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Film and Literature Board of Review Decisions

About the Film and Literature Board of Review Decisions

The decisions of the Film and Literature Board of Review are formal legal documents of a semi-judicial body. For this reason they must be made available in full.

They do not contain images or examples of pornography. In descriptions of the material being assessed the Board needs to use language used in the material and needs to describe some images in general terms.

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Two images (Final Decision)
Description: 3 September 2024
File Size: 393k

210630-1646 Video 5 and Video 6 (Final Decision)
Description: 4 August 2023
File Size: 333k

5 vidoes (Final decision)
Description: 30 May 2023
File Size: 302k

Two images (Final decision)
Description: 28 November 2022
File Size: 197k

The Last of Us Part 1 (Final decision)
Description: 11 November 2022
File Size: 206k

3 Transcripts (Final decision)
Description: 30 March 2022
File Size: 399k

Final TikTok (Decision)
Description: 28 September 2021
File Size: 3243k

39 images and 1 video (Final decision)
Description: 10 September 2021
File Size: 465k

10 images and 1 video (Decision)
Description: 28 May 2021
File Size: 314k

1 image - May 2021 (Decison)
Description: 23 May 2021
File Size: 398k

4 images (Decision)
Description: 20 April 2021
File Size: 289k

1 image - April 2021 (Decision)
Description: 19 April 2021
File Size: 595k

1 image (Final decision)
Description: 4 March 2021
File Size: 338k

1 video (Decision)
Description: 24 September 2020
File Size: 342k

1 image (Final decision)
Description: 26 June 2020
File Size: 297k

Five text files (Final decision)
Description: 29 March 2020
File Size: 360k

IMG_0631 (Final decision)
Description: 19 February 2020
File Size: 636k

Good Boys (Final decision)
Description: 13 December 2019
File Size: 627k

7 Images (Decision)
Description: 8 November 2019
File Size: 314k

The Great Replacement (Decision)
Description: 12 August 2019
File Size: 260k

Christchurch Mosque Attack Livestream (Decision)
Description: 14 June 2019
File Size: 305k

Auckland City Police Images 1 & 2 (Decision)
Description: 24 August 2018
File Size: 306k

Facebook postings Decision - Nine social media postings - Signed PDF version
Description: 26 June 2018
File Size: 518k

Facebook postings Decision - Nine social media postings - Word document version
Description: 26 June 2018
File Size: 404k

Corrigendum to Decision - Five photographs and Six Women Photographers - Signed PDF version
Description: 16 May 2018
File Size: 450k

Five photographs and Six Women Photographers (Decision) - Signed PDF version
Description: 16 May 2018
File Size: 13376k

Five photographs and Six Women Photographers (Decision) - Word docx version
Description: 16 May 2018 (updated November 2022)
File Size: 64k

Gal*Gun:Double Peace (Decision) - PDF version
Description: 7 April 2017
File Size: 331k

Gal*Gun:Double Peace (Decision) - WORD version
Description: 7 April 2017
File Size: 114k

Watch Dogs 2 (Decision)
Description: 26 October 2016
File Size: 364k


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