New Zealand Movies

A moody and lively study in fantasy. Our solitary protagonist experiences a sweet and imaginative mind trip peopled with friendly food fetishists. She...

A comedy about a Chinese immigrant family and the impossible expectations they have for their 8-year-old daughter.

The Voyager 1 space probe has escaped the sun's heliosphere, bearing a golden record full of sounds and images from Earth. When it crashes into an ali...

A filmmaker documenting various methods of winemaking believes he has found the perfect subject when he meets a man who uses anything but conventional...

A father struggles to answer his daughter's questions.


This film animates the insects found in the last painting by the artist’s grandfather, the Balinese painter I Gusti Made Rundu. The swarm imagines an...

A family of outsiders unite to form an outrageous, limitless, club-night that explodes in popularity. But, the fate of this iconic event hangs in the...

Comedian Chris Parker returns to the battleground of his adolescence, Christchurch Boys' High School, to share some laughs and shine a spotlight on al...

A lonely old widower spends his evenings making odd noises which draw the suspicion of his nosey neighbours - but all is not what it seems.

In the future, ageing 'millennial' parents get schooled in outrageous new technology by their jaded son.

Deer embrace architecture.

A teenager in his last year of high school reflects on his youth as he struggles to come to terms with being on the verge of adulthood and explores wh...

Crown Lynn, A Māori Story is a riveting slice of New Zealand history telling the iconic story of Crown Lynn pottery and the generations of Māori famil...

This is a story about survival, family, love, and how sometimes things go wrong. Set on a colonized Mars, a young girl, her mother and her mother’s st...

Instructions for building the perfect place to live.

A story of drug addiction, Māori wahine, and the power of recovery.

Hone Tuwhare was a beloved Māori writer, best known for his poem Rain. He died in 2008, before his great-granddaughter, poet Manaia Tuwhare-Hoani, got...

Anika is unable to bring herself to go on her first date with a woman, until she talks to her mother first.

Co-produced by Big Girls Blouse Productions and Pink Health Ōtautahi over 2006 to 2008, the film asks the question of the people who were there: How d...