DOCNZ: The New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival

 
 

Spotlight: All in the Family

Family skeletons, unconventional father-son relationship, a contemporary love story and cross cultural adoption take the stage in this year’s spotlight.

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  • All My Fathers

    Germany A film about truth, courage and responsibility. Setting out on a quest for his biological father, a young man reveals a well-kept family secret.

  • Beyond This Place

    Switzerland In Beyond This Place, director/writer Kaleo La Belle, attempts to re-connect with his absentee hippie father on a 500 mile cycling trip from Portland to Spirit Lake.

  • CHANDANI — The Daughter of the Elephant Whisperer

    Germany Chandani wants to become a Mahout, an elephant trainer, like her father. He decides to give her a chance in the male profession. Sri Lanka’s answer to Whale Rider.

  • I Shot My Love

    Israel/Germany Award-winning Heymann tells a personal but universal love story. It explores the relationship between him, his intensely Israeli mother and his German boyfriend.

  • Orchids — My Intersex Adventure

    Australia Filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on her journey of self-discovery to reconcile the past shame and family secrecy surrounding her intersex condition.

  • The Long Goodbye

    Australia Filmed over a 3-year period, the documentary celebrates the capacity of the human spirit to search for meaning and hope when the end is known and inescapable.

  • Wo Ai Ni Mommy

    USA Wo Ai Ni Mommy is a story of gain and loss, woven together by the growing bond between an American Jewish mother and her young adopted Chinese daughter.

 
  
 
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