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Waru (2017)

Waru (2017)

Drama
Release Date: 2017, October 19
Directors: Awanui Simich-Pene, Paula Whetu Jones, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, Briar Grace Smith, Chelsea Cohen, Renae Maihi
Countries: New Zealand
Production: Brown Sugar Apple Grunt
Cast: Roimata Fox, Antonio Te Maioha, Cohen Holloway, Tom Sainsbury, Miriama McDowell, Maria Walker, Kararaina Rangihau, Tanea Heke, Ngapaki Moetara, Āwhina-Rose Henare Ashby, Merehaka Maaka, Acacia Hapi

Overview:

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small boy who died at the hands of his caregiver.

Keywords:

woman director domestic abuse maori