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.

그들이 오고 있어... 이상행동을 보이던 여성. 온 가족이 퇴마 의식을 행하던 중 사망한다. 영적 세계를 믿는 마오리족의 기이한 가족 사랑인가, 우발적인 고문치사인가

The story of famous New Zealand cricketer, Bob Blair and his fiance Nerissa Love, whose young life was shattered by the 1953 Tangiwai Disaster.

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.

When a storm washes a canoe bearing an infant boy ashore upon a small South Pacific island, he is at first well-received as a gift from the heavens, even to the point of the tribal chief adopting him as a successor. However, with time as hardships are blamed upon Tama (as he is named), he is finally outcast to live with the poorest people on the island, Mahana and her drunken father. Mahana is considered homely and undesirable, but Tama feels differently, so when he is old enough to build a craft to sail away, he vows to return for her one day. A lucky stroke brings him to land upon the island of the legendary Johnny Lingo, the wealthiest trader in the islands, and after years of service to him, Tama has learned much about life and himself as he dreams of honoring his pledge to Mahana.

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...

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.

This film directed by T.J. Scott is a prequel to the popular television series. At an academy for mythological warriors, 17-year-old Hercules (Ian Bohen) meets Jason, the next in line to rule Corinth. When Jason discovers that his father is ill, Hercules decides to seek out the Golden Fleece that could cure him. But limitations to his powers, as well as his half-brother Ares, stand in his way. Filmed against the breathtaking scenery of New Zealand.

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.

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.