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2003

Whale Rider

7.06 101 minutes

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Genre: Drama, Family

Country: Germany, New Zealand

Year: 2003

Director: Niki Caro

Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa, Mana Taumaunu

Studio: South Pacific Pictures, Pandora Film, ApolloMedia, New Zealand Film Production Fund, New Zealand Film Commission, NZ on Air, Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Tags: diving, becoming an adult, grandparent grandchild relationship, tradition, loss of loved one, ocean, whale, empowerment, new zealand, maori tradition, chief, modern society, canoe, patriarch, stick fighting, patriarchy, magic realism, woman director, swimming underwater, war dance, traditional dance

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