New Zealand Movies

During WWII, John and Halina were exiled from their Polish homeland and sent to Siberia. Years and many miles later, they found themselves in a New...

Inside the hidden world of a New Zealand funeral home.

This documentary exposes Antarctica's dramatic climate shifts, from melting ice to rising seas, showing how changes at the world's edge threaten...

Something pierces the boredom and unconscious dailiness of life for a young woman working in a dress shop.

At the bottom of the world is a place of wild isolation. Antarctica. Its vastness and extremes defy description. From volcanoes to glaciers... and...

Set in 1965, a true story of one man’s struggle to bring rock music to a nation, an iconic New Zealand story with a universal ‘David and...

Fish Out of Water manages to unfurl its light-hearted tale of young man and the sea, without a word of dialogue. Avoiding the morning traffic jams,...

Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A...

Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary urban life. Rachel is a young archivist living...

A mysterious gift. An ignored warning. A heavy responsibility. A big secret.

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

Maurice and I is a feature-length documentary celebrating Sir Miles Warren and Maurice Mahoney’s hugely influential architectural partnership,...

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

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

A refugee arriving in a new country is troubled with thoughts of her past. Pairs of dancing shoes eloquently recreate the journey from dance hall to...

A documentary about Takahanga Marae in Kaikōura, New Zealand. Rangi Solomon said he wanted to “build the future of our people on the bones...

A car crash blazes a destructive trail trough the lives of three women – an awkward adolescent, a malevolent femme fatale, and a...

When an attack on a Palmerston North fraud detective made headlines in October 1996, the New Zealand public followed the media reports with...

Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A "film within a film" that connects the world...

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