Eyes of the Orangutan 

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

 We are very lucky to be holding this and also to have the film maker there with questions and answers session at the end of the movie.  It is a  free event with bookings essential via email eventshb@hot.co.nz to register as seating is limited.  Tickets available from House of Travel Hastings, 117 Market Street North, Hastings and House […]

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Event Cinemas Havelock North 11 Joll Road, Havelock North, Hastings, 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 […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: Kompromat

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

Based on incredible true events, Jérôme Salle’s gripping new political thriller depicts the remarkable story of a French public servant who unwittingly found himself in conflict with one of the modern era’s most powerful and dangerous forces: Russia’s FSB.  Gilles Lellouche stars as Mathieu, a gregarious and dedicated diplomat who accepts a posting to Irkutsk […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: Little Nicholas’ Treasure

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

From writer/director Julien Rappeneau (Rosalie Blum and Of Love & Lies), the charming and hilarious comedy Little Nicholas' Treasure is a lavish big-screen adventure featuring the beloved children’s character created by Rene Goscinny (Astérix) and illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé, a young boy with a limitless sense of curiosity and a dangerously overactive imagination. France, early 1960s. In the idyllic world […]

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: A Mermaid in Paris

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

A crooner with a broken heart, Gaspard had sworn never to fall in love again. As for Lula, a pretty mermaid, she has only her singing to defend herself from men, making their hearts race until they explode. When the Seine floods and deposits Lula at the foot of the Flowerburger, the barge-cabaret where Gaspard […]

French Film Festival Aotearoa 2022: The Villa

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

With an all-star ensemble cast, The Villa joins the ranks of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Calendar Girls and The Intouchables, with it’s touching and oft-hilarious depiction of friendships formed against all odds. An unlikely story of friendship between Milan, a young man on parole, who is forced to work in a retirement home rather than going to jail, and a […]

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