Roxie Mohebbi

Acting

Roxie Mohebbi

Roxie Mohebbi is an Iranian–New Zealand director, writer, and actor. Her work explores themes of identity, migration, and intergenerational memory with emotional nuance and cultural specificity. With a background in performance and a commitment to story sovereignty, Roxie brings emotional, layered stories to the screen - centering voices often left at the margins.

Acting credits

Head South poster
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Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, 1979. During a fortnight with his world-weary father, Angus is drawn to the underground post-punk music scene. With the support of his friend Kirsten, Angus navigates self doubt, derision and a family tragedy to take the stage for the first time.

Head South

2024

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A young woman in a desperate situation finds unexpected compassion on a remote stretch of coastline.

Coast

2017

Rochelle poster
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A brazen young man takes it upon himself to send his friend’s busted up car, Rochelle, out in style by entering it in a local demolition derby, but to get there he needs help from an unexpected source.

Rochelle

2024

The Moon Is Upside Down poster
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Loren Taylor's directorial debut, “The Moon is Upside Down”, is an uproarious and cleverly dark-humoured rollercoaster. Against the backdrop of New Zealand's stunning countryside and gritty urban suburbs, three characters grapple with an insatiable yearning for connection.

The Moon Is Upside Down

2024

Writers in Love poster
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A comedy about two writers whose romantic entanglement takes a sharp turn when they realize they have conflicting ideas about the ethics of writing. As their boundaries clash, the line between storytelling and manipulation begins to blur.

Writers in Love

2025

Give Me Babies poster
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Meet Ari, an average 20-something millennial living at home with her parents. She also happens to be an MMA fighter with a mum who doubles as her coach. Her mother, Mei, has always planned everything for Ari - her training regime and now her dating regime so she can find the perfect partner, and have the perfect baby at the perfect time in her life. In a bid to escape her overbearing mum-coach, Ari enters an illegal underground MMA fight where she manages to piss off the most dangerous man in town, James Lee. Swords, cakes and the truth go flying when they all collide at her cousin's big fat Indian wedding.

Give Me Babies

2024

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