New Zealand Movies

Two years ago Guyon Espiner stopped drinking. Now, the award-winning journalist and podcast-maker has made a documentary about New Zealand's drinking...

In a dystopian world where all trees are outlawed, one council worker chooses to rebel

When villagers begin disappearing it is discovered that they had fallen through a crack in the earth which goes straight to Hades. Hercules once...

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...

Fifty-six-year-old Perianayaki contends with the difficulties of fitting into her new home, especially at the local supermarket where she works....

A parachuting accident on a remote volcanic plateau forces a young solider to confront the torments of his past.

In 1993 David Dougherty was found guilty and imprisoned for the abduction and rape of his 11 year old neighbor. It took two trials, two high court...

When the starstruck Marama uncovers corruption at a powerful music empire, she unwittingly inspires others, including the disillusioned teen pop-star...

In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled...

Provocative and powerful — join Stacey Morrison and Tāmati Rimene-Sproat as they unpack bias and racism in Aotearoa with experiments,...

A man enters a roadside diner run by a young woman and claims he is being chased by murderers.

A meditative atour of three different, fascinating and distinctive Japanese listening cafés that offer an immersive, musical sanctuary amidst...

A queer relationship falls out of sync as one woman loses touch with what is real and what may or may not be coming to her from the divine.

1981. A summertime day in the life of a Samoan kid in West Auckland touches on wider conflict and grief. A simple story perfectly told.

an avant-garde comedy about a group of evolutionary losers who have a message for Homo Sapiens: don’t f*ck up the world.

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

The larger-than-life story of Kim Dotcom, the 'most wanted man online', is extraordinary enough, but the battle between Dotcom and the US Government...

Two mysterious figures arrive on earth to hunt down a renegade and determine the fate of the planet.

Short-film about wanting to be noticed.

A young deaf Maori boy defies isolation to grow from an undervalued youth into a proud young man.