Prime Minister | movie | 2025 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

A view inside the life of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, capturing her through five tumultuous years  | dG1fOGd3ekxNa1JGTWs

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00:00Hi, I'm Michelle Walsh.

00:08And I'm Lindsay Yutes.

00:09And together we directed Prime Minister.

00:12This is a once-in-a-lifetime film to have this kind of access to a world leader during

00:17the five years that Jacinda spent in office.

00:22We had so much good material to look at and evaluate.

00:26It was an embarrassment of riches.

00:28Not only the incredibly intimate footage that Clark, her husband, captured, but also

00:33these classified audio diaries that gave us a glimpse into what she was feeling in the

00:38moment during her time in office.

00:42Watching Jacinda first-hand lead a country through these extraordinary events in the

00:46way that she did felt so profound to me.

00:49The way she walked into a room and unapologetically led from her beliefs and what was really important

00:54to her, humanizing people, empathy, kindness.

00:58It was something that I had never seen before.

01:00And the opportunity to bring this to the world and let other people see what leadership can

01:04look like under pressure was such an exciting opportunity.

01:08We hadn't quite finished the film when Trump was re-elected.

01:12And I think for all of us, we realized in that moment that this was needed more now

01:18than ever.

01:20I think this film asks of our audiences what can we expect of our leaders going into a

01:25future where we have communities that are deeply fractured.

01:29To have this film premiere at Sundance is such an honor, and it's the perfect place

01:35to launch this movie into the world.