Line Up for The King's Landing Down Under Film Festival

This is the information from Marilyn G. re "The KL Down-Under Film Fest":

Here's the line-up for the remaining films in the King's Landing Down Under Film Festival. All are in the KL Theatre 1-3 pm except where noted.

Tuesday, April 7: Whale Rider - Farnoosh is hosting. Paikea Apirana is the only living child in the line of a Maori tribe's chiefly succession. By tradition, the leader should be the first-born son — a direct descendant of Palkea the Whale Rider — he who rode atop a whale. However, Pai is female and technically cannot inherit the leadership. The movie is a beautiful story of her struggles to show that she is worthy of being chief.

Sunday, April 12, 1-4 pm: Thorn Birds, part 1 - Farnoosh is hosting.

Wednesday, April 15, 7:30 pm: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - View Club selection (possible date change due to hockey playoffs)

Saturday, April 18, 1-4 pm: Thorn Birds, part 2 - Farnoosh is hosting.

Sunday, April 19, 1-4 pm: Thorn Birds - The Missing Years - Farnoosh is hosting. . It is a 1996 "midquel" to the original 1983 miniseries, the story of the 19 years that are unaccounted for between the birth of Dane, and Ralph's return to Australia in the original ABC miniseries.

Tuesday, April 21: Once Were Warriors - Susan Man hosting. This gritty movie tells the story of a dysfunctional Maori family and their problems with alcohol, poverty and domestic violence, a important insight into a disenfranchised people digging down deep to find their pride. A difficult film to watch but very well reviewed.

Saturday, April 25, 1-4 pm, Screening Room: Town like Alice, part 1 - Marilyn is hosting. Heroine is an attractive young English captive in a Japanese POW camp and hero a cheerful Australian POW tortured for a simple act of kindness. Separated first by their captors then by the distance of passing years, the two are finally reunited in the rugged outback of Australia - to face a challenge every bit as demanding as their wartime trials. 1981 PBS mini series

Sunday, April 26, 1-4 pm, Screening Room: Town like Alice, part 2.

Tuesday, April 28: Walkabout - Tricia is hosting. Two young children are stranded in the Australian outback and are forced to cope on their own. They meet an Aborigine on "walkabout": a ritualistic banishment from his tribe. 1971 classic film.

Wednesday, April 29, 7:30 pm: Picnic at Hanging Rock - View Club selection (possible date change due to hockey playoffs)