143 movies

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June 11, 2024

In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to close ranks, and even her partner who is a nurse at the hospital turns her back on her.

July 12, 2024

A lay preacher arrives at a British settlement in 1830s New Zealand. His violent past is soon drawn into question, and his faith put to the test, as he finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes.

A young speech therapist disconnected from her Tongan heritage lies about her Tongan language skills to get a job. Out of her depth, she must find a way to communicate or risk her patient’s life.

January 21, 2023

Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.

March 15, 2024

A 17 year-old student is forced to get off the fence he has actively sat on all his life to stand up for himself, his whanau (family) and his future in this heartwarming story of identity.

August 10, 2023

Two loners from different worlds find fleeting intimacy in this enchanting and stylish short film. A solitary teenage girl discovers an injured man on her neighbour's property, but this hirsute being seems to have fallen from another time or even another planet. Earthlings is a surreal, whimsical and surprisingly sweet portrait of two outsiders longing for connection.

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July 29, 2023

When a recent widow moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary circumstance: quarantine.

March 10, 2023

Jim is preparing for his first professional fight but begins to rethink his life's trajectory and his sexuality after tangling with Whetu, a gay Maori boy who spends his days in an old shack down by the beach.

August 6, 2022

Fifty-six-year-old Perianayaki contends with the difficulties of fitting into her new home, especially at the local supermarket where she works. Eye-opening and brimming with compassion, the latest film from director Bala Murali Shingade is a slice-of-life character study that provokes questions about multiculturalism and our assumptions about the people we encounter in daily life.

August 5, 2022

In a family of sheep rustlers, a 15-year-old must go up against his domineering father to help his younger brother keep the lamb left orphaned by their latest slaughter. Rustling touchingly presents an alternative masculinity instilled not with machismo, but with empathy.

When estranged son, Tai, is called home to Aotearoa to his father Putty's deathbed, he is forced to confront a painful past after years of avoiding it. Once inseparable, Tai and Putty would spend hours together fishing and joking around. However, after a family secret is revealed, their relationship falls apart.

April 10, 2022

On the eve of Chinese New Year, Steven, a closeted Chinese international student living in New Zealand oppressed by the expectations of his parents, plans to lose his virginity to a stranger that he meets online.

November 17, 2021

En dominant men karismatisk ranchägare för ett mentalt krig mot sin brors nya fru och hennes tonårige son – tills undangömda hemligheter kommer fram i ljuset.

October 7, 2021

On 5th September 1981, a group of women came together to change the world. These women marched from Wales to Berkshire to protest over nuclear weapons being kept at RAF Greenham Common. The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp that followed, challenged world leaders, altering the course of history and went on to inspire millions as the world’s first and biggest female-only demonstration, preceded only by the suffragettes.

February 24, 2023

När Sam, en självdestruktiv tonåring, återvänder hem från internatskolan upptäcker han att hans gin-indränkta farmor har flyttat in. Båda är viljestarka och de blir osams allt som oftast. Men deras strider och galna äventyr gör att han kan omfamna livet igen, och hon kan möta sin egen dödlighet.

Bunny King is a mother of two, a rough cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to reunite with her children, a confrontation leads her to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against her and Tonyah, Bunny’s battle has just begun.

July 22, 2021

Separated as children, three cousins with an unshakable bond confront their painful pasts and embark on an emotional journey to find each other.

January 30, 2021

The story of Ollie and Zoe, a newly engaged couple who agree to try out an open relationship.

January 1, 2021

Under andra världskriget fraktar en kvinnlig pilot topphemliga dokument under en flygning, men stöter på en ond närvaro ombord.

June 7, 2021

Seven young adults learn to stand up to their parents through a confrontational new workshop.

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