La Bola Negra | Dome Cinema
Thu, 22 Oct
|Dome Cinema and Bar
The story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain and inheritance.
Time & Location
22 Oct 2026, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Dome Cinema and Bar, 38 Childers Road, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
The story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain and inheritance, across three different eras – Republican Spain in 1932, the Civil War in 1937, and contemporary Spain in 2017.
The film follows a constellation of interconnected lives centred on three young men, whose emotional and political echoes gradually reveal themselves.
La bola negra, also known as The Black Ball, is a 2026 drama film directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi (widely known as 'Los Javis' in Spain), from a screenplay they co-wrote with Alberto Conejero. A queer epic inspired by the unfinished work of the same name by Federico García Lorca and Conejero's play La piedra oscura
It was selected as the Spanish entry for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards and has received widespread critical acclaim.
AWARDS:
Winner of the Best Director award at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival