Māoriland Film Festival 2020 Day One

DAY THREE Sembradoras de Vida

Friday 25 September , 9:30 AM, Māoriland Hub

Year: 2019 Director: Diego Sarmiento, Alvaro Sarmiento Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes Language: Quechua, Spanish with English Subtitles Nation: Quechua

Five women from the Andean highlands struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land. The women take on the role of protectors against the industrialisation of agriculture, the use of chemical pesticides and genetically modified seeds.

Screening with: Ko Au Te Awa Year: 2019 Director: Jonathan Carson, Caleb Kingi Duration: 15 minutes Language: English, Māori Nation: Te Atihaunui a Paparangi In 2017, the Whanganui river was granted legal personhood confirming what Māori already knew - the awa is an ancestor. Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au. I am the river and the river is me.

Wawa No Cidal

Friday 25 September, 11:30 am, Māoriland Hub

Year: 2016 Director: Cheng Yu-Chieh, Lekal Sumi Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes Language: Mandarin with English subtitles Nation: Amis, Taiwan

Inspired by a true story, a woman returns home after years away from her village to find it overdeveloped and heavily influenced by tourism, so she sets out to reclaim her family’s land and culture.

Kia Manawanui Shorts

Friday 25 September, 2:00 pm, Māoriland Hub

The modern world contains many pressures that threaten Indigenous livelihoods. In these films, connection to land, culture and spirit provide a source of inner strength to do what must be done. The Boxers of Brule Year: 2019 Director: Jessie Adler Duration: 38 minutes Language: English Nation: Choctaw/Seminole In the wake of her best friend’s suicide, a young woman creates a girls’ boxing team to heal through sport, sisterhood, and tradition. Shaionna leads the squad of sassy pre-teens to face the challenges of the reservation with relentless humour and slushy-stained smiles, fighting her own battle with addiction all the while.

OshKiKiShiKaw: A New Day

Year: 2019 Director: Jules Koostachin Duration: 25 minutes Language: English Nation: Cree, Attawapiskat First Nation 12-year-old twins cut their hair for the very first time in a Cree coming-of-age

ceremony.

Warburdar Bununu (Water Shield)

Year: 2019 Director: Jason De Santolo Duration: 8 minutes Language: English Nation: Garrwa

The impacts of mining flow through the landscape and deep into a community. Devastated by irrefutable evidence of water contamination, a young leader finds hope: In country and culture.