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Kiriata Māori: Films Featuring Te Reo Māori (New Zealand's Indigenous language)

Tīmata. Kāti! (Action. Cut!)

Te Reo Māori is the first language of Aotearoa New Zealand, home-base for Letterboxd. “Ahakoa iti, ākona, kōrerotia”—learn a little, use a little.

The kiriata (films) in this list feature te Reo Māori (Māori language) in varying amounts. In the immortal kōrero of Ricky Baker: “Ka kōwhiria te āhua noho skux I ahau.” (“The skux life chose me.”)

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  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  • Boy
  • Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
  • Whina
  • Vai
  • Cousins
  • Once Were Warriors
  • Moana
  • Poi E: The Story of Our Song
  • The Piano
  • Waru
  • Rurangi
  • Patu!
  • Whale Rider
  • Māui's Hook
  • Utu
  • Mauri
  • Herbs: Songs of Freedom
  • Tama Tū
  • The Strength of Water
  • Rain of the Children
  • The Pā Boys
  • Juniper
  • Matariki
  • SIX60: Till the Lights Go Out
  • Rewi's Last Stand
  • Mahana
  • The Dead Lands
  • Savage
  • Mt. Zion
  • River Queen