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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Playing Possum

    Absurd, very fast-moving New Zealand short about who is putting opossums in front of the wheels of speeding cars.
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  • Our Voices Are Mute

    Second part of a New Zealand video diptych that portrays a slow motion journey through a grainy metaphysical landscape.
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  • The Strength of Water

    When a mysterious stranger arrives in their isolated coastal town, 10-year-old twins, Kimi and Melody are forced apart. Now, Kimi must find the streng
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  • Rain of the Children

    Both ode and farewell to the Maori woman Puhi, who was also filmed by the director 30 years previously, when he was still very young.…
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  • Departure

    First part of New Zealand video diptych that portrays a delayed journey through a grainy metaphysical landscape.
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  • Betty Banned Sweets

    Original, creative independent about the adventurous yet staid Benjamin, in which his home-made dioramas start to play an important role.
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  • A Song of Good

    Character study of a sensitive young man in an outer suburb without prospects of a random New Zealand town. He wants to step out of…
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  • Taua

    When a boy shows compassion amidst rival Maori tribes at war, one leader falls, another rises.
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  • Whale Rider

    Winner of the Audience Prize in Toronto. Optimistic, unsentimental epic links a portrait of the contemporary life of Maoris, with a story from their r
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  • Ziarah

    On an uninhabited Indonesian island where the nobleman Tupaia is believed to be buried, Bridget Reweti telescopes then and now.
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