Show Me Shorts 2024: Generational Threads
We all feel lost sometimes. Family can provide an anchor to help weave us back together. Siblings, parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts. When the characters in these stories find themselves adrift, they lean on their whānau to remind them who they are and that they are loved. Tōtara Music Video, 4 mins, New Zealand Māori […]
Show Me Shorts 2024: Finding Your True North
What is guiding you? The characters in this collection of short films all have a big dream as their north star and guiding light. Find out how they will triumph over the odds to make their dream a reality. And who will help them achieve it. Search for Hawaiki Drama, 19 mins, New Zealand Show […]
Show Me Shorts 2024: Aotearoa Ka Awatea
The characters in this collection of homegrown short films are making sense of the world after a difficult time or crisis. They rise to meet their challenges, be they connection, redemption, justice, closure, understanding or peace. Ka pō, ka ao, ka awatea. From within the darkness comes light and a new day. Lea Tupu’anga (Mother […]
The Wild Robot
From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot. The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually […]
Grafted
To say this film packs a punch would be an understatement. Not for the faint of heart, Grafted deftly handles serious themes with care, humour and complete and utter carnage. Our young protagonist, Wei, has had an extremely rough start in life. The film opens with her father’s horrifically bloody death as he attempts to […]
Megalopolis
MEGALOPOLIS is a Roman Epic set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina, a genius artist who seeks to leap into a utopian, idealistic future, and his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, who remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan […]
The Substance
Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You, only better in every way. You should try this new product, it’s called The Substance. It changed my life. With The Substance, you can generate another you: younger, more beautiful, more perfect. You just have to share time – one week for one, one […]
Lee
Oscar winner Kate Winslet stars in this fascinating portrait of the great American war correspondent Lee Miller, whose singular talent and ferocious tenacity gave us some of the 20th century’s most indelible images. Film Threat – “Lee is beautiful, daring, and elusive, as all great art should be. It’s a fitting tribute to a woman […]
Ice Maiden
Sail. Survive. Succeed. Ice Maiden tracks the astonishing journey of solo-adventurer Lisa Blair as she embarks on her voyage to be the first woman to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around Antarctica on her boat Climate Action Now. Equal parts ambitious and treacherous, this trip has only ever been completed twice, and Lisa’s goal is […]
MFF: Utu Redux
Nau mai, haere mai – welcome to Mātaki Mai, Ōtautahi’s inaugural Māori Film Festival, presented by Kōrero ki Ōtautahi. Ko te reo Māori te take – the purpose of Mātaki Mai is to celebrate the indigenous language of Aotearoa and there’s no better time to do that than during te wiki o te reo Māori. […]
