MIFF 2025: Marlon Williams: Two Worlds – Ngā Ao E Rua (2025)
Covering the entire four-year period of Marlon Williams writing his album Te Whare Tīwekaweka in te reo Māori as it was part of his culture that he has acknowledged in the past but had not
MIFF 2025: Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)
Pavel Talankin a teacher and the official school videographer in the industrial town of Karabash loved his life there and the school until the war against Ukraine started and he found himself having to film
MIFF 2025: By Design (2025)
After her weekly lunch with her friends Camille (Juliette Lewis) becomes obsessed with a chair at a showroom they visit and never buy stuff from. Coming back the next day with the money she is
MIFF 2025: The Rivals of Amziah King (2025)
Amziah King (Matthew McConaughey) an apiarist and all-round community-minded type of guy is asked by police to try and identify a barrel of stolen honey as they know he knows the ways and that other
MIFF 2025: Not Only Fred Dagg But Also John Clarke (2025)
There is no way I could review this without coming out looking like a smart arse and I know Lorin isn’t too keen on some people saying “our Lorin” as I said in the review
MIFF 2025: Heads or Tails? (2025)
Original title: Testa o Croce? While touring in regional Italy in the late 1800s, ‘Buffalo’ Bill Cody (John C Reilly) makes a bet with a local big-wig that his horse riders can beat the local
MIFF 2025: TWST – Things We Said Today (2024)
Set in the lead-up to the Beatles concert at Shea Stadium in New York in 1965 budding writer Geoffrey and Beatlemaniac Judith mill around in the week leading up to it. What Geoffrey says about
MIFF 2025: Looking for Alibrandi (2000)
Quite apart from the fact that recapping the plot of this movie is entirely pointless as everyone has either read it or watched the movie many times by this point, I only decided to go
MIFF 2025: Animation Shorts
Caries (2025) Original title: Karies A wild shaman of woman does cave paintings on the white cave walls that turn out to be tooth decay in a weather presenter’s mouth and she has to
MIFF 2025: WTF Shorts
The Shirt off Your Back (2025) Two young boys go off on a walk and meet a weird man in a van who wants their jersey. As happens with these stories it changes every time