For anyone looking for a good way to enjoy the rest of the summer, the new Auckland film festival might be the way to go. Featuring hits from international film festivals such as Annette, Catch The Fair One, Flee, Drive My Car, as well as the New Zealand made documentary Fiona Clark: Unafraid, In The Shade and its 50 film line-up will have movies for anyone to enjoy.
Opening with the NZ premiere of Guillermo Del Toro’s new film Nightmare Alley, a crime-thriller about a conman and a psychiatrist teaming up to trick people out of their money, In The Shade is set to have its inaugural run from January 19th to February 1st.
Screening out of both Academy Cinema in Auckland Central and The Hollywood in Avondale, the festival features an outdoor garden bar at the Hollywood, which opens an hour before the first screening of each night and stays open until the cinema closes. It’s the perfect blend of summer and cinema to enjoy this season.
The festival is organised by the anonymous ‘collective of cinephiles’ Dos Ojos, which means Two Eyes in Spanish. “The cine-collective Dos Ojos was assembled to create a much needed big-screen care-package to quench audience’s insatiable hunger for the very best in cinema from around the world,” the collective said in a joint statement. In the statement they also expressed their concerns of how "Auckland is currently in the throes of a big screen drought, the like never seen in our moviegoing lifetimes,” and expressed their goal of bringing cinema back to Auckland.
In The Shade will be the first international film festival to have a fully physical event in Auckland since 2019 due to cancellations, and aims to restart the film festival culture in NZ and bring the big names and winners from other notable festivals to the big screen here. Films showing included hits from international festivals such as Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, and the NZIFF.
It’s also going to have the NZ premiere of several big name films such as Licorice Pizza by Paul Thomas Anderson, C’mon C’mon by Mike Mills, and The Eyes of Tammy Faye by Michael Showalter, which stars Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield.
Tickets are available at intheshade.co.nz, and more information about the festival and the collective Dos Ojos are available on their social media.
All movies screening are as follows: A Hero, Ablaze, After Love, All Light, Everywhere, Annette, Apples, Benedetta, Bergman Island, Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, Catch The Fair One, Censor, Chopper - Restored, C'mon C'mon, Cryptozoo, Drive My Car, Fiona Clark: Unafraid, Flee, Gagarine, Great Freedom, John and the Hole, Lamb, Licorice Pizza, Limbo, Mandibles, Murina, Mass, Memoria, Nightmare Alley, Nine Days, Nitram, Notturno, Paris, 13th District, Patu!, Purple Noon, President, River, Stray, Sun Children, Ted K, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The Innocents, The Kids, The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, The Reason I Jump, The Sadness, There Is No Evil, Til Kingdom Come, Undine, Wild Indian, Writing with Fire, Zola
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