New Zealand Movies

With the resurgence of taonga pūoro, one musical instrument remains conspicuously absent from Māori music —pahū (drum). In this...

The Aro Valley Digital film movement is examined through interviews with the various filmmakers and extensive clips of their work.

This footage of the 1984 hīkoi (march) to Waitangi was made by Merata Mita with the intention of producing a documentary about this historic...

Rita, a 15 year old girl who dances to a different beat, is relentlessly bullied by the queen bees. When they kill her cat, they go one step too far.

This short follows Joe Warbrick (Calvin Tuteao), captain of the New Zealand Natives rugby team, as he tries to rouse his battle-weary players to head...

Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and...

Misha (Stephen Papps), a once celebrated filmmaker who has fallen on hard times, resolves to leave his homeland in search of a film-friendly country...

Made on a wind-up Bolex camera, The Sound of Seeing announced the arrival of 21-year-old filmmaker Tony Williams. Based around a painter and a...

Told over the space of a day and through the eyes of 11 year old Utah, The Dump is a comedy/drama about a boy and the gradual bond he develops with...

It's desperate times for a small rural home kills and butchery service, as big business begins to threaten their livelihood the owners fall into...

A girl and her family living on a remote, picturesque island in the South Pacific find themselves confronting the fallout from the French nuclear...

The solitude and despair of a woman living in a dungeon hanging in the sky.

News from the troubled Korean peninsula comes frequently and often deals with the risks of new fighting between North and South Korea. But between...

The Pa Boys is an energetic, uplifting road movie capturing the best of New Zealand's culture, beauty, talent and music, whilst exploring themes of...

In this poetic short film, writer/director/songwriter Kararaina Rangihau tells a story of great significance to the Tūhoe people. Unfolding...

In rural New Zealand, Harry and Eric are middle-aged men whose aged, tyrannical mother runs their lives. When she dies, serious questions come to the...

A mysterious gift. An ignored warning. A heavy responsibility. A big secret.

A group of old friends go on a camping trip, confronting their differences and encountering strange occurrences in the wilderness.

After a successful raid and having captured a rival village's leader, a war party must drag their huge canoe or "Taua" through the forest to reach...

Covers the 12-week-long strike at Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by New Zealand Forest Products in January 1980.