Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...

The story of the rise and fall and rise of one of New Zealand’s most loved and iconic bands, The Exp...

Based on the true story of Chris Crean, who took a stand against gang violence in his community only...

One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome p...

Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the au...

In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientiou...

In rural New Zealand, a fifteen-year-old girl fights to keep her place among the pack of boys she ha...

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging featu...

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a desti...

War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling s...

Based on the best-selling book 'My Story' this feature length drama goes beyond the headlines to tel...

Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks...

Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madne...

Lost somewhere over the Pacific in a single-engine Cessna with low fuel, a pilot (Scott Bakula) awai...

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...

Destined to be lovers, Bunnie and Geoff are wildly happy together in the 1970's, until something te...

Lucy Lawless stars in this short which predated her rise to fame as Xena Princess Warrior. Sal is in...
New Zealand chronicle of the life of noted writer and teacher, Sylvia Ashton-Warner. An interesting ...

A 23-year-old revisits the family car he grew up with to experience the thrill of childhood again...