MIFF on Deckchairs is back and will be held on Thursday nights @ Federation Square, 7pm on the following dates:

Feb 4, 11, 18, 25
March 4, 11

Entry is free. Bring along your friends and enjoy a great film as the sun sets over Melbourne..... 

Deckchairs are provided by Fed Square. First in best dressed!

MIFF on Deckchairs is brought to you by Madman Entertainment.

  

FULL PROGRAM - Please Note there has been a change to the program

Thursday 4 February

MASQUERADES (PG)
d. Lyes Salem
92 mins / Arabic language with English subtitles

Masquerades won the top prize for best film at the Dubai Film Festival, the first of many huzzahs for this confident crowd-pleaser. Director Lyes Salem stars as Mounir, the pop-eyed, misguided head of a small but troubled family in a remote and dusty Algerian village. No-one takes Mounir seriously, not his family or the village, so it's remarkable when his drunken plan to marry off his narcoleptic sister to a rich yet non-existent foreigner is taken seriously but less surprising when his deception spins out of control. Salem, in his debut feature, has crafted a tightly scripted, paced comedy about customs and traditions that features a delightfully comic performance from the multi-talented Salem.



Print courtesy of Aztec International

Thursday 11 February * New title to replace Ponyo

THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (PG)
D. Mamoru Hosoda
98mins / Japanese with English subtitles

Something strange has happened to Makoto Konno. Time has suddenly stopped and moved her backwards.
With her newly discovered ability to literally leap backwards in time Makoto finds that tests become a piece of cake, embarrassing situations are corrected, and she can have her favorite food anytime she wants. Unfortunately, her carefree time traveling has adverse effects on the people she cares for.
With every successful leap Makoto somehow alters the fate of those around her. This wasn't supposed to happen and as she races back in time to fix everything, she notices that her abilities are not limitless but with every successful jump she's one step closer to discovering the most wonderful secret in her young adult life.

Courtesy of Madman

Thursday 18 February

THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE (PG)
d. R.J. Cutler
88 mins / English language

An engrossing peek inside the fashion world’s corridors of power.” – Variety
Allegedly the inspiration for Meryl Streep’s character in The Devil Wears Prada, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is one of the most powerful and polarising figures in fashion. With unprecedented access, this film follows the notoriously icy Wintour and her harried team as they prepare the massive (800+ pages!) September 2007 edition of Vogue. Full of simmering inter-office intrigue and bitchy editorial meetings, and featuring an editorial chief that makes respected designers quiver in their boots, The September Issue is a fascinating look behind the glamour of the fashion biz.



Courtesy of Madman

Thursday 25 February

ASTERIX AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES (PG)
d. Frédéric Forestier, Thomas Langmann
116 mins / French and Portuguese language

Gallic mischief-makers Asterix and Obelix once again take on the entire Roman Empire in their third live-action adventure. With the Olympic Games approaching, Brutus has hatched a plot to overthrow Julius Caesar, dominate the games and win the heart of beautiful Greek princess Irina. But Brutus didn't count on Asterix and Obelix, who are enlisted to help young Gallic athlete Lovesix compete.
Features a star-studded cast - including Alain Delon as Caesar and Gerard Depardieu as Obelix - Asterix also features cameos from sports stars such as Tony Parker, Amélie Mauresmo, Zidane and Michael Schumacher.  With the biggest budget of any French film to date, Asterix brings to life the books of Goscinny and Uderzo in a brilliant spectacle that stays faithful to the unique humour and style of the original 1968 comics.



Courtesy of Madman
 

Thursday 4 March * New Title to replace Brendan & the Kells

STILL WALKING (PG)
D. Hirokazu Kore-eda
114mins / Japanese with English subtitles

“This sublimely poignant character study will likely rank alongside Ozu’s classics… one of the best Japanese
family dramas ever put on film.” – Time Out

The Yokoyama family reunites to honour their eldest son, who died saving a boy from drowning 15 years earlier. The annual ritual teases out buried resentments and disappointments – particularly for Ryota, who has spent the last decade and a half living in his dead brother’s shadow.
One of the great humanists of Japanese cinema, Hirokazu Kore-eda here continues his dissection of the themes of memory, death and loss.

“So completely absorbing, so sure of its own scale and scope that while you’re watching it the rest of the world fades into irrelevance.” – New York Times

Courtesy of Madman

 

 

Thursday 11 March

THE TOPP TWINS: UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS (PG)
d. Leanne Pooley
84 mins / English language

“More fun than a possum up your trousers.” – Sydney Morning Herald
Twin sisters Jools and Lynda Topp are a New Zealand institution. A country singing and yodelling lesbian comedy act, they seem unlikely candidates for mainstream acceptance – but the last few decades has seen the Topps become a key feature in New Zealand’s political landscape, via their particular brand of irreverent musical activism. What at first glace appears to be yet another celebrity biopic soon reveals itself as much more: an engrossing potted history of a nation struggling through 25 years of seismic social change, as told through the involvement of the irrepressible Topp twins.



Print courtesy of Rialto Distribution.