DOCNZ: The New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival

 
 

Best of Fest

A selection of recent popular, outstanding and award-winning documentaries from around the globe.

Displaying 1-9 of 9 films.

  

  • A Small Act

    USA When Holocaust survivor Hilde Back sponsored a young, rural Kenyan student, she certainly never expected to hear back from him. But years later, she does.

  • American Radical -The Trials of Norman Finkelstein

    USA An insightful and engaging documentary that reveals a comlex and supremely lonely figure whos self-distructive nature often underminds his academic credibility.

  • Budrus

    Israel/Palestinian Territorries/USA Budrus follows a Palestinian leader who unites Fatah, Hamas and Israelis in an unarmed movement to save his village from destruction.

  • Enemies of the People

    Cambodia/UK In the most harrowing and compelling personal film of our time, this Academy Award shortlisted film exposes for the first time the truth behind Cambodia’s genocide.

  • Into Eternity

    Denmark/Finland Captivating, wondrous and extremely frightening, this feature documentary takes viewers on a journey never seen before into the underworld and into the future.

  • My Kidnapper

    UK In 2003, 8 backpackers were kidnapped in the Colombian jungle. My Kidnapper follows 4 of the hostages returning to the place where they lived their worst nightmares.

  • My Perestroika

    USA/UK My Perestroika is an intimate and heartfelt portrait of the last generation of Soviet children behind the Iron Curtain, their hopes and achievements.

  • Sins of My Father

    Argentina/Colombia/USA/UK Inspiring film capturing the historic moment when the son of Pablo Escobar and the sons of his victims meet to heal wounds that have haunted them all for decades.

  • Steam of Life

    Finland Steam of Life reveals that men are most likely to expose their inner-most emotions, not when they’re drunk at a bar, but when they’re naked in a sauna.

 
  
 
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