75 feature & short films
Watch stories from New Zealand and around the world.
Around the World
From the Arctic to the streets of Kabul, these films take you to places, people and moments reminding us how vast, and how connected, our world truly is. Encounter a mother bear fighting for survival in the fastest-warming place on earth or follow the diverging paths of two brothers navigating faith and freedom in Afghanistan. Seven films. Seven worlds. Endless humanity.
Art of Becoming
Art does not just reflect life, it shapes it, sustains it, and sometimes saves it. These seven films explore the transformative power of creativity across dance, music and the visual arts. Watch raw talent collide with fierce ambition on the competitive dance floor or discover how one woman built an entire world to keep a love story alive. In every frame, someone is becoming.
Being Oneself
Who are we, really, and what does it take to live as our true selves? From the competitive pickleball courts of Venice Beach to three doctors, Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian, united by a single oath to save lives, these five films celebrate the courage, humour and heart it takes to be fully, unapologetically yourself.
Crime & Conspiracy
Behind every headline lies a deeper story of power, corruption, and the individuals who dare to challenge both. A lone activist takes on Cambodia’s most powerful industry. A box of old tapes reveals a CIA spy’s secret life. And a fatal shooting becomes less about facts than who pulls the trigger. The truth is always more complex than it appears.
Facing the Edge
These are the films that take you to the boundary of justice, technology, love, and what it means to be human in a shifting world. A daughter fights for history’s 58th forgotten victim. A father traces his daughter’s death to Silicon Valley’s algorithms. And three women fall for AI lovers who never disappoint. Urgent, provocative, unforgettable.
Fearless Wahine
These are the stories of women who refused to be silent, invisible, or defined by the world around them. Iranian women’s forty-year resistance against a regime that imprisoned and exiled them. A Palestinian wife’s extraordinary act of defiance against occupation. A stand-up comedian challenging audiences with truths that are no laughing matter. And three trailblazers who broke barriers, and never stopped. Unstoppable, unsilenced, unforgettable.
French Connection
An unflinching window into the French filmmaking world, and the stories it cannot look away from. A father’s silence speaks through his drawings. A journalist returns home to reckon with violence and denial. On a Marseille beach, women remake the world with nothing left to prove. And from inside Gaza, one camera bears witness where no other can enter.
Shorts
From a Greymouth church to the Gaza shoreline, from a piano tuner chasing perfect pitch to a granddaughter capturing sixty years of love — these films travel far and land close to home. These twenty-six films prove the short form stories are enormous in feeling.
Special presentation
The world premiere of the latest episode of NZ Wars: Stories of Waerenga-a-Hika, a landmark moment for both the series and for the communities whose history it honours. This is a one-off screening only.
Tūrangawaewae | Where We Stand
A place to stand. A place to belong. These five films root us in the land, rivers and oceans that sustain us, and the peoples fighting to protect them. From a Nuxalk river waiting to come alive again, to a Papua New Guinean activist seeking rights for a mother river, to an elder honouring the sacred bond between whales and ancient trees. The earth is speaking.