From Cannes to camp, SNL alumni to anticipated features and the beautifully titled WTF? genre in this year's programme, my 2017 Must See list is a mélange of subjects and styles.
With so many incredible and memorable cinematic options in the NZIFF programme, I hope my strange little list can help navigate you towards a new favourite, or at the very least, expose you to something completely different/exciting/scandalous.
This weird and wonderful indie comedy stars Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney as a man totally obsessed with a TV show about a bear saving the world. Also starring Greg Kinnear, Mark Hamill, Claire Danes.
Rising Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (Gloria) celebrates the endurance of a woman under suspicion of murder in a film that heralds a stellar debut for transgender actress Daniela Vega.
This gorgeous and moving adaptation of André Aciman’s acclaimed novel, directed by Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love), stars Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet as lovers in sun-kissed northern Italy.
Reuniting with his Lobster director, Colin Farrell plays a surgeon, husband and father of two whose placid domestic life is slowly, insidiously disrupted by the persistent demands of a teenage stalker.