MFF2023 Book

WE LOOK TO THE PAST SO THE FUTURE MAY BE DIFFERENTMĀ MUA E KĒ ANŌ AI MĀ MURI

Front Cover Image: A brass band leads the funeral procession and glass drawn hearse, followed by people and cars along the main street of Ōtaki to the urupā at the rear of the Rangiātea Church. Photography Charles Frederick Newham. Filmed by NZ Moving Picture Company, Māoriland Films. Stills Collection, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.

Te Hunga TautokoAcknowledgements

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 Kapu. 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 who support the kaupapa, tēnā koutou.

FESTIVAL PARTNERS

Māoriland Film Festival (MFF) is Aotearoa’s international Indigenous Film Festival

This 10th edition of the MFF is the largest showcase in the festival’s history with over 150 Indigenous nations presenting over 140 feature and short films as well as games, VR and visual arts.

Nau mai hoki mai - welcome to Ōtaki for MFF2023.

Hei WhakakitengaThe Declaration of Indigenous Cinema

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 through 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, we will make the invisible visible again.

We vow to manage our own destiny and recover our complete humanity in 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.

Ngā Pou o te Whare KōreroThe Foundation Posts of Māoriland

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:

KOAKOA - CELEBRATION

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.

OHOOHO - INSPIRATION

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 connect with those from other cultures.

MANAAKI - RESPECT

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.

KŌTAHITANGA - INCLUSION

Māoriland provides a portal to the Indigenous world for ALL people. It assists social cohesion, a sense of pride, and the informed well-being of our community.

Kāti. Tūia 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) 2016. Extract from chant marking the opening of the Māoriland Hub 2016.

He Kupu WhakatakiFrom The Festival Director

E ngā mana o te ao, e ngā reo o te wā, tēnā koutou katoa.

In late 2013 I was fortunate to stand on a stage at the imagineNATIVE Festival in Toronto and invite the Indigenous film world to Ōtaki. In March 2014, they came: filmmakers from the northern hemisphere, from across te Moana Nui ā Kiwa and, from Aotearoa. We played BOY at our outdoor screening, and Taika hung out with our rangatahi. We had very little funding but it didn’t matter. We towed our small Māoriland caravan between venues as our ticket office, billboard and kapu tī space. We dressed up and walked our very own red carpet. It was a night to remember. Something new was born.

Our kaupapa was to create a festival where Indigenous filmmakers could share their stories with our community. Many years of hard graft and passion for this kaupapa has been rewarded by seeing the growth of the MFF represented in excited filmmakers, happy audiences and a dedicated Māoriland team that grows stronger every year.

As the māngai, or public voice of Māoriland, I have related our origin story to audiences in many countries. I look forward to telling it in full, at the Keynote Address at Rangiātea on Wednesday 15th March.

At Māoriland 2023 we present our biggest programme yet. We look forward to welcoming more than 150 nations to Ōtaki, along with iwi from across Aotearoa.

This is my last year serving as the Festival Director. It's been an adventure and an honour to have travelled to meet so many of our Indigenous brothers and sisters and host them on our whenua here in Ōtaki.

It was always my intent to step aside after 10 years - and we built a succession plan to do so. To have my niece Maddy de Young step into the role is something we can all be very excited about. Maddy is one of the original Kāhui Kākano of Māoriland; the five of us who started things off. Alongside me and Maddy are Tainui Stephens, and Patrick and Tania Hakaraia. Maddy has spent the past 10 years building the MFF and extending the networks and relationships we have around the world.

He aroha te whakatō iho, he aroha te hua mai ai.

E Maddy tēnā koe.

As Maddy steps into the Festival Director role other rangatahi also step up. Our rangatahi film leadership group Ngā Pakiaka are the roots of Māoriland. They hail from all over Aotearoa with some of them employed full time at Māoriland. They run our many film and creative arts initiatives around the country and the world.

Māoriland Productions has a slate of film works in development including feature films, short films, drama series, animation and documentary. I will be working full time on this slate as a producer and director alongside Tainui and others at Māoriland. My recent trip to the European Film Market in Berlin with one of our projects, is part of our strategy to bring film production back to Ōtaki, creating employment and many other benefits.

It’s 100 years since Māoriland Films was established in Ōtaki. Although that company didn’t last more than 6 months, we’re proud to reclaim both the name and the vision it offered back then, to make Ōtaki the “Los Angeles of the South Pacific”.

For this reason our theme for MFF2023 is an Indigenous perspective of our purpose and reason for being. It sets our kaupapa.

Mā mua i kē anō ai mā muri. We look to the past so that the future may be different.

E rau rangatira mā, e te tī e te tā, e ngā hau e whā, nau mai, hoki mai ki Māoriland.

Nāku me ngā mihi manahau, Libby

Hakaraia MNZM

He HuatauMāoriland Charitable Trust

The Māoriland Charitable Trust (MCT) is committed to creating social, cultural and economic opportunities for our community of Ōtaki and for filmmakers and artists. The success of the Māoriland Film festival has enabled the MCT to continue to grow its activities. At the MĀORILAND HUB, we celebrate Indigenous excellence in film and across all forms of artistic expression.

In 2023 the MĀORILAND FILMMAKERS RESIDENCY will open applications to receive its next filmmakers in residence. They will work alongside MĀORILAND PRODUCTIONS to develop and produce Indigenous stories for the screen.

Māoriland Productions works with filmmaker talent nurtured by TE URU MAIRE - the Māoriland Rangatahi Strategy.

Te Uru Maire is in turn led by NGĀ PAKIAKA, the rangatahi film leadership group.

Capacity building, exhibition, and commissioning new works, Māoriland is evolving its ecosystem to connect filmmakers with film audiences and with industry. This kaupapa Māori ecosystem is PURITIA, to be launched in 2023.

The creative opportunities for rangatahi offered at the Māoriland Hub include digital arts such as animation at M.A.T.C.H as well as dance, drama and art classes, TE ARA TOI.

HE PAKI TAKETAKE is sharing the voices of our Ōtaki community and beyond by reversioning films into Te Reo Māori. We have an exciting feature film project lined up for 2023.

TOI MATARAU - Māoriland’s contemporary Māori art gallery celebrates the incredible visual artists we have in our community and across Aotearoa. In 2023 the collective of renowned Māori carvers Te Matatoki takes up their Māoriland Residency to create the pou (posts) of Māoriland.

All these projects are complemented by the Māoriland MAARA and MĀORILAND KAI COLLECTIVE who work to transform and support our community through food sovereignty and para kore practices (waste minimisation).

The MCT is an independent Māori entity with a Board of Trustees, the Māoriland founders Te Kāhui Kākano, and a mandate from Ngā Hapū o Ōtaki, the five sub-tribes of Ōtaki. He mahi ngātahi nei te whāinga.

Kāti. Kei ngā haumi katoa, kei te hāpai ō, tēnā koutou.

Nā mātou noa,

MĀORILAND CHARITABLE TRUST

MĀORILAND CHARITABLE TRUST

John Barrett (Chair)

Tania Hakaraia

Dee McDonald

Graham Wiremu

Huhana Smith

Te Kāhui Kākano

Libby Hakaraia

Tainui Stephens

Pat Hakaraia

Tania Hakaraia

Madeleine de Young

Te Tīma o Māoriland:

Aree Kapa

Dylan Herkes

Elishka Graham

Isaac Te Reina

Jason- Bob Egdell Ropata

Jess Berghan

Koro Wira-Henare

Louisa Donnell

Maakarita Paku,

Maaka Gair-Houia

Matariki Black

Matilda Poasa

Oriwa Hakaraia

Tahuaroa Ohia

Tiare Rautao

Turanga Mahutonga

Kurupae Rikihana

Bernie Keenan

Chris Temperton

MĀORILAND HUB

68 Main Street Ōtaki

Monday - Saturday 11 am - 4 pm

Festival ticket office will be open during the festival from 9:00 am - 8:30 pm

The Māoriland Hub is a centre of excellence for Māori Film and Creative Arts. It is a home for the Indigenous, a home for the arts, a home for ideas and conversations – he whare taketake, he whare tapere, he whare kōrero.

The Māoriland Hub in the Ōtaki township is open throughout the year. It showcases Indigenous creativity and innovation through film, visual, music and performing arts, technology, kōrero and so much more.

At the Māoriland Hub you will find the Toi Matarau Art Gallery, M.A.T.C.Hthe Māoriland Tech Creative Hub, Māoriland Productions and the Māoriland Filmmaker Residency.

Kaitūao and KaihāpaiOur support team

At Māoriland we extend manaakitanga to our audiences, artists and filmmakers. We aim to do our very best to ensure you have a memorable stay with us here in Ōtaki.

Those who volunteer their time to help make the MFF run smoothly are the KAITŪAO who wear red t-shirts and big smiles. They manage the venues and ticket sales, and serve our festival guests.

Our KAIHĀPAI also wear red t-shirts. They are rangatahi from the schools in our community, and are responsible for looking after the audiences at our venues.

We respect our Kaitūao and our Kaihāpai. They represent our community with pride, and they work for your benefit. Feel free to ask them anything about Ōtaki or Māoriland.

Tēnā hoki koutou rangatahi mā, kua riro mā koutou hei taituarā mō te kaupapa. E mihi ana.

Hauora

Hauora, the well-being of our audiences and artists is important at Māoriland. We understand that films can affect people in different ways. Having a kōrero after a film is great therapy for emotions that have been prodded or beliefs that have been challenged. If you do need more support let the kaimahi at the Māoriland Hub know and they will do what they can to help.

Rongoā Māori

Te Waka Rākau is a rongoā clinic and dispensary located within the Māoriland Hub. Joanne Hakaraia uses traditional plant remedies to heal modern-day needs and imbalances.

Ko Te Kawa Nui Ia, He Manaaki i Te Tangata

Māoriland is committed to creating a safe environment for all our kaimahi and visitors.

The values and functions of Māoriland are derived from cornerstone principles of celebration, unity, vigilance, and respecting the mana of every person and taonga in our whare.

We ask that manuwhiri and visitors alike respect the mana of all who you may encounter.

So that we can safely welcome you into all MFF venues, we encourage the following;

• Wear a mask at screenings

• If you have any symptoms of cold/flu or COVID-19 or have been asked to self-isolate please stay home.

• Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) will be freely available at all venues.

Te Taiao

During the five days of the Māoriland Film Festival, the population of our Ōtaki community more than doubles.

It is our intention at Māoriland Film Festival to present a Zero Waste event as part of our year-round Para Kore kaupapa. We encourage you to join us and reduce your impact on our taiao - environment.

The first step is precyclingplease avoid single-use plastics and excess packaging.

Along Ōtaki’s Main Street you will notice special bins labeled for mixed recycling and compost. The contents of these bins will be returned to the Māoriland Hub Para kore site to be sorted, washed, composted or recycled.

Mixed Recycling Bins can take hard plastic, glass and tin.

Compost Bins can take any organic material and commercially compostable materials including meat and bones.

At the Māoriland Hub, all organic materials will be put into our NZ Box, a ‘hot composting’ system. We welcome any MFF visitors to help out at the Māoriland Hub’s Para Kore site.

• Precycle - where possible, reduce your waste at the source - avoid single-use items, plastics and unnecessary packaging.

• Bring your own reusable coffee cup, bag and reusable water bottle.

• Separate your waste into compost, landfill and recyclingfollow the detailed signs. When possible, wash recyclables.

• Offset your travel: Catch the free Māoriland bus, train, car-pool, walk, or cycle.

Ngā TīkitiTicketing Information

Don’t miss out on seeing your films. Purchase your tickets in advance via iticket.co.nz or at the Māoriland Hub

Ticket sales close 15 minutes prior to all screenings

No door sales are available at screening venuesyou must have a pre - purchased ticket to enter.

TICKETS

All events unless otherwise specified

Māoriland Red Carpet Party

Māoriland Rangatahi Film Festival

$8.50

$10 (Support the festival and pay a little bit extra)

$40 pre-sales

$45 door sales

$8.50 General Public

Schools by koha. Schools must register to attend or contact kura@maorilandfilm.co.nz

PASSES

Passes are only available for purchase prior to the festival opening

10 ticket package

Tīkiti Tākoha

$70 Tickets must be purchased at the same time in the same transaction .

All Tīkiti Tākoha include access to all public events including the Red Carpet Party & a tax-deductible donation.

$175 (includes $50 donation)

$225 (includes $100 donation)

$375 (includes $250 donation)

Industry Pass

$125 pre-sale + guaranteed Red Carpet Party ticket (presales close June 24)

$140 door sales, Red Carpet Party ticket subject to availability

Where to buy tickets

Online: www.iticket.co.nz/go-to/maoriland-film-festival-2023

Phone: Call iTicket on 0508 iTICKET (484-253)

In-Person: Māoriland Hub, 68 Main Street Ōtaki, Monday - Saturday 11 am - 4 pm

Festival Week (15-19 March 2023) 9 am - 8:30 pm

Tīkiti Tākoha

If you love Māoriland Film Festival, Tīkiti tākoha is a way to enjoy everything while offering tangible support to Māoriland.

Tīkiti tākoha are priced from $175 - $375 and gives free access to all public screenings while including a charitable donation to the Māoriland Charitable Trust. All charitable donations are tax-deductible in NZ.

Ticket Refunds

Tickets to the MFF are priced as low as possible to ensure the festival is accessible to the community. The cost of your ticket is only a small contribution to the work done by the Māoriland team and the filmmakers to bring the MFF to life. We are unable to provide refunds for illness or change of mind. If you are no longer able to attend an event for any reason, we encourage you to gift your ticket to a friend.

Te Huarahi MaiTravel Information

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

Public transport

The train from Wellington to Ōtaki is a one-hour trip that offers stunning views along the Kāpiti Coast. Sit on the left-hand side of the train heading north for the best views out to Kāpiti Island.

The Capital Connection runs Monday-Friday departing Wellington to Ōtaki daily at 5:15 pm. Stay overnight and return to Wellington at 7:13 am.

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

There are also buses along the train route. Connecting from Waikanae, the 290 bus will bring you to Ōtaki. The bus leaves Waikanae for Ōtaki regularly, with hourly rail connections throughout the day. This bus returns to Waikanae.

Intercity buses provide transport from Palmerston North and Wellington.

Check the timetable links below for more information:

www.kiwirailscenic.co.nz/other-services/capital-connection/

www.metlink.org.nz/timetables/train/KPL

www.metlink.org.nz/timetables/bus/290

www.intercity.co.nz/

ŌTAKI WELLINGTON

2023 Venue Map

Toi Matarau

He aha te mea nui o te ao?

Posing the question: What is it that we hold dearest in our hearts?

Toi Matarau Gallery, Māoriland Hub

Ngā Tūmanako Exhibition

March 15 - May 20, Toi Matarau Gallery

A dynamic correlation of traditional and contemporary toi by senior artists of the ART Confederation, iwi of Aotearoa, Te Moana Nui ā Kiwa, and whenua taketake.

Whakairo

Te Matatoki Carver’s Residency led by Fayne Robinson, Ian-Wayne Grant & Lewis Gardiner, unite kaiwhakairo of Aotearoa to showcase their art. These masters of the chisel are forever hewn into the story of Māoriland, and the fashioning of the Toi Matarau Gallery.

Raranga

Honouring Te Wharepora and kairaranga with live demonstrations and exhibits. Creations that draw on courage and resilience to innovate and explore a better future. Exquisite taonga, sculpted and finely woven works, reveal the expertise and excellence of this region‘s best weavers.

Toi Moko

Toi Moko returns to Māoriland! Hine Waitai-Dye (Ngāti Kurī, Te Rarawa, Tainui), Vianney Parata (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Toarangatira, Te Ātiawa ki Whakarongotai) and others celebrate a new generation of dedicated wāhine Māori practitioners. A life-changing experience and transformation at the 10th anniversary of the Māoriland Film Festival.

Toi Te Mana

Across the Indigenous world new generations of artists are holding firm to traditional practices. Visit Toi Matarau for an evening of films that celebrate artists.

6:30 PM | Thursday 16 March | Māoriland Hub

Te Ringa a Turoa

2021 | 7 mins | Bella-Wai Tipene | English, Māori with subtitles | Māori

A rural master carver in his eagerness to learn whanaungatanga discusses the roots of whakairo; where it comes from, how to develop it, the importance of it, and the actual carving process.

Mánnu

2021 | 5 mins | Marja

Viitahuhta | Sámi | Sápmi

Sámi musician Ánnámáret and a yoik of Mánnu (Moon).

He Pounamu Ko Āu

2022 | 5 mins | Tia Barrett | Māori with subtitles | Māori

The celebration of mana wāhine Māori told through experimental moving image, pounamu pūrākau and mōteatea.

Nguru

2022 | 5 mins | Daniel Belton and Good Company Arts | Aotearoa (Te Wai Pounamu, Kai Tahu artists)

Mā te whiritahi, ka whakatutuki ai ngā pūmanawa ā tangata: together, weaving the realisation of potential. A visually beautiful new work celebrates Taonga Pūoro, featuring Ariana Tikao, Ruby Solly and Alistair Fraser and dance artist Christina Guieb.

Te Rā

2022 | 7 mins | Karen Sidney | Māori, English | Aotearoa

100 years after Te Rangi Hiroa challenged Māori weavers of Aotearoa to replicate the Te Rā woven sail, the group Te Rā Ringa Raupā have responded to the vision.

Te Uru Aute

2022 | 18 mins | Nikau Hindin, Rongomai Hoskins | English with English subtitles | Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa

Te Uru Aute documents mātanga aute Nikau Hindin, and her tauira Rongomai Grbic-Hoskins, as they re-awaken and re-remember aute - Māori tapa cloth.

Gush

8:15 PM | Thursday 16 March | Māoriland Hub

2023 | 71 min | Fox Maxy | Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians and Payómkawichum

Pieced together from a decade's worth of personal archives, Fox Maxy's Gush delivers a kaleidoscopic look at horror and survival. The film weaves through a stream-of-consciousness meditation on the impact of sexual violence and healing through collective joy. At first, it is a fiery manifesto on the sovereignty of land and the body, and then an ode to the bonds of friendship before morphing into a celebration of what it means to endure. Maxy's film is a work defiantly without limits, refusing to be categorized.

Audience Advisory: This film contains strobe effects and may potentially trigger seizures. Viewer discretion is advised.

The Māoriland Tech Creative Hub is a training and creative space for rangatahi to upskill and unleash their creative potential using software and digital tools. Animation, graphic design, game development, VR, XR - MATCH aims to pathway rangatahi Māori into high-value jobs in the rapidly growing tech creative industries. Visit the M.A.T.C.H space at the Māoriland Hub during MFF2023 and see what rangatahi have created!

Opening hours: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm | Thursday - Sunday

Mikiwam: Solarpunk

Herbalism

2022 | Game | 30 min | Keara Lightning | Samson Cree Nation (Nehiyaw)

Set in a post-colonial fantasy world a herbalist’s apprentice serves magic elemental teas to influence a colourful cast of characters.

Seasons of Life: An Indigenous Poetry Experience

2022 | Game | 10 min | Pohaikealoha

Panoke | Kanaka Maoli

This point-and-click game of affirmations and vocal poetry combines 4 inputs from 4 indigenous artists on the different seasons of life. Click around the canvas to find different affirmations and uncover the 4 poetic dialogues as you ponder your own season of life.

Rangi Tuwhera

2021 | Virtual Reality | 20 min | Dave Whitehead | Māori

Rangi Tuwhera, Open Sky takes us into the world of taonga pūoro or traditional Māori instruments. Surrounded by matai trees from which one of the instruments the pūtōrino is made, and in the presence of Hineraukatauri the atua of music, the story of the pūtōrino unfolds.

Valley of the Rougarou

2022 | Game | 4 min | Jordan Waunch | Métis

Follow the footsteps of the past as you navigate a strange new world, one where you have to use your wits, crafting ability, and crossbow, to survive what awaits you.

This Is Not A Ceremony

2022 | Virtual Reality | 20 min | Ahnahktsipiitaa | Blackfoot

Niitsitapi writer and director

Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon) takes us beyond the veil of traditional media and transports us directly into another realm, where past, present and future are one; where colonial rules and assumptions are forgotten; and where we can finally get to the truth of the matter.

Ngā Kōtiro O Taranaki

2023 | Animation | Māori | Rautini | Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Kapu, Taranaki, Ngāti Haupoto, Kaitahu

This profound series is based on a whānau pūrakau about a 19th century war crime, Rautini presents the first 3 episodes of her 10-part animation Ngā Kōtiro o Taranaki.

This special screening in conjunction with Whakaata Māori will be followed by a Q&A with Rautini.

OPENING NIGHT SCREENING Ka Pō

8:00 PM | Wednesday 15 March | Memorial Hall

2021 | 84 mins | Etienne Aurelius | English | Tumanang, Kanaka Maoli, Māori

In the mountains of Kauai, a drug addicted native Hawaiian woman, Nanea, lives with her troubled boyfriend, Eli inside an abandoned school bus. On the night of her mother's funeral she reaches breaking point and destroys Eli’s possessions sending him into a bitter rage. Nanea flees into the surrounding forest escaping into midnight. Now on the run, Nanea suffers from drug withdrawals and encounters a mythical creature named Yahdella who sends her on a soulsearching journey. Territorial anger sweeps through the valley sending Eli over the edge and on the hunt for blood. Deep in the forest Nanea hears the voices of her ancestors, they guide her to an ancient waterfall where her journey of self discovery takes on an entirely new transformation.

CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING

Slash/Back

6:00 PM | Sunday 19 March | Memorial Hall

2022 | 86 mins | Nyla Innuksuk | English, Inuktitut with English subtitles | Inuit

Set in Pang, a sleepy hamlet nestled in the majestic mountains of Baffin Island in the Arctic Ocean, Maika wakes up to another typical day of her summer holiday. 24 hours of sunlight, no School, no cool boys (well... except one). But Maika and her ragtag friends are suddenly forced into action when they uncover an alien invasion. But these teenagers have been underestimated their whole lives, and use makeshift weapons and their horror movie knowledge to swing into action and defend their home.

This screening is presented with the support of NYU: Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation

Māoriland Red Carpet PartyModern Māori Quartet

8 pm | Sunday 19 March | Māoriland Hub

Put on your most glam outfit and walk the glittery walk for the annual Māoriland Red Carpet Party. A celebration of all the filmmakers and their collaborators at MFF2023. The Modern Māori Quartet will be lighting up the dancefloor with their new show: NGĀ 80 s.

"What happens when you find a worn cassette at the bottom of your old man's closet with Ngā 80’s scribbled on it? You blast it from your Cortina’s stereo, wind the windows down, feel your mullet slap the back of the car seat and fang the Holden to the Pā for a family gathering. Jump into the backseat with the Modern Māori Quartet, as they take you on a musical ride through their ’80s mixtape’. An award is given to the film voted as ‘the people’s choice for MFF2023’. There are also prizes for Red Carpet attendees in the following categories:

• Best Regalia

• Most Sequins & Best ‘Suit’

• Best outfit purchased from a local Op shop (must show receipt of purchase).

PROGRAMME

Tangata Whenua

10:30 AM | Thursday 16 March | Civic Theatre

1974 | 45 mins | Barry Barclay | English, Māori with subtitles | Māori

After digital restoration by Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, Māoriland is honoured to screen the first episode of the 1974 television series, “TANGATA WHENUA” by Barry Barclay.

Tangata Whenua was a groundbreaking six-part documentary series that screened in primetime 49 years ago. Each episode chronicled a different iwi and included interviews by historian Michael King with kaumātua. This series remains a priceless historical record.

Marni

12:30 PM | Thursday 16 March | Civic Theatre

2019 | 155 mins | Tyson Mowarin | Yindjibarndi with English subtitles and English | Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi

A three week recording of a commissioned painting by an outstanding senior Pilbara artist, Allery Sandy, is the focus of Marni. A mesmerising marathon of colour and dot work is intercut with the majestic landscapes of the Pilbara to a journeying soundtrack. As she paints we hear Allery tell us about herself and her art practice in Yindjibarndi language.

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On

6:00 PM | Thursday 16 March | Civic Theatre

2022 | 90 mins | Madison Thomas | English | Cree, Ojibwe

Madison Thomas' feature documentary BUFFY SAINTEMARIE: CARRY IT ON is a joyous, challenging account of this cultural and musical icon's lifelong commitment to music, and sharing the truth. Buffy reveals her own story from her early love of music to the activism she continues to this daydespite her career being suppressed because of it. Additional interviews include Alanis Obomsawin, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson and many others whose lives Buffy has touched.

KA RONGO TE PŌ

A programme of stunning films in which the darkness is transformative.

6:15 PM | Thursday 16 March | Memorial Hall

Arctic Song

2021 | 6 mins | Germaine Arnattaujuq, Neil Christopher, Louise Flaherty | Inuktitut with English subtitles | Inuit

Arctic Song is a short film of Inuit creation stories expressed through song and animation, based on the original artwork of Inuit artist, storyteller and co-director Germaine Arnattaujuq (Arnaktauyok).

Night

2021 | 16 mins | Ahmad Saleh | Arabic with English Subtitles | Palestine

The dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night has to trick her into sleeping to save her soul.

Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics

2021 | 19 mins | Terril Calder | English with English subtitles | Métis (European, Ojibwe-Cree, and Anishinaabe)

Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics charts a challenging journey for a precocious Métis baby girl as she contemplates her path to Hell.

Patu La Leyenda

2019 | 50 mins | Waitiare Kaltenegger Icka | Rapa Nui with English subtitles | Rapa Nui

In this exciting drama from Rapa Nui, two warrior brothers, Heru and Patu are haunted by female spirits and blinded by beauty, magic and their own male pride.

KA RONGO TE AO

In this programme of thrilling films the protagonists must overcome the spirit world and a poisoned environment to survive.

8:30 PM | Thursday 16 March | Civic Theatre

Shadow Of The Rougarou

2022 | 40 mins | Jordan Waunch | English, Cree with subtitles | Métis Sâkowêw, a Métis-Cree fur trapper in the late 1800’s must return to her childhood home to confront her past while an ancient evil stalks her every move.

Ghosts

2022 | 17 mins | Jeffrey Palmer | English | Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma

The true story of three Kiowa boys’ escape from a government-run boarding school and their desperate attempt to return to their resettled tribal encampment 40 miles away, to attend a "ghost dance" ceremony.

MisTik

2022 | 26 mins | Jules Arita Koostachin | Cree, Attawapiskat First Nation

MisTik follows Cree twins who carry the last of the healthy trees on their backs, with the hopes of saving what is left of the world they once knew.

Wildhood

8:30 PM, Thursday 16 March

Memorial Hall

2021 | 108 mins | Bretten Hannam | English | Mi'kmaq, L'nu

When Link discovers his Mi’kmaw mother is still alive, he runs away from home with his younger brother Travis, in a desperate gamble to start a new life. They’re soon joined by Pasmay, a pow wow dancer drawn to Link’s story. Together they embark on a Two-Spirit odyssey, reconnecting with culture and the territory of Mi’kma’ki in Nova Scotia, Canada, while trying to find Link’s mother Sarah.

HE HONONGA WAI

Whakapapa, culture, love, experience - the familial ties that bind us together.

10:15 AM | Friday 17 March | Civic Theatre

Fast Eddie

2022 | 14 mins | Keely Meechan | English with English subtitles | Whakatōhea

Seeking joy after his life-threatening diagnosis, a determined father attempts one last adventure with his daughter: an ambitious bike ride that will stretch their physical and emotional limits.

Game Over

2022 | 28 mins | Miriam Carlsen, Saeed Mayahy | Persian, Turkish with English subtitles | Afghanistan

A diverse group of illegal Afghan youngsters who must leave their homes and families behind, flee as teenagers to a foreign country.

Namaste Yoga

2022 | 23 mins | Ravi Chand | English | India

When Shiv Prasad, a 10-year-old boy ashamed of being Indian, gets into a fight at school, his only way to avoid suspension is mandatory lunchtime yoga classes.

Ts'oostsitsi (Years Ago)

2022 | 14 mins | Adam Solway | English | Blackfoot

Ike Solway of Blackfoot nation has a responsibility to continue storytelling in his family. He recounts a powerful experience had by his grandfather.

The Brylcreem Boys

2022 | 14 mins | Rafer Rautjoki | English | Ngāti Pikiao/Ngāti Whakahemo

Kara is tasked with discovering why her uncle's first love abandoned him on the opening night of his band's national tour.

HE KAWENGA MAKAURANGI

What does it take to believe in yourself as an Indigenous person? A collection of inspiring stories from courageous filmmakers.

12:45 PM | Friday 17 March | Civic Theatre

Dues

2022 | 15 mins | Michael R.L. Begay | English | Navajo Nation

Follow Bobbie Willson aka “DUES” on his one-month graffiti art residency in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My Girl

2022 | 6 mins | Megan Shott | English | Fort McKay First Nation, Chipewyan Prairie First Nation

“I have written thirteen letters addressed to you over the years, and I must believe there is a reason why this one has made its way to you today.”

The Mainland

2021 | 18 mins | Conrad Lihilihi | English | Kanaka Maoli

Aspiring actor, Ikaika, is struggling with the trend and politics of diversity in Hollywood when his small town cousin, Kekoa, unexpectedly visits from Hawai'i, bringing him a much needed dose of 'ohana and aloha’.

Akanuanua -

Kitty Wasasala

2022 | 13 mins | Bianca Seinafo | English | Sāmoa

Meet Kitty Wasasala. She’s a lesbian actor, activist, florist, and freelancer who’s found her place in Auckland's queer community by creating her own space.

Akanuanua - Bianca Hope

Dawson Puia

2022 | 13 mins | Elizabeth Koroivulaono | English | Yaroi, Matuku, Lau Fiji

"My family had no concerns with me being my authentic self. The only thing they conveyed to me religiously was that if I was going to be trans, I better be a great one" - Bianca.

Akanuanua -

Katrina Malisha Aho

2022 | 10 mins |

Mariner Fagaiava- Muller | English | Sāmoa

Meet Katrina Malisha Aho also known as Hurricane Katrina by her fellow Divas.

Plastic - A love letter to the estranged

2022 | 14 mins | Va'a Magalogo | English | Sāmoa

Through spoken word, this documentary shares the experiences of Michelle Fatani, who is half Sāmoan and half Tongan but struggles to identify with both cultures, because of being labeled ‘plastic’.

WHAKAPAPA SHORTS

We are all connected by whakapapa to our ancestors and each other.

3:00 PM | Friday 17 March | Civic Theatre

Savage / Future

2022 | 3 mins | Terry Jones | English | Seneca Nation of Indians

Seneca filmmaker Terry Jones uses personal and historic still images to link his family to the American Indian residential boarding school experience.

Whakaako kia

Whakaora / Educate to Liberate

2022 | 7 mins | Robert George | English | Māori

In 2016 Tigilau Ness and Chris McBride traveled to the home of the Black Panther Party, Oakland, California. Inspired by the politically charged murals, Tigilau and Chris came home with ideas to paint a mural to honour the influential history of the Polynesian Panther Party.

Mau Taiaha

2023 | 4 mins | Reuben Nicklin | English | Aotearoa

Traditional Māori weaponry / mau rākau is a lifelong journey.

El cóndor y el picaflor

2021 | 11 mins | Waldo Iván Castro | Other with English subtitles | Aymara

An Aymara story about the history of the hummingbird.

Tibi

2022 | 13 mins | Twoyoungmen

Jarret | Îethka with subtitles | Îethka (Stoney Nakoda)

A determined group of Nakoda film makers sets out to make a tipi. They hope to show youth the teaching of tipi which is about the healing of the circle - as opposed to the traps of colonial corners.

Language Keepers

2022 | 10 mins | Ajuawak

Kapashesit | English | Ojibwe

Ojibwe language activists utilise technology to preserve and revitalise their Indigenous language.

Heart Like a Pow Wow

2022 | 5 mins | Chief Lady Bird | English | Chippewa, Potawatomi, Cree and Wampanoag

Heart Like A Pow Wow explores the depths of grief from an Anishinaabe perspective of love and family.

TsontiajakatlEl Último Viento

2020 | 18 mins | Darío Duarte, David Marcelino Cayetano | Nahuatl with English subtitles | Nahua-Aztec

In the Nahua community of Zoquitipa in the Huasteca Potosina, an elderly musician tries to preserve his culture and language through The Dance of the Wands.

Seed Mother: Coming Home

2021 | 7 mins | Mateo Hinojosa, Rowen White | English | Mohawk

In this poetic embodiment of the Indigenous Seed Rematriation movement, seeds show their full beauty causing us to fall in love with them and to want to protect them.

Testimony

2022 | 10 mins | Alice Lolohea | Tongan, English with English subtitles | Tonga

45 years after his parents were wrongfully imprisoned for overstaying, a Tongan New Zealander finally shares the painful truth behind what really happened to his family during the Dawn Raids.

Kāinga

6:00 PM | Friday 17 March | Memorial Hall

2022 | 85 mins | Shreya Gejji, Ghazaleh Golbakhsh, Mei-Lin Te Puea Hansen, HASH, Nahyeon Lee, Angeline Loo, Mia Maramara, Asuka Sylvie, Kerry Warkia, Kiel McNaughton, Yamin Tun, Julie Zhu & Michelle Ang | Cantonese, English, Farsi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Marathi, Tagalog and Te reo Māori with English subtitles with subtitles | Māori-Chinese Aotearoa, China, Philippines, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar and Tamil Eelam

Kāinga navigates the thorny terrain of home in Aotearoa New Zealand from the perspectives of 11 Pan-Asian women. Writers and directors from Māori-Chinese Aotearoa, China, Philippines, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar and Tamil Eelam, explore the historical connection to tāngata whenua, feelings of isolation, community support in lieu of family, home precarity, excitement about making a home, longing to be ‘back home’, being ‘othered’ at home, and finally claiming home. Each 10-minute story, set in the same house across several decades, honours these experiences one brick at a time.

Broken Angel

6:15 PM | Friday 17 March | Civic Theatre

2022 | 89 mins | Jules Arita Koostachin | English | Cree, Attawapiskat First Nation

Angel prepares to leave the shelter for a new life, but soon after, she comes to face her biggest nightmare, Earl. In a deadly confrontation with Earl and with Frankie on his heels, Angel is forced with the decision to flee or fight. Her parents, Frankie and the spirit of Gracie reunite to save Angel from his wrath, and their unconditional love provides her the power and strength to fight back once and for all.

Muru

8:15 PM | Friday 17 March | Memorial Hall

2022 | 105 mins | Tearepa Kahi | English, Māori | Māori

Inspired by actual events, MURU is the story of a local police sergeant ‘Taffy’ Tāwharau (Cliff Curtis), who must choose between duty to his badge or his people, when the Government invokes anti-terrorism powers to launch an armed raid on his remote Urewera community, on a school day.

OOKY SPOOKY SHORTS

Be scared and thrilled by this collection of spooky films from across the Indigenous world.

8:30 PM | Friday 17 March | Civic Theatre

Obscheenies

2022 | 12 mins | Barry Bilinsky | English | Kikino Métis Settlement

The stories are true.

No Spectators Allowed

2021 | 17 mins | Kanani Koster | English | Kanaka Maoli

A true crime podcast host sits down with an Indigenous woman to record her sister’s cold case but their individual intentions for telling this story come to a head as they examine the night in question.

Ko Au

2022 | 6 mins | Mii Taokia | Māori with English subtitles | Cook Islands

Ko Au is an animated short film that explores the dark side of humanity through retelling the Cook Island legend of Katikatia, an old lady who lives in a cave and eats children.

Terror/Forming

2022 | 23 mins | Rylan Friday | English | Plains Cree

"Told in one continuous shot over one evening. Parker and his boyfriend Darren make a disturbing discovery on their way to Parker's late kokum's cabin, setting the stage for how the night will unfold."

Unborn Biru

2022 | 19 mins | Inga Elin Marakatt | Sámi with English subtitles | Sápmi

Sometimes the act of survival means crossing a line to the spirit world.

WHENUA SHORTS

We must protect Papatuānuku, our Earthmother.

10:00 AM | Saturday 18 March | Civic Theatre

Burning of the Gods

2022 | 7 mins | Karin Williams | English | Cook Islands

With his island at risk from industrial tourism and environmental degradation, a boy travels back in time to reconnect with his ancestors.

Where Dreams Are Forgotten

2022 | 6 mins | Inuk Jorgensen | English | Greenlandic Inuit

A small Indigenous community in the Arctic caught up in a post-colonial struggle with their entire society.

Milaythina RrukaniLanguage of the Land

2022 | 9 mins | Troy Melville, Jillian Mundy | English | Palawa

"Milaythina Rrukani" speaks to the power of using original names in Lutruwita (Tasmania), reflecting history, collective identity and aspirations to move beyond colonisation.

Imalirijit

2022 | 27 mins | Tim Anaviapik Soucie, Vincent L'Hérault | English with English subtitles | Inuit

The inspired journey of a young Inuit community researcher.

Theecx Khubx Y La Recuperación De Tierras

2021 | 17 mins | Alan Santamaria | Spanish with subtitles | Nasa People

Juan receives the gift of becoming a Mohano (Khubi-Tiger) in the fight for the recovery of the territories and in the cultural restoration of his community, the Nasa people in the south of Colombia.

E Malama Pono, Willy Boy

2022 | 18 mins | Scott W. Kekama Amona | English, Olelo Hawai’i with subtitles | Kanaka Maoli

A native Hawaiian Police Officer is forced to choose between his family, upholding the law and doing what is pono.

KŌKIRI WHAKAMUA

Two films informed by journeys across time and space.

11:00 AM | Saturday 18 March | Memorial Hall

Mincéir

2022 | 56 mins | Teresa Lavina | English, Cant with subtitles | Irish Traveller Community

A journey across the Irish Traveler community including storytellers, wagon makers, singers, writers, actors, flower makers, tinsmiths, and recyclers.

Bimibatoo-win: Where I Ran

2022 | 22 mins | Erica Daniels | English | Anishinaabe Nation - Ojibway

In 1967, Charlie Bittern was forced to run 80 km through a blizzard by a residential school principal. 55 years later, he’s embarking on the same journey - this time, surrounded by his family.

WAIRUA SHORTS

Every living thing including the land, mountains, rivers, oceans has a wairua - a spirit existing beyond death. This collection of short films speaks of the wairua that is within and around us.

This programme is recommended for mature audiences

12:30 PM | Saturday 18 March | Civic Theatre

Firecracker Bullets

2022 | 14 mins | Chad Charlie | English | Ahousaht First Nation

Through spoken word poetry, a young water protector from the Standing Rock occupation contemplates his PTSD while working at a Native firework stand on the 4th of July.

How to Lose Everything: A Field Guide

2022 | 5 mins | Christa Couture, Bekky O'Neil | English | Cree

Christa Couture lost her leg, her children, and her marriage. Here, she gives instructions on survival for the uninitiated and companionship for those who know the terrain of heartache and loss.

A Boy and his Loss

2022 | 7 mins | Michelle Derosier | English | Anishinaabe, Ojibwe

A boy, utterly consumed by grief, learns to let go.

Longhouse

2021 | 1 min | Erik Sanchez | Shoalwater Bay, Chinook, Chicano

The spirit is awakened, as a Chinookan longhouse becomes the space for spiritual healing.

Mana over Meth

2022 | 10 mins | Holly Beckham | English, Māori with subtitles | Aotearoa

Determined to break the cycle for her tamariki, one wahine turns her troubled life of addiction and trauma around by rediscovering her wairua and reclaiming her mana.

A Bear Named Jesus

2022 | 6 mins | Terril Calder | English | Cree, Métis, Wampanoag

At Aunty Gladys’ funeral, Archer Pechawis heard a tap on the window - it was a bear named Jesus, and Jesus had come for Archer’s mom. Now she’s no longer recognisablewhile Jesus hangs out in the shed.

Find Where I Belong

2022 | 14 mins | Kahu Kaiha | English | Te Henua Enana, Marquesas Islands

Elvis, a homeless teenager must find courage to leave the street life in order to return to his birth island.

Long Line of Ladies

2022 | 22 mins | Shaandiin Tome, Rayka Zehtabchi | English | The Karuk tribe of Northern California

A girl and her community prepare for her Ihuk, the once-dormant coming of age ceremony of the Karuk tribe of Northern California.

MĀTAURANGA

The gaining of wisdom, mātauranga, takes a lifetime. In this collection we are inspired by the wisdom and knowledge of esteemed people.

1:00 PM | Saturday 18 March | Memorial Hall

He Ōhākī - Imparting Words of Wisdom

2022 | 10 mins | Kararaina Rangihau | Māori with English subtitles | Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Arawa, Pasifika, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Hei, Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Uenukukōpako

Centuries of Tūhoe wisdom are illuminated by Kararaina Rangihau, as a means of truly addressing the impact of institutional racism against Māori.

Sasela'an -Breath of the Island

2022 | 25 mins | Ado' Kaliting Pacidal | Māori with subtitles | NZ Māori & Indigenous Amis (pangcah) from Taiwan

The story of the Amis from the ancient myth of creation through to its dramatic voyage to the South Island. A cross-cultural music microfilm, featuring music and cultural collaboration between Austronesian musicians including NZ Māori and Indigenous Amis from Taiwan.

Portrait of a Quiet Revolutionary

2022 | 50 mins | Moana Maniapoto, Toby Mills | English | Ngāti Hinerangi & Te Arawa, Tūwharetoa

Nicknamed the “Whispering Jesus”

Moana Jackson was renowned for the calm and reasoned manner in which he delivered revolutionary messages.

WHĀNAU SHORTS

Whānau. Family, whatever its shape, provides the thread that resonates through all these stories.

2:45 PM | Saturday 18 March | Civic Theatre

Inheritance

2022 | 18 mins | Erin Lau | English | Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian

A struggling nature photographer is forced to confront the pain his family has carried for generations.

Grape Soda in the Parking Lot

2022 | 7 mins | Megan KyakMonteith, Taqralik Partridge | English | Inuk, Cree, Wampanoag What if every language that had been lost to English - every word, every syllable - grew up out of the ground in flowers?

The Pit Where We Were Born

2018 | 12 mins | Alexander Bocchieri | English | Hawai'i

A father prepares a luau in celebration of his son’s release from prison in this cathartic exploration of addiction, family, and tradition.

Li Hing Mui

2021 | 9 mins | Kanani Koster | English | Kanaka Maoli & Chamoru

Two Kanaka Maoli brothers hold a longtime dream of retiring on the Hawaiian Islands but their bond is sorely tested.

He Takatāpui Ahau

2021 | 11 mins | Alesha Ahdar | Māori, English | Māori

When encouraged to return to their marae, a gentle non-binary person decides to go back to their tūrangawaewae despite uncertainty that they’ll be accepted for who they are.

Stripper

2021 | 14 mins | Anthony Sneed | English | Cherokee

13-year-old Cricket must do what he can to prove that his mom is not a stripper.

Shiny One

2021 | 9 mins | Viviana Petyarre | Arrernte, English with English subtitles | Alyawarre, Arrernte, Anmatyerr

Sick of humbug and hunger, a young fella leaves his remote community to pursue a dream vision that calls him to the big smoke to find his pot of gold.

Destiny

3:30 PM | Saturday 18 March | Memorial Hall

2022 | 72 mins | Yaser Talebi | Persian with English subtitles | Mazandarani

After the death of her mother 18-year-old Sahar is left in charge of her poor, mentally disabled father in an isolated village in Iran. Sahar dreams of attending university and becoming a doctor, but her extended family insists she plays the role of caretaker - unless her father remarries.

BINGO SHORTS

Love playing Bingo? Really love short films? In this session, you can do both and win prizes too! Bring a pen!

5:30 PM | Saturday 18 March | Civic Theatre

Once Upon a Time in the Bay

2022 | 10 mins | Judith Kanatahawi Schuyler | English | Onyota'a:ka (Oneida) Nation, Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse)

A comedic cross-Indigenous, rainbow story about identity, visibility, friendship and hope.

Spam is Life

2022 | 2 mins | Brutis Baez, LaRonn Katchia | English | The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Oregon

A short film made by the youth on the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon about the gathering of every native's first food...Spam.

Things You Know But Cannot Explain

2022 | 10 mins | Michelle Hernandez, Chantal Jung | English | Wiyot, Nunatsiavummiuk

Using images and art from Wiyot artist Rick Bartow as its basis, this stop-motion animation explores reclamation of identity and culture.

Better At Texting

2021 | 11 mins | Mary Galloway | English | Cowichan

Trinity: a radical, Indigenous, feminist, and Addison: a devout, black mormon are forced to work together on a school project. They soon discover they have more in common than either cares to admit.

RIEBAN - the Fox

2023 | 8 mins | Sara Margrethe Oskal | Sámi with English subtitles | Sápmi

A humour filled Sámi musical tale.

Karaoke King

2022 | 14 mins | Moana Johnson | Māori with subtitles | Māori

For one Māori man, Elvis is still ‘The King’ so he performs his songs as often as he can.

Brolesque

2023 | 8 min | Libby Hakaraia | English, Māori with subtitles | Ngāti Kapu, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga

How far would you go to make your kūia happy

Rosie

6:15 PM | Saturday 18 March | Memorial Hall

2022 | 90 mins | Gail Maurice | French with English subtitles | Cree/Métis

A film about family, love, and misfits. ROSIE tells the story of a young, orphaned, Indigenous girl who is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart Aunty Fred. Rosie is thrust into the fringes of 1980’s Montréal into the care of Fred, who’s just lost her job, and is on the verge of eviction. Fred, an artist who creates art from found and discarded objects or other peoples’ trash, introduces Rosie to her two best friends Flo and Mo, glamorous human beings who refuse to be confined by gender. In the end, Rosie transforms the lives of these colourful characters and finds love, acceptance, and a true home with her new family of glittering outsiders.

TĪRAMAROA

Things that exist beyond what we can see and touch is the theme for this exciting programme of short films.

7:45 PM | Saturday 18 March | Civic Theatre

Ellipsis

2022 | 3 mins | Anthony Kohere | Māori Mirrors, lights, and late nights.

Bringing Mere Home

2022 | 15 mins | Keelan Walker | English | Rangitāne ki Wairau, Ngāti Kūia, Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō, Ngāi Tahu. On his way home from the pub, Billy stops to help a young girl. Little does he know that his life is about to take a dramatic turn.

The Original Shareholder Experience

2021 | 14 mins | Petyr Xyst | English | Laguna Pueblo

Rebecca, an Indigenous television presenter selling ‘authentic’ native memorabilia to her audience must choose between her community or the company that gave her success.

Haunted Blizzard

2019 | 11 mins | Aviaq Johnston | Inukitut with English subtitles | Inuit

After an unsettling walk home in a blizzard, Inu finds herself home alone with a sinister creature.

Sampash/The Sprayer

2022 | 9 mins | Farnoosh Abedi | English | Iran

A soldier in the Sprayers Army follows orders spraying poison to kill all plant life. But one day he finds a seed and his curiosity gets the better of him.

Follow the Light

2022 | 17 mins | Cameron Madams | English | Māori

Lena, has returned to Wellington with a desire to connect with her Māori culture. Through her dreams, her curiosity leads her on a journey to confront the secrets of her past, present and future.

The Machine

2022 | 26 mins | Isaac Bell | English | Ngāpuhi

A teenager in rural Aotearoa needs the help of his idol, a famed industrialist on the other side of the world to unlock the greatest discovery of our time.

Bones of Crows

8:30 PM | Saturday 18 March |

Memorial Hall

2022 | 129 mins | Marie Clements

| English | Cree, Tla'amin

Removed from their family home and forced into Canada’s residential school system, Cree musical prodigy Aline and her siblings are plunged into a struggle for survival. Bones of Crows is Aline's journey from child to matriarch, a moving multigenerational epic of resilience, survival and the pursuit of justice.

TE TAIAO

Films that link us to the natural environment.

10:30 AM | Sunday 19 March | Civic Theatre

Kava 'o Aotearoa

2022 | 9 mins | Joshua Baker | English | Kuki 'Arani & Tangata Moana

A collective of Pasifika cultural guardians reactivate ancient Tu’i Tonga kava ceremony for contemporary use in Aotearoa in a way that honours tangata whenua.

Māreikura

2022 | 11 mins | Lydia Day | English | Aotearoa

Within the realm of atua wāhine we look closer at the work of Betsy Young, a kūia whose kaitiakitanga is in the protection and preservation of pīngao.

Rematriation: Angela Ferguson

2020 | 10 mins | Katsitsionni Fox, Michelle Schenandoah | English | Mohawk Bear Clan & Oneida Wolf Clan & Onondaga Nation Eel Clan

Indigenous women in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy are raising their voices to demonstrate what living in balance looks like, by sharing gifts given to them at creation

Our Ways

2022 | 9 mins | Autumn Angelique

Godwin, Amanda Lickers | English | Haudenosaunee (Seneca, Mohawk), Cree, Métis (Saulteaux)

Four badass Indians on a moose hide tanning journey in the urban jungle imagine a vastly different future.

Seed Warriors

2022 | 10 mins | Rebekka Schlichting | English | Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma

Pawnee seed keepers work with Nebraska farmers to revive their sacred and ancient corn.

Ati-a-Toa

2022 | 12 mins | Kingi Rākete -Tāne | English, Māori with English subtitles | Aotearoa

Padre and his waka crew against COVID-19, colonialism and cancellation.

The Future Behind Us

2021 | 5 mins | Melodie Turori | English | Aotearoa, Cook Islands, Guåhan, Hawai‘i, Samoa

An exploration of Pasifika Indigeneity and relationships through the practice of ancestral listening.

Ke Kahea: An Invitation Into Sacred Space

2022 | 19 mins | Justyn Ah Chong | English, Olelo Hawaii with subtitles | Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian)

When cultural practitioner A’ia’i Bello receives a call to create traditional kapa for unearthed Hawaiian remains, she responds. She gathers a diverse group of women in the community to learn and create alongside her, leading all through a transformative journey.

Kaatohkitopii: The Horse

He Never Rode

11:00 AM | Sunday 19 March | Memorial Hall

2022 | 75 mins | Trevor Solway | English | Blackfoot - Siksika

Trevor Solway's grandpa Sonny was a life-long rancher with a strong work ethic that masked his own pain. Trevor explores Sonny's life and lessons to help guide himself as a modern Indigenous man.

with 7

2021 | 2 mins | Jim Matlock | English with English subtitles | Atikamekw

Inside each person are seven tools necessary for a life in the gray time. Each one must be developed.

TE MEA NGARO

Seek that which is lost. In this collection of short films we explore places, thoughts and the meaning of the world.

12:45 PM | Sunday 19 March | Civic Theatre

The Beginning and End of Everything

2022 | 7 mins | Viveka Frost | English | Teques/Carib

The story of the universe and the world from two children.

Dolos Niegut

2022 | 3 mins | Marja Viitahuhta | Sámi with subtitles | Sápmi

A yoik exploring our perceptions of everyday life, our views as well as our imagination, hopes and dreams.

Whitey and Te Putiputi

2021 | 4 mins | Kura-Kakerangi Xanthea

Turuwhenua | English with English

subtitles | Kai Tahu, Ngāti Porou, Tūhoe

A pale explorer gives in to his insatiable thirst for adventure (and other stuff).

Kikino Kids

2022 | 14 mins | Barry Bilinsky | English | Kikino Métis Settlement

From the imagination of Kikino youth, follow the story of rebellious friends, star crossed lovers, and brave explorers coming together to discover how connected they truly are.

The Golden Age

2022 | 20 mins | Bawaadan Collective | English | Abenaki, Anishinaabe, Cree

A Short Fantasy Film rooted in Abenaki mythology.

Just Another Day in Indulkana

2021 | 6 mins | Vicki Yatjki Cullinan | English, Pitjantjatjara with English subtitles | Yankunytjatjara, Pitjantjatjara

A surreal take on a ‘normal’ day in Indulkana celebrating Anangu culture and language.

All I Ever Wanted

2021 | 15 mins | Erin Lau | English | Pacific islander

Rom-com obsessed teen Christine has always longed for the pictureperfect romance ... but she’s soon confronted with the fact that her ideal Prince Charming might actually be a Princess Charming.

N'xaxaitkw

2022 | 17 mins | Asia Youngman | English | Métis (Canada)

A teenager must navigate peer pressure when her next-door neighbour convinces her to explore a nearby island in search of a legendary lake monster.

Sweet As

1:15 PM | Sunday 19 March | Memorial Hall

2022 | 87 mins | Jub Clerc | English | Nyul Nyul, Yawuru

In remote Pilbara country in Western Australia, troubled 16 year old Indigenous girl, Murra, finds herself abandoned after an explosive incident with her addict mother. On the cusp of being lost in the child protection system, an unusual lifeline is thrown her way by her uncle Ian, the local cop, in the form of a unique photo safari. Before Murra knows it, she is careening down a dusty highway with a minibus full of at-risk teens and two charismatic team leaders. Will this be the lifeline Murra needs or the catalyst for her demise?

Sweet As is an uplifting coming-of-age road movie about unconventional friendships, first crushes and finding who you are on the road less travelled.

A Boy Called Piano - The Story of Fa'amoana John Luafutu

3:00 PM | Sunday 19 March | Civic Theatre

2021

| 61 mins

| Nina Nawalowalo | English | Samoa & Fiji

A Boy Called Piano - The Story of Fa'amoana John Luafutu tells the remarkable story of Fa'amoana's time as a state ward in the 1960’s and the intergenerational impacts of these experiences. Directed by Nina Nawalowalo, produced by Katherine Wyeth, with Executive Producer Tom McCrory and starring Fa'amoana himself, his son Matthias and grandsons Tāne and Micah, alongside Aaron McGregor, Tupe Lualua and Patrick Nawalowalo McCrory, with a stunning score by Mark Vanilau.

Growing from the long term collaboration with Fa’amoana Luafutu and the Luafutu Aiga, the film blends dramatised sequences inspired by the play A Boy Called Piano - written by Fa'amoana John Luafutu & Tom McCrory, alongside powerful interviews and beautiful aerial and underwater photography - translating Nina Nawalowalo’s celebrated visual storytelling to the screen for the first time. The Conch has been honoured to walk alongside Fa'amoana and the Luafutu Aiga as they courageously bring their untold story into the light, with the kaupapa of connecting directly with survivors - and illuminating the survivor experience in wider society.

Youth

3:45 PM | Sunday 19 March | Memorial Hall

2021 | 89 mins | Dmitrii Davydov | Yakutian with English subtitles | Yakut

Vasily has spent the last 20 years searching for happiness in the city. At the age of 40, he realises that he has nothing meaningful in his life. In search of purpose and connection, he returns to his native village. But his parental home is already boarded up, there are no friends left, and few people are happy about his arrival. Vasily understands that here, he is a stranger and no one needs him.

Youth a self-ironic movie, with absurdist humor from Yakutia's most prolific director, Dmitrii Davydov. It was shot on location in Yakutia at -57 degrees C. It is made in the Yakut language.

NATIVE Minds

Tainui Stephens hosts NATIVE Minds - a series where Indigenous thinkers explore the experiences in their chosen endeavors, and the consequences of their native perspectives. Koha entry, tickets recommended.

NATIVE Minds: Intergenerational Storytelling

10:00 AM | Saturday 18 March

Māoriland Hub

To keep the stories alive, compels us to build capacity and invest in new generations of storytellers

NATIVE Minds: Cultural Authenticity

11:30 AM | Saturday 18 March

Māoriland Hub

The authenticity of our language and culture - in front of, and behind the camera.

NATIVE Minds: You’ve got a story, so what?

1:30 PM | Saturday 18 March

Māoriland Hub

To have a great story isn’t enough; you need to know how to make it.

NATIVE Minds: Addiction

3:00 PM | Saturday 18 March

Māoriland Hub

Recovery from addiction requires access to stories of healing.

INDUSTRY

Māoriland’s industry program is a space for those working in the screen industry to wānanga and network.

Industry passes give access to industry only events, as well as one ticket per screening.

• Panel Discussions

• Wānanga

• Networking

• Industry Receptions

Industry Pass Terms

• You need 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 before the 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 someone else can enjoy the film.

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

• Industry passes are not transferable.

• Lost passes cannot be reprinted.

• Closing Night Party. Due to limited numbers, you must RSVP to attend this party by Friday 10 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 from Tuesday, March 14, 2023. In case of cancellation, refunds will be made available.

In this scenario, please consider donating your booking fee ($1.50 per ticket) as this supports Māoriland to pay our friends at iTicket to process all ticket changes.

FILM FESTIVAL

E Tū Whānau Rangatahi Film Awards

10:00 am | Thursday | 16 March

Māoriland Hub or Memorial Hall

Celebrate the creativity of rangatahi at the 10th E Tu Whanau Rangatahi Film Awards!

E Tū Whānau is a movement for positive change developed by Māori for Māori. In 2014, E Tū Whānau was Māoriland's first partner, enabling us to lead free film workshops to rangatahi in communities across Aotearoa. Over the past ten years, over 500 ETW short films have been created by rangatahi and screened to thousands of young people and their whānau.

The films made in this year's awards come from Ōtaki, Kaitāia, Whakatāne, Tūranganui ā Kiwa, Rotorua & Te Araroa.

MRFF: TE AO POHEWA

Te Ao Pohewa is the dream world and in this programme we cater for the dreams and playfulness of our teina..

11:45 AM | Thursday 16 March | Memorial Hall

Enaanzowaad Awesiinyag

2022 | 2 mins| John-Paul Chalykoff |

Anishinaabe with English subtitles |

Michipicoten First Nation

An Anishinaabemowin music video.

Kikino Kids

2022 | 14 mins | Barry Bilinsky | English | Kikino Métis Settlement

From the imagination of Kikino youth, follow the story of rebellious friends, star crossed lovers, and brave explorers coming together to discover how connected they truly are.

Star Sailors

2022 | 3 mins | Jaimee Poipoi | English | Māori

Philly is back with her neighbour, Agent Star Shine, taking on an early morning adventure when an alien lands in her backyard to eat all the strawberries!

Məca

2021 | 8 mins | Ryan Haché, Ritchie Hemphill | English | Gwa’sala’Nakwaxda’xw Nations

An elder tells her grandson the 'Nakwax'daxw legend of the Mink so that he can understand humility, patience, and be better at self acceptance.

Māui Adventures:

Capturing The Sun

2022 | 1 mins | Jus G. | Olelo Hawai’i with English subtitles | Hawaii

A Hawaiian boy fights the sun in order to slow it down and save his people.

Ako For Niños: King Tupac

2022 | 7 mins | Sebastian

Vidal-Bustamante | English | Latin American Tauiwi

A grandmother tells a story to her grandson of a great king from across the seas, who hundreds of years ago brought the kumara to Tahiti.

Who Sneezed

2022 | 3 mins | Jaimee Poipoi | English | Māori

Philly Whakaaro and her friend, Elephant, debate the origins of the universe while having a tea party in her bedroom.

MRFF: PAKIWAITARA

1:30 PM | Thursday 16 March | Memorial Hall

Commissioned by Te Wānanga o Raukawa these six reo Māori retellings of famous fairytales were animated by the rangatahi team at the Māoriland tech creative hub M.A.T.C.H

Jason-Bob Egdell-Ropata, Taniko Tapine, Turanga Mahutonga, Michael Koro Hikaka Takei Wira-Henare, Jayde Ropata and supported by Eric Creswell and Maaka Gair-Houia and produced by Libby Hakaraia.

Nga Poaka e Toru (3 little pigs) Nga Pirikoti e Toru (3 billygoats gruff), Hinarata (Cinderella) Hukama (Snow White) Huriwhero (Little Red Riding Hood) Kouraraka (Goldilocks).

MRFF: TE AO PŪMAU

Te Ao Pūmau - Pūmau refers to something everlasting and truthful, our tuakana programme is the bridge between reality and fantasy worlds. This programme has been selected by Ngā Pakiaka - Māoriland's Rangatahi Film Leadership Group for young people of high school age.

9:45 AM | Friday 17 March | Memorial Hall

Obscheenies

2022 | 12 mins | Barry Bilinsky | English | Kikino Métis Settlement

The stories are true.

Plastic - A love letter to the estranged

2022 | 14 mins | Va'a Magalogo | English | Samoa

Plastic has a colloquial meaning used to question a person's cultural authenticity. This documentary shares the experience of someone who pushed away her culture because of it.

Jarli

2022 | 8 mins | Chantelle Murray, Simon Rippingale | English | Bardi/Bunial

Jarli Jones, a young First Nations girl in outback Australia, dreams of flying to the stars and sets out on an adventure to do just that.

Atali'i o Le Crezent

2022 | 10 mins | Villa Junior Lemanu | Samoa

With his neighbourhood under threat from gentrification, a young man recalls his youth, his roots and his upbringing through spoken word, memories and dance.

He Karu He Taringa

2022 | 13 mins | Tahuaroa Ohia | English, Māori with subtitles | Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Pukenga, Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi

A story about how a takiwātanga (autistic) child sees and hears the world.

Maumahara

2022 | 12 mins | Kaitiaki Rodger | English, Māori with subtitles | Māori

A dad working the night shift uses the time with his young son to encourage him to hold onto his language.

Beneath the Surface

2022 | 12 mins | Gill Higgins | English | Tonga

New Zealand’s first Tongan swimming champion battles self-doubt and setbacks as she fights for a medal at the Commonwealth Games.

Whitey and Te Putiputi

2021 | 4 mins | Kura-Kakerangi

Xanthea Turuwhenua | English | Kai Tahu, Ngāti Porou, Tūhoe

A pale explorer gives into his insatiable thirst for adventure (and other stuff).

THROUGH OUR LENS

Through Our Lens is a cultural exchange programme for young Indigenous storytellers to connect through film. The films in this programme were made during Through Our Lens workshops in Fiji & Kahnawake in 2022.

12:00 PM | Friday 17 March | Memorial Hall

Marama

2022 | 3 mins | Adi Senibuli Kula Vatuwaliwali, Adi Senibulikula Vatuwaliwali | Fijian, English | Fiji

In Fiji, first time filmmakers express who they are and what's important to them.

Valelewa

2022 | 4 mins | David Lutunatabua | English | Fiji

A comedic take on Fijian Gods and how they would live in real life.

Vinaka

2022 | 2 mins | Gabriel Gade, Giovanna Varea | Fijian, English | Fiji

In Fiji Vinaka comes from the heart.

Youth

2022 | 6 mins | Emma Thompson | English | Kahnawake

A young woman learns her culture in order to feel like she can attend a social event in her community.

Wannabe

2022 | 4 mins | Jarrett Jacobs |

English | Kahnawake

Is there such a thing as a wannabe serial killer?

Indigiqueer Stories

2022 | 8 mins | Anika Nochasak |

English | Kahnawake

A documentary that shares the perspective of 5 young Indigenous people and their experiences being Two Spirit living in the city.

Kiriata - Feature Films

AOTEAROA

Kainga 2022

Dir. Shreya Gejji, Ghazaleh Golbakhsh, Mei-Lin Te Puea

Hansen, HASH, Nahyeon Lee, Angeline Loo, Mia Maramara, Asuka Sylvie, Kerry Warkia, Kiel McNaughton, Yamin Tun, Julie Zhu & Michelle Ang 37

Muru 2022

Dir. Tearepa Kahi 39

AUSTRALIA

Sweet As 2022

Dir. Jub Clerc 62

CANADA

Bones of Crows 2022

Dir. Marie Clements 56

Broken Angel 2022

Dir. Jules Arita

Koostachin

38

Rosie 2022

Dir. Gail Maurice 53

Slash/Back 2022

Dir. Nyla Innuksuk 23

Wildhood 2021

Dir. Bretten Hannam 29

HAWAII

Ka Pō 2021

Dir. Etienne Aurelius 22

UNITED STATES

Gush 2023

Dir. Fox Maxy 19

YAKUTIA

Youth 2021

Dir. Dmitrii Davydov 64

PakipūmekaDocumentaries

AOTEAROA

A Boy Called PianoThe Story of Fa'amoana

John Luafutu 2021

Dir. Nina Nawalowalo 63

Portrait of a Quiet Revolutionary 2022

Dir. Moana Maniapoto, Toby Mills 47

AUSTRALIA

Marni 2019

Dir. Tyson Mowarin 25

CANADA

Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On 2022

Dir. Madison Thomas 26

Kaatohkitopii: The Horse He Never Rode 2022

Dir. Trevor Solway 59

IRAN

Destiny 2022

Dir. Yaser Talebi 50

IRELAND

Mincéir 2022

Dir. Teresa Lavina 44

RAPA NUI

Patu La Leyenda 2019

Dir. Waitiare

Kaltenegger Icka 27

Kiriata PotoShort Films

AOTEAROA

Akanuanua - Katrina

Malisha Aho 2022

Dir. Mariner

Fagaiava-Muller 33

Akanuanua - Bianca

Hope Dawson Puia 2022

Dir. Elizabeth Koroivulaono 33

Akanuanua - Kitty

Wasasala 2022

Dir. Bianca Seinafo 33

Ako For Niños:

King Tupac 2022

Dir. Sebastian VidalBustamante 69

Atali'i o Le Crezent 2022

Dir. Villa Junior Lemanu 70

Ati-a-Toa 2022

Dir. Kingi RaketeTane 58

Beneath the Surface 2022

Dir. Gill Higgins 71

Bringing Mere Home 2022

Dir. Keelan Walker 54

Brolesque 2023

Dir. Libby Hakaraia 52

Burning of the Gods 2022

Dir. Karin Williams 42

Ellipsis 2022

Dir. Anthony Kohere 54

Fast Eddie 2022

Dir. Keely Meechan 30

Find Where I

belong 2022

Dir. Kahu Kaiha 46

Follow the Light 2022

Dir. Cameron

Madams 55

He Karu He

Taringa 2022

Dir. Tahuaroa Ohia 71

He Ōhākī - Imparting

Words of Wisdom 2022

Dir. Kararaina

Rangihau 47

He Pounamu

Ko Āu 2022

Dir. Tia Barrett 17

He Takatāpui Ahau 2021

Dir. Alesha Ahdar 49

Karaoke King 2022

Dir. Moana Johnson 52

Kava 'o Aotearoa 2022

Dir. Joshua Baker 57

Mana over Meth 2022

Dir. Holly Beckham 46

Māreikura 2022

Dir. Lydia Day 57

Mau Taiaha 2023

Dir. Reuben Nicklin 34

Maumahara 2022

Dir. Kaitiaki Rodger 71

Nga Kōtiro O

Taranaki 2023

Dir. Rautini 21

Nguru 2022

Dir. Daniel Belton and Good Company Arts 18

Pakiwaitara 2022

Dir. Jason-Bob EgdellRopata, Taniko Tapine, Turanga Mahutonga, Michael Koro Hikaka

Takei Wira-Henare, Jayde Ropata 69

Plastic - A love letter to the estranged 2022

Dir. Va'a Magalogo 33, 70

Star Sailors 2022

Dir. Jaimee Poipoi 68

Tangata Whenua 1974

Dir. Barry Barclay 25

Te Rā 2022

Dir. Karen Sidney 18

Te Ringa a Turoa 2021

Dir. Bella-Wai Tipene 17

Te Uru Aute 2022

Dir. Nikau Hindin, Rongomai

Hoskins 18

Testimony 2022

Dir. Alice Lolohea 36

The Brylcreem Boys 2022

Dir. Rafer Rautjoki 31

The Machine 2022

Dir. Isaac Bell 55

Whakaako kia

Whakaora/ Educate to Liberate 2022

Dir. Robert

George 34

Whitey and Te

Putiputi 2021

Dir. KuraKakerangi Xanthea

Turuwhenua 60, 71

Who Sneezed 2022

Dir. Jaimee Poipoi 69

AUSTRALIA

Jarli 2022

Dir. Chantelle

Murray, Simon

Rippingale 70

Just Another Day in Indulkana 2021

Dir. Vicki Yatjki

Cullinan 61

Milaythina Rrukani

- Language of the Land 2022

Dir. Troy Melville, Jillian Mundy 42

Namaste Yoga 2022

Dir. Ravi Chand 30

Shiny One 2021

Dir. Viviana

Petyarre 49

CANADA

7 2021

Dir. Jim Matlock 59

A Bear Named

Jesus 2022

Dir. Terril Calder 46

A Boy and his Loss 2022

Dir. Michelle

Derosier 45

Arctic Song 2021

Dir. Germaine

Arnattaujuq, Neil

Christopher, Louise Flaherty 27

Better At Texting 2021

Dir. Mary Galloway 52

Bimibatoo-win: Where I Ran 2022

Dir. Erica Daniels 44

Enaanzowaad

Awesiinyag 2022

Dir. John-Paul

Chalykoff 67

Grape Soda in the Parking Lot 2022

Dir. Megan KyakMonteith, Taqralik Partridge 48

Haunted Blizzard 2019

Dir. Aviaq Johnston 54

Heart Like a Pow

Wow 2022

Dir. Chief Lady Bird 35

How to Lose Everything: A Field Guide 2022

Dir. Christa Couture, Bekky O'Neil 45

Imalirijit 2022

Dir. Tim Anaviapik

Soucie, Vincent L'Hérault 43

Indigiqueer Stories 2022

Dir. Anika Nochasak 73

Kikino Kids 2022

Dir. Barry Bilinsky 60, 67

Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics 2021

Dir. Terril Calder 27

Məca 2021

Dir. Ryan Haché, Ritchie Hemphill 68

MisTik 2022

Dir. Jules Arita

Koostachin 28

My Girl 2022

Dir. Megan Shott 32

N'xaxaitkw 2022

Dir. Asia Youngman 61

Obscheenies 2022

Dir. Barry Bilinsky 40, 70

Once Upon a Time in the Bay 2022

Dir. Judith Kanatahawi

Schuyler 51

Our Ways 2022

Dir. Autumn Angelique

Godwin, Amanda

Lickers 57

Shadow Of The Rougarou 2022

Dir. Jordan Waunch 28

Terror/Forming 2022

Dir. Rylan Friday 41

The Golden Age 2022

Dir. Bawaadan

Collective 61

Tibi 2022

Dir. Twoyoungmen Jarret 35

Ts'oostsitsi (Years Ago) 2022

Dir. Adam Solway 30

Wannabe 2022

Dir. Jarrett Jacobs 73

Youth 2022

Dir. Emma Thompson 73

CHILE

El cóndor y el picaflor 2021

Dir. Waldo Iván Castro 35

COLOMBIA

Theecx Khubx Y

La Recuperación

De Tierras 2021

Dir. Alan Santamaria 43

COOK ISLANDS

Ko Au 2022

Dir. Mii Taokia 40

FIJI

Marama 2022

Dir. Adi Senibuli

Kula Vatuwaliwali, Adi Senibulikula

Vatuwaliwali 72

Valelewa 2022

Dir. David Lutunatabua 72

Vinaka 2022

Dir. Gabriel Gade, Giovanna Varea 72

FINLAND

Dolos Niegut 2022

Dir. Marja Viitahuhta 60

Mánnu 2021

Dir. Marja Viitahuhta 17

GREENLAND

Where Dreams Are Forgotten 2022

Dir. Inuk Jørgensen 42

IRAN

Sampash/The Sprayer 2022

Dir. Farnoosh Abedi 55

MEXICO

Tsontiajakatl - El Último Viento 2020

Dir. Darío Duarte, David Marcelino Cayetano 36

NORWAY

Rieban - The Fox 2023

Dir. Sara Margrethe

Oskal 52

Unborn Biru 2022

Dir. Inga Elin Marakatt 41

PALESTINE

Night 2021

Dir. Ahmad Saleh 27

TAIWAN / AOTEAROA

Sasela'an - Breath of the Island 2022

Dir. Ado' Kaliting Pacidal 47

TURKEY

Game Over 2022

Dir. Miriam Carlsen, Saeed Mayahy 30

UNITED STATES

All I Ever Wanted 2021

Dir. Erin Lau 61

Dues 2022

Dir. Michael R.L. Begay 32

E Malama Pono, Willy Boy 2022

Dir. Scott W. Kekama

Amona 43

Firecracker Bullets 2022

Dir. Chad Charlie 45

Ghosts 2022

Dir. Jeffrey Palmer 28

Inheritance 2022

Dir. Erin Lau 48

Ke Kahea: An Invitation Into Sacred Space 2022

Dir. Justyn Ah Chong 58

Language Keepers 2022

Dir. Ajuawak

Kapashesit 35

Li Hing Mui 2021

Dir. Kanani Koster 48

Long Line of Ladies 2022

Dir. Shaandiin Tome, Rayka Zehtabchi 46

Longhouse 2021

Dir. Erik Sanchez 45

Māui Adventures: Capturing The Sun 2022

Dir. Jus G. 68

No Spectators

Allowed 2021

Dir. Kanani Koster 40

Rematriation: Angela

Ferguson 2020

Dir. Katsitsionni Fox, Michelle Schenandoah 57

Savage / Future 2022

Dir. Terry J Jones 34

Seed Mother: Coming Home 2021

Dir. Mateo Hinojosa, Rowen White 36

Seed Warriors 2022

Dir. Rebekka

Schlichting 58

Spam is Life 2022

Dir. Brutis Baez, LaRonn Katchia 51

Stripper 2021

Dir. Anthony Sneed 49

The Beginning and End of Everything 2022

Dir. Viveka Frost 60

The Future Behind Us 2021

Dir. Melodie Turori 58

The Mainland 2021

Dir. Conrad Lihilihi 32

The Original Shareholder Experience 2021

Dir. Petyr Xyst 54

The Pit Where We Were Born 2018

Dir. Alexander Bocchieri 48

Things You Know But Cannot Explain 2022

Dir. Michelle Hernandez, Chantal Jung 51

M.A.T.C.H - Māoriland Tech Creative Hub

AOTEAROA

Rangi Tuwhera 2021

Dir. Dave Whitehead 21

CANADA

Mikiwam: Solarpunk

Herbalism 2022

Dir. Keara Lightning 20

This Is Not A Ceremony 2022

Dir. Ahnahktsipiitaa/ Colin Van Loon 21

Valley of the Rougarou 2022

Dir. Jordan Waunch 21

UNITED STATES

Seasons of Life: An Indigenous Poetry Experience 2022

Dir. Pohaikealoha

Panoke 20

Māoriland Film Festival 2023

RĀAPA 15 POUTŪ-TE-RANGI

RĀPARE 16 POUTŪ-TE-RANGI

10:30 AM Tangata Whenua

12:30 PM Marni

6:00 PM Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On

10:00 AM MRFF E Tū Whānau Rangatahi Film Awards

7:00 PM Toi Te Mana

8:30 PM Ka Rongo te Ao 8:15 pm GUSH

RĀMERE 17 POUTŪ-TE-RANGI

10:15 AM He Hononga Wai

12:45 PM Te Kawenga Makaurangi

3:00 PM Whakapapa Shorts

6:15 PM Broken Angel

8:30 PM Oooky Spooky Shorts

RĀHOROI 18 POUTŪ-TE-RANGI

10:00 AM Whenua Shorts

VISIT M.A.T.C.H - the Māoriland Tech Creative Hub for VR, GAMES & MORE

10:00 AM NATIVE Minds: Intergenerational Storytelling

12:30 PM Wairua Shorts 11:30 AM NATIVE Minds: Cultural Authenticity

2:45 PM Whānau Shorts

5:30 PM Bingo Shorts

7:45 PM Tīramaroa

RĀTAPU 19 POUTŪ-TE-RANGI

10:30 AM Te Taiao

12:45 PM Te Mea Ngaro

3:00 PM A Boy Called PianoThe Story of Fa'amoana John Luafutu

1:30 PM NATIVE Minds: You’ve got a story, so what?

3 PM NATIVE Minds: Addiction

8:00 PM Māoriland Red Carpet Party with the Modern Māori Quartet

8:00 PM | Opening Night Screening: Ka Pō

11:45 AM MRFF: Te Ao Pohewa

1:30 PM MRFF: Pakiwaitara

6:15 PM Ka Rongo te Pō 8:30 PM Wildhood

9:45 AM MRFF: Te Ao Pūmau

12:00 PM MRFF Through Our Lens

6:00 PM Kāinga

8:15 PM Muru

11:00 AM Kōkiri Whakamua

1:00 PM Matauranga

3:30 PM Destiny

6:15 PM Rosie

8:30 PM Bones of Crows

11:00 AM Kaatohkitopii: The Horse He Never Rode

1:15 pm Sweet As

3:45 PM Youth

6:00 PM Closing Night Screening: Slash/Back

5:30 PM Māoriland

Keynote - The Māoriland Story with Libby Hakaraia

11:00 AM Pōwhiri

Tāria taku moko Māori

ki ngā kiriata o te wā Embed my Native Soul in Film

This programme is dedicated to all our dear friends and partners in the Native Film Circle with much aroha for a bountiful year of Indigenous storytelling.

To all of you who have travelled from near and far, thank you for coming to Ōtaki and for sharing the love we all have for a good story, a remarkable film, and each other. We hope your time at Māoriland is enjoyable, and that what you have seen and experienced will expand you in wonderful ways.

Māoriland is a registered charitable trust. To support Māoriland contact us on kiaora@maorilandfilm.co.nz

Māoriland is committed to reducing our impact on our environment. Please look after this programme as copies are limited. You can find the programme online at mff.maorilandfilm.co.nz

For more information about our year-round events, visit us online at www.maorilandfilm.co.nz

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