Movies: Tanea Heke

Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. After gatecrashing Jarrod's party and proving her skills on the game console, Lily goes down to Jarrod's ...

At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst European settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand - often under the gruesome working conditions of seal hunting gangs. The story follows a lascar, Dasa, who has bee...

This impressive doco disperses the fog of shame and sensationalism to shed light on the tragedy that made international headlines in 2007 when a young Wainuiomata woman died during a mākutu lifting....

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore......

Connected by blood but separated by circumstances, three cousins spend a lifetime in search of each other....

An old woman in rest home suffering from dementia flashes back to her youth as a policewoman and her relationship with a colleague....

After he makes an emergency landing at a rural airfield, a young pilot finds himself on the run from crazed locals who want to eat him....

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small boy who died at the hands of his caregiver....

Some fifty years in the future, a mother and daughter are held captive in a refugee compound, their lives in imminent danger....