Most Viewed From New Zealand Film Commission

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elizabeth Winders

Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: John Bach

Adrian is a classic outsider. His playful, dreamy imagination distracts him from everyday life, for the reality he lives in could not be more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Demos Murphy

Richard, an astronomy-obsessed worrier spends his time fantasizing about outer-space and the cosmos, an activity which antagonizes friends and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Guy Boyce

Jess is a solo mother and reluctant parking warden. Tom is a self-obsessed greetings cards salesman with an addiction to competitions who will do...

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Cast: Melanie Lynskey

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul O'Shea

Monica arrives back from her big overseas experience to find her boyfriend Nick unchanged. Although Nick styles himself an artist, he is really...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy McIntosh

A documentary that follows the lives of multiple chicken enthusiasts as they prepare for the New Zealand national Chicken competition.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Doug Bain

Grace is a homeless teenager. She befriends an unemployed carpenter and he invites her to share his flat. She moves in and to her surprise a delicate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kirsty Hamilton

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

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shaun Bao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Faifua Amiga Jr.

Judgment Tavern tells the story of Lucia, a young girl carrying her father's living head as they search for his fleeing body. On a cold dark night,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Nova Waretini-Hewison

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Todd Emerson

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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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

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Tai Berdinner-Blades

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Grant Tilly

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

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Cast: Aidee Walker

In 1981, the New Zealand government invited the South African rugby team to tour New Zealand. This effectively split the country in half. Patu! is...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marx Jones