Films by Collection

Jess Feast

My NZIFF selections tend to favour documentaries and I always look forward to seeing what’s been chosen from the rich global offerings. It’s one of the best winter holidays I can imagine, to cosy up and explore the world from the comfort of the cinema. I’m also really looking forward to taking my wee boy to Toons for Tots at the Embassy - what a treat!

Jess Feast is Wellington based director. Her 2013 documentary Gardening with Soul has its world premiere at NZIFF 2013.

Pulp: a Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets

Florian Habicht

NZer Florian Habicht’s acclaimed collaboration with Jarvis Cocker fixes the triumphant 2012 concert billed as Pulp’s last ever within a loving portrait of Sheffield and Sheffielders.

The Wonders

Le meraviglie

Alice Rohrwacher

This intimate portrait of a marvellously idiosyncratic family of beekeepers in the Italian countryside is a classic picture of children growing up in nature – and won its young director the Grand Prix at Cannes.

Tender

Lynette Wallworth

In this remarkably rewarding documentary we meet a feisty community group in Port Kembla, NSW that sets out to bypass the corporate drivers of the funeral industry and set up their own non-profit funeral business.

Sepideh - Reaching for the Stars

Sepideh – Drømmen om stjernerne

Berit Madsen

In a provincial town in Iran, young Sepideh dreams of becoming an astronomer, although almost no one she knows thinks this a fit pursuit for a young woman. Filmed over several years, this doco traces her surprising progress.