Tasmania’s only film festival comes to Launceston this November to showcase fresh, innovative stories to inspire you to see the world differently, BOFA screens shorts before each film and presents enticing conversation with film makers and experts after each film. Just a short flight away and tickets as low as $60 from Sydney, Tasmania has a host of wonders to experience post-festival, including the Tamar Valley; a vibrant hub for food and wine, culture and nature.
Winter’s Sleep – (Winner Palme d’Or Cannes Film Festival 2014)
Aydin (Haluk Bilginer) runs the small hotel with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship, and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities. Bilginer gives a magnificent performance as the man at its centre, presiding over a mountain village in rural Turkey where the homes are indeed built into the rocks, like fantastical ant-hives, abuzz with tension. Near-perfect film making – beautiful, engaging and powerful.
When: Saturday November 8, 7.30pm
Where: Tramshed Theatre, 2-4 Invermay Rd, Invermay
Two Days, One Night – (Winner of Best Film at Sydney Film Festival 2014)
The film opens with a ringing phone that brings Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard’s (Rust and Bone) Sandra the news that her job at a local solar-panel factory is due to be dropped. The decision was made by a vote of Sandra’s 16 co-workers, who were forced to choose between saving her job or their own €1,000 annual bonuses. Only two voted in Sandra’s favour. Now her only recourse is to organise a second vote by secret ballot and hope for a different outcome. It is already Friday afternoon, and Sandra has until Monday morning to rally the seven additional votes she needs. A one woman tour-de-force.
When: Sunday November 9, 2.00pm
Where: Tramshed Theatre, 2-4 Invermay Rd, Invermay
Full program available here bofa.com.au/2014/bofa-program/