Current Films
Tickets are $15.00 across the board, unless noted otherwise
The Haka Party Incident
STARTING 30 JANUARY
Directed by Katie Wolfe
A film about the most important three minutes in Aotearoa’s history. On May 1st, 1979, a group of young Māori and Pasifika activists, He Taua, confronted a gathering of University of Auckland engineering students as they rehearsed their ‘mock’ haka. The fracas that followed prompted the nation to confront systemic racism and make change for a better and more equal partnership between Pākehā and Māori. Although the aftermath of the clash changed race relations in Aotearoa forever, the incident itself was quickly forgotten. Until now…
"The Haka Party Incident was rescued from historical oblivion by writer and filmmaker Katie Wolfe – originally as a play commissioned by Auckland Theatre Company and first staged in 2021." (Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival)
The film cleverly intertwines multiple interviews from both sides of the confrontation, both recent and from around the time of the incident.
English & Te Reo
Directed by Katie Wolfe
A film about the most important three minutes in Aotearoa’s history. On May 1st, 1979, a group of young Māori and Pasifika activists, He Taua, confronted a gathering of University of Auckland engineering students as they rehearsed their ‘mock’ haka. The fracas that followed prompted the nation to confront systemic racism and make change for a better and more equal partnership between Pākehā and Māori. Although the aftermath of the clash changed race relations in Aotearoa forever, the incident itself was quickly forgotten. Until now…
"The Haka Party Incident was rescued from historical oblivion by writer and filmmaker Katie Wolfe – originally as a play commissioned by Auckland Theatre Company and first staged in 2021." (Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival)
The film cleverly intertwines multiple interviews from both sides of the confrontation, both recent and from around the time of the incident.
English & Te Reo
Who Are You, Polly Magoo?
FAROUT! Presents:
Who Are You, Polly Magoo? (1966)
Tuesday, 28 Jan
Doors at 5:30, show at 6:30
$15 CASH ONLY
After nearly a decade as American Vogue's most subversive fashion photographer, William Klein made his directorial debut with this wild film. Part parody, part homage to the Parisian fashion world and its excesses. Starring model Dorothy McGowan as Polly Maggoo in her one and only film performance. In French with English subtitles, shot in beautiful black and white!
Who Are You, Polly Magoo? (1966)
Tuesday, 28 Jan
Doors at 5:30, show at 6:30
$15 CASH ONLY
After nearly a decade as American Vogue's most subversive fashion photographer, William Klein made his directorial debut with this wild film. Part parody, part homage to the Parisian fashion world and its excesses. Starring model Dorothy McGowan as Polly Maggoo in her one and only film performance. In French with English subtitles, shot in beautiful black and white!
Anora
STARTING 16 JANUARY
Directed by Sean Baker
In this Palme d'Or-winning love story from Sean Baker (Tangerine, Red Rocket) a Las Vegas sex worker gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she and a young Russian oligarch fall for each other. However, when news of their impulsive marriage reaches his homeland, his parents make moves to get their union annulled.
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
94% Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
Directed by Sean Baker
In this Palme d'Or-winning love story from Sean Baker (Tangerine, Red Rocket) a Las Vegas sex worker gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she and a young Russian oligarch fall for each other. However, when news of their impulsive marriage reaches his homeland, his parents make moves to get their union annulled.
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
94% Rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
All We Imagine As Light
STARTING 9 JANUARY
Directed by Payal Kapadia
Award-winning filmmaker Payal Kapadia (A Night of Knowing Nothing) directs this radiant romantic drama, the first Indian film to receive the Grand Prix at Cannes. The film follows two nurses sharing an apartment: the compassionate Prabha, whose absent husband is working in Germany, and the younger Anu, who has a secret relationship with a young Muslim man. Both are looking for love but instead find sisterhood in the vibrant, heaving 20 million plus populace of Mumbai. Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest. Kapadia’s narrative debut is a delicate ode to female bonding set against the backdrop of the sprawling metropolis of Mumbai, which plays as a pulsating, vivid part in the story.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
"This is a glorious film.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
"Few films have ever so beautifully captured the lonesome romance of Mumbai after dark." - Jessica Kiang, Variety
"Filmed with exquisite elegance and precision, All We Imagine As Light surprises for its subtly unconventional and even subversive approach to visual storytelling and confirms Kapadia as one of the most singular and compelling voices of contemporary cinema."
- Paolo Bertolin
Malayalam & Hindi with English subtitles
Directed by Payal Kapadia
Award-winning filmmaker Payal Kapadia (A Night of Knowing Nothing) directs this radiant romantic drama, the first Indian film to receive the Grand Prix at Cannes. The film follows two nurses sharing an apartment: the compassionate Prabha, whose absent husband is working in Germany, and the younger Anu, who has a secret relationship with a young Muslim man. Both are looking for love but instead find sisterhood in the vibrant, heaving 20 million plus populace of Mumbai. Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest. Kapadia’s narrative debut is a delicate ode to female bonding set against the backdrop of the sprawling metropolis of Mumbai, which plays as a pulsating, vivid part in the story.
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
"This is a glorious film.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
"Few films have ever so beautifully captured the lonesome romance of Mumbai after dark." - Jessica Kiang, Variety
"Filmed with exquisite elegance and precision, All We Imagine As Light surprises for its subtly unconventional and even subversive approach to visual storytelling and confirms Kapadia as one of the most singular and compelling voices of contemporary cinema."
- Paolo Bertolin
Malayalam & Hindi with English subtitles
Goodrich
STARTING 29 Nov
Directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Andy Goodrich’s (Michael Keaton) life is upended when his wife and mother of their nine-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. Thrust into the world of modern parenthood, Goodrich leans on his daughter from his first marriage, Grace (Mila Kunis), as he ultimately evolves into the father Grace never had.
“Exceptionally Smart and Endearing… Michael Keaton is in Top Form in the Heartfelt, Funny and Sweet Dramedy.” Deadline
Directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Andy Goodrich’s (Michael Keaton) life is upended when his wife and mother of their nine-year-old twins enters a 90-day rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. Thrust into the world of modern parenthood, Goodrich leans on his daughter from his first marriage, Grace (Mila Kunis), as he ultimately evolves into the father Grace never had.
“Exceptionally Smart and Endearing… Michael Keaton is in Top Form in the Heartfelt, Funny and Sweet Dramedy.” Deadline
There's Still Tomorrow
STARTING 28 Nov
Directed by Paola Cortellesi
The highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy, There’s Still Tomorrow is a vibrant, moving drama starring Paola Cortellesi in her directorial debut. Delia (Cortellesi) lives in a working-class community in Rome in the late 1940s - a city divided between the positive thrust of liberation and the miseries of the war that has just ended - with her domineering husband, Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea), their three children, and father-in-law.
She rises above the daily challenges of family life; has a best friend with whom to share moments of levity, and dreams for her daughter Marcella to one day have a better life. Delia accepts her fate - the good with the bad - until one day a mysterious letter arrives. Shot in resplendent black and white, in the style of post-World War II Italian neorealist filmmakers, There’s Still Tomorrow is a critically acclaimed, bittersweet and empowering tale tinged with a comedic irony.
"An unashamed, old-fashioned melodrama develops into a more considered tale of small victories on the road to female empowerment." Screen International
100% on Rotten Tomatoes!
Italian with English subtitles
Directed by Paola Cortellesi
The highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy, There’s Still Tomorrow is a vibrant, moving drama starring Paola Cortellesi in her directorial debut. Delia (Cortellesi) lives in a working-class community in Rome in the late 1940s - a city divided between the positive thrust of liberation and the miseries of the war that has just ended - with her domineering husband, Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea), their three children, and father-in-law.
She rises above the daily challenges of family life; has a best friend with whom to share moments of levity, and dreams for her daughter Marcella to one day have a better life. Delia accepts her fate - the good with the bad - until one day a mysterious letter arrives. Shot in resplendent black and white, in the style of post-World War II Italian neorealist filmmakers, There’s Still Tomorrow is a critically acclaimed, bittersweet and empowering tale tinged with a comedic irony.
"An unashamed, old-fashioned melodrama develops into a more considered tale of small victories on the road to female empowerment." Screen International
100% on Rotten Tomatoes!
Italian with English subtitles
You Should Have Been Here Yesterday
STARTING 21 NOV
Directed by Jolyon Hoff
A poetic homage to Australia’s early surf-culture with unearthed footage set to an original soundtrack. You Should Have Been Here Yesterday combines hundreds of hours of
lovingly restored 16mm footage with a downright killer score by salty legends Headland. This totally radical documentary tells the story of a wild community who took off up the coast and discovered a whole new way to live. Come on a cinematic trip down the Aussie coast of years gone by.
Featuring Albe Falzon, Wayne Lynch, Bob McTavish, Maurice Cole, Pauline Menczer, Ma Bendall, Tim Winton and many more.
Directed by Jolyon Hoff
A poetic homage to Australia’s early surf-culture with unearthed footage set to an original soundtrack. You Should Have Been Here Yesterday combines hundreds of hours of
lovingly restored 16mm footage with a downright killer score by salty legends Headland. This totally radical documentary tells the story of a wild community who took off up the coast and discovered a whole new way to live. Come on a cinematic trip down the Aussie coast of years gone by.
Featuring Albe Falzon, Wayne Lynch, Bob McTavish, Maurice Cole, Pauline Menczer, Ma Bendall, Tim Winton and many more.