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Actor Martyn Sanderson returns in 1977 to the Hokianga of his youth and visits his elderly and romantic aunt, Olive Bracey. Her reminiscences of pioneer life mesh with nostalgic songs and readings from her fiction.
What would you do if you found $10 million in your bank account? Runaway Millionaires is the gripping true story of Kara Hurring and Leo Gao, an ordinary New Zealand couple who went on the run after an extraordinary sum of money was mistakenly deposited into their account. Made with the support of NZ On Air.
A 14 year old girl accepts a new babysitting job from a young family. Upon her arrival she gets a bad feeling which only worsens as the night goes on and leads to a fight for her life.
A robot art student who is othered by his human teacher and classmates is tasked with creating a painting about love.
While preparing to move away from home, Josephine and her inner child argue about what to keep and what to leave behind.
A continuous take following a bride-to-be who is having doubts just before she walks down the aisle.
In the deep interiors of New Zealand, is a forest. A sacred land where the native flora and fauna of the land has found their last refuge. This is the story of the land's residents, as experienced by them.
"Trypophobia is an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, or bumps."
The 2005 discovery of a cannonball, buried for 138 years in a paddock, throws Waimate into turmoil. It is all the Maori locals need to confirm their long-held belief that they were forcibly removed from their tribal lands, in a bloody 1866 battle. The hotly contested claim eventually ends up in the District Court and on the lens of cameraman Dave who captures all the arguments, frauds and forgeries of the townspeople, in a cinema verité mockumentary style.
Covers the 12-week-long strike at Kinleith Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by New Zealand Forest Products in January 1980.
In this thriller comedy, two women embark on a mission to unravel the mystery behind their friend's shady boyfriend, only to stumble upon a web of shocking secrets.
In October 2020, The Beths toured Aotearoa New Zealand, culminating in a final stop at Auckland Town Hall on Friday, November 6.
In one of the harshest places on Earth, three women from different generations chase a hidden and ephemeral world beneath the Antarctic sea ice. Dr Natalie Robinson leads a world-first expedition to McMurdo Sound, joined by microbiologist Jacqui Stuart on her first trip south. Mentoring them from afar is veteran sea ice physicist Professor Pat Langhorne.
Poppy is a Performance-Captured CGI drama set on France's western front in World War One. Two New Zealand soldiers are trapped behind enemy lines and are trying to find their way to safety. They find an orphaned baby under it's dead parents in a ditch. One of the men wants to save it, the other does not.
The thrilling true story of a NZ-born heroine who became the Gestapo's most wanted woman in WWII. This showcase documentary-drama follows Nancy Wake's remarkable life.
A reality TV crew is making a programme, 'Ghost TV' about the haunted buildings that are the ruins of Seacliff Lunatic Asylum. As one might expect things do not go to plan. One of the crew is not very emotionally stable and when she discovers that she has been used callously by another crew member she snaps and runs off into the night, only to return with violent intent.
Two years ago Guyon Espiner stopped drinking. Now, the award-winning journalist and podcast-maker has made a documentary about New Zealand's drinking culture and the alcohol industry.
Documentary The Man on the Island is a character study of Colin McLaren, a highly quotable 77-year-old who in the 1970s moved to Rakino, a tiny island in the Hauraki Gulf. McLaren opens up to director (and sometime neighbour) Simon Mark-Brown about his life and inspirations — plus his decision to live off the grid, only venturing back to Auckland to replenish vital supplies. Mark-Brown partially shot the documentary during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, and its theme of self-isolation is especially resonant in pandemic times. Mark-Brown's CV includes feature The Catch and wine documentary A Seat at the Table.
Stand up comedy special from New Zealand comedian Guy Montgomery
Two very different MMA fighters from the Far North seek glory inside the ring and to inspire their community in this absorbing fly-on-the-wall documentary about small town heroes with big hearts.
Why is the gap between the rich and the poor growing faster in New Zealand than in most other OECD countries? And why is inequality bad for all of us? Award winning documentary maker Bryan Bruce files his special report on what’s gone wrong with our economy and what we can do about it.
Someone Else’s Country looks critically at the radical economic changes implemented by the 1984 Labour Government - where privatisation of state assets was part of a wider agenda that sought to remake New Zealand as a model free market state. The trickle-down ‘Rogernomics’ rhetoric warned of no gain without pain, and here the theory is counterpointed by the social effects (redundant workers, Post Office closures). Made by Alister Barry in 1996 when the effects were raw, the film draws extensively on archive footage and interviews with key “witnesses to history”.
Short film by Bill Toepfer
A precocious kitten wants to be a witch's familiar and must pass a test or she will forever be just simple cat, but the witch sees something in the kitten she does not expect.
When a young artist takes a ‘neurological enhancement’ pill in order to finish a crucial painting, she discovers that art without soul comes at a disturbing cost.
A young woman reminisces on her first experience with drugs: a childhood sleepover gone wrong.
A transgender woman returns home to finally come out to her parents, but as dinner spirals out of control, her anxieties manifest in sinister ways.
A short documentary exploring the loneliness that comes with being single as a millennial. Set over the course of the thirtieth year of filmmaker Cathy Woods' life. This intimate and raw film delves into what it is like to be thirty and single in a time when situationships are the norm, and the societal pressure to be in a relationship is evident.
Only the hardiest animals are capable of carving out a life in Siberia. Over a wild year, polar bears, reindeer, red-crowned cranes, cherry salmon and least weasels must endure a long unforgiving winter and take advantage of the brief abundance of spring.
New Zealand, 1986. The zombie apocalypse is here and three mates are stranded. The trusty Holden is out of gas. With only fast food scraps and a few cigarettes for sustenance, surviving each other may prove harder than facing the undead outside
With the world set to end in two days, cousins Roo and Joo are unexpectedly reunited when Roo slips into a church to confess their sins, hoping to make peace before it's too late. Reminiscing on a lesson their koro taught them both growing up,“when the rapture happens you gotta go home”, for Roo, that means it's time to go home. But for Joo, home is a little bit more complicated.
Opens Looks is a short film told in English and Cook Islands Māori. A story of love, redemption and basketball.
A young woman in a desperate situation finds unexpected compassion on a remote stretch of coastline.
When their small country school faces closure, country kids use whatever means necessary to save it while their older siblings do the same to keep their sacred lands during the historic NZ Aotearoa land protests of 1978.
Farmer, family man, and—unlikely leftist organiser. Bill Youren gave up a career as a lawyer to live a traditional farmer life in the back-blocks of the Hawke's Bay. He was also a zealous supporter of freedom of speech in a political environment, with the backdrop of the Cold War and the 1951 Waterfront Strike, where anyone labelled a Communist was seen as an existential threat.
When an arranged marriage is sprung upon an Iranian-Kiwi daughter, she must dishonour family tradition, or lose the woman she loves.
Law professor Chris Gallivan examines the career of one of our country's best defence lawyers, Greg King. Through the lens of King's most sensational case – the defence of Ewen Macdonald for the murder of Scott Guy - Gallivan also raises serious questions about the state of criminal justice in New Zealand today.
An alcoholic man in a wheelchair kidnaps his daughter from his ex-wife.
A documentary about socialising and society in early 1970s New Zealand.
A young woman, Eliza, returns to her hometown for summer break, and must confront a fragment of her past.
Acknowledging Len Lye, Lomas has created a vibrant, naturally kinetic and textural world of colourful geometric shapes going flatstick. (NZFF 1998 programme)
After a massive earthquake cut the South Island town of Kaikōura off from the rest of the country, a huge effort went into rebuilding the road and rail connection along this magical part of the New Zealand coast.
An educational short made by the New Zealand National Film Unit for the National Mountain Safety Council to promote awareness of bush safety.
Freediving royalty William Trubridge and actress Sachiko Fukumoto will do anything to bring their baby into their world, the ocean.
These senior citizens may each be almost a century young, but for Kara, (94) Maynie (95) and Terri (93) the journey to Las Vegas and the World Hip Hop Dance Championships is just the beginning of a life's journey. And along with twenty-seven other nonagenarians they defy the odds and hip-hop their way into the hearts and minds of thousands of young fans from around the world. Led by their exuberant and 'I must have been mad,' manager Billie Jordan they learn to throw away their wheelchairs and walking sticks and push their bodies and artificial joints to the absolute limits of old age.
Follows Anna Williams, an Oriental carpet repairer from New Zealand, on a pilgrimage to Iran, where she stays with the Qashqai, and then to London where she meets Sir David Attenborough to talk about the Qashqai and their traditionally woven rugs.
Solo, a young Samoan interpreter entrenched in the colonial court system, is suddenly challenged when the High Chief Nua is called to the stand. Defending the charge of trespassing, Nua illuminates a path of righteousness for the young man.
" Created at the location where the work was to be exhibited, 'being-here' is named after Gaston Bachelard's notion of "being-there". A dancer is both "here"—at the New Zealand Film Archive in Wellington—and "there", represented visually as part of the video. She weaves through the frame, physically exploring camera space/time and interacting with the stage-like architecture and the unknowingly participating passersby." - Artist's statement When this work was exhibited on Masons Screen, Wellington, Aotearoa, its title was amended for the new context to being-(t)here.
Patrick copes with his grief by living among birds. After a long and full life, Patrick has found where he wants to see out the rest of his days. In an odd and isolated town, Birdlings Flat, even there his home defies societal norms. Patrick has learnt to make do with what he has, living in his second-hand sanctuary, nurturing and caring for the flock of animals he saved. Grateful to be alive, he embraces life completely on his own terms among his feathered friends. My Dying Place explores the journey to self acceptance, and the intertwining threads of life and death that binds us all. It asks the question, what happens to us after we die?
Lost in the lonely life of New York City, a middle-aged Chinese woman wrestles with the complexities of her unexpected bond with her son’s lesbian violin teacher.
Taken from a live multi 16mm projector performance Sam Hamilton and I do. The Loops are from a film By Campbell Farquhar called "5 Second Exposure". This dates from about April 2006 and the performance has changed somewhat since. It uses up to five 16mm projectors, turntables, glass, and sonic and celluloidic manipulation.
Master of Motion follows Len Lye, New Zealand's greatest international artist, and showcases his visionary work in film and sculpture and his monumental ambitions for his work beyond his own life.
The journey of online disinformation, exploring how and why it's spreading at pace, and the potential implications for social cohesion and democracy.
Tatau is about Siaki (Jack), an elderly Samoan man struggling to come to terms with the lifelong shame of having an incomplete traditional tattoo and the shame of now losing his sight. As Siaki's vision deteriorates, memories of the painful tattooing ceremony he underwent in his youth haunt him as he yearns to see his tattoo completed before it's too late.
When a welfare department’s insidious prejudice can no longer be tolerated, a group of unlikely heroes band together against a narrow-minded caseworker.
A documentary crew investigates the disappearance of Sara Stark, a college student who walked out of college and disappeared, with reported sightings being called in every day…
Eighty-something Tristan Arthur Jones used to write about fictional war heroes, and fell in love with every single one. He always hoped he'd meet one for real, and with the arrival of Colonel Robert Leadley at his rest home, it seems like his dreams have come true.
Family drama set in New Zealand about Geoff Crome, a young boy (Fulford) who immerses himself in his own private fantasy world where he meets Firpo (Papps), a strange being who dreams of being an Olympic athlete. Together, the two begin a close friendship as Geoff attempts to help Firpo realise his dream. However, it is not long until the adult world begins to impinge on his fantasy.
A young man visits the memory booth to recall his childhood and the accident in which he lost his parents during a journey to a beach house.
A crazy dream allows a young student to find out the real identity of the president