NZIFF

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.

For the heroes of this perfectly-paced thriller, corporate sabotage isn’t terrorism: it’s “self-defence”.

Hello Dankness mainlines over 550 sources, with thousands more on the cutting room floor.

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.

“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.”

“The church was the first cinema of horror, in a strange way.”

As the full programme is announced, we look beyond the marquee titles with ten picks we’re excited to see.

As NZIFF 2023 approaches, revisit our picks of the best of last year’s fest (and where to watch ’em).

Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival is just 11 weeks away – and has announced its first titles.

Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival is coming back bigger.

Two of Hollywood’s hottest young things get steamy and go on the run in Nicaragua for iconic auteur Claire Denis.

“Ana Scotney embodies the taut desperation at the heart of this film with an exhilarating performance.”

The perseverance of the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau is integral to the struggle toward enduring and sustainable futures.