The Sparks Brothers
To celebrate THE SPARKS BROTHERS tour of Aotearoa, we’re bringing Edgar Wright’s exciting tribute back to the big screen! This doco explores how one rock band can be successful, underrated, hugely influential and criminally overlooked — all at the same time. A musical odyssey exploring five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron and Russell Mael, […]
Verity
Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh is hired as a ghostwriter for renowned author Verity Crawford under mysterious circumstances, but her assignment takes a dark turn after discovering chilling autobiographical notes. Faced with a series of deadly family secrets, Lowen struggles to separate fiction from reality, while also blurring the lines with Verity’s husband, Jeremy.
Magellan
Legendary Filipino auteur Lav Diaz recounts a decade in the life of famed explorer Ferdinand Magellan in haunting and poetic fashion, following his colonisation of SE Asia and his tragic descent into damnation. At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal) persuades the Spanish Crown to fund a daring […]
Fargo 30th Anniversary
It’s the 30th anniversary of the Coen Brothers’ snowbound noir! Things go terribly awry when small-time Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife so he can collect the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Once people start dying, the very chipper and very […]
Romeo + Juliet 30th Anniversary
Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet turns 30! His film reimagined Shakespeare’s tragedy through a bold contemporary lens and remains one of the most influential and distinctive films of modern cinema. Against the urban backdrop of Verona Beach, California, the Montague and Capulet families are embroiled in a long-running feud. When Romeo, a Montague, attends a […]
Terror-Fi Presents: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy (NZ Premiere)
Dust yourself off and be one of the first to see LEE CRONIN’S THE MUMMY at our special event screening. This seriously creepy tale, from the director of ‘Evil Dead Rise’ and ‘Hole in the Ground’, is going to have you squirming like a scarab beetle’s crawling up your leg! The young daughter of a […]
Exit 8
Based on the global hit video game created by KOTAKE CREATE, this mind-bending psychological thriller is a new Japanese masterpiece. A man becomes increasingly desperate when he finds himself trapped in an endless, sterile Tokyo subway passageway with no way out. He finds a set of rules: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. […]
RADFF Anna Mariani Photographic Notes
The uniqueness of the architecture of the Brazilian northeastern hinterland is at the heart of the work of the photographer Anna Mariani (1935-2022). Anna Mariani Photographic Notes retraces the dirt roads the artist followed between the ’70s and the ’90s, when she published her most famous works and helped an entire country rediscover the richness […]
RADFF At the Garden’s Pace
Construction of the long-awaited new pavilion inside the Hilversum botanical gardens in the Netherlands begins. With the occasional help of the gardener and under the watchful eyes of the local residents, the architects—acting as builders—donned overalls and work shoes and navigated the year-long process. Join them for a walk through the garden, observing the construction […]
RADFF Googie
Emerging in mid-20th century Los Angeles, Googie transformed coffee shops, bowling alleys, banks, churches and car washes into futuristic icons, influenced by visionary architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and John Lautner, and propelled into the commercial mainstream by firms like Armet & Davis. Though many landmarks have been lost, a growing preservation movement now […]
