Torn between ambition and parenthood, a career-driven mother enlists an Artificially Maternal Android Helper to raise her son in accordance with traditional Malaysian-Chinese values. When the nanny judges the woman to be an unfit mother, she must fight for her family and her sanity. Amah is a story about a career-driven Malaysian Chinese mother who employs the help of an AI nanny to raise her son with traditional Chinese values. [September 2022] A cautionary thriller. Torn between ambition and parenthood, a career driven mother enlists an Artificially Intelligent nanny to raise her son in accordance with traditional Chinese values. Made with the support of NZ On Air and TVNZ. Classification: M-VL

GIVE ME BABIES follows the wild ride of a young MMA fighter battling in an illicit underground match for cash to flee New Zealand, all to dodge her mother's relentless baby demands. Give Me Babies follows an Indian-Chinese MMA fighter as she tries to escape mounting pressure from her family to start a family. [Irirangi Te Motu / New Zealand On Air, September 2022] Classification: M-V

A Māori boy from the Coast seeks answers to his Mum's disappearance after their move to Auckland ends in a mysterious tragedy. With the coming of Matariki and Hine-nui-te-Pō, all will be revealed.

In the day leading up to an epic Vogue Ball, the newly crowned Mother of a Vogue House must rely on the wisdom of her birth mother in order to get her wayward adopted children ready for their runway debut. Mother Hood follows fa’afafine Māori and Pasifika characters as they prepare for and present at a Vogue Ball, an event where teams of people from the LGBTQIA+ community compete in fashion and performance categories in front of a live audience. [Te Māngai Pāho / Māori Broadcasting Funding Agency, Monday 21 November 2022] Classification: M-L

Two tourists meet in an idyllic location. They hit it off, but quickly realise their relationship, like the rest of the world, doesn't have a future.

Ata makes an entrance at Tilly and Sam's engagement Party. Mariana continues to reach out to Rua, trying to explain the past. Kuini and Kid do their best to protect Rua.

Everyone is shocked to find out about Mariana's Past. Meanwhile the feud between Alofa and Booms is growing. Haki asks an unlikely person for help.

Haki is struggling to be intimate with Alofa. Kid and Rua continue to explore Rua's past. Ata is surprised to meet one of Tilly's old friends.

In 1950s London, an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful after receiving a terminal diagnosis. (Based on Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film "Ikiru".)

Ten leading Indigenous filmmakers interweave eight powerful tales to tell a sweeping story of hope and survival in the face of oppression and colonization, traversing 1000 years from the past to the present and future. Explore stories of kinship, loss, grief, and resilience. Showing strength to overcome shared traumas that Indigenous people from Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific have continued to face. Consists of segments: "Blankets" by Chantelle Burgoyne & Tiraroa Reweti; "Grog Shop" by Beck Cole & Samuel Nuggin-Paynter; "Woke" by Dena Curtis; "Te Puuru" by Richard Curtis & Tim Worrall; "The Uniform" by Miki Magasiva & Mario Gaoa; "Lured" by Danielle MacLean; "The Bull and the Ruru" by Renae Maihi; and "Rebel Art" by Tracey Rigney.

With an unplanned pregnancy and a strained relationship with her mother, life is not the Kpop fantasy Yaejin dreams of. Sixteen-year-old Yaejin Kim (Sua Cho) lives in a gauzy, hormonal daydream, dilly-dallying on the streets and in the sheets, with her boyfriend Wes (Dan Lee). Enamoured by her first romance, she keeps her relationship a secret from her Christian mum, Hae Rin (Ha Jin Park), a Korean nail technician, as their one year anniversary celebration nears.

The pressure is on when strange things start happening to Cassie, Abigail and Joy's abilities.

Kāinga navigates the thorny terrain of home in Aotearoa New Zealand from the perspectives of 8 Pan-Asian women. Writers and directors from Māori-Chinese Aotearoa, China, Philippines, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar and Tamil Eelam, explore the historical connection to tangata whenua, feelings of isolation, community support in lieu of family, home precarity, excitement about making home, longing to be “back home”, being othered at home, and finally claiming home. Each 10-minute story, set in the same house across several decades, honours these experiences one brick at a time.

Hemi is embracing his new role in Te Pā as he tries to talk to Uru and Booms about drugs. Geo and Ariki get help to look for Haki. Alofa's letter is finally discovered but where is Haki?

Anat has never been able to reach her father's exacting musical standards, and now her family's hope of producing a musical prodigy rests on her unborn son. When the baby is born deaf, she cannot accept it and resorts to extreme measures to ensure that her child will be the composer that her father always wanted. But when the boy grows up indifferent to his destiny as a great pianist, Anat will have to stand up to her father, and confront her past.

As the Merriwicks delve into the images on Joy's vision board, Cassie accompanies Sam on a trip to his childhood home to care for his sister.

Cassie and Sam disagree about his return to work after his injury. Flower Universe tries to undercut Abigail's business, but she won't go down without a fight.

Cassie pursues a temporary Art History professorship while Sam diagnoses Adam. Abigail and Donovan realise that the missing diamond from the Middleton treasure may help break the curse.

Martin Bengtsson is considered Sweden's most promising football talent since Zlatan Ibrahimovic. At sixteen, his lifelong dream comes true: he is bought by the prestigious Italian club Inter Milan. It's the chance of a lifetime - but - comes with high expectations and pressure, and Martin soon begins to question whether it's actually the life he yearned for..

New Zealand's first Tongan swimming champion battles self-doubt and setbacks as she fights for a medal at the Commonwealth Games. A traumatic childhood accident left Tupou Neiufi with a permanent disability. But in the water, she feels invincible. Already a world champion Paralympian, Tupou has the Commonwealth Games podium firmly in her sights when self-doubt and some unexpected hurdles make her contemplate quitting the sport for good.

An out of wedlock pregnancy forces eighteen-year-old Mary to take things into her own hands at great personal risk, altering the course of more than one life.

When a mysterious young man arrives on a remote Sub-Antarctic research station, secrets threaten the relationship of a married couple working on the island. Stars Sophie Henderson. (2017). Told from three perspectives, the arrival of a mysterious young man on a remote sub-Antarctic research station threatens the relationship of a couple who are working on the island. Starring Mark Mitchinson and Sophie Henderson. When a mysterious young man arrives on a remote Subantarctic research station, secrets threaten the relationship of a married couple trying to return the island’s ecosystem to its natural state. Told from three perspectives, Human Traces is an atmospheric psychological thriller set on a Subantarctic Island. Filmed on location in the Catlins, it is the debut feature from writer/director Nic Gorman and producer Nadia Maxwell. Classification: 16-VLS

Collection of stories: When a loveable man-child is brutally dumped, he decides it’s time to take charge of his own life, but he must first overcome the biggest obstacle standing in his way: his Māmā. And that's a wrap! Keep an eye out for Rule of Mum, coming soon to your screens on TVNZ. Featuring some stalwarts of Aotearoa film and television, as well as some talented new comers, Rule of Mum was written and directed by Scotty Cotter. It's a romantic comedy that follows the story of mummy's boy Tāne on his quest for independence, as he attempts to set some boundaries with his well-meaning, but overbearing mother Nuku. [Hi Mama! Productions]

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Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young couple lives in a remote village in northern Senegal. For them, nothing else exists except each other. But for the rest of their tight-knit village, duty dictates that Adama soon accepts the role of chief. The two lovers have other plans-- until something in the air changes. The rains do not come; the cattle begin to die; the men leave.

Maxie, Summer and James share a deep bond and love for music. When James receives a devastating diagnosis, the friends throw themselves into a whirlwind of festivals in an attempt to escape reality. Over the course of the six music festivals, friends Maxie and Summer will learn to accept the impending loss of their friend James from brain cancer through Marley, an up-and-coming musician whose own rise to the main stage will provide a positive anchor for them to move forward with their lives.

A young African-American man grapples with identity and sexuality while growing up in a rough Miami neighborhood.

Set against the backdrop of a beautiful London garden, the story is a contemporary fairy tale. Facing eviction in a month if she can't resurrect the dying garden in her backyard, reclusive librarian Bella Brown meets her grumpy next-door neighbor, who happens to be a talented horticulturalist. As the two form an unlikely friendship, Bella begins to wonder if she can revive both the garden, and her dreams of becoming a children's book author.

In the summer of 1979, two East German families attempt the impossible. In a makeshift hot-air balloon, they risk their lives and fly towards West Germany with hopes of freedom and a better life. Unfortunately, the balloon crash-lands just before they reach the West German border and the Stasi soon discover evidence of the attempted escape. In a nerve-wracking race against the clock, the two families must now rush to build a new escape balloon before the notorious Stasi can catch them.

Faced with a full-blown mid-life crisis, accountant Eric joins an all-male group of synchronised swimmers, discovering that making patterns in a pool can, for a couple of hours at least, smooth out the bumps in his work and marriage. Initially keeping their personal lives in the locker, the ramshackle squad and coach Susan slowly learn to reveal their inner lives, as well as their paunches. But can they get their lives and routines in sync as they embark on an unlikely journey to Milan to compete in the World Championship?

A teenager’s efforts to reconnect with her estranged father forces them to confront a secret in their past.​

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Three sisters, Sachi, Yoshino and Chika, live together in the city of Kamakura, Japan. When their father, absent from the family home for the last fifteen years, dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral and meet their shy, teenage half sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings. (Based on the original graphic novel "Umimachi Diary: by Akimi Yoshida.)

A couple of years after his parents' divorce, 17-year-old Nicholas no longer feels he can stay with his mother, Kate. He moves in with his father Peter and Peter's new partner Beth. Juggling work, his and Beth's new baby, and the offer of his dream job in Washington, Peter tries to care for Nicholas as he wishes his own father had cared for him. But by reaching for the past to correct its mistakes, he loses sight of how to hold onto the Nicholas in the present.

A fourteen-year-old boy, whose Mum plans on selling his deceased Dad's Datsun, decides to take his best friend and little brother on one last joyride.

In their fourth and final gastronomic expedition Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon set out from the ruins of Troy in modern day Turkey as they head for Greece to retrace the steps of legendary King Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. They visit Lesvos, where Sappho wrote her love poetry; Macedonia, where Aristotle was born and tutored Alexander the Great; Athens, home of Plato and Socrates; the Peloponnese, the land of Mycenae, Argos, Sparta and the entrance to the underworld, before finally arriving in Ithaca, home to Odysseus. Steve and Rob's semi-fictional alter-egos seek out culture, history, breath-taking vistas and, of course, some of the finest food in Europe

Sam, a fearless young girl raised outside of her Māori 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 – Mallory, hoping to find friends, any kind of friends - and Bronco who claims to be a runaway from his dad who is too busy to notice him. As they make their way through the difficult “off the beaten track” route, they learn the true spirit of adventure and the magic of friendship.

Based on the true story of two brothers, Norman and Paul Maclean, growing up in rural 1920s Montana. While Paul rebels against the stern nature of the boys' father, Presbyterian minister Rev. Maclean, Norman pursues his dream of becoming a writer. Despite the brothers' differing paths in life, they are ultimately bonded by their mutual love of fly-fishing.

Taking place after the end of the television series, this feature film focuses on Tara Webster's post-injury life as a university student. Struggling to fit in and forget her previous destiny in the ballet world, she moves to New York and faces numerous rejections in pursuit of her comeback.

A betrayal of trust between two sisters on the cusp of adolescence sets off a chain of events that has the potential to shatter their relationship forever.

A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

In the premiere episode Acquisitions Lawyer Kaea Williams, heads to the humble lands of Tāniko Valley to derail an impending dispute.

A young Maori woman is given her estranged birth mother's ashes and has to figure out what to do with them.

A queer relationship falls out of sync as one woman loses touch with what is real and what may or may not be coming to her from the divine.

Ngāhuia confirms her suspicions when an age-old vendetta resurfaces.

Pressure from Kaea’s family begins to build while Ngāti Kiokio mourns a loved one.

A robot art student who is othered by his human teacher and classmates is tasked with creating a painting about love.

Hāni struggles to maintain control as the young Taikākā grow restless and a lost treasure is unearthed.

Hāni makes an unlikely decision while Te Pāhua stands on ceremony in the season finale of End Of The Valley.

A Korean immigrant dad, working as a construction painter, mentors a new young worker while simultaneously battling melancholia and guilt as he awaits the arrival of his family. (In Korean language with subtitles)