Continuing our Best Foreign Language Film Festival this week is Austria's submission to the category at this year’s Oscars. Plus, an iconic Australian coming-of-age novel brought to life, and Adam Driver in American indie director Jim Jarmusch’s latest.
• Fri 16 June @ 7:30 PM: STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE
In 1936, illustrious author Stefan Zweig – one of the most-read authors of the 20th century – leaves Austria for South America. Being Jewish and hating the inhumanity that prevails in Germany, he struggles to understand the events in war torn Europe as he searches for a new home amidst the political turmoil.
** Presented in partnership with the Embassy of Austria **
• Sat 17 June @ **7 PM**: JASPER JONES + PATERSON
JASPER JONES tells the coming-of-age tale of Charlie Bucktin (Levi Miller), who finds his life changed forever when his small town’s mixed-race outcast – Jasper Jones (Aaron McGrath) – shows him a dead body of a young girl. Believing Jasper to be innocent, he sets out to find the true killer amidst dangerous racial tensions in 1960s Australia. Also starring Toni Collette and Hugo Weaving.
Then, in PATERSON (at approx. 8:45 PM), a bus driver named Paterson (Adam Driver) in the city of Paterson, New Jersey adheres to a simple routine each day. But his outlook on life gradually begins to change when he discovers the poetry evident in the smallest details, triumphs and defeats of daily life. Directed by Jim Jarmusch (ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE, DEAD MAN).