Essence of Pandanus

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.

An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.