New Zealand International Film Festival 2022

Award winning writer/director Hlynur Pálmason’s follow-up to his breakout hit A White, White Day is a stunning historical drama about a Danish priest who made a pilgrimage across Iceland in the late 1800s to build a church.

Awarded the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival, Carla Simón's superb follow up to her popular debut Summer 1993 charts a multi-generational Catalan farming family who face eviction and an uncertain future.

Léa Seydoux stars in the sensitive and deeply-personal from acclaimed writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve (Things To Come), as a single mother trying to balance the emotional needs of her parents, her child and herself.

Celebrated as one of the major European discoveries of the year, writer/director Laura Wandel’s extraordinary, sit-up-and-take-notice debut explores the complex world of children, as navigated by a sensitive, empathetic seven-year-old girl.

Cinema icons Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon share the big screen for the first time in the scorching romantic drama from Claire Denis, a blazing story about a passionate, complicated woman caught between two very different men.

The marvellous Laure Calamy (Antoinette in the Cévennes) stars in Eric Gravel’s gripping and award-winning drama, as a single woman pushed to her limits when the delicate balance between her home and work life is upended.

An all-star cast dazzles in the spectacular and exhilarating film by Xavier Giannoli (The Singer, Marguerite), an adaptation of Balzac’s classic novel about a young idealist who learns that anything can be bought and sold.

Acclaimed at Cannes, writer/director Leyla Bouzid’s enchanting and seductive romance depicts a university student torn between his desire for a classmate and his deeply-held ideals of cultural and social propriety.