New Zealand Movies

With unprecedented access to NZ Customs' Child Exploitation Operations Team, this documentary reveals the complex & lifesaving work of our...

A young woman and her friends gather at a beach house one evening to honour the memory of a loved one.

This is an excellent short film directed by BunCactus and Alybaba. It proclaims the incident that a cookie was stolen from a cookie jar whilst...

Baelin (Rowan Bettjeman), a simple background NPC in the video game 'Skycraft' has been walking the same route for as long as he can remember....

The story of a student going about his daily life, and getting tired with the monotony.

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...

These senior citizens may each be almost a century young, but for Kara, (94) Maynie (95) and Terri (93) the journey to Las Vegas and the World Hip...

In the midst of inter-tribal warfare in the early 1800s, a young Māori girl is separated from her mother. In her journey to safety, she...

The peeping tom rom-com ‘How To Meet Girls From A Distance’ is a funny and heartwarming film that looks at how far we go for a crush....

Acknowledging Len Lye, Lomas has created a vibrant, naturally kinetic and textural world of colourful geometric shapes going flatstick. (NZFF 1998...

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

In a family of sheep rustlers, a 15-year-old must go up against his domineering father to help his younger brother keep the lamb left orphaned by...

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...

Examination of a young boy's relationship with his dying mother.

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

A documentary taking its cues from children's imaginative flights of fancy.

Munted is an unusual, multi-award winning, short film about an accusation of pedophilia and its terrible consequences. Set in 1961 in a remote rural...

Marty Schwartz attempts to steal a couch to pay back his gambling debts.

This short film takes place one frantic night as a beautiful young sex worker waits for her salesman lover to whisk her away from her last night on...

A fisherman is swept into the sea by a freak wave. He desperately fights for his life only to find his apparent survival is not what it seems.