GHOSTLIGHT: A FILM ABOUT FAMILY, ART, HUMOR & HEALING

After premiering at Sundance this year, Ghostlight has impressed audiences and critics alike with its touching and gently comic tale of the healing power of art.

Alex Thompson and Kelly O'Sullivan’s moving, gently comic collaboration is about the power of live theater to make sense of our offstage dramas and personal narratives. Ghostlight centers on Dan (Keith Kupferer), a melancholic middle-aged construction worker grieving a family tragedy.

Cut off from his devoted wife, Sharon (Tara Mallen), and talented but troubled
daughter, Daisy (Katherine Mallen Kupferer), Dan finds comfort and community in a misfit
company of amateur actors. While moonlighting in a low-rent production of Shakespeare’s most
protean tragedy, Dan is forced to confront his buried emotions.

Real-life family Mallen, Kupferer, and Mallen Kupferer bring tenderness and authenticity to this poignant portrait, while Dolly de Leon — last seen stealing the scene in Triangle of Sadness — is hilarious as Dan’s irascible, improbable co-star.
—Synopsis Courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival

DIRECTOR: Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson
WITH: Keith Kupferer, Tara Mallen, Katherine Mallen Kupferer

GHOSTLIGHT 115 mins | USA | Fiction

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"Marguerite’s Theorem is a worthy contemplation of a gifted student venturing into the “real world” that showcases maths and emotions can in fact mix." Emily Maskel, A Good Movie to Watch.

"Marguerite’s Theorem is an Olympian feat involving walls of calculations. More interesting is the relationship Marguerite has with another student, Lucas (Julien Frison), and her friendship with Noa (Sonia Bonny), who’s another kind of trailblazer altogether." Jen Shieff, NZ Herald

Special Screening at the Cannes Official Selection

Official Selection French Film Festival Aotearoa. 

Immerse yourself in a tale of obsession, genius, and self-discovery set within the world of elite academia in Marguerite’s Theorem. César-winner Ella Rumpf is Marguerite, a brilliant young mathematician who refuses to let her status as the lone woman in her class hinder her pursuit of excellence. However, her world crumbles when a new student discovers a flaw in her thesis, and her supervisor dismisses her for being too emotional. Marguerite must now navigate the real world, unearthing new insights, gaining a fresh lease on life, and even exploring the possibility of romance.

DIRECTOR: Anna Novion
WITH: Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Ella Rumpf, Julien Frison, Sonia Bonny

MARGUERITE'S THEOREM M Sex scenes & offensive language | 112 mins France, Switzerland | French with English subtitles

An island paradise, big business, complex characters, love and betrayal set the scene for this romantic adventure film.

The Press, James Croot 3/5 Stars, "A movie that boasts intentionally and unintentionally hilarious scenes, Stranded Pearl won’t be the most-polished picture you’ll see this year, but it has enough heart, pluck and ambition to ensure it’s never dull."

A light-hearted romantic action adventure film filled with drama, action and comedy at every turn. Set in the stunning scenery of the South Pacific, with drama, action and comedy at every turn, it tells the story of a woman who learns that her life is half lived, and a man who has closed himself off from the world to hide from the pain of his past.

Directed by: Ken Khan​
Written by: Rachel Smith​
Produced by: Aunanda Naaido, Ken Naz

With: Kristy Wright, Aunanda Naidoo, Robert Reitano, Aleisha Rose, Jagdish Punja, Rawiri Paratene, Ray Woolf, Stan Wolfgramm, Rob Kipa Williams, Richard Halpin

STRANDED PEARL 91 mins M Violence & content that may disturb | NZ, Cook Islands | Romantic comedy

Special Encore Screening

The lives of two strangers are changed forever when they cross paths on the surfing adventure of a lifetime, discovering love, downshifting and four Chilean horses.

Winner Byron Bay International Film Festival: Best Documentary

Graeme Tuckett STUFF/ THE POST 4/5 “The Road to Patagonia is an astonishing film to look at. Matty has a great eye for a frame and he sets up his cameras to drink in some glorious slices of nature. And his own and Heather’s narration – some of it recorded on the road – is economical, quite unflinching and heartfelt.”

The Road to Patagonia is a stunning, intimate and unflinching series of love letters within a documentary – firstly a love between two people, and secondly between humanity and the Earth. We follow Matty Hannon on an incredible solo adventure, to surf the west coast of the Americas by motorbike, from the top of Alaska to the tip of Patagonia.

But deep in the wilderness - alone with the wolves and the bears – Matty’s plans unexpectedly fall to pieces. After losing everything, and on the cusp of quitting he meets the girl of his dreams, a permaculture farmer named Heather Hillier who throws caution to the wind and sells her urban-farm to buy a bike of her own. Together riding south, the duo meet with Zapatista rebels, Amazonian shamans and Mapuche leaders whose salient words crack the adventurers’ cultural veneer.

The theme of deep ecology underpins the entire film, visually communicated through exquisite cinematography and emotional verité sequences. Shot over 16 years, the result is an adventurous exposé on the more-than-human world, offering a physical and spiritual odyssey to better understand our place in Nature.

PRODUCERS: Matty Hannon,Tye Markey
DIRECTOR: Matty Hannon
WITH: Matty Hannon, Heather Hillier

THE ROAD TO PATAGONIA Exempt 90 mins | Australia | Language English, Latin American Spanish

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