A riveting animated tale of the fall of the Berlin Wall – and people brave enough to change the world – told through the eyes of a courageous 12-year-old girl.
Festival Programme
Films — by Genre
- Activism
- Adventure
- Americana
- Artist Cinema
- Based on Books
- Comedy
- Coming of Age
- Crime
- Crossing Borders
- Dance
- Documentary
- Fashion
- Feminism
- Films about Films
- Found Footage
- Historical
- Horror
- Human Rights
- Indigenous
- LGBTQIA+
- Love Stories
- Music
- Politics
- Rebellion
- Religion
- Retro
- Rural Life
- Science Fiction
- Seniors
- Sexuality
- Sports and Gaming
- Theatre
- Travel
- WTF?
- War Zones
- Wellbeing
- Youth
Politics
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The Kingmaker
Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles, NZIFF12) harnesses extraordinary access and the boastful, unrepentant nature of her subject, Imelda Marcos, in this unsettling chronicle of ill-gotten wealth and political corruption.
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Mayor
By turns comedic and Kafkaesque, this fly-on-the-wall doco observes the fortunes of Ramallah, an epicentre of Palestinian commerce and culture, and its tireless mayor, whose work to better the city is met with danger and frustration.
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The Perfect Candidate
Saudi superstar director Haifaa Al-Mansour’s latest is a winning homecoming; a seriocomic look at the daily struggles of a doctor running for council – and her fellow women and outsiders – within an Islamic society undergoing dramatic change.
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State Funeral
Compiling rare found-footage into an unnerving visual essay on Stalin’s cult of personality, this disquieting film observes the notorious Soviet leader’s 1953 funeral procession – and with it, the end spectacle of a tyrannical regime.
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While at War
Mientras dure la guerra
The acclaimed director of The Sea Inside returns with his most handsomely mounted film yet, an expansive yet deep-focus drama detailing events around the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Franco’s fascist dictatorship.