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When the Cows Come Home introduces audiences to Tilly and Maggie, a pair of cows that musician, journalist, artist and cow whisperer, Andrew Johnstone has befriended and subsequently saved from slaughter. The garrulous herdsman is enthusiastic to expound his views on animal husbandry, bovine communication and the vagaries of life in general, before the film walks us back through the events that have shaped the singular farmer-philosopher. From personal family tragedy to warring with Catholic school authorities, innovating in Hamilton’s nascent music scene to creating guerrilla art installations; Johnstone’s life has had a truly idiosyncratic trajectory. Mental health issues may have seen him retreat to life on the farm, but the film makes clear its subject’s restless inquisitiveness is far from being put out to pasture.
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A man suffering from borderline personality disorder is married to two women, who don’t know the other exists. As bills pile up and cracks start to show, the women independently start to suspect something is wrong.
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Un científico descubre en Skull Island un ejemplar muy extraño de mono rata al que acompaña una terrible maldición, según los nativos. El ejemplar es trasladado a Nueva Zelanda para su estudio. Por otra parte, Lionel es un joven que vive con su insoportable madre, que no aprueba la relación que acaba de comenzar con Paquita, la hija del tendero. Cuando los dos enamorados realizan una visita al zoológico, ella les vigila en secreto, y será mordida por el animal encontrado en la isla. Poco a poco, la madre de Lionel se va convirtiendo en una especie de zombie, sedienta de carne, y que convierte en zombie a todo el que ataca.
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Sam works on the tolls and likes to listen. He overhears more than he bargains for and becomes embroiled in a mishmash of corruption and blackmail. Anna is a hooker who specializes in throwing tomatoes at ageing weirdos. Sam and Anna's paths cross as he works to expose shady maneuvrings by the CEO of Infacorp, who is out to land a contract to build a tunnel under Auckland harbour.
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Una irreverente comedia de marionetas. Aunque la morsa es un productor ambicioso, cuenta con un equipo muy poco profesional: un miedoso zorro que ejerce de director, una rana drogadicta, una rata que hace películas porno con vacas y cucarachas, un elefante maníaco y depresivo. Además, está su peor enemigo: la ballena, que es el capo de la mafia.
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Una irreverente comedia de marionetas. Aunque la morsa es un productor ambicioso, cuenta con un equipo muy poco profesional: un miedoso zorro que ejerce de director, una rana drogadicta, una rata que hace películas porno con vacas y cucarachas, un elefante maníaco y depresivo. Además, está su peor enemigo: la ballena, que es el capo de la mafia.
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It is 1962. New Zealand is emerging from the austerity of the 1950s into a new age. Daniel is a nine-year-old Catholic boy, an only child given to colourful imaginings. He discovers that an old man who passes the plate in church bears a striking resemblance to the great Russian dictator, Joseph Stalin. Daniel starts to believe that the old man really is Stalin, come to take over New Zealand. Daniel takes it upon himself to give Stalin a fright and send him on his way. He hits on a method of doing so after finding where the old man lives and spying on him. Stalin is banished, but events take a strange twist, leaving Daniel with an even worse threat to deal with.
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Monica arrives back from her big overseas experience to find her boyfriend Nick unchanged. Although Nick styles himself an artist, he is really something of a cultural redneck, and when the couple head up north for a break, and they meet up with Riki, a poet, who is rather less shallow and charming.
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Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural protocol. Merata Mita discusses complex issues of inter-cultural conflict.
