Starring an ensemble New Zealand cast including Go-Girls' ALIX BUSHNELL, SARA WISEMAN and Sione's Weddin­g's IAHETO AH HI, with a soundtrack by DON McGLASHEN featuring original tracks by GIN WIGMORE, BELLA KALOLO and THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION.

A moving, urgent and funny story about us – today, here, now.

Set over five days and nights, this fast paced drama is the story of many lives brought into collision by one event. A rugby league star driving past a deserted car park late at night sees a fight. He intervenes and gets brutally bashed… A young car thief steals the man's apparently abandoned car, and unwittingly starts a chain of events that will change his life and the lives of others… forever.

Shot entirely in South Auckland.

Matariki Movie Review
By Flicks.co.nz

"The steady stream of quality New Zealand films in 2010 continues unabated with this most recent effort. The title is a reference to the Maori New Year, signalling the film’s central concern with rebirth and new beginnings while simultaneously commenting on the difficulties of modern multicultural society.

Making up the plot are multiple storyline strands that intersect at key points. The way they are handled gives the story a sense of place and community, heightened by imagery easily identifiable for New Zealand audiences. This allows for effective comparisons and contrasts between the experiences of characters that come to have more in common than it would initially seem. Keeping in this spirit, the visual style of the film is reasonably basic and allows the solid ensemble cast (many of whom you’ll recognise from local TV) to do their thing. There are moments of genuine aesthetic flair, however, most notably a time-lapse transition from the night sky to the Otara markets.

It is the final sequence that is the film’s crowning achievement. The social commentary and cheeky humour dissipate as all the subplots collide, each heightening the emotional gravitas of the others, paying off the careful narrative structuring that has come before. It’ll have you leaving the cinema satisfied and caps off a great year for New Zealand film." 4 out of 5 stars