New Caledonia Film Festival 2025
These films will be shown in one session
Date : Saturday 18th October 2025
Time : 6pm
Place : Luxe Cinema Tauranga
Cost: $15
Book your seats:
https://www.luxecinemas.nz/tauranga/movie/new-caledonia-film-festival-2023
The New Caledonia Film Festival is a recurring event showcasing the best New Caledonian fiction short-films of the year. Screened in their original version (French and/or Kanak languages) with English subtitles, these short films are joined by a video interview of each director to give them the opportunity to introduce their work, allowing the public to watch them with a deeper understanding of their creators’ views.
Programme
Directors: Florian Sagez & Chavi
Producer: Florian SAGEZ
Year: 2025
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Language: French / English subtitles
Starring: Marilyn DEAS, Damien DURIEUX, Zell LEROUGE, Sam KAGY, Stéphane PIOCHAUD, Gaël CHEVRIER, Karl BAUDOIN, Viviane DESCHAMPS
Synopsis: Heavy silences, skin-deep tension, an invisible threat… Boat Stop takes you into an open-air, closed-door world, between magnificent Caledonian landscapes and an oppressive atmosphere
Label: M
Directors: Stéphane Ducandas
Producer: Cécile RIVIÈRE
Year: 2025
Genre: Thriller / Science-Fiction / Anticipation
Language: French / English subtitles
Starring: Céline SAMSON, Cécile RIVIÈRE, Océane LE GOFF, Julien DEL VALLE, Sébastien HERAL, Pierre VALLANCE, Cécile AMBLARD, Emmanuelle L’HOSTIS
Synopsis: Three people wake up in a room they don’t know. Against their will, a woman draws them into a mysterious tango. They have 24 hours to figure out the truth.
Label: M
Directors: Sébastien Marquès
Producer: Sébastien Marquès
Year: 2018
Genre: Drama / Tradition / Identity
Language: Drehu / English subtitles
Starring: Iabe LAPACAS, Jean-Pierre SWAN, Maurice HAEWENG, Dylan Hnasawine WEJIEME, Draine HAOCAS, Sébastien PIDRA
Synopsis: The life of a Melanesian tribe is disrupted by the progressive arrival of modernity. Iabe, a young Melanesian, finds this change very hard to cope with and gets lost between his traditions and this modernity.
Label: PG
Directors: Marceau Goulon
Producer: Marceau Goulon
Year: 2018
Genre: Drama
Language: French / English subtitles
Starring: Simane WENETHEM, Erwan BOTREL, Maïté SIWENE, Benoît NYIKEINE, Dominique JEAN, Djemila PABOU, Aleksandre DEDIEU, Danny BANREU, Joseph NEKARE
Synopsis: The daily routine at a radio station is disrupted when, during a broadcast, a listener speaks with an unusual message. (Short film adapted from the play ‘Paroles de Thio’ (The Argonauts of the Pacific))
Label: G
Directors: Julien Del Valle
Producer: Colette ALONSO
Year: 2025
Genre: Animation / Fantasy / Tale
Language: Drehu / English subtitles
Starring: Voices of Aldo SIPA, Nolan HNAWÉONGO, Luc SIPA
Synopsis: The child with an epic destiny will have to face a thousand dangers in the hope of restoring the balance of the worlds
Label: G
