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Friday, 26 June
Daily Programme
Exhibitions
Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory
Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.
Films
Blue Heron
6:30 PM
On Vancouver Island in the late 1990s eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family attempt to build a new life, only to be destabilised by the increasingly dangerous behaviour of her older brother, Jeremy.
Live
Chezile
7:30 PM
Alejandro Sanchez, better known as Chezile, has had the kind of overnight success that would give anyone whiplash. After 2023 psych-pop single “Beanie” went viral on TikTok, he went from living out of his car in Los Angeles to getting calls from labels. The Albuquerque-born multi-instrumentalist is now based in San Diego, where he’s hard at work on a full-length debut. Support from Kilu.
Films
Audition (4K Restoration)
8:30 PM
One of the most notorious J-Horror films ever made, Takashi Miike's Audition exploded onto the festival circuit at the turn of the 21st century to a chorus of awards and praise. The film catapulted Miike to the international scene and paved the way for such other genre delights as Ichii the Killer and 13 Assassins.
Films
A Better Tomorrow (4K Restoration)
8:30 PM
At once a landmark of 1980s Hong Kong cinema and the harbinger of John Woo's future star-studded career, A Better Tomorrow broke the mould with its kinetic action sequences, razor sharp script and breakout performance by Chow Yun-Fat.