“Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth” -Michael Haneke

Haneke has developed a style that articulately fuses social critique with a cinema of transcendent beauty in its precision, purpose and humanity. Formal disruption and sly reminders of artifice do nothing to erase the heart of these frequently unnerving dramas; but there is solace to be found in confronting our fears – assurance in their universality. Predicting compassion fatigue and a numbing contemporary news cycle with eerie prescience, Haneke stares where others fear to glance. In his worlds, we are all complicit – even him, even you. Holding us accountable, albeit with empathy and often dark humour, these films challenge us to see through societal malaise and interrogate our place in the world. If you hold their gaze long enough, you might see that place more clearly.

Watch his signature blend of social critique and cinematic precision on the big screen, including breathtaking new 2K restorations of THE PIANO TEACHER, HIDDEN(CACHÉ), THE WHITE RIBBON and AMOUR.

The Piano Teacher (2001) 

Date and time: Friday, 6 June 2025 7.30pm

Cert 18

2 hours 5 mins

French and German with English subtitles

Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed middle-aged woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory. When one of Erika’s students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer, attempts to seduce her, the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered – unleashing a previously inhibited extreme and uncontrollable desire.

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Hidden (Caché) (2005)

Date and time:Friday, 20 June 2025 7.30pm

Cert 15

1 hour 53 mins

French with English subtitles

Award-winning psychological thriller starring Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil.
Georges, who hosts a TV literary review, receives packages containing videos of himself with his family — shot secretly from the street — and alarming drawings whose meaning is obscure. He has no idea who may be sending them. Gradually, the footage on the tapes becomes more personal, suggesting that the sender has known Georges for some time. Georges feels a sense of menace hanging over him and his family…

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The White Ribbon (2009) 

Date and time: Friday, 4 July 2025 7.30pm

Cert 15

2 hour 18 mins

German, Italian, Polish with English subtitles

In a village in Protestant northern Germany on the eve of World War I, a series of unsettling and distressing incidents take place. Taken together, they assume the character of a ritual in which punishment and torture dominate. But the identity of the perpetrators remains a mystery. A schoolteacher who has observed the unfolding incidents investigates and, little by little, discovers the disturbing truth.

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Amour (2012) 

Date and time: Friday, 18 July 2025 7.30pm

Cert 12

2 hours

French with English subtitles

Michael Haneke’s Oscar- and Palme d’Or-winning drama is a profoundly moving depiction of an elderly couple facing their greatest challenge yet.
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers.
their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. one day, Anne has an attack. The couple’s bond of love is severely tested.

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