Te Matatini Herenga Waka, Herenga Tangata 2023

Short Film Festival

A selection of Aotearoa’s finest short films, brought to you by the Show Me Shorts Film Festival, NZFC and NZOA.
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Short Film Festival

Episode 1

Coffee and Allah

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Coffee & Allah is a film about a young Muslim woman's appetite for coffee Islam and a good game of badminton.

Episode 2

Manurewa

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A confronting dramatic debut revisiting the events that took place around the robbery of a Manurewa liquor store in 2008, in which owner Navtej Singh was tragically murdered.

Episode 3

Night Shift

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Amidst the arrivals and departures, an airport cleaner faces the longest journey.

Episode 4

Two Cars One Night

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Romeo and his brother, Ed, sit in the car waiting for their parents to come out of the pub. This is their world, a place inhabited by adults and alcohol.

Episode 5

The Lawnmower Men of Kapu

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Atawhai tries to get his uncles and aunties to help with the upkeep of their local Marae but problems between his three lawnmower business-owning uncles make it an impossible task.

Episode 6

Warbrick

London, 1889. The captain of the worn-out New Zealand Natives rugby team must inspire his side to play, or risk forfeiting the test match against England.

Episode 7

Lemming Aid

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In a bizarre stand-off above a Norwegian clifftop, NZ ecological campaigners try to stop lemmings from throwing themselves over a cliff.

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