New Zealand Movies

The Chinese philosophy of the Five Elements postulates that everything in our universe is based on wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. While...

For more than four decades, Wellington-based photographer Grant Sheehan has made his way in the world through images. Where many photographers find...

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

A young woman receives a mysterious call in the night. After several strange events, she realises that she is not alone and that she may be in...

We often think of houses as strong, solid permanent things. In fact they can be weak, fragile and mobile. 'Home' explores the idea of what makes a...

Five friends go out for one last hiking trip before their lives separate them from each other. However a secret resurfaces that results in a grim...

Max is a small boy with a big imagination. Him and his Dad form a tight knit crew. But when Dad gets a new girlfriend, Max must find a way to...

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

This hilarious and heartwarming mockumentary follows a group of musicians in rural New Zealand as they compete for a scholarship to the prestigious...

On the day she gets her first menses, Hinekura is initiated into adulthood with ceremony and blessings. She's taken to a wananga where her role...

Actor Wi Kuki Kaa plays Tiare, a Vietnam War veteran who is dislocated by his experiences of war, and homelessness. He wanders the city streets,...

In an ancient world a warrior and his son are on a quest get a wish from a magic dragon, to fix the son’s stammer but the forest conspires the...

A multi-stranded, narrative impression of a tragic robbery that took place in Manurewa, New Zealand in 2008.

There are fewer than 20 tuskers left on earth, where ivory still sweeps the ground. Filmed throughout the Greater Amboseli ecosystem in Kenya, Kimana...

Actor Martyn Sanderson returns in 1977 to the Hokianga of his youth and visits his elderly and romantic aunt, Olive Bracey. Her reminiscences of...

Expelled from school for repeating one of his father's very down-to-earth philosophies in an English lesson, Thunderbox Jnr finds himself in the...

The Brown Boys spend their weekends drinking, partying and chasing girls. Peter the Player, Kiligi the Bad Influence, Magele the Tough Guy, Luka the...

The life and times of sailor and adventurer Sir Peter Blake, one of New Zealand's favourite sons.

A heart-broken women sends her most precious gift in a parcel to her ex-lover. It is delivered to the wrong man - a man whose life is devoid of love....

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