WARU — Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Over a black screen, a young child’s voice states calmly: “When I died, I saw the whole world”. Directed by
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TIFF’s Kathleen Drumm on the 2017 Festival’s ‘Share Her Journey’ Initiative — Interview by Julide Tanriverdi
There is always talk that there are not enough women in Hollywood. The latest study from the Center for the
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At TIFF: New Zealand’s Maori Women Directors talk WARU — Gill Pringle reports
Told from the viewpoint of nine female filmmakers, Waru is the first feature film from New Zealand to be made by Maori women since Mereta Mita’s Mauri almost 30 years ago. Eight female Maori directors each contributed a ten minute vignette, presented as a continuous shot in real time, that unfolds around the tangi (funeral) of a small boy (Waru) who died at the hands of his caregiver.
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