NZIFF recommends this programme for children aged 4+
Films — by Country
- Aotearoa New Zealand
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Lithuania
- Norway
- Palestine
- Paraguay
- Poland
- Portugal
- Russia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Swaziland
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- The Netherlands
- Turkey
- UK
- USA
- USSR
- Ukraine
- West Germany
Denmark
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Animation NOW! International Showcase
An inspiring selection of new, award-winning animated works from around the world. This is where animation is right now.
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The Distant Barking of Dogs
This searching, poignant documentary immerses us in the world of a lively ten-year-old boy and his loving grandmother living perilously close to the frontlines of the war in Eastern Ukraine.
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The Guilty
Den skyldige
A suspended police officer assigned to dispatcher duty is caught in a web of intrigue in this pulsating Danish thriller, jam-packed with mystery and suspense despite never leaving a cramped emergency call centre.
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Holiday
In this shimmering, controversy-stoking debut from Danish director Isabella Eklöf a gangster’s trophy girlfriend puts her body on the line for an Aegean holiday, bling, boats – and maybe a hand on the tiller.
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Hunger
The film that opened the first Auckland International Film Festival is a Scandinavian classic, an intense, superbly acted portrait of a self-dramatising young writer and the late 19th-Century society he rejects.