Julian Arahanga

When an OCD still-life painter and his violinist roommate receive an eviction letter from their landlord, they are forced to find a third roommate.

Laundry is a character-driven joyful comedy about a happily married but frustrated woman, struggling to find intimacy due to the demands of raising a family.

It's been 20 years snce Once Were Warriors was made. Julian Arahanga aka 'Nig' takes us on a journey to meet the cast and see where they are now.

Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht. The Greek (John Rhys-Davies) has been cheating death for countless years. Trading broken bodies for new ones over centuries. With him he carries a deadly weapon that allows him to do this. This weapon, the Shifting Blade, gives its possessor an awesome power. But now is the time of reckoning. The Ferryman, the ancient conveyor of death and the path to the afterlife is close and he wants the Greek. There is a payment to be made.

A young solo mother loves her son and his needs are formost, but she still has room in her heart for her very broken brother, even as her fundamentalist mother rejects her. But when the brother is responsible for a woman's broken neck, during his burglary of her house, families are changed as crisis amplifies and at times the young mother seems to be the only adult.

A couple buys a blow up doll as a joke, but soon the doll begins to reveal that it has a consciousness to one of the boyfriends, the man begins to have full on conversations with said blow up doll, leading the other boyfriend to think he has gone insane.

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.

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.

인간의 기억마저 AI에 의해 입력되고 삭제되는 세상, 진짜보다 더 진짜 같은 가상 현실 매트릭스. 그 속에서 진정한 현실을 인식할 수 없게 재배되는 인간들. 그 매트릭스를 빠져 나오면서 AI에게 가장 위험한 인물이 된 모피어스는 몇 안 되는 동료들과 함께 기계와의 전쟁 전후의의 폐허를 떠돌며 인류를 구할 마지막 영웅을 찾아 헤맨다. 마침내 모피어스는 낮에는 평범한 회사원 앤더슨으로, 밤에는 해커로 활동하는 청년 네오를 그로 지목한다. 모피어스의 지시대로 그를 만나게 된 네오는 두개의 알약 중 하나를 고르는 선택을 하게 되는데...

Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees living in Auckland during the Yugoslav wars. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at the restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a price, she agrees to marry another restaurant employee, a Chinese man, so that he can establish permanent residency. The money gives her the independence she needs to leave her parents' house and move in with Eddie. Complications arise when Eddie realizes the depth of her father's fury and the strength of Nina's family ties.

결혼한 지 18년이 된 베스(Beth Heke: 레나 오웬 분)와 제이크(Jake Heke: 테무에라 모리슨 분)에게 사랑이란 운명처럼 저항할 수 없는 것이었다. 호전적인 성격과 탄탄한 근육에서 쏟아져 나오는 정열을 가진 제이크는 아내 베스에게 세상 그 무엇보다도 소중하고 사랑스런 남편이었다. 세월이 흘러 뜨거운 사랑으로 맺어진 이들은 이제 어엿한 다섯 아이의 부모가 되어 있다. 그러나 베스에게 삶이란 생존의 의미로 다가서고 현실은 그녀의 영혼을 날카롭게 할퀴며 파고 든다. 백인 우위의 사회에서 하층계급으로 전락하여 빈곤에 허덕이는 마오리족의 운명을 타고난 베스에게 '희망'이란 사치스런 단어에 불과하다. 제이크의 실직과 도박, 음주 그리고 야수적인 폭력이 베스의 영혼을 좀먹기 시작한다. 그럼에도 불구하고 그녀는 가정이라는 테두리를 지키기 위해 자신에게 던져진 현실을 외면하려 애쓴다. 그러나 그러한 노력은 오히려 그녀를 파멸의 길로 이끌 뿐이다. 현실의 암울함에 미래를 포기한 큰 아들 닉(Nig Heke: 줄리안 아라한가 분)은 갱단에 가입하고, 둘째 아들 부기(Boogie Heke: 타운가로아 에밀 분)는 소년원으로 보내진다.

Tawhai Bennett, a young Maori boy, goes to work for Mrs Jones, a Pakeha; woman, helping her deliver groceries and mail. However, things take an unexpected turn when he fears that a local Maori elder has placed a curse (makutu) on her.