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Film Festivals 2010

Puzzle (2009)

6.7/10
Director: Natalia Smirnoff
Starring: Gabriel Goity, Maria Onetto, Arturo Goetz

Aka "Rompecabezas". A woman looking for a new purpose in her life finds it in an unexpected place in this debut drama from writer/director Natalia Smi... Read more

Road, Movie (2009)

6.9/10
Director: Dev Benegal
Starring: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Abhay Deol

Vishhu (Indian superstar Abhay Deol), a restless young man, itches to escape the fate of his father's faltering hair oil business. When the offer to d... Read more

The Wind Journeys (2009)

7.4/10
Director: Ciro Guerra
Starring: Marciano Martinez

A Colombian accordion player (Marciano Martinez) believes he must give up the instrument after the death of his wife. Legend has it that the device or... Read more

Endgame (2009)

6.3/10
Director: Pete Travis
Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Mark Strong, Clarke Peters, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Set in mid-1980s South Africa when apartheid held sway over the nation, this striking political drama echoes the drug drama "Traffic" in its realistic... Read more

Goemon (2009)

6.7/10
Director: Kazuaki Kiriya
Starring: Masato Ibu, Yosuke Eguchi, Takao Osawa, Ryoko Hirosue

The year is 1582. A huge chasm exists between rich and poor, and evening things out is super-thief Goemon (a Japanese Robin Hood) who spends his day r... Read more

Sam Hunt: Purple Balloon and Other Stories (2010)

7.4/10
Director: Tim Rose
Starring: Sam Hunt

For forty years Sam Hunt has been a force in New Zealand poetry and culture. He is a storyteller who has spent his life struggling with his, often ver... Read more

Predicament (2010)

5.4/10
Director: Jason Stutter
Starring: Heath Franklin, Jemaine Clement, Hayden Frost, Tim Finn

Naive teenager Cedric Williamson, conspires with two misfits to photograph and blackmail adulterous couples. When the scam goes wrong they end up with... Read more

Soundtrack for a Revolution (2009)

7.6/10
Director: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
Starring: Harry Belafonte, Richie Havens, Wyclef Jean, John Legend, The Blind Boys of Alab...

This music documentary tells the story of the American civil rights movement through its powerful music - the freedom songs protesters sang on picket... Read more

The Peddler (2010)

7.7/10
Director: Eduardo de la Serna

This sweet little documentary tells the story of Daniel Burmeister who is a filmmaker like no other. Travelling from village to village around Argenti... Read more

Last Paradise (2010)

8.3/10
Director: Clive Neeson

This genre-defying adventure documentary by Clive Neeson was the most seen Kiwi film of the 2010 NZ International Film Festival. With New Zealand's ad... Read more