Short
Past Event

Arrival

After arriving in Aotearoa as refugees, a mother and daughter find their roles upended in the face of a new and unfamiliar world.

Dir. Ahmed Osman / 2025 / 14 mins / New Zealand / English, Farsi, Venda
Feature
Past Event

Big Girls Don’t Cry

Set in a coastal New Zealand town over the summer of 2006, this queer coming-of-age story – executive-produced by Jane Campion – is a bittersweet slice of pre-smartphone-era teendom.

Dir. Paloma Schneideman / 2025 / 100 mins / New Zealand / English
Feature
Past Event

Crocodile

Spanning 13 years, this lively documentary chronicles the incredible rise of a group of young Nigerian filmmakers working outside the system.

Dir. The Critics, Pietra Brettkelly / 2026 / 101 mins / New Zealand, Nigeria / English, Yoruba, Pidgin English, Hausa
Short
Past Event

Lion Rock

While driving along an eerie ocean road, a teenage boy and his mother hit something with their car. She insists it was nothing, but he begins to doubt her story.

Dir. Prisca Bouchet, Nick Mayow / 2025 / 16 mins / New Zealand / English
Feature
Past Event

Lomu

A nuanced portrait of Kiwi Tongan rugby union superstar Jonah Lomu, history’s youngest All Black, whose legend remains a beacon for Pasifika pride.

Dir. Gavin Fitzgerald, Vea Mafile'o / 2026 / 106 mins / New Zealand / English, Tongan
Feature
Past Event

Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant

A twentysomething homebody is stuck carrying more than she bargained for in this gleefully gloopy Kiwi body-horror comedy.

Dir. THUNDERLIPS / 2026 / 95 mins / New Zealand / English
Short
Past Event

Socks

A beautifully restrained tale of queer yearning, in which a young Māori boy develops an unlikely bond with a Mormon missionary in rural New Zealand.

Dir. Todd Karehana / 2025 / 15 mins / New Zealand / English
Feature
Past Event

Sukundimi Walks Before Me

Papuan Indigenous communities mobilise to fight a planned mine on the sacred Sepik River in this stirring portrait of ecoactivism.

Dir. Lachlan McLeod, Matasila Freshwater / 2026 / 93 mins / Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea / English, Tok Pisin