Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu

We Were Dangerous

Nellie, Daisy and Lou attend an institution for delinquent girls on an isolated island in 1954. The trio rail against the system, finding strength in their friendship but this is challenged when the school's matron divides them.

Ani

A young girl finds comfort in play and slowly reconnects with her distant father after her mother walks out on the family.

Ani

A young girl finds comfort in play and slowly reconnects with her distant father after her mother walks out on the family.

Krystal

A young Māori women is released from prison and not given the proper support she needs.

Waru

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small boy who died at the hands of his caregiver.