Ngā Whanaunga
Kiriata Screening
Ngā Whanaunga
Friday 2 February:
6 pm Opening Night: Nga Whanaunga Māori Shorts, Len Lye Centre Cinema, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Buy Tickets
Tuesday 6 February (Waitangi Day):
3 pm Nga Whanaunga Māori Shorts, Len Lye Centre Cinema, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Buy Tickets
The KIRIATA MĀORI Showcase is a partnership between the Wairoa Māori Film Festival and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in Ngāmotu New Plymouth. Māori, Pasifika and Indigenous moving image art works will be screened over Waitangi weekend 2024 during the Te Hau Whakatonu exhibition.
Curator’s Statement:
This collection of short films are Māori short films from the Ngā Whanaunga programme of NZIFF. Every year, NZIFF provides a platform for the best Māori and Pasifika short films to be seen by audiences nationwide. This special “encore” collection presents five of the best from NZIFF in the past two years. Mauri Ora! - Leo Koziol (Ngāti Rakaipaaka, Ngāti Kahungunu)
Screen artists:
Keelan Walker (Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Apa ki to Rā Tō)
Paolo Rotondo, Rob Mokaraka
Douglas F. Brooks (Te Ati Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Kahungungu, Ngāti Pākehā)
Tia Barrett (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mamoe, Te Rapuwai, Waitaha, Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tamainupō)
Tajim Mohammed-Kapa (Māori)
Tajim Mohammed-Kapa (Māori), The Difference Between Pipi and Pupu
PROGRAMME
Bringing Mere Home
(Rated M)
Keelan Walker, 15 min Aotearoa
New Zealand. 1980s. Billy is driving home from one of his regular Sunday pub sessions when he comes across a mysterious young girl named Mere, stranded on the side of the road.
"A timely reminder of the cultural changes and social attitude changes that Māori have made towards alcohol, and the price we once paid." – Leo Koziol
Maunga Cassino
(Rated M Violence & Offensive Language)
Paolo Rotondo, 15 min Aotearoa
Writers Paolo Rotondo, Rob Mokaraka
Italy, World War 2. A battle hardened Maori soldier loses his way crossing into enemy territory, pursuing a scrawny rooster into an abandoned stable. Inside, hidden in a bundle of hay an Italian deserter Salvatore waits to reach his family.
Kōkako
(Rated M)
Douglas Brooks, 13 min Aotearoa
While Ashley searches the New Zealand wilderness for a bird presumed extinct, her isolation is disrupted by the intrusion of some uncomfortable family history.
"The underlying theme is dark and mournful, but this bounty of birds is a fantastical delight from start to finish, never will I think the same again when I visit my Ngāhere." – Leo Koziol
He Pounamu Ko Āu
Tia Barrett, 8 min Aotearoa
A kaupapa Māori experimental short film that explores wahine Māori identity. The film unfolds through moving image, pounamu pūrākau (storytelling), mōteatea (sung Māori poetry), and ambient sound. Created for healing and artistically expressing a story of overcoming the adversity of colonisation and the reconnection to indigenous woman's identity. Drawing on maternal whakapapa (genealogy) to celebrate intergenerational wāhine talent.
The Difference Between Pipi and Pūpū
(Rated M)
Tajim Mohammed-Kapa, 2022 18 min Aotearoa
When estranged son, Tai, is called home to Aotearoa to his father Putty's deathbed, he is forced to confront a painful past after years of avoiding it. Once inseparable, Tai and Putty would spend hours together fishing and joking around. However, after a family secret is revealed, their relationship falls apart.
The Difference Between Pipi and Pūpū is a story of a trauma that threatens to tear a whānau apart, and how memories of an aroha once shared can rise again and heal old mamae.
“Sometimes farewell means forgiveness, but the journey is arduous.” — Leo Koziol
Paolo Rotondo, Rob Mokaraka: Maunga Cassino
Douglas F. Brooks (Te Ati Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Kahungungu, Ngāti Pākehā), Kōkako