Current Films
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Prime Minister
STARTING 25 SEPTEMBER
Directed by Michelle Walshe & Lindsay Utz
Rt Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's 40th Prime Minister, led her nation through unprecedented challenges, implemented bold policies, and became the second leader in history to give birth in office, all while championing an inclusive and empathetic leadership style that changed global expectations of what a leader can be.
At just 37, Ardern became the youngest Prime Minister in her country in over 150 years, and only the second world leader to give birth while in office. This documentary captures the defining moments of her leadership, from her compassionate response to the Christchurch mosque attacks to her swift, though controversial, COVID-19 strategy. Directors Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz perfectly combine public moments, news coverage, home videos filmed by Ardern’s partner, Clarke Gayford, unheard audio from her time in office, and reflections from the Jacinda of today. A rare glimpse of a leader balancing empathy with authority, this is an up-close and personal exploration of leadership in a divided, complex world.
94% on Rotten Tomatoes
AWARD WINNER
Audience Award (World Cinema - Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2025
Audience Award (Best International Documentary), Sydney Film Festival 2025
Directed by Michelle Walshe & Lindsay Utz
Rt Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's 40th Prime Minister, led her nation through unprecedented challenges, implemented bold policies, and became the second leader in history to give birth in office, all while championing an inclusive and empathetic leadership style that changed global expectations of what a leader can be.
At just 37, Ardern became the youngest Prime Minister in her country in over 150 years, and only the second world leader to give birth while in office. This documentary captures the defining moments of her leadership, from her compassionate response to the Christchurch mosque attacks to her swift, though controversial, COVID-19 strategy. Directors Michelle Walshe and Lindsay Utz perfectly combine public moments, news coverage, home videos filmed by Ardern’s partner, Clarke Gayford, unheard audio from her time in office, and reflections from the Jacinda of today. A rare glimpse of a leader balancing empathy with authority, this is an up-close and personal exploration of leadership in a divided, complex world.
94% on Rotten Tomatoes
AWARD WINNER
Audience Award (World Cinema - Documentary), Sundance Film Festival 2025
Audience Award (Best International Documentary), Sydney Film Festival 2025
Grace: A Prayer for Peace
STARTING 24 SEPTEMBER
***First screening on Wednesday, 24 Sept at 6:30pm will be followed by a 30min Q&A with Dame Gaylene Preston
Directed by Dame Gaylene Preston
GRACE A Prayer for Peace brings together filmmaker Dame Gaylene Preston and artist Dame Robin White (Ngāti Awa) — in an extraordinary collaboration. What begins as conversation evolves into a cinematic path across Aotearoa, Kiribati, and Japan, drawing rich connections between people, place, and art. This is not a biopic, but a creative exchange — anchored in Robin White’s practice and worldview, it becomes a deeply felt exploration of how we live, what we value, and what we choose to protect.
Through White’s art, the voices of her collaborators across the Pacific, and Preston’s astute and considered lens, the film reckons with legacies of environmental destruction, displacement, and injustice. Yet GRACE never loses sight of beauty, humour, and the enduring search for peace. Strong, tender, and quietly transformative, it offers both a warning and a space for contemplation — an invitation to see more clearly, feel more deeply, and respond with humanity.
"GRACE A Prayer for Peace is a portrait of one of Aotearoa’s greatest living artists by one of our greatest documentary filmmakers. You should expect something special, and that’s what you get." — NZIFF Whānau Mārama
***First screening on Wednesday, 24 Sept at 6:30pm will be followed by a 30min Q&A with Dame Gaylene Preston
Directed by Dame Gaylene Preston
GRACE A Prayer for Peace brings together filmmaker Dame Gaylene Preston and artist Dame Robin White (Ngāti Awa) — in an extraordinary collaboration. What begins as conversation evolves into a cinematic path across Aotearoa, Kiribati, and Japan, drawing rich connections between people, place, and art. This is not a biopic, but a creative exchange — anchored in Robin White’s practice and worldview, it becomes a deeply felt exploration of how we live, what we value, and what we choose to protect.
Through White’s art, the voices of her collaborators across the Pacific, and Preston’s astute and considered lens, the film reckons with legacies of environmental destruction, displacement, and injustice. Yet GRACE never loses sight of beauty, humour, and the enduring search for peace. Strong, tender, and quietly transformative, it offers both a warning and a space for contemplation — an invitation to see more clearly, feel more deeply, and respond with humanity.
"GRACE A Prayer for Peace is a portrait of one of Aotearoa’s greatest living artists by one of our greatest documentary filmmakers. You should expect something special, and that’s what you get." — NZIFF Whānau Mārama
Midnight Cowboy
DOME SPOTLIGHT SCREENING - one night only!
Friday, 19 Sept at 7pm
Directed by John Schlesinger
Convinced of his irresistible appeal to women, Texas dishwasher Joe Buck (Jon Voight) quits his job and heads for New York City, thinking he'll latch on to some rich dowager. New York, however, is not as hospitable as he imagined, and Joe soon finds himself living in an abandoned building with a Dickensian layabout named Enrico Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend.
AWARDS
Best Film, Director and Adapted Screenplay at the 1970 Academy Awards
Most Promising Newcomer (Voight) at the Golden Globes 1970
Best Film, Actor (Hoffman), Director, Editing, Newcomer (Voight) and Screenplay at the 1970 BAFTA Awards
OCIC Award at the Berlin Film Festival 1969
Friday, 19 Sept at 7pm
Directed by John Schlesinger
Convinced of his irresistible appeal to women, Texas dishwasher Joe Buck (Jon Voight) quits his job and heads for New York City, thinking he'll latch on to some rich dowager. New York, however, is not as hospitable as he imagined, and Joe soon finds himself living in an abandoned building with a Dickensian layabout named Enrico Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend.
AWARDS
Best Film, Director and Adapted Screenplay at the 1970 Academy Awards
Most Promising Newcomer (Voight) at the Golden Globes 1970
Best Film, Actor (Hoffman), Director, Editing, Newcomer (Voight) and Screenplay at the 1970 BAFTA Awards
OCIC Award at the Berlin Film Festival 1969
Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua - Two Worlds
STARTING 11 SEPTEMBER
Directed by Ursula Grace Williams
Follow renowned Aotearoa New Zealand singer-songwriter sensation Marlon Williams (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Tai) on the profound, revealing and joyful four-year journey of reconnection and self-discovery behind writing and recording his first album in te reo Māori. Being his most ambitious project to date, the documentary highlights his personal challenges along the way, weaving together Williams’ different worlds, from international tours and recording the album, to life in his hometown of Ōhinehou (Lyttelton).
FLICKS RECOMMENDS - Insightful
Acclaimed musician’s journey to reconnect with te ao and te reo Māori is full of insightful and personal moments - taking place as Aotearoa stands up to the anti-Māori policies of its government.
"Beautifully shot and edited." -New Zealand Herald
"An intimate and evocative portrait." - Radio New Zealand
"A brave, essential and joyous film that couldn’t have arrived at a better time." -The Spinoff
Directed by Ursula Grace Williams
Follow renowned Aotearoa New Zealand singer-songwriter sensation Marlon Williams (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Tai) on the profound, revealing and joyful four-year journey of reconnection and self-discovery behind writing and recording his first album in te reo Māori. Being his most ambitious project to date, the documentary highlights his personal challenges along the way, weaving together Williams’ different worlds, from international tours and recording the album, to life in his hometown of Ōhinehou (Lyttelton).
FLICKS RECOMMENDS - Insightful
Acclaimed musician’s journey to reconnect with te ao and te reo Māori is full of insightful and personal moments - taking place as Aotearoa stands up to the anti-Māori policies of its government.
"Beautifully shot and edited." -New Zealand Herald
"An intimate and evocative portrait." - Radio New Zealand
"A brave, essential and joyous film that couldn’t have arrived at a better time." -The Spinoff
How to Make a Killing
STARTING 4 SEPTEMBER
Part of the 2025 Aotearoa French Film Festival
Directed by Franck Dubosc
In this dark crime comedy, married couple Cathy (Laure Calamy) and Michel (Frank Dubosc) lead a quiet life in the picturesque Jura mountains. When a bear bursts out in front of Michel’s car, accidentally killing two criminals and revealing illicit money in the process, their life takes an unpredictable turn, especially when they decide to cover up the incident and keep the money. But their stumbling plans leads to an unexplained trail of confusion. More used to being honest than crooked, Michel and Cathy’s clumsy cover-up efforts soon start attracting attention.
With over one million admissions, How to Make a Killing is the third highest grossing French film of 2025 to date. Don’t miss Laure Calamy at her best in this winning combination of dramatic suspense and unfolding comic disaster.
“Fabulous Fargo-esque French dark comedy.” – The Post
French with English subtitles
Part of the 2025 Aotearoa French Film Festival
Directed by Franck Dubosc
In this dark crime comedy, married couple Cathy (Laure Calamy) and Michel (Frank Dubosc) lead a quiet life in the picturesque Jura mountains. When a bear bursts out in front of Michel’s car, accidentally killing two criminals and revealing illicit money in the process, their life takes an unpredictable turn, especially when they decide to cover up the incident and keep the money. But their stumbling plans leads to an unexplained trail of confusion. More used to being honest than crooked, Michel and Cathy’s clumsy cover-up efforts soon start attracting attention.
With over one million admissions, How to Make a Killing is the third highest grossing French film of 2025 to date. Don’t miss Laure Calamy at her best in this winning combination of dramatic suspense and unfolding comic disaster.
“Fabulous Fargo-esque French dark comedy.” – The Post
French with English subtitles
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
STARTING 14 AUGUST
Part of the 2025 Aotearoa French Film Festival
Directed by Laura Piani
Agathe (Camille Rutherford, Anatomy of a Fall) is seemingly living the romantic comedy dream. Working in the famous Parisian bookshop “Shakespeare & Co”, she shares an undeniable chemistry with her best friend/co-worker Félix (Pablo Pauly). However, underneath the rosy facade, Agathe is a struggling romance author stuck living with her sister and battling a severe case of writer’s block. Perpetually surrounded by stories of others’ desires and adventures, she longs for a romance like the ones in her favourite novels. Everything changes when Agathe is unexpectedly invited to a prestigious Jane Austen residency in England.
Spending two weeks in a manor ripped directly from the pages of one of Austen’s stories, Agathe becomes acquainted with the handsome yet headstrong Oliver (Charlie Anson, Downton Abbey), Jane Austen’s great-great-great-great nephew. Now finding herself in a situation much like the books that inspire her, Agathe faces not only a severe case of writer’s block, but a tantalising love-triangle that Austen herself would be proud of. A smash-hit at the Alliance Française French Film Festival, this utterly charming rom-com from Laura Piani is a delightful love letter to the iconic author whose works still shape our conversations on love today.
FILM FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Official Selection: Alliance Française French Film Festival 2025, French Film Festival Aotearoa 2025, Toronto Film Festival 2024, Marrakech Film Festival 2024
REVIEWS
"…fills the gap left by films like Four Weddings and a Funeral. At a time when the entire rom-com genre has gravitated to streaming, this bilingual offering feels like the best kind of throwback." - Variety
"A smart and endearing film…charm and literary allusions that readers are going to adore." -Screen Zealots
"A kooky contemporary French riff on the famed 18th-century novelist." - Screen
"A sincere and charm-filled romantic comedy." -Cineuropa
English and French with Engligh subtitles
Part of the 2025 Aotearoa French Film Festival
Directed by Laura Piani
Agathe (Camille Rutherford, Anatomy of a Fall) is seemingly living the romantic comedy dream. Working in the famous Parisian bookshop “Shakespeare & Co”, she shares an undeniable chemistry with her best friend/co-worker Félix (Pablo Pauly). However, underneath the rosy facade, Agathe is a struggling romance author stuck living with her sister and battling a severe case of writer’s block. Perpetually surrounded by stories of others’ desires and adventures, she longs for a romance like the ones in her favourite novels. Everything changes when Agathe is unexpectedly invited to a prestigious Jane Austen residency in England.
Spending two weeks in a manor ripped directly from the pages of one of Austen’s stories, Agathe becomes acquainted with the handsome yet headstrong Oliver (Charlie Anson, Downton Abbey), Jane Austen’s great-great-great-great nephew. Now finding herself in a situation much like the books that inspire her, Agathe faces not only a severe case of writer’s block, but a tantalising love-triangle that Austen herself would be proud of. A smash-hit at the Alliance Française French Film Festival, this utterly charming rom-com from Laura Piani is a delightful love letter to the iconic author whose works still shape our conversations on love today.
FILM FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
Official Selection: Alliance Française French Film Festival 2025, French Film Festival Aotearoa 2025, Toronto Film Festival 2024, Marrakech Film Festival 2024
REVIEWS
"…fills the gap left by films like Four Weddings and a Funeral. At a time when the entire rom-com genre has gravitated to streaming, this bilingual offering feels like the best kind of throwback." - Variety
"A smart and endearing film…charm and literary allusions that readers are going to adore." -Screen Zealots
"A kooky contemporary French riff on the famed 18th-century novelist." - Screen
"A sincere and charm-filled romantic comedy." -Cineuropa
English and French with Engligh subtitles