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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…

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…

Our French Connections

Our French Connections series, France, Gallant Indies and System K, and four films from our African series, Le Franc + The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun, Tilaï, and The Gravedigger’s Wife all screen in cooperation with the Institut Français and the Embassy of France. Merci beaucoup! The Cooperation Office of the Embassy of…

Encore screenings: 13-16 August

Greta Lee and Tae Yoo starring in the fim "Past Lives"

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…

Enjoy every movie…

A robot is watching a TV showing a film with a robot actor

Our homegrown festival is now in full swing, and in gently darkened cinemas across Aotearoa New Zealand we can sit together and watch films that allow us, however briefly, to immerse ourselves in the lives and experiences of our fellow…

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…