Woah! Woah! Woah! What a line-up! I thought I was excited before, but now… trying… hard… to… form… words…
The NZFF team have really outdone themselves this year. Check out the incredible films we’ll get to see in little old New Zealand over the coming months, as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival 2011. Last night was the Auckland Programme launch, which means the line-up below may differ slightly for other centres – but a majority of the films should be screened everywhere, so you can start picking your favourites now!
Particularly exciting is that a selection of the films have come straight from the Cannes Film Festival; meaning that us Kiwis will be the first audiences outside Europe to see them. Nice work NZFF! And some of the films coming from Cannes have already featured on Admit One as ‘must-sees’, so our excitement levels were already through the roof. Have I mentioned how excited I am yet!?!?
I have noted by each film in the line-up if it’s a ‘must see’ for me, although this only relates to the films that I’d heard of. Many more films will become ‘must-sees’, I’m sure, as I find out more about them.
Admit One will feature one film each night leading up to the opening of the festival, giving you a more in-depth look at a selection of the films. Next year, when we’re hopefully doing this full-time, we will be able to write up almost every film for you. But, for now, click on any of the films’ names below to link to the NZFF write-up.
Enjoy!
This year’s festival is broken in to sections (as you’ll see below). Some of the films appeared in more than one section, but we have only listed them once in order to save space – the list is really that big!
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Here’s the full line-up-
AT THE BARRICADES
Better this World (Katie Galloway, Kelly Duane de la Vega, USA, 2011, 98min)
Hot Coffee (Susan Saladoff, USA, 2011, 88mins)
How to Die in Oregon (Peter D. Richardson, USA, 2011, 107min)
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry, USA, 2011, 85min) * MUST SEE
Windfall (Laura Israel, USA, 2011, 83min)
BIG NIGHTS
Arrietty (Yonebayashi Hiromasa, Japan, 2010, 94min)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki, Finland, France, 2011, 93min)
Love Story (Florian Habicht, New Zealand, 2011, 91min)
Mana Waka (New Zealand, 1937, 85min)
Melancholia (Lars Von Trier, Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, 2011, 130min)
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horrors (F.W. Murnau, Germany, 1922, 80min) * MUST SEE
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, USA, 1976, 123min) *MUST SEE
The Kid With A Bike (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, France, Italy, 2011, 87min)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, USA, 2011, 138min) *MUST SEE
FOR ALL AGES
A Cat in Paris (Alain Gagnol, Jean-Loup Felicioli, Belgium, Grance, 2010, 65min)
Animation for Kids 2011 (Australia, Denmark, Germany, Israel, UK, USA, 2010, 59min)
Animation Now 2011 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, The Netherlands, 2010, 86min)
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (Constance Marks, USA, 2011, 75min) *MUST SEE
Supinfocom (74min)
The Great Bear (Esben Toft Jacobsen, Denmark, 2011, 73min)
FRAMING REALITY
Brother Number One (Annie Goldson, New Zealand, 2011, 97min)
Buck (Cindy Meehl, USA, 2011, 90min) *MUST SEE
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, France, UK, 2010, 90min)
Circo (Aaron Schock, Mexico, USA, 2010, 75min)
Guilty Pleasures (Julie Moggan, 2010, 86min)
Jig (Sue Bourne, UK, 2011, 94min)
Khodorkovsky (Cyril Tushi, France, Germany, 2011, 111min)
Moving (Park Klyong, Korea, New Zealand, 2011, 91min)
My Reincarnation (Jennifer Fox, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands, USA, 2010, 102min)
Pina (Wim Wenders, France, Germany, 2011, 103min)
Pink Saris (Kim Longinotto, UK, 2010, 96min)
Position among the Stars (Leonard Retel Helmrich, Indonesia, The Netherlands, 2010, 109min)
Project Nim (UK, 93min)
Something Ventured (Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, USA, 2011, 85min)
Sons of Perdition (Jennilyn Merten, Tyler Measom, USA, 2010, 86min)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Goran Hugo Olsson, Sweden, 2011, 100min)
GO SLOW
Aita (Jose Maria de Orbe, Spain, 2010, 85min)
Nainsukh (Amit Dutta, India, Switzerland, 2010, 82min)
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey, 2011, 150min)
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (Sophie Fiennes, France, The Netherlands, 2010, 105min)
The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, France, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, 201, 146min)
INCREDIBLY STRANGE
13 Assassins (Miike Takashi, Japan, UK, 2010, 126min) *MUST SEE
Cold Fish (Sion Sono, Japan, 2010, 144min)
Hobo With A Shotgun (Jason Eisener, Canada, USA, 2011, 86min) *MUST SEE
I Saw The Devil (Kim Jee-Woon, Korea, 2010, 143min)
Kill List (UK, 2011, 90min)
Knuckle (Ben Wheatley, UK, 2011, 93min)
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (Matthew Bate, Australia, 2011, 90min)
The Innkeepers (Ti West, USA, 2011, 102min)
The Last Circus (Alex de la Iglesia, France, Spain, 2010, 102min) *MUST SEE
The Man From Nowhere (Lee Jeong-beom, Korea, 2010, 119min)
The Woman (Lucky McKee, USA, 2011, 108min)
Troll Hunter (Andre Ovredal, Norway, 2010, 90min) *MUST SEE
INSIDE STORIES
A Boatload of Wild Irishmen (Mac Dara O Curraidhin, Ireland, UK, 2011, 84min)
Miss Representation (Jennifer Siebel Newsom, USA, 2011, 95min)
Page One: Inside The New York Times (Andrew Rossi, USA, 2011, 88min) *MUST SEE
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (Morgan Surlock, USA, 2011, 90min) *MUST SEE
Tabloid (Errol Morris, USA, 2010, 87min)
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujika, Romania, 2010, 180min)
MUSIC
Ain’t In It For My Health: A Film about Levon Helm (Jacob Hatley, USA, 2010, 84min)
Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest (Michael Rapaport, USA, 2011, 98min) *MUST SEE
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (Damien Chazelle, USA, 2009, 82min)
Merle Haggard: Learning to Live with Myself (Gandulf Hennig, Germany, USA, 2010, 83min)
Passione (John Turturro, Italy, USA, 2010, 90min)
Sing Your Song (Susanne Rostock, USA, 2011, 103min)
NEW DIRECTIONS
2.5 Kilometre Mono Action For A Mirage (Alex Monteith, New Zealand, 2011, 4min)
A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj, Spain, Uruguay, 2010, 67min)
At Ellen’s Age (Pia Marais, Germany, 2010, 95min)
Attenberg (Athina Rachel, Tsangari, Greece, 2010, 95min)
Beauty (Oliver Hermanus, 2011, 99min)
Between Worlds (Phillip Dadson, New Zealand, 2011, 10min)
Blue (Stephen Kang, New Zealand, 2011, 14min) *MUST SEE
Breathing (Karl Markovics, Austria, 2011, 93min)
Circumstance (Maryam Keshavarz, Israel, Lebanon, 2011, 105min)
Ebony Society (Tammy David, New Zealand, 2011, 13min)
Go the Dogs (Jackie, Can Beek, New Zealand, 2011, 15min)
Greensplat (Dawn Tuffery, New Zealand, 2011, 11min)
Happy, Happy (Anne Sewitsky, Norway, 2010, 88min)
Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan, Canada, 2010, 95min)
Homegrown: Drama (Various, New Zealand, 2011, 83min)
Homegrown: Flights of Fantasy (Various, New Zealand, 2011, 75min)
Home Grown: Works on Film (Various, New Zealand, 2011, 14min) *MUST SEE
Koro’s Medal (Jamie Barr, New Zealand, 2011, 14min)
Las Acacias (Pablo Giorgelli, Argentina, Spain, 2011, 84min)
Love Like Poison (Katell Quillevere, France, 2010, 92min)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, USA, 2011, 101min) *MUST SEE
Meathead (Sam Holst, New Zealand, 2011, 11min)
Medianeras (Gustavo Taretto, Argentina, Germany, Spain, 2011, 95min)
Michael (Markus Schleinzer, Austria, 2011, 96min)
My Joy (Sergel Loznitsa, Germany, The Netherlands, Ukraine, 2010, 127min)
She Monkeys (Lisa Aschan, Sweden, 84min)
Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh, Australia, 2011, 101min)
Snowtown (Justin Kurzel, Australia, 2011, 120min)
Stick Climbing (Daniel Zimmerman, Austria, Switzerland, 2010, 14min)
Submarine (Richard Ayoade, UK, 2010, 97min)
Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, USA, 2011, 123min) *MUST SEE
The Artists Cinema (Various, Egypt, Germany, India, Lebanon, Lithuania, New Zealand, USA, 2010, 65min)
The Forgiveness of Blood (Joshua Marston, Albania, Denmark, Italy, USA, 2011, 109min)
The Future (Miranda July, Germany, USA, 2011, 91min) *MUST SEE
The Guard (John Michael McDonagh, Ireland, 2011, 96min)
The Yellow See (Na Hong-Kin, Korea, 2010, 140min)
Tiny Furniture (Lena Dunham, USA, 2010, 98min)
Tomboy (Celine Sciamma, France, 2011, 84min)
Tyrannosaur (Paddy Considine, UK, 2011, 91min) *MUST SEE
Viva Riva! (Djo Tunda Wa Munga, Belgium, France, 2010, 98min)
We Talk About Loss (Oliver Page, New Zealand, 2011, 18min)
Weekend (Andrew Haigh, UK, 2011, 96min)
Where Dad Walked (David Coyle, New Zealand, 2010, 9min)
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt (Sally Rowe, USA, 2010, 67min)
Daytime Tiger (Costa Botes, New Zealand, 2011, 92min)
How Much Does Your Building Weight, Mr Foster? (Carlos Carcas, Norberto Lopez Amado, Spain, UK, 2010, 78min)
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (David Gelb, USA, 2011, 83min)
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search for a Kool Place (Alex Gibney, Alison Ellwood, USA, 2011, 107min)
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (Sophie Fiennes, France, The Netherlands, 2010, 105min)
The Mills & the Cross (Lech Majewski, Poland, Sweden, 2011, 91min)
SPORTING LIFE
Autumn Gold (Jan Tenhaven, Germany, 2010, 93min)
Bobby Fischer Against the World (Liz Garbus, UK, USA, 2011, 90min) *MUST SEE
Boxing Gym (Frederick Wiseman, USA, 2010, 91min)
Fire in Babylon (Stevan Riley, UK, 2010, 87min)
Senna (Kapadia Asif, France, UK, USA, 2010, 104min) *MUST SEE
WORLDS OF DIFFERENCE
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, Iran, 2011, 123min)
Anton Chekhov’s The Duel (Dover Kosashvili, USA, 2010, 95min)
Beginners (Mike Mills, USA, 2010, 105min) *MUST SEE
Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia, 2011, 109min)
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Jose Padilha, Brazil, 2010, 116min)
Footnote (Joseph Cedar, Israel, 2011, 103min)
Gantz (Sato Shinsuke, Japan, 2011, 130min)
Gantz: Perfect Answer (Sato Shinsuke, Japan, 2011, 145min)
Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, Canada, France, 2010, 130min)
La dolce vita (Federico Fellini, Italy, 1960, 174min) *MUST SEE
Le quattro volte (Michelangelo Frammartino, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, 2010, 88min)
Let the Bullets Fly (Jiang Wen, China, Hong Kong, 2010, 132min)
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, USA, 2010. 104min) *MUST SEE
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, Germany, 1927, 150min) *MUST SEE
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Rulz, France, Portugal, 2010, 272min)
Norwegian Wood (Tran Anh Hung, Japan, 2010, 133min)
Nothing to Declare (Belgium, France, 2010, 108min)
Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo, Korea, 2010, 80min)
Point Blank (Fred Cavaye, France, 2010, 85min)
Romantics Anonymous (Jean-Pierre Ameris, Belgium, Frances, 2010, 8min)
Silent Souls (Aleksei Fedorchenko, Russia, 2010, 75min)
Sleeping Sickness (Ulrich Kohler, Germany, 2011, 91min)
Space Battleship Yamato (Yamazaki Takashi, Japan, 2010, 131min) *MUST SEE
Terri (Azazel Jacobs, USA, 2011, 105min)
The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo, Korea, 2011, 78min)
The First Grader (Justin Chadwick, UK, 2010, 120min)
The Giants (Bouli Lanners, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, 2011, 84min)
The Round Up (Rose Bosch, France, Germany, Hungary, 2010, 115min)
The Salt of Life (Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy, 2011, 90min)
The Screen Illusion (Mathieu Amalric, France, 2010, 88min)
The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Saverio Costanzo, France, Germany Italy, 2010, 118min)
The Trip (Michael Winterbottom, UK, 2010, 107min) *MUST SEE
The Women on the 6th Floor (Philippe Le Guay, France, 2010, 106min)
Wild River (Elia Kazan, USA, 1960, 115min)
Winter Vacation (Li Hongqi, China, 2010, 91min)
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Wow! I swear that since last year the number of films has increased dramatically – it’s almost like they’ve been breeding. This list is enormous! Is there any film made in the last 2 years we aren’t getting to see??
I can honestly say that this is the best festival line-up yet. I was typing it out last night as I was going from page to page on the NZFF site, and I kept pausing every time a film came up that I’ve been dying to see. There was a lot of pauses. And it goes without saying that it took a fair few hours to actually finish this post.
For more information about the festival, head on over to www.nzff.co.nz
See you at the festival!
So what do you think of the line-up? What films are you most excited to see? What films do you think should’ve made the cut, but didn’t?
Here’s where the 2011 New Zealand International Film Festival is playing:
Auckland: July 14 – 31. Cinemas: Civic, Academy, Rialto, Lido and Bridgeway.
Wellington: July 29 – August 14. Cinemas: The Embassy, Paramount, Penthouse and Te Papa.
Dunedin: August 4 – 21. Cinemas: Regent Theatre and Rialto.
Christchurch: August 11 – 28. Cinemas: TBC
Palmerston North: August 18 – September 4. Cinema: Downtown Cinemas.
Hamilton: August 25 – September 11. Cinema: Lido.
Nelson: September 1 – 18. Cinemas: Suter and State Cinemas.
Tauranga: September 8 – 24. Cinema: Rialto Tauranga.
New Plymouth: September 15 – 28. Cinema: Event Cinemas.
Hawke’s Bay: September 21 – October 9. Cinema: Cinema Gold.
Greymouth: October 13 – 19. Cinema: Regent Theatre.
Masterton: October 27 – November 9. Cinema: Regent 3.
Gisborne: November 3rd – 16th. Cinema: Odeon Cinemas.
Kerikeri: November 10th – 20th. Cinema: Cathay Cinema.
