Strange as it may seem, the Oscar for Best International Feature tends to go to movies that are universal rather than geographically specific. Last year’s winner Drive My Car spoke more about mankind’s default setting to loneliness than it did about the specifics of relationship dynamics in modern Japan, just as the Danish drunks in 2021’s Another Round got hammered in a way that was relatable to boozers in every country from Albania to Zambia. Maybe the Academy feels that real life is better left to docs, but a 2015 win for the harrowing Second World War drama Son of Saul suggests that the door is always open. And after a year that saw the whole world reeling from Vladmir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, this might be one of those years that addresses the fact.
Clearly, the abrupt nature of Putin’s surprise maneuver on February 24 caught many unawares,...
Clearly, the abrupt nature of Putin’s surprise maneuver on February 24 caught many unawares,...
- 12/9/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Avatar 2’ Star Cliff Curtis on Watching Preview Footage With James Cameron: “Stunned Beyond Belief”
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New Zealand star Cliff Curtis is having a pretty solid 2022. The actor’s most recent feature, Muru, the acclaimed Māori-language action drama, became New Zealand’s highest-grossing film this year after its release in September. Later, it was selected as the country’s official contender for the Oscars in the best international film category. If Muru ends up getting beaten at the New Zealand box office before year’s end, though, it will undoubtedly be by James Cameron’s long-awaited juggernaut Avatar: The Way of Water, opening Dec. 16 — and also co-starring Curtis.
Curtis made his screen debut in a small supporting role in Jane Campion’s Palme d’Or winning period drama The Piano back in 1993, and he has been a pillar of the New Zealand film community nearly ever since. His filmography includes a running list of landmarks in recent Kiwi cinema,...
New Zealand star Cliff Curtis is having a pretty solid 2022. The actor’s most recent feature, Muru, the acclaimed Māori-language action drama, became New Zealand’s highest-grossing film this year after its release in September. Later, it was selected as the country’s official contender for the Oscars in the best international film category. If Muru ends up getting beaten at the New Zealand box office before year’s end, though, it will undoubtedly be by James Cameron’s long-awaited juggernaut Avatar: The Way of Water, opening Dec. 16 — and also co-starring Curtis.
Curtis made his screen debut in a small supporting role in Jane Campion’s Palme d’Or winning period drama The Piano back in 1993, and he has been a pillar of the New Zealand film community nearly ever since. His filmography includes a running list of landmarks in recent Kiwi cinema,...
- 11/22/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Other winners included ‘Return To Seoul’, ‘Farha’ and ‘All That Breathes’
Kamila Andini’s Before, Now And Then (Nana) won the best film award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) which took place on the Gold Coast, Australia today (November 11).
It is the first film directed by a woman to win the award and the first Indonesian film to do so.
Set against Indonesia’s turbulent post-independence years in the 1960s, Happy Salma stars as a woman still reeling from the past as she tries to move on with her life. The film premiered in competition at the Berlinale...
Kamila Andini’s Before, Now And Then (Nana) won the best film award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsa) which took place on the Gold Coast, Australia today (November 11).
It is the first film directed by a woman to win the award and the first Indonesian film to do so.
Set against Indonesia’s turbulent post-independence years in the 1960s, Happy Salma stars as a woman still reeling from the past as she tries to move on with her life. The film premiered in competition at the Berlinale...
- 11/11/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Indonesian director Kamila Andini’s “Before Now and Then” was named best film at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. The film’s lead actor Happy Salma was on hand to receive the award at a ceremony in Gold Coast, Australia, on Friday.
The film recounts the story of a young woman who escapes an anti-Communist purge and leads a quiet life as the second wife of a wealthy man. But her past traumas resurface in her dreams.
Although the win is the first time that an Indonesian title has been named Apsa’s best film, and the first time that a woman has claimed the prize, it is the third time that Andini has won a feature film Apsa. Previously, she won the best children’s film prize with “The Mirror Never Lies” in 2012 and collected the youth feature film prize with “The Seen and Unseen” in 2017.
Other key prizes...
The film recounts the story of a young woman who escapes an anti-Communist purge and leads a quiet life as the second wife of a wealthy man. But her past traumas resurface in her dreams.
Although the win is the first time that an Indonesian title has been named Apsa’s best film, and the first time that a woman has claimed the prize, it is the third time that Andini has won a feature film Apsa. Previously, she won the best children’s film prize with “The Mirror Never Lies” in 2012 and collected the youth feature film prize with “The Seen and Unseen” in 2017.
Other key prizes...
- 11/11/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Loosely based on the 2007 Urewera raids, New Zealand’s submission to the 2023 Oscars speaks truth to power – but it’s sometimes too brash for its own good
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A quietly powerful and dignified performance from Cliff Curtis is the heart of Tearepa Kahi’s New Zealand action-thriller Muru: a film that’s in no way quiet or subtle, and not intended to be. Curtis plays Taffy Tāwharau, the kind of cop who is, as they say, one of the good guys, filling in as a school bus driver and standing up to racist and misinformed colleagues.
Taffy is torn between different worlds and laws: his Māori heritage and remote Te Urewera community on one hand, and on the other, the uniform and badge to which he’s sworn allegiance. Australian film-makers have explored similar tensions recently in productions including True Colours and Mystery Road.
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A quietly powerful and dignified performance from Cliff Curtis is the heart of Tearepa Kahi’s New Zealand action-thriller Muru: a film that’s in no way quiet or subtle, and not intended to be. Curtis plays Taffy Tāwharau, the kind of cop who is, as they say, one of the good guys, filling in as a school bus driver and standing up to racist and misinformed colleagues.
Taffy is torn between different worlds and laws: his Māori heritage and remote Te Urewera community on one hand, and on the other, the uniform and badge to which he’s sworn allegiance. Australian film-makers have explored similar tensions recently in productions including True Colours and Mystery Road.
- 10/12/2022
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
While we’re in the middle of the fall festival season, with Telluride, Venice, and TIFF in the rearview, and NYFF, BFI London, and AFI Fest on the horizon, it’s time to round up some of our early favorites. We’ve polled our contributors from Venice and TIFF to share their top picks, which one can see below along with our ongoing coverage here.
David Katz (@davidfabiankatz)
1. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
2. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
3. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
4. Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
5. The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
6. Love Life (Kôji Fukada)
7. Blonde (Andrew Dominik)
8. A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
9. In Viaggio (Gianfranco Rosi)
10. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
Luke Hicks (@lou_kicks)
1. Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
2. Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski)
3. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
4. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
5. Athena (Romain Gavras)
6. White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
7. The Banshees of Inisherin...
David Katz (@davidfabiankatz)
1. Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
2. Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
3. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
4. Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
5. The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
6. Love Life (Kôji Fukada)
7. Blonde (Andrew Dominik)
8. A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
9. In Viaggio (Gianfranco Rosi)
10. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
Luke Hicks (@lou_kicks)
1. Bones and All (Luca Guadagnino)
2. Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski)
3. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
4. The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
5. Athena (Romain Gavras)
6. White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
7. The Banshees of Inisherin...
- 9/21/2022
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Tearepa Kahi’s “Muru” opens with several spiky title cards: “The views and accuracy of the information contained in this production are not endorsed or supported by the New Zealand Police.” “This film is not a recreation of the police raids against the people of Tūhoe…”; “…It is a response.” The raids in question took place in 1916 and 2007. The former ended with the arrest of Māori prophet Rua Kēnana; the latter, which sought to uncover paramilitary training camps, ended with the seizure of four guns and the arrests of eighteen people, including Tūhoe activist Tame Iti.
Continue reading ‘Muru’ Review: Tearepa Kahi Crafts A Riveting But Imperfect Facfiction [TIFF] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Muru’ Review: Tearepa Kahi Crafts A Riveting But Imperfect Facfiction [TIFF] at The Playlist.
- 9/20/2022
- by Oliver Weir
- The Playlist
Muru TIFF Contemporary World Section Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: Tearepa Kahi Writer: Tearepa Kahi, Jason Nathan Cast: Cliff Curtis, Jay Ryan, Manu Bennett, Tame Iti, Simone Kessell, Roimata Fox, Ria Te Uira Paki, Poroaki Merritt-McDonald Screened at: Critics’ link, CA, 9/01/22 Opens: September 10th, 2022 (Toronto International Film Festival) The opening titles […]
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- 9/11/2022
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- ShockYa
New Zealand’s Tūhoe people have faced more than a century of aggression for daring to keep their culture alive. As relayed at the start of Tearepa Kahi’s thriller Muru (a Māori word for their process of redressing transgressions), the facts are undeniable. In 1916, the police staged a raid to arrest Tūhoe prophet Rua Kenana on charges of sedition (he would later be acquitted and instead charged with resisting). A half-hour gunfight ensued leaving two dead and six wounded. Then the police staged another in 2007 to arrest leader Tame Iti for organizing what they called a “domestic terrorist” cell only to later apologize and admit their actions set relations back decades. It’s no wonder the film’s first frame states that New Zealand’s police don’t “endorse” its content.
There’s more context to that statement beyond just the desire to not condone a depiction painting them as the enemy,...
There’s more context to that statement beyond just the desire to not condone a depiction painting them as the enemy,...
- 9/11/2022
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Festivals
The world Premiere of local filmmaker Tearepa Kahi’s action-drama “Muru” will open the Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin chapters of the New Zealand International Film Festival, while American filmmaker Sara Dosa’s Sundance-winning documentary “Fire of Love” will open all the other festival locations, which include Gore, Hamilton, Hawke’s Bay, Masterton, Matakana, Nelson, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Tauranga and Timaru. Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winning “Triangle of Sadness” will close the festival in all centers.
Other Cannes titles joining the lineup include Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” Queer Palm winner “Joyland,” from Saim Sadiq and “Sick of Myself,” by Kristoffer Borgli. Award winners from this year’s Berlin International Film Festival include Golden Bear winner “Alcarràs,” by Carla Simón and Natalia López Gallardo’s Silver Bear jury winning “Robe of Gems.”
Other local films include Fergus Grady and Noel Smyth’s “Gloriavale,...
The world Premiere of local filmmaker Tearepa Kahi’s action-drama “Muru” will open the Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin chapters of the New Zealand International Film Festival, while American filmmaker Sara Dosa’s Sundance-winning documentary “Fire of Love” will open all the other festival locations, which include Gore, Hamilton, Hawke’s Bay, Masterton, Matakana, Nelson, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Tauranga and Timaru. Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winning “Triangle of Sadness” will close the festival in all centers.
Other Cannes titles joining the lineup include Charlotte Wells’ “Aftersun,” David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future,” Queer Palm winner “Joyland,” from Saim Sadiq and “Sick of Myself,” by Kristoffer Borgli. Award winners from this year’s Berlin International Film Festival include Golden Bear winner “Alcarràs,” by Carla Simón and Natalia López Gallardo’s Silver Bear jury winning “Robe of Gems.”
Other local films include Fergus Grady and Noel Smyth’s “Gloriavale,...
- 7/4/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Opening and closing films unveiled.
New Zealand International Film Festival (July 28 – August 31) is to open its 2022 edition with the world premiere of local filmmaker Tearepa Kahi’s action drama Muru and Sara Dosa’s US documentary Fire Of Love.
Muru will open the Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin locations of the festival while Sundance-winner Fire Of Love will open all other festival sites. Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winner Triangle Of Sadness will close the festival in all locations.
It marks Nziff’s return as a full in-person festival after operating as a hybrid event in 2020 while last saw saw...
New Zealand International Film Festival (July 28 – August 31) is to open its 2022 edition with the world premiere of local filmmaker Tearepa Kahi’s action drama Muru and Sara Dosa’s US documentary Fire Of Love.
Muru will open the Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin locations of the festival while Sundance-winner Fire Of Love will open all other festival sites. Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winner Triangle Of Sadness will close the festival in all locations.
It marks Nziff’s return as a full in-person festival after operating as a hybrid event in 2020 while last saw saw...
- 7/4/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Opening and closing films unveiled.
New Zealand International Film Festival (July 28 – August 7) is to open its 2022 edition with the world premiere of local filmmaker Tearepa Kahi’s action drama Muru and Sara Dosa’s US documentary Fire Of Love.
Muru will open the Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin locations of the festival while Sundance-winner Fire Of Love will open all other festival sites. Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winner Triangle Of Sadness will close the festival in all locations.
It marks Nziff’s return as a full in-person festival after operating as a hybrid event in 2020 and 2021. However, while the...
New Zealand International Film Festival (July 28 – August 7) is to open its 2022 edition with the world premiere of local filmmaker Tearepa Kahi’s action drama Muru and Sara Dosa’s US documentary Fire Of Love.
Muru will open the Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin locations of the festival while Sundance-winner Fire Of Love will open all other festival sites. Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winner Triangle Of Sadness will close the festival in all locations.
It marks Nziff’s return as a full in-person festival after operating as a hybrid event in 2020 and 2021. However, while the...
- 7/4/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Who knew that Oscar-nominated New Zealand director Taika Waititi could break dance?
Such revelations — via an unforgettable cameo, in this case — are among the many delights in director Tearepa Kahi’s joyous documentary Poi E: The Story of Our Song, which gets its international premiere in Berlin’s Generation 14+ section.
The film resurrects a seminal moment in New Zealand history, when the nation’s first-ever Maori-language pop song, “Poi E,” outsold Michel Jackson’s Thriller to dominate the local charts in 1984. Not only did it stay no. 1 in New Zealand for 34 weeks, “Poi E” has continued to rank...
Such revelations — via an unforgettable cameo, in this case — are among the many delights in director Tearepa Kahi’s joyous documentary Poi E: The Story of Our Song, which gets its international premiere in Berlin’s Generation 14+ section.
The film resurrects a seminal moment in New Zealand history, when the nation’s first-ever Maori-language pop song, “Poi E,” outsold Michel Jackson’s Thriller to dominate the local charts in 1984. Not only did it stay no. 1 in New Zealand for 34 weeks, “Poi E” has continued to rank...
- 2/12/2017
- by Pip Bulbeck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Youth-focused Berlinale sidebar will feature 62 short and feature films from 41 countries.Scroll down for full list
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed the completed list of titles that will play in this year’s Generations sidebar, which focuses on youth and children’s films.
In total, there are 62 short and feature-length films hailing from 41 countries.
Titles include the world premiere of Carla Simon’s coming-of-age feature debut Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993), which has already been snapped up by New Europe Film Sales.
Among the further films added are features from China, the USA and Korea.
As previously announced, Michael Winterbottom’s music documentary On The Road will open the Generation 14plus programme this year.
Further films playing in the strand include Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea, which features the voices of Jason Schwartzman, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham and Susan Sarandon, and 2016 Tiff Platform title Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves...
The Berlin Film Festival has revealed the completed list of titles that will play in this year’s Generations sidebar, which focuses on youth and children’s films.
In total, there are 62 short and feature-length films hailing from 41 countries.
Titles include the world premiere of Carla Simon’s coming-of-age feature debut Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993), which has already been snapped up by New Europe Film Sales.
Among the further films added are features from China, the USA and Korea.
As previously announced, Michael Winterbottom’s music documentary On The Road will open the Generation 14plus programme this year.
Further films playing in the strand include Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea, which features the voices of Jason Schwartzman, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham and Susan Sarandon, and 2016 Tiff Platform title Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves...
- 1/13/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The winners of the News Corp Australia Box Office Awards were announced at a luncheon held at the Australian International Movie Convention today..
Unsurprisingly, The Great Gatsby took home the Rentrak Award for Highest Grossing Australian Film, with Roadshow Films' Joel Pearlman accepting the award. In addition, director Baz Luhrmann sent a taped thank-you speech.
Skyfall took out the Coca-Cola Gold Award for Highest Grossing Film, with a box office total of $49,009,485.
Te Arepa Kahi's Mt Zion won the Award for Highest Grossing New Zealand Film, while The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was awarded the Real D Award for Highest Grossing Film in New Zealand.
A full list of winners can be found below..
The 68th Australian International Movie Convention 2013 will run from the 14-17 October, at Jupiter.s Casino & Hotel, Gold Coast.
Winners:
The Award for Highest Grossing New Zealand Film Presented by Mathew Preen, General Manager Online,...
Unsurprisingly, The Great Gatsby took home the Rentrak Award for Highest Grossing Australian Film, with Roadshow Films' Joel Pearlman accepting the award. In addition, director Baz Luhrmann sent a taped thank-you speech.
Skyfall took out the Coca-Cola Gold Award for Highest Grossing Film, with a box office total of $49,009,485.
Te Arepa Kahi's Mt Zion won the Award for Highest Grossing New Zealand Film, while The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was awarded the Real D Award for Highest Grossing Film in New Zealand.
A full list of winners can be found below..
The 68th Australian International Movie Convention 2013 will run from the 14-17 October, at Jupiter.s Casino & Hotel, Gold Coast.
Winners:
The Award for Highest Grossing New Zealand Film Presented by Mathew Preen, General Manager Online,...
- 10/16/2013
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The 2013 Margaret Mead Film Festival will be held from Thursday, October 17th through Sunday, October 20th at the American Museum of Natural History. The theme of this year's festival delves into how humans perceive culture by way of various and distinct artistic narratives. The festivals' lineup will include 16 U.S. premieres, including "Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls," which will screen opening night on Thursday, October 17th. Here's a selection of the films included, with descriptions from the festival: Allan Baldwin: In Frame, directed by Tearepa Kahi Gyumri. Photographer-turned-historian Allan Baldwin’s magnificent pictures of Maori tattoos are a tribute to a dying traditional art form. (U.S. premiere) And Who Taught You to Drive?, directed by Andrea Thiele. Three people’s humorous attempts to get driver’s licenses while living abroad—American Jake in Japan, German Mirela in India, and South Korean Hye-Won in Germany—create a sly, warmhearted exploration of cultural.
- 9/6/2013
- by Ohad Amram
- Indiewire
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