The Māoriland indigenous film festival will screen over 120 films this week, from shorts of a few minutes through to full-length features. The Māoriland festival is on a circuit of indigenous film festivals around the world. Filmmakers from as far away as the Arctic circle and Canada are in Ōtaki for the week to show their films and interact with audiences and other film-makers. Festival director Libby Hakaraia said the event was a chance to shares ideas and stories from indigenous peoples around the world. "The United Nations says there are 370 million indigenous peoples around the world [and] we know there's more than that, a lot more than that.

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