Current Films
Tickets are $14.00 across the board, not bad eh!
The Ideal Palace
STARTS 20 JUNE
"A beautiful, romantic work that looks like master paintings." Daily-Movies.
Based on the incredible true story of Joseph Ferdinand Cheval (Jacques Gamblin), comes the remarkable tale of a simple postman who spent 33 years crafting the magnificent ‘Ideal Palace’. Everyday Cheval travels along the river Drôme from village to village, quiet and alone he enjoys the solitude of his rounds, daydreaming about a world full of wonder he can only imagine through postcards.
After his wife, Philomena (Laetitia Casta) gives birth to their daughter Alice, Cheval decides to build Alice a palace fit for a princess. With only his bare hands, his love for his daughter and the dedication of his wife, he starts carefully collecting stones and begins building the historically classified monument, The Ideal Palace.
"A beautiful, romantic work that looks like master paintings." Daily-Movies.
Based on the incredible true story of Joseph Ferdinand Cheval (Jacques Gamblin), comes the remarkable tale of a simple postman who spent 33 years crafting the magnificent ‘Ideal Palace’. Everyday Cheval travels along the river Drôme from village to village, quiet and alone he enjoys the solitude of his rounds, daydreaming about a world full of wonder he can only imagine through postcards.
After his wife, Philomena (Laetitia Casta) gives birth to their daughter Alice, Cheval decides to build Alice a palace fit for a princess. With only his bare hands, his love for his daughter and the dedication of his wife, he starts carefully collecting stones and begins building the historically classified monument, The Ideal Palace.
European Outdoor Film Tour
STARTS 20 JUNE
ADVENTURE IS WAITING:
E.O.F.T. is back with the most inspiring and thrilling adventure films of the year and coming to Christchurch for the first time.
E.O.F.T. is the most renowned outdoor adventure film event across Europe and is spreading globally. We brought the tour to Australia and New Zealand for the very first time last year, and are back with more this year. E.O.F.T. is seen by more than 250,000 people annually, across 15 countries in 300 locations. Now we are here.
E.O.F.T. is a premium film tour experience. Unlike other tours, every film is handpicked and especially edited and produced for the tour by a team of expert filmmakers. We then show the films at the same time as they premiere in Europe which means you get them before they appear online or in other festivals.
No casting. No actors. No makeup. This is real.
NOTE: TICKETS ARE DOOR SALES
ADVENTURE IS WAITING:
E.O.F.T. is back with the most inspiring and thrilling adventure films of the year and coming to Christchurch for the first time.
E.O.F.T. is the most renowned outdoor adventure film event across Europe and is spreading globally. We brought the tour to Australia and New Zealand for the very first time last year, and are back with more this year. E.O.F.T. is seen by more than 250,000 people annually, across 15 countries in 300 locations. Now we are here.
E.O.F.T. is a premium film tour experience. Unlike other tours, every film is handpicked and especially edited and produced for the tour by a team of expert filmmakers. We then show the films at the same time as they premiere in Europe which means you get them before they appear online or in other festivals.
No casting. No actors. No makeup. This is real.
NOTE: TICKETS ARE DOOR SALES
Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back
FAR OUT! Film Night
Tuesday 25th June- 7pm
Come early to ensure a seat. Doors open at 6pm.
A document of Bob Dylan’s pivotal 1965 tour of England and his transformation from a polite voice of the marginal folk scene into an incendiary figure in the cultural mainstream. Shot in stunning 16mm black & white film, the camera follows him from airport to hall, from train to taxi, from conversation to concert... a very young and confident (if not arrogant) Bob Dylan has the wind of the world in his sails in this historic film
Tuesday 25th June- 7pm
Come early to ensure a seat. Doors open at 6pm.
A document of Bob Dylan’s pivotal 1965 tour of England and his transformation from a polite voice of the marginal folk scene into an incendiary figure in the cultural mainstream. Shot in stunning 16mm black & white film, the camera follows him from airport to hall, from train to taxi, from conversation to concert... a very young and confident (if not arrogant) Bob Dylan has the wind of the world in his sails in this historic film
Where Hands Touch
Award-winning filmmaker Amma Asante (Belle) directs this story of a bi-racial teen struggling for survival in Nazi Germany.
"Rudesheim, the Rhineland, 1944. Lenya (Stenberg) has come of age during the chaos of war. Her mother (Abbie Cornish) has done her best to protect Lenya, but the racist credo of National Socialism has rendered her a pariah for the colour of her skin. Yet youthful ardour can bloom in the most unlikely places: Lenya is in love with Lutz (George MacKay), a young Nazi. Lutz toes the party line when it comes to antisemitism yet remains drawn to Lenya despite Nazi revulsion at the thought of a Black German. When that revulsion escalates to direct threat to her survival, Lenya and Lutz must face the seemingly inevitable outcome of their impossibly fraught romance."
"Rudesheim, the Rhineland, 1944. Lenya (Stenberg) has come of age during the chaos of war. Her mother (Abbie Cornish) has done her best to protect Lenya, but the racist credo of National Socialism has rendered her a pariah for the colour of her skin. Yet youthful ardour can bloom in the most unlikely places: Lenya is in love with Lutz (George MacKay), a young Nazi. Lutz toes the party line when it comes to antisemitism yet remains drawn to Lenya despite Nazi revulsion at the thought of a Black German. When that revulsion escalates to direct threat to her survival, Lenya and Lutz must face the seemingly inevitable outcome of their impossibly fraught romance."
Little Woods
STARTS 27 JUNE
Nia DaCosta's debut feature, nominated for Best Narrative Feature at Tribeca, follows two down-and-out estranged sisters trying to make ends meet.
"Ollie (Tessa Thompson, Creed) is just getting by in economically depressed Little Woods, a fracking boomtown in North Dakota. She has left her days of illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border behind her, eyeing a potential new job that would finally break her out of the small town. But when her mother dies, she is thrust back into the life of her estranged sister Deb (Lily James, Baby Driver), who is facing her own crisis with an unplanned pregnancy and a deadbeat ex (James Badge Dale, The Departed) ... As both bills and pressure mount, Ollie faces a choice: whether to return to a way of life she thought she’d left behind for just one more score." (Tribeca Film Festival)
Nia DaCosta's debut feature, nominated for Best Narrative Feature at Tribeca, follows two down-and-out estranged sisters trying to make ends meet.
"Ollie (Tessa Thompson, Creed) is just getting by in economically depressed Little Woods, a fracking boomtown in North Dakota. She has left her days of illegally running prescription pills over the Canadian border behind her, eyeing a potential new job that would finally break her out of the small town. But when her mother dies, she is thrust back into the life of her estranged sister Deb (Lily James, Baby Driver), who is facing her own crisis with an unplanned pregnancy and a deadbeat ex (James Badge Dale, The Departed) ... As both bills and pressure mount, Ollie faces a choice: whether to return to a way of life she thought she’d left behind for just one more score." (Tribeca Film Festival)
Girl
STARTS 4 JULY
Lara, a 15-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina moves cities with her family to attend a prestigious dance school. The physical and emotional strains of perfecting the art are coupled with the fact that Lara is burdened by being born a boy. Girl is an unnerving look at the adolescent frustrations Lara faces.
This is Lukas Dhont's feature debut and was nominated for the Queen Palm at Cannes.
Lara, a 15-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a ballerina moves cities with her family to attend a prestigious dance school. The physical and emotional strains of perfecting the art are coupled with the fact that Lara is burdened by being born a boy. Girl is an unnerving look at the adolescent frustrations Lara faces.
This is Lukas Dhont's feature debut and was nominated for the Queen Palm at Cannes.
Lost and Found
STARTS 4 JULY
Everyone is looking for something or someone.
Irish portmanteau comedy weaving seven interconnecting stories set in and around a lost and found office of an Irish train station. All segments are inspired by true stories, share a theme of something lost or found with characters that come in and out of each other's lives.
Everyone is looking for something or someone.
Irish portmanteau comedy weaving seven interconnecting stories set in and around a lost and found office of an Irish train station. All segments are inspired by true stories, share a theme of something lost or found with characters that come in and out of each other's lives.
Ophelia
STARTS 11 JULY
Daisy Ridley is the title character in this retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective. Co-stars Naomi Watts as Gertrude.
"Something is rotten in medieval-era Denmark, where political intrigue swirls around the imperial court like dark magic. Amid it all, the queen’s brightest lady-in-waiting, Ophelia, finds herself drawn to Hamlet, the charismatic and elusive crown prince. As their secretive love affair takes flight, betrayal strikes the court, threatening to derail their union and devastate the royal family for good. Caught between her desires and her loyalty, Ophelia has to decide where her devotion will ultimately lie." (Sundance Film Festival)
Daisy Ridley is the title character in this retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective. Co-stars Naomi Watts as Gertrude.
"Something is rotten in medieval-era Denmark, where political intrigue swirls around the imperial court like dark magic. Amid it all, the queen’s brightest lady-in-waiting, Ophelia, finds herself drawn to Hamlet, the charismatic and elusive crown prince. As their secretive love affair takes flight, betrayal strikes the court, threatening to derail their union and devastate the royal family for good. Caught between her desires and her loyalty, Ophelia has to decide where her devotion will ultimately lie." (Sundance Film Festival)