Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival 2024 - Tauranga

The Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival returns to Tauranga at Event Cinemas Tauranga Central—screening for one week only 20 - 26 June.

The Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival was launched in 2012 with the purpose of presenting the best architecture and design films to New Zealand cinemas. From the first year, screening only at Rialto Cinemas in Auckland, the festival has significantly grown, now screening across eight regions and ten cinemas, making it a nationwide event and a key annual film festival in New Zealand. The festival is also now one of the largest architecture and design film festivals in the world.

Tauranga can look forward to One Week filled with the most popular films from the 13th edition of the film festival. The line-up includes ten feature films, four shorts, and a special Filmmaker Q&A of the local feature Maurice and I with co-director Rick Harvie on opening night Thursday 20 June.

Hero films include Maurice & I, Rick Harvie and Jane Mahoney’s local Christchurch-based documentary celebrating the architectural partnership of Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney and their resulting legacy; New England Modernism: Revolutionary Architecture In The 20th Century, a deep dive into American Modernism’s provocative footing in New England; Point Of Origin, which documents the design and construction of one of Rem Koolhaas’s smallest—but most challenging—commissions; Green Over Gray, a panorama of the visionary “green” architect Emilio Ambasz; Fashion Reimagined, which charts a trailblazing fashion designer on a mission to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment, and Tūhononga the festival’s first film in Te Reo Māori directed by local filmmaker Miriama Toms.

Tickets are now on sale.