Feel Good Films
Whale Rider (2013, PG-13, 101 min.) It is set in a small New Zealand coastal village where Maori claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. In every generation, a male heir has succeeded to the chiefly title. The Chief's eldest son, Porourangi, fathers twins—a boy and a girl—but the boy and his mother die tragically in childbirth. Excluded from the training, Pai covertly enlists the help of her sympathetic uncle to learn the old ways.
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