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28 June 2012 - 8 July 2012
Grahamstown, South Africa
What's on @ Olive Schreiner

Thursday 30 June 10:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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San Qiang pai an Jing Qi Courtesy of Video Vision In this arch remake of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple by the Chinese master of romance and action (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers) Zhang Yimou, the ...

Saturday 9 July 12:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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San Qiang pai an Jing Qi Courtesy of Video Vision In this arch remake of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple by the Chinese master of romance and action (Raise the Red Lantern, House of Flying Daggers) Zhang Yimou, the ...

Friday 1 July 10:00 am @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF NU-METRO The fifth film from the ever intelligent Darren Aronofsky is a sensuous psychological thriller set in the world of the New York City Ballet: it plays like a shape-shifting amalgam of Rosemary's Baby and The Red Shoes. ...

Sunday 10 July 10:00 am @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF NU-METRO The fifth film from the ever intelligent Darren Aronofsky is a sensuous psychological thriller set in the world of the New York City Ballet: it plays like a shape-shifting amalgam of Rosemary's Baby and The Red Shoes. ...

Thursday 30 June 12:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Strange subject matter for the Dutch-born French filmmaker Jan Kounen whose shamanic western Blueberry is spoken of in hushed tones and compared to Jodorowsky's El Topo. In this examination of the affair between Coco Chanel and Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, ...

Thursday 7 July 8:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Strange subject matter for the Dutch-born French filmmaker Jan Kounen whose shamanic western Blueberry is spoken of in hushed tones and compared to Jodorowsky's El Topo. In this examination of the affair between Coco Chanel and Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, ...

Saturday 2 July 8:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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In the vast Namib wastes a stranger in a long black coat hitches lifts along the endless road. Soon the wasteland is littered with corpses and the last policeman (Zakes Mokae) in the small town of Bethany is faced with ...

Tuesday 5 July 8:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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In the vast Namib wastes a stranger in a long black coat hitches lifts along the endless road. Soon the wasteland is littered with corpses and the last policeman (Zakes Mokae) in the small town of Bethany is faced with ...

Wednesday 6 July 12:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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A tribute to women as creators, goddesses and survivors of prejudice. The "On the Creative Power of Women" programme is dedicated to the two actresses Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) and Lena Nyman (I am Curious Yellow) who died ...

Thursday 30 June 3:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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aka Einaym Pkuhot Courtesy of Video Vision An extremely controversial Israeli film on a homosexual relationship in an Orthodox Jewish household, the film was screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. Aaron, a respected butcher and a ...

Sunday 10 July 3:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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aka Einaym Pkuhot Courtesy of Video Vision An extremely controversial Israeli film on a homosexual relationship in an Orthodox Jewish household, the film was screened in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. Aaron, a respected butcher and a ...

Saturday 2 July 10:00 am @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Video Vision This entertaining, and controversial, satire tells the story of four would-be jihadists who live in Sheffield and who collectively decide to become suicide bombers. Omaj and Waj attend a terrorist training camp in Pakistan while ...

Friday 8 July 8:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Video Vision This entertaining, and controversial, satire tells the story of four would-be jihadists who live in Sheffield and who collectively decide to become suicide bombers. Omaj and Waj attend a terrorist training camp in Pakistan while ...

Thursday 7 July 10:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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The avant-garde filmmaking duo of Dionysos Andronis (who was a Festival guest in 2007) and CA CA CA have already contributed two fine profiles to the Festival programme - By Any Old Light (on the meeting of Peter Whitehead and ...

Friday 1 July 8:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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In a radioactive wasteland, a mysterious zone tripper discovers the remains of a cyborg Mark 13; a highly advanced killing machine. He sells it to Mo, a scrap merchant and wanderer of the wasteland, who presents the find to his ...

Monday 4 July 10:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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In a radioactive wasteland, a mysterious zone tripper discovers the remains of a cyborg Mark 13; a highly advanced killing machine. He sells it to Mo, a scrap merchant and wanderer of the wasteland, who presents the find to his ...

Tuesday 5 July 10:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF CRYSTAL BROOK a.k.a: Rebel Challenging and no-easy meal, Hesher / Rebel is a deeply moving story of a 13-year-old boy T.J who, having lost his mother in a car accident, is now living with his depressed father ...

Saturday 9 July 2:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF CRYSTAL BROOK a.k.a: Rebel Challenging and no-easy meal, Hesher / Rebel is a deeply moving story of a 13-year-old boy T.J who, having lost his mother in a car accident, is now living with his depressed father ...

Friday 8 July 1:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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A tribute to women as creators, goddesses and survivors of prejudice. The "On the Creative Power of Women" programme is dedicated to the two actresses Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) and Lena Nyman (I am Curious Yellow) who died ...

Friday 1 July 12:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Indigenous Film Distribution Written by phenomenally (and internationally) popular Afrikaans thriller author Deon Meyer, this heart-warming film is set in the small Karoo town of Loxton. A young mother arrives there for peace and quiet, and is shocked ...

Sunday 3 July 10:00 am @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Indigenous Film Distribution Written by phenomenally (and internationally) popular Afrikaans thriller author Deon Meyer, this heart-warming film is set in the small Karoo town of Loxton. A young mother arrives there for peace and quiet, and is shocked ...

Sunday 3 July 12:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of the Labia Theatre A tribute to women as creators, goddesses and survivors of prejudice. The "On the Creative Power of Women" programme is dedicated to the two actresses Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) and Lena Nyman ...

Tuesday 5 July 10:00 am @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF NU METRO Oliver Schmitz (South African director of Mapantsula and Highjack Stories) has been living in Germany for some time, carving a very prolific niche there. With Life, Above All he returns to South Africa with a touching ...

Thursday 7 July 6:15 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF NU METRO Oliver Schmitz (South African director of Mapantsula and Highjack Stories) has been living in Germany for some time, carving a very prolific niche there. With Life, Above All he returns to South Africa with a touching ...

Wednesday 6 July 10:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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SHORT FILM QUARTET AT LAND (USA 1944) Director: Maya Deren Cast: Maya Deren, John Cage, Alexander Hammid: A silent, complex and rigorous exercise in dream logic. A woman washed up on shore as an Aphrodite perhaps and experiences the ...

Friday 8 July 10:00 am @ Olive Schreiner

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A tribute to women as creators, goddesses and survivors of prejudice. The "On the Creative Power of Women" programme is dedicated to the two actresses Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) and Lena Nyman (I am Curious Yellow) who died ...

Friday 8 July 3:15 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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The latest psychedelic safari into the stranger areas of the African experience by Anton Kotze (Safari Obscura). Using remarkable footage, shot in 1996 of South Africa's seminal avant garde music group The Mud Ensemble, which featured actor Marcel van Heerden ...

Friday 1 July 2:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Video Vision aka Des Hommes et des Dieux A sombre, humane and provocative drama that is based on a true incident in a Cistercian monastery in North Africa in the 1990s, where eight French monks live ...

Wednesday 6 July 8:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Video Vision aka Des Hommes et des Dieux A sombre, humane and provocative drama that is based on a true incident in a Cistercian monastery in North Africa in the 1990s, where eight French monks live ...

Friday 1 July 10:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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2010 Standard Bank Young Artist Award-winner for Film, Claire Angelique, returns with her independently produced Palace of Bone. To quote Claire: In 2008 I met Faith and her group of friends who lived and hung around in downtown Durban. She ...

Monday 4 July 12:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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2010 Standard Bank Young Artist Award-winner for Film, Claire Angelique, returns with her independently produced Palace of Bone. To quote Claire: In 2008 I met Faith and her group of friends who lived and hung around in downtown Durban. She ...

Tuesday 5 July 5:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Indigenous Film Distribution Following on from the box office smash hit White Wedding, Jann Turner returns with Paradise Stop. Near the freeway outside a sleepy town is Ben Khumalo's Truck Stop complete with bar, restaurant and ladies of ...

Thursday 7 July 10:00 am @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Indigenous Film Distribution Following on from the box office smash hit White Wedding, Jann Turner returns with Paradise Stop. Near the freeway outside a sleepy town is Ben Khumalo's Truck Stop complete with bar, restaurant and ladies of ...

Tuesday 5 July 3:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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A tribute to women as creators, goddesses and survivors of prejudice. The "On the Creative Power of Women" programme is dedicated to the two actresses Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) and Lena Nyman (I am Curious Yellow) who died ...

Saturday 2 July 12:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Video Vision A western spoof with attitude! Featuring outlandish songs, outrageous melodrama and crazy action sequences including a classic duel in a traffic jam! QGM is a South Indian Karmic cowboy whose duty is to protect cows. ...

Saturday 9 July 10:00 am @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Video Vision A western spoof with attitude! Featuring outlandish songs, outrageous melodrama and crazy action sequences including a classic duel in a traffic jam! QGM is a South Indian Karmic cowboy whose duty is to protect cows. ...

Sunday 3 July 10:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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BLACK TULIPS (UK 2004) Cast: Maggie Moor, Richard Stanley. With something of a nod to the films of Nicolas Roeg - Performance and Don't Look Now - this is the first werewolf movie not to use special effects during the ...

Thursday 7 July 12:15 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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"As long as I am regarded as a non-white, then I can never be a full human being in the context of my everyday existence". Soon after he made this statement, Strini Moodley, co-founder of the Black Consciousness Movement was ...

Wednesday 6 July 10:00 am @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF NU METRO 1990 - and two major events are about to happen - the release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, its Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is ...

Friday 8 July 6:15 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF NU METRO 1990 - and two major events are about to happen - the release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, its Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is ...

Saturday 2 July 10:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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When three friends meet in a restaurant and dream up a movie, they believe they can become big players in the game of life. Fate steps in when a reclusive stranger (Stanley) presents them with a script which is his ...

Wednesday 6 July 2:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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aka Le Boeuf sur le Toit Another stylistically audacious work from Wits academic, Jyoti Mistry, sailing across disparate narratives and international locations - Johannesburg, Helsinki, Vienna and New York. The result is a kaleidoscopic snapshot of urban spaces and ...

Sunday 3 July 5:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF VIDEO VISION Thirty years ago the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Theatre du Chatelet ...

Wednesday 6 July 5:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF VIDEO VISION Thirty years ago the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Theatre du Chatelet ...

Saturday 2 July 5:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Nu Metro Luftslotten som sprangdes Stig Larsson's phenomenally successful Millennium Trilogy (10 million sales worldwide) seems remarkable. Larsson, who sadly passed away in 2004, was an expert on the rise of the new right wing in Sweden and ...

Sunday 10 July 8:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Courtesy of Nu Metro Luftslotten som sprangdes Stig Larsson's phenomenally successful Millennium Trilogy (10 million sales worldwide) seems remarkable. Larsson, who sadly passed away in 2004, was an expert on the rise of the new right wing in Sweden and ...

Friday 1 July 5:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF NU METRO Flickan som lekte med elden Stig Larsson's phenomenally successful Millennium Trilogy (10 million sales worldwide) seems remarkable. Larsson, who sadly passed away in 2004, was an expert on the rise of the new right ...

Saturday 9 July 10:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF NU METRO Flickan som lekte med elden Stig Larsson's phenomenally successful Millennium Trilogy (10 million sales worldwide) seems remarkable. Larsson, who sadly passed away in 2004, was an expert on the rise of the new right ...

Thursday 30 June 5:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF NU-METRO Man som hatar kvinnor Stig Larsson's phenomenally successful Millennium Trilogy (10 million sales worldwide) seems remarkable. Larsson, who sadly passed away in 2004, was an expert on the rise of the new right wing in Sweden ...

Friday 8 July 10:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF NU-METRO Man som hatar kvinnor Stig Larsson's phenomenally successful Millennium Trilogy (10 million sales worldwide) seems remarkable. Larsson, who sadly passed away in 2004, was an expert on the rise of the new right wing in Sweden ...

Monday 4 July 8:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF THE PRODUCER A wonderful surprise! If the first Son of God can turn water into wine, Arthur, the self-proclaimed second son of God can make stony hearts beat again. The story of psychiatric patients in a boarding ...

Saturday 9 July 8:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF THE PRODUCER A wonderful surprise! If the first Son of God can turn water into wine, Arthur, the self-proclaimed second son of God can make stony hearts beat again. The story of psychiatric patients in a boarding ...

Saturday 2 July 2:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Aka: The Secret Glory of SS Obersturmfuhrer Otto Rahn Combining rare archival footage, old letters and photographs to tell the story of Otto Rahn (1904 - 1939), who worked in the Occult division of the Nazi hierarchy. Rahn was ...

Tuesday 5 July 12:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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Aka: The Secret Glory of SS Obersturmfuhrer Otto Rahn Combining rare archival footage, old letters and photographs to tell the story of Otto Rahn (1904 - 1939), who worked in the Occult division of the Nazi hierarchy. Rahn was ...

Thursday 30 June 10:00 am @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF VIDEO VISION Das Weisse Band This latest film from the modern master of ennui, Michael Haneke details the strange and disturbing events which take place in a small parish village in the north of Germany during ...

Sunday 10 July 12:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF VIDEO VISION Das Weisse Band This latest film from the modern master of ennui, Michael Haneke details the strange and disturbing events which take place in a small parish village in the north of Germany during ...

Sunday 3 July 8:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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VOICE OF THE MOON (UK 1990) Recorded in Afghanistan in the late 80's, with some Mujaheddin rebels (and also the late war journalist Carlos Mavroleon, who worked as producer), the film follows the peoples' daily attempts to survive in a ...

Thursday 30 June 8:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF VIDEO VISION Les Herbes Folles Half a century after establishing his place in cinema with Hiroshima mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, director Alain Resnais continues to deliver the goods with his latest film. Based on ...

Thursday 7 July 2:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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COURTESY OF VIDEO VISION Les Herbes Folles Half a century after establishing his place in cinema with Hiroshima mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad, director Alain Resnais continues to deliver the goods with his latest film. Based on ...

Monday 4 July 10:00 am @ Olive Schreiner

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This compelling journey through the backwoods of America won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Winter's Bone follows 17-year-old Ree Dolly as she sets out to track down her drug-dealing father who has put the family house ...

Sunday 10 July 6:15 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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This compelling journey through the backwoods of America won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Winter's Bone follows 17-year-old Ree Dolly as she sets out to track down her drug-dealing father who has put the family house ...

Monday 4 July 3:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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A tribute to women as creators, goddesses and survivors of prejudice. The programme is dedicated to the two actresses Maria Schneider (Last Tango in Paris) and Lena Nyman (I am Curious Yellow) who died within days of each other in ...

Sunday 3 July 2:30 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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The groundbreaking two previous Zeitgeist films have gone a long way to awakening viewers from apathy. Ground down by lies, politicians, banks and the establishments of church, state and the military, the world is endangered by compliance. Zeitgeist 3 presents ...

Monday 4 July 5:00 pm @ Olive Schreiner

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The groundbreaking two previous Zeitgeist films have gone a long way to awakening viewers from apathy. Ground down by lies, politicians, banks and the establishments of church, state and the military, the world is endangered by compliance. Zeitgeist 3 presents ...