Whale Rider – Admission ticket April 12
Admission to the Zhao Zhou movie on the 12th of April 2017, for one person.
Description
On the second Zhao Zhou film, we will screen “Whale Rider”, a New Zealander, Academy Award nominee movie. The film will be in English with Hungarian subtitles.
Arriving from 7 pm., the movie starts at 7:30 pm.
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On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea’s direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny