Show Me Shorts 2025: Opening Night Christchurch
The launch of the Christchurch season of Show Me Shorts features a specially curated selection of Christchurch-centric films and some of the best and most fun films from this year’s programme. Meet local filmmakers and hear from the festival team as they introduce the night. Celebrate short films and the people who make them! Tickets […]
Terror-Fi Presents: THE LONG WALK (NZ Premiere)
How far could you go? Be the first in New Zealand see the stunning new dystopian horror/thriller THE LONG WALK – from the twisted mind of Stephen King. “A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as The Long Walk, and keep walking faster than three miles per hour — or risk […]
MMFF: Whina
2025 not only marks the 50th anniversary of Dame Whina Cooper’s hīkoi but we also celebrate the 130th anniversary of her birth! In 1975 a 79-year-old Whina Cooper led a famous hīkoi for positive change, uniting thousands of Māori and Pākehā to address injustices, and her mana and determination continue to inspire us today. The hikoi […]
MMFF: The Bones of Our Past
Join us for the Closing Event of the Mātaki Mai Film Festival 2025 from 3pm, your ticket for this screening includes a drink & nibbles. THE BONES OF OUR PAST is a documentary narrated by the people of Ngāti Kuri, Ngāi Tahu, it follows the reconstruction of the wharenui, Maru Kaitātea, at Takahanga Marae in […]
MMFF: Shrek – Kātahi Te Korokē
Māoriland Productions, in collaboration with DreamWorks Animation, presents the Māori reversioning of the beloved animated film Shrek. Leading the notable cast of Shrek – Kātahi te Korokē is renowned actor and musician Maaka Pohatu, who takes on the role of the loveable green ogre, Shrek. The exceptional actor and singer Tuakoi Ohia is the voice […]
MMFF: The Dead Lands
The Dead Lands is the fourth feature by acclaimed New Zealand director Toa Fraser and is based on a script by Glenn Standring, shot in Auckland and the central North Island of New Zealand and features the Māori martial art of Mau Rakau, a unique hand-to-hand fighting style not seen on international cinema screens before. […]
MMFF: Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua – Two Worlds
Musician, actor, son, friend and student of te reo Māori among them, Two Worlds weaves together the various strands of Marlon William’s experience – as he reflects on his career so far and the challenges and pleasures of articulating his worldview in te reo Māori. Marlon’s journey is situated within the bicultural context of Aotearoa New […]
MMFF: The Haka Party Incident
For more than 20 years, and despite multiple complaints over many years, Pākehā engineering students at Auckland University regularly performed a parody of haka during capping week. By 1979, a group that later became known as He Taua had had enough and confronted them head-on. Unfortunately, the consequences for those activists were severe and many […]
MMFF: Kōkā
From director Kath Akuhata-Brown, Kōkā is a road movie “infused with aroha.” The film is half in English, half in te reo, specifically the Ngāti Porou dialect where Akuhata-Brown hails from. A kuia named Hamo – under the celestial guidance of Matariki – makes a long journey home to the East Coast in a car that’s […]
MMFF: Rewi’s Last Stand
Join us for the Opening Event of the Mātaki Mai Film Festival 2025 from 4pm, your ticket for this screening includes a drink & nibbles. Rewi’s Last Stand (1949), Rudall Hayward’s groundbreaking film, is a romantic drama set against the 1864 British invasion and Battle of Ōrākau, where Rewi Maniapoto and 300 supporters resisted the […]
