Most Viewed From New Zealand Film Commission

Documentary from Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht on the most successful haunted attraction in the Southern Hemisphere, Auckland’s Spookers.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claudia Aiono

Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Craig Hall

Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Temuera Morrison

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jennifer Ward-Lealand

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...

Genre: Animation

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The arrival of gorgeous and enigmatic Luella Miller instantly disrupts the social balance of a small New Zealand town in this spine-tingling...

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Cast: Sia Trokenheim

Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Rade Šerbedžija

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...

Genre: Animation

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A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Phillip Gordon

Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival rekindles old tensions as well as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anzac Wallace

A comedy-drama which follows the collapse of two marriages.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joel Edgerton

In a family of sheep rustlers, a 15-year-old must go up against his domineering father to help his younger brother keep the lamb left orphaned by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Billy Cox

When Melanie goes home from the pub with a handsome stranger, she’s captivated by his charm and attentiveness. He sails her away to his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sam Neill

In the wake of the Christchurch earthquake, sassy Samoan mother Mareta mentors her fledgling youth choir to the finale of The Big Sing competition.

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Cast: Anapela Polataivao

A hazy night in Wellington is lit up with the pulsating colors and sounds of party people exploring their youth and freedom.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Logan Cole

Seven young adults learn to stand up to their parents through a confrontational new workshop.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elizabeth Winders

Ingeniously unfolding three tales in unison, Take 3 follows a trio of young asian-Kiwi actors on one horrifying day of auditions.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Li Ming Hu

Separated as children, three cousins with an unshakable bond confront their painful pasts and embark on an emotional journey to find each other.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tanea Heke

Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bruce Lyons

GISELLE is acclaimed director Toa Fraser's inter­pretation of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's production of Giselle. The classic story of love,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Gillian Murphy