Ainsley Gardiner Movies

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee...

Young Vinnie and Jonah are bored on the mean streets — tagging, BMX-ing — when Jonah peer pressures Vinnie to join him in breaking and...

Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. ...

The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State. A desperate...

This is a story about fear and fate, explored through the experience of both the victim and the perpetrator. A young woman home alone receives a...

Two women run a business breaking up couples for cash but when one develops a conscience their friendship unravels.

Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A...

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small...

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.

Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each other.

A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a...

Maka, a Tongan superfan, will do whatever it takes to get tickets to the Tonga v France Rugby World Cup game - even if that means promising to...

When a cup of coffee is a gift from Allah.

Documentary Hautoa Mā! The Rise of Māori Cinema reveals the remarkable impact Māori have made on New Zealand cinema.

The Pa Boys is an energetic, uplifting road movie capturing the best of New Zealand's culture, beauty, talent and music, whilst exploring themes of...

A short directed by Brian Challis.