New Zealand Movies

There are fewer than 20 tuskers left on earth, where ivory still sweeps the ground. Filmed throughout the Greater Amboseli ecosystem in Kenya, Kimana...

On the Western Front in the web of trenches, stretcher-bearers must choose between their humanity and their job.

In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled...

A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and...

A Maori warrior comes upon the aftermath of a battle and finds that the only survivor is a wounded enemy soldier. He desires to avenge his fallen...

An egocentric drama teacher passes wisdom gained through a career of failure to a paying class of idiosyncratic young people.

In October 2020, The Beths toured Aotearoa New Zealand, culminating in a final stop at Auckland Town Hall on Friday, November 6.

A thousand years ago, in England, the crazy monk Elmer wears a pair of wings and tries to fly from a high tower. He dies, and his soul is doomed to...

An intertwining story of murder and mystery across two decades. In the early twentieth century, several pregnant girls meet in a country house, where...

A gang of construction workers try to relieve tension by taunting their newest member.

Feelings of grief bubble up when Mikey celebrates his soccer game win without his Mother there with him. Mikey's Father, who knows what's up, has a...

Under the celestial guidance of Matariki, Māori elder Hamo and local delinquent Jo form an unlikely bond on a road trip. As they confront past...

The story of Māori-Pakeha relationships during the New Zealand Land Wars. Styles and themes are borrowed from 1920s filmmaking whilst the...

Shot for an Australian Travel Agents Seminar, this short film seeks to portray 1969 New Zealand as a hip and happening place. The tourism...

Spooked is a contemporary conspiracy thriller arising from the mysterious death of Kevin Jones, who thought he was just buying second-hand computers,...

1981. A summertime day in the life of a Samoan kid in West Auckland touches on wider conflict and grief. A simple story perfectly told.

A blue-collar worker falls into a magical world and finds himself embroiled in a battle with a violent butterfly.

In the turbulence of Auckland, Ska (Hunter) is a streetwise 19 year old, whose father is a drunkard and whose older sister works at a high-class...

A subtle and poignant exploration of Pasifika masculinity and its queer-tinged boundaries.

A meditation on community, masculinity and the small moments of connection that bring people together.