2018 New Zealand International Film Festival

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.

A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.

While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.

An unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.

After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.

A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.

Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

A father and his seventeen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.

Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.

After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.

In the far north, Sedna and Nanook dream of bringing back their family together. After Sedna's death, Nanook walks a long way to find his daughter Ága, who ran away years ago.

An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.

A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed.

A promising teenage dancer enrolls at a prestigious ballet school while grappling with her gender dysphoria.

After suffering a near-fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

An unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father's deteriorating indulgence into gambling.

Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.

A young girl seeks out imaginative ways to cope with the death of her twin brother.

A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.

In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but a fateful night changes their plans.

After developing an interest in surfing, a teenage boy and his friend forge an unlikely friendship with an older surfer.

A troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son's desolate military post.

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asunción, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires.