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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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…
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…
Enjoy every movie…
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…
Todd Haynes’ May December To Open New York Film Festival
You saw it here first… Petone cinema leads New York by 2 months to screen award-winning film! Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in May December. Todd Haynes’ May December will open the New York Film Festival on September 29, organizers…
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…