The Cube of Truth A daring couple exposes animal agriculture's violence, bringing a startling message to the streets. Animal activism isn’t for the faint hearted. Every month in Auckland masked people in black congregate in a Cube of...
Kotuku Rerenga Rua One man's revival through the profound power of heritage and connection. Kotuku Rerenga Rua follows Kotuku Tibble’s struggle for love and redemption as he battles through physical and spiritual illness to...
OK Chlöe Millennial MP, Chlöe Swarbrick, challenges the establishment during the most important year of her political career. In a momentous year, Aotearoa’s youngest MP vows to radically change the political status quo from within. But behind the...
John The Baptist An Englishman travels to Aotearoa, guided by a mission to share God’s love in te reo Māori. At the beginning of the 19th century, te reo Māori was the most commonly spoken language in Aotearoa (New Zealand)....
Beneath The Surface New Zealand’s first Tongan swimming champion battles self-doubt and setbacks as she fights for gold. A traumatic childhood accident left Tupou Neiufi with a permanent disability. But in the water, she feels invincible. Already a...
East Meets East The honest musings of a Chinese grandmother brings an unseen community into the spotlight. 79-year-old Fang Ruzhen immigrated to Auckland to help raise her grandchildren. Seventeen years on, English is still a foreign language,...
‘Aka’ōu: Tātatau in the Cook Islands An unlikely master of traditional Polynesian art Tātatau, seeks to pass his legacy to an apprentice. Croc Coulter, a heavily tattooed Englishman living with cystic fibrosis in Rarotonga, teaches his new apprentice the traditional Polynesian art...
Today Life inside a South Auckland rest home offers a deep, intimate view of daily existence. Today follows the passing of time for residents and workers of a South Auckland rest home and offers an intimate...
Surreal Estate An artist and his real-estate agent alter ego clash over the age old problem of art versus commerce. Fixated on the destruction of inner city domestic architecture, renowned New Zealand artist John Radford is creating GRAFT®, a major...
The Coffin Club A group of rebellious, creative Kiwi seniors give death the finger, one crazy coffin at a time. Musical and documentary unite to introduce The Coffin Club, a truly unique community organisation bringing free-spirited seniors together to construct...
Here the Wild Things Are A global race to discover the wild hidden in our cities Once a year, New Zealand joins a global competition where thousands of ecologists and enthusiasts from Wellington and Christchurch race...
Wayne Wayne, a man with limited communication skills, learns the harsh reality of love and romance. Excited to see his friend Rachel, Wayne’s saddened that she needs some space and goes about building a plan to...
Testimony A Tongan-born New Zealander admits the painful truth behind what really happened to his family during the Dawn Raids. Tongan-born Tesimoni Fuavao came to Aotearoa with his family in 1975 for medical treatment. On a day out with a...
Wahine Warrior Post-trauma, Pania is reborn a warrior, turning to hunting as her path to forge a self-reliant sisterhood. Pania Tepaiho-Marsh understands the anxiety for single parents to put kai on the table. Reinventing herself to help other wahine...
Hear Me Out Mojo Mathers, Aotearoa's first deaf MP, has one final opportunity to fight for disability-inclusive democracy. Democracy isn’t always democratic, and even the best governments struggle to be truly inclusive. Mojo Mathers knows from what it...