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Lumière's NZIFF coverage has wrapped for 2008. Festival features and reviews can be revisited below. The Editor's Post-Festival Report will conclude proceedings shortly.

Browse NZIFF Coverage

Interviews and editorial from the NZ International Film Festivals:

» Ben Russell on We Can Not Exist in This World Alone

» Adam Wingard on Pop Skull

» Yung Chang on Up the Yangtze

» Benjamin Gilmour on Son of a Lion

» Kathy Dudding on The Return

» Gregory King on A Song of Good

» NZIFF '08 Dispatch #3: New Illustration

» NZIFF '08 Dispatch #2: Priming the Melbourne International Film Festival

» NZIFF '08 Dispatch #1: Auckland, and onwards

» New Directions: the New Zealand International Film Festivals 2008

Rain of the Children: All those years after In Spring One Plants Alone, Vincent Ward has a fine Tuhoe homecoming. The story of Puhi and her son Niki is sad and compelling. The director of River Queen artfully tells another important story. Problematic, but well worthy.

Paris: Gorgeous, contemporary, romantic, Paris. On beauty, youth and romance; mortality, immigration and counselling. This Bohemian treat stars La Binoche, Le Duris and a hilarious diatribe on the perils of academia.

The Edge of Heaven: Raw and urgent as a bullet to the jugular. Head-On's Fatih Akin plumbs Turkish-German family, politics, faith and love with uncompromising, edgy intensity. In striking contrast to Acid Reflux, aka Ashes of Time Redux, it does much more than look pretty.—Alexander Bisley

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