October 16, 2019
THE LAST EMPEROR (3D)
DescriptionBiosDescription For the 25th anniversary of the international release of this visually sumptuous epic about the life of Pu Yi (1905-1967) – China’s final sovereign after millennia of dynastic rulers – the film has been given a 4K restoration with re-mastered sound. Personally supervised by director Bernardo Bertolucci (AFI FEST 2012 Guest Artistic Director) and...
October 16, 2019
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (SOSHITE CHICHI NI NARU)
DescriptionBiosDescription Hirokazu Kore-eda won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year for his touching drama, LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, the story of two families who learn that their six-year-old sons were switched at birth. One of the fathers is an affluent architect who exacts strict academic and cultural discipline on his son,...
October 16, 2019
KARAOKE!
DescriptionDescription On a night out in New York City, a young man avoids his problems.
October 16, 2019
K.I.T.
DescriptionDescription A guilt-ridden yuppie goes to great lengths to prove she is a decent human being.
October 16, 2019
JODOROWSKY’S DUNE
DescriptionBiosDescription 1974 was to be a breakout year for cult film icon Alejandro Jodorowsky. He had burst onto the international scene with the first “midnight movies” – mystical EL TOPO followed by surreal sensation THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, both acclaimed in the pantheon of alternative cinema. Now, it was time for his masterpiece. Having secured rights...
October 16, 2019
JUVENILE OFFENDER
DescriptionBiosDescription Kang’s second feature JUVENILE OFFENDER is South Korea’s official entry for this year’s Academy Awards®. An appeal for societal and personal reform, this intimate crime drama peers into the consequences of cyclical, intergenerational abandonment as experienced by a troubled 16 year old boy named Jang. After falling in with the wrong crowd and committing larceny,...
October 16, 2019
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
DescriptionBiosDescription Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a folk musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles – some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he...
October 16, 2019
IN BLOOM (GRZELI NATELI DGEEBI)
DescriptionBiosDescription First-time filmmakers Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross present a powerful story of two girls challenging outdated patriarchal expectations while living in a country dominated by testosterone-fueled aggression. It’s 1992 in Tbilisi, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but 14-year-old best friends Eka and Natia are unfazed by the fear and insecurity lurking around...
October 16, 2019
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
DescriptionBiosDescription Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity Dickens – famous, controlling and emotionally isolated – falls for Nelly, who comes...
October 16, 2019
I KILL
DescriptionContactTrailerDescription A gruesome, honest portrait of the man who kills your food. Contact New Zealand Film Commission Trailer
