Wāhine Toa at Māoriland 2018

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The Māoriland Film Festival started with our aunties. Today on International Women’s day we acknowledge our aunties, our mothers, nannies, the wāhine toa who shape and inspire our lives.

We acknowledge the female directors in our programme – 60% of films in this year’s festival have a female director, these are powerful storytellers working across the world to share stories important to them.

We acknowledge the female producers, those working in the crafts and all aspects of work who put their all in to support the work of others.

We acknowledge the Māori and Pasifika women in Aotearoa – who experience the largest pay gap in this country, while working in some of the hardest jobs, often in the service of others.

We acknowledge the missing and murdered Indigenous women – both of Turtle Island and across the Indigenous world.

We acknowledge our kōtiro, the next generation of wāhine toa.

FEATURE FILMS

AFTER THE APOLOGY

Directed by Larissa Behrendt

Produced by Michaela Perske

INDICTMENT: THE CRIMES OF SHELLY CHARTIER

Directed by Lisa Jackson and Shane Belcourt

KAISA’S ENCHANTED FOREST

Directed by Katya Gauriloff

MANKILLER

Directed by Valerie Red-Horse Mohl

OUT OF STATE

Directed by Ciara Lacy

RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD

Directed by Catherine Bainbridge

TUNNIITT: RETRACING THE LINES OF INUIT TATTOOS

Directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

WARU

Directed by Briar Grace Smith, Casey Kaa, Ainsley Gardiner, Katie Wolfe, Renae Maihi, Chelsea Cohen, Paula Jones, Awanui Simich Pene

Produced by Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton

WHALE RIDER

Directed by Niki Caro

SHORT FILMS

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