The team behind Letterboxd — the New Zealand-made global social network for film lovers — have compiled the top 25 films screening at NZIFF according to their community of mostly amateur film critics. If you’re attending the Festival, you’re encouraged to start a Letterboxd account and let others know what you think of each film you see. http://letterboxd.com
Films — by Collection
- Cactuslab
- Dominic Corry
- Dunedin Film Society: Raphael Richter-Gravier
- Letterboxd
- Staff Picks: Andrew Harrison
- Staff Picks: Ant Timpson
- Staff Picks: Bill Gosden
- Staff Picks: Caroline Palmer
- Staff Picks: Cianna Canning
- Staff Picks: Collette Wright
- Staff Picks: Felicity Drace
- Staff Picks: Hedda ten Holder
- Staff Picks: Jo Scott
- Staff Picks: Kailey Carruthers
- Staff Picks: Kate McGee
- Staff Picks: Lynn Smart
- Staff Picks: Melanie Rae
- Staff Picks: Michael McDonnell
- Staff Picks: Nic Marshall
- Staff Picks: Nick Paris
- Staff Picks: Rebecca McMillan
- Staff Picks: Rosie Jones
- Staff Picks: Sandra Reid
- Staff Picks: Tim Wong
- Wellington Film Society
Letterboxd
![Toni Erdmann](/assets/resized/sm/upload/2v/5n/f1/ho/ToniErdmann_Still_01-SandraHuller_PeterSimonischek_credit%20Komplizen%20Film%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=1dcf648294)
Toni Erdmann
Hailed at Cannes as a brilliantly original comic masterpiece, Austrian writer/director Maren Ade’s epic of parent-child dysfunction centres on a father assailing his uptight corporate daughter with crazy pranks.
![Green Room](/assets/resized/sm/upload/nf/go/dd/mw/Green%20Room_001-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=481dd08762)
Green Room
Punk rockers and skinheads clash in this intense, darkly humorous game of cat-and-mouse, from the director of bracing indie thriller Blue Ruin.
![Everybody Wants Some!!](/assets/resized/sm/upload/1e/wy/7p/v4/KEY%20ows_146004838639173-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=13e9dfd096)
Everybody Wants Some!!
Richard Linklater follows Boyhood by recalling his own first days at college in this hilarious, deeply relaxed comedy about male bonding, set in the bars, discos, parties and frat houses of 1980 Austin.
![Under the Shadow](/assets/resized/sm/upload/5y/yq/su/so/001-13%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=ab3ea26a3a)
Under the Shadow
This politically charged, spine-chilling debut from Iranian Babak Anvari is a tense and atmospheric thriller set in a haunted Tehran apartment during the terrifying final days of the Iran-Iraq War.
![Life, Animated](/assets/resized/sm/upload/wj/so/1o/i8/KEY%2016688_LifeAnimated_still1_OwenSuskind__byTomBergmann.jpg_cmyk-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=36f26f1748)
Life, Animated
This incredibly moving and fascinating doco takes us into the interior life of autistic Owen Suskind, and explores how his love of Disney animated features gave him the tools as a child to communicate with the world.
![Land of Mine](/assets/resized/sm/upload/w0/xi/96/ep/landofmine1%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=1d772c5fdd)
Land of Mine
Under sandet
In this tense, moving war drama, based on fact, a Danish sergeant takes charge of a group of youthful German POWs put to work defusing explosives on the coast of Denmark in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
![Paterson](/assets/resized/sm/upload/v5/2a/1i/b5/_c__2016_-_Mary_Cybulski%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=be62c03a33)
Paterson
Direct from Cannes, Jim Jarmusch’s beautifully calibrated ode to art and ordinariness stars Adam Driver as a New Jersey bus driver who writes poetry in his downtime and Golshifteh Farahani as his cupcake chef wife.
![Like Crazy](/assets/resized/sm/upload/7h/7l/ke/et/La_Pazza_Gioia_05_(c)PAOLO%20CIRIELLI%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=39889ecc34)
Like Crazy
La pazza gioia
“This high-energy romp is a superb showcase for its two lead actresses as they impetuously extend a group outing from the residential clinic into a two-character outlaw adventure.” — Lisa Nesselson, Screendaily
![Elle](/assets/resized/sm/upload/42/ea/sl/7m/Elle_03_rgb%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=0195efe0e3)
Elle
Genre subversive Paul Verhoeven, director of Basic Instinct and Black Book, teams up with the great Isabelle Huppert to craft this provocative, blackly comic thriller.