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A selection of short films showcasing stories from around the world celebrating the sport and art of running – a Wanaka Film is included in the selection.

After a successful limited sell-out season with the Aotearoa French Film Festival, the beautiful romantic drama EIFFEL releases on the 16^th September 2021.

Eiffel follows the story of Gustave Eiffel as he endeavours to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair.  He struggles to envision his masterpiece and wants nothing more than to design the subway.  Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from his past.  His masterpiece would go on to become one of the most iconic buildings in history.

Starring Romain Duris & Emma Mackey.

Marvel Studios’ “Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings” stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, who must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organisation.

The film also stars Tony Leung as Wenwu, Awkwafina as Shang-Chi’s friend Katy and Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan, as well as Fala Chen, Meng’er Zhang, Florian Munteanu and Ronny Chieng.

Experience the origin of Marvel’s next hero  ShangChi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. 

Previews: 18, 19 Sept,  25, 26 Sept.  Release Date:  September 30

Ryder and his band of search and rescue pups are called from their shoreside community of Adventure Bay to help stop their nemesis Mayor Humdinger from turning Adventure City into a state of chaos.  PAW PATROL: THE MOVIE  will introduce a new member of the team along  with a range of new and exciting characters.

Her voice changed everything.

Following the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice.

DIRECTED BY: Liesl Tommy

WRITTEN BY: Tracey Scott Wilson

PRODUCERS: Scott Bernstein, Harvey Mason Jr.

CAST: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, Saycon Sengbloh, Hailey Kilgore, Tate Donovan, Heather Headley, Skye Dakota Turner, and Mary J. Blige

The Man In The Hat sets off from Marseilles in a small Fiat 500. On the seat beside him is a framed photograph of an unknown woman. Behind him is a 2CV into which is squeezed Five Bald Men. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off?

As he travels North through France, he encounters razeteurs, women with stories to tell, bullfights, plenty of delicious food, a damp man, mechanics, nuns, a convention of Chrystallographers and much more. And always, on his tail, the Five Bald Men.

As the Fiat 500 wends its way across the mountains, gorges and bridges of France, the 2CV hard behind him, the Thin Man (Ciaran Hinds) comes face to face with the vivid eccentricities of an old country on an old continent.

★★★★ “It’s quirky and touching, and if you want to travel but don’t want to travel, then off-the-beaten-track France will do your heart good.” – RTÉ

From the acclaimed director of SPOTLIGHT Tom McCarthy, STILLWATER follows Bill, an American oil-rig rough neck from Oklahoma, who travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter by taking the law into his own hands. In the process, he becomes emotionally involved with a local woman and her young daughter and embarks on a personal journey of discovery and a larger sense of belonging in the world.

Directed by: Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)

Starring: Matt Damon (The Martian, The Bourne Identity), Abigail Breslin (Zombieland, Little Miss Sunshine), Camille Cottin (Allied)

Ryan Reynolds stars as a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and decides to become the hero of his own story—one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way, before it is too late.

Not only does the film have the comedic element of Ryan Reynolds but also NZs very own Taika Waititi.

THEY’RE DYING TO SAVE THE WORLD!

Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out—even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Today’s do-or-die assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and everyone’s favorite psycho, Harley Quinn. Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Trekking through a jungle teeming with militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn, the Squad is on a search-and-destroy mission with only Colonel Rick Flag on the ground to make them behave…and Amanda Waller’s government techies in their ears, tracking their every movement. And as always, one wrong move and they’re dead (whether at the hands of their opponents, a teammate, or Waller herself). If anyone’s laying down bets, the smart money is against them—all of them.

Emily Blunt is an intrepid scientist and Dwayne Johnson is a riverboat captain on a jungle mission to find the Tree of Life and discover its healing powers in this Disney adventure, inspired by the Disneyland theme park ride.