He Tū Wāhine
Documentaries featuring women as they take on challenges in their lives.
3:30 pm, Thursday 25 March
$7.50 - Book Tickets
Films in Programme

Pluck
Duration: 27 minsYear: 2020
Nation: Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou
Director: Kirsty Griffin / Vivienne Kernick
Facing her own mortality weaver Jean is on a mission to complete her ultimate korowai
Her hunt for weka feathers take us to windswept Rēkohu.

KaYaMenTa
Duration: 19 minsYear: 2020
Nation: Cree
Director: Jules Koostachin
Five Indigenous women gather to share food and stories about a phase in life with little support or shared knowledge. KaYaMenTa invites our sisters and our viewers to face their own fears of getting older and tackles the taboo around menopause through an Indigenous woman’s lens – one that engages with sexuality, ageing, spirituality and healing.

Lady Lash
Duration: 29 minsYear: 2020
Nation: Kokatha
Director: Rochelle Humphrey
Lady Lash celebrates the power of creativity against adversity aiming to dilute Australia’s negative media of Aboriginal women and the lack of real representation with personal stories. This film challenges the colonial mindset that destruction of ‘country’ is worth the profits it generates.
Image credit: Ali McKeich

Mujeres Espiritu (Spirit Women)
Duration: 5 minsYear: 2020
Nation: Tsotsil
Director: Francisco Huichaqueo
Spirit Women weaves a collective portrait of five women united by spirituality and poetry. The film features Tsotsil, Mapuzungun, Quechua and Spanish forming a semantic field that not only is spoken word but is also enriched by the sonority of each mother tongue.