We present the Asian films (and those that deal with the Asian diaspora) that will be screened at New Zealand International Film Festival, which will take place from July 28 until August 31, in various cities around New Zealand.

A young girl reflects on the last summer she got to spend with her father, all the while contemplating an unusual local funeral ritual she will be called upon to soon uphold. (NZIFF 2022)

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Everyone relies on attentive Battery Daddy to keep things well-powered and smoothly-run, but when a downpour hits, will he still have the power to keep his cool and save the day? (NZIFF 2022)

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Park Chan-wook makes a welcome return to NZIFF with this masterful and seductive romantic thriller about an insomniac detective investigating a mysterious widow oddly unconcerned with her husband’s death. (NZIFF 2022)

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Covertly shot over five years as a civil war escalates in western Myanmar, this delicately refined doco follows the lives of a hard-bitten Buddhist midwife and her ambitious young Rohingya Muslim apprentice. (NZIFF 2022)

A married man falls for a glamorous trans dancer in this daring and emotionally intense love story from Pakistani first-time writer-director Saim Sadiq. (NZIFF 2022)

Eight Pan-Asian female filmmakers’ powerful anthology film illuminates the immigrant experience in Aotearoa New Zealand through the lives of eight Asian women connected by the house they call home. (NZIFF 2022)

A French-Korean adoptee returns to Seoul, a home she has never known, and over the course of several visits begins to process her complicated relationship with her biological family and country of birth. (NZIFF 2022)

Festival Schedule:
Auckland * – July 28 until August 7, 2022
Whakatane – Only on July 30, 2022
Dunedin – August 11 – 21, 2022
Christchurch – August 5 – 14, 2022
Gore – August 18 – 25, 2022
Hamilton – August 18 – 31, 2022
Hawke’s Bay – August 18 – 28, 2022
Masterton – August 17 – 31, 2022
Matakana – August 18 – 28, 2022
Nelson – August 18 – 28, 2022
New Plymouth – August 11 – 28, 2022
Palmerston North – August 18 – 28, 2022
Tauranga – August 18 – 28, 2022
Timaru – August 18 – 28, 2022
Wellington – August 4 – 14, 2022

For more information, please visit: https://www.nziff.co.nz

*A Bite of Bone will be screened at the Animation NOW! 2022 Section
* Battery Daddy will be screened at the Animation for Kids Section