Whanganui Film Society is back with a 2014 French film from first-time director Lucie Borleteau - Fidelio: Alice's Journey (Fidelio, l'odysseé d'Alice).
Described as an insightful study of a woman at work in an almost exclusively male milieu, the film is In French, Romanian, English, Tagalog and Norwegian, with English subtitles.
Ariane Labed stars as a nautical engineer who runs across an old flame in her new posting aboard a cargo ship.
"A powerful first feature from a French filmmaker to watch, this is about a young woman toughing it out below decks on an ocean voyage, wrote Trevor Johnston of Time Out.
"It's unusual to see a 30-year-old woman as an engineer on a cargo ship, but Alice (Ariane Labed) is a tough pro, holding her own among the otherwise all-male crew in this slice-of-life French drama.