Whale Rider
A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
Keywords:
Diving
Becoming an adult
Grandparent grandchild relationship
Tradition
Loss of loved one
Ocean
Whale
Empowerment
New zealand
Maori tradition
Chief
Modern society
Canoe
Patriarch
Stick fighting
Patriarchy
Magic realism
Woman director
Swimming underwater
War dance
Traditional dance
Movie tag line: "In the ways of the ancients she found a hope for the future."
