Whetū Mārama – Bright Star
This film shows us how important it was for the Māori to rediscover the great journeys of the double canoes across the Pacific told...
NON-COMPETING FILMS (2022 edition)
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Voices of Kula
P.N.G. Milne Bay. A group of Papuans and two anthropologists talk about ancient objects made from shells and about a “traditional garment...
Ua Huka, the island of horses
Marquesas Islands. Vohi, originally from Ua Huka, where 1,500 horses still live freely, breeds horses in Hiva Oa, where cars are prohibited...
Tuha’a Pae, of flesh and steel
A film about a Polynesian boat where the Polynesian way of life is narrated and lived. The Tuha’a Pae V with its powerful engines. O...
Tehe – Peritome
In Polynesia, circumcision, tehe, existed before Western presence. It was an ancestral rite, marking the passage from childhood to adulthood...
Sana, the crystal that consumes
More than cannabis, methamphetamine, known as ice or sana, is now the most widely used drug in French Polynesia despite it being ver...
Rava’ai – 15 fishing techniques in Pf
Polynesians are sea and fishing experts. Their relationship with the ocean has allowed them to develop and perfect techniques and in...
Off Country
Geelong Grammar School, a mixed high school, is starting its school year 2020 in Victoria, Australia. The students board and wear uniforms...
Ngā Wai and Rua: Stories of Us
Over a century of footage of Aotearoa’s history provides past images of both Māori and non-Māori, the ‘Kiwis’. With many diverse subjects,...
Mana
It is so many things at once. Force, primordial divinity, effect and cause, matter and motor, creation, beauty and power… It exists...
ON THE TRACES OF THE GI IN BORA BORA
December 7th 1941, the American fleet is destroyed at Pearl Harbour by the Japanese Air Force. The USA enters the war. They decide to...
History Bites Back
Australia. The same story can be told by various people. This is what director Trisha Morton Thomas and writer-director Craig Anders...
Broken destinies
New Caledonia. Between 1892 and 1939, about 10,000 Japanese people came to work on the rock. Some of them stayed. In 1939, they made...
From sea to girl: Polynesian surfing for women
The ocean is at the heart of Polynesian culture, its spiritual beliefs and contemporary life. Surfing is an ancient practice. Both men...
Calédonian coffee: the alchemy of a country
A journey around the history of New Caledonia and coffee, the taste and culture of this bean. Following a mixed-race Kanak-Caledonian...
Brassy Hussies
Australia in the 1950s and 1960s was a male-dominated political and social system. Brazen Hussies tells the story of a revolutionary...
#Tasks
With encounters as theme, secondary school pupils are conducting research to reconstruct the history of the first contact between th...
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