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Kawa is a Néo-Zélandais film of genre Drama directed by Katie Wolfe released in USA on 17 october 2010 with Calvin Tuteao

Kawa (2010)

Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Kawa
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Released in USA 17 october 2010
Length 1h16
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Genres Drama
Rating62% 3.143133.143133.143133.143133.14313

Kawa is a 2010 New Zealand film directed by Katie Wolfe originally titled Nights in the Gardens of Spain. The film stars Calvin Tuteao as Kawariki. A coming out film drama, it is based on the novel Nights in the Gardens of Spain by Witi Ihimaera.

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The film tells the story of Kawariki (Calvin Tuteao), an apparently happy family man married to Annabelle (Nathalie Boltt). His father Hamiora (George Henare) is retiring and according to the Maori tradition, Kawariki should be prepared to take over his father's place as head of the family. But he realizes that in order to do so, he has to keep his integrity and reveal his lifelong secret of being gay ever since childhood. He has been desperately fighting his feelings for years, but now frequents gay baths and he has a love affair with Chris (Dean O'Gorman).

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