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Jul 11, 2025 - This gritty and empathetic portrait of addiction and the self-destruction that comes along with it is filled with pitch black humour. Frank Dillane puts on a...

Apr 21, 2023 - Based on Denis Johnson’s cult novel, Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn star in this heady and alluring romantic thriller from NZIFF fave Claire Denis, directing...

Aug 14, 2025 - A young girl scrambles to prepare a high-stakes birthday cake for a dictator amidst the dangers and deprivations of the Gulf War in this irresistibly scrappy...

Sep 29, 2025 - Mulan showcases New Zealand’s stunning locations, talented crew and world class vendors.

Nov 4, 2021 - Seeking justice for a student’s assault becomes an all-consuming vendetta for a college professor in Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s second feature — the first...

Aug 21, 2023 - This rollicking mockumentary set at a scrappy theatre camp in upstate New York is an affectionate look at a ragtag troupe of eccentric misfits who just want to...

Jul 18, 2022 - Two secret agents from enemy Kingdoms are sent to a world on the brink of a terrible war where they have one important mission: to find the Perlimps,...

Jul 10, 2025 - Simon doesn't feel as though he belongs anywhere, yet he somehow fits in with a group of voracious, mentally disabled teenagers. This intensely felt debut...

Aug 21, 2023 - Cultural anarchists Soda Jerk remix hundreds of bootlegged clips into a gutbusting, memeified satire on the parlous period before and after the 2016 American...

Jul 27, 2025 - Lights, Camera, Action! Get ready to get back into gear the Wellington Film Society Film Quiz is back for 2025! Registry open soon!

Aug 21, 2023 - A low effort heist could mean freedom or ruination for two plebeian bank workers fed up with the daily grind in this dreamy, entertaining enigma from New...

Aug 21, 2023 - A gay couple’s marriage spirals into chaos when one of them begins an affair with a younger woman in Ira Sach’s seductive and bitterly amusing Paris-set...

Apr 14, 2023 - “The Liberace of Sandusky” emerges from retirement for one last day in the sun – and one final night on stage – in a knock-out turn by Udo Kier. 

Animated shorts with BIG personalities! A dependably depraved screening of animated specimens from the wrong side of the tracks. Every year connoisseurs of the...

We've partnered with The Walt Disney Company New Zealand and Searchlight Pictures to present four special advance screenings of Rental Family, direct from...

Oct 5, 2023 - Léa Seydoux stars as a busy single mom, juggling caring for her daughter and her ailing father, who finds love in unexpected circumstances in Mia...

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Jul 9, 2025 - Greek arthouse original Athina Rachel Tsangari turns her hand to phantasmagoric folkloric unease, in an unusual vision of a village in pre-industrial Britain...

Aug 13, 2025 - Set in a gay-laxy far, far away this crowd pleasing and proudly queer Aussie adult animation delights with its vivid, candy-coloured palette, kinky sense of...

Sep 14, 2023 - Noir doesn’t get much darker than this widely fêted B-movie classic in which a fatalistic cross-country road trip goes catastrophically awry. Screening in...

Sep 29, 2025 - 20th Century Studios' chilling suspense thriller No Exit filmed in Auckland, New Zealand.

Apr 14, 2023 - A retired boxer will stop at nothing in the pursuit of her missing sister, launching herself into the belly of the beast to find and punish those responsible...

Aug 11, 2025 - Unprecedented insight into the curation of the Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art exhibition reveals the struggle for Māori artistic sovereignty within...

Jul 25, 2025 - Two undocumented brothers live on the edges of Malaysian society, one quiet and law-abiding, the other reckless and furious. Jin Ong’s emotionally powerful...

Jul 9, 2025 - One of the most essential films in Portuguese auteur Manoel de Oliveira vast filmography, this dreamlike 1993 film posits Flaubert’s Madame Bovary into 20th...

Jul 11, 2025 - A woman navigates the experience of motherhood as a deaf person in a hearing world in Eva Libertad’s crowd-pleasing, feel-good drama which collected the...

Nov 4, 2021 - This urgent documentary takes an intimate look at young political activists in Hong Kong as they take a determined stand against a global superpower to fight...

Jul 10, 2025 - A once-celebrated writer chases relevance through petty schemes, fading commissions and awkward self-promotion. Simón Mesa Soto’s character study is biting,...

Sep 30, 2025 - Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson's Hobbit Trilogy is one of the largest and most sophisticated movie undertakings in the world.

Jul 3, 2024 - Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane bring the brutality of Grand Theft Auto to the world of Shakespeare – or is it the other way around?

Sep 30, 2025 - Slow West is the Sundance award-winning western adventure set in 19th Century Colorado and shot on location in New Zealand's South Island.

Aug 17, 2023 - A trove of archival footage accompanies this whirlwind overview of the life of Rock Hudson, one of the Hollywood studio system’s brightest stars and closeted...

Nov 4, 2021 - Offering an intimate window into the migrant experience, director Samuel Kishi Leopo has shaped a tender and honest drama about displacement, family and hope,...

Apr 14, 2023 - Set against the vibrant backdrop of urban Shiraz, an affable but desperate prisoner is almost undone by a ‘selfless’ gesture that goes viral.

Aug 21, 2023 - Both hopeful and heart-breaking, Hong Kong Mixtape chronicles the change in the creative landscape of Hong Kong as the shadow of Beijing, and the draconian...

Aug 21, 2023 - A star student faces a stark choice of whether to succeed in a corrupt and hypocritical schooling system or to join in a real-life student movement that is...

Aug 5, 2024 - Paul Wolffram’s urgent documentary takes us into the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea and one indigenous woman’s fight against the insidious influence...

Sep 11, 2025 - The all-consuming dedication of the Japanese Kabuki artist gets its due in an ornate, decades-spanning spectacular of passion and pain that charts the journey...

Nov 4, 2021 - An ensemble cast under direction of filmmaker Aditya Vikram Sengupta pays poetic homage to modern day Kolkata, weaving tales both personal and epic in the...

Jul 9, 2025 - Sarah Friedland’s award-winning debut is a dignified portrayal of a woman coping with Alzheimer's disease. A mesmerizing central performance by Kathleen...

'They Are Us' is set to star Rose Byrne and focus on the response of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

Nov 10, 2021 - Iconic Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino delivers a majestical memoir with this beautifully shot, ribald bout of nostalgia for growing up amongst the anarchy...

Apr 9, 2024 - Natalie Portman shadows Julianne Moore in Todd Haynes’ salaciously entertaining metafictional psychodrama about an actress researching for a role in a film...

Aug 6, 2025 - Canadian animator Seth Scriver travels to remote northern Manitoba to make a film about his indigenous half-brother Pete, delivering a zany cartoon portrait of...

Oct 23, 2025 - Our locations, talent, and infrastructure have made New Zealand a top choice for global filmmakers creating ambitious and visually stunning productions.

Nov 12, 2021 - A genial café owner is puzzled when he receives a message on his TV from himself two minutes into the future. Director Junta Yamaguchi takes that simple...

Aug 19, 2025 - An immersive journey through the history of rail travel, this dazzling archival documentary captures humanity at its best and worse, bearing witness to both...

Apr 14, 2023 - Mothers of the Revolution tells the story of one of the longest protests in history, when between 1981 and 2000, thousands of women from around the world came...

Apr 9, 2024 - Christian Petzold braids desire, artistic insecurity and the looming threat of climate change in his smouldering comedy of manners set over the course of a hot...

Apr 14, 2023 - Photographer Fiona Clark shocked 1970s New Zealand with her documentary images of Auckland’s burgeoning queer scene. The pictures they tried to ban were just...

Jul 9, 2025 - A young single mother takes on a challenging role as a carer for the elderly in this poignant exploration of in-home care. Eager to make a difference in her...

Aug 18, 2023 - A pregnant single mother with two children in foster care fights an impossible system in this affecting debut feature from Savanah Leaf.

Sep 29, 2025 - A24 horror film X filmed in the lower North Island of New Zealand.

Aug 21, 2023 - A revealing, personal exploration of the new frontier in China’s surveillance state—and the reality for those who challenge it.

Sep 29, 2025 - Alien: Covenant was filmed in 2016, including on location in New Zealand.

Aug 15, 2025 - A brand new Japanese horror masterpiece based on the Japanese video game of the same name that’s set to become an instant cult classic all around the world.

Nov 4, 2021 - A captivating journey into the early 80s moral panic of the “video nasty”, Prano Bailey-Bond’s audaciously meta retro-horror conjures the nightmare...

Aug 4, 2025 - After her death by dust poisoning, a woman returns as a haunted vacuum cleaner to comfort her grieving husband. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke blends absurd comedy...

Dec 7, 2023 - This bold, semi-autobiographical debut from American director Jamie Dack is a tense coming-of-age drama that navigates the insidious and all too real threat of...

Aug 4, 2025 - Generational tension comes to the fore in Tumpal Tampubolon’s atmospheric debut focusing on the relationship between a neurotic mother and her son as life in...

Nov 4, 2021 - An unflinching study of the impact of bipolar disorder on a French artist and his family. “Lafosse administers the tension like a seasoned anaesthetist who...

Nov 10, 2021 - An uplifting documentary featuring Māori and Pākehā kaitiaki repo, or swamp guardians, working across the motu to restore Aotearoa’s precious wetlands.

Apr 14, 2023 - In his latest magic act, venerated Swedish surrealist Roy Andersson takes on the entire meaning of existence with characteristic deadpan brilliance and...

Aug 5, 2025 - A reclusive nerd must enter a video game to fight a demon and rescue his dog in this quirky feast of horror, comedy and sci-fi with old-school gaming...

May 9, 2023 - Florian Habicht’s debut feature film screened at NZIFF in 2003 and has become a cult classic. This new colourised print had its Aotearoa premiere in...

Aug 24, 2022 - This stunning documentary portrait of French volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft is skilfully constructed from their amazing archival footage collected...

Nov 4, 2021 - Welcome to the world of 20-year-old Lily Hevesh – the world’s most successful domino artist. See thousands of dominos patiently set up and impressively...

Jul 10, 2025 - French auteur Alain Guiraudie continues his Hitchcockian streak with this slippery, eccentric story of a provincial French family in mourning and the chaos...

Aug 5, 2024 - Filmmaker Joshua Prendeville’s sterling documentary holds a delicate lens to the fascinating life and work of one of Aotearoa’s literary treasures, Dame...

Dec 6, 2021

Sep 29, 2025 - New Zealand’s marine locations, highly qualified crew, diverse cast, creative talent and competitive screen incentives drew Warner Bros. and Gravity…

Aug 14, 2025 - When a reed-cutter finds a girl’s body in the marsh, silence grips his remote Dutch village. Sven Bresser’s debut is an eerily quiet thriller about guilt,...

Nov 4, 2021 - The inspiring story of one teacher making a difference in the lives of migrant children in rural Germany, Maria Speth’s absorbing documentary took the Silver...

Jul 3, 2024 - A chimney sweep confesses to having sex with a male customer much to the surprise of his colleague and wife. Dag Johan Haugerud’s candid and refreshing comic...

Apr 14, 2023 - The first Australian film featured in Cannes’ Official Selection in a decade, Justin Kurzel’s disturbing dive into the tormented mind and soul of a...

Nov 4, 2021 - Rising talent Jun Li directs a story of dispossession and failure of social infrastructure, as unhoused residents in Hong Kong bond together in search of...

Sep 26, 2025 - Amazon Prime’s Don’t Make Me Go is filmed in New Zealand.

Sep 26, 2025 - Police Sergeant 'Taffy' Tawharau faces a moral dilemma when forced to choose between his duty and his community during a government raid on Ruatoki...

Apr 18, 2024 - Strap in for an unforgettable, visionary trip, an Oscar-nominated journey that stunned Cannes with its cinematic flair. Your hosts? An octogenarian Polish...

Jul 10, 2025 - Not your average true crime doco, this witty and perceptive deconstruction of the genre is less about the infamous Zodiac Killer case itself, instead shifting...

Nov 4, 2021 - Sergei Loznitsa’s latest exhumation of soviet historical archives charts the course of a terrible humanitarian tragedy that unfolded at Kiev’s Babi Yar...

Jul 11, 2025 - In a future world where senior citizens are banished from society, a rebellious matriarch instead embarks on a fantastic Amazon adventure. Gabriel Mascaro’s...

Jul 15, 2024 - A vital and terrifying historical document, this remarkable film follows the first year of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, revealing the...

Jul 3, 2024 - A lovesick young student accidentally becomes a right-wing cause célèbre when he fails his exam in this sharp Hungarian satire which recalls the incisive...

Jul 9, 2025 - A small mining town avoids the truth behind what plagues a trans community in this prize-winning debut told through the eyes of a young girl, as a myth...

Jul 9, 2025 - Look no further, the Hamilton Film Society Film Quiz is back for 2025!

Apr 9, 2024 - A closeted PE teacher living in Thatcher’s Britain strives to keep her work and private lives separate, but when a new pupil sees her on a night out, she...

Jun 20, 2023 - A heart-warming 80s-set family drama starring Charlotte Gainsbourg as a recently single mother who finds a new lease of life working for a late night talkback...

Sep 12, 2023 - With shades of The Imposter (NZIFF 2012) and Three Identical Strangers (NZIFF 2018) this wildly entertaining Scottish documentary delves into the outrageous...

Jul 8, 2025 - Nude Tuesday, a New Zealand / Australia co-production filmed predominantly in Makarora South Island New Zealand.

Nov 10, 2021 - Schoolyard romance, musical numbers and lifelike robotics collide in this animated glimpse at what teenage life might look like in a world increasingly run by...

Aug 26, 2024 - An ex-convict finds redemption in the bond he forms with an unwanted mutt in Guan Hu’s dynamically shot and darkly comic Un Certain Regard Prize winner.

Apr 14, 2023 - Documentarian Heidi Ewing turns to narrative feature filmmaking in this lilting, graceful love story about two Mexican men whose bond is tested by distance,...

Aug 17, 2023 - Journalist Sinéad O’Shea delivers a powerful portrait of those who resisted the Catholic Church’s historic abuse of women and children in small-town...

Jul 3, 2024 - A year in the life of a pack of mysterious Sasquatches unfolds as an eccentric mix of nature documentary and silent-era comedy in the Zellner brothers’...

Jul 8, 2024 - A quietly diligent examination of a family-run three-star Michelin restaurant in France, revealing minute details of a sprawling ecosystem as it unobtrusively...

Five new Aotearoa shorts examine the ways we connect with each other. From strangers uniting to stand up for what is right to fleeting moments of understanding...

Aug 19, 2025 - A portrait of one of Aotearoa’s greatest living artists by one of our greatest documentary filmmakers. You should expect something special, and that’s what...

Apr 14, 2023 - What Sir Edmund Hillary did in conquering Everest, Sir Hekenukumai Busby has done in reclaiming the lost art of traditional Māori voyaging, sailing the vast...

Aug 17, 2023 - Set in Japanese-occupied Korea in 1933, five people are held captive by a security chief determined to find the spy “Phantom” in this stylish, highly...