We have just launched the exciting 39 film programme for BOFA 2016, and we think it’s our best line-up yet! You can access the full program and buy tickets NOW on the BOFA website. You can read the programme as a flip-book or download it as a PDF - the print version will be widely distributed around the state. And remember, the more tickets you buy in one transaction, the more you save. Tickets are completely transferable, so get together with family and friends to make big savings.

Just 7 weeks to go, so it’s time to think about.....

WHAT’S YOUR BOFA?

There are many aspects to BOFA 2016, and something for every film lover.

FEATURES BOFA

FEATURES BOFA is supported by Launceston Airport. Film brings the world to you, Launceston Airport takes you to the world. In recent years, Launceston Airport has invested more than $20 million in putting our airport in the top 12 in Australia for passenger numbers,  and last year won the Australian Airport Association's 'Major Airport of the Year' Award.  Launceston airport, that connects the city to the world, has made it possible for BOFA to bring you the world’s best feature films for this year’s Festival.

FROM CANNES TO LAUNCESTON.....Cannes is still the world’s most glamorous film festival and BOFA 2016 brings you six of the best features from this year’s Cannes Festival  including two of the major Cannes award-winners:

CANNES CO-WINNER – BEST DIRECTOR – CRISTIAN MUNGIU

Directed by Romanian Cristian Mungiu, who previously won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Graduation was described by The Guardian as “a masterly, complex movie of psychological subtlety and moral weight”, and “a jewel in this exceptionally good Cannes lineup”.

Romeo Aldea , a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad, but, on the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them using the principles he, as a father, has taught his daughter. Fatherly love leads him into the world of corruption that he wants his daughter to escape.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13   TRAMSHEDS THEATRE  11.45 am – 2.00pm

CANNES FESTIVAL 2016  BEST SCREENPLAY

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s 2011 film, A Separation, became a sensation. Critically acclaimed around the world, it won a Golden Globe, a Cesar Award and ultimately the Academy Award as Best Foreign Film in 2012.  His new film is a masterfully tense and emotionally complex examination of anger, fear, guilt and revenge. Emad and Rana, a young married couple, move into a new flat, not realising the previous tenant was a prostitute. Thinking it is Emad, Rana lets a stranger into the house and the assault that follows opens a rift between the couple as Rana seeks solitude and Emad seeks revenge. Set against a production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman in which Emad and Rana appear as Willy and Linda Loman, this is an unflinching examination of a marriage pushed to its limits and the frailties of Iranian society and gender politics.

Variety described The Salesman as “saturated with emotional intrigue......tense and devastating.” 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12    TRAMSHEDS THEATRE   12noon – 2.15pm

Film lovers, sponsors and the BOFA team gathered in Launceston, Hobart and Burnie last week for the official launch of the 2016 BOFA programme.

Photo: Showreel on Water Screen at Penny Royal Launceston.

BOFA 2016 was launched in Launceston by Mayor, Albert van Zetten, at  Penny Royal Adventures with a spectacular display of the BOFA 2016 showreel on the water screen.  In Hobart, Alex Sangston, Executive Manager at Screen Tasmania, launched the programme inviting Hobartians to join him in driving north for the festival.

Photo: Andrew Lovitt, Swedish student, Lindal Van Zetten and Mayor Albert van Zetten, Launceston.

In Burnie, Mayor Anita Dow, encouraged north west coasters to embrace this year's festival. BOFA was fortunate to have the young women from Big hART’s Project O, who are participating in this year's festival, stage manage our final launch from promotion to meet-and-greet, catering and performances on the evening. Project O began in Wynyard (TAS), and is produced by renowned national arts for social change organisation Big hART.

Photo: Burnie Launch at The Chapel

• Go and use the flip book programme
• Go and download the PDF programme
• Pick up your copy from Neil Pitt’s Menswear, Aussie Launceston or Hotel Grand Chancellor in Launceston or many other CBD locations throughout the state
• Download the FREE What’s On In app now at www.whatsonin.com.au and take the BOFA programme with you wherever you go.