Leon Narbey

Biopic about the life of Whina Cooper, an activist who worked tirelessly to improve the lives of fellow Māori women.

아버지가 부족장인 16세 소년 홍이는 부족원들과 함께 다른 부족장의 아들인 위레파가 이끄는 전사 패거리를 맞이한다. 이들은 오래전 전투에서 전사한 자기네 조상의 유골을 찾아 장례를 치르러 온 것이다. 그러나 조상의 유골을 찾은 위레파는 엉뚱하게도 조상의 해골에 배설을 하고, 그 죄를 홍이에게 덮어씌운다. 부족장인 홍이의 부친은 홍이를 죽여서 죗값을 갚겠다고 하지만, 위레파는 이를 거절하고 복수전을 선포하고 돌아간다. 그리고 그날 밤, 위레파의 무리는 홍이의 마을을 습격해 홍이의 아버지를 포함해 남자들을 모조리 죽여 버린다. 가까스로 살아난 홍이는 복수를 다짐하며 위레파 무리를 따라나서고, 위레파 무리는 좀 더 빨리 자기네 부족에게 돌아가려고 지름길로 괴물이 지배한다는 ‘죽은 땅’을 가로질러 가기로 한다. 한편 홍이는 ‘죽은 땅’의 괴물에게 복수를 도와달라고 찾아간다. 괴물은 원래 위대한 전사였지만 과거에 분노에 휩싸여 자기 손으로 자기 부족을 몰살한 뒤로, 자기 땅을 침범하는 자들을 모조리 죽이며 괴물처럼 살아가고 있었던 것이다. 그는 자신의 슬픈 과거사와 묘하게 비슷한 홍이의 사연을 듣고는 그를 도와주기로 한다. 그리고 둘은 함께 위레파 무리를 뒤쫓기 시작하는데…

GISELLE is acclaimed director Toa Fraser's inter­pretation of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's production of Giselle. The classic story of love, erotism and death has been reinterpreted by Fraser to include both the on stage performance of the ballet, and an off-stage romance – interwoven with the ballet – that tells of two itinerant dancers, separated by time, distance and their abiding love for each other.

“윤회를 다룬 시나리오에 끌린 이유 중 하나는 내가 피지 혈통이란 점이다. 굳이 윤회나 환생을 염두에 두지 않더라도 우리는 새 한마리가 앞마당에 날아들 때면“아, 할머니가 밖에 오셨네.”라고 말하곤 한다. 일요일마다 교회에 가고 천주교의 교리에 따르지만 동시에 우리 주변의 동물들과 영혼들과의 관계를 자연스레 여긴다. 에드워드 왕조 시대의 영국을 배경으로 한 는 환생과 이를 받아들이는 사람들에 대한 이야기다. 자신의 전생에 대한 절대적인 믿음을 가진 한 남자와 전생에 회의적인 태도를 보이는 남자가 만난다. 영화는 그들이 화해하고 서로를 받아들이는 과정을 담아낸다.

유럽전역이 300년동안 전염병에 신음한다. 페스트 5백만명, 천연두 6천만명, 인플루엔자 2억명 사망. 유전학을 실험하면서 어떤 결과를 가져올지를 예상치 못한 연금술사들의 실험에서 비롯되어진 것이다. 그러나 그 와중에 하나의 기적이 생기는데 새로운 존재의 창조가 이루어진다. 그것은 바로 '노스페라투(Nosferatu)' 또는 뱀파이어라고 불리우는 공포의 대상이었다. 뱀파이어를 괴물이 아닌 인간진화의 형태로 받아들인 후, 그들 형제들(Brotherhood) 자체는 종교가 되고 과학이 된다. 성직자단 Brotherhood는 전염병과 독감으로 부터 인류를 구원하게 된다. 그리하여 인류와 형제들은 300년간 조화로운 공존의 길을 걷고 있다. 100년 전. 자연발생이 아니라 우연히 인간의 몸을 통하여 출산된 '사일러스'와 '에드가'는 그들 종족의 미래를 담보한다. 형제들 즉 교단은 인간에게 봉사하는 것을 모토로 하며 종교와 전염병의 예방과 치료에 힘을 쓰며 인간에게 존경을 받는다. 그러나 교단은 '에드가'를 통하여 70년 이상 태어나지 않는 형제들의 후대를 자신들이 탄생시킬 계획을 꾸미다가 에드가는 사람을 습격해서 피를 얻는 살인마로 화하게 된다. 이를 은폐하려는 교단, 평화로운 공존을 위하여 막으려는 사일러스 인간에게 봉사만 하는 외롭고 힘든 길을 원하지 않는 에드가는 자신이 새로운 전염병의 숙주가 되어서 세상을 변하시키려고 한다. 결국 절반의 성공과 실패. 그리고 나타나는 우연. 새로운 질병으로 인해 우연히 나타난 종족의 첫 딸

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...

파이의 엄마는 출산 도중 쌍둥이 오빠와 숨을 거두고, 그 충격으로 아빠 ‘프로랑기’는 고향을 떠나버려 파이는 할아버지 ‘코로’, 할머니 ‘플라워즈’의 손에서 키워진다. 죽어버린 손자와 다른 삶을 사는 아들에게서 지도자가 되어 주길 바랐던 코로의 희망은 무너지고, 손녀 파이가 자라면서 뛰어난 영특함을 보이지만 지도자는 장남이어야 하는 관습때문에 그녀의 능력을 모질게 외면해 버린다. 결국, 코로는 마을의 장남들을 모아다가 훈련을 시킨 후 지도자를 뽑으려 한다. 파이는 훈련에 동참하여 할아버지에게 인정 받고 싶어하지만 코로는 그런 행동 자체가 불경하다고 질책할 뿐이다. 그러나, 파이는 자신에게 온전한 애정을 주지 않는 할아버지를 변함없이 사랑하며 눈물겹게 자신의 진심을 표현하는데...

New Zealand milk farmer Rob gives his lover Lucinda a ring. Trying to spark up her relationship with Rob, she takes her friend Drosophila's advice and starts to try and make Rob angry. But she tends to go too far. Admiring her ring while driving a lonely road, she has a run-in with an older woman that sets off a chain of events that begins with her quilt being stolen

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.

Dean is threatening to firebomb his ex-girlfriend's wedding. Mickey is filling the garage with stolen goods - again, and pierced teenage daughter, Leesa, is an accident waiting to happen on the family's beloved Triumph motorbike. An unconventional tough family, battling to survive with humour and love, in a world of motor bikes, rock 'n' roll, classic cars and alcohol. This is a family that you probably would not want next door, but they are fun to watch, and they have their ways of holding family together.

The story of New Zealander Helen Todd's law suit against an Indonesian general that she pursued after her son, Kamal, was shot dead in the Dili massacre in East Timor.

In a backwoods cabin, a boy called Little Man lives with his dad (a trapper), his older sister Missy, and his younger sister Kid, who is feral, spends most of her time under the table, and can imitate the sound of any animal. Their mother is dead. One day, while dad's in town selling skins, Missy teases Kid and gets bitten. There's Hell to pay when dad gets home, and Kid runs off into the night to spend it with her animal friends. Little Man, who narrates much of the story as well as his reflections in a whisper, must sort out loss and emptiness.

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

In a town called Hope on the edge of Britain's empire, desperations clash: the beautiful Dorothea Brook is desperate to free her pregnant sister Rose from the clutches of Fraser, a fortune hunter. A local politician, William Poyner, is desperate for cash and thinks marriage to Dorothea will save him. Dorothea hires Lawrence Hayes, a rough but handsome Argonaut, to bribe Fraser with jewels and to marry Rose; Hayes desperately loves Dorothea and may marry Rose to stay close to her. But Dorothea has a lover, the ravishing Anne Cooper, who encourages the match with Poyser to give the lovers cover. Are these remedies, each desperate in its turn, going to make anyone happy?

Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A "film within a film" that connects the world of modern film-making to the Paris of painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his model/lover Mireille.

Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A "film within a film" that connects the world of modern film-making to the Paris of painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his model/lover Mireille.

Ruby (Yvonne Lawley), an 83 year old trying to dodge a retirement home, rents a room to Rata, a solo mum with sidelines in music and benefit fraud. Rata's son is into arson and shoplifting, while Ruby's nephew (Simon Barnett) is a hapless yuppie wannabe. Marginalised by the deregulated economy of the '80s and living on their wits, they may just find common cause despite themselves in this Graeme Tetley-penned tale.

The zenith of Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair's legendary Front Lawn collaborations, this iconic Kiwi short follows two men and one woman on a rainy night at a deserted bar. Pivoting on amnesia and woven together by music, two timeframes are seamlessly combined and a darkly humorous plot unfolds. The film had a wide international release (Ireland to Norway, Germany to the USA) and was a finalist in the inaugural American Film Festival.

Chan and his older mate Kim prospect for gold in 1890s Otago. Marooned until they can pay off their debts and return to China; they’ve been fruitlessly working their claim for 12 and 27 years respectively. Chan faces racism, isolation, extreme weather, threatening surveyors, opium dens and a circus romance.

Chan and his older mate Kim prospect for gold in 1890s Otago. Marooned until they can pay off their debts and return to China; they’ve been fruitlessly working their claim for 12 and 27 years respectively. Chan faces racism, isolation, extreme weather, threatening surveyors, opium dens and a circus romance.

This autobiographical story about a love affair between two men was filmed on location in inner-city Auckland. Richard an astronomy-obsessed worrier spends his time fantasising about outerspace and the cosmos, an activity which antagonises friends and family. Then one day he meets Johnny, a handsome Italian man, with an enormous appetite for life, whose idea of a holiday involves breaking into the nearest small holiday home. He offers him love and an escape from the monotony of work. This short New Zealand film is a joyous celebration of the love between two eccentrics. It is also a refreshingly matter-of-fact and comic treatment of a romance between two men who both have their sights aimed firmly amongst the stars. Released on the compiliations: Boys on Film Volume 3 (1994)

A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he for habitual crime. A friendship grows between them such that she offers him a place to stay upon his release. However, difficulties arise with his continued criminal activities and dependence on her for support - then his gang moves in with them. The film is based upon Sue McCauley's award winning autobiographical novel.

A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes of her darkly possessive widowed father. The tensions of small town New Zealand and individual conflicts generated by intolerance and fear, unleashes forces of violence and betrayal.

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.

This is the story of Puhi, an aged Maori woman and Niki, her fully grown but wholly dependent son. The world they occupy is not a world of large events but the rituals of everyday life, traditions and interdependence. “In Spring One Plants Alone” documents the minutiae of their very enclosed existence. Filmed over a period of one and a half years, it emerges as a rare, haunting and powerful portrayal of their life together. This is the story of their rituals and of their survival. The small and disconnected instances that we encounter form a lone vision of the rifts and the bond between an old woman and her disturbed son.

Expat Kiwi Rewi Alley became one of the best known foreigners in 20th Century China and advocate for the Communist Revolution. When China was under siege from Japan in the late 1930s, Alley instigated an industrial co-op movement he termed ‘gung ho' (work together). Its success led to the phrase entering the global idiom. For this documentary a Geoff Steven-led crew travelled 15,000km in China in 1979, filming Alley as he gave his account of an engrossing, complex life story. Co-writer Geoff Chapple later wrote a biography of Alley.

Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann’s powerful documentary Bastion Point: Day 507 depicts the eviction of protestors from Bastion Point during the struggle for Māori land rights.

Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann’s powerful documentary Bastion Point: Day 507 depicts the eviction of protestors from Bastion Point during the struggle for Māori land rights.

Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann’s powerful documentary Bastion Point: Day 507 depicts the eviction of protestors from Bastion Point during the struggle for Māori land rights.

In small town Carlton Bob, the head of the Progressive Association, the local accountant and the boxing coach at the men-only gym, hires a masseuse from Auckland. Sandra is quite happy to give straight massage, but Bob pressures her to give "city massages". The wives are disturbed by her presence - perhaps with some justification. The climax occurs when accountant Phil, wants to leave his wife for Sandra; but when she rejects him, he smashes up the gym. The boys rally round to hush up Phil's indiscretion.