The Middlebury Classic Film Club will be screening the film, “Whale Rider” at the Ilsley Public Library this Thursday, May 18, starting at 6 pm.
Whale Rider (2002, 1hr 44min). A Maori tribe in New Zealand had a strict rule for future chiefs: they had to be male. This pattern was upset when the heir to tribal leadership died in infancy. His twin sister survived and wants to be chief someday. Here the struggle to find peace revolves around finding harmony between a talented and ambitious young woman and her kindly but tradition bound grandfather.
