When an academic unearths a forgotten history, residents of the small township of Pukekohe, including kaumātua who have never told their personal stories before, confront its deep and dark racist past.
Casts Phyllis Bhana, Polly Pare Rauwhero, Catherine Tamihere, Massey McInnes Hiku, Robert Bartholomew, Taitimu Maipi, Materoa Kite, Brien Golding, Dr. Jenny Lee-Morgan, Caleb Tamihere
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The Celebration
IMDB 7.7 | Jun , 1998
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IMDB 8.4 | Oct , 2023
Compulsive Twitterer, Elon Musk bought himself his favorite social network in 2022, and brutally shaped it according to his desires. This punchy investigation relates the stormy relations between the platform and the billionaire, and their impact on the public debate.Melanin
IMDB 7 | Jan , 2023
After a series of personal and professional setbacks, a white advertising executive signs up to participate in a trial for an experimental drug designed to make your skin appear tanned.Topaz
IMDB 0 | May , 1987
A documentary about the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp during WWII.After Landing
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2023
Jorge and Jeczebel left their four children behind in Venezuela, for what they hoped would be a better life in America. They didn’t expect a bus would bring them from Texas to New York. They also didn’t expect to encounter a city overwhelmed by one of the largest humanitarian crises in its history. The film explores the migrant experience from a deeply personal perspective as they struggle to live in the US and to support their children back home.Land Without Bread
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 1933
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time.Exuvia
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2024
A troubled nanny teaches a bullied ten-year-old that freedom to move forward is made possible by shedding the ugly skin of our past.Tight: The World of Indian Bodybuilding
IMDB 6.5 | Feb , 2024
Can Aji's talent and triumphs elevate him from his poor, Tamil background to succeed on the national stage at Mr India? Or will his dreams be shattered by corruption and discrimination? The booming world of Indian bodybuilding is a captivating window through which to observe a rapidly changing society, while Aji's journey is a story of unity, brotherhood and celebration of India's incredible diversity.Liyana
IMDB 9 | Jul , 2017
A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.Negra
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2020
I was about seven years old the first time someone called me \"black\" on the street. I turned around to see who they were talking to, until I realized they were talking to me.To Market to Market
IMDB 0 | May , 1987
A man from an upper class family is manipulated into laundering drug money by his brother.Almost fine
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2022
So far, Balázs has lived the intellectual dream. He began his career working for the UN and later became the CFO of a prestigious Hungarian NGO. He has two children with his girlfriend, a French UN staff member, and together they live in one of the best neighborhoods in Budapest. And yet, something is missing. Balázs tries everything to distract himself from the fact that his dream job has become a burden, but nothing helps until he changes everything and becomes a bike courier.Cold Journey
IMDB 0 | May , 1975
In this feature drama, a Canadian Indigenous youth attempts to find a place for himself. He faces culture shock as the educational system teaches him to be a white man and tries to find a way of life more meaningful to his Indigenous culture and ancestry.Flight of the Swan
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1992
A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as lead ballerina Princess Odette, but the girls in her close-minded ballet school mock her ideas of a 'black swan'.La Haine
IMDB 8.1 | May , 1995
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.Once Were Warriors
IMDB 7.4 | Sep , 1994
A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.Speakers for the Dead
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2000
A film about small Ontario town's struggle to restore a desecrated African-Canadian cemetery and the resulting turmoil over it.Mulholland Drive
IMDB 7.8 | Jun , 2001
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.Whale Rider
IMDB 7.1 | Jan , 2003
A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.Catch a Fire
IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 2006
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.