Release Date

14 May, 2026

Runtime

01:37: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

When memory begins to fade, love is put to the test.

Three generations living under one leaky Wellington roof in 2003, all on the brink of transformation. Sixteen-year-old Cassie is all bravado and vulnerability, drifting into risky territory as she searches for validation in all the wrong places. Her mother Maxine, 52, a formidable single-mother filmmaker on the brink of a long-awaited breakthrough, is finally offered a greenlight - if she can just land a star. Holding everything together is Huia, Cassie’s grandmother, 80, whose life has been defined by quiet service to family and a private obsession with raising monarch caterpillars, dreaming of one day witnessing the legendary butterfly migration in Mexico. But when Huia’s mind begins to fail her, the family is thrust into chaos. Can the maternal line hold together while everything is throwing them apart?

Original Title

Caterpillar

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Actors

Marta Dusseldorp

Lisa Harrow

Anais Shand

Kirimaia Noel

Matt Whelan

Matty Rockel

Tanea Heke

Cohen Holloway

Tara Canton

Crew

Chelsie Preston Crayford

Chelsie Preston Crayford

Georgina Allison Conder

Andrew Marshall

Maria Ines Manchego

Jonathan Woodford-Robinson

Jonathan Crayford

Heather Hayward

Briar Vivian

Michele Perry

Anna Houghton

Ryan Alexander Lloyd