FESTIVAL FILMS 2024: 56 Picks plus 14 Others

Cinema Bing Bong

Cinema Bing Bong returns a second time this month to go through the programme of the New Zealand International Film Festival, beginning with quite an extended discussion about what in Gosden's name is going on with the festival and finishing up with some motivational brain-drain content about what's showing at Melbourne International Film Festival. Featuring an interactive aspect where you can email in and say if you think Amelia was the asshole in two situations, the new phrase 'doing my coming to terms with myself', the innovative concept of not seeing movies if you can see the same stuff outside and some recommendations for listeners in loveless marriages.
Note: if you are in a hurry with the NZIFF booking page open, skip to ~48'
Films mentioned:

NZIFF
Janet Planet (2023) US
Problemista (2023) US
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) US
Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) Canada
A Different Man (2024) US
All We Imagine as Light (2024) India
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Iran
Armand (2024) Norway
Tatami (2024) Georgia *NOTE: On further research, may have an anti-BDS plot which CBB does not support*
The Teachers’ Lounge (2023) Germany
Crossing (2024) Sweden/Georgia
Opus (2023) Japan
The Haka Party Incident (2024) NZ
Naughty Little Peeptoe (2000) NZ
The Substance (2024) US
Sleep (2023) South Korea
The Universal Theory (2023) Germany
Kneecap (2024) Ireland
The People’s Joker (2022) US
No Other Land (2024) Palestine
My Favourite Cake (2024) Iran
Brief History of a Family (2024) China
The Village Next to Paradise (2024) Somalia
Wild Diamond (2024) France
The Monk and the Gun (2023) Bhutan
Explanation for Everything (2023) Hungary
Dìdi (2024) US
Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024) US
The Sweet East (2023) US
Gloria (2024) Italy
Head South (2024) NZ
We Were Dangerous (2024) NZ
MIFF
The Cars that Ate Paris (1974) Australia
My Sunshine (2024) Japan
Megalopolis (2024) US
The Shrouds (2024) Canada
Dream Team (2024) US
Rumours (2024) Canada
Other
Tenebre (1982) Italy
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) France
Flux Gourmet (2022) UK
Black Narcissus (1947) UK
In Bed With Madonna (1991) US
World on a Wire (1973) Germany
The Desert Bride (2017) Argentina/Chile
Las Herederas (2018) Paraguay
Anatolian Leopard (2021) Türkiye
D’Jon Afrika (2018) Portugal/Cape Verde
Mid90s (2018) US
The Saddest Music in the World (2003) Canada
Doctor Strange (2016) US / Doctor Sleep (2019) US