![First Horse First Horse](/storage/2024/sessions/7779/first-horse-027070_12148.jpg)
First Horse
A haunting riff on the western framed from a Māori perspective.
In 1826 Aotearoa, a small girl in an isolated rural setting comes in first contact with two facets of colonisation: a foreign infectious disease and the first horse she’s ever seen. Director Awanui Simich-Pene’s widescreen picture is shot in sparkling black-and-white and features a score by lead actor (and acclaimed musician) Troy Kingi.
Tickets
For information about the accessible services being offered at MIFF, please visit miff.com.au/access. If you require any access service, such as wheelchair/step-free access, for any MIFF session, please call 03 8660 4888 or email boxoffice@miff.com.au to book your ticket.
You might also like ...
![](/cached/thumb/storage/2024/sessions/7744/the-medallio-030082_12483.jpg)
Ethiopian-Australian filmmaker Ruth Hunduma hears her mother’s testimony of surviving the ‘Red Terror’ genocide of Ethiopia in the 1970s.
![](/cached/thumb/storage/2024/sessions/7772/lea-tupuanga-027044_12555.jpg)
A speech therapist oversells her Tongan language skills to get a job.
![](/cached/thumb/storage/2024/sessions/7867/binti-030342_12762.jpg)
A visually striking meditation on motherhood as a young woman goes to extraordinary lengths to help her pregnant mother.