New Zealand Movies

A non-verbal visual journey to the polar regions of our planet portrayed through a triptych montage of photography and video. Landscapes at the...

Dive is a coming-of-age drama that follows a young competitive swimmer named Paula, who is trained by her father Troy. Despite her dedication and...

In WWI, a pilot’s teddy bear and an infantryman’s lost photo drift through chaos, their fragile presence briefly disrupting the brutal...

It focuses on two friends, one of whom pursues a relationship with a mysterious woman who part owns a guest house and who he has been dating online....

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

Two cars, one day: directed by Taika Waititi, this extended public service announcement uses humour to address the dangers of motoring under the...

Accompanied by his best friend, a young boy waits for a call to a phone box outside the local milk bar.

After arriving in Aotearoa as refugees, a mother and daughter find their roles upended in the face of a new and unfamiliar world.

New Zealand-born Margot Nash scrutinises the memories and mementoes of her childhood to understand the unhappiness of her parents, and the corrosive...

When Kirk, a top roller-blader, discovers that he has bone cancer in his leg, his pleasant affluent life is shattered. Even though amputation...

Expat Kiwi Rewi Alley became one of the best known foreigners in 20th Century China and advocate for the Communist Revolution. When China was under...

A comedy about a Chinese immigrant family and the impossible expectations they have for their 8-year-old daughter.

This documentary looks at how the strings were pulled on Peter Jackson's low-budget puppet movie Meet the Feebles. An old Wellington railway shed...

Spiraling into the abyss, two melancholic yet hopelessly infatuated lovers are imprisoned in a beetle-infested nightmare. Wallowing in sorrow, they...

GOOD FOR NOTHING is an adventurous romp set in the sweeping Old West from Mike Wallis in his directorial debut. Inspired by the Spaghetti Westerns...

Malfred Signal leaves her life of stifling gentility as an art teacher in a South Island private girls' school and decides to live out her dream...

A boy from an abusive family wants to escape, but doesn't want to desert his younger siblings.

A BASE jumper from New Zealand returns to the Norwegian mountain where her husband, also a BASE jumper, had a fatal accident. She carries his ashes,...

Jess has a unique style and the confidence to show her creations to the world. With a penchant for fashion, a cereal box creation enables Jess to...

Two young men travelling the dark roads of New Zealand, have their friendship pushed to the limit when their car breaks down, stranding them in the...