New Zealand Movies

Over the course of four decades, filmmaker Paul Oremland documented his romantic and sexual encounters with roughly one hundred men. He preserved...

Filling the giant screen with stunning time-lapse vistas of Antarctica, and detailing year-round life at McMurdo and Scott Base, Anthony...

3am. Hongjing, China. 1980s. A single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician's oath when violent gangsters storm into a hospital to stop a...

Maka, a Tongan superfan, will do whatever it takes to get tickets to the Tonga v France Rugby World Cup game - even if that means promising to...

Mataara has a soft side when we meet his Kui. Every week he visits his Kui and discovers that she wants to go to a male strip show. This poses a...

A fifteen-minute portrait-documentary to accompany "Irene 59", the film about her mother.

In the course of a long, slow take over Funafuti, both drought and floods appear in a constant uninterrupted rhythm. The state of flux between both...

When a single mother brings her young boy to church for healing, this lonely pentecostal minister is forced to confront the seemingly incurable...

A dress rehearsal turns in to every performer's worst nightmare. But somehow, even with forgotten lyrics, infidelities, concussion, laryngitis,...

Jodie Carpenter is the owner of 'The Loft', her family's sail-making company located near quaint Redmond's Bay Marina. When luxury developer Charles...

The true story of Jean Batten is of a daughter determined to live up to a powerful mother, desperate to leave a mark on the world – and...

A gripping film chronicling Māori in a defiant struggle against systemic racism and colonial injustice to reclaim their fishing rights. Through...

A little girl and her dog impersonate a crocodile at the edge of a muddy bog and then go on a chaotic rampage through the suburbs of Wellington.

Documentary following an attempt to find, net, and train a bottlenose dolphin for Napier marine mammal park Marineland.

A young up-and-coming crook is forced by a mob boss to infiltrate a powerful opposing criminal family, lead by a cutthroat matriarch known as Mother...

After the publication of her semiautobiographical debut novel, a girl comes into conflict with her mother over how the book portrays her upbringing.

Ash Nielsen is a teenager who is struggling to come to terms with being nonbinary, as well as having to navigate bullying at school.

A true New Zealand western story, the infamous Maungatapu Murders of 1866 by the Burgess-Kelly Gang, filmed on the track where it happened, in the...

From the bowels of the kitchen sink, comes a dark and tender love… An original and full-blooded short film that combines humour with...

A former TV anchor tracks down a reclusive romance novelist hiding a facial deformity. As she uncovers his past, their growing closeness forces him...