New to TVNZ+: April 19-25

Per Elisa: An Italian Crime Story (April 20) dramatises how one of Italy’s most shocking crimes – the murder of a teenage girl – was left unsolved for nearly two decades.

On September 12, 1993, Elisa Claps left home with her friend to attend mass at the Church of the Holy Trinity – and wouldn’t be seen again until her corpse was discovered 17 years later: in the attic of the very same church where the priest and police knew she was all along.

“We did not want to tell the story of a serial killer,” producer Ben Donald says. “The true villain of Per Elisa is something more subtle than the bogeyman we often want or need.

“It is a society that stays silent and perpetuates a behaviour where those in power are more interested in image and standing, act with impunity and corrupt the very institutions that are designed to lead and protect society, and where a problem child is both a product and a mere protected pawn in a machine.”

Also new are every episode of The Magicians (April 23), the movie Honey Girls (April 20), and same-week broadcast premieres.