New Zealand Film Commission Movie Trailers
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Earthlings Trailer (2024)
11 August 2024
Two loners from different worlds find fleeting intimacy in this enchanting and stylish short film. A solitary teenage girl discovers an injured man on her neighbour's property, but this hirsute being seems to have fallen from another time or even another planet.
Housebound Trailer (2014)
04 September 2014
When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.
Giselle Trailer (2013)
14 June 2013
GISELLE is acclaimed director Toa Fraser's interpretation of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's production of Giselle.
Slow West Trailer (2015)
15 May 2015
In the Old West, a 17-year-old Scottish boy teams up with a mysterious gunman to find the woman with whom he is infatuated.
Caterpillar Trailer (2026)
14 May 2026
Three generations living under one leaky Wellington roof in 2003, all on the brink of transformation. Sixteen-year-old Cassie is all bravado and vulnerability, drifting into risky territory as she searches for validation in all the wrong places. Her mother Maxine, 52, a formidable single-mother filmmaker on the brink of a long-awaited breakthrough, is finally offered a greenlight - if she can just land a star. Holding everything together is Huia, Cassie’s grandmother, 80, whose life has been defined by quiet service to family and a private obsession with raising monarch caterpillars, dreaming of one day witnessing the legendary butterfly migration in Mexico. But when Huia’s mind begins to fail her, the family is thrust into chaos. Can the maternal line hold together while everything is throwing them apart?
The Scarecrow Trailer (1982)
30 April 1982
The same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam and Les are robbed of all of their hard earned hens.
River Queen Trailer (2005)
12 September 2005
In 1860s New Zealand, a young Irish woman desperately trying to find her son finds herself caught on both sides of the lines during the wars between Māori tribes and the British colonial army.
Absent Without Leave Trailer (1993)
20 February 1993
In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she.
Boy Trailer (2010)
25 March 2010
Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
The Breaker Upperers Trailer (2018)
10 March 2018
Two women run a business breaking up couples for cash but when one develops a conscience their friendship unravels.
Eagle vs Shark Trailer (2007)
15 June 2007
Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries.
The American Trailer (2023)
02 November 2023
American ballet dancer Joy Womack is accepted into Moscow's infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, with the dream of becoming a great ballerina.
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey Trailer (1988)
15 December 1988
Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened.
The Justice of Bunny King Trailer (2021)
29 July 2021
Bunny King is a mother of two, a rough cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to reunite with her children, a confrontation leads her to take her niece Tonyah under her wing.
Out of the Blue Trailer (2006)
12 October 2006
Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside town, in the form of a lone gunman with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle.
A Mistake Trailer (2023)
14 September 2023
In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to close ranks, and even her partner, a nurse at the hospital, turns her back on her.
Headlong Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Arthur is desperately trying to stay awake as he drives across country. He picks up Jude hitching and things get hostile.
In My Father's Den Trailer (2004)
11 June 2004
War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling strained relationships with his brother and memories of a troubled past.
Never Say Die Trailer (1988)
09 December 1988
Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport.
Judgement Tavern Trailer (2016)
09 June 2016
Judgment Tavern tells the story of Lucia, a young girl carrying her father's living head as they search for his fleeing body.
Ngāti Trailer (1987)
01 July 1987
Set in and around the fictional town of Kapua in 1948, Ngāti is the story of a Māori community. The film comprises three narrative threads: a boy, Ropata, is dying of leukaemia; the return of a young Australian doctor, Greg, and his discovery that he has Māori heritage; and the fight to keep the local freezing works open.
No. 2 Trailer (2006)
16 February 2006
A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family.
Timeslow: The Timeless Tales of Henry Glint Trailer (2015)
12 January 2015
Meet Henry Glint. He’s a pretty normal guy with a pretty normal job, and has big plans for a perfectly normal future.
Workshop Trailer (2020)
11 September 2020
Seven young adults learn to stand up to their parents through a confrontational new workshop.
Sleeping Dogs Trailer (1978)
13 July 1978
Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand.
Uproar Trailer (2023)
05 October 2023
A 17 year-old student is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future in this heartwarming story of identity.
Zilch Trailer (1989)
18 December 1989
Sam works on the tolls and likes to listen. He overhears more than he bargains for and becomes embroiled in a mishmash of corruption and blackmail.
There Is No "I" in Threesome Trailer (2021)
30 January 2021
The story of Ollie and Zoe, a newly engaged couple who agree to try out an open relationship.
Grafted Trailer (2024)
12 September 2024
When an awkward but brilliant Chinese student wins a scholarship into a prestigious New Zealand University, she finds a new way of achieving the popularity she craves one bloody body at a time.
The World In Your Window Trailer (2017)
03 February 2017
Eight-year-old Jesse lives in a twilight world of sadness and silence, squeezed into a tiny caravan with his grief stricken father.
Spookers Trailer (2017)
26 October 2017
Documentary from Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht on the most successful haunted attraction in the Southern Hemisphere, Auckland’s Spookers.
The Footstep Man Trailer (1992)
20 June 1992
Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A "film within a film" that connects the world of modern film-making to the Paris of painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his model/lover Mireille.
Shadow Cut Trailer (2018)
01 June 2018
A restless teen approaches adulthood in rural New Zealand. He spends an afternoon with his best friend, struggling to confide his plans for the future.
The Irrefutable Truth About Demons Trailer (2000)
01 May 2000
In the place between what you know, and what you fear, demons rule. All hope is stripped away as demonic forces overcome you.
Separation City Trailer (2009)
06 August 2009
A comedy-drama which follows the collapse of two marriages.
Perfect Strangers Trailer (2003)
09 October 2003
When Melanie goes home from the pub with a handsome stranger, she’s captivated by his charm and attentiveness.
Loaded Trailer (1994)
01 September 1994
A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them collapsing, and tragedy subsequently striking.
Show of Hands Trailer (2008)
14 October 2008
Jess is a solo mother and reluctant parking warden. Tom is a self-obsessed greetings cards salesman with an addiction to competitions who will do anything to win.
Forgotten Silver Trailer (1997)
03 October 1997
The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.
Tenor: My Name Is Pati Trailer (2026)
05 March 2026
This music-packed documentary tells the story of Pene Pati and his brother Amitai Pati, and their against-the-odds journey from Samoa to platinum-selling success in the trio Sol3 Mio and on to the world’s greatest opera stages.
The Vintner's Luck Trailer (2009)
01 September 2009
A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life - his beautiful wife Celeste, baroness Aurora de Valday and an angel named Xas.
Punch Trailer (2022)
22 November 2022
Seventeen-year old Jim is a small-town boxing hero who carries the hopes and dreams of his father Stan on his shoulders.
Send a Gorilla Trailer (1988)
02 December 1988
The girls and gorillas at a singing telegram company are overworked because it is Valentine's Day. A series of sub-plots - a sexist disc jockey loses his dog and the girls fine it; one of the girls fights for custody of her child; an aspiring opera singer gets her chance to audition; and evil developer demolishes the telegram company's offices, etc, which all adds up to a large dose of confusion.
Utu Trailer (1984)
27 June 1984
In New Zealand in the 1860s the native Māori people fought the British colonials to keep the land guaranteed to them by treaty.
Cousins Trailer (2021)
03 March 2021
Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each other.
Goodbye Pork Pie Trailer (1981)
05 February 1981
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, whose wife has just left him.
The Heart Dances - The Journey of The Piano: The Ballet Trailer (2018)
28 July 2018
This elegant new film from the director of Crossing Rachmaninoff takes us backstage at the Royal New Zealand Ballet as a brilliantly theatrical European interpretation of a New Zealand classic re-enters the culture that inspired it.
Daffodils Trailer (2019)
21 March 2019
A bittersweet love story told through enchanting re-imaginings of popular and iconic New Zealand songs.
A Small Life Trailer (2000)
10 October 2000
A tragic portrait of mother and child exploring grief through music and lyrical imagery.
A Matter of Time Trailer (2018)
31 December 2018
A social commentary watching the lives of five 15 & 16 year olds as each “slice of their life” is revealed on the hour from 12 midnight until 5am.
The Maintenance of Silence Trailer (1985)
16 July 1985
On November 18 1982, a 22-year old Aucklander, Neil Roberts, daubed a washroom wall with the graffiti slogan: ‘WE HAVE MAINTAINED A SILENCE CLOSELY RESEMBLING STUPIDITY’.
Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye Trailer (2009)
07 July 2009
Len Lye (1901-1980) was a pioneer of experimental animation, and also of kinetic sculpture. This short film dramatically presents 18 minutes inside the head of the artist as a teenager.
Nature's Way Trailer (2006)
25 May 2006
A short thriller about the murder, and its aftermath, of a young girl.
The Mountain Trailer (2024)
28 March 2024
Sam, a fearless young girl raised outside of her Māori culture, is determined to fulfill her mission of connecting with her mountain.
Mothers of the Revolution Trailer (2021)
07 October 2021
On 5th September 1981, a group of women came together to change the world. These women marched from Wales to Berkshire to protest over nuclear weapons being kept at RAF Greenham Common.
The Devil's Rock Trailer (2011)
08 July 2011
Set in the Channel Islands on the eve of D Day, two Kiwi commandos, sent to destroy German gun emplacements to distract Hitler's forces away from Normandy, discover a Nazi occult plot to unleash demonic forces to win the war.
Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon Trailer (2025)
21 September 2025
After failing to reform his heavy metal band DEATHGASM for a battle-of-the-bands to win back his girlfriend Medina, Brodie decides to use black magic to raise his ex-band members Zakk and Dion from the dead.
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen Trailer (2019)
28 January 2019
This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children.
Bad Behaviour Trailer (2023)
02 November 2023
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.