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.
Constance is a bored, movie-loving schoolteacher in post-WW2 New Zealand who begins to fantasize tha...
Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the au...
Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madne...
Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks...
Fifty-six-year-old Perianayaki contends with the difficulties of fitting into her new home, especial...
In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientiou...
An airplane lands. A massive cruise boat anchors off the reef, disgorging tourists for tropical isla...
In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Departmen...
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike...
Kye-na, an average woman in her late twenties, holds a steady job and a committed boyfriend, Ji-myou...
A baby is washed up on a Pacific Island and is adopted by a childless woman. The tribal priest take...
Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His...
Two brothers take their father into the city for the weekend for a rugby game and a night on the tow...
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth H...
Fish Out of Water manages to unfurl its light-hearted tale of young man and the sea, without a word ...
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
Follows a cleaning lady going through an overnight shift at an airport. Her actions throughout may s...
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...
Thick, deadly smog blankets the globe, reducing visibility to less than a few metres. In a secluded ...