New Zealand drama ‘Ka Whawhai Tonu’ scores German sale ahead of Toronto premiere

’Ka Whawhai Tonu – Struggle Without End’, which plays in TIFF’s Centrepiece section this week, is NZ’s top grossing local film this year.

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“We’re Telling the Story Our Way”: ‘Ka Whawhai Tonu’ Is the Māori Film Giving New Power to Indigenous Storytelling

Setting out with a brief from director Michael Jonathan to create an “unworldly” film score with “never before heard” elements, Tiki Taane and Arli Liberman went to work.

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‘Ka Whawhai Tonu’: Inside the ‘Unworldly’ Sound of the New Māori-Led Film

Setting out with a brief from director Michael Jonathan to create an “unworldly” film score with “never before heard” elements, Tiki Taane and Arli Liberman went to work.

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Cannes: New Zealand Historical Maori Action Drama ‘Ka Whawhai Tonu’ Unveiled (Exclusive)

Telling the story of a pivotal battle in the country’s first land wars between between Māori and the colonial forces, the groundbreaking film is being sold in Cannes by Locomotive Entertainment, with Transmission releasing it in Australia and New Zealand in 2024.   New Zealand is getting its very own historical action adventure drama told […]

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Trailer Revealed for Historical Aotearoa Epic Ka Whawhai Tonu – Struggle Without End

Transmission Films in association with Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) are delighted to reveal today the trailer for Ka Whawhai Tonu – Struggle Without End, the historical story of the battle of O-Rākau told for the first time from the point of view of the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, […]

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