Koro is enraged when he finds out, particularly when she wins a taiaha fight against Hemi. One of the students, Hemi, is also sympathetic towards her. She also secretly follows Koro's lessons. Her grandmother, Nanny, tells Pai that her second son, Pai's uncle, had won a taiaha tournament in his youth while he was still slim and so Pai secretly learns from him. Pai feels that she can become the leader (although no woman has ever done so) and is determined to succeed. Pai is interested in the lessons, but is discouraged and scolded by Koro for doing so. He teaches the boys to use a taiaha ( fighting stick), which is traditionally reserved for males. Koro leads a cultural school for the village's first-born boys, hoping to find a new leader. However, as they are driving away, she finds that she cannot bear to leave the sea as the whale seems to be calling her back. At one point, Paikea decides to live with her father because her grandfather says he doesn't want her. While her grandfather, Koro, later forms an affectionate bond with his granddaughter, carrying her to school every day on his bicycle, he also condemns her and blames her for conflicts within the tribe.Īfter the death of his wife and despite overwhelming pressure from Koro, Pai's father refuses to assume traditional leadership or finish the waka that he had started building for the baby son instead, he moves to Germany to pursue a career as an artist. Pai is female and so technically cannot inherit the leadership. Pai is originally born a twin, but her twin brother and her mother died during childbirth. The village leader should be the first-born son, a direct patrilineal descendant of Paikea, the Whale Rider, he who rode on top of a whale (Tohora) from Hawaiki. The film's plot follows the story of Paikea Apirana.
In 2005, the film was named on the BFI List of the 50 Films You Should See By the Age of 14. The film earned $41.4 million on a NZ$9,235,000 budget. At age 13, Keisha Castle-Hughes became the youngest nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actress before she was surpassed by Quvenzhané Wallis, at age 9, for Beasts of the Southern Wild, in 2012, less than a decade later. The film received critical acclaim upon its release. The world premiere was on 9 September 2002, at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was shot on location in Whangara, the setting of the novel. The film was a coproduction between New Zealand and Germany. Her koro Apirana believes that this is a role reserved for males only. Based on the 1987 novel The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, the film stars Keisha Castle-Hughes as Kahu Paikea Apirana, a twelve-year-old Māori girl whose ambition is to become the chief of the tribe. Whale Rider is a 2002 New Zealand drama film written and directed by Niki Caro.
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