Wayward Films

In 1860s New Zealand, a young Irish woman desperately trying to find her son finds herself caught on both sides of the lines during the wars between Māori tribes and the British colonial army.

Returning to Paris, a man moves through memories of his past and surreal fragments of the present, searching for connection with his estranged father. On his journey, he meets a French-Algerian woman. As their intimacy grows, he is confronted with his shame and fears while exploring his lost Arab identity… Behind Paris is Algiers.

Two distant brothers with turbulent pasts in the child care system find themselves living under the same roof, and must make peace with their troubled history and look towards the future.

Three parallel love stories set in three different cities are set against some of the major international events of the last five years, in this ambitious.

In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled to the Ureweras and documented the lives of an elderly Māori woman (Puhi) and her schizophrenic son (Niki).

In contemporary multicultural London, Tariq is rebuilding his life after prison and striving to carve out a new path for himself and his young son, Amine. When his brother pleads for help, Tariq is pulled back into the criminal underworld and the dangerous orbit of their crime boss mother. This reconnection jeopardises everything he has worked for, forcing him to confront his family loyalty and the legacy of violence that has defined his life.