New Zealand Movies

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...

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

On November 18 1982, a 22-year old Aucklander, Neil Roberts, daubed a washroom wall with the graffiti slogan: ‘WE HAVE MAINTAINED A SILENCE CLOSELY RE...

Wake compares colonial paintings of New Zealand intended to encourage migration to the colonies in the 1850s, with filmed images of the same country 1...

This film tells the story of the world’s rarest wading bird, the black stilt (kakī). With its precise beak and long pink legs the stilt is superbly ad...

Over 150 moments when powersport's heroes wished they'd stayed home in bed, condensed from thousands of hours of world-wide powersport action footage....