The director of the Wairoa Maori Film Festival says there is a feast of local and international movies for the 2011 festival.
The festival will be held at Queens Birthday Weekend.
Leo Koziol says highlights include the first marae screenings of Kawa - Katie Wolfe's adaptation of Witi Ihimaera's Nights in the Garden of Spain, and the Rangimoana Taylor vehicle Hook Line and Sinker.
The festival will also feature a new film starring Temuera Morrison and British actor Ray Winstone.
Tracker tells of a Boer War survivor hunting down a Maori whaler wanted for murder.
Mr Koziol says the British production makes every attempt to be true to tikanga Maori.
He says a highlight of the short film programme will be Tuhoe filmmaker Kararaina Rangihau's Taku Rakau E, the last film produced by Merata Mita who died in May 2010.
