Watch all the Show Me Shorts prize-winning short films in one session. The films will be confirmed on 8 October when the awards are announced.

The films screening will be the winners of these award categories:

Department of Post Best NZ Film Award
Cause and FX Best International Film Award
NZ On Air Best Music Video Award
DEGANZ Best Director Award
DEGANZ Best Editor Award
Toi Whakaari Best Actor Award
Best Cinematographer Award
Best Screenplay Award

Ratings: R13 Sex scenes, sexual references, offensive language, violence & content that may disturb.

Runtime: TBC

The films below have been nominated.

Movies In This Session

Featured

The Sampler

Muscat

The Sampler

A 16-year-old Moroccan fisherman, Samir, discovers his attraction towards men when he meets a tourist traveling with his wife.

The Sampler

Just Kidding I Actually Love You

The Sampler

A runaway fiancée breaks in to execute an ill-advised romantic gesture, and finds evidence her ex is happier without her.

The Sampler

Ministry of Jingle

The Sampler

Melody is the new hire at a Government department in charge of creating public safety jingles about the nation's most pressing issues: bathmats, scam calls, littering.

The Sampler

Taboos and Temptation

Such a Lovely Day

Taboos and Temptation

A glorious, happy family gathering in a perfect English summer garden. There’ll be lunch under the mulberry tree and wine and games and dancing. And then there’ll be a surprise.

Taboos and Temptation

Love Unconditional

Familial - Daithi

Love Unconditional

A narrative music video in which a father attempts to reconnect with his two estranged sons.

Love Unconditional

NAI / Milk

Love Unconditional

A single Chinese woman struggles to bridge the cultural and societal expectations of motherhood in a western setting, until she finds release in the most unlikely way.

Love Unconditional

Good Luck

Love Unconditional

The Ministry of Happiness presents its very first induction video for newborns. This introduction to life is mandatory viewing. We thank you for watching.

Love Unconditional

Women Rock the World

Kingmaker - Tami Neilson

Women Rock the World

This music video for Tami Neilson's Kingmaker features a group of women, alive and powerful, rising from the ashes of the old colonial institutions that once oppressed them.

Women Rock the World

Aotearoa Te Ōhākī

Te Whakawhitinga

Aotearoa Te Ōhākī

Hine re-accounts the story of her father, Pāpā, and his eagerness to join the army shortly after the end of World War II.

Aotearoa Te Ōhākī

Buttons and Dumplings

Aotearoa Te Ōhākī

The heartwarming migration story of a Chinese family, takeaway food, mahjong and the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Aotearoa Te Ōhākī

Anu

Aotearoa Te Ōhākī

When a recent widow moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary circumstance: quarantine.

Aotearoa Te Ōhākī

Lǎo Lao Lǎo Le

Aotearoa Te Ōhākī

A young boy is left home alone with his increasingly unwell grandmother and is forced to come to terms with her deterioration.

Aotearoa Te Ōhākī

Daughter of God

Aotearoa Te Ōhākī

When an arranged marriage is sprung upon an Iranian-Kiwi daughter, she must either dishonour family tradition or lose the woman she loves.

Aotearoa Te Ōhākī

When the Spirit Takes Flight

When You Went Away - The Transits

When the Spirit Takes Flight

This music video reveals a love story that defies death, as two bodies in a morgue come back to life for one last dance.

When the Spirit Takes Flight

Crime Spree

The Ballad of Maddog Quinn

Crime Spree

An unlikely outlaw wreaks hell across a dusty dystopian wasteland on a wild quest to save what is held most dear.

Crime Spree

Indonesian Focus 1

Basri & Salma Dalam Komedi Yang Terus Berputar (Basri & Salma in a Never-Ending Comedy)

Indonesian Focus 1

A husband and wife married for 5 years, work at the carnival together, spending their days entertaining other people’s children without any of their own. Meddling relatives and self-doubt leads to an explosive confrontation.

Indonesian Focus 1