CANNES DO SPIRIT
Coralie Fargeat’s Demi Moore-starring feminist body horror film “The Substance” has been set as the closing night title for the New Zealand International Film Festival. The picture is one of 16 which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last month selected for the NZIFF which is now under the artistic leadership of Paolo Bertolin.
The NZIFF’s Fresh” strand features: “Good One,”by India Donaldson (daughter of New Zealand cinema legend Roger Donaldson); “To A Land Unknown,”by Mahdi Fleifel; Truong Minh Quý’s“Viet and Nam” a journey of young miners in Vietnam; Mo Harawe’s“The Village Next to Paradise”; and Agathe Riedinger’s“Wild Diamond.”