Eric De Beus

Minka is a teenage Polynesian boy living in the heart of the city. With his P-addicted mother well on the way to going completely off the rails, three people enter his life - each with a promise - each with the power to destroy.

A mother tries to end her teenage son’s relationship with an older woman at the risk of losing him altogether.

The personal story of New Zealand's most beloved entertainer Billy T James. Reveals the man behind the chuckle.

A journey through a cultural minefield, navigating the divide between the traditional values of immigrant parents and the contemporary aspirations of their children in a new land.

Celebrity Chef Anita hasn't seen her family for twenty years. That is until her son Michael decides to do some soul searching and track down his aunt.

When a cup of coffee is a gift from Allah.

Rebecca (Katrina Browne) es una bellísima estudiante que ha sido invitada por los padres de su novio Matt (Glen Drake) a la magnífica finca donde residen. Mientras la madre, Iris (Joanna Pacula), manifiesta tener problemas psicológicos, el padre, Jeremy (Jack Wagner), se muestra excesivamente atento con la joven hasta el punto que ésta llega a sentirse asediada. La noche en la que acude a una fiesta en compañía de su novio, descubre a éste en brazos de otra mujer, e indignada decide regresar por su cuenta.

A high action war film with a twist. Shoot outs, stand-offs and heroics aplenty -- the difference being it's young kids not adult soldiers taking part.

Billy (Cliff Curtis) is trying to organize the biggest celebration the town of Waimatua has even seen - the 75th Jubilee of their school. In doing this, feckless Billy is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of his family, especially his frustrated wife Pauline (Theresa Healey). However trouble arrives with the return of a local former All Blacks Captain, an old flame of Pauline's.

Robert jumped. Or maybe he slipped. For his friends the truth is difficult to contemplate. A film about love.

This is the story of Bella, a defiantly proud transsexual and part-time tattooist, whose mere presence arouses the ire of one of the prison guards. But the guard's taunts are more complicated than they appear.

A refugee arriving in a new country is troubled with thoughts of her past. Pairs of dancing shoes eloquently recreate the journey from dance hall to war zone as she recalls her flight.

A plain woman with a beautiful voice is trapped in a difficult life caring for her cranky elderly father.

Frank Bannister es un charlatán que posee extraordinarias facultades psíquicas, pero no las usa para hacer el bien, sino para ganar dinero hostigando a sus clientes con la ayuda de algunos espectros que trabajan a su servicio. La situación cambiará cuando en el pueblo empiecen a producirse una serie de muertes inexplicables.

Vincent, a young Chinese-Kiwi, is rescued from a group of racist punks in a spacies parlour by a mysterious Asian, then drawn into a seedy Triad underworld.

Cuando el director Peter Jackson descubre un escondrijo repleto de antiguas películas de nitrato en el cobertizo de un vecino se da cuenta de que tiene ante sí "la más extraordinaria colección de películas que jamás ha existido. Imagina que Ciudadano Kane apareciera de repente caída del cielo". Así comienza Forgotten Silver, esta pérfidamente divertida y aún así del todo creíble película que pone al descubierto la vida de Colin McKenzie, pionero del cine de la Nueva Zelanda de principios del Siglo XX que inventó las cámaras de cine, la película en color, el sonido sincronizado, el travelín y otras importantes técnicas cinematográficas antes que D.W. Griffith y los hermanos Lumiere. Su epopeya bíblica ‘Salomón’, para la que recreó la antigua Jerusalén en la jungla de Nueva Zelanda, es al fin reconocida como una obra maestra del cine en este "cautivador e hilarante paseo directo al corazón del amor por el cine".

Isabel recalls a trio of relationships: one with a man in the middle of discovering he is gay, one with a man who doesn't like the smell of Isabel's pet dog, and the one with her friend Ruth.

A young couple stumble into a disused photographer's studio and find themselves snapped up by the past.

Catherine is taken to dine at "Eau de la vie" an opulent cafe known for its unusual entertainment. Her business associates Grant and Sarah intend to initiate her into their sordid society and strip her of her innocence. Catherine must choose from a small group of performers who will entertain the diners for the evening. She selects a young attractive man unaware that the finale of the evenings entertainment will end in his dead. To save the young man she has chosen, Catherine is driven to fight for her own life but oblivious to her struggle the other diners believe it is all part of the evening's entertainment Catherine has to stand alone. They say that evil triumphs when good people do nothing. Eau de la vie is a dark tale of hedonism and individual courage.