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- Panorama of twelve New Zealander writers participating in the Les Belles Étrangères Festival.
- Ferris must stop the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with the help of his horde of Zombies.
- Sam works at the phone company and overhears more than he bargains for, becoming embroiled in a mishmash of corruption and blackmail. He works to expose shady maneuvers of a CEO who is out to land a contract building a harbor tunnel.
- A mother-less boy and his older sister are forced to move to a big town when their father's farming enterprise fails, and they are not happy about it. Almost immediately, on their doorstep, they get caught up in a major jewel theft.
- Meditation on questions of identity (national as well as sexual) on the occasion of a journey which takes us from Italy to New Zealand.
- A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park to shoot a project and soon crosses paths with Yogi Bear, his sidekick Boo-Boo and Ranger Smith.
- A brave designer chases the dream - to be crowned haute couture. But she comes from China, the land of knock offs and production lines. Will her Cinderella story end at the Met Ball?
- Yakel 3D explores the fragility of one of the last primitive culture left today, employing the hi-tech cinematic story-telling device 3D. Set in a remote Vanuatu tribal village and shot over a three year period, this is the remarkable story of 108-year-old Chief Kowia near the end of his long, eventful life. Survivor of tribal wars, colonization, epidemics & WW2 he's rejected the modern world in favor of a life free of material goods, - no money, no clothes. Their jungle provides life's necessities. But Chief Kowia worries what will happen to his people when he is no longer there to guide them. Can his culture stay strong? Or will his people be tempted by greater riches and leave behind their tribal lives?
- Two high school nobodies make the decision to crash the last major celebration before the new millennium on New Year's Eve 1999. The night becomes even crazier than they could have ever dreamed when the clock strikes midnight.
- Written off as a bunch of dreamers before they even started, six friends from Raglan, New Zealand were determined to do something good for their town, no matter what it took. The community was so inspired when they volunteered to collect Raglan's recycling for two years with no pay, that they threw their full support behind them - and watched, as they turned an under-funded and ill-equipped organization into a world leader. What no one expected was that they could do a better job than the big corporate waste companies while also achieving social, environmental and economic goals for the community. Inspired by the story he was filming, unknown filmmaker Aaron Mooar followed the same trajectory as Xtreme Waste, starting off with only a burning desire to get the job done. Like them he had minimal experience, inadequate equipment and only a small appreciation for the enormity of the task. Despite this he went on to create a film that is already inspiring other communities into action.
- A supernatural horror film that explores the dark worlds of mental illness, incest, revenge and death. We follow Tanya as she searches for the mother she has never met - Susan who gave her up for dead after being abused by her own father. Tanya returns from the dead to confront and possess Susan with all her deepest fears and desires, sending Susan into a state of madness and gore filled retribution.
- The Nuclear thriller that predicted the Ukraine war three years before it happened. The most chillingly real nuclear war film of the last ten years.
- * the film Working Holiday Visa is a feature film that shows the adventures of a traveler in New Zealand on a 'Working Holiday Visa'. It is largely inspired by real events. - the concept of the film The film is a combination of fiction and documentary. One single story, two ways of telling it, which come together in a continuous and consistent flow.
- Steffen is traveling in New Zealand with a working holiday visa for a year. But an unexpected event makes him abandon his camper van and run away naked. His road trip becomes an initiation journey. He meets people from around the world that makes him discover an other side of traveling, when you have nothing. Also, he discovers another reality of working abroad. Finally, he learns that the beauty of the travel is to go further than the intended destination. Original concept, this film is between narrative feature and documentary. Both mix and form one story.
- An innocent rubbish tip assistant, Gert, is given the task of escorting a beautiful mute "princess", Plum, on a perilous journey to meet her prospective husband. Their journey is fraught with danger, challenges, romance and discovery. In surreal action, they encounter a menagerie of characters and animals in far-flung corners of New Zealand.
- Based upon unpublished diaries, the film assumes the role of an anthropologist observing remote shepherd communities in Afghanistan where wolves and sheep have equal importance.
- Invested by Queen Elizabeth II for his community service, recognised as a Living Work Of Art by Gallery Directors and titled Wizard Of New Zealand by Government decree, The Wizard has promoted a philosophy of Logic Love and Levity in his adopted homeland since 1974. During this period he has created an army, a political party, a harem of slave girls, produced rain in drought situations, painted telephone boxes, put spells on corporations, vanished from census takers, created his own universe but most of all, entertained thousands of locals and visitors in Christchurch's Cathedral Square for over 35 years with a philosophy based upon Fun.
- After their friend dies, three men decide to fulfill their childhood dream by going on a camping expedition for the lost D. B. Cooper bounty, with calamitous results.
- The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career, while journalist Bob Woodward researches Belushi's life as he prepares to write a book about the late comic actor.
- This is a factual documentary featuring the American Sommelier Colin West at the age of 25 as he goes through New Zealand's top wine producing regions with the local kiwi girl Jo Holley and the two of them catch up with local winemakers in each region they visit. In this documentary these two don't only learn about the diversity of NZ wine and different aspects of viticulture and oenology yet they use wine as his medium to take them to the most popular travel destinations New Zealand has to offer and they even pull every winemaker out of their comfort zone to experience their region from a new extreme and adventurous angle.
- In the early 1900s in a remote rural settlement in New Zealand?s South Island, Richard William Pearse a reluctant farmer, was determined to build an aircraft in his farm shed that would fly.His dream was to fly in a heavier than air, aircraft built by his with his own designed engine and airframe. On March 31st 1903 at Wiatohi in South Canterbury, many witnesses say they saw that first flight by Pearse, but to this day no physical proof exists that he flew or even got his aircraft off the ground. Speculation is that the Pearse story is complete fiction and now the product of modern day urban myth. It?s now Ivan Mudrovcich's s dream 109 years later to build a Pearse Aircraft to silence the critics, with his attempt to build and fly a Pearse reproduction aircraft. We follow Ivan's journey over time to see... WILL IT FLY ?
- The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.
- Mitch has an ambition of catching and selling wild horses. Unfortunately, some other men get jobs hunting deer in the same area. Because Mitch and his horses are frightening off the deer, the hunters begin to ruthlessly wipe out the horses.
- Everyone has problems here, but nothing is monumental. This is an "easy" picture with many great scenic aerials, but not a heavy-duty drama. Many wonderful central Otago and Queenstown settings including a Tiger Moth biplane.
- Wilbur McDougall, a former pro-wrestler, agrees to let his best friend Jan Oliver Lucks make a documentary about his gastric sleeve surgery and subsequent transformation. But as Wilbur battles to become half the man he once was, he is forced to face an inconceivable foe when Ollie's altruistic intentions turn exploitative.
- A woman wakes up in the morning to an excessive number of phone messages from her ex-boyfriend.
- The film White Spot lets you experience the unbelievable adventures of the Brazilian-German couple, Ariane and Tin, moving along crazy difficulties. Picking the viewer from the beginning to get introduced to the background story by evolving a continuous raising tension. Ariane's visa gets declined, and even with a 90-day permit to stay, she gets refused to enter New Zealand. Tin is at that time already in Christchurch with a bought camper. They figure the only possible solution is to change the entire plan to South America. After a two-year long-distance relationship, the couple is facing again incredibly difficult situations. Several local confrontations and a broken car strengthens their bond and accelerates the year in the wild into an immersive experience. Passing the small ridge between a nature-travel documentary and a story which lets your blood run cold, White Spot makes you wanna break out of the system and travel the world.
- A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which will destroy another.
- On the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, lie the ghosts of Waiuta, one of New Zealand's richest gold towns. WHISPERS OF GOLD tells Waiuta's story from its beginnings to current day. Archive film and photographs give a rare glimpse of 1900's mining town life - the colorful characters, stories, and the gold that kept its heart beating but left a toxic legacy. Waiuta has now come full circle as a passionate group restore it as an official New Zealand Landmark, while others are looking to once again mine the untold riches below.
- A biopic of the trailblazing Maori leader, Dame Whina Cooper, whose extraordinary life saw her break gender boundaries, champion the rights of Maori, and fight for the land - all the while staying true to her heart and her beliefs.
- The ultimate grown-up love story
- The people's story of the Canterbury earthquakes. What happens to half a million New Zealanders the year their lives changed forever?
- A man enters a roadside diner run by a young woman and claims he is being chased by murderers.