Venue Information

Venues

Your ticket indicates the film venue.

The Civic Theatre, THE EDGE (CIVIC): Cnr Queen & Wellesley Sts
Advance Box Office and Day Sales are located at the Wellesley St entrance.
An additional Day Sales counter is located at the Theatre Foyer Bar on street level of The Civic Foyer during the first week of the Festival. 

SKYCITY Theatre (SCT): Level 3, cnr Hobson & Wellesley Sts

Rialto Cinemas Newmarket (RIALTO): 167-169 Broadway, Newmarket

Event Cinemas Queen Street (QSt): 291–297 Queen Street, cnr Queen St & Aotea Sq

ACADEMY Cinemas (AC): Central Library Building, 44 Lorne Street

THE BRIDGEWAY Cinemas (BWAY): 122 Queen Street, Northcote Point

LIDO Cinema (LIDO): 427 Manukau Rd, Epsom

Information Desk

The information desk is located at street level in The Civic Theatre foyer from 15 July, where you will find up-to-date information about censorship, short films and session ending times.

Wheelchair Access

Please advise the ticket seller when purchasing your tickets if you have any special requirements.

The Civic Theatre: Please report to the Information Desk or the Theatre Foyer Bar on street level in the theatre foyer.

SKYCITY Theatre: Please report to the box office in the theatre foyer.

Rialto Cinemas Newmarket: Please take the lift up to Cinema Foyer level, then go to the Cinema lift located in cinema foyer to take you to the cinema level.

Event Cinemas Queen St: Ramps can be accessed from the Aotea Square entrance or from Wellesley St. Lifts are accessed  on ground level. Access of the box office and Cinema 5 is on Level 4.

Academy Cinemas: Lift access inside Auckland Central Library. During library hours please ask at the library reception for access to lift. After hours please call cinema the day before your arrival on (09) 373 2761 to make arrangement for a security officer to meet you outside the library’s main doors to enable access to the lift. They will meet you after the screening at the lift to escort you back to the street level library entrance.

The Bridgeway Cinemas & Lido Cinema: Access via lift located in cinema foyer.

Hearing Impaired

Please note that where films are indicated as subtitled, this is not the same as full captioning for the hearing impaired.

Hearing loops are available at SKYCITY Theatre, Rialto Cinemas Newmarket and Event Cinams Queen St. At SKYCITY Theatre, please advise ticket sellers that you will be utilising the hearing loop in the theatre and request seats towards the sides of the auditorium. At Rialto Cinemas Newmarket, please request a set of headphones from the box office for infrared facilities.

The Bridgeway Cinemas & Lido Cinema have assisted hearing devices available.

Film Cafe

Bar hours are: Monday to Friday 12.00 noon – 9.30 pm; Saturday & Sunday 2.00 pm till late.

Free events daily at 6.30 pm and also weekdays at 12.30 pm. See the Film Cafe page for more information.

Programme Changes

We reluctantly reserve the right to change the schedule by amending dates or replacing films. From Thursday 14 July confirmation of daily session times will be available in the Festival’s daily newspaper advertising and here on the website.

Censorship Classification

Classifications will be published in the Festival’s daily newspaper advertising and displayed at the venues’ box office. Children's tickets available only for films classified G, PG & M.

At the time of publishing some films had not been rated. Until they receive a censor rating, they are considered R18 (unless clearly aimed at children) and can only be purchased by and for people aged 18 and over.

Special Carpark Offers for Film Festival Patrons

City Parking – Victoria Street & Downtown Carparks

Weeknights after 5.00pm and all day weekends, pay only $2.50 per hour (and no more than $7.50 for your entire staay up to 6.00am) Offer only at Victoria St and Downtown carpark buildings operated by Auckland Transport. Subject to availability. More details at Big Little City.

Civic Car Park

Entrance on Greys Avenue & Mayoral Drive. Evening Rate after 5pm $8.00; Saturday & Sunday flat rate $8.00 per day.

SKYCITY Car Park

Please note change of terms this year

Spend $20 or more at the SKYCITY THEATRE BAR or another SKYCITY F&B outlet, get your carpark ticket validated at the same time and pay $5 for up to 3 hours and $1 for each extra hour. Please refer to SKYCITY for full details and rates.

Newmarket car parking

Parking is available on the streets around the cinema (120 minutes pay and display, Monday – Saturday 8.00 am – 6.00 pm, free parking on evenings and weekends) or at the Tournament Car Park on Kent Street, Newmarket. Rialto Cinemas Newmarket customers will receive 2 hours free parking on presentation of their movie ticket on exit of the car park.

Disabled car park spaces are available behind the cinema on Kent Street.

Please Arrive Early

There are no advertising films or trailers at the Film Festival. We reserve the right to ask latecomers to wait. Session starting times will not be delayed in deference to late arrivals.

Please ensure mobile phones and pagers are switched off.

If collecting tickets prior to a screening please allow additional time in case there are queues.