New Zealand Movies

This is Stake's entry for the ABC's of Death 2013 competition.

A fifteen-minute portrait-documentary to accompany "Irene 59", the film about her mother.

A young woman writes home with stories about her exciting life and her normal boyfriend. In reality her life is strange, and her beau is from outer sp...

Comedian Chris Parker returns to the battleground of his adolescence, Christchurch Boys' High School, to share some laughs and shine a spotlight on al...

The Politics of Toheroa Soup is Tiana Trego Hall’s personal story of her whānau and their traditional kai, the protected giant surf clam, toheroa. Onc...

A group of young friends become entwined in a mystery involving a missing friend, an alternate dimension, and a supernatural creature that watches the...

On the brink of humanity's end, a vacant man finds solace in a kind stranger who's lessons of love echo well into the man's apocalyptic future.

Beyond The Battalion tells the story of the 28th Māori Battalion. It revisits two earlier films, including one on the 1977 pilgrimage of the battalion...

In this meditation on the vast lived experiences between Christchurch and Auckland, between queerness and being Chinese-Kiwi, and between homeland and...

Three Brits travel and settle down in New Zealand, and the film records their hopes, jobs, challenges, and adventures in the new country.

Impoverished sheep-cocky Tom Collins has vivid reveries of breeding a race horse to win the Melbourne Cup. His wife Ngaire is obsessed with meeting Th...

Sisters Tia and Ina are far from home. Tia is focused on her work, while the free-spirited Ina just wants to dance.

E Lele Le Toloa is a visual Talanoa and exploration of faasinomaga (identity). At the center is Tui Meki, a son of the Pacific, on a journey of self-d...

When a village is bombed, and its young survivors find shelter at their nearby beach, things go wrong when the survivors split into two clans, and beg...

With the end of a floundering adventure in sight, neither grandfather nor grandchild are quite ready to part ways. They depend on one another to stave...

Made during the COVID-19 pandemic, this film is a play on ‘winner winner, chicken dinner’, a phrase often used by Australians to celebrate personal vi...

In the mountains of South Island of New Zealand, lives a parrot smarter than any other. Surviving in one of the toughest environments of the Southern...

New Zealand artist Michael Smither revisits two unfinished paintings and scores a lament for the Pike River miners. As he paints, he provides straight...

As an eight year old girl carefully decides which lollies to spend her hard earned pocket money on, she notices an old man at the counter ahead of her...