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The stars behind new Matariki roadrip movie KOKA
arts movies about 1 hour ago A new film about a Maori elder and a troubled young woman who bond during a Matariki road trip is about to hit cinemas. KOKA - meaning 'mother' - is a feature film from Kath Akuhata-Brown. It stars Hinetu Dell as Hamo, a kindly kuia trying to make her way back to her home on the East Cape. She crosses paths with Jo, played by Darneen Christian, as an exuberant delinquent who keeps finding herself in trouble with the law. The visually stunning film is half in English and half Maori - using the original dialect of Ngati Porou. Director Kath Akuhata-Brown and Hinetu Dell join Kathryn ahead of the film's release on June 19.
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A road movie like no other: Kath Akuhata-Brown's Kōkā
In the new feature film Kōkā an elder Māori woman, under the celestial guidance of Matariki, makes a long journey home in a car that's seen better days. She's joined by a charismatic, troubled and troubling young woman. These are two remarkable performances by actors Hinetu Dell and Darneen Christian. For Kōkā 's director, Kath Akuhata-Brown of Ngāti Porou, this has also been a long journey - to make a film on her own terms. Akuhata-Brown's long career in journalism, television and film has blazed a trail for Māori storytelling. As well as writing, producing and directing she's worked in development at the New Zealand Film Commission, Te Māngai Pāho and on the board of Script to Screen. Kōkā , she explains, is a road trip movie but it is of a very Māori, surreal kind - navigating between this world and the next. A kind of Goodbye Pork Bye inverted, reckons Culture 101 's Mark Amery - where the protagonists are wāhine Māori, the journey south to north, and where power is manifested through kindness and compassion to enable change. He is joined on Culture 101 by Kath Akuhata-Brown
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A road movie like no other this Matariki
te ao Maori arts 1:05 pm today In the new feature film Koka an elder Maori woman, under the celestial guidance of Matariki, makes a long journey home in a car that's seen better days. She's joined by a charismatic, troubled and troubling young woman. These are two remarkable performances by actors Hinetu Dell and Darneen Christian. For Koka's director, Kath Akuhata-Brown of Ngati Porou, this has also been a long journey - to make a film on her own terms. Akuhata-Brown's long career in journalism, television and film has blazed a trail for Maori storytelling. As well as writing, producing and directing she's worked in development at the New Zealand Film Commission, Te Mangai Paho and on the board of Script to Screen.
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04-06-2025
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At the Movies for 8 June 2025
Simon Morris finds himself confused by flashbacks, dream sequences - and Wes Anderson's convoluted story structures. He sets out through the thickets of The Phoenician Scheme, Bring her back and New Zealand road-movie Kōkā. The Phoenician Scheme opens on the fabulously wealthy Zsa Zsa Korda setting out to make even more money, with the help of his daughter, a novice nun, and a Swedish tutor called Bjorn. Directed by Wes Anderson, it stars Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, Scarlett Johanssen, Willem Dafoe, Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Ayoade, Tom Hanks and Bill Murray as God. Kōkā sees an ailing Maori matriarch and an angry delinquent form an unlikely team as they take a journey away from past traumas towards healing and reconciliation. A first feature by writer-director Kath Akuhata-Brown. Bring her back is a stylish Australian horror, in which two teen siblings are fostered by a woman who turns out to have her own issues. Can partially-sighted Piper get through an unexpected ordeal? Starring Sally Hawkins (The shape of water), it's directed by brothers Danny and Michael Philippu (Talk to me). To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
