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Whale Rider is a 2002 New Zealand drama film written and directed by Niki Caro. Based on the 1987 novel The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, the film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes as Kahu Paikea Apirana, a twelve-year-old Māori girl whose ambition is to become the chief of the tribe. Her grandfather believes that this is a role reserved for males only.
A 2002 drama film directed by Niki Caro, based on a novel by Witi Ihimaera. It tells the story of Pai, a young Maori girl who challenges the patriarchal tradition of her tribe and claims her ancestral heritage as the descendant of a whale rider.
- Niki Caro
- 2 min
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale.
Jun 20, 2003 · One day Koro summons all of the young teenage boys of the village to a series of compulsory lessons on how to be a Maori, and the leader of Maoris. There's an amusing sequence where they practice looking ferocious to scare their enemies.
Whale Rider. A young Māori girl fights to fulfil her destiny in her tribe, struggling against her traditional grandfather and the belief that only a male heir can become the next chief....
The Whale Rider is a 1987 novel by New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. In 2002 it was adapted into a film, Whale Rider, directed by Niki Caro. Plot Carving of Paikea at Whangara's marae. Set in the 1980s in Whangara, a Māori community on the eastern edge of New Zealand's North Island, the novel is a retelling of the myth of Paikea.
Dec 19, 2012 · A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.Director: Niki Car...
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