The Haka Party Incident
On May 1, 1979, the Māori and Pasifika activist group He Taua confronted University of Auckland engineering students over their annual “haka party”– a racist and drunken mock haka – in what became a pivotal moment in Aotearoa’s race relations. Katie Wolfe’s stirring documentary revisits the event through archival footage and unfiltered contemporary interviews. Adapted from the director’s acclaimed play, the film is suffused with tension, legacy, and painful introspection. With powerful juxtapositions of the past and the present, it interrogates what has changed and what hasn’t – and what remembrance really means. A vital documentary that reclaims forgotten history and honours those who stood up, and changed a nation.

“The Haka Party Incident will not let you forget NZ’s 3-minute war”
- Flicks
“One of the very best NZ films of the year… a must watch.”
- Metro


“…the film is a reminder of our national identity and for that reason alone should be seen by every New Zealander.”
– Madeleine Chapman for The Spinoff
"Astonishing
...Revelatory
...Unflinching"
Tom Augustine - Metro

