New Zealand Movies

A group of people with mental health issues such as depression and suicidal thoughts, embark on a one hundred day journey to find happiness, with amaz...

Shirley Horrocks starts a journey to discover links to an ancestor that leads into a much wider view of science and the links between all of humanity.

This is a story about survival, family, love, and how sometimes things go wrong. Set on a colonized Mars, a young girl, her mother and her mother’s st...

A reflection on China's political system and the reality of the country.

Made in response to the poetry of New Zealand filmmaker Joanna Margaret Paul.

Commissioned as a response to an untitled poem by artist Joanna Margaret Paul, Nova Paul's Still Light is a reflection on the domestic and intimate.

By Sea tells the story of a fictional seaside apartment building. The architecture of the complex forms the words Par Mer, written in a bold, italic t...

Set in the Bay of Plenty in 1864, the story dramatises an event which occurred at a small settlement called Mill Farm. Seven people in the settlement...

A short documentary following The Kweenz, a group of fa'afafine, transgender and takatapui students that attend an all-boys high school in Auckland, a...

Claire Duncan’s “love-letter to music on the margins” punctures the romantic view of the touring musician (with withering narration playing over image...

In the 1950s thousands of Pacific Islanders came to Aotearoa to meet a labour shortage. They faced racism, and in the 1970s, notorious dawn raids by p...

Part biopic, part music video, part tribute to Gothic beauty, 'The Characteristics of C-Minor' bears witness to the emotional armour of a scarred man,...

Long a mainstay of Christchurch’s underground music scene, Into the Void are ready for their close-up in this lively and eccentric film which document...

Gavin Hipkins’ film observes the forgotten, portentous terrain of the rugged Waitakere Ranges as a man wanders physically and psychologically around a...

Paul Judge’s doco provides a thorough record and eloquent posthumous tribute to a major and often controversial NZ artist. Draws on a wealth of archiv...

What happens when you suspect that your partner likes the house guest more than she likes you? A droll drama of unstated intentions in black, white an...

This is a story about standing up against what is wrong.

A short animated meditation

This is the story of a special group of New Zealanders whose initiative and daring perfected the capture of wild animals. Relive their adventures, mee...

The last western heretic is a timely and enthralling insight into the ideas and philosophies of the New Zealander described by the BBC as “the last li...