New Zealand Movies

A story of drug addiction, Māori wahine, and the power of recovery.

A fisherman's widow is lost in grief. A work inspired by HP Lovecraft.

When a village is bombed, and its young survivors find shelter at their nearby beach, things go wrong when the survivors split into two clans, and beg...

With the end of a floundering adventure in sight, neither grandfather nor grandchild are quite ready to part ways. They depend on one another to stave...

Sisters Tia and Ina are far from home. Tia is focused on her work, while the free-spirited Ina just wants to dance.

When encouraged to return to their Marae, a gentle non-binary person decides to go back to their tūrangawaewae despite uncertainty that they’ll be acc...

When your mate has relationship problems, is it a good idea to bring your girlfriend along to help cheer him up? In Theo Taylor’s perceptive lo-fi fea...

E Lele Le Toloa is a visual Talanoa and exploration of faasinomaga (identity). At the center is Tui Meki, a son of the Pacific, on a journey of self-d...

Documentary on cartoonist Murray Webb.

As an eight year old girl carefully decides which lollies to spend her hard earned pocket money on, she notices an old man at the counter ahead of her...

Life's tough. It's ok to take time out... Stop-frame short by New Zealand Filmmaker Tom Reilly.

A documentary showcasing a group of young Maori musicians and their rise to fame, along with the struggles that come from success at a young age.

By Sea tells the story of a fictional seaside apartment building. The architecture of the complex forms the words Par Mer, written in a bold, italic t...

Made during the COVID-19 pandemic, this film is a play on ‘winner winner, chicken dinner’, a phrase often used by Australians to celebrate personal vi...

Using natural elements and sounds, this experimental film explores the connection between the body and land.

On November 18 1982, a 22-year old Aucklander, Neil Roberts, daubed a washroom wall with the graffiti slogan: ‘WE HAVE MAINTAINED A SILENCE CLOSELY RE...

Documentary The Man on the Island is a character study of Colin McLaren, a highly quotable 77-year-old who in the 1970s moved to Rakino, a tiny island...

Tonal shifts are layered with text fragments gleaned from two of Joanna Margaret Paul’s poems provided to the artist.

An ode to the whitewater obsession