Wes Anderson goes sci fi in his latest colourful concoction, screening first at the Festival as a jaw-dropping A-list cast converge on the small desert town of Asteroid City for a space convention.
Festival Programme
Films — by Genre
- Action
 - Animals
 - Animation
 - Artists
 - Award-winners
 - Based on Books
 - Body and Mind
 - Comedy
 - Coming of Age
 - Crime
 - Education
 - Environment
 - Family Lives
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 - Films about Films
 - Finding Home
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 - Indigenous
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 - Love Stories
 - Media and the Internet
 - Music
 - Māori/Pacific
 - Photography
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 - Travel
 - WTF?
 - War Zones
 - Women Make Movies
 
Sci-Fi
  Mars Express
A private detective and her android partner track down a notorious hacker in the dark underbelly of a Martian metropolis in this superb cyber-punk-noir animated feature, packed with humour and action.
  Shin Ultraman
An irony-free kaiju blockbuster that simultaneously pays respectful homage to the original Ultraman mythos while re-energising the beloved character with kinetic high-tech filmmaking.