This very special screening is presented to celebrate 50 years of the film festival in Wellington.
Festival Programme
Films — by Language
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Cantonese
- Cook Islands Māori
- Cree
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Dyula
- English
- Farsi
- Finnish
- French
- Friulian
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hokkien
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kazakh
- Korean
- Kurdish
- Lingala
- Maltese
- Mandarin
- Marathi
- Mingrelian
- Norwegian
- Ossetian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Samoan
- Serbian
- Shanghainese
- Shona
- Somali
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tamazight
- Te reo Māori
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
German
![Fabian - Going to the Dogs](/assets/resized/sm/upload/pw/vw/f3/o0/Fabian_HERO-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=4991feb97a)
Fabian - Going to the Dogs
Fabian oder Der Gang vor die Hunde
Love blooms amidst the frenzied hedonist cityscape of post-WWI Berlin – but can anything, let alone a relationship, survive a society bent on self-destruction and the looming fascist threat?
![Great Freedom](/assets/resized/sm/upload/qe/t3/c4/a6/Great%20Freedom_HERO-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=6d27bea058)
Great Freedom
Die Grosse Freiheit
In post-war Germany, Hans is repeatedly convicted for being gay. Over his many stints in prison, he develops a tumultuous friendship with Viktor. A moving film about the forces that conspire to destroy one man’s freedom.
![Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful](/assets/resized/sm/upload/py/3n/rj/m3/Helmut%20Newton_HERO_new%20crop%20for%20web-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=908508a96f)
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
One of the photography world’s most provocative artists, Helmut Newton’s story is told by the women who knew him best: those who lived with him, inspired him and disrobed for his lens.
![I'm Your Man](/assets/resized/sm/upload/f8/70/3g/50/I'm%20Your%20Man_HERO-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=b81615be36)
I'm Your Man
Ich bin dein Mensch
An archaeologist reluctantly agrees to test-run a humanoid love robot programmed to fulfil her desires in this poignant comedy starring Downton Abbey’s Dan Stevens.
![Miss Marx](/assets/resized/sm/upload/3h/n6/ul/mi/Miss%20Marx_ALT1-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=60b0b74ea1)
Miss Marx
Socialist pioneer Eleanor Marx is fully brought to life – with all her complexities and contradictions – in this stylised, lavish biopic featuring a deeply affecting performance by Romola Garai.
![Mr Bachmann and His Class](/assets/resized/sm/upload/nx/xf/7a/98/Mr%20Bachmann%20and%20His%20Class_ALT-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=f757a34dcf)
Mr Bachmann and His Class
Herr Bachmann und seine Klasse
The inspiring story of one teacher making a difference in the lives of migrant children in rural Germany, Maria Speth’s absorbing documentary took the Silver Bear at Berlin 2021.
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Nr. 10
When a stranger on a bridge utters a single word in his ear, Günter finds himself falling deep into the rabbit hole of his mysterious childhood in Alex van Warmerdam’s new, paranoia-fuelled thriller.
![The Painted Bird](/assets/resized/sm/upload/5r/7l/55/yz/The%20Painted%20Bird_HERO-crop-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=1684ef0e38)
The Painted Bird
By equal turns horrifying and beautiful, The Painted Bird sees Czech filmmaker Václav Marhoul put a young boy through every manner of evil that 1940s Eastern Europe can conjure in this war-torn vision of hell.
![Undine](/assets/resized/sm/upload/lg/83/0t/m9/Undine-2000x1125px-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=9bd04cb45b)
Undine
This captivating tale of fated lovers, drawing on myth and fantasy, is also a love song to Berlin.