Annette Bening captivates as a single mother enlisting Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning to help raise her 15-year-old son in this funny, nuanced memoir of late-70s lifestyles from director Mike Mills (Beginners).
Films — by Language
English
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The Beguiled
Colin Farrell plays a wounded Civil War mercenary under the care of a commune of young women, led by Nicole Kidman, in Sofia Coppola’s beautiful, feminist take on Don Siegel’s 1971 Southern Gothic psychodrama.
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Blue
Filmed over two years in Indonesia, the Philippines, Hawaii and Australia, this beautifully crafted wake-up call to the state of the earth’s oceans profiles inspiring individuals working to preserve and protect marine life.
![Born in China](/assets/resized/sm/upload/5a/rq/5d/43/Born_In_China_02_KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=d040bf2295)
Born in China
Disney’s famed nature documentary unit brings the epic journey of three animal families enduring China’s vast and unforgiving terrain spectacularly to the big screen.
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Brigsby Bear
This weird and wonderful indie comedy stars Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney as a man totally obsessed with a TV show about a bear saving the world. Also starring Greg Kinnear, Mark Hamill, Claire Danes.
![Call Me by Your Name](/assets/resized/sm/upload/lc/4n/gp/er/callmebyyourname2%20.jpg_rgb-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=919a712f83)
Call Me by Your Name
This gorgeous and moving adaptation of André Aciman’s acclaimed novel, directed by Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love), stars Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet as lovers in sun-kissed northern Italy.
![Citizen Jane: Battle for the City](/assets/resized/sm/upload/h1/wi/pi/bm/CITIZEN%20JANE_KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=4c87dd97d3)
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
This fascinating documentary about urban planning considers the continuing relevance of the showdown, half a century ago, between the activist Jane Jacobs and the Trumpian Robert Moses: a fight for the future of New York.
![A Date for Mad Mary](/assets/resized/sm/upload/xm/lz/ft/v2/KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=8ef682288a)
A Date for Mad Mary
Sent only a single invitation, dry, sarcastic, maddening Mary (marvellous Seána Kerslake) sets out to find a date for her best friend’s wedding in this barbed and funny Irish romcom.
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Dries
The 30-year career of prolific Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten is celebrated in this doco, which visits the designer’s atelier and home while following his production of four collections a year.
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The Farthest
The incredible journey of the Voyager spaceship is retraced by the women and men closest to the action in this exhilarating big-screen documentary.
![Good Time](/assets/resized/sm/upload/sb/ky/22/4h/Good-Time-3%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=f1596e4f40)
Good Time
In this adrenalised Cannes sensation from guerrilla-filmmaker siblings Josh and Benny Safdie, Robert Pattinson is riveting as a small-time criminal on a frantic nocturnal odyssey to break his brother out of custody.
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House of Z
The meteoric rise, fall and rise again of the prodigiously talented fashion designer Zac Posen is documented with sympathy and a little suspense in a many-storied documentary, packed full of his splendid creations.
![I Am Not a Witch](/assets/resized/sm/upload/vk/8d/6z/08/I_Am_Not_A_Witch-1%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=f11595b093)
I Am Not a Witch
Set in Zambia, the birthplace of writer-director Rungano Nyoni, this strange, engrossing feature addresses the continuing marginalisation of ‘witches’ and revolves around a nine-year-old girl accused of witchcraft.
![I Am Not Your Negro](/assets/resized/sm/upload/cp/jr/np/oj/6_KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=eba0d090d9)
I Am Not Your Negro
This Oscar-nominated documentary draws an astonishing, challenging and utterly contemporary examination of race in the United States entirely from the writings and interview footage of civil rights icon James Baldwin.
![The Killing of a Sacred Deer](/assets/resized/sm/upload/5y/d6/5p/bq/Killing%20of%20a%20Sacred%20Deer%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=3fdac21f6e)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Reuniting with his Lobster director, Colin Farrell plays a surgeon, husband and father of two whose placid domestic life is slowly, insidiously disrupted by the persistent demands of a teenage stalker.
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Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
As Annie Goldson’s impressively detailed documentary clearly sets out the battle between Dotcom and the US Government and entertainment industry, it goes to the heart of ownership, privacy and piracy in the digital age.
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Kobi
This warm and humorous doco about Kobi Bosshard, widely regarded as the grandfather of contemporary New Zealand jewellery, explores his philosophy of life and work, as captured by his daughter Andrea Bosshard.
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Lady Macbeth
Florence Pugh is mesmerising as she transmutes from nervous bride to femme fatale in this bracing British period drama based on a 19th century Russian classic.
![The Lost City of Z](/assets/resized/sm/upload/5i/mr/38/34/Lost_City_Of_Z_04%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=03a731ffd9)
The Lost City of Z
Charlie Hunnam makes a commanding flawed hero as British Amazon explorer Percy Fawcett in a sweeping giant screen epic, filmed with rare intelligence by writer/director James Gray. With Sienna Miller and Robert Pattinson.
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Maudie
Sally Hawkins delivers an unforgettable performance as Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis, irrepressible despite arthritis and a churlish husband (Ethan Hawke), in this gently flowing biopic set in the 1930s.
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Mountain
A spectacular musical and cinematic collaboration, Jennifer Peedom’s new movie exalts the spellbinding force of the world’s great mountains – and the power they exercise over the human imagination.
![My Life As a Courgette (Dubbed)](/assets/resized/sm/upload/kg/uc/x2/v7/1%20KEY_My_Life_as_a_Zucchini_05-crop-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=23d672a8f6)
My Life As a Courgette (Dubbed)
My Life As a Zucchini
This soulful and subversive Oscar-nominated feature uses stop-motion animation to tell the story of an orphan named Courgette. From the key animator on Fantastic Mr Fox, and adapted for the screen by Girlhood’s Céline Sciamma.
![New Zealand’s Best 2017](/assets/resized/sm/upload/9z/ja/xa/2k/10600-IS17_DoNoHarm_Still2_byAaronBurgess.jpg_cmyk-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=6f537392c0)
New Zealand’s Best 2017
Check out the year’s best New Zealand short films as chosen by this year’s guest selector Gaylene Preston, from a shortlist drawn up by NZIFF programmers from a total of 83 entries.
![Ngā Whanaunga Māori Pasifika Shorts 2017](/assets/resized/sm/upload/4f/qw/9t/au/tama_02_publicity%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=e9248c7138)
Ngā Whanaunga Māori Pasifika Shorts 2017
Check out the latest and best Māori and Pasifika short films as selected for NZIFF by Leo Koziol, Director of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival, and Craig Fasi, Director of the Pollywood Film Festival.
![No Ordinary Sheila](/assets/resized/sm/upload/9e/0t/o1/ks/Drawing%20at%20Palmer%20Bay%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=f2d2112574)
No Ordinary Sheila
In Hugh Macdonald’s fascinating and inspiring doco, his cousin, writer and illustrator Sheila Natusch, retraces a long life dedicated to sharing her understanding and love of New Zealand’s nature and history.
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The Other Side of Hope
Toivon tuolla puolen
A Syrian stowaway lands up in Helsinki and finds refuge working in the worst restaurant in town in this funny, gorgeously filmed new tragicomedy from Finland hangdog maestro, Aki Kaurismäki.
![The Party](/assets/resized/sm/upload/ls/h0/hr/eb/Party,%20The%20KEY%20new-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=37c23375d3)
The Party
“This sketch of an ambitious Westminster politician and dinner-party hostess (Kristin Scott Thomas), whose life comes spectacularly apart before the canapés are even served, is a consummate drawing-room divertissement, played with relish by a dream ensemble.” — Guy Lodge, Variety
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The Square
Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or, Ruben Östlund’s The Square is an astounding work of social satire centred on a Swedish art museum and a PR stunt that goes horribly wrong. Starring Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Terry Notary.
![Step](/assets/resized/sm/upload/06/de/50/ee/STEP-575%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=d95b91a13c)
Step
Fighting the tough realities of their disadvantaged neighbourhood, Step follows three irrepressible young women in an enlightened Baltimore school as they prepare for college – and rehearse for step dance glory.
![That’s Not Me](/assets/resized/sm/upload/9v/q2/9t/qq/TNM-Alice_Foulcher-Rowan_Davie-Photographer-Catharine_Neilson%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=29b9d3b6e2)
That’s Not Me
A wannabe star is gutted by her identical twin sister’s HBO success – plus she’s dating Jared Leto – then decides to take advantage in this wry Aussie comedy of outsized fantasies and bad behaviour.