Check out the year’s best New Zealand short films as chosen by this year’s guest selector, Lee Tamahori, from a shortlist drawn up by NZIFF programmers from a total of 81 entries.
Films — by Language
Mandarin
![The Road](/assets/resized/sm/upload/h3/gh/j9/st/theroad1%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=1a65ab3b34)
The Road
This doco provides an astonishingly revealing picture of the construction of a section of China’s massive Xu-Huai Highway, as seen by dislocated locals, exploited migrant workers and the embattled construction company.