Autumn Events

Overview

Before we sink into the belly of winter and curl up with the full NZ International Film Festival (NZIFF) program, Autumn Events is here to give us a taste of what's to come. Eight films make up the pocket-sized series, including one New Zealand premiere, a great cinematic folly and some all-time classics.

Autumn Events will take place at Wellington's Embassy Theatre from May 3–21, and Auckland's The Civic and Academy Cinema from May 10–21.

Forty years in the making, Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time: Life's Journey takes viewers on a trip through the birth of the stars, the evolution of life on earth and sea, and its eventual obliteration. Seminal concert film Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music follows the legendary blowout in 1969 where 400,000 young Americans took over farmland in NY State for a music festival. Les Blank's Burden of Dreams immortalises the chaotic making of Fitzcarraldo, a part fiction, part true-life story following an Irish adventurer who dreams of building an opera house in the Amazon.

Cinematic classics rounding out the program include: Camille— considered one of cinema's finest romantic tearjerkers, A Star is Born— showing life behind the cameras, lights, and cocktail bars of Hollywood; and Manhattan— Woody Allen's great ode to New York City.