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Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival

Dates

  • Thu 18 Nov 2021, 12:00am
  • Fri 19 Nov 2021, 12:00am
  • Sat 20 Nov 2021, 12:00am
  • Sun 21 Nov 2021, 12:00am
  • Sun 21 Nov 2021, 12:00am

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All Ages

Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) is on in Christchurch from 5-21 November, following a one week postponement.

The 17-day festival of 90+ films is a curated celebration of the latest and best films from around the world - features, documentaries and short films too - that deserve to be experienced with an audience.

Opening with Dame Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog, highlights also include Wes Anderson’s star-studded homage to the golden age of journalism, The French Dispatch; Maggie Gyllenhaal’s award-winning adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter, featuring a powerhouse performance from Olivia Colman; decorated Chinese director Master Zhang Yimou’s love letter to cinema, One Second, and Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Oscar-nominated film for the 2021 Best International Feature, Jasmila Zbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?

Other major award-winning films include Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix award winners, A Hero, from decorated Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and Juho Kuosmanen’s offbeat train romance, Compartment No. 6, Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner, Audrey Diwan’s Happening, Sundance Grand Jury prize-winner Flee and Berlin Film Festival highlights, Golden Bear winning black comedy Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn and Grand Jury Prize winner, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy.

Delivering star power is Berlin Golden Bear nominee, Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man, featuring Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens as a love android; colourful televangelist biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye, starring Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield, and moving literary memoir My Salinger Year, staring Sigourney Weaver and rising star Margaret Qualley (Maid).

Paulo Sorrentino’s Venice Grand Jury Prize-winning masterpiece The Hand Of God takes centrepiece position, screening in the festival's middle weekend, and Cannes Film Festival’s Palme D’or winner Titane will close the festival.

PLUS, 13 New Zealand films feature in Christchurch along with shorts collections New Zealand's Best and Ngā Whanaunga Māori Pasifika Shorts, and five short films from Kiwi filmmakers will screen ahead of features in the festival.

The full NZIFF programme is out now and tickets are on sale now.

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