New Zealand Movies

A coming-of-age story that explores how money affects Pacific communities and their churches. The film follows a Samoan teenager who is coming to a...

It Only Takes One tells the the story of an outcast teenager who isn't enjoying life at high school. Bullied, jealous and alone, he must decide which...

Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata is the final work of director Merata Mita, who passed away suddenly before the film could be completed. The...

When Fiona Clark, a young queer photographer exhibits her photography of the LGBTQI community in 1975, she and her friends face the systemic backlash...

Shot on 16mm celluloid across parts of New Zealand and Samoa, interdisciplinary artist Sam Hamilton’s ten-part experimental magnum opus makes...

The story is set in the Wairarapa region in the shadow of the Great Depression. We follow two brothers drawn into the illicit world of illegal...

Leaky home experts John Gray and Roger Levie uncover the shocking truth about the dreadful and dangerous state of many apartment buildings in New...

Gravity & Grace may be writer and critic Chris Kraus’ final and exuberant attempt at an artists’ career. Kraus is best known for her...

Set in 1965, a true story of one man’s struggle to bring rock music to a nation, an iconic New Zealand story with a universal ‘David and...

A hunter in New Zealand has created a fantasy world of mounted animal trophies. He returns home to add his latest catch and make some music and finds...

An adventure story for children set in New Zealand and told in eight sequential episodes

A girl named Tammy Torrance is in detention. Her teacher tells her that he needs to go to the bathroom as he goes about his business he gets killed...

This intensely personal documentary embraces the universal themes of courage, willpower and sheer determination. Follow Shaun Quincey as he becomes...

One of the earliest films made by Australian director Roger Donaldson (Sleeping Dogs), this curio chronicles the dawning of the Age of Aquarius in...

A fisherman is swept into the sea by a freak wave. He desperately fights for his life only to find his apparent survival is not what it seems.

Documentary by John Clarke about his greatest creation - Fred Dagg.

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

An evocative documentary that follows Jzayla Hughey's journey through the challenges and triumphs of embracing her Afro-textured hair in Aotearoa.

Fourteen-year-old George has to find her own way to celebrate her birthday when everyone else forgets it.

When 11-year-old Billie asks for her older sister's trust, both are in for a surprise. In this engaging spine tickler, an unexpected third party...