COTTESLOEFILM FEST IVAL

COTTESLOE CIVIC CENTRE

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Gates open 5:30pm • HAPPY HOUR from 5.30-630pmMusic & Food from 6pm • Films commence 7:30pm

including a WA Short Film each nightBYO chairs / rugs (no BYO alcohol) • EFTPOS available

Tickets: $15/$22 (+ booking fees) – available online and at the door

www.cottfilmfest.com$2 from every full ticket donated to Cottesloe Coastcare Association

Saturday 27 January - Opening Night I AM HEATH LEDGER Documentary|Canada|94 mins|M

Directed by: Adrian Buitenhuis, Derik Murray

Interviewees: Kim Ledger, Kate Ledger, Sally Bell, N’fa Jones, Naomi Watts, Ben Medelsohn, Ang Lee, Ben Harper, Emilie Hirsch, Kane Manera & Catherine Hardwicke

World Premiere – Tribeca Film Festival 2017

I AM HEATH LEDGER is a feature length documentary celebrating the life of Heath Ledger: actor, artist and icon. The documentary provides an intimate look at Heath through the lens of his own camera as he films and often performs in his own personal journey – extravagant in gesture and in action.

It was his creative energy and unshakable willingness to take risks that instilled such an extraordinarily deep love and affection in the people that entered his life. Heath’s artistic nature and expression set him apart form the Hollywood mainstream, vaulted him to stardom and endeared him to the world.

Special guest performance by ARIA awardwinning hiphop artist, N’fa Jones.

N’fa Jones is a bi-cultural Australian/Sierra-Leonean artist credited for establishing the Australian Hip Hop movement with his band 1200 Techniques, breaking onto the scene in 2000.

The band originally built its profile on an underground status before finding its success in a mainstream respect, playing major festivals around the country and winning ARIA awards (the first urban group to ever win an ARIA).

Since then N’fa has toured and lived abroad, nurturing youth groups and community events, school workshops and children with specific social difficulties through foundations such as White Lion. Winning the Camden Crawl Breakthrough Artist award while in London, N’fa found his passion as a solo artist before moving back to Australia where he released two critically acclaimed albums. He currently resides in Melbourne but maintains a place in his heart for his hometown of Perth.

Sunday 28 January PAPER PLANES Family|Australia|96 mins|G

Directed by: Robert Connolly

Cast: Ed Oxenbould, Sam Worthington, Deborah Mailman & David Wenham

AACTA Awards – Best Original Screenplay

12-year-old Dylan (Oxenbould) lives with his father (Worthington), who recently lost his wife and remains inconsolable. Dylan finds himself a passion for creating and flying paper planes, which is going to take him all the way to the World Paper Plane Championships in Tokyo, Japan.

Bring the whole family and celebrate the end of the school holidays! Kids activities from 6pm, including facepainting and a Paper Plane Competition, hosted by Swan River Ballet school. Prizes include family passes to Rottnest Island, thanks to Sealink.

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Friday 2 February L’ ODYSSÉE Adventure|France / Belgium English Subtitles|122 mins|PG

Directed by: Jérôme Salle

Cast: Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou, Vincent Heneine & Benjamin Lavernhe

Jérôme Salle’s dazzling biopic will sweep you up in its sails as it follows the chaotic life of celebrity oceanographer Jacques Cousteau; one rich in accomplishments, yet teeming with turmoil.

It is 1943 and the eccentrically ambitious naval officer Cousteau (Wilson) dreams of adventure. His magnificent new invention of the Aqua-Lung promises to bring him just that. Newly armed with the ability to breathe underwater for long periods of time, Cousteau dedicates his life’s work to his obsession with the sea, becoming the first to create underwater films that dazzle audiences worldwide.

His success comes at a cost, however, as his wife Simone (Tautou) and sons Philippe (Niney) and Jean-Michel (Lavernhe) struggle to keep up with the stormy seas of Cousteau’s fierce and unfailing determination, the ultimate price of which is yet to come.

Through a dazzling array of global exploration locations, we undertake this lyrical journey almost as if a member of Cousteau’s crew, experiencing the epic highs and excruciating lows of this pioneer’s astounding career, which changed humanity’s relationship with the sea forever.

Live music by Fiona Lawe Davies.

Saturday 3 FebruarySWINGING SAFARI Comedy|Australia|96 mins|M

Directed by: Stephan Elliot

Cast: Guy Pearce, Kylie Minogue, Radha Mitchell, Julian McMahon, Asher Keddie, Jeremy Sims & Jack Thompson

SWINGING SAFARI is a colourful satire of a typical Australian beachside neighbourhood, in the height of a 1970s summer. The comedy captures the innocence of an era of careless parenting, constant sunburn and suggestive adult behaviour.

From director, Stephan Elliott (THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT) with an all-star Australian cast including Kylie Minogue and Guy Pearce. SWINGING SAFARI is a celebration of the Australian summer combined with a healthy dose of nostalgia and laugh out loud comedy.

Get your groove on with some Solid Gold disco tunes before the film, and dress to impress to win some fab prizes!

Friday 9 February PERFECT STRANGERS Comedy / Drama|Italy|English Subtitles|97 mins|M

The Directed by: Paolo Genovese

Cast: Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, Valerio Mastandrea, Alba Rohrwacher & Kasia Smutniak

Winner Best Film & Best Screenplay – 2016 Italian Academy Awards

The multi award-winning new comedy of manners from Paolo Genovese is a fiendishly clever take on decorum in the age of modern technology, and poses the question: how well do we really know those close to us?

The titular perfect strangers are actually seven long-time friends (three couples and one bachelor), all 40ish, who gather one night for a dinner party and agree that no private calls or messaging will disrupt their evening. Instead, in a communal fit of ‘we have nothing to hide’ bravado, they place their devices on the table, and all incoming calls and texts are shared with the group. (Letting a caller know they’re on speaker is considered a cheat). But what seems at first like an innocent and playful distraction between friends quickly turns into something more, as the messages start to reveal some eye-opening secrets and how little they may truly know about the partners and acquaintances opposite.

Fairly bristling with of-the-moment talking points about the wonders and complications of modern technology, PERFECT STRANGERS became a box office sensation in Italy. Thanks to its superb, rapid-fire dialogue and terrific ensemble cast, the film effortlessly transitions between incisive comedy and emotion, delivering a fresh and wildly entertaining spin on the many ways performance has come to define our public lives.

Live music from Fiona Lawe Davies 3Fiona and her band are

well known to lovers of the Perth jazz scene. Their specialty is sassy swinging jazz, which

they mix up with Latin grooves, lounge

and soul tunes.

Saturday 10 February - Closing NightTHREE SUMMERS Comedy|Australia|95 mins|M

Directed by: Ben Elton

Cast: Magda Szubanski, Michael Caton, Robert Sheehan, Rebecca Breeds, Deborah Mailman, John Waters, Kelton Pell, Jacqueline McKenzie & Peter Rowsthorn

From internationally renowned writer director Ben Elton comes an ensemble comedy that embraces the diversity of modern Australia. At a summer music festival, the feisty lead singer of an Irish folk band (Breeds) meets a folk music-hating Theremin player (Sheehan) and sparks literally fly.

Characters surrounding this awkward romance include a fiercely Aussie Morris Dancer (Caton), an Indigenous dance troupe, a group of wine-loving empty nesters, a power tripping security guard, a wannabe girl rock band and some musical asylum seekers. In fact, all manner of stories collide under the meddling eye of community radio super star, Queenie (Szubanski), who welcomes the campers back three summers in a row for a folking good time.

Fusing romance, music and Ben Elton’s trademark wit and satirical edge, Three Summers delivers an engaging folk tale of contemporary Australia with the soundtrack and the belly laughs for the summer to come. Shot in Western Australia, the film also stars The Bondi Hipsters’ Christiaan Van Vuuren and Nick Boshier.

Exclusive preview performance from the cast of We Will Rock You Perth.

Cottesloe Film Festival is donating $2 from every adult ticket to Cottesloe Coastcare Association – a volunteer group founded in 1995 to achieve a more robust and diverse ecosystem for our foreshore.

We believe it is important to protect the few remaining natural areas, so that everyone can experience and appreciate the local species of animals, plants and birds, now and in the future. We do this by collecting and propagating local seeds, replanting degraded areas, removing invasive weeds and providing walkways through fragile areas.

For more information, visit www.cottesloecoastcare.org

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