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Never Look Away (2024): Dir. Lucy Lawless; Lucy Lawless directs this intimate portrait of a trailblazing female photojournalist and CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth, who fearlessly captures footage of war zones. After receiving catastrophic injuries in the crosshairs of battle, she returns to work with more courage than ever. Features interviews with…
Ka Whawhai Tonu (2024): Dir. Mike Jonathan
Feat. Paku Fernandez, Hinerangi Harawira-Nicholas, Temuera Morrison…; A deeply felt and impressively rendered action-drama centred on two rangitahi caught in a crucial conflict between Maori and colonial soldiers in 1864. Beautifully scripted in Te Reo Maori, and brought to life by a universally excellent cast and sensuous cinematography that doesn’t simply focus on the…
Mountain, The (2024): Dir. Rachel House
Feat. Elizabeth Atkinson, Reuben Francis, Terence Daniel…; A young girl, raised outside of her Maori culture, is determined to fulfil her mission of connecting with her mountain in the hope they can heal her from the cancer she battles. Along the way she meets some misfits and new kids in town, they learn the true spirit of adventure and the magic of friendship.…
We Were Dangerous (2024): Dir. Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu
Feat. Erana James, Nathalie Morris, Manaia Hall…; A striking Kiwi fable about three teenage girls who plot to escape an oppressive school for delinquents on an isolated island in the 1950s, it's the debut of director Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, whose keen eye for composition is matched by a special affinity with the three wonderful young actors (Erana James,…
Convert, The (2024): Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Guy Pearce, Jacqueline McKenzie, Te Kohe Tuhaka…; A British lay preacher finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes in this vivid colonialist epic from dir. Lee Tamahori.
Brokenwood Mysteries, The (TV Series) (2014-2024): Feat. Neill Rea, Fern Sutherland; A local stab at the ever popular murder mystery genre with this Kiwiana policier featuring two mismatched detectives investigating a series of homicides in small town New Zealand. More MIDSOMER than BROACHCHURCH, though not without its own dark humour and unsettling rural charm.
Uproar (2023): Dir. Paul Middleditch, Hamish Bennett
Feat. Julian Dennison, Rhys Darby, Minnie Driver…; Set in Dunedin in 1981, a rugby-obsessed country is divided over the arrival of the South African Springboks team, sparking nationwide protests. Under pressure from home and school to conform, Josh, who has never felt like he fits in anywhere, is inspired by the protests and by a newfound passion for…