“Despite the title, the heart-wrenching feature debut of director Andrei Kravchuk has literally nothing to do with Italy, and everything to do with the urgent issue of illegal adoption in post-Glasnost Russia. “A carefully and almost classically balanced combination of ingredients, blending dirty-faced realism (so much more damning because it judges and condemns no one) with mystical fable of quest and homecoming.” — salon.com

Hamilton Film Society is pleased to be able to bring you another year of first class films from around the world.  Highlights include work from two leading pioneers in animation and experimental filmmaking, the Canadian animator, Norman McClaren and his NZ contemporary Len Lye. We are delighted to offer four films from the flourishing Iranian cinema of the 1990s including the appealing The White Balloon, two films from the Balkans,  and through the Goethe Institut, documentaries and dramas from Germany. The French Embassy has provided three recent documentaries from France, including the latest film from Nicolas Philibert (To Be and To Have) and the first film from actress Sandrine Bonnaire. Early cinema from the famous Danish silent film actress, Asta Neilson will be screened in restored form courtesy of the Danish film Institut.  The iconic Astaire – Rogers musical “Swing time”  and  Billy Wilder’s Some like it hot have been included by special request.

Close to home will be a collection of recent short films Beyond the Darkside  that continue the tradition of New Zealand’s Cinema of Unease and Nicki Caro’s  debut feature,  Memory and Desire. We are grateful to the NZ Film Commission for their support as we endeavour to bring audiences a range of film- going experiences only available through membership of your local society.

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HFS 2010 Season is presented with financial assistance from the New Zealand Film Commission and with the generous support of Creative New Zealand, the Embassy of France, and the Goethe-Institut, Wellington