The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani has been busy sitting in the dark, catching as many NZIFF as she can including The Substance on Closing Night. Here is her review and a summary of what was good and not so good at the Film Festival.
Sasquatch Sunset is an absurdist feature dramedy that follows a family of sasquatches in their North American habitat over the span of a year. If you were to read the plot on paper, you would probably think the film is absolutely bonkers, but somehow it just works (despite the absence of dialogue!).
This year’s Film Festival has been a goldmine for music fans with docos and dramas on everyone from Paul Simon to Ryuichi Sakamoto.
13th Floor coverage of the New Zealand International Film Festival continues. The 13th Floor’s Shamin Yazdani shares her thoughts on these three films:
The line-up of films at The Civic on Sunday found the NZIFF sending us to Scotland, Iran and Christchurch
Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat is a dense, complex film that documents a time when the US government used jazz as weapon.
Aussie rockers Midnight Oil get a career-spanning look from director Paul Clarke who has also documented John Farnham and Lillian Roxon.
Doco-meister Alex Gibney gives the life and music of Paul Simon an exhaustive look in this meticulously-made movie titled In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon.
Famed Japanese composer/pianist/actor Ryuichi Sakamoto performs one last time, just months before his death at age 71.
Whānau Mārama New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) has tonight unveiled the 105 films, including 19 shorts, in the 2024 line-up. The event opens in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington on 31 July, before touring nine other centres across the country until 4 September.