Discover the Selection of films that will be presented at FIFO 2023.
The films have been selected by a Preselection Committee and are divided into 4 categories :
13 films selected in this category
12 films selected in this category
8 short
documentaries
13th Night of Oceanian Fiction (9 films)
Ten to fifteen films are selected in the Competing Films category each year because they are the very essence of FIFO. While several themes mesh the FIFO selection, the films in this category testify both to the great diversity of Oceania but also to the technical quality of film productions in the region.
Summary : In New Zealand, Fa’amoana John Luafutu was born into a Samoan emigrant family around 1960. An innocent baby, he has childhood memories of piano and singing. But John […]
Summary : In Australia, Tiriki Onus thought he knew everything about his grandfather Bill who was a cultural leader, entrepreneur, impresario, comedian and activist… But it also appears that he […]
Summary : New Caledonia and the portrait of an undisputedly influential woman: the widow of Jean Marie Tjibaou, lives a life linked to the history of her country. But who […]
Summary : In Melbourne, Australia, Sandra Pankurst runs a business specialising in the cleaning of very messy, dirty places, drug laboratories, death and murder scenes… This very surprising character, traumatised […]
Summary : Portrait of A woman: Valerie Adams, 4-time Olympic shot put champion. This Tongan-born sportswoman with her exceptional physique and stamina has become an icon for New Zealand. Before […]
Summary : In Tasmania, Australia lies a valley and the wild and magnificent Franklin river. Oliver Cassidy takes a solo rafting trip down the river, paying homage to his father […]
Summary : Incarceration Nation exposes the Australian state’s relentless response to Aboriginal people. The film links this response to the colonial legacy and shows discrimination and trauma. Is it pure […]
Summary : Set in New Zealand, Milked follows a young environmentalist who raises the issue of the overdevelopment of agriculture and the dairy industry (cow’s milk). When we know that […]
Summary : For more than 40 years, in the Marquesas Islands, the members of the Motu Haka Association have united to gather, safeguard and enhance what remains of their culture. […]
Summary : When painful memories have been hidden and are linked to segregation, racist acts, with acts of violence, should they be kept silent? “No”, says a teacher in this […]
Summary : Hawaii. Near the famous Waikīkī Beach in Honolulu, four stone giants have long stood as mana-laden souvenirs left by four Tahitian māhū who came in ancient times to […]
Summary : This film retraces one of the bloody episodes of the “Events” in New Caledonia. On December 5th 1984, in Waan Yaat, in the Hienghene valley, a trap was […]
Summary : The portrait of an exceptional man, a native Hawaiian, Paoa Kahanamoku, also known as Duke, who became a living legend in the 1910’s by becoming a five-time Olympic […]
The non-competing films presented at FIFO are a selection of complementary films which can shed new light, or even a new approach in the way of approaching the issues of the Pacific.
Summary : When the punk movement arrived in Australia in the 1970s, it was welcomed with open arms. The punk attitude was embraced and personalized by many young urban Australians: […]
Summary : The Chatham Islands are a solitary archipelago situated to the south-east of and dependent upon New Zealand, the islanders’ strength lies in their sense of community. The first […]
Summary : This film is based on the portraits of two men, Edou and Thuthukani Cele, Edou is a Kanak musician from Lifou. Thuthukani Cele is a South African musician, […]
Summary : This is the story of the construction of a house in Melbourne: the house of Joost Bakker an environmentalist. The documentary follows Bakker and his project for a […]
Summary : In French Polynesia, religion appears to promise an effective remedy for smoking, alcohol and drug addictions. Take a sheet of paper, a pen, a signature and add a […]
Summary : In Hawaii, there are many species of snails, often with beautiful shells, but even though they play an important role in the local culture and Hawaiian ecosystem, some […]
Summary : The New Hebrides, a Franco-British colony, became Vanuatu in 1980. After 140 years of colonisation and evangelisation, it’s a country in search of its culture. Father Rodet, a […]
Summary : Here, a French father who took part in the nuclear tests on Moruroa in the 1970s, a Polynesian mother and their adult son, who now lives in France, […]
Summary : In French Polynesia, Matorai, a young Polynesian is in search of his identity… He practices an ancestral art called ‘ōrero, this is the art of declamation in a […]
Summary : Rapa in French Polynesia is an isolated, mysterious and bewitching island. There’s a very strong link connecting those who were born there to their lands, but it is […]
Summary : Australia in the 1960’s… The “new wave” of Australian cinema… Experiments, “underground” testing Australian style: breasts, bellies, bodies. Communities, making films, showing them… Feminism, Marxism, Avant-gardism… Questing, even […]
Summary : Wallis and Futuna are two Pacific islands that together form a small French territory. Since its settlement in 800 BC, they’ve had a complex history, however today the […]
The “Short Films” is the annual event that opens the door to the region’s audiovisual know-how and on the storytelling talent of our Oceanian cousins. An evening to travel to the borders of Oceanian stories, cultures and imaginary worlds! This evening will focus on the themes of family, love and identity.
Summary : In New Zealand, Eddie suffers from a serious illness, a neurodegenerative disorder that has robbed him of his voice, his mobility and above all a normal life. His […]
Summary : Aotearoa in 1986. John Rangihau led a committee that delivered a very harsh public report on New Zealand’s institutional racism, the Riao Te Ata To. It was unprecedented. […]
Summary : In New Zealand a group of cultural custodians is preparing a kava ceremony, Tongan style. The idea is to create a place and moments of traditional culture within […]
Summary : This is the Tahitian peninsula, Teahupo’o and Tautira. On an island where life depends on the ocean, the rāhui is a very useful ancestral tradition that can be […]
Summary : Aotearoa and methamphetamine. Jessica Apanui seeks to transform her life, a life devastated by drug addiction. To do this and protect her child, she analyses her past, frees […]
Summary : Noel Buttler, an Aboriginal man, stands on the ashes of his property after the devastating fires of 2020 in Australia. Trees and animals are gone. Species are extinct. […]
Summary : In New Zealand the Prime Minister made a public apology for the dawn raids by police 45 years earlier. Tesimoni Fuaavao’s Tongan parents were wrongly imprisoned and Tesimoni […]
Summary : This film tells the extraordinary story of a young transgender woman in Australia. As a young woman she helped change the law. Later she was able to assert […]
Grand Theater – Saturday 4th February – 7pm
Since 2007, FIFO has opened its screens to fiction. The idea: a selection of short fiction films, each lasting less than 30 minutes. Diversity, creativity, identity, originality, traditions and modernity, a few portraits, a quality selection. Not to be missed… and to be enjoyed without moderation!
Summary : Called in on his day off to evict the occupants of a community camp deemed illegal by the state, a Hawaiian police officer is forced to choose between […]
Summary : Life on the streets of New Zealand for two homeless men: John, the older man, seems to like this life and to be at home here. Elvis, the […]
Summary : In Hawaii a young photographer tries to make a living from his photos of Hawaiian nature and volcanoes. But he must also confront the legacy of his family’s […]
Summary : Siwane, a young Kanak, is in France as part of a New Caledonian dance troupe during a cultural exchange. In the wings of a Parisian theatre, dressed in […]
Summary : In New Zealand, the invisible Perianayaki is an emigrant from Sri Lanka. She does not speak English. She has a job stocking the shelves of the local supermarket, […]
Summary : Australia. A mermaid in search of her identity, living in a suburban world with no running water…encounters with isolation, disconnection and psychic disorder? How to integrate into such […]
Summary : Hawaii and a couple of lonely retirees… Loving each other, they struggle to overcome their differences and their guilt. Will they really be able to get along together? […]
Summary : Hawaii and a cartoon based on a Fijian legend. When a prince is cursed by an eel, he must win the love of a beautiful woman to become […]
Summary : Australia, 2022. A single mother and her son. Beau is just a teenager, like every other teenager. But his behaviour grows increasingly alarming to his mother. Will her […]
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