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December 7th 1941, the American fleet is destroyed at Pearl Harbour by the Japanese Air Force. The USA enters the war. They decide to...
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Surfing, the sacred fire
Summary: From the origins of surfing in the Pacific to the 2024 Olympic Games, the film offers us a dive into the heart of the world...
Tahiti, the invention of paradise
Details : 2019 – France – 70 minDirector : François ReinhardtProducer : Sébastien Mesquida, Yann Le Gleau, Maël Mainguy – What’s Up...
Takeout Kids: Lauren
Summary: 16-year-old Lauren is a doughnut delivery girl by night and a high school student by day. When we meet her, mounting career pressures from...
TAONGA AN ARTIST ACTIVIST
Summary: Mike’s life is a journey of art. His connection to arts is what wakes him up in the morning and makes him retire to bed late...
TAUMANU
Summary: New Zealand, 1929. When a parcel is delivered to a manor house, mysterious Māori twins arrive to reclaim the contents. Sud...
Te Hokinga Mai – the return
Summary: New Zealand, Tane dreamed about the bright lights of the big city, growing up on his traditional tribal lands. Once there,...
TE MEKAMEKA O TE PĀ MAUNGA
Summary: Liam Kokaʻua embarks on a personal journey to document the cultural and ecological knowledge associated with Rarotonga’s mount...
Te Pito o Te Henua (The Navel of the World)
Summary: An indigenous community on the most remote inhabited island in the world prepares to host its most important annual celebration...
Te Puna Ora, the source of life
Summary: Inspired by the legend of the goddess Hina, Te Puna Ora, The Source of life follows the captivating story of resistance of...
Te ta’i hōho’a – The Image of the Sound
Summary: Tahitian musician Jean-Yves loses his right leg due to diabetes. Despite the challenges, he clings to his passion and...
Te Wao Nui
Details: 2020 – New Zealand – 12 minDirector: Ngāriki Ngatae Producer: Karen Sidney – Akariro Films, Notable Pictures #!trpst#trp-g...
Tehe – Peritome
In Polynesia, circumcision, tehe, existed before Western presence. It was an ancestral rite, marking the passage from childhood to adulthood...
TESTIMONY
Summary: In New Zealand, the Prime Minister made a public apology for the dawn raids by the police 45 years earlier. Tesimoni Fuaavao’s...
The Arrangements
In Kalihi, a working-class neighborhood of Oʻahu, three Micronesian boys have just one day to arrange the funeral of their friend who died in a car accident...
The Black Pen
Tonga. There is a safe house for women and children. A new counsellor, Melaia, has to deal with an emergency by helping an 11-year-old...
The Bowraville Murders
Australia. Gumbayngi country. 1990. Following the mysterious disappearance of three young Aborigines, a young woman, a child and a t...
The Canoe is the Future
The Canoe is the Future is a feature-length, character driven documentary by the people of the Mariana Islands and Micronesia. The f...
The Dark Emu Story
Summary: The Dark Emu Story delves into controversy, provides a platform for Australia’s first people to share their remarkable stories...
THE DREAMLIFE OF GEORGIE STONE
Summary: This film tells the extraordinary story of a young transgender woman in Australia. As a young woman she helped change the...
The Forgotten Soldiers of Niue
The little-known story of Niue’s “Forgotten Soldiers”: 150 men taken from their island home and sent to the freezing frontlines of W...
THE GIANTS
Summary: THE GIANTS explores the intertwined fates of trees and humans in this portrait of environmental hero and gay icon Bob Brow...
The Haka Party Incident
On May 1st, 1979, a group of young Māori and Pasifika activists, which later became known as “He Taua”, confronted engineering students...
The Healer And The Psychiatrist
Details: 2019 – United Kingdom, Switzerland – 74 minDirector: Mike Poltorak Producer: Mike Poltorak – Potolahi Productions #!...
THE HEALER STONES OF KAPAEMAHU
Summary: Hawaii. Near the famous Waikīkī Beach in Honolulu, four stone giants have long stood as mana-laden souvenirs left by four...
The Island in Me
The story of two women, Amelia Borofsky, 40, and Johnny Frisbie, 86. Both lived on Pukapuka Atoll in the Cook Islands as children. T...
The Man Outside
Summary: A young woman’s life turns into a nightmare when she realizes her ex-boyfriend is stalking her. As his actions grow increasingly more intense,...
The MAU Movement of Samoa
Why and how did the peaceful Mau movement become a revolutionary movement demanding New Zealand’s independence from Samoa? A little...
THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS
Summary: After a run-in with her father’s loud and rude deputy, the young daughter of the new Prime Minister realizes she might not be t...
The Promise
In the 1960s, West Papua was moving toward independence, until global power struggles intervened. Using uniquely restored and color...
The Pumpkin
On Halloween night, in the dim hallways of an apartment building, a young girl finds herself hunted by a mysterious man. The line be...
The Queen's Flowers
Summary: In 1915, in Honolulu, a little girl must make a gift to the last monarch of Hawai’i, Queen Lili’uokalani (based on a true story)...
The Raftsmen
Twelve misfits from seven different countries join an explorer’s audacious dream: to cross the Pacific Ocean on three handmade wooden boats...
The Rogers
The daily life of the Pacific’s first male transgender group. The Rogers of Samoa rehearse a traditional male dance. These girls who...
The Sandbank
Alone on a strip of sand in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, three young girls play happily on the beach surrounded by crystal clear...
The Shape of Things, the Dick Brewer Story
This documentary traces the life of Dick Brewer, a pivotal figure in surfboard design. It explores the inventive mind of a visionary...
The Skin of Others
Details: 2019 – Australia – 90 minDirector: Tom Murray Producer: This post is...
The Stolen Children of Aotearoa
A historical and contemporary account of the New Zealand governments’ systematic war against Māori children. The Stolen Children of...
The Unlikely Knight
Summary: Robert Martin was born with brain damage, labeled a ‘retard’, abandoned by a mother, raised in institutions where he was abused...
The Wake
Following the death of his father, an emotionally deflective son’s attempt to return home and reconnect with his mother are strained...
The War Below: Restoring Hope in the Solomon Islands
In the Solomon Islands, the forgotten centre of the Pacific War, WWII bombs continue to kill and injure families every year. The film...
This Is The Way We Rise
2019 – Hawaii – 13 minDirector: Ciara LacyProducer: Chapin Hall – Captive Audience LLC #!trpst#trp-gettext data-trpgettextoriginal...
TRADEWINDS
Summary: Chamorro jazz musician Patrick Palomo and his love letter to his indigenous culture. And all the ways it influences the pi...
Transgender & Pregnant
Summary: The film follows Frankie, a transgender man, and his partner Rāwā on their journey to parenthood, with Frankie bearing the...
Tribal Sisters
Summary: Set in the Kup Valley in PNG, Tribal Sisters tells the remarkable story of three women who created the Kup Women for Peace...
Tū Tonu – Still Standing
Summary: Expert tree climber Zane Wedding finds himself at a crossroads, knowing that standing up for what’s right might mean sacrificing...
Tuan Ta Pesao
Summary: Ambrym Island, in the Vanuatu archipelago, Melanesia. Two local graphic practices are presented: drawings continuous line...
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...
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...
UNCLE BULLY’S SURF SKOOL
Summary: When a pandemic decimates the tourism industry across the Hawaiian Islands, surf instructor Bull Kotter does not escape the consequences...
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