New Zealand Film Commission Movies

This elegant new film from the director of Crossing Rachmaninoff takes us backstage at the Royal New Zealand Ballet as a brilliantly theatrical Europe...

Chan and his older mate Kim prospect for gold in 1890s Otago. Marooned until they can pay off their debts and return to China; they’ve been fruitlessl...

The Film Festival has a bug. The bug is called Decaff. He is short and has an even shorter fuse. He lives in a cinema world and has adventures in all...

A Maori writer meets a trickster spirit guide and conjures new worlds from the words she inks on a page.

Fifty-six-year-old Perianayaki contends with the difficulties of fitting into her new home, especially at the local supermarket where she works. Eye-o...

A young mother struggling with the pressures of study and a dysfunctional relationship finds comfort in the make-believe world she shares with her dau...

A short thriller about the murder, and its aftermath, of a young girl.

Housewife Rosemary Edmonds leaves her family to take up residence in a remote cottage on the Otago coastline so that she can conduct a photographic es...

Meet Henry Glint. He’s a pretty normal guy with a pretty normal job, and has big plans for a perfectly normal future. But Henry is about to discover t...

Two tadpole-like creatures with enormous eyes chase each other around, to a driving techno soundtrack. Then these digitally-animated characters find t...

A journey through the life of Fergus McLafferty. Fergus needs a role model. He chooses a fish with four legs - an axolotl. This inbred freak of nature...

Rummaging through the mementos falling out of her closet, Margaret remembers moments from her life and her marriage to George.

Jack Lovelock won New Zealand’s first Olympic athletics gold medal. He did so in spectacular fashion, winning the 1500 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olymp...

Len Lye (1901-1980) was a pioneer of experimental animation, and also of kinetic sculpture. This short film dramatically presents 18 minutes inside th...

A digitally engineered life form struggles with a belligerant operating system. In a skewed look at human/computer relations a belligerent digital lig...

A Berlinale award nominated short feature.

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.

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...