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Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival 2025

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Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

Explore the remarkable life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin. Heralded as a ‘world builder’ and an ‘architect of language’, Le Guin is…
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Dale Frank Nobody's Sweetie

Dale Frank - Nobody’s Sweetie is a visual extravaganza showcasing the life and work of one of Australia’s most successful and prolific contemporary artists.…
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The Sense of Tuning

Architect Bijoy Jain, of Studio Mumbai, welcomes us into his house and sheds light on the surprising human systems behind the chaos of Mumbai, and highlights…
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E.1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

Q&A SCREENING 5:45PM THURSDAY 22 MAY | CUBA E. 1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea (89 mins) PRECEDED BY Her Blueprint, Aotearoa (16 mins). E. 1027 -…
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Mary Heilmann: Waves, Roads and Hallucinations

Influenced by 1960s counterculture, the Beatniks, and the free speech movement, Mary Heilmann ranks amongst the most influential abstract painters of her…
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Viva Niki - The Spirit of Niki de Saint Phalle

Investigating the monumental Tarot Garden and the Stravinsky Fountain in Paris, Japanese director Michiko Matsumoto guides us on a joyous retrospective of her…
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The Chodge

A documentary about the design and building of a unique private holiday home in New Zealand. Darryl Church, founder of DCA Architects of Transformation, leads…
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We The Others & Fruitvale: A Community Compass for

We the Others (55 mins) PRECEDED BY Fruitvale: A Community for Regeneration (12 mins). We the Others - Brazilian design duo Fernando and Humberto Campan are…
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I Am Martin Parr

Since the 1970s, English photographer Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times, forcing us to…
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Sitting Still

Get inside the mind of distinguished artist, scholar, author, and one of the most renowned and significant landscape architects practicing in the world today,…
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Jacquemus: The Prince of Today's Fashion

Jacquemus: The Prince of Today's Fashion (52 mins) PRECEDED BY Richard Serra: You are the Subject (22 mins). Jacquemus: The Prince of Today's Fashion - The film…
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The Documerica Project & Tāwharau Lane: A Sustaina

The Documerica Project (52 mins) PRECEDED BY Tāwharau Lane: A Sustainability Exemplar (14 mins). The Documerica Project - In the 70s, 100 photographers roamed…
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Lewerentz Divine Darkness

Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975) is internationally renowned as one of Sweden’s greatest architects, but due to his aversion to being interviewed and recorded, he…
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Architecton

Through the material of concrete and its ancestor: stone, comes an epic and poetic meditation on architecture around the globe. Looking at how the design and…
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Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines

Known for his visionary designs and groundbreaking architectural philosophy, Erickson’s work profoundly shaped the modernist landscape as one of the 20th…
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Schindler Space Architect

A true original, Austrian-born and educated R.M. Schindler laid the foundation for what is now known as the Californian style of indoor-outdoor living. This…
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The House: 6 Points of Departure & This Is Not a House

DOUBLE FEATURE The House: 6 Points of Departure (48 mins) screens with This Is Not a House (30 mins). The House: 6 Points of Departure - Inspired by ‘land art’…
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Ever the Land (10th Anniversary)

Ten years after its cinematic release, we revisit the powerful story of Ngāi Tūhoe as they undertake the design and construction of a building that will enhance…
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French Film Festival Aotearoa 2025

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The French Job

- WINNER: l’Alpe d’Huez Film Festival 2025 Special Jury Prize - Winner of the Special Jury Prize at l’Alpe d’Huez Film Festival 2025. After the theft of the…
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The Divine Sarah Bernhardt

Experience the magnificent life of French actress Sarah Bernhardt, the first international star and an eternal icon, in all its dramatic glory - just as “La…
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Three Friends

Emmanuel Mouret, the award-winning director of Love Affair(s), returns to contemporary stories of love, loss, and entanglement with effortless style. Three…
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Holy Cow

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Festival de Cannes (Un Certain Regard - Youth Award) - - 2x César Award Winner - Hot on the heels of its two wins at this year’s César…
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The Thread

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Festival de Cannes (Special Screening) - One of France’s most beloved and awarded actors, the remarkable Daniel Auteuil is also an…
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Monsieur Aznavour

Just as Marion Cotillard was to La Vie en Rose, Golden Globe-nominated actor Tahar Rahim is to Monsieur Aznavour, transforming into the iconic singer/songwriter…
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All Stirred Up!

Near a village on the border between Quebec and the United States, customs officer Sonia confiscates kitchen knives and gourmet food from the charming French…
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Saint-Ex

In 1930, the free-spirited Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Louis Garrel, The Innocent) is a pilot for the French airmail service, flying alongside legendary aviator…
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The Deluge

The phenomenal Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet take centre stage in writer/director Gianluca Jodice’s transfixing historical drama, evocatively depicting…
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How to Make a Killing

Festival favourite Laure Calamy (Antoinette in the Cevennes, Two Tickets to Greece) is back! In Franck Dubosc’s dark crime comedy, married couple Cathy (Laure…
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This Life of Mine

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Festival de Cannes (Director's Fortnight) - Winner of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival SACD Best Screenplay award and opening night film of…
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My Brother's Band

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Festival de Cannes (Cannes Premiere) - A sensation at Cannes and one of France’s biggest box office and audience favourites of the year…
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The Stolen Painting

Inspired by remarkable true events, acclaimed writer/director Pascal Bonitzer’s sharp and hugely engrossing new dramedy The Stolen Painting follows a…
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The Count of Monte Cristo

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Festival de Cannes - - 2x César Award Winner! - Pierre Niney leads a stellar cast in Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s…
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Riviera Revenge

François (André Dussollier, The Crime is Mine) and Annie (Sabine Azéma) have been married for 50 years, and are happily enjoying their retirement. While…
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Bolero

Every 15 minutes, someone somewhere in the world plays Maurice Ravel’s Bolero... Raphaël Personnaz delivers an unforgettable performance as the titular…
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Beating Hearts

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Festival de Cannes - Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue Is The Warmest Colour) and François Civil (The Three Musketeers) – arguably French…
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Family Therapy

The brilliant therapist Doctor Béranger (Christian Clavier, Employee of the Month) has had a very successful career - with the exception of one client, the…
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Love Boat

Underpaid and overworked, Justine (Sandrine Kiberlain, November) is sick of the grind. When her pretentious boss Franck (Daniel Auteuil, Farewell Mr. Haffmann)…
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The Scammers

One island, 40 inhabitants, two scammers. On a picturesque island in Brittany, lifelong friends Jean-Jean (Didier Bourdon) and Henri (Gérard Darmon, Employee of…
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: Toronto International Film Festival - Agathe (Camille Rutherford, Anatomy of a Fall) is seemingly living the romantic comedy dream.…
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When Fall is Coming

- OFFICIAL SELECTION: San Sebastián International Film Festival - Premiering to rave reviews at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, where it won the…
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Miss Violet

From Éric Besnard (director of the previous Festival hits Delicious and A Great Friend), this historical drama offers an intimate look at rural life in the…
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Met Opera

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Met Opera 2024-25: Aida

American soprano Angel Blue headlines as the Ethiopian princess torn between love and country in a new production of Verdi’s Aida by Michael Mayer that brings…
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Met Opera 2024-25: Fidelio

Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who…
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Met Opera 2024-25: Le Nozze di Figaro

Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to cinemas worldwide with a live transmission from the Metropolitan Opera. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes…
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Met Opera 2024-25: Salome

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera…
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Met Opera 2024-25: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with Rossini’s effervescent comedy. Russian mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina headlines a…
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Cinema Live Presents

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Bonnie and Clyde: The Musical

Starring Tony-Nominee Jeremy Jordan and Olivier-Nominee Frances Mayli McCann, this award-winning production (including Best New Musical - What’s On Stage Awards…
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A Night with Janis Joplin, The Musical

This multi award-winning show captured recently at the Sadler’s Wells Peacock Theatre is an extraordinary musical journey paying homage to Janis Joplin and her…
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Royal Ballet & Opera 2024 - 2025

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RB&O Cinema Season 2024-25: Turandot

The beautiful but icy Princess Turandot will only marry a man who can correctly answer three riddles. Those who fail are brutally beheaded. But when an unknown…
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RB&O Cinema Season 2024-25: Die Walküre

On a stormy night, fate brings two strangers together, unleashing a love with the power to end worlds. Meanwhile, in the realm of the gods, an epic battle…
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RB&O Cinema Season 2024-25: Ballet To Broadway: Wheeldon Works

Sensuous contemporary ballet meets the energy of musical theatre in four distinctive short works. Fool’s Paradise, The Two of Us, Us, An American in Paris: four…
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  • Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua - Two Worlds
  • Thunderbolts*
  • The People We Love
  • Small Things Like These
  • The Penguin Lessons
  • Warfare
  • The Correspondent
  • André Rieu's 2025 Maastricht Concert: Waltz the Night Away!
  • The Cats of Gokogu Shrine
  • Queer
  • A Minecraft Movie
  • The Return
  • Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.
  • The Last Showgirl
  • Mickey 17
  • Tinā
  • EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: Michelangelo: Love and Death
  • Tarrac
  • The Salt Path
  • Lies We Tell
  • I Am a Dark River
  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
  • Materialists
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