Second week highlights from the New Zealand International Film Festival, including Hou Hsiao-hsien’s centrepiece The Assassin and Tom Moore’s new animation Song of the Sea.

Further dispatches from the first week of the New Zealand International Film Festival, including Western, Tehran Taxi, Ixcanul Volcano, and The Postman’s White Nights.

Dispatches from the first week of the New Zealand International Film Festival, including The Lobster, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and Tangerine.

David Robert Mitchell’s new feature creeps up on us in all the right ways.

At the New Zealand International Film Festival: from Iceland to Hollywood, from the warm-hearted to the satirically grotesque.

Richard Linklater’s intimate, epic 12 year odyssey of growing up.

David Michôd evokes the outback as post-apocalypse in his gripping new film.

At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Richard Ayoade’s eagerly awaited follow-up to Submarine; the marital arts madness of a would-be kung fu movie star.

Documenting the essential and dangerous investigative work of the Human Rights Watch Emergencies Team.

A lust for blood and celluloid collide in Sion Sono’s meta splatter yakuza comedy.

At the New Zealand International Film Festival: two pop rock odysseys in the key of happy-mad-sad.

Closing the New Zealand International Film Festival, Jim Jarmusch’s vampire elegy leaves an impression.

At the New Zealand International Film Festival, Diego Quemada-Díez’s tough, compassionate tale of three border-crossing teens.

At the New Zealand International Film Festival, a documentary experience like no other.

The colour of money is red in E.L. Katz’s fiendish debut feature.

At the New Zealand International Film Festival, workaholic Takashi Miike gets reacquainted with his exploitation roots.

At the New Zealand International Film Festival, Sarah Polley explores the complexity of memory through her family’s oral history.