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Film Festival review: Prince Avalanche
After a devastating forest fire, two young road workers spend the summer away from their city lives to paint yellow lines down rural Texan roads.
Janet McAllister: North Shore as you've never seen it before
Artist Gabriel White got stopped by the police while filming Oracle Drive, his leisurely one-hour ode to the poetic meanings of Albany (yes, Albany).
Film Festival review: Behind the Candelabra
Kicking off this year's New Zealand International Film Festival was Steven Soderbergh's colourful and flamboyant film, Behind the Candelabra.
Dominic Corry: Liberace launches film festival
The International Film Festival kicked off in appropriately resplendent fashion last night with the Liberace film Behind The Candelabra. Dominic Corry was there.
Film Festival: Just believe
A new film helps remind of the influential role of The Skeptics in Kiwi rock history, reports Scott Kara.
Film Festival: Behind the Riot squad
The men behind a revealing documentary about Russian protest band Pussy Riot talk to Helen Barlow.
Film Festival: Lifting the veil
Saudi Arabia's first female film-maker, Haifaa al-Mansour, talks to Liz Hoggard about segregation, her family and driving to her wedding in a golf cart
Film Festival: Splendid isolation
Plenty of directors of documentaries in this year's festival went to the ends of the Earth to make their films. Peter Calder talks to one of them
Film Festival: Much ado about Whedon
Emma John meets Joss Whedon, the Buffy and Avengers guy whose latest movie is a spot of backyard Shakespeare
Film Festival: Notes on unsung heroes
Scott Kara looks at the movies that will be rockin' this year's International Film Festival.
Film festival: Kiwi feature a bicultural affair
The Weight of Elephants is the debut feature of 31-year-old Kiwi film-maker Daniel Borgman, and it's a truly bicultural product.
Dominic Corry: Local efforts lead film festival
Blogger Dominic Corry takes in some Kiwi movie highlights ahead of the launch of the International Film Festival.
Trailer: The Deadly Ponies Gang
All hail Clint and Dwayne, awesome pony-riding gang of two. Best friends who hang out on the rural fringes of West Auckland, they deal tinnies to pony club mums and bling out their own brave steeds with pearls, sunglasses and glitter. Film screening at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Trailer: Utu redux
Watch the trailer for Utu (redux), Geoff Murphy’s classic film enhanced and restored for cinema 30 years after its original release.
Premiering at the New Zealand International Film Festival, click here for more details and tickets.
New Zealand in the 1870's. Te Wheke, a scout for the colonial troops, finds his tribe massacred by the army he is working for. Anguished and betrayed, he vows to exact retribution – utu – on the Pakeha.
Dominic Corry: Five reasons to get excited about the film festival
Movie blogger Dominic Corry says there's five good reasons to celebrate this year's International Film Festival.
NZ Film Fest: Starry nights
This year's New Zealand International Film Festival programme serves up plenty to surprise, delight and confound, reports Russell Baillie
First festival flicks unveiled
Film-spotters can start making notes, because the first films to feature at this year's New Zealand International Film Festival have been announced, along with the confirmed dates for each region.
Holy Motors: Monkeying around with Kylie Minogue
The film festival's finale is a French freak-out of famous faces. Helen Barlow reports.
Look who's stalking: How to Meet Girls From a Distance
The winners of the Make My Movie competition unleash their quirky Kiwi rom-com on Auckland film festival audiences this weekend. They talk to Lydia Jenkin about the challenges of making their first feature film.