Anna Marbrook's Loimata, The Sweetest Tears, will also have its world premiere at the NZIFF. Executive produced by Dame Gaylene Preston with cinematography by Jess Charlton, Marbrook's documentary takes us with her dying friend, the extraordinary ocean-going waka captain, Lilo Ema Siope on an emotional healing journey, and is an intimate exploration of a family shattered by shame working courageously to liberate themselves from the shackles of the past.
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