With the New Zealand International Film Festival programme due to hit streets next week, organisers have announced yet more titles to be included in next month's event including a raft of movies which were contenders at last month's Cannes Film Festival.
Included are The Assassin, which won its director Hou Hsiao-Hsien the best director prize for his Taiwanese martial arts period drama.
The Auckland festival's opening night film will be The Lobster, the black comedy by Greece's Yorgos Lanthimos, which stars Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz among others and won the Cannes Jury Prize.
The NZIFF is also offering The Measure of a Man which won veteran French star Vincent Lindon the Cannes best actor prize and the Amazonian adventure Embrace of the Serpent which won the Directors' Fortnight Prize.
Other films that were selected to screen in competition at Cannes and coming to the festival here are Mia Madre, Our Little Sister and the grown-up fairytale anthology Tale of Tales.
