Rain of the Children

Rain of the Children
Directed byVincent Ward
Written byVincent Ward
Alison Carter
Louis Nowra
Release date
  • September 25, 2008 (2008-09-25) (New Zealand)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryNew Zealand
LanguageEnglish
Box office$198,175

Rain of the Children is a 2008 feature film written, directed and produced by Vincent Ward. It stars Rena Owen and Temuera Morrison.

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).