Go beyond Bollywood with Indian movies at NZIFF
Experience the vibrant lights of traditional and contemporary Indian culture at this year’s, Whanau Marama: New Zealand International Film Festival, airing in 12 cities across New Zealand.
Featuring seven Indian films of contemporary filmmakers from the region and beyond, the festival brings together an eclectic collection of movies, that portray stories about India’s natural world and urban sprawl to political history juxtaposed with a modern social fabric, stories of personal transformation and artful expressionism to sober reportage.
3 Indian movies that you can still watch at the New Zealand International Film Festival
Godavari, directed by Nikhil Mahajan
Every month Nishikant walks through his town of Nashik, collecting rent for his family of landowners. Each repetition of the cycle only intensifies his bitterness and anger towards his tenants, his parents, his daughter, and the river that runs through the centre of Nashik, the Godavari. Just as his anger threatens to boil over, his family is confronted with a series of tragedies and revelations that shift their lives and their world into clearer focus.
Wellington: November 18, 130pm at Penthouse Cinema; November 21 at 330pm at Penthouse Cinema
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2021/wellington/godavari/
A Night of Knowing Nothing, directed by Payal Kapadia
“One of the year’s most electrifying debuts – and winner of the best documentary award at Cannes – Payal Kapadia’s hybrid feature A Night of Knowing Nothing is a fever dream of impossible love tied to a broader reflection on contemporary India. Structured around letters from an unseen protagonist, L, directed to her estranged lover, K, Kapadia’s film is at once grand and contained, weaving fragments of a romance and moments of domestic life with handheld documentary footage captured around the country over several years.
In this fervent cinétract on love and revolt, which doubles as a love letter to cinema itself, essayistic and epistolary forms suffuse the burnished, chiaroscuro images with both yearning and introspection. Utilizing a variety of formats and formal approaches in service of an entrancing, cohesive whole, the film offers a rich and sensual interplay between sound and image that heightens its atmospheric textures. The dialectic of presence and absence fuels the paradoxical conundrum of capturing the flow of history, while the fitting leitmotif of dancing courses through the film with unbridled energy.
Wellington: November 13, 11am at Light House Cuba; November 16, 4pm at Lighthouse Cuba
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2021/wellington/a-night-of-knowing-nothing/
Writing With Fire 2021, directed by Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh
The story of a fearless journalist devoted to exposing injustice is well-tread cinematic ground, yet it feels as fresh and riveting as ever in Writing with Fire, the debut feature from co-directors Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas.
The award-winning documentary tells the story of the women behind India’s only all-female news network, Khabar Lahariya, or ‘Waves of News’. The film follows unflinching chief reporter Meera Devi and her team as, having kept the newspaper going for 14 years, they begin a transition from print to digital in a determined effort to move with the times.
Christchurch: November 19, 2:30pm at Lumiere Cinemas, Bernhardt
Dunedin: November 17, 10:45am at Rialto Cinemas, Dunedin
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2021/wellington/writing-with-fire/
NZIFF has worked with partner venues and cinemas around the country to be able to present the festival under the new Alert Levels requirements in 12 towns and cities. Due to level 3 restrictions, Auckland Edition of the festival was cancelled.
Experience the vibrant lights of traditional and contemporary Indian culture at this year’s, Whanau Marama: New Zealand International Film Festival, airing in 12 cities across New Zealand.
Featuring seven Indian films of contemporary filmmakers from the region and beyond, the festival brings...
Experience the vibrant lights of traditional and contemporary Indian culture at this year’s, Whanau Marama: New Zealand International Film Festival, airing in 12 cities across New Zealand.
Featuring seven Indian films of contemporary filmmakers from the region and beyond, the festival brings together an eclectic collection of movies, that portray stories about India’s natural world and urban sprawl to political history juxtaposed with a modern social fabric, stories of personal transformation and artful expressionism to sober reportage.
3 Indian movies that you can still watch at the New Zealand International Film Festival
Godavari, directed by Nikhil Mahajan
Every month Nishikant walks through his town of Nashik, collecting rent for his family of landowners. Each repetition of the cycle only intensifies his bitterness and anger towards his tenants, his parents, his daughter, and the river that runs through the centre of Nashik, the Godavari. Just as his anger threatens to boil over, his family is confronted with a series of tragedies and revelations that shift their lives and their world into clearer focus.
Wellington: November 18, 130pm at Penthouse Cinema; November 21 at 330pm at Penthouse Cinema
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2021/wellington/godavari/
A Night of Knowing Nothing, directed by Payal Kapadia
“One of the year’s most electrifying debuts – and winner of the best documentary award at Cannes – Payal Kapadia’s hybrid feature A Night of Knowing Nothing is a fever dream of impossible love tied to a broader reflection on contemporary India. Structured around letters from an unseen protagonist, L, directed to her estranged lover, K, Kapadia’s film is at once grand and contained, weaving fragments of a romance and moments of domestic life with handheld documentary footage captured around the country over several years.
In this fervent cinétract on love and revolt, which doubles as a love letter to cinema itself, essayistic and epistolary forms suffuse the burnished, chiaroscuro images with both yearning and introspection. Utilizing a variety of formats and formal approaches in service of an entrancing, cohesive whole, the film offers a rich and sensual interplay between sound and image that heightens its atmospheric textures. The dialectic of presence and absence fuels the paradoxical conundrum of capturing the flow of history, while the fitting leitmotif of dancing courses through the film with unbridled energy.
Wellington: November 13, 11am at Light House Cuba; November 16, 4pm at Lighthouse Cuba
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2021/wellington/a-night-of-knowing-nothing/
Writing With Fire 2021, directed by Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh
The story of a fearless journalist devoted to exposing injustice is well-tread cinematic ground, yet it feels as fresh and riveting as ever in Writing with Fire, the debut feature from co-directors Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas.
The award-winning documentary tells the story of the women behind India’s only all-female news network, Khabar Lahariya, or ‘Waves of News’. The film follows unflinching chief reporter Meera Devi and her team as, having kept the newspaper going for 14 years, they begin a transition from print to digital in a determined effort to move with the times.
Christchurch: November 19, 2:30pm at Lumiere Cinemas, Bernhardt
Dunedin: November 17, 10:45am at Rialto Cinemas, Dunedin
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2021/wellington/writing-with-fire/
NZIFF has worked with partner venues and cinemas around the country to be able to present the festival under the new Alert Levels requirements in 12 towns and cities. Due to level 3 restrictions, Auckland Edition of the festival was cancelled.
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