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Watch the trailer for Mauri and enter your email to view the FULL film. You’ll be invited to make a donation of any amount (even $0), with the option to upgrade to the 12-film journey and talk series.
Available in the following languages: English, French, German, Italian, Māori, Portuguese, and Spanish.
PREMIERE DATE
OCTOBER 14, 2025
The Vision
Our vision for the 12-film documentary series is to honor Indigenous resilience, illuminate sacred wisdom held for humanity and Earth, and invite healing across communities facing trauma and colonial erasure.
About the film
Mauri is a cinematic invitation into the healing traditions of Aotearoa, a journey carried by Māori healers, elders, and knowledge keepers who tend to intergenerational wounds through land, language, and ceremony.
Filmed in close relationship with those who carry ancestral wisdom, Mauri reveals how healing is not an individual pursuit but a collective remembering – guided by spirit, whenua (land), and the relational threads that colonial disruption could not sever.
With breathtaking imagery and intimate storytelling, the film brings us into the spaces where trauma is not “treated” but held, where stories, prayers, medicines, and rituals offer pathways back to connection.
Mauri does not explain Māori healing. It moves with it – listening to what still pulses beneath silence, and honoring what remains alive in the hands of those who never forgot.
The Guardians
Guest Speakers & Indigenous Wisdom Keepers
Mauri Talks Global Gathering Schedule
A journey of remembering, healing, and reimagining
DAY 1
w/ Tāngaroa Ngaropo-Tāwio, Atarangi Murupaenga, Mark Kopua. Hosted by: Maurizio and Zaya Benazzo
w/ Atarangi Murupaenga & Mark Kopua
w/ Atarangi Murupaenga
We will explore in community:
- Holistic principles and elements for healing
- How to use rākau (wooden tools)
- Listening to the body’s truth
DAY 2
w/ Tāngaroa Ngaropo-Tāwio
We will explore in community:
- Our breath & the breath of our ancestors
- A Sacred Covenant with Ra‘iātea
- From deep-sea navigation to celestial navigation
w/ Tenga Rangitauira
We will explore in community:
- Reclaiming Education Through Ancestral Language and Rhythm
- Mōteatea as Memory, Medicine, and Movement
- Carrying the Flame: Story, Responsibility, and Spiritual Guidance
w/ Tenga Rangitauira
DAY 3
w/ Donna Kerridge and Tohe Ashby
We will explore in community:
- Listening to the language of the Ngahere (forest)
- Healing the whānau (people) and the whenua (land) as one
- Carrying ancestral knowledge forward for future generations
w/ Tohe Ashby
We will explore in community:
- Rongoā Māori is more than medicine
- Healing begins with permission
- Wellbeing includes land, lineage, and spirit
w/ Mark Kopua
DAY 4
w/ Erin Matariki Carr, Tina Ngata
We will explore in community:
- Decolonizing Our Relationship with Natural Resources
- Revitalizing Indigenous values for planetary regeneration
- Indigenous governance for sustainable futures
w/ Awhitia Mihaere
We will explore in community:
- The placenta as a carrier of wisdom and guidance
- Colonization’s impact on birth and land
- Spirit work in prisons, births, and death
w/ Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue
DAY 5
w/ Captain Stan Conrad
We will explore in community:
- The History of the Waka as a sacred vessel
- Te kapehu whetū, the compass as a mental construct
- Voyages as reclamation and revitalization of culture
w/ John Panoho
We will explore in community:
- Ancestral knowledge carried on waves and wind
- Resilience, relationship, and reverence at sea
- What ancient navigation offers us today
w/ Atarangi Murupaenga
We will explore in community:
- The body tells the truth — no story needed
- Rongoā Māori is remembering, not learning
- Laughter, grief, and spirit all belong in healing
w/ Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue
w/ Tāngaroa Ngaropo-Tāwio
WISDOM OF THE ANCESTORS 12–FILM SERIES
The Eternal Song
The Eternal Song
LAND: EARTH
92 Minutes • WATCH NOW
Mauri
LAND: AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND)
70 Minutes • WATCH NOW
If an Owl
Calls Your Name
LAND: Esk’etemc, Gitxsan, and Wet’suwet’en (CANADA)
92 MINUTES • WATCH NOW
In the Circle
of Life
LAND: BUNDJALUNG & WIRADJURI (AUSTRALIA)
75 Minutes • WATCH NOW
Katô: Dreams
of Dark Earth
LAND: DAJE KAPAP EYPI (BRAZIL)
COMING March 18 – 20, 2026
Little Singer
LAND: DINÉ BIKÉYAH (ARIZONA)
Sila
LAND: KALAALLIT NUNAAT (GREENLAND)
COMING 2026
‘Āina
LAND: MOKUPUNI HAWAI’I
COMING 2026
Guarani-Kaiowá
LAND: MATO GROSSO DO SUL (BRAZIL)
COMING 2026
Maasai
LAND: OLOSHO LE MAA (KENYA)
COMING 2027
Haida
LAND: HAIDA GWAII (CANADA)
COMING 2027
Ifá
LAND: TSENACOMOCO (VIRGINIA)
COMING 2027
The Eternal Song
LAND: EARTH
Mauri
LAND: AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND)
If an Owl Calls
Your Name
LAND: UNIST’OT’EN YIN’TAH (CANADA)
In the
Circle of Life
LAND: BUNDJALUNG & WIRADJURI (AUSTRALIA)
Katô:
Dreams of Dark Earth
LAND: DAJE KAPAP EYPI (BRAZIL)
Sila
LAND: KALAALLIT NUNAAT (GREENLAND)
Little Singer
LAND: DINÉ BIKÉYAH (ARIZONA)
‘Āina
LAND: MOKUPUNI HAWAI’I
Guarani-Kaiowá
LAND: MATO GROSSO DO SUL (BRAZIL)
Maasai
LAND: OLOSHO LE MAA (KENYA)
Haida
LAND: HAIDA GWAII (CANADA)
Ifá
LAND: TSENACOMOCO (VIRGINIA)
Enter your email to view the FULL film. You’ll be invited to make a donation of any amount (even$0), with the option to upgrade to the 12-film journey and talk series.
SAND is a nonprofit organization under section 501.c.3 of the US tax code. Its headquarters are on the unceded ancestral territories of Coastal Miwok and Southern Pomo Land in Sebastopol, CA. We thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
