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Mahana is a 2016 New Zealand drama film directed by Lee Tamahori, and written by John Collee, based on the novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies by Witi Ihimaera. It was released as The Patriarch outside New Zealand.
Mahana. Based on Witi Ihimaera's novel Bulibasha, set on the East Coast in the 1960s, the truth behind a bitter feud between two Māori families comes to light. Movie. Local.
- 98 min
Mahana - Inspired by Witi Ihimaera book Bulibasha, director Lee Tamahori made his first film on local soil since 1994's Once Were Warriors. Temuera Morrison plays a 50s era patriarch who leads his whanāu in a bitter rivalry with another shearing family. When romance enters the picture, son Simeon investigates how the feud first began. The strong Māori cast includes Nancy Brunning (interviewed above) and Jim Moriarty. Mahana debuted at the 2016 Berlin Film Festival under the title The ...
Synopsis: 1960s, East Coast of New Zealand. Two Māori sheep-shearing families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, are longstanding enemies and commercial rivals. 14-year-old Simeon Mahana, the youngest son of the youngest son is in conflict with his traditionalist grandfather, Tamihana. As Simeon unravels the truth behind the longstanding family ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Dec 7, 2016 · Temuera Morrison and Akuhata Keefe in Mahana.. If he had only made Once Were Warriors, Lee Tamahori would have a place in the pantheon of Kiwi cinema.That film, produced by Robin Scholes, with ...
