Noel
A retired couple spend their time digging into the earth beneath their house in search of treasures, until a tremor shakes things up.
Uncle
Durante la gran depresión, una niña neozolandesa huye de la casa donde vive con sus tíos en busca de su padre, un granjero que abandonó la granja para buscar trabajo. Durante su travesía, la chica se encuentra con un veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial que huye de la policía. Juntos recorren las tierras de Nueva Zelanda, viviendo como vagabundos, mientras una amistad muy especial se desarrolla entre ellos.
Alberic Scholar
The Haunting of Barney Palmer is a fantasy film for children about a young boy who is haunted by his great uncle. Young Barney fears that he has inherited the Scholar family curse; a suite of 80s-era effects ramp up the supernatural suspense. The film was a co-production between PBS (United States) and Wellington's Gibson Group, which resulted in Ned Beatty (Deliverance, Network) being cast. It was written by Margaret Mahy, based on her Carnegie Award-winning novel The Haunting, and an early fruitful collaboration between her and director Yvonne Mackay.
Quarantine Doctor
The story means to develop through an uncovering of layers - strata. As writer Krumbachova stated: "With nature as a prison, an impassable barrier ... where every action is physically and psychically limited by the environment ... people are reduced to fragments of basic instinct and intelligence." Promoted as a psychological thriller, Strata provides little tension nor any real climax. The characters are ideas - not believably real.
Typhon
A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway to suppress or expose his secrets.
