The New Zealand International Film Festival is coming back to New Zealand !

The International Film Festival is back to tour New Zealand and show this year 33 recent French (and French co-productions) movies and documentaries. Once again, kiwis will have the occasion to discover this quality selection in the best conditions. On this edition, the productions of many recognized French directors rank in the 3rd place, behind United States and New Zealand.

The festival highlights feature : - The much appreciated film by Jacques Audiard, A Prophet, awarded at the 2010 Cannes Festival
 Gainsbourg, recently released in France,
 Babies, directed by Thomas Balmès and produced by Alain Chabat Let’s bet that these babies from all over the world will move you.

See all dates below :

Auckland Jul 8 - 25 Christchurch Jul 29 - Aug 15 Dunedin Jul 23 - Aug 8 Gisborne Oct 28 - Nov 10 Greymouth Oct 4 - 10 Hamilton Aug 12 - 29 Kerikeri Nov 11 - 24 Masterton Oct 13 - 27 Napier Aug 18 - Sep 5 Nelson Sep 9 - 23 New Plymouth Sep 2 - 15 Palmerston North Aug 5 - 22 Tauranga Aug 26 - 8 Wellington Jul 16 - Aug 1 Whangarei Nov 4 - 17

For more information : www.nzff.co.nz

French movies shown this year :

BIG NIGHTS

Copie conforme – Abbas Kiarostami Certified copy – France / Italy “Absolutely gorgeous… It’s that rare marvel : a film as pleasurable as it is sophisticated” Matt Noller, Now

Carlos – Olivier Assayas Carlos - France / Germany “This enthrailling portrait of the terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal lasts for over five hours and doesn’t contain a wasted minute” Sukhdev Sandhu, The Telegraph

Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) – Joann Sfar Gainsbourg - France “A Widly creative take on the life of notorious French composer, lyricist and provocateur Serge Gainsbourg” Lisa Nesselson, Screendaily.

L’illusioniste - Sylvain Chomet The Illusionist – UK / France “This is the work of a master… and one of the most gorgeous evocations of Scotland in cinema history” Edinburgh International Film festival

Océans – Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud Oceans - France / Spain / Switzerland “This is not just another world, it’s an alien privileged to get a look inside” Kenneth Turan, LA Times

WORLDS OF DIFFERENCE

Rompecabezas – Natalia Smirnoff Puzzle - Argentina / France

Un homme qui crie – Mahamat Saleh Haroun A Screaming Man – Chad / France / Belgium

36 vues du pic Saint-Loup - Jacques Rivette Around a small mountain – France / Italy

Le Concert – Radu Mihaileanu The Concert – France / Romania / Belgium / Italy

L’affaire Farewell – Christian Carion Farewell - France This true story of high-level Cold War espionage dramatises events surrounding the man French intelligence codenamed Farewell

Lourdes – Jessica Hausner Lourdes – Austria / France / Germany

Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante – Claude Miller, Nathan Miller I’m glad my mother is alive - France Mammuth – Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern Mammuth - France

Un prophète – Jacques Audiard A prophet – France / Italy “Audiard’s sleek, chic and unstoppable prison film turns the gangster genre inside out” Nick Bradshaw, Sight and sound.

White material – Claire Denis White Material - France “This emotionally devastating drama… really did make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up” Nick James, Sight and sound

The Time that remains – Elia Suleiman The time that remains – Palestine / France / Belgium / Italy O Estranho Caso de Angelica – Manoel De Oliveira The strange case of Angelica – Portugal / Spain / France / Brazil

Morrer como um homem – Joao Pedro Rodrigues To Die like a man – Portugal / France

Celda 211– Daniel Monzon Cell 211 – Spain / France

The Ghost writer – Roman Polanski The Ghost Writer – UK / France / Germany

NEW DIRECTIONS

Le père de mes enfants – Mia Hansen-love Father of my children - France

Levanone – Samuel Maoz Lebanon – Israel / France / Germany

The tree – Julie Bertuccelli The Tree – France / Australia

Contracorriente – Javier Fuentes-Leon Undertow – Peru / Colombia / France / Germany

Zanan bedoone mardan– Shirin Neshat Women without men – Germany / Austria / France

IN PRAISE OF SLOW CINEMA

Ne change rien – Pedro Costa Ne change rien – Portugal / France

A Religiosa Portuguesa – Eugène Green The Portuguese Nun – Portugal / France

FRAMING REALITY

Babies - France

Nostalgia for the light – Patricio Guzman Nostalgia de la Luz – Chile/ France / Spain / Germany

MUSIC & DANCE

La danse : le ballet de l’opéra de Paris – Frederik Wiseman La Danse : The Paris Opera Ballet – France / USA

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST

Deux de la vague – Emmanuel Laurent Two in the wave - France

INCREDIBLY STRANGE

Amer – Hélène Cattet, Bruno ForzaniAmer – France / Belgium

Panique au village – Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar A Town called Panic –Belgium / France / Luxembourg