Queenstown Film Society

QUEENSTOWN
Film Society

Tuesdays 8 pm at Dorothy Browns Cinema, Arrowtown
from 29 April 2025

Queenstown Film Society is all about movies. Great movies that you wouldn't otherwise get to see on the big screen. Old movies. Obscure movies. World cinema. Documentaries.
 
We're a community organisation that gets together on winter Tuesdays to watch fine movies cherry-picked from the last century of cinema. It’s easy to become a member and great value at just $140 for the season of 20 films. We can't sell single tickets but if you want to get a taste before joining, why not come along to one of our public screenings.

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the ground we won

15 July 2025
The Ground We Won

Christopher Pryor | New Zealand | 2015 | 91 mins | M offensive language, sexual references, nudity & content that may offend

Following a group of rugby-playing farmers from Reporoa, Chris Pryor and Miriam Smith deliver a documentary study of manhood that is unsentimental, funny and profound. "A startling, ferociously intelligent, disturbing, heart-warming and hauntingly beautiful piece of film making" - Dominion Post​


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La Chinoise

22 July 2025
La Chinoise

Jean-Luc Godard | France | 1967 | 92 mins | M adult themes

Godard's pop-art masterpiece embraces and parodies the revolutionary spirit of a group of middle-class students determined to overthrow the establishment by any means necessary.

Presented in ​co-operation with the Institut Français and the Embassy of France.


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Friederike Kempter, Tom Schilling

29 July 2025
Oh Boy

Jan Ole Gerster | Germany | 2012 | 88 mins | M offensive language

A funny, jazz-inflected account of a bad day in the life of uber-cool young Berliner. With a knowing cinephile vibe, this was an unexpected box office and festival hit on first release.

Presented in ​co-operation with the Goethe-Institut. Screening open to the general public by koha.


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5 August 2025
Victims of Sin

Emilio Fernández | Mexico | 1951 | 84 mins | censors rating tbc

Cabaret performer Ninón Sevilla stars in this blend of noir, melodrama and mambo musical from one of Mexican cinema's most celebrated auteurs.


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12 August 2025
Petite Maman

Céline Sciamma | France | 2021 | 72 mins | PG

A young girl makes a mysterious new friend while staying over at her late grandmother's country home in Céline Sciamma's exquisitely crafted and spellbinding modern fairytale.

 


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The Wild Bunch

19 August 2025
The Wild Bunch

Sam Peckinpah | USA | 1969 | 145 mins | R16 violence

Aging outlaws go out in a blaze of glory in Peckinpah's elegiac film about the last days of the Wild West. Still the brutal benchmark for action cinema, influencing countless imitators.

 


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All the beauty

26 August 2025
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Laura Poitras | USA | 2022 | 122 mins | M nudity, strong sexual imagery & content may disturb

The life of famed photographer Nan Goldin and her activism against the disgraced pharmaceutical billionaire Sackler family, especially their patronage of the art world.

 


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All That Jazz

2 September 2025
All That Jazz

Bob Fosse | USA | 1979 | 123 mins | M

Brazenly turning the camera onto a fictionalised version of his own life, gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse delivers a wildly imaginative backstage musical masterpiece.

 


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EO

9 September 2025
EO

Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland/Italy | 2022 | 84 mins | R13 violence, animal cruelty, offensive language & content that may disturb

Polish veteran Jerzy Skolimowski returns with this allegorical tale of a donkey who takes a surreal journey across Europe, experiencing cruelty and kindness in equal measure.

 


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16 September 2025
My Life as a Dog

Lasse Hallström | Sweden | 1985 | 101 mins | PG sexual references

This charming, bittersweet portrait of childhood from Oscar-nominated director Lasse Hallström tells the story of a twelve-year-old boy sent to live in the country when his mother falls ill.


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23 September 2025
Scarfies

Robert Sarkies | New Zealand | 1999 | 94 mins | R16 violence & offensive language

A group of uni students finds more than they bargained for when they move into an abandoned house in Sarkies' newly restored Dunedin crime caper.


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