New Zealand Movies

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

When Forgotten Silver — the story of pioneer filmmaker Colin McKenzie — unspooled on 29th October 1995, in a Sunday TV slot normally...

Mythology goes to church in New Zealand Opera's unique, site-specific staging of Handel's baroque masterpiece. This sensual story explores a love...

A powerful and inspirational story of dedication, danger, fear, and the rare ‘will’ some of us have to defy all personal limitations. ...

"Ultimus Exitus" follows Valerius, a war hero turned seeker, on a quest for divine purpose. In a fantastical realm with shadowy undertones, he...

A lone tui bird must find her lost voice to speak up against her adoptive magpie family before they start a war.

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

Billie, an American girl, learns the meaning of Setsubun as she adjusts to life in rural Japan.

This 1944 newsreel documents arrivals at a Wellington wharf from the Middle East: New Zealand soldiers and Polish children. For the refugees it was...

Decades after the end of the world, survivor, George, helps Ava travel across the broken landscape in search of her parents.

A dress rehearsal turns in to every performer's worst nightmare. But somehow, even with forgotten lyrics, infidelities, concussion, laryngitis,...

A timid office worker's life unravels after he fails to read the terms and conditions at a pseudo-health clinic.

Pioneering New Zealand reporter Dairne Shanahan reports on transvestites and transsexuals.

After a successful raid and having captured a rival village's leader, a war party must drag their huge canoe or "Taua" through the forest to reach...

A woman returning from an overseas volunteer posting takes the ferry home to her mother. A bittersweet tale on love, family and global warming.

A dramatization of the events at Gallipoli using the letters of the soldiers who were there.

Actor Miranda Harcourt directs an ode to her broadcaster father Peter in this short documentary. The film emerges from vocal chords (via an...

Documentary by John Clarke about his greatest creation - Fred Dagg.

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

Siblings Stellar (23) and Max (17) are living in their car and trying to get back on their feet. When Max makes a drunken mistake and puts their...