F4 Program Announced
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THE LAW OF THE DRAGONDirector: Weijun Chen - F4 Master The Law of the Dragon examines the way in which the Chinese legal system is trying to cope with the myriad recent dramatic changes to Chinese life and society by following the fortunes of a provincial legal practice, the Tiger Law Firm of Chengdu... Screening 5pm, Saturday 3 March - read more. |
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THE BIGGEST CHINESE RESTAURANT IN THE WORLDDirector: Weijun Chen - F4 Master West Lake Restaurant in South China's Changsha can safely call itself the biggest Chinese restaurant in the world, with its staff of 1,000 working 5,000 tables and serving no fewer than 150 ducks per day and 200 snakes per week. The words of the restaurant's staff and guests are used in the film to paint a picture of modern China... Screening Friday 2 March, 3pm - more information. |
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PUNITIVE DAMAGEDirector: Annie Goldson - F4 Master |
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BROTHER NUMBER ONEDirector: Annie Goldson - F4 Master Brother Number One is a New Zealand documentary on the torture and murder of New Zealand yachtie Kerry Hamill by the Khmer Rouge in 1978. It follows the journey of Kerry's younger brother, Rob Hamill, an Olympic and Trans-Atlantic champion rower, who travels to Cambodia to retrace the steps taken by his brother and John Dewhirst, speaking to eyewitnesses, perpetrators and survivors... Screening Sunday 4 March, 5pm - read more. |
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EL GENERALDirector: Natalia Almada - F4 Master Past and present collide as filmmaker Natalia Almada brings to life audio recordings she inherited about her great-grandfather, General Plutarco Elías Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924... Screening Saturday 3 March, 3pm - read more. |
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EL VELADORDirector: Natalia Almada - F4 Master From dusk to dawn El Velador accompanies Martin, the guardian angel whom, night after night, watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious Drug Lords. In the labyrinth of the narco-cemetery, this film about violence without violence reminds us how, in the turmoil of Mexico's bloodiest conflict since the Revolution, ordinary life persists and quietly defies the dead... Screening Saturday 3 March, 7pm - read more. |
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THE BOY MIR - TEN YEARS IN AFGHANISTANDirector: Phil Grabsky - F4 Master Following the international hit The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan, The Boy Mir covers not one year but ten. It tracks the cheeky, enthusiastic Mir from a childish eight to a fully-grown eighteen-year-old. Over those ten years, it is a journey into early adulthood in one of the toughest places on earth; a journey that mirrors the current and vitally important story of Afghanistan... Screening Saturday 3 March, 9pm - read more. |
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THE BOY WHO PLAYS ON THE BUDDHAS OF BAMIYANDirector: Phil Grabsky - F4 Master In 2001, the Taliban government of Afghanistan destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan; the world's tallest stone sculptures. By the summer of 2002, after the fall of the Taliban, more than 250 Afghans, most of them Hazara refugees, were living in caves beside the rubble. This film, organized chronologically over four seasons, follows a refugee family living there, including Mir, a smiling lad of eight... Screening Friday 2 March, 7pm, read more. |
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MY THAI BRIDEDirector: David Tucker - F4 Award Finalist Ted, a 46-year old salesman from Wales, visits Thailand on business. After revelling in the carnal pleasures of Bangkok, he falls in love with Tip,a bar girl. They marry and start a new life in her poor, rural home. Ted soon finds he isn’t alone. In northeast Thailand marriage to foreign men has become an industry. Things soon sour for Ted... Screening Sunday 4 March, 1pm - read more.
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RECIPE FOR MURDERDirector: Sonia Bible - F4 Award Finalist Sydney 1953, a city in the grip of a deadly crime wave. In just over a year more than one hundred people were poisoned. The shocking truth is that most of the killers were women. Recipe For Murder tells the true story of three notorious poisoners; Yvonne Fletcher, Caroline Grills and Veronica Monty... Screening Sunday 4 March, 3pm - read more. |
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KILLING ANNADirector: Paul Gallasch - F4 Award Finalist After my long term girlfriend, Anna, asked me to move out of our home I have found myself wishing that she had instead died in a tragic accident. In order to understand how this fantasy makes sense in the context of my continual love for her, I organize and perform a funeral service as if her death was real...and film the process of putting it on... Screening Sunday 4 March, 3pm - read more. |
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FANTOME ISLANDDirector: Sean Gilligan - F4 Award Finalist
He was immediately removed from his family and home and transported under police escort over a thousand kilometres to be confined on an island for the treatment of the disease. For the next ten years, a leprosarium for Aboriginal people became his home... Screening Friday 2 March, 5pm - read more. |
Program
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 March 2012
Mercury Cinema, Adelaide, South Australia
F4 is a free event within the annual Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) and in 2012 is being co-presented with the Adelaide Festival of Arts during the opening weekend of the Festival.
F4 offers the general public a rare opportunity to see remarkable documentaries on the big screen.
The program includes documentaries from International Master Filmmakers and the works of Australia’s best emerging documentary talents.
F4 films provide a unique window into worlds, cultures and places, celebrating the authors of the screen and their unique points of view.
Filmmakers attend each screening and give a post-show Q&A.
All screenings have free admission and are open to the general public.
F4 2012 is pleased to be co-presented with the Adelaide Festival of Arts during the opening weekend of the Festival.
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Contact
First Factual Films Festival (F4)
Adelaide Studios, 226 Fullarton Road
Glenside, SA, 5065
+61 (0)8 8394 2595
+61 (0)8 8271 9905
For further information contact F4 Manager, marketplace@aidc.com.au
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