New Zealand Movies

Hands tap, tracing patterns on rocks. These mineral-rich instruments are collaborators for a sonic performance, the landscape in Aotearoa listens.

Three Brits travel and settle down in New Zealand, and the film records their hopes, jobs, challenges, and adventures in the new country.

Documentary about sailing legend Geoff Stagg and his yacht Whispers.

A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother, even as her...

The peeping tom rom-com ‘How To Meet Girls From A Distance’ is a funny and heartwarming film that looks at how far we go for a crush....

Is My Living in Vain is a meditation on the continuing history and emancipatory potential of the Black church as a space of belonging, affirmation...

Jesse wants to wear skirts.

A vengeful Easter bunny plots to steal Santa’s sack, and in the process, learns something about himself that will change Christmas forever.

A young Māori woman is given her estranged birth mother’s ashes and has to figure out what to do with them.

After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably...

A fledgling young actor has finally secured a part in a promising production, but disagreements between the director and producer threaten to derail...

Travelling the Western Front, grave to grave, former All Black Andrew Mehrtens shares the story of the 13 All Blacks killed in WW I.

Every World Cup, Every winner.The next in the Super8 series, only bigger and better. Illusionary Lines has been with the World Cup circus for the...

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.

A common garden snail's high speed adventure to cross a road for a feast of lettuce.

Struggling with adoption a young girl finds solace in the creepy crawly world under the rocks.

In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she. Ed is suddenly...

On October 14th, 1941, in the rural West Coast town of Kowhitirangi, Stanley Graham is a financially struggling recluse. He is accused of poisoning...

A mother tries to comfort her grieving son, but on each attempt her son’s silence becomes more and more deafening. An outing to the local...