The Māoriland Film Festival is back for its eleventh year.
Each year the indigenous world comes together in Ōtaki on New Zealand's Kāpiti Coast to celebrate indigenous storytelling on screen.
Starting tomorrow, and running over five days, the festival is showing 168 films with over 130 indigenous nations represented.
Madeleine Hakaraia de Young is the festival's director and she joins Nights from Ōtaki.
Still from the 2023 Navajo feature film Frybread Face and Me. Photo: Māoriland Film Festival
