New Zealand Movies

This exquisitely coloured film shows how tourists travelled around New Zealand in the early years of this century - by boat, horse and trap, and on fo...

Acknowledging Len Lye, Lomas has created a vibrant, naturally kinetic and textural world of colourful geometric shapes going flatstick. (NZFF 1998 pro...

Fiji High Chief and Prime Minister Ratu Mara shows how archaeology throws new light on the settlement of his island home of Lakeba.

A look at the life and achievements of Derek Turnbull, a veteran runner from Southland, New Zealand.

Documentary on cartoonist Murray Webb.

A crafty prisoner plots his escape.

The letter x seeks to justify its place in the world.

The War Zoo is the original title of this animated cartoon by the renowned Australian caricaturist Harry Julius. The miserable fez-wearing turkey repr...

In a secluded spot at the eastern end of New Zealand's Waiheke Island lies Connells Bay where John and Jo Gow, passionate and well-known in art and sc...

History Man takes a journey through the life and work of New Zealand's most popular historian, Michael King. With a career that spanned more than thr...

A colourful tale of sex, love, and fabulous wardrobes.

This documentary portrays the art of feminine tattooing across the Pacific region. It presents the tattoo artists and their subjects, those tattooed w...

Maori face tattooing is a tradition that almost died out through colonization. Bernard and Sapphire show their passion to see Maori communities heal b...

My Lady of the Cave is the first feature film by pioneer filmmaker Rudall Hayward.

It takes bravery and guts to perform on stage to an audience… but Lusi does it all the time. Despite growing up with a disability, Lusi has been break...

A TV with a mind of its own and a man determined to stop it. Nothing is at it seems as the plasticine starts to fly - just don't get too close to the...

A look inside Rotorua woman Kirsty Gerlach's journey of Motor Neurone Disease.

The rural love story of young English migrant David Bryne and Hazel Carlisle, who manages a Hawke's Bay sheep farm with her brother.

No More Heroes is a loving and bittersweet tribute to the asphalt desperadoes of Aotearoa in the 70s who took skateboarding from a fun pursuit into a...

A bombardment of fish and other underwater creatures accompanied by music from the Egyptian singer Abdel Basset Hamouda. A hallucinatory trip where vi...