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My Brother's Band
Directed by Emmanuel Courcol
The resounding audience favourite of the 2025 French Film Festival Aotearoa, writer/director Emmanuel Courcol's wildly entertaining new film MY BROTHER'S BAND follows two siblings separated by fate and reunited by music. Diagnosed with leukaemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.
Thibaut (the exceptional Benjamin Lavernhe, Delicious, C’est la vie!) is an internationally renowned orchestra conductor who travels the world. When a health crisis and subsequent DNA test inadvertently reveals that he was adopted as an infant, Thibaut discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy (rising star Pierre Lottin), who lives in more modest circumstances; he works in a school cafeteria, cares for his mother and plays the trombone in a community brass band. The pair seem to have little else in common other than a love of performance, but sensing his sibling’s talent, Thibaut decides to remedy the injustice of fate and help nurture his brother’s gifts.
An eruptive crowd-pleaser wherever it has screened (notably receiving the highest audience score in the 51-year history of the San Sebastian Film Festival), MY BROTHER’S BAND is a rousing, feel-great trip to the cinema, expertly striking the perfect harmony between laughter and tears to celebrate family, community and the beauty and hope of collective spirit.
In French with English subtitles
AWARDS
- 2025 CÉSAR AWARD NOMINEE (x7) - incl Best Film, Actor (Lavernhe), Male Revelation (Lottin), Supp. Actress (Suco) and Original Screenplay
- OFFICIAL SELECTION – 2024 CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Premiere)
- OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2025 FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL AOTEAROA
- WINNER - 2025 NY RENDEZVOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA - Audience Award
- WINNER - 2024 SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL - Audience Award
- WINNER - 2024 AMERICAN FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL - Audience Award
The resounding audience favourite of the 2025 French Film Festival Aotearoa, writer/director Emmanuel Courcol's wildly entertaining new film MY BROTHER'S BAND follows two siblings separated by fate and reunited by music. Diagnosed with leukaemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.
Thibaut (the exceptional Benjamin Lavernhe, Delicious, C’est la vie!) is an internationally renowned orchestra conductor who travels the world. When a health crisis and subsequent DNA test inadvertently reveals that he was adopted as an infant, Thibaut discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy (rising star Pierre Lottin), who lives in more modest circumstances; he works in a school cafeteria, cares for his mother and plays the trombone in a community brass band. The pair seem to have little else in common other than a love of performance, but sensing his sibling’s talent, Thibaut decides to remedy the injustice of fate and help nurture his brother’s gifts.
An eruptive crowd-pleaser wherever it has screened (notably receiving the highest audience score in the 51-year history of the San Sebastian Film Festival), MY BROTHER’S BAND is a rousing, feel-great trip to the cinema, expertly striking the perfect harmony between laughter and tears to celebrate family, community and the beauty and hope of collective spirit.
In French with English subtitles
AWARDS
- 2025 CÉSAR AWARD NOMINEE (x7) - incl Best Film, Actor (Lavernhe), Male Revelation (Lottin), Supp. Actress (Suco) and Original Screenplay
- OFFICIAL SELECTION – 2024 CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (Premiere)
- OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2025 FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL AOTEAROA
- WINNER - 2025 NY RENDEZVOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA - Audience Award
- WINNER - 2024 SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL - Audience Award
- WINNER - 2024 AMERICAN FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL - Audience Award
Lollipop
Directed by Daisy-May Hudson
In this absorbing drama, Posy Sterling (The Outrun) delivers a powerful performance as Molly, a young mum from East London who has lost everything while in prison. After serving four months, Molly assumes it will be a matter of hours before she can collect her kids from foster care - but she now faces a longer ordeal than anticipated... Molly finds herself in the mother of all catch-22s: she can’t get housing because she doesn’t have her kids living with her; but she can’t get them back without a roof over her head.
Molly has just six months to get housing and turn her life around before a judge in the family court makes the final determination whether her children will remain in long-term foster care, or return to live with her. A glimmer of hope in Molly’s world is reconnecting with her best friend from school, Amina, who also finds herself on hard times. Leaning on their friendship, can Molly and Amina beat the system and take destiny into their own hands?
100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
★★★★
"A rousing, emotional wrecking ball in the very best way possible, boasting star-making turns across the board and a story that is guaranteed to stay with you." - EMPIRE -
- BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARD: Posy Stirling (BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE)
- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 -
In this absorbing drama, Posy Sterling (The Outrun) delivers a powerful performance as Molly, a young mum from East London who has lost everything while in prison. After serving four months, Molly assumes it will be a matter of hours before she can collect her kids from foster care - but she now faces a longer ordeal than anticipated... Molly finds herself in the mother of all catch-22s: she can’t get housing because she doesn’t have her kids living with her; but she can’t get them back without a roof over her head.
Molly has just six months to get housing and turn her life around before a judge in the family court makes the final determination whether her children will remain in long-term foster care, or return to live with her. A glimmer of hope in Molly’s world is reconnecting with her best friend from school, Amina, who also finds herself on hard times. Leaning on their friendship, can Molly and Amina beat the system and take destiny into their own hands?
100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes!
★★★★
"A rousing, emotional wrecking ball in the very best way possible, boasting star-making turns across the board and a story that is guaranteed to stay with you." - EMPIRE -
- BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARD: Posy Stirling (BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE)
- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 -
Caterpillar
STARTING 16 JULY
Directed by Chelsie Preston Crayford
When memory begins to fade, love is put to the test.
Three generations living under one leaky Wellington roof in 2003, all on the brink of transformation. Sixteen-year-old Cassie is all bravado and vulnerability, drifting into risky territory as she searches for validation in all the wrong places. Her mother Maxine, 52, a formidable single-mother filmmaker on the brink of a long-awaited breakthrough, is finally offered a greenlight - if she can just land a star. Holding everything together is Huia, Cassie’s grandmother, 80, whose life has been defined by quiet service to family and a private obsession with raising monarch caterpillars, dreaming of one day witnessing the legendary butterfly migration in Mexico. But when Huia’s mind begins to fail her, the family is thrust into chaos. Can the maternal line hold together while everything is throwing them apart? A funny, emotional film about the big small things that shape us forever, and the love that must prevail.
“A beautifully observed, moving drama.. a must for all mothers and daughters”
-Francesca Rudkin, Newstalk ZB
“A stirring, intimate work”
-Tom Augustine, View Magazine
“Extraordinarily well done”
-Graeme Tuckett, The Post
Directed by Chelsie Preston Crayford
When memory begins to fade, love is put to the test.
Three generations living under one leaky Wellington roof in 2003, all on the brink of transformation. Sixteen-year-old Cassie is all bravado and vulnerability, drifting into risky territory as she searches for validation in all the wrong places. Her mother Maxine, 52, a formidable single-mother filmmaker on the brink of a long-awaited breakthrough, is finally offered a greenlight - if she can just land a star. Holding everything together is Huia, Cassie’s grandmother, 80, whose life has been defined by quiet service to family and a private obsession with raising monarch caterpillars, dreaming of one day witnessing the legendary butterfly migration in Mexico. But when Huia’s mind begins to fail her, the family is thrust into chaos. Can the maternal line hold together while everything is throwing them apart? A funny, emotional film about the big small things that shape us forever, and the love that must prevail.
“A beautifully observed, moving drama.. a must for all mothers and daughters”
-Francesca Rudkin, Newstalk ZB
“A stirring, intimate work”
-Tom Augustine, View Magazine
“Extraordinarily well done”
-Graeme Tuckett, The Post
Islands
STARTING 17 JULY
Directed by Jan-Ole Gerster
Tom (Sam Riley, Control) is the tennis coach at a luxurious island hotel, filling his time between lessons with booze and brief affairs. The arrival of the Maguire family pulls Tom out of his normal routine and he strikes up a relationship with Anne (Stacy Martin, The Brutalist), her husband Dave (Jack Farthing, Spencer) and their son Anton. Tom is unable to shake the feeling that he has met Anne before, and this tension grows between them until one night, Dave goes missing and the police investigation points to both Anne and Tom as suspects. With Islands, audiences are in for a “scorching, sun-frazzled Hitchcockian delight” (The Standard).
- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Berlin International Film Festival 2025 -
Directed by Jan-Ole Gerster
Tom (Sam Riley, Control) is the tennis coach at a luxurious island hotel, filling his time between lessons with booze and brief affairs. The arrival of the Maguire family pulls Tom out of his normal routine and he strikes up a relationship with Anne (Stacy Martin, The Brutalist), her husband Dave (Jack Farthing, Spencer) and their son Anton. Tom is unable to shake the feeling that he has met Anne before, and this tension grows between them until one night, Dave goes missing and the police investigation points to both Anne and Tom as suspects. With Islands, audiences are in for a “scorching, sun-frazzled Hitchcockian delight” (The Standard).
- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Berlin International Film Festival 2025 -
Power Ballad
STARTING 23 JULY
Directed by John Carney (Once, Sing Street)
When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick’s songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves - even if it means risking everything he cares about. From writer-director John Carney (Sing Street, Once), Power Ballad is a feel-good story about music, self-respect, friendship, and the price of ambition.
“One of Paul Rudd's greatest performances of all time.” - We Live Entertainment
“A terrific film” - Variety
“The feel-good film of 2026” - We Live Entertainment
Directed by John Carney (Once, Sing Street)
When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick’s songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves - even if it means risking everything he cares about. From writer-director John Carney (Sing Street, Once), Power Ballad is a feel-good story about music, self-respect, friendship, and the price of ambition.
“One of Paul Rudd's greatest performances of all time.” - We Live Entertainment
“A terrific film” - Variety
“The feel-good film of 2026” - We Live Entertainment
Wild Strawberries
FAROUT! Presents:
WILD STRAWBERRIES
a film by Ingmar Bergman
Tuesday, 28 July
Doors at 5:30
Show at 6:30
$15 CASH ONLY on the door
1957 Swedish road drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.
An egotistical Professor Isak Borg is a widowed 78-year-old physician who sets out on a long car ride from Stockholm to Lund to be awarded from from Lund University. He is accompanied by his pregnant daughter-in-law Marianne who does not much like her father-in-law and is planning to separate from her husband.
During the trip, Isak is forced by nightmares and daydreams to reevaluate his life. He meets a series of hitchhikers, each of whom sets off dreams or reveries into Borg's troubled past.
Bergman wrote the screenplay while hospitalized. Exploring philosophical themes such as introspection and human existence, Wild Strawberries received wide positive domestic reception upon release. It is often considered to be one of Bergman's best films, as well as one of the greatest films ever made.
In Swedish with English subtitles
WILD STRAWBERRIES
a film by Ingmar Bergman
Tuesday, 28 July
Doors at 5:30
Show at 6:30
$15 CASH ONLY on the door
1957 Swedish road drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.
An egotistical Professor Isak Borg is a widowed 78-year-old physician who sets out on a long car ride from Stockholm to Lund to be awarded from from Lund University. He is accompanied by his pregnant daughter-in-law Marianne who does not much like her father-in-law and is planning to separate from her husband.
During the trip, Isak is forced by nightmares and daydreams to reevaluate his life. He meets a series of hitchhikers, each of whom sets off dreams or reveries into Borg's troubled past.
Bergman wrote the screenplay while hospitalized. Exploring philosophical themes such as introspection and human existence, Wild Strawberries received wide positive domestic reception upon release. It is often considered to be one of Bergman's best films, as well as one of the greatest films ever made.
In Swedish with English subtitles
The Richest Woman in the World
STARTING 30 JULY
Directed by Thierry Klifa
Few modern scandals have captivated France as the astonishing events surrounding Liliane Bettencourt, the billionaire heiress to the L’Oreal fortune and doyenne of Parisian society. Now writer/director Thierry Klifa has freely adapted the incredible story into a captivating dark comedy, featuring a jaw-dropping, tailor-made role for one of France’s most iconic stars.
Marianne Farrère (Isabelle Huppert), the head of the Windler Group, is the richest woman in the world. Pierre-Alain Fantin (Laurent Lafitte) is a vivacious dandy, writer and photographer. After meeting on a photo shoot, the two quickly become inseparable. Their friendship – one where Pierre-Alain is only too happy to take financial advantage – surprises, amuses, intrigues, and eventually unsettles the billionaire’s entourage and family.
Most of all, Marianne’s daughter (Marina Foïs) struggles with her mother’s sudden complicity with this younger man, but her husband (André Marcon) and loyal butler (Raphaël Personnaz) share her concerns. Surreptitious queries soon transition into a private investigation, resulting in extraordinary ramifications for all involved…
With several twists too good to spoil, THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD makes the most of its fabulous ensemble cast, but Huppert and Lafitte simply eat up the screen. This wildly entertaining film became an enormous box-office hit in France for good reason.
AWARDS
2026 LUMIÈRE AWARDS NOMINEE (x2) - Best Actress, Best Actor
2026 CÉSAR AWARD NOMINEE (x7) - Incl. Best Actress, Actor & Costume Design
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2025 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL (Out Of Compétition)
In French with English subtitles
Directed by Thierry Klifa
Few modern scandals have captivated France as the astonishing events surrounding Liliane Bettencourt, the billionaire heiress to the L’Oreal fortune and doyenne of Parisian society. Now writer/director Thierry Klifa has freely adapted the incredible story into a captivating dark comedy, featuring a jaw-dropping, tailor-made role for one of France’s most iconic stars.
Marianne Farrère (Isabelle Huppert), the head of the Windler Group, is the richest woman in the world. Pierre-Alain Fantin (Laurent Lafitte) is a vivacious dandy, writer and photographer. After meeting on a photo shoot, the two quickly become inseparable. Their friendship – one where Pierre-Alain is only too happy to take financial advantage – surprises, amuses, intrigues, and eventually unsettles the billionaire’s entourage and family.
Most of all, Marianne’s daughter (Marina Foïs) struggles with her mother’s sudden complicity with this younger man, but her husband (André Marcon) and loyal butler (Raphaël Personnaz) share her concerns. Surreptitious queries soon transition into a private investigation, resulting in extraordinary ramifications for all involved…
With several twists too good to spoil, THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD makes the most of its fabulous ensemble cast, but Huppert and Lafitte simply eat up the screen. This wildly entertaining film became an enormous box-office hit in France for good reason.
AWARDS
2026 LUMIÈRE AWARDS NOMINEE (x2) - Best Actress, Best Actor
2026 CÉSAR AWARD NOMINEE (x7) - Incl. Best Actress, Actor & Costume Design
OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2025 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL (Out Of Compétition)
In French with English subtitles