The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand “Thriller” is changing kids’ lives. Boy is a dreamer who loves Michael Jackson. He lives with his brother Rocky,...

Mata, Missy and Makareta. Three cousins. Three lives. Separate, yet bound together forever. Orphaned Mata believes she has no whānau (family) and lives out her lonely childhood...

Fifteen-year-old Rory carries a backpack filled with homemade fireworks, a pocket knife and a Polaroid camera. He’s planned a surprise for Rebecca, but everything is destroyed...

Lily works as a waitress at a fast food restaurant. Everything about her is wrong: her clothes, her walk, the things she says. Nevertheless, she has unwavering optimism and a big...

After a period of separation, Sarah visits her research scientist mother on a remote New Zealand island. Before long Sarah becomes inextricably involved in events involving both...

In an unfamiliar house, among adults paralysed by their loss, a young girl finds a surprising kindred spirit in her dying grandmother, Emma. In the wonderful natural world around...

Tamahine has been brought up according to the cultural traditions of the Maori. To her starting school is like entering a whole new alien world. Her father works for the railway...

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