Orphans & Kingdoms
In writer/director Paolo Rotondo’s debut feature, three teenagers on the run break into a deluxe Waiheke Island home and find themselves caught in a tense psychodrama with the conflicted owner.
The Patriarch
1960s, East Coast of New Zealand. Two Māori sheep-shearing families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, are longstanding enemies and commercial rivals. 14-year-old Simeon Mahana, the youngest son of the youngest son is in conflict with his traditionalist grandfather, Tamihana. As Simeon unravels the truth behind the longstanding family vendetta he risks not just his own future prospects but the cohesion of the entire tight-knit society.
25 April
A dramatization of the events at Gallipoli using the letters of the soldiers who were there.
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Paolo Rotondo
Director
Fraser Brown
as
Constable Mike Layton
Van Heflin
as
Dan Evans
Greg Johnson
as
Golden Shears Commentator
Nancy Brunning
as
Ramona Mahana
Chelsie Preston Crayford
as
Muriel Wakeford
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