Queenstown Film Society
Tuesdays 8 pm at Dorothy Browns Cinema, Arrowtown
from 30 April 2024
Coming up
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.
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.
14 May 2024Cairo 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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.