A projector beam through haze in a dark cinema

Open-air screening on a pier at blue hour

KINORA

Festival of Moving Image

Port Alder · 14–23 October 2027

Ten nights. One city. Every wall a screen.

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142 films●38 countries●10 nights●6 venues●1 pier● 142 films●38 countries●10 nights●6 venues●1 pier●

(01) Manifesto

We believe a film is not finished until somebody watches it in the dark, next to a stranger, on a night too warm to stay in and too good to miss. So we take the cinema outside, onto piers and rooftops, into old lobbies and back into the habit of looking up.

(02) In competition

Six films we could not stop thinking about.

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Lone figure crossing a salt flat under a storm sky

The Long Mirror

Dir. Ines Valcourt · Chile · 112 min

A surveyor crosses the salt flat the day the sky decides to fall.

Person with an umbrella in a neon-lit rainy alley

Blue Hour Taxi

Dir. Tomo Hirasawa · Japan · 96 min

One night, nine fares, and a city that will not stop raining.

Salt & Pinewood

Dir. Aila Moen · Norway · 88 min

A winter caretaker, a stranger’s radio, one lit window.

Forty Fathoms Down

Dir. Ruben Okafor · Nigeria · 104 min

A salvage diver follows an old signal to the bottom of the bay.

Lantern Row

Dir. Mai Thanh Do · Vietnam · 91 min

Three generations of one market stall, one very long night.

A cellist playing on a rooftop at sunset

Sun Over Strings

Dir. Leandro Pires · Portugal · 79 min

A cellist plays every roof in the city before the sun is gone.

+ 136 more films

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(03) Schedule

Pick a night. Build your own festival.

(04) Venues

Three rooms. None of them a multiplex.

Venue A · 900 seats

The Harbour Pier

A 14-metre screen on the end of the old timber pier. Deckchairs, wool blankets, the tide right under your feet. Every night at dusk.

Open air
Free blankets
Step-free access

Venue B · 220 seats

Roof of the Customs House

Sunset shorts and late documentaries above the harbour lights. Headphone sound, so the neighbours sleep and you do not.

Silent sound
Sunset start
Bar on level

Venue C · 640 seats

The Alder Palace

The 1934 art deco picture house that opens its doors only for the festival. Velvet, brass, a proper curtain, and 35mm on the closing night.

35mm projection
Opening & closing
Hearing loop

Lights down

“The best seat in the city is whichever one
you share with a stranger.”

— Festival director’s note (fictional)

(05) Jury

Five people with strong opinions.

Tap a name to read what they are looking for this year. All jurors are fictional.

(06) Passes

Ten nights. One city. Every wall a screen.

We believe a film is not finished until somebody watches it in the dark, next to a stranger, on a night too warm to stay in and too good to miss. So we take the cinema outside, onto piers and rooftops, into old lobbies and back into the habit of looking up.