New Zealand Movies

This is a Kiwi film set in Temuka, Geraldine. Described as delightful, fun, crazy, serious, a bit sad and hysterical.

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.

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...

A short animated meditation

A Berlinale award nominated short feature.

Karanga is a dance and spoken word film exploring the intersectionality of descendants both Māori and Pākehā (European) centred around the late Tiahui...

Co-produced by Big Girls Blouse Productions and Pink Health Ōtautahi over 2006 to 2008, the film asks the question of the people who were there: How d...

By using telnet to a server, one could watch the extremely primitive text based animation honoring the first 20 minutes of Star Wars.

Harmony is a young girl living on a cold and desolate Earth, alone and longing for friendship. While trying to tune into a station on her home radio o...

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...

A boy goes to listen to music, but soon goes on a crazy trip.

plasticine film animation about flying to space

A cartoon film about forest fire prevention, Trees was commissioned by the New Zealand Forest Service and Rivers Control Council. The film’s painterly...

Shot in 1900, the film is of Elizabeth Yates, a trailblazing woman elected Mayor of Onehunga in 1893 – just a few weeks after New Zealand women became...

Three young men owe money to a local crime lord - but who in New Zealand could they rob to pay off the debt?

In a rural world out of time, a mother and daughter share everything about their lives and work. Until the day whenthe arrival of a stranger breaks th...

Upcoming found footage style horror

A chaotic commercial kitchen reaches its boiling point.

Forced to maintain a dying language by his controlling family in rural New Zealand, sacrificing his ambitions in the process, Faro starts to question...

Julia goes to a movie to cheer herself up. She arrives late and is given a seat in the middle of the row. But surrounding her are the theatre's most d...