New Zealand Film Commission Movies

A man installs a set of French doors during a renovation. What he doesn't know is that the doors harbour a secret. A dark secret...

In 1981, the New Zealand government invited the South African rugby team to tour New Zealand. This effectively split the country in half. Patu! is the...

Meet Henry Glint. He’s a pretty normal guy with a pretty normal job, and has big plans for a perfectly normal future. But Henry is about to discover t...

A journey through the life of Fergus McLafferty. Fergus needs a role model. He chooses a fish with four legs - an axolotl. This inbred freak of nature...

A Maori writer meets a trickster spirit guide and conjures new worlds from the words she inks on a page.

A young mother struggling with the pressures of study and a dysfunctional relationship finds comfort in the make-believe world she shares with her dau...

A social commentary watching the lives of five 15 & 16 year olds as each “slice of their life” is revealed on the hour from 12 midnight until 5am.

As everyone in town gears up for the annual Hokitka Wild Foods Festival, Magik and Rose are locked in a poignant and funny off-beat tale of friendshi...

Rummaging through the mementos falling out of her closet, Margaret remembers moments from her life and her marriage to George.

A short thriller about the murder, and its aftermath, of a young girl.

Arthur is desperately trying to stay awake as he drives across country. He picks up Jude hitching and things get hostile. An all-out battle of the sex...

Jack Lovelock won New Zealand’s first Olympic athletics gold medal. He did so in spectacular fashion, winning the 1500 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olymp...

Two tadpole-like creatures with enormous eyes chase each other around, to a driving techno soundtrack. Then these digitally-animated characters find t...

A digitally engineered life form struggles with a belligerant operating system. In a skewed look at human/computer relations a belligerent digital lig...

A Berlinale award nominated short feature.

An animated homage to some surprising lesbian icons. Eve embarks on a journey beyond the garden gates; the Virgin, Venus and Mona Lisa are waiting.

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...