Witi Ihimaera

It is the 1960s. Two Maori families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, make a living shearing sheep on the east coast of New Zealand. The two clans, who are bitter enemies, face each other as rivals at the annual sheep shearing competitions. Simeon is a 14-year-old scion of the Mahana clan. A courageous schoolboy, he rebels against his authoritarian grandfather Tamihana and his traditional ways of thinking and begins to unravel the reasons for the long-standing feud between the two families. Before long, the hierarchies and established structures of the community are in disarray because Tamihana, who is as stubborn as he is proud, is not prepared to acquiesce and pursue new paths. The story is adapted from Witi Ihimaera's novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies.

A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which will destroy another.

A psychological drama of a family in crisis. Kawa, a successful Māori businessman in Auckland, New Zealand, is forced to reveal his lifelong secret - that he is gay.

У народа маори есть легенда о юноше Пакейа, который, оседлав кита, вывез свой народ в Новую Зеландию. Стареющий вождь племени ожидает рождения внука-наследника и уже решил назвать его в честь героя этой легенды - ведь мальчику надлежит принять на себя руководство общиной. Однако, вопреки ожиданиям, рождается девочка. Теперь дочери вождя придётся доказать своё лидерство, завоевать уважение соплеменников и совершить героический подвиг - оседлать кита и прокатится на нем...