Coming Soon
 | We need to Talk About Kevin (1 March) Dramatic-thriller starring Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) and John C. Reilly (Magnolia) as parents trying to cope with a daunting combination of guilt and grief after their teenage son goes on a killing spree. After an unplanned pregnancy, Eva (Swinton) struggles to find the balance between her very successful writing career and the attention her son needs, despite her husband’s (John C. Reilly) positive enthusiasm towards their newborn. The effects of this negligence become increasingly apparent, peaking in Kevin’s teenage years (played by Ezra Miller) when he commits murder at his high school. The film unapologetically explores the elements that haunt Eva after the horrific event. Radiohead’s Johnny Greenwood provides the musical backdrop, continuing the growing trend of musicians-gone-movie-score-composers. |
Brother Number One (6 March) Kiwi Olympian rower Rob Hamill goes to Cambodia to retrace the events that saw his brother, Kerry, caught, tortured and murdered by the Khmer Rouge in 1978. From award-winning documentarian Annie Goldson (An Island Calling). "In 1978, when future Kiwi Olympian and transatlantic rowing champion Rob Hamill was 14, his older brother Kerry disappeared. Two years later the family learned from a newspaper report that their gentle, joyful number one son had been identified as a victim in a Cambodian death camp. Kerry had been on board his charter yacht Foxy Lady with two other young men when they anchored in Kampuchean waters. Hippie adventurers, they were unaware of the horrors unfolding onshore. Kerry was seized and tortured for two months at the Khmer Rouge slaughterhouse Tuol Sleng (S21). After signing an outlandish confession he was executed on the orders of the infamous Comrade Duch. Annie Goldson accompanies Rob Hamill to Cambodia. Testifying against the avowedly repentant Duch before a War Crimes Tribunal, Hamill mourns his brother and provides harrowing ‘victim testimony’, relating the damage wrought on his family."
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 | The Hunter (22 March) The producers of the internationally cherished Animal Kingdom adapt Julia Leigh’s (writer and director of Sleeping Beauty) acclaimed novel to screen, an Aussie psychological drama set in the Tasmanian wilderness. Martin is a mercenary, hired by a European biotec company to track down the last remaining Tasmanian tiger. Starring Willem Dafoe (The Clearing, Antichrist), Frances O’Connor (A.I. Artificial Intelligence) and Kiwi grandfather of acting Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Daybreakers). |
 | The Woman on the 6th Floor (29 March) A breezy upstairs/downstairs French comedy centering on an uptight couple living in a swanky Parisian apartment in 1962, blissfully unaware that upstairs the building's servants quarters is overflowing with illegal immigrants, all of whom are hot-blooded Spanish country girls... "It’s 1962. An uptight middle-class couple – Fabrice Luchini and Sandrine Kiberlain – are barely aware that the servants’ quarters on an upper floor of their Paris apartment building are overflowing with refugees from Franco’s Spain: the sisters and aunts and mothers and cousins of the legal occupant (Carmen Maura). After they hire one of them, the beautiful, mysterious, quietly challenging Maria, to be their housemaid, they are gradually made aware of their own unintentional insensitivity and are drawn out of their tired routines." (Source: NZ International Film Festival 2011) |
 | Spud (19 April) John Cleese stars in this South African coming-of age comedy-drama about a middle class boy who wins a scholarship to a snooty private school. Based on the novel by John van de Ruit. With his lunatic parents fearing Nelson Mandela's release from prison will lead to communist rule in South Africa, Spud is initially glad to leave home for the safety of a boarding school in Kwazula-Natal. But surrounded by well-to-do boys with nicknames like Gecko, Rambo, Rain Man and Mad Dog, Spud struggles to adapt to his new home. He seeks advise - in all matters, including sex - from his eccentric, alcoholic English teach: The Guv (Cleese). |
 | Margin Call (10 May) Boardroom thriller following the employees of a large New York investment bank over the opening 24 hours of the 2007 financial crisis. All-star cast includes Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore, Paul Bettany. |