Outlook Film Festival » Features

Humpday

outlook — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:31:50 +0000

When Andrew unexpectedly shows up on Ben’s doorstep late one night, the two old college friends immediately fall into their old dynamic of heterosexual one-upmanship. To save Ben from domestication, Andrew invites Ben to a party at a sex-positive commune. Everyone there plans on making erotic art films for the local amateur porn festival and Andrew wants in. They run out of booze and ideas, save for one: Andrew should have sex with Ben, on camera. It’s not gay; it’s beyond gay. It’s not porn; it’s an art project. The next day, they find themselves unable to back down from the dare. And there’s nothing standing in their way -- except Ben’s wife Anna, heterosexuality, and certain mechanical questions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMr_LQDlYH8

No End

outlook — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:30:19 +0000

THURSDAY 5TH | 6.00PM | GATE CINEMA 3

Dir. Roberto Cuzzillo

Giulia and Chiara have decided to take their relationship one step further and have a child together. But Italian law dictates that only married heterosexual couples are legally allowed to procreate through artificial insemination so the two women are forced to travel to Holland for this procedure.

However, Giulia’s mother is upset at the thought of her grandchild being raised fatherless while Chiara finds a lump in her breast and has to face up to potential sickness and death instead of birth and new life.

In this remarkably tender and touching feature debut, director Roberto Cuzzillo creates a subtly sensitive film about those particular moments that mean the very most.

The director will be in attendance.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWlkV_MYJ0o

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6KmJWwlr44

The End of Love

outlookfilm — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:20:18 +0000

WEDNESDAY 4TH | 6.00PM | GATE CINEMA 3

Dir. Simon Chung

Hong Kong, China | 2008 | 95mins | Beta | Colour

A journey of a young man searching for his identity is confronted with the intensity of life.
The lives of two young men cross in a Christian rehab camp where they are supposed to be healed from their addictions. This is a story about friendship but also about the intense and often brutal reality of life when it comes to drug abuse.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Dni9Ma1MA

Japan Japan

outlook — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:25:21 +0000

The movie tells the story of Imri, who at 19 goes to live in Tel- Aviv, but dreams of moving to Japan. Through his relationships and encounters and in diverse cinematic tools, we are introduced to the young man’s life. An exploration of living in the exotic city of Tel Aviv is presented through a hero who is himself in the midst of exploring his own choice of an exotic place. A unique correlation is formed between the hero’s misconception of Japan and ours of him. The movie was constructed by both improvised and pre-scripted scenes, as required by the nature of each scene.

Taking Woodstock

outlook — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:00:10 +0000

Monday 2nd | 8.30pm | Gate Cinema 2

Dir. Ang Lee

USA | 2009 | 110mins | 35mm | Colour

Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee’s new comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969’s Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was. Featuring a standout ensemble cast, and songs from a score of ’60s musical icons including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish, Taking Woodstock is a joyous voyage to a moment in time when everything seemed possible. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang to offer his family’s motel to the promoters and generate some much-needed business. Soon half a million people are on their way for ’3 days of Peace & Music in White Lake.’ With a little help from his friends, Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life -and popular culture -forever.