DOCNZ: The New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival

 
 

World Cinema

Top-rated documentaries with astonishing, daring, thought provoking and intimate tales of individuals and communities they live in.

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  • An African Election

    USA/Switzerland An African Election is a suspenseful political drama that follows the twists and turns of the 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa.

  • Dancing with the Devil

    UK Oscar, Emmy and BAFTA award-winning director Jon Blair takes us into the favelas for a close look at some of Rio de Janeiro’s most wanted men. Real life ‘City of…

  • Darwin

    Switzerland Darwin is an isolated community in Death Valley, California. The population of 35 drop-outs & misfits live without a government, a church, jobs, or children.

  • Eichmann’s End — Love, Treachery, Death

    Germany Gripping recreation of how a nearly-blind Holocaust survivor identifies notorious and elusive WWll criminal Eichmann in Argentina.

  • Granito

    USA Can a film tip the scales of justice in Guatemala? 25 years ago Pamela Yates filmed “When the Mountain Trembles”, now her footage is pivotal to lives of key characters.

  • Living Skin

    Egypt Director Saleh’s film is an unflinching investigation into the dire living and working conditions of child workers in the manufacture of natural leather products.

  • Precious Life

    Israel An Israeli journalist meditates on Middle East politics through the paradox of a Palestinian mother seeking to save her ailing infant with the help of an Israeli doctor.

  • Rainmakers

    Netherlands Four ordinary people in different parts of China become unlikely environmental activists by refusing to accept the ongoing ecological destruction of their homeland.

  • Thieves by Law

    Germany/Israel/Spain Thieves by Law follows three former kingpins of the Russian mafia inside the world’s most notorious criminal organization.

 
  
 
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