Mahana (2016)

ALL 09/01/2016 (en) Drama 103 Min
  • Release
    09/01/2016
  • Production
    The Patriarch Limited
  • Rotten tomato
    66%
  • Original title
    Mahana
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

It is the 1960s. Two Maori families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, make a living shearing sheep on the east coast of New Zealand. The two clans, who are bitter enemies, face each other as rivals at the annual sheep shearing competitions. Simeon is a 14-year-old scion of the Mahana clan. A courageous schoolboy, he rebels against his authoritarian grandfather Tamihana and his traditional ways of thinking and begins to unravel the reasons for the long-standing feud between the two families. Before long, the hierarchies and established structures of the community are in disarray because Tamihana, who is as stubborn as he is proud, is not prepared to acquiesce and pursue new paths. The story is adapted from Witi Ihimaera's novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies.

  1. Lee Tamahori

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Producer



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Mahana (2016) 103 Min

ALL 09/01/2016 (en)
Drama
  • Release 09/01/2016
  • Production
    The Patriarch Limited
  • Original title Mahana
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

It is the 1960s. Two Maori families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, make a living shearing sheep on the east coast of New Zealand. The two clans, who are bitter enemies, face each other as rivals at the annual sheep shearing competitions. Simeon is a 14-year-old scion of the Mahana clan. A courageous schoolboy, he rebels against his authoritarian grandfather Tamihana and his traditional ways of thinking and begins to unravel the reasons for the long-standing feud between the two families. Before long, the hierarchies and established structures of the community are in disarray because Tamihana, who is as stubborn as he is proud, is not prepared to acquiesce and pursue new paths. The story is adapted from Witi Ihimaera's novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies.

  1. Lee Tamahori

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Michael Horton, Jonathan Woodford-Robinson

    Editor

  4. Producer