Complete films screened by NZIFF 1979-1999
The Wellington Film Festival evolving into the New Zealand International Film Festival
Excluding some short and New Zealand films that do not appear on IMDb.
Excluding some short and New Zealand films that do not appear on IMDb.
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- DirectorCaroline MourisFrank MourisAn aggressive arrow attempts to remove a little white dot from a space they both share. The dot triumphs, however, through passive resistance and the flexibility which allows it to adapt to other forms.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorMichael J. HallerStarsBruce Wapen"Bruce," a materialistic happenin' dude shows us around his swingin' pad, showing off his personal effects.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorGeorge GriffinInspired by Eadweard Muybridge's series of photographs entitled "Running Man", Griffin creates a whimsical animated poem, using a variety of graphic styles.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorSam NeillStarsAlan BruntonJohn DaviesMartin EdmondA documentary about the New Zealand theatre troupe "Red Mole".Red Mole on the Road
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorDavid SimsStarsPatric CareyBernard KearnsMichael McGrathEighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsDirk BogardeEllen BurstynJohn GielgudA dying writer bases his last book on his own perception of his family.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorRené ViénetTaking rare archives, texts and extracts from speeches, René Viénet shows Mao Tse-tung in an unusual light, the fate of his mythology.Mao By Mao
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorAnja BreienStarsLil TerseliusStefan EkmanKatarina GustafssonArvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorWill VintonMountain Music illustrates what happens when technology gets too advanced too soon.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorHarry KümelStarsHugo Van Den BergheWilleke van AmmelrooyBert AndréThe Lost Paradise
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorLarry ClarkStarsNathaniel TaylorClarence MusePamela JonesA jazz musician joins a revolution upon his release from prison.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorLes BlankStarsKid ThomasAllen ToussaintBlue Lu BarkerA look at the spirit of New Orleans. First a funeral: Allen Toussaint explains that you arrive slow and cut up afterwards. Then it's food, with a lesson in eating crayfish at Frankie and Johnny's. Next, a St. Patrick's Day party: New Orleans celebrates holidays on the streets. Then it's preparation for Mardi gras, with roots in slave days, when slaves gathered on Sundays to prepare for the one holiday they could celebrate. The Wild Tchoupitoulas society makes Indian costumes to honor the help Indians gave slaves. At Mardi gras, we're with this society parading, singing, and partying. We end with the annual parade for St. Joseph, the saint of the people. More music, dance and ritual.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorTengiz AbuladzeStarsLika KavzharadzeIosif JachvlianiZaza KolelishviliThis film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams...Tree of Desire
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorDonald BrittainBarrie HowellsDouglas KieferStarsDonald BrittainUp to age forty-five, Fritz Schumacher, economist, technologist and lecturer, was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out of all proportion to human need. Author of 'Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered' and founder of the London-based Intermediate Technology Development Group, he championed the cause of "appropriate" technology. The film brings us into contact with this gentle revolutionary a few months before his death.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsThérèse LiotardValérie MairesseRobert DadièsThe lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorRichard BennerStarsCraig RussellHollis McLarenRichert EasleyA story about a female impersonator who rooms with a pregnant schizophrenic.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorBryan ForbesStarsKatharine RossPaula PrentissPeter MastersonJoanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorWolfgang PetersenStarsJürgen ProchnowErnst HannawaldWerner SchwuchowThomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for and seduces inmate Martin. When Martin is released from jail, they try to build a relationship and a life together but no one will let them alone.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorMichael PattinsonStarsDebbie BeckfeldSusan CameronLiddy ClarkAn extravagantly produced exercise in slapstick in a turn-of-the-century setting, as the careers of a lovelorn, bumbling assistant photographer, and a drunken Governor-General cross paths.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorPierre SchoendoerfferStarsJean RochefortClaude RichJacques PerrinA dying mariner, full of regret, is looking for his longtime colleague somewhere on the high seas.The Crab Drum
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorErwin KeuschStarsBernd TauberGünter LamprechtMaria LuccaA young apprentice, Werner Wild, arrives in a small village in Bavaria to work in the bakery of Georg Baum.The Baker's Bread
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorCarlos SauraStarsGeraldine ChaplinFernando ReyIsabel MestresElisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis of her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill and she decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with his father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa takes a decision about her life.Elisa My Love
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979 - DirectorAlan RudolphStarsGeraldine ChaplinAnthony PerkinsMoses GunnJust released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorFrancis DeronJean-Paul TchangRené ViénetA Shakespearian story full of noise and fury, but that means something. In the role of the "Grand Helmsman", Mao ZeDong himself, in the role of Madame Mao, famous actress Lan Ping, aka Jian Qing, as closest comrade in arms, traitor Lin Piao. Co-star-ring the vanished glories of the "Gang of Four". In the role of the proletariat, the Worker XXX. The costumes, the make-up, the gala dinners were kindly provided by the Maoist bureaucracy. Historical tricks: Third International, American imperialism, Jean Chesneaux, the Maoist bureaucracy, etc. The directors thank the People's Liberation Army for its invaluable assistance in eliminating the traitor Lin Piao. As writer Simon Leyes said: "The film gives us back the hysterical liturgies and medieval thaumaturgies of the cult of Mao".Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsPiotr GarlickiZbigniew ZapasiewiczChristine PaulA group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in his liberal views by Jakub, who likes to manipulate people. There is a confrontation from the beginning when Jaroslaw allows to attend the seminar a student who presents the views not according to the official line. In the end, a jury prize is given to mediocre paper, while the suspected school of thought still draws a recommendation. Finally the deputy rector arrives for the closing ceremonies, and since he disfavors the line of thought awarded by the recommendation the tensions rise. They climax when student in question bites the rector in the ear while receiving recommendation. The confrontation results in a scandal and the police is called in.Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979