Features
Screenings will take place in the 400 seat Tramsheds Function Centre and the Faculty of Performing Arts Annexe Theatre (150 seats) in Launceston’s Inveresk Precinct. Village Cinema (400 seats) will also be a venue for specific major screenings. Around 30 features and documentaries will be shown, with a mix of Australian/indigenous, international and digital media/animation.
The intention is to select only the highest quality films which will draw significant audiences, provide a high quality viewing experience and enhance the themes of the festival.
One award will be judged as the MyState BOFA Freshest Feature Film Award. Awards will be in the form of a glass blown Tasmanian Devil (designed by Tasmanian Glass Blowers) with etched details.
Feature films will be shown out of competition (but there will be an audience choice award).
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→ DOWNLOAD 2011 PDF PROGRAM
→ Download 2011 PDF Programme Directory Guide – The Directory will have all event codes, venues and times.
 Happy Happy8.00PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Despite her misogynist husband, to Kaja, family is the most important thing in the world. However, when "the perfect couple" moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. →more |
 Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search For A Kool Place11.00AM → PURCHASE TICKETS Kesey intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16MM, but the film was never finished. →more |
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 Burning in the Sun11.00AM → PURCHASE TICKETS 26-year-old charmer Daniel Dembélé is looking to make his mark on the world. At a crossroads in his life, he decides to return to his homeland, Mali, to build solar panels – the first in his sun-drenched nation. →more |
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 Jeffie Was Here1.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Alan Mangold is a tightly-wound professor in his 30s who dreams of a better life beyond his shoebox apartment… if only he could complete his opus, “Orphan Bastard.” →more |
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 Home1.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Narrated by Glenn Close, Home takes you on a visually stunning, spectacular voyage around the world. Filmed entirely from the air, it is a unique film that gives viewers the opportunity to see for themselves how our earth is changing. →more |
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 Van Diemen’s Land3.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Van Diemen’s Land is an Australian thriller set in 1822 in colonial Tasmania. The true story of Alexander Pearce (Jason Glover), Australia’s most notorious convict. →more |
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 The Fall5.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS A psychologically complex tale of a hospitalized paraplegic with a curious knack for storytelling. Confined to his sterile environment, the immobile patient’s deepest fears form the basis of a dark story that he shares with his young companion. →more |
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 Meat the Truth5.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS A high-profile documentary, presented by Dutch MP Marianne Thieme, which examines one of the most important causes of climate change: livestock farming. →more |
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 Face to Face7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS From Australia’s most acclaimed playwright, David Williamson, the moving story of a young construction worker who rams into the back of his boss’s Jaguar in a fit of anger at being sacked. →more |
 My America11.00AM → PURCHASE TICKETS As a child, filmmaker Peter Hegedus was obsessed with Hollywood movies – Barack Obama’s stirring post-election speech inspired Hegedus to rediscover his American Dream. →more |
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 I Am11.00AM → PURCHASE TICKETS I Am is about issues and dilemmas that bruise the modern Indian society. The film unfolds many a tale of individuals struggling to find their identity, and uphold their dignity in a world that is callous, cold and unsympathetic. →more |
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 The Hunter1.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS The Hunter is a powerful psychological drama that tells the story of Martin (Willem Dafoe), a mercenary sent by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a dramatic hunt for the last Tasmanian Tiger. →more |
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 Passengers1.30PM Passengers is a film where looks, glances and moments of introspection reveal so much about character. A compulsive viewing experience. →more |
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 Little Sparrows1.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Beautiful and poignant, Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen’s brilliantly written debut feature is a hyper -realistic family tale focusing on the relationship between Susan, a mother dying of cancer. →more |
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 Medianeras8.00PM → PURCHASE TICKETS This modern tale of serendipity and hope will warm your soul. Martin and Mariana are lonely people living in opposite buildings, towering over Buenos Aires, Argentina. →more |
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 20 Cigarettes5.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Based on director Aureliano Amadei’s 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty eight year old anarchist and anti-war activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director. →more |
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 The Hungry Tide5.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS An average two meters above sea level, the central Pacific nation of Kiribati is one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change. →more |
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 Whistleblower7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Kathy Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) is a Nebraskan police officer who takes a job working for the United Nations as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. →more |
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 33 Postcards7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS For ten years, Chinese orphan Mei Mei dreams of meeting her Australian sponsor, Dean Randall, (Guy Pearce) and his ‘perfect family’. →more |
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 The Guard7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang – one, a maverick Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent (Don Cheadle). →more |
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 Face to Face7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS From Australia’s most acclaimed playwright, David Williamson, the moving story of a young construction worker who rams into the back of his boss’s Jaguar in a fit of anger at being sacked. →more |
 Here I Am10.30AM → PURCHASE TICKETS Karen (Shai Pittman) is a beautiful young woman, fresh out of prison, with a burning desire to turn her life around but no one to call for help. →more |
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 Beaconsfield12.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Beaconsfield is a Southern Star production for the Nine Network and producer John Edwards will talk about the film and show excerpts for the MyState BOFA audience. Be the first to see a preview of one of the biggest TV events of 2012. →more |
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 More 4 Me12.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Why do we have a craving for more? In the face of the global financial crisis, More 4 Me follows (Writer/Director) Lincoln Fenner around the world as he asks everyone from actors to orphans, ‘What’s the one thing they can’t live without?” →more |
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 Cloudburst2.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Dotty and Stella have been together for more than 30 years. After Dotty takes a painful fall and is moved into a nursing home by her granddaughter, the duo break her out and pull a Thelma and Louise, hitting the road to Nova Scotia. →more |
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 Chasing Legends4.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Chasing Legends touches on the rich history, passion and true grit of The Tour as seen through the eyes of Team HTC Columbia throughout the 2009 Tour de France. →more |
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 Bill Cunningham New York4.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS For decades, 80 year old photographer Bill Cunningham has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirees for the Times. →more |
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 Skeletons7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS In this surreal comedy, a mismatched pair of travelling salesmen/operatives are in the business of cleaning skeletons out of closets. Together they travel across Britain, performing the ‘Procedure’, whereby hidden secrets and lies are exposed. →more |
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 Caught Inside7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS A surf charter to a remote paradise. A bunch of mates, uncrowded waves and one rule; leave your girlfriend at home. When this rule is broken, sexual tension, manipulation and deceit erupt into violence. →more |
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| Happy Happy 8.00PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Despite her misogynist husband, to Kaja, family is the most important thing in the world. However, when "the perfect couple" moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. →more |
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 Eye of the Storm7.30PM (TBC) → PURCHASE TICKETS Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life – society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die. Based on Patrick White’s novel, this is a savage exploration of the love and hate, comedy and tragedy of family relationships. →more |
 How I Ended This Summer10.30AM → PURCHASE TICKETS A film of exceptional performances and unforgettable cinematography, set against the spectacular, alien landscape of the windswept Arctic Circle. →more |
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 The War You Don’t See10.30AM → PURCHASE TICKETS Renowned filmmaker and award-winning Australian journalist, John Pilger, explores the role of media in war in this commanding and timely documentary. →more |
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 El Bulli12.45PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Three-star chef, Ferran Adrià, is widely considered the best, most innovative and craziest chef in the world. For six months of the year, Spanish chef, Ferran Adrià, closes his 3 Michelin star restaurant El Bulli, repeatedly voted the world’s best, and heads to Barcelona with his team to create a new menu for the coming season. →more |
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 If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front12.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS The remarkable story of the rise and fall of an Earth Liberation Front cell, described by the FBI as America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat”. Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller. →more |
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| Skeletons 12.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS In this surreal comedy, a mismatched pair of travelling salesmen/operatives are in the business of cleaning skeletons out of closets. Together they travel across Britain, performing the ‘Procedure’, whereby hidden secrets and lies are exposed. →more |
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 We Need To Talk About Kevin2.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Chilling but absolutely captivating, We Need To Talk About Kevin is directed by visionary filmmaker Lynne Ramsay – a mesmerizing, intimate piece of cinema. Tilda Swinton turns in a stunning performance as Eva, a concerned mother with a troubled, angry son – Kevin. →more |
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 Norwegian Wood2.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Tokyo, the late 1960s… Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe’s personal life is similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. →more |
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| Chasing Legends 2.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Chasing Legends touches on the rich history, passion and true grit of The Tour as seen through the eyes of Team HTC Columbia throughout the 2009 Tour de France. →more |
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 The Recipe4.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS When a renowned bloodthirsty killer reveals his last wish: to eat his favourite Korean stew, television producer CHOI Yu-jin instantly smells a scoop. Will he decipher the mystery behind the killer’s cravings? →more |
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 Tomorrow Will Be Better4.45PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Three boys drift across the wintry Russian landscape towards Poland, scavenging their way from city to city with ingenuity and humour. The wonderful landscapes of their travels contrast with the harsh realities of their lives… →more |
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