YOUNG AT HEART FILM FESTIVAL

YOUNG AT HEART, ​the only film festival in the world catering to film lovers over 60 years of age, is thrilled to announce its full program and its 2017 festival ambassador, LYNETTE CURRAN​.

Beginning her career in the 60s, Lynette Curran ​is one of Australia’s most respected film and television actors. From her early days in the soap opera Bellbird to classic Australian films such as Bliss, The Boys, Japanese Story, and Somersault, Lynette has made an enormous contribution to the local screen industry. She is currently seen in A Few Less Men, in which she turns the seniors stereotype on its head. Young at Heart​ warmly welcomes Lynette as the festival’s ambassador for 2017.

Joining the Young at Heart program is LOOKING FOR INFINITY: EL CAMINO , a moving documentary about the physically and emotionally gruelling journey many travellers make - in search of enlightenment or a fresh perspective on life - along the El Camino de Santiago. Featuring a score by English composer Richard Melkonian, the film captures the remarkable beauty ofNorth-Western Spain, where what was formerly a religious pilgrimage has become a cycling and trekking experience for hundreds of thousands of people each year.

Simon Aboud delivers a contemporary fairytale in the coming of age film THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC​. In a dreamy spot in central London, Bella Brown (Jessica Brown Findlay​, Downton Abbey) fantasises about writing and illustrating a successful children’s book. When forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her ultimate match in miserable green-thumb, Alfie (Tom Wilkinson​, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel).

NERUDA is the audacious and grandly entertaining film from multi-award winning director Pablo Larraín (Jackie). A lavishly-mounted reimagining of the Nobel Prize-winning poet’s pursuit into political exile, the film is set in Cold War era Chile where Neruda (Luis Gnecco​) accuses the government of betraying the Communist Party, and finds himself on the run from bumbling police prefect Oscar Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal​).

Set against the backdrop of WWII, SOPHIE AND THE RISING SUN tells the dramatic story of interracial lovers swept up in the tides of history. An injured first-generation Japanese-American man (Takashi Yamaguchi​) shows up unexpectedly in a small town, where he is cared for by a local townswoman (Julianne Nicholson​). But the local community, driven by fear, reacts with unrelenting suspicion.

Lone Scherfig (An Education) returns with the comedy-drama THEIR FINEST​, set during the Blitz of London in World War II. A young screenwriter Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) is charged with bringing a female perspective to morale-boosting war films made by the British Ministry of Information's Film Division. Overflowing with witty banter and period detail, the film also stars Bill Nighy​, Sam Claflin​, Jake Lacy​, Richard E. Grant​, and Jeremy Irons​.


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Festival dates: 3 -26 April 2017

NOTE: A $5.90 postage fee applies when reserving these tickets

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