Overview
Auckland Art Gallery is thrilled to be one of the venues for the
2012 New Zealand International Film Festival. Screenings will take
place in our auditorium on the lower ground level.
Please use the main entrance on Kitchener Street for screenings
between 10am and 5pm. After 5pm you can access the auditorium via
the clocktower entrance on the corner of Kitchener and Wellesley
Streets.
Box office opens 30 minutes before each session commences until
15 minutes after each session starts. Box office closed between
sessions.
SATURDAY 21 JULY
10.30am - Side by Side
When Kodak filed for bankruptcy, the world at large finally
understood what film industry insiders already knew. The conversion
to digital is the biggest transition in film production and
exhibition since the advent of sound put thousands of cinema pit
musicians out of work and opened up a whole new world of sound
engineering. This fascinating, intelligently open-minded
documentary zeros in on some of the most significant creative and
aesthetic issues embedded in the current revolution.
Running time: 99 minutes
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12.30pm - Bernadette: Notes on a Political
Journey
A fearless, fiercely articulate Irish Republican firebrand in a
miniskirt, Bernadette Devlin became Britain's youngest elected
female MP at 21 in 1969. Veteran Irish producer Lelia Doolan, a
significant mover and shaker herself, has worked for ten years to
produce a rousing and thorough picture of this woman who was once
recognisable throughout the Western world as the embodiment of
politicised youth in revolt.
Running time: 88 minutes
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2.30pm - In Cuba
This frank documentary account of complications in the personal
life of a poor, young, Havana husband and father sheds surprising
light on life in Cuba today. Director Erich Brach spent three years
in Havana filming Chino, a deaf-mute who works on a farm to support
his feisty wife Anaylis (also deaf) and their two children. Chino,
with his crooked porn star smoulder, also hooks up regularly with
Jose, a gay visitor from Mexico City.
Running time: 108 minutes
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5.30pm - A Bitter Taste of Freedom
The crusading journalist Anna Politkovskaya, sometimes described
as 'the heart and conscience of Russia', was murdered in Moscow in
2006 and her alleged killers have only recently been arrested. In
this new portrait by one of Russia's leading documentary directors,
Marina Goldovskaya, the focus is on the character of Politkovskaya,
enlivened by striking footage of the journalist herself, her views,
her personal life, and the life of her family and relations.
Running time: 85 minutes
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SUNDAY 22 JULY
11am - Animation for Kids 2012
Sure, animation has gotta LOOK good, it has to be fun to watch.
But one of the really great things about animation is the way it
can be used to create amazing characters and make them take part in
impossible adventures big and small. That is probably the one thing
that these quirky films have in common. It may be worth keeping
that in mind as you watch this programme and are propelled from one
imaginary world to the next to the next to the next.
Running time: 64 minutes
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12.45pm - Death Row Portraits: James Barnes & Linda
Anita Carty
Conceived alongside the feature Into the Abyss,
the Death Row series consists of four riveting
hour-long documentaries, each an exemplary, in-depth true crime
report in itself. Each is shaped around an interview with a
convicted killer (or two) awaiting his or her appointment with a
lethal injection. This session features interviews with James
Barnes and Linda Anita Carty.
Total running time: 104 minutes
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3pm - The Law in These Parts
Putting the law itself on trial, this incisive documentary
interrogates the framing and persistence of the military legal
system that rules Palestinians living under occupation while
Israeli citizens in the same territory live under civilian law.
Running time: 101 minutes
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5.30pm - A Good Man
An intensely stirring depiction of creative ambition and
struggle, this portrait of African American choreographer and
dancer Bill T. Jones observes the artist as he forges a massive,
contentious dance-theatre work commissioned for the bicentennial of
Abraham Lincoln's birth.
Running time: 86 minutes
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