GB International Film Festival
Preparation for the 2012 Golden Bay International Film Festival are in full swing, with the programme line-up in the process of being confirmed.
The Festival opens on Friday 20th April, with a free introduction to all the movies. Just the thing to give you an overview of the Festival and to help you decide which flavour of Festival Pass you will need. See below for information on Festival Passes.
Festival Opening
Friday 20th April 7pm
There will be a FREE introduction to all the Festival has to offer. Enjoy a glass of wine whilst you browse the movie information on display. Listen to Sarah, the Village Theatre Manager,tell you about all the movies and screen all the trailers, before purchasing the Festival Pass with the right deal for you.
This is a 'must not miss' session!
Festival Movies:
The First Beautiful Thing (Italy)
A middle-aged resentful loner reluctantly returns to his childhood home when his mother becomes ill. The trip sparks bittersweet memories of his childhood, his beautiful mother, and his jealous father.
Tabloid (UK)
Joyce McKinney was a tabloid newspaper's dream. Her personal crusade for love and personal vindication took her through a surreal world of gunpoint abduction, manacled Mormons, bondage modelling and dreams of celestial unions. What is more, she is a real person.
A Separation (Iran)
The winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film focusses on a middle-class couple who attempt to separate. With acute attention to class, religious and gender differences, the film explores the cultural, social and judicial minefield of contemporary Iran.
Footnote (Israel)
Father and son eccentric professors operate in very different ways and are great rivals.When an unexpected award turns the tables the son is torn between pride and poisonous envy.
Brother Number One (NZ)
Olympic rower Rob Hamill travels to Cambodia to retrace the events that saw his elder brother, Kerry, imprisoned, tortured and murdered by the Khmer Rouge in 1978.
The Women on the 6th Floor (France)
A breezy upstairs/downstairs comedy, set in a Paris apartment block the 1960s. A rich couple live their lives unaware that the floor above them houses the maids for the entire building, most of them Spanish refugees.
The Bang Bang Club (Canada/South Africa)
In the final days of Apartheid, four combat photographers take huge risks to capture images of the horrific violence. But the high stress of the job takes its toll on the men.
Journey of a Story (NZ)
William Brown returns home from being a prisoner of war in WW2 to find a very different NZ from the one that he left behind. Forced to leave the home he planned to enjoy with his wife and young son, he struggles to cope.
Vincent Wants to Sea (Germany)
Vincent is a young man with Tourette's Syndrome. Placed in an institution by his politician father, Vincent leaves in a hurry with other inmates to scatter his beloved mother's ashes in the Italian seaside resort that she loved.
The Hunter (Aus)
This psychological drama set in the Tasmanian wilderness centres on a hunt for the supposedly extinct Tasmanian Tiger, plus an examination of the ethics involved when big business conflicts with the natural world.
Weekend (UK)
A one night stand becomes something more, turning into an unconventional love story between two young men trying to make sense of their lives.
One Day on Earth (The world)
We take part in the Earth Day Global screening of the movie compiled from over 3000 hours of simultaneous footage from around the world, exploring the diversity, challenges and humanity found on our planet today.
Festival Passes
Unlimited Pass: Adult $85 Concession $75 Sch Student $55
4 Movie Pass: Adult $45 Concession $35 Sch Student $25
Festival Passes will be available from 16th April
Normal admission prices apply for individual movies: $12.50 / $10.00 / $7.00
20th April - 6th May 2012