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Awatea, a young warrior, is enraged when his lover Te Po, a high-born chief's daughter, enters an arranged marriage. Retribution is swift and brutal. Set in the late 16th century and based on a Shakespeare sonnet ("my love is as a fever, longing still"), the storytelling of Te Po Uriuri is visceral, and suitably mythic in style. Ruru hoot, bloody patu gleam, and bodies and the oily black of the night are vividly shot by Waka Attewell. Directed by Toby Mills and filmed in te reo, it was selected for the Hamburg International Film Festival.

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 Toby Mills
 Norman Elder
 Wi Kuki Kaa

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 Mr lovalova

Mr lovalova

What's with the old dudes face in the whare of lurv lol

 fagai

fagai

He reka rawe atu tēnei kiriata. E mātea ana ētahi mea anō whakapēnei mā te whakauka o te tikanga me te reo Māori! Tau kē!

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  • Independent and General Productions
  • Tawera Productions

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