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 28 JULY
11am - The Boy Who Was a King
With warmth and humour, auteur documentarian Andrei
Paounov applies an absurdist eye to the rollercoaster relationship
of a European royal and the country he was born to rule. It was
1943 and Bulgaria was an ally of Nazi Germany when Simeon
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was crowned Tsar. He was seven years old.
Running time: 90 minutes.
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1pm - Call me Kuchu
Meet the very brave and inspiring LGBT-rights activists in
Uganda who are fighting a tide of homophobia driven by imported
evangelism, political opportunism and tabloid scandal. At the heart
of this vital documentary is veteran activist David Kato. Uganda's
first openly gay man, David is something of a godfather to the
kuchus, as the Ugandan LGBT community call themselves.
Running time: 87 minutes
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3pm - Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur
Níelsdóttir
Appropriately shot on Super-8 and replete with analogue special
effects (aka collages), this film introduces us to a legendary
little old lady of Icelandic music, Sigrídur Níelsdóttir. She had
made music all her life but never recorded any of it until her
children gave her a cassette recorder for her 71st birthday.
Running time: 62 minutes.
Screening with: Ato-Miss
Our robot friend Ato-Mick returns to save the world from losing
all its colour and introduces a new playmate: Ato-Miss.
Running time: 21 minutes
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6pm - Step Up to the Plate
Born and raised in the Aubrac region of central southern France,
chef Michel Bras started his career in the kitchen of his parents'
inn before taking over the business and winning his Michelin stars.
Now he is preparing to hand over to his son, Sébastien, but showing
little inclination to change the pattern of his days. Paul
Lacoste's documentary follows father and son and acquaints us with
the extended family through this transitional year.
Running time: 90 minutes
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SUNDAY 29 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 - Death Row Portraits: Joseph Garcia, George
Rivas & Hank Skinner
Conceived alongside the feature Into the
Abyss, the Death
Rowseries 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 Joseph Garcia, George Rivas and Hank Skinner.
Total running time: 104 minutes
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3pm - In My Mother's Arms
This urgent documentary takes us into Baghdad's most dangerous
neighbourhood, where one determined man has taken it upon himself
to rescue several dozen orphans from the dangers of the streets and
the brutal conditions of state-run orphanages.
Running time: 86 minutes.
Screening with: Two
Princes
Following the death of a beloved wife and mother, a father
struggles to connect with his preoccupied sons.
Running time: 15 minutes
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6pm - 5 Broken Cameras
The political is utterly personal in this
account of five years in the life of Palestinian farmer Emad
Burnat, his wife, four small children and their friends and
neighbours in the village of Bil'in in the central West Bank.
Burnat was a typical camera-wielding dad recording family
occasions, but when his son Gibreel was born on the same day that
Israelis began ripping up olive trees near his home, Burnat filmed
both events.
Running time: 90 minutes
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