Ticket link coming soon. Virtual films play over 3 days, starting at midnight on the first day listed.
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Free for Passholders and All Access Members
Also showing in-theater March 6
*Closing Night Film*
Set in Whāngārā, a town on the East Coast of the North Island, Whale Rider tells the story of a young Māori girl, Pai (Keisha Castle-Hughes). Pai must challenge tradition and simultaneously embrace the past while finding the strength and will to lead her people. Based on Witi Ihimaera’s novel, “The Whale Rider”, marrying a specific sense of place and culture with a universal coming-of-age story, Whale Rider met incredible success worldwide; it won multiple audience choice awards, including those at Sundance and Toronto. Whale Rider is not a simplistic fable but the story of real people living in modern times.
The festival program is in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association
