Odds and ends from the Telecom 2007 New Zealand International Film Festivals (now finished in all four main centres, and on road throughout the rest of the country) as we wind down our year’s coverage: JOE SHEPPARD talks to Cowboys and Communists documentarian Jess Feast about how “the differences between sauerkraut and a sloppy joe symbolises many of the struggles facing Berliners after the wall fell”; roaming the festival, LYNDON BARROIS and ADDOLEY DZEGEDE present New Illustration for You, the Living, Drama/Mex, A Few Days in September, I Served the Kind of England, Priceless, and Eagle vs Shark; JOE SHEPPARD (again) turns his attention to the fraudulence of Michael Moore and Japanese host boys in Manufacturing Dissent and The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief respectively; and KATE BLACKHURST clashes with Julien Temple’s documentary on a punk legend, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten.

Coverage to date can be overviewed by month (June/July/August), browsed via the Form Guide, or recapped by way of these TNZIFF Dispatches. Also look out for our annual Post-Festival Wrap at the end of the month.