Almost twenty years after making their iconic turns as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel - Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon that defined a generation.

In this witty, new breed of mystery, George (Hugh Jackman) is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they can't possibly understand. But when a mysterious incident disrupts life on the farm, the sheep realise they must become the detectives. As they follow the clues and investigate human suspects, they prove that even sheep can be brilliant crime-solvers

When memory begins to fade, love is put to the test. Set in a run-down Wellington villa in 2003, Caterpillar follows three women living separate lives under one leaky roof. Sixteen-year-old Cassie is all bravado and vulnerability, drifting into risky territory as she searches for belonging. Her mother Maxine, 52, is a formidable single parent and filmmaker on the brink of a long-awaited breakthrough, finally offered a greenlight—if she can land a star. Holding everything together is Huia, Cassie’s grandmother, 80, whose life has been defined by quiet service to family and a private obsession with raising monarch caterpillars, dreaming of one day witnessing the legendary butterfly migration in Mexico.

Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary (Anne Hathaway) reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel) on the eve of her comeback performance.

How did a city rubbish dump transform into a collection of gardens that is now a major visitor attraction? The story of how Hamilton Gardens became a unique museum of humanity, showcasing gardens from ancient Egypt to the surreal future, is told on screen. A Museum of Humanity: The Time Traveller's Guide to Hamilton Gardens documentary explores this stunning achievement.

When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman (Scott) retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents' ashes, the staff's tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Soon, disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance draw him into a nightmarish confrontation with the darkest corners of his past. In cinemas April 30.

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

Seventeen-year-old Christy is at a crossroads. He's just been thrown out of his pleasant suburban foster home and moved in with his estranged older brother Shane. As far as Shane is concerned this is a temporary arrangement, but Christy begins to feel at home on Cork's working class north side. As he makes friends and begins to let the community in, he also reconnects with his past through his seemingly more corrupting extended family, despite Shane's efforts to steer him away from this crowd. Shane wants something better for Christy at any cost - even if it means he has to push him away. After so many years apart, the brothers need to now reconcile their turbulent past whilst deciding what the future looks like. Christy draws inspiration from the lived experiences of the young people involved, assembling much of its ensemble cast from the Kabin Studio in Cork, a non-profit community space that has grown out of a love for hip hop and art. Winner of The Grand Prix at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, as well as Best Irish Film at the Galway Film Fleadh, Christy is a punchy drama not to be missed.

A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.

Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.

The never-been-told true story of SGT. HAANE from award-winning writer and director Tearepa Kahi (Muru, Poi E: The Story of Our Song, Mt. Zion). This documentary-drama film follows Lance Sgt. Haane Manahi DCM (Te Arawa, Ngāti Raukawa) of B Company, 28th Māori Battalion, a soldier of extraordinary courage, whose actions proved pivotal in the 1943 battle for the fortified summit of Takrouna, Tunisia.

In 1982, President François Mitterrand launched an international competition to design the flagship project of his term: a building to match and complement the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. To the surprise of everyone, the commission is won by an unknown 53-year-old from Copenhagen, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen. Inspired by remarkable true events, Claes Bang leads a superb ensemble cast in this historical drama, as an idealistic architect whose quest to build an ambitious landmark in Paris triggers unforeseen consequences.

When Jules joins her new boyfriend on a New Year's Eve getaway with his old high school mates, she's looking to get some peace and quiet, smoke a bit of weed, and make some new friends. But when the holidaymakers stumble across their host's long-forgotten stash of ancient weed, things quickly take a turn for the nightmarish.

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen, Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: “Rooster,” the son of Maverick’s late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka “Goose”. Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.

The House of Cini Boeri tells the story of the intense life and brilliant work of architect and designer Cini Boeri, through the places she lived, the testimonies of those who knew her well, and the works she created. The house of Cini Boeri is the home of a courageous protagonist of the 20th century—a pioneer, both in her choices and her designs, of a new way of living that helped revolutionise the role of women in the family, in work, and in society. It's the home of a strong-willed, charismatic matriarch of a large family that lovingly and devotedly preserves her memory.

Roy Good is a rare figure in New Zealand art: a painter, designer and spatial thinker who never separated disciplines. Influenced by Bauhaus and De Stijl, he embedded abstraction into popular television shows, national logos and shaped canvases alike. Working from his small studio in the wilderness of West Auckland, he quietly pioneered one of the country's most consistent and original modernist practices. This insightful documentary reveals an artist of global significance, working from the edge of the world.

This documentary explores the radical vision of Ugo La Pietra, a key figure in art, design and architecture over the last 60 years. The documentary reconstructs the journey of an author who used every available medium to develop his "disequilibrating system": a way of creating against the system and stereotypes, aimed at evolving the individual through new forms of perception. Architect, artist and designer, La Pietra is a unique case.

The photographer Peter Hujar, whose images exist in an important lineage and dialogue with the work of groundbreaking gay artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz, forms the centre of this dramatic feature film. Based on rediscovered transcripts from an unused interview by Linda Rosenkrantz, in which she asked Hujar to narrate the events of the previous day in minute detail, the film is an illustration of the life of the creative mind, the quotidian and the imaginative at once, fully and lovingly inhabited by its two brilliant actors (Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall).

In the late '60s and '70s, a group of architects landed in Vermont with big ideas and a simple plan: to stop just designing buildings and start making them. Drawing from Bauhaus ideals but rejecting the rigidity of academia, they built by hand, embraced mistakes, and turned architecture into a wild, creative experiment. Director Allie Rood grew up in the middle of it all, playing in half-finished houses. Years later, she picks up a camera to trace the movement's history, only to find herself building a house of her own.

Through his architecture, this documentary tells the story of Sep Ruf, both as a person and as an architect—a remarkable personality who continues to have an impact today. Ruf's buildings are not only of outstanding quality but also remain relevant and contemporary. His stylish, elegant, open, and transparent architecture is, in the best sense, a continuation of Bauhaus modernism, which he interpreted in his own way, always with a deep respect for tradition.

Space architect Constance Adams was a renegade in her field, solving complex problems in new ways, driven by the question: What do humans need? Preceded by RIMURAPA BY NEIL PARDINGTON (12 mins), a short film about local artist, Neil Pardington who is creating graphic works from bull kelp. Preceded by PAPARAHI: 50TH ANNIVERSARY VICTORIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & INNOVATIVE DESIGN (15 mins), a short film profiling key female architects; alumni of Victoria University of Wellington.

The remarkable story of charismatic Samoan opera star Pene Pati who sang his way from humble origins in Samoa onto the world's greatest opera stages.

Truus Schröder's love for Gerrit Rietveld led to the design of the iconic Rietveld Schröderhuis in 1924. After her death, the house was thoroughly restored, even though Rietveld was of the opinion that his houses should be torn down after 50 years. Screens with CURATING MODERNISM (30 mins), Curating Modernism looks at 20th century modern architecture in the United States and how it offers powerful opportunities for restoration, sensitive updates, and adaptive reuse so modernist structures can remain active participants in everyday life rather than static artefacts.

For over six years, filmmaker Birgitte Sigmundstad followed the creation of Norway's New National Museum, a monumental project that merged four institutions under one vast, temple-like roof designed by Kleihues + Schuwerk. This rich, observational documentary offers an unvarnished look at the tensions that define an undertaking like this: curatorial debates, the logistical challenges of moving and storing vast collections, aesthetic and technical decisions, time and budget pressures, political backlash and evolving public expectations.

Tracing Light explores the most fascinating of natural phenomena—light. The film brings together leading physicists and artists from Scotland, England and Germany on a quest to understand and animate light. Light is difficult to describe. Tracing Light does not seek to explain, but to evoke. Through its visuals and encounters between artists and scientists, the film opens a contemplative space—one where wonder and sensuality quietly unfold.

The uniqueness of the architecture of the Brazilian northeastern hinterland is at the heart of the work of the photographer Anna Mariani (1935-2022). Anna Mariani Photographic Notes retraces the dirt roads the artist followed between the '70s and the '90s, when she published her most famous works and helped an entire country rediscover the richness of the façades of popular houses as a phenomenon of visual perception and cultural identity.

Bruno Morassutti was a cultured and intellectually rigorous, yet understated figure in post-war Italian architecture. A former student of Giuseppe Samonà and Carlo Scarpa, Morassutti brought a deeply cosmopolitan sensibility to his work. His early travels across the USA, documenting the works of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, shaped his lifelong interest in structural experimentation and prefabrication. Back in Italy, he worked with Angelo Mangiarotti, before starting his own studio.

This documentary tells the story of five architects—Philip Johnson, John Johansen, Landis Gores, Eliot Noyes, and Marcel Breuer—visionaries who ignited a modern design revolution with Bauhaus inspired designs. Preceded by THE TEMPLE OF KINETIC RESONANCE (17 mins), a short film exploring the creation of a joint vision combining the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Len Lye Foundation in a single building in New Plymouth.

This documentary tells the story of visionary architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. It is a journey across continents and decades, into the uncompromising world of architecture and into a love story and creative partnership. For 50 years, Venturi and Scott Brown shared a life marked by deep tenderness, sharp wit, and intellectual joy. Together, they also ignited a quiet revolution in architecture, challenging the rigid dogmas of modernism by embracing complexity, symbolism, and the lessons of the everyday landscape.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary; it's time to be called back to TOP GUN, the Naval Fighter Weapons School where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills. When hotshot fighter pilot Maverick is sent to the school, his reckless attitude and cocky demeanor put him at odds with the other pilots, especially the cool and collected Iceman.

Over the course of two years, a group of graduate students and their professor embarked on a journey to design and construct a new cutting-edge research station for a group of scientists studying penguins and seals in one of the harshest environments on the planet, Antarctica. Transporting the material to the remote island also proves to be a daunting task as they must cross one of the most dangerous bodies of water, the Drake Passage. The extreme environments and abundance of wildlife set up the conditions for the adventure of a lifetime for the group.

This dramatic feature film centres on the early 1930s and painter Leonora Carrington, who was a rebel against social expectations, joining the surrealist movement and its iconic figures like André Breton and Salvador Dalí in Paris. A whirlwind love affair with artist Max Ernst confronts her with her inner demons. During the war, Leonora flees to Mexico and finally empowers herself. Today Leonora Carrington is one of the highest-selling female painters worldwide, alongside Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Emerging in mid-20th century Los Angeles, Googie transformed coffee shops, bowling alleys, banks, churches and car washes into futuristic icons, influenced by visionary architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and John Lautner, and propelled into the commercial mainstream by firms like Armet & Davis. Though many landmarks have been lost, a growing preservation movement now recognises Googie as a vital and distinctly American expression of modern design, a legacy this film celebrates through the voices of leading historians and cultural commentators.

This documentary tells the story of a major urban renewal and transformation project, starting from the Lavazza headquarters in Turin and engaging with the people who live there, the Aurora district and the city of Turin. Preceded by NGĀ MOKOPUNA: THE LIVING PĀ AT VICTORIA UNIVERSITY (15 mins), a short film showcasing Ngā Mokopuna and interviews with architects, a sustainability expert, the head of Māori Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington and sustainable building suppliers.

Construction of the long-awaited new pavilion inside the Hilversum botanical gardens in the Netherlands begins. With the occasional help of the gardener and under the watchful eyes of the local residents, the architects—acting as builders—donned overalls and work shoes and navigated the year-long process. Join them for a walk through the garden, observing the construction in harmony with the unhurried rhythms of nature.

This expressionistic portrait of the great Etel Adnan (b. Beirut, 1925) documents the artist and poet over the last five years of her life. Adnan is working without ego, asking, what does it mean to be alive, to live through catastrophe, to experience time? Close to Adnan in her daily life, in her studio, in her works, and in the natural world essential to her aesthetic and philosophic understanding, the film's form creates an experience of Adnan's radical quality of attention.

Living Together: The Story of De Warren is a documentary about the establishment of Housing Cooperative De Warren. The film begins with KONIJN, a group of friends who organise parties and festivals. After founding a permaculture farm in Portugal, the idea of living together arises and the concept of De Warren is born. The project is ambitious, being the first of its kind in the Netherlands, and none of the young housing pioneers have ever built a house.