Grab your bean bags, heat up the popcorn and get ready for a full weekend movie marathon at the 2012 Magnetic Island Film Festival from Friday 2 March to Sunday 4 March.

Proudly presented by the Magnetic Island Film Society, this year's festival features a selection of drama, comedy, and romance.

Movies in order of apperance are:

'THE EYE OF THE STORM' (MA)
8:00pm Friday 2nd March
The Friday Night RSL Markets also offer you some pre-movie dinner options to choose from.

Release date: 2011
Duration: 114 mins.  Genre: Drama
Director: Fred Schepisi
Lead actor: Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush
Cast: Colin Friels, Robyn Nevin, Helen Morse, Alexandra Schepisi
Language: English   Country: Australia: NSW

It's the first of Patrick White's novels to be adapted to the screen…It's about a rich and selfish Sydney socialite Elizabeth, CHARLOTTE RAMPLING, lying, dying in her Eastern suburbs mansion, drifting in and out of lucidity while her two estranged children - the actor Basil - GEOFFREY RUSH - and daughter Dorothy - JUDY DAVIS - who married unsuccessfully into European aristocracy - gather rather reluctantly by her bedside. Margaret and David (4 stars)

'LE HAVRE' (PG)
3:00pm Saturday 3rd March

Release date: 2011 Duration: 93 mins.
Genre: Comedy Drama
Language: French/-English Subtitles  Country: Finland,

France and Germany “Le Havre”, named after the industrial port city in northern France, is a tale of lower-depths solidarity. You could easily imagine this story about a young African refugee who comes under the protection of a French shoe-shine man and his neighbours. But ARKI KAUSRISMAIL does not rub our faces in hardships. Figuring that we already know something about how harsh life can be, he reminds us of its modest charms, and how in the face of cruelty people can still behave decently. A charming and beautiful work. New York Times (4 stars).

'THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER' (M)
8:00pm Saturday 3 March

Release date: 2011  Duration: 103 mins.
Genre: Drama, Director: Eran Riklis   Lead actor: Mark Ivanir
Country: Israel, Hebrew with English subtitles.

The Human Resources Manager was Israel's submission to the Academy for Best Foreign Language film. It's a wry, compassionate film about the human resources manager for a big bakery in Jerusalem, played by MARK IVANIR, who finds out that a woman who is working for them was killed a fortnight ago in a terrorist bombing. In order to avoid a scandal in the press, the owner of the bakery orders him to accompany the body back to an unnamed Balkan country to her relatives. Margaret Pomeranz 'At The Movies': (4 stars)

'MEDIANERAS' (M)
3:00pm Sunday 4 March

Release date: 2011   Duration: 95 mins.
Genre: Romance, Director: Gustavo Taretto
Country: Argentina, Spanish with English subtitles.

Argentina’s capital with it’s hodge-podge of sky scrapers, colossal billboards and web of power lines is the setting for this charming and original romance… Martin and Mariana are almost neighbours, however the chances of them meeting are slim. Martin rarely leaves his shoebox apartment preferring to connect with the world by internet. Mariana’s fear of lifts is a distinct handicap in this high-rise world. Medianeras can be translated as “dividing walls”, in this case obstacles on the path to romance.

'AGES OF LOVE' (MA)
8:00pm Sunday 4th March

Release date: 2011  Duration: 124 mins
Genre: Comedy, Horror   Director: Giovanni Veronesi
Cast: Robert De Niro, Monica Belluci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Michel Placido, Language: English  Country: Italy

THE AGES OF LOVE is a light Italian comedy that tells three separate stories about love at various ages… “This beautiful and invigorating story of love follows the lives three couples who become romantically entangled despite themselves. This movie left me with a refreshed outlook on love…” Penny Angelatos (5 stars)

Venue: Magnetic Island RSL Hall, Hayles Avenue Arcadia

TICKETS are available at the door.
Season Tickets (5 movies): $40 Adults or $30 MIFS Members or Concession

Single Tickets (Per movie): $10 Adults or $8 MIFS Members or Concession

For more information call Marie de Monchaux on 4758 1347.