Thu 21 May - Wed 27 May
Whangarei ()
18 James Street Whangarei, Northland, Whangarei, NZ,
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (M) 132 mins No Free Tickets
Thu 12:01AM (IR), 10:30AM (IR), 1:30PM (IR), 4:30PM (IR), 7:30PM (IR)
Sun Tue 10:30AM (IR), 1:30PM (IR), 4:30PM (IR), 7:30PM (IR)
Fri Sat 12:00PM (IR), 3:00PM (IR), 6:00PM (IR), 9:00PM (IR)
Drishyam 3 (TBC) 157 mins
Thu 7:00PM (IR,Malayalam,ENG SUBS)
Fri Sat 8:30PM (IR,Malayalam,ENG SUBS)
Tiddler + Zog And The Flying Doctors (G) 51 mins
Sun Tue 10:30AM (IR)
RADFF26: The Great Arch (PG) 108 mins
Thu 6:00PM (IR)
Hoppers (PG) 110 mins
Sun 11:00AM (IR)
RADFF26: Parallel Universe: The Art and Design of Roy Good (E) 80 mins
Fri 6:15PM (IR)
RADFF26: Living in a Piece of Furniture + Curating Modernism (E) 82 mins
Sun 4:15PM (IR)
RADFF26: Googie (E) 59 mins
Sun 6:00PM (IR)
RADFF26: Bruno Morassutti, Theme And Variation (E) 80 mins
Sun 2:30PM (IR)
RADFF26: Artacho Jurado, Symphony Of An Architect (E) 82 mins
Tue 6:00PM (IR)
RADFF26: Building On The Edge (E) 73 mins
Wed 6:00PM (IR)
Radff26 Time Travellers Guide To Hamilton Gardens (E) 73 mins
Sat 6:00PM (IR)
RADFF26: Prickly Mountain And My Design/Build Life (E) 93 mins
Fri 8:00PM (IR)
RADFF26: Anna Mariani Photographic Notes (E) 70 mins
Sat 4:15PM (IR)
RADFF26: Adnan Being And Time (E) 70 mins
Mon 5:45PM (IR)
RADFF26: Leonora In The Morning Light (M) 103 mins
Sat 7:45PM (IR)
Legend:
IR - Infra-Red Hearing, Malayalam - Malayalam, ENG SUBS - English Subtitles
Session Times subject to change without notice
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (M)
The evil Empire has fallen, and Imperial warlords remain scattered throughout the galaxy. As the fledgling New Republic works to protect everything.
Drishyam 3 (TBC)
Georgekutty is no longer only shielding his family from external threats; he is guarding them from the weight of the truth itself. As new forces close in—more coordinated and relentless than before—the composure he has carefully constructed begins to fracture. The danger now extends beyond the outside world, pressing against his conscience, his relationships, and the fragile stability he has fought to preserve. As pressure intensifies, the question remains: how far is Georgekutty prepared to go to protect those he loves?
Tiddler + Zog And The Flying Doctors (G)
TIDDLER: Every day Tiddler tells a different story to his teacher and his friend Johnny Dory about why he's late for school. His stories stretch from riding on seahorses or swimming around a shipwreck to being captured by a squid! His stories are so great that word of mouth helps them travel through the ocean and so, when Tiddler gets lost, he realises they may help him find a way home. ZOG AND THE FLYING DOCTORS: Zog is back for another adventure with his friends Gadabout and Pearl, also known as the ‘Flying Doctors'. They soar through the skies and cure all kinds of creatures of their ailments, but when the King falls ill, can they do enough to save him?
RADFF26: The Great Arch (PG)
In 1982, President François Mitterrand launched an international competition to design the flagship project of his term: a building to match and complement the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. To the surprise of everyone, the commission is won by an unknown 53-year-old from Copenhagen, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen. Inspired by remarkable true events, Claes Bang leads a superb ensemble cast in this historical drama, as an idealistic architect whose quest to build an ambitious landmark in Paris triggers unforeseen consequences.
Hoppers (PG)
An animal lover seizes an opportunity to use technology that places her consciousness into a robotic beaver, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could've imagined.
RADFF26: Parallel Universe: The Art and Design of Roy Good (E)
Roy Good is a rare figure in New Zealand art: a painter, designer and spatial thinker who never separated disciplines. Influenced by Bauhaus and De Stijl, he embedded abstraction into popular television shows, national logos and shaped canvases alike. Working from his small studio in the wilderness of West Auckland, he quietly pioneered one of the country's most consistent and original modernist practices. This insightful documentary reveals an artist of global significance, working from the edge of the world.
RADFF26: Living in a Piece of Furniture + Curating Modernism (E)
Truus Schröder's love for Gerrit Rietveld led to the design of the iconic Rietveld Schröderhuis in 1924. After her death, the house was thoroughly restored, even though Rietveld was of the opinion that his houses should be torn down after 50 years. Screens with CURATING MODERNISM (30 mins), Curating Modernism looks at 20th century modern architecture in the United States and how it offers powerful opportunities for restoration, sensitive updates, and adaptive reuse so modernist structures can remain active participants in everyday life rather than static artefacts.
RADFF26: Googie (E)
Emerging in mid-20th century Los Angeles, Googie transformed coffee shops, bowling alleys, banks, churches and car washes into futuristic icons, influenced by visionary architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and John Lautner, and propelled into the commercial mainstream by firms like Armet & Davis. Though many landmarks have been lost, a growing preservation movement now recognises Googie as a vital and distinctly American expression of modern design, a legacy this film celebrates through the voices of leading historians and cultural commentators.
RADFF26: Bruno Morassutti, Theme And Variation (E)
Bruno Morassutti was a cultured and intellectually rigorous, yet understated figure in post-war Italian architecture. A former student of Giuseppe Samonà and Carlo Scarpa, Morassutti brought a deeply cosmopolitan sensibility to his work. His early travels across the USA, documenting the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, shaped his lifelong interest in structural experimentation and prefabrication. Back in Italy, he worked with Angelo Mangiarotti, before starting his own studio.
RADFF26: Artacho Jurado, Symphony Of An Architect (E)
This bold and courageous architect, Artacho Jurado, responsible for several iconic buildings in São Paulo, had three main passions: the city, architecture and classical music. This documentary investigates the man who freely mixed colours, shapes and textures, challenging the modernism that prevailed at the time, all set alongside the sounds of an expressive symphony.
RADFF26: Building On The Edge (E)
Over the course of two years, a group of graduate students and their professor embarked on a journey to design and construct a new cutting-edge research station for a group of scientists studying penguins and seals in one of the harshest environments on the planet, Antarctica. Transporting the material to the remote island also proves to be a daunting task as they must cross one of the most dangerous bodies of water, the Drake Passage. The extreme environments and abundance of wildlife set up the conditions for the adventure of a lifetime for the group.
Radff26 Time Travellers Guide To Hamilton Gardens (E)
How did a city rubbish dump transform into a collection of gardens that is now a major visitor attraction? Masterminded by designer Peter Sergel and developed with council, community support, and sponsorship, Hamilton Gardens is now recognised as one of the great gardens of the world. The viewer can travel backwards and forwards in time — moving from 16th century England, back to Song Dynasty China, Ancient Egypt, and the Italian Renaissance, and forward to the future, from sustainable to surreal.
RADFF26: Prickly Mountain And My Design/Build Life (E)
In the late '60s and '70s, a group of architects landed in Vermont with big ideas and a simple plan: to stop just designing buildings and start making them. Drawing from Bauhaus ideals but rejecting the rigidity of academia, they built by hand, embraced mistakes, and turned architecture into a wild, creative experiment. Director Allie Rood grew up in the middle of it all, playing in half-finished houses. Years later, she picks up a camera to trace the movement's history, only to find herself building a house of her own.
RADFF26: Anna Mariani Photographic Notes (E)
The uniqueness of the architecture of the Brazilian northeastern hinterland is at the heart of the work of the photographer Anna Mariani (1935-2022). Anna Mariani Photographic Notes retraces the dirt roads the artist followed between the '70s and the '90s, when she published her most famous works and helped an entire country rediscover the richness of the façades of popular houses as a phenomenon of visual perception and cultural identity.
RADFF26: Adnan Being And Time (E)
This expressionistic portrait of the great Etel Adnan (b. Beirut, 1925) documents the artist and poet over the last five years of her life. Adnan is working without ego, asking, what does it mean to be alive, to live through catastrophe, to experience time? Close to Adnan in her daily life, in her studio, in her works, and in the natural world essential to her aesthetic and philosophic understanding, the film's form creates an experience of Adnan's radical quality of attention.
RADFF26: Leonora In The Morning Light (M)
This dramatic feature film centres on the early 1930s and painter Leonora Carrington, who was a rebel against social expectations, joining the surrealist movement and its iconic figures like André Breton and Salvador Dalí in Paris. A whirlwind love affair with artist Max Ernst confronts her with her inner demons. During the war, Leonora flees to Mexico and finally empowers herself. Today Leonora Carrington is one of the highest-selling female painters worldwide, alongside Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe.
Legend:
IR - Infra-Red Hearing, Malayalam - Malayalam, ENG SUBS - English Subtitles
Session Times subject to change without notice