DOCNZ: The New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival

 
 

Films by topic Social/Human Interest

Displaying 31-40 of 70 films.

  • Losers and Winners

    Germany Losers and Winners follows the painstaking disassembly of a German smelting plant, its shipment to and reassembly in China’s industrial heartland.

  • Lost in Liberia

    Germany/Switzerland A young expat is sent by the Red Cross to Liberia in Western Africa, and tries to reunite parents with their children who got separated during the civil war.

  • Lovely RITA

    New Zealand Gaylene Preston’s documentary, Lovely RITA, celebrates New Zealand painter Rita Angus.

  • Main Trunk Country Road Song

    New Zealand Main Trunk Country Road Song tells the story of the threatened closure of the iconic and historic passenger rail service that winds its way over the North Island of NZ.

  • My Country, My Country

    USA Dr. Riyadh, a Sunni political candidate in Iraq’s January 2005 elections, faced the agonizing predicament of one man caught in the tragic conditions of war.

  • My Family Portrait

    Korea Hair loss prompts director Kim to search for his father. The journey reveals complex family relationships and issues of Korean society opening up itself to the West.

  • My Husband Andrei Sakharov

    Latvia/France How did Andrei Sakharov — academician, intellectual, “brains of the Soviet regime" — became a champion of human rights and enemy of the Soviet system?

  • Mystic Ball

    Canada/USA Director Greg Hamilton physically and spiritually journeys into the world of chinlone, an ancient sport from the country of Myanmar where beauty is the focus of the game.

  • No Nukes is Good Nukes!

    New Zealand No Nukes is Good Nukes! is a 45-minute documentary film about the grassroots nuclear free movement in New Zealand.

  • Nomadak Tx

    Spain A road movie doco about two musicians travel around the world with the txalaparta, a unique musical instrument played by two people. A must for world music lovers.