French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: La Traviata, My Brothers and I

MTG Century Theatre 65 Marine Parade, Napier South, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Nour, a 14-year-old boy, is enjoying the beginning of the summer holidays in the South of France. He is the youngest of four brothers. They live together in a council estate, taking turns caring for their mother who is in a coma. She used to love Italian Opera, so Nour plays it for her, and […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: Between Two Worlds

Event Cinemas Havelock North 11 Joll Road, Havelock North, Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Marianne Winckler (Juliette Binoche), a well-known author, goes to live in northern France to research for her new book on the subject of job insecurity. Without revealing her true identity, she gets hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new role, she experiences financial instability and social invisibility first-hand. […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: Hear Me Out

MTG Century Theatre 65 Marine Parade, Napier South, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Antoine, a history teacher in his early 50s, learns that he has become very hard of hearing. Unable to own up to his handicap, he resigns himself to living in his bubble, even though his entourage finds his behavior increasingly odd. His encounter with Claire, widow and mother of a young girl who has stopped […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: Maigret

Event Cinemas Havelock North 11 Joll Road, Havelock North, Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

The legendary Gerard Depardieu brings to remarkable life one of the most beloved characters from 20th century crime fiction in Maigret, the masterfully directed and hugely entertaining new film from multi award-winning writer/director Patrice Leconte (Monsieur Hire, Ridicule, The Girl On The Bridge), based on Georges Simenon’s internationally best-selling novels. Paris, 1953. The body of a beautiful young woman […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: Everything Went Fine 

Event Cinemas Havelock North 11 Joll Road, Havelock North, Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuèle hurries to her father’s bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuèle to help him end his life. But how can you honour such a request when it’s your own father? How to buy tickets Tickets are sold through the participating venues. In cinemas: At […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: The Young Lovers

MTG Century Theatre 65 Marine Parade, Napier South, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

The fabulous Fanny Ardant, Melvil Poupaud and Cécile de France beguile in The Young Lovers, Carine Tardieu's eagerly anticipated follow up to Just To Be Sure, a modern and emotionally-nuanced romantic dramedy of a woman who embarks on a relationship with a much younger man, and the implications her choices have on those around her. Elegant, retired architect […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: Farewell, Mr. Haffmann

MTG Century Theatre 65 Marine Parade, Napier South, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

The legendary Daniel Auteuil gives one of his most superlative screen performances in the gripping new historical drama from writer/director Fred Cavayé, based on Jean-Philippe Daguerre’s celebrated, multi Molière Award-winning play. Occupied Paris, 1941: the Jewish community is instructed to identify themselves by wearing a yellow star. Dedicated jeweller Joseph Haffmann (Auteuil), fearing the worst, […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: La Traviata, My Brothers and I

Event Cinemas Havelock North 11 Joll Road, Havelock North, Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Nour, a 14-year-old boy, is enjoying the beginning of the summer holidays in the South of France. He is the youngest of four brothers. They live together in a council estate, taking turns caring for their mother who is in a coma. She used to love Italian Opera, so Nour plays it for her, and […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: The Kitchen Brigade

Event Cinemas Havelock North 11 Joll Road, Havelock North, Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Cathy is a stubborn 40-year-old sous-chef. This year, she is finally about to fulfill her lifelong dream by opening her own gastronomic restaurant. But nothing goes as planned. Facing serious financial difficulties, she reluctantly accepts a job in the cafeteria of a shelter for young migrants. While she hates her new position, Cathy’s skills and […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: Maigret

MTG Century Theatre 65 Marine Parade, Napier South, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

The legendary Gerard Depardieu brings to remarkable life one of the most beloved characters from 20th century crime fiction in Maigret, the masterfully directed and hugely entertaining new film from multi award-winning writer/director Patrice Leconte (Monsieur Hire, Ridicule, The Girl On The Bridge), based on Georges Simenon’s internationally best-selling novels. Paris, 1953. The body of a beautiful young woman […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

MTG Century Theatre 65 Marine Parade, Napier South, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Seven men, all city-dwellers aged between 17 and 70, with nothing in common apart from the fact that they are all on the verge of a nervous breakdown, meet up at a lonely station for an unusual course in the wild that is supposed to get them back on their feet. Each step in this […]

Gloriavale

MTG Century Theatre 65 Marine Parade, Napier South, Napier, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

GLORIAVALE is an observational documentary examining the widespread abuse inside the infamous Gloriavale Christian Community cult and the institutional failures that have allowed it to continue. With unprecedented access to the notoriously secretive community, the filmmakers follow a lone family as they mount a ground-breaking legal case against the cult’s powerful leaders. Long associated with […]

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