Waifilmfest presents Turangawaewae and Te Rua

Kia ora! Wairarapa Film Festival (Waifilmfest)) is proud to present this double-bill screening of local films, with special guest Waka Attewell.

Turangawaewae: a Place to Stand (2003)
PG | Drama | 13 m
Tiare (a koro, or old man), a Vietnam war veteran, lives homeless, wandering the city, collecting bits and pieces in his plastic bags. His daughter brings her own daughter to visit and tries yet again to persuade him to return to their ancestral home. He does not wish to go there.
Featuring the creative talents of local composer and musician Warren Maxwell (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāi Te Rangi).
Film courtesy of Aotearoa New Zealand Film Heritage Trust and Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission

Te Rua (1991)
PG | 107 m | Drama
A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient grievances to be put right. Both men are in Berlin where the carvings are stored in a museum. Plans go awry when a group that Peter has assembled breaks into the museum.
Written and directed by groundbreaking local filmmaker, Barry Barclay (Ngāti Apa)

Film courtesy of Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission