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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-AU"><a
href="http://www.nfsa.gov.au/whats_on/arc/calendar1170.html?panelNo=1170">REGIONAL
INTERSECTIONS</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A
SHOWCASE OF THE LATEST CINEMA FROM <st1:place w:st="on">SOUTHEAST ASIA</st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;">24
FEB – 7 MARCH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;">The filmmaking of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
own neighbourhood is
little seen by local mainstream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;">audiences, apart
from film festival and SBSTV
screenings. Yet <st1:country-region w:st="on">Thailand</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Indonesia</st1:country-region> and the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region>
at least have long-standing popular filmmaking traditions that date
back to
before World War II, whilst <st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region>
was the birthplace of Shaw Brothers studios, and eventually the modern <st1:place
w:st="on">Hong Kong</st1:place> film industry. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;">The region’s also
had a long tradition of passionate
cinema and critical art cinema making and thinking. In the 1970s, a
unique
regional brand of ‘Third Cinema’ realism emerged in the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Philippines</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Since the 1980s,
distinctive regional filmmaking has also begun to emerge on the
international
film circuit, whilst the region’s distinctive popular genres – chilling
ghost stories,
martial arts action movies, and the B-movie vigour of its commercial
exploitation cinemas – also continues to find cult movie enthusiasm in
the
West. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;">The NFSA’s first
annual showcase of our ‘local’
cinema is presented in collaboration with the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename
w:st="on">Australian</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">National</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>’s
Southeast
Asia Centre and the conference </span><i><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Intersections of Area, Cultural</span></i><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;">
</span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">and Media Studies</span></i><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;"> (by invitation
only), to be held at the NFSA on 25 and 26 February 2010. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;">Guests include
leading Indonesian filmmakers </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Garin Nugroho </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;">and </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Riri Riza </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;">and the Thai
documentary filmmaker </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Uruphong
Raksasad</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><i><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;">We acknowledge the
assistance of
The Ford Foundation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><i><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;">PROGRAM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><i><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wednesday
24 February, 7pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">THE DREAMERS<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="info"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">(</span></span><em><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Sang
Pemimpi</span></em><span class="info"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">) Dir: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on">Riri Riza</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Indonesia</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
2009,
tbc mins, 35mm, (unclassified 18+)</span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Riza
and
producer Mira Lesmana’s sequel to their Indonesian box office hit <em><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">The Rainbow Troops</span></em> is again
based on
Andrea Hirata’s immensely popular novels about childhood in the remote
Sumatran
island of Belitung. The new film carries the story forward to high
school days
in the 1980s, as Ikal, Arai and Jimbon, all now teens, struggle with
love and
the passage to manhood. “We want to show how these teenagers stick with
their dreams
and fight against poverty, traditional values and actually make their
dreams
come true…” – Riri Riza. <strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Riri
Riza
and producer Mira Lesmana will introduce this Australian premiere
screening and
participate in a Q&A following the film.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Thursday 25 February,
7pm<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">OPERA JAWA<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="info"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Dir: <st1:city w:st="on">Garin Nugroho</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Indonesia</st1:country-region>/<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Austria</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
2006, 120 mins, 35mm,
(unclassified 18+)</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One
of
seven films commissioned by festival guru Peter Sellars to commemorate
the
250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, Indonesian director Garin Nugroho
retells
the ancient Sanskrit epic of Ramayana as a sensual Javanese tale of the
love of
two village potters fractured by the allure of power. Nugroho’s film
combines
the traditional and modernist in a blindingly colourful fusion of
Gamelan
melodies, Javanese shadow puppetry and traditional dance (by one of
Madonna’s
collaborators Eko Supriyanto), brought together with the sculpture and
performance art of contemporary <st1:place w:st="on">Yogyakarta</st1:place>.
<b style="">Filmmaker <strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Garin
Nugroho will introduce this <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canberra</st1:place></st1:city>
premiere screening.</span></strong></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Friday
26 February, 7pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">TALENTIME<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Dir: <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Yasmin Ahmad</st1:city>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Malaysia</st1:country-region></st1:place>, 2009, 119 mins,
35mm
(unclassified 15+)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">As
teachers and students rush to
pull a high school talent contest together, nothing seems like it will
be right
on the night. Except maybe the teen romance that’s budding between the
deaf-mute son of a strict Indian widow and the contest’s rising star,
the
gentle daughter of a big-hearted and slightly zany Muslim family. In
the
delicate hands of the great director Yasmin Ahmad this Malaysian cross
between <i>Romeo
and Juliet</i> and <i>High School Musical</i><span style=""> </span>starts
off as tender and funny rom-com, but builds into a
deeply moving call for reconciliation between the diverse communities
that make
up a modern multicultural Asian society. The Malaysian box office hit
of 2009
screens in honour of director Ahmad, who passed away soon after the
film’s
completion. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Presented
by The
<st1:placename w:st="on">ANU</st1:placename></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> <st1:placetype w:st="on"><span
lang="EN-AU">University</span></st1:placetype><span lang="EN-AU"> <st1:placetype
w:st="on">College</st1:placetype> of <st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>
and the Pacific</span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">. FREE admission, seats
limited, bookings
essential on phone 6248 2000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saturday
27 February, 2pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">A POET<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="info"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">(</span></span><em><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Puisi
tak terkuburkan</span></em><span class="info"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">)
Dir: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Garin Nugroho</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Indonesia</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
1996, 83 mins, video,
(unclassified 18+)</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shot
on
video in seven days, Nugroho’s work is still one of the few Indonesian
films
to confront <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Indonesia</st1:country-region></st1:place>’s
own
‘killing fields’ of 1965. Famous Aceh poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself
in
the film, using the ‘Didong’ style of traditional Acehnese poetic
ballad to
express the trauma of the thousands of Acehnese (and another estimated
500,000
plus across Indonesia) who were detained and murdered as suspected
‘Communists’
by Indonesian military.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Saturday 27 February,
4.30pm<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">AGRARIAN UTOPIA<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="info"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">(</span></span><em><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Sawan
baan na</span></em><span class="info"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">) Dir: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on">Uruphong Raksasad</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Thailand</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
2009, 120 mins,
(unclassified 18+)</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Uruphong
Raksasad
gave up mainstream filmmaking to return to his North Thai rural roots,
and a new career in the hybrid docudrama form. For his new work,
Uruphong
rented a local rice paddy and convinced two local families to work on
the land
with him over a number of seasons, meanwhile also building a
relationship with
a former sociologist gone back-to-nature and his own eccentric
agricultural
methods. The result is a hauntingly beautiful testament to a passing
way of
living off and with the land, and the winner of the UNESCO prize at the
2009
Asia- Pacific Screen Awards. <strong><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Uruphong
Raksasad will introduce this <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Canberra</st1:city></st1:place>
premiere screening.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Saturday 27 February,
outdoors (doors open 7pm, screening
starts at sundown)<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">THE SCREEN AT KAMCHANOD<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="info"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">(</span></span><em><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Pee
Chang Nang</span></em><span class="info"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">) Dir:
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Songsak Mongkolthong</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Thailand</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
2007, 97 mins, 35mm,
(unclassified 18+)</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In
1987,
an outdoor movie screening in rural <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Thailand</st1:country-region></st1:place> was reportedly
attended by
spirits, who emerged from the forest to watch and then suddenly
disappeared.
>From this urban myth, director Mongkolthong has fashioned one of the
most
chilling hits of recent Thai horror cinema, resetting the story to a
team of
investigators who borrow the film print and a deserted Bangkok cinema
to look
for the truth – and find their screening being invaded by invisible
patrons who
just love to put their feet up on the seats! <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Canberra</span></strong></st1:city></st1:place><strong><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> Premiere.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Sunday 28 February, 2pm<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">AT THE END OF DAYBREAK<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="info"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">(</span></span><em><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Sham
moh</span></em><span class="info"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">)
Dir: Ho <st1:city w:st="on">Yuhang</st1:city>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">South Korea</st1:country-region>/
Hong Kong/ <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Malaysia</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
2009,
94 mins, 35mm, (unclassified 18+)</span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In
a
story that could be by S.E. Hinton or filmed by Nick Ray, working-class
boy
Chai loves middle-class schoolgirl Ying even more than his motorcycle.
But he’s
23 and she’s 15. When they are found out, her greedy parents plot to
blackmail
his struggling alcoholic mother (a surprising bit of off-casting for HK
action
heroine Kara Hui) to pay for their childrens’ Australian university
tuition. Ho
Yuhang (<em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rain Dogs</span></em>)
is the
master of a new sort of Malaysian neo-noir, using its gleam and style
to
comment on the class, gender and race relationships of a complex modern
Asian
society. <b style="">Australian Premiere.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">Sunday 28 February,
4.30pm<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<h3 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri;">ADRIFT<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="info"><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">(</span></span><em><span
style="font-family: Calibri;">Choi
voi</span></em><span class="info"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">)
Dir: Bui <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Thac Chuyn</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
2009, 102 mins, 35mm, (unclassified 18+)</span></span><span
style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Naďve
middle-class
bride Duyen marries taxi driver Hai for his good-looks and stable
income. But Hai quickly retreats from the marital bed to his mother’s
cooking,
leaving Duyen to the consolation of writer friend <st1:place w:st="on">Cam</st1:place>
and her circle of Western-lifestyle hedonists. This is a tale from
modern <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Hanoi</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype></st1:place>
that surprises in its sensuality, art movie production design and
erotic power.
“After all the lean years in which Vietnamese cinema was kept alive by
émigrés…
here at last… a home-grown movie to compare with the best in current
East-Asian
cinema.” – Shelly Kraicer. <strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Australian
premiere.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;" lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Thursday 4 March, 2pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">THE MAIN THING IS TO STAY
ALIVE <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">(<i>L’important
c’est
de rester vivant</i>) Dir: Roshane Saidnattar, France/Cambodia, 2009,
97
mins, video, (unclassified 18+)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">A
childhood slave and then survivor
of refugee camps, before settling with her mother in France, Roshane
Saidnattar
returns to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Cambodia</st1:country-region></st1:place>
to interview Khieu Samphan, the unrepentant and (when the film was
shot) still
at-liberty Khmer Rouge ideologue. Then, alongside her mother and own
daughter,
three generations make an emotional journey back to the hamlet where
she’d been
born into Year Zero. Saidnattar’s film is a stunning reminder of the
stories
still to be told about the “killing fields”. </span><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Canberra</span></st1:city></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;"> Premiere</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Thursday 4 March, 7pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">INDEPENDENCIA and MEMORIES
OF A FORGOTTEN WAR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Total
tunning time 129 mins. Both films (unclassified 18+)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Raya
Martin’s </span><i><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Independencia</span></i><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;"> </span><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">(Philippines,
2009, 76 mins, 35mm)
is an allegory of 20th century Filipino history and America’s
beginnings as a
colonial power, shot in homage in the poverty-row style of Filipino
studio
movies of the 1930s, with a “…dreamlike poetry that… (shows) the spirit
of
resistance… to be mysterious, unending.” (Tony Rayns). Preceded by </span><i><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Memories of a Forgotten War</span></i><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">
(USA/Philippines, 2001, 55 mins,
video); <a
href="http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/persons/sari-lluch-dalena/"><span
style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Sari Lluch Dalena</span></a><span
style=""> </span>and <a
href="http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/en/persons/camilla-benolirao-griggers/"><span
style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Camilla Benolirao
Griggers</span></a>’ docu-dramatisation of the brutal
Philippine–American Wars
of the early 20<sup>th</sup> century; little-known, but resonating in
future US
conflicts in Vietnam and Iraq. </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Canberra</span></st1:city></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;"> Premieres.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Saturday 6 March, 7pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">SLICE!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Dir: <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Kongkiat Komesiri</st1:city>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Thailand</st1:country-region></st1:place>, 2009, 95 mins,
35mm,
(unclassified 18+)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">A
red-suitcase wheeling killer is
carving up <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Bangkok</st1:city></st1:place>’s
sleazy
nouvelle riche and tourists. A deeply undercover cop remembers a
bullied
childhood friend from his village and begins to make a connection
between the
friend and the killer’s M.O. The cop’s no longer certain which side of
the law
he’s on, but his police handlers send him back home to track the lead
down. An inventive
genre diversion for its co-scriptwriters, Thai New Wave master
directors Wisit
Sasanatieng (<i>Tears of the Black Tiger</i>) and Kongkiat Komesiri, </span><i><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Slice!</span></i><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">
gives the modern serial killer
genre movie a very Thai twist. </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Canberra</span></st1:city></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;"> Premiere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Sunday 7 March, 2pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">THE MAIN THING IS TO STAY
ALIVE <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">(<i>L’important
c’est
de rester vivant</i>) Dir: Roshane Saidnattar, France/Cambodia, 2009,
97
mins, video, (unclassified 18+)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">Year
Zero survivor Roshane
Saidnattar makes an emotional journey back to the Cambodian hamlet
where she
was a born, confronting the memories and the perpetrators of a
childhood as a
Khmer Rouge child slave. </span><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on"><span style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;">Canberra</span></st1:city></st1:place><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black;"> Premiere</span><span
style="font-family: Calibri; color: black; font-weight: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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