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).

Kicking off this year's New Zealand International Film Festival was Steven Soderbergh's colourful and flamboyant film, Behind the Candelabra.

The International Film Festival kicked off in appropriately resplendent fashion last night with the Liberace film Behind The Candelabra. Dominic Corry was there.

A new film helps remind of the influential role of The Skeptics in Kiwi rock history, reports Scott Kara.

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

The men behind a revealing documentary about Russian protest band Pussy Riot talk to Helen Barlow.

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

Emma John meets Joss Whedon, the Buffy and Avengers guy whose latest movie is a spot of backyard Shakespeare

The Weight of Elephants is the debut feature of 31-year-old Kiwi film-maker Daniel Borgman, and it's a truly bicultural product.

Blogger Dominic Corry takes in some Kiwi movie highlights ahead of the launch of the International Film Festival.

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.

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.

Movie blogger Dominic Corry says there's five good reasons to celebrate this year's International Film Festival.

This year's New Zealand International Film Festival programme serves up plenty to surprise, delight and confound, reports Russell Baillie

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.

The film festival's finale is a French freak-out of famous faces. Helen Barlow reports.

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.

Veteran director William Friedkin returns with Killer Joe, a black-hearted thriller starring Matthew McConaughey as the title character.

The final bow of James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem has become an era-defining concert film.