Lambs short film
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Based on the lives of at-risk youths in New Zealand, this story shows the challenges of everyday life for one boy who faces a difficult choice.
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Jury Prize & Audience Award - New Zealand International Film Festival
Best Director & Best Editor - Show Me Shorts Film Festival
Young Jury Prize, International Competition - Sequence Film Festival (Toulouse, France)
Runner Up at One Lens Film Festival (Hollywood)
Official selection at the following international film festivals:
Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Berlin (Germany)
Melbourne (Australia)
Helsinki (Finland)
Uppsala (Sweden)
Raindance (UK)
New Zealand
Sydney (Australia)
Brisbane (Australia)
Cork (Ireland)
Kaohsiung (Taiwan)
Show Me Shorts (NZ)
Izmir (Turkey)
Kinemastik (Malta)
Sequence (France)
One Lens (Hollywood)
Kitzbuehel (Austria)
Wairoa (NZ)
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Rich kids will never understand how lonly that life really is. Hungry, cold, broken home
Some so called rich kids don't have perfect life either,parents working all the time ,no time for children ,have seen all walks of life suffering,
Lonely*
Rich kids have wealth they have no right to be deprived
They may have wealth ,but they may have mental health issues ,bi polar or others etc ,don't be quick to judge that if you have wealth everything is Ka Pai
J R hunger is a different type of suffering , you can be sad all you want but at least your stomach is full
Im a korean and I used to live in a masterton for couple of years 15 years ago. My parents sent me to public school and I made a friends with some maori boys. They always being nice to me and I hang out with them alot and they took me to there place sometime, but I still can't forget the shock of my first visit to their place, most of my mates were getting abused and be out of their alcoholic parents care. empty bottles and trash were scattered on the floor. Most of their parents were fucked up all the time. I was very upset that I couldn’t help my mates because I was young. Despite such circumstances, my mates were always bright. I still keep in touch with few of my mates on facebook. And they tell me the situation they are in. Its been long time but the child abuse problems in NZ haven’t solved yet. No matter what the country is every kids have their rights to being happy and be cared enough. I hope everything gets better
Wow bro
Its the result of the system designed to do that to maoris
Joe Angel - Bollocks, your just too racist to see the flaws in your own culture.
You can’t change culture when the kids act up real bad you gotta hit them i went through it
@Azzury Street The system was formed by white supremacists. It's called Democratic Dictatorship. All national boundaries were drawn by white men.
I respect him so hard for standing up to that teacher
same
That teacher was a bitch and she was having a hard time getting students to concentrate on the lesson but that doesn't mean she had to take her anger out on Jimmy.
He would’ve been better off explaining he was hungry
@@roseadams8003 true, would’ve been embarrassing tho
LiveWire also how he stood up to the man who was trying to get to his sister.
I was one of the kids that auditioned for the main character but I’m glad I lost the roll for this dude!! Amazing short film.
@TOA Athletes haha don’t know what you mean by that but yeah I’m pretty shit compared to the dude 😂
Shut up
@@tairakei1054 calm down this ain't it comment section
Same 😂
@@tairakei1054 stfu I’ll whoop yo dumbass
the struggle is real I was brought up in a stable household until my father took his own life... everything turn to shit after that h I found out later on in life he had personal problems.... we were left with a grieving mother and here and there we were cared for from whanau but they can only do so much....me and my bro are in gangs... but we are are trying to give our kids a good life..... I still struggle with how we turned out.... but I'm trying my hardest to give my kids a good life...
Arohamai what a trooper. End of the day you do what u gotta do & knowing right from wrong. Kia Ora
THE MIST. Blessings sent you're way 💙💙
My cousins was juslike this until we took him in
THE MIST. Are u a boy or girl
Keep ur head high boy because u wanna do the best foa ur kids and let them have a great life to pass on to there kids remember god is with u and he will guide u kia ora whanau take care god bless
Sad to think this kind of stuff is still actually happening to our tamariki.
its tough bro. the struggle is so real
@@rileyhedgesgold That's true
This film made me realise that there's a lot of kids that need love and that I have a lot of love to give... I better start thinking of a way to help
Victoria Lowman give me some loving baby
Victoria Lowman your a beautiful soul. Need more kind hearted people like you
Thank you for your kind gestures Victoria. But our own people Maori need to wake the fuck up & start looking after ourselves (especially tamariki) instead of having others do it for us. Random drug tests on beneficiaries, harsher sentences for child abusers, compulsory NO silly PATCH throughout NZ it’s a start lol
Victoria Lowman you only just realised 😑 been like this for years
@@HenriXOX true that some of us blame everybody else except for ourselves we need to take blame for our own fk ups in life.
Keeping it real. How our society hasnt changed very much. How much of us once lived a life like this, its upto us to break the cycle. Kia ora 🤙🏽
This breaks my heart 😥 prays for all the children in New Zealand and world wide ❤
When people start moaning about whose fault it is, they need to watch this. Cause no matter who you find to blame, the kids are the ones that suffer while they do nothing but feel better about condemning their parents.
Life is tough, but so are you. "I can do all things through christ who strengthens me" - Phillipians 4:13
We need to break this cycle of child abuse, alcohol abuse and domestic within the Pacific Islander/Maori community. Changes start at home. We can only change us, stop blaming the white man for everything and let's rise as a people. Can't help someone who won't help themselves. This film is deep it hit home for me, not the alcohol abuse but the fact that neglect plays a key factor in why kids grow up to be thugs or suicidal. Every child needs love 💕
You guys honestly do. We white people did that ages ago
I think it's pronounced pakiha/white man.
Im white Australian. My sister married a maori guy on the gold coast and he said he grew up rough just like this in otara Auckland. He's surprisingly a humble man.
@@Lous13b ??? pacific islander homes are still much better than a lot of people's, yes we've normalized more abuse at home but the kids actually turn out right
Sure a part of it starts at home but you can't solve systemic issues there. Generational trauma is a thing and it can be incredibly difficult to heal when you're stuck in a cycle of hopelessness. When you believe nothing can ever get better, that you aren't worthy of anything better, change is almost impossible to bring about. I grew up like this but I was lucky, I met the right people. Often many of us don't.
he tries so hard to protect his lil siblings omg
I was scanning for comments about the younger siblings safety. Yours came closest. I started feeling uneasy towards the end. Sensing he was leaving I was saddened for the two younger. For some there's no thinking about it. You stay and fight or die.
@@justincrombie4338 that crossed my mind too. Saddened me further.
@@warrenpoultney8215 I live here my friend. I understand this situation very well
The main character in this works at my school as a builder
Sonty Brand waka is his name hes my bro
Cool bro tell him I said hi if you can haha
Truue story
@@twisstedsinz7002 bruh how is he?
@@IllDawgable he's good I saw him at mahi a week ago but i see his mother heaps still down town
This was such an eye opener for me and also touching being able to totally witness the struggles of low income families. Many blessings Switzerland 🇨🇭
MyGun4hire At least they have a family. I myself was a foster child from born.
This is something hard that many of us New Zealanders can relate to, not from just ethnicity or racial background, the struggle behind children living like this is real, and I love the way this film portrays this, its so well and captures that feel and reality of the things that families are in this situation and we need to help others and share love with those too, thanks to the actors for this mean acting
Damn they should've made a movie from this it was quite good filming.
Kadfwrjgda
Ppi a ashrwqewfd
These times and days were all to real for me and my siblings in the 80s 😔😔😔and it still happens to the kids of these days 2019....🙏🙏🙏
Yep, that's me. Absolutely loved it. Script, acting, directing, production. Congrats. Looking at doing some tv drama series, might be wantig to talk.
Hi Alan, thanks for your response. Fan of your work. Where are you based? Be good to chat.
Based in Bayonne France. Hate this public way of communicating. What's your email?
Alan Duff awesome
@@alanduff6 your acting is so good I'm actually hoping you're well in real life
wow I can see a lot of potential in nz short films! Well done bruv 😊
Will this be extended & made into a full film?? ❤ I loved it. I wanna keep watching!!
Maria Kahui same!!
SAME
Maria Kahui same
I couldn't watch it all. It's too much pain
What's ur Instagram?
This stuff is still very real to this day 💔 breaks my fukn heart! Best believe tho, most of us who make it out are bright, hungry & ready to take on the world coz that's easier than what we've already endured & survived 💯💪
Makes me realise that I shouldn’t give up at school while I still have the chance 💀🤙🏾💔 I want to make it somewhere in life so my family has a chance in life 💔
Grew up the same way this boy did out in south aucks mangere otahuhu onehunga an so forth to out west aucks i ended up getting in a lot of trouble as a kid an got booted out of school lived on the streets an grew up with hoodlums even thou i had a broken family home i didnt wana be home i did some bad shit an went inside i got out by keeping my head down an going thourgh my self to find my self susing out my bullshit life is hard man ive tried to kill my self many time's but cant cause something in me wants to keep living never give up on your self some day things will get better much love yo
Atoro thank you brother
Kia kaha
I love these type of kiwi films gives me an insight into the problems in this country that I don’t see as a wealthy teenager growing up in Auckland and going in nice holidays all the time and having nice stuff
Well done Sam, compelling short film. This story is so real for so many of us kiwi. I hope to see more from you 👌
good short film..reminds me of the movie - Once were Warrior's
Guess - It was happening then & happening now. How do we fill the gap between poor & rich?
@@maddisonormond6422 Sadly we can't
wow hits home.. growing up in the rough suberbs of qld. eagleby was just like this.
2020 still watching this sad video of the cruel world we live in nowdays
this is a touch of reality and what is still happening..
I used to live in New Zealand when I was 7 years old and didn’t know much.
New Zealand was like a home to me even though my parents didn’t have enough money I was so happy then all of a sudden it started to change, I moved to Australia and I was a confused kid and had gotten all these good things I always wondered why I didn’t go back and now I’m a teenager and I realise now that I’m so damn lucky to be here in Australia and so glad that we here are not going through this thanks to coming here
cannons creek Porirua East - Loved it, lived it and left it. But always my home
Respect from Wainui.
Peter Panoa Same here. Cannons creek and Porirua
Same here I left I used to be embarrassed of my home but it’s my home no matter what xx
Hey man I lived in Gloucester street.
That is where I went to but then I moved to Australia
I remember seeing this at the 2012 film festival. This was amazing best out of that. Nearly 4 years later I'm happy to see it again
This is a really good film, grew up much like this with partying in the home, drugs and alcohol, domestic abuse it's a stigma a lot of our Polynesian People suffer through.
Made me sad and mad about the Teacher, she shouldn't have become one if she wasn't ready for the stress.
This is such a sad reality for a lot of indigenous people
Brilliant short film! World class talented kid actors and a Heart breaking truth for many that live this lifestyle for real :-(.
decent film it shows how much people struggle in life
I love maori people one of the most staunch people i have come across. It must be that warrior culture in them. Love nz short films this one was awesome
Damn... I can’t believe I’m only watching this now
Omg same
Most people in NZ shouldn't go through this shit but I want to see a full film
Once we’re warriors brother
Oh my word. How is it that I am only seeing this now, and on RUclips of all places. Either I'm not getting out enough to watch our national stories/talent, or we're just not shouting out these stories from our rooftops enough.
This was amazing! I loved every little bit of it. Thank you for sharing!
This deserves more recognition i swear!!
This is story is told how it really is and so well. Should be a part 2. Very impressive
whoever wrote this needs some type of award!
Great acting from all the cast.
Sam Kelly these are the movies we shud b watching instead of coronation street, home and away movies about the struggles we had back in the day
This made me cry. I loved this 💞
Loved this short film. The main actor was so good....sad that this is reality for some.
wow... that was gold. sad and powerful
This is what the whole side of my mums dads famy went through for 40 years. Sad to think about it like that
Brought heaps of tears.
That lil boy is soo cuuute!!
SilverRadiant I know that boy he is my cousin.
Dezmyn Talamaivao thats What literally every Maori says “oh hey bro do u know that fella Stan Walker” “Yea cuz i know that fella well what about him” “Stan Walker is my cousin” “Bullshit your lying stop making it up” Nah honest he’s my Dads 4th cousins nephew in law so we’re basically related”
@@IcySwagTag hahaha lol its okay if you dont belive me but i actually know him he has a big sis (brooklyn) and his mum is in this film too.
@@IcySwagTag I am pretty positive that the lady standing @ 4:20 is his mum
I know this because im Maori myself
this film is so accurate and sad but they couldnt have done a better job
Thanks Sam Kelly ... I'm the only poor kid in a family of rich people ... They are so Blinded by their own successes that they can't comprehend my situation and the difficulties I face ... Homeless and hungry and yet my mother can drive right past me in her nice car lucky I had faith in myself to keep moving forward no matter what but being hungry too much is like hearing death knocking on the door
Struggle is real this story lines great should make a movie!!
Whos the child actor? He's brilliant.
His name is Shane Colson
The little boy? Shayden, he went to school with me. He ended up also acting in the movie dark horse 😊😊 super proud
MORE!!!! THAT WAS AWESOME PLEASE MAKE A FULL FILM
Omg this is so sad, I hate watching films like this, and watching our kids back in them days who had to try and survive,. I have sooooo nothing to complain about. Made me cry.. ❤️❤️Aroha xxxx
Watched this months ago but the recent elections brought me back. Everything this short film is beautiful. To another comment is this comment section I dont believe that this paints a bad picture of Maori / pasifika . New zealand turns a blind eye to our child poverty, to think this is a reality for our poor little children, breaks my heart. Films like this makes us aware, aware that our country needs change. More well off people wonder what makes criminals - a childhood like this pyschologically builds them like this and is some chain that is hard to break
I’m a proud Maori & somehow changing the govt is a start but getting the parents to wake the fuck up & saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH will do it I reckon.
im proud pasifika too, you're right but realise poverty is a never ending cycle - not genralising maori and pasifika but usuallly those in poverty have parents who grew up in that poverty and so on - parents in most cases arent properly educated so its hard to teach their children to break the cycle. I know friends like this and in school they no hope its so sad thats why they slack - lack of stability at home. The key is too educate everyone that heaps of nz children legit live in this enviroment. Hope we see improvement man
Jojo we can only hope.......
As a poly on the mainland...I’m going for theatre and hopefully into film school after college. This is a great short film. Sad to see what my people go through. I’ve seen it here as well and want to make a change
I lived at 74 Corinna street and I think they lived at 70 Corinna street. And I remember when they shot this too
🙏🏾♾⛈
it says 72 corinna on the letter box in the film
one of the best short films iv seen!
Raw talent ❤️ keep dreaming kids
This film brings memories. I moved to Auckland away from Taupo after living there for like more than 10 years of grief. I didn't want nothing to do with this messed up family bullshit. I'm living a quiet, peaceful life and glad I left.
"Where are you going?"
"Don't leave"
shit broke my heart 😢
Hats off to the people who made it. bravo
Remember there are people out there in the world we treat them with respect. Just because there different DOESN'T MEAN WE TREAT THEM WRONG SO the key word is RESPECT
This was a well made short film but Brothers and sisters we have to pave the way FOR our Tamariki not through them, they are our future and yes alot if us are stuck in the cycle but we have to start looking out for our Tamariki...Kia Kaha.
Pretty powerful and so so true. Brings back some stuff I thought I had left behind. Those late night knocks though.
Blessed to have broken the cycle 💘 my babies can sleep safely in their beds, have their tools for learning,food in their puku, and a village to raise them ☝️💜 my oldest moko is turning 14 soon and her goal in life is to be prime minister of Aoteroa👍or a lawyer 🤗 crack up having a history check on her nana and finding out she, her siblings and her mum lived Once were warriors life and broke the cycle ☝️💜😁
Well written and made Sam. Very very achingly sad. I want to save them all. All these children from their horrible terrible lives. Children are not given to us to be neglected abused corrupted. This horrible truth is Maori people's shame even from when I was a kid 30 / 40 years ago. Some of my life reflects this shame but I also like Mist work every day I live and breathe to make my children's and now grandchildren's lives as good as the life I had. Hope to see a full length movie in the near future Sam.
I personally can relate to this so much and there such a powerful message and it’s really well put out there
To be born into those circumstances is hard enough to deal with at that age, then to make the hardest decision whether to save yourself or go back and take your siblings aswell is also a hard. i can see both sides of the scenario....go back and be stuck in that life, go back and take them or just leave and try not to look back. These are very real circumstances for our rangatahi. this is a great group conversation to have with rangatahi or adults.
Is there going to be a Part 2?
no
@@keleralesi9529 there is
A second one would ruin it. The ending's ambiguous for a reason.
evryone out her sympathising at you're js like is there a part 2?🤣🤣🤦♀️
This stuff scares me cause it’s so true and happens to tamariki all the time😩
I grew up in the creek and lived all over porirua till i was 27, now living in W.A and i can tell you poor uneducated people are the same where ever you go in the world.
This shit. I gotta say was str8 up DOPE Mann make part 2 already can't wait!!
Such a great short film, thank you 👍
I wanna see the rest... Love new Zealand films...
If you ever experienced any of these types of environments like abuse,neglect,abandon issues at a young age.
I don't think you ever really overcome it even later on life into adulthood , it changes the way you interact with world around you.
But you can manage feelings of adequacy , loneliness, depression, vast majority end up in addiction abuse.
Hard to even ask for help if all you ever saw was hidings, swearing, drugs and alcohol rampant in home environment.
Not like one has a choice at a young age to I just move out of home you can't just do that here without the courts involved aged under 16, many just runaway from home or had to deal with it or say nothing is going on at home at school, can cause relationship issues, trust issues, communication issues later on in life
Very common in 80s and 90s we didn't have the supports people have today.
Never ever leaves mindset though that sucks, when your young it absorb the environment your placed in not by choice but by luck.
shout out to personwho made dis made my whole fams cry
Fk i'm so grateful that I never had to experience that type of up bringing!
i low-key kinda started crying when they put the little boy in the fight night sorta ring and i accualy got really mad even tho i knew it was a play and shit but like that still hit me
That was so sad. If that were my uso (brother) then I would have gone with him and had taken my little brother with me. But still thatwas very sad. Made me cry.
He sounds like such a chilled guy
Came here from tiktok and I wish they did more of these
Just watched my childhood....brang fukin tearz to my eyez only difrence between than and now is the good and loving people im surrounded by
love the film wish it would get made into a longer version, and put into the cinemas. This has been swept under the rug far too long
Omg this was filmed at my college. Dope
Broke my heart awesome short film. We all want to see a full
Looking foward to more films.
It's sad because he just gonna leave but it's hard with difficult choices to make everyday. It's sad also that that people don't know what really happens at home and what happens to kids on a daily basis. I especially feel sorry for Sasha because there are grown men all around her. I don't want to imagine what it will be like now that her brother won't be there to protect her.This is just horrible and I am so sad and angry for those who go through this in real life every day.
Wish it was a full length film..
Miss me old hometown.. Cannons Creek..Porirua East.. Xx
Please make this into a full length movie. I was so invested in every minute of it. So sad to think this shit is the reality for many families :(
Fcuuuk this film hits home alright. So nice seeing this film with a protector for the siblings. Most don't get that at all.
I grew up in cannons creek, I left at 18 and never went back. No one wants to see you leave, they'd rather you stay there and rot with them.
Sometimes your forced to stay
@@ryanlett9647 yeah that's true. I live in the far south now and it's so chilled out. If you're Maori or Pasifika, no one cares, they judge you by your character and competence, anyone can make a good life in the smaller regions around New Zealand but I understand why few consider it. Peace bro.
Storm will never last but tough guys like lamb will do 🤝
Luvv these type of films
We’re those kids watching what I think it was
amazing, hope to see a part 2 or full feature film. think it'd go great.
very moving n powerful. to see how the life is over there in nz is eye opening to say the least.
Thats Porirua! My town and nice Vid :).