TAIKA WAITITI'S BOY WINS AUDIENCE AWARD FOR FEATURE FILM

BILL CUNNINGHAM: NEW YORK WINS AUDIENCE AWARD FOR DOCUMENTARIES

 MIFF audiences voted Taika Waititi’s Boy as their favourite feature film, while Bill Cunningham: New York was voted as favourite documentary. Boy was recently released theatrically in New Zealand and had the highest box office for a New Zealand film.

While International Panorama had the most sell out sessions, new spotlight, Our Space (a selection of films that deal with our built environment), proved to also be a favourite with every film having at least one sell out session proving that audiences still want to see cutting edge, audacious international cinema. Other sessions that sold out include Teenage Paparazzo, Four Lions, Enter The Void, I Love You Phillip Morris, Leap Year, The Wedding Party and Mother of Rock.

MIFF Audience Favourite Films:

Top 10 Features                                               

1.    Boy Dir. Taika Waititi (NZ)                                     

2.    Desert Flower Dir. Sherry Hoffman (Germany/Austria/France)                                         

3.    Certified Copy Dir. Abbas Kiarostami (France/Italy)                                           

4.    Four Lions Dir. Chris Morris (UK)                                        

5.    Summer Wars Dir. Mamoru Hosoda (Japan)                                                                   

6.    The Wedding Party Dir. Amanda Jane (Australia)                                               

7.    I Love You Phillip Morris Dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa (USA/Canada)                                     

8.    Women Without Men Dir. Shirin Neshat (Germany/Austria/France)                                            

9.    The Ballad of Des and Mo Dir. James Fair (Ireland)                     

10.  Summer Coda Dir Richard Gray (Australia)                                             

Top 10 Documentaries

1.      Bill Cunningham New York Dir. Richard Press (USA)

2.      The Invention of Dr. Nakamats Dir. Kaspar Astrup Schröder (Denmark)

3.      Cities on Speed: Bogotá Change + Cairo Garbage Dir. Andreas Møl Dalsgaard (Denmark)

1.      Mother of Rock: The Life and Times of Lillian Roxon Dir. Paul Clarke (Australia)

2.      La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet Dir. Frederick Wiseman (France/USA)

3.      Cooking History Dir. Peter Kerekes (Austria)

4.      Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields Dir. Kerthy Fix, Gail O’Hara (USA)

5.      Teenage Paparazzo Dir. Adrian Grenier (USA)

6.      Woman with the 5 Elephants Dir. Vadim Jendreyko (Switzerland/Germany)

7.      Black Bus Dir. Anat Zuria (Israel)