Other Cinemas in Aotearoa

An Exhibition by Other Cinemas and Friends

Curated by Hana Pera Aoake

ENJOY CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE , PONEKE

7 November - 19 December 2026.

Opening Friday 6th of November, from 5:30pm

Enjoy is pleased to present a two part film screening programme featuring work by Other Cinemas (Turab Shah and Arwa Aburawa), students from the Other Cinemas filmmaking programme and artists connected to Aotearoa. As a starting point this began as collaboration through friendship and working together that began in 2023, Other Cinemas and Hana Pera Aoake started this project as means of continuing their creative collaboration, which is rooted in shared political values and a desire to create spaces for gathering and sharing. Other Cinemas’ practice is centered around gathering through making films, sharing the work of others with their community in Brent and running a free film school. Through a desire to use film as a tool to build community, connection and solidarity, this film screening was always naturally going to include the work of others in order to discuss and learn together and build understanding that our struggles, though nuanced and specific, are ultimately often shared.

Other Cinemas, Barry Barclay (Ngāti Apa, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Hauiti), Sarah Hudson (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Pūkeko), Leila Gamaz, Edith Amituanai (Sāmoa), Todd Karehana (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Ruapani ki Waikaremoana), Jazz Money (Wiradjuri nation), Amel Moyersoen, Leena Habiballa and Chanthila Phaophanit.

Unseen.

Unheard.

Unarchived.

The Public Programme

FILM SCREENINGS AND KŌRERO WITH OTHER CINEMAS

November 9th

Poneke

Join us for a special free screening of I Carry It With Me Everywhere by Other Cinemas and The Neglected Miracle by Barry Barclay at Massey University, with kōrero from Arwa Aburawa, Turab Shah, and Hana Pera Aoake on Monday 9 November 6:15pm-9pm.

I Carry It With Me Everywhere was informed by interviews with first-generation migrants living in the UK. This short film weaves together the lives of multiple characters as they confront inherited ideas of belonging. The Neglected Miracle is a film that forms the culmination of five years of international research into the question of who owns our seeds. This involves interviews with corporations, scientists and everyday farmers in the developing world. This was shot over two years in eight different countries.

This screening is programmed in concert with the exhibition Unseen. Unheard. Unarchived. by Other Cinemas and Friends, curated by Hana Pera Aoake. The exhibition is on at Enjoy until 19 December.

Snacks and drinks provided!

This screening is FREE, but please register HERE to book your space.

The screening will be held at Massey Cinema, Old Dominion Museum Building (East entrance): 15 Buckle Street, Mount Cook, Wellington

(Block 10 Tokomaru, Pukeahu Mount Cook, Wellington)

This event is supported by Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts, Massey University. Enjoy's Public Engagement programme is made possible by the support of Wellington City Council.

🎣The Neglected Miracle. Film by Barry Barclay. Narrated by Keri Kaa. A Pacific films production. Film courtesy of Aotearoa New Zealand Film Heritage Trust – Te Puna Ataata (ANZFHT) and Ngā Taonga (NT). Festivals: 1985 Wellington Film Festival (World Premiere), 1985 London Film Festival, 2009 NZ International Film Festival, 2013 imagineNATIVE (Toronto).

FILM SCREENING, HAKARI AND WĀNANGA WITH OTHER CINEMAS

November 17th

Tāmaki Makaurau

PUKU, Parnell Train Station

(Meet at Karangahape train station at 5:20 for train party)

A film screening, hakari and wānanga hosted by Other Cinemas

The Neglected Miracle by Barry Barclay

And still, it remains by Other Cinemas

This wananga is designed to gather cultural workers together to share films and discuss what it means to be producing and facilitating art during a time of multiple genocides. How do we build community focused art infrastructure that isn't reliant on funding? How do we sustain what we already have? How do we come together when often we are pitted against one another in order to build an equitable and resilient community? Who do we make art for and why does it matter? Some of these patai will be discussed over a kai without the pressure of solving them, but instead provides the places to begin the hard conversations.

Started as a series of extended conversations in 2024 at Metroland Cultures, this collaboration began as a way of sharing movies by Alaa’ Breighith and Anna Rankin and Merata Mita. It has expanded with the core goal of creating opportunities to learn from one another by continuing to share films, but also to organise space and time to do this. Working together again, we hope to centre our shared commitment as artists determined to provide spaces for exchange, imagination, and food in our communities.

FULL DETAILS HERE : https://tetuhi.art/parnell-project-space/rauora-wananga-ii/

FILM SCREENINGS AND WORKSHOPS WITH OTHER CINEMAS, KAUAE RARO, TAI TAWHITO AND TAI TIPUA

November 14th

Kawerau

Rauora Wananga

Rautahi marae, 14 November, 9am-4pm.

(8:50am start for 9am pōwhiri)

Hosted by Kei te pai press and Other Cinemas.

Workshops by Kauae Raro, Other Cinemas and Tai Tawhito, Tai Tipua.

Emerging in part from Te Kīngitanga Kuini Nga wai hono i te po’s 2026 Koroneihana address where she urged Māori to move from the legacy of raupatu to rauora; this wananga examines what rauora means in places where prosperity and pollution co-existed. It is informed in part by the work of S.W.A.P (Sawmill Workers Against Poisons), the research of Kauae Raro and the findings towards constitutional reform within the Matike Mai Aotearoa working group. Our special guests are Other Cinemas, a filmmaking collective based in London, who will present two films, one which explores the ongoing ecological crisis of nuclear poisoning in a community in Algeria and Māori filmmaker Barry Barclay’s film exploring seed sovereignty over five years in a number of countries. This will be a relaxed, creative and gentle wananga for the benefit of the community.

Premised on trying to imagine the kind of world we want our mokopuna to live in, its intention is to gather people together to have haututu with some whenua, eat, think on constitutional reform and try to envision what rauora could actually look like in communities like Kawerau.

ŌTAUTAHI

December 1st

More Information coming soon