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Here are our latest New Zealand Short Films!!!!
If you are a festival, distributor or broadcaster looking for more New Zealand shorts, please search our catalogue.
If you are a festival or an event looking for short films for your screening, please be aware that due to the international demand for our films we ask for a screening fee to be paid by festivals.
If you would like to request a short film or would like more information, please contact us!!
Short Film Manager Lisa Chatfield lisa@nzfilm.co.nz
Premiere Shorts Assistant Lizzie Dunn shorts@nzfilm.co.nz
LATEST SHORT FILM NEWS
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To see clips of our latest short films and others, visit NZ Film Shorts at: http://www.youtube.com/nzfilmshorts
Koro's Medal
When Billy loses his grandfather’s precious war medal, getting it back is the least of his worries.
2011 Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland
2011 New Zealand International Film Festival, New Zealand
2011 Wairoa Maori Film Festival, New Zealand
Bird
Bird can only be Bird with his daughters’ Blessing.
2011 Sydney Film Festival, Australia
2011 Palm Springs Film Festival, USA
2011 New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ
Meathead
It's matter over mind
2011 Cannes Film Festival 'Official Competition', France
2011 New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ
2011 Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2011 Montreal World Film Festival, Canada
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Hauraki
Fogotten flowers bloom by the wayside.
2011 Tribeca Film Festival (world premiere)
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Preferably Blue
Not everyone loves Christmas!
2011 SXSW, USA
2011 Tribeca Film Festival, USA
2011 Internationales Trickfilm Festival, Stuttgart
Go the dogs
An accidental adventure
2011 Official Selection: Generation -Berlin International Film Festival (World Premiere)
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Ebony Society
One night out stealing, two boys learn a lesson.
2011 Sundance Film Festival, USA
2011 61st Berlin International Film Festival – Generation, Germany
2011 Aspen Shortsfest, USA
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The Six Dollar Fifty Man
Set in 1970s New Zealand, The Six Dollar Fifty Man follows Andy, a gutsy 8 year-
old boy who is forced to break out of his make-believe superhero world to deal with playground bullies.
2009 Special Distinction - Festival de Cannes, France
2010 Jury Prize in International Short Filmmaking- Sundance Film Festival, USA
2010 Special Mention- 60th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin-Generation, Germany
2010 Best Drama - Aspen Shortsfest, USA
2010 Best Narrative Short - Cinequest Film Festival, USA
2010 Special Jury Award - New York International Children’s Film Festival, USA
2009 Silver Spike- Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain
2010 Best Short Film - Flickerfest, Australia
2009 53rd BFI London Film Festival, UK
2009 Black Pearl 09 Award for Best Narrative Short - Middle East International Film Festival, UAE
2009 New Zealand International Film Festival, New Zealand
2009 Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2009 Best International Short Fiction Film- Expresion en Corto, Mexico
2010 Leeds Young People's Film Festival, UK
2010 DC International Film Festival, USA
2010 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2010 Seattle International Film Festival, USA
2010 26th International Short Film Festival Hamburg- Mo & Friese, Germany
2010 Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil
2010 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France
2010 CFC - Worldwide Short Film Festival, Canada
2010 Seoul International Youth Film Festival, Korea
2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA
2010 Best Of, France
2010 Milwaukee Film Festival, USA
2010 Austin Film Festival, USA
2010 St Louis Film Festival, USA
2010 Interfilm Berlin, Germany
2010 Brest, France
2010 Leeds International, UK
2010 Best International Short Film - Dokufest, Kosovo
2010 Best Short Film - Vladivostok International Film Festival, Russia
2010 Best International Short Film - La Boca del Lobo Film Festival, Spain
2010 Best Short Film – 24fps International Short Film Festival, USA
2010 IPJ IndieJunior Award - IndieLisboa, Portugal
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Only Son
An only son tries to woo the girl of his dreams with the unwanted help of his deceased father.
2010 Fantastic Fest, USA
2010 'Best Short Film' Qantas Film and Television Awards, NZ
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Licked
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Two nine year old girls strike a deal with a stranger for ice cream money, but it all turns sour when he tries to trap one of them in a creepy game.
2010 New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ
2010 Montreal World Film Festival, Canada
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Manurewa
A multi-stranded, narrative impression of a tragic robbery that took place in Manurewa, New Zealand.
2010 59th Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2010 New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ
2011 62nd Berlin International Film Festival - Generation, Germany
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Amadi
As their worlds fall apart, an unlikely connection occurs between a Rwandan refugee living in New Zealand and his mentally unstable neighbour.
2010 59th Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2010 New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ
2010 Hawaii Internationa Film Festival, USA
The Winter Boy
A mother questions whether her son will shine again.
2010 New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ
Berik
Berik, a short drama about friendship and understanding, takes place in Semey, Kazakhstan. Berik, 33, blind and deformed due to radiation poisoning, spends his days at home alone, while his brother is at work. That is until Adil, 11, the smallest and least popular of the kids in the apartment block, turns up on Berik's doorstep looking for the local bully’s football, which he has lost.
2010 Winner of Grand Prix Canal +- Semaine de la Critique, Festival de Cannes, France
2010 59th Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
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Choice Night
When you try to have it all you risk losing everything.
2010 59th Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2010 New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ
2010 Cannes- Short Film Corner
2010 CFC- Worldwide Short Film Festival
2010 54th BFI London Film Festival
2010 Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain
2010 Best International Short Film,Cinema Tous Ecran, Switzerland
2010 Best Cinematographer - (Jac Fitzgerald), Show Me Shorts Film Festival, NZ
2011 33rd Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
Careful with that Crossbow
A young boy has fun in the park firing a crossbow... at his sister.
2010 59th Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2010 New Zealand Internationial Film Festival, NZ
2010 CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, Canada
2010 Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, USA
2010 Valladolid International Film Festival, Spain
2010 Corona Cork Film Festival, UK
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Day Trip
A gang member wakes up one morning and decides he needs a day off. A short voyage between islands changes his outlook on life.
2010 Tribeca Film Festival, USA
2010 New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ
2010 Cannes- Short Film Corner
2010 Signis Prize for Best International Short Ficton - Expresion en Corto
2010 New York Film Festival
2010 Hawaii International Film Festival, USA
Redemption
Redemption is the dark and tender story of two Maori teenagers trying to find their way through personal hells. However, in this coming of age story, survival may not bring a happy ending.
2010 60th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Generation 14 Plus, Germany
2010 New Zealand International Film Festival, NZ
2010 Message Sticks Film Festival, Australia
2010 CFC Worldwide Short FIlm Festival, Canada
2010 Wairoa Maori Film Festival, NZ
2010 Corona Cork Film Festival, Ireland
2010 Encounters Film Festival, UK
2010 Best Short Drama - Imagine Native 2010, Canada
2010 Stockholm International Film Festival, Sweden
2010 Leeds International Film Festival, UK
2011 Sundance Film Festival, USA
Brave Donkey
Brian didn’t think he had anything left to lose…
2009 53rd BFI London Film Festival, U.K.
2009 Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2009 New Zealand International Film Festival, New Zealand
2009 Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
2009 Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
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Careful with that Power Tool
The highly anticipated sequel to, 'Careful with that Axe'...
Power tools and children don't mix.
2009 Seattle International Film Festival, USA
2009 Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2009 New Zealand International Film Festival, New Zealand
2009 CFC- Worldwide Short Film Festival, Canada
This Is Her
Meet Evie and Jonathan: happily married, deeply in love, and about to experience the everyday miracle that is the birth of a child. While Evie breathes through the labour pains, with Jonathan anxious at her side, across the city six-year-old Kylie is carefully laying out her dolls. One day this angelic child will steal Evie’s husband and ruin her life. This is her.
2009 Sundance Film Festival, USA
2009 Future Filmmaker Award – Palm Springs Shortfest, USA
2009 Best Comedy Short- Aspen Shortsfest, USA
2009 Audience Award for Best Short Film- Hamptons International Film Festival, USA
2008 Best Audience Film Award - Prague International Short Film Festival, Czech Republic
2009 Venus de Badalona- Filmets de Badalona, Spain
2009 Flickerfest, Australia
2008 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival, U.K.
2008 35th Telluride Film Festival, USA
2008 Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2008 46th New York Film Festival, USA
Careful with that Axe
A young boy tries his hand at chopping firewood with his father’s razor sharp axe. He finds that the axe is incredibly heavy, so heavy that he balances himself by resting one bare foot on the chopping block…
2008 53rd Valladolid International Film Festival - Golden Spike for Best Short Film
2008 24th Interfilm Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany - Special Mention
2008 AFI Fest, USA
2008 62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival
2008 Melbourne International Film Festival
2009 New York International Children's Film Festival, USA
2009 Flickerfest, Australia
Journey to Ihipa
When a young soldier dies during WWII, extended Maori family protect the bloodline by taking his baby from his European mother. She waits her whole life for him to return, but when he finally does, it's not what she hoped for...
2008 New Zealand International Film Festivals, New Zealand
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The Trophy
A young girl’s commitment to a science project investigating worm farming wins her a trophy, but creates tension within her traditional Samoan family.
2008 58th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin – Generation K-plus, Germany
2008 Chicago International Children's Film Festival, USA
Noise Control
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The true story of a rooster who pays the price for keeping his neighbours awake.
2008 Chicago International Children's Film Festival, USA
2008 Best Film Award- Show Me Shorts, New Zealand
2008 New Zealand International Film Festivals, New Zealand
Take 3
Three Asian actresses transcend professional rivalry in one gleeful act of solidarity.
2009 Flickerfest, Australia
2008 Honourable Mention- 58th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin- Generation, Germany
2008 58th Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin – Generation, Germany
2008 Meeting Point Audience Award for Best Foreign Short- 53rd Valladolid Film Festival, Spain
The Graffiti of Mr Tupaia
When a Cook Island school cleaner answers an unusual graffiti message, his life, and the life of the mysterious author will never be the same again.
2008 61st Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
2008 Best Film Against Violence and Intolerance- 24th Interfilm Short Film Festival Berlin, Germany
2008 46th International Festival of Documentary and Short Film Bilbao, Spain
2008 42nd Hof International Film Festival, Germany
2008 Best Short Film, Best Performance in a Short Film (Rawiri Paratene), Best Screenplay in a Short Film (Paul Stanley Ward), New Zealand Qantas Film and Media Awards,New Zealand
2008 New Zealand International Film Festivals, New Zealand
Cargo
While trafficking people across a border, the driver makes an unlikely friend and ally.
2007 64th Venice Film Festival, Italy
2007 BFI London Film Festival, U.K.
2008 35th Telluride Film Festival, USA
2008 57th Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2007 Prague Short Film Festival, Czech Republic
2008 7th Tribeca International Film Festival, USA
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