The South Australian festival iis now an annual event.
Films from Europe, the Middle East and Australia dominate the fiction and documentary competitions at the Adelaide Film Festival (Aff), the first since an injection of government funding enabled the event to step up from being biennial to annual.
The festival will take place in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, from October 18-29.
The opening film will be the Australian premiere of Kitty Green’s Toronto premiere and awards hopeful The Royal Hotel, produced by UK-Australian outfit See-Saw Films. The world premiere of Scott Hicks’ music documentary My Name’s Ben Folds – I Play Piano,...
Films from Europe, the Middle East and Australia dominate the fiction and documentary competitions at the Adelaide Film Festival (Aff), the first since an injection of government funding enabled the event to step up from being biennial to annual.
The festival will take place in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, from October 18-29.
The opening film will be the Australian premiere of Kitty Green’s Toronto premiere and awards hopeful The Royal Hotel, produced by UK-Australian outfit See-Saw Films. The world premiere of Scott Hicks’ music documentary My Name’s Ben Folds – I Play Piano,...
- 9/14/2023
- by Sandy George
- ScreenDaily
Indonesian thriller ‘Autobiography’ and Mexican documentary ‘Sanson And Me’ among line-up.
Australia’s Adelaide Film Festival (Oct 19-30) has unveiled its first line-up since shifting from a biennial to an annual event, including 12 titles in competition.
This year’s event comprises 129 films, of which 22 world premieres, from more than 40 countries.
The competition features include Indonesian thriller Autobiography, which scooped a Fipresci prize at the weekend after playing in the Horizons strand of the Venice Film Festival. The debut feature of film critic-turned-director Makbul Mubarak is about a young man who keeps house for a retired general, finding himself torn between...
Australia’s Adelaide Film Festival (Oct 19-30) has unveiled its first line-up since shifting from a biennial to an annual event, including 12 titles in competition.
This year’s event comprises 129 films, of which 22 world premieres, from more than 40 countries.
The competition features include Indonesian thriller Autobiography, which scooped a Fipresci prize at the weekend after playing in the Horizons strand of the Venice Film Festival. The debut feature of film critic-turned-director Makbul Mubarak is about a young man who keeps house for a retired general, finding himself torn between...
- 9/12/2022
- by Sandy George
- ScreenDaily
The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and the subsequent Taliban takeover has increased attention to the plight of the country’s refugees as they attempt to escape the rapidly changing environment.
For filmmaker Jolyon Hoff, the developments give a heightened relevance to his upcoming documentary Watandar/Countryman, which is inspired by the 160th anniversary of Afghan cameleers in South Australia.
A mix of photography and storytelling is used to reflect on the history of cameleer descendants, while also referencing global tensions between Islam and Christianity, and the undermining of the Un Geneva Convention.
Locations range from the remote deserts and old Ghantowns of Sa to the Adelaide suburbs, as well as Marree, the site of the Australasian Camel Cup.
At the centre of the film is the journey of photographer and human rights activist Muzafar Ali, whom Hoff met in Indonesia eight years ago while Ali was still a refugee.
For filmmaker Jolyon Hoff, the developments give a heightened relevance to his upcoming documentary Watandar/Countryman, which is inspired by the 160th anniversary of Afghan cameleers in South Australia.
A mix of photography and storytelling is used to reflect on the history of cameleer descendants, while also referencing global tensions between Islam and Christianity, and the undermining of the Un Geneva Convention.
Locations range from the remote deserts and old Ghantowns of Sa to the Adelaide suburbs, as well as Marree, the site of the Australasian Camel Cup.
At the centre of the film is the journey of photographer and human rights activist Muzafar Ali, whom Hoff met in Indonesia eight years ago while Ali was still a refugee.
- 9/23/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
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