New Zealand Movies

Samson Peabody-Jones sets out to conquer the untamed west in 1881, in this remarkable film featuring a cast and crew of 100 talented school...

With the resurgence of taonga pūoro, one musical instrument remains conspicuously absent from Māori music —pahū (drum). In this...

Only the hardiest animals are capable of carving out a life in Siberia. Over a wild year, polar bears, reindeer, red-crowned cranes, cherry salmon...

Two gamer geeks are forced to have an adventure in the real world after one of them has their scooter and phone stolen whilst delivering pizzas.

Welcome to the days of mind your own business and don’t comment on others business. Not their gender, sexuality, body, hair, education or...

An intimate insight into a familiar community through the common currency that links us all.

Follows a cleaning lady going through an overnight shift at an airport. Her actions throughout may seem selfish and heartless but they all become...

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

'Tall Poppies' focuses the fallout of the 1998 Lancet MMR autism fraud. A research paper by British physician Andrew Wakefield that falsely claimed...

In 1999, the largely conservative Wairarapa district in New Zealand elected a former cabaret performer/actress named Georgina Beyer to the country's...

Minka is a teenage Polynesian boy living in the heart of the city. With his P-addicted mother well on the way to going completely off the rails,...

Housewife Rosemary Edmonds leaves her family to take up residence in a remote cottage on the Otago coastline so that she can conduct a photographic...

A powerful story about a swimming teacher dealing with the overwhelming effects of loss, grief, and guilt.

The dramatic behind-the-scenes story of All Black Stephen Donald and the pentaly kick that saved the 2011 World Cup.

In the course of a long, slow take over Funafuti, both drought and floods appear in a constant uninterrupted rhythm. The state of flux between both...

Henry Waghorn and his father Henry Waghorn Senior run a circus of performing chickens, however the chickens’ real value may be more to do with...

A young man returns home for the weekend to discover the difficulty of juggling friends, parents, magic mushrooms and several thousand chickens.

An indigenous lawyer represents the division among his people between traditional caring for the land and developing the resources it contains.

Documentary following an attempt to find, net, and train a bottlenose dolphin for Napier marine mammal park Marineland.

A fascinating story of effort towards global peace, featuring eight peace people of Aotearoa New Zealand – spanning some seven decades –...