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FEATURE FILMSCLOSED CURTAIN (PARDE)d. Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya21 JULY 12:00 MUSGRAVE A; 28 JULY 12:00 MUSGRAVE BPartovi, Iran, 2013Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Script at Berlin this year, this latest film from bannedIranian director Jafar Panahi was shot secretly at Panahi’s own beachfront villa on theCaspian Sea. One night during a thunderstorm, Melika and her brother Reza break intothe villa occupied by a writer-in-hiding. The writer demands that they leave, but Rezastates that his sister is suicidal and then leaves her there. Melika’s presence unsettles thewriter, sending him into a paranoid state, but things become even more surreal when filmdirector Jafar Panahi and other film crew members appear in the villa. African Premiere.Persian with English subtitles, 106 minCOMRADE KIM GOES FLYINGd. Kim Gwang Hun, NicholasBonner, Anja Daelemans, Belgium, 20 JULY 15:00 SUNCOAST B; 23 JULY 18:00 SUNCOAST AUnited Kingdom, North Korea, 2012Filmed in North Korea and co-directed by Kim Gwang-hun from North Korea, NicholasBonner from the UK and Anja Daelemans from Belgium, this outrageous and intriguingfilm tells the story of an adult coal miner and acrobat who is discovered by the nationaltrapeze team. But Comrade Kim's dreams of becoming a trapeze artist are crushed by thearrogant trapeze star Pak Jang Phil, who believes miners belong underground and notin the air. The first European-North Korea coproduction, Comrade Kim Goes Flying marksa milestone in film history thanks to the passionate determination of its three directors.African Premiere.Korean with English subtitles, 81 minCOSMOPOLISd. David Cronenberg, France,26 JULY 22:15 SUNCOAST A; 27 JULY 22:00 MUSGRAVE ACanada, 2012Based on Don deLillo’s novel, this latest film from David Cronenberg chronicles a singlenight in the life of Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a 28-year-old financial golden boy whodreams of living in the civilisation that will follow in the wake of the chaotic decay aroundhim. As he is driven across Manhattan in a stretch limousine on his way to get a haircut,his dark dreams of the future turn in on themselves, and Packer’s reality slowly dissolves.Lyrical, with a hint of terror, Cosmopolis is both an elegiac praise poem to an acceleratedreality and a foreboding lament on humanity’s future. African Premiere.English, 108 min56 34th Durban International Film Festival