New Zealand Movies

No More Heroes is a loving and bittersweet tribute to the asphalt desperadoes of Aotearoa in the 70s who took skateboarding from a fun pursuit into a...

Pictures of Susan is a 2012 feature documentary by Dan Salmon. The film examines the artist’s upbringing and earliest works, her twenty-year dormant p...

Shirley Horrocks’ richly illustrated portrait of the life and career of one of New Zealand’s most important photographers, who dedicated his life to s...

An intimate journey through the life and work of master carver Rangi Hetet and a celebration of his lifelong devotion to the traditions of Māori carvi...

An intimate, inspirational portrait of Helen Kelly in the last year of her life, Together tells the story of a woman whose advocacy and generosity cha...

Three Axemen. Three tall wooden posts. An epic battle between young and old.

A documentary taking its cues from children's imaginative flights of fancy.

A documentary about socialising and society in early 1970s New Zealand.

Shirley Horrocks, cine-biographer of many notable New Zealand artists, delivers an invaluable survey of the work and legacy of one of our most excepti...

Observations of the Aberhart family home near Akaroa.

A bombardment of fish and other underwater creatures accompanied by music from the Egyptian singer Abdel Basset Hamouda. A hallucinatory trip where vi...

An animated homage to some surprising lesbian icons. Eve embarks on a journey beyond the garden gates; the Virgin, Venus and Mona Lisa are waiting.

Footage of a crane responded to with images of worn residential spaces in Wellington's Thorndon.

White fabric hanging on the line as seen through the windows of a house at night.

Compilation of 41 New Zealand rock and popular music videos.

Shirley Horrocks’ tenth NZIFF documentary relates the storied 37-year history of Christchurch’s often provocative, always daring Free Theatre, creator...

Thuten Kesang, New Zealand’s first Tibetan refugee in 1967, recounts his fascinating and inspiring story and the environmental and political issues th...

Ferris and his horde of zombies must save the world from the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.

“Sonic artist” Chris Cree Brown discusses composing with new media and how he orchestrates particular sounds into formal compositional structures. Som...

Luit Bieringa’s richly archived documentary examines the legacy of Gordon Tovey and the post-war education programmes that put art, artists, and Māori...