This digital restoration of Claire Denis’ striking Beau Travail lends new crispness and intensity to not only one of the great films of the 1990s, but one of the greatest endings in all of cinema.
Films — by Genre
- Action
- Activism
- Animals
- Animation
- Artists
- Award-winners
- Bad Kids
- Based on Books
- Belief
- Comedy
- Coming of Age
- Dance
- Documentary
- Education
- Environment
- Feminism
- Films about Films
- Food and Beverage
- Historical
- Horror
- Human Rights
- Incarcerated
- Indigenous
- Jewish
- LGBTQIA+
- Love Stories
- Masters
- Migration
- Music
- Māori/Pacific
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Politics
- Retro
- Science & Technology
- Science Fiction
- Sex and Sexuality
- Stylistic
- Thriller
- Travel
- WTF?
- War Zones
- Wellbeing
- Westerns
- Women Make Docs
- Women Make Features
- Writers
Retro
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant
This very special screening is presented to celebrate 50 years of the film festival in Wellington.
Blissfully Yours
Sud sanaeha
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s debut feature is a sweet, vicarious reverie taking us into intimate proximity with three people whose business with each other on a hot summer day we can only gradually infer.
Brief Encounters
Korotkie vstrechi
The 20 years Brief Encounters was banned by Soviet censors could not diminish the originality of this exquisite film, making it an instant classic.
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On
Yuki yukite shingun
“The stories [Hara] extracts... are shocking, as is the film’s underlying premise: that the Japanese government failed to confront its wartime atrocities.” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Flowers of Shanghai
Hai shang hua
Patu!
Patu! is the definitive film of the 1981 Springbok tour protests, a technically complex piece of guerrilla filmmaking that explicitly connects apartheid abroad and racism at home. Newly preserved by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
Snakeskin
Bill Gosden championed countless New Zealand films during his tenure as Festival Director, and not all the obvious ones, either. Maybe it was its lust for Americana, the protagonist’s escape from southern parochialism (Bill grew up in Dunedin), or Gillian Ashurst’s darkly cartoonish take on Goodbye Pork Pie’s road movie legacy, that made him regard Snakeskin with such fondness.
Fascinated, he wrote, “I wouldn’t be surprised if, played backwards, it turns out to contain the solutions to every unsolved murder in the South Island”.
Woodenhead
Innocent Gert, who works in a rubbish dump, can't believe his luck when he's ordered by his boss to take his beautiful mute daughter, Princess Plum, to meet her prospective husband.
Written on the Wind
Our Bill Gosden tribute wouldn’t be complete without a wall-to-wall Technicolor classic. Bill’s love of early cinema, vibrant studio-era musicals, and frankly anything starring Elvis could be felt throughout his retrospective programming, not least in the carefully curated Live Cinema events he looked forward to most. Douglas Sirk, Hollywood’s unrivalled melodramatist, influenced some of Bill’s absolute favourites — Fassbinder and Almodóvar, most famously — and this presentation of one of the director’s late masterpieces is a fitting occasion to luxuriate in larger-than-life filmmaking on the biggest screen available, as only Bill would have it.