Browse New Zealand Film Commission Movies

A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year-old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. He discovers that his ex-wi...

Ruby (Yvonne Lawley),an 83 year old trying to dodge a retirement home, rents a room to Rata, a solo mum with sidelines in music and benefit fraud. Ra...

Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the town. However, the old man dies in their hotel and th...

On Christmas Eve, a nameless little girl reads 'The Monster's Christmas' storybook to her teddy bear, as something sneaks around in the trees outside...

A teenage boy, Nick, has difficulty coping with the death of a friend. When Nick's grandmother also dies, his grandfather, thinking that the boy will...

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...

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

France makes the most desired, revered and expensive wines in the world. They’ve had centuries to hone their craft. If you make fine wine, France is t...

A man installs a set of French doors during a renovation. What he doesn't know is that the doors harbour a secret. A dark secret...

When estranged son, Tai, is called home to Aotearoa to his father Putty's deathbed, he is forced to confront a painful past after years of avoiding it...

Pepe is the son of a successful Samoan businessman, who rejects his father's world and his Christianity. Although he becomes rebellious, anti-social...

A psychologist with unconventional methods challenges a psychiatric hospital and win the admiration and love of a doctor, but he pulls back due to fi...

Seven New Zealand women speak about their lives during World War II: some lost husbands, some got married, some went into service themselves. The dire...

A tragic portrait of mother and child exploring grief through music and lyrical imagery.

On the eve of departing overseas Ellen makes the fateful decision to gift her boyfriend a new girlfriend.

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

A Berlinale award nominated short feature.

In a Maori settlement, Ngati Toa leader Te Rauparaha composes the famous chant "Ka Mate", also known as the haka, after evading enemy capture by hidin...

Margaret remembers her childhood and marriage.

Henry Waghorn and his father Henry Waghorn Senior run a circus of performing chickens, however the chickens’ real value may be more to do with taste t...