Rain of the Children is a 2008 feature film written, directed and produced by Vincent Ward.
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).
Rain of The Children was filmed on location in Tuhoe country in the Urewera ranges in New Zealand.
The production returned to the places Puhi had lived and the sacred mountain, Maungapohatu, where traces of Rua's community still remain.
Rain of The Children's world premiere was at the Sydney Film Festival (In Competition) on 7 June 2008.