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...

A father struggles to answer his daughter's questions.

A remarkable memoir of resilience, determination and love.Based on filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II...

Set against New Zealand’s Golden Shears – the Olympics of competitive sheep shearing – Brian Castlehead, a washed-up hairstylist to...

When an attack on a Palmerston North fraud detective made headlines in October 1996, the New Zealand public followed the media reports with...

Mary feels alien pregnant, the doctor thinks it’s probably allergies, only slime will tell.

This short animated comedy offers up a pre-Wellywood tale of Hollywood coming down under. In the fictional West Coast town of Whatawhopa, a horror...

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

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

In a tiny theatre in Aotearoa, New Zealand, four teenage stagehands work tirelessly to help Morgana tell the stories that shaped her - from her own...

In the beginning was the apple ... Adam and Eve, the Apple, the Worm, Seven Deadly Sins and Cupid. Get ready for creation!

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...

Walter Burton's realistic photographs depicting poor treatment of Maori prisoners are rejected by late 19th century government officials. Walter is...

Holdout is an independent science fiction short film released in 2012, written and directed by Calvin Sang.

Six young actors audition for a commercial ("The Pen for Satisfaction") and learn that their casting agent has a different picture in mind.

When estranged son, Tai, is called home to Aotearoa to his father Putty's deathbed, he is forced to confront a painful past after years of avoiding...

It's desperate times for a small rural home kills and butchery service, as big business begins to threaten their livelihood the owners fall into...

The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rights of her people, especially women. Flawed...

Two vampires decide to suck... blood together

Jumpstart follows 26-year-old Virginia ‘Billie’ Walton as she chokes on a healthy dose of reality. Trading her mother’s opulent...