-shine man Marcel Marx (Andre Wilms) is plying his trade in an ever-increasing world of sneakers. His wife Arletty, (Kati Outinen) becomes ill, is diganosed with what one assumes is cancer and is not expected to live. When the doctor assures her that miracles do happen, she replies, 'not in our neighbourhood'. But that is exactly what does happen.
Review by Margaret Pomeranz

A Separation

Language: Iranian
Genre: Drama

Starring: Payman Moadi, Leila Hatami, Saareh Bayat, Shahab
Hosseini, Sarina Farhadi, Babak Karimi, Kimia Hosseini
Director: Asghar Farhadi

This year's wholly deserving winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar is a low key, highly engrossing domestic drama from Iran. Simin (Leila Hatami), a woman who expresses herself bluntly and eloquently at all times, wants a divroce from quiet, insular Nader (Peyman Maadi). Knowing full well her country's legal system is bound to ignore her pleas is not about to stop Simin stating her case. Nadar had promised her they would emigrate to greener pastures elsewhere as soon as a visa came through, but thought it would never happen. Now he is not yet ready to leave behind his elderly father, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Intense performances, allows 'A Separation' to hold the audience's attention throughout.
Review by Leigh Paatsch

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Language: English
Genre: Documentary, History

Starring: Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste, Carole Fritz
Director: Werner Herzog

The Chauvet Cave was discovered in 1994 in the Ardeche gorge in southern France; sealed off about 25,000 years ago by a rock fall, the cave was found to contain amazing drawings and paintings, some of them estimated to be 32,000 years old. The paintings are of animals - horses, rhinos, lions, bears, bison - and they're stunningly beautiful.
Review by David Stratton

The Guard

Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Thriller

Starring: Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham
Director: John Michael McDonagh

Garda Sergeant Gerry Boyle, BRENDAN GLEESON, is a very laid-back and non-PC representative of the forces of law and order in Galway, on Ireland's west coast, where many of the locals don't speak English. He's assigned a new partner, McBride (RORY KEENAN), an eager beaver who has the bad luck to run across three very bad guys on his first day on the job.
Review by David Stratton

In A Better World

Language: English/Swedish
Genre: Drama

Starring: Mikael Persbrandt, Wil Johnson, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Markus
Rygaard
Director: Susanne Bier

Set in two vastly different locations, Anton (Mikael Persbrandt) is a part-time doctor in a refugee camp in a lawless part of Africa where despicable things happen. Back in Denmark, his son Elias is bullied and has formed an alliance and friendship with Christian, who has recently moved back from London with his father Claus, after the death of his mother from cancer. When Anton himself is bullied by another father in a playground and plays a pacifist line, it's Christian who wants revenge.
Review by Margaret Pomeranz

The Lady

Language: English
Genre: Drama

Starring: David Thewlis, Jonathan Woodhouse, Benedict Wong, Jonathan Raggett
Director: Luc Besson

This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. The Lady also is the story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement.

The Well Digger's Daughter

Language: French
Genre: Drama

Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Kad Merad
Director: Daniel Auteuil

This handsome, old-fashioned film has been adapted from the novel by Marcel Pagnol and is set around the time of the second world war. Daniel Auteuil stars as widower Pascal, a digger and cleaner of wells and father of six daughters. This well-made film is also Daniel Auteuil's directing debut, which he has done competently. The story revolves around the relationship between Pascal and his eldest daughter 18 year old Patricia (Astrid Berges-Frisbey) who has returned from living in Paris. Patricia is courted by two men, the humble older man is approved by her father but the handsome unreliable young man is more to her liking.

This must be the place

Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama

Starring: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch
Director

The Source

Language: French & Arabic
Genre: Comedy/Drama

Starring: Leila Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi
Director: Radu Mihăileanu

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favors if their men refuse to fetch water from a remote well.