New Zealand Movies

In the small Auckland drug scene, a young woman, Jules, finds her life complicated by an unwanted pregnancy. By oscillating between two drug dealers;...

Sydney-based New Zealander Peter O’Donoghue shot, directed and edited this ambivalent, entertaining picture of senior calisthenics and other recreatio...

By using telnet to a server, one could watch the extremely primitive text based animation honoring the first 20 minutes of Star Wars.

In the end of December 2012 Max Schleser arrived at the Jersey Shore, two month after hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast and caused an estimate of ove...

Elaine wants to spend time with her teenage daughter and will do just about anything to make this happen.

A retired explorer is convinced to take up one last expedition with an old friend, to chart the never-before-explored Fuerte Valley. But when the expe...

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...

Huia dreams to be a principle ballerina for the country's top academy. During her audition, an unexpected visitor shows up during her final bid to imp...

In the 1950s thousands of Pacific Islanders came to Aotearoa to meet a labour shortage. They faced racism, and in the 1970s, notorious dawn raids by p...

Co-produced by Big Girls Blouse Productions and Pink Health Ōtautahi over 2006 to 2008, the film asks the question of the people who were there: How d...

This film shows how the Central Plateau of the North Island was transformed into fertile pastureland by the men of the Land Settlement Board and the L...

The film describes the processes involved in Lak funeral or mortuary rituals. The various stages of the rites are presented in combination with an ove...

Harmony is a young girl living on a cold and desolate Earth, alone and longing for friendship. While trying to tune into a station on her home radio o...

A short animated meditation

In a rough neighbourhood, a volatile teenager struggles to detach himself from the influence of his imprisoned father. Attracting the sympathy of the...

This is a Kiwi film set in Temuka, Geraldine. Described as delightful, fun, crazy, serious, a bit sad and hysterical.

This is the story of a special group of New Zealanders whose initiative and daring perfected the capture of wild animals. Relive their adventures, mee...

Four of New Zealand's most celebrated artists journey to Fiordland. Over the course of a 5 day voyage they not only explore the most spectacular lands...

Amali is a honest glimpse into a 13 year olds world as she speaks to her fears and dreams through a summer roadtrip in rural Aotearoa.

This story brings to life how fragile ‘grown up relationships’ are. The fact that marriage has a 50% chance of working out is concerning and we follo...