Arrival
After arriving in Aotearoa as refugees, a mother and daughter find their roles upended in the face of a new and unfamiliar world.
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.
Crocodile
Spanning 13 years, this lively documentary chronicles the incredible rise of a group of young Nigerian filmmakers working outside the system.
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.
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.
Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant
A twentysomething homebody is stuck carrying more than she bargained for in this gleefully gloopy Kiwi body-horror comedy.
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.
Sukundimi Walks Before Me
Papuan Indigenous communities mobilise to fight a planned mine on the sacred Sepik River in this stirring portrait of ecoactivism.