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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.

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.

When a father reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter, he is given a rare chance to reshape the future of his family in unexpected ways.

Saili, a little person and taro farmer, has his life turned upside-down when he is denied his father's chiefly status and his family plantation is threatened.

In the wake of the loss of his beloved wife, a rural community rallies around a farmer to help him deal with his grief.

There is no safe place to hide when the desire to dance calls Iuli'a, an overstayer, to choose between her own freedom and the safety of those she is responsible for.

When one soldier dies, another takes his place. Wi Kuki Kaa delivers a poignant performance as a homeless man, confronting his memories of the Vietnam War. Screened at Critics' Week, Cannes Film Festival 2003.

The trance film made by the Italian-German art collective Flatform (Anna Maria Martena and Roberto Taroni) is a sequence of interpenetrating shots that are a reflection on the human era - the Anthropocene. The changes associated with it, cycles of droughts and floods, even reach Funafuti, an island of the Tuvalu archipelago lost in the Pacific.

This documentary follows New Zealand activist Helen Kelly in the last 9 months of her life. She spends this time fighting for justice for the families affected by unsafe working conditions.

Fourteen-year-old George has to find her own way to celebrate her birthday when everyone else forgets it.

This documentary follows New Zealand activist Helen Kelly in the last 9 months of her life. She spends this time fighting for justice for the families affected by unsafe working conditions.

Richard Nunns has been a primary figure in retrieving taonga puoro, the traditional instruments of the Maori, from the silence of the museum. Archivist, researcher, composer and performer, he has worked - first with the late Hirini Melbourne, and here with Horomona Horo - to reinstate lost performance traditions. For Nunns, the sounds of the instruments 'sit somewhere between the sounds of the natural world and the human voice': the performer enters and joins the soundscape of nature. As the two men engage in musical conversation with a number of remarkable South Island locations, director Paul Wolffram and editor Annie Collins orchestrate the artistry of cinematographer Alun Bollinger and sound designer Tim Prebble to render the experience sublimely cinematic. We also meet master carver Brian Flintoff who works on intricate new flutes. Performances are interwoven with tributes - many of them musical - to the value of Nunns' discoveries and dedication. As Nunns contemplates his own failing body, the film's attunement to natural forces - ebbing away and then resurgent - summons the spirits that have found renewal through him.

Convicted twice of being party to a brutal rape and murder, Teina Pora, aged 37 has just begun his 21st year in prison. He continues to maintain he is innocent. His daughter has a son of her own. A defense team is now building a case that there has been a miscarriage of justice, re-examining the evidence and especially the reliability of the 1993 videotaped confession comprising 14 hours of police interviews over 4 days without a lawyer present.

When a teenage boy's grandmother falls suddenly ill, he finds himself contemplating their relationship, and whether he did as much as he could to be close to her.