Kieran Charnock

A troubled missionary, led by a rough Pākehā guide, treks through the forest of 1820s Aotearoa. On a journey to deliver a musket to a distant leader, they are surprised by the appearance of a young Māori man who proclaims he’s been sent to guide them. After joining their party, it is not long before the cultural differences of the trio divide them, and the missionary is forced into an awful revelation of his true nature

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.

A la fin du XIXe siècle, Rose Ross, une jeune Écossaise, est obligée de fuir en Amérique avec son père après que ce dernier, au cours d'une dispute, a tué lord Cavendish, un personnage influent. Jay Cavendish, le neveu du lord, un tout jeune homme amoureux de Rose depuis toujours, décide de partir pour la retrouver dans l'Ouest américain. Il découvre alors un monde beaucoup plus dangereux qu'il ne l'avait imaginé. Il est sauvé de la mort par un mystérieux voyageur, Silas Selleck, qui le prend sous son aile. Quand Silas apprend à l'insu de Jay que la tête du père de Rose est mise à prix, il est tenté par l'affaire

Dans un paysage froid et lointain, deux étrangers luttent pour réparer leur passé brisé. Un jeune homme est en libération conditionnelle après avoir purgé sa peine pour avoir tenté d'assassiner l'homme qui a tué sa petite amie dans un délit de fuite. Une femme est libérée d'un établissement psychiatrique éloigné de son pays d'origine. En hiver, ces deux étrangers endommagés se croisent dans les montagnes et se retrouvent dans une relation intime complexe mettant à l'épreuve leur capacité à faire confiance et à guérir...

When a vulnerable young man returns home, he's confronted by a history of violence with his father, and the searing memory of a lost friend; he takes dramatic action.

"I chose to tell this story from the point of view of the Neighbour, not only because I find his perspective interesting when it comes to this issue, but also because the issue of domestic violence is so heavy and everyone has their own connotations towards it, which is why this film, for me, is not about domestic violence, but rather the influence of it. This allows me to explore a whole range of emotions and feelings, and be able to show them with greater depth by taking us away from the direct environment in which this abuse takes place, and put us somewhere close enough to still reach out to it.

A mother tries to end her teenage son’s relationship with an older woman at the risk of losing him altogether.

Liam is nineteen, fresh out of high school, and enjoying a life of parties and pills. He lives with his grandmother. He keeps her at an arm’s length, and so, when she has a sudden stroke, he ignores her call, and doesn’t find out until he reads a text message sent from Wellington Hospital. He rushes to the hospital, in the middle of the night, drunk and hopped up on cheap stimulants. He is greeted by a closed door, and a nurse who tells him he has to wait to see his grandma. Thus, Liam spends a night and a morning in the hospital, contemplating his decisions, while befriending a young boy who is waiting for news of his mother. A social-realist drama, Boxes is a story about regret, relationships, and the widespread existence of small tragedies.

After failing to reform his heavy metal band DEATHGASM for a battle-of-the-bands to win back his girlfriend Medina, Brodie decides to use black magic to raise his ex-band members Zakk and Dion from the dead. However, his resurrected friends become unpredictable and dangerous, leading to chaos in the town.

A poet forewarns their next lover of what lies ahead.

When a sickly-thin man with a thick wrap of bandages over his face arrives home, Alex is terrified and can identify him only as a stranger. His father, Bradley, is ashamed of his injuries; remembering what a 'hero' he used to be to his son. He tries to reconnect with Alex but cannot get close without scaring him. It is only after Alex grows suspicious of the masked Stranger’s somewhat familiar behaviour and eventually catches a glimpse of his eyes through a gap in the bandages that he can recognise his father immediately; the wounds disappear and it becomes clear that there is a bond that runs far deeper than that which lies on the surface.

When a sickly-thin man with a thick wrap of bandages over his face arrives home, Alex is terrified and can identify him only as a stranger. His father, Bradley, is ashamed of his injuries; remembering what a 'hero' he used to be to his son. He tries to reconnect with Alex but cannot get close without scaring him. It is only after Alex grows suspicious of the masked Stranger’s somewhat familiar behaviour and eventually catches a glimpse of his eyes through a gap in the bandages that he can recognise his father immediately; the wounds disappear and it becomes clear that there is a bond that runs far deeper than that which lies on the surface.

Penny’s world implodes when she accuses her husband Phil of a sex crime against her daughter’s teenage friend and nobody believes her.