New Zealand Movies

Set in a modern day, New Zealand model store, The Knight Train shows the relationships that can exist between people of different generations with the...

Passengers, crew and rescuers tell extraordinary stories of courage, surviving New Zealand's worst modern maritime disaster. April 10th 1968 - a day m...

A 17min live action short. Based on the epic poem by Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market is a dark fairytale about two sisters who live together shelter...

An LGBT teen love-story about a girl who turns into a dinosaur when drunk. Drunkorex follows Ruben falling in love, out of bed and into an intoxicated...

An ode to the whitewater obsession

Sage’s world is riffled with an anxiety disorder that impedes all elements of her life. We follow her journey of isolation and raw existence. She's we...

Examination of a young boy's relationship with his dying mother.

Ziarah takes to the sea in search of the remains of Tupaia, a nobleman indispensable in liaising between the Māori and James Cook’s ship in 1769. On a...

Apparatus weaves the development of gender and identity within the indigenous culture in Aotearoa, the Māori name for New Zealand. Samoan artist Tanu...

Edible Paradise captures the birth of the food forest movement in New Zealand. With people and communities coming together, to connect and grow. Nowhe...

Whiskey Tango Forest tumbles down the rabbit hole of friendship and art without answers or method. Domestic scenes turn out Zen-stupid, while forests,...

A young refugee attempts to reconcile his insular, tranquil new life with his war-torn past on the day of the annual Great Easter Bunny Hunt.

Officers Bliss and Russ follow up on an ongoing investigation, upon entering the complex it is evident the foul smelling odour is the least of their p...

A nearly wordless collage of moving images and sound. It is a diary film and an album of memories spanning 4 years.

The new film by Māori psychologist and filmmaker Paora Joseph (Tātarakihi: Children of Parihaka) invites open discussion of suicide through the brave...

Amanda Millar’s moving documentary celebrates the enduring legacy of Celia Lashlie, a passionate advocate for social interventions that equipped those...

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...

After quickly growing tired of his new flatmate, twenty-something goofball Charles has his character (and patience) tested when an exciting new option...

Tonal shifts are layered with text fragments gleaned from two of Joanna Margaret Paul’s poems provided to the artist.