We’re delighted to have secured four leading figures in filmmaking and film curation for two masterclasses at this year’s festival. The masterclasses, which take place online, are designed for film industry practitioners and presented thanks to an Artistic Development Partnership with Creative New Zealand.
Festival Programme
Films — by Collection
- Aotearoa
- Becoming
- Belonging
- Breaking Through
- Encounters
- Incredibly Strange
- Indigenous Voices
- Mobilise
- Political States
- Portraits
- Proud
- Radical Empathy
- Square Eyes
- Visions
- – Animation –
- – EUROPE! Voices of Women in Film –
- – East & South East Asian –
- – Latin American –
- – Literary Connections –
- – Masterclasses –
- – Middle Eastern –
- – Out of the Past –
- – Shorts –
– Masterclasses –
Masterclass: An Artist’s Journey on The Babadook, The Nightingale and Beyond
Celebrated Australian film director Jennifer Kent in conversation with Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival Director — Kaiwhakatere Marten Rabarts.
Masterclass: Archive and Film Museums. Treasure Chest or Mausoleum?
Film Archives play an essential role in preserving and restoring (inter)national film heritage but increasingly they also contribute to the creation of new films made from archive material such as They Call Me Babu and State Funeral in this year’s festival selection.