Your favourite Festival Film
What was your favourite Festival film? The votes are in, the mumbers have been officially crunched and Your Top 5 films are listed in ascending order below. As well as a clustering of support for the top 5 there was…
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We’re back! says NZIFF
“We’re back!” is New Zealand Film Festival Trust Chair Catherine Fitzgerald’s wrap on the Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) 2023 season. Highlights of the 2023 nationwide festival have included: . 3752 hours, or 156 days, of non-stop…
Our Top 5 Festival Films
By Sarah Leslie We hope everyone had a great festival and hope it wasn’t too difficult to see most of the films that caught your eye. Like many of you, we spent two and a bit weeks stumbling between the Embassy and…
WFS brings quizzing back to the film festival
Wellington Film Society (WFS) was delighted to host its annual film quiz for the first time since 2019 on 8 August 2023. Part of Whānau Mārama New Zealand Annual Film Festival, the quiz provides the capital’s cinephiles the chance to…
Mladen Ivančić, six-time acting boss of the Film Commission, retires
Behind classic black spectacles in a Wellington cafe, newly-retired Mladen Ivančić ponders his future. “I’m going to miss the camaraderie, the people, the intellectual challenge of solving problems that seem to come along on daily basis – all that stuff.…
Encore screenings: 13-16 August
Wellington, we’re excited to announce encore screenings for the following popular films. Get in quick and secure your tickets before they sell out! Monday 14 August The Corridors of Power 5.30pm (The Roxy 1)Beyond Utopia 6.15pm (Embassy Theatre)Late Night with the Devil 8.15pm…
Wellington Film Society to fend off the post-festival blues with thrilling triple-header
The New Zealand International Film Festival may be wrapping up its Wellington programme on 13 August, but Wellington Film Society is dedicated to keeping the momentum going for the Capital’s cinephiles. After the success of Faust in 2022, we are delighted to…
52nd Wellington Film Festival Is Live!
In 1972, the first Wellington Film Festival launched a programme of seven films – one per day at the Paramount Theatre. The “INFORMATION BULLETIN -NUMBER 1” told it’s readers that the 11am Saturday screening of Blanche “should make it worth…
All-ages programme for NZIFF 2023
Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) today reveals an impressive line-up of films for tamariki of all ages that are set to feature in its 2023 Square Eyes programme lighting up cinemas around Aotearoa this winter from 19 July.…
Bieringa documentary series at the National Library
This July and August the National Library has a real treat for those members who love real-life New Zealand stories, with screenings of five films made by the New Zealand documentarians Jan and Luit Bieringa. Each film is paired with an introduction: Peter…
NZIFF announce Cannes Selections
This year’s Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall opens our Festival with a profound and galvanising reflection on truth, facts and fiction. Directed by Justine Triet (Sibyl NZIFF 2019) — the third woman in Cannes history to receive the Palme d’Or for…
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…
Doc Edge 2023 in Wellington
A total of 71 local and international films will be in cinemas and on Doc Edge virtual cinema over 47 days. Categories include , Being Oneself, Making an Impact, Crime and Conspiracy, and New Zealand Shorts. Look out for films…
Vive le cinéma!
L’OR French Film Festival Aotearoa 2023 is running from 7 June to 28 June. The Embassy hosts a NZ premiere of Masquerade, an official selection from Cannes Film Festival 2022. The screening at 6pm on 7 June is in The…
Accessibility a problem? …no problem!
You can see quality movies at the Embassy on Monday evenings and not have to go down a single step. The most accessible row of seats is the closest to you as you come in the door. The seats are…