NZIFF announces 8 documentaries

NZIFF today announced 8 documentaries selected to screen at the 2023 festival.

Subjects covered include alarming covert efforts of governments and private investors to gain control of the most vital resources on the planet, the lives of four black US trans sex workers (fun and beauty as well as trauma and violence), a floating psychiatric care centre in the middle of the Seine, the extraordinary landscape of the human body, and Angela Merkel.

The full list is on the NZIFF site here.

NZIFF 2023 will open in Auckland on Wednesday 19 July, followed by Wellington on Thursday 27 July, and Dunedin and Christchurch on 3 and 10 August respectively. The remaining centres will follow with the festival closing on Sunday 10 September.

We will have the full programme here in late June.