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.

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...

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

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
The dramatic behind-the-scenes story of All Black Stephen Donald and the pentaly kick that saved the...

The vampire myth is given a stylish 1960s treatment, where a human cop partners with a vampire cop t...

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

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike...

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

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

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

Lucy Lawless stars in this short which predated her rise to fame as Xena Princess Warrior. Sal is in...

The story of a humble farming couple, a sudden upheaval and an unlikely saviour.

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand ...

On the wild west coast of Auckland in New Zealand we follow one man's enforced isolation. Pacing the...

Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men to run a betti...

Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zea...

14-year old Steve is caught between creatures he does not fully understand: two parents with very di...

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

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