Auckland Film Society

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

A feature film, shot over the course of two years, that intends to capture the changing of the seasons along the river, in the Fuyang district of Hangzhou city.

A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

A substitute teacher is put in charge of a class of future geniuses after their teacher commits suicide.

When one of his cows gets sick, a farmer will stop at nothing to save the rest of the herd.

The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.

When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

A depiction of the off-screen relationship between the actors who play the newlyweds in the film And Life Goes On (1992).

A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.

Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.

After a troupe of danseuses becomes unemployed, one of them takes up burlesque dancing while another dreams of performing ballet.

A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.

Ecstatic ritual, danger and the absolute beauty of fireworks.

A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dreams.

Western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.

9-year-old Benni is a toss-up between institutions that cannot tackle her outbursts. She wants to move in with her mother, but she can not handle her wild daughter. After Micha is hired Benni slowly opens up and attaches herself to him.

A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.

Christian begins to work as a shelf stacker at a supermarket and finds himself in a new, unknown world: the long aisles, the bustle at the checkouts, the forklifts.

The true story of the Puccio Clan, a family who kidnapped and killed people in the 80s.

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.