Here I Am and Shut Up Little Man up for Adelaide fest award
This year’s BigPond Adelaide Film Festival will present 20 world premieres of new Australian works, and a total of 48 local features and shorts.
The 12 films competing for the International Award for Best Feature Film have also been announced: Four Times (Italy, dir: Michelangelo Frammartino); Here I Am (Australia, dir: Beck Cole); Tuesday After Christmas (Romania, dir: Radu Muntean); Incendies (Canada,dir:: Denis Villeneuve); Meek’s Cutoff (USA, dir: Kelly Reichardt); Mysteries of Lisbon (Portugal, dir: Raoul Ruiz); Nostalgia For the Light (Chile, dir: Patricio Guzman); October (Peru, dir: Daniel Vega Vidal and Diego Vega Vidal); Piano in a Factory (China, dir: Zhang Meng); Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Australia, dir: Matt Bate); Whisper with the Wind (Iraq, dir: Shahram Alidi); and Year Without a Summer (Malaysia, dir: Tan Chui Mui).
The films will be judged by Julietta Sichel (jury president/Karlovy Vary Film Festival), Pierre Rissient (Cannes), Hossein Valamanesh (Iranian/Australian contemporary artist), Trevor Groth (Sundance) and Robin Gutch (Warp X).
In terms of local projects, in addition to Here I Am and Shut Up Little Man, and the opening (Bob Connolly/Sophie Raymond’s doco Mrs. Carey’s Concert) and closing films (Brendan Fletcher’s Mad Bastards), BAFF will present Justin Kurzel’s Snowtown, Amiel Courtin-Wiilson’s Hail, and the documentaries The Tall Man (Tony Krawitz), Life in Movement (Bryan Mason/Sophie Hyde) and Stunt Love (Matt Bate).
