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30. 5. - 6. 6. 2010
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June 6th 2010Day 8 is the final day of the festival. In the afternoon hours the film-goers can see the last film screenings.Film clapperboards

Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Michael escapes the realities of his small-town New Zealand life by immersing himself within a world of maps. Yet his seemingly-happy isolation is broken by the serendipitous arrival of two young women into his life. Mary is twenty and blind from birth, on the verge of voyaging into the world on her own. Alison is Michael's peer, whose grace betrays darker secrets. Suspended beside it all is Michael's single mother Amelia, who cherishes her son, while simultaneously pushing him away.
Harold Brodie: Harold Brodie studied Film and Writing at San Francisco State University before emigrating to New Zealand in 1992. His first film as writer/director/editor was the micro-budget Orphans and Angels (2003) which won a Special Jury Prize at the 2003 New Zealand Film Awards. The Map Reader is his second full-lenght feature film. When not making his own films, he works as a film and television editor.