DOCNZ: The New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival

 
 

Films by topic Arts

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  • Abel Raises Cain

    USA For over 40 years, Alan Abel reigned supreme as America’s most notorious prankster. Through the eyes of his daughter, we understand the rationale behind the man.

  • Counting Headz: South Afrika’s Sistaz in Hip-Hop

    South Africa/Canada Three women in South Africa’s emerging hip-hop scene share their struggles and victories while remaining true to their culture, sexuality, and family expectations.

  • Description of a Memory

    Israel Nearly 50 years after Chris Marker’s 1960 impressionist film about Israel, "Description d'un combat", Dan Geva creates a new cinematic dialogue with the original…

  • 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.

  • Highnote

    New Zealand Conductor Karen Grylls and 46 members of the NZ Youth Choir travel through Eastern Europe and compete at the 2004 International Choral Competition in Gorizia, Italy.

  • In the Company of Actors

    Australia From a rehearsal in Sydney through to opening night in New York, a company of actors including Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving reveals the magic of creating theatre.

  • In the Night Kitchen

    New Zealand Journey with Auckland installation artist John Radford, as he and his team stealthily plaster, shape and sculpt tonnes of clay over a public fountain in one night.

  • JR: Street Expo

    The Netherlands JR — Street Expo follows French documentary photographer JR as he photographs the Paris ghettoes, and brightens up the streets by illegally pasting posters of his…

  • Lovely RITA

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

  • The Old Stores

    Israel This is the story of a number of old stores in modern-day Tel Aviv-Jaffa. The film passes between the stores and unfolds an aged world of tradition and family businesses.