International Film Festival

COST: $120 (adult – Season Pass), $110 (concession/Belgrave member – Season Pass), $37.50pp (Opening Night), $17.50 (adult), $14.50 (concession), $13.50 (student), $12.50 (child), $10 (Belgrave member). Bar available each day after 5pm (Sparkling, White Wine, Red Wine, Beer).

Friday, 9 September (Opening Night), 5.00pm for 7.00pm start – Gin cocktail (from Dobson’s Distillery) and gourmet canapés on arrival.

I Drive My Car – MA15+|Drama|2h 59m|Japan – An aging, widowed actor seeks a chauffeur. The actor turns to his go-to mechanic, who ends up recommending a 20-year-old girl. Despite their initial misgivings, a very special relationship develops between the two.

Saturday, 10 September (day), from 11.00am

Petite Maman – PG|Drama, Fantasy, Family|1h 12m|France – Nelly, an 8-year-old girl, has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. One day, her mom abruptly leaves and Nelly meets a girl her age as she is building a tree-house in the woods.

Flee – M|Documentary, Animation|1h 29m|Denmark – Recounted mostly through animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his past as a child refugee from Afghanistan as he grapples with a secret he has kept hidden for 20 years.

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom – PG|Drama, Family|1h 49m|Bhutan – A teacher struggling for inspiration travels to the most remote school in the world. It takes being so far way to understand the importance of his work…and to appreciate the value of yak dung!

Saturday, 10 September (night)

Ghahreman (A Hero) – PG|Drama|2h 7m|Iran – Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his com[plaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things do not go as planned. Is he truly a hero?

Sunday, 11 September (day), from 10.00am

Haute Couture – M|Drama|1h 36m|France – Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by Jade, an aimless young woman.

Quo Vadis, Aida? – M|War, Drama|1h 44m|Serbia – During the Srebrenica massacre, Aida, an English teacher and translator, strives to save her husband and children from the invading Serbian forces by taking refuge in a United Nations camp

Murina – 15+|Drama|1h 35m|Croatia – A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.