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2024 Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 7 Aug–18 Aug 2024

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Awanui Simich-Pene

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(Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hauā, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Apakura)

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Waru

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

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.

Rū (Short)

Awanui Simich-Pene

A pregnant woman must fight for her life when she inadvertently becomes the victim of a violent initiation

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Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival 2024 received funding from the Manatū Taonga Te Tahua Whakamarohi i te Rāngai Ahurea Cultural Sector Regeneration Fund.

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