15 Sep 1992
Baraka
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
This film is an intimate portrayal of pioneering filmmaker Merata Mita told through the eyes of her children. Using hours of archive footage, some never before seen, her youngest child and director Hepi Mita discovers the filmmaker he never knew and shares the mother he lost, with the world.
Top Billed Cast
Rafer Rautjoki Self
Richard Rautjoki Self
Rhys Rautjoki Self
Awatea Mita Self
Eruera Mita Self
Jesse Wente Self
C.M. Kaliko Baker Self
Tammy Haili'opua Baker Self
Desmond Tutu Self (archive footage)
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