In this breathtaking science fiction spectacle, a strange mechanical device lands on a desolate world and uses the planet to undergo a startling transformation, that has profound implications for an…

A journey through a cultural minefield, navigating the divide between the traditional values of immigrant parents and the contemporary aspirations of their children in a new land.

When Arthur, self-proclaimed son of God, sets off on a mission to find the Queen of Heaven, his world changes.

Munted is an unusual, multi-award winning, short film about an accusation of pedophilia and its terrible consequences. Set in 1961 in a remote rural community, it tells the story of…

Sometimes the best things in life happen on the fly. From the moment an injured duck crash-lands on Doug’s roof, everything changes. Recently dumped and wallowing in self pity, Doug…

Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler’s forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi…

An Orthodox Jewish student unexpectedly inherits the estate of his estranged mentor, and discovers a painful truth about their final days together.

A love story featuring two young Maoris. A story about growing up and an unusual relationship that is simple, moving and tragic. A boy, a girl… and a step too…

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, where pyramid tombs of stupendous size are full of astonishing riches. In 221…

Follows the athletes and organisers of Epic Camp 2010 as they attempt to swim, cycle and run the entire length of New Zealand through some of the most stunning and…

A young boy searching for fabled dirty magazines becomes trapped inside the house of an eccentric old man.

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

In Cold Clay, Emptiness… an anonymous figure moves in slow motion through an empty and remote rural environment. The figures journey is intercepted by symbolic images – representing visions of…

A non-verbal visual journey to the polar regions of our planet portrayed through a triptych montage of photography and video. Landscapes at the World’s Ends is a multi-dimensional canvas of…

A woodsman must rescue his young daughter from an evil witch.

Fifteen year-old James has everything before him. The catch? He has to choose between the two things he wants the most: love or mates.

A young war veteran explores the magnificent wilds of New Zealand to fulfill the last wish of a close friend who died in combat. This is a powerful film about…

A random act of violence leaves eight people in crisis, searching for hope and new beginnings, as the Matariki constellation (Maori New Year) rises in the Southern skies.

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 where he can pursue his career….

A boy in a forest, trapping animals for a living. The woman next door, planning a fresh start. As a desolate winter sets in, their lives begin to intertwine.

A true story. 1942. New Zealand is at war. Times are desperate. The Japanese invasion seems imminent. At this perilous moment, confidence trickster Syd Ross completes his sentence and is…

A psychological drama of a family in crisis. Kawa, a successful Māori businessman in Auckland, New Zealand, is forced to reveal his lifelong secret – that he is gay.

A giant working man doing the natural wonders of New Zealand is doing his final day at work, but the Maori tribe are not impressed after finding him filling up…

Docufactory’s Is She or Isn’t He? (2010) follows the transition process of New Zealander Graham to Ashleigh. Filmmaker Justin Pemberton spent five years with Ashleigh, who ultimately just wants to…

Naïve teenager Cedric Williamson, conspires with two misfits to photograph and blackmail adulterous couples. When the scam goes wrong they end up with blood on their hands.

A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year-old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. He discovers his ex-wife Ana is pregnant to the policeman in…

Wound is a supernatural horror that explores the dark worlds of mental illness, incest, revenge and death. We follow Tanya as she searches for the mother she has never met…

In this short James Rolleston (Boy) stars as a Kiwi lad who banters with an elderly bearded fulla (Bruce Allpress) who claims to be God; the ‘BMX Kid’ challenges him…

Two people meet as guinea pigs in a weekend drug trial. They soon discover their lives are in more danger than they imagined. The staff are peculiar. The drugs cause…

In 1999, South African emigrant psychiatrist Colin Bouwer murdered his wife in what he thought was an undetectable manner. He was not counting on the skills and tenacity of New…

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who…

The brutal murder of John Scott, Head of Fiji’s Red Cross, and his gay partner is still clouded in rumour and political mystery. In a country that has become increasingly…

Barry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world’s first, and very influential, Indigenous film makers. The film The…

An affectionate portrait of a very significant human being, art-dealer Peter McLeavey who continues, after 40 years, to run his gallery in the centre of Wellington, New Zealand.

Clive de Roo scientist discovers a new source of seismic activity beneath the Gulf of Waitemata. Provides that a new volcanic eruption could occur within the next few days. But…

The Mordavian Truth is a documentary about a group of people coming together to participate in a very different hobby. We explore the concept of LARPing (Live Action Role Playing)…

The sole survivor of a catastrophic event experiences a moment of beauty.

Everyone in Taranaki (New Zealand) wants to know the secret behind the magical milk produced on Aphrodite’s Farm. The family mystery has remained safe for four generations. However when patriarch…

The world’s last kakapo population is plagued by a deadly curse. Without a cure, it could be the end of the world’s rarest and strangest wild parrot.

In 2008, China’s monster quake claimed 80,000 lives and destroyed five million buildings. In town after town, poorly constructed school buildings crumbled, wiping out classrooms filled with students. A year…

Adapted from Renee’s 1995 novel Does This Make Sense to You?, the TV movie lays bare the pain caused by forced adoptions inflicted on unwed and teenage mothers in 1950s…

A child discovers the fun with power tools in the workshop of his father.

Many of us assume that there are only two genders and that being female or male follows from the sex of our biological bodies. Focusing on the art, photography and…

In 1993 David Dougherty was found guilty and imprisoned for the abduction and rape of his 11 year old neighbor. It took two trials, two high court appeals, a petition…

A performance artist works tirelessly to fulfill her dream of adopting Sudanese twins, placing her marriage and career at risk in this documentary.

A contagious virus is turning everyone into zombies, and the only hope for survival lies in the hands of three couch potatoes.

A comedy-drama which follows the collapse of two marriages.

Teenage twins battle dark forces hidden beneath Auckland’s volcanoes.

Two women fall in love in 1940s New Zealand and despite the impossibility that governs their lives they make a ‘what-the-hell’ decision that reconfigures their world.

After the death of his uncle, a young man remembers back to a game his uncle taught him.

In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled to the Ureweras…

Two young soldiers prepare for battle during World War I.

In a secure military laboratory, a Scientist has become obsessed with the strange half-eel, half-human creature he’s studying. When she beckons him to her, it’s the call of a siren…

Small-town New Zealand comedy-drama about Michael (Jordan Selwyn) – a 16-year-old whose passion for maps helps him escape his ordinary life and enjoy a state of isolation from those around…

When a Cook Island school cleaner answers an unusual message on the wall of a girls’ toilet cubicle, his life, and the life of the mysterious author, will never be…

Ingeniously unfolding three tales in unison, Take 3 follows a trio of young asian-Kiwi actors on one horrifying day of auditions.

Sixteen year old Ricky lives in a small fishing village with his parents. He dreams of leaving the town but is hindered by his father’s expectations to follow in his…

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.

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 the sea and escape…

A multi-storyline film which follows the aftermath of a stalled movie project in Wellington. As the various members of the cast and crew resume their everyday lives, the intricacies of…

Alice is in her 20s, a graduate with a shitty job. She’s saving to head overseas, but family problems are holding her back. While she’s waiting to leave, Alice acts…

When a cup of coffee is a gift from Allah.

In this science fiction B movie a photo-journalist, Stringer, returns to New Zealand only to find himself with a mystery chest scare and a plague like infection taking grip of…

Drama, humour, concern and conflict are guaranteed when a group of 22 middle aged women who are total strangers get on their bicycles and set off on a gruelling 58-day,…

Mike has the girl, the time and the place.The problem is he doesn’t have the ring, Before Mike has an opportunity to propose his engagement ring is stolen.Mike is desperate…

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable achievement and Inglis was feted by press and public alike. But only…

This is the story of daredevil stuntman Randy Cambell and his quest to follow in his late father’s footsteps and become New Zealand’s greatest daredevil stuntman by performing the ultimate…

A thriller set in 1932 about two nurses trapped in a country mansion with their invalid patient whilst a killer is on the loose. A series of unexplainable events start…

Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. After gatecrashing Jarrod’s party and proving…

It’s 1973 and young New Zealand couple Kim and Janeen have run away to Europe and joined the circus – The Continental Circus. They’re part of a convoy of Grand…

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria’s family. There are no parties — they…

Meet best friends Michael, Albert, Stanley and Sefa; the ladies’ man, the good boy, the weird one and the party boy. They’re staring down the barrel of their thirtieth birthdays,…

Flight of the Conchords embark on a revealing and hilarious odyssey into the political and musical heart of the United States of America, as they make their debut at the…

Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside town, in the form of a…

Grub, a young surfer, is caught in a conflict between his boss, former surf legend Claw, and his passion for Vanessa, a mysterious Maori woman tattooist. Driven by his desire…

Fourteen-year-old George has to find her own way to celebrate her birthday when everyone else forgets it.

A parachuting accident on a remote volcanic plateau forces a young solider to confront the torments of his past.

An intimate portrait of a Chinese-European couple in New Zealand, and their journey to get a blessing for marriage from traditional Chinese parents. The story that led to the film,…

Luis, a handsome heir to a hotel fortune, decides to risk everything to pursue his first love, Julia. Ten years earlier, at a wishing well in Miami, young Julia promised…

Tyrannical Love is a film about the quirkiness of life and love when you are no longer a kid but not quite an adult. There is something for everyone in…

A mockumentary about a film crew making a New Zealand reality television show about a couple brought together by a dating service. However due to their being incompatible, the film…

Sweet, chubby, theatrical Billy was never cut out to be a farmer or a rugby player, but as the only son of a ‘good kiwi bloke’ he’s obliged to try….

Deep within a dark, twisted forest, at a faraway adventure camp, a group of young ‘camp leaders’ play a fast and furious game of ‘hide and seek’. The atmosphere is…

Three vampires who share an apartment are interviewed by a TV crew.

Over Christmas lunch an estranged daughter struggles with her Dad’s Alzhiemer’s and the reaction her return creates in the family.

Jim Hickey travels around New Zealand discovering the real people behind the making of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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

Built in the 40s to accommodate Forestry Department workers, the small town of Minginui in the North Island’s Whirinaki Forest lost its sawmill in the 80s as the logging of…

The documentary looks at the rise to celebrity status of NZ actor and musician Bret McKenzie, who appeared for 3 seconds as an extra in “The Lord of the Rings:…

Dealing heavily with perceptions of time, Aeon documents the urban cityscape as Wellington transforms through a zen-influenced eternal cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth within a 24-hour period.

Two players, one heinous crime to be revealed. Wellington Winner of 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking 2004.

Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality,…

A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother, even as her fundamentalist mother…

A couple buys a blow up doll as a joke, but soon the doll begins to reveal that it has a consciousness to one of the boyfriends, the man begins…

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.

The listless love lives and insecure domestic arrangements of a group of Wellington 20-somethings are scrutinised with insight and irony in I Think I’m Going, which derives its telling title…

BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD charts the journey of 19 year old Tecca Zendik, a contestant in the Miss Net World contest, Libya’s first every beauty competition. Colonel Muammar Qaddafi…

When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at first well-received as a gift from the heavens, even to…

Two best friends, Grant and Paul, hita country road for a night of fun, but unfortunately take a short cut to their fate…where they meet the Locals.

One mans bowling inadequacies are anothers entertainment.