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(QS) Kawa

Director

Katie Wolfe

Synopsis

Based on the novel “Nights in the Gardens of Spain” by Witi Ihimaera (Whale Rider), Kawa is the story of a Maori family man living a double life. With his marriage a mess and work pressures raging, Kawa lives out of a hotel and spends his evenings in a sauna having anonymous sex with men. A visit from his aging father, to pass on the Kahu huruhuru (a symbolic cloak worn by the family patriarch) precipitates a coming out with consequences that resonate through all generations of one family.  New Zealand looks as beautiful as ever in this spectacularly shot, sensitively nuanced and powerful film.

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