Queer Aotearoa Films

Following a pitched battle, a Maori warrior finds a wounded European soldier and helps him back to health. How will this clash of cultures in a time of warfare turn out?

Douglas Wright escaped small town New Zealand by punishing his body with drugs, alcohol and eventually, extraordinary dance; but facing death, the world renowned choreographer struggles to exorcise demons even he can't dance away.

A documentary exploring the life of performance artist Warwick Broadhead in which he plays all the interviewees, including God; through artifice he shares deep personal revelation.

Two teenage girls share a unique bond: their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?

A man obsessed with the sun exploding and a trouble-making Italian-Kiwi man meet and fall in love in Auckland.

A teenage boy is caught between his recently-separated parents. They each want to buy him his first suit, but his own burgeoning self-image differs very much from both of theirs.

A queer man describes the intimate and mundane details of his loving relationship with a trans woman who is an inspiration in his life.

The relationship between a young man, Paul, and a confident executive, Grant, about which his soon-to-be-wife Joy knows nothing, in Auckland's gay scene in 1980, when homosexuality was illegal.

Fun, disarming and musically provocative, the Topp Twins are New Zealand's finest lesbian country and western singers and the country's greatest export since rack of lamb and the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

Shoe designer and fetishist Doug George tells the story of how high heels saved his life.

100 Men reflects on 40 years of gay history via a countdown of Kiwi filmmaker Paul Oremland's most memorable shags, featuring candid and moving interviews with past lovers.

Georgina Beyer is a transexual of Maori descent who was elected in 1999 to represent her district in New Zealand's National government. Beyer has been a showgirl, a sex worker and now a politician. This is her story.

Explores serial killer Dennis Nilsen interwoven notions of loneliness, desire and trust. Founded upon the conviction that societal homophobia often results in tragic consequences that drove Nilsen to kill for company.

A young man's relationship with his straight boyfriend, his awkward dad and his burning desire to be a drag queen.

Two flamboyant gay teenage boys who can't wait to grow up and get out of New Zealand take a trip to Rangitoto Island and recall their friendship.

On the way to interview a novelist, Lane and Christina are involved in a car crash which leaves literary critic Christina brain-damaged. Lane undertakes the assignment and becomes attracted to the novelist's 15 year old daughter, leading to stormy emotions.

Boy is the story of a young male prostitute in a small town who discovers the truth behind a fatal hit and run accident. Threatened with violence, he battles to expose the truth.

After skipping town a decade ago, transgender activist Caz Davis returns to the remote, politically divided dairy community of Rurangi, hoping to reconnect with his estranged father, who hasn't heard from him since before Caz transitioned.

Andy is dying. His friends in Auckland care for him through his last days.

Between getting trashed, tripping, blowing guys off and writing songs, Mark falls for Stephen. Fig and Sally put perform Marks songs between casual sex with anyone and everyone. Katie is a few-hit wonder who hit rock-bottom in L.A and returns to New Zealand to patch her life back together. Stephen, Mark and Katie branch out for a slumber party at a beach house of their better days. Fig and Sally arrive, and not long after Eddie arrives also (Katies American guy). Mark stops running away from Stephens love, Katie and Eddie get engaged and Fig and Sally ... have sex?

A True New Zealand Love Story based on Kiwi-Samoan writer/director Nikki Si'ulepa and producer Rachel Aneta Wills' journey in pursuit of true love.

A film adaptation of an original dance, set in a sleazy Paris cabaret nightclub, in which a man and a woman, sharing halves of the same suit, enact desire and gender through dance.

This short 16 minute film shows relationship of a Maori woman and her man, with Lucy Lawless being there as "the other woman".

Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has been somewhat better, has developed extra-sensory powers which tell her that Jack's in danger and drives her to search for him.