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First Selection of 2024 Films Announced

We’re busy preparing our 2024 programme and look forward to sharing all the details with you in the new year. We’ve already announced our opening night film, Stanley Kubrick’s Barry…

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Ryan O’Neal dies aged 82

He was remembered by many for his early career in the soap opera Peyton Place and his films such as Love Story, and for Paper Moon, where he starred opposite…

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End of Season Celebration

You are Invited to a Celebration of the Final Night of the 2023 Film Society Programme ! On 4 December 2023, right after our last screening of The African Queen,…

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Wellington Film Society on the airwaves

Wellington Film Society President, Harry Evans joined host Rosie Howells on RadioActive’s breakfast programme this Monday to discuss all things WFS! They discussed our 2024 programme including our screenings of The…

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Notice of Special General Meeting
The big screen in The Embassy Grand Theatre

Under Section 3-5 (d) of the Wellington Film Society Inc. Rules, you are invited to attend a Special General Meeting of the Wellington Film Society Inc., to be held: 6.15pm,…

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Reframing Mental Health

Aotearoa Mental Health Film Festival  Mental health narratives have long been depicted in cinema –  for example, the recent WFS screening of Nightmare Alley shows the ravages of addiction and substance use…

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Italian Film Festival 2023

Benvenuti from the Embassy of Italy and the organisers who introduce the Festival… “It is our great pleasure to present the Eighth Edition of the Italian Film Festival | Cinema…

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British and Irish Film Festival

Opening with One Life starring Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter, you can name check a list of great actors and personalities in a range of 2023 releases. Olivia Colman…

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Your favourite Festival Film

What was your favourite Festival film? The votes are in, the numbers have been officially crunched and Your Top 5 films are listed in ascending order below. As well as…

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We’re back! says NZIFF

“We’re back!” is New Zealand Film Festival Trust Chair Catherine Fitzgerald’s wrap on the Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) 2023 season. Highlights of the 2023 nationwide festival…

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Our Top 5 Festival Films

By Sarah Leslie We hope everyone had a great festival and hope it wasn’t too difficult to see most of the films that caught your eye.  Like many of you, we spent…

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Encore screenings: 13-16 August
Greta Lee and Tae Yoo starring in the fim "Past Lives"

Wellington, we’re excited to announce encore screenings for the following popular films. Get in quick and secure your tickets before they sell out! Monday 14 August The Corridors of Power 5.30pm…

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Enjoy every movie…
A robot is watching a TV showing a film with a robot actor

Our homegrown festival is now in full swing, and in gently darkened cinemas across Aotearoa New Zealand we can sit together and watch films that allow us, however briefly, to…

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52nd Wellington Film Festival Is Live!
Justine Triet, winner of the Palme d'Or for Anatomy of a Fall, poses for photographers following the awards ceremony at the 76th international film festival in Cannes,

In 1972, the first Wellington Film Festival launched a programme of seven films – one per day at the Paramount Theatre. The “INFORMATION BULLETIN -NUMBER 1” told it’s readers that…

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