Satisfy your culture fix at this year's New Zealand International Film Festival.
More than 155 feature-length films from 40 different countries will screen around New Zealand, across 18 days beginning on Thursday, July 19. The festival turns 50 in Auckland this year and a series of retrospective screenings are planned to mark the anniversary.
“I believe we have kept faith with that optimistic group who set out to invigorate our film-going - and our filmmaking – back in 1969. We have kept pace with enormous change – and even set the pace from time to time. While Aucklanders’ entertainment options have expanded immeasurably, I am delighted that NZIFF can still make an occasion out of a night at the movies,” says NZIFF Director Bill Gosden.
Satisfy your culture fix at this year's New Zealand International Film Festival.
More than 155 feature-length films from 40 different countries will screen around New Zealand, across 18 days beginning on Thursday, July 19. The festival turns 50 in Auckland this year and a series of retrospective screenings are planned to mark the anniversary.
“I believe we have kept faith with that optimistic group who set out to invigorate our film-going - and our filmmaking – back in 1969. We have kept pace with enormous change – and even set the pace from time to time. While Aucklanders’ entertainment options have expanded immeasurably, I am delighted that NZIFF can still make an occasion out of a night at the movies,” says NZIFF Director Bill Gosden.
The line-up of retrospective films has been programmed by Gosden to screen in amongst the world and New Zealand premieres selected for the festival to reflect the range of cinema experiences that NZIFF has celebrated across the last 50 years. The retrospective screenings will culminate in the screening of Buster Keaton’s The General at the Civic with live musical performance by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, on Sunday, August 5.
An exhibition of NZIFF posters and newspaper clippings from the archives will be displayed at the ASB Waterfront Theatre during festival season.
To celebrate our favourite fixture on the culture calendar, we're giving two lucky Dish readers the chance to win one double-pass each to the NZIFF. Our winners will receive a double-pass to The Heart Dances or Lean on Pete, two of this year's festival standouts.
Offering viewers a unique insight into the stunning world of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, The Heart Dances is the elegant new film from the director of Crossing Rachmaninoff. Czech choreographer Ji?í Bubení?ek and his twin brother and designer, Otto are stars in the European dance world, creators of vital, innovative contemporary ballets. Director Rebecca Tansley (Crossing Rachmaninoff) follows them from Prague to Aotearoa as they take up an invitation from the Royal New Zealand Ballet to expand their adaptation, made in Germany in 2015, of Jane Campion’s film.
Another festival film front-runner features breathtaking performances from Steve Buscemi, Chloë Sevigny and newcomer Charlie Plummer. Lean on Pete offers a "profoundly moving account of life on the margins of America."
The film charts the journey of sensitive teen Charley (gifted newcomer Charlie Plummer), who, in the absence of his deadbeat dad, bonds with the damaged goods at his local racecourse.
To be in to win a double-pass to screenings of The Heart Dances or Lean on Pete, simply enter your details
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