Film
Waru
- Director
- Ainsley Gardiner, Awanui Simich-Pene, Renae Maihi, Paula Jones, Katie Wolfe, Chelsea Cohen, Casey Kaa, Briar Grace-Smith
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 86 mins
Comprising eight 10 minute short films strung seamlessly together, Waru explores the experiences of eight very different Māori women on the morning of eponymous boy’s funeral after he died as a result of neglect.
It’s a disturbing and ambitious portmanteau drama, hailed by Mark Kermode as “a remarkable achievement – authentic, impassioned, unexpected – that stands as a testament to the radical power of cooperative film-making.”
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