New Zealand Movies

Joe has been meaning to share his secret for weeks but his nerves continue to get the better of him. Now, after pressure from his impatient boyfriend,...

A young woman living in a small seaside town who has something to prove to herself. Over the course of the short, we follow the trials and tribulation...

Upon breaking up with his girlfirend, Tasi contemplates attending a birthday party.

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.

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...

Wolves, lions, hyenas, meerkats and dolphins are born without the skills they need to hunt and survive. They must learn them all from their pack. Each...

Te Reo Māori version of Pixar's Oscar-winning family musical about a boy who travels to the land of the dead. Despite his family's baffling generatio...

Documentary on cartoonist Murray Webb.

A teenager in his last year of high school reflects on his youth as he struggles to come to terms with being on the verge of adulthood and explores wh...

Bill is a lonely soul and feels sorry for himself and his life. He shuts people out and is quite unfriendly to everybody. Then one day he receives a...

In the film "The Truman Show", Truman lives in a world completely constructed around him by an intrepid television producer. At one point an interview...

Brently Ford had a life-changing moment 30 years ago when he was given a brain to hold at the Richard Faull's Centre of Brain Research. From then on h...

The legend of Kava Tonga has come to life. In a harrowing story of love, loyalty and sacrifice, this short film gives you an insight into the importan...

Gavin Hipkins’ film observes the forgotten, portentous terrain of the rugged Waitakere Ranges as a man wanders physically and psychologically around a...

Made in response to the poetry of New Zealand filmmaker Joanna Margaret Paul.

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

To six-year-old Ben, the world is full of loud noises and frightening images. As Ben struggles with everyday life, his mother searches desperately to...