Welcome to the
Maleny Film Society ...
Jessica Begun, President
Welcome to the Maleny Film Society website. Now that you have found us be sure to take a look and see what movies we have coming up at our fortnightly screenings.
Come along and experience one of our film nights. As well as a great movie you will be able to enjoy a delicious meal provided by our caterers Pomodoras in the friendly company of other moviegoers. One visit and I can guarantee you will be back to enjoy the experience all over again.
The first time I visited Maleny I noticed that a great film was screening that weekend in the Community Centre. And I thought to myself - I could live here! Once making the move to Maleny the Film Society quickly became a focal point for my social and cultural life here.
Our Maleny Film Society is run by a committee of management and assisted by a dedicated band of volunteers who help with the screenings each fortnight. Visitors to our movies are given a temporary membership for the evening. If you enjoy the experience you will then wish to join the society and by doing so gain benefits including entry at reduced rates and invitation to the free Members Only Screenings, which are held monthly.
If you have any queries or ideas or would like to enquire about being on our volunteer roster please have a chat to one of our committee members at a film night, we are the ones wearing the name badges.
I look forward to meeting you at the movies.
Regards
Jessica Begun
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The Maleny Film Society acknowledges support from the Sunshine Coast Regional Council through a Community Partnership Grant ...
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SCREENING NEXT...
Saturday 26 May – Evening 7.15pm
Le Havre
Fin / Germ / France – comedy / drama – PG – 93 mins
In this warmhearted film, directed and written by Finnish auteur Ari Kaurismaki, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel, a dignified, stoic, ex-bohemian, who works as a shoeshiner. Marcel hides the lad in his house in the old fishermen’s quarter of the city of Le Havre. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials who are doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. In an unconventional manner, he tries to raise funds to smuggle Idrissa to his mother in England. Le Havre has the master’s trademark deadpan dialogue and delicious nuggets of bone-dry humour. With comedy and absurdity this film addresses the refugee problem more persuasively than many a grim socialist-realist picture. An inspiring celebration of humanity - sweet, sad and uplifting in equal measure.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeKM0fjOtgA
screenings are now held at …
The Pavilion
Maleny Showgrounds - Maleny Stanley River Road
… doors open at 5.45pm …
dinner available until 6.45pm - catered by Pomodoras on Obi
bar and tea & coffee facilities
… ample well-lit parking and disabled parking at the entrance …
enquiries – Manager 5494 2882 ... malenyfilmsociety@gmail.com
AND SCREENING SOON ...
Saturday 09 June – evening 7.15pm
Albert Nobbs
Ireland – period drama – M – 108 mins
Social drama set in Ireland in the late 19th century, with Glenn Close in the challenging role of a woman posing as a man in order to survive in a male-dominated society. When ’Albert’, the enigmatic butler of luxurious Morrison’s Hotel, is forced by devious owner Mrs Baker (Pauline Collins) to share his room with painter Hubert Page (played with panache by Janet McTeer), secrets are revealed. Mia Wasikowska plays waitress Helen who has an eye for handyman Joe (Aaron Johnson) in a storyline full of surprising twists and turns. Having played this poignant role off-Broadway in the 1980s, Close launched a three-decade quest to bring a richer version to the screen. Based originally on a story by George Moore. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ini59bYhaUY
Saturday 23 June – evening 7.15pm
A Separation
Iran – drama – PG – 123 mins
Complex, and morally challenging, this impressive drama is set in contemporary Iran. It highlights issues of gender, class, justice and honour, as a secular middle-class family in the midst of one upheaval ends up in another conflict with an impoverished religious family. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband, Nader, and daughter. Nader refuses to abandon his Alzheimer-sufferer father. Simin unsuccessfully sues for divorce and moves out. So Nader hires Razieh, a poor, devout young woman to mind his father. Razieh, pregnant, has taken the job without her husband’s knowledge and has a miscarriage after Simin pushes her down stairs. Thus a second case pits Nader and Razieh against one another in the Iranian legal system and forces all involved, to consider the nature of loyalty, truth and integrity
