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124 mins. NZ 2025. Dir: Miki Magasiva
A Samoan teacher, Mareta, is struggling after the death of her daughter in the Christchurch earthquake of 2011. She reluctantly takes on the role of substitute teacher at an elite, wealthy private school. She is surprised to find children in desperate need of guidance, inspiration and love, so she decides to start a choir to try and help them.
Friday Morning Matinée
Tickets $10. Candy Bar opens at 10 am for free morning tea.
110 mins. UK 2024. Dir: Peter Cattaneo
This heartwarming comedy/drama follows a disillusioned Englishman who accepts a job at a prestigious Argentinian boarding school in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, he discovers a divided nation and a class of unruly students, but when he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, an unexpected bond forms that transforms his life. Based on a true story.
124 mins. NZ 2025. Dir: Miki Magasiva
A Samoan teacher Mareta, is struggling after the death of her daughter in the Christchurch earthquake of 2011. She reluctantly takes on the role of substitute teacher at an elite, wealthy private school. She is surprised to find children in desperate need of guidance, inspiration and love, so she decides to start a choir to try and help them.
98 mins. France 2024. Dir: Laura Piani
Romantic comedy about a desperately single bookseller in Paris who dreams of becoming a writer, and finding love like in a Jane Austen novel. She journeys to a writing retreat in England where she confronts her insecurities and develops a connection with a distant descendant of Jane Austen.
110 mins. China 2024. Dir: Guan Hu
Released from jail, Lang returns to his hometown. As part of a dog patrol tasked with clearing stray dogs before the 2008 Olympics, he bonds with a black whippet. The two lonely souls embark on a new journey. Prize winner at Cannes Film Festival 2024.
120 mins. USA 2025. Dirs: Scott McGehee & David Siegal.
When her literary agent dies , writer Iris discovers that he’s bequeathed her his beloved Great Dane, Apollo, who is in no way suitable to share her tiny apartment. She endeavours to find a new home for him, but realises that he’s also grieving and that she needs him as much as he needs her. A touching film about love, friendship and grief.
120 mins. Australia 2025. Dir: Kriv Stenders
Based on the amazing true story of award - winning Australian journalist Peter Greste’s arrest and imprisonment in Egypt in 2013 while reporting on the Arab Spring uprising. Imprisoned for seven years he survived on his wits alone.
95 mins. USA 2024. Dir: Josh Margolin
A heartwarming comedy in which 93 year old Thelma Post gets conned by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson. She sets out on a treacherous quest across the city on her mobility scooter to reclaim what was taken from her.
Benalla Seniors’ Festival Matinée
Tickets $5 for Seniors. Candy bar opens at 10:00 am for free morning tea.
Free return bus service from Benalla. Bus leaves 9.30 am from GOTAFE, Nunn Street.
110 mins. Spain 2024. Dir: Marcel Barrena
Inspired by the true story of Manolo Vital, a bus driver who hijacked a bus in 1978 as a form of civil disobedience to prove that public transport could reach the neglected Torre Baro neighbourhood in Barcelona. This helped create the modern Barcelona. Won Best Picture at the Spanish Goya Awards.
(Note: Daylight Savings Time starts this weekend)
93 mins. France 2024. Dirs: Boris Lojkine & Delphine Agout
Souleymane’s story is about a Guinean asylum seeker who works as a food delivery cyclist in Paris, while preparing for a crucial make-or-break interview to secure legal residency. The film explores his struggles and the challenges faced by undocumented immigrants, highlighting the exploitation they face in their quest for permanent asylum.
98 mins. USA 2025.
Elio is an unruly young orphan who has trouble making human friends, but has better luck with extra - terrestrials. He finds himself on a cosmic adventure having to navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions, and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
Family Matinée
Tickets $8 for children 4 to 12 $10 for adults. Candy bar opens at 10:00 am for free cordial and biscuits.
110 mins. UK 2024. Dir: Polly Steele
Based on the best-selling novel by Niall Williams and set against the backdrop of the glorious Irish landscape. The film is a heartfelt, deeply moving story about fate, love and the mysterious ways lives intertwine. Two young would-be lovers in 1970 Ireland embark on their own individual journeys before fate contrives to pull the threads of their lives together.
97 mins. UK 2024. Dir: Mike Leigh
A woman, tormented by anger and depression, faces the hard truths of life, struggling with her past and present. The film explores her relationship with her family, friends and society and the difficulties she faces.
134 mins. France 2024. Dir: Mehdi Idir
A musical biographical drama about the life of the iconic French singer Charles Aznavour. From his beginning as the son of Armenian immigrants to the rise of his career as a singer and actor, which cemented his status as a beloved figure in France.
115 mins. France 2024. Dir: Daniel Auteuil
In this engrossing legal thriller, Daniel Auteuil, one of France’s most awarded actors, stars as a jaded lawyer who rediscovers his passion when he takes on the case of a father of five, accused of murdering his wife.
96 mins. UK 2023. Dir: Oliver Parker
The true story of a WWII veteran who staged a ‘great escape’ from his care home to join fellow veterans on a beach in Normandy for the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
Benalla Seniors’ Festival Matinée
Tickets $5. Candy Bar opens at 10:00am for free morning tea.
Free return bus service from Benalla. Bus leaves 9.30 am from GOTAFE, Nunn Street.
92 mins. France 2024. Dir: Louise Courvoisier
This French coming-of-age story centres on an 18 year-old boy who lives on a farm in the remote French Alps with his alcoholic, cheesemaker father and seven year-old sister. His carefree teenage life of drinking and dancing takes a turn when he must provide for his sister. Seeking income, he channels his energy into producing an award-winning cheese to claim a competition prize.
90 mins. Ireland 2023. Dir: Lisa Mulcahy
A gripping Gothic Irish thriller that follows the life of an orphaned heiress, Maud Ruthyn, who must navigate her family’s dark legacy and confront her scheming uncle, after her father’s death.
165 mins. USA 2025. Dir: Joseph Kosinski.
Brad Pitt stars as retired Formula One racing driver Sonny Hayes, who is persuaded to make a comeback after his promising career was cut short thirty years earlier, in a bid to save his former team mate’s underdog team. Not just for car racing fans.
(Single feature due to length)
123 mins. UK 2025. Dir: Simon Curtis
When Mary finds herself involved in a public scandal, and the family faces financial trouble, the household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change, with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
Benalla Festival Special Matinée
Tickets $5. Includes afternoon tea with scones, jam and cream.