MIFF @ GPAC

The Melbourne International Film Festival hits the road again for MIFF @ GPAC, a one-day, four-film special event held alongside the main festival.

Film schedule:
11am - SWERVE (18+)
1pm - TABLOID (18+)
3pm - THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD (18+)
5pm - THE GUARD (18+)

TICKET PRICES:
Day Pass (all 4 Films):
Adult $50.00
Concession $36.50

Single film (click on film title to purchase tickets):
Adult $17
Concession $14.00

FILM SYNOPSES:
SWERVE

Director: Craig Lahiff.
2011, 87min, 18+

A woman, two men and a suitcase of money - a lot can happen in the middle
of nowhere.


Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin (David Lyons) opts for a shortcut and happens across a fatal car accident. One of the drivers (Emma Booth) is shaken but not hurt, while the other lies dead - leaving a briefcase full of money without an owner. Despite his best intentions, Colin quickly finds himself drawn into a deadly game of survival, where no one is quite what they seem.


An accomplished Australian thriller that features a cast packed with top-tier local talent, including Jason Clarke, Travis McMahon and Vince Colosimo.


TABLOID

Director: Errol Morris.
2010, 84min, 18+

Sex, crime, religion and flavoured lube - the interview subject of Errol Morris's new documentary possess a personality as outrageous as the story she tells.


Joyce McKinney was just an ordinary, everyday former beauty queen turned bondage call girl. That is, until she kidnapped, bound and molested a Mormon gentleman. 


Tabloid finds Errol Morris returning to the style of his First Person (MIFF 2001) interviews - though in kinkier form than usual - as with humour and candour, he draws out a jawdropping story of love and obsession from his most eccentric interview subject yet.
"Errol Morris' Tabloid is bonkers in all the best possible ways - a welcome return to perverse portraiture after a lengthy sojourn in the realm of more serious-minded subjects." - Variety

THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD
Director: Joshua Marston.
2011, 109min, 18+
Winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin film festival.
Having debuted with Colombia-based cocaine drama Maria Full of Grace (MIFF 2004), American filmmaker Joshua Marston turns his attention to the sometimes bloody battle between tradition and progress in contemporary Albania.
In The Forgiveness of Blood, an Albanian teenager finds himself wedged in the middle of a blood feud between his father and another local man based on a six-centuries-old law, which means stepping foot from his house could literally end in his sanctioned death.
With the help of local Andamion Murataj, Marston has crafted a menacing and culturally faithful portrait of an Albania caught between the old ways and the new. Impressively performed by non-professional actors speaking in their native tongue, The Forgiveness of Blood offers a striking glimpse into an little-known world.

THE GUARD
Director: John Michael McDonagh.
2011, 96min, 18+
"Scabrous, profane, violent, verbally adroit and often hilarious." - Hollywood Reporter
The buddy cop genre gets an Irish reworking in The Guard, the gleefully chaotic debut feature from writer-director John Michael McDonagh.
A sleepy Galway is shaken out of its slumber by a violent crime, leaving the laconic police force to tackle a crime syndicate that's way out of their league. The rotund, sweary, beer-swilling police sergeant Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) is reluctantly teamed with the fish-out-of-water FBI agent Everett (a straight-laced Don Cheadle) as they try to solve a murder and undo an international criminal conspiracy without killing one another.