New Zealand Movies

After a successful raid and having captured a rival village's leader, a war party must drag their huge canoe or "Taua" through the forest to reach...

Actor Sam Neill discusses New Zealand film and his own experiences within and without.

When a Solomon Islands teenager encounters bullying and microaggressions at school, she must take fate into her own hands with assistance from her...

Follows two artists' creation of the ultimate work of art for an art competition. Told as an oscillation between two worlds, we discover that what it...

One man, One cow, One planet exposes globalization and the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and...


An artist sculpts clay in their studio while telling stories about their predecessors. The work affirms the artistic process as a circular...

Three friends have recently purchased a new home. What they don't know is that they are in for a shocking surprise!!!

A young up-and-coming crook is forced by a mob boss to infiltrate a powerful opposing criminal family, lead by a cutthroat matriarch known as Mother...

In this breathtaking science fiction spectacle, a strange mechanical device lands on a desolate world and uses the planet to undergo a startling...

A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in,...

It's 1892 and Kate Sheppard tells the story of the suffrage campaign - a pursuit that will continue until September 1893.

During WWII, John and Halina were exiled from their Polish homeland and sent to Siberia. Years and many miles later, they found themselves in a New...

This film adaptation of Henry James' Victorian ghost story changes the location to present day Wellington. Set in a theatre over the course of an...

A short documentary exploring the loneliness that comes with being single as a millennial. Set over the course of the thirtieth year of filmmaker...

This exquisitely coloured film shows how tourists travelled around New Zealand in the early years of this century - by boat, horse and trap, and on...

Lovecraftian terror meets New Zealand flatting culture when an indescribable object invades a flat of antisocial 20-somethings

In pre-colonial Aotearoa a young Māori girl witnesses the best and worst of a rapidly changing world when she encounters a dying man and his...

Punk renegade Shayne Carter (Straitjacket Fits, Dimmer) takes us on an iconoclastic tour through a career of highs and lows from suburban Dunedin to...

Shelley, an AI writer, is pushing for creative independence, sparking a tense debate with her human writing partner Keenan, who defends the value of...

When an attack on a Palmerston North fraud detective made headlines in October 1996, the New Zealand public followed the media reports with...