Queenstown Film Society

QUEENSTOWN
Film Society

Tuesdays 8 pm at Dorothy Browns Cinema, Arrowtown
from 30 April 2024

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.

Coming up

1 Hit the Road

30 April 2024
Hit the Road

Panah Panahi | Iran | 2021 | 1h 33m | M offensive language

Stunning Iranian road movie from debut director Panah Panahi wowed festival audiences with its rich emotional nuance and sly political critique.


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2 Heathers

7 May 2024
Heathers

Michael Lehmann | USA | 1988 | 1h 42m | M violence & offensive language

An acerbic satire of the sugar-coated high school movies of the 80s, Michael Lehmann's cult classic twists the teen comedy into dark and nightmarish territory.


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3 Cairo Conspiracy 2a

14 May 2024
Cairo Conspiracy

Tarik Saleh | Sweden/France/Finland/Denmark | 2022 | 2h 6m | M violence

This firebrand thriller set in Cairo's Al-Azhar University, the country's most respected religious teaching institution, deftly explores the tangled state of modern-day Egypt.


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4 Goodbye Lenin

21 May 2024
Good Bye Lenin!

Wolfgang Becker | Germany | 2003 | 2h 1m | M violence & offensive language

When the Berlin Wall comes down a young man tries to protect his devoted Communist mother from learning that her beloved East Germany has changed forever.

Presented in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, Wellington. Non-members are welcome by donation (notes only, please).


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5 Night Train to Munich

28 May 2024
Night Train to Munich

Carol Reed | UK | 1940 | 1h 33m | Censors rating tbc

A scientist and his daughter escape from Nazis aided by a debonair British spy in this twisty cloak-and-dagger delight, combining comedy, romance and thrills with the greatest of ease.


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11 happening 2

4 June 2024 (8.30pm)
Happening

Audrey Diwan | France | 2021 | 1h 40m | R16 sex scenes, nudity, cruelty & content that may disturb

Taking out Best Film at the 2021 Venice International Film Festival, this powerful and timely abortion drama is based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winner, Annie Ernaux.

This screening starts later than usual, at 8.30pm.


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Bobby Henrey
and Sonia Dresdel
Photo courtesy
Rialto Pictures

11 June 2024 (8.30pm)
The Fallen Idol

Carol Reed | UK | 1948 | 1h 34m | PG

This collaboration between Carol Reed and writer Graham Greene elegantly balances suspense and farce as a young boy's suspicion that the butler is guilty of murder falls on deaf ears.

This screening starts later than usual, at 8.30pm.


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8 Possession 2

18 June 2024
Possession

Andrzej Zulawski | France/West Germany | 1981 | 2h 4m | R18 sex scenes

Polish maverick Andrzej Zulawski's feverish cult favourite stars a mesmerisingly unhinged Isabella Adjani, with Sam Neill as her husband - a spy in Cold War Berlin.


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9 Joint security area 2

25 June 2024
Joint Security Area

Park Chan-wook | South Korea | 2000 | 1hr 47m | M violence

An international investigator probes the murder of two North Korean soldiers in the border zone in this intense political thriller, bringing director Park Chan-wook to world-wide attention.


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10 Seven Winters in Tehran 2

2 July 2024
Seven Winters in Tehran

Steffi Niederzoll | Germany/France | 2023 | 1h 37m | Exempt

This gripping documentary follows a young Iranian woman sentenced to death for stabbing a man who tried to assault her, and her family's long fight for justice.

Presented in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, Wellington. Non-members are welcome by donation (notes only, please).


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6 Joyland

23 July 2024
Joyland

Saim Sadiq | Pakistan | 2022 | 2h 6m | M sexual material, suicide, offensive language & content that may disturb

A married man falls for a glamorous trans dancer in this daring and emotionally intense love story from Pakistani first-time writer-director Saim Sadiq.


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14 ShivaBaby3

30 July 2024
Shiva Baby

Emma Seligman | USA | 2020 | 1h 17m | M sex scenes & offensive language

Dizzying and captivating, Emma Seligman's debut feature stars Rachel Sennott as a young woman who cannot escape her sugar daddy, her ex-girlfriend or her own lies at a family wake.


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13 IndiaSong2

6 August 2024
India Song

Marguerite Duras | France | 1975 | 2h 0m | PG

A haunted-house movie unlike any other, this most celebrated work from Marguerite Duras is an almost incantatory experience with few stylistic precedents in the history of cinema.

Presented in cooperation with the Institut Français & the Embassy of France.


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7 burning

13 August 2024
Burning

Lee Chang-dong | South Korea | 2018 | 2hr 28m | M violence, sex scenes, nudity & drug use

A tense, haunting romantic drama transforms into an enigmatic and mysterious thriller in this adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami.


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15 Under_the_fig_trees

20 August 2024
Under the Fig Trees

Erige Sehiri | Tunisia/Switzerland/France/Qatar/Germany | 2021 | 1h 33m | Censors rating tbc

This debut feature from Erige Sehiri chronicles and animates the lives of a group of Tunisian women fig harvesters, in an understated and intimate story of sisterhood.

Presented in cooperation with the Institut Français & the Embassy of France.


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16 Long absence

27 August 2024
The Long Absence

Henri Colpi | France/Italy | 1961 | 1h 25m | Censors rating tbc

Scripted by Marguerite Duras and directed by Henri Colpi, a regular editor for Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda, this forgotten New Wave film won the Palme d'Or in 1961.

Presented in cooperation with the Institut Français & the Embassy of France.


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17 Memories of Murder

3 September 2024
Memories of Murder

Bong Joon-ho | South Korea | 2003 | 2hr 9m | R16 violence, offensive language & sex scenes

Based on real-life serial killings that rocked a rural Korean community in the 80s, this crime thriller from the director of Parasite upends policier conventions with genre-defying results.


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18 Casablanca Beats hero

10 September 2024
Casablanca Beats

Nabil Ayouch | France/Morocco | 2021 | 1h 41m | Censors rating tbc

A rapper-turned-teacher helps his students find their creative voice in this grittily empowering hip-hop fable.

Presented in cooperation with the Institut Français & the Embassy of France.


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19 We

17 September 2024
We

Alice Diop | France | 2021 | 1h 54m | Exempt

A sensitive documentary portrait of the disparate communities that lie along the Paris urban commuter rail line. Director Alice Diop went on to direct award-winning drama, Saint Omer.

Presented in cooperation with the Institut Français & the Embassy of France.


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20 afterhours

24 September 2024
After Hours

Martin Scorsese | USA | 1985 | 1hr 37m | M adult themes

An evening of unabashed chaos awaits uptight office-worker Griffin Dunne as he heads downtown for a date. Nearly 40 years on, Scorsese's screwball comedy is as fresh and innovative as ever.


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