Current Films
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La Cocina
STARTING 15 MAY
Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin 2024, this adaptation of Arnold Wesker's play follows the life in the kitchen of a NYC restaurant where cultures from all over the world blend during the lunchtime rush.
Amidst the lunch rush of a frantic Manhattan restaurant, a series of events threaten to bring the kitchen to a crashing halt. While food orders flood in and pressure mounts to boiling point, the passionate relationship between chef Pedro (Raúl Briones) and waitress Julia (Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara) is starting to fray. But when missing money and shocking revelations cause things to spiral out of control, it’s not long before one of New York’s busiest kitchens is on the verge of imploding. Featuring an array of outstanding performances led by Briones and Mara, La Cocina is a gripping, exhilarating and truly cinematic new film from acclaimed director Alonso Ruizpalacios.
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin 2024, this adaptation of Arnold Wesker's play follows the life in the kitchen of a NYC restaurant where cultures from all over the world blend during the lunchtime rush.
Amidst the lunch rush of a frantic Manhattan restaurant, a series of events threaten to bring the kitchen to a crashing halt. While food orders flood in and pressure mounts to boiling point, the passionate relationship between chef Pedro (Raúl Briones) and waitress Julia (Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara) is starting to fray. But when missing money and shocking revelations cause things to spiral out of control, it’s not long before one of New York’s busiest kitchens is on the verge of imploding. Featuring an array of outstanding performances led by Briones and Mara, La Cocina is a gripping, exhilarating and truly cinematic new film from acclaimed director Alonso Ruizpalacios.
In English and Spanish with English subtitles
Lies We Tell
STARTING 8 MAY
Directed by Lisa Mulcahy
An orphaned heiress is forced to embrace her family's dark legacy. The daunting, rambling estate of Knowl is no home for a young woman on her own, and certainly not for Maud (Agnes O’Casey, The Miracle Club) - just 18 years old. Freshly burdened with the sudden death of her father, and granted inheritance to his entire estate when she comes of age at 21, Maud is alone, unschooled in the ways of society, and vulnerable. The wolves begin to circle… As family secrets are uncovered, Maud discovers and reclaims her fledgling independence.
Lies We Tell is a chilling and atmospheric gothic tour de force, featuring a star making turn from Agnes O’Casey.
WINNER: 3 Irish Film & Television awards | Best Director, Best Script and Best Actress
Directed by Lisa Mulcahy
An orphaned heiress is forced to embrace her family's dark legacy. The daunting, rambling estate of Knowl is no home for a young woman on her own, and certainly not for Maud (Agnes O’Casey, The Miracle Club) - just 18 years old. Freshly burdened with the sudden death of her father, and granted inheritance to his entire estate when she comes of age at 21, Maud is alone, unschooled in the ways of society, and vulnerable. The wolves begin to circle… As family secrets are uncovered, Maud discovers and reclaims her fledgling independence.
Lies We Tell is a chilling and atmospheric gothic tour de force, featuring a star making turn from Agnes O’Casey.
WINNER: 3 Irish Film & Television awards | Best Director, Best Script and Best Actress
Coco Before Chanel
MOTHER'S DAY SCREENING
Sunday, 11 May at 6:30pm
Directed by Anne Fontaine
The brilliant Audrey Tautou plays the headstrong, self-sufficient designer who, in pre-First World War France, was one of the first women to assert herself in a man's world.
Born poor in 1883 in rural France, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel overcame her lack of breeding via a keen eye, forthright manner and revolutionary approach to women's tailoring that, incredibly, transformed a gruff peasant girl into the embodiment of chic. The iconic innovator lived to be 87 but the film concentrates on the stretch of time specified in the title ('Coco Before Chanel'), as Chanel scrambles to get by, absorbs visual inspiration from her surroundings and unabashedly uses men to get closer to Paris.
French with English subtitles
Sunday, 11 May at 6:30pm
Directed by Anne Fontaine
The brilliant Audrey Tautou plays the headstrong, self-sufficient designer who, in pre-First World War France, was one of the first women to assert herself in a man's world.
Born poor in 1883 in rural France, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel overcame her lack of breeding via a keen eye, forthright manner and revolutionary approach to women's tailoring that, incredibly, transformed a gruff peasant girl into the embodiment of chic. The iconic innovator lived to be 87 but the film concentrates on the stretch of time specified in the title ('Coco Before Chanel'), as Chanel scrambles to get by, absorbs visual inspiration from her surroundings and unabashedly uses men to get closer to Paris.
French with English subtitles
The People We Love
STARTING 2 MAY
Directed by Mike Smith
When a young writer returns to her family’s home after a life-changing day of disappointments, her well-meaning interventions in her family’s relationships drives everything off the rails...
Maddie’s first collection of short stories is rejected by her publisher. Hiding out at the family beach house, Maddie can’t resist getting involved in her family’s fragmenting relationships. Her boyfriend and her best friend are contemplating an affair. Her mother is leaving her father - for a woman. And the guy who betrayed her trust in high school is back in her life. Over the next few days she nearly wrecks her parents’ marriage, rejects and regains her best friend, and reconnects with the guy who might just be the love of her life. However, a crisis occurs when she writes about what is happening around her, and to her, and those stories are uncovered. Her whanau, who are depicted in the stories, feel betrayed. Can this family mend itself? And Maddie faces a heartbreaking choice: Her writing. Or the people she loves...
This tale of family and love was filmed on location in Wellington and the Kāpiti Coast. It marks the feature debut of veteran writer/director Mike Smith (800 Words, Siege, The Brokenwood Mysteries).
Directed by Mike Smith
When a young writer returns to her family’s home after a life-changing day of disappointments, her well-meaning interventions in her family’s relationships drives everything off the rails...
Maddie’s first collection of short stories is rejected by her publisher. Hiding out at the family beach house, Maddie can’t resist getting involved in her family’s fragmenting relationships. Her boyfriend and her best friend are contemplating an affair. Her mother is leaving her father - for a woman. And the guy who betrayed her trust in high school is back in her life. Over the next few days she nearly wrecks her parents’ marriage, rejects and regains her best friend, and reconnects with the guy who might just be the love of her life. However, a crisis occurs when she writes about what is happening around her, and to her, and those stories are uncovered. Her whanau, who are depicted in the stories, feel betrayed. Can this family mend itself? And Maddie faces a heartbreaking choice: Her writing. Or the people she loves...
This tale of family and love was filmed on location in Wellington and the Kāpiti Coast. It marks the feature debut of veteran writer/director Mike Smith (800 Words, Siege, The Brokenwood Mysteries).
The Last Showgirl
STARTING 1 MAY
Directed by Gia Coppola
A poignant film of resilience, rhinestones and feathers, stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly, a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis co stars as Shelly’s best friend, who brings her own unique interpretation and brilliance to the story.
"The Last Showgirl is a nearly perfect showcase for Pamela Anderson as a showgirl dancer grappling with ageism, sexism, and parenting regrets, as her long-running job is about to end. This drama realistically depicts an entertainer's mid-life crisis." Culture Mix
"Pamela Anderson’s quietly captivating performance steals the show. “The Last Showgirl” stays with you and truly dazzles as a raw and polarizing character study." This Chix Flix
Directed by Gia Coppola
A poignant film of resilience, rhinestones and feathers, stars Pamela Anderson as Shelly, a glamorous showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run. Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis co stars as Shelly’s best friend, who brings her own unique interpretation and brilliance to the story.
"The Last Showgirl is a nearly perfect showcase for Pamela Anderson as a showgirl dancer grappling with ageism, sexism, and parenting regrets, as her long-running job is about to end. This drama realistically depicts an entertainer's mid-life crisis." Culture Mix
"Pamela Anderson’s quietly captivating performance steals the show. “The Last Showgirl” stays with you and truly dazzles as a raw and polarizing character study." This Chix Flix
Project Fiftyone
STARTING 13 APRIL
Directed by Gaylene Barnes
A young Afghan-New Zealand couple make a risky journey to Afghanistan to change 51 lives in honour of the 51 lives lost in the Christchurch mosque attacks.
Feature documentary told through the eyes of Bariz Shah and Saba Afrasyabi. In remembrance of the 51 people martyred in Christchurch’s two mosques on March 15, 2019, they travel to Afghanistan to empower some of Kabul’s most poverty stricken people through funding 51 micro-business projects. Using their personal footage filmed over three months in Afghanistan, we share in their determination to change lives, and see the dramatic changes in the people they meet. Together Bariz and Saba respond to an act of terror by creating hope and uplifting lives.
In English and Farsi with English subtitles
Directed by Gaylene Barnes
A young Afghan-New Zealand couple make a risky journey to Afghanistan to change 51 lives in honour of the 51 lives lost in the Christchurch mosque attacks.
Feature documentary told through the eyes of Bariz Shah and Saba Afrasyabi. In remembrance of the 51 people martyred in Christchurch’s two mosques on March 15, 2019, they travel to Afghanistan to empower some of Kabul’s most poverty stricken people through funding 51 micro-business projects. Using their personal footage filmed over three months in Afghanistan, we share in their determination to change lives, and see the dramatic changes in the people they meet. Together Bariz and Saba respond to an act of terror by creating hope and uplifting lives.
In English and Farsi with English subtitles