The votes have been tallied and the Wellington Film Society Committee have made their picks for "Film of the Festival".
Once the votes were tallied, they had a clear top film of the Festival, that being Roy Andersson's A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. The list of their Top 10 (which has become a Top 12 due to a 6-way tie for 7th) is as follows:
The deeply eccentric Roy Andersson’s meticulously mounted comic sketches move from historic fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as he muses on humanity’s inescapable absurdity. Golden Lion, Best Film, Venice Film Festival 2014.
A lone shaman inducts two European ethnographers into the mysteries of the Amazon in this breathtakingly photographed tale of exploration, vividly reimagined from the indigenous point of view.
The director and riveting star of Barbara reunite for another moving film noir-inflected tale of love and profound suspicion, this time set amidst the reconstruction of Berlin in the immediate aftermath of WWII.
An after-midnight flirtation on the streets of Berlin gets thrillingly side-tracked by another chase entirely. Filmed in a single real-time take, it’s an edit-free pièce de résistance of acting, directing and mobile camerawork.