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FILMS
Screening times | 7 - 16 March 2024
Thursday 7 March 2024
Friday 8 March 2024
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PATRICK THE WHALE
5:30PM AEDT | A&I HALL
For years, marine videographer Patrick Dykstra has dedicated his life to traveling the globe, following and diving with whales. Using stunning underwater footage, this multi award-winning documentary follows his personal journey and the extraordinary connection he developed with a female sperm whale.
SPECIAL EVENT:
THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA
QUEEN OF THE DESERT
Event begins 6:00PM AEDT
Includes: Panel, Musical Performance and Film Screening
With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam and Bernadette journey across the Australian Outback in their battered, pink tour bus "Priscilla", along the way encountering various groups and individuals.
Our 30th Anniversary Extravaganza includes an insightful panel with the director and members of the production team, so you can hear the untold stories of Priscilla, plus a special performance from Lismore's Queen of Drag Queens, Maude Boate.
COCORICO TAPES
9:30PM AEDT | A&I HALL
Italy, 1993: youngster Loris Riccardi becomes the art director of a night club destined to become amongst the most transgressive in Europe and certainly the most radical in Italy: Cocoricò. He transorms the dance floor into a place of provocation, where everything is permitted in the name of art.
Sunday 10 March 2024
THE MUSHROOM WHISPERERS
AUDIOVISUAL CONCERT | 3:00PM AEDT | A&I HALL
The Mushroom Whisperers is an audio-visual concert featuring Romano Crivici and Carla Thackrah, the composers behind the magnificent score of Follow The Rain. They are joined by one of Australia’s finest didgeridoo players Mark Atkins, and multi-instrumentalist Jess Ciampa with the quartet bringing you an intimate, immersive live music event, set to the backdrop of stunning timelapse footage from Follow the Rain.
Monday 11 March 2024
FINDING THE MONEY
5:00PM AEDT | A&I HALL
Can Modern Money Theory (MMT) be the answer to the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality? Led by Stephanie Kelton, an underdog group of economists is on a mission to instigate a paradigm shift by flipping our understanding of the national debt — and the nature of money itself — upside down.
Tuesday 12 March 2024
THEATRE OF THOUGHT
5:00PM AEDT | A&I HALL
Through the lens of legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, Theatre of Thought takes us on a provocative journey into the study of the mind and consciousness, daring us to question whether we truly have autonomy over our thoughts, or if our brains will inevitably become infused with mind-controlling technology in the not so distant future.
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Wednesday 13 March 2024
Thursday 14 March 2024
DUSTYESKY MEET ALEKSANDR DOVZHENKO’S EARTH
7:30PM AEDT | A&I HALL
The much beloved choir Dustyesky return to the stage with their very first film concert! The choir will accompany the screening of the Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s 1930 masterpiece Earth (Zemlya) for an extraordinary meeting of voices and film.
Earth is celebrated by film critics as one of cinema’s supreme visual masterpieces from the acclaimed Ukranian filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko.
Friday 15 March 2024
A LOVE LETTER TO MUSICALS WITH SHIRE CHOIR
5:00PM AEDT | A&I HALL
An ode to the magic of musicals and to singing your heart out. A feature-length sing-along mash-up made of some of the most famous and beloved songs from iconic musicals with each song sung live by a chorus.
This is a one-of-a-kind emphatic love letter to musicals and to singing, created by the Shire Choir for the Bangalow Film Festival. Singalongs encouraged!
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NOSFERATU (A)LIVE
9:30PM AEDT | A&I HALL
Screening of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror with a LIVE score performance by Jai Piccone
This special live music-and-film event brings together the multitalented Jai Piccone and F.W. Murnau’s iconic 1922 silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.
Saturday 16 March 2024
THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN
10:30AM AEDT | A&I HALL
Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the whole Muppet gang are at it again. This time, the musical menagerie heads for the Big Apple and the bright lights of Broadway, hoping to turn their own musical into a hit show, only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.
DEEP RISING
3:30PM AEDT | A&I HALL
A gripping and up-to-the-minute tale of geopolitical, scientific, and corporate intrigue that exposes the destructive machinations to extract massive amounts of of metals from the deep seafloor. Narrated by Jason Momoa, Deep Rising illuminates the vital relationship between the deep ocean and sustaining life on Earth.
POSSO ENTRARE? AN ODE TO NAPLES
5:00PM AEDT | A&I HALL
Naples, a city of passion, culture and fervid creativity, but also of abandonment and crime. Director Trudie Styler explores the contrasts and complexities of this unique city. Letting the people of Naples telling the story of their city, this heartfelt documentary reveals a unique microcosmos of generosity and cruelty, of lights and shadows.
TRILOGY: NEW WAVE
7:30PM AEDT | A&I HALL
Elite surfers Ethan Ewing, Griffin Colapinto and Seth Moniz travel to remote destinations searching for pristine waves and an escape from the stress of competition. Trilogy: New Wave follows them as they balance their careers with a desire to rediscover the joy of surfing, free from contest scores.
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