Drunk actors, cursed props, clashing egos and a Macbeth that refuses to come together… a gloriously chaotic love letter to theatre and everyone mad enough to make it.
Films — by Title
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Do You Love Me
A striking panorama of national collective memory told entirely through archive material in this playful, immersive journey through Lebanon’s history and culture.
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Elephants in the Fog
Tinihāru तिनीहरू
A missing daughter. A forbidden love. A community the world has never seen on screen – until now.
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Grant Gee was awarded Best Director at the Berlinale for this intense, fragmentary and inventive portrait of Bill Evans, in an interval of the American jazz great’s career when he grappled with grief and opioid addiction.
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Father Mother Sister Brother
Indie cinema’s long-time King of Cool Jim Jarmusch finds mystery and melancholy alike in this triptych of family short stories, each grappling with the weight of shared history.
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Ghost in the Cell
In a notorious prison, an invisible force begins killing inmates brutally, compelling enemy gangs and corrupt guards to work together as they try to survive the mounting bloodshed.
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Iván & Hadoum
Ian de la Rosa’s queer romance asks how much of yourself can you afford to give when survival is already a struggle, in this Teddy Award winning feature direct from Berlin.
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Landmarks
Nuestra Tierra
This radical, haunting documentary debut from legendary Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel interrogates questions of truth, power and justice following the 2009 killing of indigenous leader Javier Chocobar.
Lomu
Rugby's first global superstar was also one of its most private — a shy, gentle giant caught between two worlds, whose story mirrors Aotearoa's own coming of age.
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Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
Directing duo THUNDERLIPS add another comedy horror classic to the Kiwi film canon in this tale of an accelerated extraterrestrial pregnancy, packed with some outrageously off-kilter visual effects!
Mysterious Skin
Newly restored, Gen-X icon Gregg Araki’s remarkable, aggressively over-censored coming of age classic grapples with the enduring spectre of child sexual abuse, presenting one of the auteur’s bleakest but most essential visions.
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
Ṣawt Hind Rajab رجب هند صوت
The devastating last words of a five-year-old girl – and a film that refuses to let the world look away.