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Classic Movie: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The 2016 NZ film starring Sam Neil, is about a young city boy trying keep his newly fostered country family by running away with one of them into the wilderness, sparking a national man hunt. Charming, funny, and heartwarming, rated 91% on Rotten Tomatoes. Presentation includes a 10 min film presented by Tas Fire on bushfire preparedness. Be entertained and informed!
Find out more »Movie: Where am I going?
The 2016 smash hit Italian comedy about a man who will do anything to hang on to his cushy public service job, but is obstructed by love. Lough out loud comedy, that grossed more than Star Wars in Italy.
Find out more »Movie: The Country Doctor
François Cluzet (The Intouchables) is Jean-Pierre, a much-loved doctor in a rural French town. He reassures and cares for his patients day and night, seven days a week. When he becomes sick himself, he keeps this a secret, but soon realises that he needs to find someone to take over his practice Rated: M
Find out more »Documentary Film: Tomorrow
This upbeat film does not dwell on the acute environmental and social problems of today, we all know what they are. Instead it focuses on solutions; new directions and ideas that are already happening around the world. Communities can change the world from the bottom up, we just need to act. Now!
Find out more »Movie: The Eagle Huntress
A spellbinding true story about a 13-year-old girl on an epic journey to become the first female eagle hunter. Follow Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rise to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been typically been handed down from father to son for centuries Rating: PG
Find out more »Classic Movie: Bagdad Cafe
After breaking down in the middle of the California desert, a German couple begin to argue, and the wife walks. She ends up at a flea-bitten truck stop that is the second home to a group of odd characters, and she begins to transform their lives. Winner of 13 awards and an Oscar nomination, this movie exemplifies how one person in the right place can affect a community of lives Classification: PG
Find out more »Movie: Ali’s Wedding
After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl (Rating: M)
Find out more »Movie: The Lady in the Van
In 1973 London, playwright Alan Bennett (Alex Jennings) develops an unlikely friendship with Miss Shepherd (Maggie Smith), a homeless woman who lives in a van in his driveway for the next 15 years Rating: PG
Find out more »Classic Movie: The Tale of Ruby Rose
Henry Rose traps wallabies and possum for their skins in the Central Highlands of Tasmania in 1933. He and his wife Ruby (played by Melita Jurisic) have lived here for seven years, in a primitive slab hut. The isolation takes a toll on Ruby, who is much younger, and on their adopted son Gem. An iconic Tasmanian film, The Tale of Ruby Rose won 4 awards at the 1987 Venice Biennale Film Festival yet failed to get mainstream cinema release in…
Find out more »Movie: Cosi
Lewis is a young Sydney amateur theater director at his first experience: he is offered a job with a Governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution for mentally ill. His project is overrun by one of the patients Roy who wants to put on stage Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart). None of the patients in the cast is able to sing and none of them knows Italian which is the language of the libretto. Through…
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