Festival Programme

Films by Language

Portuguese

The Employer and the Employee

El empleado y el patrón

Manuel Nieto Zas

Subtle and slow-burning, this quietly perceptive rural drama elegantly exhibits the social barriers and economic polarities operating in contemporary Uruguay.

Marinheiro das montanhas

Karim Aïnouz

Brazilian-Algerian filmmaker, and NZIFF veteran, Karim Aïnouz invites us on his first ever journey to Algeria, the homeland of his estranged father, in this evocative diary film bending space and time.