New Zealand Movies

A black-and-white visual meditation of wilderness and the elements. Wildlife filmmaker Richard Sidey returns to the triptych format for a cinematic...

A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two members of a Māori tribe decide it's time for...

A young gay man narrates his first sexual encounter with another man through a poem and deals with repercussions of their actions.

Opens Looks is a short film told in English and Cook Islands Māori. A story of love, redemption and basketball.

When a Maori teacher reluctantly accepts the task of teaching two strangers, he is forced to confront and reconcile with his past by unearthing...

Two tadpole-like creatures with enormous eyes chase each other around, to a driving techno soundtrack. Then these digitally-animated characters find...

Turei, a talented young musician, dreams of his band winning the audition to be the support act for Bob Marley’s 1979 concert in Auckland. Part...

"Filmed by George Lowe and taken on the New Zealand Alpine Club’s 1954 Expedition to the Barun Valley in Nepal. Ed Hillary was the leader of...

The impressive firepower and fearsome reputation of the cobra family that rules the wilds of Africa and Asia.

Ferris and his horde of zombies must save the world from the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.

A trio of flatmates take edibles and settle in for a relaxing afternoon. Their peace is shattered by a knock at the door, and the realisation that...

A quintet of international lesbian short films, the latest in its popular Upon Her Lips collection. These films aim to tempt you with secret desires...

Cameron Duncan wrote, directed and starred in this short film, the same year a lump in his knee turned out to be cancerous. Aged only 16, Duncan had...

Hollywood movie transformed through digital intervention.

He loves her - she loves him - there's only one thing missing - his trousers. A woman unhinged, strangely tied to her ex-husband. A man obsessed,...

A documentary about the New Zealand theatre troupe "Red Mole".

A small boy comes home to find his grandmother has gone and he has to fend for himself.

An anti-western propaganda film about the influences of American visual and consumption culture on the rest of the world, as told from a North Korean...

As a family gather to watch one of their own swimming in the Olympics, minutes of fame become a hilarious and painful 24 hours when they uncover the...

A man's son becomes involved in drug use and criminal activity in rural New Zealand. The man embarks on a journey to seek assistance from others in...