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THE MERCURY CINEMA HOSTS THE FILMS OF DIRECTOR BONG JOON-HO AND THE BEST OF ASIAN CINEMA AS PART OF OZASIA FESTIVAL

By Tony Polese · On October 1, 2019

Adelaide’s Mercury Cinema alongside OzAsia Festival present a collection of films by Asia’s leading independent and major filmmakers from the 18th October – 6th November with highlights including a Director Focus on Bong Joon-ho and his 2019 Palme d’Or winning film, Parasite, as well as the most awarded film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Honeyland and a collection of films from Across Asia, Lebanese Cinema and Asian Cult Cinema.

A figurehead of the South Korean New Wave, Bong Joon-ho has used genre filmmaking to cast a critical lens on South Korea and US imperialism as well as global issues of justice, corruption and the environment. This retrospective includes earlier works such as The Host and Mother alongside his most recent Palme d’Or winner, Parasite, the first-ever South Korean movie to take the top prize at Cannes Film Festival.

The film program will open on Friday, 18th October with the most awarded film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Honeyland. The documentary follows Hatidze the last of the Balkan Mountains wild bee hunters. Her peaceful life is upended with the arrival of an itinerant family with expansion on their mind. Film Inquiry described Hatidze as ‘the documentary protagonist of the year.’

The Across Asia series features a selection of recent acclaimed films, which identify filmmakers to watch as well as the cultural discussions and forces of change at play in this dynamic region. Beanpole, follows two friends as they rebuild their lives in the devastating post siege ruins of Leningrad. How the one child policy impacted a generation is intimately told from many perspectives in One Child Nation. Winner of Best Documentary, 2019 SXSW Film Festival, For Sama, documents the epic tale of courage in war; a couple meet, marry and have a baby during the five years of the uprising in Aleppo.

Other series in the film program include, Contemporary Lebanese Cinema, once considered a jewel of Middle Eastern culture, Lebanon’s cinema has again come to the fore, exploring the daily lives of ordinary people while the reverberations of past conflicts are never far from the surface.

Over time, Asian cinema has become a powerhouse of genre filmmaking, and since the 1970s, has increasingly built a cult audience in the West. Asian Cult Cinema offers a selection of Asian genre films making waves in 2019, featuring Ride Your Wave which recently won the best animation award at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

From Russia we have films from two of the country’s most exciting  but very different new filmmakers. Kantemir Balakirev who at only 27 in 2019 won Best Director, Un Certain Regard at Cannes for the Across Asia’s Beanpole. Inspired by the works of Leone and Tarantino is the director, Kirill Sokolov whose Why Don’t You Just Die is in the Asian Cult Cinema program.

As part of the one hundred year commemoration of Korean Cinema, this year the screening program partners with the Korean Cultural Centre Australia to screen two films for free, The Spy Gone North and The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale, both in the Asian Cult Cinema program.

While the Flinders University Film Series will explore Emerging Asian Australian Filmmakers and short films from Yogyakarta in Warm Regards. Curated by Nicholas Godfrey, Flinders University College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

Gail Kovatseff Director of the Media Resource Centre and film program curator said she was thrilled with the quality of this year’s OzAsia film program.

“This year there is an amazing contrast of old and new such as the Director Focus on Bong Joon-ho’s legendary career and his latest Palme d’Or winning, Parasite, while other new films such as Honeyland and the Asian Cult Classics series from 2019 are the perfect contemporary introduction to this thrilling world of cinema that many Australians are yet to experience.”

See the full program and buy tickets here – www.ozasiafestival.com.au

OzAsia Film Program – The Mercury Cinema

18th October – 6th November

For media, review and image requests contact: Against The Grain Publicity

Thomas Jackson – Thomas@atgpublicity.com.au – 0428 859 475

FULL FILM PROGRAM:

Director Focus – BONG JOON-HO:

BARKING DOGS NEVER BITE

Director Bong Joon-ho

South Korea | 2000 | 110 mins

MON 21 OCT 7pm

MEMORIES OF MURDER

Director Bong Joon-ho

South Korea | 2003 | 131 mins

WED 23 OCT 7.30pm

THE HOST

Director Bong Joon-ho

South Korea | 2006 | 120 mins

MON 28 OCT 7pm

MOTHER

Director Bong Joon-ho

South Korea | 2009 | 129 mins

WED 30 OCT 7pm

PARASITE

Director Bong Joon-ho

South Korea | 2019 | 132 mins

SAT 19 OCT 6.30pm

TUE 5 NOV 10.45am

OPENING NIGHT FILM:

HONEYLAND

Directors Tamara Kotevska

and Ljubomir Stefanov

Macedonia | 2019 | 87 mins

FRI 18 OCT 7pm

Includes light refreshments

and a honey cocktail

FRI 25 OCT 10.45am

SUN 3 NOV 2pm

ACROSS ASIA:

BEANPOLE

Director Kantemir Balagov

Russia | 2019 | 130 mins

SUN 27 OCT 5pm

FRI 1 NOV 10.45am

BULBUL CAN SING

Director Rima Das

India | 2018 | 95 mins

SAT 19 OCT 2pm

SAT 26 OCT 2pm

MANTA RAY

Director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng

Thailand | 2018 | 105 mins

TUE 22 OCT 10.45am

SUN 3 NOV 4pm

ONE CHILD NATION

Directors Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang

USA/China | 2019 | 85 mins

SUN 20 OCT 4pm

SUN 27 OCT 3pm

THE THIRD WIFE

Director Ash Mayfair

Vietnam/USA | 2018 | 96 mins

FRI 18 OCT 10.45am

SUN 3 NOV 12pm

WED 6 NOV 5pm

WILD GOOSE LAKE

Director Diao Yinan

China/France | 2019 | 133 mins

SUN 20 OCT 6pm

SUN 3 NOV 6pm

FOR SAMA

Directors Waad Al-Kateab

and Edward Watts

Syria/UK/USA | 2019 | 95 mins

SUN 20 OCT 2pm

TUE 29 OCT 10.45am

SCREWDRIVER

Director Bassam Jarbawi

Palestine | 2018 | 108 mins

WED 23 OCT 4.45pm

SAT 2 NOV 12pm

CONTEMPORARY LEBANESE CINEMA:

CARAMEL

Director Nadine Labaki

Lebanon/France | 2007 | 95 mins

MON 4 NOV 7pm

WEST BEIRUT

Director Ziad Doueiri

Lebanon/France | 1998 | 105 mins

SAT 2 NOV 2pm

WHERE DO WE GO NOW?

Director Nadine Labaki

Lebanon/France | 2011 | 110 mins

WED 6 NOV 7pm

THE INSULT

Director Ziad Doueiri

Lebanon/France | 2017 | 93 mins

MON 11 NOV 7pm

ASIAN CULT CINEMA:

THE ODD FAMILY: ZOMBIE ON SALE

Director Lee Min-jae

South Korea | 2019 | 111 mins

Free entry

Presented by the Korean Cultural Centre Australia

SAT 19 OCT 4pm

RIDE YOUR WAVE

Director Masaaki Yuasa

Japan | 2019 | 96 mins

SAT 26 OCT 4pm

WED 30 OCT 5pm

THE SPY GONE NORTH

Director Yoon Jong-bin

South Korea | 2018 | 137 mins

Free entry

Presented by the Korean Cultural Centre Australia

SAT 2 NOV 6.30pm

WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE

Director Kirill Sokolov

Russia | 2018 | 95 mins

SUN 27 OCT 7.30pm

SAT 2 NOV 4pm

WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES

Director Makoto Nagahisa

Japan | 2019 | 120 mins

SAT 26 OCT 6.45pm

FLINDERS UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES:

WARM REGARDS

Short films from Yogyakarta

TUE 22 OCT 7pm

THU 31 OCT 11am

EMERGING ASIAN AUSTRALIAN FILMMAKERS

A showcase of vibrant works by emerging Asian-Australian independent filmmakers

FRI 25 OCT 6:30pm

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