New Zealand Movies

A documentary on the mechanics of visual humour.

A fisherman is swept into the sea by a freak wave. He desperately fights for his life only to find his apparent survival is not what it seems.

A father struggles to answer his daughter's questions.

An educational short made by the New Zealand National Film Unit for the National Mountain Safety Council to promote awareness of bush safety.

When a young boy is left home alone with his increasingly unwell grandmother, he is forced to come to terms with her deterioration.

As the construction of a motorway bypass quickly approaches, a Taranaki farmer and the Poutama hapu take a final stand to protect the ancient...

Walter Burton's realistic photographs depicting poor treatment of Maori prisoners are rejected by late 19th century government officials. Walter is...

Evan rides the bus all day instead of going to school. But when he gets off to follow Romy, she teaches him a lesson about life.

When the divorced parents of 8-year-old Jacob insist on dressing him in ridiculous clothes to spite each other, he resorts to desperate fashion...

Claude and his friends are out of their element and in a whole lot of trouble when they choose the wrong lettuce for lunch. They must now find their...

The animated story of a boy who disguises himself as a shark to frighten off other people so that he will have the beach all to himself.

Discover the language of flowers

John is left on the boat to fend for his life while Amy takes a trip to the shops.

When his homophobic father dies, a hopeless broke gay artist journeys home to fight his estranged sister for the inheritance.

‘Myths and Maidens’ is a love letter to fafine Moana, looking at some of our trauma, challenges and inequities across Pasifika, and how...

One man, One cow, One planet exposes globalization and the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and...

Follows two artists' creation of the ultimate work of art for an art competition. Told as an oscillation between two worlds, we discover that what it...

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...

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leather,...

Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each other.