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6TH Australian Film Festival
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Cinematic Arts October 16, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu October 17, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu October 18, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu 
FEATURE FILMS
ROMULUS MY FATHER 6:00 pm October 16, 2008 Director: Richard Roxborough Writer Nick Drake, Raimond Gaita Cast: Eric Bana, Franka Polenta, Marton Csokas, Kodi Smit-McPhee,Russell Dykstra, Jacek Koman Synopsis: Romulus my Father is based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir. It tells the story of Romulus , his beautiful wife Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son. Duration: 106 mins Original Australian Theatrical Censorship Rating: M Selected Awards: 2007AFI Award ------------------------------------------------------- TEN CANOES 8:00 pm October 16, 2008 Director: Rold de Heer Synopsis: It is the distant past, tribal times. Dayindi (played by Jamie Gulpilil, son of the great David Gulpilil) covets one of the wives of his older brother. To teach him the proper way, he is told a story from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, bungling mayhem and revenge gone wrong. In English storytelling (by David Gulpilil) and subtitled Ganalbingu language, this is a film unlike any you have ever seen. Selected Awards: 2006 AFI Award, If Award ------------------------------------------------------- YOLNGU BOY 4:00 pm October 17, 2008 Director: Stephen Michael Johnson Cast: Nathan Daniels, Sean Mununggurr, Sebastian Pilakui Synopsis: Three Yolngu boys linked by ceremony, kinship and a common dream find themselves on the wrong side of the laws of two worlds Duration: 85 min Genre: Children/Social realism Original Australian Theatrical Censorship Rating: M Selected Awards: 2000: Telluride Film Festival 2001: Giffoni Children's Film Festival - Bronze Gryphon, Zanzibar Int, Film Festival - People choice awards,Australian Film Institute Award - Young Actor award. Pan African Film festival, London Australian Film Festival, CINEMAGIC International Film Festival for Young People, Cinema des Antipodes - Cannes . ------------------------------------------------------- RAZZLE DAZZLE 6:00 pm october 17, 2008 Director: Darren Ashton Writer: Carolyn Wilson, Robin Nce Cast: Kerry Armstrong, Ben Miller, Nadine Garner, Denise Roberts, Tara Morice, Jane Hall, Toni Lamond, Noeline Brown, Barry Crocker Synopsis: A fly-on-the-wall mockumentary about the tears, tantrums and tiaras in the world of competitive dance eisteddfods. Amidst petty politics and creative controversy, Razzle Dazzle delves into the lives of three stage mothers and their relationships with the dance school, each other and their children. Duration: 95 mins Original Australian Theatrical Censorship Rating: PG ------------------------------------------------------- HOME SONG STORIES 8:00 pm october 17, 2008 6:00 pm october 18, 2008 Director/Writer: Tony Ayres Cast: Joan Chen, Yuwu Qi, Joel Lok, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler, Kerry Walker Synopsis: The story of Rose, a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer, and her struggle to survive in Australia with her two young children. An epic tale of mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, unrequited love, betrayal and hidden secrets that spans continents and decades. Duration: 103 mins Original Australian Theatrical Censorship Rating: M Selected Awards: 2007 8 AFI Awards, 5 IF Awards ------------------------------------------------------- RADIANCE 4:00 PM OCTOBER 18, 2008 Director: Rachel Perkins Cast: Rachael Maza, Deborah Mailman, Trisha Morton-Thomas Synopsis: A mother's death draws her three disparate, distant daughters back to their ramshackle childhood home where they are forced to confront their mother's legacy of half-truths, unfinished business and family secrets. The three sisters are finally able to lay to rest the ghosts of the past, along with the ashes of their mother's body. Duration: 81 min Genre: Family/Women Original Australian Theatrical Censorship Rating: M Selected Awards: 1998: Sydney Film Festival - Best Feature Film - Rachael Perkins, Audience Vote 1998: Australian Film Institute Awards - Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a leading Role - Deborah Mailman, Film Critics' Circle of Australia - Best Actress - Deborah Mailman 1999: Creteil Film Fest De Femmes, France - Prix du Public, Festival Internazionale Cinema Delle Donne, Italy - Jury Prize for Best full-length Film. Festival Internazionale Cinema Delle Donne , Italy - Audience Prize for Best full-length Film 2000: Hollywood Black Film Festival, USA - Jury Award - Honourable Mention ------------------------------------------------------- CLUBLAND 8:00 PM october 18, 2008 Director: Cherie Nowlan, Writer kath Thompson Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Emma Booth, Khan Chittenden, Richard Wilson, Russell Dykstra, Rebecca Gibney, Katie Wall, Phillip Quast, Frankie J Holden Synopsis: Life can be tough when you’re 21-years-old, and still a virgin. Just ask Tim. The girl of his dreams has just walked into his life, and things should be looking up, except a few small problems stand between him and the perfect romance: his mum, his dad and the family business… show business. Welcome to CLUBLAND. A family love story that will defy your expectations. Duration: 105 mins Original Australian Theatrical Censorship Rating: M Selected Awards: AFI Award winner 2007 ------------------------------------------------------- Admission is FREE on a first-come, first-seated basis up to maximum theatre capacity. Students are requested to bring their ID at all times.
Cinematic Arts
free October 16, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu October 17, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu October 18, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu 
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CINE EUROPA 11
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Music September 26, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu September 27, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu September 28, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu
FEATURE FILMS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2008 A PERFECT MATCH by M. Van Hoogenbemt Belgium On the day of his forced retirement, a grumpy school principal decides to look for a wife on the Internet. It’s not love he is after. Merely companionship. He meets scores of women but can’t seem to make up his mind. Until his new housekeeper arrives. She is almost 40 years younger than him and a total disaster at housekeeping. For the first time in what seems a lifetime, he falls totally and desperately in love. Rating: PG-13 BEAUTY IN TROUBLE by Jan Hrebejk and Petr Jarchovsky Czech Republic A young woman is faced with dilemma of loving two men at once; a dilemma between sexual dependence and assuring a future for herself and her children; a dilemma in her relationship to her mother and step-father and with her mother-in-law. Beauty in Trouble is full of unexpected situations, twists and humor with a paradoxical ending. Rating: R-18 AFTER THE WEDDING by Susanne Bier (Nominated in the 2007 Oscar Awards in the Best Foreign Film category) Denmark Jacob Petersen has dedicated his life to helping street children in India. When the orphanage he heads is threatened by closure, he receives an unusual offer. A Danish businessman, Jørgen, offers him a donation of $4 million dollars. There are, however, certain conditions … Not only must Jacob return to Denmark, he must also take part in the wedding of Jørgen's daughter. The wedding proves to be a critical juncture between past and future and catapults Jacob into the most intense dilemma of his life. Rating: PG-13 CHILDREN OF THE MOON by Manuela Stacke Germany Astronaut Paul flies to the moon. Lisa, a scientist, accompanies him. Every afternoon, 12-year-old Lisa has an appointment with her 6-year-old brother Paul. He is suffering the incurable "Disease of the Moon" and has to stay inside the house. As a pastime, Lisa has invented a fantasy game, and in the siblings’ imagination, Paul is a spaceship captain who travels around, lost in space. But when Lisa falls in love for the first time, another appointment is getting in the way, and becoming more and more important. Brother and sister have to learn to adapt to the new reality. Rating: PG-13 LOVE SONGS (Chansons d' Amour) by Christophe Honoré France Les Chansons d’Amour is all about the intricacies and beauty of falling in love. It is about too many people loving a person, not surviving without love and saying sorry for love. Rating: R-18 UN FRANCO, 14 PESETAS by Carlos Iglesias Spain Two friends named Martin and Marcos decide to look for jobs in Switzerland. They leave their families behind in Spain and head off on their journey to the free, progressive part of Europe. They will have adapt to very different way of life there, working as mechanics at a factory and living in a small industrial town. The arrival of Martin´s wife Pilar and son Pablo, and Marcos´girlfriend Maria del Carmen, marks the end of the bachelor life they were living in a country with lost of freedom. Martin and Pilar´s everyday life is their work, while little Pablo starts going to school and making the new place his home. When Martin´s father dies, they realize they've already go what they went there for and it´s time to return. Much to their surprise, going home is much harder than leaving was. Rating: R-13 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2008 CHEMICAL HUNGER by Antonio Bocola and Paolo Vari Italy With a backdrop set in a grim housing project of a Milan suburb teeming with social tension, three youngsters, Claudio, Manuel and Maja, face up to the passage from youth to adulthood.Urban poverty, workers' rights, and racial conflicts between Italians and Third World extracomunitari (people from outside the European Union) represent one set of related issues; Claudio's career and romantic uncertainties and interactions with his more illegal pal Manuel are another. Italian rapper, Zulù, leader of the "99 Posse," comments on the social situation in songs he sings like a Greek chorus. Rating: R-18 ONE HUNDRED STEPS by Marco Tullio Giordana Italy "I cento passi" (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastato’s house and the house of Tano Badalamenti, an important Mafia boss, in the small Sicilian town of Cinisi. The movie is the story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist that in the late seventies (when almost nobody dared to speak about Mafia, and several politicians maintained that Mafia did not even exist) repeatedly denounced Badalamenti crimes and the whole Mafia system using a small local radio station, with the arm of irony. In 1978 Peppino (30 years old) was killed by an explosion. The police archived the case as an accident or a suicide, but his friends never accepted this thesis. Rating: R-13 NIGHT RUN by Dana Nechustan The Netherlands Dennis van der Horst is a kind-hearted young entrepreneur. He lives by the rules of the street. The only people he feels any responsibility for are his brother Marco and his family, who are not very well off. When Dennis gets the chance to obtain an extremely expensive but lucrative taxi-license, he seizes it. In the presence of the manager of MOTAX, the only taxi company in Amsterdam, Dennis borrows a very large sum of money. Dennis is beside himself with joy. The hustling is over. Soon however Dennis finds out that there was a reason why it was so easy for him to obtain such a scarce license. The law is being altered, allowing competition on the taxi market. The licenses of Dennis and many of his colleagues all at once become worthless. As of that moment there is a war going on in the streets of Amsterdam. Dennis gets deeper into trouble when he finds out that he has unwittingly become part of the criminal organization behind MOTAX. Even the police turn out to have secret ties with MOTAX and there is only one thing left for Dennis to do in order to free himself: confront the man who is pulling the strings. Rating: PG-13 MOZART IN CHINA by Bernd Neuburger Austria Danny and Li Wei, two ten-year-old boys from Salzburg, spend an adventurous summer on the southern Chinese island of Hainan. With the help of Mozart and a Chinese shadow princess they manage to save an old shadow theatre from a greedy hotel chain. Rating: G THE PAPER WILL BE BLUE by Marco Tullio Giordana Romania Lieutenant Neagu's armoured unit is ordered to patrol the suburbs. The unit's radio functions intermittently and communications between the different armoured units and fragments of radio and TV broadcasts give vague reports of "terrorist" attacks on the national television station held by anti-Ceausescu forces. The members of the unit are thrown into confusion. Rating: R-13 COLORADO AVENUE by Claes Olsson Finland Colorado Avenue tells the story of Hanna, a young woman who emigrates to America determined to make money in the Great West and later returns to her home country to face civil war, alcohol smuggling and humiliation. With her American dollars she buys a parcel of rocky land and opens a country store. The store becomes the village centre and the local people begin to respect the industrious Hanna – or Dollar-Hanna as they choose to call her. The film deals with humiliation, shame, respect and making peace with one's past and is set in the early years of Finland's independence. Rating: PG-13 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2008 AND WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? by Anand Tucker United Kingdom The film is Blake Morrison's moving and candid memoir of his father in the weeks leading up to his death. When Arthur Morrison was diagnosed with terminal cancer he had only a few weeks left to live. Morrison travelled to Yorkshire to stay with his mother in the village where he grew up. He visited his father at the hospital where he had spent so much time with his own patients as a GP. As his father's condition worsened Morrison contemplated their shared experiences, the intimacies and the irritations of their relationship. Rating: PG-13 LATE BLOOMERS by Bettina Oberli Switzerland Lisi encourages Martha (80), to realize a long-held dream: to open a boutique with her own hand-made lingerie. This news turns the placid Swiss Emmental village upside down. When Martha’s son, the vicar, orders her to close the shop, she and her best friends decide it’s high time to show the village what they are made of! Rating: PG-13 VITUS by Fredi M. Murer Switzerland Vitus is a boy who almost seems to be from another planet: He has hearing like a bat, he plays piano like a virtuoso and studies encyclopaedias at the age of five. No wonder his parents begin to anticipate a brilliant future for him. They want Vitus to become a pianist. However, the little genius prefers to play in his eccentric grandfather’s workshop. He dreams of flying and of a normal childhood. Ultimately, with one dramatic leap, Vitus takes control of his own life. Rating: G * Admission is free on a First-come, first-seated basis * Films with English subtitles * Schedule is subject to change without prior notice * Students are advised to bring their ID at all times
Music
free September 26, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu September 27, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu September 28, 2008 → Onstage, Ayala Center Cebu
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Trio Amical: Songs From the Heart
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Music July 6, 2008 → 7:00 pm, SM Theater Two
Victoria Robertson: mezzo-soprano
Marian Liebowitz: clarinet Lois Kim: piano REPERTOIRE Parto, Parto from La Clemenza da Tito W. A. Mozart 1756-1791 Ballade No.4 Frederic Chopin 1810-1849 Amour! Viens aider ma faiblesse! Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix from Samson et Dalila Camille Saint-Saëns 1835-1921 Tonada Carlos Guastavino 1912-2000 Scenes from Carmen Habanera, Gypsy Dance, Seguidilla Georges Bizet 1838-1875 arr. Tompkins-MacLaine arr. Richard Stoltzman INTERMISSION Summertime George Gershwin (1898-1937) arr. Tompkins-MacLaine Preludes for Piano (1927) George Gershwin I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso II.Andante con moto e poco rubato III.Allegro ben ritmato e deciso “Till There Was You” from The Music Man Meredith Willson 1902-1984 “I Could Have Danced All Night” from My Fair Lady Frederick Loewe 1901-1988 Wedding Dance No. 1 from Fiddler on the Roof Jerry Boch b. 1928 arr. Tompkins-MacLaine Medley from The Sound of Music Richard Rodgers 1902-1979 arr. Tompkins-MacLaine
Music
free July 6, 2008 → 7:00 pm, SM Theater Two
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VIOLIST GERRY VARONA PERFORMS IN HOMECOMING CONCERT
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Music July 4, 2008 → 8:00 pm, at the Marcelo B. Fernan Cebu Press Center, Sudlon, Lahug.
 The Arts Council of Cebu Foundation, Inc. is proud to present violist, Gerry Varona in a homecoming concert this Thursday, July 24, 2008, 8:00 pm at the Marcelo B. Fernan Cebu Press Center, Sudlon, Lahug. Gerry Varona is a recipient of numerous scholarships from the Salvador and Pilar Sala Foundation under Ingrid Sala Santamaria and have played for several years with the Peace Philharmonic Philippines, both as a principal of the viola section, and as soloist. He won 1st prize in the National Music Competition for Young Artsists in 2004 and the Dean's Concerto Competition at the Louisiana State University in 2007. He has also won the MTNA regional chamber music competition in the whole state of Louisiana together with four of his colleagues. He has joined the Interlochen Arts Festival in Michigan where he was privileged to play with the World Youth Symphony Orchestra and with the Honors Quartet and the Boudoin Chamber Music Festival in Maine. Gerry Varona will be accompanied on the piano by noted piano teacher Maria Mila Nadala.
Music
free July 4, 2008 → 8:00 pm, at the Marcelo B. Fernan Cebu Press Center, Sudlon, Lahug.
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FETE DELA MUSIQUE
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Music June 21, 2008 → 5:00pm – 4:00 am, North Parking Area, SM City Cebu June 22, 2008 → 5:00pm – 4:00 am, Paseo, Cebu
 Les Amis de la France, Arts Council of Cebu Foundation, Inc and the
European Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with ABS- CBN, M.
Lhuillier Philippines and Nokia are proud to present the first FETE DE
LA MUSIQUE (Cebu) 2008 on Saturday, June 21, 2008 from 5:00pm – 4:00
am, June 22 at Paseo, Cebu. Fete de la Musique started out in France in June 21, 1982. A French Memorandum was issued lamenting the sad and sorry state of the millions of musical instruments stored in the closet and cupboards of French artists. It started the idea of setting aside one day of each year to give all musicians, professionals and amateurs alike, an opportunity to play and showcase their talent in every venue conceivable. Since then Fete has spread to Australia, Belgium, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Israel, India and many more. Today Fete is considered as one of the most (if not the most famous) music festival in the world with over 120 countries joining in this simultaneous celebration. The fist Fete de la Musique in the Philippines was held in Metro Manila in 1994 having more than 30 bands coming from the different musoc genre and has been celebrated yearly since its birth. Last year (2007) the music of Fete de la Musique echoes in four different stages having heard by more than twenty thousand spectators who were present to witness the live performances of various artists. The highly anticipated Cebu debut of Fete de la Musique will feature performances by over twenty bands with Junior Kilat, Hardwood, Island Joe, Powespoonz to name a few. The event not only gives the artists an opportunity to for people to hear music and for instruments to be displayed and utilized; the primary success of it lies in bridging people from all walks of life, all culture, and all levels of society. For that one day, there are no barriers, no walls. All are one in celebrating the universal language that is music.
Music
free June 21, 2008 → 5:00pm – 4:00 am, North Parking Area, SM City Cebu June 22, 2008 → 5:00pm – 4:00 am, Paseo, Cebu
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