Assassinations, authors, bad bosses and good ol' fashioned rock 'n' roll all feature in the first batch of movies being announced for this year's New Zealand International Film Festival.
It's an impressive initial line-up that's sure to tickle the fancy of film lovers around Aotearoa.
Music fans are well catered for with two must-see docos being announced. The first, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song, is a deep dive into the beloved singer-songwriter's life cast against the background of his most famous song, while Meet Me in the Bathroom takes you back to the early '00s and the glory years of New York's second wave of garage rockers.
There's also the doco Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time by frequent Curb Your Enthusiasm director Robert B. Weide which is about the life of the renowned satirical author.
For something more serious there's Navalny, a harrowing documentary about the attempted assassination of Alexei Navalny, the leader of Russia's opposition political party, which will hit with an even heavier resonance in light of current world affairs.
