Drama
Day One Shorts 2025
        
        
            
        
        
            
                A series of eight short films made by young emerging filmmakers that explore culture, social, and political issues.
            
    
        
    Dead Ahead
        
        
            
        
        
            
                A high-powered Māori lawyer (Miriama Smith) accidentally unleashes her chaotic tūpuna (ancestors), forcing the living and the dead to navigate their shared legacy.
            
    
        
    Secrets At Red Rocks
        
        
            
        
        
            
                When a boy finds a seal skin in a cave, he unlocks an ancient spell that tips him into a terrifying adventure.
            
    
        
    The Gone S2
        
        
            
        
        
            
                Picking up after the shocking events of season one, Detectives head back to Ireland and the city. But when Irish journalist Aileen Ryan vanishes, the pair must reunite to investigate …
            
    
        
    Vince
        
        
            
        
        
            
                Vince, a charming Breakfast TV host, endures a grave trouser malfunction at the children's cancer ward on live TV, and must navigate the aftermath to save his reputation.
            
    
        
    Literally Dead
        
        
            
        
        
            
                A dead teenage girl stalks her high school friends at their graduation party in order to investigate her own murder.
            
    
        
    Miles From Nowhere
        
        
            
        
        
            
                A young Kiwi-Muslim songwriter named Said is having a crisis. His fiancee left him, his career's non-existent, and his mum worries he's losing touch with his faith.
            
    
        
    Kairākau S4: The Rise of Tūwhakairiora
        
        
            
        
        
            
                Te Ataakura must run for her life, leaving behind all she's known to give birth to her only hope, a son to seek utu, a son called Tūwhakairiora.
            
    
        
    Not Even S2
        
        
            
        
        
            
                As the gang live life around Wellington, we see Heps and Taaps throw a huge party at their flat. Ma insists she's a changed woman, Pua meets a potential lover.
            
    
        
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Double Parked S2
        
        
            
        
        
            
                Nat and Steph navigate the first overwhelming days of bringing their babies home from hospital. While the newly dating, Johnny and Lily, seem swept up in domestic bliss.
            
    
        
    Ahikāroa S6
        
        
            
        
        
            
                Follow a crazy group of city based rangatahi. They're young, kura kaupapa raised and dangerously onto it.
            
    
        
    Friends Like Her
        
        
            
        
        
            
                Based in Kaikōura, a surrogacy deal goes wrong when pregnant Nicole changes her mind about giving her best friend Tessa the baby she is carrying for her.
            
    
        
    Testify
        
        
            
        
        
            
                A charismatic young pastor forms an unlikely alliance with a queer podcaster to challenge his father's mega-church, with explosive results.
            
    
        
    The Boy, The Queen And Everything in Between
        
        
            
        
        
            
                Fresh out of prison and desperately needing a job, Jacob reaches out to the only person who can help, his drag queen father.
            
    
        
    After The Party
        
        
            
        
        
            
                Penny's world implodes when she accuses her husband of a sex crime and nobody believes her.
            
    
        
    Raised by Refugees S2
        
        
            
        
        
            
                In season 2 Pax is desperate to attend his very first high school party, but the only way he can go is to lie to and say that he's going …