One of 41 films in the World Cinema Program, Boy is a totally fresh coming of age tale set in Waititi’s native Waihau Bay, in New Zealand… The character of Boy (played by first-timer James Rolleston), is an unshakably cheerful, overimaginative 11-year-old Maori who lives on a farm with his grandmother, brother, younger cousins, and pet goat, and whose twin obsessions are a girl named Chardonnay and Michael Jackson. READ MORE IN VANITY FAIR:>
