In every generation, a male heir has succeeded to the chiefly title. The Chief's eldest son, Porourangi, fathers twins - a boy and a girl - but the boy and his mother die tragically in childbirth.
The surviving girl is name Pai. Grief-stricken, her father leaves her to be raised by her grandparents, Koro and Flowers. Koro, the Chief, refuses to acknowledge Pai as the heir. Koro desperately hopes that they can resolve their differences and that Porourangi will accept his destiny. But Porourangi, who has made a new life for himself in Europe, has no intention of becoming Chief.
Koro is convinced that the tribe's misfortunes began at Pai's birth and calls for his people to bring their year-old boys to him for training. He is certain that through a gruelling process of teaching the ancient chants, tribal lore and warrior techniques, the future leader of their tribe will be revealed to him.
Excluded from the sessions, Pai covertly enlists the help of her sympathetic uncle to learn the old ways. Meanwhile, deep within the ocean, a massive herd of whales is responding, drawn towards Pai and their twin destinies. When the whales become stranded on the beach, Koro is sure this signals an apocalyptic end to his tribe.
Until one person prepares to make the ultimate sacrifice to save the people. The Whale Rider. Coupling a specific sense of place and culture with a universal coming-of-age story, Whale Rider met with sizeable success worldwide, winning audience choice awards at Sundance and Toronto and its young star was nominated for an Academy Award. So the first thing I did was get rid of her shoes. No shoes. I did lots of work with her to help her understand the feelings that this child went through and help her understand her real feelings but also be able to step out of them as well.
A great actor. Caro : I had never worked with children before and it suits me. I like how direct they are. I like the economy of language that you need to have when working with kids.
You have to be very clear with them. The film I made before was about a Japanese couple and I worked with actors whose first language was Japanese. Working with children is very similar. She moves back from the table to reveal the figure she was hiding under a hooded sweatshirt. A Guide to the Films of Niki Caro. Photos Top cast Edit. Keisha Castle-Hughes Paikea as Paikea. Rawiri Paratene Koro as Koro. Cliff Curtis Porourangi as Porourangi.
Mana Taumaunu Hemi as Hemi. Rachel House Shilo as Shilo. Taungaroa Emile Willie as Willie. Tammy Davis Dog as Dog. Rawinia Clarke Miro as Miro. Elizabeth Skeen Rehua as Rehua. Taupua Whakataka-Brightwell Ropata as Ropata. Peter Patuwai Bubba as Bubba. Niki Caro. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. 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 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.
Several explanations for why cetaceans strand themselves have been proposed, including changes in water temperatures, peculiarities of whales ' echolocation in certain surroundings, and geomagnetic disturbances, but none have so far been universally accepted as a definitive reason for the behavior. Maurice Paiz Pundit. Can people ride whales? Though whale sharks are a protected species, technically it is legal to ride them. Or rather, there's no law on the books preventing it, probably because no legislator imagined someone would actually try to ride a whale shark.
Rossend Bez Pundit. Who is Kahu in the Whale Rider? She is a bright button-eyed girl with shining skin and the youngest member of the Maori tribe. Her parents are Porourangi and Rehua, because Kahu's mom died three months after her birth. Lokman Damour Pundit. Did Whale Rider win any awards? Xi Oestermann Pundit. Where was Whale Rider set? New Zealand. Arvin Gretschmann Teacher.
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