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HAMILTON FILM SOCIETY 

Welcome to Hamilton Film Society
Important message from Geoff Lealand, HFS President:
Kia ora tatou. Folllowing considerable discussion with your HFS Committee and consultation with the Lido, we have decided to proceed with our 2022 screening programme, under the following conditions (with further details below); 
* we will begin screenings at the Lido at 8pm on Monday Feb 21 
* we have arranged to screen the same film in two cinemas, which will ensure adequate seating for members, with sufficient seat spacing and traffic control.
* subs for returning members have been reduced for 2022, to account for films we missed screening in 2021.
* couples or close groups will still be able to sit side-by-side

The Lido requires proof of a Vaccine Pass to be shown, before you pick up your membership and  head towards the cinemas.
 Please ensure you arrive early enough to ensure your membership is processed on the opening night.
Better still, renew your membership online, ensuring you put your name correctly.
Link to online registration here: https://www.nzfilmsociety.org.nz/hamilton.html
Brochures are available at the Lido and around the city

The planned Feb 14 screening of Nashville will not happen as we feel that it is too long (2hrs 40m) to be the opening film, with a 8pm start, and not the best film to test how the new arrangements are working.  The Lido requires the 8pm start but I hope we can return to a 7.30pm start in the near future.
We will screen a shorter film on Feb 21;   ‘Summer 1993’, a recent (2017) , sweet Spanish film. We will look to find a slot for Nashville later in the year.
The two screenings on Mondays will increase our costs but we feel it is justified

SCREENINGS

Weekly at the Lido Cinema,
​Centre Place
501 Victoria Street, Hamilton
Mondays at 8:00pm 
(later start time during Omicron outbreak)​
​Season screens February to December

2022 SCHEDULE

​Hamilton Film Society's 2022 schedule is now live!

2022 SCHEDULE

JOIN

Sign up in person before any HFS screening at the Lido Cinema. Or join online via our Join page. For more info contact:
​ hamiltonfilmsociety@gmail.com
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2022
7;30 pm, Lido Cinemas

Monday 30 May

A Fantastic Woman
​
Una mujer fantástica

Sebastián Lelio  •   Chile  • ​  2017
105 mins  •  HD  •   
M violence, offensive language & sex scenes
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 ​In Spanish with English subtitles


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When her lover dies suddenly, Marina falls under suspicion in this magic-realist Oscar-winner from the director of Gloria. 



2022 SCHEDULE
HOW TO JOIN

ABOUT US

Hamilton Film Society (HFS) is a non-profit incorporated society and a registered charitable organisation. HFS is a member of the New Zealand Federation of Film Societies, which has been screening films throughout the country for more than 75 years. There are film societies in Auckland, Palmerston North, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury and Dunedin, as well as in several smaller centres. Each year film societies screen to an estimated total combined audience of 25,000 New Zealanders.

Film societies specialise in screening quality films from around the world: documentaries, features, short films, classics, director retrospectives and national cinema seasons. We showcase selected New Zealand films every year, with the support of the New Zealand Film Commission.

The annual Film Society season aims to take you further – to extend your understanding of film and film culture around the world and here at home. Film society magazines feature international and local film comment and criticism, and include a diverse range of views and beliefs.
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Film Society membership is open to everyone. We operate on an annual subscription basis because (with just a few exceptions) we have non-commercial screening rights, and must screen to members only.  Your annual subscription contributes to programming services, venue hire and administration costs. Hamilton Film Society thanks the Lido Cinema for their support this year, and all our local supporters, as acknowledged in our 2021 brochure, and the Schedule.

All film societies are run by committees of volunteers from the general membership. The Hamilton Film Society committee is elected at our AGM in April each year.

We acknowledge the generous assistance of the Institut Français and the Embassy of France, the Goethe-Institut, and the Confucius Institute, Victoria University of Wellington. Programming by Michael McDonnell, NZ Federation of Film Societies.

CONTACT

Email: hamiltonfilmsociety@gmail.com
Hamilton Film Society
PO Box 1216
Hamilton

Contact phone: Geoff Lealand, President HFS, 020 41085421 (m) or 07 854 8054 (h)

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