2022 Featured Films
The 2022 New Zealand Chinese Film Festival was a groundbreaking and milestone cultural exchange event between China and New Zealand. Through the medium of light and shadow, and with love and longing as the central theme, it showcased 12 feature films, four documentaries, and seven short films from both China and New Zealand to the New Zealand audience.
Featured Film List
During the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, three women navigate uncertain futures in different cities across China. A family falls ill in Wuhan, young lovers desperately want to be reunited in Beijing, and a struggling marriage is put to the ultimate test in Hong Kong.《世间有她》 Herstory
Journalist Guo lives together with her mother and daughter in the same residence. The relationship between the three generations looks placid, but there is a fierce undercurrent of rebellion and resistance.《春潮》 Spring Tide
A funeral director crosses paths with a young girl, which changes his life for the better.《⼈⽣⼤事》 Lighting Up The Stars
A young woman from Hong Kong has to reunite with her sisters to settle debts after her father dies. 《花椒之味》 Fagara
A father and son team attempt to save a town after it is hit by a series of natural disasters, which include severe subsidence that traps a bus full of people in an underground cave. 《峰爆》 Cloudy Mountain
Suspected of murder, a small-town mechanic uncovers disturbing facts while trying to exonerate himself.《追凶者也》 Cock And Bull
Banished to the mortal world, a warrior has to slay a demon to return to the heavenly realm and become a god.《姜⼦⽛》 Legend of Deification
Through the perspective of 12 veterans, the film traces nine forms of crafts, including olive-pit carving, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)-style furniture making and silk embroidery of Suzhou in East China's Jiangsu province, a historic city dating back to 2,500 years ago. 校园纪录片：《天工苏作》 The Magical Craftsmanship of SUZHOU
The historical story of an enemy fighting the wits and courage of an extraordinary brave group of ordinary heroes known as the "Lunan Railway Brigade" who desperately fight to defend their homeland. 《铁道英雄》 Railway Heroes
A grief-stricken Chinese widower living in New Zealand retraces his relationship with his late wife and attempts to fulfil her dream in this Chinese-NZ romantic drama. 《只有芸知道》 Only Cloud Knows
A man must attempt to clear his name after a theatre puts on a play that accuses him of committing a 30-year-old murder.《第十一回》 The Eleventh Chapter