Today, NOYIFF brought Re: Frame On-Campus Screening to Auckland University of Technology (AUT), presenting seven award-winning short films from emerging filmmakers around the world, followed by an open conversation about filmmaking, visual storytelling and the industry. The timing, admittedly, wasn’t exactly on our side. Our screening happened to fall right in the middle of AUT’s exam period. Campus was noticeably quieter, and the audience was smaller than we had originally h

On 11 September, NOYIFF will bring Re: Frame to AUT for a free evening of seven award-winning short films from Belgium, Russia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Ukraine, Belarus/Russia and Vietnam, followed by an industry sharing session. At first glance, these films seem to have little in common. One follows three strangers on a night in Brussels; another imagines a dying village where a ferryman carries the living toward an island for the dead. There is a post-apocalyptic search for a

Today, members of the NOYIFF team visited the University of Auckland to meet with Matt from UoA Film Society and discuss the possibility of hosting a Re: Frame screening on campus. The conversation was about more than a venue or a single screening. We were interested in a broader question: what can a film event offer when it becomes part of university life — not simply something students attend, but a space they can genuinely inhabit, respond to and make their own? On a campu

This week, the NOYIFF team met with AUT to discuss the next step of Re:frame — our campus screening initiative dedicated to bringing bold new cinema, young voices, and meaningful cultural exchange back into shared public spaces. Re was created from a simple belief: films should not end their journey on submission platforms, in jury rooms, or behind industry doors. They should return to audiences — especially students, emerging creators, educators, and anyone who is curious ab