Poi E, The Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan, and an Eleanor Catton film-adaption are just some of the films part of the 40th New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) held in Christchurch.
The programme for the event was announced on Monday evening.
The Isaac Theatre Royal will be turned into a high-tech movie theatre while the festival runs from 28 July to 14 August, showcasing 106 films, documentaries and short films.
The programme has been handpicked from both festivals around the world and from filmmakers in our own backyard.
"I think we have all the ingredients to produce another stellar festival for Christchurch," NZIFF director Bill Gosden says.
Filmmakers will be at their screenings in Christchurch as well as hold Q & A sessions about their work.
"This is the 40th year an international film festival has been held in Christchurch so we wanted to make the programme extra special," he says.
"Audiences will have the chance to watch expertly crafted crowd ticklers, gripping dramas, to deeply-felt eccentricities and passionate exposes."
The world premiere of Le Ride will feature at the festival - a documentary which follows Christchurch ex-pat and host of the US television show The Amazing Race, Phil Keoghan, as he rides the 1928 Tour de France route.
Le Ride (Doug Jensen)
Mr Gosden calls it a "charming and emotionally-moving film".
"You have to admire what Phil and his team do - riding an average of 240 kilometres a day for 26 days, on original vintage steel bikes with no gears and marginal brakes."
Mr Gosden says issues close to Kiwi's hearts will come under the microscope as well.
"The Fifth Eye examines our GCSB with a focus on the 2008 attack on the Waihopai Spy Base [and] The HeART of the Matter looks at our education policies that led to a renaissance period for Maori art."
From further abroad, I, Daniel Blake, which won the Palme d'Or, the Cannes Film Festival's highest honour, is screening along with another 10 films from Cannes.
Doglegs, from ex-pat Heath Cozens, examines a wrestling circuit involving some severely disabled people in Japan.
Life, Animated tells the story of an autistic boy whose love of Disney animated features gave him the tools as a child to communicate with the world.
There's also a live cinema event with accompaniment by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.
The festival opens on Thursday with Christchurch director Tearepa Kahi's Poi E: The Story of Our Song, a "feel-good movie ... as catchy as the 1984 hit song it celebrates", Mr Gosden says.
Select films will also be shown at Hoyts Northlands.
The website is here.
George and Amal Clooney at the Cannes Film Festival (Supplied)
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