Biography
Niki Caro is an award winning film director, producer and screenwriter who was born in Wellington, New Zealand. Her most significant film to date is Whale Rider from 2002. It was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals. She went on to direct Charlize Theron in an Oscar-nominated performance in North Country. Caro graduated BFA from the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in 1988, and MFA from Swinburne University of Technology.
Complete Filmography
The Mother
2023
Director
A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.
Mulan
2020
Director
When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, ...
The Zookeeper's Wife
2017
Director
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
McFarland, USA
2015
Director
A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.
42 One Dream Rush
2010
Director
Collection of short films by various directors based on dreams, 42 seconds each. It was produced by the world's most awarded vodka "42 Below", known f...
Ruby Travel
2010
Director
Short film by Niki Caro. Part of the collective film One Dream Rush.
The Vintner's Luck
2009
Director, Producer, Writer
A fantasy romance set in 19th century France. The film revolves around Sobran, a young peasant winemaker, and the three important figures in his life ...
North Country
2005
Director
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endure...
Whale Rider
2003
Screenplay, Director
A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
Dark Stories: Tales from Beyond the Grave
2001
Director, Writer
Witness a dinner party with a diabolical main course - obsession is put to the limit when a scorned and demonic woman traps the man of her dreams, sub...
Memory & Desire
1998
Director, Screenplay
Sayo and Keiji have eloped to New Zealand to marry, away from the interference of Keiji's disapproving mother in Japan. On their honeymoon, they have ...
Sure to Rise
1994
Director, Writer
April discovers an injured man on the beach and takes him to a makeshift community called Paradise. But can she protect him?
Virgin, Whore, Saint
1990
Director, Writer, Editor
Three versions of a woman – bride to be (virgin), dominatrix (whore), and actress playing Joan of Arc (saint) – are shown. Each is dissatisfied with h...
Callas
N/A
Screenplay
A biopic about the operatic star, Maria Callas.
Beautiful Ruins
N/A
Director
Off the Ligurian Sea on the Italian Coast in the year 1962, an American actress comes to stay in a hotel, owned by the family of a young man named Pas...
Ruin
N/A
Director, Producer
In the rubble of Germany following World War II, a newly released Jewish camp prisoner forms an alliance with a German soldier as they both seek reven...