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Trapped in a speeding van, a Kiwi rock band succumb to travel sickness while deconstructing the heist that robbed them of an entire weekend’s door take.
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O Sr. Watts é o único homem branco deixado na ilha após o bloqueio. Ele abre a escola e apresenta às crianças o romance "Grandes Esperanças" de Charles Dickens. Matilda, a narradora adolescente do filme, encontra conforto na história de Pip, o órfão vitoriano, quando seu próprio mundo está caindo aos pedaços. Os Redskins, um exército enviado para destruir os rebeldes locais estão se aproximando. Matilda escreve "Pip" na areia. Esse simples ato leva a terríveis consequências quando os Redskins suspeitam que Pip seja um líder rebelde e exigem que ele seja trazido diante deles.
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This docudrama follows an imaginary news reporter who travels back in time to cover the days leading up to the Treaty of Waitangi’s 6 February 1840 signing. The production drops the usual solemnity surrounding Aotearoa’s founding document, and uses humour and asides to camera to evoke the chaos and motives behind its signing. Written by Gavin Strawhan, with Witi Ihimaera, What Really Happened screened on TVNZ for Waitangi Day 2011. Peter Burger won Best Director - Drama/Comedy at the 2011 Aotearoa TV Awards for his work. (from nzonscreen.com)
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Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.
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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.
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Um drama sobre uma família maori em Auckland, Nova Zelândia. Lee Tamahori conta a história da forte vontade de Beth Heke de manter sua família unida durante os períodos de desemprego e abuso de seu marido violento e alcoólatra.
