2023 Programme

We are proud to be able to screen a really awesome programme of international cinema, including films from Japan, Senegal, Australia, Romania, Macedonia, Poland, Burkina Faso, Somalia and a couple of landmarks of New Zealand cinema from the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Click through to the individual pages of each film for notes and reviews, a trailer, sharing options, and the ability to save to your calendar. And here’s an ics calendar file of the full programme that you can download and import to the device of your choice, and pdfs of the full 2023 brochure and the one-page schedule


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Holly Hunter as Helen Remington looking toward camera from back seat of a car in Crash film
12
June
6:15 pm - 7:55 pm

Crash

Highly controversial on its original release, Cronenberg’s provocative satire about a group of sadomasochistic car-crash fetishists remains as unsettling as it is mesmerising ...

Hatidze Muratova, said to be the last wild beekeeper in Europe, looking out of a window
19
June
6:15 pm - 7:40 pm

Honeyland

A centuries-old way of life tending wild beehives deep in the countryside is disrupted by the arrival of new neighbours. “An elemental struggle between ancient tradition and greed… an incredible true story” – Time Out ...

Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster are sitting at a table having a coffee and cigarette and looking past us to someone out of the frame.
10
July
6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Sweet Smell of Success

Broadway has never been as seductive or as menacing as it is in this bitter farce about a venomous gossip columnist (Burt Lancaster) and his soulless lackey (Tony Curtis) ...

Celia holds a pet rabbit in the film Celia
24
July
6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Celia

A dark childhood fable about a young girl who escapes into her fantasies. “One of the best films about childhood since The 400 Blows” – Time Out ...

A man looking at exhibits in a waxworks museum
21
August
6:15 pm - 7:40 pm

Waxworks

One of the final works of German Expressionism offers a sophisticated melding of genres, as a young poet dreams up fantastical tales inspired by the waxworks of some notorious personages ...

Lea Seydoux as a TV presenter sitting at a desk in France film
28
August
6:15 pm - 8:30 pm

France

Dumont takes aim at 24-hour news culture, with Léa Seydoux as a TV journalist juggling her unflappable public image and chaotic family life. “A biting and complex satire” – Les Inrockuptibles ...

Rasmané Ouédraogo (Saga) in a scene from Tilai and  Ina Cissé (Nogma)
4
September
6:15 pm - 7:40 pm

Tilaï

Forbidden love for a stepmother sets in motion a chain of devastating events in pre-colonial West Africa. Cannes Grand Prix. “A flawless balance of wit and tragedy” – NY Times ...

Max Hubacher (Willi Herold) hiding from a group of German soldiers in 'The Captain'
11
September
6:15 pm - 8:15 pm

The Captain

A German deserter in WWII discovers great power in an abandoned Nazi captain’s uniform. “Parable, historical reckoning and pitch-black comedy. Clever and well-crafted” – Film Comment ...

A group of musicians in yellow overalls in the film System-K
18
September
6:15 pm - 7:50 pm

System K

A lively, endlessly fascinating documentary about the incredible art world stirring in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. “A full-blown nosedive into a unique moment of collective creation” – Hollywood Reporter ...

Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in The WIcker Man
30
October
6:15 pm - 7:50 pm

The Wicker Man

This brilliant folk horror classic follows a devoutly Christian policeman (Edward Woodward) whose search for a missing girl on a remote Scottish island is led astray by the pagan-worshipping inhabitants ...

Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell in a scene from Nightmare Alley
6
November
6:15 pm - 8:05 pm

Nightmare Alley

The hauntingly strange world of a travelling carnival is the setting for this moody melodrama about a charlatan spiritualist and his fall from grace. ...

Group of riders with large rock formations from the film The Searchers
13
November
6:15 pm - 8:15 pm

The Searchers

Perhaps the most iconic and revered Western ever made, It was named the 15th greatest film of all time in the Sight and Sound Critics Poll last year. Martin Scorcese said of John Wayne's leading role "It’s the greatest performance of a great American actor." ...

Robert de Niro sitting in a movie theatre in a scene from Taxi Driver
20
November
6:15 pm - 8:10 pm

Taxi Driver

A must-see film for movie lovers, this Martin Scorsese masterpiece is as hard-hitting as it is compelling, with Robert De Niro at his best. - Rotten Tomatoes ...

Street scene with detectives and car in The Naked City
27
November
6:15 pm - 7:55 pm

The Naked City

Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. ...

Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart in the riverboat The African Queen
4
December
6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

The African Queen

John Huston's film, now restored for its 50th anniversary, is a ripping, gripping yarn, a surprisingly erotic love story and, as it happens, a premonition of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. Humphrey Bogart plays the boozy riverboat captain, Katharine Hepburn the prim Christian missionary. ...

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Jayne  Mansfield and Joan Blondell in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter
29
May
6:15 pm - 7:50 pm

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Former animator Frank Tashlin brings cartoonish exuberance to this wild satire of ’50s mores, as a put-upon ad-exec attempts to wrangle a glamorous movie star for a lipstick commercial. With Tony Randall and Jayne Mansfield ...

A view of the back of a woman facing a crowded press conference with tV cameras and reporters
22
May
6:15 pm - 8:05 pm

Collective

A heroic reporter investigates a shocking health-care fraud in the aftermath of a tragic nightclub fire. “The best film about journalism since All the President’s Men” – The Times ...

Australian actor Steve Bisley plays the part of a slimy secondhand car salesman in "The Big Steal"
15
May
6:15 pm - 8:10 pm

The Big Steal

This winning ’80s comedy caper stars a young Ben Mendelsohn as a teen conned by a used-car dealer when trying to score his dream car to impress his big crush. ...

Scene from Pigs and Battleships of a group of men sitting at a table playing a board game.
8
May
6:15 pm - 8:05 pm

Pigs and Battleships

Imamura’s breakthrough film was this dazzling portrait of the power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port of Yokosuka, home to a US naval base. “A rambunctious carnival of post-war folly” – NY Times ...

The crew of Spaceship Earth, in a group photo, all wearing red overalls, inside the biodome overlooking lush vegetation
24
April
6:15 pm - 8:10 pm

Spaceship Earth

Spaceship Earth is the true but stranger-than-fiction adventure of eight visionaries who spent two years quarantined in the Arizona desert inside of a self-engineered, self-sustaining replica of Earth’s ecosystem ...

A close-up of Judy Davis, her red hair blowing in the breeze, as she looks past us to the right hand side of the frame
17
April
6:15 pm - 7:55 pm

My Brilliant Career

Based on teenage author Miles Franklin’s celebrated turn-of-the-century coming-of-age story, Gillian Armstrong’s debut feature upends the conventions of period romance. Stars Judy Davis and Sam Neill ...

Kirk Douglas and Jan Sterling in Ace in the Hole
3
April
6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Ace in the Hole

Kirk Douglas plays a cynical newsman who stumbles on a potentially career-making story in Billy Wilder’s acidic and unflinching examination of journalistic ethics ...

3 people waiting at a counter in scene from Mandabi
27
March
6:15 pm - 7:50 pm

Mandabi

A Senegalese man’s life is turned upside down when he receives an impossible-to-cash money order from his nephew in France. “A feast for the eyes and ears” – NY Times ...

A row of black girls dancing outside on a sunny day in the outskirts of Paris
20
March
6:15 pm - 8:10 pm

Girlhood

From the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, this energetic and deeply empathetic drama follows a shy Parisian teenager drawn into a black girl gang. “Empowering and electrifying” – The Observer ...

A close up of Smith played by Sam Neill while he is hiding from pursuers. He is partially obscured by tree branches, but there is bight light behind him
13
March
6:15 pm - 8:05 pm

Sleeping Dogs

This classic Kiwi thriller and debut from director Roger Donaldson stars Sam Neill as an everyman caught between an oppressive fascist government and a radical resistance movement. ...

We are looking at a man and a woman facing away from us, sitting on stools up to a colourfully lit bar, while a barman to their left is quietly observing them
6
March
6:15 pm - 8:00 pm

Tokyo Drifter

A loyal lieutenant in a Yakuza gang is unable to adjust to a life outside organised crime. “Director Seijun Suzuki’s onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colours is equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima – an anything-goes, in-your-face rampage” - Janus Films ...

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