international film festival

We received a pamphlet in the mail from Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre. After a break of several years, they are running an international film festival. We’d like to attend but we’d have to make some decisions. If we take...

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To go or not to go

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Dec 24

For those of you who expressed interest, I thought I’d write about a couple of the films. One of the first we saw was ‘Compartment No. 6’, a Finnish film. Two strangers share a Russian train journey through the Arctic Circle and...

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Compartment No. 6 - a Finnish film

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 24 Jul 22

foreign films

We saw two very moving films yesterday at the International Summer Film Festival in Bunbury, Western Australia. The first was ‘The Extraordinary’, a French film about two men making a difference to the lives of those with severe...

compartment no 6

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Dealing with those with autism - The Extraordinary - a great French film

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Jan 21

In between the showings of the two films we saw today, we went for a walk and came across this incredible model. Apart from the tyres, it is made entirely from wood. Can you imagine the hours and hours of work that must have gone...

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We will have to practise our wood-working skills to match this

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Jan 21

wood working

models

One of the movies we saw yesterday was called ‘Talking to the Trees’ about four elderly Sudanese film-makers who want to reopen an open-air cinema in Omdurman, Sudan. They run up against Islamist censorship and inefficient...

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Bureaucracy and censorship - Talking to the Trees

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Jan 21

Our city runs a Summer and Winter Film Festival which shows a variety of film genres from around the world. The twelve films are shown mostly three times each at varying times from Thursday to Sunday and over a period of a month....

talking to the trees

sudan

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We've now seen eight of the Summer Film Festival films

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 28 Jan 21

We went to another of the Summer International Film Festival films recently. The Swallows of Kabul was an animated film showing the lives of two couples living under Taliban rule in Kabul, Afghanistan. The animation is...

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The Swallows of Kabul - a sobering film

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 21 Jan 21

Another of the international films we’ve seen was The Climb which is a US film. It was written by Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino, starred both (and they used their own names in the film) and was directed by Covino. There...

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taliban

shariah law

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The Climb - an American film - and toxic friendships

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Jan 21

This afternoon we watched a film called Spread Your Wings, touted as a family adventure. Based on a true story, a techno-addicted teenager is sent to spend holidays with his ornithologist father in southern France. A hatching of...

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toxic friendships

relationships

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Spread Your Wings - an inspiring film from France

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 17 Jan 21

We’ve just returned from watching two of the International Film Festival offerings. One was called Corpus Christi and the other Another Round. We enjoyed both although the first was a bit gritty. The films were put on in a...

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So much good entertainment on offer in Bunbury, Western Australia, at the moment

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Jan 21

We have three children staying with us but they go home today. We will take them to Busselton, Western Australia, and while there, may take the opportunity to call in on a friend who lost her husband recently. We have to be back...

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bohemian rhapsody

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Our programme for the day

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Jan 21

south australia

busselton

The photo has nothing to do with the text but is another of our beautiful banksias. We’ve just come home from another International Film Festival film. However, I want to talk about the first one we saw which was ‘Farewell’ where...

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To tell or not to tell - that is the question

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 16 Jan 20

The photo is the only one that remotely resembles a Punch and Judy show. It was taken in the middle of Vienna, Austria. Another film we saw at the International Film Festival was Judy and Punch, an Australian black comedy/drama....

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choices

china

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A film that got me thinking - Judy and Punch

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 13 Jan 20

We’ve been attending some of the International Film Festival films and really enjoying them. We are mostly seeing two in a day as we have to travel to our nearby city to see them. Also, we leave for Nepal in less than a week so we...

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punch and judy

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We went to see 'Mrs Lowry and Son'

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382828) • Rockingham, Australia 12 Jan 20