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SAVE THE DATE
Now is the time to SAVE THE DATE, for we are thrilled to announce that the Castlemaine Documentary Festival will be coming to you again this year at the Theatre Royal Castlemaine with a top line-up of fabulous feature documentaries to rouse and thaw you – in all the ways you’d want – from your winter slumbering.
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
FRIDAY 23RD JULY, 6pm to LATE
Welcome to Country, acknowledgements, cocktails and DJs. Maybe even some surprise screenings…
VENUE: Cream Town, 325 Barker Street, Castlemaine
FREE ENTRY!
AUSTRALIAN PRODUCTION
MY NAME IS GULPILIL
David Gulpilil , the great Australian actor is a mesmerising, electrifying presence. Leaping off the big screen he changed Australian screen representation forever.
SAT 24th | 10:00am
Welcome to Chechnya
With searing urgency, Welcome to Chechnya, shadows a group of activists who risk unimaginable peril to confront the anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.
SAT 24th | 1:30pm
WINNER Best Documentary, Film Critics' Circle of Australia
China’s 3 Dreams
"In the 1970s, we had three dreams: a watch, a wireless and a bicycle".
What are the dreams of the Chinese people today?
SAT 24th | 4:30pm
Laurel Canyon – A Place In Time
Everything they touched turned to music.
Laurel Canyon, pulls back the curtain on the mythical world of Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles, providing an up-close look at the lives of the musicians who inhabited it.
SAT 24th | 8:00pm
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
RAISE THE BAR
How controversial can one basketball team of eight-year-old girls be? Very! This is a story of 8–13-year-old girls, who wanted to change the paradigm in women’s basketball in Iceland. But it could happen anywhere.
SUN 25th | 10:00am
Maxima
One woman’s fight against corporate greed.
An indigenous woman from the Peruvian Andes who cannot read or write, stands up to the largest gold producer in the world, US-based Newmont Mining Corporation.
SUN 25th | 1:30pm
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Bitter Love
On a Russian cruise ship – the Maxim Gorky , a floating microcosm, a large and varied gallery of passengers is drifting down the Volga.
Everyone on board is yearning for something in their lives.
SUN 25th | 4:30pm
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Faith and Branko
This intimate story chronicles the relationship between musicians Faith and Branko over seven years. In 2011, Faith travels from England to Serbia to learn gypsy accordion. She falls hard for Roma violinist Branko, and despite language barriers, they fall in love through music.
SUN 25th | 8:00pm
Our Sponsors
We are very grateful for our sponsors, without whom, the Festival would not have happened this year.
