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2026 festival started small with six movies over six nights and two drive-in movies.

Planning for 2027 has already started with the goal of putting even more energy into our Waitohi-Picton port town.

06/10/2026

'The Sampler' is the final for Waitohi-Picton in the Show Me Shorts Film Festival.

Sunday 18 October
7.30pm
Picton Little Theatre
There's a link to tickets in comments⬇️

Seven inspiring and thoughtful stories include long-distance love on a distant planet, precocious children up to mischief, a whole town stuck waiting for bad luck to pass, and a man stuck in a time loop.

Life Goes On - Drama, 19m, UK
Agapito - Drama, 15m, Philippines
113 Words for You Today - SciFi, 13m, China, Taiwan, US
Socks - Coming of age, 15m, NZ
Candy Bar - Comedy, 6m, Australia
Ciggie - Coming of age, 11m, NZ
Hai Davai - Comedy, 16m, Moldova

Run Time: 99 mins
Rating: M - Domestic violence, drug use, offensive language.

04/10/2026

The next screening in Waitohi-Picton's Bucket List Movies club is A Room with a View

Sunday 11 October
7.30pm
Picton Little Theatre

Eat out and then have a hand made Only Scoop ice cream for dessert at the theatre. Or BYO favourite snack and tipple and prepare for a good evening.

Features a stellar cast including Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, and Julian Sands, offering gorgeous scenery, sharp social wit, and a deeply charming story.

Nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three. It also won five British Academy Film Awards and a Golden Globe. It is considered by the British Fim Institute as one of Britains finest films.

Widely considered a masterpiece of romantic comedy and period drama. Based on the novel by E.M. Forster, it follows Lucy Honeychurch, a young woman whose trip to Florence sparks a romantic awakening and challenges her upbringing. Torn between a free-spirited suitor and a proper but passionless fiancé, she must reconcile societal expectations with her own desires. With exquisite period detail, stunning Italian and English settings, and stellar performances, this Oscar-winning classic is widely praised as witty, romantic, and visually lush.

There is a $10 membership fee for new members which will be collected on the night and your first movie is free.

30/09/2026

Whānau Friendly is a collection of short films suitable for children aged 7-12 years and their families.

Sunday 18 October, 2.30pm
Picton Little Theatre
Tickets are available through the link in comments

In this Show Me Shorts Film Festival collection, cute animals and inquisitive insects spring to life in vibrant animations with themes of kindness,
curiosity and heart as they defeat negativity and overcome bullying by working together. With a dose of magic and explosions for good measure!

Find out why this is one of the most popular sections of Show Me Shorts.

First Haircut!
Animation, 6m, United States

Grounded
Animation, 4m, New Zealand

They
Animation, 8m, United Kingdom

Lemonade
Comedy, 10m, New Zealand

Bug's Story
Animation, 11m, Norway

Seedlings
Animation, 9m, New Zealand

ChikaBOOM!
Animation, 9m, United States

Run Time: 61 mins
Rating: G

24/09/2026

Aotearoa is first up for Waitohi-Picton in the Show Me Shorts Film Festival.

7.30pm
Saturday 17 October
Picton Little Theatre
There's a link to tickets in the comments⬇️

Beautiful stories of our land and our people. The movies in this collection showcase the work of talented New Zealand short film makers.

Bold coming-of-age films sit alongside thoughtful drama, silly comedic fun, inventive fantasy and
warm-hearted documentary.

Kurī - Coming of age, 13m, NZ
Lucky Luke - Coming of age, 13m, NZ
The Owl and the Rainbow - Animation, 10m, Malaysia
The Return - Drama, 15m, NZ
The Brightness - Coming of age, 13m, NZ
Six Minute Supplement - Fantasy, 10m, NZ
Our Glass - Comedy, 3m, NZ
Bob & C-Nut: A Good Way to Start the Day -
Documentary, 15m, NZ

Run Time: 96 mins
Rating: M - Drug use, offensive language, s*x scenes & mental health themes

18/09/2026

Movies keep coming to Waitohi-Picton with Show Me Shorts, Aotearoa's leading short film festival.

Saturday 17 October, 7.30pm
The Sampler
7 short movies over 99 minutes

Sunday 18 October 2.30pm
Whanau Friendly
7 movies in 61 minutes

Sunday 18 October 7.30pm
Aotearoa
8 movies across 96 minutes

All screenings are at Picton Little Theatre

There's a link to Show Me Shorts for movie info and ticketing in comments.

16/09/2026

So that's it for 2026. The lights are off and we're going away to plan a bigger and better festival for 2027. So many ideas in our heads already but generally we want to engage more businesses and High Street next year.

We've learnt and adjusted mid stream this year. For instance, raising the screen and adjusting the seating for the last two movies really made a difference.

So many people to thank for the success of this year. Firstly the people who attended any of the movies across the seven nights. We were delighted in the energy you gave to the festival.

Picton Drive-In Movies what an excellent event.
Picton Little Theatre's outstanding team & venue.
Bucket List Movies with their monthly screening.

St Vinnie's Picton loaning lazy boy couches.
ONLY SCOOP for their amazing ice-creams.
Anne Gaelle Photography capturing the moments.

If you have any thoughts on the festival going forward we'd love to hear from you.

12/09/2026

Tonight and tomorrow are sold out.

And that leaves our Waitohi-Picton Port Town film festival to finish on Tuesday 15 September with Bolero.

Grab some of the last tickets now.

11/09/2026

The last three movies, this Sun, Mon, Tue.

Woman at War has a couple of seats left.
Don't Be Prey has sold out.
Bolero is over half sold.

Ending this first year on a high. See you there.

10/09/2026

The third of the final three movies in the 2026 event. You'll know the music. But the story shows the difficulty Ravel had in pulling the work together. After seeing this 2024 movie, I went away and did some reading on the artist to understand a bit more about him and what I'd seen in the film.

There's a link in comments for tickets and more information.

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