New Zealand Movies

A park bench and different interactions around it, on any given day. Part of Super 8x8 Festival in Auckland, New Zealand.

Two female politicians leading rival parties await election results. To pass the time, they reflect on their competitiveness, sacrifices made, and...

Actor Miranda Harcourt directs an ode to her broadcaster father Peter in this short documentary. The film emerges from vocal chords (via an...

Jeremiah is lonely in the world of love. When his work mate rejects him, he can ’t handle it and begins to crumble into dark, comedic...

Two balloons fight restlessly to break free.

A Maori writer meets a trickster spirit guide and conjures new worlds from the words she inks on a page.

A young girl finds comfort in play and slowly reconnects with her distant father after her mother walks out on the family.

An injured man with an impenetrable briefcase and no memory is found on the shoreline of a remote island by the last remaining members of a once...

A stubborn old lady struggles to send a text message to her daughter.

When a mysterious young man arrives on a remote Sub-Antarctic research station, secrets threaten the relationship of a married couple working on the...

The film rejoices the splendor of nature as the camera eye traverses land and sea in a montage of diverse ecosystems from the Americas to Iceland and...

At once tranquil and bracing, Tu Neill and Jim Speers’ film is a portrait of a seaside town and its vanishing way of life. Though it is now...

Armed with only their comedic genius, impeccable wit, and intellectual nous, two teams of comedians battle it out in the Great Comedy Debate of 2023.

In 1973 Alister Barry joined the crew of a protest boat (The Fri) to Mururoa Atoll, where the French Government were testing nuclear weapons. Barry...

After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rurangi, hoping to...

Tatau is about Siaki (Jack), an elderly Samoan man struggling to come to terms with the lifelong shame of having an incomplete traditional tattoo and...

A comedy-drama-mockumentary about Council workers, in a zombie infested city, dealing with office politics, government regulations and the ravenous...

The Haunting of Barney Palmer is a fantasy film for children about a young boy who is haunted by his great uncle. Young Barney fears that he has...

It focuses on two friends, one of whom pursues a relationship with a mysterious woman who part owns a guest house and who he has been dating online....

Alistair meets June on a park bench at lunchtime. She's not aware he is blind but when he misses the handkerchief she is trying to pass him, she...