DOCNZ: The New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival

 
 

Films by topic Social/Human Interest

Displaying 11-20 of 70 films.

  • Crude Impact

    USA This film uncovers the complex entanglement of the fate of humankind with its fierce dependence on petroleum providing vital inspiration for change.

  • Cry Sea

    Italy Cry Sea portrays the conflict between European and local fishermen in the Senegalese waters, as they compete for portions of a depleting stock of fish.

  • Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story

    New Zealand/South Africa/Australia South African political satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys opens his previously off-limits inner world to NZ writer-director Julian Shaw.

  • Do Not Resuscitate

    Australia Do Not Resuscitate is a film about the truths people face when dealing with their own mortality. Steve, Mary and Judy want the right to choose how and when they die.

  • Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears

    UK A moving, tender and surprisingly funny account of two feisty and rebellious London Bangladeshi sisters who go "back home" against their will for arranged marriages.

  • The Exchange

    Belgium Through music, six men from Palestinian territories and Israel provide children and people of their cities a refuge from the strife of their everyday life.

  • Fish & Ships

    New Zealand Fish and Ships investigates the fishing industry set in Island Bay with its rich marine history, and told from the POV of fishermen descended from the original pioneers.

  • Freeheld

    USA Lieutenant Laurel Hester, a dying New Jersey police officer, fights to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree.

  • Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

    USA Ghosts of Abu Ghraib demands that the US examine its conscience as a nation as it explores the many troubling questions behind the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

  • The Godmachine

    New Zealand/Germany An episodic documentary on the global bicycle messenger community and their dream of a future city without cars.