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Kāinga, 2022

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Young Asian girl leaning against a door with three people sitting on the floor in the background

The anthology film Kāinga(2022) followed on from Waru (2017) and Vai(2019), completing a trilogy of films produced by Kerry Warkia and Kiel McNaughton of Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions.

In Kāinga, Asian film-makers chronicle the experiences of eight women of Chinese, Japanese, Filipina, Korean, Indian, Iranian, Tamil and Chinese-New Zealand ethnicity in the same suburban Auckland home over a 50-year period.

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Helen Martin, Feature film – Looking to the future, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47926/kainga-2022 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Helen Martin, published 21 May 2024, reviewed and revised 21 May 2024 with assistance from Emma-Jean Kelly.