Patu! is the definitive film of the 1981 Springbok tour protests, a technically complex piece of guerrilla filmmaking that explicitly connects apartheid abroad and racism at home. Newly preserved by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
Festival Programme
Films — by Genre
- Action
- Activism
- Animals
- Animation
- Artists
- Award-winners
- Based on Books
- Belief
- Comedy
- Coming of Age
- Dance
- Documentary
- Environment
- Feminism
- Films about Films
- Food and Beverage
- Historical
- Human Rights
- Incarcerated
- Indigenous
- LGBTQIA+
- Love Stories
- Masters
- Migration
- Music
- Māori/Pacific
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Politics
- Retro
- Science Fiction
- Sex and Sexuality
- Stylistic
- Thriller
- Travel
- WTF?
- War Zones
- Westerns
- Women Make Docs
- Women Make Features
- Writers
Retro
Written on the Wind
Our Bill Gosden tribute wouldn’t be complete without a wall-to-wall Technicolor classic. Bill’s love of early cinema, vibrant studio-era musicals, and frankly anything starring Elvis could be felt throughout his retrospective programming, not least in the carefully curated Live Cinema events he looked forward to most. Douglas Sirk, Hollywood’s unrivalled melodramatist, influenced some of Bill’s absolute favourites — Fassbinder and Almodóvar, most famously — and this presentation of one of the director’s late masterpieces is a fitting occasion to luxuriate in larger-than-life filmmaking on the biggest screen available, as only Bill would have it.