nziff 2023

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

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

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

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

Fly through all the weird, wonderful, and what-the-f*ck-even-was-that delights from the animation side of NZIFF.

Two brothers try to save their farm by butchering humans in this darkly comic homegrown thriller.

“Their story seems highly relevant and attractive to young people today.”

Director Gwen Isaac on her NZIFF doco, depicting Siouxsie Wiles’ work and life as COVID-19 erupted.

We ask the film’s director Robin Greenberg a couple of questions about the homegrown portrait.

Heroically made on a $25,000 budget, we ask the film’s director Michael Duignan a few questions.

“One of the few [Hawke’s Bay] bridges still standing [after Cyclone Gabrielle] was the one that Bill built and is featured in the film.”

Oscar-nominee EO will give you as much of the Whānau Mārama experience as one could hope for in under 90 minutes.

The twelve New Zealand feature films and documentaries screening at this year’s fest.