Whakapapa Shorts
We are all connected by whakapapa to our ancestors and each other.
12:30 pm, Friday 26 March
$7.50 - Book Tickets
Films in Programme
Daddy’s Girl
Duration: 12 minsYear: 2020
Nation: Ngāti Te Tākinga
Director:
Te Puhi prepares herself for the toughest day of her life as the harsh reality of her father’s dementia forces her to face the painful truth that she must let go of the most important person in her life: her daddy.
Greed Story
Duration: 5 minsYear: 2019
Nation: Inuvialuit
Director:
An old Inuvialuit warning to harvest carefully. As all traditional harvesters know: if you are not responsible, you can destroy your own ecosystem and be left with nothing.
Hop Along Hang On
Duration: 4 minsYear: 2020
Nation: Métis
Director:
Hop Along Hang On blends spoken word poetry, music and animation to explore and acknowledge the deeper history and long-term effects of the removal of culture within Indigenous peoples of Canada.
The Pakohe Trails
Duration: 15 minsYear: 2020
Nation: Ngāti Apa ki te Ra To, Ngāti Kuia, and Rangitane
Director:
Lewis Smith is a self-taught carver who specialises in carving pakohe (argillite) which he harvests and collects from his local river.
Waka Huia
Duration: 15 minsYear: 2019
Nation:
Director:
An old man of Māori origin crosses the world between dream and reality in the footsteps of his grandfather killed in Belgium during the First World War.
The Story About Asena Tahir
Duration: 11 minsYear: 2020
Nation: Uyghur
Director:
“I am a Uyghur, a student, an immigrant, and a teenager.”
In 2017, the government of China began the mass incarceration of Uyghur people. Tahir’s family fled from mass detention, but are not able to get away without extensive government surveillance.
Purea
Duration: 6 minsYear: 2020
Nation: Ngāti Porou
Director:
Māori Elder Hamo must bear the burden of carrying the spirits of her ancestors to their sacred mountain.