NZIFF 2024 will take place in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier, New Plymouth, Masterton and Nelson from 31 July – 4 September 2024.
Wellington: 31 July to 11 August
Auckland: 7 – 18 August
Dunedin: 14 – 25 August
Christchurch: 15 August to 1 September
Hamilton: 21 August to 4 September
Tauranga: 15 – 28 August
Napier: 21 August to 1 September
New Plymouth: 21 August to 7 September
Masterton: 21 August to 4 September
Nelson: 14 – 25 August
Tickets will go on general public sale from mid-July. You can purchase multi-trip passes for Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin now until the end of the festival.
On sale dates per festival location:
Wellington - Friday 12 July
Auckland - Friday 19 July
Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Tauranga - Monday 22 July
Napier, New Plymouth, Masterton, Nelson - TBC
At present, individual tickets for 2024 are not available, however multi-trip passes for Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch for 2024 can be purchased online now from our NZIFF store. To visit the store or for more information, please click here.
If you are in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch or Dunedin and have purchased a multi-pass before:
Wellington: Friday 5 July
Auckland: Friday 12 July
Christchurch: Monday 15 July
Dunedin: Monday 15 July
You will be emailed information on redeeming your pass and selecting your films before tickets go on sale.
Multi-trip passes for all cities will be redeemable from when tickets are available for sale. Your pass can be used to book tickets in advance in person or on the day at NZIFF box offices for any session(s) that is/are not sold out. Passes cannot be redeemed online.
Box office opening dates:
Wellington: Friday 12 July
Auckland: Friday 19 July
Christchurch: Monday 22 July
Dunedin: Monday 22 July
Yes – we continue to offer great value for money with concessions, discounts for specific groups, and our popular multi-trip passes. Check out the ticketing page for your region for more details.
Yes – there is a printed programme catalogue. This is being distributed around the country now. You can also read the catalogue on the website and download your own copy as a PDF.
YES! The NZIFF Film Quiz returns in 2024 in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Hamilton.
Check out the Events & Guests page for more info, start planning your team and study your film facts!
Yes - we are delighted to be welcoming international filmmakers at NZIFF 2024. We will also be celebrating a wide range of New Zealand filmmakers in the festival and including Q&As and other events in the programme to enable audiences to meet filmmakers.
NZIFF 2024 takes place in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier, New Plymouth, Masterton and Nelson.
We will be looking at additional centres for NZIFF 2025.
Live Cinema has been a regular feature of the Auckland leg of NZIFF, however with the restructured festival for 2024, we were unable to include Live Cinema this year. We are already looking at options for 2025 and hope to celebrate the return of this festival highlight in future years.
We will not be presenting the film festival in 2024 online. The online presentation in 2020 was a one-off in response to the situation around Covid-19. At the heart of NZIFF is the collective experience of watching a film together.
There are also a number of complex issues around presenting online:
- Except for a very small number of retro films, films programmed at NZIFF are New Zealand premieres. Additionally films which have further release plans or which already have streaming agreements would not be available for us to screen online.
- NZ simply does not have the population base which enabled other film festivals around the world to present online (e.g. Sundance was available for the whole of the US, though it is now back to a fully in-person event) and gearing up an online platform that is accessible to our whole audience for the volume of streams we might achieve, was not viable.
- An online option would be in competition with all of our beautiful partner venues and cinemas across the motu, who also need support during this difficult time for the industry. Our filmmakers have made their work for the big screen, and the focus for our team is to present their works as best we can, in person.
We have a partnership with AroVision to assist with online options of NZIFF films following the festival each year.
Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival does not currently host a competitive category for feature length films. We do, however, have two short film competitions within the festival: New Zealand’s Best short films, and Ngā Whanaunga Māori Pasifika Shorts. Submissions have now closed, but our submission regulations can be found here.
We accept submissions from all over the world. Submissions have now closed, but to view our regulations, please visit the Submit a Film page.
There is no fee for submission to Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival.
Submissions for NZIFF 2024 have closed. Submissions for NZIFF 2025 will open in December.
Please visit the Submit a Film page for more information.
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New Zealand currently has no COVID-19 requirements around mask use or isolation. As such, NZIFF does not have any specific rules around COVID-19, contact specific venues for further details. We ask that you consider other audience members and please do not attend screenings if you are unwell or test positive for the virus.
You can check restrictions and health updates on the Unite against COVID-19 website here.
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