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Events/Happenings

 Date: 24-31 October 2008

2008 Australian Film Showcase

Veneu: Leofoo Cineplex (2F, 172, Chang Chun Rd, Taipei104) Tel: 2507 4141

Package tickets: NT$960 for 6 films

Clubland 
Australia 2007
109 mins /Comedy | Drama
Director: Director:Cherie Nowlan

Cast: Brenda Blethyn 
         Khan Chittenden 
         Emma Booth

Jean Dwight, (Brenda Blethyn), used to be a well-known comedienne in her native Britain. But Jean married a not very successful Aussie entertainer, John moved to Sydney and raised two sons. She still performs, occasionally, in clubs. After one disastrous love affair, Tim is cautious when he meets Jill, an experienced young woman who makes the running in their relationship.

Screening Times:
10/24 (Fri) 19:30
10/25 (Sat) 14:00

Home Song Stories 
Australia 2007
103mins /Drama 

Director: Tony Ayres
Cast: Joan Chen
          Yuwu Qi 
          Steven Vidler 

The Home Song Stories is the story of Rose, a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer, who struggles to survive in seventies Australia with two young children. Based on writer/director Tony Ayres' own life, this is an epic tale of mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, unrequited love, betrayal and secrets.

Screening Times
10/25 (Wed) 19:30
10/29 (Thur) 19:30
10/31 (Thur) 19:30

Romulus My Father
Australia 2007
104 mins /Drama

Director: Richard Roxburgh

Cast:  Eric Bana 

          Franka Potent  
          Kodi Smit-McPhee

ROMULUS, MY FATHER is based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir of the same name. It tells the story of Romulus (Eric Bana), his beautiful wife, Christina and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is the tale of a boy, trying to balance a universe described by his deeply moral father, against the experience of heartbreaking absence and neglect from a depressive mother. It is, ultimately, a story of impossible love that celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.

Screening Times 
10/26 (Sun)  19:30
10/29 (Wed) 21:30
10/30 (Thur) 19:30

Peaches
Australia 2004
103mins /Drama
Director: Craig Monahan 
Cast: Hugo Weaving  
         Jacqueline McKenzie  
         Emma Lung 

From Australian Film Institute winning director Craig Monahan comes the story of teenage girl Steph, who is brought up by her fiery aunt Jude after her pregnant mother Jass and Vietnamese father are killed in a car crash. The arrival of her late mother's diary reveals the colourful, sexy secrets of Jude and the foreman Alan (Hugo Weaving) that allow Steph to reinvent her vision of the world.

Screening Times 
10/26 (Sun) 12:00
10/30 (Thur) 21:30

The Wog Boy 
Australia 2000
90 mins/ Comedy/Romance
Director:Aleksi Vellis 
Cast: Nick Giannopoulos  
         Lucy Bell  
         Vince Colosimo 

Steve liked Celia from the moment they met. But following a clash with her boss, Raelene Beagle-Thorpe, Minister for employment, he finds himself on national television branded as Australia's biggest dole bludger. Now Steve has to prove to Celia, to himself, and to the whole country, that there's more to him than meets the eye.

Screening Times

10/27 (Mon) 21:30
10/28 (Tue) 19:30

Hildegarde 
Australia 2002
90 mins/ Family
Director: Di Drew
Cast: Richard E Grant  
         Tom Long  
         Tara Morice 

Life has been difficult for Kim Powell and her three children ever since the family patriarch passed away. After a pair of local bird smugglers "ducknap" their pet Hildegarde, Kim's children -- Chris, Jeremy, and Isabel -- team up to stop the illegal poachers and save all their feathered friends. Hildegarde was screened at the Brisbane, Berlin, and London film festivals.

Screening Times
10/25 (Sat) 12:00
10/26 (Sun) 14:00

The Yolngu Boy 
Australia 2001
85 mins / Children/Social realism
Director: Stephen Michael Johnson
Cast: Nathan Daniels 
         Sean Mununggurr  
         Sebastian Pilakui 

Lorrpu, Botj and Milika are three Yolngu (Aboriginal) teenagers who once shared a childhood dream of becoming great hunters together. But as teenagers they changed: Botj did bad things which landed him in jail one time, and Milika is more interested football and in chicks! Only Lorrpu is still closer to Aboriginal traditions and to their common dream. When Botj is about to return to jail, the three boys start to trek to Darwin to argue Botj's case with tribal leader Dawu. 

Screening Times 
10/27 (Mon) 19:30
10/28 (Tue)  21:30

ACT Legislative Assembly Election - 18 October 2008

For all enquiries relating to the election, please visit ACTEC

website: www.elections.act.gov.au

email: elections@act.gov.au

Telephone: +61 2 6205 0033