New Zealand Film Award Winners Movies

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…

The difficult life and times of celebrated author Janet Frame provided the source material for An Angel at my Table, the film that put Jane…

In her first feature Samoan-born Aucklander Sima Urale brings an ebullient light touch to a story which traces parallel, richly loaded domestic…

Taika 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…

Peter Jackson's extremely gory, blood drenched zombie horror comedy, his third feature film...

Moral and sexual ambiguities simmer amongst Rotorua's spurting mud-pools in this New Zealand noir, starring Marcia Gay Harden. Director Alison…

The 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

Classic kiwi mockumentary by Costa Botes and Peter Jackson, exploring the life and career of fictional, pioneering filmmaker Colin McKenzie.

This true story of two girls – Juliet Hulme (Kate Winslet) and Pauline Parker (Melanie Lynskey) – who conspire to murder one of their mothers…

An observational documentary about the Sisters of Compassion congregation who have lived in the remote village of Jerusalem / Hiruharama on the…

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…

Classic Kiwi mystery-thriller starring Matthew Macfadyen (Pride and Prejudice) as a returning war journalist searching for a missing teenage girl he…

A well-meaning dad gets lumbered with the task of organising the Waimatua School 75th Jubilee.

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…

Florian 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…

Winning documentary at the 2012 NZ Movie Awards profiling Ngaa Rauuira Pumanawawhiti - an articulate and charismatic 16-year-old prodigy studying…

A random act of violence leaves eight people in crisis as the constellation Matariki (Maori New Year) rises in the Southern skies, in this Kiwi…

A 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…

Kiwi-made, modern day Western shot in the valleys of North Canterbury, about a lone traveller's dangerous and complex journey through the peculiar…

Set in and around the fictional town of Kapua in 1948, Ngati is a New Zealand drama and the story of a Maori community. 

Acclaimed local drama, about a Fijian family living in Auckland: Nanna Maria (Ruby Dee) dreams of her youth in Fiji with nostalgia - sunny days,…

The hard-hitting New Zealand classic about a violent and troubled family in South Auckland, based on Alan Duff's novel.