After missing her flight to a prestigious internship, an anxiety-ridden architecture grad fakes being in New York while lying low in her home town scrounging for another ticket.
Festival Programme
Films — by Genre
- Action
- Activism
- Animals
- Animation
- Artists
- Award Winners
- Bad Kids
- Based on Books
- Belief
- Comedy
- Coming of Age
- Dance
- Documentary
- Environment
- Family Stories
- Feminism
- Films about Films
- Food and Beverage
- Historical
- Horror
- Human Rights
- Incarcerated
- Indigenous
- Jewish
- LGBTQI+
- Love Stories
- Masters
- Migration
- Music
- Māori/Pacific
- Philosophy
- Photography
- Politics
- Retro
- Science Fiction
- Sex and Sexuality
- Style
- Thrillers
- Travel
- WTF?
- War Zones
- Westerns
- Women Make Docs
- Women Make Features
- Writers
Māori/Pacific
Patu!
Patu! is the definitive film of the 1981 Springbok tour protests, a technically complex piece of guerrilla filmmaking that explicitly connects apartheid abroad and racism at home. Newly preserved by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
Rohe Kōreporepo – The Swamp, the Sacred Place
An uplifting documentary featuring Māori and Pākehā kaitiaki repo, or swamp guardians, working across the motu to restore Aotearoa’s precious wetlands.