Grab your tickets: Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival

17 Apr 2023

The 12th annual Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival is returning in 2023, travelling through venues across New Zealand starting 4 May through to 25 June. For more than a decade the festival has brought design lovers, architects and festivalgoers alike, the best in architecture and design documentaries to the big screen.  

The festival has partnered with the creative agency Art Dept to curate the festival and starting this May, the festival will present 19 feature-length and short films, including a number of premieres and special events.

“We are proud to be bringing another inspiring curation of films to Aotearoa,” Director of Art Dept Yasmine Ganley says. “Our four film categories - Architect Heroes, Site Specific, Female Focused, And Future & Memory represent unique characters and buildings, both locally and abroad.

This year's line-up takes us from Dutch seaweed to Le Corbusier's blueprints to tracing the sun’s path across Mallorca, led through some of the world’s most exciting buildings and pleasurable homes.”

Hero films include:

Bawa's Garden

Revealing the work of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, encountering characters and rarely visited buildings that reveal the story of Bawa’s life and work.

Nan Goldin: All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

An epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned and ground breaking photographer Nan Goldin who turns the lens on her own life.

Brown Vs. Brown

Looking at the history of mid-century modernist architecture in New Zealand during the 1950s and 60s, seen through the lens of the son of the late architect Paul Mark Brown.

“We are thrilled that the festival is returning for another year and that demand for more venues continues to grow,” Rialto Cinemas Group Manager Kathryn Bennett says.

“The festival has expanded this year, upgrading Nelson to a full 14-day festival location, and welcoming Tauranga as a 7-day ‘festival selects’ location. The demand goes to show that the festival provides an irreplaceable experience, one where audiences and industry can come together to fuel their creativity.”

This Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival is one of the largest architecture and design film festivals in the world supported by Resene, Fisher & Paykel, COLORSTEEL®, Città, Uniworld Boutique River Cruises, Home Magazine, Architectural Designers New Zealand (ADNZ) and Trinity Hill Wines.

The festival will play nationwide at these locations:

Auckland Rialto Cinemas Newmarket: 4 - 24 May

Nelson Pastorius Waller Theatre at The Suter Art Gallery: 11 - 24 May

Wellington Embassy Theatre and Light House Cuba & Petone: 18 May - 5 June

Dunedin Rialto Cinemas: 1 - 14 June

Christchurch Deluxe Cinemas: 8 - 25 June

Hawke’s Bay EVENT Cinemas Havelock North: 8 - 21 June

And a smaller edit of the festival will also run as part of ‘Festival Selects’ in:

Tauranga EVENT Cinemas Tauranga Central: 25 - 31 May

New Plymouth EVENT Cinemas: 15 - 21 June  

Tickets are now on sale:https://www.rialto.co.nz/eventsfestivals/resenearchitecturedesignfilmfestival

The Resene colour palette inspiring this year's festival. The colours correspond to the four different film categories in this year’s programme: Resene Lure – Architect Heroes, Resene Brandy – Site Specific, Resene Balloon – Female Focused, and Resene Awash – Future & Memory.

Published: 17 Apr 2023