FREE Movie Screening: Mārama (2025)

Kia ora, friends 🧡

We're back with the second screening in our series exploring how BIPOC experience horror not just as fear, but as history, survival, and truth-telling.

This time: Mārama (2025), directed by Toa Stappard.

In 1859, a young Māori woman is summoned from Aotearoa to Victorian England, where she discovers a horrific colonial heritage woven into the very walls of a stately manor. What begins as a governess position becomes something far more powerful. As she uncovers the crimes of those who devastated her whānau, she embraces her Matakite powers and transforms into Mārama, a force of resistance and justice.

As director, Toa Stappard says: "The history of most Indigenous peoples' colonisation is a horror story."

🎥 When: Tuesday 22nd October. Doors open at 7:00 p.m., film starts at 7:30 p.m.

📍 Where: Pioneer Women's Hall (upstairs), Ellen Melville Centre, Tāmaki Makaurau

🎟️ FREE ENTRY. All welcome

The rating for the film is RP16 (Restricted Presentation 16), meaning it is recommended with a guardian for viewers under 16.

We'll have free snacks + juice. Welcome to bring a cushion, whether to claim your spot, make the chairs comfier, or feel at home.

BIPOC-made goods from the shop are available for sale before and after the film.

See you there 💙

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*This screening is licensed by Roadshow Public Performance Licensing.