New Zealand Movies

Freediving royalty William Trubridge and actress Sachiko Fukumoto will do anything to bring their baby into their world, the ocean.

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

A young and green police officer is implicated in the assault of an arrestee.

Hands tap, tracing patterns on rocks. These mineral-rich instruments are collaborators for a sonic performance, the landscape in Aotearoa listens.

A young deaf Maori boy defies isolation to grow from an undervalued youth into a proud young man.

Rita, a 15 year old girl who dances to a different beat, is relentlessly bullied by the queen bees. When they kill her cat, they go one step too far.

Olympic Champion, Kiwi Icon, Tongan Leader, Orphan, Mother...winning was just part of the journey.

After accidentally freeing an adventurer's ghost from a cursed jar, Robin embarks on an adventure of her own to help get the ghost to the afterlife. L...

Ruby, an 83 year old trying to dodge a retirement home, rents a room to Rata, a solo mum with sidelines in music and benefit fraud. Rata's son is into...

The church of Tonga demands donations, especially from those who have left the country. This personal documentary follows the family of Saia Mafile’o...

Delegates and workers discuss the issues that effect the Timberworkers’ Union, the reasons for the formation of the Combined Council of Timber Workers...

Constance is a bored, movie-loving schoolteacher in post-WW2 New Zealand who begins to fantasize that she's a Hollywood star - with tragic consequence...

Jinx Sister is a story about Laura (Wiseman) who is convinced she is a jinx. People who get close to her have a habit of dying. She thought fleeing to...

Fifty-six-year-old Perianayaki contends with the difficulties of fitting into her new home, especially at the local supermarket where she works. Eye-o...

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 th...

The low-budget adventures of streetwise cop Honey Kaha are brought to life by star Dr Julia Love and her dastardly former husband, Kent Barry.

Out of a collection of soft toys sitting on a shelf, Dilly Bog is just one of the characters in the children's TV show, 'Shelf Life'. After being awok...

The Politics of Toheroa Soup is Tiana Trego Hall’s personal story of her whānau and their traditional kai, the protected giant surf clam, toheroa. Onc...

Robert jumped. Or maybe he slipped. For his friends the truth is difficult to contemplate. A film about love.

A father possum reads his kids a story that's an alphabet of the most dangerous animal of all: humans! Inspired by the Edward Gorey classic, a black-c...