New Zealand Film Award Winners Movies
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A Song of Good
Young Gary (Gareth Reeves), strung out from amphetamines and dope and so panicky that he barely knows what he's doing, breaks into a neighbour's…
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An Angel at My Table
CriticsThe difficult life and times of celebrated author Janet Frame provided the source material for An Angel at my Table, the film that put Jane…
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Apron Strings
FlicksPeopleIn her first feature Samoan-born Aucklander Sima Urale brings an ebullient light touch to a story which traces parallel, richly loaded domestic…
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Boy
FlicksPeopleTaika Waititi's second feature film (after Eagle vs. Shark and episodes of TV's Flight of the Conchords) is a comedy about two young boys growing up…
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Braindead
PeopleCriticsPeter Jackson's extremely gory, blood drenched zombie horror comedy, his third feature film...
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Crush (1992)
CriticsMoral and sexual ambiguities simmer amongst Rotorua's spurting mud-pools in this New Zealand noir, starring Marcia Gay Harden. Director Alison…
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Dean Spanley
FlicksPeopleThe follow up from No. 2 director, Toa Fraser, set in Edwardian England, starring Sam Neill and Peter O'Toole. This is a New Zealand / UK
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Forgotten Silver
CriticsClassic kiwi mockumentary by Costa Botes and Peter Jackson, exploring the life and career of fictional, pioneering filmmaker Colin McKenzie.
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Heavenly Creatures
PeopleCriticsThis true story of two girls – Juliet Hulme (Kate Winslet) and Pauline Parker (Melanie Lynskey) – who conspire to murder one of their mothers…
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How Far Is Heaven
FlicksPeopleAn observational documentary about the Sisters of Compassion congregation who have lived in the remote village of Jerusalem / Hiruharama on the…
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Illustrious Energy
1987 NZ historical drama about two Chinese friends, Chan and the much older Kim, forced to prospect gold in late 19th Century Otago in order to pay…
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In My Father's Den
Classic Kiwi mystery-thriller starring Matthew Macfadyen (Pride and Prejudice) as a returning war journalist searching for a missing teenage girl he…
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Jubilee (2000)
A well-meaning dad gets lumbered with the task of organising the Waimatua School 75th Jubilee.
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Kaikohe Demolition
A documentary about the frequent demolition derbies held in the title's small Northland town, long held up as a locale ravaged by the plight of…
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Love Story
FlicksPeopleCriticsFlorian Habicht's (Kaikohe Demolition) award-winning documentary (kind of, it's also a drama and a comedy and a romance) about love, cake and New…
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Maori Boy Genius
FlicksWinning documentary at the 2012 NZ Movie Awards profiling Ngaa Rauuira Pumanawawhiti - an articulate and charismatic 16-year-old prodigy studying…
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Matariki
FlicksPeopleA random act of violence leaves eight people in crisis as the constellation Matariki (Maori New Year) rises in the Southern skies, in this Kiwi…
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My Wedding and Other Secrets
FlicksPeopleA Romeo and Juliet story with a Kiwi-Asian twist, based on the real-life cross cultural romance of first-time feature film writer/director Roseanne…
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Netherwood
FlicksKiwi-made, modern day Western shot in the valleys of North Canterbury, about a lone traveller's dangerous and complex journey through the peculiar…
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Ngati
Set in and around the fictional town of Kapua in 1948, Ngati is a New Zealand drama and the story of a Maori community.
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No. 2
PeopleAcclaimed local drama, about a Fijian family living in Auckland: Nanna Maria (Ruby Dee) dreams of her youth in Fiji with nostalgia - sunny days,…
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Once Were Warriors
PeopleCriticsThe hard-hitting New Zealand classic about a violent and troubled family in South Auckland, based on Alan Duff's novel.