New Zealand Movies

A comedic short film starring NZ comic Paul Williams as Marlon Brando

When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at first well-received as a gift from the heavens,...

A four-day journey turns into a fight for survival. This is a psychological thriller about Ian, who wants to get as far away from humanity as...

Film adaptation of French economist Thomas Piketty's ground-breaking global bestseller of the same name: an eye-opening journey through wealth and...

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

Brandon prepares to give his last stand-up comedy show. As his stories and jokes pass, the public begins to cheer up. But at that precise moment...

A Grief-Fueled Journey of Adolescent Loss

A young Māori girl gets her period for the first time and has to decide between getting pads for herself or a gift for her younger brother's...

Laura Chant, 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New...

A young Māori women is released from prison and not given the proper support she needs.

On Christmas Eve, a nameless little girl reads 'The Monster's Christmas' storybook to her teddy bear, as something sneaks around in the trees outside...

Everyone is chasing a little wooden dog. Old and young, they all think it contains an elixir of life. Miranda, a manic cosmetics tycoon, thinks it's...

A feisty young petrol station attendant attempts to figure out her place in the world.

The story of jaded swimming coach and a spirited seven-year-old delinquent who comes under his instruction.

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

This documentary-drama film follows Lance Sgt. Haane Manahi DCM of B Company, 28th Māori Battalion, a soldier of extraordinary courage, whose...

In 1860s New Zealand, a young Irish woman desperately trying to find her son finds herself caught on both sides of the lines during the wars between...

Ingeniously unfolding three tales in unison, Take 3 follows a trio of young asian-Kiwi actors on one horrifying day of auditions.

A man wakes up in an endless white void, unable to remember how he got there, he soon encounters an A.I. who takes the man through old memories of...

Supermodel Kate Moss embarks on a journey of self-discovery when acclaimed artist Lucian Freud offers to paint her portrait.