The Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival is now showing at Rialto Cinemas Newmarket!

Immerse yourself in an inspiring new collection of architecture and design documentaries sourced from across the globe.

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

The 2025 Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival opens with a local architectural documentary, The Chodge. Darryl Church, founder of DCA Architects of Transformation, leads the narrative on the design and build of a unique, award-winning home on the picturesque banks of Lake Whakamaru. Other standouts from the programme include E.1027 - Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea, which explores the designer’s iconic modernist villa and her struggle for creative control; The Sense of Tuning, the latest from cult architecture documentarians Bêka & Lemoine (Big Ears Listen With Feet, RADFF 2023, Tokyo Ride, RADFF 2021) offering a sensory-rich portrait of architect Bijoy Jain of Studio Mumbai; I am Martin Parr, an enormously entertaining look at the acclaimed British photographer, renowned for his unfiltered and mischievous images of British life; Architecton, a poetic study of stone and concrete materials from acclaimed filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda); and Schindler Space Architect, narrated by Academy Award-winner Meryl Streep, which brings the pioneering work of R.M. Schindler vividly to life.

FESTIVAL DATES

Newmarket – 1 to 21 May
Dunedin – 29 May to 11 June

DIGITAL PROGRAMME

View the digital programme and screening schedules here.

^Based on the reward benefit for a standard admission. Rewards points can not be redeemed for Special Screenings & Events.