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- Bilbo Baggins and company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness.
- Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.
- A young woman is forced to return to her childhood home after being placed under house arrest, where she suspects that something evil may be lurking.
- Another 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.
- A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
- After his tribe is slaughtered through an act of treachery, the teenage son of a slain Maori chieftain looks to avenge his father's murder and bring peace and honor to the souls of his loved ones.
- When a surfer is pronounced dead after an accident, he's faced with a choice: remain in the eternal afterlife or return and share his experience with the world.
- This documentary is an intimate but explosive story about the man behind the greatest fraud in sporting history. Lance Armstrong enriched himself by cheating his fans, his sport and the truth.
- The film is about a young female researcher whose life is in danger when she discovers the pharmaceutical company she works for had developed a cure for cancer many years earlier. They haven't released it because that would destroy their chemotherapy drug sales. She must now escape and release the cure to world while the company tries to stop her.
- A young runner, on a Zombie film set, has the first day from hell when real Zombies overrun the set.
- Eve and Charlie are having a baby, but they're no longer together. After years of history and months of separation Charlie and Eve have 24 hours to find out whether they have a future together.
- As voice actor Ashleigh Ball prepares to visit Bronycon, the unusual fandom of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010) is explored.
- It's 1965 and rock music is shaking up the world but not in New Zealand. Richard Davis a 23 year old journalist is determined to break the Government's monopoly on broadcasting and bring rock n' roll to a younger generation, and at the same time hold onto the woman he loves. Based on a true story.
- A naive dreamer attempts to circumnavigate the world on his motorcycle, surviving only on the money he makes along the way.
- An American drifter discovers a New Zealand singer and develops an obsession for him.
- Minka is a teenage Polynesian boy living in the heart of the city. With his P-addicted mother well on the way to going completely off the rails, three people enter his life - each with a promise - each with the power to destroy.
- 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.
- A shy magician coaxes his once happy wife back to life with his greatest illusion - a little boy. But the loving family they create is threatened when they become hunted as child abductors.
- The climate change debate hits a blistering zenith in this thought-provoking documentary. Not motivated by political bias, money, or emotionalism the film looks to find the facts from the experts who spend their lives studying Earth's climate and not politicians with ulterior motivations. With a never before seen interview from physicist and expert in the field of climatology, Dr. Henrik Svensmark, "The Global Warming War" introduces his Cosmic Ray Theory that may just be the factor unaccounted for by political organizations, that plays a very important role in our planet's climate.
- You're never too old to go on the journey of a lifetime.
- Undercover is a documentary film starring Richard Bert, a Brooklyn man born and bred. Back in the 80's, Richard was working as an Undercover narcotics officer for the New York Police Department. His job was to infiltrate the crack infested underground, and find out where the drugs were coming from. But the problem with living your life behind a mask is that sooner or later, someone is going to see behind it, and discover who you really are. But this isn't just the story about Richard's escape and survival from deep undercover, it's also a story about what happened next, it's a story about one mans' journey to find his true self, his true spirit and his true purpose.
- One night. One house. One Island. Everything changes for a lonely man and three delinquent kids.
- Music, art, earthquakes and beer
- The adventures of a small-time reggae band on the road as they learn more about life and themselves.
- Three families bound by love and broken by betrayal, each reach breaking point until a single event brings them together. Can desperateness and frustration turn to hope and compassion? Three loves, three lies, one more chance.
- An upwardly mobile media executive is drawn into the chase for a neuro-marketing drug designed to influence opinion and perception - Realiti. Under the influence of the drug he must unravel a corporate conspiracy, while risking his career, his family and his hold on reality itself.
- Charles Seymour Luney, 1905 - 2006 who lived to 101 is the definition of a Master Builder?
- When a corporate mining giant moves into a small coastal town looking for gold and talking about trickle down wealth - some folk just aren't convinced.
- An intimate story of a courageous family ultimately strengthened despite a dehumanising hereditary disease that takes no prisoners.
- A small New Zealand town in the grip of winter, is the setting for this poignant story of trust and betrayal, wealth and poverty. 'Lexi' follows the struggle of an illiterate teenager as she cares for a despicable old woman, battles her sister's social problems and is haunted by her own past failures. Lexi meets a young man and strives for acceptance.
- A surreal fairytale of complex parallel worlds. Two strangers find themselves abandoned in the wilderness of an unoccupied land. As they hear a strange music coming from far, they travel through vast lands in search of it's origin. An estranged child escapes from school only to learn of the greater disappointments in life; A school teacher bears the weight of the downfall of his ill-fated drama production; A desolated man is torn between dreams and harsh reality; A self-claimed immortal constantly seeks for a tree to hang himself upon and returns as a ghost; A heart-broken hippy retreats into the void of nihilism. Land of Nobody is a portrait of the difficult rocks we bear up hill as mere human beings.
- Two shady guys in dark suits. A mysterious girl out of nowhere. A gloomy figure in a parking garage. All of them looking for the same thing: A black folder from New York. And all of them seem to think that it is Tim who can lead them to it and help them understand its contents.
- If all machines were annihilated we should become extinct in six weeks.
- A Maori take on David and Goliath, a story of bitter rivalry between the children of gang rivals. Arapeta and Koriata were brought up to be enemies, now they are both key executives in the power industry. Their clash of the titans has far reaching effects. Amiri's Child is the second film in the Amiri & Aroha trilogy.
- 'Malerversted' is an experimental art documentary that captures the process of painting. The film played as part of the official 'Artweek Auckland' program in 2014. It can be said that this is no ordinary documentary as it distances itself from the notion of explaining but rather attempts to provide a space where the audience can participate in the artistic experience. With its slow pace and scarcity of any sound, the film provides the time and environment necessary for a painting to unfold on screen. The Malerversksted(Painting Workshop) was a painting workshop and initiative for individuals based in the Vidaråsen, camphill community in southern Norway. The workshop began in 2009 and was run by artist Hannes Weigert.
- 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.
- Seven kiwi travelers come face to face with their worst nightmares in an old abandoned haunted house attraction site in rural New Zealand.
- A moving story about two people who never give up.
- Ann works as a marketing manager at a business college. Her boss Gary learns the college financials is in the red and all his hard work is going down the tube. Gary confides in Ann that if things don't turn around, everyone at the college will lose their jobs. In a desperate attempt to raise student numbers, Ann comes across evidence that someone is deliberately stealing new recruits from the college. Working with Gary and Polly, the trio try to track down the traitor in their midst. Even if they find the traitor, it's still back to scratch to build the college up again. Ann meets Monty, a sweet Indian boy who comes from a strict Sikh family. After a few dates, Ann and Monty could have something special. When Monty's traditional brother Mr Lalli finds out about them, he "banishes" Monty to Fiji to remove him from Western decadence and plots to arrange a marriage for Monty in India. Once Monty returns to New Zealand from Fiji and discovers his brother's plans, the only way out he can see is cutting off his ties with his brother and asking Ann to marry him. Ann is in love with this boy but marriage? So soon? When she learns from Monty that the only way his brother will allow him to stay is if Monty married a well-established Indian girl, Ann has a plan to win Mr Lalli's favour.
- Two young fresh graduates,one is overweight and the other is physically fit, and their quest for the FIRST job in a city that has suddenly become all about fitness!
- Sacred sites Researcher Gary Cook wanted to find out whether the faery folk beings are physical or whether they live in another dimension. Maori folklore speaks of the 'Turehu' or 'Patupaiarehe: a small faery folk, 3 to 4 foot tall. Often fair haired or occassionally witnessed with red hair and with green or blue eyes and pale skin. He engaged a camera crew and went into the bush to find out. Never in a million years did he expect to be rewarded so generously when the crew captured a supernatural anomaly on camera. Not only that, during the filming, local farmers, Maori Iwi and Kaumatua came forward with information and testimonials that have made the film an extraordinary experience that will change the way people look at the 'unseen'.
- A post-apocalyptic world coincidentally brings four survivors together in a long-abandoned house.
- 'My Russian Side' brings a in depth interview and background story from Alex Gilbert on his November 2013 journey to Russia from his story of him meeting his Birth Parents for the first time.
- Stomp It Out is a documentary film following a group of 15 gumboot dancers from a slum in Soweto, South Africa. The film follows this amazing group as they prepare for a life changing journey to China. For many of the group, who have never before left their settlement, this trip will not only be an incredible experience to learn about another culture, but also an opportunity for them to alter the face of poverty. This is a film about the human spirit, about courage and endurance in the face of challenges and about living life loud. Stomp It Out is the amazing story of a group of Soweto teenagers as they break free from poverty through the power of music and dance.
- A farce comedy set in Gore about 3 guys trying to break their friend out of a police station using a nearby motel room as cover. But with only a weekend in which to complete their task, tensions run high as the break nears. It starts off badly and only gets worse through a string of wrong decisions.
- This is a story of an Appalachian boy whose life was interrupted by trauma and set on an international path and into some of the world most troubled regions. Richlands documents his homecoming 40 years later.
- 12 kiwi musicians embark on a journey to Manila for a cultural exchange with Philippine artists and musicians. Join them on their exhaustive schedule of gigs, and art engagements as they find out what it is like living in Manila, experience social issues and tell their story live - through kiwi folk, country and rock music.
- 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.