Beth et Jake Heke vivent avec leurs cinq enfants dans la banlieue māori pauvre d'Auckland, en Nouvelle-Zélande. Jake vient de perdre son travail. Alcoolique et brutal, il frappe souvent Beth, femme énergique et fière mais toujours amoureuse. Un soir, particulièrement ivre, il bat son épouse si violemment que Beth, le visage terriblement contusionné, ne peut accompagner son fils Boogie, un jeune délinquant, au tribunal. Le jeune garçon se retrouve placé dans un foyer. L'unité familiale vole en éclat. Nig, l'aîné, s'agrège à un gang de jeunes révulsés par la décadence de leurs ainés et qui tentent de retrouver l'âme de guerriers de leurs ancêtres à travers la violence, éprouvant le courage des postulants.

An ex-Boer war guerrilla in New Zealand is sent out to bring back a Maori accused of killing a British soldier. Gradually they grow to know and respect one another but a posse, led by the British Commanding officer is close behind and his sole intention is to see the Maori hang. Written by Filmfinders 1903. A guerilla fighter from the South African Boer war called Arjan (Winstone) takes on a manhunt for Maori seaman Kereama (Morrison), who is accused of murdering a British soldier. What follows is a cat and mouse pursuit through the varied landscape of NZ with both hunter and huntee testing their bushcraft and wits against that of the other. Written by Anonymous

Les grandes amies Jen et Mel sont prêtes à tout pour anéantir des histoires d'amour en échange du jackpot, mais leur amitié est en jeu quand l'une d'elles a des remords.

Un film basé sur l'histoire vraie de Genesis Potini , ancien champion maori d'échecs de vitesse , qui vit avec un trouble bipolaire et qui doit surmonter les préjugés et la violence dans la bataille pour sauver son club d'échecs en difficulté, sa famille et, finalement, lui-même. Genesis Potini a cherché à transmettre ses connaissances à la communauté malgré sa maladie.

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...

Tu, un garçon ambitieux venant d’un quartier défavorisé d’Auckland, rêve de devenir un danseur professionnel de hip hop. Quand son père, un sergent de l’armée néo-zélandaise, lui lance l’ultimatum qu’il doit trouver d’ici la fin de l’été quoi faire de sa vie – Tu décide de faire de la danse, sa porte de sortie. Après une audition réussie passée avec le K-Crew, un prestigieux groupe de danse à la renommée internationale, Tu est confronté à un dilemme : écouter son père et trouver du travail, ou poursuivre son rêve ! Les choses se compliquent d’autant plus lorsqu’il tombe amoureux de Sasha, la petite-amie de Kane , le leader de K-crew. Le jour où notre héros apprend que l’audition n’était qu’une arnaque pour voler les meilleurs mouvements de tous les danseurs d’Auckland et créer des tensions au sein des autres équipes, il est dévasté. Tu décide alors d’unifier son ancien groupe et ses nouveaux amis pour participer au grand concours national et affronter le K-crew...

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.

Beth a quitté Jake en emportant ses enfants, cinq ans après avoir supporté les pires souffrances physiques et morales. Alcoolique, elle ne contrôle toujours pas sa violence. Une seule façon de l'extérioriser : provoquer constamment des bagarres dans les pubs. Un jour, sa vie bascule avec la mort de son fils...

Rachel et Theo Matheson sont jumeaux. Alors qu'ils passent des vacances en Nouvelle-Zélande, Mr Jones, un homme étrange leur révèle un secret : c'est un extraterrestre envoyé sur Terre afin de lutter contre d'autres aliens qui veulent détruire la Terre et dirigés par Mr Wilberforce. Rachel et Theo vont devoir se battre aux côtés de Mr Jones...

Meet best friends Michael, Albert, Stanley and Sefa; the ladies' man, the good boy, the weird one and the party boy. They're staring down the barrel of their thirtieth birthdays, but still act as if they're sixteen; they get drunk, they chase the wrong women and they have a remarkable record of misbehaving and causing chaos at every wedding they attend. But now Michael's younger brother Sione is getting married, and everything is about to change. Sione is their boy, the kid they used to look after, who grew up while they were still partying. And to ensure his big day isn't spoiled by his boys and their idiot antics, Sione has issued an ultimatum; the guys all have to bring dates to the wedding. And not just any dates; real girlfriends, someone they've made a commitment to. They have one month. So just how hard can it be to get a date for your best boy's wedding?

‘The Legend of Baron To’a’ tells the story of Fritz, a Tongan entrepreneur who returns to his old neighbourhood and inadvertently causes the theft of his late father’s valued pro wrestling title belt by some ruthless gangsters led by ‘man-mountain’ Tahu. When negotiation and diplomacy fail to get it back, he is forced to embrace his father’s legacy to reclaim the title.

First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.

Turei, a talented young musician, dreams of his band winning the audition to be the support act for Bob Marley’s 1979 concert in Auckland. Part of a Māori family of contract potato pickers in Pukekohe, Turei’s desperate ambition clashes with his whanau’s traditional values, leading to an emotional showdown and powerful change.

In the turbulence of Auckland, Ska (Hunter) is a streetwise 19 year old, whose father is a drunkard and whose older sister works at a high-class massage parlour. When he decide to “rescue” her, he is thrown out. With some friends, he take revenge by trashing the place, but the reply results in Ska's best friend being killed. The massage parlour boss is also a crooked concert promoter, so Ska, and his gang, “hijack” a concert which incites the audience to riot.

Timothy and his family is expecting a French-Canadian male exchange student, that turns out to be an attractive girl, to which Timothy proceeds to make a fool of himself, trying to impress. When Michelle becomes ill from drinking spiked punch at a party, Timothy notices a tattoo while helping her to bed. He foolishly tells a friend about the tattoo, who proceeds to tell the whole school, which does not go down well with Michelle.

Sam works on the tolls and likes to listen. He overhears more than he bargains for and becomes embroiled in a mishmash of corruption and blackmail. Anna is a hooker who specializes in throwing tomatoes at ageing weirdos. Sam and Anna's paths cross as he works to expose shady maneuvrings by the CEO of Infacorp, who is out to land a contract to build a tunnel under Auckland harbour.

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radio station aboard a ship in the Hauraki Gulf.

A 23-year-old revisits the family car he grew up with to experience the thrill of childhood again...

When Kirk, a top roller-blader, discovers that he has bone cancer in his leg, his pleasant affluent life is shattered. Even though amputation provides the best chance for survival; to him, losing skating means the end of life. His friends cannot cope with his condition, but his hospital isolation is relieved by Marty - a street kid survivor who was found dying of leukemia. Marty bullies, taunts, and challenges Kirk, until he begins to climb out of his depression. Marty seems afraid of nothing and, knowing she will die, wants to experience everything.

On Christmas Eve, a nameless little girl reads 'The Monster's Christmas' storybook to her teddy bear, as something sneaks around in the trees outside her window. She hears a noise in the other room, and thinking that it's Father Christmas, she goes to investigate. She finds one of the monsters, who has come seeking help to defeat an evil witch that has stolen all the monsters' voices.