Announcing the Dunedin Film Society 2025 Programme

[Dunedin Film Society]

Kia ora,

 

Are you interested in watching great movies from around the world? 

At the end of 2024, Dunedin Film Society members voted on the films to include in the Society’s 2025 programme.

Some of the highlights of the resulting selection, including films from the 1920s to the present, are: 

 

• Two Sam Peckinpah directed revisionist Westerns, our opening night film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and his acknowledged masterpiece, The Wild Bunch.
• Two films with links to Dunedin – Scarfies (partly shot on the Otago University campus) and How Far is Heaven (shot in James K Baxter’s final resting place, Jerusalem on the Whanganui River, the cover image on our brochure)
• Two films from the French New Wave era (Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise and Agnes Varda’s Cleo From 5 To 7) plus a recent film from rising French director Celine Sciamma (Petite Maman)
• Two fresh German titles: The Universal Theory and Oh Boy
• Recent releases receiving their Dunedin premieres – Open Your Eyes, Blackberry and The Royal Hotel
• Three cult movie hits – Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, John Waters’ Polyester and Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: the Samurai 
• Three supernatural horror movies: The Haunting (1963 original version), Pulse and A Ghost Story
• The only classic silent movie to screen in Dunedin this year – Victor Sjostrom’s The Silent Carriage (Sweden, 1921)
• Plus at least seven more screenings

Many of these films have never been shown in Dunedin, or have only received a very limited Festival release. For more information please visit: http://www.dunedinfilmsociety.org.nz.

 

 

To join us:

1. Complete the online form on our website and pay by direct credit
2. Or join at the door before any screening (cash only).
3. Or purchase your membership from the staff at OUSA office reception at the University of Otago (cash only)

Despite inflation, we have held our fees this year a full waged membership is $70, while a student/unwaged membership is $60 – a cost of around $2.30 per film. Junior memberships are $30 (for senior secondary students with ID only, subject to censorship restrictions). There is no additional screening fee. 

Full waged and student/unwaged members will also receive discounted ticket prices at Rialto Cinemas (Monday to Friday) and Metro Cinema, as well as at Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival (August 2025). 

If you only want to see some of this year’s films, consider purchasing a 3-Movie Pass ($25). This can be shared by up to three people and has no expiry date. 

During 2025, our screenings will take place on Wednesdays in the Castle 1 Lecture Theatre, located between the University of Otago’s Arts building (Burns) and Information Services building (Central Library), on Albany Street, at 7.30pm. 

Please help to ensure the continuing survival of this volunteer-run non-profit charity by joining the Dunedin Film Society and by passing this message on to your colleagues and friends. 

Kind regards, 

The Dunedin Film Society’s Management Committee