Our constellation of Māhutonga lights the way to Aotearoa’s storytellers, shining through the Southern Skies via the Southern Cross.
Festival Programme
Films — by Strand
Māhutonga
Crocodile
A collaboration between Arts Laureate Pietra Brettkelly and Nigerian filmmaking collective The Critics, this Berlinale hit is a tribute to the power of imagination, storytelling and creative ingenuity.
Last Man Standing
Gerd Pohlmann offers a timely doc tribute to politician Jim Anderton as a long-haul fighter for Labour’s welfare-based values, against a wave of neoliberal deregulation that fundamentally changed New Zealand politics.
Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
Directing duo THUNDERLIPS add another comedy horror classic to the Kiwi film canon in this tale of an accelerated extraterrestrial pregnancy, packed with some outrageously off-kilter visual effects!