Textiles and Queerness in a NZ Film! Went Up The Hill at NZIFF Wellington

Hi queer friends who love crafts-have I got the film for you! NZ feature film Went Up The Hill will have its Wellington Premiere at the NZ International Film Festival on 21 August at the Embassy at 830pm-get your ticket now!

Come along and be amongst the first to see NZ feature film Went Up The Hill from queer NZ filmmaker Sam Van Grinsven.
Tickets to the Wellington screening are available for $26 at the NZIFF website:
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2025/te-whanganui-a-tara-wellington/went-up-the-hill/

The film is also screening at NZIFF in centres around the country including Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin amongst others!

Shot in Canterbury and funded by the NZ Film Commission, the film stars Vicky Krieps (The Phantom Thread) and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things) in a poetic ghost story that centres on two queer characters-a woman and her dead wife’s estranged son -as they are each haunted by her spirit. The film premiered to critical acclaim as a Special Presentation at Toronto Film Festival in 2024 where Sam was hailed by Hollywood Reporter as already having the ‘control of a master’ in a film that is ‘captivating', ‘elliptical' and 'technically stunning’.

Sam Van Grinsven has a passion for queer interpretation of genre and seeing queer characters within spaces that historically have not been explored as diversely.

Here's the trailer link-we hope you can join us!
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