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NZ Film Festivals

Throughout the year two major Film Festivals circuit New Zealand. The years listed to the left are an amalgam of the offerings that have made it to Video or DVD from the World Cinema Showcase (a.k.a. The Canterbury Film Festival) and The International Film Festival. Right: Scene from the extraordinary "Osama"

Candyman - The David Klein Story (2010)

Director: Costa Botes
Starring: Robert Klein

The story of the rise and fall of David Klein, the man who invented Jelly Belly jelly beans. Read more

Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)

7.8/10
Director: Francesco Rosi
Starring: Gian Maria Volonte, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny

Rosi's BAFTA-winning epic stars Gian Maria Volonte as Carlo Levi, an artist and political exile banished to a southern Italian village by Mussolini's... Read more

Cousins (2021)

7/10
Director: Ainsley Gardiner, Briar Grace Smith
Starring: Rachel House, Chelsie Preston Crayford, Cohen Holloway, Miriama Smith, Kirk Torr...

Mata, Missy and Makareta. Three cousins. Three lives. Separated by circumstances, yet bound together by blood. Orphaned Mata believes she has no whana... Read more

Creepshow (1982)

6.9/10
Director: George A Romero
Starring: Adrienne Barbeau, E G Marshall, Fritz Weaver, Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen

George A Romero directs a screenplay by Stephen King that is a ghoulish comic tribute to EC Comics. Five tales of the macabre are offered. E.G. Marsha... Read more

Diagnosis Death (2009)

4.7/10
Director: Jason Stutter
Starring: Raybon Kan, Jessica Grace Smith, Suze Tye, Bret McKenzie, Jemaine Clement

Two people meet as guinea pigs in a weekend drug trial. Andre (an unethical high school teacher) and Juliet (a bookish teenager) soon discover their l... Read more

Diner (1982)

7.2/10
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Stern, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly, Ellen...

Nostalgic, funny, personal memoir of a group of young men in their early 20's, hanging out at their favourite diner in Baltimore, 1959. This was the t... Read more

Diva (1981)

7.3/10
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Starring: Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Frederic Andrei

A breathtaking series of visual images in this stylish romantic thriller; at the heart of the film is an opera-intoxicated 18-year old mail carrier wh... Read more

Hammett (1982)

6.5/10
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner

The atmospheric and exciting tale of young Dashiell Hammett, who really lives the hard-boiled life he writes about. Wenders explores the central tensi... Read more

James & Isey (2021)

9/10
Director: Florian Habicht
Starring: Florian Habicht

Genuine New Zealand treasures Isey and James invite us into their lives in the week leading up to Isey's 100th birthday. A Northland celebration of li... Read more

Laura (1979)

5.9/10
Director: David Hamilton
Starring: Maud Adams, Dawn Dunlap, James Mitchell

"The sensually provocative images of internationally acclaimed photographer David Hamilton again move and breathe in 'Laura'. A gossamer journey throu... Read more