The second Arohanui Film Festival is ready to rev its engines on October 28th – 30th in Te Aroha. The full programme is nearly here, and we managed to score three sneaky looks at what’s playing.
Tamara, Echelon
This surreal Romanian black comedy makes its first appearance in New Zealand, following a 75-year-old woman who has a knack for picking up men at a cemetery. Her latest target: an 80-year-old widower.
Atlantic
Also making its NZ premiere is this anger-provoking look at the fishing communities – in Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland – whose way of life is being pushed aside by major oil companies. Narrated by Brendan Gleeson.
This Paper Mache Boulder is Actually Really Heavy
A finalist of the Make My Movie competition (which produced the feature How to Meet Girls From a Distance), this quirky Kiwi sci-fi comedy (with a title so long it makes my typing fingers bleed) is set in a b-movie sci-fi world where all the low-budget props work for real. A silver-coated curling iron shoots out deadly lasers, the spaceship is piloted by pushing and pulling Pump bottle caps, and that fake-looking rubber alien mask is actually someone’s face. Writer/director Christian Nicolson will be attending for Q&A sessions.
Full programme and tickets to the Arohanui Film Festival will be available on September 14th.
