NZIFF

EDITOR'S PICK

Best of the fest: our top 20 faves from NZIFF 2024

Get your watchlists ready – we count down the 20 best pics of New Zealand International Film Festival 2024.

Steve Newall

MOVIE REVIEW

Body horror The Substance desperately wants modern cult status

Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley star in a perverse Hollywood tale full of blood, gore and the grotesque.

Rory Doherty

NZIFF 2024

Hold the phone: our NZIFF 2024 mini-reviews keep coming…

Our Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival mini-reviews.

Steve Newall

INTERVIEW

Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu on balancing heavy history with the lightness of friendship

The director of We Were Dangerous speaks on her feature debut, working with younger actors, Rima Te Wiata improv, and more.

Liam Maguren

INTERVIEW

Hip hop trio Kneecap on rapping in Irish – and the raucous movie of their lives

“Once a language dies anywhere in the world, it’s very hard to get it back,” say the Irish language rappers.

Stephen A Russell

NZIFF 2024

NZIFF 2024 mini-reviews (A-G)

Our Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival mini-reviews.

Steve Newall

NZIFF 2024

NZIFF 2024 mini-reviews (H-O)

Our Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival mini-reviews.

Steve Newall

NZIFF 2024

NZIFF 2024 mini-reviews (P-Z)

Our Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival mini-reviews.

Steve Newall

NZIFF 2024

11 more standout films to catch at NZIFF this year

Eleven NZIFF picks were simply not enough, so here are eleven more to sasq-watch at this year’s fest.

Steve Newall

MOVIE REVIEW

You’ll find something in I Saw the TV Glow: or more accurately, it may find you

“The best kind of personal film – a transmission directly from filmmaker to the audience member who needs it the most.”

Rory Doherty

NZIFF 2024

11 standout films to catch at NZIFF this year

Your ten-trip pass is already looking full for Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival.

Steve Newall

NZIFF 2024

16 Cannes titles announced for NZIFF 2024

Kicking off in July, Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival has announced its Cannes selections.

Steve Newall

NZIFF 2024

NZIFF announces this year’s standout New Zealand features, docos and shorts

A dozen full-length films and 19 shorts make up NZIFF’s Māhutonga programme strand.

Steve Newall

News

NZIFF announces its first ten films for 2024

Includes the feature directorial debut of Lucy Lawless and the highly anticipated Evil Does Not Exist by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Flicks

News

How one cinema and a film society helped save NZIFF for the regions

The owners of LIDO Cinema got together with the Hamilton Film Society to find a way to save NZIFF—for them and for many other regions.

Liam Maguren

NZIFF 2023

Our 20 fave films at NZ International Film Festival 2023

The best award-winners, oddities, chillers, thrillers, dramas and diversions from NZIFF 2023.

Steve Newall

NZIFF 2023

NZIFF 2023 mini-reviews (our latest reviews)

Our freshest mini-reviews from Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival 2023.

Steve Newall

NZIFF 2023

NZIFF 2023 mini-reviews (A – E)

Our Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival mini-reviews.

Steve Newall

NZIFF 2023

NZIFF 2023 mini-reviews (F – L)

Our Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival mini-reviews.

Steve Newall

NZIFF 2023

NZIFF 2023 mini-reviews (M – R)

Our Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival mini-reviews.

Steve Newall

NZIFF 2023

NZIFF 2023 mini-reviews (S – Z)

Our Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival mini-reviews.

Steve Newall

NZIFF 2023

Janet Frame finds a perhaps unlikely voice in The Strangest of Angels

NZIFF pic is an opera about the great Janet Frame, filmed not onstage, but on location as a drama.

Steve Newall