Critically-praised New Zealand feature Waru is releasing nationwide in Australia through Demand.Film in more than 20 locations. Eight Māori female directors contribute a sequence to this feature which unfolds around the tangi of a boy who died at the hands of his caregiver.
“The voices of Aotearoa’s native women haven’t been heard enough in cinema,” said Flicks reviewer Liam Maguren. “With Waru, the film’s eight directors deliver an emotional shout into that silence, and it carries the spread and whaea power of a shotgun.”
“Waru stands a sturdy testament to the way film can generate resonant art from difficult subject matter,” wrote Dominic Corry in his 5-star review for the NZ Herald.
“The overall impact of Waru is stunning and it is impossible not to be moved and impressed in equal measure,” declared Sarah Watt in her 5-star review for Stuff.co.nz.
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