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.

Located in rural Aotearoa New Zealand, a full-scale concrete adaptation of Stonehenge is an active observatory and portal to other worlds. Shot on Sup...

A lonely women. She hears the Bells calling her. And so she follows.

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...

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...

Portrait of New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Adern's science advisor: Juliet Gerrard. Gerrard whom started working with the PM in 2018 from minimis...

A short documentary following The Kweenz, a group of fa'afafine, transgender and takatapui students that attend an all-boys high school in Auckland, a...

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

There is a long tradition for various methods for healing – the individual, the collective, society or nature. Artists Huber and Saarikko choreographe...

Chandigarh's modern architecture is explored through Le Corbusier's early writings on repetition and order. The architect's zealous ideals taken from...

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

Ziarah takes to the sea in search of the remains of Tupaia, a nobleman indispensable in liaising between the Māori and James Cook’s ship in 1769. On a...

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...

Apparatus weaves the development of gender and identity within the indigenous culture in Aotearoa, the Māori name for New Zealand. Samoan artist Tanu...