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SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER
New Zealand 2019
96 mins
BELLBIRD
Hamish Bennett
13:15 | GATE NARRATIVE
Ross (Marshall Napier) is a third-generation dairy farmer in northern New Zealand, his taciturn, inward nature more evident when tragedy strikes his family. Recognising he is getting too old for farming, he expects his son Bruce (Cohen Holloway) to take on the land, though squeamish Bruce is more inclined to keep his job at the local dump, where he has found a knack of restoring abandoned treasures. Evocatively filmed in its rural locations, Hamish Bennett’s winning drama has wry observations on grief, community and masculinity and an appealing, warm sense of humour. MH
Second Chance Monday 11 Nov | 15:15 | Gate
Official Selection, Sydney Film Festival, 2019
MIKE WALLACE IS HERE
Avi Belkin
13:30 | GATE
USA 94 mins 2019
Second Chance Mon 11 Nov | 12:45 | Gate
While working for more than four decades on the celebrated CBS news magazine programme 60 Minutes, Mike Wallace was able to interrogate some of the most influential figures of the 20th century. He established a reputation as a journalist determined to hold the powerful to account, yet he was also a showman and his on-screen persona masked tragedy and torment in his private life. Avi Belkin’s appropriately unflinching portrait of Wallace charts the evolution of broadcast journalism and reminds us that vitality, nobility and integrity exist in American news media at a time when the worth of such values is increasingly under vexed scrutiny. MH
DOCUMENTARY
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2019
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS 2 – DELICATE RELATIONSHIPS
13:45 | GATE
Happy Ending EunJu Ara Choi Virago Kerli Kirch Schneider Miss Chazelles Thomas Vernay In Bloom Maya Armon
SHORTS
Various 93 mins 2019
After the Summer (Efter Sommeren) Bjarke Underbjerg
Hush Armağan Ballantyne
The Hedgehog’s Dilemma (Le Dilemme du Porc-Épic) Francesca Scalisi Rain (Deszcz) Piotr Milczarek
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