MFF19 Programme

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Te Hunga Tautoko - Acknowledgements

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Hei Whakakitenga The Declaration of Indigenous Cinema

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Ngā Pou o Te Whare Kōrero Support is In The House

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He Huatau - From the Festival Director

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He Huatau - From the Chair of Māoriland Charitable Trust

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Kaitūao and Kaihāpai - Our Support Crew

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Ngā Tīkiti - Ticketing Info

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Map

12 Ngā Aho Nui - Special Events 20 Ngā Kiriata - Feature Films 33 Ngā Pakipūmeka - Documentaries 42 Ngā Kiriata Poto - Short Films 72 Timetable

From humble beginnings ...

In 2014 Māoriland bought a little caravan for our first festival.

It was our ticket office, our moveable billboard and our hospitality space.

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Welcome to the tribal lands of Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga: Home to the subtribes of Ngāti Korokī, Ngāti Maiōtaki, Ngāti Huia ki Katihiku, Ngāti Pare and Ngāti Kapumanawawhiti. We are grateful for the support of Ngā Hapū o Ōtaki, our kaumātua and kuia, our kaimahi and our whānau. And to all of those that support the kaupapa, tēnā koutou.

Supporting Partners

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We the Indigenous screen storytellers United in this northern corner of our mother, the earth In a great assembly of wisdom we declare to all nations: We glory in our past • when our earth was nurturing our oral traditions • when night sky evoked visions animated in our dreams • when the sun and the moon became our parents in stories told • when storytelling made us all brothers and sisters • when our stories fostered great chiefs and leaders • when justice was encouraged in the stories told We will • hold and manage Indigenous cultural and intellectual property • be recognised as the primary guardians and interpreters of our culture • respect Indigenous individuals and communities • nourish knowledge from our traditions to modern screen appearance • use our skills to communicate with nature and all living things • through screen storytelling heal our wounds • through modern screen expression carry our stories to those not yet born And thus through motion picture make the invisible visible again.

We vow to manage our own destiny and recover our complete humanity and pride in being Indigenous screen storytellers.

Created by Åsa Simma (Sámi), with Darlene Johnson (Dunghutti). Accepted at the Indigenous Film Conference in Kautokeino, Sápmi, October 2011.

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Hou mai koe ki roto i te whare kōrero o Māoriland. Ko tōna tāhuhu ko te iwi, ko te poutāhu ko te mana o te kupu, ko te poutuarongo ko te ira tangata. Kei waenga ko te poutokomanawa o te aroha noa.

Ka mutu, ko ngā pou koko ka titi iho ki te whenua ko ēnei: We bid you entry into our house of stories. The ridgepole is the people, the front post is the authority of the word, the rear post is the essence of our humanity. Between them, we find the support pillar of love.

The posts that anchor the corners to the land are these:

CE ELEBR RATION N Māoriland celebrates the rise of Indigenous cinema. It invites filmmakers from around the world to share their compelling big screen stories with us, and with each other.

INS SPIRA ATION Māoriland upholds the mana and inspiration of our storytellers.

We are guided by our elders, and taught by our children. The festival assists our community to expand their perspectives, and to connect with those from other cultures.

RESPECT T Māoriland is rooted in the traditions and language of the hapū and iwi of Ōtaki. It is our honour to extend manaakitanga to the many visitors to the festival.

INC CLUSIION Māoriland provides a portal to the Indigenous world for ALL people.

It assists social cohesion, a sense of pride, and the informed wellbeing of our community.

Kāti. Tuia te kawa, tairanga te kawa, ko te kawa o te manaaki i te tangata tēnei ka poua nei.

He mea tuhi nā Tainui Stephens (Te Rarawa). Extract from chant marking the opening of the Māoriland Hub 2016.

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Unuhia Unuhia Unuhia ki te urutapu nui Unuhia ki te urutapu roa Unuhia ki te whiringa ā nuku Ki te whiringa ā rangi Ki te whiranga ā tāngata ē Tihei Mauriora!

Raurangatira mā, kei ngā kanohi ora o rātou mā, kei ngā manuwhiri tūārangi, tēnā koutou katoa.

Tēnei mātou te mihi maioha atu nei mō koutou kua tahuri kē mai koutou ki tā tātou ahurei ā tau. E whaimana anō ai a Māoriland, otirā ia, tātou katoa tonu o Ōtaki i tā koutou ekenga mai. Mauriora!

Welcome to Ōtaki and Māoriland; our annual celebration of Indigenous stories made for the big screen.

There are many things to celebrate at MFF2019 including dozens of Southern Hemisphere Premieres and the launch of several exciting new initiatives, including the Māoriland Filmmakers Residency and the Māoriland TechCreate Hub - MATCH. We also have our provocative Māoriland NATIVE Minds sessions, as well as industry events to enthuse our guest filmmakers.

Indigenous stories help us make sense of our world, of our connections and our shared humanity. Our sixth MFF includes stories from the polar regions, from the deserts, from the mountains of Iran and Nepal, and from nations who dwell upon and beside the planet’s vast oceans. To those nations of the Pacific, the great ocean of our common Polynesian ancestor Kiwa, we bid you many welcomes. We are honoured to present the extraordinary film VAI as well as an epic documentary tracing the global odyssey of the great Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hōkūle’a.

In 1976 the crew of the Hōkūle’a had a vision to revive their connections to all Indigenous peoples. At around the same time here in Ōtaki; a vision to establish a tribal centre of higher learning and to regenerate the Māori language and culture was also launched. Te Wānanga o Raukawa, NZ’s first Māori university is the result and now, te reo Māori is once again widely heard throughout our village.

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Here at Māoriland we are inspired by visions such as these; that honour the ancestors, and create brighter futures for coming generations. We look forward to celebrating the film storytellers as well as the artists they collaborate with.

Te Toi Matarau at Māoriland 2019 will feature carvers, visual taonga, tāmoko and other artists and performers in and around the Māoriland Hub. The input of Ngā Pakiaka our young Māori filmmakers from across Aotearoa, is another cause for celebration. They are at the core of Māoriland’s rangatahi initiatives. They curated and designed the Māoriland Rangatahi Film Festival and co-designed the Through Our Lens film leadership programme.

Please enjoy making your way around our village during the MFF. You could strike up a conversation with one of our enthusiastic kaitūao, or perhaps a filmmaker who’s fresh from creating a short film as part of Māoriland’s international Indigenous collaboration the NATIVE Slam IV. He taonga te kōrero.

We extend our aroha to all of you; filmmakers and supporters of film who have come to light up our village with your stories.

Nau mai. Piki mai. Kake mai rā e hoa mā.

Libby Hakaraia

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Tēnei ka ohooho Tēnei ka ihiihi Tēnei ka mihi ki te ia o te wā.

Tēnā koutou katoa.

The Māoriland Charitable Trust (MCT) is an independent Māori entity with a board of trustees, and a mandate from Ngā Hapū o Ōtaki, the five sub-tribes of Ōtaki. The aims of the MCT are to provide the Ōtaki community especially Māori youth, with access to global information and networks; educational opportunities that lead to paid employment; and inspiration and support for entrepreneurial endeavors.

The MCT provides a platform for Māori and Indigenous film storytellers as well as for other creatives including musicians and visual artists. The MCT welcomes all and any people who are interested in learning more about Indigenous perspectives.

Māoriland Film Festival (MFF) is a central feature of the MCT’s strategic plan.

Each March the MFF attracts thousands of people from around New Zealand and the world to Ōtaki, to enjoy a week of popular and influential Indigenous cinema. The MFF is now the largest public event on the Kāpiti Coast having grown year-on-year since it began in 2014.

In October 2017, as a response to the success of the MFF, and in order to develop specific cultural, social and economic benefits for the Ōtaki community, the MCT purchased the largest building in Ōtaki village, the iconic Edhouse’s department store. These spacious premises became the Māoriland Hub. To date the Hub has hosted over 150 events including film screenings; music and drama performances; workshops on filmmaking and technology for school children, community meetings; art exhibitions and other popular events. The Māoriland Hub includes a large outdoor community garden. This green zone hosts education workshops on growing food, waste minimisation, and other environmental issues of interest to our community.

In less than 18 months the Māoriland Hub has proved to be a huge success for the MCT with growing numbers of people from across Aotearoa and around the world attending a diverse array of events.

Both the Māoriland Film Festival and the Māoriland Hub are a source of pride for the Ōtaki community. We thank you for coming to share in our village success story.

Hei kōnā mai me ngā mihi aroha.

Nā mātou noa, MĀORILAND CHARITABLE TRUST John Barrett (Chair), Tania Hakaraia, Dee McDonald, Graham Wiremu 6

Māoriland Film Festival thrives thanks to the support of a great many of our community and those who have come from near and far to lend a hand.

Our support crew are known as Kaitūao and can be seen wearing red t-shirts.

They help to run the venues and ticketing as well as transporting and looking after our filmmakers. They even bring in home-made baking. We greatly appreciate their efforts. Tēnā koutou katoa e ngā hoa haumi.

Our Kaihāpai also wear red t-shirts. They are students from the Māori language schools in our community and Ngā Pakiaka. Their task is to look after the needs of the audiences in all our venues. They will inform filmgoers of safety matters as well as any notices of importance. They too are giving their free time to serve you and our kaupapa. Tēnā hoki koutou rangatahi mā.

We are proud of our Kaitūao and our Kaihāpai. They represent our community with pride and your best interests. Feel free to ask them anything about the festival or Ōtaki.

Ko rātou ko te whakatinanahanga ake o te kōrero arā ‘Mā pango, mā whero e oti ai te mahi.’

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Entry to all events is $6 unless otherwise specified School Screenings

$2 per student/session or $5 per student for a day

Māoriland Red Carpet Party

$30

Whānau/Concession Pass

10 film screenings for $50

Industry Pass

$115 earlybird, $140 general release

WHERE E TO BUY TICKETS: Online:

https://www.iticket.co.nz/go-to/maoriland-film-festival-2018

Phone:

Call iTicket on 0508 iTICKET (484-253)

In Person:

Māoriland Film Festival Hub, 68 Main Street Ōtaki.

Before the Festival - Ticket Office Hours - 10 am - 4 pm, Monday - Friday Festival Week - March 21 - 24 - 8:30 am - 5pm, Monday - Saturday, Sunday closed

Door Sales available at all venues.

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Ngā Tīkiti | Ticketing Info

IN NDUST TRY PASS HOLDERS Designed for those working in the screen industry, these passes provide access to both industry and public events as well as 1 ticket per screening.

• You must have a physical ticket to enter any event. These can be claimed by showing your Industry Pass at The Māoriland Hub, 68 Main St Ōtaki.

• We recommend you select your tickets pre festival. Information on how to do this will be provided to pass holders via email. If you choose not to use a ticket, please return it to the Ticket Office so that someone else can enjoy the film.

• Your pass does not guarantee you a ticket if sold out.

• Industry Passes are not transferable.

• Lost passes cannot be reprinted during the Festival.

• Closing Night Party. Please note that due to limited numbers you must RSVP to attend this party by Friday 15th March 6 pm at the latest, to ensure your ticket.

Industry Passes can be collected from the Manuwhiri desk at the Māoriland Hub, 68 Main St Ōtaki.

More information can be found at www.maorilandfilm.co.nz.

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Ōtaki is located on the Kāpiti Coast, 80 km from Wellington Airport.

The train from Wellington to Ōtaki is a one-hour long coastal trip that will take you through small towns, bush, and along the West Coast. Sit on the left-hand side of the train heading north for the best views out to Kāpiti Island.

There are two train options; the Capital Connection runs Mon-Friday departing Wellington to Ōtaki daily at 5.15pm and returning at 7.13am.

The Kāpiti Line runs every half hour to and from Wellington. The service leaves from Waikanae, a town 15 minutes south of Ōtaki.

There are also buses along the train route. Connecting from Waikanae, the 290 bus will take you to through to Ōtaki. The bus leaves Waikanae for Ōtaki’s Main St five times daily. This bus returns to Waikanae.

Intercity buses provide transport from Palmerston North and Wellington.

Check the timetable links below for more information. http://www.kiwirailscenic.co.nz/other-services/capital-connection/ https://www.metlink.org.nz/timetables/train/KPL https://www.metlink.org.nz/timetables/bus/290 https://www.intercity.co.nz/

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Te Huarahi Mai | Travel Info

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PŌ ŌWHIR RI Wednesday 20 March, 11 am, Raukawa Marae The pōwhiri and formal welcome to manuwhiri tūārangi and official guests of MFF2019 will take place at Raukawa Marae. Guests who are unfamiliar with the marae protocols will be informed about the necessary procedures prior to the welcome.

Please be aware that the formal welcome will be conducted entirely in the Māori language. Our rangatahi will assist with interpreting where required.

A cultural practise is the koha, a monetary contribution that will be offered to the marae on your behalf. This is not compulsory. If you do wish to make a koha this will be collected before you go onto the marae.

Raukawa marae is the principal meeting place of the Ngāti Raukawa tribe and subtribes, and one of five closely linked marae in close proximity. The other marae are Te Pou o Tainui (Ōtaki), Katihiku Marae ( Ōtaki) Wehiwehi (Manakau) and Tukorehe (Kuku).

MĀ ĀORILA AND FILMM MAKERS RESIDENCY LAU UNCH Wednesday 20 March, 12:30 pm, Māoriland Hub Plans will be unveiled for New Zealand’s first filmmakers residency.

The Māoriland Filmmakers Residency is a 4-room villa located in the Māoriland Hub! It will be available to Māori and Indigenous filmmakers who wish to develop new work or complete film projects.

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Ngā Aho Nui | Special Events

MĀ ĀORIILAND KE EYNOTE E ADDRESS ME ERAT TA MIITA Wednesday 20 March 6:00 pm at Rangiātea Church Merata Mita was an unflinching filmmaker whose stories captured startling images of bigotry and violence in a New Zealand that was scarred by an era of provocation and protest. She also crafted tales of Indigenous hope.

She was a beloved and inspiring teacher and mentor who continues to be remembered by generations of filmmakers worldwide.

Heperi Mita has brought her legacy to life in a moving feature documentary MERATA - How Mum Colonised the Screen.

The Māoriland Keynote Address this year is delivered by Merata’s own work, with Heperi and her whānau.

NA ATIVE E SLA AM IV V Sunday 24 March, 7 pm at Ngā Purapura The NATIVE Slam is a 72-hour international Indigenous collaboration film challenge. This is a vivid opportunity for experienced film storytellers to combine their creative talents and make a short film.

The results of their work feature in this screening. Previous NATIVE Slam films have screened at film festivals around the world.

MĀ ĀORIILAND RE ED CARP PET PARTY Sunday 24 March 8:30 pm at the Māoriland Hub Dress up and walk the red carpet into the Māoriland Hub for a night of entertainment to celebrate the closing night of the MFF2019!

Awards will be presented to filmmakers - as decided by the audiences. There will also be prizes for Red Carpet attendees in the following categories: • • • • •

Best Regalia Best Frock Best Suit Most Sequins Best outfit purchased from a local Op shop (must show receipt of sale).

Tickets to the Māoriland Red Carpet Party are $30 and can be purchased at the Māoriland Hub or online via iticket.co.nz 13

When filmmakers gather to screen and share their work, they also need to talk about what they do and why. A storyteller is always alert to the tenor of the times in which they function. If they are honest, they are also alert to their own motivations and actions.

A Māoriland initiative NATIVE Minds is a series of interactive discussions that examine how Indigenous thinking shapes our existence, and our view of the world. Come and share some provocative and enlightening ideas that give enduring power and meaning to Indigenous cinema.

NG GĀ KĀW WAI KA TOR RO KI TAW WHITI - EXPLOR RING AN NCEST TRAL CONN NEC CTIONS Saturday 23 March, 9:30 am, Te Ara a Tāwhaki As each generation reaches out to new horizons, so too does it look back to the source of its identity and courage. Filmmakers of the nations of the Pacific are developing a remarkable film voice despite challenges of distance, relative isolation and limited access to modern technology. The NATIVE Mind understands that the narratives of ancestry connect us to place, time, and each other.

In this session we meet Pasifika women who are filmmakers dedicated to using their creativity for the benefit of their island communities.

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Ngā Aho Nui | Special Events

HE E ORAN NGA PŪ ŪMAU - ETERNAL L WELLBEING Saturday 23 March, 11:00 am, Te Ara a Tāwhaki To face your own mortality because of a disease that will kill you is a profound human experience. In an effort to tackle the disease, Western medicine sometimes limits the humanity of the experience. Indigenous medicine addresses the human condition in its physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects.

The NATIVE Mind finds health within the embrace of our natural environment and the body of Indigenous knowledge.

When Tanya Filia (Ngāpuhi/Kai Tahu) received a devastating prognosis of terminal cancer, she sought spirituality, traditional foods and medicines for her determined journey to good health.

This session includes a screening of documentary, He Oranga Pūmau (2018) with director Jessie McVeagh.

HE TOI TŪ ŪTAHIT TANGA A - A LENS OF SOLIDARITY Y Saturday 23 March, 2:30 pm, Te Ara a Tāwhaki As the global natural resource grab continues many Indigenous communities are under threat of loss of traditional lands, incarceration and even death. The NATIVE Mind understands that the collective is stronger than the individual.

How can the indigenous filmmaking community help those most at risk?

ME EI KORE E AKE TE KO OA - OUR CU ULTURE OF JOY Saturday 23 March, 4:00 pm, Te Ara a Tāwhaki To be Indigenous is often portrayed in the mainstream media as an act of defiance. It is however, an act of love: A love for your origins,: the people, the places and the ideas that made you. It is a love that makes you want to explore the things that accord you status as a human being. We find joy in those identity oriented acts of discovery and achievement. The NATIVE Mind knows how to change the negative narrative through the empowerment of joy.

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SPA ARK KING CREATIVE & TECH COLLA ABORATIONS VR CA AVE AT THE MĀORILAND HUB Thursday 21 March - Saturday 23 March, 10 am - 4 pm, Māoriland Hub Virtual Reality blends creativity and technology enabling the viewer to be immersed in story. Enter the VR cave at the Māoriland Hub and be transported through time, space, and place.

No bookings or tickets. On a first come, first access basis.

AWAVENA

BIID DAABAN: FIRST LIGHT

AOTEAROA PREMIERE

AOTEAROA PREMIERE

Year: 2018 Director: Lynnette Wallworth Co-producers: Tashka Yawanawa, Laura Yawanawa Duration: 30 minutes Language: English, Portuguese, Yawanawá Nation: Yawanawá

Year: 2018 Director: Lisa Jackson Duration: 6-8 minutes Language: Wendat, Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) and Anishinaabe (Ojibway) Nation: Anishinaabe

Hushahu, the first woman shaman of the Yawanawa, uses VR like medicine to open a portal to another way of knowing. Awavena is a collaboration between a community and an artist, melding technology and transcendent experience so that a vision can be shared, and a story told of a people ascending from the edge of extinction.

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Rooted in the realm of Indigenous futurism, Biidaaban: First Light is an interactive VR time-jump into a highly realistic— and radically different—Toronto of tomorrow. As users explore this altered city now reclaimed by nature, they must think about their place in history and ultimately their role in the future.

Ngā Aho Nui | Special Events

TH HAL LU AO OTEAR ROA PREM MIERE Year: 2018 Director: Tyson Mowarin Duration: 17 minutes Language: English and Ngarluma Nation: Ngarluma An Indigenous mine site worker is transported to the spirit world, where he meets the spirits and custodians of the land and learns about how they are connected to humankind - even as their sacred sites remain under threat by the modern world.

NZ WARS S: THE ST TORIES OF RU UAP PEK KAPEKA A Year: 2017 Creator & Presenter: Mihingarangi Forbes Language: English and Māori Nation: Ngāpuhi Mihingarangi Forbes’ interactive documentary gives a Māori perspective on this significant early conflict in The New Zealand Wars. It employs the latest research and animation to evoke a vivid sense of Indigenous place in an ominous time.

LA AUN NCH OF F M.A.T T.C.H MĀOR RILA AND D “AHI” TE ECH H CR REAT TIVE HUB Friday 22 March, 10:30 am, Māoriland Hub Indigenous peoples’ use of creative technology explores real connection to the natural world, and the economic opportunities that link their ancient cultural knowledge to a digital reality. We understand that our youth are the future and only they can see into that future.

M.A.T.C.H will enable Māori youth and their whānau to take part in the rapidly growing creative digital technology sector as content creators, game designers, animators, graphic designers and filmmakers.

Kaiako, Industry and Filmmaker Pass holders and sponsors are invited to attend this exciting event.

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SPA ACES OF CO ONNE ECT TION AN ND CREATIVITY Thursday 21 March - Saturday 23 March, 10 am - 4 pm, Māoriland Hub Thursday 21 March - Sunday 24 March, 10 am - 4 pm, Māoriland Māra Artists walk and work amongst us. They are the creators and exponents of tuhi, tāmoko, whakairo, whatu, whakaari, te reo, waiata and pūrākau.

The Te Toi Matarau Arts Village is a collaboration with artists in residence at the Māoriland Hub.

WA ALK IN N BEAU UTY ‘Walk in Beauty’ by Forrest Goodluck (Mandan, Hidatsa, Tsimshian, Navajo) and Shaandiin Tome (Navajo). See the process behind a film articulated from the film Walk in Beauty (screening at MFF2019).

TĀMOKO O Experience the tradition of story through the art of traditional tattooing.

Wahine and tāne tāmoko practitioners will be in action at the Māoriland Hub.

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Ngā Aho Nui | Special Events

WHA AKAIIRO O

TE E TA AIAO O

Te Matatoki is a collective of some of our country’s best carvers including Fayne Robinson and Lewis Gardner.

They will be demonstrating the art of whakairo creating beautiful works in wood and pounamu.

We are committed to the reduction of waste at Māoriland. We will compost organic matter, recycle and reuse where possible.

We encourage you to join us and reduce your impact on our taiao - environment.

KA ANO OHI KIT TEA ‘NATIVE Eye at Māoriland’ fashion designer, textile, fibre and performance artist, Suzanne Tamaki (Ngāti Maniapoto, Te Arawa, Ngāi Tūhoe) created a collection of stunning large scale portraiture that was exhibited on the streets in Wellington in 2018. Now some of those images featuring Māori women with connections to Ōtaki will be displayed as part of MFF2019

RO ONG GOĀ Ā Offered by Kaitiaki from the Rongoā Collective of the ART Confederation; the tribal region of Raukawa, Te Atiawa and Toa Rangatira: experience an insight into te mahi ā Rongo (wairua-guided offerings), wairākau rongoā (herbal remedies), haumiri (massage) and honohono (spiritual energy healing) in the Māoriland Rongoā space.

We all know that bottled water is destroying the planet’s precious resources and our water in Ōtaki is good! Filtered hydration stations are signposted outside the Māoriland Hub and available for the refilling of drink bottles.

Carry your own food containers for takeaway food, bring a keep cup for coffee or purchase a Māoriland keep cup, say no to single use plastic of any kind. Use and return coffee cups, cutlery and plates at the Māoriland Hub and make use of the washing station to enable the recycling of clean plastic and to do your own dishes for people to be able to use.

Alongside kaitiaki of these Rongoā will be Oro Atua. International Taonga Pūoro Artist and Practitioner Jerome Kavanagh utilises traditional Māori musical instruments that reflect the sound of our natural environment from the mountains to the sea. Take time out of the MFF to be healed by the deep vibrations of taonga pūoro.

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Opening night screening proudly presented by Palmerston North Airport

SO OUTHERN HEMISPHERE AOTEAROA PREMIERE Wednesday 20 March, Red Carpet opens at 8 pm, Screening commences 8:30 pm, Ngā Purapura Year: 2019 Directors: Nicole Whippy (Fiji), ‘Ofa-Ki-Levuka GuttenbeilLikiliki (Tonga), Matasila Freshwater (Solomon Islands), Amberley Jo Aumua (NZ Samoa), Mīria George (Cook Islands), Marina Alofagia McCartney (Samoa), Dianna Fuemana (Niue), Becs Arahanga (Aotearoa) Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes Language: Fijian, Tongan, Roviana (Solomon Islands) Samoan, Cook Islands Māori, Niuean, English and Māori (Aotearoa) Vai is a portmanteau feature film made by 9 female Pacific filmmakers, filmed in 7 different Pacific countries: Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Kūki Aīrani (Cook Islands), Samoa, Niue and Aotearoa. It is about the journey of empowerment through culture over the lifetime of one woman, Vai, played by a different Indigenous actress in each of the Pacific countries. In each of these Pacific nations ‘vai’ means water.

Vai premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in January 2019 to critical acclaim. It is produced by Kerry Warkia (Papua New Guinean; Kokopo, Raluana and Scottish) and Kiel McNaughton (Tainui, Ngāti Mahanga).

“From its conception through to production and now it’s NZ Premiere, ‘Vai’ aligns with the Māorilands Film Festival kaupapa which is to celebrate Indigenous creativity and storytelling in film. We are incredibly proud to have ‘Vai’ open this important and exciting film festival.”

Preceded by short film

PRA AIS SE SONG FOR OCEANIA Year: 2018 Director: Justyn Ah Chong Writer: Craig Santos Perez Duration: 5 minutes Language: English Nation: Kanaka Maoli, Chamorro Praise Song for Oceania is a karakia to the ecologies, histories, politics, economies and cultures of our seas.

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Kiriata | Feature Film

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Friday 22 March, 7:30 pm, The Civic Theatre Year: 2018 Director: Hepi Mita Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes Language: English Nation: Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāi Te Rangi “The revolution isn’t just running out with a gun, if a film I make causes Indigenous people to feel stronger about themselves then I’m achieving something worthwhile for the revolution.”

An intimate story of the birth of Indigenous cinema told from the perspective of Merata’s son Hepi Mita.

The sudden death of pioneering Māori filmmaker Merata Mita in 2010 led her son on a journey to uncover a story of a mother’s love that had forever changed the landscape of Indigenous participation in film.

As a film archivist Hepi uncovers never before seen footage and shares deep personal accounts of a life that led his mother to blaze the trail for many Indigenous film voices we celebrate today; Warwick Thornton, Taika Waititi, Sterlin Harjo and Zoe Hopkins, to name a few.

This film is an important historical account of a movement to which we owe our Indigenous film voice. Merata was the first Māori woman to write and direct a narrative feature Mauri (1988). Merata’s political films highlighted the injustices forced upon Māori, and divided the country as a result. She became a hero internationally for her work, but was considered a nuisance at home in NZ. Merata worked across the globe for many respected organisations including the BBC and National Geographic. She interviewed Robert Mugabe and followed Louis Farrakhan. She directed on Hollywood movie sets. She was fearless, especially if it meant offering a voice for the voiceless.

But the suffering of her family during these times was all too real.

Her drive for social justice would have to be weighed against the dangers to which her work exposed them.

Merata Mita is widely considered to be our own grandmother of Indigenous Cinema. This film is a dedication to her life’s work towards achieving that goal.

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Kiriata | Feature Film

AO OTEA AROA A PREMIERE Thursday 21 March, 8 pm, Ngā Purapura Year: 2018 Director: Nā’ālehu Anthony Duration: 2 hours 28 minutes Language: English Nation: Kanaka Maoli In 1976 a pioneering voyaging canoe sparked a cultural revival that quickly spread throughout Polynesia, breathing new life into ancient myth and legend. More than four decades later, Hōkūle’a still inspires new generations of navigators and voyagers to gather their courage and sail beyond the horizon of the Pacific.

Moananuiākea:One Ocean. One People. Once Canoe celebrates the epic voyage that connected countless individuals and communities around the globe. A voyage that represented the fulfillment of the vision of master navigator Nainoa Thompson and his contemporaries. A journey that saw the passing of the mantle to the next generation of Kānaka Maoli who will retain the skills of their ancestors and perpetuate these ocean going traditions. It is incredible to witness the decolonisation of mind, body and spirit, and the consequent resurgence of a people and their culture.

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(ED DGE OF TH HE KN NIF FE) SOU UTHERN N HEMIS SPHER RE PREMIERE E Saturday 23 March, 7 pm, Ngā Purapura Sunday 24 March, 4:30 pm, The Civic Theatre Year: 2018 Director: Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes Language: Haida Nation: Haida On the islands of Haida Gwaii, two extended families reunite at their annual summer fishing camp. Soon, conflict between a charismatic young man, Adiits’ii, and his best friend Kwa, begins to tear their interwoven families apart. When Adiits’ii’s recklessness and arrogance result in a tragic incident, he flees into the rainforest abandoning his family and way of life.

Wracked with grief and shame, Adiits’ii descends into madness and transforms into a Gaagiixid, a ravenous “wildman” caught between worlds and consumed by insatiable hunger. When the families return the following summer, they realise Adiits’ii has survived the winter. Now, while the community hopes to restore Adiits’ii’s humanity, Kwa wrestles with his deepest desire, revenge.

Sgaawaay K’uuna makes history as the first feature film in the Haida language. Despite being nearly lost to the terrible consequences of smallpox, residential schools, church and government intervention, there are currently less than 60 fluent speakers of Haida, many over the age of 70.

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Kiriata | Feature film

Friday 22 March, 6:30 pm, Ngā Purapura

A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS AVAILABLE!

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AOT A OTEAR TEAROA ROA A PREMIE ERE Sunday 24 M March, 10 am, The Civic Theatre Marc Year: 201 2017 Director: Mark Eby, Diane Anton Duration: ti 1h hour 42 mins Language: nguag Tok Pisin with English subtitles Nation: N on: Arufa Vil Village, Bena B Aliiko Aliko ko & Ambai Amba is a feature film about two young yo women facing the challenges ha allenges es of growing up in the beautiful beautifu Eastern East Highlands of Papua New ew w Guinea. uinea. The challenges are significant: significant tribal trib conflict, poverty, bullying, bul lying, ying, domestic violence,and force forced marriage. marriage Aliko struggles to complete co omplete mplete her education and Ambai searches to escape her abusive home and reunite with h her biological father. They T navigate the many obstacles in their lives and endeavour to build brighter b futures for themselves, supported by the he strength s of o friendship.

Aliko and d Ambai includes depictions depictions of violence, violenc and strong themes.

We recommend an audience of 16 16+. +.

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Ngā AhoKiriata Nui | Special | Feature Events Film

AOT TEAROA A PREMIE ERE Thursday 21 March , 7:30 pm, The Civic Theatre Sunday 24 March, 2:30 pm, The Civic Theatre Year: 2017 Director: Michelle Derosier, Marie-Hélène Cousineau Duration: 1 hour 30 mins Language: English Nation: Anishinaabe Angelique’s Isle is a story about love and survival. Abandoned on a deserted island with her voyager husband Charlie, Angelique, an Anishinaabe woman, finds her faith tested as she fights starvation, the elements, and the treacherous Lake Superior.

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SOU S OUTHE UTHERN ERN N HEMISP PHERE PRE EMIERE Saturday 23 March, Ma 7:30 pm, The Civic Theatre Year: 201 2018 Director: Pipaluk Pipalu Kreutzmann Jorgensen Duration: ti 1h hour 25 minutes Language: nguag Greenlandic Greenland with English subtitles Nation: N on: Greenlandic/ Greenlan Kalaallit K Nunaat Ste Steeped teeped eped in Greenlandic Gr myths, Anori is a tragic tra love story inspired by the he e old Greenlandic narratives . Anori tells te the story of a woman who believes elieves es only in all that is good in life, but when w she is confronted by the he dark forces of nature, Anori is determined det to bring back the light.

This Th his modern story set amongst amon incredible Greenlandic Green landscapes and the e intensely crowd crowded New York City takes take you on a journey where myth th comes to life life.

Anori is the first rst feature film fro from Greenland eenland dire directed by a female ale filmma filmmaker.

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Kiriata | Feature Film

(A AMON NG US - IN THE LAND OF OUR SHADOWS) AO OTE EARO OA PREMIERE Friday 22 March, 9:30 pm, The Civic Theatre Year: 2017 Director: Marc Fussing Rosbach Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes Language: Greenlandic with English subtitles Nation: Inuk, Greenlandic 23-year-old self taught director, Marc Fussing Rosbach presents his first feature film - a suspense filled sci-fi adventure drawing on Greenlandic culture, myth, folklore and legends. When Nukappi begins to have strange dreams he does not understand, he and his childhood friend Mio find themselves swept up in a world of Angakkoq (shaman), sorcerers, and evil spirits. When Nukappi is told he is one of the last remaining Angakkoq in Greenland, the stage is set for a future he never envisioned and a power he must yield to. After discovering the Tarratta Nunaanni, a dark parallel world that threatens their own, the guys become key players in an epic battle between good and evil with our reality hanging in the balance.

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AOT TEAROA A PREMIE ERE Sunday 24 March, 12:30 pm, The Civic Theatre Year: 2018 Director: Lucy Tulugarjuk Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes Language: Arabic, English, French, Inuktitut with English subtitles Nation: Inuit Summer moves slowly for Tia, a 10-year-old Syrian girl who has recently moved to Montreal with her parents, as she struggles to make new friends. When she finds a magic portal that transports her to the arctic tundra, she befriends Piujuq, an Inuk girl of her own age, and they immerse themselves in a world of Inuit myth and magic.

Tia and Piujuq is a stunning story of friendship and connection.

Appropriate for all ages - bring the whÄ nau!

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Kiriata | Feature Film

AOT TEAROA PREMIERE E Friday 22 March, 9 pm, Ngā Purapura Year: 2018 Director: Eduard Novikov Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes Language: Yakut with English subtitles Nation: Sakha Set in Yakutia in 1930 - a time in rural Siberia when the Soviet presence is just starting to cast its shadow - this exquisite film follows the story of an elderly couple, Mikipper and Oppuos. One morning in the midst of the coldest winter in years, Mikipper returns from attending to their cows to see that an eagle has taken up residence outside their home. Worried that the eagle may attack their animals, but fearful of hurting this sacred being, the couple presents the bird with fresh meat as an offering, with hopes it will leave.

Mikipper and Oppuos develop a unique relationship with the “lord eagle” and become accustomed to feeding and caring for the bird as a renewed sense of optimism takes hold. However, when the thaw begins, the unexpected arrival of two Soviet soldiers threatens to upend their lives and all that they hold dear.

From the Indigenous Sakha Republic, Toyon Kyyl recently won the top film prize at the Moscow International Film Festival.

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SOU UTHERN N HEMISP PHERE PRE EMIERE Friday 22 March, 3:30 pm, Ngā Purapura Year: 2018 Director: Roz Owen Executive Producer: Raven Sinclair Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes Language: English Nation: Nehiyaw (Great Plains Cree) Raven, a radical eco-activist, is jailed for protesting development on disputed Indigenous land. Long estranged from her adoptive family, she never imagined her brother Colin would be the one to bail her out. Compelled to stay at his suburban home, she discovers he’s in real estate - pre-selling houses on the very land she’s been trying to save. Adopted, disowned, and now under house arrest, this is a story of betrayal and reckoning - with love, land, and blood.

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PakipĹŤmeka | Documentaries

AOT TEAROA A PREMIE ERE Saturday 23 March, 5 pm, NgÄ Purapura Year: 2018 Director: Adrian Russell Wills Duration: 1 hour Language: English Nation: Wonnarua Clan Group Black Divaz goes behind the glitz, glamour and hot glue guns of the inaugural Miss First Nation pageant. Over five steamy days contestants battle it out in fierce lip synching battles, photo shoots with crocodiles, and challenges that will see each contestant stretch more than just their wardrobe choices. We follow each contestant as they talk candidly about what brought them to this glittering stage - their triumphs and tragedies and what being Miss First Nation means for them and their communities.

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TA AGHI (R REVOL LT) SOU UTHERN N HEMISP PHERE PR REMIERE Year: 2017 Director: Koorosh Asgari Duration: 16 minutes Language: English Nation: Iran A boatwoman finds it difficult to disguise her dislike of one of her passengers, a prostitute. However stereotypes are often shattered when we see the real person underneath.

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AOT TEAROA PREMIER RE Friday 22 March , 2 pm, The Civic Theatre Year: 2017 Director: Tyson Mowarin Duration: 57 minutes Language: English Nation: Ngarluma Connection To Country follows a group of Indigenous people from the Pilbara in their efforts to preserve Australia’s unique cultural heritage from the ravages of a booming mining industry.

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LA AST TAX XI DAN NCE SOU UTHERN HEMISPH HERE PREM MIERE Year: 2018 Director: Brayden Yoder Producer: Ciara Lacy Duration: 18 minutes Language: English Nation: Kanaka Maoli In a ballroom called Paradise, in the aftermath of World War II, a proud Hawaiian singer dances with a returned U.S. soldier and debates the dignity of the American dream. But when his dance tickets run out, she is left with a harsh choice – for when the dancing stops, this man will die.

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Pakipūmeka | Documentaries

SO OUT THERN HEMISPHERE PREMIERE Sunday 24 March, 1 pm, Ngā Purapura Year: 2018 Director: Adam Mazo, Ben Pender-Cudlip Producer: Bruce Duthu (Houma) Executive Producer: Heather Rae (Cherokee) Impact Producer: Tracy Rector (Choctaw/Seminole) Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes Language: English Dawnland is a story of stolen children and cultural survival: inside the first truth and reconciliation commission for Native Americans.

For most of the 20th century, government agents systematically forced Native American children from their homes and placed them with white families. As recently as the 1970’s, one in four Native children nationwide were living in non-Native foster care, adoptive homes, or boarding schools. Many children experienced devastating emotional and physical harm by adults who mistreated them and tried to erase their cultural identity.

Now, for the first time, they are being asked to share their stories.

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AOT TEAROA PREMIER RE Saturday 23 March, 5:30 pm, The Civic Theatre Year: 2017 Director: Erica Glynn Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes Language: English Nation: Aboriginal Australia Raw, heartfelt, sometimes painstful but often funny, In My Own Words follows the journey of adult Aboriginal students and their teachers as they discover the transformative power of reading and writing for the first time in their lives.

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SAC CRED BY NA ATURE E Year: 2018 Director: Trevor Solway Duration: 9 minutes Language: English Nation: Siksika Blackfoot The Blackfoot people attempt to revitalise a seemingly forgotten ceremony that their ancestors once practiced.

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PakipĹŤmeka | Documentaries

(EA ATING UP EAS STER) SOU UTHERN HEMISPHE ERE PRE EMIE ERE Friday 22 March, 10 am, The Civic Theatre Year: 2018 Director: Sergio M. Rapu Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes Language: English, Rapa Nui, Spanish with English subtitles Nation: Rapa Nui In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapa Nui filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people who risk losing everything to the globalising effects of tourism.

The film follows four islanders, descendants of the ancient Moai, who are working to tackle the consequences of their rapidly developing home that the world knows as Easter Island. Mama Piru leads recycling efforts to reduce trash, Mahani and Enrique use music to reunite their divided community, and Sergio tries to understand the motivations of his father who embraces the advantages of building new businesses.

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RUN AS ONE - THE JO OURNEY OF F THE FRONT RU UNNERS SOU UTHERN HEMISPHE ERE PRE EMIE ERE Year: 2018 Director: Erica Daniels Duration: 19 minutes Language: English Nation: Peguis First Nation In 1967, 10 Indigenous boys ran the Pan Am torch 800 km, from Minneapolis to the opening ceremonies in Winnipeg. 51 years later they reunite to reflect on their journey.

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Saturday 23 March, 11:30 am, The Civic Theatre Year: 2018 Director: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe WIlson Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes Language: English and Tongan with English subtitles Nation: Kanaka Maoli, Tonga Leitis in Waiting is the story of Joey Mataele and the Tonga leitis, an intrepid group of native transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism in their South Pacific Kingdom. With unexpected humour and extraordinary access to the Kingdom’s royals and religious leaders, this emotional journey reveals what it means to be different in a society ruled by tradition, and what it takes to be accepted without forsaking your culture.

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Pakipūmeka | Documentaries

SO OUT THERN HEMISPHERE PREMIERE Friday 22 March, 12 pm, The Civic Theatre Year: 2018 Director: Sydney Beane, John Whitehead, Jesse Heinzen Duration: 56 minutes Language: English Nation: Flandreau Santee Sioux ‘Ohiyesa: The Soul Of An Indian’ is a deeply personal family film that follows Kate Beane, an urban, Dakota scholar and her family as they trace the remarkable life of their celebrated relative, Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman), an important author, activist, lecturer and one of the first Native American doctors.

Beane and her family search for the legacy of Ohiyesa, while trying to determine what their own will be.

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PH HULSIIRI SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE PREMIERE SO OUT THERN HEMISPHERE PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Ngima Gelu Lama Duration: 29 minutes Language: Nepali with English subtitles Nation: Gurung One and a half months after the devastating earthquake reduced an entire village to rubble, and a ten-year-old girl longs for normality. News reaches her that school will reopen in a day and she is understandably overjoyed, but there is a hitch: she must first locate her shoes - mandatory under new school rules in the debris that was once her home.

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(M MY HO OME, MY HE EART) AOTEARO OA PRE EMIERE E Saturday 23 March, 1 pm, NgÄ Purapura

IGLU: ANGIR RRA AQ (HOUS SE:HOME) Year: 2018 Director: Mosha Folger Duration: 45 minutes Language: English, Inuktitut with English subtitles Nation: Inuit An Inuk filmmaker explores the homelessness and housing crisis affecting the Inuit in his hometown, Iqaluit, Nunavut.

VO OICE FRO OM TH HE DESE ERT Year: 2018 Director: Amy Pysden, Daniel Clarke Producer: Zaachariaha Fielding Duration: 30 minutes Language: English Nation: Anangu people Aboriginal singer Zaachariaha Fielding is taking the Australian music industry by storm; touring the nation and the world with his groundbreaking electro-soul band Electric Fields. Last year they thrilled us all at MÄ oriland!

From winning New Talent of the Year at the National Indigenous Music Awards, Zaachariaha returns to the tiny central desert community of Mimili to explore the inspiration behind his unique music. Through revealing interviews with Zaachariaha and his family, we learn of the challenges he was forced to overcome as a child, and his journey to music stardom as a proud member of the LGBTQ community.

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PakipĹŤmeka | Documentaries

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Friday 22 March, 4 pm, The Civic Theatre Sunday 24 March, 5 pm, Ngā Purapura R16. Includes stories that explore grief, domestic violence and suicide. This programme of New Zealand short films is also full of beauty and hope.

TH HE ME ESSIA AH Year: 2018 Director: Vela Manusaute Duration: 15 minutes Language: English Nation: Niue, Tonga A young runaway finds refuge with a 17 year-old self proclaimed Messiah in a South Auckland garage only to discover that true salvation is in his own hands.

MY Y FRIIEND MIC CHA AEL JO ONES Year: 2018 Director: Ian Leaupepe, Samson Rambo Duration: 15 minutes Language: English, Samoan Nation: Samoa A high school misfit with severe OCD forms an unlikely bond with a popular classmate through a shared passion for music and dance. An inspiring story of friendship that connects Pasifika culture, LGBTQI awareness, overcoming bullying, and anxiety disorder.

TH HE CR ROSS SROA ADS: LE MĀGAFĀ Year: 2018 Director: Sani Sagala Duration: 3 minutes Language: English, Samoan Nation: Samoa As a note to inspire, Samoan born Kas Futialo aka Tha Feelstyle, pioneering Hip Hop artist, reflects on the four elements influencing his life journey and meeting at The Crossroads: Le Māgafā.

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Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

MY Y BRO OTHE ER MIT TCHELL L Year: 2018 Director: Todd Karehana Duration: 15 minutes Language: English and Māori Nation: Ngāti Awa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Ruapani, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi Todd struggles to comprehend the death of his brother Mitchell. On the last night of the tangi, Todd removes Mitchell’s body from the coffin, taking him on a long journey away from grief and Mitchell’s imminent burial.

Their mother Alma awakes to the disappearance of her two boys. In her distraught state she follows their trail in order to save them from further harm and help her family, and herself, find solace through tragedy.

TH HE GR RAVE EDIGG GER OF KAPU SOU UTHER RN HEM MISPHE ERE E PREMIE ERE Year: 2018 Director: Libby Hakaraia Duration: 16 minutes Language: English, Māori Nation: Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Kapumanawāwhiti The last gravedigger in a Māori community struggles to find a younger man to whom he can pass on his skills and knowledge. When he meets a seemingly ideal candidate, the younger man must rise not only to the physical, but also the spiritual and emotional challenges. To be a gravedigger means accepting deep responsibilities.

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Saturday 23 March, 3:30 pm, The Civic Theatre A Celebration of 25 years of Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department In 1993 the Indigenous Department at Screen Australia was established. Since then over 160 projects have been funded including Redfern Now, Samson & Delilah, Spear, Mystery Road, Goldstone, Toomelah, 8MMM Aboriginal Radio, and numerous documentaries including We Don’t Need a Map, and the historical series First Australians.

The ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Programme’ was established as a result of consultation with the Indigenous community conducted by the Australian Film Commission. The watershed From Sand To Celluloid initiative was developed. Six Indigenous creatives were funded to make their own short films. They have built long careers in the industry.

We’re proud to present From Sand To Celluloid.

FL LY PEE EWEE E, FL LY!!

Year: 1995 Director: Sally Riley Duration: 10 minutes Language: English Nation: Wiradjuri When six-year old Robbie takes up residence in his favourite tree to be with his friend the Peewee bird, his family is forced to see the world from his point of view.

NO O WA AY TO O FOR RGET Year: 1996 Director: Richard Frankland Duration: 11 minutes Language: English Nation: Gunditjmara Based on director Richard Frankland’s experiences as a Field Officer during the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

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Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

PA AYBA ACK Year: 1996 Director: Warwick Thornton Duration: 10 minutes Language: English Nation: Kaytej Paddy has been in jail for 20 years. It’s the day of his release and the years he’s spent doing time for the white man’s law have been in preparation for this one day – his payback day.

RO OUND D UP P Year: 1996 Director: Rima Tamou Duration: 9 minutes Language: English Nation: Bulgunwarra, Ngāruahine Two country boys find themselves out of place in the hubbub of a big city. In this unfamiliar environment, they may discover that they are not as different as they first thought.

TW WO BOB MER RMAID Year: 1996 Director: Darlene Johnson Duration: 15 minutes Language: English Nation: Dunghutti 1950s Australia: a young Koori girl who ‘passes for white’ grapples with racist comments at her local pool.

A story about Aboriginal identity during a period of racial tension.

SA ATUR RDAY NIG GHT, SUN NDAY MORN NING Year: 1996 Director: Rima Tamou Duration: 26 minutes Language: English Nation: Bulgunwarra, Ngāruahine Based on an Archie Weller short story: a shy, disenfranchised teenager in constant conflict with her single dad is hostage to three young men for whom actions have no consequences.

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Thursday 21 March, 4:30 pm, Ngā Purapura Thought provoking films - combined with the tension and the fun of bingo!

TH HE MA AN TH HEY CALL FU UEL SOU UTHER RN HEMISPHE ERE E PREMIER RE Year: 2018 Director: Zach Litwack, Jeremy Charles, Colleen Thurston Duration: 7 minutes Language: English Nation: Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Cherokee Nation He’s a single father working a 9 to 5 job at the Cherokee Nation, but outside of work he dominates in the wrestling ring, and it’s all for a good cause. Brad is a model employee, but “Fuel” is a wrestling superstar like none you’ve ever met.

BE ELIEV VER SOU UTHER RN HEMISPHE ERE E PREMIER RE Year: 2017 Director: Migizi Pensoneau Duration: 4 minutes Language: English Nation: Ponca/Ojibwe After giving a bit of advice to his young son, a bodyguard under attack has to heed that advice in order to survive.

FIR RST IMPRE ESSIO ONS SOU UTHER RN HEMISPHE ERE E PREMIER RE Year: 2018 Director: Andrew Genaille Duration: 4 minutes Language: English Nation: Peters First Nation, Sto:lo A woman waiting at a bus stop has an unusual, supernatural encounter.

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Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

WALTE WA ER’S GHO OST AO OTEARO OA PRE EMIER RE Year: 2018 Director: Caden Pearson Duration: 11 minutes Language: English Nation: Indigenous Australia When Walter gets an unexpected visitor, he is forced to deal with the family’s grief after the death of his mother.

GR RAND DFAT THER R ON TH HE PRAIRIES S SOUTHER RN HEM MISPH HER RE PREM MIERE Year: 2018 Director: Andrew Genaille Duration: 3 minutes Language: English Nation: Peters First Nation, Sto:lo Short animated film from Andrew Genaille about a young man who is talking to his ancestor about his right to join the hunt.

GO OBM MEMÁ ÁINN NAS SOUTHER RN HEM MISPH HER RE PREM MIERE Year: 2017 Director: Niki Rasmus Duration: 7 minutes Language: Northern Sámi with English subtitles Nation: Sámi Storyteller Áslat Pieski shares a gripping story from his childhood.

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Saturday 23 March, 1:30 pm, The Civic Theatre Stories of terrestrial knowledge.

A WOR RLD OF OUR OWN SO OUTHE ERN HE EMISP PHERE PRE EMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Morningstar Derosier Duration: 9 minutes Language: English Nation: Ojibwe When outcasts Lauren and Lily meet in a world that is heavily influenced by technology, their lives are changed.

BIIDAA ABAN N: THE DAW WN COMES S SO OUTHE ERN HE EMISP PHERE PRE EMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Amanda Strong Duration: 19 minutes Language: English Nation: Michif Gender-fluid Anishinaabeg youth collects sap ceremonially with a 10,000-year-old shapeshifting Sasquatch in urban Ontario.

LIGHT T SO OUTHE ERN HE EMISP PHERE PRE EMIERE Year: 2017 Director: Sarah Hennigan Duration: 15 minutes Language: English Nation: Cherokee A gifted young woman launches into the darkness to find a way to save her people. What she uncovers, nobody expected.

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Ngā NgāKiriata KiriataPoto Poto || Short ShortFilms films

FA AN GIIRL Year: 2018 Director: Mario Faumui Duration: 6 minutes Language: No Dialogue Nation: Samoa Country: Aotearoa “FA’ALELE LAU PEPE - Fly your butterfly.” Find your strength in the spirit of your ancestors.

Every day is a social battle. With the flick of the fan, the flight of spirit, Fa’afafine sisters Fine Fatale turns forbidden to familiar. When a young fa’afafine is rejected by society, she finds strength in identity through the spirits of her ancestors.

OU UT OF NO OTHIN NG SOUTHER RN HEM MISPHERE PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Janna Kyllästinen, Alexandra Lazarowich Duration: 15 minutes Language: English Nation: Cree This experimental documentary examines parallels between Western science’s ‘Big Bang’ theory and the creation story of the Shinnecock Nation: to engage with the ever fascinating question “Where do we come from?”

WITHIN N THE E ST TAR RS SOUTHER RN HEM MISPHERE PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Razelle Benally Duration: 5 minutes Language: English Nation: Oglala Lakota / Diné A young woman must decide if she should stay on Earth to help her frozen dystopian planet.

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Thursday 21 March, 2 pm, The Civic Theatre Sunday 24 March, 3 pm, Ngā Purapura Short stories that speak of the spirit within and around us.

KŌ ŌWHA AI Year: 2017 Director: Aydriannah Tuiali’i Duration: 1 minute Language: Māori Nation: Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Hāmoa Kōwhai (2017) emerged from an exploration of the relationship between moving image, kapa haka and waiata, exemplifying the creation of Te Ao Māori – from nothing to something – passed down through generations via ngā momo kōrero or oral storytelling.

FA AINTIN NG SP PELLS S AOTEARO OA PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Sky Hopinka Duration: 10 minutes Language: No dialogue Nation: Ho-Chunk Nation Told through recollections of youth, learning, lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant - used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted.

MA ATEJ SOUTH HERN HEM MISPHERE E PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Julian Karehana Duration: 6 minutes Language: Czech Nation: Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Awa, Te Arawa and Ngāti Ruapani.

14-year-old Matej from Prague accepts help to pass his school exams.

RE ECLAM MATIO ON SOUUTHERN HEMISPHERE PREM MIERE Year: 2018 Director: Viveka Frost Duration: 4 minutes Language: English Nation: Teques/Caribe A short poetic documentary film about Indigenous identity.

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Ngā NgāKiriata KiriataPoto Poto || Short ShortFilms films

OC CHISK KWAC CHO SO OUTHERN N HEMISPHERE PR REMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Jules Koostachin Duration: 15 minutes Language: English Nation: Cree Ochiskwacho is known to many Indigenous people as a spiritual messenger. Kokoom, has to decide whether to stay with her grandchildren or to follow the Ochiskwacho.

AR RE YO OU VO OLLEY YBALL?!

SOU UTHERN N HEMIISPHER RE PREMIER RE Year: 2018 Director: Mohammad Bakhshi Duration: 15 minutes Language: Arabic, English Nation: Iran Are You Volleyball?! is a story of connection across physical and political borders.

EM MKHA ATSINI (BE ETW WEEN)) SOU UTHERN N HEMIISPHER RE PREMIER RE Year: 2018 Director: Toa Stappard Duration: 15 minutes Language: siSwati with English Subtitles Nation: Ngāti Pareraukawa / Ngāti Huia A woman finds herself, lost in the deserted Swazi outback when she tries to locate an elusive community leader.

WA AASE EYAA SOUTH HERN HEMIS SPHERE PREMIER RE Year: 2018 Director: Evelyn Pakinewatik Duration: 6 minutes Language: English Nation: Garden Village, Nipissing First Nation, Ojibwe, Bear Clan A young Anishinaabekwe is healed from tragedy through family and song.

CH HANG GER’S LAN ND SOU UTHERN N HEMIISPHER RE PREMIER RE Year: 2018 Director: Tracy Rector Duration: 5 minutes Language: English Nation: Choctaw, Sacred Water Canoe Family The land endures despite foreign incursions of power plants and highways. The people sing and drum in celebration of the ocean, mountains and creatures of the Salish Sea. 51

Thursday 21 March, 4 pm, The Civic Theatre Sunday 24 March, 10:30 am, Ngā Purapura We are all connected to our ancestors.

FA AST HORSE E AOT TEARO OA PREM MIERE E Year: 2018 Director: Alexandra Lazarowich Duration: 14 minutes Language: English Nation: Cree Fast Horse is a rare look at the world of bareback horse racing through the experience of one Siksika horseman, Alison RedCrow, as he strives to build a team and take on the best riders in the Blackfoot Confederacy. This old tradition is alive and well.

SO OLAS S DATT TER (D DAUGH HTER OF THE E SUN) AOT TEARO OA PREM MIERE E Year: 2018 Director: Sara Margrethe Oskal Duration: 11 minutes Language: Norwegian, Sámi with English subtitles Nation: Sámi Ánne is attending a writers course. She is met with racial prejudices because of her Sámi ethnicity. A writing assignment gives her the courage to confront a fragile memory, a wound that cuts deep.

I HINAN NAO--TA (O OUR JOU URNEY) AOT TEARO OA PREM MIERE E Year: 2018 Director: Cara Flores Duration: 8 minutes Language: Chamoru with English subtitles Nation: Chamoru In I Hinanao-ta (Our Journey), a spirit elder tells the origin story of the Chamoru people. It skillfully weaves together the traditional Chamoru creation story with migration theory; through animated art and film.

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Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

TH HE VIO OLEN NCE OF A CIV VILISATION WITHO OUT SECR RET TS SOU UTHER RN HEM MISPHE ERE E PREMIE ERE Year: 2017 Director: Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil Duration: 10 minutes Language: English Nation: Ojibway An urgent reflection on Indigenous sovereignty, the undead violence of museum archives, and postmortem justice through the case of the ‘Kennewick Man’ a prehistoric Paleo-American man whose remains were found in Kennewick, Washington, in 1996.

SÁ ÁLBM MA (HY YMN N) SOU UTHER RN HEM MISPHE ERE E PREMIE ERE Year: 2018 Director: Katja Gauriloff Duration: 6 minutes Language: Sámi with English subtitles Nation: Skolt Sámi Sálbma is a reminder to all of the diverse Sámi peoples to find ways to honour our heritage, cherish our connections, and preserve our shared identity.

HO OOGH HAN AOTEAAROA PREM MIERE Year: 2018 Director: Blackhorse Lowe Duration: 11 minutes Language: English, Navajo with English subtitles Nation: Navajo Larry A. and Carmelita B. Lowe tell their family history over images of a Hogan, a traditional Navajo dwelling that is under construction.

EA ATNA ANVUL LOŠ LO OTTIT - MAAN SISÄ ÄLLÄ LIN NNUT T (BIR RDS IN THE EARTH) SOU UTHER RN HEM MISPHE ERE E PREMIE ERE Year: 2018 Director: Marja Helander Duration: 11 minutes Language: No language Nation: Sámi Sámi sisters Birit and Katja Haarla dance their way through Finnish landscapes to tell a melancholic story about Sámi peoples’ rights in Finland today.

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Thursday 21 March, 12 pm, The Civic Theatre Saturday 23 March, 3 pm, Ngā Purapura Family comes in many shapes.

LE EAVE IT ON N TH HE WATER AOT TEARO OA PREM MIERE E Year: 2018 Director: Steve Sxwithultxw Duration: 12 minutes Language: English Nation: Penelakut Tribe Outrigger racing is a global sport embraced by many Indigenous peoples. We follow a canoe group, from a small isolated First Nation village (Penelakut) on Vancouver Island, BC as they represent their community in the world’s largest outrigger canoe race in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

I AM WARU Year: 2018 Director: Angela Cudd-Wharehinga Duration: 13 minutes Language: English, Māori Nation: Ngāti Porou, Te Tairāwhiti Whānui & Te Arawa I Am Waru is about a solo father, who is driven by his dark past to find an alternative way of parenting.

He discovers an answer in his Māori roots.

KA A MAH HINA A A ME KA PO O (TH HE MOON N AND D THE NIGHT) AOT TEARO OA PREM MIERE E Year: 2018 Director: Erin Lau Duration: 19 minutes Language: English Nation: Kanaka Maoli In rural Hawaii, a teenage girl must confront her father after he enters her beloved pet in a dog fight.

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Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

UA APŌIF FALE EMAL LU Year: 2018 Director: Brown Paper Ink, Crooked Fence Films Duration: 13 minutes Language: English, Samoan Nation: Pu’apu’a / Saipipi / Si’umu / Poutasi / Alamagoto, Nofoali’i / Leulumoega Uapōifalemalu is a love letter and celebration, a dedication to Sāmoan women. Our aunties, mothers, grandmothers, our tinā. They raise us, they nurture us, they teach us, they care for us - and care for each other.

UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY AOTEAROA PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Tyson Mowarin Duration: 20 minutes Language: English Nation: Ngarluma, Ieramagadu (Roebourne), Western Australia Uncle inflicts an impromptu visit to country on his wayward nephews, imposing two cultural traditions; one highly literary and the other deeply personal, to get them thinking about a new way to go.

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Thursday 21 March, 10 am, The Civic Theatre Saturday 23 March, 10 am, The Civic Theatre The land sustains us. One day we will return to it.

IN THE VALL LEY OF WILD HORSES SOU UTHERN N HEMIISPHER RE PREMIER RE Year: 2018 Director: Asia Youngman, Trevor Mack Duration: 23 minutes Language: English Nation: Cree, Iroquois, Carrier and Tsilhqot’in Every summer in the interior of British Columbia, Canada, the community of Xeni Gwet’in travel 200-km by horse and wagon; from their home in Nemiah Valley to the famous Williams Lake stampede.

FIR RST MEDIC CINE E, LONG MAN SOU UTHERN N HEMIISPHER RE PREMIER RE Year: 2018 Director: Joseph Erb Duration: 14 minutes Language: English Nation: Cherokee Cherokee waters and today’s issues with pollution.

GR REENL L AND D TIM MELAPSE ES | QE EQER RTARS SUAQ Q SOUTHERRN HEMISPHERE PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Ulannaq Ingemann Duration: 3 minutes Language: No Dialogue Nation: Greenlandic Inuk A time lapse exploration of Greenland. We start the journey in Qeqertarsuaq.

TH HE NA ATION NAL INT TEREST T SOU UTHERN N HEMIISPHER RE PREMIER RE Year: 2018 Director: Andrew Genaille Duration: 3 minutes Language: English Nation: Peters First Nation, Sto:lo Jeb and Kevin meet on a pipeline protest, and an interesting conversation ensues.

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Ngā NgāKiriata KiriataPoto Poto || Short ShortFilms films

NIY YAMG GIRI - THE E MOUNT TAIN OF LAW W AOT TEARO OA PREM MIERE Year: 2018 Director: Surya Shankar Dash Duration: 10 minutes Language: Kui and Odia with English subtitles Nation: Kondh Tribe, Odisha, India For two decades the Dongria Kondh Indigenous community has fought to protect their sacred hills, Niyamgiri (Odisha, India) from mining company Vedanta.

TU ULALIIP AN ND GA AUA - ME ERELAVA WO OMEN N’S SH HELL LFISH PR ROJECT AOT TEARO OA PREM MIERE Year: 2019 Director: Georgina Kaitiplel Duration: 8 minutes Language: Bislama, Lakon with English Subtitles Nation: Ni-Vanuatu A documentary about the art of making shell money in Gaua, Vanuatu.

HO OME SOUTHEERN HEM MISPHERE E PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Inuk Jørgensen Duration: 8 minutes Language: English Nation: Inuit, Greenlandic.

A personal perspective on coming home after nearly a decade abroad, and finding that something is not right in what was a familiar paradise. A warning that profound change is coming.

GE EODU UCK SOU UTHERN N HEMIISPHER RE PREMIER RE Year: 2018 Director: Tracy Rector Duration: 6 minutes Language: English Nation: Choctaw, Sacred Water Canoe Family Suquamish diver Lydia Sigo dives deep for the ancient clam called Geoduck. More than just harvesting food, or making an income, the practice is about sustaining her people and cultural values.

SH HELL NO SO OUTHE ERN N HEMISP PHERE PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Tracy Rector Duration: 7 minutes Language: English Nation: Choctaw, Sacred Water Canoe Family Shell No is a spoken word piece created to unify all peoples in defence of the land, water and future generations.

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Saturday 23 March, 10:30 am, Ngā Purapura Short stories about sovereignty.

BA ALAN NCE AO OTEARO OA PRE EMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Barzan Rostami Duration: 3 minutes Language: No Dialogue Nation: Iran - Kurdistan - Kobani - Shangal From Iran, Balance shows how soldiers sacrifice their lives to ensure that future generations may live in peace.

BO OOM M BOO OM SOUTHER RN HEM MISPH HER RE PREMIIERE Year: 2018 Director: Per-Josef Idivuoma Duration: 17 minutes Language: English, Norwegian, Swedish with English Subtitles Nation: Sámi 1944. Norway is under Nazi occupation. Two Sámi help the Norwegian resistance on a sabotage mission, but the bridge they’re about to blow up is guarded by a Nazi.

Not just any man - a fellow Sámi in Nazi uniform.

DO OWN N ON THE E SIDEWA WALK IN WAIIKIKI WO ORLD PREMIE ERE Year: 2019 Director: Justyn Ah Chong Duration: 20 minutes Language: English Nation: Kanaka Maoli A soft-spoken Janitor, frustrated with cleaning up after an endless parade of tourists in Waikīkī, reflects on a traumatising memory that channels his madness into words and awakens a voice within. Down On The Sidewalk In Waikīkī is a narrative short film inspired by a collection of poetry published posthumously featuring Hawaiian poet Wayne Kaumualii Westlake (1947-84).

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Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

HAE HAWAI’I AOTEAROA PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Ty Sanga Duration: 16 minutes Language: English Nation: Kanaka Maoli In 1893, the Hawaiian monarchy is illegally overthrown. A group of elites secretly enlist a young man to steal the Hawaiian flag on Annexation Day.

WE’LL L ALW WAYS S HAVE TOYNBEE SOUTHER RN HEM MISPH HERE PREM MIERE Year: 2018 Director: Sonia B. Boileau Duration: 15 minutes Language: English Nation: Mohawk We’ll Always Have Toynbee is a classic story of a doomed love affair between a Caucasian man and a Kanienkehaka (Mohawk) woman. It is a story about magnetism, complicity and desire. When these impulses or emotions have no social context, no exterior elements weighing on them, there are no boundaries or limits. But it is also a story about how we, as First Nations, must put our convictions before our own personal feelings: Integrity becomes more powerful than love.

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Friday 22 March, 6 pm, The Civic Theatre Short stories that force you to feel deeply. This programme is recommended for mature audiences.

HE ER WA ATER R DRU UM SOU UTHER RN HEM MISPHE ERE E PREMIE ERE Year: 2018 Director: Jonathan Elliott Duration: 16 minutes Language: English Nation: Tuscarora (Haudenosaunee) In the wake of her daughter’s disappearance, Jolene, a single Mohawk mother, is forced to pick up the pieces of her life and navigate an increasingly strenuous relationship with her troubled son David. As secrets emerge, their relationship faces its toughest challenge yet as they confront the reality of their situation.

This film deals with the topic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada, highlighting the impact it has on individual families and their communities.

RE EMED DIATIO ON SOUUTHERN HEMISPHERE PREEMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Luke Parnell Duration: 12 minutes Language: English Nation: Haida/Nisga’a In 1959 Bill Reid created a documentary about an expedition to ‘salvage’ historic totem poles from a deserted village on Haida Gwaii. In response to this film, Haida carver Luke Parnell explores the implications of the removal of these cultural objects through a journey with one of his own totems.

TH HE HU UNT AOTEAARO OA PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Masoud Kazerouni Duration: 13 minutes Language: Persian with English subtitles Nation: Bushehr-Iran Two fisherman confront the worst in each other after an incident at sea.

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Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

MAUKA TO MAKAI SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Jonah Okano, Alika Maikau Duration: 25 minutes Language: English Nation: Kanaka Maoli Mauka to Makai offers an unfiltered window into the lives of two cousins, who, while traveling from Kāne’ohe to Kailua, grapple with their identity, vices, and the familial bonds that make and break them.

WALK K IN BEA AUTY SO OUTHE ERN HE EMISP PHERE PR REMIERE Year: 2019 Director: Forrest Goodluck Duration: 13 minutes Language: English Nation: Diné, Mandan Hidatsa, Tsimshian A homeless Navajo veteran becomes, what in childhood he most feared.

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The industry events at Māoriland are intended to connect and invigorate filmmakers from across the Indigenous world. They are accessible by industry pass only. Details of the industry pass are found on the ticketing info page in this programme.

MĀORILA AND D SPEED DATIN NG Wednesday 20 March, 3 - 4 pm, Māoriland Hub Want to meet an international festival director? Or connect with a filmmaker or funder? Māoriland speed dating puts you in direct contact with some of the enablers in the industry, with a fun and exciting event.

CROS SS NAT TIO ON CO OLL L AB BOR RATION NMAKIING G IT HAPPEN Friday 22 March, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Māoriland Hub Connecting those ready to make films without borders.

MAST TER RCLA ASS WITH AL L AN NIS OBO OMSA AWIN Thursday 21 March, 1 - 3 pm, Te Ara a Tāwhaki We are honoured to host the master documentary maker and tireless First Nations social activist Alanis Obomsawin.

As a child, Alanis learned the stories and legends of her Abenaki nation. As a young woman, she retold these stories through song to audiences in Canada, Europe and America. In the late 1960’s she was introduced to filmmaking. For the past five decades she has used her lens as a tool of Indigenous resistance.

TE E MO OAN NAN NUI A KIWA A PAS SIFIKA BREA AKFAST Friday 22 March, 8:30 - 9:30 am, Māoriland Hub Savour the flavour of kai from around the Pacific.

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MĀORILA AND D PITC CH CO OMPET TITIO ON - CROSS NA ATIO ON CO OLLABORATION N Friday 22 March, 2 - 3 pm, Māoriland Hub An opportunity to kickstart a film project that is an indigenous collaboration. You must register to pitch. Details of the prize package and criteria are online at www. maorilandfilm.co.nz or at the Manuwhiri Desk during the MFF.

Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

The MRFF introduces school age rangatahi (youth) to the world of Indigenous cinema. It is curated by Ngā Pakiaka, a group of young filmmakers from around Aotearoa.

Rangatahi who attend the MRFF will engage with current issues and youth perspectives that will challenge and inspire.

Ticketing Tickets to screenings are only $2 per student or $5 per student per day. Tickets are available online at www.iticket.co.nz or at the Māoriland Hub. General admission to MRFF screenings for non-school groups is $6 per screening.

Enquiries should be directed to Rangatahi Manager Madeleine de Young maddy@maorilandfilm.co.nz

E TŪ WHĀ ĀNAU RANGA ATA AHI FILM M AWARDS Thursday 21 March, 9:30 am - 11 am, Ngā Purapura Each year Māoriland Charitable Trust, with the support of E Tū Whānau and Te Tumu Whakaata NZ Film Commission, hits the road to present free filmmaking workshops for rangatahi around Aotearoa.

This awards ceremony is a celebration of rangatahi behind and in front of the lens. It will feature a selection of films entered in the 2019 challenge.

Awards will be given to filmmakers who demonstrate passion, ability and an understanding of the kaupapa.

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AOTEAROA PREMIERE Thursday 21 March, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Ngā Purapura A collection of short films that explore animals, dancing and Indigenous legends through animation and experimental film. Suitable for a younger audience.

BL L AC CK MOU UNTAIIN BOY Year: 2018 Director: Jonathon Yellowhair Duration: 4 minutes Nation: Diné/Navajo A young boy must protect his horse from the dangers that lurk in the rugged mountains of Navajoland.

TH HE IMPO ORT TANCE E OF DR REA AMIN NG Year: 2017 Director: Tara Audibert Duration: 12 minutes Language: English Nation: Wolastoqey from Tobique First Nation The forbidden love between an Owl and a Fox drives them away from friends and family as they search for happiness together.

HO OW DID D TH HE RA ABBIT GET T TO TH HE MOO ON

YO OU & ME Year: 2018 Director: Lada Suomenrinne Duration: 2 minutes Nation: Utsjoki,Sápmi Northern Sámi Could a human could fall in love with the spirit of the snow and wilderness in the north?

SIILEN NT FILM M Year: 2018 Director: Hunter Cyr Montour, Wyatt Harper, Dylan Standup Duration: 1 minutes Nation: Mohawk A fun, lighthearted look at the fun of filmmaking. Humorous, and suitable for the Fortnite generation.

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Year: 2016 Director: Gabriela Badillo Duration: 2 minutes Language: Huastec from the East, San Luis Potosí.

Nation: Huastec We learn the Huasteco story about how Rabbit saved humanity.

Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

TH HE SOR RCERER’S CRICKET T Year: 2016 Director: Gabriela Badillo Duration: 3 minutes Language: Yaqui from Sonora Nation: Yaqui The Yaqui people fight against a prophecy in order to protect themselves, unaware that this same prophecy would warn them of even greater evil to come.

TH HE AMA AUT TALIK Year: 2014 Director: Neil Christopher Duration: 7 minutes Language: English Nation: Inuit A neglected orphan and kind little girl encounter one of the most dangerous land spirits from the Inuit folktales - the Amautalik.

UK KAL LIQ AND D KAL LLA GO FIISHIING Year: 2017 Director: Neil Christopher Duration: 5 minutes Language: English Nation: Inuit Ukaliq and Kalla are two unlikely friends who set out to go fishing.

AA AAH HHH H!!! FLIPPIING DIINO OSAU URS S & FLO OPPY FIS SH! Year: 2018 Director: Alysha Duration: 2 minutes Nation: Temagami First Nation (Bear Island) Three fun animations in a row.

GRAN NDF FATH HER ON TH HE PRA AIRIE ES Year: 2018 Director: Andrew Genaille Duration: 3 minutes Language: English Nation: Peters First Nation, Sto:lo A young Cree man comes face to face with his great, great, great grandfather on the open prairies.

HA ANT T QU UIJ CÖIPA AXI HAC TH HE CRE EATIION OF THE WOR RLD Year: 2019 Director: Antonio Coello Duration: 10 minutes Language: Cmiique Iitom, English subtitles Nation: Métis, Seri, Mexico The creation myth is adapted into an animated short film made by Seri Indigenous children and elders.

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AOTEAROA PREMIERE Thursday 21 March, 1:15 - 2:15 pm, Ngā Purapura If you are hungry for informative and funny shorts then feast your eyes on these handpicked films from around the globe. Suitable for the whole whānau.

BA ANA ABA ANS S OF RABI

ID DLE NO MO O RE

Year: 2018 Director: Blessen Tom, Hele Ikimotu Duration: 9 minutes Language: English Nation: Niuean, Banaban - Gilbertese

Year: 2018 Director: Ginger Cote Duration: 5 minutes Language: English Nation: Algonquin

The documentary follows the people in Rabi and sheds light on the problems that they face now, especially climate change.

Ginger Cote honours the strong words of late social activist and foster care child, Heather Archibald to demand a change in Canada’s policies concerning Indigenous people.

TH HE STO ORY Y OF PA ASHA Year: 2018 Director: Pasha Partridge Duration: 2 minutes Language: English Nation: Temagami First Nation (Bear Island) A lyrical animation about the director’s name and namesake; and what that means in her Inuk culture.

HA AE HAW WAI’II Year: 2018 Director: Ty Sanga Duration: 17 minutes Language: English Nation: Kanaka Maoli In 1893, the Hawaiian monarchy is illegally overthrown. A young man is tasked with stealing the Hawaiian flag on Annexation Day.

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LE ES VAIL LLANTS Year: 2018 Director: Martin Gunn Duration: 4 minutes Language: English Nation: Anishinaabe When someone dies, Kitcisakik men get together to build a casket as a show of solidarity with the family.

KA A US SSI TS SISH HKU UTAM MASHUHT (L LES DÈB BUT TANTS)) Year: 2018 Director: Racheal, Béatrice et Gisèle Mark Duration: 4 minutes Language: English Nation: Innue A group of Unamen Shipu women are on a mission to train new choir singers. But it’s not as easy as it appears.

Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

YA’M MA’YETHA (THE HUNTER)

HEELS TO HEAL

Year: 2018 Director: Cameron & Daryl Kootenay Duration: 5 minutes Language: English Nation: Nakoda

Year: 2017 Director: Eileen Francis Duration: 4 minutes Language: English Nation: First Nations

This film is centered around two brothers and their reflections on the sacred journey of hunting for the Nakoda people.

This documentary short film follows a group of Aboriginal men who decide to take a stand against violence towards women in Vancouver and Alberta.

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Friday 22 March, 9:30 - 10:30 am, Ngā Purapura This programme of short films presents whimsical tales of cosmic adventures and compelling real-life stories suitable for the whole whānau.

FA AST T HO ORSE AOTEAAROA PREM MIERE Year: 2018 Director: Alexandra Lazarowich Duration: 14 minutes Language: English Nation: Cree Siksika horseman Allison Red Crow struggles to build a team with secondhand horses and a new jockey, to take on the best riders in the Blackfoot Confederacy at the Calgary Stampede.

KU UUJJJUA AQ SO OUTH HERN HEM MIS SPHERE E PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Sammy Gadbois Duration: 5 minutes Language: English Nation: Inuit A video essay about the perspective of a teenager on his hometown.

HE EAD DS UP SO OUTH HERN HEM MIS SPHERE E PREMIERE

MAHIIGA ANIE EC (PE ETITE LOU UVE) SO OUTH HERN HEM MIS SPHERE E PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Jacqueline Michel Duration: 5 minutes Nation: Anishinaabe Raised by a shewolf, a little girl is found by an Anishinaabe woman who tries to tame her.

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Year: 2018 Director: Abraham Cote Duration: 4 minutes Language: English Nation: Algonquin A hilarious comedy about a guy named Tony who discovers that luck is a fleeting thing.

Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

TH HE CRO OSS SROAD DS Year: 2018 Director: Sani Sagala Duration: 3 minutes Language: English Nation: Sāmoan As a note to inspire, Samoan born and pioneering Hip Hop artist Kas Futialo (aka Tha Feelstyle) reflects on the four elements influencing his life journey and meeting at The Crossroads: Le Māgafā.

CO OSM MIC C AD DVENT TURES Year: 2018 Director: Bailey Poching Duration: 13 minutes Language: English Nation: Sāmoan/Māori Kent Lasershaft is a superhero for the ages: a defender of the weak, and hero to the innocent. He’s also the creation of Kent Edwards, a quiet nerd who finds solace in his fantasy creation: the world of Cosmic Adventures!

TH HE MAN N TH HEY CALL FUEL SO OUTH HERN HEM MIS SPHERE E PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Zach Litwack, Jeremy Charles, Colleen Thurston Duration: 7 minutes Language: English Nation: Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma He’s a single father working a 9 to 5 job at the Cherokee Nation, but outside of work he dominates in the wrestling ring, and it’s all for a good cause. Brad is a model employee, but “Fuel” is a wrestling superstar like none you’ve ever met.

SP PIRIIT SO OUTH HERN HEM MIS SPHERE E PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Tristin Greyeyes Duration: 3 minutes Language: English Nation: Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, Plains Cree Two friends watch a movie together and one of them sees something in the window.

The friend doesn’t, but lights up some smudge, and it helps.

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WOR RLD PREMIIERE Friday 22 March, 12:00-1:00 pm, Ngā Purapura Through Our Lens is a Māoriland film leadership kaupapa that connects Indigenous youth around the world through peer-led filmmaking workshops. The first Through Our Lens took place in 2017.

In 2018 TOLII took 4 rangatahi filmmakers to Rarotonga and Aitutaki to work with their peers. This is the world premiere of the five films made in the Cook Islands. Q & A to follow.

TOLII will continue in 2019.

AITUTAKI

RAROTONGA

TH HE HUN NT

RO OCK K, PA APE ER, SCISSORS, MIRA ACLE E?

After discovering a map in the school library two students go on a hunt for treasure in Aitutaki but what will they find?

TH HE NOT TE The retelling of the Aitutaki legend of Hikaroa and Otaua and how their love story began by passing notes in class.

How hard is it to win a game of rock, paper, scissors? Impossible when you’re playing the island’s champion Ta’i - until a miracle falls from the sky.

IS SLAN ND FU After she was beaten by a group of bullies, Kaea finds someone who is willing to teach her to defend herself.

WHO O WE E AR RE A young boy dreams of learning his culture, while his disapproving mother tries her hardest to stop him.

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Ngā Kiriata Poto | Short Films

Friday 22 March, 1:30-2:30 pm, Ngā Purapura If you want to fill your kete with Indigenous matauranga (knowledge) then THESE are the short films for you. 13+

A WO ORLD OF OUR OWN

OCHIISKW WAC CHO

SO OUTH HERN HEM MIS SPHERE E PREMIERE

SO OUTH HERN HEM MIS SPHERE E PREMIERE

Year: 2018 Director: Morningstar Derosier Duration: 8 minutes Language: English Nation: Ojibwe Migisi Sahgaigan First Nation

Year: 2018 Director: Jules Koostachin Duration: 15 minutes Language: English Nation: Cree

When outcasts Lauren and Lily meet in a world that is heavily influenced by technology their lives are changed forever.

Ochiskwacho is known to many Indigenous people as a spiritual messenger. Kokoom, has to decide whether to stay with her grandchildren or follow the Ochiskwacho.

YO OUR R NA AME E ISN’T T ENGLIS SH

TH HE GRA AVED DIGGE ER OF KA APU

SO OUTH HERN HEM MIS SPHERE E PREMIERE

Year: 2018 Director: Libby Hakaraia Duration: 16 minutes Language: English, Māori Nation: Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Kapumanawāwhiti

Year: 2018 Director: Tazbah Chavez Duration: 15 minutes Language: English Nation: Nüümü (Paiute), Dinè (Navajo), Apache Each time Tazbah gets into a ride-share car she becomes a free history teacher as drivers struggle to pronounce her name.

It’s an American history lesson from the backseat they will never forget.

SH HEL LL NO O SO OUTH HERN HEM MIS SPHERE E PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Tracy Rector Duration: 7 minutes Language: English Nation: Choctaw, Sacred Water Canoe Family Shell No is a spoken word piece created to unify all peoples in defence of the land, water, and future generations.

The last gravedigger in a Māori community struggles to find a younger man to whom he can pass on his skills and knowledge.

PR ROT TECT T OUR FU UTURE DA AUG GHT TERS S SO OUTH HERN HEM MIS SPHERE E PREMIERE Year: 2018 Director: Maryanne Junta and Helena Lewis Duration: 7 minutes Language: English Nation: Mi’gmaq Maryanne Junta, a young Llnu activist, tells us about the Red Dresses Project, as she herself mourns the loss of one of Canada’s 1,181 missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

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DAY 1 RĀAPA / WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH 9:30

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Māoriland Filmmakers Residency Launch

PŌWHIRI

15:30

Speed Dating (INDUSTRY)

DAY 2 RĀPARE / THURSDAY 21 MARCH 9:30

10:00

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Whenua Shorts

12:30

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Whānau Shorts

E Tū Whānau Rangatahi Film Awards

14:30

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Wairua Shorts

Ngā Raurēkau Shorts

1:15 - 2:15 pm Ngā Pūtake Shorts Filmmaker Masterclass (INDUSTRY)

DAY 3 RĀMERE / FRIDAY 22 MARCH 9:30

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Eating Up Easter (Rapanui) Ngā Kahukura Shorts

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Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian (USA) Through Our Lens II

MATCH LAUNCH

14:30

Connection to Country (Australia) Ngā Matauranga Shorts

Cross Nation collaboration (INDUSTRY)

Māoriland PITCH (INDUSTRY)

DAY 4 RĀHOROI / SATURDAY 23 MARCH 9:30

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Whenua Shorts (repeat)

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Leitis in Waiting (Tonga)

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Kauae Raro Shorts Tōku Kāinga Tōku Manawa (Australia + Inuit)

Mana Motuhake Shorts NATIVE Minds: Exploring Ancestral Connections

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Whānau Shorts (repeat) NATIVE Minds: Indigenous Solidarity

NATIVE Minds: He Oranga Pumau

DAY 5 RĀTAPU / SUNDAY 24 MARCH 9:30

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Aliko & Ambai (Papua New Guinea) (16+) Whakapapa Shorts (repeat)

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Tia and Piujuq (Canada) Dawnland (USA)

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Angelique’s Isle (Canada) Wairua Shorts (repeat)

CIVIC THEATRE - Main St

NGA PURAPURA - 145 Tasman Rd

TE ARA TAWHAKI - 144 Tasman Rd

RANGIĀTEA CHURCH - Te Rauparaha St

MĀORILAND HUB - 68 Main Street

RAUKAWA MARAE - Main Street

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MFF KEYNOTE MERATA MITA

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Australia Retrospective Shorts

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MERATA - How Mum Decolonised The Screen (Aotearoa)

Impact Shorts (M)

Trouble in the Garden (USA)

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Moananuiākea: One Ocean.

One Canoe. One People. (Hawai’i)

Aotearoa Shorts (R16)

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Angelique’s Isle (Canada)

Bingo Shorts

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OPENING NIGHT VAI NZ PREMIERE

Whakapapa Shorts

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Akornatsinniittut Tarratta Nunaanni (Greenland) Toyon Kyyl (Sakha)

Mystery Screening

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In My Own Words (Australia) Black Divaz (Australia)

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Anori (Greenland) SGaawaay K’uuna (Edge of The Knife) (Haida)

NATIVE Minds: Joy Culture

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SGaawaay K’uuna (Edge of The Knife) (Canada) Aotearoa Shorts (R16) (repeat)

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RED CARPET PARTY (18+) PREMIERE OF NATIVE SLAM IV

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Tāria taku moko Māori ki ngā kiriata o te wā Embed my Native Soul in Film.

To all of you who have traveled from near and far.

Thank you for coming to Ōtaki and for sharing the love we all have for a good story, a fabulous film, and each other.

Māoriland Charitable Trust owns and operates the Māoriland Film Festival and the Māoriland Hub. This festival booklet and programme was curated

by Madeleine de Young and the Māoriland whanau.

Writing and additional curation by Libby Hakaraia and Tainui Stephens. Programming advisors Tania and Pat Hakaraia with additional input by Maakarita Paku and Moko Morris. MRFF is curated by Ngā Pakiaka with support by Ariah Kapa. This booklet and all the Māoriland tohu is designed by Michael de Young.

The cover art is by Estria Miyashiro, Hawai’i, Mele Murals - Ke Kula “O “Ehunuikaimalino.

For more information about our year-round events, visit us online at www.maorilandfilm.co.nz, or keep an eye on the window displays at the Māoriland Hub, 68 - 70 Main Street, Ōtaki Village.

For information on how you can support Māoriland, please email - kiaora@maorilandfilm.co.nz We welcome your tautoko!

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