1-Day Film Festival
Sunday 3 July 2022
Free for members
The festival is free for members and $50 for non-members.
Get your 1-day film festival pass here: https://DFSFilmFestival.eventbrite.com.au
OR pay on the day (CASH ONLY)
Please email any questions to dubbofilmsociety@gmail.com
9am - Queen Bees
While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent senior Helen (Academy Award winner Ellen Burstyn) reluctantly moves into a nearby retirement community — just temporarily.
Once at Pine Grove Senior Community, she encounters feisty widows, cutthroat bridge tournaments and a group of bullying “mean girls” that reminds her of high school and has her yearning to go home.
But somewhere between flower arranging and water aerobics Helen discovers that it’s never too late to make new friends and perhaps even find a new love.
A heartwarming and humorous look at life’s second act, Queen Bees is inspired by a true story also starring James Caan, Ann-Margret, Jane Curtin, Christopher Lloyd and Loretta Devine.
Running time: 100 minutes
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Rating: PG
Language: English
11am - Never Gonna Snow Again
A mysterious masseur visits a dysfunctional gated community in this absorbing Polish fairytale
On a grey, foggy morning outside a large Polish city, Zhenia (Alec Utgoff), a masseur from the East, enters the lives of the wealthy residents of a gated community.
Using hypnotic, almost magical techniques to get a residence permit, he starts working. The well-to-do residents in their cookie-cutter homes seemingly have it all, but they all suffer from an inner sadness, some unexplained longing.
The attractive and mysterious newcomer’s hands heal, and Zhenia’s eyes seem to penetrate their souls. To them, his Russian accent sounds like a song from the past, a memory of their seemingly safer childhoods.
Running time: 113 minutes
Genre: Drama
Rating: M
Language: Polish, Russian
12:55pm - 1:55pm Lunch Break
1:55pm - The French Dispatch
A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch.”
On the occasion of the death of its beloved Kansas-born editor Arthur Howitzer, Jr., the staff of The French Dispatch, a widely circulated American magazine based in the French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé, convenes to write his obituary
Memories of Howitzer flow into the creation of four stories: a travelogue of the seediest sections of the city itself from The Cycling Reporter; “The Concrete Masterpiece,” about a criminally insane painter, his guard and muse, and his ravenous dealers; “Revisions to a Manifesto,” a chronicle of love and death on the barricades at the height of student revolt; and “The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner,” a suspenseful tale of drugs, kidnapping and fine dining.
Running time: 108 minutes
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Rating: M15+
Language: English, French
4:05pm - Belfast
On the occasion of the death of its beloved Kansas-born editor Arthur Howitzer, Jr., the staff of The French Dispatch, a widely circulated American magazine based in the French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé, convenes to write his obituary
Memories of Howitzer flow into the creation of four stories: a travelogue of the seediest sections of the city itself from The Cycling Reporter; “The Concrete Masterpiece,” about a criminally insane painter, his guard and muse, and his ravenous dealers; “Revisions to a Manifesto,” a chronicle of love and death on the barricades at the height of student revolt; and “The Private Dining Room of the Police Commissioner,” a suspenseful tale of drugs, kidnapping and fine dining.
Running time: 108 minutes
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Rating: M15+
Language: English, French
5:30pm - 7pm Dinner break
7pm - Disclosure
Parents viciously confront one another when a 4-year-old girl makes a serious allegation against a politician’s 9-year-old son.
A tense psychological drama, Disclosure draws our audience into the world of two empathetic protagonists, soulmates Danny and Emily, as they respond to the horror of their 4-year-old daughter’s disclosure of sexual abuse at the hands of their friends’ 9-year-old son.
When Danny and Emily reach out to the parents of the accused, in a bid to tackle the issue constructively, they are instead forced to counter an increasingly brutal attempt to retract their accusation.
Running time: 84 minutes
Genre: Drama
Rating: M15+
Language: English
8:30pm Finish
Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre
155 Darling St Dubbo, NSW, 2830
02 6801 4378