Taungaroa Emile

When a Japanese pilot crash-lands on the tiny remote Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau, he is met with courtesy and traditional Hawaiian hospitality from the locals - until they discover he was part of the recent attack on Pearl Harbor. Soon the community is split between those of Japanese ancestry who support the pilot and those of Hawaiian ancestry who oppose them.

Short-film about a Māori boy who has a secret desire to be a drag queen and his inability to talk to his father.

This impressive doco disperses the fog of shame and sensationalism to shed light on the tragedy that made international headlines in 2007 when a young Wainuiomata woman died during a mākutu lifting.

En la sociedad conservadora neozelandesa de 1953, un joven protestante propone matrimonio a su novia católica. Los padres de la chica no ven con buenos ojos la religión y pretenden imponer su fe.

Aftershock follows four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after Wellington is struck by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers must pull together. Strangers, caught by the tsunami on a ruined motorway, put themselves in danger to save others. A mother must reunite her family. And, at the centre of the rescue operation, a controller is bunkered down at Wellington’s Emergency Management Office.

In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled to the Ureweras and documented the lives of an elderly Māori woman (Puhi) and her schizophrenic son (Niki).

After the death of his uncle, a young man remembers back to a game his uncle taught him.

Martin Clunes stars as a straight-laced museum curator who finds himself travelling to New Zealand to settle a dispute with a Maori community about an ancient carving - with unexpected consequences.

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore...

One summer’s day, Jayde and Wiremu tag along with their older siblings on a trip to a local swimming hole; young passions ignite by the Rotorua hot pool. Later, tragedy occurs and Jayde faces lost innocence and the ritual of tangi while bearing a secret.

Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality, and they gather to say a karakia before returning to the fray. Director Taika Waititi describes the soldiers as young men with "a special bond, strengthened by their character, their culture and each other." Shot in the rubble of the old Wellington Hospital, Tama Tū won international acclaim. Invited to over 40 international festivals, its many awards included honourable mentions at Sundance and Berlin.

Muy lejos en una isla tropical, un niño huérfano llamado Tama es excluido por su tribu encontrándose a gusto junto a un compañero paria: Mahana, una niña rechazada por su apariencia descuidada. Cuando Tama va en busca de una nueva vida, promete a la triste Mahana que volverá por ella algún día. Pero el viaje de Tama lo lleva a Johnny Lingo, un comerciante rico quien lo hace su aprendiz y aparente heredero. Ahora que Tama se dedica a su nueva vida, deberá aprender que el valor de un hombre no reside en sus posesiones sino en el amor, amistad... y en honrar su promesa del pasado en ir en busca de Mahana.

En un pequeño poblado de la costa de Nueva Zelanda, los aborígenes de la tribu Whangara creen que proceden de un único ancestro, cuya existencia se remonta mil años atrás. Su nombre es Paikea, y escapó de la muerte, tras volcar su canoa, montando a lomos de una ballena. Según la tradición, el jefe de los Whangara, el “Whale Rider”, el Paikea, tiene que ser un primogénito varón. Pero Pai, una niña de once años, cree que está destinada a ser la máxima autoridad de la tribu. Por ello, aunque adora a su abuelo Koro, se enfrentará con él y con mil años de tradición.

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.

Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy's Bar, unaware, as he downs his latest opponent, that his eldest son, Nig, has died in a gang fight. The uncomfortable family reunion at Nig's funeral sparks a confrontation with second son, Sonny, and sets Jake and Sonny on a downward spiral.

Narra las aventuras del joven Hércules, cuando acude a la academia del Centauro Quirón para ejercitarse en el combate, en donde conocerá a Jason de Argos, hijo de rey de Argos, a quien ayudará a buscar el Vellocino de Oro. Pero no contará con que su hermanastro intente acabar con su vida.

After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably involved in events involving both Maori legend and an Albatross.

En Nueva Zelanda, una familia descendiente de guerreros mahoríes vive, al igual que muchos otros, en los suburbios de una gran ciudad, en una situación de marginalidad respecto a las personas de raza blanca. La vida familiar del clan estará presidida por los problemas de alcoholismo, la delincuencia y los escasos medios económicos.