Auckland’s Academy Cinema are proud to be hosting the Queer Film Festival starting from Friday, February 5th. Tickets are on sale now at academycinemas.co.nz/Coming-Soon, and we can tell you this much – Carol is selling out mighty quick!
Check out the full schedule below:
OPENING NIGHT – Friday, 5th February 6:30pm
1995’s The Celluloid Closet, which explores the history of gay and lesbian representation in Hollywood on both an explicit and implicit level.
Sunday, 7th February 12:30pm
1961’s groundbreaking Victim, starring a superb Dirk Bogarde as a married London man in the closet who becomes targeted by a blackmailer.
Sunday, 7th February 6:30pm
Documentary Do I Sound Gay?, a tongue-in-(and-out-of-)cheek examination of the ‘gay voice’.
Thursday, 11th February 8:00pm & Valentine’s Day 6:00pm
This year’s awards-collecting Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara giving Oscar-nominated performances.
Saturday, 13th February 8:30pm
Q&A screening of Out in the Line Up, a film that explores homosexuality within surfing culture.
Sunday, 14th February 8:30pm
Stephen Frears’ My Beautiful Laundrette, the story of a young Pakistani man (Gordon Warnecke) who runs into his former lover (Daniel Day-Lewis).
CLOSING NIGHT – Sunday, 21st February 6:30pm
Supernatural film Girls Lost, following three high-school girls swirled into sexual confusion when – somehow – they get transformed into boys.
