The Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival returns this weekend with more than 10 short and feature films being showcased.
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CLIFF also secured a Regional Audiences Grant from Film Victoria, ensuring further promotion of the event and the inclusion of more films and special guests.
Starting on Friday at 7pm, the festival’s first featured film is Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
It stars Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell and is a psychological thriller that follows a cardiac surgeon who secretly befriends a teenage boy. When the surgeon introduces his family to the boy, they mysteriously ill.
Also screening on Friday at 9.30pm is Suspiria, a 1977 Italian horror film about an American ballet dancer who transfers to a German school only to find the school is a front for something far more sinister.
On Saturday, Louie Malle’s My Dinner With Andre screens at 4.30pm ahead of Liberation Day which follows Slovenian art-rock band Laibach into North Korea where they were the first Western band to perform in the country.
An introduction and Q&A with writer, tour guide and expert on North Korea, James Scullin, will take audiences deeper into a culture and land rarely seen by Western eyes.
Also screening is Wrong Side of the Road, a 1981 semi-autobiographical Australian film about indigenous bands No Fixed Address and Us Mob.
Ngarrindjerri elder Carroll Karpany (Us Mob) will introduce the film and lead a Q&A session and perform live afterwards.
Sunday sees the festival’s family film session start at 10.30am with The Giving Tree screening at 10.30am and the 1948 version of Oliver both screening.
The festival also features a short-film competition which is open internationally for the first time.
Organisers hope this development will inspire the local talent to hit new creative levels.
The local film competition itself has been a successful annual event for the last four years.
The Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival is on at the Theatre Royal from November 17-19.
CLIFF was developed in 2013 by a group of regional cinema lovers who wanted to bring a film festival atmosphere to regional Victoria.
Tickets to the festival are $15 for single sessions, $40 for a day pass and $80 for a full festival pass.
Visit www.cliff.net.au/programme for the full program.