White Lies (2013)

Directors

Dana Rotberg

Cast

Antonia Prebble

The story

As a young girl Paraiti, witnesses the brutal killing of her family by European settlers in a conflict that leaves a permanent scar on her cheek. Many years later, Paraiti, lives a semi-nomadic existence in the rural Te Urewera region of New Zealand, and is working underground as a medicine woman and healer. In 1907, the New Zealand government passed the Tohunga Suppression Act to outlaw natural healing for Māori.

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