New Zealand Movies

A portrait study of Shereen Maloney's mother Irene. Irene talks about growing older and says that she feels just as wide- eyed and interested in thing...

The tuatara is the sole survivor of a reptile species that has been extinct for 135 million years. This nocturnal creature which once lived world-wide...

Director Rachel Davies subverts expectations in a confronting film about a young boy's relationship with an older man.

Apirana Ngata, Member of Parliament for Eastern Māori, was keen for the museum group to visit the East Coast to obtain records of his people of Ngāti...

A community comedy set in Feilding using local people in the leading roles. The Manawatū town’s name is however misspelt in the title. The new school...

This exquisitely coloured film shows how tourists travelled around New Zealand in the early years of this century - by boat, horse and trap, and on fo...

What happens when you suspect that your partner likes the house guest more than she likes you? A droll drama of unstated intentions in black, white an...

A young boy interprets his traumatic venture into town in terms of the adventure stories he has been reading.

Acknowledging Len Lye, Lomas has created a vibrant, naturally kinetic and textural world of colourful geometric shapes going flatstick. (NZFF 1998 pro...

Fiji High Chief and Prime Minister Ratu Mara shows how archaeology throws new light on the settlement of his island home of Lakeba.

Together We Grow is a 40-minute documentary that tells the inspiring story of a thriving hub helping to build resilience into its local community by g...

A lonely women. She hears the Bells calling her. And so she follows.

A look at the life and achievements of Derek Turnbull, a veteran runner from Southland, New Zealand.

Documentary on cartoonist Murray Webb.

A crafty prisoner plots his escape.

The letter x seeks to justify its place in the world.

Tokelau is a New Zealand territory, spanning three small South Pacific atolls. In the 1960s the New Zealand Government expressed concern about overpop...

The War Zoo is the original title of this animated cartoon by the renowned Australian caricaturist Harry Julius. The miserable fez-wearing turkey repr...

This documentary travels to nine Pacific nations, including New Zealand, to chronicle the long struggle to create a regional nuclear arms free zone.

In a secluded spot at the eastern end of New Zealand's Waiheke Island lies Connells Bay where John and Jo Gow, passionate and well-known in art and sc...