Eighteen films (yes, eighteen!) from the recent Cannes Film Festival will be screened at our very own New Zealand International Film Festival, beginning in July. Once again God’s Own is one of the first countries, if not the first, to screen these film outside France. Kudos, NZIFF.
Films from the “In Competition” section at Cannes include: Heli (which nabbed the Best Director award for Amat Escalante), A Touch of Sin (winner of Best Screenplay), and The Past (Asghar Farhadi‘s follow up to his acclaimed film A Separation).
Steven Soderberg‘s Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, will grace our screens – Michael Douglas putting in a star turn as the flamboyant ivory-tickler. And Jury Award winner Like Father, Like Son from Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda (I Wish) also makes it across.
Other notable films fresh from the French Rivera include: The Bling Ring, Sofia Coppola‘s true life tale of a celebrity-obsessed teenage crime syndicate, and Ilo Ilo, which won the Camera d’Or (not to be confused with the Palme d’Or) for best film in all of Cannes.
Notable absentees are Palme d’Or winner Blue is the Warmest Colour and Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Only God Forgives. However the latter gets a general release on 1 August, so we don’t miss out there. Fingers crossed the former gets a quick release too.
Here’s the full list of Cannes flicks coming our way: (Click on the link to head to their NZIFF Page)
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IN COMPETITION
Heli
France, Germany, Mexico, The Netherlands | 105 minutes | Drama
Director: Amat Escalante (Los bastardos, Sangre)
A Touch of Sin
China, Japan | 133 minutes | Drama
Director: Jia Zhang-ke (Still Life, The World)
Like Father, Like Son
Japan | 120 minutes | Drama
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu (I Wish, Still Walking)
The Past
France, Italy | 130 minutes | Drama
Director: Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, About Elly)
The Great Beauty
France, Italy | 140 minutes | Comedy, Drama
Director: Paolo Sorrentino (This Must Be The Place, Il Divo)
Behind the Candelabra
USA | 118 minutes | Drama, Biography, Romance
Director: Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Eleven, Traffic)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Omar
Palestine | 94 minutes | Thriller
Director: Hany Abu-Assad (The Courier, Paradise Now)
The Bling Ring
USA | 90 minutes | Drama, Crime
Director: Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, Somewhere)
My Sweet Pepper Land
France, Germany, Iraq, Turkey | 95 minutes | Drama
Director: Hiner Saleem (Apres la chute, Beneath the Rooftops of Paris)
The Missing Picture
Cambodia, France | 90 minutes | Drama, History
Director: Rithy Panh (Gibier d’elevage, The Sea Wall)
Norte, The End of History
Philippines | 250 minutes | Drama
Director: Lav Diaz (Woman of the Wind, Century of Birthing)
Stranger by the Lake
France | 97 minutes | Drama
Director: Alain Guiraudie (The Old Dream That Moves, The King of Escape)
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
Ilo Ilo
Singapore | 99 minutes | Drama
Director: Anthony Chen (debut feature)
The Dance of Reality
France, Chile | 130 minutes | Biography
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky (Santa Sangre, The Holy Mountain)
The Selfish Giant
UK | 93 minutes | Drama
Director: Clio Barnard (The Arbor)
CANNES CLASSICS
Weekend of a Champion
France, UK | 93 minutes | Documentary
Directors: Frank Simon (The Queen)
Charulata
India | 117 minutes | Drama, Romance
Director: Satyakit Ray (The Stranger, The Chess Player)
Monsoon Shootout
India, UK, The Netherlands | 88 minutes | Thriller
Director: Amit Kumar (The Warrior, The Bypass)
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Great selection hey?
The 2013 New Zealand International Film festival is currently confirmed to screen in the following locations:
Auckland: 18 July – 4 August
Wellington: 26 July – 11 August
Christchurch: 1 – 18 August
Dunedin: 8 – 25 August
Gore: 14 – 25 August
Palmerston North: 15 August – 1 September
Hamilton: 22 August – 15 September
Nelson: 28 August – 15 September
Tauranga: 12 – 29 September
Masterton: 16 – 30 October
Hawke’s Bay: 16 October – 3 November
New Plymouth: 24 October – 6 November
The programme for NZIFF Auckland will be released Tuesday 25 June, and the Wellington programme on 28 June. Auckland tickets will be available from 28 June, with Wellington tickets available from Tuesday 2 July.
As always, head on over to the official NZIFF site (here) for more information.
