Andalucia
6 June 2008 - 6.30PM - GU George Street
7 June 2008 - 2.30PM - GU George Street
Director - Alain Gomis; Country
- France
French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis' follow-up
feature to L'Afrance is an utterly unique and endearing take
on identity politics, driven by a boldly free-fall logic that matches
the ever-meandering mind and pent-up energy of its central
protagonist. Read
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Her
Name is Sabine
6 June 2008 - 2.50PM - State
Theatre
11 June 2008 - 2.00PM - Dendy
Opera Quays
Director - Sandrine Bonnaire;
Country - France
French actor Sandrine Bonnaire documents the
moving story of her younger sister, Sabine, whose autism was
undiagnosed for many years and whose treatment, despite her loving
family's best endeavours, was often inappropriate. Read
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In
the City of Sylvia
8 June 2008 - 5.10PM - Dendy
Opera Quays
10 June 2008 - 2.00PM - State
Theatre
Director - José Luis Guerin;
Country - France, Spain
This beautifully observed elegy
to young lovers in the city is framed by the young man's romantic
voyeurism, as he sits and sketches different women, and by the
labyrinthine streets and architecture of Strasbourg. Read
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Fear(s)
of the Dark
15 June 2008 - 7.45PM - Dendy
Opera Quays
20 June 2008 - 9.30PM - Dendy
Opera Quays
Director - Blutch, Charles
Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard
McGuire; Country - France
Ten of the world's most cutting edge
graphic artists and cartoonists showcase their fertile imaginations
in this collection of the truly creepy animations. Don't go home
alone after this one! Read
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Heartbeat
Detector
13 June 2008 - 9.10PM - State
Theatre
19 June 2008 - 12.00PM - State
Theatre
Director - Nicolas Klotz;
Country - France
Polished and picture perfect, Simon, the 21st
century corporate dreamboy, starts to unravel when he is assigned to
determine the mental well-being of his chemical firm's Chief
Executive. Read
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I
Always Wanted to be a Gangster
15 June 2008 - 9.15PM - State
Theatre
17 June 2008 - 12.00PM - State
Theatre
Director - Samuel Benchetrit;
Country - France
Winner of the World Cinema Screenwriting
Award at Sundance, Benchetrit's second feature is an hilarious take
on a crime caper involving a stocking mask and a run-down roadside
cafeteria. Read
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Girl
Cut in Two
16 June 2008 - 6.30PM - State
Theatre
18 June 2008 - 10.00AM - State
Theatre
Director - Claude Chabrol;
Country - France,
French master Claude Chabrol is at his
most wicked and playful in this arch comedy of sex, greed and power
about a TV weathergirl and a famous playboy author.
Under
the Bombs
18 June 2008 - 9.00PM - GU
George Street
20 June 2008 - 6.15PM - GU
George Street
Director - Philippe Aractingi;
Country - France, United Kingdom
The aftermath of the
2006 Israeli rocket attacks in Beirut, as the community tries to pick
up the pieces. Read
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Welcome
to the Sticks
20 June 2008 - 8.45PM - State
Theatre
Director - Dany Boon; Country -
France
Directed by popular playwright and stand-up comic Dany
Boon, this breezy farce broke a 42-year box office record to
become the highest ever grossing French film in France. Read
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Persepolis
21 June 2008 - 8.00PM - State
Theatre
Director - Vincent Paronnaud,
Marjane Satrapi; Country - France, USA
Marjane Satrapi's
gorgeous black and white drawings are superbly adapted for the big
screen, in this Academy Award-nominated funny and politically
incisive film about her life. Read
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