New Zealand Movies

A look inside the bondage scene in Auckland, New Zealand, where professional dominatrixes discuss the therapeutic and theatrical aspects of sadomasoch...

A story of drug addiction, Māori wahine, and the power of recovery.

Hone Tuwhare was a beloved Māori writer, best known for his poem Rain. He died in 2008, before his great-granddaughter, poet Manaia Tuwhare-Hoani, got...

Anika is unable to bring herself to go on her first date with a woman, until she talks to her mother first.

Co-produced by Big Girls Blouse Productions and Pink Health Ōtautahi over 2006 to 2008, the film asks the question of the people who were there: How d...

A 17min live action short. Based on the epic poem by Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market is a dark fairytale about two sisters who live together shelter...

The Pleasures of Unbelonging, filmed in Hanmer Spring, a resort town in the Canterbury region of New Zealand’s South Island, unfolds through a series...

Love him or hate him, there is no denying that Pork is everywhere. One of the most prolific graffiti writers over the last decade, his dedication to p...

An LGBT teen love-story about a girl who turns into a dinosaur when drunk. Drunkorex follows Ruben falling in love, out of bed and into an intoxicated...

High school student Kevin confronts his classmate Quinn about an unexpected encounter after P.E class.

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

A grinchy cynic strikes up a conversation with a festive wannabe while they sing Christmas carols door-to-door.

Tom O'Halloran's Christchurch-shot, silent Super 8 film One Way to the Sea posits a dystopian nightmare in the earthquake-struck city. Featuring a man...

Balancing your work, passion projects and social life can be hard when you're just a big baby.

Bill is a lonely soul and feels sorry for himself and his life. He shuts people out and is quite unfriendly to everybody. Then one day he receives a...

A cinepoem by New Zealand filmmaker Joanna Margaret Paul.

Shot in a mirror in half-light, Jillian Dressing captures the practiced rituals of preparing oneself for the world.

Western Samoa, Lotus Land of the Pacific, is administered by New Zealand under United Nations trusteeship. The Administration brings to the Samoans th...

One hundred and ten members of the Maori Mormon Choir present chorals and action songs in the form of a stage production.

Throughout the span of this completely stop-motion short film, a mysterious figure transforms just a measly packs of sweets into a large meal.