Noel
A retired couple spend their time digging into the earth beneath their house in search of treasures, until a tremor shakes things up.
Uncle
Durante a Grande Depressão, Kate (Greer Robson) é uma garota de 13 anos que vive na Ilha Sul da Nova Zelândia. Quando sua mãe morre e seu pai é oferecido um emprego em Wellington em North Island, Kate é enviada para viver com uma tia. A garota foge para encontrar seu pai, pulando em um vagão e fazendo amizade com um colega fugitivo, Patrick (Peter Phelps), um veterano da Segunda Guerra Mundial emocionalmente marcado fugindo das autoridades depois de ferir um homem de repo. Fingindo ser pai e filha, Patrick e Kate usam um ao outro como cobertura enquanto atravessam a Nova Zelândia, dormindo sob as estrelas e defendendo os direitos de fazendeiros carentes e sem-teto cujas fortunas foram dizimadas por dificuldades econômicas.
Alberic Scholar
The Haunting of Barney Palmer is a fantasy film for children about a young boy who is haunted by his great uncle. Young Barney fears that he has inherited the Scholar family curse; a suite of 80s-era effects ramp up the supernatural suspense. The film was a co-production between PBS (United States) and Wellington's Gibson Group, which resulted in Ned Beatty (Deliverance, Network) being cast. It was written by Margaret Mahy, based on her Carnegie Award-winning novel The Haunting, and an early fruitful collaboration between her and director Yvonne Mackay.
Quarantine Doctor
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.
Typhon
A scientist in New Zealand has a secret lab where experiments are performed on humans. When he is assassinated, opposing forces rush to his hideaway to suppress or expose his secrets.
