New Zealand Movies

The film rejoices the splendor of nature as the camera eye traverses land and sea in a montage of diverse ecosystems from the Americas to Iceland and...

A documentary that follows the lives of multiple chicken enthusiasts as they prepare for the New Zealand national Chicken competition.

In an inner city loft Belinda(Smuts-Kennedy) lives her dream of being a writer. Across the street is Suzanne (Rutter), a painter who has the success...

When a mysterious stranger arrives in their isolated coastal town, 10-year-old twins, Kimi and Melody are forced apart. Kimi must find the strength...

A young and affluent couple become fatally entangled in their own wish-fulfillment world.

Paul Wolffram’s urgent documentary takes us into the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea and one indigenous woman’s fight against the...

A Maori writer meets a trickster spirit guide and conjures new worlds from the words she inks on a page.

A bedridden woman being cared for by her daughter, is preyed on by an unseen creature.

A film about a dream about a film.

Two men undertake a thought-provoking journey to parenthood. Not by adoption or surrogacy, but by Frankie, a trans man, carrying their baby. Made...

Abandoned houses filled with useless old junk. Empty streets in deserted suburbs. And why do the airplanes seem to only be heading west? ...

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

One man, One cow, One planet exposes globalization and the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and...

A half Japanese girl in New Zealand struggles with cultural identity, leading to tension with her Japanese father, but a small gesture helps them...

Costa Botes’ portrait of New Zealand writer Michael Morrissey is indeed a tiger-ride – an up-close encounter with an extremely...

Drawing on extensive archival material, Annie Goldson has pulled together a raucous and entertaining portrait of the radical and boundary-pushing New...

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...

New Zealand’s own mid-century anti-Communist witch hunt which reenacts the fate of Cecil Holmes, a filmmaker at the National Film Unit, who was...

A therapist suggests an alternate way for an abused wife who has survived her suicide attempt to deal with her problems.

Two sisters kill their abusive stepfather, and must figure out how to deal with an overinquisitive priest.