This documentary film records the start-up stories of three check owners in a cheerful way. It also witnesses the ups-and-downs of the check fun stores alongside the overall economic ups-and-downs. Through the camera, we see how these witty hardworking check fun stores owners and the check leaseholders interacted, trying to pursue opportunities to redirect their lives by the ch...
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...