Two Cars, One Night is a 2003 New Zealand short film written and directed by Taika Waititi.

[3] The film is about two young boys and a girl meeting in the carpark of a rural pub in Te Kaha, New Zealand.

One night, the Te Kaha hotel pub carpark is parked by a sedan with nine-year-old boys Ed and Romeo in it.

As time passes, another sedan neighbours them, with the two adults, Koro and Tangata, exiting, leaving the child, 12-year-old Polly, alone.

"[4] In 2019, after receiving an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay with Jojo Rabbit, Waititi said jokingly "Losing to Andrea Arnold [at the Oscars], it took me probably 13 years just to get over that.