| Thursday | George’s Room, First Floor, The Thistle Inn, 3 Mulgrave St, Thorndon |
Join us at this historic location to watch the entire reel of all the finalist films from the 2025 Geocaching International Film Festival (GIFF). It’s part of the global geocaching movie events!
(Image credit: www.geocachingfilmfestival.com)
GIFF
Having taken a brief “intermission” in 2024, Geocaching International Film Festival is returning this year to showcase the creativity of geocachers through short family-friendly films. Submitted by geocachers worldwide - for geocachers - each film is up to 4 minutes long. The finalists are being chosen by a Geocaching HQ panel of judges. The entire film reel is approximately one hour long.
The GIFF 2025 film finalists have been announced on 24 September 2025:
- Never a Straight Path – Justcarlo
- 2000 – Ipoded
- The Inheritance – Maxagri60 team
- The Best Finds Are Other Geocachers – Owlfly
- Hard Work – Harogs team
- If You Hide It… – Team Vlogger aka geocachingvlogger and Seemyshell
- Dogeza – _nokos_ team
- Tree-m Work – GeoBeeps
- The Island – Blackcoconut
- Flavors of Stealth – CheekyBrit team
- Return of the Cache Napper Trailer – ZippyZipperZoo team
- David CachinBro – First Lamp Post – DNF Hound
- Here’s My Card – Ptowngirl229
- The BisonBuddy5000 – Skimbosh
- Geocaching is a Journey – Defoz
- Little Apple Tree – Rassis on tour
- Gadget Cacher – PezGremlin team
- Super Cache Maintainer – Team Kuropi
- Orthoceras – Breizh Geocacheurs team
- GIFF Planning – Barucci
Screening* will start at 17:45.
The venue
We have chosen this location as it is close to the public transport hub in Wellington, with buses and trains on offer.
This site has also some historical significance. The Thistle Inn was built in 1840 and received the second liquor licence issued in New Zealand. It is now New Zealand's oldest surviving tavern and restaurant operating from its original site. In July 1866 it was burnt to the ground but by December that year it was back operating. You can see the original beer cellar through the glass floor. It is a Category 1 historic place building and was completely restored in 2004.
Date: ca 1867, View of the junction of Thorndon Quay and Mulgrave Street, Wellington. (Photo credit: Ref: 1/2-021203-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22735459)
Before reclamation started in Wellington, the building was only a few metres from the harbour. Patrons (including, according to legend, Te Rauparaha - the Ngati Toa warrior chief) often arrived by boat.
Please indicate numbers
Dinner and drinks are available at the venue at your own cost. Please indicate in your “Will Attend” note:
- how many are coming for the GIFF screening, and also
- how many are likely to stay for dinner.
An early indication will be appreciated, even if you are not 100% certain at this stage. We can finalise these numbers closer to the time.
* The showing of the 2025 GIFF films requires approval by Geocaching HQ, following publication of this Event listing. Such approval will be indicated with a corresponding bookmark in the Bookmark Lists box on this listing page.
After you have logged “Attended” at this event (or another registered GIFF event held during 6-16 November 2025), you will receive the official GIFF 2025 digital souvenir.
You will also receive the official 2025 Community Celebration Event digital souvenir, if you have not already received one from another Community Celebration Event earlier this year.
Community Celebration Events - 2025
This Event is part of a limited release of Community Celebration Events to celebrate 25 years of geocaching. Geocachers hosted events between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025. Learn more about Community Celebration Events on the Geocaching Blog.