MEMORY
21 November
Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard star in this lost memories drama from writer-director Michel Franco (Sundown). Sylvia (Chastain) is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life which is blown open when Saul (Sarsgaard) follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact them both as they open the door to the past.
MEMOIR OF A SNAIL
7 November
From Academy Award-winning director Adam Elliot (Mary and Max, Harvie Krumpet). Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite a continued series of hardships, inspiration and hope emerge when she strikes up an enduring friendship with an elderly eccentric woman named Pinky, who is full of grit and lust for life.
NEVER LOOK AWAY
14 November
New Zealand-born CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth walks on the razor’s edge between sanity and death. Her first assignment with CNN is to cover the riots that followed Indira Gandhi’s assassination in India. She goes on to cover conflicts in Africa, the Middle East and fatally, the Bosnian war. In vivid, emotional detail, we see what Moth saw and how she in turn changed what we, the television viewer, saw. A rollicking ride through sex, drugs and war, Never Look Away is war from a female perspective; as you have never seen it before.
MY FREAKY FAMILY
14 November
On the cusp of her 13th birthday, Betty Flood – budding musician and magical being – just wants to be like the rest of her fabulous, but very different family. So, why is her magical mum so against it? As Betty wrestles with this, she also learns the amazing truth about her family and discovers that the not so normal, the magical and the musical are all a part of her fabulously freaky family.
BRITISH & IRISH FILM FESTIVAL 2024
The British & Irish Film Festival is back for its second edition, bringing the best of the 2024 Toronto Film Festival lineup and selected Cannes Film Festival favourites to New Zealand cinemas. From Kerikeri to Dunedin, the festival will screen from 23 October to 13 November, at 30 locations in total. There is something for everyone in this year’s festival, so be sure to check out their programme at britishfilmfestival.co.nz.
