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Caterpillar

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

2026 1 hour 37 minutes
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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?

Released

14th May 2026

5 months ago

Runtime

1 hour 37 minutes

Finishes at 2:27am

Ratings and awards

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    7/10

  • FilmFlow Logo

    70%

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Directed by

Chelsie Preston Crayford

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Written by

Chelsie Preston Crayford

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