Experiencing withdrawal symptoms after the excess of the Telecom New Zealand International Film Festivals? Upcoming film festivals jostling for position include: celebrating architecture with documentaries such as A Crude Awakening (aka Oil Crash) and Antonello and the Architect (from this year’s TNZIFF), the Jasmax Film Festival, on now at various venues throughout the country until August 29; the fifth Date Palm Film Festival, showcasing Middle Eastern/North African features and pertinent documentaries in Wellington and Christchurch throughout September; New Zealand’s only competitive International Documentary Film Festival (DOCNZ) returns for its third edition, a terrific avenue and incubator for local documentary filmmaking presented from late September through to November in Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington; and the always decadent Cathay Pacific Italian Film festival (their opening nights, at the very least), from October in various centres (the programme has yet to be announced). Further details are available on the respective festival websites.