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Memory and Desire (1998): Dir. Niki Caro
Feat. Brenda Kendall, Yuri Kinugawa, Norman Forsey; Director Niki Caro pulls out the art–house stops for her feature debut: a love–story about a mismatched Japanese couple whose honeymoon…
Saving Grace (1997): Dir. Costa Botes
Feat. Kirsty Hamilton, Jim Moriarty; A kind of Jesus of Upper Cuba Street, this adaptation of Duncan Sarkies' stageplay ambitiously hammers a drama of poverty in inner–city…
Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (1997): Dir. Harry Sinclair
Feat. Danielle Cormack, Joel Tobeck, Ian Hughes…; The local sensation of the '97 year that far too few Kiwis saw on the big screen, this fresh and assured comic tableau sees various appealing…
Whole of the Moon, The (1997): Dir. Ian Mune
Feat. Toby Fisher, Nikki Si'Ulepa, Pascale Bussieres…; Heartfelt yet uplifting story of two disparate teenage cancer patients who find strength in their misfortune. Dir. Ian Mune's talent for coaxing…
Broken English (1996): Dir. Gregor Nicholas
Feat. Rade Serbedzija, Aleksandra Vujcic, Julian Arahanga; Racial angst and insecurities afflict an immigrant Serbian family living in the Auckland suburbs. Impassioned drama stars Slavic superstar Rade…
Flight of the Albatross (1995): Dir. Werner Meyer
Feat. Julia Brendler, Jack Thompson; Teenager Julia Brendler migrates from Germany to New Zealand to renuite with her mother, a scientist studying the albatross colony on a remote island.
Heavenly Creatures (1994): Dir. Peter Jackson
Feat. Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse; Peter Jackson follows his zombie trilogy with this Oscar–nominated tour–de–force based on the Parker–Hulme murders of the…
Once Were Warriors (1994): Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Julian Arahanga…; As sensational as it is important, Lee Tamahori's adaptation managed to transform Alan Duff's relentlessly down–beat novel about domestic…
Bread and Roses (1993): Dir. Gaylene Preston
Feat. Genevieve Picot; A gracious tribute to the post–war generation of New Zealand women, Gaylene Preston does a job worthy of her forebears in charting the early…
Desperate Remedies (1993): Dir. Peter Wells, Stewart Main
Feat. Michael Hurst, Cliff Curtis, Kevin Smith…; An audacious, decadent soap–opera which proudly flaunts its contempt for traditional local film–making with drugs, kinky sex,…

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