Don't miss Alien Weaponry: Kua Tupu Te Ara, directed by Kent Belcher. Join us at the screenings and meet Belcher, and Alien Weaponry's founding band members Henry and Lewis de Jong! Even if you’re not a fan of heavy metal, you can’t help but admire Alien Weaponry. If not for their rise to fame on an international scale, then for being the first band of the genre to sing in te reo Māori.

In a world free of humans, a staunchly independent cat narrowly survives a severe flood by teaming up with a sleepy capybara, a lemur obsessed with shiny objects, an overly friendly Labrador, and an enormous, crane-like bird. The unlikely menagerie has no choice but to stay together on a rickety boat as they navigate the strange and rapidly changing new environment they find themselves in. Watch Flow before director Gints Zilbalodis presents a masterclass on animation on Friday 16 August at ASB Waterfront Theatre.

This groundbreaking documentary on musician, artist and superstar producer Brian Eno changes every time it screens. Being AI-generated the two exclusive New Zealand premiere screenings at the Festival will both be completely different and will never be seen again. Visionary artist and musical pioneer Brian who has collaborated with artists including David Bowie, Talking Heads, U2 and Coldplay. Director Gary Hustwit, taking inspiration from Eno’s own experiments in generative music to create this new experience.

Love in the time of AI. Léa Seydoux and George MacKay are star-crossed lovers chasing and escaping each other in different times and on different sides of the fence of attraction in Bertrand Bonello’s mesmerizing adaptation and expansion of Henry James’ novella The Beast in the Jungle.