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Filmed in one continuous shot, this is a confronting film about a young boy's relationship with an older man.  Staring directly at the camera, a boy talks about his first sexual experience at Scout camp.  The confession raises several...

Director David Blyth was won over by Michael Heath’s script because it reversed convention, and “was a plea for children to be allowed to keep and develop their imaginations”.

From romance, drug deals and an imported hitman, to Swiss bank accounts and the occasional killing, Don Reynold's Dangerous Orphans is a pacy urban thriller which takes a seemingly straight-forward story and turns it into a tense, violent,...

In Murray Ball's iconic cartoon strips - and now in the animated feature film - the day-to-day events of Footrot Flats are chronicled by an extremely intelligent dog with a great sense of his own worth. He is simply known as "Dog"....

There's panic on the streets as 19-year-old tearaway Ska (Matthew Hunter) comes to terms with love and death in Auckland's 80s urban underworld. After an ultimately tragic attempt to 'rescue' his prostitute sister, Ska plots revenge at a...

This early short from Alison Maclean (Kitchen Sink, Crush) is a comedy about a disconnected New Zealand family.  Nan has been recently widowed. As she  prepares the Sunday roast for her family, she assesses her life and where she fits into her...

Starring both Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair from The Front Lawn, this slice-of-life short shows the people of Auckland's K Road in their natural habitat.  Structured in the same relay style as Richard Linkater's Slacker, the two actors...

Peter Jackson's breakthrough feature, Bad Taste, began as a 20 minute short titled Roast of the Day, the simple tale of a charity worker who meets a terrible fate in a small town. The motive for making the film was for Jackson to try...

Their curiosity is fuelled when a caller reveals that Roger's wife is in labour. The talkback lines run hot - but Joanah suspects it's not the happy event her callers believe it to be. Through the night, Jonah becomes increasingly drawn to the...

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Gaylene Preston's insightful documentary about writer Keri Hulme was filmed two years after the writer's Booker Prize win for The Bone People.  It is partly a love story to Hulmes hometown of Okarito and a musing on the writer's creative...

When a young woman returns to the Greek island where her family came from to visit an aunt still living there, she discovers the contrasts between the life-styles of two women living in different cultures. . A personal and poignant documentary film...

Footage shot for this revealing documentary became the basis for Herbs' music video for their hit, Sensitive to a Smile. When Herbs made the decision to celebrate their record release in Ruatoria, a town divided by a Rastafarian sect whose actions...

It is 1930. The Great Depression has spread far afield from its Wall Street beginnings to wreck havoc on rural New Zealand. The land is rich but the money has gone. Farmers who can afford it are living off their savings but others have already been...

In this dark comedy about obsession, people reach absurd states in search of their unique little highs. Music, oddball characters and weird noises combine to create fully realised and recognisable world in which the pursuit of pleasre is all...

Award-winning filmmaker Gregor Nicholas and celebrated contemprary dancer and choreographer Douglas Wright collaborate in a film which evokes Brassai's Paris, Orson Welles's Vienna and W. C. Handy's New Orleans. The dancers split and merge...

Revenge of the Word Processors  is the story of a man who, while playing video games in his office computer, is attacked by creatures from it. He escapes and bumps into his boss in the corridor. She does not believe his story and returns to his...

A documentary showing the undertaking of a ten hour celebratory canoe voyage by the Tai Tokerau people of Northland. 100 paddlers journey from Waitangi to Whangaroa in a giant war canoe on a voyage of discovery and fulfillment. 

The brains responsible for (and subsequently seen in) Bad Taste belong to Peter Jackson - weaned on home movies, he became writer, director, actor and cinematographer. Then there were his mates - from their various different jobs, they...

Today's the day that the custody of Clare's son will be decided. Her son loves gorillas, but lawyers think they belong in a zoo. So does Clare's estranged husband, but he's the man who's ordered a singing valentine for his computer....

Waves have measured your arrival From the mirrored hearts in the moon Where the shores lap the skin Gods And all heaven cries in tune For blue Gods of mornings past Shall tonight dance in waters of fire Shattering veins of golden lust Sustaining...

Part of the E Tipu E Rea series, Eel  is the story of a teenage boy who learns about the bush and old Maori ways from his great uncle while he's skipping school. This experience prepares him for life in ways traditional schooling may never have...

Part of the E Tipu E Rea series, in Variations on a Theme, actor and Play School presenter Rawiri Paratene adapts three short scripts to suit a marae audience.  In one a bored schoolboy exchanges verbal barbs with a teacher.  In another a...

Part of the E Tipu E Rea series, Roimata tells the story of half-sisters, one raised in a rural area, the other in the city. The pair recoonect when the country-born sibling arrives in the city.  Before long, she has learned some harsh life lessons...

In a seedy waterfront bar, sometime during the '70s, a sideburned, bellbottomed singer begins his song. Sheltering from the rainy night, a man and a woman meet for the first time.  Or is it? Who are they? What brought them here? What bizarre...

A common garden sanil sets off on an epic adventure to claim a faraway lettuce. Many difficulties await him but nothing will stand in the way of his lunch... A quirky action comedy showing the world from a snail's perspective. This film uses time-...

Part of the E Tipu E Rea series, Thunderbox tells the story of a boy learning about hypocrisy through his unusual relationship with his father. This was the film debut for director Lee Tamahori after a long career in television commercials. Tamahori...